london summers not summons north korea's ambassador to the u.k. also pyongyang's latest missile test that is the pentagon says the north korean missile was of a type they've never seen before. c.n.n. is accused of blackmailing the person responsible for creating the president trump wrestling clip threatening to reveal his identity if he does something similar again. the russian defense ministry has announced that it carried down strikes against isis targets on the border of the syrian provinces of hama and homs.

to advance and water cannon violent clashes erupt in hamburg days before world leaders arrive in the german city for the g. twenty summit. hello there it's ten pm here in the russian capital i'm neki arun and this is r.t. international our top story this hour london has summoned north korea's ambassador to the u.k. for an explanation of the pyongyang latest missile test meanwhile u.s. military officials are sounding the alarm over the long range missile calling it a new type that they've never seen before well at the scale of morgan joins us live from new york with the details on this caleb thanks for joining us so what exactly has got the pentagon so worried about this latest missile test. well it's being called

a game changer it appears that north korea has launched what's being called an intercontinental ballistic missile or an i.c.b.m. that's actually possibly capable of hitting the continental united states now north korea has never launched a missile of this type before and the americans seem to be completely caught off guard looks like this missile was launched from a new site that americans were clearly just not aware of this site ever existing and that the type of missile that's being launched also takes them by surprise they had no idea that north korea possessed the ability to launch an i.c.b.m. of this type and this of course comes as the u.n. security council is putting down for an emergency meeting on north korea now how's that expected to go. well the meeting is beginning at this very moment now already in the lead up to the meeting we've seen a twitter storm from donald trump calling out china and accusing china of having economic relations with the democratic people's republic of korea saying so much

for working with china we also have russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov coming out and saying that the launch and the testing of the missile should not be used as a pretext for regime change he says that that would have unpredictable consequences in the region which borders the russian federation and the people's republic of china now we know that the u.n. security council meeting starting at the u.n. headquarters here in manhattan has been called by the united states but south korea and japan are joining with the united states and the subject of the meeting is expected to be this unexpected launch of a missile by the d.p. r. k. we also know that the launch is expected to kind of overshadow the upcoming g. twenty talks that are taking place on friday we know the second meeting between donald trump and chinese president xi is going to take place at the g. twenty summit and that the first face to face meeting between trump and russian president vladimir putin is expected to take place there as well so all eyes are

now on the u.n. security council as world leaders leaders assemble to discuss the aftermath of north korea's test of an intercontinental ballistic missile is indeed going to be a crucial a few days. in fangs for the update. on north korea is under u.n. sanctions and is banned from testing long range missiles nevertheless the u.s. led to criticism of pyongyang from missing the bigger picture according to bruce gagnon from the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space. the united states is without a doubt the biggest hypocrite on the entire planet because the u.s. routinely tests intercontinental ballistic missiles firing a one time vandenberg air force base in california into the pacific kargil leader told they return routinely test so-called missile defense systems that are key elements in u.s. first rockets landing so we have to ask ourselves this question in the last fifty

years how many countries has north korea invaded well the answer of course is zero but in the last fifty years how many countries has the united states invaded how many nations have been destroyed by the united states and i think the answer is dozens so really the united states has no room to criticize and to talk and to complain about north korean military war. or military launches. in other news now accusations of blackmail that being leveled at c.n.n. after it tracked down the person behind the donald trump wrestling clip which the president tweeted just a few days ago that's how no threatening to reveal his identity if he makes another video like that trump what now here's the clip at the center of the control of

a c it's an edited video of trump's scripted apparent for the wrestling match this was back in two thousand and seven the person who is a tag has a c.n.n. logo for a head as you can see a talent has since accused the president of encouraging violence against a poultice out of more gas. so this guy makes a humorous little video and then it blows up some wouldn't edited it donald trump found it then posted it on his twitter feed it got a million views hundreds of thousands of like seven. many people had to love c.n.n. did not like being laughed at not one bit they launched a manhunt for the original creator of the video what they did is dog sing it is digging up private information on someone or something and then publishing it can be used for law enforcement for business extortion coercion harassment

online shaming and vigilante justice the reaction has been furious even julian songes way did on the matter saying that potentially what c.n.n. did may be a crime. a multi billion dollar t.v. network blackmailing a private citizen into not making funny videos about it is not journalism c.n.n. and c.n.n. succeeded they found the original creator and he has since apologized and promised never to make another video critical of c.n.n. channel says when they finally talk to him he sounded nervous as well he might c.n.n. is threatening to publish his identity for all the loonies in the world to know if he ever stops being sorry it's right there on their website c.n.n. reserves the right to publish his identity if he stops being sorry if anything changes isn't that the deficient of blackmail the internet has reacted with

fewer one user on reddit is saying that holding private information under the condition of his continued contrition is an ambiguous sleep bullying of a private citizen by a major conglomerate if not blackmail look the truth of matter is when you are in a hole you stop digging is english phrase the truth about we see that you sort of get rid of those producers when really the problem of fake uses it to make within the organization and now you see them bullying and threatening private twitter users as i say pandora's box is open the c.n.n. executives can't stop this now what they've got stu is reform and change and start telling the truth they're not going to do that anytime soon so twitter is not going to stop doing what it does at the time so. in a statement c.n.n. has dismissed allegations of black now saying the decision to hide the person's identity was made out of concern for his safety the channel added that they use

there is an adult man who apologized and deleted his account even before they contacted him. the wrestling video may not be the only thing that c.n.n. would find offensive if it looks online though it would have quite a job tracking all the relevant content down.

with two days to go before the t twenty summit begins in hamburg it seems while natives ongoing to get the warmest of welcomes the hottest fifty feet in and gulf to encroach on the canal cost live to our correspondent people all of a haze in house for a pay taken to thank you now what's the latest from the protest hello. will just behind me you can see the tail end of the wednesday night's main demonstration here it's called the the knights down stemmons stray shit and it pretty much does exactly what it says on the label lots of people thousands of people have been raising through the streets at homburg. from what i've seen i would put the figures somewhere around about twenty thousand it's all being very good natured i have to say this whole crowd as they've moved through it being under the watchful eye of a lot of police but they still moved on to under a very pungent fog cloud of of marijuana smoke and they smell of b. is everybody's drinking and enjoying themselves that they've as they've moved

through here but we also heard from some of those about the reasons that they've deemed necessary to come here it's a humbug and what they want to say to the g twenty leaders is. that means the organisation of the big world the rich countries that sit on and restaurant and ponder the people of the whole world and. i'm sick of it we are here for the women's march against so trying for the town for the g. twenty summit so here we are to tell him. that he's not a welcome. well as i say quite pleasant things here on on wednesday evening in humbug a very different scene. where we sold clashes between demonstrators and police this all results it. demonstrates that set up tent cities in the in the parks around town but in fact around the city you can see signs saying yes we camp well no they concent fortunately according to the police who went in there on tuesday evening

and forcibly removed those tent cities now the protesters fall back and police moved in using water cannons to disperse them in some places also pepper spray full police in full riot gear going in there as well we've also seen some unsavory scenes on on wednesday during the day as well where police had to use tear gas to disperse people as well from some scenes but the major demonstrations is set to get under way on thursday with the welcome to hell demonstration as it's being called we're expecting hundred thousand people and police are saying as many as ten thousand of those may have come here with the direct interest in causing trouble in fact there's a huge police operation underway here it's being called one of the biggest in recent memory and in fact leading up to this g twenty summit we have seen police make a number of raids in which they they they were able to take over a cache of homemade weapons including things like i'm baseball bats telescopic

bought psalms knuckle dusters brass knuckles as well as major concern to the police prissie sion council pulled this saying these are weapons that could be used to cause serious injury and not why you're seeing the likes of this this huge column of police vans all full of well most of them full of riot police as well just following the. as it makes its way through hamburg on wednesday night to make sure that we don't see a repeat of those violent scenes it's certainly going to be very busy day certainly a very raucous welcome for those for those g. twenty leaders as they arrive here probably won't be too much of a nice welcome for them as a lot of people very angry who have come out in one voice to say they don't want them here and they don't want them ruling the world the way they see them ruling the world ok thanks for that marty piece all of it will be keep it across the situation in hamburg for is over the next few days thank you. now aside from a heavy police presence two special security zones have already been set up and how

police are closing the summit as a major challenge with at least eight thousand protesters expected to take to the streets we spoke to a peace activist and told us the protests will carry on. more of the next day's protesting day to day even if you're going to. finalize the protests with huge money for station on top of the need to ration eve we can keep democracy in our country even began to fight for the right of protest against the violence of the government the behavior of the police and the government including the national government and that is totally i don't accept evil because you gauge german constitution. to protest everywhere which is which has its own paragraph or the right of demonstrations going to happen to you is against our constitution the g twenty summit is making headlines for another reason to announce the highly

anticipated first meeting between donald trump and florida may have putin it comes with speculation still riots over alleged links between team chump and the kremlin . has the details. something interesting to know is that friday's meeting which has been of course receiving a lot of attention and hype in the media will be the first official bilateral meeting between a u.s. and russian president in nearly two years the first six months of terms presidency have seen prevailing anti russian sentiments in the u.s. limiting the two world leaders interactions to a few phone calls and while no specific agenda has been set for friday's meeting it is expected the tube leaders will discuss important issues such as syria and ukraine the fight against terrorism meanwhile the mainstream media has been full of different speculation as to what will be discussed if you think that the subject of russian interference in u.s. elections is going to come up well it's certainly sure if that is a topic not broached by the president if states big mistake or not no absolutely

would be a mistake but it appears unlikely that the president will confront putin about russia's meddling in the election so it seems they're watching to see whether or not allegations are russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election. be brought up by trump or it'll touch on the never ending accusations of collusion between team trump and moscow they may however be disappointed on that front but there is no doubt that every aspect done to body language will be analyzed as many are saying this meeting will be an indicator of the future of u.s. russia relations so there's no doubt that the two presidents have much to discuss the only question that remains is how much they will be able to accomplish under such strange circumstances. a u.k. court has held a hearing on whether to lift tony blair's immunity from prosecution over the iraq war laura smith reports. and the background to this is that last year a private criminal prosecution was brought against tony blair and it was blocked by

judges because it was ruled that blair would have immunity against criminal prosecution so there was no point proceeding with it this case could see that immunity overturned it could see him face charges and in fact the charge that they want to level is one of aggression to the second aim of this case is to establish whether aggression is in fact a crime under english law this attempt to private prosecution is based on the findings of last year's chilcote inquiry report was published last year and it concluded that the war at the time wasn't a last resort which of course it should be that the consequences of the invasion were severely underestimated and that post conflict planning in iraq was wholly inadequate despite all this tony blair has been in public life off and on ever since then in fact earlier this year he announced that he would be making a comeback to politics because of breaks it now when he said that he faced the now

familiar cries of war criminal but he remains utterly unfazed by those listen to this legacy of iraq war and his responsibility for the crimes of you. regard him as someone who should step back into politics which reputation for being a warmonger. kind of destroyed your preschooler's. not i mean people say that. with this immunity being lifted or of course the relatives of those who died in the iraq war and in fact the families of soldiers who were killed crowd funded one hundred fifty thousand pounds last year and they've used that money to have this chilcote report forensically examined to see whether there is grounds for prosecuting tony blair the hearing is over. now there is another week being allowed to fester admissions to be made if it's not dismissed it will then go

to the supreme court who will decide whether this crime of aggression is indeed a crime under english law but the families of those involved may yet get their day in court with tony blair the former british ambassador all of a miles as the court saw the wrong way to go about holding blair to account i don't expect legal proceeding will get anywhere i can't be sure my my guess is that it won't lead to a result i think. was a war criminal i said that in public before but i'm not convinced that taking him to court to court is the right way to deal with an issue like this we live in a parliamentary democracy i'd like to see it don't with politically but i think the end result will be that we'll have to say if tony blair was to be dealt with as he should be dealt with it would have to be by parliament and that means impeachment a motion we're going to happen have approved. the russian defense ministry says it's taken out a number of i still positions in syria as a major ongoing syria peace talks in the kazakh capital astern are his artie's

women conference. so if ninety five strategic bombers drop brand new strategic cruise missiles on the border of hama and holmes provinces in syria and they fired those strikes at a distance all one thousand kilometers i had destroying three weapons and ammunition stockpiles as well as one command center now those high precision missiles are capable of being fired from a range all forty five hundred kilometers and according to russia's objective control they did their job very effectively now this is all happening on the back all of the peace talks was just concluded in the capital of kazakhstan where a russian envoy ambassador said just said that security areas in deescalation zones should be created now that decision is yet to be made to bud so the russian

envoy suggested that a peacekeeping force should be stationed there as well however those should be lightly armed just for self-defense now you and syria and voice stefan de mistura says that while there was a progress the salts and. decision could be in place but is still with will be just a. solution let's have a listen to what he said but we all know everybody agrees. the difficulty shown by itself in dream arrangement what is needed in order to progress on the political side finding mr also mentioned that he holds that the progress which was reached at the latest session in us and i will be carried into geneva talks which are set to begin on monday international relations professor jamal wakim believes there will be little progress in syria in the near future well i don't believe the

. witness any progress. toward a political solution or towards a political solution for the syrian crisis especially the united states is. such a solution they are trying to the americans are trying. to hold the situation in syria. tension in southern serbia and used in syria because the current balance of power doesn't favor them so that's why i don't believe that there will be any breakthrough in the near future or whether or not or in geneva. in a controversial move canada is reportedly set to pay eighty million dollars compensation and apologize to a convicted murderer he was tortured during his time in the guantanamo bay detention camp back in two thousand and two omar carter was captured by the us in afghanistan and detained for the alleged murder of an american soldier carter was

transferred to guantanamo bay where he was held for more than a decade in two thousand and ten and canada supreme court ruled that the man had been tortured during his detention later that year he pleaded guilty to the murder of the soldier he was transferred to canada in twenty twelve and to serve the rest of his sentence but was released in twenty fifteen he claims he made his admission of guilt under duress we spoke to another go at guantanamo prisoner he met carter during his detention. i was held in the background detention filleted facility in afghanistan when almost hunter was first brought into custody and i spent some time with him in bagram he had his eye had been shot out he was blind in one one eye he had huge exit wounds in his shoulder and just above his chest and he was of just turned fifteen he was just turned fifteen from being fourteen he was tortured in front of me he was abused and screamed at and shouted at spat at and stripped naked

and his his treatment was was was a war crime there's no the troad way to describe it the whole issue in the beginning had been the canadian government complicity in his torture it's this book recorded video evidence that the government was physically present that sent members of ceases the intelligence services to go and interrogate him while he was a child while he was suffering from these horrific wounds that everybody who's in guantanamo soldiers guards and prisoners knew that this is not the way to treat a child since two thousand and two almost eight hundred people have been held at guantanamo bay which despite a vow by barack obama that he'd close that remained open till today forty one people are still being held at that facility many of the end met inmates who were detained without trial and tortured nine have reportedly died there. however former pentagon analyst michael maloof believes it's outrageous to hand over cash

to a convicted killer. the reality is he should not be compensated he did kill. americans and he worked with his father who was closely mike to al qaeda and osama bin laden is just lucky he was picked up and was in the still alive today and he should just move on and for the traduced government to prepare a liberal progressive government to come out and offer compensation as they did a few years ago to another canadian who was similarly get mo i think is. over the top i think that the fact that the family of the soldier who was killed is going to the canadian court now to retrieve that money and to pay them for that for their loss i think is appropriate. now eighty one year old man has made

a two thousand kilometer journey by road all the way from the west of germany to depression city of st petersburg but the trip took much longer than you might expect as the pension i did it all on a vintage tractor and he says it was worth every moment. i came to st petersburg because i wanted to get to know the country and the people to leave here. i'm a leader overwhelmed right now because for so many people around me and i see that they're interested in me and want to meet me icons put into words the feelings that i'm experiencing right now.

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