r.t. visits a russian family who claim to recognize a relative in a video filmed by our crew in an orphanage and baghdad. president says u.s. weapons are lost and loaded for north korea this after he doubled down on his fire and fear with threats against the country great we the people that would push through that statement wasn't true so maybe it wasn't tough enough. the new report shows top e.u. officials racked up enormous bills on their looks serious foreign trips and twenty sixteen paid for by none other than european taxpayers we spoke to the author of

the study. thanks for tuning in you're watching our team to national it's six in the evening here in moscow with you this hour is and they sue welcome children are already being recognized thanks to our special campaign to find relatives of orphans and war torn iraq receiving calls and e-mails from people who think they know the kids films in an orphanage by our crew now on the screen you can see the e-mail address where you can contact us if you have any other information. well these russian speaking children have 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 contacted us from darkest on our crew went there to talk to her. the owing. to own. the only. thing the. county judge thinks the boy in the video is her nephew allie she contacted us and sent us to following photo reports from dagestan where he's trying to find relatives our 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. nephew she sent a picture and while this 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. 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. many many years. later and these 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. these. you didn't. really. hear that actually. you know the. night he will. 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. while three other children could soon be reunited with their families if everything goes well we can show you a picture of sultan murat on the right just next to a boy from the video we got of from his and his story is strikingly similar to ali's their fathers are said to have been killed and the last time sultans mother contacted his family was about ten months ago. to be sisters and fatima back to my excuse me we were given this picture from one of their

distant relatives who were told their mother and father fled to turkey along with them about two years ago we reported the to join i saw their relatives had lost contact with their family we're still searching for more children who became orphans in iraq and are trying to find their relatives back home if you have any information please contact us at this e-mail address you can see a lot. u.s. weapons are locked and loaded as donald trump has tweeted and his latest warning to do with korea that's after the president refused to back down on his threat to bring fire and fury to the hermit kingdom and the global cost for deescalation let's cross live now to our correspondent who got in washington area for trying moscow for more now first you jacqueline trump is ratcheting up his rhetoric on a daily basis isn't he yeah and it doesn't seem like there's any end in sight and

when his comments of threatening fire and fury against north korea were called into question trump hit back saying maybe they in fact weren't tough enough breaks we the people that were course think that statement was too tough maybe it wasn't tough enough north korea. they gave were threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen. now when asked what could be tougher than fire and fury gave the sinister response of you'll see leaving everyone frightened that physical action could be the next step in this war of words also warned that they'd be sorry if they even considered attacking the u.s. or any of its allies. if. north korea does anything in terms of even

thinking about attack. of anybody that we love what we represent do or our allies or us they can be very very nervous i'll tell you what they should be very interesting because things will happen to them like they never thought possible north korea better get their act together where they're going to be in trouble like few nations ever have been in trouble in this world now such statements as these coming from the president have been slammed by a number of american senators who see them as reckless causing significantly more harm than good. president trump is not helping the situation with he's been best to comments we need to be firm and deliberate with north korea but reckless rhetoric is not a strategy to keep america safe i think it was just the wrong message and elevated the situation rather than showing the international community that there is hope for a diplomatic solution unfortunately it is unlikely that those words

will affect trump's rhetoric however meaning the possibility of a democratic resolution is slipping away seemingly pushing the world closer and closer to the edge of war well thanks for that update that was jacqueline fuko reporting for us live from washington and now for reaction from moscow let's cross to ilia trunk oh who is now in central moscow so tell us what the russian foreign minister said about the situation. emily jaclyn hi well in fact russia shares a small part of its border with north korea so technically the two countries are literally neighbors but that is of course not the only thing that the government in moscow is concerned about if that option and that donald trump tweet that you have been talking about military action on the korean peninsula is real then the whole world is in jeopardy and certainly la brive says that nothing can be decided through war he also said that in the case of north korea

a potential military conflict and that area can cause damage and can cause severe and so much casualties enormous unbelievable numbers of casualties. i think that the risks of very high especially considering the rich rick there are direct threats of force with us sixty difference matus once again stating that they'd be a huge number of casualties i think when a foot is brewing the first step back from the danger learn should be taken by the strong and small to side. the russian foreign minister here was referring to the statements by the secretary of defense just to remind you we heard mr mattis warning pyongyang against the actions that could quote lead to the destruction of its people so what was a part of a warning get he still said these words out loud

a destruction of a nation so things are getting asked serious as they can ever get now in the meantime some of america's main allies in europe the likes of the u.k. and germany they're calling on the american president to deescalate the tensions in agel merkel once again stressed the urgent importance of a diplomatic solution in this conflict. the escalation in breath rick certainly doesn't solve the problem i don't see the solution to the conflict right now and i don't think the escalation and read three approach so we may read into donald trump's tweets as many times as we want but we cannot still say for sure what is definitely on his mind the question is right now which voices will affect his decision making most and perhaps doubt will find out very very soon it will certainly keep a close eye on this developing situation thanks for that we're putting for us live

from central moscow and jaclyn and washington d.c. thank you guys. and china i meanwhile has condemned the trumps fire and fury remarks making war on the u.s. president against playing with fire over north korea set any accidental spark could trigger a conflict once 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 monument says is not ready to support any aggressive military action we stand folded 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 an

aggressive response no while encouraging all involved to avoid escalation is not a position we want to take 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 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 came june 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. well turn a phrase when it comes to north korea hasn't gone unnoticed on social media where

twitter users getting the impression the president is 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 five years of fear of. life 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 was it kim jong un or was it game of thrones the days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us again 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 ok all right our military will be given the resources that it's brave warriors richly deserve. control. 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 skippy.

that's correct your enemies steals and murders your children. kim jong un and donald trump the. game of thrones came through it's kind of trial it's game of thrones. it's been revealed that you in the splashing taxpayer cash on luxury trips that story and more after a short break. seem wrong but. just don't call. me. yet to stamp out this thing becomes active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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 race in truth to stand down the news business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. welcome back private jets and lavish hotels are not just a preserve of the rich and famous these days newly released details covering just the first two months of twenty sixteen show you commissioners racked up hefty bills on foreign jaunts what the tab says you're all left to be picked up by taxpayers.

it's visits to observe by john 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 that only in 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 blowing policy. but it's not only about money. even if. he doesn't. it doesn't play minor role. the luxurious lifestyle as an e.u. officials were only exposed after campaigners waste a three year battle for the release 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 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 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 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 capability to therefore it's just our own plane that's why we have to charter. planes whenever there is no other civility oh that in we're in a commercial flight would not be viable because of the then the constraints of the kitchen or because of security reasons often really people go on these expensive trips and then they just come out with fairly innocuous statements at the end of them that they really achieve much less the company 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 troops are right there are several direct flights from brussels to write every single day on a normal schedule their lives 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 with german media as biased to western government and 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 interview about the cologne sex attacks that she gave to a dutch radio station later she was asked to apologize for highlighting the negative sides of merkel's welcoming policy our sister channel r.t. dortch spoke exclusively to the journalists in the middle of this controversy.

journalists tend to support chancellor merkel's refugee policy throughout the media not just at the channel i work for some journalists including. try to preach 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 our t.v. channel i'm officially not fired just don't approve my pitches my stories haven't changed yet but it suddenly turned out there i'm not trustworthy anymore. i report published in june this year claimed to be outlets are closing their eyes to the concerns and fears of the german population with regard to the country's migration policy claudia cimarron claims there are top external s.

want to cover but are simply not allowed to. i would wish to many more colleagues there to do more critical coverage the pressure comes from the top down i know from some colleagues that there are certain topics which you would like to cover but these topics were not approved because you were too critical because they don't fit to forment of de-program i think it's significant it would be significant for journalism in germany. wildfires and so they have to or their way through thousands of hacked or so far this year that's partly due to a record breaking heat wave but as our europe correspondent kate partridge explains there are more sinister reasons too. as 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 for putting them out while suspicions were raised when the number of fires went up from the usually volunteer number of forty to one hundred twenty the alleged ringleader a man known as hddvd is even under house arrest as he apparently constant his practice of driving to an area and 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 the local media citing the investigation is part of a racket who started the fires to intimidate

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 . they were staying with us keep across what's happening around the world at r.t. dot com and on our social media pages well i'll be back with more headlines of the day at the top of the hour. with more make this manufacture consent to stick to the public will. when the right wing closest to protect themselves. with the famous. lifts and be the one person. in the middle of the room sick. really. really really.

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