i. i. i i. we are here sitting together it's been a long time since we were together like this in peace the people of southern syria experience a rare moment of peace. introduce a cease fire in the region we've got exclusive video coming up this thirty minutes of news. also ahead as well the german chancellor is under fire for underestimating . the riot at the g. twenty summit. and. the city is in ruins as its people pay a high price for liberation. watching

r.t. international it's at ten am monday morning here with us we're going to get to a serious start in germany first the german chancellor merkel is under pressure following the unprecedented violence at the g. twenty protests in hamburg the country's president says germany has witnessed such brutality in. yes we have not had violence of such magnitude demonstrations in germany in recent years there were apparently some who acted ruthlessly and destructively against police forces and also against the property of ordinary citizens german police were out in force but over twenty thousand of them still struggled nonetheless to contain protesters with hundreds of officers left injured security forces in hamburg face criticism for failing to cope

with the chaos of those rallies check out this video here showing violent protesters in black masks throwing chairs and five flashes in shop windows but apparently no sign at times of any police officers to contain much images of burning cars and streets so wash with deborah left local shocked international media outlets echoed those thoughts to here are some of the headlines of my shoulder chancellor merkel condemned the violence while many german politicians stressed that the left wing radical protests have been basically underestimated. vientiane sued to give on its own to get him to pull charlie teat of t.v. put it in decent talking to skits once it gets him a view to get toughness shall tell each chefs to escape the shootings that next had you can fit through in the woman. i needed for.

so monday morning i was the dust settles in hamburg following the g twenty at the weekend volunteers but how they clean up the streets and restore shopfronts we heard from german political commentator maximun in cry he says violent leftist groups have been present there for me is in fact nothing had been done about them previously. they try to apologize what happened there take an example of the weiss

chairman of social democrats just a junior partner and work with government stated left means we are very kind to all humans and we want to change the world peacefully so those extremists are not left wing they say you know it's some kind of extremism or they are some sort of criminal but it is not that they realize that they have a problem but left wing political in do you. expect the left wing commits. much more physical violence done the right way this is something we know over the years and we see it for many years and nothing has changed yet. locals in parts of southern syria are enjoying relative peace for the first time in six years that was made possible by a russia u.s. brokered cease fire deal in the region is exclusive video from the ground there. and then we wish for the truce to hold and that peace will finally come to the

whole of syria. we are here sitting together it's been a long time since we were together like this in peace. we were respond quickly to any violation at any time we are ready to protect the civilians. artie's nicaea and has more on the specifics of the deal as well as the international reaction to it. last week saw the first face to face meeting between the u.s. president and the russian president and also which the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov announced that the two sides had agreed to implement a cease fire in the southern provinces of syria that came into effect just days later on july the ninth school that's russia the u.s. and jordan have reached a cease fire agreement for syria will come into effect in three areas there or.

it will come into force on the ninth of july the u.s. and russia have committed to monitoring the sushma and ensuring humanitarian access to the areas initially security in these areas will be ensured by russian military police and close cooperation with the u.s. and jordan now these three southern provinces that sergey lavrov just mentioned they share a border with jordan which is also part of the agreement and they also share a border with israel and inside of this own is the golan heights now this is a disputed area between syria and israel it's syrian territory but it's been occupied by israel since the sixty's according to the u.n. and of course in the past few weeks we've seen an exchange of fire a certain exchange of fire between the two sides in this this disputed areas so this day escalation zone could also help prevent more such incidents in the future we've heard from the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson he said this new agreement is a sign that the u.s. and russia can work together in syria also very optimistic tone from the russian president vladimir putin. regarding whether the u.s.

position on syria has changed i think it's become more pragmatic general it doesn't seem to change but there is now an understanding that we can achieve a lot with the united effort while this new programmatic approach from the u.s. is russia's president has said is seen as an important step forward in the ties between the two sides it's also being lauded as a positive step by a key leading figures including federico moscow rini who is the european commission vice president and also the deputy. envoy special envoy for syria. on the agreed cease fire deal over an important area in the south of syria is a positive development the implementation of these arrangements towards a nationwide cissie sion of hostilities and unhindered humanitarian access is key to facilitate the interest syrian talks under u.n. auspices in geneva while this is no doubt an important step forward in relations

between the u.s. and russia shows the two sides can work in agreement they can come together and make some positive developments in terms of fighting terrorism let's not forget that we've been here before there have been numerous cease fires brokered numerous deescalation zones set up since the syrian war broke out six years ago and they've all broken down with the two sides accusing each other of violating the terms of these agreements so it would be top to mystic to say that this is a major breakthrough for the syrian conflict as a whole and actually when there are still a huge question still on. the major stumbling block being of course the future of the syrian president bashar al assad and his role in syria in the. dorm or not we some of the few experts in region of the cease fire deal or whether it's going to go. i think that the russian president put it best when he said this more pragmatic american approach which no longer sets conditions like the ruvell of the syrian president i think this fact. does indeed make the chances for this latest

cease fire to be more successful it increases the likelihood of success because we do indeed appear to have a new american recognition of reality a more pragmatic as i said american approach so i think we should be fairly optimistic because previous. failed because there were powerful spoilers in the aleppo case with. the al qaida affiliate which was very strong and was able to disrupt the ceasefire in the south the military situation is different most of the fighting forces on the rebel side are small groups affiliated with the so-called free syrian army and affiliated groups of very small in number i think both sides the syrian government side

with russia behind it and the rebel side in the southwest with america behind then want this to work. for the news today it's thought that the g. twenty might this last weekend and spend some time considering what to do but the crisis ongoing on the korean peninsula with the rhetoric really ramping up between the north and the state the year of strategic patience with the north korean regime has failed many years and it's failed. and frankly that patience is over i give the highest honor to our respected great leader kim jong il who made our country a powerful nuclear giant having the most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile. the united states is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies one of our capabilities lies with our considerable

military forces we will use them if we must. our specs of leader kim said that the u.s. would be unhappy to witness north korea's strategic power on its independence day and call for frequently sending big and small packages called stop him but for this when it comes to nuclear arms north korea and the u.s. a fall from equally matched if you still don't have any missiles capable of sending a wide over enough distance the fathers they never got is one hundred thirty kilometers know in the range of the u.s. why it's so will the threats ever really amount to anything we put up to gregory alledge from the korea policy institute. i think it's a great idea or exaggerated. first of all the. fourteen month old that it recently launched there's some question whether or not that's the one that i feel russian monitoring equipment had a very different result than what we're here in the united states for this sort of thing about the capability of them both also russian affairs of the thing it's

actually intermediate and that's all but even if you take the u.s. position that it's that i.c.b.m. and the range is only capable of hitting alaska and that's with apparently most likely an empty warheads if you add the weight needed for a nuclear weapon that would be for the range further but this is only a single test of any kind of operation old nuclear weapons program we would require a year with testing and multiple multiple tests. united states has nearly seven thousand nuclear warheads north korea right now probably no more than ten it would be suicidal for north korea to launch a nuclear first strike and north korea is quite explicit about the purpose of its program its nuclear deterrent its intent is to ward off attack from the united states. there is a bit of a double standard here and that washington has never complained about india israel

or pakistan but that's taking the focus to hang in fact india conducted the domestic missile test earlier this year as good pakistan but only north korea's singled out with u.n. sanction forbidding it from doing ballistic missile testing and i think the gist of the washington's concern is that has friendly relations with other nations whereas this has quite hostile relations with north korea. more washington and threatens north korea or comes out with harsh rhetoric the more it actually convinces north korea of the need for a nuclear weapons program the united states regularly conducts joint military exercises with south korea i think the last one more than three hundred thousand troops and ships and airplanes and they're practicing bombing and invasion of north korea and they also have commando. to practice what they call

decapitation strike which in other words is the assassination of north korean officials you can imagine they're free averse which is just a matter of thirty if they were conducting joint exercises or cuba practicing the bombing of the united states and invasion the united states and practicing commando operations to assassinate u.s. officials the reaction i think would be utterly hysterical but when the united states does the same thing against north korea it's seen as just normal or everyday business no reason for north korea to be concerned. well back on the ground the united states latest joint military drills with career included missiles being fired into the sea of japan to be eighteen strategic bombers also carried out life tests on a trading range in the korean peninsula fighter jets from south korea and japan also joined. into the u.s. was to demonstrate the commitment to allies as it was. the u.s. is also conducted an intercept test to which a mock warhead was partly successfully destroyed but up test cost american

taxpayers almost two hundred fifty million dollars another is planned in two months we asked political commentator lew rockwell whether they may be other reasons that the u.s. is stepping up its efforts right now against north korea. well there's a lot of money at stake billions and billions and billions of dollars in new military contracts the u.s. of course also wants to continue to justify its occupation of south korea its occupation of japan so occupation of. the presence of the seventh fleet. right up against china's shores that's that's what's going on so of course north korea is like any communist country very poor they were very poor country and they've poured i'm sure they've you know the show they poured vast resources that should have gone into people's lives and bellies and homes and so forth into this horrible military business because they're terrified of being attacked just to tip you off

too with a career crisis showing no sign of abating sophie shevardnadze has been talking to a former u.s. governor about the ups and downs of donald trumps in these six months in the white house is a taste of what's coming up later. i think it would be a big mistake to do a military strike with north korea because we've got treaty relationships we've got thirty thousand american troops in south korea fifty thousand in japan and they'd be vulnerable twenty five million south koreans in seoul just the brushfire now we've got to deal with the north koreans having an i.c.b.m. that hits united states we shouldn't let that happen but i think the answer is diplomacy the answer is a six party countries that it cleared russia you know in my view i think it's very important to have military advisors at the highest level of a cabinet but you know i'm a little concerned when the secretary of defense is a military person that actual security advisors

a military person secretary of homeland security is a military person you know i think military persons for very good but you know there has to be a balance and i think the president is abdicating some of his diplomatic leadership . a little bit too much in my view. more of that to come but the president said ten to seventeen this monday morning the tenth of july here in moscow ahead the iraqi city of mosul is declared free from i still it has come at a cost of total about it ninety seconds away. the flyers the wealthy areas of the italy going bust and we should save them because

they're going bust well again the central bank the e.c.b. jaggy they have already printed fifteen sixteen trillion dollars to bail out their friends their oligarch friends during since two thousand and eight and they've said they signal to the marketplace that we've got another fifteen sixteen seventeen trillion dollars to print to make as many errors as you want keep making bad loans keep borrowing money at zero percent interest rate to buy assets of precious. paintings and shadows it doesn't make any of them. would hope to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want. to go on to be pros which is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the warnings in the. first.

iraqi prime ministers travel to the city of mosul to declare victory over islamic state now that the terror group's former strongholds been recaptured the p.m.'s convoy travelled from mosul where only a small pocket of militants now remain there expected to be defeated soon president's been out on the streets to celebrate the victory already. i. just showed. the most operations success has also been widely celebrated across the media to me it is not often on the show that we can break good news about iraq but today is one of those days the country's prime minister arrived in mosul today to declare

a great victory as he joined his troops to celebrate in the city they've lost many comrades along the way but today the iraqi security forces were firing their weapons in celebration claiming victory over there and. the iraqi military along with u.s. support launched a campaign to liberate mosul for myself last october since then the human rights groups are very serious concerns about the civilian casualties being caused by the coalition forces. human rights watch told us more about the price paid by civilians for mosul's

liberation now. operation to retake mosul particularly believe the ends of the city and that's been raging february has come at an incredibly high cost we've seen much of the west of the city completely destroyed by ground fire and by airstrikes and we've seen a mass spike in civilian casualties thousands of civilians being wounded and being killed in the fighting so sold in the city has really paid a price for this operation. we were calling particularly on the u.s. led coalition to take more care in the way that it is conducting its bombing campaign and clear to kill or leave the types and sizes of bombs that excusing to drop because of these large balls that are being dropped more and more frequently we've seen a massive increase in civilian casualties on the ground. unfortunately the

general feeling among the coalition and the iraqi government is that because the momentum to finish the operation has been on their side they've wanted to use all means to get it done as quickly as possible and as a result we haven't seen them willing to for example take certain types of weapons completely off the table so as to better protect civilians. and cern's are that would be civilian casualties we don't see accountability we don't see american commanders taking responsibility and we don't see compensation for the victims. next of this morning seems former national intelligence to write to james clapper is saying that the u.s. media is big tricked by russia into publishing fake news itself to network at most and they'd receive information on the story this is spread to the being forged and really sue explains more about this complicated picture. at first glance it was just unbelievably red hot. if by any chance this document is real it

is so sensitive so classified that i cannot show it to you that it's actually with just a cli difficult to validate something like this first things first kudos to rachel maddow for spotting red flags in that apparently fake documents and questioning the source this fight the potentially explosive headline let's just say it took quite a while for many in the mainstream media to do this but two former officials knowledgeable about the situation tell c.n.n. sources familiar with the matter tell the p.c. do what you have sources are telling you on the condition of anonymity through the sources oh because they're hiding behind this and they can now do you see us doing things does that mean that you're just going to attack sources to be exact over six months of nonstop coverage alleging trump russia collusion based on unnamed sources anonymous officials are leaked but unverified documents many of which turn out to be inaccurate or simply false according to meto someone out there is on

a mission to discredit journalists one way to stab in the heart aggressive american reporting on that subject is to lay traps for american journalists who are reporting on it trick news organizations into reporting what appears to be evidence of what happened and then after the fact blow that reporting up and who would be so evil as to leave behind a trail of breadcrumbs just to trick news organizations i don't know the source of this talk of knowledgeable but it is what i've read in the media but that's certainly within the realm of possibility that it came from the russian there you have it it's been russia all along has been fueling these news reports about themselves case stopped i can't wrap my brain around exactly how this this exactly would feed into a pro russian approach narrative to submit forged documents let you say that they got forged documents let's assume. a that's true look ascertain that ascertain the

source of them and then you have a story that's what they shoot should do rather than engaging in cheesy speculation which is unworthy of first grade journalism nobody knows where it came from nobody even knows if it's true it's it's just absurd it's like look do your homework research this stuff and get back to us if it's true then that instant put up the evidence and let's talk about it and discuss it like reasonable people until then please just be quiet. face real life story this morning if you need bit of inspiration to kick start it working we have value to me and us to see this lady coming up she's overcome considerable odds with more than a little love and support from a biggest fan a grandmother. they

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relations these days. i think the us russia relationship is very important and it has suffered and we need to. make it better there's no question about it we need to cooperate on so many issues on nuclear weapons on shiria on iran on energy on trade. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. to caught up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i

never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each other. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one to. speak to now because there were no other takers. and that mainstream media has met its maker.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle well it happened blatter mir putin and donald trump met for their first much into this debated handshake was it worth the wait and what happens now. in the importance of the handshake i'm joined by my guests here in moscow mark sloboda he's an.