people. on the program we hear.

north korea. with. good morning. thanks for joining us. in saudi arabia have been reduced to rubble by government forces it's part of a crackdown that started two and a half. months ago with security forces saying they're chasing gunmen responsible

for attacks on police but now though the town looks more like a war zone few journalists have been allowed inside the area most of the footage we've received have been posted online by locals the images show widespread destruction an army vehicles patrolling the streets and i residents told us exclusively what's going on in the town but asked us to disguise their voices as they fear for their safety. but i think you could. turn. i don't want you to use now well. no. not really joe because sure sure.

sure. i'm sure more like a war sure. sure. i can't see that rog the show wouldn't. be on to shoot. on. the bridge of certain markets in which you know i go when no. one wants to go a months long saudi crackdown on the town has resulted in the death of a six year old boy he was reportedly shot by the army months ago and now we've been told that he died in a hospital or doctor ali i last met head of the gulf institute for human rights told us about the boy another doctor himself is a saudi dissident imprisoned for political reasons when he was just fourteen. but of my family is it is and i want me and i lost my students and friends.

in the assault. on the city a child who was six years old was shot by the saudi special forces and he doubts us that he was shot in the car is this family when asked about the situation in the regions mayor said the old districts are being cleared to make way for new infrastructure he also claimed most locals wanted to see their neighborhoods redeveloped artesian but i guess they have now looking deeper into the reasons behind the conflict in that region. no that's not a war zone don't be daft that renovations a little do over neighborhood remodelling with guns that's seriously what the saudis a calling this the workers who conducts grand vision works to ensure the safety of

the on the syrian neighborhood have come into heavy terrorist find those pictures from our media town of twenty five thousand people where they are foolish enough not to like the king or his family which is the government there also shia as opposed to sunni and have resisted authorities our media was home to many executed malcontents such as cleric. who wanted democracy in saudi arabia bad behavior is punishable by so-called renovations soldiers plowing through your home with bulldozers or destroying it with explosives and shells security is tight but for some reason the renovators keep on being targeted by terrorists to government.

is just. one. term. the renovations began back in april then the un condemned what it's called forced evictions and demolition people being thrown out of their homes with little or no compensation those who resist being shot at by the way in no so. the western part of canadian military vehicles are reportedly at the forefront of these saudi renovations. we are looking at these claims very seriously and have immediately launched a review remind me what did you expect would happen when you sold billions of

dollars worth of arms to one of the most repressive regimes on earth profits of course dumb question saudi arabia is canada's second biggest arms buyer heck most western arms manufacturers sell all they can to riyadh weapons that eventually get turned on civilians both at home and abroad and then they feign outrage the saudi. attack and why me is the largest longest military campaign inside the country since the establishment of saudi arabia in nineteen thirty two i don't really put too much stock into no international community the united states or canada or the u.k. all of these countries have provided training weaponry and assistance to

to the saudi forces to people. so i don't think the europeans and americans and canadians will do anything to support them and keep. maintaining you know the appearance of civility in marcus' r.t. has reached out to several human rights organizations about the situation in that town or bring in their responses as soon as we get them. north korea says no serious dialogue is possible with donald trump he went on to call the president a guy bereft of reason whose threats are nonsense the statement comes in response to trump's latest warning. north korea. there's no i mean give the word threats to the united states. they will be met with fire fury. like the world has never seen and the u.s.

president doesn't appear willing to calm down the rhetoric firing off tweets emphasizing the strength of america's nuclear arsenal he said one of his first job since taking power was ordering the modernization of the country's atomic arsenal and he added the u.s. will never be overtaken as the world's superpower but some have questioned whether president trumps tough line on north korea is actually making matters worse nevertheless the state department says it's only words although spoken in a language that needs no translation. is he exacerbating the president spoke to him to kim jong un in a language that secretary television has said and said this morning in the kind of language that kim jong un will understand have the president of the united states keep threatening to destroy north korea this is how shall i put it this is not the language of democracy does but by the way an act of war as well the north koreans either have a nuclear deterrent or they're pretending to but the only reason if they do have it

the only reason they've got it is to keep themselves from being exterminated by the u.s. let's say the worst happens it could wipe out south korea japan it could do just. china the damage to russia i mean this is then of course all the u.s. troops in south korea would all be killed too but this is this is not anything anybody should want why is this. why is so real only north korea they'd like to be a why is it owned by the u.s. you this would be such a horrific disaster it could be the worst military disaster in human history if the north koreans actually have these weapons which by the way i'm not convinced they do have them tensions have been cranked up to new levels to north korea announced it's considering a preemptive strike on the u.s. overseas territory of challenger's a major military base the yangs previously accused washington a provocation of

a military drills which store american strategic nuclear bomb is flying over the korean peninsula with friction building in the region the war scuse me that the word war that is now being touted much more often than usual correspondent caleb maupin has been gauging opinion in new york as to how big a threat people really think north korea is. with exchanges between washington d.c. and becoming even more menacing fear is growing across the united states according to a. hole as many as two thirds of americans possibly believe that north korea is a serious threat we decided to talk to new yorkers and see if they could pinpoint exactly where this serious threat is coming from if you feeling north korea is a threat to the united states i don't think so my paranoid no but i definitely feel that north korea is a potential definite threat i think north korea is a serious threat to the region but not to the united states not scared of of north

korea i'm not scared but i'm scared of our leaders are in many countries and how they're behaving they're not asleep behaving in the interest of of the people fully is becoming more of a bravado and any time you're dealing with an a country that's led by your irrational dictator i think you know even you to appear for the worst yes pretty threatening and we responded in a threatening way that scary you point to north korea on this map. there no that's that's siberia ok. there that's that's still siberia. that's that's southeast asia that's you know that's like vietnam. man mark there you go yeah that's that's north i knew that she would get it when you find north korea on this map of the world her all that's australia actual oh well north korea . southeast asia that's cambodia that's. ok so it's here

that's australia where someone at saudi arabia forget me i'm hopeless it's for a it's. around here around there yeah you're right that's that's north rim right there you go you got it there you are like it's close somewhere furthermore it turns out there's actually a correlation between knowing where north korea is and favoring military action those who don't know where the country is are actually. more likely to want to send troops right now millions of americans are convinced that north korea is out to get them and it seems like those who are the least in the know are the ones running the most scared. r.t. new york. the new york times is facing growing criticism after internal e-mails revealed employees are allegedly encouraging government officials to leak information. has details those of us who live in america and even many who live

abroad are bombarded with headlines such as these on a daily basis with buzzwords like leaked and highly classified information revealed with all the sensitive information making its way into our lives you might imagine reporters getting calls late at night or having crime just i meetings with a nervous but brave soul bursting to expose the wrongs they've witnessed within the government a true hollywood hero the story of the two young reporters they stumbled into leads and piece by piece they saw the greatest detective story in american history well you might be disappointed to know that the truth might not be so cinematic or innocent for that matter recently published email conversation reveals exactly how it's done at least by some apparently you don't have to wait for someone to leak the information to you just ask nicely i've heard a lot of second hand rumors but in order to report these incidents need to have first hand eyewitness accounts i'm looking for examples of things like people being told not to bring phones or even take notes in meetings or any other specific first

hand examples of practices that appear to demonstrate unprecedented secrecy or transparency and those government officials have no need to worry names are not necessary while i'd like to speak to staff about these examples i don't need to quote them by name or with any sort of identifying details that could in any way reveal the source of the information perhaps that explains why none of these recent sources are named especially knowing it's not the first. first time the more the merrier we've already done this in a number of other stories this year but no food stories that's why reputed with the help of multiple interviews with current employees making attorney general just sessions' comments to the media but they must also have some degree of accountability when it comes to leaks and a little closer to home than expected one of the things we are doing is reviewing policies affecting media subpoenas we respect the important role that the press

plays and will give them respect but it is not unlimited so apparently any would be leakers can sit back and relax and wait for the journalists to come to them. r.t. washington d.c. we emailed the times asking for comment on the article but haven't received any response so far a political analyst charles alltel believes several media outlets are moving too far away from being just news gatherers when a journalists in effect colludes with members of the government bureaucracy to seek out stories that are damaging to one flank one political wing or one section of a political party that's a lot different from speaking trouble yourself and trying to get to the real bottom of the issue it's sure looks to me like in the reporting that i saw on breitbart and also the reaction to it what you saw there were journalists trying to provoke bureaucrats into providing kernels of any information that could be used to slam

a political group or figure with which they disagree and that to me i mean that you know i think you become a political action organization rather than a true journalist or your world headlines just a moment. late to.

in case you're new to the game this is how it works the economy is built around corporate corporations from washington to washington controls the media the media. and voters elected to business to run this country business if. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. for joining us today he has spoken to a palestinian father and his son who say they were brutally beaten by israeli police in east jerusalem but they described other video of the incident which shortly after online. i mean that if the house would agree to open a neighbor's house without any reason i replied that this is not my house and i do

not have the key to it he's still yelling at me and at the same time ordered the soldiers accompanying him to break my hands. was. no sign of them it was some tough talk mentioned there was a pleasure to have. there were five to six people they were employees of the special forces they attacked me twisted my hands behind my back and began to beat me. not only for it also. was there. whenever she returned to her. and they beat me hold on the head it sharply twisted my right hand behind my back and started to beat it insistently so that my elbow was friendship. i began to as a fifteen year old son ahmed told us that after being beaten they were taken to the

police station and held for two days however at no point to anyone explain to them why they're being detained in the first place i don't have a say at all they first us into a car and drove to the polish station they kept beating and insulting as during the right this station they confiscated ourselves one officer asked me to stand near a wall and smash my head against a two car fingerprints to my father the way i was kept at the station for the for the hell it had young wiley but they didn't explain why they had beaten us we didn't attack them noisey me nor my son did nothing. well the incident comes amid growing concern over israel's treatment of palestinians in east jerusalem human rights watch warns the practice of removing residency from palestinians may amount to that of a war crime now the rights group issued a report warning ultimately about the growing number of revocations in

a recent decades for example israel has stripped over fourteen thousand palestinians all of their residency permits and a human rights watch says that a residency guarantees civil rights to palestinians so when the poem it's all revoked they are forced to leave. work crime in question is the forcible importation of the occupied of the protected population east jerusalem is part of the occupy territory here we're not talking about people forced to leave their home at that point to we're talking about policies that in fact we forced people to leave well despite concerns from rights groups israel gives a number of justifications for its actions of already say residents he writes are usually removed when jerusalem is no longer a people's main place of residence however in recent years palestinians have also been stripped of their rights for attacking israelis and are also also as a punishment against relatives suspected of tacos. they are stripped of their

residency they are therefore they can no longer work legally there are social benefits insurance medical insurance retirement plans are in check pretty they can't marry and have their spouse settle with them so all of these things motivate people to if you will self deport if they're not physically kicked out and we deemed that this kind of policy that forces people to stop deporting amounts to the same or crime this never happens to citizens of israel specifically jewish citizens who don't face this this risk of losing their right to reside in the city in which they were born and grew up so this is part of this policy. israel declares they are the city of jerusalem should be a united city but it's in practice not united at all there is to policies for the two peoples reality israel's interior minister to comment on the human rights watch

report what you know soon as we receive a response. locals in the northern italian city all vent to me and i have been making their feelings clear of a plans for a new refugee shelter unaccompanied. but. in the butt. of. a.