so you can let me. tell you. all. iraqi officials investigate reports all the state fighters being executed after human rights watch called for a probe into a series of disturbing videos emerging online. the german interior minister proposes. following the violence seen at the protests in hamburg last week. and kindergarten the news is stirring controversy in austria.

you watching. live from moscow studio with me welcome to the program. videos have emerged online allegedly showing iraqi troops brutally executing and beating detainees in mosul baghdad officials have launched an investigation after facing condemnation from human rights groups and a warning here you may find some of the following images disturbing the video we're showing you right now and with soldiers throwing a suspected jihad is off a cliff the soldiers shoot the man after he hits the ground human rights watch told us they were able to confirm that the location of this video is. what we were able to use to verify the images taken in the videos with satellite imagery showed that they are tracked around the areas of most school 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 usually executions by iraqi security forces both federal police forces as well as the popular mobilization forces there are really many many cases iraqi soldiers executing suspected isis militants torturing going to be using family members of suspected isis militants 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 in the battle for mosul it said the coalition's actions may amount to war crimes and 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 inspirations when amnesty or another human rights group 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 for it's you guys accept it 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 relate to chemical weapons in syria but when they come out with a report that is us 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 them as i'm not going to characterize it that way at all ok i think we've been over that now we have repeatedly raised our concerns with the u.s. government in the joint compound operations including for our something else really for example about the very many abuses that we are continuing to document the iraqi

government forces i should say that the interior ministry in iraq has promised for investigate these particular videos just as they promised to investigate prior videos showing severe abuses by iraqi government forces plan 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 for an iraqi government and the syrian government to ratify the world statute and during the i.c.c. so that we can bring these appearance or to an international tribunal that mistreatment of anybody never justified even if they are 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. violent protests

marred the recent g. twenty summit in hamburg so to avoid any repeat in the future the german interior minister is proposing the tagging of potential rioters roads as should be prevented from reaching demonstrations we should make them repeat to the police at specific times or if necessary. an anti g twenty rally in hamburg started off relatively peacefully as activists marched through the streets chanting slogans and holding banners however in the evening it has erupted into violent confrontation with police. the electronic tags propose for potential rioters they usually use following

a court decision usually in the form of an ankle monitor and most frequently used on people under curfew or who have been released early from prison tagging also used in health care helping keep track of people with dementia. well let's discuss this further now and we can cross live to professor van there pat self from dresden university of technology benefit for coming on to the program firstly i'd like to hear your views about the proposed measures. what are seeing thesis on the sea is more symbolic and basically helpless measures announced by the government or by others in germany these are the r.c.c. eruptions of violence which are due to some problems we have domestically grown in the german society yeah. and we also have to look at legalities how legal with these measures be. well under the present law it seems not to be

legal but you of course can change the law but it is helpless to make change the face of loss which we are not to lead through that and see we have hit the search tags for islam east's who there was a list got rid of him and committed crimes so this is more or less as bawly can outspend without any effectiveness in practice why would the government make a symbolic announcement as you put it is if find of desperation by the government an evil thought explained that will have to be used in this way. will the government is expected to take some rickshaw to the riots we are seeing in humber work and under the pressure of media and the expectations of society person like a minister of the interior is responsible for public security is attempting

to suggest things which might be done but in the long run only improvements in the german educational system will be helpful which make clear that neither violent actions nor those public anger against peoples who have different thoughts which are so common in germany right now. are well done in a purist democracy. we can ignore some of the terminology that domestic air used and branded the demonstrators calling them near nazis call the protests the acts of terror very harsh comments very extreme comments some might say how were those comments. well actually it's not neo nazis who have been on the streets of hemp grow most of them identify themselves as leftists as people demonstrating

against capitalism globalization imperialism and so on though earth colling synopsis is floor of a from reality most of them are young people male and female equally out of virtual families who seek adventures on the street and so to speak simulate a situation of civil war urge to get some excitement and personal experiences and this is simply not acceptable in a civilized society but there is no need to call these persons nazis of the notion of extremist would fit what they are much better than calling them with the old fashioned not fitting term of nazi. professor van apart cell from the present university attend on a great time your thoughts on this issue thanks very much. well the a majority of americans love north korea as the greatest threat to u.s. national security coming even ahead of islamic states that's according to

a new poll it comes off to pyongyang's latest ballistic missile test. and reports from the streets of new york. when asked about what was the greatest foreign threat to the united states forty percent of americans listed 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. with the united states the north korean dictator kim jong un threatens the united states with nuclear weapons 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 get 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 career russia chinese i see russia iran or saudi arabia and iraq the relationship between zero and china russia korea why do you think korea is a threat. well it's pretty obvious they want to destroy they have a very. nostalgic. it's very offensive towards united states it is to the whole thing without a warm beer as they have the missile 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're amman and thread i think that they can start something however and 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 unpredictability but they're both unpredictable and i think they have that 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 i think it's a genuine threat if you like the media is hyping threats about north korea is a big time big time i mean i'm going to just i think that it's so it's it's fear mongering you sit down and you watch fox news i miss embassy there the whole 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 as well to maybe he's 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 cable mopp and r.t. new york. now let's 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 doesn't yet have any missiles capable of sending a warhead over a large distance the furthest they've got a test missile is nine hundred thirty kilometers which falls well short of reaching the u.s. this all means that in fact north korea has no active strategic nuclear forces investigative journalist tim shark believes the media 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 developments 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 what could be done to get out of it it's all just scare mongering. about and paul can kindergarten many of these staring controversy in austria story and others after this break. global war hawks sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the

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welcome back to the program if young child in the austin city have felt partial for some pork at lunch time then they're going to be disappointed as it's off the menu in fact it's been missing from it for five years but it's any come to light in the last week after parents filed a request with them as office they were told that position 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. 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

that's left a known 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 news some are finding difficult to digest. we had reaction from christian abner the chamber of commerce in vienna and mohamed shafiq 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 the mare 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 as the one side who things we should proceed were 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 there isn't the strategy of the muslims is took out call any criticism on them islamophobia and now especially left wing politicians of all most very much afraid of of being called islam a four week course europe 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 after war is. china is deploying troops to its first overseas military base in djibouti a small east african country already has troops from several foreign powers and we see explained it pretty ticked important. 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 wide djibouti 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 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 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 news one day if there will be . big soon between them and united is there one day of contradiction between them and united to do with the poor clinton i do sin and pollution in them so the cause of that that they came to deal with the united states all clues pushing japan will be out of the self and or north of mother the divine is when the solution doesn't imo the fundies will probably also get us for the region it neutralizes told to go

to egypt but thinking for them did most of us the political the power of the poor due to their interest in the region. emanuel micron trying to cast donald trump at this year's bastille day parade by getting a marching band to battle to punchy rendition of french electric do you daft punk's head get lucky donald no less than impressed. with. her her. or

. chum's 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 and yet many of his key policies are not only pretty popular but also similar to those of predecessor barack obama whose ratings at the start of his presidency was sky high checked into the why the two 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 if it's by temperament does start showing. really rich history i'm like a smart person i think

a 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. you pretty tough guy are you you look like you're pretty tough 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 trumps controversial travel ban that affected people from seven muslim majority countries while the obama

administration do. in 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 it's better to go out of american lives could result the political history of it that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war we cannot be the policemen 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 jochum boco r.t. washington d.c. . final rehearsals for one of the world's top shows have taken just taken place outside moscow some of the finest aerobatic pilots from russia and more than twenty

other countries are taking part in this year's mix and show where they will show off their day devil skills in a series of hair raising displays the flying state of the jets and choppers as well as putting never before seen aircraft on combat systems to the time and make sure you tune in from all the action live on all take when the show opens on tuesday. next on german investigation questions why some of the country's foreign policy decisions come from washington. oh oh.

but now that. the war in yemen has its own distinct face is the face of a child emaciated by hunger thousands of yemeni children are fighting off dead. and the chance. to colin is still exist. ricos treated as one. hundred forty three cool as little can i know a lot of. the island is controlled by the us government and some puerto ricans crave independence joe it was the almighty god you know it was getting about on

a. good at either way but i meant to sort of randomly go over that again again with the earliest. still many do wish to join the us hundreds more leave every day knowing. that i'm a long way from mania. beings. with the country at a crossroads anger of the island is on the rise. senioritis. the icon like you i'm just tired. on top. of it but i'll trust them.

i've 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 in just criminally listening in on german citizens and the government and once again german tanks are heading east. from various political parties and 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 ok or is out someone else will.