that. one year on from the political earthquake breaks it instability and uncertainty loom larger than ever over the u.k.'s future. the depths of much of the end. of the rational a measure of the day. has not yet as a civilian suffering intensifies amid a campaign to oust islamic state from the syrian city of raka del so raised over america's liberation. the german secret

service is granted the right to read encrypted messages on suspects smartphones off the parliament approved new surveillance powers. this dry riverbed is actually infamous being warned of drug addicts this is where they come to feed their addiction and darcy looks at how afghanistan's opium production is destroying lives both at home and on the other side of the world. thank you for joining us you're watching r.t. international with me making arrant. well it's been exactly one year since the u.k. voted to leave the european union though the actual divorce talks have only just come under way the referendum result created a political earthquake whose all of the shocks are still being felt today we want

our borders back we want our country. to go she should leave to begin under a new prime minister. pass on my thanks to his mom for the result i suppose. that is the full woman yes rex it means the global christian he's got a plan and. doesn't have a clue to it i really like to. know what the community left behind. thank. prime minister to raise him a gambled and lost her parliamentary majority over the break sit issue artie's party boy care takes us through the twists and turns now of britain's rocky road to

break. it was a very it changed the course of history the forty eight percent who voted to stay were outraged although the others they were delighted has risen. to become a national bank holiday we will call it a. night of firearms may have been jumping the gun there his so-called independence day is still a distant prospect the referendum result killed the political career of david cameron and allowed home secretary to resume aid to step up to the plate in the run up to the vote she had been a quiet remain but the desire to lead post brags that britain forced her to reconsider her position. rex's bricks it

means bricks it wrecks it means bricks it and we're going to make a success of it a year down the line that sounds like something from an alternate universe considering that to reason made called an election in order to strengthen her hand in the braggs it talks but ended up free falling in the polls and losing her parliamentary majority her atrocious result meant that politically her weakened government limped into negotiations with brussels earlier this week and bear in mind these talks were never going to be a walk in the park some created. what. can be concluded quickly. threats against a question that's been issued by european politicians commission was trying to bully the british people arguments over whether the u.k. would pave a e use one hundred billion gregg's it bill guaranteeing the rights of e.u.

citizens. as in the u.k. and who would get custody of gibraltar what thorny issues but there is aroused took a back seat when britain was hit by a wave of terror for terror attacks in the space of just three months to be precise and many britons held to reason may direct the responsible because she'd been head of the home office for six years before becoming prime minister. and with all the security and political chaos few people even notice that earlier this week briggs it negotiations officially kicked off but not in the way that london would have hoped the british government's already been accused of caving into brussels over the brags that schedule and opinion polls now show that if the country got to vote again it would reject leaving the u.

so just like two reason may the plan for braggs it went from strong and stable so weak and wobbly within the space of just one year. while british politicians of bickering over bricks that some of the e.u. counterparts on giving up hope that the divorce weren't actually happened. some of my british friends have asked me. it could be reversed you may say. dreamer but still breaks it is not a walk in the park are going to file hate workshops from every angle if your government decides to organize a brick city i will be pretty tough on it naturally it will never be the same it will never be outside the union better. inside some in britain still have that illusion which is a waste of time. the us led coalition leading the anti isolate fansub in the syrian

city of rocca is quote bombing everyone else what locals have told r.t. is rapidly video agency despite the coalition's insistence that it takes every civilian casualties seriously the grim situation on the ground suggests otherwise and i knew little of what i knew that if this one what they are demagogues of much alleged and almost a bit of. a sure sign of a russian a mangled metal a dash dash well it's not as nesmith has met but should have warned you the image that actually you anybody can do better than have a trace of what else has been and the dome that has you had modeled and then has would had moved on and had little to. put in the player one in hasn't one as it was but i want her to be a warrior. and has used little blue. digits jim she. marked a good luck but. a. little kid. the

u.s. led coalition doesn't deny using phosphorus which we just heard mentioned in its operations it's an extremely toxic substance and is banned from being used as a weapon the coalitions that it only uses phosphorous in permitted ways during battle for example to create a smoke screen however human rights watch has voiced concerns saying the substance poses a heinz risk to civilians the leading force fighting islamic state on the ground is the kurds who are being armed by the americans however washington support for the kurdish fighters irritates its long term ally turkey kellett more pain reports on how the us has tried to get round this problem turkey was furious when it found out that the united states their longtime ally in nato partner was going into rock without them. we do not need

terrorist organizations like the p y d n y p g in the rock operation let us work together to wipe out. america the coalition and turkey can join hands and turn rocket into a graveyard for day. as the united states is aligned with two bitter enemies in syria the turkish government and the kurdish fighters it's got a tricky bit of maneuvering to do secretary of defense mattis says that the united states will eventually take back the weapons it's now supplying to the kurds after the defeat of isis and this is turning into no small matter at this point the united states is shipping in heavy machine guns mortars other small arms and even some armored vehicles it's totaling over one hundred million dollars worth of war toys a large portion of which are going to the kurds when it's all finished some five hundred u.s. military personnel will have the task of collecting it all in an area that's almost the size of pennsylvania maybe they'll knock on doors and say hey you know those

weapons we let you yeah you're finished with them right and who knows what answer they might get the united states has promised to monitor the area and send out a monthly report that will include photographs this sounds like a great idea as the usa has already lost track of billions of dollars worth of weapons they sent to iraq and some of those weapons have ended up in the hands of terrorists there i think mattis made in a new letter which presumably was going but it still knowing very well that it probably would not be believed and very well would not be carried out but he made it trying to locate the the u.s. is supplying the weapons for the the u.s. as a whole and. goals which seems to be to break a part of syria to load the u.s. to dominate a separate part of syria basically they want to go to syria. and in violation of syria and stubborn integrity

a country is torn apart by civil war with different factions vying for power as civilians flee in chaos the pentagon has a brilliant idea send in more weapons just so long as they promise to give them back caleb mopp and r.t. new york. now russia's defense ministry has released a video showing missiles being launched from watch it thunder submarine in the mediterranean targeting islamic state positions in syria. you're. russian intelligence is tracking eisel fighters have been trying to escape their stronghold in iraq through the so-called southern corridor that's pretty much their only way out as the city has been surrounded by u.s. led coalition forces for quite some time now for we understand the fighters have been trying to go. to palmira of the prophets and that's where they've been targeted in the latest series of airstrikes from russia now as i still continue to

lose ground a rocket this is certainly not the first time we've heard terrorist managed to escape the city in fact there have been reports last month of the kurds one of the main forces fighting isis opening up a chord or allowing the terrorists to lead the city of raka the kurds have the night despite the ministry of defense and russia have confirmed seem to movement large eisel convoy moving from towards palmira and these latest images released it shows six cruise missiles being launched from two warships and a submarine currently located in the mediterranean and the strikes managed to destroy and i saw a command center and several i saw weapons stockpiles in the province as well turkish and israeli forces that are also operating in the area they happened informed about the strikes in advance but nothing is said about communicating with the coalition forces as on monday russia has halted the agreement of military cooperation in syrian air space with the u.s. after they downed a syrian government fighter jet near iraq on sunday. germany's parliament

approved a law allowing the country's secret services to monitor messaging platforms like what's up now critics say the planning fringes civil liberties piece all of our reports from berlin. german parliament has adopted this law that would allow what's up messages or any other messaging service that using crippin to be loved those messages that the sent to be read by the authorities what they do is they intercepted before it sent from one device to another where the encryption takes place. now this is a move that it's been referred to by the interior minister here in germany thomas de amaziah is essential when it comes to the fight against terror we've also heard similar things coming from the. european union summit that's ongoing in brussels at the moment from the e.u. council president donald he said that authorities need access to this type of information if they're to try and stop future terrorist attacks. have also agreed

on the need to cooperate close loose the online industry. we are calling on social media companies to do whatever is necessary to prevent further terrorist material on the internet and practice this means developing clear tools to detect and three move such materials automatically but we have heard this in the past if we look back to the united kingdom and the recent horrific terrorist attacks that took place in in manchester and in london we heard from the home secretary rhodes in the u.k. from prime minister to reason may saying they needed access to this information if they were to try in foil potential future attacks we want companies to develop tools to identify and remove harmful materials automatically i want to see them report this file contents to the or storage is and block the users who spread it

there should be no place for terrorists to hide we need to make sure that organizations like whatsapp and there are plenty of others like that don't provide a secret place for terrorists to communicate with each other we need to. make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into situations like encrypted whatsapp but critics of this move all well many what we're seeing here in germany is the green party in particular mounting a resistance to this they want to see held up in the cold situational cold for as long as possible but i say that it gives far too much power to those that hold the keys to allow them the potential for abuses. one is still to come out of the show a break stay with us. most

people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand down this is just the dance the right questions to the right answer.

the. question. hello welcome back almost thirty million people around the world are suffering from drug addiction according to an annual u.n. report opioid named as the most harmful drug type documents says that a marked increase in global opium production is primarily due to rising poppy fields in afghanistan and his war against the ever ports from kabul. ten years ago it was a problem five years ago it was a catastrophe now it is a global epidemic the war did this most people's addiction comes from the fighting the conflict ninety percent of the world's heroin originates in afghanistan only a fraction of that amount is used domestically but the effects

a devastating the pit of despair right in the middle of the afghan capital this dry riverbed is actually infamous for being a haunt of drug addicts this is where they come to feed their addiction the impoverished the homeless the desperate and the hopeless actually many more in the shade under the bridge where iran but we then get out the car much less go down there we would be attacked many of these people have unfortunately lost all touch with reality. we spent only minutes there yet in just that short time we filmed this. but an addict picks up a rock and assaults a body guard escorting medics locals say it's getting worse and worse.

this footage was filmed for us by a former drug addict who used to be a regular here he too was eventually assaulted and forced to flee every day it is getting worse not better i run into rehab centers one for men and one for women many of the women are mothers with children i once treated a four year old addict sad but far away you might think not so most of the heroin you'll find in canada for example comes from afghanistan the war and lawlessness here a killing people as far away as the americas it's not only the of one problem the of one government that is unable to fight. narcotics but is also the international community that is actually failing miserably to fight the products or the act in production there countermeasures or to find. drugs were

clearly ineffective afghan opioids by trafficked everywhere via well oiled smuggling routes north to russia and europe east to asia west to the middle east africa and the americas view pm industry of afghanistan is killing tens of thousands worldwide every year this war is being felt in every corner of the world i've seen afghans generals police generals with my own eyes that they were can. in the south with their drug smugglers so it is a business a mentee hynds in indians dollars that that is that reaches to the pockets of the taliban but also to corrupt afghan officials the millions of afghans there's not much of a choice work is scarce the crops are riskier and less profitable heroin can

both kill and feed when you go there in the rpm season you see schools empty and you see the universities even. afghans are leaving schools in the worst for fifteen to twenty days to work in the fields and find one in ten afghans is directly involved in the opium industry now consider the families children that they feed and the sheer size of the problem becomes evident where do you even begin since the nato invasion it has exploded this year's opium harvest could well be the largest yet where george bush tried to at least limit it under obama drug control programs in afghanistan were cut by ninety percent it's politics the ministers the politicians authorities want poppy

cultivation to continue if the americans wanted to they could stop it in a day but they don't. the unofficial reason is that if coalition forces started eradicating poppy fields angry farmers would flock to the taliban doesn't make much sense given that washington also says that the taliban profits most from poppy cultivation regardless but one thing is clear for now america intends to do nothing about it more i guess the of. see from kabul afghanistan. millions of new migrants could set first on european soil next year unless steps are taken immediately the warning came from a top e.u. official ahead of an easy use summits this being held in brussels for us it's

important to work a long enough to get you give us the four africa because we don't the solution you know africa we live more and more maybe that's millions of years because the next year coming from. the region for this meat body investment this. libya is the country from which most african migrants set out for europe and the city of sampat is one of the key human trafficking hopes according to reports people there are being bought and sold on local slave markets are video agency raptly managed to get a firsthand account of what life is like in the migrant. that. is the problem people go to kidnapping people literally a year maybe more new what do you call the military police over. here mourning the heart would be more probably. go to bali. now as you can see on base maps is where all the main migrant trafficking routes

converge into one those hoping to make it to europe and pay drivers to get them to tripoli north of the capital north of the country then mike was transported by sea of pax by the hundreds on board inflatable boats and other vessels and mostly unfit for this perilous journey across the mediterranean to italy and some people get rocks kidnapped and sometimes even murdered in the process meanwhile in europe there are voices questioning whether those arriving in europe on mass are actually fleeing war and famine or just seeking better job opportunities in fact some of the ngos rescuing migrants in the mediterranean are being accused of encouraging human traffickers well earlier my colleague daniel hawkins asked joell millman a senior press officer at the international organization for migration about the reasons fueling migration and the role n.g.o.s play in the crisis. there's been

a certain argument rising especially from the sort of center right political spectrum about the difference between moderates and asylum seekers in particular they're saying that many of these people coming economic migrants rather than people who are victims of war does not argument hold any moves at c.u. it's all. well certainly true and we're not we're not going to be we were at a critical about this two years ago the vast majority of migrants on this particular row through tripoli were or were distressed migrants where they were people fleeing war the largest two countries two years ago were syria and eritrea the syrian the syrian track moved almost entirely in turkey and into greece so the numbers are extremely small i mean forty thousand two years ago and this year are just over a thousand so you know those migrants are coming much through this route anymore eritrea has also fallen off tremendously so as somalia and sudan there is a train of thought saying that the volunteers that are doing this that are rescuing

these people are moving them on words that they're actually supporting trafficking by encouraging people to make this journey to to play into that as of traffickers all these people the n.g.o.s perhaps partly to blame for a vicious cycle of traffickers and smugglers making profit from people suffering by discount that argument completely i was a reporter covering migration brahmas thirty years and i've heard that argument apply d.c.l. you lawyers and church people i think the business cycle is the hunger of the war the conditions of some of these countries and also the demand for their labor in the in the in the rich countries i mean there's no question that you can you could just as easily ask is the housewife part of that chain or is the employer part of that sharing the answer is yes of course they are so they're no more part of a vicious cycle than the than the rest of us who profit from this later but. up next the nazi international look at how new orleans reflects divisions in american society as a whole with thank you for that. with

the islamic state perceived to be on the defensive in syria many of the parties in this proxy war are eyeing the next stage of this conflict as a result russia in the us are at odds is washington strategic interest in syria really man. with this manufactured incentive to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round certainly the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick.

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