i am. back with our. iraqi government launches a probe into the alleged torture and execution of terrorist suspects after a series of disturbing videos appear online. americans see north korea as the biggest threat to national security according to a new poll we find out whether those fears are justified. the german interior minister calls for potential rioters to be tagged in the wake of mass on rests during the g twenty summit in homburg. on pork on kindergarten menus is stirring controversy in austria.

thank you for watching r.t. international live from moscow i'm kate. the iraqi interior ministry has launched a probe into the alleged killings of detainees in mosul that's after rights groups raise the alone over a series of videos that appeared online a warning you may find some of the following images disturbing. this video ends with someone just throwing a man off a high in finance and then opened fire on him as he lies on the ground human rights watch told us they were able to confirm that the incident was filmed 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 fear 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 give szell

executions by the rocky 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 and abusing family members of suspected isis militants so sadly i have to say that these are not new or surprising. well these latest allegations come off for another ryan scrape amnesty international blamed the u.s. coalition for thousands of civilian deaths during the battle for mosul and said the coalition's actions may amount to war crimes and u.s. state department spokesperson was grilled about this 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 going to amnesty or another human rights group group comes out with a report on

a country that you don't like they like north korea or syria you are and they don't consult those governments when they do that you're for it's you guys accepted 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 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 imagined i'm not going to characterize it that way at all ok i think we've been over this now we have repeatedly raised our concerns with the u.s. government in the white compound operations including for our some last really for example about very many of those that we are continuing to document iraqi government sources i should say that the interior ministry in iraq has promised the

investigate these particular videos just that they promised to investigate prior videos showing severe abuses by iraqi government forces are planned 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 world statute and during the i.c.c. so that we can bring these. to what international tribunals the mistreatment of anybody is 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 is better than isis because we don't mistreat me. with islamic state losing ground both in iraq and syria people are fleeing the former strongholds including women who were forced to marry the terrorists here's the second part of that testament is about what life is like

inside the so-called caliphate. 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 and it was absolutely disgusting to be there one woman had contractions so she went to the chief and said that the woman was bleeding knocking on 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 her husband came home 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 find 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. but it is that 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 still 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. americans now view north korea as a greater threat than islamic state according to a new poll a little open 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 the 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 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 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 missile and test 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 strike 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 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 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 i miss embassy there will be 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 they will mop and r.t. new york well let's look at whether north korea's nuclear program really is as dangerous as people saying well the regime is believed to have ten nuclear warheads but it's not much capability is limited the furthest north north korea has to find a test missile is nine hundred thirty kilometers which falls well short of reaching the u.s. investigative journalist tim shorrock believes this 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 is 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 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 what can be done to get out of it it's all just scaremongering basically. street riots i have a shot at the g twenty summits and we can go in hamburg and now japanese interior minister is calling for potential troublemakers to be tagged. as you'd be prevented from reaching demonstrations we should make them report to the police at specific times or if necessary. well they and twenty march in hamburg started relatively peacefully but by evening it did spiralled out of control.

well the nearest being proposed by the interior minister would dramatically expand the use of electronic tags at the moment they can only be ordered by a court they usually take the form of ankle bracelets for people under curfew or released early from prison trackers are also used in health care to want to people with dementia but a german social sciences professor told us such devices would do nothing to stop riots. ceases vamose is more symbolic and basically helpless measures announced by the government or by others in germany these are the season 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 the last which will not lead to the decider and see we have hit such tax or is long niece who lives the list got rid of thing and so this is more or less as a ball of announcement without any effectiveness in practice. china has opened its first military base in africa that story and more after the short break. here's what people have been saying about rejected and that it was actually just pull along awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch it was the really packed a punch at least yap is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than blue. i see people you've never heard of love jack to the

next president of the world bank so you're going to write me seriously send us an e-mail. welcome back a pork bag on kindergarten menus is staring control to see in the austrian city of

salzburg the rule has meaning for so flying v. is but only came to light last week to parents fall to request with office they were told the decision was made on house grounds and 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 austrians are in this to. your thirty's claim children simply prefer chicken and carrots the dish was drab 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.

well we had some contrasting views on the story from a member of the chamber of commerce in vienna and a muslim rights campaigner in the u.k. i cannot really see a reason why the mayor of salt 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 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 ones 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 take 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 almost very much afraid of of being called islamophobia a 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. absolutely laurie and it

should be called off to war. china is sending troops to its first overseas military base in djibouti the small east african country already has troops from several foreign powers and many say you 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 wide you pretty 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 us peace keeping 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 thousand eight 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 there will be. between them and united is there one be the one to the difference between them and united to do with the two oakland but i do soon and the pollution in them spoke with the victim to deal with the united states all clues. would be out of the self and or not of mother the divine these political groups who doesn't promote the will proper go out. of the region and in the political will but thinking for them most of the people of the the power of the poor do their interests in the region. the french president pulled out all stops to entertain donald trump at this week's

best deal day parade in the new macron got a marching band to play a punchy rendition of punks hit get lucky don't seem less than impressed. we. were. going. well many of the media were quick to point out the double trump is far less comfortable with pop culture than his predecessor barack obama jacqueline very looks at why the two presidents are 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 passion of any assets i have is by temperament you know just like showed. i'm really rich trust me i'm like a smart person i think i'm much more humble than you would understand. if you compare trump 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 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 room or members trump controversial travel ban that affected people from seven muslim majority countries while the obama administration did 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 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 jochum book r.t. washington d.c. . final rehearsals for one of the world's biggest air shows have taken place just outside moscow and some of the highlights.

some of the finest aerobatic pilots from russia and more than twenty other countries are taking part in this year's max air show their flying state of the art jets and helicopters and forging new aircraft and combat systems to the test so cheered in for only action live on empty when the show officially opens on cheese day. next saucy redacted tonight investigates the shady dealings on wall street and if you're watching in the u.k. or island sputnik explores the impact of the operation to liberate mosul. and.

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else and then tunnels with my. own what i can now maybe i maybe i'm not sure that. you don't leave universal basic income when you have an economy around the world that rewards imagination and monetizes free thought free thought free movement of capital and all those intermediary forces go out of business a lot of bankers lose their jobs a lot of politicians lose their job the nation state collapses as we know it and people are as free as their money because right now money is a lot freer than people. who are in yemen has its own distinct thing this is the face of a child emaciated by hunger cells of yemeni children the financing of this do they

stand a chance. let's go back to. let her. go nobody's talking about. tell me what's wrong is the best thing to have of all what have you wall street in twenty years because since the moment he took the oath of office no one had to undergo a word about wall street pillaging the world and was great loves it when no one talk about wall street or. the like tyler durden by gov they are there they love it as long as no one's talking about wall street they can all just go about robbing the country blind it also like tyler durden wall street has an army of autumn aton

cyborgs wreaking mayhem so pretty similar as what is gonna trump is running around the white house like a like a like of bull in a china shop just goofing world leaders or whatever the. whatever he's doing is what is best going on wall street can just keep pillaging without doing without a good idea being secretive about it any more they just like pull a brinks truck up to the stock exchange is like a reward the money and no it doesn't matter no the truck just tweeted that the canadian prime minister can suck his dick nobody. nobody cares what we're doing and of course trump has put goldman sachs in charge of the economy and president obama did the same right he put it put tim geithner in charge because the banks run this country and if you're like me you think there's anybody going to do anything to stop you. at all.