i i i i. i. i i. we are here sitting together it's been a long time since we were together like. the people of southern syria experienced some rare rest after russia and the u.s. and the ceasefire in the region we got exclusive video from the. german chancellor is under fire from the dangers posed by leftist radicals. g. twenty summit in. iraq's prime minister declared victory over islamic state in mosul but the city's in ruins as its people high price for liberation.

hi there just a day or mosque over a good afternoon from. around the world this is international good to have you company first locals in parts of southern syria enjoying relative peace for the first time in six years it was made possible by a russia u.s. brokered cease fire deal in the region is exclusive video from the ground. 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. next and artistic here and as more of the specifics of this 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 announcing 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 zona discovered russia the u.s. and jordan reach a cease fire agreements with syria will come into effect in three areas. and it will come into force on the ninth of july the u.s. and russia have committed to monitoring the homeless and ensuring humanitarian access to the areas initially security in these areas will be ensured by russian military sleeves and close cooperation with the u.s. and jordan now these three southern provinces that's

a laugh i've 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 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 and 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 who 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 in general it doesn't seem to change but there is now an understanding that we can achieve a lot of 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 really who is the european commission vice president and also the deputy. envoy special envoy for syria. and 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 nation wide society should of whose to and unhindered humanitarian access is key to facilitate the interest syrian talks under u.n. auspices in geneva now 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 our last major stumbling block being of course the future of the syrian president bashar al assad and his role in syria so false dawn or not we started out a few experts in regional affairs about this late to cease fire deal. i think that the russian president put it best when he said this more pragmatic american approach which normally sets conditions like the ruvell of this president i think this factor 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 to i think we should be fairly

optimistic because previous failed because there were powerful spoiler in the aleppo case with. the al qaeda affiliate which was very strong and was able to disrupt the cease fires there in the south the military situation is different most of the fighting forces on the rebel side are smaller groups affiliated with the so-called free syrian army and affiliated groups of very small in numbers i think both sides the syrian government side with russia behind it and the rebel side in the southwest with america behind them want this to work. german chancellor angela merkel's under pressure following the unprecedented violence that the g twenty protests in hamburg the

country's president says that germany has witnessed such brutality in years. and. we have not had violence of such magnitude at 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 are out in force but over twenty thousand of them nonetheless struggle to contain protesters with hundreds of officers left injured security forces in hamburg faced criticism for failing to cope with the chaos of the rallies this video here shows violent protesters in black masks throwing chairs and five classes from shop windows places but probably no sign of any police officers to contain a march images of burning cars and streets awash with debris left locals really shocked the international media out there second those thoughts to hear some of the headlines of the shoulder for her part chancellor merkel condemned the violence

while many german politicians stressed that the left wing radical protests had indeed been underestimated. the insensitive divides won't get them to which only teat of t.v. puts in decent talking to skits finances get fits in my view to get tough in this fall tell each shelfs that it's keeping the shootings the next had the woman behind stiff doing i need a further. i . do.

so as the dust settles in the book following the joint twenty volunteers been helping to clean up the streets and try to restore the shop fronts analysts we talked to savor. leftist groups have been in that area for years but today nothing a been done about it. the left wing commits much more physical violence than the right wing this is something we know overhears of we see it for many years and nothing has changed yet definitely there has been much more violent on behalf of the left wing. extremists but. also certain the difference in the targets of course that the choose it is. a

while and now that we have seen in hamburg which is really like a senseless meaningless it just looks for a media. appearance it just wants to shock. over to where the g twenty is thought that the delegates they can spend some time considering what to do next about the crisis on the korean potentially with the rhetoric ramping up to the north and the us. 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 called for frequently sending big and small new packages of course when it comes to nuclear arms north korea and the u.s. a far from equally matched pyongyang still doesn't have any missiles capable of sending a warhead over enough distance fathers they've got thus far is nine hundred thirty kilometers that's nowhere near the range of u.s. wades so question is will this red seven really amount to anything we put that to gregory islets from the korea policy institute. i think it's a great idea or exaggerated. first of all the croissant 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 other

thing about the capability of them both also russian affairs of the thing it's actually intermediate missile 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 way you did the weapon that would be for a further but this is only a single test or 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 in north korea right now probably no more than ten it would be suicidal for north korea to launch a nuclear first strike and with north korea is quite explicit about the purpose of its program as the nuclear deterrent its intent is to ward off attack from the united states. there was a bit of

a double standard here and that washington has never complained about india israel or pakistan ballistic missile testing in fact india conducted ballistic missile test over this year as did pakistan but only north korea's singled out with un sanctions forbidding it from doing ballistic missile testing and i think the gist of the washington's concern is that it has friendly relations with other nations where that's has quite hostile relations with north korea. the 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 a joint military exercises with south korea i think the last one involved more than three hundred thousand troops and ships and airplanes and they're practicing the bombing and invasion of north korea and they also have commando.

exercises that practice what they call decapitation strikes which in other words is the assassination of north korean officials you can imagine if the reverse were true just imagine syria from russia were conducting joint exercises with 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 everyday business no reason for north korea to be concerned. well the united states' latest joint military drills with south korea included missiles being fired into the sea of japan to be eighteen strategic bombers also carried out live fire tests on a training range on the korean peninsula fighter jets from south korea and japan also joined it which according to the us was to demonstrate their commitment to defending our. it was also conducted into set test two in which

a warhead was successfully destroyed but that test cost american taxpayers almost two hundred fifty million dollars and others planted to one's time we asked political commentator lou rockwell whether there might be other reasons the u.s. is stepping up its efforts against north korea well there's a lot of money at stake billions and billions and billions of dollars a 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 poured i'm sure they would you know the show that poured vast resources that should have gone into people's lives and bellies and homes and so forth into this horrible

military business it's because they're terrified of being attacked with a korea crisis showing no sign of abating when sophie shevardnadze has been talking to a former u.s. governor about the ups and downs of don't trust these six months and the way it was coming a bit later. i think it 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 include russia you know in my view i think it's very important to have military advisors at the highest level of the cabinet but you know i'm a little concerned when the secretary of defense is a military person that the national security advisers

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. in case you need to be gone this is how it works in our economy is built around cooperation corporations run washington the washington post media the media. the voters elect the president to run this country business equals. boom bust

it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. big news from iraq today the iraqi prime minister's travel to the city of mosul to

declare victory over islamic state there now that the terror group's former strongholds been recaptured the convoy traveled through mosul where only small pockets of militants now remain in the news is there expect to be defeated very soon celebration sprang up nationwide them to mark the victory. for. the most operation success has also been widely celebrated across the media to. 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 their right they reckon military along with u.s. support launched a campaign to liberate mosul from ice a last october but since then two human rights groups of re serious concerns about the civilian casualties being caused by the coalition forces. in. the. way.

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 that's been raging very wary 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 particularly the types and sizes of bombs that it's choosing 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 men so i'm going 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. when the national intelligence director james clapper says the u.s. media is being tricked by russia into publishing fake news it's off to network and

most n.b.c. said they've received information on the story they suspected had been forged is more the explanation. at first glance it was just unbelievably read i. mean 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 stickley 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 the spite 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 you b c news sources are telling us 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 tricked 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 bread crumbs just to trick news organizations i don't know the source of this document on all but it is what i've read in the media but that's certainly within the realm of possibility that it came from the russians there you have it it's been russia all along has been fueling these news reports about themselves case solved 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 the and then put up the evidence and let's talk about it and discuss it like reasonable people until then please just be quiet. so if it goes next hear from an american politician and diplomat about how the world reacting to donald trump policy. as far as the wealthy areas of the italy going bust and we should save them because

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with the country at a crossroads anger on the island is on the rise. welcome to. six months into his term donald trump is already disrupting the existing global order pulling the united states out of the international agreements

and jeopardizing partnerships how america's new posturing to fact its role on the world stage well we asked former u.s. governor and x.m. basser to the united nations bill richardson. foreign policy. with america a party with some of its traditional policies could also roll on the world stage who will step up to fill the power vacuum and how will it change the existing. governor richardson thanks for being with us today it's a great pleasure to have to be with you so we'll start with the latest the u.s. has pulled out of the paris climate agreement and the boston globe in one further and saying that it's in an unveiling of the war order so in your opinion how does a new world order.