quote no magic solution to the refugee crisis can be found italy's interior minister warns that international talks and article travels to rural areas of the country to gauge the effects of migrant. the u.s. is set to vote on further sanctions against russia but the e.u. war's over tally action against washington if the move hurts europe in the sense. iraq's vice president calls for a bigger russian presence in his country ahead of talks with latimer.

thanks for tuning in it's eight in the morning here in the russian capital here watching our to international with you this hour is and they still the top story now there is no magic solution to the refugee crisis according to italy's interior minister his words came during a meeting of european officials in tunisia on monday about the ongoing crisis in the mediterranean italy has been the most vocal over the issue with the country receiving the brunt of all migrants coming by sea from africa interior minister marco. stressed the need for a calling the strategy there is no magic solution. deal with the more good to reflux sheltered from. this year alone almost one hundred thousand refugees have reached a town and coast that's eighty five percent of all migrants who journey by sea to europe are days in the air trying to has been to rural areas of the country to see how the crisis is affecting life there italy's come up with a plan to ease the migrant crisis make them settle across the country even in the

most remote areas one neighborhood saw an abandoned hotel turn into a refugee shelter overnight there was a divided community and a mere launching a protest. room bed to a small town in the mountains which after a government decision was forced to accommodate dozens of migrants. i hope the mayor of this town mr cheever talk explain the system to me. on jordan oh can we see the hotel now i'll bet a block and to be on the other just ok thank you. the prefecture didn't tell us in advance that migrants were coming i thought everything would work out as the government told us that it would help us to cope with the migrants there already many problems here like unemployment issues with infrastructure health etc that's why some people around here are angry because the government chose to invest

money into the relocation of migrants instead of providing time with additional funds. this looks like the hotel we're looking for they entered through the gates but stayed outside because there was no electricity the hotel hasn't been used for years to host tourists my next step was to try and talk to the migrants inside but they wouldn't let me behind the locked gate was a dodgy looking man he claimed to be from a cooperative that had been put in charge by the authorities. he said the mayor said that a very low percentage of people who are here are actually refugees most of them are economic migrants is not true no that's not true the migrants are well integrated the man has never even contacts me he's lying i went on to ask where the migrants were from the man claimed they were always fiji's out of nigeria libya. and guinea just as i was negotiating we saw a couple with a tray of sweets it turns out some locals were indeed glad to have the new

neighbors finally he let me in without the camera the refugees said they'd only got warm welcomes from locals and were ready to become sicilians our journey continued to another small community where migrants haven't arrived yet but the government's intentions have already caused quite a debate in the usually quiet neighborhood. very small abandoned school local government wanted to place sixty my gran's in that small building i think we have a chance to talk to the lawyer who is representing the local community. to meet you don't. understand the plan was to put the migrants here and also be one of the best who are putting migrants here into buildings like this is racism the risk is that the show could turn into a kind of concentration camp because the migrants would have nothing to do here but

the problem is not just this is big it's about the lack of ability and opportunities to integrate the boats won't stop arriving in sicily from north africa so let's wait till you hear similar stories from italy's many other. having blasted the rest of the. crisis italian officials seem to have taken up the strategy of a nationwide melting pot will be watching how it's put to the test you'll have a drink or tea in sicily. the u.s. is set to vote on further sanctions against russia on tuesday but the e.u. boards in may retaliate if the move hurts the european businesses that will accuses russia of weaponize its gas exports but as kerem often explains it would actually have the u.s. more power to control the global energy market. so after months of podium pounding and condemnations against russia the u.s. congress is about to pass a bill penalizing russia not much to see here right just part of the ongoing

confrontation well let's take a look at what's actually in the bill the bill is targeting the construction of a key natural gas pipeline in europe citing what it calls detrimental impact on european energy security furthermore in the same paragraph the bill talks about exporting more of america's resources in order to create american jobs strengthen u.s. allies and strengthen u.s. foreign policy now that all agrees with a key component of u.s. energy strategy america's global dominance and finally we will acknowledge that energy policy. is not just a vital element of u.s. economic policy but it's also a battle element of us foreign policy and one of the most important actions we can take is to use our massive shale gas resources to begin shipping liquefied natural gas overseas so there you have it but what does selling gas to europe have to do

with protecting the sanctity of america's voting machines america's european allies are now crying foul saying that the usa is interfering with their energy policies with these sanctions and this conflict the relationship between russia and germany is not always free of conflicts but i cannot see how the politics of sanctions is hoping it says there is an american saying if you're in a hole stop digging i think this would be the right's approach to this issue the united states wants somehow to have you know bigger share of the european market especially in germany because germany biggest market. so far what i saw is that the russian you know is somehow an enemy for the u.s. guy. from each state. and we have a very longstanding relations with the russian federation. in a market where you know you have. relations and i see.

a good example to mention. at this point russia counts for thirty eight percent of the european union's natural gas while the usa only accounts for two percent of the e.u. is natural gas imports you can bet some slick wall street syndicates would like to reverse that lineup so when you hear this explanation of the sanctions we'll continue to work with the house and the senate to put those tough sanctions in place on russia until the situation in ukraine is fully resolved don't forget about this one we are committed to securing your access to alternate sources of energy so poland and its neighbors are never again held hostage to a single supplier of energy u.s. leaders say that they don't like russia for all kinds of reasons but one thing they don't mention is that russia is a key exporter of oil and natural gas competing with the big monopolists cable

baghban artsy new york. russia's foreign minister says relations with the u.s. are still being held back by decisions made under the obama administration. what's happening right now in our relations of course can bring joy we parroted a lot of problems from the previous administration of barack obama a lot of action mines and bad decisions that were made in the periods of maggoty when the living in the ministration well being already completely derailed by the election results decided to spend its remaining time in the white house doing things and first and foremost the decision to undermine russian american relations we understand how difficult it is now in washington for those who are trying to display common sense on the condition of a complete paranoid enthusiasm for it's a phobia without any investigations of the months or even a single fact that could be shown as confirmations of russians meddling in american affairs normal people are struggling i never suspected that american politicians

could be prone to such must insanity i met lots of them while working in new york now i'm very surprised by what's going on. on our terms son in law jared kirshner has denied all accusations of collusion with russia during last year's election campaign he made the statement outside the white house let me be very clear i did not collude with russia nor do i know of anyone else in the campaign who did so donald trump had a better message and ran a smarter campaign and that is why he was. suggesting otherwise ridicules those who voted for him the president's senior adviser was called to testify in front of the senate intelligence committee the hearing was held behind closed doors but in a statement released ahead of the appearance question or explain the extent of his contacts with russians during the presidential campaign has the story. he did put

out an eleven page statement before him and in that document he outright denies all accusations of colluding with the russians or of having any knowledge of others in team trump having done so along with denying having any improper contact with foreign officials bush outlined each interaction he had with russians including the now infamous meeting with a russian attorney that the media has painted as no less than a kremlin agent cushion or was being invited to meet with a russian attorney and it had been promised she would deliver dirt on hillary clinton and it is suspicious that they met with these people that they didn't consult a lawyer and that one of these people is a former k.g.b. she or you with the russian intelligence arm kirshner's explanation is much less exciting he claims that the meeting was about adoption and that he even had an assistant call him and get him out of it because it wasn't a good use of his time question or also draw attention to the fact that his job during the campaign was to be the point of contact with foreign countries and

therefore the four times he did encounter russians was well within his scope realistically not having any to report would have been more concerning given the amount of foreign contacts he had during the campaign i had incoming contacts with people from approximately fifteen countries to put these requests in context i must have received thousands of kools let's isn't emails from people looking to talk a meet on a variety of topics including hundreds from outside the united states well i could not be responsive to everyone i tried to be respectful of any foreign government question or how stressed the fact that he had only limited contacts with russian representatives and none of them were improper history has shown us that it is likely that the hunt for wrongdoing well continue political analyst charles or tell believes the rival democratic party has gained nothing from this relentless campaign against trump. jerod poster did a great job in the primary great job in the general election a great job in the transition and a fine job an outstanding job today so i would hope that the democrats were would

realize it's actually in their interest now to use this new message that just rebranded just came out today and accept the fact that they lost because hillary clinton and her team ran a horrible campaign learn from that move on and select a new set of initiatives to try to sell the american people but i fear there are simply just not going to give up quite frankly i think we've seen enough we know enough i think president should stand up she should be encouraged to use the process formally and get robert muller says to produce results and then stand down . with islamic state losing ground in a stronghold there have been frequent warnings that many jobs from europe may flee back home it's thought a twenty two year old dutch rapper could be one of them after he posted this online . so do you.

think. the dutch rapper is among hundreds of europeans who left their countries to join a slimy state in iraq and syria the netherlands authorities believe two hundred eighty dutch national is headed to the middle east to take up the jihad of that one hundred ninety managed to join isis while fifty returned back home eighty of those that left holland are freshly classed as children. that's jot us have even been trying to make clear why they should be allowed to return home to contact at news outlets in the netherlands to give interviews about why they do not pose a threat we heard reaction from a member of the alternative for germany party. this is how our media society works all over the world but there are these up interesting people the young

isis fighters for western origin and if they address the media to make some kind of good advertisement for them to bring them back to it to tell him countries where they were born in a western europe of course young fellows they they they use it or they use it this opportunity to come back but of course if no t.v. company is no television. had given them any any appearance in public this blackmail of the young people would not work that's for sure the twenty four year old rapper said his only attend intention of joining i so was because he wanted to bring some change in the world but he accepts that he felt i had expected to be a change factor in the civil war by fighting is shot that didn't succeed because the world is siding with the side and they always had the intention of returning after the war. many countries are concerned about the security risk of returning to

harvest and they could well face criminal charges to gratian there were rocks if the individual who ought to be integrated is sort of willing to integrate to the question is when these people who were born in the west and then converted to islam there fled their home countries because they were called weak to islam and the eyes of state being the better choice but the question is really are they willing to change to change back to their roots or is it only some artificial. behavior in order to come back from the crumbling isis state and then carry on fighting in western europe that's a question. iraq's vice president is meeting flatware pushing on tuesday jaring a four day trip to russia it comes after newly al maliki said moscow should broaden its political and military presence in iraq then you harkins has more russia of

course had close political economic ties to iraq since weld way back into the soviet era but what maliki was talking about here was more than just a close diplomatic presence he meant specifically an economic and a military presence as well something unprecedented really at least in the modern history of russia iraq relations or model for. iraq has historic ties with russia and now we need russia's political as well as military presence to restore balance in the region in the interests of the countries nations living there now what exactly does maliki mean by restoring a balance while the key bone of contention here is the u.s. military presence the presence of bases in iraq they've been there since the two thousand and three invasion for a decade and a half now and many in iraq including those in government have grown increasingly uncomfortable with this presence maliki has been one of most vocal critics indeed in reference to the opening of a new bases in iraq a new u.s. base. he said many iraqis view them as occupants that their presence doesn't

benefit anyone and effectively the sooner they leave are the better all round so i told the americans it's not in your interest to return to iraq and build your bases . you will come as an idea and leave as invaders speaking of closer ties to russia molecule so common that only importance of cooperating with russia on fighting terrorism in the region saying that without their contribution of the middle east may well have been withdrawn with whole regions and countries forming into the hands of terrorists it will be interesting to see of course with always so on the brink of at least battlefield defeat in both iraq and syria how that corporation develops in future a film about homosexuals syrian refugees sparking an outcry we debate the issue right after a short break. in

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death to the next president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. welcome back an adult movie about homosexuals muslim refugees has cost an outcry in germany the film shows a night in the life of a newly arrived syrian refugee in berlin who after suffering a hate crime meets a german man the director explained she was trying to change attitudes to microns. like you're reading. in the café. she didn't understand there's. like the sound of it. if you are brought up with an idea that homosexuality is.

off course there will be people thinking that this film is showing something that is completely out of the question. but what i hope for and what i wish for. looking at it and getting emotional with the characters feeling for it and eventually change minds. the vast majority of newcomers to germany are muslim with homosexuality as a taboo in muslim society we go reaction to the film from a syrian refugee. i came to europe from the arab east from syria not to see things like this but to learn from europeans their culture our good behaviors we don't have such things and i'm personally against it and migrants should engage in this kind of action. social commentator on the lands are in conservative right term gave us their views on the story if it can do some good to show people that muslims come

in different kinds of shapes and forms but that's a great thing now there are naturally going to be people who are upset maybe some the graphic scenes in the sexual scenes it is an adult movie but the key themes are that there are different stories and some people want to tell their stories there's definitely some tension between the idea that europe needs to open its doors and walk a man millions of people from all over the world with those millions of people often have homophobic values it's been proven they're actually have to segregate gay people in the refugee camps because they do face violence and attacks in germany had a problem with out with gay refugees that we had some reports that recent in the u.k. and in france about asylum seekers who were gay and who were being so badly abused by guards in offices and other people that were not being protected that they have taken their own lives and you're going to have a major culture clash if you walk them in a million new people who have a strong cultural identity and are willing to impose that culture ideally in their own social norms are the people who live in the host nation mike is one of these

guys that belongs on the alternative all the far right now who have been peddling. ideas of war in the one nine hundred thirty s. but i would call the untermensch which is that there are people who are somehow less human they've got less human values they're monolithic bloc so i just remember one thing mike that homosexuality was made norful lawful in terms there was no crime or punishment to be meted out to people who were gay in the muslim world centuries before it was in the race the facts are the pew research has done multiple studies on this and multiple polling and fifty percent of people in muslim majority nations do believe that homosexuality should be a crime in question is is the muslim world now in the middle east now not three hundred years ago now five hundred years ago now are they accepted. of homosexuals and gay people the answer is that they're not you have to change hearts through enlightenment through education through reaching out through engagement what you don't change hearts spies by pointing at people and demonizing them and making them

feel under siege and downtrodden what you don't do is change hearts and minds by making people feel somehow untrustworthy or unworthy your. u.s. forces in afghanistan happen accused of killing eight civilians in an airstrike the bombing raid took place in the province on sunday and was targeting islamic state terrorists a spokesman for the regional governor gave a statement he told us the islamic state militants who killed in the u.s. operation eight civilians were injured another eight killed including women and children. with little unequally according to witnesses the strike hit a funeral procession several of the survivors are being treated at a local hospital artie's video agency abruptly managed to speak to some of. my head shots then the jets to launch me sorrow it leveled five rooms to ground

some people were killed and injured later i fainted when i opened my eyes i found myself in hospital. in a room together. which and i was injured. in. the us military has come from the strike took place but said it wasn't aware of any civilian casualties while the un mission has promised and that's the geisha and to the allegations. thanks for staying with us of course you get details of the stories we're covering today by our social media platforms on facebook twitter and of course our website r.t. dot com i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour.

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there to hear. the end of the remember. i'm the. obama. thing not. the one. that. hey they're on one in france is the boss broadcasting around the world right here in washington d.c. tonight saudi arabia is showing a bit more drive to cut those oil exports and opec pushes forward if agreement to

stop the flood of oil on the market also we've got some interesting new. details on a possible nafta deal and my two guests two are going to go head to head from opposite sides of the aisle to talk about tax reform and the need for congress to put the pedal to the metal now. the bus starts right now. saudi arabia has stepped up to the plate it is actually delivering on oil production cuts as part of the agreed extension by the organization of petroleum exporting countries to cut one point eight million barrels per day the extension began in january two thousand and seventeen and is set to run until march two

thousand and eighteen there was worry about member states and associate nations undertaking a lax a days ago approach exports were cut to speed along the recovery of oil prices and to stem the global overflow of saudi arabia says six point six million barrels per day will be cut in august that is almost one million below its levels two years ago brant crude for september futures were up forty four cents on the day and they rose from a session low of forty seven sixty eight exempted from this deal though due to massive civil unrest are nigeria and libya and that will not change out of the deal. the federal reserve has already achieved one of its two mandates with the unemployment rate at just four point four percent the fed has essentially maximized employment and the measurement of an.