r.t. visit a russian family who claim to recognize a relative in a video filmed by our crew in an orphanage and backed up. to. the. president tom says u.s. weapons are locked and loaded for north korea that's after he doubled down on his fire and fury threats against the country. frankly the people the record that statement was due to maybe it wasn't tough enough. i knew with what shows top officials racked up enormous bills on their luxury as foreign trips and twenty sixteen paid for by none other than european taxpayers we spoke to the author of

the stock. welcome to the program you're watching our team to national it's five in the evening here in moscow with you this hour is and the. top story now children are already being recognized thanks to our special campaign to find relatives all orphans in war torn iraq receiving calls and e-mails from people who think they know the kids films at an orphanage and by our crew now on the screen you can see the e-mail address where you can contact us if you have any information on these russian speaking children had reportedly been taken to the country by parents who joined islam state after we filmed them in baghdad we posted the footage on our social media pages and it was shared by the head of russia's chechen republic ramzan kadyrov and it didn't take long to get a response here you can see just some of the comments were posted online one woman

called cut it out contacted us from dagestan our crew went there to talk to her. oh. yeah. good. things the boy in the video is her nephew ali she contacted us and sent us the following photo where i got to have reports from dagestan where he's trying to find relatives of other children. a number of families have contacted on claiming that among the children we filmed that that baghdad orphanage they recognize their loved ones their relatives among them is one woman who claims that little leave her nephew she sent

a picture and while it isn't definitive proof the resemblance is certainly striking she says that parents his mother and his father packed up one day and left claiming that they were going to moscow for work and taking the family they took the kids only to call later and say that they were in istanbul in turkey that was a while ago after that they are presumed to have crossed the border either into syria or into iraq and joined isis. he were many many years. later mother called the family from iraq she said that her husband father had been

killed in fighting and that she was now alone with the children she also had a newborn to take care of she sent a picture you can see the isis flag in the top right corner nobody has heard from her since that was ten months ago but her relatives say hope dies last. let me give you do you want. here. you know if. it's. the. you know the. 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 he 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 three other children could soon be reunited with their families if everything goes well we can show you a picture of so tom around on the right next to a boy from the video we got of from his aunt his story is strikingly similar to ali's their fathers are said to have been killed and the last time so turns mother contact and his family was about ten months ago and these two girls might well turn out to be sisters and we were given this picture from one of their distant

relatives who were taught their mother and father fled to turkey along with them about two years ago we portably to join i saw their relatives then lost contact with the family. we're still searching for more children who became orphans in iraq and trying to find their relatives back home if you have any information please contact us at this e-mail address below. u.s. weapons are locked and loaded donald trump has warned of the latest threat against north korea that's after the president refused to back down on his threat to bring fire and theory to the hermit kingdom and make global calls for deescalation artie's jaclyn has that story. frankly the people that would course think that statement was too tough maybe it wasn't tough enough to want to read. this make it

work threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world is 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 he's not in there it's a state 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. netting 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 diverse those 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 budget by quote many billions of dollars and this is all because of the threat posed by north korea in 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 the 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 we spoke to a former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. who says that such threats put trump on the same level as north korea's leader i don't see the plus in these threats were we getting something in return from these presidents 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 advisers 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 kim jong 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 china meanwhile has

condemned trans fire and fear remarks beijing warned the u.s. president against playing with fire over north korea it said any accidental spark could trigger a conflict what's more chinese state media reports the country will protect a north korean regime if the u.s. decides to strike first the possibility of military confrontation is causing a split among america's allies in the pacific australia says it was stand shoulder to shoulder with washington but new zealand says it's not ready to support any aggressive military action. we stand shoulder to shoulder with the united states the anzus treaty means that if america has attacked we will come to their right if a stranger is attacked the americans will come to our right we are joined at the hip the american alliance is the bedrock of our national security committing to i'm aggressive response no while encouraging all involved to avoid escalation is not a position we want to take russia's foreign minister has just said that the risk of

the u.s. north korea tensions turning into war is high for more let's cross live to earlier but hang on now. to n.p.r.'s nice to see you so tell us what else does mr lavrov say while if that tweets that option the military action is indeed a real and if the intentions of donald trump are serious the world is in real jeopardy says that nothing can be decided through war and in the case of north korea the potential military call flaked in this case really puts the planet in danger and could lead to enormous numbers of casualties here's what else he said about that potential. i think that the risks of very high especially considering the rich rick there are direct threats of force with us sixty difference mattis once again stating that there'd be

a huge number of casualties i think when a foot is brewing the first step back from the dangers. of the us defense secretary just to remind you what he did was he warned pyongyang against the actions that quote could lead to the destruction of the people so of course this was a warning but mr mattis did say the words out loud are destruction of a nation so that's why things can be getting asked serious as they can ever get in the meantime some of the u.s. main european allies the likes of the u.k. and germany are calling on the american president to deescalate tensions and angola merkel once again stressed the importance of a diplomatic solution here. kind the escalation in breath rick suddenly doesn't show the problem i don't see the solution to the conflict right now and i don't see

in the escalation of breath very different approach. i can tell you that on the capitol hill that donald trump tweet has unnerved many senators but of course there are different opinions here but there are voices that are saying that any possible military action on the korean peninsula will really put not only america but american allies in the region and jeopardy so many things of course depend on donald trump himself many things depend on the strong important voices in his administration and the senate as well but of course we'll be looking at the next steps of kim jong un and the north korean leadership thank you for that update that was reporting for us live from central moscow thank you. curtis doebbler from webster university in geneva says a full scale conflict between washington and pyongyang is unlikely though some

question is possible. i think that it would be better in everybody's interests to deescalate everything but as we've seen before trump sometimes the american president tries to. skeer or people that are listening to him through his rhetoric but sometimes that's an unfortunate way to function in the international system i do think we have a possibility that there could be violence i mean all out war i think would be foolish on any side and as you've heard from the chinese side that they might even become involved in something like that and i don't think anybody wants that right now what i do think is that there is the potential of not full scale war but aggression. well trump's turn of phrase 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 popular t.v. series came up and has more 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 a five year period. like the world has never seen. 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 trumped 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 tried you

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 all right our military will be given the resources that its brave warriors richly deserve. game of thrones can join them. 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 of thrones came for. trial. throw it skip the. cracks your enemies steals and murders your children. kim jong un and donald trump the.

game of thrones came through coming true and that's game of thrones. has been revealed that you elitist splashing taxpayer cash on luxury trips that story and more after a short break. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down the news business you just leave the right questions and demand the right answer. question.

seemed wrong but. just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day become active. and engaged because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground . back to program private jets and lavish hotels are not just a reserve of the rich and famous these days neal they released details covering just the first two months of twenty sixteen show commissioners racked up hefty bills on foreign jaunts for the tabs as usual left to be picked up by taxpayers.

it's visits to observe but the first visits to your country to our meetings to come to with foreign minister discussion good discussions on a range of issues a wide range of issues and also talked a lot. of european commission the presiding over is not a group of technocrats but is composed of politicians this is not a commission that would promote the virtues of a foolish and blowing policy. but it's not only about money. even if.

he doesn't. it doesn't play a minor role. the luxury of life styles of e.u. officials who are only exposed after campaigners waged a three year battle for the willies of travel expense records we spoke to the spanish transparency and geo access info which first obtained documents they say they've only 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 when they felt that it was an advantage to burden and it was disproportionate to release information for the whole year now that doesn't seem to make sense given that they also have this information passed on to the auditor's and to 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 you spokespersons defended the travel expenses but critics say sometimes it's difficult to see where there is value for money. the the european commission we and unlike national government don't own any airplanes and do not have the flexibility to therefore it's just our own plane that's why we have to charge. whenever there is no are those who believe. that when we're in a commercial flight would not be viable because of then the constraints of the from the kitchen or because of security reasons often really people tell me these expensive trips and then they just come out with fairly innocuous statements at the end of the day really achieve much less the country benefits from face to face meetings are so you know it's good that there is 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 normal sehgal their lines so why couldn't they have called on those normal slice instead of booking this private jet. a german journalist has found herself making the news as opposed to reporting on it that's after she claimed in an interview german media is biased towards the government in its coverage of the refugee crisis claudia simmons said journalists are instructed to report in a pro-government way when it comes to the migrant crisis the revelation was made back in january twenty sixth in an interview about the cologne sex attacks that she gave to a dutch radio station later she was asked to apologize for highlighting negative sides of merkel's welcoming policy our sister channel r.t. dortch spoke exclusively to the journalist in the middle off controversy. journalists tend to support chancellor merkel's refugee policy throughout the media

not just at the channel i work for some journalists including me try to pitch more critical stories but they were not approved that's why i spoke out stories that failed to welcome or support this policy are being blocked honestly at first i did not understand the situation the whole situation that occurred because of this as a channel stated there was a lot of damage in a public field i cooperated and did everything possible to minimize the damage to the w d r t.v. channel i'm officially not fired the just don't approve my pitches my stories haven't changed yet but it suddenly turned out that i'm not trustworthy anymore our report published in june this year claims media outlets are closing their eyes to the concerns and fears of the german population with regard to the country's migration policy claudia's zimmerman claims there are topics journalists want to cover and are simply not allowed to. i would wish to many more colleagues to do

more critical coverage the pressure comes from to top 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 to format of to program i think it's significant it would be significant for journalism in germany. thanks for staying with us here on ars he came across what's happening around the world at our website and on our social media pages i'll be back with more of today's headlines in just over half an hour. welcome to it are already out right after that one that you're back. her.

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