if to. convict you. if. donald trump jr rejects allegations of collusion with moscow over a meeting with a russian lawyer last year with the kremlin saying she has no ties to the government. amid reports that displaced mosul residents are starting to return home is growing but they have nowhere to go as the iraqi cities liberation has left it utterly devastated. and a cold front blows in behind the wall the meeting between. the g. twenty but the u.s. now apparently backtracking on plans to restore relations with russia.

you're watching r.t. international live from our moscow studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. u.s. democrats on the media have rounded on donald trump's over a meeting he held last year with a russian lawyer in response he's released the full e-mail exchange from june twenty sixth detailing how the get together was set up trump jr was initially contacted by an intermediary who talked about handing over quote very high level and sensitive information via russian lawyer the info supposedly incriminated hillary clinton and was part of moscow's effort to aid his father's campaign. apparently originated from a crown prosecutor of russia although that job titles raised more than a few eyebrows in the media that's because there is in fact no such official position in russia the country not being a monarchy and there are other confusing aspects to this story too as caleb maupin

explains the story is like a rorschach test meaning that everyone sees a different picture and most of the media sees a picture of collusion in trees. i think he was about to get help from a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin this is looking more and more like treason intent to collude with the russian government all these strange behavior from the president it's all explained no that's not how trump jr sees it he says that nothing of substance was discussed at the meeting which he described as a name nonsense it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. me i wouldn't even remember it until you start scouring through the stuff it was literally just a wasted twenty minutes which was a shame whatever the content was the characters involved with the meeting are certainly worthy of a good moving. every

way to come up i'm really tired. we all know her name now and to tell you it's a guy at natalia vessel needs sky and italia vessel at sky a. good story but why does everyone want to link this russian lawyer to the kremlin she works in adoption law and does not work with the russian government and why would the russian prosecutor choose all of these people to deliver sensitive information

to the trump camp donald trump jr confirms that this meeting was a big nothing burger he says she did not have any damaging information on clinton but instead that she. wanted to discuss adoption law in the magnitsky act she confirms this. but i never knew you who would be attending the meeting all i knew that mr donald trump jr was willing to meet with me. to grow should go. no further more if this meeting between the trump team of the russian lawyers was about handling damaging information on clinton where is this bombshell we have yet to see any bombshell from the trump team about their opponent so after months and months of proof related to russian trump being anticipated we finally have a story that's rather complicated in fact it's so complicated that you can see whatever you want the confirmation bias of the reader can lead the mind's eye to read whatever they want into the story if you're determined to see trump works for

the russians you can see it even though the logical links just don't add up. art see new york. was among those jr to publish his emails in the name of transparency he offered to do it for him and. two hours later genius published them himself political and legal analyst lionel told us that there's no substance in this story only the buzzword russia making it a point of discussion for the media whenever you hear about this trouble. meeting always ask the question and. because that's what you have to do that i don't trump jr met with this rural russian and he thought maybe he would have some aapl resurge or opposition research and and it turns out that she didn't but she wanted to talk about apparently adoption and and that somebody said

treason this there is nothing here but let me tell you what is the saddest part we have been told russia russia russia russia to such an extent that maybe by virtue of this repetition there's been some kind of a cerebral connection made where people impute to guilt whenever that word is met and i'm not kidding you it's almost like a brainwashing there is absolutely nothing to this story no matter how you look at it from anybody's point of view there is nothing there. the kremlin has denied having any links to the russian lawyer who participated in the meeting spokes person to micha pascoe added that allegations of trouble russia collusion have turned into a t.v. series which has dragged on for too long. we've never been in touch with this lawyer we have nothing to comment on that she has no ties to us this is all part of

a long drawn out t.v. series which can compete with the most popular shows in america but there's no need to drag us into this we don't take part in such series. civilians are starting to return to the iraqi city of mosul after the government declared victory over islamic state in the area on monday however one of the most difficult task could still lie ahead as most of mosul has been devastated by nine months of fighting the u.n. says it will take billions of dollars and years to rebuild the city.

according to human rights watch the coalition used a number of weapons that are inaccurate and could be quote unlawfully indiscriminate if have used heavily in populated areas among them unguided artillery rockets and mortars nikki arran has more on the story below. ration of mosul from islamic state has topped the news cycle over the past few days has been full of praise for the victorious iraqi and coalition forces and pictures of celebration victory over isis in mosul. celebrations in the streets of mosul and battle the iraqi city of mosul is now free of the biggest city in isis

the so-called islamic state is in the hands of a blocky troops but against the backdrop of jubilation humanitarian groups crying foul over the plight of locals honesty international issued a fifty page report detailing the extent of civilian suffering calling out both iraq and the u.s. led coalition forces for repeated violations of international humanitarian law which it says could amount to war crimes honesty says there was a reliance on imprecise weapons and ignorance to the growing civilian death toll and a failure to adjust tactics to the challenges created by ice still of course you'd never expect much respect for civilian life from the terrorists known for using innocent people as human shields but it seems that those fighting isis somehow turned a blind eye to what they call collateral damage we have already shifted from attrition

people probably shelled them from one position to another in iraq and syria to annihilation tactics two billion cattle or a fact of life in this sort of situation besides any additional needless deaths can just be blamed on the ruthless enemy anyway according to the u.n. the battle for mosul is left almost nine hundred thousand people displaced more than eight thousand civilians dead or wounded and one hundred thousand children at risk sure it's heartbreaking now but if only which heard about it all sooner well the neighboring street. the street across rubble the street over there it's the same story wherever you look around you little little. shops what your garbage coming by your own food model. you know my uncle's house how wrote her mother who's wife went back home because howard was sick and the house was shelled

by american planes i tried but i couldn't save our from the shelling and the strikes and boring it was and there was no it was when it comes to how the battle for mosul will be remembered it seems these pictures of celebration at the liberation will live on in the media where the civilian suffering will be sufferance in silence. the u.s. led coalition has reacted to amnesty international's report calling it irresponsible a spokesperson added war is not pleasant and that those who claim otherwise put the lives of civilians and soldiers at risk well to discuss the situation in mosul joined here by award winning journalist martin j. martin thanks for joining us here on. if we look at the people returning to their home town now in your opinion how long will it take them could it take them to rebuild their lives and the city. who knows

i mean we're looking at possibly months or even the best part of a year before most people return but return to wat i mean if you look at most of the old city in mosul is completely destroyed so we're looking at new parameters completely off the scale measures now which would have to be undertaken by humanitarian groups. on the ground to cope with something one hundred thousand people who would be in dire need of shelter and health care and so forth if there are quick fixes it to rebuild their lives and to rebuild a city the u.n. are also fairing that some people may be trapped in areas with pockets of eisold resistance what are their real chances of being safely liberated as well. slim i mean we've seen in the past that this is a tactical war unfortunate boy by i saw two to shamefully use these people is in

some people's pockets as buffers as literally human shields for the ordinance which is flying backwards and forwards it's their destiny is it is rather sudden on uncertain one unfortunately but as as was alluded before somebody else in a new report by a british general today in the present war is incredibly ugly and the sort of warfare now that we're experiencing in iraq in syria has moved on from the days of just a few years ago when american soldiers in afghanistan which chasing around groups of taliban and effectively moving them from one region to the other we've advanced from that. and i think that's that's what was alluded to by. someone previously at that time now it's just a. different level them and when people are using human shields to actually fly then of course radical measures have to be met by radical measures yeah i mean you

say radical measures have to be met by radical measures but the liberation doesn't necessarily mean that it will be safe or the fighting has completely stopped to latest briefing the coalition they've announced that they might establish bases in iraq to finish the fight. they're suggesting there that the fighting isn't over by by that are like. oh it's not it's not complete you have another still in pockets of it left to be done but the situation from america has completely changed in the last couple weeks towards this idea of whether they keep soldiers in western iraq will not the original idea was they wouldn't on the spot a certain amount of interest from the european union that had its ideas about having its new shiny squeaky clean new e.u. army as. always we're looking at a certain contingent so the americans have done a sort of sea change there and i think that's probably because a lack of communication between trump the white house the pentagon and the state

department but the other idea i mean the other thing you have to consider is that when you take a city like mosul you take in the way that it has been taken you are essentially sowing the seeds of insurgency in the longer term anyway you know when you look at the sheer numbers the horrific numbers of people who die it just because they were human fodder to be used as a shield for isis and a western backed iraqi army which didn't seem to care. about the sort of the numbers the scale of fifty sixty seventy innocent people to be killed just for one isis fighter under you want in some cases not even to kill one isis fighters so in the longer term i think we're looking at. another war another. battle another conflict with new groups people will be signing up to isis or whatever takes over from isis but you can really say that the battle is over and muscle. martin the picture that you're painting looks pretty grim but obviously there's some truth in

it when people are looking into the issues there thank you so much so much to talk about thanks very much for joining us here on our say that award winning journalist martin j. . well another liberation campaign is underway now as u.s. backed rebels prepare to seize eisel syrian stronghold of raka. u.n. says between thirty to fifty thousand people are currently trapped in the city almost two hundred thousand have already been displaced and here are some of the stories i assure you that actually i'm a little bit mother of a dash dash well it's not as nesmith has met but should have warned you little niche that actually you anybody can do better than have a trace of what has been and the dome that has you had of all that and then has had little. to be of course you have a. motive but. at the heart of your government any. one as a member of you would lay

a lot of verb issues what do i shouldn't as i'm to haven't been up to one hasn't really the fact that there are huge numbers of civilians there makes it very risky for the called the u.s. led coalition to start such an air offensive similar to that of mosul for example already there are one hundred sixty thousand people civilians who have fled the area but there are more than one hundred fifty and the entire province that are still besieged by the terrorists there are not allowed to leave so therefore any sort of a campaign against the area will most definitely increase the number of civilian deaths and to be honest with you the u.s. has not made any sort of willingness to defend or to protect the civilians they put a plan and they go on with the plan and they don't take any concern whatsoever given the fact that there might be civilians. after the break we take a look at how u.s. russia relations are firing off to the long awaited first encounter between putin and trump.

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send us an e-mail. welcome back to the program russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has confirmed a joint center to monitor the cease fire in syria has been agreed with the u.s. and jordan his words run contrary to what's been said by washington with the state department claiming the matter is still being discussed. like to talk a lot. of this lady could no war like or dislike were not acquainted and get out ahead i think. of some of the negotiations that are underway i don't know how things work at the state department terms of who has access to what information but the documents signed in amman but russia america and jordan provides for the creation of just such

a sensor that is all still being worked out nobody should get ahead of themselves before to keep abreast of the latest developments is also helpful for a diplomat. the joint center on syria was one of several matters agreed by putin in trying to win their first encounter on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit last week however less than a week later it seems some in the u.s. administration are losing influence yes and as jack explains. the highly anticipated biological meeting between donald trump and lot of here putin at the g. twenty summit and with high hopes that the two countries could finally leave all the bad blood behind and see a new stage in relations after the two presidents met in hamburg tillerson came out saying that they had great chemistry they discussed cyber security and the cease fire in syria and were really ready to move forward putin and did discuss that joint cyber security unit but trump has since backtracked on that with a post on twitter after the idea was widely attacked here in washington about that

cease fire in syria the most important achievement reached by the u.s. and russia in conjunction with jordan moscow has already outlined what role in the suspension of hostilities they will play but america has yet to be clarified and recent reports show that the pentagon was left completely out of the process we reached out to the pentagon to see if they could shed some light on the plan and they in turn said that the state department was the head agency and referred us to them but they also have yet to come up with a solid strategy in terms of who was doing what when where or how some of those details are still being worked out is there a level of urgency in work you know because it seems like if you don't have monitoring we're going to force mechanisms. sort of incentivize people to break it to those monitors will be i don't know at this point i know we have folks in the region i know that our special envoy to syria is actively engaged in these conversations so i anticipate we'll get that information in the in the near future

so we're seeing again one step forward two steps back on what's becoming the usual u.s. approach to working with russia some of america's partners in europe have also pointed out the inconsistency of the country's approach to russia german government official has lashed out saying washington's policies indecisive back and forth and with no clear direction former u.s. diplomat jim believes there are too many opposed to a reset in russia you. yes ties if the russians believe the americans are talking with two voices that's because we are clearly i think president trump is very sincere in trying to work out some kind of a broader arrangement with moscow and that they he faces tremendous opposition here in washington from people who didn't want this meeting to take place at all or wanted to be at best a pro-forma handshake and pleasantries kind of thing not to affect any substance we have a lot of people here in the if you will in the deep state who don't want any cooperation with russia at all on anything particularly on syria and there is

a huge potential that somebody may try to sabotage it but i am still rather optimistic. emanuel micron has enjoyed a meteoric rise to the top securing the french presidency and then a landslide election victory for his party but his ambitions make it even further touching by some of his actions. because since becoming a member of the national assembly it's been cooked meals cooked towns cooked townsell when.

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that i'm a long way from mania. beings. with the country at a crossroads for anger of the island is on the rise. for. i'm after a town see this is going underground as u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson travels to the middle east to try and avert a war in the persian gulf of a coming up on the show we speak to oscar nominated comedian and write to steve coogan about islamophobia the trip and whether bailing out the past mistakes of the city of london is destroying the future of britain as the government announces defacto pay cuts for school teachers and eleven years to the day lebanese war began which would end in victory over the u.k.

backed israeli army we speak to the director and star of the new play celebrating a poet whose life was turned upside down on the day plus from palestine to britain we speak to an organization that records. incidents in the u.k. about whether the mainstream media is to blame for a rise in islamophobia tags and this british campaign is lose their bid to block sales to saudi arabia what exactly was u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson doing in comes to mediate the push and gulf crisis all the civil war going up and today's going underground but first will schoolchildren understand tomorrow's e.u. talks in ukraine will they understand that the e.u. backed government in kiev as we know allied to far right groups associated with anti semitism after ukraine's tragic world war two history that there is a contextual nazi past to this week's ordering by donald trump of u.s. missile warships and hundreds of soldiers to the black sea maybe not here in the

u.k. few even realize the historical context behind me is billion pound deal with a party recently allied. militaries to stay prime minister here for instance is how u.k. school children are educated about northern ireland it says the protestant majority discriminated against catholics and that the ira used terrorist attacks and that the troubles involved many high profile attacks no where is any sign of the word gerrymandering. if curricular of being attacked for being imperialist attacks on schools by government austerity are also under attack oscar nominated star steve coogan and campaigner alison ali founder of save our schools accompanied m.p.'s and schoolchildren recently to downing street to protest the slashing of education budgets this even before theresa may said school teachers will continue to face cuts in salary steve coogan a shot to fame with his creation of bumbling rightwing chapter of host alan partridge one two oscar nominations for his film philomena his latest production

was the trip to spain and the rewritten version of the police's message in a bottle sung by protesting school children. we caught up with steve demanding the founder of britain's sable schools. right in front of the door number ten downing street what do you do out here when trays i'm a she says is busy balancing the books in there. with the save our schools campaign the they all started to measure the coming of imposing the last seven is i think people have had enough of the sort of fly the flag for state the state education system which has borne the brunt of many of these austerity measures and i don't know whether it's because the government don't use the state education system or many of them. education system but the priority for them but over ninety percent of the people in this country used to education and it's a right not a privilege i'm the governor.