i. live from our international news center in moscow this is r.t. i'm you know neal hello and welcome our top story this hour the british prime minister has admitted the government's response to whedon's these deadly fire in a west london tower block was quote not good enough fifty eight people are presumed dead and police say the figure could rise further as the search continues treason may made her apology those crowds rallied in the capital calling for her resignation as i was to see a church reports. we're right outside downing street where if you can see hundreds of people have gathered to protest against a recent maize government this was originally intended to be a protest pressing issues following the election lots of people have been saying they're unhappy with the snap election that's recent made calls on the following coalition that was formed with the need and this was the original reason but since

the tragedy with the grand isle tower where as we know believe hundreds left homeless following watch and rubble there will be people who are saying this is becoming the final straw was the unhappiness of following the decisions that this government has been making not only that when germany were being old so what brought up the idea of giving the residents were affected by grand fellow residential properties there are so awfully available that area and standing empty in those neighborhoods is something that's been brought into the spotlight and has been also something largely about econ be acceptable but in london we have luxury buildings and luxury flats left empty as land banking for the future while the homeless and the poor look for somewhere to live and this is what some of the protesters have been telling us here throughout the day. and they have very few six months why not give them to someone temporarily and i mean that that maybe just made it it's been

a long drop really foreign investors just come in force up all the flights and most of the money even used and yet we have the snow switched on the bucket chiefs and the couple you know there's an obvious inequality that we need to start thinking about the people that actually live here not the people that are buying houses you know for millions of pounds and then leaving them empty for six seven months what happened. by many here see as something that's just a symbol of the huge disparity that exists here in the u.k. and in london between the wealthier and those who are a little less well off. to church and they're well people humping gathering how the church near. the tower to pay their respects to the victims on offer support among the volunteers was former world champion boxer america. i want to come you know i have a foundation myself i want to call me and show my support by doing charity work amazing money for these people and also. from the police why what do you know the fire happened and everything else and what

a situation like at the moment i really believe we can we can not run out you know if you read to me you did not. yawned her brother. i mean. well look i want to we are going to treat everyone with. i think what can she do i think she's just got to start acting as a actually the you know coming out and talking to people i mean gauging we people in a human why as opposed to acting like you're always at the press briefing every time there's a long string of things and i think it's just been more and more frustration for me even for myself as a british citizen of someone supposed to be this strong and stable leader and you show nothing but the opposite and i think is really getting to a boiling point within the coming days prime minister trees may is expected to name a judge to lead a public inquiry into the ground felt tower fire she's also told consuls to conduct urgent safety checks on all similar tower blocks and allocated five million pounds

to aid the survivors. moving on officials in afghanistan say seven american troops are being wounded in an attack by a rogue afghan soldier on a base in the north of the country the u.s. has dismissed earlier reports that american soldiers being killed the taliban say it was responsible although that claims being disputed we heard from a journalist in kabul. and afghan soldier used a rocket propelled grenade during a military exercise on the way to the shooting range or the shooting range and according to this officer several u.s. soldiers were wounded this comes not long after a afghan commander killed at least three u.s. soldiers in the eastern province of mingora are the base where the incident today took place is where at least ten thousand attackers killed more than one hundred

forty army soldiers in april and what was a massive security breach you have to remember that the taliban are expanding their area for a crude meant from where the afghan police in army recruits so the risk of afghan soldiers or new recruits being turned into taliban infiltrators is really high as well be a time came as the country's defense minister welcome to decision by the u.s. to deploy four thousand more troops to afghanistan in the many years unlikely to improve the situation there. with these four thousand troops they cannot defeat the taliban in afghanistan they just won the fighting to continue so they can achieve their goals with more american troops in afghanistan people will get more frustrated and insecurity will increase i think i would agree with many afghans in this what afghans are really asking is two things one is push for peace process and

second pressurising the pakistani taliban sanctuaries are actually terror because troops the military solution is no is not a solution for the afghan problem and i think the americans must have realized as well because you see there are so similar comments coming from the american officials particularly those from india on policy but you know it's contradicting what they're doing and what they're saying at one hand they believe that it has to be peace process in peace settlement that can. work but in the other hand they are sending additional troops. talking sports the first day of the confederations cup has come to a close seen a winning start for a host russia who beat new zealand in petersburg earlier with more on the game plus all the latest from the tournament here's neil harvey and stan collymore.

the russians got paid just b. to draw to a close here in st petersburg russia after they secured a two no victory over new zealand and they have again alongside me stan collymore stan we're going to take our viewers through the goals of the first goal the thought that russia dominated play in the first twenty minutes really good little lift of the goalkeeper. after say feel a little bit sorry for the new zealand goalkeeper because he was very good throughout the game ball comes in from the rights and side bryza central striker it was an attacking midfielder you just need to get in the box to make sure that you can finish off so a very good draw and that was the second goal ok we also have a great day really into speaking to to the top players and we grabbed

a few moments with the guys themselves from the russian team after their victory here's what they had to say it was huge first of all we play for our fans and i think today we made them happy i think it was a good game but the most significant thing is that we won everything else is less important doubling you should tell you steve that we learn we didn't spoil this great day for our fans that's important for me there was a lot of pressure on us of course with the hosts we played for the first time in front of our president and i go along to hopefully bigger and better things if you're right i'm supporting the partridge was it the same pay to fund song imagine she met quite a few public funds she can imagine the noise here is really quite something not easy let the blue touch paper think it's also let there be a cake series while there's plenty of beer flying when it is off to rule the city of culture and just before we have kick off in this very very merry and happy of environments we speak to some of the fans and they were anticipating a very good sort of and as well will became the rush hour. because you we've been

keeping a marvelous country it's amazing what you have here and your history of if we see details that there are still their world so we wanted to know your country and panel food and many have been there every day she had this time and i'm very much excited. to see you. she did tell by seville the year the cheering fans there and i think you were just lucky enough to miss some of the fans will keep past as well you have to say it's fine voices now so when you said you're happy environment for the russia for the fight fans is in the first match of the confederations cup you can hear them that you know all those funds are very happy but if they've been listening to some of the western media they might not be even turned up even watch the game some fans who came here were warned by the media back in their home countries about what they might come across during the competition the new zealand herald for example published an article that accused russian fans of racism and

said that they could not be trusted for trying to our correspondent met up with some new zealand supporters right here in st petersburg and he asked them about what were their experiences of the place so far i have spoken to a number of new zealand fans outside the stadium you come up to them to ask them about the will against you ask them about the problems then they look back at you and they're baffled all these people have told me that they're having an amazing time in st petersburg they haven't experienced any problems and definitely they wouldn't believe and they disagree with the stuff that was written in the household of all the russian hooligans on an overnighter if you want to die the stakes east this russian playboy is absolutely fantastic he will be a need for arbor a way to help and the russian people have extended their hospitality the last of my . favorite show found us it was this who we did he actually it is it's required it's these are trouble that we've seen in this town center on street pockets we didn't leave it. it's. the stuff so you know one of the great benefits

of the car federations cup will be the memories that the fans will bring back home but there are no british teams taking part in this tournament so there won't be many people coming back to the cape to tell the reds how people in this country really do get offended when you kate media are saying that football culture in russia is only about violence yes of course there are some problems still but issues exist in any country in fact here's a little history lesson for you in football years when did football related violence first become a problem i don't know for sure but it can be traced way back to fourteenth century . back then it wasn't so much the beautiful game as a rowdy mass brawl between rival villages kicking a pig's bladder across town good with the second word this could lead to social unrest and family get the cases of football hooliganism in the modern game fast

forward to the eighty's that's when the so-called roughs started causing trouble at football matches talking rival fans and players as well as referees but the heyday of football hooliganism and the actual term came about a century later starting from the sixty's clashes between rival supporters of both into the organizing fights between large gangs of hardcore fans the so-called friends in the first five years of the decade with twice as much violence is that the previous twenty five british hooliganism spread rapidly during the seventy's and eighty's becoming known abroad as english disease groups it's tragic piece of the european cup final in one thousand nine hundred five when the liverpool fans attacked their italian rival causing a stadium collapse killing thirty nine people after the disaster in his clubs were banned from pool in european contests factors the government wants. clamp down and

look at this by the one nine hundred ninety two related violence in the u.k. gradually began to wane but the reputation. when england failed to qualify for the one nine hundred ninety four usa world cup committee chief was delighted that the no england for. the with three countries in the world whose presence would have created logistical problems so we're very pleased they will be coming that's the route i'm playing. in the coming years many key international tournament swimmers quite badly behaved in the. nowadays football hooliganism is of course most indian english but international disease one that thankfully isn't as prevalent as it used to be. ok and stan i want to use the word now that i enjoy it i know you you appreciate this many small context so let's just say we know it's

a small number of hooligans that are out there let's just say it's a few doesn't say it but probably got forty five thousand capacity stadium for example it takes about tax stadium that's less that's well no point one percent of the people in the founds accused of being involved in trouble that an entire nation blamed for the actions of a tiny number of people and from a that is the problem i've seen it with the country to our support of trouble and support it is a far as a broadcaster and i've been look you know where the three lions and england found their reputation preceded them and still continues to do and i think what's happened is these a lot of the anger a lot of the fear of what happened when we saw violence in marseilles for example i was there last year is that it's been transposed into a whole nation is put a lot of fear mongering i saw it before the european championships back in two thousand and twelve in ukraine there was a documentary that say do not go to ukraine if you're english if you're asian if you're black so i went there is a broadcast. with

a great deal of trepidation what did i find nothing but calling this government supporters mingling a muffler means the brigade and the saddest thing about all these torments is that people want to get together and have a poll to every four years it's a world cup a new european championship. thanks santa time to show how truthful people were going to go in to save people's good pub sick with the local fans are going to watch look and say they can't sit mates text because she's. she's a real welcome i think the real bullshit we asked awesome section of joey home out of the hands. how big of a hobby like this was an eight person full of russian national sake was going to get the call display a lot of snow. sounds. sleeveless should be a very good price since coming to the world cup will slap full flags asian football

fans feel welcome in some place for them russia says lima was tough because it was . simply a little much from a shock when you look at the sport. that commission don't usually tell the whole said couple of years ago that every time he played there was an issue of five space race chats columns about how the city or the strength of the force really doesn't but then your families for example because you're not in need of this much you have to register which you feel you should at least you used to but you are the man she should have to be additional political. leadership if you think that the u.s. is this relevant to the miss yes or no. side very good. we do want to talk about little belong to things all the nice things that we talked about predictions today list look at them separate. first because

boy was this painful decision made to look at this i don't want to choose the supposed to be like paul the octopus you choose one of the countries is it new zealand is it russia one of the bowls of food you think it would leave that much encourage one that this one did this was a reluctant hero and this is the action replayy you see the lady of the moment sees something. for the fruit juice dixie snow to see going to school is he going to drop his nose into it go on achilles your little bit of a your own can we see it going soon yeah definitely rochelle i thought when i said we need to i think we need phone line technology just to see whether there was actual contact with the food that ok let's move on now to nick at the whole a battle who is also throwing her weight in cold contradiction to the confederacy everybody wants to be a star look at that that's how you make a decision to say to be straight i like one you don't want to be in the way to pull them up one for me could the you know problems which will strike to the the gold

will get through the total see which one could breaks down the nucleus predictions by the way mexico is being what you call germany to be australia i'm not going to disagree with that. more news where across this hour the us justice department is advising the public to be wary of news stories not burlai anonymous sources the deputy attorney general highlighted the need for extra caution when unnamed officials are cited without even specifying their branch of government we go frances santiago takes a closer look at the. 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 anonymous sources on the den of sources on the sources according to anonymous washington post source while the mainstream media seems to

love them the justice department is busy refuting all the fakes no wonder they're getting quite fed up with them at the d.o.j. take a look 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 ex 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 confirming 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 the resources that all the resources were there good going nyet and now c.n.n. is raising eyebrows with their exact quote being or what as the reaction to

mr rosenstein is anonymous source the statement wow can it get any better than this in the world of mainstream media even managed to offer the justice department began francis and thiago r.t. . us later strikes have killed hundreds of civilians in the area surrounding iraq in syria according to a u.n. panel the islamic state stronghold is under siege by us by local forces with the support of western warplanes across the border in iraq. also rising in mosul which being under a similar seats for months not rights groups queues the u.s. coalition of using incendiary weapons near civilians in boats in what could potentially a month to war crimes kill it mocked in our 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

isis already in rocca i 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 intensification of the strikes we each have believe that the ground for the advances in iraq has resulted not only staggering loss of see if you don't live but because also led to two hundred hundred sixty thousand civilians fleeing their homes and becoming in devon to 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 airplanes hit our streets and we went to rescue people under the rubble we risk you do as 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 burns from this toxic powder can be fatal white phosphorus has been used in both syria and iraq previous occasions but since a dental effects can 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 show them from one position to another iraq and syria to annihilate two billion cattle or 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. seven american sailors who went missing after a collision off the coast of japan have been confirmed dead their bodies were found in a damaged compartment all of the destroyer below the waterline according to a navy statement the u.s.s. fish struck a much larger merchant vessel in

a busy shipping lane to the south of tokyo in the early hours of saturday the crew of the cargo ship. investigators say both. systems on the coals of the coalition has not yet been established. or will be keeping cross about story for more all its but next an r.t.a. spokesperson for the filipino president board we go to turkey is the guest on worlds apart discussing his country's fight against islamic extremists. financial survival today was all about money laundering first visit this is just a different. oh good it's a good start well we have our three banks all set up for something and you're going

to america something overseas or the cayman islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in the we just have to look at all it's to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did well we've got a nice watch for max and for stacey beautiful jewelry and how. do you know what money laundering is highly illegal. which has a record. if

it. really does she don't consume the gel you've been talking to her the whole jellyfish deal in the stand up and that will soon be in that equal distances wasn't what it was this tells me. this would all be done to tell him to live. with that devotional moodiness this is a downside to all to the sitting on. welcome

to worlds apart as isis continues losing ground in syria and iraq it has made nature and bad since in the philippines by taking over and meet side city after missing two press than sat deadlines the battle for more raw ease now in its fourth week how much longer is it going to take to bring the city on default government control well to discuss it i'm now joined by ernest al bell u.s. spokesman to the philippines president mr bally it's great to have you on the show thing.