it. among the stories that shaped the week told to exclusively to the russian moire at the center of a media meeting. last year. in clashes between israeli police and muslim jerusalem this week after the israeli government rolls out extra security at the revered. by revealing video shows inmates suspected of links to islamic state being held in dire conditions inside an iraqi prison sparking concern for human rights groups we hear from one of them. and here's the latest pictures that you can see on

your screen now flexing their wings for the final time the max international air show wraps up today just outside of moscow we take a look at the highlights of this year's events. here on r.t. international live from our studio here in moscow with me. that's all round up of the week's highlights on the top stories of the day welcome to the program. this week spoke exclusively to the russian lawyer at the center of a scandal over her meeting with president trump's eldest son ahead of last year's election is the latest in a range of stories claiming direct collusion between the kremlin and team trump in order to get him into the white house we got the lawyers side of the story. i don't know her name now a television star telly official natalia vessel needs sky natalia the sound this

guy of natalia vessel in its. 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 its guy and the woman who was almost become a household name in recent weeks was off to her meeting with donald trump jr last year and which 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 us thanks and so on russian individuals this person who she says has most of mine did this latest russia trying to 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 browder 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 who was actively gathering information about wrestling at sky ahead of when this scandal broke and that included personal details such as where she lives so given this information in beslan 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 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 to have 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 they 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 cope parker 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 browder. now what is best known for is his role in the magnitsky act this is an ox named after a russian lawyer who was once employed by brown as company in russia he was later arrested in connection with a tux fraud case and he died last being held in detention browder later played a major role in law being for a set of sanctions to be imposed by the us on the number of russian individuals over magnitsky death brought it claims he knew magnitsky personally but according

to vesa lipsky on this couldn't be further from the truth and this is where i don't try and do enters the picture and the big question for many is why is us the next guy was so keen to inform the truth about the milly arity with brown his reputation . 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 full 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 emails 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 emails from the entertainment publicist and which he claims to have information on hillary clinton which quotes would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful for donald trump's campaign he did but that apparently 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 in its skies possible ties to the kremlin. 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 mine where is the prosecutor general. now that's on its guy a 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 it's thoughts that 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. chaotic scenes have been unfolding near the holy site of temple mount in jerusalem after israeli police moved in with tear gas stun grenades and water cannons to disperse hundreds of palestinians. palestinians gathered to pray near the holy site in a show of protest against a hike in security at the side when israeli troops moved in to confront the crowd palestinians responded by throwing stones and setting tires on fire one of our

correspondents was caught up in the unrest tensions in the area have been running high all week. was . oh that's even more. deadly clashes erupted following the decision of the israeli government to

implement extra security measures including the installation of metal detectors that was after the killing of two border police officers in east jerusalem the subsequent protests around the holy site temple mount a resulted in repeated confrontations with israeli police. temple mount. as it's known to muslims is one of the most contested religious sites in the world for jews it's believed to have been the site of two biblical temples and the al aksa mosque which is also located there is islam's holiest site temple mount is it missed it by a jew base islamic religious authority we had a polarized views on the ongoing conflict. well those metal detectors came as a result of a heinous murder on a holy spot these are not just committed to detect. an action out of money to change the order to be changed to school in this 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 when first of all are doing. it for the public most of the people who commit the acts with israeli citizens by the way people have to accept the fact that israel is the sovereign 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 they're israeli army is do you think peaceful nonviolent people who are just praying their attack that i was my. two days ago by the israeli army when i was just all i did i wanted to bring their dogs 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 distributed and for there to be equal access to the site for all religions including jews oh but it was the palestinians removed the cause of all conflicts which is the occupation and stop israeli aggression on palestinians this

we can achieve peace. the radio has emerged from inside an iraqi prison near mosul apparently showing inmates being held in dire conditions the video shows almost four hundred inmates who are said to have been held for months without trial there packed into dark cramped rooms with no electricity or ventilation in baking hot conditions as temperatures outside reach forty five degrees celsius gart of the presence a people are falling ill due to a lack of hygiene and daylight the inmates are suspected of links to ice although some of them claim to have no idea why they're being held. they said my name was in their database i haven't seen any court or judge i don't even know what i'm accused of a lot of names are the same since i got here eight months ago i've only seen the son once we really want to die none of us have received any visitors or relatives or

family members they don't even know where we are in recent months rights groups have repeatedly called on the iraqi government to investigate the claims we raise the issue with human rights watch. human rights watch visited the very same prisons in february and released a report where we documented in detail the horrific in-q 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 how basic rights and you have to imagine i mean these images only give you a small snapshot. we raise these allegations with the

iraqi authorities we've raised these allegations with the coalition unfortunately 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 made pronounced that they will investigate but to date we have not seen a single investigation leading to results and accountability. ok you can see behind me now some stunning pictures these are live pictures from the mines the air show where our camera man has boarded a helicopter to give you these stunning views of the event and we will be bringing you more of these fantastic pictures later on in the program not time for a short break.

i do think that archie is a 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 would be somebody who is less capable who would maybe not do as good a job presenting the american point of view. welcome

back to the program tensions have been running high in italy this week as the migrant crisis continues to worsen in the country officials warn the talks with the e.u. to solve the problem have become a tug of war it's always a hundred thousand migrants arriving on that shows this year alone. the figure is expected to double bind december however as the impasse drags on a group of activists taking matters into their own hands dumping themselves defending europe the group is setting sail for the libyan coast in a bid to turn back migrant boats coming from africa a crowdfunding campaign to support the mission has already raised over one hundred twenty six thousand dollars. to over watch. the diligent coast guard about to

do it and you were trying to be surgical so when you get that that's less signal to the west or to people in distress to make sure that they would be brought back to libya. to find europe launches its mission next week from the indian port of qahtani and the activists say that patrols along the libyan coast will help expose humanitarian groups they accuse of working with people smugglers to transport illegal migrants to europe however the initiative has seen a backlash from n.g.o.s and rights groups and even is calling for a boycott. has more on the mission dividing italy. 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 europe 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 fascists 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 and these peoples need to buy history books we're not trying to provoke a situation where anybody's life is that risk so you're not attacking them i know we are not attacking migrants we are not going to attack the n.g.o.s we will just try to document what they are 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 on your boat well 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 angio patrolling the mediterranean that is something most people here have never heard of so let's ask the locals about the cause. so what do you think of the n.g.o.s that are working in the mediterranean to

help the migrants the moon as they see the bits and i don't like what they doing what if this is right twinging 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 it's good and the opinion of the migrants. they don't want migrants here i mean. if they don't one my guns i mean they have to be out the make a peace and stability in libya they say if they rescue migrants from the boat they will take them back to africa that this is that is what go on how can someone who is live i mean up in the middle of militancy you know take the bus to africa that's nothing i mean some people call them racists do you agree with that there's no racist birth story there's already too many people here yet no jobs so there's no

room for everyone do you think that's racist i don't think so and i'm not against helping migrants but we should help them in their own countries 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 and their hometown and all of them are in one same park not too long before right wing activists join the mob the club believe the trend toward tea could tiny italy. the migrant crisis has also sparked protests in spain where activists staged a mock dian on a beach to highlight the number of migrants who drowned trying to make it across the mediterranean meanwhile increased refugees held angry demonstrations of bureaucratic delays preventing them from being moved to other parts of the e.u.

. has left stranded in greece and separated from their families and those migrant comes in the country become increasingly overcrowded divisions are also emerging between ethnic groups some refugees claim that application rules are relaxed depending on their country of origin sparking violent confrontations in the camps. it's the final day of the max international air show and it's underway just outside of moscow and crowds are being wowed by a dazzling array of aerobatics that you can see right behind me showing a huge variety of new aircraft the show has been. while the visitors and it's been running all week and on saturday alone one hundred seventy three thousand people attended. despite being an air show there's also plenty of action on the

ground where racing car drivers are challenging the pilots in the sky to a race these are the live pictures that you're seeing right now and such a race between a jet and a speed mobile is taking place the calls are taking on a variety of planes including a make fighter a yak train a plane and an aerobatics jet. and another surprise for the huge crowd a chance to get up close and personal with some of the very latest in aviation technology which is exactly what artie's kate partridge has been doing. if you get here above me that is it makes thirty five fighter jets just to prove that we really are here and also it's just behind me as well that makes thirty five because what we got to be talking about today is also his military answer joins me to talk about what makes that plane so unique is douglas barry he was an expert when it comes to military avionics thank you very much indeed for joining me thank

you so let's just very briefly talk about this particular plane what is it about the make thirty five that makes it so unique thirty five is probably the last iteration of a very famous fighter family of mccoy doing children family thirty five is an upgrade in terms of pain junes avionics radar and weapons systems so this may move mean that the aircraft is in service but also do you. what is it about this particular show the issue that's really impressed you what stood out for you to go through two things one just continues to develop its military capabilities secondly the chinese in the arabian presence they're both here in significantly more numbers and showing more equipment new level we've ever seen before and i might to show this also before we go let's have a quick reminder of all the aerobatics the specially strikes and everything else that happened here at max. we've seen some amazing planes and because the flying the sky there it's amazing to

be here to take this for instance this is trace and it can fly they can also drive and they can spray. and other thing that i've seen here is a flying taxi just like those from back to the future goes. on we don't need those. and i had a sweetie. spirits of what it feels like to operate one of those cars so what you see now we see this. yellow come is basically you can see sort of that make the operator think that if you've got this big car that looks a bit like the batmobile i spoke to one of the men behind this project and he says it's only a couple of years to go before we'll all be able to enjoy the ride oh and turn to twenty to go to dulles you just pop up your mobile lap and you will have an hell of

a lot more of it for their taxes to pick you up the only one calls you leave thank you very much indeed well there you go ladies and gents a week we always thought it was back to the future but the future perhaps just so far away these are trying to twenty. one of america's most senior generals has admitted the u.s. presence in syria has little legitimacy saying a fresh approach and the gallatin quote carte washington could be applied to leave the country here's the conundrum we are operating in the sovereign country of syria . the russians they're there they're stalwarts there they're back stoppers have already uninvited the turks from syria were a bad day away from the russians saying why are you still in syria the us and it's it is come up in the form of some some close calls there the general also confirmed washington's ending a covert cia trained in the sis program for so-called moderate rebels in syria and

the muse generated plenty of media attention many media outlets presenting the reported move as a victory for vladimir putin they suggest trump has capitulated on a key u.s. foreign policy goal in order to try and improve relations with russia. the cia program was launched back in twenty thirteen under the obama administration its provided training for commanders from the free syrian army bases in jordan and supplied opposition groups with weapons and equipment scheme reportedly cost a massive billion dollars a year. it's not been without its critics the. twenty fifteen overall spending on the program was scaled back following its claims of its ineffectiveness and in twenty sixteen clashes between two different rebel groups one armed by the cia and one by the pentagon raised further questions there were also concerns after reports emerged that some of the weapons intended for syria were repeatedly stolen by jordanian intelligence agents and resold on the black market former u.k.

and buses of syria told us the significance of the decision to end the program is being overblown. hysterical and quite simply if you can put russia in a headline in the mainstream media in the west that that makes a good news in truth being and saleable it is not based on any objective reality. in this case what may turn out to be quite modest inflection of american policy long overdue supported by those pillars all of the state. and the national security agency. getting. caught doing something which you eminently sensible just be called. a little bit close with russia's. i'll be back at the top of the hour with mornings

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