headlines on r.t. international we visit a russian family who claim to recognize a relative in a video filmed by a. president . and fury threats to north korea despite wide criticism coals for deescalation from. a group called the muslim council which attended. parade is blamed for feeding. here on the

program we invited opposing sides to debate. they all responsible for. us to leave their religion and then be silent about. the well being victimized by muslim states is an absurd request. friday worldwide headlines live here on r.t. international from the news team here a very warm welcome to you. has received cold e-mails from people who think they've recognized some children film. crew in iraq these russian speaking children had reportedly been taken to the country by their parents who had joined i sill and one woman called. contacted us from dagestan.

thinks the boy in the video is her nephew ali she contacted us and sent us this photo. but our guys d.f. has traveled to dagestan where she lives. well a number of families have contacted out saying they've recognized their relatives among the children that we filmed in that all footage among them is one woman who says she's the young i lead boy that was also filmed in the orphanage she said to us a picture and while it isn't definitive proof the resemblance is certainly there in the striking the un says that leaves parents his mother and his father packed up one day and told all their relatives that they were moving to more scope for work

they took the children and the next time they called they called from istanbul in turkey after that nobody heard the heard from them for a while there presumed to have crossed the border into either syria or iraq and joined isis. could be. any minute. long and. she did. need. to tell you. later elise mother contacted her family she said that she was alone husband at least father had been killed in fighting and that she was alone with the children and to also had a newborn child to take care of she said speaks you notice the isis flag in the top

right corner after that nobody had heard from her again that was ten months ago but as her relatives tell us who dies last. let me give you you are. getting used. to. here it actually. is good of you for you know. this night they are fresh. children. there are potentially hundreds of children with russian origins in iraq's orphanages the children of isis fighters living together with the children of isis

victims life for them there isn't going to be easy with that sort of stigma which is why our t. has decided to help we're meeting with a number of families here in dagestan relatives who claim to have recognized the children in those orphanages in order to reunite as many of these orphans with their families as possible well the three other children could soon be reunited with their families if everything goes well we can show you a picture of sultan more on the right just next to a boy from the video we got it from his aunt his story is strikingly similar to. the father's dead and the last time sultans mother contacted his family was about ten months ago and these two girls might well turn out to be sisters and fatima and we were given the picture from one of their distant relatives we were told their mother and father fled to turkey along with them about two years ago

reportedly to join eisel and their relatives then lost contact with the family we are still searching for more children who became orphans in iraq and trying to find their relatives back at home if you have any information please to contact us. president trump has refused to back down on his threat to bring fire and fury to north korea amid global calls for deescalation r.c.s. jacqueline bouvier has the story. frankly the people that would course think that statement was too tough maybe it wasn't tough enough i want to read. this they gave were threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never see it's a very terrifying question what could possibly be more intense than fire and fury when trump was asked he just ominously responded with you'll see but it is clear

that he has no plans to back down whatsoever it's not a dare it's a statement has nothing to do with there that's a statement now trumps remarks are just the latest in a series of aggressive exchanges between the president n.p.r. news but has escalated to the point of north korea state media outlining a possible plan to attack the u.s. territory of guam a threat that trump says kim jong own will not get away with and when the question was posed to the president if americans should be frightened by the current state of affairs trump said in fact the opposite is true that north korea should be the nervous party here if. north korea does anything in terms of even thinking about attack. of anybody that we love what we represent do our allies or us they could be very very nervous i'll tell you what they should be very very good things will happen to them like they never thought possible north korea better get their act together where they're going to be trouble like few days should ever have

been to trouble in this world now while term profuse a comment on whether the u.s. was considering a preemptive strike against pyongyang he spoke about the importance of the u.s. military and his plans to drastically beef up their defense budgets by quote many billions of dollars and this is all because of the threat posed by north korea and a strange twist while term spoke of strengthening america's arsenal he also warned that nuclear power is the world's greatest threat stating that he would like to denuclearize the world. on wednesday he tweeted about the us this strong and powerful new killer stockpile hinting that it could be used if necessary so while other nations are still pushing for a democratic resolution threat flying back and forth seem to be pushing the world closer and closer to the edge of war with possible nuclear implications china meanwhile has condemned fire and fury remarks beijing war the us president against playing with fire over north korea it said any accidental spark could trigger a conflict and it looks like relations between china and the u.s.

are becoming tense as well beijing has been angered by an american destroyer the u.s.s. john s. mccain selling close to a chinese island this in the disputed south china sea although washington insists it's doing nothing wrong the u.s. destroyers actions have violated chinese and international rules as well as severely homed china's sovereignty and security china will bring up the issue with the u.s. side the united states does these operations the freedom of navigation operations all around the world this is nothing new we've done it before we'll continue to do it steadily for provocative folks clearly an area that china wants to exercise. control over to some degree or at least have. or least keep other military powers out of the region but in light of other things going on the the real pressure on china to act tougher on north korea by the trump administration i think this will be seen as as another. more aggressive stance of the trumpet ministration and it

will heighten tensions it further it's not only china openly criticizing trump aggressive line america's close allies britain and germany have drawn that call saying the u.s. president should deescalate tensions or even at home trump is also facing opposition. prison drums escalatory rhetoric is exactly the wrong response to dealing with north korea's provoking behavior it unnecessarily heightens the risk of miscalculation and creates the very food that can lead to war i don't see the plus in these threats were we getting something in return from these president's threats i don't see it i've never seen that tension so high in the korean peninsula i'm extremely concerned i hope the president's advisors rein him in general kelly you know the new chief of staff he's got to tell the president you can't conduct foreign policy the way you're doing with words with fiery words exchanges

stooping to the level of camp joe moon in the north koreans who generate this rhetoric almost every day but this rhetoric has gotten a lot more intense also from the north korean side and a ton of phase when it comes to north korea hasn't gone unnoticed on social media with twitter users getting the impression the president's becoming more like a character from a pup in a t.v. series as a column up and reports. when donald trump threaten north korea with fire and fury everyone online apparently had the same thought game of thrones north korea best not make it work threats to the united states. they will be met with five years of. life the world has never see. now arguably the only other world leader whose tirade sound as much like

a fantasy villains is kim jong un so we decided to go out and give americans on the street a little quiz we'll give them the quote and they tell us was it was it kim jong un or was it game of thrones the days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us game with their own game of thrones. game of thrones out. donald trump game of thrones that's kim jong un ok all right. i try to know as many people as i can you never know which one you'll need. non-neutral also donald trump donald trump donald trump game of thrones you're correct that is game of yes ok all right our military will be given the resources that its brave warriors richly deserve. control from the game of thrones. donald trump you're right that's donald trump i will not allow the mistakes of the recent decades to define the course of our future. game of thrones donald

trump donald trump i'm just going to go with donald trump again that's correct and you're right you're right we can keep any cesspool of evils in the earth including them within our striking range game if their own. game with their own skin can john correct your enemies steals and murders your children. kim jong un donald trump to be. game of thrones came through. r t new york. a group in the u.k. calling itself the. council has been stirring controversy and members of. the parade in london on tuesday they held up banners denouncing islamic using muslims of homophobia in particular they blame the east london mosque for promoting hatred towards homosexuality and according to the group this mosque has

a long history of posting hate preachers the east london mosque has responded accusing the group of feeding hysteria the muslim council refuses to apologize saying it does not need anyone's permission to march for the rights or we heard contrasting views on the story. a true to ghent people is always wrong with muslim or anyone else but criticizing bigoted intolerant ideas is entirely right and proper i hold the likes of i have a lot of respect for the human rights over the years he's deeply misguided that what he supports an organization that has made it mission to demonize islam and the religious belief of muslims in this country around the world many of us who are marching or individuals from muslim heritage so i myself am a british pakistani who grew up as a gay individual in

a muslim this is my community i have no interest in galvanizing hate against muslims because i will be subjected to that same hate this group was targeting islam must homophobia it wasn't targeting muslim people or even islam in german or the council of muslims has never criticized or condemned muslim people it is only condemned and criticized is the most extremists who advocate hatred and violence against people if these people have left islam and that's their right let's accept that they got a right to live there why are they constantly obsessed see. they need to get a life move on enjoy their life on their new freedom as they tell is asking us to leave the religion and then be silent about. kin across the world who are being victimized by muslim states is a request they are rampant islam the four big organization they are responsible for

promoting hatred against muslims now let's just say that is there a council the christians is there a council of jews a council of x. induce a council of x x where religion is legislating against people like gays we will challenge that and we will challenge it. and we're trying to control ways holding signs provoke thought provoking. views discussion and dialogue more of your world news after the break. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporate corporations from washington to washington controls the media the media control the voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals

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its efforts to break islamic state siege of the city of zoar. video agency obtained exclusive video of the offensive. q. what. now the perceived city of the or else or is located in eastern syria as we can show you here on the map it is completely surrounded by terrorist forces and the syrian army has been blockaded in a tiny portion of the city for almost three years what's more the jihadists are refusing to allow civilians to leave and according to the u.n.

more than one hundred thousand civilians are still trapped in the city and we spoke to middle east expert ali risk he believes though despite the odds as finally a chance the city will be fully recaptured from the terrorists they have first of all is a second biggest province in syria geographically speaking. especially now one of the syrian army has made so many victories elsewhere of the cease fire agreement which was reached between russia and the u.s. in jordan a soft western syria that is an effort to actually allow the syrian armed forces to dedicate. basically freed up more of syria's military to go ahead and launch this attempt to break the siege off we have to think about what's beyond syria's role regionally because there was a lot is an important a linkage area i think that the more and more likely the syrian army will achieve victory and they resort to the more and more likely you might see israel and saudi

arabia two of america's main allies in the region trying to obstruct or prevent such a scenario from being fulfilled. private jets and lavish hotels are not just the reserve of the rich and famous these days newly released details covering just the first two months of twenty sixteen show e.u. commissioners racking up hefty bills on foreign joins with the tabs as usual left to be picked up by e.u. taxpayers. visits. by jan first visits to your country our meetings today encounter with foreign minister question good discussions on a range of issues

a wide strange of issues and also talked a lot. of european commission that i'm presiding over is not a group of technocrats but it's composed of politicians this is not a commission that would promote the virtues of a foolish and blind policy. but it's not only about the money. even if. it doesn't. it doesn't play a minor role. lavish lifestyles of e.u. officials were only exposed after campaigners waged a three year battle for the release of travel expense records and we spoke to the spanish transparency n.g.o.s access info which first obtained the documents but they say they've only just scratched the surface hundred twenty requests made

freedom of information access to documents requests was actually for the whole year of twenty six thing however the commission decided unilaterally to only release information at this point for january and february twenty sixth seems they felt that it was an advantage to do and it was disproportionate to release information for the whole year now about doesn't seem to make sense given that they also have this information passed on to the auditor's into the parliament so if the data is already collected and is made available to those. institutions then why can't it be made public more generally and e.u. spokespersons defended the travel expenses but critics say sometimes it's difficult to see where there's value for money. the european commission really and unlike the national government don't own an airplane and do not have the flexibility to therefore it's just our own plane that's why we have to park. in that plane

whenever there is no civility you know that in the end a commercial flight would not be viable because of the vendor controlling the kitchen or because of security ridden often really people go on these expensive trips and then they just come out with fairly innocuous statements at the end of the day really achieve much less the company benefits from face to face meetings are so you know it's good that there's a focus on those problems in armenia and azerbaijan but really the hasn't been much progress for a long time now given they are spending taxpayers' money they ought to try and get those places as cheaply as possible within reason and if you look at for example it's a mr young because trips abroad there are several direct flights from brussels to write every single day on a normal sexual bad line so why couldn't they have called in those normal slice instead of booking this private jets. a german journalist has found herself making the news as opposed to reporting on it as after she claimed in an interview that

german media is biased towards the government in its coverage of the refugee crisis claudia zimmerman said journalists are instructed to report in a pro-government way when it comes to the migrant crisis adding of that they are compelled to cover the issue in a positive light the revelation was made back in january twenty sixth seen in this during an interview about the cologne sex attacks that she gave to a dutch radio station it's a top topic that has zimmerman has covered extensively and our sister channel r.t. deutsche spoke exclusively to the journalist in the middle of this controversy germany's tend to support chancellor merkel's refugee policy throughout the media not just that some journalists including me tried to pitch more pretty can stories but they were. not approved that's why i spoke out stories that failed to welcome all support this policy of being blocked honestly at first i did not understand the situation the whole situation that occurred because of this as the w d r stated

there was a lot of damage in the public field i cooperated and did everything possible to minimize the damage of the deputy i'm still officially not fired they just don't approve my pictures my topics haven't changed yet but it suddenly turned out that i'm not trust with the enemy a report published in june this year claimed media outlets are closing their eyes to the concerns and fears of the german population with regard to the country's migration policy cloudy zimmerman claims there are topics journalists want to cover but are simply not allowed to. i would have wished that many more colleagues dead to do more critical coverage the pressure comes from the top to down i know from some colleagues that there are certain topics which they would like to cover but these topics were not approved because they were too critical because they don't fit the format of the program i think it's significant it would be significant for journalism in germany. wildfires in italy have torn their way through

thousands of hectares so far this year that's partly due to a record breaking heat wave but as partridge explains there are more sinister reasons to. temperatures soar across southern europe wildfires have become common particularly in italy. but the sheer number of forest fires has raised suspicions and police have discovered that many fires are less acts of god than acts of some very desperate men and the causes themselves are eyebrow raising in sicily fifteen volunteer policemen have been arrested for either starting or reporting fires so they could earn an extra ten euros an hour putting them out for suspicions were raised when the number of fires went up usually volunteer number. twenty the alleged ringleader a man known as d.d.b.

is even under house arrest as he apparently constant his practice of driving to an area sparking up while police indeed say he is one twisted firestarter he said he wanted to set of a bomb to take the money available if the emergency vehicles needed to be repaired another scandal like the fires has also spread to road where two hundred hectares of a nature reserve have gone up in flames and so powerfully has the reputation of a former t.v. director local media citing the investigation is part of a racket who started the fires twenty. a date a group of transvestite prostitutes working in the area to make them pay their protection money where he was found with a flyer in one hand and a lighter in the other one could perhaps say the evidence against him is incendiary kate partridge r.t. your world news continues and half an hour.

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