our top stories this hour the german chancellor is. meeting the dangers posed by. the g. twenty summit. high price for liberation. north korea. threat.

to the world. hello and welcome to the program our top story german chancellor angela merkel is following the violence twenty protests in the country's president germany has not witnessed such brutality in years. we have violence of such magnitude demonstrations in germany. some who acted ruthlessly. to. well german police were out in force but over twenty thousand of them struggle to contain protesters with hundreds of officers left injured security forces and faced criticism for failing to cope with the all the rallies in this video shows violent protesters and. throwing chairs and fireworks the shop windows

with apparently no sign of any police officers to contain the march. images of burning cars and streets so warsh with debris left locals shocked international media outlets echoed those thoughts these are some of the headlines on show chancellor merkel condemned the violence while many german protesters stressed that the left wing radical protests had been to meet its. in the end she said to give it and get him to which only teat of t.v. put it side a and decent talking to ski it's fun to get fits in my view to get toughness. chefs that escaped me she got things that i had taken the woman on shifting when i needed a fit. i . i.

well as the dust settles in hamburg following the g twenty volunteers helping helping to clean up the streets and restore shopfronts a less we talked to say violent leftist groups have been in the area for years but nothing was done about. the left wing commits much more physical violence and the right wing this is something we know over here is obvious 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 the troops it is. a while and now that we have seen in hamburg which is really like a center. meaningless just looks for a media. appearance it just wants to shock. well during the summer the us administration was left red faced few occasions due to some geographical difficulties.

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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. the iraqi military along with u.s. support launched their campaign to liberate mosul from my cell last october since then human rights groups have raise serious concerns about the civilian casualties being caused by coalition forces. in. the.

the the. 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 still that 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 clue to kuli the types and sizes of bombs that excusing to drop because of these large ball 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. britain tony court has ruled the arms sales to so do you reappear are legal the government was being challenged by human rights groups who say british weapons are being used by the sobig led coalition against civilians in the war in yemen claim the saudis strongly deny your london correspondent polly boyko. the high court here has thrown out the campaign is claiming that the u.k.'s on them sales to saudi arabia are illegal so that policy can continue that relationship has been deemed perfectly legal by the judge did today now the reason campaigners and many a politician have had concerns about the u. case 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 as 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 ukase 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 say 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 as

a speaker thousands of civilians have been killed in yemen including a large number by the air force right on the not using british built planes there were part of which were trained by british instructors who were dropping british made bombs under coordinated by the saudis in the presence of british military advisors. so much to talk about the conflict this is being presented again sorry against the people of yemen what's. your bridge no wonder the country's impulse. i'm 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 so far we do not believe the has been a clear risk of breach of international humanitarian law at the moment would we 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 not relationship that has helped to keep people on the streets of britain. the campaign is have 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 however they were very disappointed very disappointed on the behalf of the people of yemen where you know saudi the saudi forces to be flying you came a planes which up in the u.k. my poems and that's led to a country where seven million people are on the edge of starvation where there's a call about how bright the saudis be in funerals hundred forty people killed every bomb in march that bombing hospitals have been declaring his. cities

a military target so we're very disappointed with very angry will be appealing the opinion the judgment and you know i've been for the arizona star for the north says is by clear is as if there's a clear risk of serious violations of international humanitarian law and those are supposed to 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 have been used to violate international humanitarian law 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've got top top civil servants in the air. i say go tell them bassett is go talk figures in the ministry the minister the time so forget the arms industry. i'm not on the price industry all i did in the government is well we're fighting against the world one needs to bend if we have to get out of ethical foreign policy. escalating tensions between the u.s. and north korea were leaders on the edge the details of the not very shortly.

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look at. the start with the crisis on the korean peninsula where the rhetoric is ramping up which we in the north and the us. the year of strategic patience with the north korean regime has failed many years that it's failed and frankly that patience is over i give the highest honor to our respected great leader kim jong un 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 said the u.s. would be unhappy to witness north korea's 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 us are far from equally much still doesn't have any missiles capable of sending warheads over comparable distances the furthest they've ever published is nine hundred thirty kilometers which is nowhere near the range of u.s. warheads so will the threats ever really amount to anything we pulled. from the korea policy institute. i think it's a great deal exaggerated. first of all the croissant fourteen missile that it

recently launched there's some question whether or not that's even an i.c.b.m. so 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 or the saying it's actually intermediate missile but even if you take the us 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 the weapon that would be free 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 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. the more washington 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. exercises that practice what they call decapitation strikes which in other words is the assassination of north korean officials and you can imagine if the reverse were true just imagine syria from 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 the u.s. has also conducted an intercept test in which a mock warhead was successfully destroyed a test cost american taxpayers almost a quarter of a billion dollars another respondent 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've poured i'm sure they've you know the show their support 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 with korea crisis showing no signs of abating sophie shevardnadze has been talking to a former u.s. governor about the ups and islands of donald trump's near half year stay in the

white house here's what's coming up later this hour. i think it would be a big mistake to do a military strike with north korea because we've got treaty relationships we've read 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 the 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 a 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. former u.s. national intelligence director james clapper sais the american media is being tricked by russia into publishing fake news that's after the m s n b c network said they'd received information on the story basis specked it had been forged here's the explanation. at first glance it was just unbelievably red hot. 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 would just explain difficult to validate something like this first things first kudos to rachel maddow for spotting

a red flags and that parent me fake documents ad 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 jeff 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 are seen as doing nothing is done to me 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 you know i know but it is what i've read in the media but that's only you know 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 pro putin narrative to submit forged documents let you say that they got forged documents let's just say 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

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