breaking news this hour britain's controversial. are ruled by the high court in london humanitarian groups challenge the government because of weapons being used to kill civilians in yemen. or the german. dangers posed by leftist radicals after the g. twenty summit in. iraq's prime minister declares victory. but the city. has its people high price for liberation.

of your choosing in from around the world welcome to moscow and to our. names you know neal if your company are breaking news this hour britain's high court house rules. are legal the government was being challenged by human rights groups who say british weapons are being used by the saudis against civilians in the war in yemen let's go live now to westminster and polly polly what are we learning by this ruling. well that yeah the high court here has thrown out the campaign as claim that the u.k. sales to saudi arabia are illegal say that policy can continue that relationship has been deemed perfectly legal by the judge head today now the reason campaign is and many a politician have had. concerns about the u.k.'s policy of arming riyadh is because

of the brutal conflict taking place in yemen at the moment where saudi arabia is leading a military coalition that's conducting an strikes against the rebels in yemen and saudi arabia's been accused of violating humanitarian law there in that conflict and also they've been accused of targeting civilians indiscriminately and they've been doing that with a lot of british equipment the u.k.'s licensed over three billion pounds worth of arms to saudi arabia since the conflict began in two thousand and fifteen and to give you an idea about the sorts of customers saudi arabia iraq the saudi military has doubled the number of british made warplanes than the brits have themselves so in light of this conflict in yemen many politicians have public opinion has become increasingly concerned about this policy of arming riyadh take

a listen to what some m.p.'s here in parliament have had to say about it. here is a speaker thousands of civilians have been killed in yemen including a large number by the air force i think on the dumb not using british built planes with pilots who were trained by british instructors who were dropping british made bombs under coordinated by the saudis in the presence of british military advisors . we have to put political pressure on the saudis to come to the table to reduce the scale of the bombing to move towards some kind of ceasefire and to do it properly so let's just talk about the conflict this is being presented against saudi arabia against the people of yemen what an absolute garbage no wonder the countries in poverty other who are allowing these people to get away with it. and despite all those objections the prime minister and have foreign secretary have

consistently defended its policy of weapons sales to riyadh to take a lesson. we do not believe you've the has been a clear risk of breach of international humanitarian law at the moment would we be able to do exactly. the threshold has been crossed what matters is the strength of our relationship with saudi arabia on issues like dealing with terrorism on counterterrorism issues it is that relationship that has helped to keep people on the streets of britain. the campaign as i've said that they're disappointed with the ruling today i'm joined now by joe he's a reset at the campaign against arms trade which launched a legal challenge against the government. thanks very much for joining us what's your response to the ruling and also what's the next step now i oversee we're very disappointed very disappointed on the behalf of the people of yemen where you know saudi the saudi forces that we fly in you came a planes which up in the u.k.

. and that's led. country where seven million people on the edge of starvation where there's a color out right where the saudis be bombing funerals hundred forty people killed by bomb and more slipping from an officer as they've been declaring his entire city's a military target so we're very disappointed in a fiery angry i will be appealing the opinion the judgment and you know i've been for the arizona star surely a paling the judgement is futile given that the judge chair has just said that the saudi arabian military has been in contact with the brits that they're not deliberately bombing civilian targets and it all seems perfectly legal according to the judge and the ruling today over the north says is by clear is as if there's a clear risk of serious violations of international humanitarian law and those on should not be exposed to a country and you know from what i can see him for what the vast majority of the british public can see as it very clear is that these violations that these weapons are being used to violate international humanitarian law you know like i said on

funerals you know that because entire cities is military targets these are not weapons that are being used responsibly if any weapon can be used responsibly so we think you know it is a very clear case that with the race we will be present in that and i've been to so again a pedo and i'm going to set a bad bad judgment. there are a lot of concerns about this from certain parts quarters in parliament among politicians there's also been your own research carried out showing that public opinion is increasingly against this policy of arming saudi arabia why do you think the government is so wedded to continuing this policy in this situation where the you know the arms industry has a big lobbying budget very effectively there's also the revolving door between the government and the arms industry you know you go talk talk civil servants in the end i say go talk about it is go talk figures in the ministry the ministers of friends are all getting jobs in the arms industry once i retire and all this kind of praise the kind of great thing between the ministers and the government and the

arms industry and so they. really you know there's one of the saying i'm not on a private industry all i did in the government is what we're fighting against when these two men if we have a good policy right from the campaign against on trade that's reset to thank you very much for joining us. live from london with a gas thank you very much poly. living on our german chancellor i'm going merkel is under pressure following the on priest invented violence n n t g twenty protests in home berg the country's president sees germany house and witness such brutality in years. we have had violence of such magnitude demonstrations in germany in recent use. there were apparently some who acted ruthlessly and destructively against police forces and also against the

citizens german police right in force but over twenty thousand of them struggle to contain protesters with hundreds of all sources left injured security forces in hamburg face criticism for failing to cope with the chaos of the rallies this video shows violent protesters in black masks throwing chairs and fireworks through shop windows with a partly and police officers to contain the march. well images of burning cars on the streets so watch with debris left local shocked international media outlets echoed those thoughts these are some of the headlines chancellor merkel condemned the violence while many german politicians stress that they left wing radical protests had been underestimated. the end she said to give it and get him to put on the teat of t.v. put it side a indecent cogging disc it's fun to get fits him if you don't get toughness. shelfs

the script needs to get things that i just had to fit through in the woman i'm shifting and i need to further. i.

will as the dust settles in hamburg following the g twenty volunteers have been helping to clean up the streets and restore shopfronts unless we spoke to say violent leftist groups of being in the area for years but nothing has been done about. the left wing commits much more physical violence and the right wing this is something we know over here as of we see it for many years and nothing has changed yet definitely there has been much more violence on behalf of 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. like meaningless just looks for. appearance just wants to shock.

well during the g twenty summit the u.s. administration was left red faced in a few occasions due to some geographical difficulties.

so. what happened as i say. heading to iraq where we're heading to syria. heading toward syria. well it was thought delegates the g twenty might have spent time considering what to do next about the crisis on the korean peninsula with the rhetoric ramping up between the north and the u.s. . the era 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 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 the u.s. would be unhappy to witness north korea strategic power on its independence day and call them frequently sending big and small new packages or when it comes to nuclear arms north korea and the u.s. are far from equally matched pyongyang still doesn't have any missiles capable of sending warheads over a considerable distances the furthest they've ever most is nine hundred thirty kilometers which is nowhere near the range of u.s. war it's so well the threats ever really amount to anything we put out to gregory

like from the korea policy institute. i think it's a great deal or exaggerated. first of all the. fourteen missile that it recently launched there's some question whether or not that's even an i.c.b.m. so a russian monitoring equipment had a very different result than what we're here in the united states officials are saying about the capability of the missiles so russian affairs are the senate so you actually intermediate missile but even if you take the u.s. position that as an 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 of the weapon that would be the range for that but this is only a single test of any kind of operation old nuclear weapons program we would require a year ways of 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 with north korea is quite explicit about the purpose of its program is 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 or with your attitude pakistan but only north korea's singled out with un sanctions forbidding it from doing ballistic missile testing and i think the gist of washington's concern is that it has friendly relations with other nations whereas it's has quite hostile relations with north korea.

more water into 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 the 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 there are three reverse which are just imagine syria for russia were conducting joint exercises were 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 the united states latest

joint military drills with included missiles being fired into this subject to be one 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 in which according to you this was to demonstrate. the sending excuse me. the u.s. has also conducted an intercept test in which a mock warhead will successfully destroy but the test costs the american taxpayers almost two hundred fifteen million dollars another is planned in two months time we asked political commentator alluded 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 in new military contracts the u.s. of course also wants to continue to justify its occupation of south korea its

occupation of japan occupation of guam the presence of the seventh fleet you know 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 there and they're very poor country and 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 the iraqi city of mosul is declared free for myself but it's come at a cost i'll tell you more about that in about ninety seconds time. it's.

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you're back with the r t international via rocky prime minister us travel to the city of mosul to declare a victory over islamic state about the terror group's former stronghold. the p.m.'s travel through mosul where only a small pocket of militancy. they were expected to be defeated celebration sprang up nationwide to mark the victory. while the mosul operation success has also been widely celebrated across the media . 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. well the iraqi military along with u.s. support launched a campaign to liberate mosul from the last october since then human rights groups of raise serious concerns about the civilian casualties being caused by coalition forces. the. the.

will. well human rights watch told us more about the price paid by civilians from mosul is liberation. operation to retake mosul particularly the end of the city 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 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 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 with these civilian casualties we don't see accountability we don't see american commanders taking responsibility and we don't see compensation for the victims. former u.s. national intelligence director james clapper say he's the american media is being tricked by russia into publishing fake news about self through the n.b.c. network said they'd received information on a story they suspected had been forged here is the explanation. 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 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 with two former officials

knowledgeable about the situation tells c.n.n. sources familiar with the matter tell the p.c. dues which of sources are telling us on the condition of anonymity 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 that it tricked news organizations into reporting what appears to be evidence of what happened and then after the fact to 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 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 solved i can't wrap my brain around exactly how this this exactly would feed into a pro russian approved marriage you 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 the issue 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 didn't didn't put up the evidence and let's talk about it and discuss it like reasonable people until then

please just be quiet. crazy weather alert severe summer storms have put part with flash flooding causing metro stations to close all. credible scenes the heavy thunderstorm began late on sunday evening in the french helpful with a record forty nine millimeters of rain falling in just an hour the deluge caused over a dozen metro stations to shut. now with the g twenty dolan dusted cross-talk looks at whether there are reasons to be positive for future russian u.s. relations. i think the us russia relationship is very important and 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 from syria on iran on energy on trade.

seems wrong. just don't. get to stamp out these things become active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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