please. a brutal government crackdown on a shia town and saudi arabia is turning more districts to rubble we hear from locals who ask us to the skies their voices oversea because. the army and. i think it's. north korea brands donald trump a guy the rest of reason that's after he warns pyongyang that any more nuclear

threats will be met with fire and steel. and israel is accused of war crimes for stripping palestinians of residency rights and east jerusalem meanwhile we speak to a father and son who say they were brutally beaten by israeli police tanks me twisted behind my back and began to beat me out of the country. thanks for to me and it's two in the afternoon here in moscow you're watching r t international with you this hour is and we see. more districts of a small shia town and saudi arabia have been reduced to rubble by government forces as 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 and now the town looks like a war zone few journalists have been allowed inside the town most of the footage

we've received has been posted online by locals images show widespread destruction and army vehicles patrolling the streets residents told us exclusively what's going on in the town and asked us to disguise their voices as they fear for their safety . and. i think. tanks. the whole operation has been going on for nearly ninety days now and. watching the city has been completely empty no movement on the streets and nobody's out because sure george moore actually are on duty to shoot everybody who's in the streets free here to sound to shoot down charred i'm sure most more like a war sure it's not cheap for free much of rock surely. i can

see it by a show without the one built. on to shoot. bush league. rick lynch me good job in a sit in my house. now my going out going out one hundred or two days ago and as months of violence decide a crackdown has resulted in the death of a child. out of my family. and i want me and i lost my students and friends. in the assault. on the city a child was shot by saudi special forces and he doubts us that he was shot.

this family. when asked about the situation in alameda the region's mayor says all districts are being cleared to make way for new infrastructure he also claimed most locals one of the see their neighborhoods redeveloped like gas to have a look steeper into the reasons behind the conflict in the 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 are conducting renovation works to ensure the safety of the on the syrian neighborhood have come under 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 the 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 the strong 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.

the renovations began back in april then the u.n. 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 small part to western partners 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 since two thousand and eleven. was. one of the strongest tones in qatif calling for reforms calling for more rights in saudi arabia not only for shia even for certain is a will there the government to invite independent investigation of what's happening to interview these twenty thousand who have been displaced not to sell elect some who they know what would they say then they will to the government narrative. r.t. has reached out to several human rights organizations over the situation in town will bring you their responses as soon as we get them. the u.s.

is ratcheting up its rhetoric against north korea that the fence secretary jim matters has warned of the destruction for north korea's people if young young continues with this nuclear weapons program the d.p. arky must choose to stop isolating itself and stand down its bissett of nuclear weapons the d.p. arky should seize any consideration of actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people. his words come after tweets by president trump emphasizing the strength of america's nuclear arsenal he said one of its first drops and second power was ordering the modernization of the country's weapons and he added the u.s. will never be overtaken as the world's superpower his comments follow even stronger words aimed directly at pyongyang as leader north korea. make it even worse threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen. north korea for its turn slams chum's comments as

nonsense and went on to say no serious dialogue is possible with a u.s. president who it described as a guy bereft of reason nevertheless the state department said trump was now clearly communicating with problem young in a language that needs no translation is he exacerbating the president spoke to him to kim jong un in a language that secretary tillerson 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 is 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.

to 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 the u.s. is why is so korea only north korea they'd like to be a why is it owned by the u.s. 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 charm stark rhetoric against north korea has unnerved some on capitol hill u.s. congressman eliot engel called the remarks reckless adding that trumps undermining not only america's security that of its allies and washington's threats have even caused concerns across the atlantic germany's foreign minister warns that such rhetoric could lead to another devastating war such rhetoric is causing concern and fear that we could sleep walk into war just like we did in the first world war this

time a war where nuclear weapons would be used when in doubt but how big a threat is actually posed by north korea artie's a hip a lot more than has been gauging opinion in new york. with exchanges between washington d.c. n.p.r. and becoming even more menacing fear is growing across the united states according to a recent poll 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 who 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 birth votto and any time you're dealing with an a country that's led by your irrational dictator i think you know even you could care 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 that's that's right i knew that she would get it and 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 that's 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 more further. or 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 ok with mop and arty new york. pentagon audit as accusing a british contractor in afghanistan of money waste a recent review has discovered that millions of dollars of taxpayers' money have been spent for very questionable purposes that's quest lied to us to see a terrific amount for more. nice to see this afternoon so where's the money well

you know this story is quite fascinating emily in the sense that this is yet another example highlighting some of the inadequacies when it comes to contractors spending by the us in afghanistan now where is the money is a really good question in this particular case and this is something that a top u.s. senator is currently demanding answers to when it comes to a case involving a british contractor who had filed more than fifty eight million dollars in costs to the u.s. government of taxpayer money of course on questionable items and this was revealed by elitist audit however somehow no new questions were asked on this case previously and now of course this is going to be unraveling and more answers are going to be demanded now some of the questionable items or quit really quite fascinating they include seven luxury cars from up porsches to all for males to a bentley to an aston martin and a land rover. new century consulting was unable to provide adequate documentation

to neither justified a need for a luxury item of bills nor for fighters to use was in accordance with contract regulations as an example and c.c. admitted to using the cars during non-working hours without keeping adequate records of didn't work. now also highlighted by this audit the approximately four hundred twenty thousand dollars each in salaries to was being described as significant others for working as executive assistants however not providing any kind of details in terms of what this work was exactly also the audit brings into the light about fifteen hundred dollars spent on alcohol forty two thousand dollars spent on automatic weapons as well as personal travel expenses now the british contractor in question has said to media outlets that these assessments are unfair and inaccurate we've also reached out for more detail for commentary obviously we'll update if we hear back now we have to keep in mind that this particular audit focuses on the errors of from two thousand and eight to twenty thirteen and all of

this has come out into the spotlight to know that there is more auditing going on in terms of what in terms of the years that followed so certainly more is expected to be revealed then and we have to of course keep in mind that this is far from the first time when the issue of spending on contractors in afghanistan is highlighted . the program remained trouble just last month special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction who pretty because of a lack of performance metrics it is almost impossible to assess whether to hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the mentoring and training programs were effective while all of this is now being highlighted when of course the trump administration is considering its steps in afghanistan moving further so really it seems that there is quite a little bit to reconsider thank you so much for that update that was in the reporting for us live from london thank you. more news coming your way after a short break.

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guys and tell me you are not cool enough and want to buy their product legit. all the hawks that we along with our audience will walk or get. welcome back to the program r.t.s. spoken to a palestinian father and his son who say they were brutally beaten by israeli police. they described a video of the incident which emerged shortly after. the hold of me 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 still to me and at the same time the soldiers accompanying him to break my. notes and then it was sometimes a question that was the clincher yes. 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. when i mentioned two hundred zero. zero zero and they beat me hold on the head sharply twisted my right hand behind my back and started to beat it insistently so that my elbow was friendship. and his fifteen year old son told us that after being beaten they were taken to the police station and held for two days however nobody even explained to them why they happened detained in the first place. the first time us into a car and drove to the police station they kept beating and insulting us during the right at the station they confiscated our clothes one officer asked me to stand

near wall and smash my head against a two car fingerprints and took my father away i was kept at the station for two days for the head. but they didn't explain why they had beaten us we didn't know the me nor my some did a thing. the incident comes amid growing concern over israel's treatment of palestinians and mr islam human rights watch warns the practice of removing residency from palestinians may be a war crime. the rights group issued a report warning about the growing number of revelations it was in decades israel has tripped over fourteen thousand palestinians of their residency permits human rights watch says that residency guarantees civil rights to post indians so when the permits are revoked they are forced to leave their homes were crime in question is the forcible deportation of the occupied of the protected population. is part of the occupy territory here we're not talking about people forced to leave

their home at the point of a gun we're talking about policies that in effect we forced people to leave. despite concerns from rights groups israel gives a number of justifications for its actions authorities say residency rights 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 also as punishment against relatives of suspected attackers 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 jeopardy they can't marry and have their spouse settle with them so all of these things motivate people to if you will salt or if you're not physically kicked out and we deemed that is kind of policy that forces people to stop deport 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 whereby israel declares that 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 we asked israel's interior minister to comment on the human rights watch report and we'll let you know as soon as we receive that response. locos the northern italian city had been making their feelings clear over plans for a new refugee shelter for unaccompanied minors hundreds gathered outside city hall to challenge a proposal to house more than twenty under-age migrants locals say the influx of refugees in that country is getting out of hand and many of those making the

journey from northern africa head to italy in the hope of traveling on to other parts of europe but says the partial closure of a nearby border crossing fears have emerged to camp like the cali jungle in france but now spring. we can't take it anymore the cities invaded we have no more freedom to go around living in our town she does know now our town anymore is just a huge refugee shelter and it's done with our tax money the government imposes and we pay our constitution talks about the people sovereignty where is disarmed where is it the state has to listen to what's starting with the mayor but no one will listen to us. i'm a shop owner and tourism inventor meter is not looking good so basically is no tourism anymore and everyone is working less and less and i know that today's demonstration could backfire because it will give the town even more bad publicity but we really want all of this to be over. in light of the backlash local authorities have agreed to temporarily suspend plans for the refugee shelter but

a former member of the european council on refugees believes small cities such as ventimiglia shouldn't be left to fend for themselves as a result of the inaction to try to the for the refugees because nobody wants them in their backyard anymore and that's true throughout europe and we see the disgraceful derogation of any kind of humanitarian obligation to help people fleeing from most sports in the world that we see on their television every day like syria and south side but also i have enormous sympathy for the people of vented media nobody in a peaceful touristic town wants to see suddenly thousands of foreigners descending upon them and in their view making their streets they're safe or whatever of sympathy with the italians but you know really the the organization that i'm afraid is most forward here is the european union itself it has failed to

live pre-show excitingly as strong as its member states and if the member states don't want to tango then the european union can dance at all. but it has been a whole series of broken commitments of undertakings to try to spread this load of refugee coming into europe through certain countries in particular because that's where the sea external borders of europe are closest to and there has been really no serious commitment or of continuing commitment to spread this burden. thanks for staying with us here on r.t. of course you can get all the details of the stories we're covering today on all of our social media platforms r.t. dot com twitter page and facebook page as well i will back with more news at the top of the hour.

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greetings and sal you taishan it's august ninth has become an important date in the people's history of the united states my hawk watchers because three years ago on august ninth teenager michael brown jr was tragically shot and killed in the streets by then ferguson missouri police officer darren wilson and the humid dog days of the summer of two thousand and fourteen brown's murder in the dubious actions of ferguson city officials and its aftermath was just the match to gasoline the broad long standing racial tensions between law enforcement and black communities across the united states back into the headlines. killing in the violent militarized police response to the protests over his death helped lead to

the exponential rise of the black lives matter movement who originally came into being after the death of trayvon martin at the hands of george zimmerman who like officer wilson was never actually held accountable for committing any crime despite having the death of a young black man on his hands after brown's death we saw the violent police killings of twelve year old tamir rice in cleveland walter scott in south carolina friday gray in baltimore and recently philander steele in minnesota just to name a few. these deaths in the bureaucratic resistance to justice surrounding them can all be traced back to that fateful august ninth two thousand and fourteen that day when the white side of the united states was forced to come face to face with the reality of the racism and institutional oppression that still goes on today and could no longer be written off as you know rare one off vestiges of a bygone era confined to the dusty pages of u.s. history so today lou.