oh yeah well you can't turn off more moderate these kids just don't hear. the darker side does the pentagon allow them to be told or does it just need more recruits. the iraqi government launches a probe into the alleged executions of terrorist suspects after a series of disturbing videos appear online. a poll reveals americans see north korea as the biggest threat to national security we know that how much blame can be attributed to the media. the german interior minister proposes tugging potential watches following the violent scene at the g. twenty protests in convert last week. and a ban on pork on kindergarten menus is stirring controversy in austria.

this is o.t. international with the news at the top of the hour i'm kate cartridge thank you for watching. alarming videos have emerged online allegedly showing iraqi troops beating and executing detainees in mosul baghdad officials have launched an investigation of the condemnation from rights groups and warning you may find some of the following images disturbing. the video we're showing you right now ends with soldiers trying suspected johanna's off an embankment 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 isn't. what we were able to verify the images taken in the videos with satellite imagery to show that they are fact or 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 do show executions by iraqi security forces both federal police forces as well as a 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. well these latest allegations come just days after another rights group amnesty international blamed the u.s. coalition for signs of civilian deaths during the battle full mosul it said the coalition's actions may amount to war crimes u.s. state department spokesperson was grilled on this issue and says day. 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 thousand ministrations 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 a on a country that is a madman i have to say we want is that on that report like hartmann of the families 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 aren't something else really

for example about the very many abuses that we are continuing to document by iraqi government sources 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 apply to date we have never see 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 wrong statute and join 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. with islamic state losing ground both in iraq and

syria it's not only foreign fighters who've been fleeing the former strongholds but also women who became the wives of the terrorists is the second part of their testimonies about what life is like inside i so the first part is on our website and you tube page. 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 but one woman had contractions so she went to the chief and said that 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 hasn't 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 that i still fight so separated girls from married women and from slight looks 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 lor and that we must return home so we started planning how to escape. a little bought a ticket if in fact i knew what i said was like i would never have gone and joined my cause been there. for him and not my husband and i made a huge mistake when we came here and thank god we escaped.

most americans now being north korea as a greater threat than islamic state according to a new poll woman reports from 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. 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. even the. north korea tyranny with its career russia chinese i says russia iran or saudi arabia what 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 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 as a as big of a threat as we're being as being perceived i don't feel that that they're eminent threat i think that they can start something however that can cut 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 which are 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 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's hyping threats about north korea is a big big time but i mean no i mean i just i think that it's so it's it's fear mongering you sit down and you watch fox news emissaries 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 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 they will mop and r.t. new york. well let's look at whether north korea's nuclear program really is as dangerous as the media coverage suggests the regime is believed to have ten nuclear warheads but its north capability is limited the furthest north korea has fined a test missile is nine hundred thirty kilometers which polls well short of reaching the u.s. investigative journalist tim shorrock believes the threat is being deliberately exaggerated the united states. public has been has been subject to a massive propaganda campaign that 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 and what can be done to get out of it it's all just scaremongering basically. street riots overshadowed the g. twenty summit a week ago in hamburg and now germany's interior minister is proposing to attack potential troublemakers in the hope of preventing a repeat of the situation room it is you'd be prevented from reaching

demonstrations we should make them report to the police at specific times or if necessary tag them well the m.t.g. twenty march in hamburg started relatively peacefully but by evening the situation had spiraled out of control and violent clashes broke out between riotous and the police. well the electronic tags proposed for potential riotous can already be ordered by the courts in certain situations they usually take the form of an ankle monitor and a most commonly used on people under curfew all those released early from prison tagging is also used in health care to help keep track of people with dementia but

professor than a pats out from dresden university of technology believes such measures would be completely ineffective at stopping riots ceases says more symbolic and basically helpless measures announced by the government or by others in germany these are the aussies eruptions of violence which are due to some problems we have mystically groaning under the present law it seems not to be legal it is helpless to make changes of last which will not lead to the decider and see we have had such text for this long nice who lives the list got rid of thing and so this is more or less as the bully can answer without any effectiveness in practice. a pork ban on kindergarten menus is dividing opinion in australia more on that

story after the break. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the closest project himself. nor middle of the room.

welcome back a pork ban on kindergarten menus is stirring controversy in the austrian city of silence but the rule has been in force for flying views but only came to light last week after parents father request with the man's office they were told the decision was made on health grounds and also to meet the needs of muslim children. parents in austria have got beef with the authorities after pork was given the chop from kindergartens has been missing from menus for five years but now it's been spotted

austrians are in. your thirty's claim children simply prefer chicken and carrots the dish was drugged due to health reasons among other things the needs 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 news some are finding difficult to digest. while we had a reaction about this issue from christian ebner from the chamber of commerce in vienna i want hamish if they kept their 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 trick from the far right who perpetuated this thing about muslims the an outside is 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 appeasement 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 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. china is deploying troops to its first overseas military base in djibouti the small east african country already has troops from several foreign powers and only so explains its strategic importance 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 watch your beauty 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 somali waters such as carrying out missions 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 one thousand nine hundred troops there six hundred japanese marines are stationed nearby and saudi arabia is on. so 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 would one day of the world be called that are big shouldn't between them and united is there one be the one thing i do with milliman united to do with the oakland that i do soon and pollution in

them so that the. united states all clues proofing japan will be out of the cell phones or not of mother the divine is with the pollution doesn't imo the. also did get us for the region it neutralizes a local delusion but thinking for them did most of us the people who do the power to put the interests in the region. french president emanuel try to wow his guest donald trump of this year's best deal day parade he got a marching band to belt out a punchy rendition of french group daft punk's hit get lucky donald oh look less than impressed. with. her.

her her. her own. words. well many in the media were quick to point out the donald trump is far less comfortable with pop culture than his predecessor barack obama. looks at why the two opposite 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 passion of any assets i have is by temperament you know just i just. really rich just think 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. 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 but 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. though i'm out of a perfectly good result the political the stream of the lies 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 to 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 book r.t. washington d.c. . now going underground explores the allegations of collusion between trunk and russia down if you're watching in the u.k.

or on and news thing you know that north korea's recent missile tests. i'm just going to let your watchers are the trio. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate interests at best broke out a lot of voiced so that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i mean it's still on our to you america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded that you'll get the straight talk in the straight news. questionable

. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporations preparations from washington to washington controls the media the media the voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. welcome to on contact today we discuss the sixteen year old afghan war with marine corps veteran and former diplomat matthew hoh to the pieces of it needs to be to stop the fighting stop the suffering if you have any chance of ever getting to this point where we can start talking about a dialogue we can start talking about addressing basic issues of fundamental human

right. with chris hedges. the sixteen year old afghan conflict which has cost the country eight hundred billion dollars and two thousand american lives is the longest foreign war in u.s. history a recent u.s. government report called two thousand and sixteen the worst so far for afghan civilians and soldiers the three and a half to four billion dollars a year we spend to prop up an inept corrupt and brutal afghan military and police about one third of them desert every year has failed to stem a resurgence of the taleban who in one attack recently killed one hundred forty afghan soldiers and left another one hundred fifty wounded last year alone eleven thousand four hundred eighteen civilians were killed the highest number since the un began keeping records in two thousand and nine there are eight thousand four hundred u.s. troops in afghanistan down from nearly one hundred thousand at the height of the

war military commanders recently requested an additional five thousand troops how a mere five thousand soldiers and marines will extract us from this quagmire remains a mystery r.t. correspondent on your part pal looks at the long debacle that is afghanistan while many consider the u.s. war in afghanistan as having started in two thousand and one u.s. meddling in the country's affairs actually goes back decades starting in one nine hundred seventy nine the us introduced a program to. train and equip the afghan mujahideen the program is one of the most expensive in ca history known as operation psych loan it spanned ten years initially budgeting twenty to thirty million dollars a year to back the fighters by one thousand nine hundred seven that price tag rose to six hundred thirty million a year all to keep a ragtag team of foreign jihadi steadily battling the soviet allied democratic

republic of afghanistan the us spent over a billion dollars to overthrow the democratic afghan government and draw the soviet union into conflict according to zbigniew brzezinski president carter's national security advisor who designed the program that was no mistake the mission of the us was to quote bleed the soviets despite their questionable views the mujahideen was celebrated by western press and politicians including one osama bin laden as a result of u.s. destabilisation throughout the ninety's of various warlords and jihadi groups battled for control of the country with the taliban taking power in one thousand nine hundred six and when the us was attacked on nine eleven it was time for the u.s. military to officially had to afghanistan this time to fight the groups we created so afghanistan is officially known as the longest war history in u.s. .