to going to the pros this is like the for three of the four people. i'm interested always in the wars and the. question. on the news tonight rex tillerson in search of a lab rob hold the first time level meetings between the united states and russia since congress's latest round of sanctions and north korea threatens the united states mainland with a nuclear strike as u.n. unanimously votes to sanction the country and vice president mike pence categorically denies claims by the new york times he will run for president in two thousand and twenty i met charles reporting tonight from the r. t. do is room this is the news on r t america.

good evening france we start tonight with a high level meeting between two diplomats from the united states and russia secretary of state rex tillerson met with russian foreign minister surgery lever off during a meeting of the association of southeast asian nations over the weekend the meeting was the first since congress passed a new set of sanctions against russia rex tillerson criticized the damage done to us russian relations by alleged russian hacking into the two thousand and sixteen elections commander in the elections has asserted serious incident we talked about in the discussion we had with mr lavrov yesterday and trying to help them understand just how serious this is and it is how serious it is a day of the relationship between us and the american people and the russian people that this is created a serious mistrust. the secretary of state also said the united states would not

react to the russian decision to remove over seven hundred diplomats from the country until after september first foreign minister lavrov commented on the meeting emphasizing the rise in russia phobia in the administration of this in the pitch we explained the reasons for the decision we made after long expecting that the united states would not move towards further confrontation but unfortunately the recent phobic attitude in congress one analyst. for more on the future of russia u.s. relations we're joined tonight by jim jatra former u.s. diplomat jim always a pleasure likewise how can the united states and russia move forward with these sanctions as a backdrop it seems like both secretaries of state understand the severity of the sanctions but they also know how important it is to move forward how they're going to navigate through this i don't think they can't tell the truth and i think we're

in for a repair iraqi road for a very long time maybe there are some small things they can do here or there maybe they can cooperate a bit on korea something on syria but even there i think the opportunities are limited has trouble been weakened by these sanctions that he was not able defense office own party and reduce the fears of what could the future bring i think so and i think you even see that in what secretary tillerson said at this meeting that what damage u.s. russia relations was not the sanctions bill it was russian meddling in our elections which he knows as well as anybody else there's no evidence for but at this point you know when you're stuck on the axle all you can do is spin and i think at this point that to a large extent the trumpet ministration has to play along with what they know is the overwhelming sentiment in washington and hope somewhere somehow they can ameliorate the situation. this president president trump certainly has the personality to defy congress what powers does he have that would show the

russians that he's beyond these sanctions that this was not his choice and it seems like tillerson and trump together have conveyed that this is not the route that they would have liked to have taken but they couldn't politically stop it what about all that was the first one that comes to mind he is the commander in chief of our armed forces and presumably he could do something for example to stop of some of the provocative behavior on russia's borders and territorial waters but actually we see in the wake of vice president pence's trip to a stone in montenegro in georgia the stepping up of nato exercises right against russia's territory so i again that's a that would be a good place to start but i don't see it does the trump administration the president himself have to reach out to the european nations to assure them that there will be good times with the united states despite these sanctions because as

you know some of them have already expressed their desire to side with russia on a number of issues that they say they think these sanctions go too far and hurt their own economy that would be a prudent step but again you wonder where is the the prudent sense of responsibility here what i what i see instead is recklessness let's keep in mind ed that whatever trump might try to do you could always anticipate well maybe it'll be another bill passed with a veto proof majority to shut off whatever avenue that is i again i'm not very optimistic. all right jim jet trysts nice to have you with us jim thank you so much the u.n. security council has unanimously agreed on a new set of sanctions against north korea the sanctions will target the country's economy in response to two ballistic missile tests in july u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley praised the severity of the resolution the price the north korean

leadership will pay for its continued nuclear and missile development will be the loss of one third of its exports and hard currency this is the most stringent set of sanctions on any country and a generation. in the response to the sanctions to north korea issued a stern warning to the united nations and threaten the united states mainland with a potential nuclear strike meanwhile the foreign ministers of both south and north korea met briefly over the weekend in a failed attempt to normalize relations artie's election has further details tonight while these measures are indeed tougher than before they were adopted over the weekend by the u.n. security council and they involve ban on the exports of a lot of things that basically form the north korean economy such as coal and iron ore seafood and many many other things also including the reduction of the current numbers of north korean laborers working abroad and also prohibiting new joint

ventures with an investment in joint ventures with north korea obviously one of the biggest instigators of these sanctions was the united states and the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley said that this was the toughest set of measures against any country ever it does indeed look like that and it's also one of those cases where all countries members of the u.n. security council all fifteen members came together and voted unanimously even the countries which have not had. a stance as the united states when it comes to north korea such as russia and china in fact the russian envoy to the united nations mr new bands actually said that they do want the north korean bit of the korean peninsula to be denuclearized but at the same time by adopting this resolution it also russia also wants these six party talks to continue on the peaceful solution to this matter also we've had reactions obviously from pyongyang which reacted with

indignation said that there will be a righteous response according to the state agency to the new sanctions and also one of the officials quoted by the state agency in north korea said that if the united states things that it will be safe. by imposing these sanctions against pyongyang it's a wrong assumption so clearly tensions are running high but it's again not the first time that these sanctions came into fruition the biggest change to the sanctions this time is that it concerns the things that north koreans see as the main boosters of their economy and one of the biggest hits there would be the ex the ban on the export of coal because just last year the north korean economy made nine hundred fifty million dollars on exporting coal and still the budget of the country was one hundred sixty four to forty million deficit so apparently with this new band it will hit the north korean economy by at least four hundred

million dollars since they can or will not be able to export oil basically the only thing that the north koreans will be able to export this time is clothes which makes up about four hundred million dollars annually worth of exports but then again it's a really tough set of measures against the country this time and one only has to wonder how the economy will feel after that because north korea is a reclusive country it's a closed off state it's really hard to know what is actually going on there economy wise but clearly it is the seventh time that sanctions have been introduced by the united nations against north korea in just eleven years this time definitely the hardest time of all seven because the previous six times clearly did not stop north korea from holding the ball a ballistic missile tests and these new set of measures against north korea are in fact the response to the two missile ballistic tests held in july so we'll see how this situation develops and where there will be a more escalation of this already serious situation on the korean peninsula. for

more on the north korean situation let's turn now to the principal the trilogy advisers john john nice to have you with us tonight always good to be you know these these sanctions. it sounds like they're going to have a real strong impact on their economy what if it does doesn't that put kim jong un in somewhat of a desperate situation your thoughts on these sanctions and how crippling they could be i think we in the united states had in the west forget what kind of punishment the north korean regime the grandfather the father and now the son kim jong un have been willing to put their own people through basically and send a slave colony in order to prop up the regime i don't think these sanctions will have the kind of devastating effect that policy planners believe it's probably going to have to ratchet up before we start to see any real reaction coming out of

kim jong un in a tangible way what does this mean no talks there will be no talks between the united states and north korea so word of this or does that leave us well unfortunately for us with diminishing options in terms of a more hopeful outcome the chinese i think a very much concerned about the economic sanctions that will hurt chinese businesses and chinese business officials they're probably also concerned about the possibility of ramped up sanctions that will prevent chinese businessmen from owning american real estate so the chinese are very much concerned there but it's still not enough to force them to take the kind of steps that we've would like to see out of china to try to paint in kim jong un look to see how they might denuclearize which is an almost impossible concept to imagine today or maybe either offer of kim jong un subtype of a pseudo north korean statelet inside of china to live luxuriously in or ultimately

possibly assassination. well those are pretty extreme options there's no question about it but they're backed up possibly by this unanimous vote by the u.n. security council fifteen to zero including russia and china so china knows that they hold all the cards right now but it you get a sense that they like the fact that north korea continues to aggravate the united states because of all the nasty trade talk that's gone back and forth between the united states and china and the threats that have been made from the president himself with that being all of a backdrop where is the solution here outside of a military option which could be devastating in all only too hard to calculate the real loss of human life what's the solution there is some key experts said who understand north korea better than as i mentioned before most westerners who think these types of sanctions can actually affect regime behavior in

a positive direction two steps would need to be taken most likely one is that china would have to end its policy of providing free oil to the north korean regime to the north korean government that could produce the kind of public organic grassroots uprising against the regime the other option is of course to have the international community send back to north korea tens of thousands of north korean laborers whose remittances helped to prop up the regime as well then you could start to see not only the potential economic collapse but the elite military around kim jong un looking at alternatives or maybe overthrowing the leader themselves. john sinhalese great insight always pre-shared your time tonight thank you thank you and if you think that this isn't a big story worldwide hawaii's public schools will now conduct nuclear drills in response to north korean missile tests a wise emergency management agency recommended the drills in

a report in early july officials admit casualties from a direct strike cannot be prevented the drills will instead teach children to and students to remain sheltered to avoid fallout and radiation sickness as of yet the department of education has not issued plans to begin the drills on saturday the new york times suggested vice president mike pence might make a run for the presidency in two thousand and twenty the vice president fired back with an official response categorically denying the claim and calling it described as full and offensive meanwhile white house chief of staff john kelly is trying to rein in the president's flamboyant twitter activity kelly has signaled the days of easy access to the president are over the former general is working to eliminate walk ins into the oval office after meeting with two hundred white house staffers last friday for more on all of this we're joined tonight by our political panel for the evening dawn jones former georgia state representative an attorney and also

mark simone to be a war radio talk show host out of new york great to have both of you with us tonight all right raining and donald trump i don't know if a military general can do this or not lead on but it sounds to me like the culture of the white house is going to change or people are going to get fired and heads are going to roll is this at least a good start adding you see it. i asked one other way of saying that trump has been on his vacation has a working vacation suddenly he's away from kelly and he just unleashes particularly today or yesterday he discos pray that there will be no reigning in trump on twitter he has just enough of his followers to keep telling him keep on doing it we like it and that is all he needs for his ego to continue this you can't rein him in we won't see any changes it will be the same old trump mark sixty nine percent of americans want the president to stop his activities on twitter and the numbers are

starting to fall when it comes to his favor ability will he change will these numbers move him at all oh i hope he doesn't change i always look at the metrics in those polls most of them are pretty rigged they take republicans down to twenty three percent in the sample which is ridiculous you know you show his approval ratings in the legitimate polls at forty percent but also congress's approval rating is at ten percent so that number gets any coverage i hope they don't rein him in now. you know people do something about this he may be the most successful man ever in our lifetime conquered the business world goes into television a total amateur has the number one show it runs fourteen seasons goes into politics a total amateur next and you know he's president and i had states what may be unorthodox the style but it works i would just take notes on what he does rather than trying to rein him in look like don't do that you still own middle america what do you think. eventually middle america is going to realize that he is all hot

air just like they now believe that he was a successful businessman although he's had dozens of bankruptcies dozens of lawsuits which do not spell success eventually i hope that they will see that he can't get any legislation passed that all of his promises were just hot air to be elected just like all the politicians that he swore he was not like i see it turning a hope that is going to take a little bit of time for them to see particularly when the things about russia otherwise really start to unfold he continues to backtrack on itself and to contradict himself and he is putting different people in front of the camera eventually he's going to run out of people to embarrass themselves on his behalf what about that mark well he said fewer bankruptcies the most was good for the mitt romney princes said fifteen bankruptcies at apple google they've all had bank google just had the biggest bankruptcy ever saw the google glass it's part of business but he's been very very successful i think when you see the swamp republicans democrats the establishment try to block anything he does it only makes

the middle of america love more i know he's got nothing done given to you months to figure out this puzzle this game but in the working man is not going to go back to the republicans or the democrats and ever think they're going to fight for them. dawn vice president says he's not going to run in two thousand and twenty is he telling the truth. of course he has to say he's not running in two thousand and twenty because if he were to say anything to the opposite it clearly would show what he what we all know about trump he is not going to make it through this first term much less make it to run for another time frankly i don't think he's going to want to just like we can see from this vacation that he's taken he has not worked a truly hard day in his life in the white house has shown him something very very different about how america is ross of course pence came out and said that he's not going to run in two thousand and twenty but you know if i had to really just a guess and speculate on the links the person who has the press opportunity who benefits the most would be pince vice president pence i'm sorry all right lavon

jones mark simone great to have both of you with a set i thanks for joining us appreciate it. baltimore has suffered more than two hundred homicides this year the baltimore police department is now enlisting community members to stem the rising tide of violence over the weekend the activists called on a citywide cease fire or to correspondent ashley banks says the story. forty hours into the baltimore cease fire a twenty four year old man was fatally shot saturday afternoon and just a few hours later a thirty seven year old was shot and killed as well baltimore police are now investigating two homicides two homicides the city was hoping it wouldn't see this weekend last friday erica bridge for the core guys are of the action took to the streets of west baltimore to promote a seventy two hour cease fire and to encourage citizens story freedom from violence for three days all of violence and not completely stopped in the city bridge for

stay positive standing on facebook baltimore's goal was seventy two hours of no murder and ten minutes from now baltimore would have seen forty one hours of peace from friday to saturday plus twenty six hours of peace saturday to sunday which equated to sixty seven of seventy two hours without murder many commented on bradford's post saying encouraging things and that this was still an awesome outcome regardless i also spoke with the bridge heard during the cease fire last week take a look merica is an extremely violent right there one of the most violent place on the heart and the structure of it is the. people at the bottom of that structure when you have our power of course the people at the bottom of your structure your. strategy the game that they think they're probably doing and whether it's gang violence or people having an argument with. people different power where they're

going to go violent with american culture baltimore is on pace to set a homicide record this year surpassing the numbers record of back in two thousand and sixteen and twenty fifteen x. versus a homicides have risen in the city due to the twenty fifteen death of twenty five year old freddy great great died while and police custody from a spinal cord injury he sustained during his arrest now on twenty fifteen the f.b.i. ring to baltimore as the second u.s. city what the highest murder rates we spoke with baltimore city police department spokesman t.j. smith who lost his youngest brother to gun violence last month take a look. we get calls every day from local media and national media want to know what the homicide count is that homicide. equals human beings of equal stanleys that are connected to each other and yes the number one seventy three was my brother deonte smith and it's still something that hurts the muscle a couple of days past when that incident occurred and it's tough but as i've done

since i've been in baltimore. a mouthpiece we're not only the police but before the community and for the victims of our own crown baltimore mayor catherine pugh weighed in saying quote over six hundred shootings in less than a year in our city and something has to give and so we are trying to protect the citizens of our city and make sure that we curb the violence and our city baltimore city police commissioner kevin davis has created district action teams comprising of officers and supervisors these teams have been deployed to different districts in the city in order to cut down on the violence and an organization called cease fire three sixty five is aiming to ensure that violence ceases to exist in the city all year round and washington national banks are t.v. . america's longest running war in afghanistan has seen a surge in violence in recent months this weekend between fifty to sixty people were killed many of the victims were children the attacks are coming from an

unlikely pairing for more on this let's go to manila chance and she has the story of manila while those weekend numbers are still trickling in ad there were seven afghan security forces killed in these attacks the insurgents beheaded dozens of people and shot the others according to the u.n. the first half of this year has already seen approximately seventeen hundred civilians killed in afghanistan so far with thousands more injured this weekend surprising attacks in the summer pull province to the north of the country appears to have been the work of both militants isis. and the taleban who have allegedly been teaming up from time to time though a taliban spokesman denies that it was a joint attack calling it isis propaganda and reaffirms that the two groups remain sworn enemies now afghan security forces are desperately in need of additional support the gains that the u.s. made during the full scale war more than a decade ago have now fallen back into turmoil with the taliban though u.s.

maintains just under ten thousand troops in the country in advise and assist roles provinces such as helmand which the u.s. and allied troops have won have now been lost again to the taliban the trumpet ministration has failed to define a clear strategy in afghanistan thus far in the ongoing wars sixteen years it has seen seventeen different commanders rotating through and talk of president floating the idea of firing current commander of resolute support army general john nicholson but sec def jim maddest and h.r. mcmaster advised against it they along with secretary of state rex tillerson and generals dunford and nicholson argue that refusing to commit more u.s. troops to the region would result in much of the country falling back to the taliban now ed the president was considering sending an additional four thousand troops in a surge by late summer but even that decision has been stalled so no word yet on

intelligence confirmation of this so-called cooperation between isis and the taliban but the death toll is continuing to climb at. all right thank you miller certainly will keep an eye on the sixteen year old german girl is headed home after she left to join isis she was captured two weeks ago with several other female are used to supporters and could now face the death penalty or to use peter oliver has the details tonight. this latest video that's emerged shows sixteen year old linda venter he's originally from a small town just to the the northeast of dresden in the east of germany now she's been taken away a what's been described as a walk of shame on her way to a detention facility by the iraqi military by iraqi troops their chief says that she wants to return to germany that she wishes she'd never joined islamic state in the first place we're starting to piece together just how she got there it's understood she was radicalized online when she was around fifteen years old

before deciding that she wanted to go off to be a jihadi bright and went off to iraq where that happened the question is now over where she will face more questioning will it be in a rock or will it be in germany certainly dos in her hometown in germany think that she deserves the chance to come home and face justice here the girl is sixteen and got into this mess at fourteen or fourteen and a half via the internet so whatever i think she should return everyone has the right to make a mistake and everyone should get their second chance if you look at the case of linda it's clear that young people in our country are not capable of defending themselves against extremist ideology because of a lack of identity in education this is led to a situation where a fifteen year old girl is ready to fight in a so-called who. however she remains in custody in iraq which is facing questioning over well filiation with offenses is also the small chance that she could

face the death penalty in iraq that would be for being a member of the islamic states however the german authorities are working very hard to try and get him back here to on german soil to face questioning here it's worth noting that there would be a full investigation as to what she what role she'd actually played while she was with islamic state it's understood that she may well have been part of a morality police in charge of making sure that women were dressed in a colton's with the the ideologies of the the islamic state group and it's very likely that she may face a lengthy prison sentence here in germany if she's found guilty of having connections over if she's found guilty certainly of of having fought for the islamic state in any capacity but linda is just one of hundreds of germans that

went off to joy in islamic states of one capacity or another in these include many women and girls as well who went with the express intention of being jihadi brights certainly defensive who turned seventeen at the end of this month wanting to return to germany following her experience with ice still close up. and that is our news tonight i meant still supporting the r t newsroom thanks for watching we'll see you back here tomorrow. i'm john harshman i'll give you what. the mainstream media can't go big picture.

going to the right and when you question mark find what you're looking for says the little. dog. will go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta emails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing planned three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied that the n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo chamber for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiot.