the supposed to mean a. lot. of. people feel. headline. an earthquake measuring around six on the richter scale was recorded in north korea south korea the united states both claiming it was the result of a nuclear. u.s. security services diplomatic outpost in san francisco and washington after they were shot down on the state department's orders. to the inspections as a clear violation of international law. and example.

state leaves behind a booby trap. driven out of the city of by the iraqi army here on r.t. international we'll have an exclusive report from the ground. just passing and o'clock on sunday morning here in moscow thanks for joining us here on our international you're in time for the weekly the top headlines of the week the main headline today. an earthquake measuring around six on the richter scale has been detected in north korea raising speculation the country's carried out a nuclear test so far there's been no confirmation from pyongyang itself. was

before the incident north korea's central news agency issued a report claiming the country has developed an advanced hydrogen bomb the earthquake took place in the country's northeastern province and was felt in russia's far east. deval stalk well we're going to discuss this with charlie a professor and dean of the gentile school of international affairs a good morning to you thanks for joining us here on the program at this time how likely do you think it is that this quake in north korea is an artificial one potentially a test of a nuclear weapon. it's possible to wait for confirmation the state creation it will be severance a nuclear tests are not clearly has been on for some time so we've had success in this over the years and it can't be done without but i think we must really fight. the location as has been mentioned he's of course one of the places they're not well yes just to be wise in the past and has military facilities so it can be.

given the context in which it's been happening lately we know that there are there's been a lot of pressure coming from the u.s. is on north korea after being fired if you will be on all these things so i think you don't respond meaning that we believe that he was used to militarism so i think we have to wait and watch and i think he's also testing the credibility of the trying by history can be threats how far will they go in trying to preempt or prevent for the nuclear in the same development so we should be all under the watch pretty good actor to be about it well you know i do say potentially a test to aimed at a potential reaction from the trauma ministration but if confirmed as another nuclear test what's going to be the likely reaction in the region and of course from washington. i think all the regional actors are really your fault and they wonder why war and military hostility that all costs normally is not helping

because by. provoking and then on the other hand i think the. there's a direct line drawn by a drunk has already be ordered once because if you remember someone's ago he said you don't want to just nuclear and i see your money deckard this time and it's not happening well it is already have so likewise. nuclear proliferation is one of the major principles of american foreign policy over the last several decades and i think it's going to get out of pressure and provide something or at least to be seen to be doing something more than just sanctions that will give me the sanctions for a long long long time and that's not be true or not for you i thought of charlie just a moment here the u.s. president and the country's defense secretary but both made recent statements on north korea stand by let's have a quick listen to this we were never out of the matter and we continue to work together and the minister and

i. believe provide for the protection of our nation's population the u.s. has been talking to north korea and then them extortion money for twenty five years talking is not the answer do you think the u.s. rhetoric combined with its growing presence in the region is helping the situation in china seems to think that the u.s. is further aggravating that in the region. i think most of the regional actors are unhappy with this kid for dark or well exchanges and the peter gregory coming from the us in our studio we're used to seeing it for a long time work for us as a proper civilized sort of civilized language it has also come on for a street fight and that's not how being cool being that we don't situation i also don't want the i think the not korean sub see that there are mixed signals coming from washington rex tillerson has been saying we don't want to change the and our

whole state of the regime the government didn't we don't want to overthrow them and we me be interested in dialogue so i think it's showing some kind of of that solution on the part of the u.s. they're looking at maybe it's a good call bad cop routine but on one hand trump is threatening fight and putin on the other hand he's you know seasoned at a bigger magazine on what we may be interested in opening a balance i think not going to sink. i don't want to have to be again a certain technical level beyond which you know are the like in florida parents i think they're looking at keeping on testing the science and are possibly even nuclear weapons may have happened today in order to try and have a better bargain equals a different bent over the talks come as a de facto nuclear weapon state because that is their objective establish a fait accompli and then see it will become known who want to talk was give you already but i think for the american city any question is as part of the recipient out of the asia pacific because what if you would military presence and bases in japan in south korea and standing feet up as a big fleet it really is

a challenge for be a great bowler ambitions in the region seeing a small country is defined in good use here and there helpless and unable to stop it so it also questions what going toward order we're living in but little is really any superpower status on america so i think there's a lot of art in washington saying i'm honored to show them that beautifully but i wouldn't stop them once it got on i think probably is going to a lot of pressure to act and others said whitney seem to be acting and do. something decisive maybe some going to believe in god strike we can overrule it would be unfortunate but you have to understand in the american context the end of the bar so high already before and we have to order our action before still trying to make good on the least evil combat i read serious as having lost all credibility in the am right well david jolly well we're still waiting here from any side of confirmation from pyongyang i've this moment now we've got we've had nothing nothing from the news agency there though for the meantime it will have to to a degree of speculation although the u.s.g.s.

in america has already said it was a subterranean explosion an artificial the earthquake so to speak. professor and dean of the jane doll school of international affairs thanks very much. u.s. security services have finished searching rushers diplomatic properties in san francisco washington and new york the state department claim the inspections were needed to quote secure and protect facilities and we can show you video posted by the russian foreign ministry from inside the consulate in san francisco where security agents are using a ladder to inspect the ceiling in a room potentially the attic. so it has have been conducted not only on the premises of the diplomatic side but also in the apartments of staff members and their families and then another video a security official a scene searching the apartment with some residents still inside meanwhile the u.s. state department also let us know of russia's now closed trade mission in

washington d.c. staff were blocked from assets in the building from two pm local time the head of the russian a trade mission alexander started they told journalists he considers the searchers a takeover which are in violation of international law. we are witnessing an example of vandalism in international relations it's an illegal takeover of russian brode we haven't been expecting such an unwanted guests and we don't welcome them to pm local time the u.s. doesn't think we have to comanche community anymore. a spokeswoman for the russian foreign ministry house as a quote diabolical. illegal and pointless at the u.s. state department says the searches are legal claiming diplomatic immunity is revoked following any closure however the vienna convention states immunity remains in place until diplomatic staff leave the country vienna convention on diplomatic

relations article twenty two point one the premises of the mission shall be inviolable the agents of the receiving states may not enter them except with the consent of the head of the mission. article thirty nine point two when the functions of a person enjoying privileges and immunities have come to an end such privileges and immunities should normally cease at the moment when he leaves the country there is analysts we spoke to told us the raid is there clear violation of international law . i think international is down very clearly the one nine hundred sixty one fianna convention of to plastic relations says that any diplomatic affiliated premises in its own country. and any incursion on that territory is an attack on the country this is hosting that. diplomatic mission so this is a breach of international law that there is some sort of you know a meaningless parade of power by raising america so big issue here is now that

this creates a bad precedent because with this event taking place now in the united states other countries may follow against embassies with which they don't have good relations with this is a collapse of the international diplomatic system by what the americans and the u.s. government is trying to do it was back then president barack obama expelled thirty five russian diplomats over alleged election meddling by choosing not to respond in kind the same day president putin instead invited the children of u.s. diplomats in russia to a new year party at the kremlin in july after the u.s. house of representatives overwhelmingly passed a new anti russia sanctions bill moscow cut the u.s. diplomatic presence in russia to the same level it has in america and that they're trying to extend sanctions russian foreign minister sergei lavrov gave the

following response to the recent. story was not launched by russia it was started by the u.s. administrator in with the only purpose of the money and u.s. russian relations confirming the u.s. we're not seeking conflict with this country we've always been friendly towards the american people and we're still open to constructive relationships but as you know it takes two to tango now it looks like our american partners a brit don't think i'm. time of the time. we heard from question the decision to shut down the consulate and feel that russia's new ambassador to america as a tough road ahead. i didn't expected i had hoped that at some point this downward spiral in our relationships and we could we could get back to normal this is simply one more for tat it's rather childish i think if we had a little bit more mature leadership within the state department i think it would be

helpful the decision by russia most recently to reduce the number of staff was to create parity between the two countries where russia would have as many people working at its embassies here in the u.s. as the u.s. would have been in russia so we were at a parity situation as now they're suddenly comes out of the blue and it's again destabilize the situation and at the same time we have trump talking about relations with russia so you have to wonder who is calling the shots you are watching the weekly here what are the international headlines of the week the man headlines of today will give you up to it so this morning on the latest news out of north korea with this possible possible underground nuclear test for the meantime though we are back in just a. few. seem

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be with us today for the program the iraqi government has declared the former islamic state stronghold city of tal afar liberated however little remains of the city aside from a booby traps left by terrorists all around. but i've got to d.f. has this exclusive report from the ground. there when the. by the islamic state will remain you'll find. that plastered whenever the bridges and buildings inside a frog iraq he sent just haven't yet gotten around to covering them up what with being busy fighting. was.

sure to leave behind plenty of surprises booby traps everywhere entirely they have to turn the city into a sap as night and come in here we were bloomed multiple times not to touch anything no matter how innocent it might seem we know beyond any of these. could be explosives booby traps behind the time even in the rights. has. been one where officers went into a house and sat on a sofa and exploded along with half the house they had booby trapped the sofa another example they were explosive to light switches when you turn on their lights the house explodes they were bombs into refrigerators and even the door handles when you open the door and explodes. i've just come back from tal afar and you can live in a lie down in a bed without cyprus check and first drop bombs and wires everywhere we don't touch

anything. will do all we can to disarm everything but there is only so much we can do some houses will have to be destroyed. this bomb was intended for does but the planes and helicopters destroyed the roads and i also couldn't get the car bomb out our engineers found it and dismantled it if it had been used it would have done as great damage they disarm the explosive canisters and detonated them in a controlled explosion but it's strange isis folded almost too quickly. there is evidence that around four hundred families of isis fighters were allowed to leave on august twenty fifth in an unspecified direction the rumor among iraqi troops is that as many as two thousand isis fighters have been given

safe passage out of telefon into syria again this is a rumor and we can't confirm it but it would explain the unexpectedly easy fight iraqi troops wouldn't let us into the center of telephone saying would still far too dangerous but having spent some time in the suburbs we haven't seen a single civilian one. rad when the opportunity presented itself as the battle began braving the merciless desert in order to get away the fear of the iraqi ministry in the u.s. led to release and brits to their night on fire front there's the the instability of combat the question is how much of tal afar there be left to come back to more i guys do you have from telephone iraq meanwhile to such as under way for the

families of two young new arrivals at a baghdad all financial and mohammed lost their parents who are thought to have traveled to iraq from southern russia to join eisel the children are so traumatized by their experience they're unwilling to speak. the. moment but one. night a good. one she. was

going to. the u.s. led coalition against islamic state confirmed this week another sixty one civilian deaths are likely to have been caused by as strikes and artillery and both iraq and syria. in the month of july the coalition completed the assessment of thirty seven reports resulting in sixty one unintentional civilian deaths the coalition assesses that it is more likely than not at least six hundred and eighty five civilians have been unintentionally killed by coalition strikes since the start of operation inherent resolve. meanwhile active military operations are the backdoor carried out by the u.s. they do continue in both countries and the humanitarian organizations have been raising the alarm over the impact on innocent lives but america's defense secretary

believes that locals understand the reason the coalitions are fighting that. we are the good guys and munition people on a battlefield know the difference. i saw with my own eyes three houses destroyed and they're striking isis fighters first went there and run away then the jets bombed where they were seventeen civilians were clear that they would go on the roofs of people's houses and store shoes they wouldn't let people live in this later. with all of the civilians still inside. the planes bombed us heavily this happens in downtown misled bend around isobel slaughtering people many were killed and houses were destroyed. coalition shelling targets civilians hit civilians four story houses full of people all over the neighborhood certainly many have been killed among the my cousin he died in iraq in an asteroid the u.n.

estimates that's an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq every day the situation in the syrian city of raka mentioned just there is of particular concern to the u.n. thousands of civilians are still trapped between i saw as cruelty and intense coalition strikes author nicholas davies who has written extensively on the invasion of iraq suggests the number of civilian deaths in neighboring syria a much higher than reported. what is coming from the coalition are not in fact estimates of total civilian casualties what they are is a very limited number of individual incidents that have been reported and so therefore the u.s. so authorities have had to address them and conduct some sort of investigation and this is this is very very limited this is the way the u.s. has conducted warfare throughout its so-called war on terror and it is

relied on the media to accept these completely absurd. numbers that it puts out as a serious estimate of the numbers of civilians being killed this is you know. this is absurd. hundreds of people took to the streets of paris on wednesday to protest against president new label more designed to make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers of course will ensure that he was at the scene. but the demonstrators have come out again in france to show how unhappy they are with a manual not once planned for form the working code they have been shouting that they will receive those with the intent to which we do to find out in front on thursday they have described emmanuel my own as being

a man who only supports business i once took the rights of look at this is what people have been saying to us said that keep it small if you tax work and workers were against it because it has no wish and we can share the work. represents the big boss says he wants a couple of good services social protections and everything achieved by workers agree without something. about ideology to be able to sign. what in fact he wants to get rid of employee protections all together it's a big attack of the hierarchy deals will now take over those are some of the reasons why the demonstrators hate feel so passionately against these reforms to the working code but not everybody is unhappy with the plans to reform the working take in front of forms is suggested will mean that in four years we'll have more

ability to hire and fire people to negotiate salary in terms of additional hours that people work and that's why the head of the employers federation has actually come out not just in support of this reform but is actually emanuel not going to go when he introduces that working reform some people have described this as being a bellwether for my presidency because this is his first major attempt to pass a big piece of legislation here in fronts but recesses have failed. so you see michael will be able despite his continuing plunging popularity in the party in the polls to be able to pressure this reform through and to appease the french people charlotte devinsky all see paris as macro moves to reshape the economy anger is rising among the french people latest polls show that just three months into his

time already less than huff approve of his policies now at the same time in their presidencies producer nicolas sarkozy had sixty nine percent support and even francois hollande who became known as mr popular had fifty four despite those findings a government spokesman claims of the figures can be ignored and will quote transform the country and we asked people in paris about the president's rapid fall from grace so it doesn't surprise me that what he's doing is making human popular nobody supports his proposal for extending working hours. to french people to close minded when it comes to changing benefit reform so it's not surprising that his ratings of phoolan. very rare for presidents popularity to increase so i'm not too surprised we need to give him time to get things done he won the election so we need to live with that we spoke to the editor in chief of

a popular magazine who believes macro his character is grating with voters. he has come to be on the spirit of grace still no surprise to anybody. french colada this sounds fine with the. position on the left with the middle showing the right can he spreads the final polish promise to say that mr merkel was out of control and should strike because what he said. what he said made their case later this incredible truth to press so criticized both mean the truth christ something which is totally to much of an joke but it was my get sick things wrong stuff credible she said for example that the french. don't want to pay me for that they were referring to. thanks for joining us so far for the weekly here on r.t. international we were soon the program in about thirty two minutes. with

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