russia is interested in. mining in the mining sector there is a human resources in which russians are greatly interested. this is a project in which russian cooperation. is interest. on the. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov visited a number of different countries on the continent one of them was zimbabwe and this is what the zimbabwean foreign minister. had to say about this relationship with russia have a listen it is the desire of zimbabweans that we can. feed our little knowledge with the russians are quite competent so that we can also develop in terms of a bloody through the. whole for example has been asked so that we can industrialized it and then create value in what we do. paul that was very upbeat that many says zimbabwe he sounded positively to it. he did and i think a very very interesting to see what happens in the long term between zimbabwe and russia there's a lot of promises that have been made but what we see in a lot of russian engagement with africa is lots of you know exciting deals

i think russia's stakes are much higher than american stakes in the generally russia has been you know. making no one favorable comments about this sort of mini person and that's that sensible i'd say the more interesting case though as you mentioned is our media so you know there's a learning maybe on on several sides the united states seem to have been minimal minimally involved in this whole process process russia observed with some anxiety i suppose but it in the end didn't interfere moreover the army since themselves i think. agreed that the last thing they wanted to do under the circumstances was provoke russia and so i don't know where armenian foreign policy will eventually end up but it's certainly you know they've been careful to to maintain sort of a good tone with with. with moscow and so there's indication here learning that all sides basically armenia there's another point which is that the government that was overthrown actually managed to get russian approval for signing significant agreement with the e.u. so it's not an association agreement actually it's not a full sc

i'm very happy that russia is paying closer attention to the east including korea korea used to be russia's partners we cooperated see as well it would be nice to build all that but we definitely need to bolster our ties i very much hope we will meet many times in the future here and at the eastern economic forum that russian made possible in ten years i think russia will be a true asian country not only in the jungle africa's sense yes but also economically that is why i think. the economy. right now the u.s. is south korea's closest partner nor any country which is out of tune with american foreign policy towards russia is heavily criticized by united states and this could pressure on for instance there is a number of european countries which are not very good to impose sanctions on russia but what is pressured by the u.s. since the e.u. itself is under american influence they have to obey and imposed sanctions aren't you afraid the south korea being such a close american partner would not be allowed by washington to become friends with russia. you know i think that one day sanctions will

russia doesn't sometimes not always comes out with an aggressive response has russia reacted on this occasion well quite a firm reaction from moscow with counter-accusations towards the netherlands and u.k. effectively accusing them of simply stoking russophobia and spreading and the russian propaganda inspired mania across the globe moscow's question the timing of these revelations as well according to the netherlands this incident of this expulsion of diplomats all edged agents according to them took place many months ago the information fully has only just come to light now many months since those allegations and russia has said they serve as a distraction from salient issues that are taking place right now and that are very relevant to global geopolitics and events the changes in the structure of the o.p.c. w. which russia in the west of classical repeatedly given the o.p.c. w. the chemical watchdog the power to attribute blame for example for chemical incidents. that discussion is you to happen next week or the ninth of october russia has said is this a coincidence probably not

as they're usually so unhappy when anybody buys russia's weapons. to use live at this presidential summit in new delhi thank you. the u.s. congress has approved the creation of a sixty billion dollar investment agency to fund projects in developing countries it all sounds great but it has led some to question what president donald trump's top priority is is it to make america great again or to challenge china his kind of model remember donald trump's plan to put america first i will always put america first america first america first rebuild and restore america's depleted infrastructure and i've been in construction and building all my life i love it. and i love the smell of a construction site right the roads railways power plants and water systems of the united states are still inside.

russia. so we've got the department of justice of the united states charging seven russians now the crimes listed are hacking money laundering wire fraud and identity theft and it's being alleged in the indictment that not only did they commit these crimes but they did it on behalf of russia's g.r.u. let's take a listen real quick to the indictment these seven defendants are charged with a pervasive campaign of hacking stealing private and sensitive information and publicizing that information to retaliate against russia's detractors and sway public opinion in russia's favor now the allegations go on to say that essentially they began to hacking individuals in response to them calling for russia's athletes to be banned from the olympics after the doping scandal it's alleged that they took information and publicized on the internet that u.s. tennis stars serina and venus williams had been using prohibited medicine and the same thing about olympic champion simone biles now it's also been allege

russia is interested in. mining in the mining sector there is a platinum resources in which russians are greatly interested. this is a project in which the russian cooperation. measure common interest. on the. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov visited a number of different countries on the continent one of them was zimbabwe and this is what the zimbabwean foreign minister. had to say about this relationship with russia have a listen it is the desire of zimbabweans that we came. a little knowledge with the russians are quite competent so that we can also develop in terms of a bloody through the. whole for example has been asked so that we can industrialize it and then create value in what we do. paul that was very upbeat that many says zimbabwe he sounded positively excited. he did and i think i'll be very interesting to see what happens in the long term between zimbabwe and russia there's a lot of promises that have been made but what we see in a lot of russian engagement with africa is lots of you know

still talks that because of russia or is russia now talk stick because it's trump. well i guess it's a bit of both you know this is the going on now for two years. there's been a lot of back and forth and there are so many i would say moving parts right now that it's the you know the causal arrows are very hard to follow neatly the said the notion of whether it's correct or not that you know trump won the election. to some degree because of russian assistance has taken hold in many quarters we will now see because mr miller's report as you know should be with us and within several months what he concludes and so that i think does tend to stick and and the irony is of course as i'm sure is apparent to russians as well this that. the very fact that donald trump is associated with this effort means that it very much limits his freedom to improve relationship with russia i mean one of the few consistent. points that he made on on the campaign trail was we should have a better relationship with russia he's been able to do quite a bit. on the trade front you know you can

-russia relations -- the economic relationship between the eu and russia is far, far more significant than ours with russia, and, of course, they're our neighbors in a way that only alaskans are. and, you know, therefore this -- the broader west relationship with russia is sort of a more palpable thing for a lot of eu countries. so generally speaking, that has been somewhat of a force for moderation in the broader western position in the context of collective decision-making bodies like nato and the eu. if we dial back a couple years, there was a very united us-eu front on russian policy coming from the ukraine crisis, and even going back to the soviet period where there was coordination on sanctions and the eu was taking much more of an economic hit and policy on how to deal with the ukraine crisis and so on. now because of broader tensions with the u.s.-russia relationship, the sort of the foundations of that unity are to a certain extent eroding and particularly on sanctions where the piece of legislation i mentioned actually targets european companies for doing business with russi

threatened this is against russia. i think it's also really in my introduction i said because the trump doctrine being really revealed because we have in one week we have threatening military force against a nuclear power russia both countries are in the negotiations over these weapons here they both sides accuse the other of violations and then we have basically. this is just an extension of trumps trade war but if you combine that this kind of comes together with a great powers vision of the world mark you were in the navy so i'll go the point out that even the threat of an attack of an aggression against russia is technically an act of aggression and a violation of international by the united states what if by the united nations charter now as as a former u.s. navy man i have to say that i think what the very knowledgeable about such matters secretary of the interior here and i'm being a little facetious has revealed the dangerous new capability of the u.s. navy they have evidently equipped their ships with the tran

and russia. they answered questions on current relations between the two countries and the status of mornlting under agreements such as the 2011 stark treaty. the senate foreign relations committee, this is about an hour, 45 minutes. >> i want to thank everybody for being here. i think because we need 11 people to vote, we're going to go ahead and give the opening statement. as soon as we get to 11 folks, we'll stop and vote on the noms and i want to thank everybody for their cooperation. but first, i want to thank our witnesses for being here with us today. we're fortunate to have such an experienced and distinguished panel. as our members know, this is a fourth in a series of hearings on russia since july with today's hearing considering the current status of and prospects for arms control efforts. current situation is not encouraging. out of four agreements, new start, the inf treaty, the open skies treaty, and the chemical weapons convention, we have significant problems with russian complian

so russia have a sensible policy. and i do believe that the rest of the world comparing russia's policy with the united states and some of its european partners sees that so that even if you have to take public stances. in favor of policies that are not sensible in the long run your own national interest dictates a more sensible approach and that brings you willy nilly closer to russia you know it's unfortunately we have no assistance zero sum game one side wins one side loses and it's black and white but that if i mean you can go through the great power rivalries of the the seventeenth eighteenth nineteenth century and then even in the early twentieth century we've never had a complete zero so. you know it's some point you know the going back to national interest you should be able to find your national interests and be able to co-exist with your adversary always keeping your national interests there there's no reason why it should but. i mean. that's a political choice that's a choice. but political choices and. we

russia is already suffering from sanctions imposed on it for its actions in ukraine. i wonder where this can go from here. well nato and also the united states certainly considering a fresh round of sanctions against individuals from the russian military secret service and also maybe more expulsions of russian diplomats but the relations between the western countries are russia's a solo you can how dimension they can diplomatically get any lower and if you add the military say tensions between the u.s. and russia in syria and if you add the new role about russian myside deployed here in europe and then you can see that there is little chance for any positive development in the future but the question is do the russians really care they're very serious doubts at nato headquarters in brussels this morning ben really good thank you so we spoke to the w.c. russia correspondent me trucks origin and i asked him how moscow is reacting to these latest allegations. while the russian government is basically saying we have nothing to do with it there was no attack there are date

politics even though they were posted mostly in russia. plus the marital and city orders families to provide information about their finances withholding benefits if they fail to do so the move has seen children losing their subsidized school dinners forcing them to eat separate from others. we are in the same room but we have to see to that one. good evening to you this is r.t. international. three days of mourning are underway in crimea after a student carried out a bloody attack in the city of catch twenty one people were killed dozens more injured the moment of the shooting was captured on video by one of the students who was in the college at the time on a warning you might find this footage disturbing. also detonated a homemade bomb in the college canteen after his shooting spree he turned the gun on himself the impact of the assault was devastating as you can see in this footage . and here are pictures from the vigil in cats where people have been mourning the victims the priest has been reading prayers for those who died on the smu

russia is country with. very serious strengths in the region and we have lots of problems with the russian federation so but this is a very important from my point of view we have to discuss these issues and problems with the russia when you have problems you have to discuss and only in this way the people are calling me a suppression politician but was out a day or so you are here on your show russia as much as you're willing to talk to russia i wanted to speak with russia i want to find solution was a russian and georgian no problems i want to go establish friendly relations with russia because i am sure that this is important for my country let me ask you specifically about friendly relations because the political relationship between the two countries is still very tenuous but this year we have witnessed a significant increase in bilateral trade and in tourism the number of russians visiting your country so far this year. or has exceeded a million and that's from what i understand. a quarter more than la

russia responds to western accusations that it's been carrying out dirty cyber activities calling it an orchestrated propaganda campaign will bring you a rundown of the days in russian institutions and business says russia's foreign ministry spokesperson there is a harvest spoke a little bit earlier on today and she asked she was asked about these british accusations the dutch and the american ones haven't come to light yet and she said that all the accusations against russia in recent months have been conflated take a listen to what she had to say because all of what i was bored of everything is being mixed indiscriminately as if in a bottle of mineral rich a perfume russian military intelligence cyber spies kremlin hackers broader it's all just one big witches brew the imagination of our british colleagues knows no limits who could come up with all this i would like to take a look at these hans christian andersen and one more thing is that the dutch government has also called in the top diplomats in the netherlands that shop staff air that into the dutch foreign ministry in order t

so russia has a sensible policy. and i do believe that the rest of the world comparing russia's policy with the united states and and some of its european partners sees that so that even if you have to take public stances. in favor of policies that are not sensible in the long run your own national interest dictates a more sensible approach and that brings you willy nilly closer to russia you know it's unfortunately we have no assistance zero sum game one side wins one side loses and it's black and white but that i mean you can go through the great power rivalries of the the seventeenth eighteenth nineteenth century and then even in the early of twentieth century we've never had a complete zero so. you know it's some point you know going back to national interests you should be able to find your national interests and be able to co-exist with your adversary always keeping your national interests there there's no reason why it should but. i mean. that's a political choice that's a choice. but political choices and. we

we spoke to russia's envoy in the u.k. pe notes that evidence from the british side is still lacking. we believe that this kind of statement reckless and explain why first of all this statements are not supported by any evidence this is first second we hear this kind of a legations for quite a now quite a time and in this the selden seventeen for former foreign secretary boris johnson was in moscow. a lover of russian foreign minister offered him to have a consultations on the cyber security and he said if you have any questions in connection with the alleged russian activity we can put this specialist from two countries sit down at the table and to discuss professionally what are the concerns of the british side the british refused to do this and instead of that they launched reckless attacks on us without any evidence this is quite a big story you know this is the name of the russian intelligence organisation you know if you names there are expelled and all these things but the beef i mean this is this substance is not.

so russia have a sensible policy. and i do believe that the rest of the world comparing russia's policy with the united states and some of its european partners sees that so that even if you have to take public stances. in favor of policies that are not sensible in the long run your own national interest dictates a more sensible approach and that brings you willy nilly closer to russia you know it's unfortunately we have no assistance zero sum game one side wins one side loses and it's black and white but that if i mean you can go through the great power rivalries of the the seventeenth eighteenth nineteenth century and then even in the early twentieth century we've never had a complete zero so. you know it's some point you know the going back to national interests you should be able to find your national interests and be able to co-exist with your adversary well even your national interests there there's no reason why it should. i mean. that's a political choice that's a choice. but political choices and. we need to

russia has acted to leave huge. stright in relation to the writing process so that gives me some hope for the future. what the ukrainian nationalists going to do and concerned about the west and meddling in the conflict but i'm hopeful that russia is going to try and consign and control the whole discussion in russia during all of this in juxtaposition in the west is that putin is doing too little i mean that's how far apart we are at looking at this they're going to follow up on this point. the chords are the consensus view of all the signatories including russia that the boss must become part of ukraine again. the question arises why has that not yet happened. i think one serious concern is that the ukrainian government is extremely reluctant to see forty five million voters enter the pl the political spectrum in ukraine that are essentially opposite in opposition to their view of ukraine and as long as they can keep that at bay. they can continue their current policies. so essentially that would be. i'm not assum

confidence i mean russia china. is a need railway system and if americans invest in it with their capital and their technology joins in i believe that would guarantee high efficiency and mutually beneficial. effects. thank you very much for the conversation and i wish. the grim reaper of the bond market has appeared with this with the sky looking up the global bond market. it's a tsunami bad paper and it's. going to be the greatest. ever love . the saudis now with. i did their custody after an interrogation that went wrong turkish media claim they have evidence of intentional murder nonetheless trump declares he's not going to walk away from saudi arabia will there ever be justice for jamal khashoggi. saudi arabia claims that a journalist who went missing in istanbul more than two weeks ago died in a fight the. russian woman is charged in the u.s. for allegedly trying to in the upcoming midterm elections through social media. funerals are held in crimea for some of the twenty people shot and killed by a student at a

you can reference in my statement where we stand with russia's actions. >> uss that russia makes the to reconstitute a large-scale chemical weapon production capability, or do you think it's goal is the smaller scale program that allows it to carry out a tax like the one that recently happened in the united kingdom. i would be interested in both your opinions. >> i don't anticipate they will continue. as we saw from the attacks, continue to expand from technologies as well. >> would you agree that there is a distinction between a large-scale production in terms of capability, to improve and deploy chemical weapons as opposed to the ability to carry out small-scale attacks? >> i would agree. >> i would agree with that as well. i would also think that anything that the russians do in the area of chemical weapons, they will do with a clear intent to try to hide what they are doing, from detection. and i think the results of the attack in saulsberry earlier this year, was an absolutely atrocious demonstration of regardless of whether they had large or small arsenals, the willingness to a

. >>> you see russia as a threat? >> why would russia -- how would russia be a threat to sne ? >> do you think the russians are a threat in >> not as big a threat as the chinese. >> what about the russian inquiry -- >> poppycock. >> in 2011 maria butina founded the right to bear arms with the stated aim of lobbying for gun rights in russia. but it wasn't russians she was courting. it was americans. in 2013, butina held a concealed carry fashion show in moscow. the stars of america's second amendment movement flew in to spend time with their new best friends. >> they're more like americans than russians. we value the same kinds of things. >> at the same event, butina met paul eriksson, an american political consultant with long-standing connections to the republican party. >>> they started a working relationship that turned into a relationship. >> everything she was doing was essentially political operative 101, go out and build friendships, get people who are willing to do favors for you. >> soon butina was rubbing shoulders with some of the republican establishment's heavy hit

the united states says it's time to pull out of a nuclear arms pact with russia so i moved in thirty years ago helped end the cold war but president donald trump wants to rip it up why now and does it mean a return to the nuclear arms race and an increase in the risk of conflict this is a story. hello i'm wrong this is inside story from the united states and the old soviet union once on the brink of nuclear war they called it the cold war and it dragged on for decades but in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven u.s. president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev signed the into mediate range of nuclear forces or i.n.f. treaty defusing the arms race now there are more phase another one could be about to start because president donald trump wants out of the agreement we'll speak to all guests shortly but first let's take a look at what the i.n.f. treaty achieved. because hopeless reports from trondheim in norway. i'm here in norway as nato runs the largest war games it's held since the end of the cold war and as president trump threatens to pull out of the i.n.f. treaty

in this context will probably because it is viewed as russia's main meddling tools so to speak he said that he'd love to meet the newest channel in the r.t. family that being r.t. france given his if he's invited of course now also gave his opinion on the situation around the opposition's saudi journalist jamal khashoggi he disappeared a couple of weeks ago and is believed to be murdered on the orders of saudi arabia state level of a putin said that russia is not going to do anything about its relations or with the kingdom in fact he said that the school is going to maintain a good relation unless it is proven that saudi arabia indeed had something to do with the order of the killing basically vladimir putin saying that it is wrong to take down the road that many western countries took when it came to this proposal poisoning case when there was no evidence shown of russia's involvement in it but action ensued anyway. u.s. president threatened severe consequences for saudi arabia if the countries found responsible for the killing of a journalist in istanbul riyadh denies any involvement

and earlier we spoke to russia's envoy in the u.k. he notes evidence from the british side but still lacking we believe that this kind of reckless and explain why first of all this statements are not supported by any evidence this is first second we hear of this kind of of the. word in our time in this to solve and seventeen for a former foreign secretary boris johnson was in moscow. of russian foreign minister offered him to have a consultations on the service you curity and he were exposed whatever is being said today if anything comes out it will probably disprove it but it is in the future and we need to know the truth now. there's now less than five weeks to go till america heads to the polls for the mid-term elections and it seems that the continuing arguments around donald trump supremes court nominee brit cavanagh are having an influence after the f.b.i. provided the results of a probe into the sexual misconduct accusations against the judge republicans seem satisfied the democrats are sounding the alarm. it looks to be a prod

and russia that has been solid and it seems that the u.s. for u.s. ministration. is not too concerned about kind of breaking up these agreements and that's certainly one thing that russia will be kind of showing off now that the u.s. it's not a reliable partner even when it comes to keeping the world safe i think that will be their move in terms of the writer of moving on. now president trump has accused russia repeatedly of violating the agreement is he right is there any evidence. well the u.s. has accused russia of violating the supremum for years actually under the obama administration as well and nato has also recently come out and accused russia of violating the violating this agreement as well russia on the other hand has always denied it today they've also been denying it what we can say is that russia has certainly been popping its rhetoric in recent months and this year as well when it comes to nuclear weapons when it comes to weapons overall in. the state of the union address in march he had a whole section where he laid out all the new modern weapons t

has accused russia of violating the treaty on its part has the u.s. stuck to the agreements towards the terms of the agreement what we know there. is a thinking about producing deploying a new messiah was to account for as i said that china's activities and sells china sea but so far the pentagon has only begun research and development into such as that would be banned by this treaty and research is not prohibited by under this pact. now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. president donald trump say all in all it's all being made to stop the progress of thousands of undoing migrants making their way to the u.s. border he say's they have to apply for asylum in mexico and if they do and the u.s. will turn them away the group crossed into mexico from guatemala over the weekend. eighteen people have been killed and more than one hundred seventy injured off to a train derailed in northeastern taiwan some of the carriages overturned in the crash which you could when the cause ran with the tracks on have been near a station investi

treaty with russia which requires both sides to eliminate medium range nuclear missiles. russia has violated the agreement they've been violated here for many years and we're not going to let them violate the nuclear agreement so we're going to terminate agreement we're going to. saudi arabia claims that the missing journalist. was killed in a fight inside its consulate in istanbul. and a series of deadly bombings targeting polling stations across afghanistan overshadowing the country's parliament elections. it's one o'clock here in moscow and you're watching all t. international live from last year with me in a day or two to a very warm welcome to the program and we start the program with breaking news the u.s. is pulling out of a nuclear missile pact with russia the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty has been in place for more than thirty years president trump accused moscow of violating the deal russia as violated the agreement they'd been violating here for many years that i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate for full out. we're not going to let the

treaty and in fact there was a huge consequence russia found maybe a a.b.m. missiles being put in remaining and threatening it with the threat of a for strike that they might not be able to retaliate against and so russia responded as i read by developing these cyprus on a cruise missiles which are what has the u.s. upset so there has been a huge consequence of the risk decision to pull out of the one thousand nine hundred seventy two nuclear treaty that had been negotiated by richard nixon hardly someone who would be accused of being soft on the soviet union so so bolton is wrong and and then the third thing i would say is that bolton has been arguing for pulling out of in our for for years and he's written about it is early and i saw it as two thousand and eleven so to say that russia is violating the treaty as the reason for pulling out is. is somewhat dishonest since it's something that will miss been pushing for long before any of the supposedly elations when w.'s talked to reporters earlier it was all about the train the alleged the russian election med

president trump threatens to pull out of a nuclear missile treaty with russia accusing it of violating the pact while moscow says should washington withdraw it would be a major blow to global security. and in the stories that shaped the week grieving friends and relatives have said their final goodbyes to the time to victims of the shooting and bomb attack in one of the worst such muscles in. saudi arabia finally admits that missing journalist. died in a fight inside its consulate in istanbul after almost three weeks of denying any involvement. is that we can hear a lot international with me this is our round up of our top stories in the last seven days in the latest up to date welcome to the program. and first one from today with a number of new developments germany's foreign minister has had to donald trump's latest announcement that the u.s. is threatening to ditch a decades old nuclear pact requiring washington and moscow to eliminate the short and medium range atomic missiles. the announcement by the u.s. that it's going to withdraw from the i.m.f. accord is regrettable the i.n.f.

now our top story the leaders of russia it's. germany and france have called for syrians to take center stage in their country's peace process and stressed the importance of preserving syrian sovereignty the statement came following a summit in istanbul and it finding ways of ending the country's devastating seven year long conflict. for. a full sized discuss constitutional reform and free elections the humanitarian aid and stake stream is functions entrenched in a province if a train car reports from istanbul. first of all even though we are in november the foreign leaders hope that a committee to draft the syrian new constitution will be more before the end of this year here's another one of the heads of state did to discuss the personal favor of syria's president barbara starr hall assad and besides this nobody is flushing the rights of the syrian people to decide who is still to be in charge of the country next time plus whatever it wants to start firing guns need serious problem with for trades in the area it could explode a

russia relations. we shouldn't aim any higher than that, because we don't have stability, that's potentially dangerous not just for the two countries, but for the rest of the world. under that rubric, you can imagine a number of different tracks, be of prolonging the start when it comes up for possible extension in 2021, or salvaging other arms-control treaties that are on life support, or having a more regular strategic stability exchange in terms of meetings, and taking this the confliction mechanism that has worked in syria that they are referred to, and trying to see if that kind of thing can't be done in the baltic or the black seas, things like that. conflict avoidance, and having a degree of confidence that we are not one step away from things devolving into direct conflict would be an important, that should be our objective. we do have signs that the russians are, potentially, for the reasons mentioned, more open to this than we are. they've already proposed extending new starts for the five ye

and russia to eliminate their mid range ground based nuclear missiles russia has responded to trump a statement warning that pulling out of the deal could lead to to retaliate or measures. we condemn the attempts to get concessions from moscow by using blackmail especially over an issue that has value for both international and nuclear security as well as for maintaining world stability the nuclear arms treaty will be discussed in moscow on monday when u.s. national security advisor john bolton meets with russia's foreign minister because only a tranquil and kevin one discussed what america's withdrawal could mean for the world . mr bolton isn't the only critic of the deal america's doing it right and russia is not living up to the end of the bargain that's how christ and donald trump mr bolton's boss explained why he's saying no so-called i.m.f. treaty russia has violated the agreement they've been violating it for many years that i don't know why president obama didn't negotiate or. we're not going to let them violate the nuclear agreement and go out into weapons and we're not allow

-russia relations, the impact of sanctions against russia, and for developing relationship between russia and china. this is just over an hour. >> we will have c-span recording or broadcasting, so when we get to questions and answers, make sure you get a microphone so they can hear the question as well. before i go to introductions of our panel, i want to have a special guest here who is going to join us online on the telephone. you will recognize the voice as soon as you hear it. >> thank you. i am from the alumni association. i want to welcome you each of you and apologize for my lack of attendance. i am working hard on innovation called the transporter beam that in staram me up like wars, so he hasn't got there yet. we have one of these events i will get there quickly. i know you will enjoy the program. thank you for giving me these couple of minutes. enjoy the evening, folks. >> always great to hear from you. the 70thelebrating anniversary as a research and analysis organization. our goal is to take on the world's hardest problems and to be working in a way that would make the way --

again i would want to and seeing the such a narrow pollo game between russia and the us or between russia and the u.s. and china now china has three hundred nuclear weapons whereas the us and russia have over nine thousand nuclear weapons between them so we really see the scale of nuclear. from these two countries would do all for anything that. would come as a threat from china and i think what we need to focus on is not just russia us china but what about europe europe is the continent where most nuclear weapons are stationed in the entire world and of course the reintroduction of medium range missiles with mainly us right to europe would make europe a target once again and the european nations really have to reconsider whether they want to be u.s. nuclear umbrella that they have to rely and to trust for all whether they want to take security into their own hands and you do have to wonder after everything that's happened in the last two years what else the united states has to do for europe to really take its security interests into their own hands after the. draw from the by the united

because for russia they really needed to. develop a new a new weapons as well because for the west or for nato they keep saying that the a.b.m. treaty and other. missile defense shield are building is simply to you know intercept this non-existent missiles from iran but it's. become more evident this targeting russia russian these are countered somehow but also this is an interceptor missiles can be converted into your this intermediate range nuclear missiles so they can actually be used to target russia so russia already warned us market point out all of it in two thousand and seven put in. enough treaty would have to be reconsidered because they can't live with it anymore because the worse the sense of what is leaving leaves are controlled. agreements. to does that. mean we're going to have a new arms race really is that it will be inclusion here means where it is now which would preferable near where i want to have something of war so we're going to have caves because let me remind our viewers what the i.m.f. treaty is it

from russia's putin a new showdown in europe. versus putin eric and the chinese in the equation as well how are they going to be brought together these free antagonists of presumably their own self-interest i mean i think all three countries are enjoying the fruits of the prosperity of the world trade and they'll they'll want to work together i mean you mentioned earlier people are applauding trump pulling out of the i.m.f. i don't think anybody applauded i think people understand why the u.s. after so many years of violations is threatening to pull out and talking to pull out because trump wants a new deal he wants an updated modern deal that reflects the reality of twenty eighteen in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven. is going to happen any time soon i mean we're talking about the two gentlemen now meeting nov eleventh in paris well look back a year or so ago all the fears about south korea north korea with the missiles being launched there nobody thought trump was a was out of his mind. and all the sudden they're talking

it russia harvested american rage to reshape u.s. politics how the russians are trying to turn the tragedy to their advantage to target almost every major american social movement there's russian bots still pushing divisive past tags apparently accounts on social media even now so with stories of big bad russia playing round the clock on their television screens you would think that people living in western countries would be in a state of anti russian hysteria except they aren't according to a poll conducted by the french institute for public opinion it turns out that nearly half of americans and europeans don't buy into the russian coverage in the mainstream press france takes the lead when it comes to being wary of mainstream media russia reporting however across the pond people are slightly more trusting yet forty three percent of the u.s. public is wary of the russian coverage around the clock so why are people less trusting well lately the russian coverage has gotten a little bit weird russia is being blamed for the controversy

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russia can really be blamed for everything and. sophia of course has some serious cases but it's going to walk into the colonies don't because if you remember well my my favorite i think was last week was blaming the poor star wars movie on the kremlin because you know there were russian boats were out there give one size fits all told the western culture probably my favorite was george to start your kid like he was accused of sexual harassment and essentially he turned around saying well. a lot of this traffic is obviously russian bought and because he's you know being quite old well spoken about the rights. took a personal offense to it so putin is coming after him so he sent out this week to try to reassure him and run their friends and let me just reassure you that i will stand up against the russians are coming for me i will continue to fight for you so so he went from being a sexual predator to essentially being a victim and fighting for justice and so there was something like really good works that russia the model in the u.

treaty with russia for a violation but washington's undermining global security. in the stories that shape the week here. in crimea after a student opens fire in a college killing twenty and injuring dozens terrified witnesses what happened was they for cover. finally admits the missing journalist. and find inside its consulate in istanbul for almost three weeks denying any involvement. with the top stories for the past seven days on right up to the moment developments well you're with the weekly on r.t. international hello and welcome to our top story russia sais the united states is taking a dangerous step after president trump tore up a decade's old nuclear pact requiring both countries to eliminate their short medium range atomic missiles. such moves could lead to retaliate tory measures. we condemn the attempts to get concessions from moscow by using blackmail especially over an issue that has value for both international and nuclear security as well as for maintaining world stability. well the united states move will be discussed in moscow on monday when u.s

what is russia nowadays is russia. a democracy as we may consider any other western european country probably not to in russia that is a special democracy the school like this very often my opinion is that. the western european counties and nato counters they tended to emphasize the danger of the. the rash of presents in order to create in a name me that would produce the five i knew further actions toward that that kind of me if somebody knows or russia. are we sure that of russia would like to invade the stone you're lucky would be to india i personally don't think so are we sure that russia wanted to include you karim me if there was not a coupe in craning two thousand and fourteen that was allowed even by european counters in the european union this is the problem the problem is that sometimes we also have interference from the. western counties in the internal affairs of the former soviet republics and this is because this strategy of nato and of the western counties is to grow to include more counter losing their

sanctions by signing a deal with russia to buy as advanced a s. four hundred defense system. a tribe you know here's how informants to put to them i find secret service are allowed to break the law if it prevents the biggest cry. from. the west takes out of russia's g r u military intelligence service thanks opposing an alleged campaign it's time for attacks on the world including only international chemical weapons watchdog. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me make an effort to have you with us this hour. a false contract to deliver russian as four hundred ad defense systems to india has been signed by vladimir putin and they're enjoying modi the latest pens the dail despite washington's attempts to stop india signing. off is in new delhi for us the whole scale of today's meeting while it was staggering if i was to list everything that the two leaders will discuss from nuclear corp drug culture to space and so on and so forth could easily take the rest of the day and also a very warm very cordial atmosphere between the leaders are to. pay special a

of the russia including sanctions on very contrived reasons without any evidence provided of russia allegedly using chemical weapons so there's no evidence what steps are being taken against russia and now we see a murder and what you know steps are being taken we need to sort out our single approach to cases like these but washington chimed in then so what's stopping them now. they are ordering military equipment everybody. in the world one of that order we got it and we are all of that every bit of it i don't like stopping massive amounts of money that's being poured into our country spending one hundred ten billion dollars on military and what the. thing is that created jobs like jobs and others for this country while europe and even some american senators who believe arms sales and need to be stopped by some of firstly we're outraged by this case we made it clear secondly there is an urgent need for details and those responsible are still not being held accountable and thirdly i agree with all those who say that arms experts which are already limited must not take place in current circums

presidents donald trump's announcement that he plans to abandon the decades old arms control treaty with russia the concern is that by scrapping the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or i n f as it is known moscow and washington could return to cold war levels of hostility and nuclear stockpiling so the question on quadriga this week is trump versus bolton a new nuclear arms race and to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by three astute observers and analysts beginning with berlin based paediatrician alex rosen who's president of the german section of the organization international physicians for the prevention of nuclear war and dr rosen says a new nuclear arms race has already begun nuclear weapons are incompatible with international humanitarian law and should be back also with us is eric author and journalist who writes for the los angeles times he asks all those people in western europe who are so worried about your renewed nuclear arms race where they've been since two thousand and eight when russia started testing cruise missiles in violation of the i n f and a ve

measures against russia so to say to a tech russia themselves this is in the making and this will be x. think accelerated after this new experience that was due to brussels correspondent banned. as get the reaction from russia now and i'm joined by dig up a correspondent near drugstore each who is in moscow the rio grande how are these accusations going down in russia. while the russian government is basically saying with nothing to do with it there was no attack there lived a allegations are absurd they are talking about spy mania in the west and president putin has repeatedly rejected similar charges but i've also spoken to think tankers and the intelligence community in moscow and someone told me that washington is eager to impose even tougher sanctions on russia by the end of november so you asked me if russia has nothing to lose why should they why should we russians behave the way the west wants them to behave somebody else told me that the defense department is acting aggressively because they want the situation to become more tense as you know president putin said just a coup

this is due to the news live from berlin nuclear talks in russia in the drafts of a new arms race the united states dispatches its national security advisor to moscow for tough talks on arms control that's after washington says it is ready to withdraw for him and his store treaty on intermediate range missiles. also coming up german chancellor angela merkel says she is ready to suspend arms exports to saudi arabia critics have condemned riyadh for the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. also coming up the terrible choices facing families fleeing syria. i stopped going to school and it's been great because i got engaged my mother noticed him he came and told her that he wanted me and now that. we're going to tell the story of a syrian child bride living in london on a mother seems marrying off for a fourteen year old as the only option to pay the bill. and donald trump's worst nightmare thousands of migrants from central america march towards the u.s. border they've reached mexico but trump says he could deploy the army to stop them from getting any. time soon it's almost gone but i

russia's security council head and the u.s. embassy said that they also discussed arms control and lavrov has also said that that will be an important topic but though this is on the table it doesn't seem there is much cause for optimism bolton himself has. shown that he's kind of in he opposes these arms treaties and the russian military expert today told me that russia also thinks that they're actually bad for the country he said that putin came out criticizing this agreement in the past and that actually trump has literally taking taken this decision off his hands now emily the e.u. is significantly alarmed by trump's statement and urges both sides to preserve the ins the treaty as it's known for short which is crucial for this continent to europe and global security let's take a quick look at what the agreement is about and then we'll continue our conversation at the other end of it. the nineteen eighty seven intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was seen as a major breakthrough in nuclear security when it was ratified b