from desperation to liberation hope the syrians india resource the army works to repel islamic state from the city he has exclusive video. also this hour washington's mixed messages over the korean crisis since the and its apparent lack of strategy confuses allies in the region plus the head of the libyan national army talks exclusively to r.t. about which nations are helping and which are hindering in his shattered countries conflict. italy's dealing with transporting arms. but unfortunately some libyan parties get these arms and this is supporting

terrorism instead of fighting it. hello welcome you watching out international come to live from. now after three years of being isolated from the outside world there's hope for the syrians and to resort the army is battling to retake it from islamic state an r.t. is filmed exclusive video from inside the besieged city. thing of. the.

the conditions inside the city as you can see from that to die in the years of terrorist oppression the basic necessities including food and the un's humanitarian agencies concerned that vital medical help is not getting through right now be any way to get emergency supplies to civilians is three drops you prefer and it has more to tell. it's not the mariana trench or an active volcano but still one of the least accessible places on our planet syria's dear resort a city that's been completely encircled by islamic state for some three years. although it almost seems impossible but the only way to get into the city is by plane but it means risking your life one r.t. contributor did just that getting exclusive access to the neighborhood of besieged

a resort right here just hundreds of meters from the front line at first glance these exclusive pictures seem they could be from any middle east city but that's far from that here's what locals who have gotten used to are going to start out i doubt that there was. some sort. of any of any. mortars left shelling craters rubble blood on the ground you can find scenes like this all over war torn syria but here in des resorts the disaster is totally and it's capable the city are completely cut off there's been times which have been very dire but has said local support has been key especially to the tribes in the division they have been key to holding out and at the moment it's very. and it drops are happening and

people forget that the sea has been very difficult to lift the deescalation zone and has helped the situation in their resume as well see these parachutes that's food an essential is being delivered to deir ez-zor it's basically the only way possible you don't have to be your own expert to realize how bad things are when it comes to the water and food situation here when you're inside the city the camera doesn't lie about the consequences of the siege the u.n. estimated some ninety thousand people remain trapped in their resort today we can't tell how many are left but they're still there hoping to forget what it's like to have islamic state as their only neighbors. now donald trump says that north korea made a very wise and well reasoned decision in not striking the u.s. island territory of any attack would have been catastrophic and also unacceptable while the u.s. president's comments come just

a day after pyongyang said it would hold off on airstrikes the north's news agency claimed that kim jong un will quote watch a little more the foolish and stupid conduct of the yankees it did however say that military action is still very much a real possibility meanwhile america's approach to the crisis has left its allies and so a bit bewildered is explains before donald trump even taken office he already laid out a clear strategy for dealing with threats to america we are totally predictable we tell everything we're sending troops we tell them we're sending something else we have a news conference we have to be predictable well south korea washing its key partner in asia didn't bank on that tactic also being used on them we think. the american government has moved from strategic patience. into stupid you confusion well here's where that confusion might be coming. from let's see if we can follow

the trump team's statements over the course of about a week they will be met with fire and fury and i think the americans sleep well tonight no concerns about this particular rhetoric of the last few days frankly the people that were questioning that statement was it too tough maybe it wasn't tough enough this president will no longer put up with a piece that nobody loves a peaceful solution better than president trump and i can tell you we continue to be interested in finding a way to get to the video following these mixed messages from washington the unpredictable has certainly happened the tensions have now got beyond yang and soul somewhat agreeing with each other the u.s. should first show through actions if they wish to ease tensions on the korean peninsula and prevent a dangerous military clash. a government will put everything on the line to prevent another war on the korean peninsula and when it comes to the question of whether or

not the united states wants to resolve the korean nuclear issue peacefully seoul says that it is on the same team as washington the south korean government and the u.s. government don't have a different position on the peaceful resolution of the crisis in south korea really be sure given that it's rather unclear what exactly trump really wants this is the core as there is no policy. this is because trump doesn't sit down with his cabinet and say ok let's strategize. for the contingencies that we've guy and then once we've got this this policy then we are with your policy and our public our public statements reflect that that doesn't go on i mean the president makes this statement and he doesn't consult anybody does more than anybody and then you do catch up. with the secretary of state trying to settle

nerves and of course the defense department gets jealous and the state department this is what happens when nobody's in to troll you have to wonder if south korea isn't starting to get just a little bit annoyed after all their lives hang in the balance as the white house wordgames continue mop and r.t. new york well despite tensions easing slightly in recent days a u.k. based think tank has warned that britain should be prepared for a potential wool between the u.s. and north korea were smith has more details. it's an independent defense and security think tank very well regarded and they've written this report which is urging civil servants to start preparing rice away for the possible declaration of war between the u.s. and north korea here's the essence of what the report says and you korean war is now a real possibility if war did begin the president would be on the form to ten downing

street within an hour asking for support what hole needs to be preparing now for a range of possible scenarios that could unfold in the coming months what led receipts to produce this report was the opinion of its author that says that north korean technical advances combined with what it calls the volatile and impulsive personality of president trump are a dangerous combination and although experts say that a north korean missile could potentially reach london there isn't really a palpable sense of panic in the media or in the street but that is in direct contrast to what we're seeing elsewhere in the u.s. we're hearing from companies that make bomb shelters they say that they're seeing an uptick in the number of orders particularly from japan but also domestically in the u.s. where families are burying bomb shelters in their garden in preparation for what could be a nuclear attack meanwhile in the u.s.

territory of which of course has been the target of the recent aggressive rhetoric from north korea they had a terrible shock over night when radio stations accidentally broadcast an emergency warning residents to to facebook to express their panic just in the emergency alert system on the day that we were expecting missiles to be launched on a week is a perfect way to cause most hysteria why would you test a civil danger warning on the day we are expecting to get bombed and not indicate that it's a tast this is freaking me out. back here in london they re see is warning that if the worst. it's happened the prime minister which have some of a few hours to decide what position it would be or not and what kind of support she can offer and that particular worry is of course many senior civil servants condit to a matter much closer to home. when in fact the threat could come from further away

. we did speak with the former pentagon official marco maloof and he thinks that joint military efforts between washington and seoul will further aggravate the situation on the peninsula. there is going to be an mpeg ending south korean u.s. military exercise when then the next week or so south korea if south korea is sincere maybe they should postpone the as a signal to north korea that they are sincere about the escalating tensions on the peninsula i haven't heard there yet and and what i'm concerned about is if they proceed with that those military exercises there will be yet another catalyst for kim jong un to start rattling the sabers again. now the commander in charge of the libyan national army has been explaining the health and hindrance of foreign states in the conflict that's plaguing his country general huffed has been

in moscow and spoke exclusively with r.t. . russia is a friendly state to us we have long term historical relations we have fully and in detail described to russia what is going on in our country we trust each other and conceal nothing we've given full information concerning our political and military spheres i think we have coherence on all issues russia has never refused us its political support it has influence on the international arena that's why we asked them to promote the softening of unjust resolution dollars which were adopted regarding the embargo on supplying arms to libya. italy created a barrier outside its territorial waters to send migrants back to the libyan coast but this is absolutely wrong they want to concentrate all migrants on the libyan coastline this is after all migration and we shouldn't turn it into colonize ation it would be better to tackle the root of the problem of technical capabilities and

borders need to be developed with help from other countries the europeans have to be responsible and participate in meeting the challenge of adequately equipping libyan border guards if they want to prevent illegal migration they should reduce weapons import constraints. italy is dealing with transporting arms via tunisia and algeria but unfortunately some libyan parties get these arms of course this is part of increasing pressure on the libyans and this is supporting terrorism instead of fighting it. we conduct business transparently with state to take the initiative france took the initiative to mediate rebuilding our state and to help establish peace and we will work with france using everything we have let italy take the initiative and then we will work with italy we're not biased towards anyone we're not seeking to create problems instead we have conflict in our country and the looking to solve it we also should be able to decisively face aggression against us some may think that libya is weak in that you can slice off a piece of libya yes we're not strong but we won't give an inch of our national

territory we'd rather die than live in humiliation on our land general have to there is a powerful figure in libya's ongoing conflict a military veteran took part in the queue that brought good athlete to power but also played a crucial role in toppling him in twenty eleven america and explains how the general forty's way back into libya's political arena after decades abroad. it pivotal figure in shaping the future of libya is a military strongman and previous backer of colonel gadhafi although in two thousand and eleven khalifa returned from exile to lead rebel forces against national libyan army has the support of some international heavyweights including france a country open to talks with rival government powers the. western leaders initially celebrated his fall from power and even promised a brighter future for libya. you would get rid of it you would choose freedom.

thank you. the united states is committed to the libyan people you have won your revolution we came we saw that you died and i know what they didn't foresee however was the instability and chaos that continues to plague the country. there are currently three governments simultaneously trying to will libya but that isn't counting tribal leaders and various islamist groups setting up their own to fact the laws of the land it's been six years since made his intervention to oust colonel gadhafi but now it's another military commander emerging as a key player on the political scene the intervention in libya has been an unmitigated disaster in a state of confusion and failed state status which live beyond. all power comes out of the battle over

gun. law. in his fight against the extreme islamist elements well able to use it we have after all this blood the hope for someone like him to take the reins of power and rebuild their lives. the end state it's come full circle so libya could be about to go full circle with the possibility of a military man once again taking the reins. reporting head an israeli police raided a hospital in jerusalem has led to the death of a shouldn't be and witness accounts of the. league.

called the future we don't believe. everyone in the world should be a real leader and you'll get the old the old. the old according to. the modern world come along for the. global war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that don't. produce talks for the tell you the celebrity gossip the public by falsehood. off the bad guys and telling you on the cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along with all the walking.

but again now the e.u. rezone a charm offensive at the moment to reduce the spread of u.s. skepticism across the brocken fact it is spending nearly three million euros on eighty four projects the money's being spent in several member states with more than half a million going on ten projects in britain alone and that's despite voters there choosing to quit the more than a year ago and it might be money down the drain too if a recent poll is anything to go by because it does suggest that over two thirds of people in the u.k. now want to leave while only twenty percent want the government to ignore the brics it results that is a stronger vote than before british m.p. nathan gill accuses the you of using taxpayers' money to try to indoctrinate the citizens. you see it as this shoot to waver an educated populace and

the clever and intelligent ones and they know better all that kind of attitude is just going to get them deeper and deeper into trouble this is an opportunity for them to wake up in this and they're not taking it they're trying to reeducate and trying to use our money to indoctrinate is into thinking or feeling differently it's not going to work i think the twenty third of june twenty sixth was an opportunity it was a wake up call for the european union for them to sit up and for them to actually say what do our citizens really warm what do they expect from these institutions and how can we change to make them feel more like like this is a democratic institution as time goes by we're going to see more and more. distrust and more more problems within the european union a lot of it will be of their own making. a video has been released of israeli police raiding a hospital in east jerusalem they were apparently trying to arrest

a palestinian man who had been critically wounded the action in fact prevented him from undergoing an operation a medical staff say that resulted in his death witnesses have been describing events. i got a call from security informing me that the police had entered the surgical ward i went up there and said in english you can't be here this is a sterile ward one of them told me there's a wounded man here we want to see. curry glee when a man who is brought into our illegally can been hit by bullets he was bleeding have really good doctors decide to take the man to the operating room under stacking floor. there is a mutual pushing and shoving between the young man and the officers were assaulting

people in the charm and admissions. israeli police deny the claims of using excessive force saying they were under attack by local residents and that concrete blocks were thrown at them r.c. has requested further comment from the israeli police since that video came to light when we hear back from them well that you know what they say well amnesty international meanwhile has condemned the israeli police raid as a ruthless display of force and violence palestinian human rights campaigner francis says that such actions are illegal but have become more frequent. this royal as a state is not respecting international humanitarian law this is not the fairest is that oily aadmi is attacking hospitals and interring to hospitals last year of the . hospital in here but on in order to address someone tells today unfortunately the

international community are not taking these fail ations seriously so the reaction to such a relation should be more serious by the international community especially the e.u. and agencies and the international criminal court to open an immediate investigation to find is that oil accountable because as i said it's not the first time and never of the international community took any measures in order to enforce its royal to avoid to international low and to stop such practices. in other news this afternoon russia's former economic development minister has appeared in a moscow court charged with taking a two million dollar bribe during the privatization of an oil but he does deny the allegations claiming the case has been fabricated don't you hawkins been following the hearing. as the hearing began in court defense team asked for the case to be

returned to the prosecutor for evaluation citing in accuracies in the case now that request was denied by the court the whole hearing was adjourned until the first of september pending witness questioning and now bit of background who is alexei well he was the russian economic development minister he was rather from twenty thirteen to twenty sixteen when he was arrested by the f.s.b. on charges of corruption he was accused of receiving a two million dollars bribe to facilitate oversee a deal between ross left and bash their two russian oil companies at the time now he faces up to fifteen years in prison if found guilty due to the gravity and seriousness of these charges now the other a groundbreaking fact to hit the headlines coming out of the hearings was a statement from considers himself completely innocent he said in fact that the whole thing was a setup a provocation by igor searchin the head of the f.s.b.

the security service and he considered himself to be totally innocent now this case is made all the more interesting by the fact this is the first time in modern russian history that a minister such a high ranking official has been charged with corruption the indeed corruption at such a level so no doubt this case will very much continue to grab headlines both here in russia and also abroad. finally crossing the line from free speech to causing offense has rarely been more fiercely debated in that is today especially in the united states in fact any words with historical connotations that might offend currently in the firing line. political correctness has long been driving people mad people don't want political correctness they're tired of it today talking points which are been poll tested and focus group tested and that's what you're saying rather than what's really going on i don't agree that you when you become

students at colleges have to be coddled and protected from different points of view and it's cases like this that are giving p.c. a bad name schools in oregon have dropped the word lynch from their names claiming it made some people feel very uncomfortable we have children of color in other cultures and we want to make sure that they're able to cross the threshold of those three spalls and be comfortable within their surroundings but the schools many have nothing to do with the most murders in america they were named after patrick lynch the farmer who donated land for building schools now that his name has been removed perhaps these two should also consider rebranding but it's far from the only case of political correctness running amok in the u.s. the city of bloomington in indiana has renamed two holidays one for fear of offending one christians the other to keep native americans happy and in north carolina state university the teacher reduced students' grades for using words that

she deemed sexist like the word man time no wonder then that some are getting fed up with p.c. this petition jokingly cools on restaurant chain cracker barrel to change its name to cook asian brown so it's not terrific. it's gone it's fifteen thousand signatures so for some at least political correctness is not mad but a barrel of laughs. so that brings us up to date today don't forget you can keep cross all these stories today on our social media pages as well as a huge change channel that i'll be back in just. when the lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling

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