a journalist was caught up in a gun battle in the iraqi city of mosul despite the fact the city was declared free of islamic state. told the american series news in your interest to return to iraq and build bases you will get. the iraqi vice president he has said his country's people will not tolerate a foreign military base there adding that he's already warned the u.s. against action but. it's really says it will not be threatened by its neighbors over border control that's as the country struggles with a huge influx of migrants we hear from a local mayor who says his town is at breaking point. and our taste speaks exclusively to a man with a severe muscle wasting disease who was convicted for armed robbery and pressure.

thanks for tuning in just one twelve in the afternoon here in moscow you watching our team to national with you this hours and the. top story now a correspondent for russia's sputnik news agency has been caught up in a gun battle in mosul iraq while she was taking pictures of the mine clearing operation in the historic part of the city she managed to escape unharmed and share with us her video. just a thought well come on over called looking from from a comment about the. and

you will unfold but i am who are younger than you thought then and. now i gather you before you were at the office and i did not come from mother never a part of my story. and all the possible husbands. this gunfire happened when sara knew it and was filming in a residential area next to the great mosque of al neary the attacker was hiding in a small room in a primary school the journalist believes it was a sniper we spoke to sarah after the incident we will find to a pool for all symptoms before the movie. and all two thousand. one hundred so called to hear of the iraq and

soldiers all the leads. that. are obviously know they are in the wake. of for their work my camera our heads is on the ground when i was. when i was running away from the article but it's what happening morning i decide which i did all i could go wild for move from the journalists came under fire despite a total victory over islamic state being proclaimed in mosul just last week iraq's vice president newly on the laiki has warned that there are still more hardass fighters in iraq but in an interview he emphasized one of his major concerns now is to push u.s. forces out of the country. roky society is against the building of foreign military bases on the territory of the country iraqi people not want to reinstall the

japanese joycean american bases so i told the americans it's not in your interests to return to iraq and build your bases you will get burned again or you will come as invaders and leave is invaded. and the interview iraq's vice president said he would tax claims by washington that a victory and also was america's achievement i give anyone hearkens has been looking deeper into the interview with the former prime minister didn't mince his words commenting on who really deserves credit for turning the tide of the war i regret the coalition's position i don't agree that mosul is a coalition victory it was their war it was a war fought by the iraqi army yes coalition jet supported us but the main effort was made by iraqi soldiers public militias and iraqi aviation strong words from maliki who was similarly scathing about their alleged u.s. role in the creation of arsal force many analysts view the world's most notorious terror group as emerging from the post iraq war vacuum the former prime minister

though went a step further seeing this as part of a wider historic us foreign policy strategy for. the obama administration bears a huge amount of responsibility for the rise and expansion of islamic state and for the consequences that followed islamic states didn't appear from nowhere islamic state resembles the taliban which was formed by the american administration to oppose the soviet authorities during the war in afghanistan just across the syrian border i sill is also on its way to defeat as a battlefield force with russia backing the assad government salmi against the rate of terrorist groups a russian presence in syria has been routinely criticized by many western powers maliki though sees russia's involvement in a very different light. without the russian stance the whole region would have crumbled the map would have looks totally different without russia's approach to the syria problem which differs from america's the syria regime would have followed

that would have energized the terrorists led to a change map of the region and it would have led to baghdad's fall i would are still seemingly on its last legs all eyes are on what's next for iraq and despite a string of military victories for government forces the battle for a united country is far from over well if the split between this sunis and the shias remains in place and one group of states supports the sunnis and another the she is it will contribute to the creation of a new eisel with new ideas new faces and new flags a so far the main efforts in iraq are focused on the short term goal of defeating iso but with a whole patchwork of regional internal conflicts it will be the longer term why the problems that will need careful and painstaking resolution in the coming years. also residents have been complaining about the huge destruction caused by american airstrikes they shared their frustration with professor saeed mohammad marandi from the university of tehran he gave us protest that he filmed during

a trip to the devastated city as you can see there the level of destruction is truly shocking buildings in ruins burned cars and rubble all around mohammed grandees shared his experience of visiting the city with us. they all seemed those who we spoke to them terribly step or they were all they all seem very pleased to for the city to have been retaken but they were saying that the american airstrikes were very devastating and very. hurtful to ordinary people and that many civilians were killed they also they more or less across iraq in the cities that i've been to i'm in baghdad right now people have been blaming the united states more than anyone else for this devastation. unfortunately the iraqi government to spend doesn't have the money to rebuild the city because it's still fighting the war it's trying to liberate the west of the country there

is no way that any of these cities are going to be rebuilt any time soon and i think that many people will gradually leave the country and move towards europe because there's just no hope. we also actually the same group of people we visited aleppo right after liberation as well and what it was very interesting or very unfortunate was that the devastation was very similar to the devastation that we saw in west and the the bombing by the americans basically destroyed so much of that part of the city the west side of the city yet the western media said almost nothing about it whereas when in syria russian syrian iranians were trying to liberate the city from their forces what the western media was talking about the russian air force and the

syrian air force bombing civilian targets and so on but what we saw in mosul was the same amount of devastation yet nothing was we see we hear nothing from the western media. italian prime minister apollo gentil loney has expressed his discontent at the way his country's neighbors are reacting to the refugee crisis he also said italy will not be threatened on the matter we will not accept lectures and still less threats such as those we have heard from our neighbors in recent days we are doing our duty and expect the whole of europe to do the same alongside italy. the warning comes off to austria threatened with a ploy its military to bolster its border with italy to stop migrants from entering the austrian defense minister said his country needs to ready itself and these measures we essential if the migrant influx from italy is not reduced. italy is struggling to cope with the huge wave of new arrivals this year alone more than ninety three thousand refugees have reached the italian coast by sea more than

twice that amount is expected by the end of the year drastic numbers have prompted an anti-establishment movement in the country to present a radical proposal. well it's not important. but ok let's. go. to the. local mayors have also tried to draw attention to the crisis staging rallies to protest what they say is an unsustainable number of refugees being settled and the country visited one such town and spoke exclusively to the mayor here's more from. i've been traveling across rural parts of sicily for almost a week now speaking to locals various officials and refugees and i'll tell you what some people may not be willing to admit it but it has really been divided by the refugee crisis there are locals war ready to welcome migrants and refugees without

any preconditions but there are of course others who are willing to put their livelihoods and their concerns first their lives have been hit hard by the economic crisis and they are the ones who now end up having to accommodate the refugees the most vivid example is the mayor of a small community and the sicilian mountains he told me how he started a protest in a place that has been quiet for decades when dozens of refugees and migrants were moved into an abandoned hotel the mayor along with the locals blocked the way for an elegant generator that was being delivered into the hotel in an exclusive interview he explained to me why they did that. when there's no room there's no room we've already got huge difficulties here like unemployment issues with infrastructure and health care the community does not understand how we can accept

more people when we have all these problems but. only disappointed with his own government just like pretty much everyone. impression that i've been getting all the people are critical with the european approach in dealing with the refugee crisis the mayor told me that he believes that countries like germany and france are trying to keep up with the status quo whereas it is italy that is getting the first impact of the refugee crisis and it is being left alone in dealing with this . the e.u. betrayed italy with a problem that's not a talian per se actually it's totally european we are at the forefront italy is where they arrive first but the european community doesn't seem to care some countries even closed their borders more of that exclusive interview with the mayor and also my trip to the abandoned hotel that's now been turned into a refugee shelter. and the full report that will be aired on r.t.

international throughout tuesday as ili i just mentioned there are numerous rural towns in italy are struggling with similar issues he also discussed a problem with a lawyer who represents a community in the city and town of milan so where authorities want to house migrants and abandon school building the lawyer told us a different approach is needed also be that of the. putting migrants here into buildings like this is racism these kind of things make us racist the criticism from the community begins when locals realise that the migrants won't know what to do in this location so when migrants end up with nothing to do and there's someone amongst them inclined to criminal behavior it means they could start intruding getting into other houses and properties but they problem is not just this it's bigger it's about the lack of ability and opportunities to integrate so in these circumstances the refugee simply when blend into society this could lead to drug dealing issues and crime and that's reason why the community is being so critical.

the risk is that the shelter could turn into a ghetto a kind of concentration camp because the migrants will have nothing to do here they can't go to the seaside they can't go to the beach gym or socialize with other guys that's what we'll be telling the government. and another bit to draw attention to the growing public discontent over the influx of migrants to italy so-called art within and message has emerged in a field near for rhona it depicts a vessel called africa next to a vertical line creating quote stop you beneath the ship is a reference to a proposed nationality law which would grant italian citizenship to second generation immigrants born in the country huge piece was created by a land artist and it stretches across twenty five thousand square meters. at a boarding school in central china girls are training hard to become skilful warriors they live in spartan conditions and their only toys are sortes knives and their own

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thanks for staying with us here at r t international after a short break we'll have the latest on a disabled man in russia with a severe muscle wasting disease but was jailed for armed assault will also bring you highlights of this year's max international air show which ended just yesterday stay with us.

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. seriously send us an e-mail. welcome back to the program the taliban has claimed responsibility for a massive blast in the afghan capital kabul earlier today that killed twenty four and injured at least forty two people these are pictures of the aftermath of the blast a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a minibus which was carrying government employees the taliban said it was targeting the intelligence service however most of the victims were civilians here are some eyewitness accounts. of the two of my friends were also wounded when we emerged there were many ambulances and other injured people some civilian cause in the area damaged but. with the help of my friends and other people. around six there were times from here that's all i really missed there was a lot of debra's around the area. following three weeks'

detention a man with a severe muscle wasting disease who was convicted of armed assault in russia has been freed from jail and may have had been given a four and a half year sentence but was released on health grounds he gave his first interview to r.t. . bridge to the berlin wall was it was hard to comprehend what was going on with me i understood just one thing i'd been deprived of my life my family my relatives and i wouldn't last long that moment i was sure i would never see my mother father my daughter my partner again i thought that all that was left to me was waiting for a painful death at the detention center every single person that saw me was at a loss and shocked certainly those who worked there went straight to me is they had heard of me they came specially to see me as everyone was wondering how this could have happened they asked me but i couldn't give an answer as i couldn't understand how either twenty eight year old has a rare disease where almost all his muscles can't function he weighs just eighteen

kilograms and can only move around with the help of others he was found guilty of organizing an armed robbery and stealing a scooter this might be released on health grounds his conviction still stands although they're set to be an appeal hearing on august the third but may have lawyer claims his client's disabilities were never taken into account in the case that's always been the key thing is that they came across the judge's application that he gets filed the day before he announced the sentence in the application the federal bureau of social and medical inspection took knowledge of the disability however he delivered the verdict of guilty the next day without having received an answer now according to a court investigation memory i have was accompanied by three men who together threaten to shoot the owners of the scooter following his sentence several petitions were launched calling from oas release which gathered almost one hundred thousand signatures senators and politicians also waded in along with russia's commissioner for human rights. i have has now been reunited with his family and

says the experience inside has given him a new perspective of life you know bush my daughter is three years old she's small and doesn't get what's going on but when i arrived home everyone ran into my arms and burst into tears my daughter reached for me and cried i didn't expect that i was told that every day she asked when i would return once she saw me on t.v. and i asked why they told her that i was feeling bad and she cried for quite a long time my girlfriend and i are not married many people are familiar with my situation you perspire and events for many reasons like you want to earn more money when i was stuck in the detention center i promised myself to implement in life all that i had to spend. the final day of the max international air show has wrapped up just outside of moscow crowds were dazzled by an array of aerobatics where twenty five display showcasing huge variety of new aircrafts the show's been running all week over four hundred fifty thousand people attended the annual event

despite being an air show there was also plenty of action on the ground as seen and tested by our own craig. let's see what happens i can't wait can you. with all the laughs and just the right the washington nights we've got about twenty minutes before they were hostile begins the first time ever in my life that i'm doing this. here we go. this is the primary reason people have been coming here for a decade and all these sorts of fun times that they were told to call displays of acrobatics by highly skilled teams from all over the.

it's a rescue helicopter. this mold you can be turned into of business jet like the helicopter in just a matter of two hours that looks like a great seat where i can fully dedicate myself to business. we've seen some amazing planes and because the flying the sky like. it's. good to take this but since this is trying to comply they can also drive the constraint. so that. the operating room you've got this big hall that looks a bit like the bottom of the. slope.

down to the sky the explosives. let's. think about all the reports of the spectacular max international air show on our website r.t. dot com and on our you tube channel and while there don't forget to check out our latest three hundred sixty video filmed from one of the planes that took part in the event and for details of the rest of the stories we're covering today also had to all of our social media platforms facebook twitter r.t. dot com as well as on you tube i'll be back at the top of the hour with more headlines of the day.

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well welcome to sophie and call me sophie shevardnadze muslim women around the world are involved in a struggle against male authority in islam questioning what they call outdated family values that guide their everyday lives activists are demanding gender equality and basic rights. will they be able to change the centuries long traditions to co-founder of the libyan woman and platform for peace who fought for the libyan muslim woman's rights after the revolution how long he is with me today . after the arab spring revolutions in libya tunisia and elsewhere hopes for democratic. women only to be shattered by five years of instability war and the rise of extreme religious fundamentalists in the work of. those revolutionary

chaos what will it take for middle eastern women to shift the oppression of customs and to this fine balance between putting the lives of women and respect in their face. the co-founder of libyan women's platform for peace an advocate for women's rights in islam's a how long do you welcome to the show it's really good to have you with us today so you're after the reformation the transformation of muslim minds you want muslims to embrace the idea of equality and that's despite centuries of scholars work on the koran and rejecting equality putting man woman so what do you hope to achieve. we've had throughout the centuries patriarchal and massaging the stick interpretations of islam and it's about time that we. own our faith and our religion and present

more enlightened or what we call moderate or walsall to interpretations of islam that are. more for egalitarian views regarding women in their societies i want to talk a bit about libya because this is a topic that's very close to you libya's toppled leader moammar qaddafi did a lot for emancipation in libya whatever you like him or not but he rolled women and universities and the army gave them rights to divorce and so on so is the new libyan state going to keep this legacy or anything related to him is subject to destruction well first i would like to make a point. whatever women have libyan woman have it cheve it has nothing to do with get their feet per se we need to this tangle this presumption that these rights have been given by giveth and we've seen this.