is. or is there a way. to. escape. the headlines on international iraqi officials investigate reports of extra judicial killings of suspected islamic state after human rights watch calls for a probe into a series of disturbing videos online and we discuss the allegations here. a recent poll says that americans see north korea as the biggest threat to u.s. security here on the program are looking to whether the media might be fueling some of those fears. in the. menu's is currently stirring controversy in austria. interview with the russian prosecutor general's office allegations of involvement in

a meeting between junior and the russian lawyer. saturday morning here in moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. international we have. well iraqi officials say that they are investigating reports of extra judicial killings of suspected islamic state fighters by iraqi troops in the city of mosul warning you may find some of the following images disturbing a series of videos a bearing on social media in them soldiers can be seen beating and shooting suspects and the video we're showing you right now ends with a demand throwing people off a cliff now a human rights watch told us they were able to confirm the location of at least one of the videos is mosul iraq. but we were able to bear

by the images taken in the videos the satellite imagery to show that they are fact around the areas of mosul that they appear to be in. we don't really have much information about these videos in particular but they do match pieces that we've been documenting for many months now of actually visual executions by iraqi security forces both federal police forces as well as a popular mobilization forces there are really many many cases the soldiers executing suspected isis militants torturing abusing family members of suspected isis walton's so sadly i have to say that these are not new or surprising these latest allegations come just days after another rights group amnesty international blamed the u.s. led coalition for thousands of civilian deaths during the battle for mosul a u.s.

state department spokeswoman was grilled on the issue by reporters on thursday. it seems to be in this is not just something that unique to this administration but for many over the course of the last four or five hundred instructions going to amnesty or another human rights group comes out with a report on a country that you don't like if they like north korea or syria you're. and they don't consult those governments when they do that you're rich you guys accept it you know and you even talk about it and praise the reports from rome from the podium and say this is you know we can't relate to chemical weapons in syria but when they come up with a report that is i think in a country that is a madman i have to say we want is that on that report like hartmann of defense puts together a very thorough humanitarian excuse me a very thorough civilian casualty list this is not a case does not a situation where you accept reports that if you like the results but do not accept imagine i'm not going to characterize it that way at all ok i think we've been over

this now we have repeatedly raise our concerns with the u.s. government in the joint compound operations including foreign something else really for example about very many of groups is that we are continuing to document iraqi government sources i should say that the interior ministry in iraq has promised to investigate these particular reveals just that they promised to investigate prior videos showing severe abuses by iraqi government forces applied to date we have never seen a rock a government actually hold any soldiers accountable for these abuses that are being documented what would really be best is for an iraqi government and the syrian government to ratify the one statute and during the i.c.c. so that we can bring. to what international clive you will the mistreatment of any got you know never just even if they are isis fighters they should not be treated that's why we have international laws that are going to separate us from isis

that's why we can say the international community better than isis because we don't mistreat me. a new poll has revealed that the majority of americans now view north korea as the greatest threat to u.s. national security but. it comes off to. people on the streets of new york who they fear the most. when asked about what was the greatest foreign threat to the united states forty percent of americans was to north korea now that's not really surprising given all the talk there's been in the media about the danger posed by kim and his friends but. with the united states north korean dictator kim jong un threatens the united states with nuclear weapons and tensions are really inching to the point of war so how much are americans really in danger from north korea their closest neighbor south korea says that intelligence shows that north korea really doesn't have the capability to

carry out an intercontinental ballistic missile strike considering how north korea does not have any testing facilities for reentry technology the agency believes north korea has not yet secured that technology yet north korea is still listed as the greatest threat greater than i still and that's despite the growing threat of radicalization and homegrown terror recently described by homeland security the number of post nine eleven homegrown terror plots in the united states has served so many aspects of this terrorist thing obviously because the homegrown terrorist i don't know how to stop that i don't know how to detect that so why are people so afraid of north korea we decided to find out greatest foreign threat to the united states. everything. they really. were north korea tyranny was career russia chinese i says russia iran or saudi arabia and about the relationship between hope and china

russia korea i do you think korea is a threat. well it's pretty obvious they want to destroy it they have a very. hostile dictator it's very offensive towards the united states that is to the whole thing without a warm beer stay have the missiles and they tested it and. it's scary you know i don't know i mean are they really a threat are they will what are they really are they really going to shoot over missiles i mean if we're going to have a nuclear holocaust i think that's a little bit much you know. but i don't know if north korea is a as big of a threat as we're being as being perceived i don't feel that that they are amman and thread i think that they can start something however that can spy caught globally what makes north korea a greater threat than i so. i don't know that's a good it's a great question i would think they're under dictabelt what they're both unpredictable and i think they have the ability of the atomic weapon i think right now isis is more of a threat the north korea but in a maybe ten fifteen years down the road north korea could be more of

a threat if you like the media is hyping threats about north korea is a big time big time i mean i mean i just i think that it's so it's it's fear mongering you sit down and you watch fox news m.s.m. is you don't they're all it's more entertainment now it's more they just want to keep you glued to the t.v. screen to see what's going to happen next is a you know it becomes like reality t.v. versus actually giving information that could be important and pertinent to what's going on to media is hyping anything they can hype in order to get people to watch at this point i think it's a genuine threat u.s. president franklin delano roosevelt said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself and perhaps the most dangerous fears are those that are manufactured and not based on credible threats they will mop and r.t. new york north korea claims it has a number of nuclear warheads but pyongyang doesn't have any missiles capable of sending a warhead over a long distance the furthest they fired a test missile is about one hundred thirty kilometers which is not far enough to reach america. sheryl and investigative journalist how real the north korean threat

has. united states. public has been has been subject to a massive propaganda campaign war is you know coming tomorrow to korea the idea that somehow north korea is more of a danger though you know comes from this propaganda that north korea's aiming is building weapons in an offensive way and this is trying wants to attack the united states and then north korea's development of weapons or aimed right at the rate at all our cities and they are ready at any moment to attack us there is no background at all explaining to people you know how we got here what the role the united states has been in this crisis and what could be done to get out of it it's all just scaremongering. a polka band on kindergarten menus

a starring controversy in the austrian city of salzburg the rule has been a force for five years but only came to light last week off the parents father request with the mayor's office they were told the decision was made on health grounds but also to meet the needs of muslim children. parents in austria have got beef with the authorities after the pork was given the chop from kindergarten. it's been missing from menus for five years but now it's been spotted all strains are in . your thirty's claim children simply prefer chicken in carrots the dish was dropped due to health reasons i'm on other things than use of muslim children that's one line this left the norm sweet all sour taste in parents mouths and those polled say they now strongly oppose the decision despite the mayor's claim there's been no official decree is still new some of finding difficult to digest we had

some contrasting opinions from christian edna of the chamber of commerce in vienna and mohammed shufti of the ramadan foundation. i cannot really see a reason why the mayor of of salts work is denying austrian children access to normal austrian pork dishes pork dishes are part of our culture if somebody wants to live here actually they should respect our culture it's a treat from the far right who perpetuated this thing about muslims being outside is you know getting preferential treatment i don't support i second you know i'm not criticizing them for having a good thought you know i'm trying to be inclusive but i think you can't be inclusive if you exclude a particular community there's the one side who thinks we should proceed to a kind of for peace and strategy to accommodate muslims in europe and to make sure that the few like at home and others who think wait wait a minute this is europe this is our country these are our countries we're not

muslims we want to keep our identity so this is part of a major political conflict muslims are not alien to societies that are early to germany or france or the united kingdom or russia and anybody who tries to divide communities anybody tries to perpetuate this the hatred in hebron hatred that we see i think should be called off or is it's racism and xenophobia against community there isn't the strategy of the muslims is took out call any criticism on them islamophobia and now especially left wing politicians of almost very much afraid of of being called islamophobia of course you're a austria switzerland you know we are seen an inherently anti muslim agenda and in those spaces the rights of muslims are being taken away the freedoms of muslims are being taken away and yet still we have people out there suggesting a similar muslims again preferential treatment it's an absolute lie and it should

be called off a war is. the smaller. djibouti a small country in the horn of africa that often slips through the mainstream international media's radar but this week it made it to the global spotlight and here's why two chinese navy warships left port john john on tuesday to launch beijing's first ever overseas military base in djibouti but out of all places in the world watchability well for starters the tiny african country provides access through the red sea to the suez canal one of the busiest shipping routes in the world another key aspect of djibouti location is its proximity to potential crisis areas namely yemen where saudi arabia is fighting who the rebels in an ongoing

civil war and somalia a stronghold for the al qaeda linked militant group al-shabaab so what's in it for china officially it's to boost the thousands of troops and millions of dollars beijing has poured in to assist the u.n. peacekeeping efforts in africa will be joining a two bit of fulfill its international obligation in somalia such as carrying out school missions providing humanitarian aid it will also benefit in social and economic development and enable china to make for the contribution in safeguarding peace and stability in africa and the world the base also help secure china's fast economic interests in africa with beijing investing in so many key infrastructure projects wrote the continent that is why china is joining the crowd of global powers of ready operating in djibouti washington spilt its biggest four thousand strong base on the continent as you can see marked in blue here on the map france has one thousand nine hundred troops there six hundred japanese marines are

stationed nearby and saudi arabia is also building a base in the tiny east african state. with all these different countries flexing their military muscles almost literally side by side is djibouti becoming the next playground for the world's leading powers the chinese these one day would be. between them and united in their one day if one thing i do fit in between them and united to do it. that i do soon and positioning them so that they came to do it would be your next of all clues. would be out of the door not of money that depended with the. full possible i was with but also you could get us full of that in it and i told her that he did but thinking for them that instead of the politico the power to put a de into the air you have it that's how you pretty transform from

a tiny african nation that hardly anyone talks about to one of the most brit teacher glee important military hops in the world quarter past the hour here in the russian capital in an exclusive interview with us here at all at sea the russian prosecutor general's office rejected allegations of involvement in a meeting between donald trump jr and a russian lawyer that story just a moment. saturday

morning here in moscow thanks for joining us the russian a prosecutor general's office has denied claims of involvement in a meeting between a russian lawyer and donald trump jr last year a us democrat politicians and much of the media have pointed to that encounter as evidence of the teams could luzhin with moscow during the election campaign promise

one connected lawyer who met with donald trump jr last year and this woman as the russian government lawyer and he did know it was information gleaned by the russian government he took a meeting with a russian lawyer was connections to the kremlin after being told she might have information helpful to the campaign. jr was initially contacted by an intermediary who talked about handing over sensitive information on hillary clinton they apparently originated from the crown prosecutor of russia that position does not exist so it's believed he was referring to the general prosecutor well we spoke exclusively with the international communications chief at the prosecutor's office denis grimace some foreign media wrote about the meeting between donald trump jr and russian lawyer and italian vessel needs sky which reportedly took place last june and possible involvement of the russian prosecutor general's office in brokering the meeting how would you comment on this information i would not want to

comment on something that is totally untrue. you have to understand the office of the prosecutor general does not share information of these individuals in the us such contacts can only happen through official channels as to elated by international agreements and after a formal request. submitted by a prosecution agency so are you saying that the prosecutor general's office could not have sent vessel need skier it's insane to think that the prosecutor general's office would use a private lawyer to transfer information any exchanges of information about criminal cases ease down through the country's official agencies with their russian prosecutor general's office and the u.s. department of justice. so if we need to share information to resolve our american colleagues we send it to the justice department. and you can watch the

full interview. with islamic state losing ground both in iraq and syria the group. less attractive to would be. foreign fighters the women who became the terrorists wives have also been fleeing the strongholds and here's the second part of the testimonies about what life inside is like you can find on our website and you. and there were a lot of horrors in places where women live kids had rashes lice and when they got sick they didn't get treatment those places in iraq are like real presents and it was absolutely disgusting to be there not much but one woman had contractions so she went so that she would send them the woman was knocking at her door and crying for help but most of them i kicked her out saying that she wants to sleep and

shouted i wish she were all dead but the woman went into the garden bleeding and stayed there until morning no one paid any attention to her in the morning has found her lying in the garden and walked by as if nothing happened as if she was just a dog if wives were treated this way others weren't even seen as human beings. and . i still fight so separated girls from married women and from slightly lots of attention was paid to the girls men brought the make up just to sell them for fifteen thousand dollars virgins were sold for thirty thousand some girls managed to escape to rock those who helped them were killed. my husband told me there is no release of the year no lore and that we must return home so we started planning how to escape.

a little bit of thick if in fact i knew what i saw was like i would never have gone and joined my husband there. the hey i know my husband and i made a huge mistake when we came here and thank god we escaped. this out international president donald trump's popularity has taken a bit of a beating lately and yet many of his key policies are not only quite popular but also for similar to those of his predecessor barack obama there's a national approval ratings were sky high. why the two whopper seemed so differently. according to a recent poll president trump's approval ratings are low really low but it seems that people don't so much just like him as a president as much as they just don't like him as a person sixty five percent of those who disapprove of trump said it was because of his personality while only sixteen percent objected to his policies ok trump is undeniably a one of a kind president who has said and done some awkward things i think by single

greatest asset any assets i have is by temperament you know just try to show off oh i'm really rich straight i'm like a smart person i think i'm much more humble than you would understand. if you compare term to his predecessor barack obama the figures were almost the exact opposite at the beginning of obama's first term sixty five percent disliked his policies while fourteen percent didn't care for his character a large portion of america really fell in love with who he was. in my first term we ended the war in iraq. in my second term i will win the war on christmas. pretty tough guy are you a tough guy you look like you're pretty tough and and so you just got to keep on going. but for often being

perceived as polar opposites the two actually have a number of political moves in common our own members trump's controversial travel ban that affected people from seven muslim majority countries while the obama administration deemed the same states as areas of concern and put travel restrictions on their citizens and some of the rhetoric we've seen from both presence is shockingly similar take their stances on america's place in the global arena. that goes out of american lives to resolve the political just remember that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war we've been moving from one wrecked was divergent to another we cannot be the policeman. of the world and of course those promises to help out the average joe we're going to bring back made in the u.s. and we're going have a lot of jobs come back we're going to have a lot of jobs made in america hopeful trend they're bringing jobs back from overseas as for trump the analysis of that gallup poll french is off with a rather somber prognosis for him there izing that unless the president changes his unique style his numbers will continue to plummet it seems in this case everyone is

judging this book by its cover r.t. washington d.c. coming up next here on our international this morning a job an investigative reporter finding out why some of germany's key foreign policy decisions about me come from washington but if you're joining us maybe you can go out and a good morning to you larry king coming your way. still exist. rico's treated as one. of the islanders controlled by the u.s.

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us to take on not you i'm just tired. of the have hung on top. of it. by the observed events of the past few years and asked myself several times what's going on in my native germany. millions of refugees u.s. intelligence agencies interests criminally listening in on german citizens and the government and once again german tanks are heading east. from various political parties in various independent experts and journalists in an effort to understand just how independent germany really is when it comes to

decision making whether it acts on its own national interests or is out someone else's will. this quote. i'm going to. i've just told one of the most influential organizations in germany i'm not talking about the government or german intelligence. it's a. government american of. the atlantic bridge.

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