continually are citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly. and skilling worse. iraqi officials investigate reports all the islamic state is being executed after human rights watch called for a probe into a series of disturbing videos emerging online. a recent poll reveals americans now see north korea as the biggest threat to u.s. security we look at how much blame can be attributed to the media. and the. controversy in austria.

you're watching international live from studio with me. welcome to the program. have emerged online allegedly showing iraqi troops brutally executing and beating detainees in mosul bank officials have launched an investigation after facing condemnation from human rights groups a warning now you may find some of the following images disturbing. the video we're showing you right now ends with soldiers throwing a suspected jihadist off a cliff the cell which is shoot the man after he had stick around came in rights watch told us they were able to confirm that the location of this video is in mosul . but we were able to verify the images taken in the videos with 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 the videos in

particular but they do match pieces that we've been documenting for many months now of actually visual executions by the rocky security forces both federal police forces as well as a partner or mobilization forces there are really many many cases iraqi soldiers executing a suspected isis militants torturing going to be using family members of suspected isis. 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 blame the u.s. led coalition for thousands of civilian deaths during the battle for mosul it said the coalition's actions may amount to war crimes the u.s. state department spokeswoman was grilled on the issue on thursday. it seems to be and this is not just something that unique to this administration but for many over the course of the last four or five thought of instructions when amnesty or another

human rights group group comes out with a report on a country that you don't like their life north korea or syria you're and they don't consult those governments when they do that you're for it's you guys except it was you know and you even talk about it and praise the reports from from from the podium and say this is you know we can't rely chemical weapons in syria but when they come out with a report that is on 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 them as i'm not going to characterize it that way at all ok i think we better with us now we have repeatedly raised our concerns with the u.s. government in the joint command operations including for aren't some else really for example about the very many abuses that we are continuing to document by iraqi

government forces i should say that the interior ministry in iraq has promised investigate these particular videos just that they promised to investigate prior videos showing severe abuses by iraqi government forces plan to date we have never seen the iraqi government actually hold any soldiers accountable for these abuses that are being documented what would really be best for the iraqi government and the syrian government to ratify the world statute and during the i.c.c. so that we can bring these agreements or to an international tribunal the mistreatment of anybody is never justified even if there isis fighters they should not be mistreated 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. the majority of americans now view north korea as the greatest threat to u.s.

national security coming even ahead of islamic state that's according to a new poll comes after pyongyang's latest ballistic missile test artie's caleb moore been reports from the streets of new york. 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 the 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 is 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 you've got 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 the greatest foreign threat to the united states. everything. even the. 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 they have a very. hostile dictator it's very offensive towards the united states that is to the whole thing without a warm beer say 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 all the 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 with north korea is. as big of a threat as we're being as being perceived i don't feel dead that they're eminent threat i think that they can start something however that can just. 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 there undertook to build what they're both unpredictable i think they have the ability of the atomic weapon i think right now i just is more of a threat the north korea but you know maybe ten fifteen years down the road north korea could be more of a threat i think it's a genuine threat if you like the media is hyping threats about north korea is a big big time i mean i'm going to just i think that it's it's fear mongering you sit down and you watch fox news i mean. all these 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 up to media is hyping anything they can hype in order to get people to watch at this point 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. r.t. new york nounless just look at whether north korea's nuclear program really is as dangerous as the media seems to make out north korea claims it has a number of nuclear warheads estimated to be ten but pyongyang doesn't yet have any missiles capable of sending a warhead over a long distance the furthest they've got to a test missile is nine hundred thirteen kilometers which falls well short of reaching the u.s. this all means that in effect north korea has no active strategic nuclear forces investigative journalist tim sharp believes the media is scaremongering the 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 so weapons or aimed right at the right 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 basis. if young child in the off chance that if salzberg is feeling partial forth and pork at lunch time then they're going to be disappointed and this offer menu in fact has been missing from it for five years

but it's only come to light in the last week after parents filed a request with them as 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 kindergartens has been missing from menus for five years but now it's been spotted all strains. over its thirty's claim children simply prefer chicken and carrots the dish was drugged due to health reasons among other things the news 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 reaction from christian apt now of the chamber of commerce in vienna and mohammed cheek 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 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 feel 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 hatred inherent hatred that we see i think should be called off or is it's racism and xenophobia against a community if there isn't then the strategy of the muslims is took out call any criticism on them islamophobia and now especially left wing politicians oh mr 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 for what it is. more news after a short break. you

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a lot of politicians lose their job the nation state collapses as we know it and people are free of their money because right now money is a lot freer than people. welcome back the latest syria peace talks in geneva are encouraging at least according to russia's representative he says attitudes towards the syrian president a changing appreciates. jury in the latest round of talks the opposition didn't he once mention any need for assad's immediate resignation or for the removal of the legitimate syrian government that's very significant because apparently even the radical opposition and most of their foreign sponsors finally realize that peace in syria needs to be established first and only then can there be any negotiation of a political reform. with islamic state using ground both in iraq and syria it's not only foreign fighters who can flame the former. but also women who became the wives

of the terrorists is the second part of the testimonies about what life is like inside i still you can find the first part on our website and you tube page. there mother that's about 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 that were like real presents that it was absolutely disgusting to be there not much but one woman had contractions so she went to the chief and cinammon the woman was only to come 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 will fight 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. at

least. myself i so separated girls from married women and from slight looks lots of attention was paid to the girls men broke 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 lor 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 escape. china is deploying troops to his first. overseas military base in djibouti the small east african

country already hosts troops from several foreign powers and explains its strategic importance to chinese navy warships left to port john john on tuesday to launch beijing's first ever overseas military base in djibouti 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 a u.n. peacekeeping efforts in africa will be joining a two bit of fulfill its international obligation in somalia such as carrying out

its missions and providing humanitarian aid it will also benefit in social and economic development and enable china to make further contribution in safeguarding peace and stability in africa and the world the base also helps 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 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 chain knew the one do you have the will be. between them and you know to do it one day the quote that i do should be

eliminated is the will of the poor can produce in pollution in them so that the came to duty you notice that all clues japan will be out of the birds or not of mother the dobro news doesn't love the little. also the beautiful diligent little eyes of some of the legion but thinking for them there most of us that will go to the power of the poor do their interests in the region. the russian prosecutor general's office has denied claims of involvement in a meeting between a russian lawyer and donald trump jr last year us democrat politicians and much of the media have pointed to the counter as evidence of the team's collusion with moscow during the election campaign. connected lawyer who met with donald trump jr last year this woman is 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 trying jr was initially contacted by an intermediary who talked about handing over sensitive information on hillary clinton to parity of originated from quote crown prosecutor of russia that position does not exist so it's believed he was referring to the prosecutor general r.t. spoke exclusively with the international communications chief at the prosecutor's office dennis chris. some foreign media wrote about the meeting between donald trump jr and russian lawyer an italian vessel needs 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 so all official channels as stipulated 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 needs 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 their russian prosecutor general's office and the u.s. department of justice. so if we need to share information the result of american colleagues we send it to the justice department. emmanuelle at micron try to wow his guest at this year's best deal day parade by getting a marching band to belt out

a punchy rendition of french election to your daft punk's hit get lucky donald there are no less than impressed. charmes behavior has sometimes triggered waves of indignation both in the media and among the public some commentators think it may have contributed to the fall in his approval ratings in many of his key policies and not only pretty popular but also similar to those of pretty decisive barack obama whose ratings at the start of his presidency was sky high jack into that looks at why the two

a perceived 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 shingo greatest of any i should say you know by temperament oh just slide show a. really rich history i'm like a smart person i think a much more humble than you would understand. if you compare to him 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 when the war in iraq. in my second term i will win the war on christmas . eve you pretty tough guy are you a tough guy you look like you're pretty tough and so you just gotta 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 trumps 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 though i'm out of american lives could result in the political just remember that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war 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 functions off with a rather somber prognosis for him they're rising 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 dockum book r.t. washington d.c. now excel to international it's going underground. oh oh oh oh.

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action or towns here we're going underground on our five hundred addition is jeremy corbin's m.p.'s of the republican mention in newcastle upon tyne in the north east of england call for the abolition of the british monarchy coming up in the show fake news donald trump's reported pick for. man it gives us the lowdown on trump putin collusion a g twenty let alone trump tower collusion thanks to trump jr and the bankers husband jared and his briton legalizes dres amaze defacto killing wounding or displacing of tens of millions in the arab world nobel peace prize nominee and founder of code pink but they have been german on u.k. complicity plus we'll ask the newly appointed president of the and us representing

seven million students across the u.k. why two thirds of those students will never pay off their debts and to raise them a goes a wall at this week's private this is question all the some more coming up in today's going underground but first the british army is offering visas to africans in an attempt to recruit twelve thousand soldiers if you're watching this in a sub-saharan commonwealth country say food crisis in nations like malawi mozambique or sierra leone and want to fight for tourism a you can telephone plus four for three four five six hundred eight zero eight zero but elsewhere in the u.k. military world defense secretary son michael fallen who characterizes jeremy corbyn as a u.k. security threat appears at today's royal international air tattoo at aria pfeffer in the southwest of england fallon's visit comes in a week with a briefing document obtained by the n.g.o.s child soldiers international raises questions over british military recruitment.