i. thought it was. the headlines on r.t. international alarm bells in the west over the first ever joint to russia china drills in european waters misters the day after the us on twenty other states complete mastery of war games in that region. baltimore police officer accidentally failed himself planting drugs at a crime scene just the latest security incident to affect that troubled us. does it lead you in its ongoing struggle to cope with the massive migrant influx we visit sicily an island at the epicenter of the crisis.

thanks for joining us here on r.t. international we come to you live from moscow with your latest world headlines. the first of a joint russia china drills in european waters start today in the baltic sea at the military exercise between the two countries will last for a week however even before it takes place the event is sparking a strong reaction aaron reports. western media is in a spin over the joint see twenty seven thousand naval drills starting today between russia and china headlines have been listed with words like invasion and war one morning of a challenge to nato so what sparks the panic well first of all it's the location in the baltic sea right in the heart of northern europe and next ten they tell you base is secondly chinese warships and making their. debut tour in this part of the

world and if that wasn't threatening enough they're teaming up with russia but jointly drills are nothing new they've been held annually since twenty twelve but this first stage off the baltic coast has already caused a frenzy as a trio of chinese vessels made their way there leaving their british danish navy's scrambling to shadow them out of their water is much to the amusement of the russian ambassador to china the baltic states repeat their usual incantations but at the same time they take for granted the fact that nato is deploying large forces on their territory but then wasn't this response predictable in october last year a russian fleet sailing around europe sparked headlines like the leading some to repin states to even consider sending vessels to intercept the group and this fear of the russian ships has been around for some time already you can just ask sweden a country that spent twenty years insisting that russian submarines were sneaking

around its coastline until they realized that the only thing lurking there minks now we can confirm that as of this moment no minks all scheduled to take part in joint c. twenty seven c. meanwhile the u.s. and allied countries have just finished their own enormous exercise in the region saber guardian taking place in eastern europe on the territory of three countries still aimed at deterring so-called russian aggression though some twenty five thousand personnel from more than twenty states were involved in the biggest drills of the kind in five years and we spoke to writer and political commentator john white he says the media is paying up its usual job of hype. part of a known good propaganda campaign is being conducted in the western media to try and paint russia and china as the cane of evil empire recruit a sense of cold war and strums and to try and demonize both countries we're only

abiding by their rate to seal international waters or do nothing wrong nothing illegal the western media has to say to try and inflame the situation is a see as part of this ongoing cold war part of the same that we've seen through the last few years. a police officer in the u.s. state of baltimore has mistakenly caught himself on camera staging a drug bust and the video shot in january shows the officer planting drugs in the backyard of a house alongside two of a scholar who can also be seen in the footage or right now the officer then leaves the area to turn his body camera on but forgetting the units is set to recall the last thirty seconds before manual activation then returns to the scene with the drugs who earlier buried to quote discover them an internal investigation is now underway and the people arrested for the drug possession have since been released now baltimore state attorney defended the judicial system and her office saying

they want aware of the video's existence critics have questioned why the officers would choose to fake a crime when the city's already struggling with lauren order as it is. few cities embody american urban decay a more depressing lead in the city of baltimore baltimore struggles with a record high murder rate. murder is out of control. yes baltimore there is a robust active crime strategy. watching one zimmerman say. this week we have two suspects that we need your help to buy.

worth. here's a box cutter. like that. spoke to a former policeman who believes that the real issue was with more than just individual police officers well i don't think cops so the problem in baltimore there is a miscommunication among police officers in a community all over the united states of america i think one thing that needs to

happen is that we as long foresman we are to get out and really really work with the community there was an all. who planted some drugs in the community and since a negative signal not just to the police elses but the community as a whole it made sense. as italy seeks help from the e.u. to cope with the daily influx of migrants austria's foreign minister has urged rome not to allow the newcomers to make it to the mainland he's declared even if they are plucked from the sea they shouldn't get quote a ticket to central europe and that's as the mayor of palermo said the indifference of some states in the block to the crisis equates to fascism they were all of europe will be under trial for genocide there will be a second nuremberg trial maybe not in the courts but in the history books because

of this genocide in the midst raney and see because of the indifference of certain states in the european union the european union has to recognize freedom of movement as a human rights is very serious and i think the european union should. be you ashamed. that italy has witnessed a record number of migrants arriving almost ninety thousand since january and more than two hundred twenty thousand are expected by years and local authorities are trying to find a solution but as our reports from sicily and certainly proving a struggle migrants keep coming in for solutions not really the local mayors are desperate for help from the central government and the e.u. but they're not getting it so they decided to get together right there to see what they can do about it first first their new jobs growth peoples and so of course they won't be any of the migrants. the migrant crisis was caused by wrong

european policy. i blame our government for this persistently the migrants primary destination after crossing the mediterranean and messina the ferry gateway to mainland italy the issue is super delicate and urgent and the meeting is happening behind closed doors. just. tell them not to come in and that's ok. thank you how many people are taken part in this meeting of the five police officers and about forty government officials the forty mayors of local towns spend hours together with the local governor but these aren't the people who are talking to the big officials of the let's see what they have to say about that i was told at the meeting is going to be

over soon. first. but i thought the migrants are victims of tragedies in their homelands but our communities paying the price too and we're not getting the necessary help. we've heard a lot of talk from the u. but barely anything is being done we're all alone the mayors are facing growing pressure on the one hand after several protests they're here to save the day for their small communities on the other they're trying their best not to be labeled racists and the migrant issues very very urgent for regions it's all about the numbers the quota agreement of two point five migrants per thousand citizens has been violated several times. here initially we're trying to divert the flow of migrants and spread them across communities we asked the e.u. to do the same but they're turning their backs on us haven't spoken to officials in

this building you get the impression that they're ready to make compromises they're ready to think several steps forward and they're ready to sort out the issues themselves when it comes to the long awaited assistance from the you and that obviously they have completely lost their trust i think for joining us so far here for the program on r.t. international violent clashes between palestinians and israeli police fled overnight with renewed intensity and more on that story after the break. i've.

been neo cons are back and they're back with a vengeance long associated with the extremist wing of the g.o.p. and tied to catastrophic policy failures they have now found themselves being embraced by the democrats and the liberal media it would seem to be a rush to track strange bedfellows. good to have you with us today for your news donald trump says he would never have appointed his attorney general had he known jeff sessions would recuse himself from

overseeing the rush or investigation and it's far from the first change of heart by the u.s. president however has never hidden the fact that he wants to be unpredictable. i want to be unpredictable unpredictable i use the word unpredictable but i like to be unpredictable you want to be unpredictable like our country where we're totally predictable when i find it increasingly difficult to follow the president. hit the streets of new york to find out if people really know where it stands on the key issues. that will trouble the man whose policy positions can be quite hard to pin down we decided to talk to americans and find out how well they know their commander in chief and where he stands donald trump says it was a good idea to pick jeff sessions i think what he said is. that if he knew jeff sessions would with he was in itself he never would have chosen him regrets putting jeff sessions it up as attorney general i think would down jump it's all about

business so he my. president donald trump has confidence in attorney general jeff sessions do you think he likes jeff sessions trust jeff sessions or or doesn't. i think he uses jeff sessions. so that it's neutral it's all rational gratian i don't think you regret it because he's still in office sessions should have never recused himself and if he was going to recuse himself he should have told me before he took the job and i would have picked somebody else donald trump thinks china is a good partner i think donald trump thinks anybody has a good partner who will pad his pockets and pad the pockets of his spamtrap will partner with anyone that will enrich his coffers if we can't continue to allow china to rape our country and that's what they're doing isn't getting us to partner with china again i'm really not so sure he's thinking about china i don't think he wants to partner with them for say i do think he will be able to do anything it was

china but you. have. to say that. you know you. you know you can have this. relationship what's his position on cooperating with russia around issues of cyber security i think he has a statement i remember reading that was that he wanted to create with russia some kind of overall cyber security by i think based on his relationship with russia maybe i do think he will want. partner with the pressure because that with a mean thing when they came the election. the fact that president putin and i discussed a cyber security unit doesn't mean i think it can happen it can't but a cease fire can and did is going to partner with russia on cyber security you know . you can and i discussed forming an impenetrable cyber security unit so that election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded now some might

think that donald trump's unpredictability might be an asset when negotiating with foreign leaders however sometimes it appears that his supporters are just as confused as his adversaries. hearty new york and his out international auto show is selfish of announcing his poke into a veteran drug enforcement agent who spent decades on the cover exposing tells across latin america here's a quick preview though you can watch the interview all day friday when i was working undercover at you had to be extremely careful. you know not be nervous because drug dealers by their psychological makeup are very very suspicious you know there are they suffer from paranoia and they ask you constantly they ask you questions what i did to control any type of nervousness

is i expunged from my mind that i was a d. e agent and psychologically i transform myself into a drug lord. i was one of them i dressed like i like. i could not afford to think like law enforcement and i did law enforcement for so many years but i had to completely completely remove that from my mind and there was a transformation very much like an actor and does before he plays a role in the movies or on television however. in this case you were playing a deadly game of cat and mouse any minor mistake that you made and you were at that .

free why if i am public places sounds great in practice but as users in the u.k. have been finding out there are some tricky hidden extras in the fine print. we were looking at changing our privacy policy and really just trying to simplify

things as much as possible for people looking on to the wife i just thought you know i wonder how many people actually have read what they're agreed to as the plan was for roles to make it as transparent as visible for those people as we possibly caught so we thought well you know let's do an experiment let's take it in and it's really crazy and see how many people actually pick up on and. some. people just are completely unaware of what they're agreed to with that date you could literally pull anything you want in terms and conditions and because people just don't bother really that they'll be agreed to all sorts of different events. twenty past the hour here in the russian capital a summer is in full swing you may be wondering where you can kick back and catch some rays artie's michael frost of santiago visited one of russia's most popular seaside getaways.

we are now in arab russia a warm spot in the south region of russia called krasnodar this place is located on the southeastern tip of the black sea vitacost from crimea which makes it a great russian summer getaway and it was filled with fresh fruits seafood restaurants lots of russian history windsurfing beaches you name it and now it has it all. and just a few months ago a new international airport has opened up in an hour and we're about to check it out let's go. and. get a big deal that afternoon you live in new glad to meet you let's go it's beautiful

what makes it. different or on the same level as international there. grandmamma's the ship and it's you can also do both but the main thing is the right combination of the airport technologies you have to go through everything intuitively but with understanding where you are going there is navigation but everything should progress logically about what happens to your and selection of cells registration registration a second inspections of the shops commerce and technology when you have this right but it allows a person to be in a comfortable zone it doesn't then you need to control the expectations of the passenger and then he feels relaxed that if a person knows what will happen to him and gets more than he expects and he feels calm and we get good feedback on how everything is organized or it will and that's the secret of this if that's the secret these emotionally and it was i mean think of it.

the head chef of a local italian restaurant who literally changed local tastes and food culture for the better. soon still a. possum my italian next to teach people the tasty food and enjoy it. leave it but i say it's. my impression of an op it was a very perfect summer getaway very tourist friendly lots of lovely people the warm hospitality of the russian south back together with great food and lots of things to do and see so when you'll be planning your next adventure consider a place like no other reporting out of an upper russia miguel francis jaago artsy it is art international around fifty muslim protesters are said to have been injured after clashes with police flared overnight in jerusalem and now authorities

say that men under the age of fifty will be banned from entering the temple mount during the clashes are three sustained serious injuries with one requiring surgery other demonstrations palestinians could be seen launching fireworks and taunting the police and protesters erupted after israeli authorities installed a security cameras and metal detectors at the revered mosque following a deadly shooting there just last week in the meantime a palestinian spiritual leader is demanding the new security measures all removed from the holiest site that's also known as the temple mount he warned the situation could get much worse if the demands are not met before friday prayers or let's discuss this issue now israeli m.p.u. who declared his joining us here live on r.t. international thanks for coming on the program on this day obviously there are security concerns are in effect right now with israeli authorities around the temple mount and the mosque some are saying though that blocking access to the mosque is potentially for. fueling tensions to do you think these security moves

are all helping or perhaps hurting the situation. hello rory that you wouldn't like speaking to you from jerusalem. i don't understand why preventing and protecting the holy place the temple mount. should be any reasoning for any kind of terror and violence last week we had a shooting terror attack which ignited this equated the holy place the temple mount and ever since then that them the israeli security system is doing everything it can to make sure something like that does not repeat again i think that any muslim ones that come to the temple mount is more than welcome but just like in every many other places around the world including shopping centers train stations and even mecca we know that the entrance to the head to do it to places where there are many people that may have somebody made in danger with any kind of weapon you go through

metal detectors and that's the only do that when there's no reasoning why why it is religion to be the same and therefore to prevent once again the repeating of what happened last week the israeli security system takes a very careful careful steps and make sure that no no nobody in danger of the temple mount if some people want to exploit that in that situation and incite terror and the only ones to blame for the terror will be those insiders and those who are acting by it because the israeli security system will do everything it can to make sure to preserve public order and those who are inciting and calling people to do to do use terror violence i think if he's got. that it's ready authorities are indeed of course concerned about security setting up a metal detectors and so on and so forth comparing that to other places in the world like shopping malls or airports but there are very few places in the world that have a thousand year history all of christianity and islam going head to head if you

want to go back all the way to the crusades now we understand is ready police banning muslim men under the age of fifty from entering the old city in jerusalem for friday prayers is that ultimately the one line of security that you're hoping will be sufficient now to ban muslim men under the age of fifty. very i'm. sorry that we reached this point i would have expected the leaders of the muslim community to condemn last week's terror attack and to try to calm down the crowd but instead what we've been seeing in the past week we've been seeing the islamic leadership calling upon the people to come today to the temple mount and to and organize riots and this is something we cannot allow we're not going to allow to druce them the city which is holy for so many billions of people around the world jews muslims christians all believers of the bible we cannot allow this place to turn in to its center of riots of stone throwing of endangering the peace of the public order and therefore we had no choice but to take these right these steps i

do hope we can return to the routine of quiet and peaceful prayer on temple mount for all as soon as possible and as you say mr click the. spiritual leader is warning that today the violence could boil over due to friday prayers if there were a way that israel could perhaps relax the security they open up the mosque in a more accessible manner in a way that could ultimately satisfy both sides. the temple mount is open and then this week we had hundreds of jews who attended temple mount and many many muslims will did so also those who are insisting on not going through a metal detectors are deciding our freedom of choice not to do that but that we cannot risk any and get to a chance again and what happened last week will happen again and if i do recommend it be walked to cooperate with the israeli. security authority and work together hand by hand too because i think it's the interest of the walk's at the temple mount remains quiet and therefore they should be helping out with the israeli

police and not in fighting against the israeli police they should be working hand by hand because those three muslims who last week in the temple mount inside this place which is so saying the fight for the past the millennium for muslims but many for two millennia and for christians and for three. a millennium for jews is a place which we want to preserve sanctified and we don't want killing to be in there and therefore once it happened once we know that can happen again and we can not allow we cannot exist as a simple mistake i just sort of jump in and i'm running so low i do i do i do apologize i'm running solo on time here but i just want to go back to the security measures in the area around the temple mount we have a metal detectors that is ready police a banning palestinian men all muslims under the age of fifty but according to the demographics the banning men under the age of fifty would actually be banning the majority of my my last question for you would be the middle east peace process has been heralded by u.s. presidents and world leaders for years why is the dispute still raging.

unfortunately it's not only didn't we see all around the world in the past few years radical muslim. teens are trying to to bring to light the flame the streets the roads and the public order and they believe that god is exclusive and they have a right in the name of god to do to kill and to bring terror and i think the entire world should cooperate with the same an effort to present the united states is doing to strengthen moslem moderate muslim leaders and to fight together with a with a common interest against all of radical islam leaders and i think that that's what should be happening and i'm very happy that last week the terror attack was condemned both but. about and by. but unfortunately the local walk pfleger ship is not it did not condemn it and actually are only condemning the metal to metal.