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one year on from the political earthquake that was breaks it instability and uncertainty loom larger than ever over the u.k.'s future. the guts of much from the end almost to the love of how do. i show you the rational a measure of the day. we're going as. a civilian suffering intensifies during the campaign to push iso out of raka doubts are raised over america's post liberation plans for the syrian city. and an eighty three year old holocaust survivor wins a gender discrimination case against an airline after she was asked to move seats when an orthodox jew complained he couldn't sit next to her.
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this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow thank you for joining us i'm kate parker. it's exactly a year since the u.k. voted to leave the european union though the actual divorce talks have only now begun the referendum result carried a political earthquake the aftershocks of which are still being felt today. we want our borders but we want our country back i go she shouldn't leave to begin under a new prime minister. pass on my thanks to his mom for the result i suppose i got a difficult moment this grex it means the global british have. got a plan. doesn't have a clue. i really like to. know
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what the community left behind i. promise to theresa may gambled and lost her parliamentary majority over the break said issue point takes us through the twists and turns of britain's rocky road to the breakup. it was a very changed the course of history the forty eight percent who voted to stay were outraged although the others they were delighted to show me his resume. that there. needs to become a national bank holiday and we will call it a. night of firearms may have been jumping the gun his so-called independence day is still a distant prospect the referendum result killed the political career of david
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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. in the. brics 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 freefall 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
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mind these talks were never going to be a walk in the park chaum 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 the e.u.'s one hundred billion dredges it bill guaranteeing the rights of he citizen. as in the u.k. and who would get custody of gibraltar what thought any 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 resume a directory 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
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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 break that schedule and opinion polls now show that if the country got to vote again it would reject leaving you 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. we while a special e.u. summit on breaks it is in its second day one of the major issues has been the rights of e.u. citizens in the u.k. and the opinions of the british prime minister and other european officials seem to differ widely from young says he's still none the wiser as to what the u.k. actually wants. to do giving a clear idea of the kind of the u.k.
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government. what we're saying is that those citizens from e.u. countries who have come to the united kingdom who've made their lives in their homes in the united kingdom will be able to stay and we will go and see the rights in the united kingdom i think that's a very serious offer my first impression is that the u.k. so far is below expectations. risks worsening the situation lawsuits as well british politic. it is because over breakfast at some other e.u. counterpart still hope the divorce can be averted. you may say i live below but still. i want to go file page corrections for everything. if your government decides to apply the brakes if i do put it back on they will
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never be outside of that they're dead inside someone they can still have that illusion which is a waste of time. before long we will all begins find out the extent to which breaks it is a gentle stroll down the smooth path to a land of cake consumption. while we discuss this issue with former british m.p. george galloway and tom brokaw's the dean of darren law school. we are leaving the e.u. we will not be associate members we will not be norway we will not be switzerland we will be a free country able to control its own borders how of sovereign jurisdiction over our own laws and crucially be able to make such trade arrangements with the rest of the world as we like george talks about this
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wonderful exciting teacher that could happen in some type of a theory or maybe some type of world that could happen but it's not going to happen because there's you know expects that it's going to be a certain type of practice that's going to be to go shaded by the people who are in government right now they're the ones who are going to see it through and i see no signs they're going to be making this this wonderful new feature. that was described with some comments about you know maybe extra trade with other parts of the world and and would be free and at the moment it's all a lot of people peddling their favorite view about what the teacher might look like with absolutely nothing to show for it britain is an unstable place today it's not really because of bricks it it's because of the conservative government and bits reckless gamble to hold a general election only to lose it. the u.s.
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led coalition leading the anti eisel offensive for the syrian city of raka is bombing everyone that's what locals have told r.t. rocked the artes ruptly video agency or despite the coalition's insistence it takes every civilian casualty seriously the grim situation on the ground suggest otherwise that i knew little about i knew that if this will what they are and the guts of my family and all men to the model. assure you of a rational aim a little medal a dash dash well if that is nesmith has met but you were born your little niche that actually your little bit isn't a bit of a bit of wood and has been and the dome that has you had of all that and then has become of old and i had a little. one in has it one as it would but i want. to . use a block. digit. marked a good. shoe. of the
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u.s. led coalition hasn't denied using phosphorus which was just mentioned in its operations it's an extremely toxic substance and is banned from use as a weapon well coalition says it only uses phosphorus in ways that are permitted during battle for example to create a smoke screen however human rights watch has voiced concern saying the substance poses a high risk to civilians. well the leading force fighting islamic state on the ground all the kurds who are being armed by the americans however washington's support for the kurdish fighters irritates its long term ally turkey hill of open 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 that p y d n y p g in the rock operation let us work
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together to wipe out. america the coalition and turkey can join hands and turn rocca into a graveyard for dash. 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
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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 newt's letter which presumably was gone prudential 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 target the u.s. is supplying the weapons for that the u.s. is old 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 syrian stubborn integrity a country is torn apart by civil war with different factions vying for power as civilians flee in chaos the pentagon has
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a brilliant idea send in more weapons just so long as they promise to give them back caleb mop and r.t. new york. meanwhile russia's defense ministry has released a video showing missiles being launched from warships and a submarine in the mediterranean targeting islamic state positions in syria. russian intelligence is tracking eisel fighters have been trying to escape their stronghold 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 what we understand the fighters have been trying to go from to palmira the hamas profits and that's where they've been targeted in the latest series of air strikes 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
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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 leave the city of raka the kurds have the night this by the ministry of defense and russia have confirmed seem to move on up large eisel convoy moving from towards palmira 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 the 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. award winning journalist says the different agendas of moscow and washington there clearly playing out in syria.
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both to the structured use and the source of both of these big plays one on american soil so there is a two pronged approach which is confused. on conflict at the best of times america wants to support a large demographic of forces not its own of course but are those largely kurdish who are supposed to take over and destroy isis positions but the same time the americans also have their own geo political struggle within syria against the assad regime. and of course the small for also forget. the other thing which is quite interesting is that their presence in syria is entirely illegal so if you contrast that against the russians the russians don't have such a complicated idea towards what they're doing or what their objectives are they simply want to hit isis isis hard so that that extremist group can be completely eradicated. and eighty three year old woman has won
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a gender discrimination case against israel's national airline el al read a repeat of it's a holocaust survivor had been given a seat next to an orthodox jewish man on her flight from new york to tel aviv but the crew asked her to move after her neighbor insisted he couldn't sit next to a woman for religious reasons or alina it's out her lawyer gave us more details about the case. i spoke with the man and. what was his problem with my sitting next to him and he respond to light really bad it is sad. that. man is should not sit next to a woman. a it's a fact i did not think that was the case. there is no or he couldn't or
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say sharon. that supported me and brought suit the first hearing was eighteen months after we filed our lawsuit but we're very satisfied with the result. renee hobby know of each of the unlikely heroine a beautiful israeli in a way wonder woman was able to beat our main airline. is going to implement this verdict to all its thousands of employees and if within six months someone else encounters something like what our heroine has encountered there. is open to an avalanche of lawsuits actually what the verdict says is that unless it shapes up there going to be many many lawsuits it's illegal it doesn't matter religious feelings or non-religious feelings it is illegal to tell a person to move because of their gender what was wonderful about renee's case is
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that in rene's case the flight attendant turned to her and said to our eighty three year old holocaust survivor please move yourself move to a different seat it's the flight attendants participation that made this case so clear to the court. well it's not the first time el al has hit the headlines for religious reasons last year an ultra-orthodox passenger broke two video screens on board a plane with which he considered an in-flight movie immodest while out of his even created a special video mocking the company. and unfortunately. six thirty. should you discover that you were seated next to the however currently live in of the release your seem not to proceed to appear dressed as a congregation area in the unlikely event the flight attendant insisting you remain in your assigned seat simply reaching your seat body protection first over your head and just straps is necessary all the court's decision was praised by activists
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read i repeat it says she hopes it will prevent further cases of discrimination. i also hope that they're so are the challenger does sharon will and as a reach so of the ruling it will be difficult for a large hole or any out there line to resolve this cause it could mean delay the use in flight and that's a problem they're going to have just solved. saudi arabia and other gulf states have presented with a list of demands if it wants diplomatic and trade ties restored they were severed over to hamas a legit support of terrorism a middle east correspondent point to sneer. tom has been presented with
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a list of demands from saudi arabia the united arab emirates parade and egypt four nations that qatar or trade and diplomatic ties with the country now this came off to the u.s. state department questioned the motives of the gulf states move now that it's been more than two weeks since the embargo started we are mystified that the gulf states have not released to the public nor to the qataris the details about the claims that they are making toward. the more the time goes by the more doubt is raised about the actions taken by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. at this point we are left with one simple question were the actions really about their concerns regarding carter's alleged support for terrorism or the about the long simmering grievances between and among the g.c.c. countries now the next day the us secretary of state breaks to listen issued a statement saying that a list of such demands has been prepared he added that he hoped that the demands would be reasonable and actionable saying that we understand that this list is
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being prepared it's being coordinated by the saudis the end of artes egypt sions and the bahrainis and we hope that it will be presented to qatar with and will be treated as reasonable and actionable now the list includes thirteen demands in total here are some of them first and foremost to curb all diplomatic ties with iran the listed trade and commerce with iran that complies with the u.s. and international sanctions will be permitted now the two states share the biggest natural gas field so that could be a problem as well it calls on shutting down al-jazeera and all qatar funded news outlets to terminate to military presence in qatar to any joint military cooperation with turkey that is taking place inside of qatar the list says that there needs to be agreement to all demands within ten days or the list becomes invalid now the document does not specify what the countries will do if qatar
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refuses to comply so of course if it means to be seen whether qatar will view these demands as either reasonable or actionable well after the demands appeared in the press the u.a.e. sporran minister accused qatar of leaking them he branded either an attempt to undermine talks or just callous policy well there's also been reaction from those mentioned in the demands al-jazeera slammed to cool for its closure as an attack on the freedom of expression while turkey said an order to withdraw its military presence from qatar was meddling in other countries relations. the turkish base in qatar is a guarantor of security in the gulf and demands for its closure represented interference in its ties with. well political commentator saeed moustapha thinks the gulf states are doing their best to strip qatar of influence they have raise some maximum demands in order to empty their hands of. the merits and winning races that it
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had that maybe. we wait like its ties with the muslim brotherhood like its ties strong ties with hamas gave him a say in the middle east peace in the palestinian these really should also use the strong ties with iran that made it a player a good actor in the region that could play both ways also al-jazeera they care a lot for al-jazeera network and they know how strong and powerful it is in promoting cathars views so they have raised all these demands in order to empty the hands of the hall from the winning aces that he had and made a powerful act there on the southern rims of the persian gulf. and major gas pipeline project between russia and turkey has entered a new phase in the black sea president putin was on board especially
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a spy plane ship to see the world for himself also on board it was every hour in here for trying. i just came back from a gigantic vessel called the pioneering spirit imagine the size of four football fields well that is how big it is what is the pioneering spirit in the black sea well it is here for the toughest job in gas pop like construction deep underwater stages of the turkish stream at one point it will get to two point two kilometers below sea level project is so crucial for russia that the president decided to fly in for the launch of the toughest stage that i was telling you about but it's also very important for turkey that's where the pipeline is heading towards so on this special occasion a lot of our putin made a phone call to turkish president tired one right from pioneering spirit but moscow's ultimate goal is to use the turkish stream to deliver its natural gas to
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south eastern and southern europe that's the extension that moscow is looking for but you know russia's attempts to build a pipeline in the black sea for its european customers that really turned into a solid take the south stream project something that was never completed it was meant to be a pipeline from here to bulgaria that got scrapped because of pressure from brussels then moscow came up with plan b. that was the turkish stream but this project was also and jeopardy it was hold to for a while after ankara shot down a russian fighter jet over syria then when relations war restored in two thousand and sixteen the project got was started and now i saw it with my own eyes it is fully underway and and is planned to be completed by the end of twenty nine taking the maximum capacity as expected to be more than thirty billion cubic meters of
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natural gas annually. now russia may be. for its icy wind says but locals in southern siberia were still more than a little surprised to see hail on the first official day of summer five people needed medical treatment off a golf ball sized hail found in lake yoyo a popular holiday resort all cars and even some houses were left badly damaged the intensity of the storm was caught on camera on a number of locals where there's been wreaking havoc across the region all week. it was just this map aust. tragedy buckle under pressure from me you up next on international it's a few. kids
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what the islamic state perceives to be on the. defense of in syria many of the parties in this proxy war are on the next stage of this conflict as a result russia in the us our goal is washington strategic interest in syria land. called the future we don't need only. every the world should in theory you believe that you can get the old. the old according to josh. world come along for the.
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welcome just so fanconi is sophie shevardnadze. talks get underway in a historic move to take the u.k. out of here opinion for the british leadership taken a hit at the latest polls how strong it is to negotiating hand while we ask the founder of the u.k.'s independence party professor emeritus at the london so.
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