us down by the. i. mass protests demanding the government be held accountable for the devastating fire in a high rise housing block that killed the president. the u.s. justice department issues a warning against trusting anonymous sources in the public to exercise caution against news. twenty seventeen feet a confederations cup kicks off today in something that was russia played new zealand in the opening game a little. new

center here in moscow saturday afternoon at two pm it's now midday in london and that's where we start for you this hour thousands of protesters have marched in the british capital demanding justice and how be given to the victims of the grenfell tower block fire angry crowds blame the conservative government policies for the tragedy number of confirmed deaths has reached thirty but it's expected to rise with up to seventy of the people still unaccounted for. i. was. over the course of this demonstration this march speak to some very very angry

people i didn't even get to the bedroom that night but there are people who have to sleep on the floor and. think that everything and everything. been lied to. for centuries decades or so about now it's about every minute that we've been lied to that our government has been lines of us covering stuff up and we thought enough to bring you closer on the launch of the christians the people of boston you got people killed as a result of their dreams someone should be able to count to go to school for that matter we have a government that's cut out of prime minister that came to the scene of the crime and you have the decency to meet resident ways johanssen swayze ways the papal ways everyone that lived in now is flat weighs all the tendency is great ways that it may still occupy is that need to know when i sat the anger on the protesters should by violence is a crime to say that the official response from being completely inadequate and many

of the people who are angry at the rally which was building up the gas system was put in the in the stairwell so when those coal fire it was a truck nobody could escape also the fact that ten million dollars spent on cosmetic changes to the outside of the building to make it look that's all for rich residents who live nearby but it was that external cladding which caused the fire to spread so quickly and take so many lives so these protests is very angry and determined but this is going to be a transformative point in the history of this country judging by the response of members of the public will be walking by and in their cars beeping and supports that is a very popular course this horrible story coming so soon on the back of the election it says everything that's wrong about our society this is one of the richest countries in the world one of the richest places in the well this bar in london as well and but this is an area where the poor people live and their lives essentially

have been sold based on this crazy ideology of deregulation because with noting the reason may when she went down to the fire to the site of the tragedy she talked to send some fire offices but she didn't talk to any of the local people and i think the reason. for that was that she knew that they would they would repent for the many catastrophic failings that have led to this and i think this is only strengthened the sense in the mine just that we must see the end of this government and see a transition to to a way of governing where we where we fix the priorities in terms of what we need to spend on and then how to how to provide the appropriate funding for those priorities and the other way around the prime minister's been visiting survivors in hospital she's also allocated five million pounds to help those affected and demanded a full inquiry into the fatal tragedy but polly boyd who reports to reason made being blamed for more than just her response to the deadly inferno. when your own ideas fail just borrow your parents. no

one and no community is left behind doesn't that sound a lot like this no one and no community is left behind and this no community and no one is there behind this nobody and no community should ever be left behind in fact jeremy corbyn used that throughout the labor party leadership race last summer he even used it to launch labour's election campaign for the general election perhaps threes in may thought that borrowing a labor phrase would help attract some extra support given how badly she fadden has self-imposed snap general election a vote in which jeremy corbyn went from zero to hero. like a political chameleon to reason may has borrowed more than her fair share from the right as well in the run up to the e.u. referendum she was

a quiet to remain but this was back then. people say the e.u. does not make a small secure because it does not allow this to control our borders. but that is not true we were the voters but we want our country back the new role for ourselves in the world as a strong country with control over our borders. the single market accounts for a huge volume of all trade look at the facts the potential risk to jobs for our economy if we were to leave the european union framework of the single market i would say is a beginning but you must be optimistic about what i am proposing cannot mean membership of the single market nigel farage accused of stealing all his policies by getting britain outside the european union controlling immigration and helping

small businesses and for years old the british prime minister was running on exactly the same ticket while thrilled to ukip supporters flocked to join the conservative party when public opinion skewed right to reason may adjusted her speech and her ideas to fit the agenda when it swung back to the left so did her rhetoric it's textbook electioneering but as to reason may's disappointing results at the polls have demonstrated relying on it too heavily may do more harm than good poll ratings are now as low as jeremy corbin at the start of the snap election campaign that's not deterred the labor leader from borrowing some of to reason may's campaign phrases but only for a lot and i'm sure you'll move forward to well during the queen's speech just as soon as the coalition of chaos has been negotiated. snow possible the labor

party stands ready to offer a strong. antti london. us just. this department has been giving advice to the american public on handling potential fake news especially concerning anonymous sources a statement from the deputy attorney general says caution should be exercised when watching or reading news attributed to a named officials miguel francis santiago explained why the justice department is speaking out. deputy attorney general rosenstein statement has raised quite a few eyebrows especially considering that as of late majority of the american press relies on nothing but not a most sources on the den of sources two sources with links to the counter intelligence community anonymous sources according to anonymous washington post source while the mainstream media seems to love them the justice department is busy

reviewing all the fakes no wonder they're getting quite fed up with them at the d.o.j. take a look at this washington post headline claims that rosenstein threatened to resign after the white house cast him as the prime suspect for suggesting to fire the x. of the i directed james komi when asked about this by journalists mr rosenstein claimed he never said such a thing now c.n.n. a regular in anonymous sources came out saying that according to sources told me would testify that he never told trump that he was not under investigation only as kind of conflict and i took away from it what he did which was he said i've been assured that i'm not under any investigation took away kind of this blanket assurance which we believe comey will say he did not give the president but when mr comey testified he said the exact opposite he actually told mr trump three times

that mr president you are not under investigation c.n.n. even retracted their article confirming the original fake news story or how about this new york times article where not even a sources cited but rather the n.y.t. types it out like a fact that komi days before being fired asked the d.o.j. for more prosecutors and personnel to accelerate the f.b.i.'s investigation into alleged russia's interference in the presidential election but guess what the justice department flatly denied that komi met with rosenstein to ask for more resources and here is house majority leader kevin mccarthy can. firming that these allegations are nothing but false one of the questions were. public present but he said he's already said it that he has no evidence that only asked for any further resources that all the resources were there but good knowing n.y.t. and now c.n.n. is raising eyebrows with their exact quote being or what has the reaction to

mr rosen stein's anonymous source a statement wow can it get any better than this in the world of mainstream media they even managed to offer the justice department beguile francis and thiago r.t. . the justice department statement came just hours after the washington post published an article saying the very same department appointed a special counsel to investigate president trump for alleged obstruction of justice again unnamed officials were cited his the reaction we go from a few experts in the field. some time now before his inauguration even that there was briefings going on against only containing information that could only have come from a high level some of those of a security classified nature and would have expected a major investigation to have been carried out into the. leaking classified information to the media is a criminal offense the united states as elsewhere but no investigation of that seems to have taken place so far those leaks but certainly many of the leaks more

political in nature and the fact is most intelligence officers who were intelligent officers swear an oath of loyalty to the constitution they are not the patriot who got them the job why the top of all these organizations there is a political well and in this political level there are number of people who are obligated to serve the people that know what we did know and i suspect and i do believe that many of these leaks we're seeing are coming from that political level talent agencies. the acquittal of a police officer who shot at a black man in the u.s. state of minnesota resulted in angry protests and at least eighteen arrests. hundreds took to the streets and blocked roads after the court's decision was announced thirty two year old philander castillo was gunned down in front of his girlfriend and her daughter during a routine traffic stop last july the police officer who pulled the trigger was

charged with several counts including second degree manslaughter but he's been fully cleared the victim's family called the ruling racially motivated despite the office's acquittal he has still been dismissed from g.t. . u.n. and human rights watch dogs are seriously concerned over what they say amounting civilian deaths from u.s. led airstrikes against islamic state and the reported numbers much higher than those being admitted by washington. the u.n. says hundreds of civilians have reportedly been killed in recent strikes in the embattled syrian city of raka the i still held under siege by u.s. backed local forces with the support of western plains across the border in iraq civilian deaths are also reportedly rising in the islamic state stronghold of mosul

which has been under a similar siege for months now the u.s. led coalition has also been accused of using incendiary weapons now as civilians in both cities and what could potentially amount to war crimes. reports. the u.s. coalition is more than willing to update the world on its activities against the islamic state in iraq and syria who have successfully been able to take ground from ice are already in rocca are recently walked the streets of east and west mosul i saw for myself that markets and their businesses are reopening so things are moving around the city and living their lives however u.n. investigators paint a very different picture. of rock. we have believe that the ground for the diverse. has resulted not to will be staggering loss of life but tears also lead to two hundred hundred sixty thousand civilians. who.

displease the united states insists that less than five hundred civilians have been killed throughout the entire campaign over the last three years in iraq and syria however the united nations points out that three hundred civilians have been killed in the last four months in iraq alone and the situation in mosul is even worse this is just one example one of these strikes in the area that somewhere between fifty and eighty civilians may have been killed the airplanes hit our street and we went to rescue people under the rubble we risk you don't we could see and then we left the area on top of that the u.s. led coalition is being accused of using white phosphorous. u.s. leaders won't confirm whether or not they're using the lethal chemical munition however they say that if they are they're doing it in a manner that's consistent with international law but human rights watch points out

that this chemical put civilians in great danger burning their flesh down to the bone even a minor burn from this toxic powder can be fatal white phosphorus has been used in syria in iraq previous occasions but since a dental effects can cause terrible injuries to a question is what is it hitting on the ground and adequate provisions being taken to ensure that civilians and not falling victim to white phosphorous that's the nature of urban warfare fighting in close confines with civilians and legitimate targets closely mixed in with each other and there's only one way forward for the u.s. coalition we have already shifted from attrition we showed them. position to another iraq and syria two annihilation tactics two billion casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation looks like the united states has made their choice about how they're going to go about defeating i still the only question left

is how many more people are going to die for that to happen. r.t. new york. russia is about to host its first major international football tournament neil harvey and stan collymore a taking in the atmosphere for us and the hours before the opening game and we'll catch up with them after the break. every the world. according to josh. chorus of the younger generation is that if they buck the trend and go against the

status quo it's all in danger their prospects in life and so many of them sell out basically get jobs in the city or on wall street and they don't continue in their use fall exuberance for many enough years to make it a permanent solution a permanent movement but now not to belabor the point but now with things like currencies this generation can bypass the entire financial infrastructure and create their own financial realities. the biggest football event all the summer is kicking off in russia in just a few hours from now neil harvey and award winning sports broadcaster stan collymore updating us on all the news for the fifo confederations cup as fans get ready for the opening match let's have a look at what we can expect. soak

it up it's sunny it is beautiful it doesn't get more picturesque the next we will witness the opening ceremony of this year's confederations cup football talk all things footy over the next eight hours we have alongside me the award winning stanley callable starting to happen now in some places program what a beautiful day for the tournament to start all about isn't it excitement building up to the games what do you think about the safety match don't lose that's the mantra in any tournament around the world slightly different today because the russian team is a fairly new team it's a young team it's a vibrant. half to get the nation on side they have to get them three in the middle for football again after a disappointing european championship tournament for new zealand slightly different they're trying to break out of the shadow of rugby union the most popular sport in

new zealand we talk about the pressure on these these teams for today's opening match i think there was visible pressure on the killie the carriage you'll find out what room this video because it takes a long time to get up them to match fitness theory achilles he's the official animal oracle for this year's fifteen federations cup he supposed to predict the outcome of the games i told him the new paul the octopus and he's got a job which i think is a smart move given today's performance he works at the famous servitude museum just alongside us so what do you think about they see basically meandered his way around didn't want to make a decision a little bit tentative it was a game of to harvest all of the cliches there but eventually he went off we had a little sniff around any problem for russia the home side to get away and didn't eat the food i think that showed that he was incorruptible was going to take the brunt of the food but but chose russia in japan right to strike. or to do is closer to the first game than we are because she's so at the stadium. it's typical for

live broadcasting as you can hear behind me the p.a. system is now cranking up it's now time sounding vision they're testing all the p.a. systems inside close and within the compound itself a little the entertainment is you had the volunteers arriving there you had the antiterrorism police then you had the police cadets cops and then after that you had what were the kind of off duty army cadets you were the volunteers so effectively it's now up to say the testing time is over they've got everything in place that the people in place they got the checks that got the security issue set the opening ceremonies looking about four thirty local time six o'clock so it's kind of like basically now everything's in order it's time for the fans to arrive about the pressure on the teams and so i would say a lot of pressure on the organizers a lot of scrutiny and then we have the chance earlier to speak to the rockies the c.e.o. of russia's will cup twenty eight hundred organizing committee and he spoke to us about security measures that are in place and also about that intense media scrutiny all the security measures are in place very of all the interested law

enforcement agencies have been involved in the preparation of this. in close cooperation with for you for so we're certain that we have a very robust security called so very important because the media microscope is on russia would be giving out quite harsh punishments for anybody found guilty of any offenses i would think we have all the proper legislation in place it's recently. was made a little more stringent we now have. the banned list we can ban certain people from attending matches against new zealand will take place in the newly built some pages big stadium with a small design overlooking the baltic sea coastline which you can look me on the sings at the arena earlier. they sound so first impressions exceptional views from stadium. when you get

a smaller version of i'm going to see the c sixty sixty well i really want to get the fashionable thing the sides to take a look absolutely. twenty first century technology preach technology come down to try the way i'm sure you could at least i hope you can take it back there is no problems with a ph well let's carry on the some of the crowd and these i guess are pretty but now which is the chairs for the players on the case so. you got to hate this all right . now let's look at the basic fun of this is look surely. normally the layout it's easy i mean the great dressing rooms i mean everybody has a lot. they want you cool this tactic full well yeah i mean it would probably be on a on a in the corner here. it would just be you know idea to be able to see the open closing

so you say you always think only more dangerous it would possible be defeated all of a voice it doesn't and there's about to cease to be very best. you know one of my social media from to sell to a job but just for you i will own. the. now you may be big on social media but i can pull a few strings as well check this out. in the public you know we know about it so. we will be back with more stay with us for confederation cup coverage now better place to be facing. the guys later but we'll go back to some petersburg now we can talk to alexander sackhoff who is. also russia's all time. top scorer

for the national team he joins us in russia's northern capital now welcome to r.t. sale stadium looks pretty magnificent i want to ask you first if i may about the opening game russia versus new zealand achilles the cat was a little hesitant how do you rate russia's chances. well first of all. i'm happy to welcome all of you to our wonderful city you can see the weather is nice and everything is ready for the kickoff of my cast for the opening match. on like. you don't have any hesitation so i feel confident that russia will win today we'll beat new zealand and we'll start our path to qualifying from our group. which of the games are you looking forward to the most in the group stages.

it was nice to see a much well to me all the games will be interesting of course i'll be rooting for russia first and foremost our next match vs portugal will be the decisive game for us. what's your impression of the atmosphere so far june summer in some petersburg combi many more places than a moment inefficient to spend some time in but of course a lot of media have been reporting consistently on russian football hooliganism has that in any way put any of the fans off how do you judge the atmosphere where you are. well when you go it is hard for me to speak on behalf of others but i can assure you being here now in this wonderful city i live in the city i love the city i can see there will be no problem for international fans here on the contrary i believe that once fans come

for the comfort cup they will feel certain about coming here next year for the world cup with their friends with their families just to look at this city. certainly we saw earlier the security contingent in some painters but while organize plenty of manpower that do you think the security services can avoid any of the kind of trouble that was seen in the euro championships last year in france . does this well like you said it. didn't security is definitely a priority and i'm pretty confident that we won't have anything like what happened in france. because we all want security and actually the international situation is quite difficult today. but all necessary measures have been taken here

and i feel very confident that our law enforcement forces will prevent anything bad from happening so we won't have anything like what we had last year. would you agree that this championship is either just a taster for the twenty eighteen world cup the world's biggest most what sporting event or does it have a unique element in its own right is it special in its own way the confederations cup. and the u.s. well naturally this is something special because you have teams. in these teams are leaders of their continent so the old come together for two weeks in one place . to find out who's the best right now who's the top team of the world so the concert cup is an important tournament. in and i would so in every player wants to win the trophy you know so off to confident that all the players they all want

to win here. sure in the meantime though i'm sure you're going to enjoy your home city being the focus of world football right now alexander thanks very much for joining us from st petersburg. we're going to bring you more from the twenty seventeen fifa confederations cup throughout the day and of course over the next few weeks make sure you don't miss a bit of it.