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us to enjoy. watching international very warm welcome to you. venezuela's electoral council says the. vote for a new constituent assembly was more than forty percent. across the country.

i. am explosion on a street in caracas injured a number of people among seven police officers also six people were wounded when a grenade was thrown into a polling station the opposition is calling for more protests as it regards the election as illegal. as you know a republican we know if we don't have

a republic we have nothing we may have a home food we can start a family raise children die there's no need if we don't have a republic that's why we went to vote. this is legal you know when they ask the people where they want and are now i don't think you know you know people are tired of violence they can ask the government to fix the things that should be fixed but basically we need peace president nicolas maduro called on venezuelans to throw their support behind the new assembly which will be formed after sunday's vote that will be tasked with writing the constitution and will have the power to dissolve the current parliament and the opposition has defied a ban on public protests and denounced the election as a power grab by the president.

i. i. us the e.u. and several latin american countries brazil colombia and mexico have already rejected the election results commentators we spoke to say outside states should mind their own business the past every nice day. election day. the people goes to the side that are more nothing. can stop the will of the venezuelan people to go and to exercise their will and to apply the democracy the opposition to choose to be out and to accept it to be out of this of this procedure what we have to wait. agenda of the opposition and

if then we they will accept the result or not this is the issue right now. a journalist working with r.t. is arabic channel has been killed by islamic state in syria. was covering a syrian army operation in homs province when his convoy came under mortar fire a syrian soldier also died in the attack three other people were injured including a cameraman. started working with r.t. back in april reporting on the plight of families caught up in the war he was twenty five years old.

the head of oxy arabic has expressed the channel's condolences to how it's family and friends my amana said in a statement we will support them in any way possible and we thank god for his courage and bravery here is in fact affiliate reporting on the plight of civilians in iraq. those who use the u.s. led coalition planes and those who give the orders of a long think about the consequences of their actions civilians have been killed or forced to flee because of them and the infrastructure has been destroyed all civilians claim that the pretext of fighting against terrorism and extremism is used to justify the actions of the coalition.

but there is no more water for irrigation as the land has been in record profits and there is no harvest and if any cross did remain we were not allowed to use them . to hurt us one of them without the coalition carries out and struck some schools so children don't study anymore many most civilians were injured when the coalition hit hospitals as well. and i can sign now and for that going hellish jets bombed our school so we stopped going there are lots of civilians were killed in that airstrike as they were sheltering in fear at the time.

lebanon's hezbollah fighters have recaptured the last stronghold of the al nasra terror group in the country they are also mountains are located in eastern lebanon very close to the syrian border we can see right here on the map for six years since the start of the syrian war this area has just been a hotbed for extremists. travel to the newly liberated area. these are the ourselves in the east of lebanon it's the latest scene of the victory of hezbollah the lebanese resistance group who have defeated the al qaeda affiliate . and about so ended just a few days ago and you can still see the remnants of that with bullets and shells all strewn across the floor and we've seen burnt out vehicles on the way up here

and got victory against hezbollah managed to capture this cave which was used by terrorists as a base so we can go inside and have a look around. inside the cave we make a shocking discovery what appeared to be prison cells it's unclear why exactly elements were needed prison cells in this isolated area. of punishment to prevent their own fighters fleeing in the middle of the night these are some of the weapons which was captured from japan and we've got these. rockets lots of tactical vests. and there are rocket launches. guns and all sorts of all tillery which were abandoned by no so when they were defeated and they left this cave there's even a room where battle plans are drawn up where fights is received instruction and

they take their seats and listen to the commanders ninety militants were killed in that battle and those who survived many of them fled to infighting continues between different rebel groups but some of them remained just a few kilometers away behind these mountains behind us more ominous lee many more of them decided to defect to the so-called islamic state and some. the hezbollah commander to tell me that they're only four kilometers away from where we are now. he said lebanon. imposter and since took office the share price of a number of military industrial companies has increased significantly among the companies which have seen their shows rises boeing which specializes in military aircraft as well as military aircraft as well that's also famous for its missile systems and raytheon that's a very well known major u.s.

defense contractor. the top line defense discretionary number is six hundred three billion dollars that's a fifty four billion dollar increase the number that allows the president to keep his promise to undo the military sequester. to ensure that nato members meet their financial obligations and pay what they. however there are growing suspicions of the president favors those very companies who supported him during his presidential campaign. takes a closer look. president trump has chosen raytheon executive mark aspirate to be the next u.s. army secretary now why should you care well first of all trump loves the military industrial complex will submit a new budget to rebuild our military we will give the men and women of america's

armed services the resources you need beautiful new planes and beautiful new equipment be lacking a little equipment we're going to load it up but it's not like it really needs all that love i mean look at those numbers the love is all there already second of there are a lot of the fans companies that want a slice of the pie and here comes mark asper a man who's clearly already had a taste aside from being raytheon's vice president of government relations asper also happens to be one of the main military industrial complex lobbyists in the united states and by the way the love is mutual apparently aerospace defense groups boeing and lockheed martin each donated one million dollars to trump's integration fund now they are enjoying the fruits of working with the new administration we have an administration that is significant and supports an international work for the domestic us in the street and the has opened several doors for us. so what's

wrong with this i mean everyone's happy right well the answer comes from the thirty fourth president of the united states white david eisenhower in the councils of government we must guard guard against the acquisition of don't want that influence whether sought or runs by the military industrial complex. the but enjoyed by the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. we must never let the weight of this combination in danger our liberties or the democratic process let's wait and see if history really has taught us anything about misplaced power and unwarranted influence we got rasmussen giago r.t. . but i'm a poet and says the time has come for russia to show that it will not leave us sanctions and answered explain moscow's response to washington's latest restrictions in an interview. with more

than a thousand people both diplomatic and technical staff currently working in russia seven hundred fifty five of them will have to stop their activities and that's painful. because then that america has taken a step to jeopardize u.s. russia relations and the important thing is that that step wasn't triggered by anything this is a move to impose a legal restrictions to attempt to influence other countries including u.s. allies we here which are interested in developing ties with russia. but don't forget that we've been waiting for quite a long time so that maybe something would change for the better we had hoped that the situation would change but it looks like even if it does change then it won't be in the near future i decided to this time for us to show you that we will not leave anything on answered he's the one that will be a political. of course we have more to

say that there are fears that we could restrict which would be painful for the united states but i think we shouldn't do that it's only going to harm us russian relations as they are but it's also going to affect. also russia or the u.s. embassy to stop the use of several facilities are here we can show you some of them . against russia are expected to be signed by president trump and the document approved by the congress aims to target russia's lucrative energy trade with the european partners washington claims the measures are in response to alleged election meddling. well thanks for joining us so far here in aussie international more of your top world headlines in just.

to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president the interim. want to. let you go on to be for us to see what the full story of the more people. interested always in the water. thanks.

thanks for joining us here on aussie international today a cold full independence are growing in southern germany where one in three bavarians knol say that they are in favor of breaking free from the country and the e.u. and those in favor of breaking away demand to have more representation on a biggest say over the future of their region. peter all of us now explains why the cracks are starting to appear. every country i came to ask for video come from and out of a set of area michael is a thirty generation might make but when it comes to the month of june many he'd rather have it redrawn he says good very is too important to be a nation in its own right and a recent poll shows that one in three bavarians share his view. holes in bison

forced in off the top of fist strong images of germany but they're actually a very very a is a is a is a market it is a market a brand. on for me it's a better brand than come from germany tastes bad the smell spat. while most of the german states are simply called the states all right somalia and right in line a lot mate very good looking three states very it makes absolutely no difference but it's a name it's a little different over the last couple of years but there is political focus it shifted because of the ongoing refugee crisis hundreds of thousands of migrants crossed into germany through the state leading to politicians here to challenge chancellor merkel's phone to your policies. for a limb in our culture everyone needs to learn german and it's vital to ending

a living and maintaining law and order and it should be our own law and order not that of the arab world. i think the berkeley. theory of the first century you already against splitting the fact there's only one fourteenth with the independent their real their manifesto the bind part time you believe it should be not a very dominating state you know we believe that we want you should be a state which is peacefully to the argos and which decides his own. economic situation its own democratic situation its own code from situation and there is not just directed towards berlin now we. are rude from. brussels on the other hand and these people decide who the people. we have no influence the so. in the european parliament we have only thirteen

members. for example greece. has less inhabitants. who do things which are while they may be some say three breakaway there the supreme court here in germany ruled earlier this year that any kind of referendum on the subject would be against the german constitution so for the time being at least the. will continue to rule over there in life things are all. over to the united states now where the house of representatives has passed a spending bill with a whopping one point six billion dollars allocated for the construction of a wall along the mexican american border putting a cap on the flow of migrants and drug smuggling was one of the focal points of donald trump's presidential campaign however some in the state of arizona are still not content with the efforts made by author and are now taking matters into their

own hand. i've built this basically myself a one man thing to over two hundred fifty volunteers in seven years. we're too politically correct now. fraid of hurting somebody feelings. to three that's what they look like. twenty kilos. in this is a. bill that's going on. this

catchphrase the war on. whenever they put it in front of something else the war on drugs the war on terror all that means is there is no goal there is no objective there is no end game i have a saying you want some done wrong get the government to do. critics off the approach say it will not help those people in some central american countries are simply desperate to escape the violence out. many good people across central america are facing harassment from all sides the gangs in cottle's work together and make life impossible so the only option is to flee people know they're risking their lives to get to america but they draw the die in the movie then sit at home and wait to be killed every time americans tighten controls on the border that means more business for organized crime it means one death and suffering for

those trying to get across this problem will not get better until a more rational approach is front thanks for joining us so far here on the program on our international before we go that's a quick look at the spectacular navy day celebrations that would held in russia on sunday. so great shows that coming from some previous book the venice of the north by joining us so far it's monday morning here in moscow more of your headlines in

about half an hour. fleur used to be a professional hockey player won a stanley cup moment but he was living the dream of his six and a dark side. the time i was fourteen to sixteen i was raped one hundred fifty times by a coal mine i was mawson in a dark room and so you know every time i close my eyes i couldn't sleep after many

years of silence. so you are going from. walking the walk to create awareness and promote healing around the subject child sexual abuse this type of behavior is absolutely unacceptable because of the sentences that are handed down through the justice system. i mention returns here we're going underground twenty four hours away from the expire e of n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden's residency permit in russia coming on the show treading the boards of powell we speak to scotland's longest serving first minister alex salmond about his barrel performance of the festival of the world's edinburgh

fringe festival in scotland which begins this week and this thousands fleeing the fallout of nato wars in the middle east face death trying to cross the mediterranean award winning author lucy hughes hallett about how to build walls to keep out economic and political transformation plus a good day to bury bad news what stories of fallen through the cracks in this week's buried news coming up in today's going underground but first today marks one hundred years since what is arguably one of the most useless battles in all of human history the battle of passion dale went off a million died or wounded in muddy ditches sea. four miles from where the european parliament in belgium now sits today remembering the dead is wrapped up in a cornucopia of commemoration and social media join us in connecting those who fought in world war one in flanders fields belgium this remembered maybe the fact that czarist russia really catalyze the slaughter with the defeat of the so-called

korean ski offensive that czarist russia that was supported by britain and its allies against the bolshevik revolution that would take place in russia in a few months off the passion dale the soviet union's policies would have the effect of reducing the number of dead and wounded of world war one but the battle itself was part of what u.k. liberal prime minister lloyd george at the time would call a senseless campaign and the shadow of the future energy of war was fought from london continues to today here is a veteran labor m.p. tony benn mentor of current u.k. labor leader jeremy corbyn put it in parliament ahead of the iraq war war is an easy thing to talk about not many people of the generation that remember. the sexual arousal i never killed anyone but i wore uniforms but i was in london in the blitz and i'd be forty living in the millbank tower where i was born some different ideas of common sense. and they're laughing because the millbank tower in westminster was then the offices of tony blair's labor party i went out into the

show turning thames house every morning i saw a document burning five hundred people were killed in westminster one not by a landmine it was terrifying i found out rips terrified countries rockers terrified to go into iraq or to iraq where me weep when their children well we caught up with a tireless opponent of that war in iraq and subsequent was the former first minister of scotland alex salman dizzee took a break from rehearsing in a theater here in london for his edinburgh fringe show in scotland running at the assembly rooms from the thirteenth to the twenty seventh of august before we get on to your edinburgh fringe show a link between today's one hundred year anniversary of passion dale and don't trump . yes the happens in obvious of the great war was hugely costly in terms of human life and scotland was one of the center points of that because so many scots were in the forces and volunteered for the forces and the connection

with donald trump is that the one of the probably the last great tragedy of the first world war was a troop ship called dial which was coming back to the west of miles to the hebrides in the first of january one thousand nine hundred and was lost in a storm within a couple hundred yards of the shore and another several hundred young men were lost in addition to the thousands who'd been lost from the west of ireland in the trenches and that created such an imbalance of population between men and women multiple each in the western isles a series of embarkation chemically ships were arranged in the one nine hundred twenty s. which women only in many cases and on one of the ships was a young lady macleod the mother of donald trump somebody who incidentally went to america as a refugee effectively as an economic migrant. fleeing a situation of great. deprivation and.