a revelation revealing nothing media reports claim the kremlin trying to hand compromising information on hillary clinton to don't trump son but failed to mention the informant had no ties to putin and no explosives. the iraqis had called in an airstrike of course killing but also killing his mother two of his brothers and one of their wives an artist tells r.t. about the horrors of war in the iraqi city of mosul which he's been depicting on canvas it comes as amnesty international releases a damning report on civilian suffering during the coalition led liberation of the city. tell that's the police advice to

brits heading abroad in case a terror attack happens while they're on holiday. and the european court of human rights upholds belgium's ban on the full face may come to veil in public the country is among a group of european nations which built in all the clothing. thank you for joining us here at r.t. international live from moscow i'm kate partridge. the names trump and russia never seem to be out of the headlines but now it's the president's son that the spotlight is turning on it all concerns a meeting he held with a russian lawyer during his father's election campaign breaking news report now maggie haberman reporting in the new york times and it is really something that certainly shows intent to collude with the russian government and that is a giant turn in this unfolding story this morning sobered up. everybody still talk

about russia. well let's try to get to the heart of this and cross live now to our tease caleb moore pin in new york hi there caleb well the story has been circulating for several days now but child union has just released a new statement what more can you tell us. well it all started over the weekend when the new york times came forward with allegations about a meeting that took place between donald trump jr and gerald cushion or and a russian lawyer now the new york times in their report they alleged that this meeting in taken place because there had been a campaign had been promised dirt on hillary clinton and they furthermore said that this russian lawyer had been working with the kremlin now as we continue to to see the facts come out the only source that was ever cited by the new york times was confidential government records and it turns out that. junior has come forward and

he's released the chain of emails between himself and the intermediary who set up the meeting he's pointed out that no meaningful information was exchanged that the russian lawyer did not work with the russian government and that he's called that the meeting which took place in a nonsense let's take a listen to what has been said by the son of the president of united states the woman she has said publicly was not a government official and as we have said she had no information to provide and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the act now the russian lawyer has also come forward and said that she didn't even know what the planned meeting was expected to discuss and she had been expecting that perhaps it would be a meeting regarding russia's adoption laws and that the she does not work for russia she has no connection to the russian government this is what she had to say

you have the impression it appears that they were going to be told some information . about the d.n.c. how did they get the impression that's was between you. knew he didn't either. now when asked about these allegations at the white house press briefing when asked about the allegations from the new york times which of course were only ever credited to quote confidential government records when asked about that press secretary or white house spokesperson sarah. huckabee sanders she replied by pointing out that the democratic national committee colluded with ukrainian forces to do research during the presidential election and this allegation has also been raised by donald trump jr he tweeted out similar concerns about the democratic

national committee collaborating with ukrainian forces during the elections and this is what sarah huckabee sanders had to say if you're looking for an example of a campaign coordinator with a foreign country or a foreign source look no further than the d.n.c. who actually courtenay did opposition research with the ukrainian embassy and no one in this room to my knowledge really had a big problem with that now paranoia regarding russia and allegations of russian meddling seeing russia it's a very common thing in u.s. politics at this moment most recently we heard a call from two congressmen alleging that they want to congressional investigation into russia's alleged what they're calling a a propaganda war against fossil fuels so in this report i get a little more into depth about all the allegations of russian meddling and russian involvement and how they seem to not really have much of a basis in reality take a listen to my report. you've been watching mainstream american television lately

you've probably noticed a recurring theme former cia chief john brennan is connecting the dots between russia and wiki leaks a lot of connect the dots information as you said the dots that connect the dots to get connected back with russia connect the dots russia did it it's a game of connect the dots first find something that you do not like and then somehow blame russia for it and we're not just talking about hillary clinton losing her guaranteed presidency back in two thousand and sixteen are you a fan of donald trump's energy dominance plan if you are then the environmentalists who are protesting against fracking a controversial shale drilling technique are part of the kremlin conspiracy if you connect the dots it is clear that russia is funding u.s. environmental groups in an effort to suppress the domestic oil and gas industry specifically hide really cracking. and on the other hand if you're an environmentalist don't you know that putin is the mastermind behind the

controversial keystone pipeline. are you worried about the right white nationalism right wing extremism. and on top of that the occupy wall street protests can be traced all the way back to russia's secret security services you also move and give to practical examples of how the russians have been engaged in our political system one was an anti fracking campaign that the russians seem to be engaged in another one was the occupy wall street movement that the russians were engaged in as well sure the financial crisis low wages income inequality had nothing to do with it we all know that people were protesting back in two thousand and eleven because they got orders from moscow right. and the public trust in the

mainstream media is shrinking it's because someone is feeding them fake and false information guess who. what about false information the real faked is being put out five russians russian propagandists russian operatives were all those surely possible as well with and there are a. lot in their bag of tricks or something to try to do russia has become the world's scapegoat for everything and it's this weird witch hunt that like now if something doesn't go someone's way and international business or elections or whatever the automatic finger pointing goes to russia i guess it's just the automatic excuse now especially with this fracking story in particular like ok they're saying now that russia is involved with. power and environmentalists to stop fracking it just doesn't make sense so from attacking to fracking it's all because of the kremlin whenever something goes wrong you can always say that the russians did it it never seems to get old caleb artsy new york.

over five thousand eight hundred civilians may have been killed by iraqi and u.s. led coalition forces in mosul in the last four months that's the latest estimate from human rights organization amnesty international in its new reports the group says pro-government forces relied upon in precise weapons joining the liberation of west mosul and ignored the growing number of civilian deaths it also claims pro baghdad troops appear to have repeatedly violated international humanitarian law something that may amount to war crimes amnesty international collective testimony from those displaced it says more than six hundred thousand people were forced to flee west mosul. and here are some of the latest pictures from mosul as you can see vast parts of the city lie in ruins the smoke still rising above some of the buildings larry and we discussed the situation in mosul with more

on the iraqi branch of unicef. i was about we can have a go in the central hospital of western more so. than people are coming that they're coming there with fresh wounds and one of the image that touch me and still remains on my. head is this woman who crawled for off white children into the hospital. floor all of them you know head with the blood and she will sort of up by my young one year and a half all was on her lap on she was trying to press. to stop the bleeding fighting in most of them specifically in which most of it was in attendance extremely intense with a lot of damage and destruction people and specifically children how. extremely terrible a price on the fighting in mosul they have witnessed hora and

a nightmare yes they have been quite a cost of civilians and infrastructure damage. well horrors of war also witnessed in another way by artist and illustrator george butler he was embedded with iraqi forces in the area he's previously worked in syria where he traveled to several times to document the conflict there this time he depicted those who were displaced from west mosul.

the media though has largely praised coalition efforts to liberate mosul some even blame i still alive and for the devastation of the city we spoke to george butler about what he witnessed during his latest trip. what was your first impressions when you when you arrived and became embedded with the iraqi special forces what i found i guess was huge destruction to. civilian life and as ever it's the civilians that. are losing out more than anybody and they're the ones with the stories and other ones that i as an illustrator and as artist i guess are trying to do to get justice to what was the most difficult almost striking thing that you that you saw there something that really made an impression on you on one side a pile of piles of rubble these houses been destroyed in an airstrike and this. came out and bought me a chair to sit on you could see i was touring and just begins to tell a story and isis fighters had fled the mosque next door during the fight firefight

they'd come into his home where his family were living and then the iraqi army had called in an airstrike which it so often does in mosul of course killing but also killing his mother two of his brothers and one of their wives this attack actually happened on the same day that there's an infamous attack hundred sixty people were killed in mosul you know the willingness to talk about it and the openness and the normality of it was perhaps the most extraordinary thing and that is the fact that that is so regular i guess is a difficult thing to accept you what was the fortunate to capture this in your drawing but is this something you really occurred all over the city a lot of the damage that you see is not done by not done by car bombs or firefights but strike that story of people civilians being caught up in that it's obviously very sad but it is happening in mosul over the last few months what memory you will

take away from from your time in mosul the one you know impression that really will stay with you i think it's always this well i suppose it's always been the same and that is. that is the majority of civilians losing out. hugely to something that they have no control of over the lack of just a kind of very vulnerable the moment and the lack of choice and the thing i guess it was sticks to me is that the drawings i'm doing are done with permission the best drawings i did were the ones that i was very much emotionally attached to the kind of desire to draw to do justice and draw exactly what was in front of me and the issue of missiles liberation has also been discussed by russia's foreign minister it came during an informal summoned to the organization for security and cooperation in europe. has the details do you remember all that was stereo with the suffering of civilians that's healthy one minister of the mind of the aleppo

coverage you want to say that there's already been a well to a billion refugees. the city of mosul is times more than the number of people that love to love pull through specially organized humanitarian corridors according to the russian foreign minister the departure of civilians from mosul been tedious disorganized not chaotic which according to the minister allowed for all of could have led to more civilian casualties here's what else sergei lavrov said on the hypocrisy by some of the western politicians and media. talking of double standards in the media western the leper was liberated with far less loss of civilian infrastructure the most so of course we're glad not always who is losing maybe the price of victory has to be high but in this case the reason i need to put on an innocent face and not to see the log in

your own eye. this was foreign minister lavrov taking part in a european informal security summit and as it is often the case during such events sure you lob rope was the center of attention which often leads to some very awkward moments are you going to the city to sort of look for you to go to go to group do you do you. do you do you choose to do decently believe that you know you still should come up with your goals seriously young to vote the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov will now continue to come out here on usenet stops on brussels and berlin. as the bible video you should watch before your next holiday that story on both of the short break.

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welcome back with some a in full swing in europe british holiday makers have been asked to watch this video on how to survive a terror attack before booking their flights abroad. will the video include scenes of a hotel under siege and a clear reference to the deadly terror attack on british tourist in two musea two years ago in which thirty britons were killed polly boyko went onto the streets of london to find out if such tips cost doc clouds over holiday moods british police

have now released a video showing british terrorists how to react in case they get caught up in a terrorist attack if it's a safe route to get out now if this is the best option it outrages people to think of the instructions in the same way they think about line safety videos everyone is away if we're going to need a plane you get a safety briefing of what should happen if the plane came down and that's what we're trying to say here that the chances are very unlikely there's just giving you the knowledge of what to do and what not to do if you are caught up in such an attack kind of what's your response to that kind of what is d.v.d. i. mean this big street is over in the state you going on on a summer holiday that i know there's maybe quite scared to go if it was a hurry that worked right the all time to cut scare religious terrorists now what they've begun on the train is quite pretty frightening this internet that definitely would make me wary about traveling the kind that we all stay like

everything is about terrorism and stuff like that it just adds more to your stress you. what's going on today to kind of relax not to think about potential terrorist attacks i think it's a bit scary if you could just travel in the head in a change in what's going to happen next feel less safe everywhere there's a fire or a terrorist attack every day he said it's like you do worry generally more about even trying to get out to get you to do your daily shop sometimes can be worrying kind of a new reality to have you know it is here but i feel safe here in the u.k. would it change your plans this kind of thing watching this kind of video. wouldn't you know holidays islet it wouldn't deter you from going away not. just to deal with the. police say there's no specific intelligence that british holidaymakers are going to be targeted but they still want you to watch the film before packing your beach bags. and it's not only people having to adapt to the terrorist threat

insurance companies are now offering special policies that cover terrorism there are also various counterterrorism courses and terror survival guidance being offered to the public former british army intelligence officer chris hunter says modern day terrorism has created a new reality we're definitely living in a different worlds the you know the rise in islamist extremist terrorism is unprecedented and i think you know just looking at it from a domestic perspective when i was growing up in the you know in britain in the early eighty's i remember the provisional ira threats but they used to give coded warnings they didn't actually want to kill civilians with islamist extremist terrorism it's a completely different mindsets and completely different threats so we have to take the threat seriously and we have to be prepared to either forego some of our civil liberties or you know we say ok we'll just live with the terrorist threats and keep

getting killed. when we won at the same time a muslim radio station in england broadcast twenty five hours of al qaeda lectures calling for a holy war its license so since being revoked by the communications regulator ofcom him on f.n. ed speeches by anwar lucky he was killed in a u.s. drone strike in yemen in twenty eleven he was a radical american muslim cleric of yemeni origin well the u.n. security council states he was a leader recruiter under strain of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula he's also suspected of having had links to the nine eleven hijackers. well eman f.n. says he was unaware of the radical content of the speeches and chris hunt says communities have to do more to tackle the promotion of radicalism twenty five hours of evil hatred and vitriol and it once i'm on it and crucially you know i'm not monitoring all broadcasts but somebody gave these people

a license presumably if they were broadcasting illegally the real issue with this is that there are so many different mediums through which terrorists could actually propagate a message every developed country in the world not going to have the resources to actually stop it in its tracks to monitor all of these publications so there is a huge emphasis and moral obligation on the communities in which all of this media is actually being propagated. belgium's ban on the full face neck out in public doesn't violate any rules that's according to a decision by the european court of human rights the ruling comes after two muslim women trying to get the move legally overturned shiela do bensky has more well this case was brought by two women a belgian national and a moroccan who said that it was their choice to wear the kneecap this is the veil covering which covers everything but their eyes and that because of that this band had actually in finished their freedoms and they said that the law was

discriminatory but the european court of human rights disagreed saying that however controversial the ban was it was necessary in a democratic society and it said it was necessary to guarantee that he cygnus of living together now other countries in europe have also said that they are considering a ban with politicians from across europe now supporting the idea including germany's chancellor angela merkel. interpersonal communication which plays a crucial role show how thesis that's why the full face veil is not appropriate and should be banned wherever legally possible. we oppose the full body veil not just the burka but also any of the veil that hides the eyes it's not something that belongs to our open society to show your face is part of communication your existence and that's why we urge everyone to show their face. to

me it's a symbol of female enslavement it's a vision of women that we have to oppose now several other countries have already instituted a ban on a full fail covering in the public areas that schools hospitals government buildings such as in france in two thousand and eleven where women who go out and wear a full fail covering whether they are french nationals or tourists facing a fine while those who force women to wear a full veil covering could face a fine of up to thirty thousand euros and time in jail in the netherlands m.p.'s have already back the idea of this yet it's not become law but european countries are not the only ones that have instituted a ban or are considering it the african country of chad which is a muslim majority country actually a ban on the full face covering back in two thousand and fifteen and that was following two suicide attacks in the country and they said it was necessary to prevent terrorism in future. up next on oxy international it's been bust.

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ruling closes and reject them so. the final. be the will. we can all middle of the room sit. room. lindsay francis the boss broadcasting around the world from washington do you think knight the so-called summer of hell has begun for rail users in and around new york city the accelerated timetable for a pair of after derailment and it's set to extend for years also more diesel emissions scandals this time dutch prosecutors go. after suzuki and also my guest

former u.s. attorney commissioner bart chilton joins me for a wrap of the dramatic meeting of the group of twenty in hamburg by the us starts right now. the dollar had a two month peak rising knight point nineteen percent to one hundred fourteen yen earlier in the session it hit one fourteen twenty nine yen its highest since may eleventh the euro fell point one percent to one fourteenth stock markets rallied on the heels of the european central banks collectively hawkish tone over the last fourteen days as investors expect a turning point in central bank policy this comes as focus shifts to how the

federal reserve might react to the latest jobs and inflation data fed chairman janet yellen testifies at the end of this week to u.s. lawmakers now she's expected to lift interest rates before the end of the year the fed has done so twice this year so germany's dax was up point three percent while the cac forty in france followed suit at point three percent higher at the f.t. a c. one hundred index of leading british shares was up point five percent and the nasdaq composite rose one tokyo's nikkei index gained point eight percent. oil prices have plunged in light of rising production in the united states and within the organization of petroleum exporting countries their member nations and affiliates u.s. crude fell nearly fifty cents to forty three seventy five per barrel on that the new york mercantile exchange brant crude dipped to forty six twenty in london after losing fifty one cents citing political.