it's consumed with this. now we know how to. make. protests over venezuela's election for a constituent assembly claim eleven lives with one hundred people arrested the opposition is calling for a new day of nationwide. islamic state. on the iraqi embassy in afghanistan's capital kabul several explosions and gunfire being reported. during the newsroom militants are driven by their six year stronghold in the lebanon highlands r.t. travels to what used to be the terrorist hideout in the month. we make the shocking

discovery what appeared to be prison cells. just. lots of tactical vests. london's high court blocks a bid to prosecute former u.k. prime minister tony blair iraq. just after three pm this monday afternoon here in the russian capital welcome to r.t. international i mean you know good to have your company our top story venice we. turn to vote for a new constituent assembly was more than forty percent but the election sparked a deadly wave of violence across the country.

an explosion on a street in caracas injured a number of people among them seven police officers six people were wounded two when a grenade was thrown into a polling station the opposition is calling for more protests a separate cards the election illegally.

if you know 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 so there's no need if we don't have a republic that's why we went to vote. this is a legal no one asked the people where they want and are now. i don't think you know i love you and people are tired of violence they can ask the government to fix the things that should be fixed but basically we need peace. just some president nicolas maduro called on venice whelan's to throw their support behind the new assembly which will be formed after sunday's vote it will be tasked with rewriting the constitution and will have the power to dissolve the current parliament the opposition has defied a ban on public protest and did nothing to the election as a power grab by president maduro over the last number of months for in fact. more

than one hundred people have lost their lives in the violence let's look back at home and rest spiraled at the end of march the powers of the national assembly were seized by the supreme court which was the initial trigger of public anger then in april the court revised its decision but that did not come the tension the national guard was sent to the streets as the protests turned violent the next president maduro announced his plan to change the constitution sparking further often deadly unrest in the u.s. the e.u. and several a lot in american countries have already rejected the election results but the venezuelan president hit back of criticism. we have the constituent assembly now. the spokesperson of the emperor donald trump said they didn't recognize the election results how the hell did it matter to us what trump is saying it matters what the people of when israel are saying. well commentators we spoke to say i'd side state should concentrate on their own for. a third player

besides dimon doura regime in the opposition i'm speaking of washington washington has promised that it will slap sanctions on venezuela as a result of this vote washington sees south america as his backyard. as a primary interest destabilizing the caracas based regime of mr mcgurk nothing. can stop the will of the venezuelan people to go and to exercise their will and to apply the democracy the opposition choose to be out and to accept it to be out of this of this procedure. several explosions have rocked the iraqi embassy in the center of kabul islamic state say it is behind the attack which killed at least two allows so worry reports now from the afghan

capital. the interior ministry in kabul has released a statement saying that at least four attackers were involved in this attack the first attacker detonated his explosives it's not clear from that interior ministry statement whether the attacker was on foot or he was driving in a vehicle and three attackers caught inside the embassy compound we're also being told that the afghan special forces have risky with the iraqi diplomats and taken them to a safer location one afghan official confirmed to me that the police commander in charge of security for the iraqi embassy was wounded. rises have said that they have carried out the attack it's an ongoing afghan special forces from the price of response unit still fighting possibly against one or more attackers and the question is that how these attackers were able to bring so many weapons and ammunitions into the heart of kabul now we see this is

a prevalent problem for the afghan national security forces that these militant groups can launch these attacks in very secure locations or in very central parts of the afghan capital in kabul to another story we're closely following this hour lebanon's hezbollah fighters have recaptured the last stronghold of the al newser terrorist group in the country let's take a look here on our news wall we are somehow mountains are located in eastern lebanon right near the syrian border now for six years since the start of the syrian war the area has been a hotbed all this area for extremists artie's only trouble to the newly liberated area for us. 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 not 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 the 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 now 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 instructions 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 pops more ominous to me many more of them decided to defect to the so-called islamic state and some of the. come on to tell me they're only four kilometers away from where we all know. you said look at the. courthouse rejected an attempt to prosecute former prime minister tony blair over the year rock work with more from london live

joining us is alyssa see you. in the c. hi there you know this is something that's been in the pipeline for many years isn't it but given what has occurred here what is the case about why has it actually been blocked well you know in this certainly was a highly anticipated decision as the high court decided to block a bid brought by former iraqi general to prosecute tony blair for his role in kick starting the iraq war back in two thousand and three now this latest decision we saw the justices find that this case is not going to go ahead because the iraqi general had claimed that tony blair needs to be prosecuted because of committing a crime of aggression but the justices here in london found that since there is no such notion under domestic law in england and wales this case is not going to go forward then we also decided that this is something that supreme the supreme court is not going to be able to reverse we do know that the defense team that brought

this case forward argued that it's the chilcote reports that justifies prosecuting tony blair of course let's keep in mind that this was a major massively controversial report that was released last year basically saying that among other things saddam hussein did not pose a threat to the u.k. that's questionable evidence was used when it came to when it comes to weapons of mass destruction as well as things such as the u.k. and the west did not pursue a more peaceful alternatives before kickstarting the invasion let's take a listen. in the house of commons on september twenty fourth two thousand and two mr blair presented iraq's past current and future capabilities as evidence of the security civility of the potential threat from iraq. the judgments about iraq's capabilities in that statement and in the dossier published the same. were presented with

a certainty that was not justified. well despite the fact that tony blair in this particular case is not going to be appearing in court with the massive death toll in the consequences that this war has had in the region as well as the relatives of victims calling for justice it's unlikely that this issue is going to be going away anytime soon. because one terrorist in this world at the well needs to be aware of these names tony but we were proud enough of some adult has signed on to sort of a comfort but we can be proud of the way of our government the streets. well despite this latest decision it's clear from what these family members are saying that they're not going to let this issue go despite the fact that the justice is found that this particular reason of this case is not good enough to go ahead and prosecute tony blair it's unlikely that this topic is going to not resurface in the time to come for the op there to. hear from central london thank

you. love him or sees the time has come for russia to show that it will not leave us sanctions on the explain moscow's response to washington's latest restrictions in an interview. more than a thousand people both diplomatic and technical staff are currently working in russia which 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 because this is a move to impose a legal restrictions to attempt to influence other countries including u.s. allies here which are interested in developing ties with russia. but on longer. 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 and it won't be in the near future quarter i decided it is time for us to show you that we will not leave anything on answer to that will be a political. opinion that of course we have more to say here there are fears that we could restrict which would be painful for the united states but i think we shouldn't do that and it's only going to harm us russian relations as they are but it's also going to affect us as well betty also russia ordered the u.s. embassy to stop the use of several facilities here we can show you all of them new sanctions against russia are expected to be signed by president trump the document approved by the congress aims to target russia's lucrative energy trade with european partners washington claims the measures are in response to alleged election. companies in america's military industrial complex which by donald trump

see their share prices soar we get into the tough to this. the feeling. every the world should experience. according to josh. beckett is that he's to feed. you. so if you have this if you don't take company he's. ready but. that's it's the. leaders.

that start with money since they don't trump became us president the share price of a number of military industrial companies has increased significantly among the firms which have seen their share is rising is boeing which besides civilian planes also has a range of military as well as lockheed martin to a company famous for its fighter jets and missile systems and raytheon a 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. we must also ensure that nato members meet their financial obligations and pay what they owe. hundreds of billions of dollars of investments into the united states and jobs. jobs. however there are growing suspicions that the president favors those companies who supported him during his campaign. 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 car guard against the acquisition of unwanted influence whether saw or runs on by the military industrial complex. the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. we must never let the weight of this combination in danger our liberty or democratic process let's wait and see if history really has taught us anything about misplaced power and unwarranted influence giago r.-t. . no heise of representatives in the us 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 cracking down on 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 authorities are taking matters into their own homes. 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.

two three four that's what they look like. twenty. 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. what critics of the approach say it won't help people in some central american countries are desperate to escape the violence. many good people across central america are facing harassment from all sides the gangs and cartels 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'd rather die than 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 more death and suffering for those trying to get across this problem will not get better until a more rational approach is found. moving on our calls for independence are growing in southern germany where one in three but variance say they are in favor of breaking free from the country and the european union those in favor of breaking away demand to have more representation and a bigger say over the future of their region artie's peter oliver explains why the cracks are starting to appear every country i came to ask a video come from another set of area michael is a the generation money maker but when it comes to the members germany he'd rather have it redrawn he says but 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. bison of trouble best strong images of germany but they're actually a very very a is a is a is a market. is a market a brand. on for me it's a better brand than come from germany. tastes bad smells bad. while most of the german states are simply called the states all right lol you're right learned a lot mate very good 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 various political focuses 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. policies. in our culture everyone needs to learn german it's vital to ending a living and maintaining law and order and it should be our own law and order not part of the our world but the actual berkeley's our very other state such as you already against splitting the fact there's only one party with an independent their real their manifesto the by apartheid you believe it should be not a very dominating state you know we believe that we want to be a state which is in a peaceful way to be of those 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 ruled by balloon we are ruled from berlin or brussels on the other hand and these people decide

a will of the people of the very we have no influence the so called in the european parliament we have only thirteen members and. for example greece which has less inhabitants. and i think you can move this list for people who do things which are well they may be sort of support for a breakaway for various. 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. they will continue to rule over the there we. see. now they wait but that doesn't stop them from being fast the twenty seventeen ton by a flow in the faintest now under way in your moscow.

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all. want. almost seemed wrong why don't we all just don't hold. any of these yet to shape out of this thing to come to educate and gain from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. economic development is all about numbers we're really pleased to report this quarter we are one hundred six morning. but what do we know about the other figures. when i think about the fact that our c.e.o.

mike du made over twenty million dollars last year more than one thousand times the average wal-mart a says c.n.n. with all due respect i have to say i don't think that's right. is that just how a free market would. people went from pretty simple financial lives pre nine hundred eighty to the point now where people are the just totally submerged in their financial accounts and they're all in debt and what exactly devoid society did from the part of the government tried to do it wasn't necessarily mr. markham a few things worse. by saying this is not how capitalism works but lose them goes hopelessly disastrously wrong.

you know it's hard to believe eight years ago i had a fully loaded pistol in my mouth ready to pull the trigger. used in working more the drugs and working more i just got to the point where i got to stop this. from my kids and all. the. symptoms you see.