if allowed me to see it something he'd walk. down the something. else and look my. way what they did maybe maybe that. was. 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 all starting to return home fears are growing that they have nowhere to go as the iraqi cities liberation

is left of the city in ruins. the british government comes under fire after revealing it won't publish a much delayed report on the funding of extremism citing national security reasons . hello welcome to r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow our coverage. the u.s. democrats on the media have rounded on donald trump's son over a meeting he held last year with a russian lawyer in response to his release the full email exchange from june twenty sixth detailing how the encounter was first set up. well chung june it was initially contacted by an intermediary who talked about hunting over very high level and sensitive information via a russian lawyer the info supposedly incriminated hillary clinton and was

considered part of most guys that fits to aid his father's campaign. well it's apparently originated from a crown prosecutor of russia although a bunch of titles raised more than a few eyebrows in the media that's because there's no such official position in russia as the country isn't a moment and there are other confusing aspects to the story to the scale of wealth and 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 entries a double trump 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 explains now 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 and i wouldn't even remember it until you

start scaling 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 you're fired.

we all know her name now an italian vessel it's got a new tallia vessel need sky of a new tallia vessel in its 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. i never knew who else would be attending the meeting all i knew that mr donald trump you knew was willing to meet with me do you have connections to grow she goes. no further more if this meeting between the trump team in 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 russia and 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 cable mup and artsy new york. well the intermediary who write those emails to donald trump jr is a british born music publicist rob goldstone he said he requested the meeting on behalf of his client of mosco based azerbaijani pop star and i got a lot of well according to goldstone's e-mails the mysterious russian crown prosecutor who is described as the perceived source of dirt on hillary clinton that i got father we consigned to the lawyer for the man's family and this is what he said. the only thing that's true is that in the after the s at the meeting the

arranged rumbold sony is an entertainment industry publicist so i think it's fair to say that he was out of his element in. making these communications and andy what he said was just not true it is not true that idol are had a meeting with russian prosecutors about the campaign is not true that the tali is a. lawyer for the russian federation government we understand that she is a private practitioner who represents private clients it is not true that our understanding was that the purpose of meeting was to talk about the campaign our understanding was only that the purpose of the meeting was a discuss the magnitsky act which is an issue that we understand is how you as. pursuing and interested in present time meanwhile president donald trump has

praised his son for his transparency in a tweet again claiming that his family is subject to the greatest witch hunting political history political and legal analyst lionel told us there's no substance to the story only from his point of discussion for the media whenever you hear about this trump meeting always ask the question and. because that's what you have to do and that i don't trump jr met with this. and he thought maybe he would have some aapl research 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 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 a spokesperson dmitri fisk of added that allegations of trial 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 or play in such series.

civilians are starting to return to the iraqi city of mosul after the government declared victory over islamic state there 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 unlawfully indiscriminate if used in heavily populated areas among them are arm guided artillery rockets and mortars and here and small the liberation of mosul from islamic state has. 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 in 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 lucky 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 in 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 eisel somehow turned a blind eye to what they call collateral damage we have already shifted from attrition tactic probably shove them from one position to another in iraq and syria to annihilation tactics to billion casualties 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 a hundred thousand children at risk sure it's heartbreaking now but if only which heard about it all sooner well the neighboring street destroyed the streets across rubble. street over there it's the same story wherever you look around you little little. shops will have your garbage coming by and i'm tired mother. was sitting at my uncle's house how wrote her mother a mom 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 how or from the shelling and the strikes and i still go far in your thoughts and there with my was when it comes to

how the battle for most the will be remembered is themes these pictures of celebration at the liberation will live on in the media where the civilian suffering will be suffering in silence. well the u.s. led coalition has reacted to our means national report calling it irresponsible a spokesperson added war is not pleasant and those who claim otherwise put the lives of civilians and soldiers at risk award winning journalist martin j. told us the battle in mosul isn't over we're looking at possibly months or even the best part of a year before most people return but return to wat you know i mean you should look at most of the old city in mosul is completely destroyed and we've seen in the past that this is a tactical war unfortunate by 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 from its destiny is rather sad and i'm certain

one of the fortunately 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't really say that the battle is over and muscle. well meanwhile another liberation campaign is underway now as u.s. backed rebels prepare to seize i still syrian stronghold of raka the 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 assure you the rational aim a little bit of a dash dash well it's not as nesmith has met but you have on your little niche that actually your little bit isn't a bit of a privilege and has been and the dome that has you had of all that and then has had little. glimmer of government ought. to be of course never come through the bureau. but. at the height

of you the realm of any. one and as a member of us lay of the verb. 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 coldish and 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 britain refuses to release a report into the extent of saudi funding of islamist extremism in the country.

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it's called the feel we don't need something. everyone in the world should experience. and you'll get it all the old the old. the old according to just. come along for the ride. welcome back i'm going to is growing over the british government's refusal to publish the full report into funding of islamist extremism in the country the decision was announced by home secretary. i have decided against publishing the classified report produced in the review in full this is because of the volume of personal information it contains and for national security reasons a lot of politicians have been waiting a long time for this report the home office had been criticized for delaying it earlier on this year but now the fact that it's not going to be released at all has

rocked a lot of anger from various opposition parties tim farron the outgoing leader of the liberal democrats he said that it's utterly shameful that it's not going to be published he said that the government needs to be naming and shaming the states and the institutions that fund terrorism in this country instead of supporting them he's obviously referring to speculation that saudi arabia and the u.k. as of the gulf allies could be named in that report the green party co-leader caroline lucas she said that the statement gives absolutely no clue as to which foreign countries are funding extremism here in the u.k. so you've got the government saying that the report publishing the report would be damaging to national security but as this angry response already demonstrates refusing to make it public has only increased speculation about what's contained within it it's pretty much as vague as it gets it doesn't list

a single country it admits that for a small number of extremist organizations here in the u.k. overseas funding is a significant source of income however it says that the vast majority of extremist groups in the u.k. overseas funding isn't a significant source it also says that it's going to introduce more stringent checks on where overseas funding comes from for sort of nonprofit organizations and things like charities and at the very end of this very short vague summary it says as part of our wider international engagement on countering extremism and. island extremism the government is going to raise the issues of concern supported by evidence with specific countries and that last line really contains the million dollar question who are this specific countries and why is the government termonde to keep them secret says. russia's foreign minister sergei

lavrov has confirmed that a joint center to monitor the cease fire in syria has been agreed with the u.s. and jordan but his words run contrary to what's being said by washington with the state department claiming the motor still being discussed still likes to talk a lot going to the world i don't know how this lady could know like or dislike we're not acquainted 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. well the joint center on syria was one of several matters agreed by putin and charmed during 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 enthusiasm jacqueline verger explains the highly anticipated biological meeting between donald trump and vladimir 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 homburg 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 put an interim did discuss that joint cyber security unit but trump has since backtracked on that with a post on twitter after their idea why. is widely attacked here in washington and about that ceasefire 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 is doing what when where or how some of those details are still being worked out is there a level of urgency in working that up because it seems like if you don't have a monitoring organ of course not mechanism. it 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 gun has lashed out saying washington's policies on indecisive back and

forth and with no chance direction well former u.s. diplomats jim transfer leaves there are too many opposed to resetting russia u.s. 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 mccall has enjoyed a meteoric rise to the top first securing the french presidency and then a landslide election victory for his party but his it bishan zx may go even further

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