among the stories that shaped the week r.t. talked exclusively to the russian lawyer at the center of a media scandal over her meeting with donald trump jr last year. violent clashes between israeli police and muslim worshipers brought jerusalem this week after the israeli government rules are extra security at the reverend al aqsa mosque. a crisis in relations between berlin hits a new low as to german foreign minister threatens economic retaliation and was against traveling to turkey following the arrest of several human rights activists .

thanks for tuning in just turned nine in the morning here in moscow you're watching the weekly on our team to national i'm embracing. this week r.t. spoke exclusively to the russian lawyer at the center of a scandal over her meeting with president of the sun i had of last year's election as late as in a range of stories claiming there was direct between the kremlin and trump in order to get him into the white house however we've been hearing the lawyer side of the story. we all know her name now television star the telly official natalia vessel needs sky natalia the cell mates guy of natalia vessel at sky i. don't wake up one morning and find you are the focus of the all the fire and stream media it.

turns out it was nothing we managed to track down the elusive natalia vest on it's a woman who has almost become a household name in recent weeks also off to her meeting with donald trump jr last year and what she said she wanted to discuss the reputation of one particular man and his association with the magnitsky along with his past time of lobbying for u.s. sanctions on russian individuals this person who she says has most of mine did this latest russia trunk collusion scandal. today i have to think about my safety first and foremost about the safety of my family my four children it's been revealed that mr prouder has been gathering information about me so who is william browder maybe north of the million name for most but for thirty years in russia he's a wanted man quite literally he's wanted for tax fraud on top of this leaked us state department e-mails reveal that brown it was actively gathering information about the vessel and its guy ahead of when this scandal broke and that included

personal details such as where she lives so given this information vessel it's seems quite convinced that browder has harbored a personal vendetta against her perhaps something to do with the facts that he once lost a case in court to her now this was a two thousand and thirteen case in which a vessel in its guard represented the cyberspace company previn's on holding which is owned by a russian businessman wrote a had accused the company of money laundering. the case was finally settled in may this year with no admission of guilt by a preface on you or mr browder and his team have been gathering information about my family to try to find out whether i'm married or not whether i have children or not they found photos of my house and sent them to car park or he's a famous man in the house of representatives they shared all these details with people from the state department i don't know why he's doing this i can only make assumptions here i see today's situation has been heating up for ten days or so as

a very well orchestrated story concocted by one particular manipulator and that is mr brown. and i what is best known for is his role in the magnitsky act this is an x. named asta russian lawyer who was once employed by brown as company in russia he was later arrested in connection with a tax fraud case and he died was being held in detention browder later played a major role in law being for a set of sanctions to be imposed by the u.s. on the number of russian individuals over magnitsky death and brought it claims he knew magnitsky personally but according to vessel nick schuyler this couldn't be further from the truth and this is where i don't try and do nia enters the picture and the big question for many is why does us the next guy was so keen to inform the trunk team about the millionaire or say well brought his reputation to flip the story if this was the story that i brought to donald trump jr i wanted him to know that browder a person who gave up his us citizenship is trying to manipulate people in congress

and now we even know their names the media have disclosed them he was making all those connections even though he hadn't lived in the country for twenty years was not paying any taxes not doing anything he was for in fact his only mission was to go after his opponents while gaining some political capital it was nothing but retaliation from this man who did this in order to distract everyone with the big story. so can you refute this information. from the e-mails released by donald trump jr where goldstone. i don't know that person and now we come to the name rob goldstone when don't turn jr went public last week it included e-mails from the entertainment publicist and which he claims to have information on hillary clinton which quote would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful for donald trump's campaign he to put that disparagingly this guy is just a music producer my guess is that this man is used to selling and promoting ideas

some product so he decided that i would be this product for sale and promotion. and it was also within the goldstone e-mails that the mention of russia's prosecutor general came up leading to questions of a vessel that sky's possible ties to the kremlin but he did not say that the prosecutor general's office of the russian federation deals with criminal cases that is the role defined by federal law and the constitution says there's no me and the prosecutor general where are my and where is the prosecutor general. now estimates guy or woman unwillingly thrust into the spotlight is having serious concerns for her safety especially considering how she has a family and four children who are now also vulnerable to media focus but despite this she is by no means running away from the attention and says she is more than ready to testify in congress to the senate the state's thoughts let's put it this way i'm ready to clarify the situation behind this mass hysteria but only through

lawyers or testifying in the u.s. senate. there have been chaotic scenes new the holy site of temple mount and jerusalem that's out there israeli police moved in with tear gas stun grenades and water cannons to disperse hundreds of palestinians who've been angered at a hike in security at the site. the deadly clashes erupted on saturday that's when hundreds of palestinians gathered to pray near the temple mount in defiance of the new security rules however tensions in the area have been running high all.

that at least none that was very happy. about the close. oh that the clashes erupted following that this isn't of the israeli government to implement extra security measures to prevent terror attacks the hike in security at the al aksa mosque which includes metal detectors came after two border police officers were killed in an attack in east jerusalem the subsequent protests around the holy site of temple mount resulted in repeated confrontations with israeli police the temple mount. as is known to muslims as one of the most contested religious sites in the world for jews is believed to have been the site of two political temples and x. a mosque which is also located there islams third holiest site the temple mount as

a ministered by it jordan based islamic religious authority. well those metal detectors came as a result of a heinous murder on a holy spot these are not just metal detectors the. action out of money to change the order to be changed to school a heinous murder takes place then security measures are brought in and then israel is blamed for taking the security measures it's a reaction to the first event which was horrible terrorism well first of all our dog. if the public knows the people who commit the acts with israeli citizens by the way people have to accept the fact that israel is the son of the jerusalem is our capital city and that the temple mount is the heart of our heart you accept those things then we can have a dialogue and conversation you saw on t.v. how the israeli army is do you think peaceful nonviolent people who are just praying there that i was myself in just two days ago by the israeli army when i was

just all i did i wanted to bring in their attack does this sort of are sort of out of bullets and injured us i think the best alternative would be for jihadists to calm down or to be defeated and for there to be equal access to the site for all religions including jews go put it with the palestinians remove the cause of all conflicts which israeli occupation and stop israeli aggression on palestinians this we we can achieve peace. the micro crisis continue to weigh heavy on european countries this week italy which bears the brunt of most of those coming to europe is locked in a standoff with other members of the e.u. over how the issue is being handled almost one hundred ten thousand migrants have arrived in italy by sea this year alone and that number is expected to double by december i grouped up defend europe is trying to stem the flow at sailing a ship to the region in

a bid to turn back migrant boats coming from africa the group is bankrolling the mission with more than one hundred twenty six thousand dollars raised through crowd funding. the festival will be based in this is silly import. and it will be patrolling the benatar radian off the coast of libya emission says it wants to expose humanitarian groups that it claims are working directly with people smugglers like attorneys bayer has branded the fende europe initiative a profit cation artie's challenge one of the group's members and to gauge reaction from local italians we're at the port of in sicily among the ships that come into the sport you will every now and then see boats full of migrants but we are here to talk to an activist who is expecting the arrival of a very different kind of boat with a very controversial purpose. so somewhere around here will probably arrive by next week. what we cherish of course is

a cultural identity are you a racist or an extremist organization your final purpose is what. we want to ensure that your roof stays in europe this is what some people call racism. i think the european union should feel ashamed now they want to use sicily as a rallying point for disgusting racism that does not belong to our culture i know that our welcoming culture is disliked by european sashes but we won't give up we are not going to be silent in the face of this call to violence against desperate human beings these peoples need to buy history books we're not trying to provoke a situation where anybody's life is at risk so you're not attacking them i know we're not attacking migrants we're not going to attack the n.g.o.s we would just try to document what they're doing and we want to make sure that these n.g.o.s are not working as some kind of proxy for the human traffickers what happens if you see

that someone's life is in danger we will also come and rescue them and what are you going to do when a refugee. and ends up on your boat we will try to bring them to africa again. people of sicily have gotten used to migrants to the many n.g.o.s that have come here to help but an anti migrant ngo patrolling the mediterranean that is something most people here have never heard of so let's ask the locals about the concept what do you think of the n.g.o.s that are working in the mediterranean to help the migrants the move was this a bit of i don't like what we're doing what if this is right twinning and geo both doesn't sound good this is the boat. the right wing activists will be on this boat they will be patrolling the mediterranean to make sure that there is no illegal migration and to make sure that the n.g.o.s don't break the laws what do you think about that good job like that is good and the opinion of the migrants. they don't

want migrants here i mean. if they don't one migrants i mean they have to doubt the make of this the sense that libya they say if they rescued migrants from the boat they will take them back to africa that this is a burden that is very good on how can someone just live i mean up to the middle of militancy you know take the bus to africa that's the thing i mean some people call them racists do you agree with that there's no racist the story there's already too many people here you know so there's no room for everyone or do you think that's racist i don't think so and i'm not against helping migrants but we should help them more in their own country so here's a seeing that seems to have become typical for sicily we've got a park where we can see the migrants then and geo group to help them and also there are locals who are still feeling the burden of the economic crisis and don't want

migrants in their hometown and all of them are in one same part not too long before right wing activists join the motley club believe the trend toward tea could. mean the increase there's been an angry demonstration against allays in the immigration process. the delays have left thousands separated from the families and stranded increase the visions between different ethnic groups have also been emerging in the overcrowded camps. legal.

problem which is. just waiting for the decision of. the pregame people sometimes if they are just says start by saying they want to get their ride spidy their hand loisa up a. little bit considers to syrian people they can get asylum quickly that's not true it would be. not only fun to spot. people coming from africa feeling neglected when they are arrived suddenly they face the. different treatment because of their skin and skin color or because of different other but

when you feel that not receiving your interview in a couple of months but in four five six months you're seeing that there's a longer rejection rate for your community or for the group of people you are from your attention on your frustration raises. his prisoners are reportedly being held and inhumane conditions in a jail also that the iraqi city of mosul that story and more after a short break. in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington media the media the voters elected to run this country business you. must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before.

i do think that archie is propaganda arm of the russian government and helps to spread. information that helps advance russia's interest and so that's why i think it's important for people like me to come on if it were me i would be somebody who is less capable who would maybe not do is get a job presenting the american point of view. welcome back to the program new footage some of which you may find distressing has emerged from inside an iraqi prison near mosul apparently showing suspected members of beisel being held in dire conditions that was really from human rights watch

told us what she saw when she visited the site. i went into one cell four by six meters one hundred fourteen men that had been in there for four months and the windows had been bricked off the stench was was immense with men not being allowed to shower no bathrooms besides one toilet in the room really reflect conditions. the video shows almost four hundred inmates who are said to have been held for months without trial they're packed into a dark a crime to rooms with no electricity or ventilation and baking hot conditions as temperatures reach forty five degrees celsius guards at the prison say people are falling ill due to a lack of hygiene. human rights watch visited these very same prisons in february and released a report where we documented in detail the horrific enqueue inhumane conditions in which these men are being held there were rampant problems of the ill treatment and

in fact there were multiple men that are dying in detention because of the sanitary and hygiene conditions in those facilities you know prisoner is whether or not they're being charged with isis affiliation and how basic rights and you have to imagine i mean these images only give you a small snapshot. we raised these allegations with the iraqi authorities we've raised these allegations with the coalition i'm fortunately i have not seen anything to suggest that they are urgently investigating nor post investigations actually holding any commanders accountable unfortunately this is an old story in iraq where for years we've been documenting the most serious abuses and the government may pronounce that they will investigate but to date we have not seen a single investigation leading to results and accountability. tensions

between turkey and germany came to a head this week as the german foreign minister sigma grave gabriel threatened to rethink economic ties he also warned german businesses against traveling to turkey because of the lack of legal certainty stiffle says we have to rethink opposition towards turkey the situation in turkey is not transparent we should call it for what it is we are waiting for ankara to return to european values. this all comes following the arrest of activists including german human rights consultant peter storrie amnesty international's turkey director ideal as are and for others they've been accused of assisting an unnamed military terrorist group ankara says the comments by the german foreign minister were unacceptable however this is just the latest incident in a deepening crisis between the two countries tensions erupted over there in charlie airbase after germany had to move its aircraft from there to jordan after its officials were repeatedly access to the site we discussed the issue with

a former turkish foreign minister. she of course is going up fortunately and the. statement made by mr. foreign research shows that germany is planning to bring the. even to a higher level and of course we can listen will suffer from it because when there are. notices for german citizens not of the kid it means that the businessman will not also visit turkey and germany is one of the countries that has huge investment in turkey if disinvestment goes down the turks economy will suffer a few turkey's human rights record of course is not the best level president turkey was not part of us democracy but since last year's attempted coup.

things are going. down. the head of the research center for a turkey studies told those domestic policies and both countries are contributing to the tensions well i think this at least this view has to be seen within the context of what was essentially been a kind of tit for tat ongoing argument that's going on between turkey and germany now for almost over a year so this is kind of been an ongoing dispute that has kind of flared up now and again especially in the times where there's been a lections in the two countries so i think a lot of the. lines of it's kind of internal done a number of countries and ultimately the what's new here is that we're now talking the germans are now running to prop up their criticisms of turkey which is made by many of the european governments that are trying to back up now in the context of last year lies failed coup emotions of running very high and basically was hot and it's made it very easy for the government to essentially associate any criticisms

of the government with criticisms of turkish democracy. russia at the moderate syrian opposition have reached an agreement so i think in terms for the first the escalation zone near damascus the deal signed with the help of the egyptian mediation in cairo provides for a ceasefire in the syrian province of eastern ghouta. the deal means all military activity in the area has ceased locals cannot get access to humanitarian aid but he also says a road map to rebuild damaged infrastructure and provide safe passage to civilians . another front against iceland syria was opened at the end of may when u.s. backed kurdish forces reached the terrorist de facto capital rocka the battle to retake the city is still raging and has resulted in enormous civilian casualties many more remain displaced some of them have revealed what life was like caught between the liberating forces and the terrorists.

i came from rocca nothing is left in iraq except for destruction because of the coalition and i saw but the strength of the coalition were some villages were wiped out some neighborhoods were demolished houses families children women were hit by the random strikes. i left my neighbors at home in the evening and went to sleep outside i came back in the morning just to find twelve of the children the mother and the man i buried them they don't like because the shelling and i can just suffer i studied it was great but kalish walkley still lessons in a team they carried out in their strike on my school and killed a lot of people as they were refugees from aleppo obviously this time. out of the coalition targeted everyone just the same it kills one person from all

the silt and everyone else around. the massacres in iraq are committed by isis and the coalition will place together what can i say the streets are full of the bodies. i'm next in are to it's worlds apart without sun i don't go away.

here. in the u.s. a child can choose an army course in school. with retired officers as teachers we don't. recruit will says to you if the cadet is interested in going in the military but we don't recruit ourselves. the pentagon is funding a program to boost interest in the military among teenagers who chance to step up to an apollo so that comfortable with yourself. things you can't go wrong with the military it's a great stepping stone for whatever career you want to do but some veterans are willing to tell enthusiastic children a little more they ask me call of duty is a very popular first sure video game. it's play and that's because the military like call of duty to turn off call of duty oh yeah well you can't turn off or not

if these kids just don't hear. the darker side does the pentagon allow them to be told or does it just need more recruits. you can revolt against the dictator but what about the day after i think we as libyan people did not give much thought about that and so the way the national the resolution does not build nations. and certainly does not build states.

a lot of welcome to worlds apart the russians have long taken americans more seriously than the americans took that is until the russia gave. a logic. policy paralysis have dismayed many in moscow showing washington in a way revolution before as lacking in confidence and they able to pull itself together how accurate is this impression to discuss that i'm now joined by matthew craning a senior fellow at the atlantic council mr craning it's great to have you on the show thank you very much for joining us thank you for having me on it's a pleasure to be here while it may be a pleasure for you to be here but are you sure that you're not going to fall under suspicion of colluding with the adversary because of appearing on our t.v. no i'm not worried about that i think it's important for americans and russians to have a dialogue to important countries.