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week islamic state booby trapped ghost town after is driven out of tal afar by the iraqi army we bring you an exclusive report. welcome on in the weekly here on r.t. international. tensions on the north korean peninsula are ratcheting up with pyongyang announcing that its conducted a successful h. bomb test has hinted that a u.s. strike on the north is possible. we were very worried. of course when exactly who joins me live from washington d.c. jackie the claims of the testing of nuclear warheads just how worried should

everybody be. well it's not all that clear what could happen next i mean trump's very ominous message came as he posted online that all options are on the table when it comes to north korea and that he would be meeting with his generals and other military officials to discuss the issues now mattis his secretary of defense recently repeated that a diplomatic possibility solution is never off the table whereas trump himself has again repeated that talking with north korea just isn't an option that it's not going to work at the same time we have other major world powers like china and russia calling for a diplomatic and peaceful solution to this crisis but it seems that trump is just going to stick to his boisterous comments and all of the aggressive escalating comments that we've seen from him as of late let's take a listen. they will be met with fire fury. like

the world has never seen north korea better get their act together where they're going to be trouble like you they should never have been to trouble in this world. and this may not get away with what he's doing. now of course this is already gone past just of the war of words between washington and pyongyang the u.s. has of course already a bolstered its military presence in the region and continue continues to conduct drills with south korea in the area much of the displeasure of north korea and trump received a lot of backlash for these comments these aggressive comments he's been making recently both abroad and at home but on his side the u.s. state department did say that the way that trumps talks is just the only way to communicate with north korea is exacerbating the president spoke to him to kim jong un in a language that secretary tillerson has said and said this morning in the kind of language that kim jong un will understand. but what's overwhelmingly clear at this

point is that the u.s. has tactics with north korea have done nothing to quell tensions and in fact have only escalated them so it's not really clear why they just continued to do the same thing hoping for a different outcome but it doesn't look like there's a change in the plan anywhere on the horizon so that leaves the whole world wondering what could happen next and fearing that they could be going to be being brought closer to the brink of war. you know and then dede is the fear jacqueline very good with the laces there from washington thank you. washington is demanding moscow sell the three diplomatic properties recently shut down by the u.s. state department this is according to russia's foreign ministry staff were blocked from accessing the buildings of russia's consulate in san francisco and trade mission in washington d.c. this video you can see now is from inside the trade missions promises minutes before it was closed and it's quite apparent there that it's pretty empty

everything's been cleared away empty shelves empty kora doors the diplomatic staff were given very short notice just thirty six hours to leave the site. and then in san francisco searches were conducted not only on the premises of the diplomatic site but also in the apartments of staff members and their families the move as being a deeply hostile act ended undermining u.s. russia relations explain all his artes in the direction that. what we do have is a number of videos to show the facility in san francisco when the inspection took place and you can see from one of the videos that the security officials were actually searching the apartments for the president still in there the trade facility in washington is also being searched and the head of the trade commission has told journalists that who feels that the searches are. we

are witnessing an example of vandalism in international relations it's an illegal takeover russian corporate. would have been expecting so she wanted. them to stupid am local time the u.s. doesn't think we have to go magic immunity and there's also been other reactions and we had reaction from the russian foreign ministry the spokes person there has slammed the search and i read this that you as a diabolical circus that's illegal and pointless and we just have to take note here that the diplomats and their families only had two days to vacate their properties there now if we look at the reasons the u.s. has stated that this is a response to russia's decision to reduce the size of the u.s. mission in russia back in july twenty seventh teen we've also had a reaction from the russian foreign minister himself so good i've spoken out about the decision to close the facilities is also said that russia is not the instigator

of those moves measures or this. story was not russia it was started by the u.s. administrator with the only purpose of us russian relations the u.s. we're not seeking conflict with this going through always been friendly towards the american people and we're still open to constructive relationships but as you know it takes two to tango. american partners or breakdancing on time all the time so as you can see the relations between the u.s. and russia are still pretty tense. your state department says that the searches are legal claiming diplomatic immunity is revoked following any closure but the vienna convention states that 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 shall normally cease at the moment when he leaves the country thing international lays it down very clearly the one hundred sixty one fianna convention of to class relations says that any diplomatic and affiliated premises no one country. and incursion on the territories there forces an attack on the country that is hosting that. diplomatic mission so this is breach of international terrorists some sort of meaningless parade of power by raising america the 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 i guess 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. ok let's go back to our top story this hour after pyongyang announced that it conducted a successful test on a tram hinted that a u.s. strike on the north is possible let's discuss the latest escalation of tensions in the region with some unique from the council of korean american choice on the line . the approach from donald trump it has been consistent in that it's been aggressive it's been one of persistent threats it doesn't seem to be deterring kim jung un who's kim jong un is just carrying on with the test is that the right approach from the u.s. . not at all this is a full scale diplomatic crisis and i think our president has not

really framed this issue as such i think this is in some ways a war of words we know he's very fond of twitter and saying provocative things you could argue that some of these missile tests and bomb tests are our provocations with the same sort of rhetorical value but. our president and our government is not devoting the resources the political will that are needed to find a solution to this problem and you know this is not an issue that you can ignore and only pay attention to when tests like this occur this is a diplomatic issue but we're fail to see any semblance of a strategy and we fail to see the resources being dedicated to solving this problem that if we think that it can be solved by dialogue engagement and diplomacy we're not seeing any movement toward that and it's not just disappointing but it's

actually quite frightening you talked about the need for diplomacy that the message has been sent by russia or is well but if we look at what south korea and the u.s. a doing with the military drills in the region is it very likely to happen that everyone's going to sit down and discuss this. well whether or not it is likely we have to face the reality. we have twenty thousand u.s. troops sitting there in south korea i would challenge any of you in the media to say how many state department workers are actually working on north korea in the state department. we are the most powerful military on the face of this planet we have any number of i.c.b.m.'s pointed in the direction of doubt korea north korea at any given point if we devoted. a one percent maybe of those resources to actually thinking about how they think and about working strategies to engage and to create dialogue we might actually get somewhere you know there are three things

that i believe that our council believes need to happen one as i mentioned we need to amp up the resources at the state department warm bodies people who understand north korea the culture the language get them working on this issue number two there's been an ongoing series of dialogues called track two dialogues which are with experts and scholars i'm thinking that they're pretty much frozen but now is actually the exact right time to restart them in that there are lower stakes and you're allowed to talk about and listen to each other you know north korea wants to be listened to i don't know if anybody's listening and third this is a recent development you know for some reason you know the u.s. is saying we need to ban humanitarian workers in north korea you know the very folks that north korea actually trust the most humanitarian workers ironically chris many of them christian many of them korean american are being recalled from

from north korea as we speak the folks that they trust the most so we're pushing them further and further into isolation and i challenge anyone to tell me how further isolation taken this far is actually going to lead to north korea being open to what we might have in mind toward a solution what we what our interest might be this is a country that has been isolated for sixty years. this the korean war is technically still. really just an armistice at this point we're technically still at war and this is a country almost that feels that they are still words like the you know the. the soldier who's been left on the island with no radio or t.v. for fifty years and thinks the war still going on in many ways the culture and the whole posture of the government still operates that way. say it is the most isolated country on earth that's something that's well known how do we expect to have any kind of breakthrough if we if we continue to not engage and to not. look

to our diplomatic ways of engaging you know from this point forward and we know that their missile test they're going to get better and better at this as we know the broadcast media right now is just all over the news of this of this test and it focuses on the moment but the trajectory that we're headed toward is they're getting better and better at some point they're going to actually be able to put a nuclear warhead on a missile like our missiles like russia's missiles and others and you know it's going to be a whole new ball game some will have to leave it be fascinating to get your views appreciate you coming out some unit from the council of korean americans. now another user manual micros writings are taking a tumble we'll explain why after the break.

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it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. welcome back in other news this week the iraqi government declared the form an islamic state stronghold city of tal afar liberated but little remains of the city aside from the many booby traps left behind by the terrorists as the ascent is this exclusive report. then when the islamiah by the islamic state will remain you'll find. that plastered whenever the bridges and buildings entitle frog iraq he sent just haven't yet gotten around to covering them up what with being busy fighting. was. why the lawyers didn't want them to what i says. and plenty of surprises booby

traps every red intel a frog they have ten the city into a sap as nightmare and coming here we were moved multiple times not to touch anything no matter how innocent it might seem for we know behind these. could be explosives booby traps bradman's behind the time even in the right switches. would be one where officers went into a house and sat on a sofa exploded along with 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 telefon you can didn't lie down on the bed without cyprus check and first drop bombs and wires everywhere we don't touch anything. i will do all we can to disarm everything but there's only so

much we can do some houses will have to be destroyed. this bomb was intended for others but the planes and helicopters destroyed the roads and i still 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. iraqi troops wouldn't let us into the center of telephone saying would still far too dangerous but having spent some time here in the suburbs we haven't seen a single civilian most of them ran when you're patootie presented itself as the battle began braving the merciless desert in order to get away but for the iraqi military in the u.s. led to release and brits. might file

a fraud of the city and come back a question of how much of tal afar there be left to come back to more i'd guys d.s. . from telefon iraq. hundreds of people took to the streets of paris on wednesday to protest against president of annual micron's new labor law designed to make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers so reports. the demonstrators have come out again in front to show how unhappy they are with emanuel not once one perform the working code they have described emanuel 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. if you tax work and workers were against it because it has no a show now we can share the work. resents the big boss says

he wants a couple of good services social protections and everything achieved by workers turns a group without something. about ideology to be able to. stop work 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 code take it in front of forms that suggest it will mean that in four years we'll have more ability to hire and fire people to negotiate over 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 all in when he introduces that working reform some people have described this as being a bellwether for mcallen's presidency because this is his first major attempt to pass a big piece of legislation here in front but recesses have failed to see. will be able despite his continuing plunging popularity in the public in the polls to be able to push this reform through and to appease the french people so much even ski altie paris. and as micro moves to reshape the economy the latest polls show that he is losing popularity as you can see this was him when he came to power sixty two percent considerably lower and still heading downwards now. spokesman of other claims the president will quote transform the country love the presidents they fared a lot better if we look at how many people like the same point in their careers

nicolas sarkozy he was there with almost seventy percent at the corresponding time in his career francois long he was known as mr unpopular but fifty four percent would probably look pretty good too emanuel right now and the they've accused meanwhile cues the new french president of arrogance in light of some of the things that he's been saying on the world stage. we have absolutely different positions to vladimir putin i act france will not pass on any he is ready to follow us and then we will have some progress on syria. i can't really imagine calling anyone other than himself and i think they have different views of their political views i can even imagine something are that

actually where the people. think because. the international stage is not really that cool you know also i am the one to blige to speak to and to one every ten days. yeah but the problem take i don't think it's a smart move by my i guess that's like the new thing nowadays to have no experience and thank you that everything you could pick. up i know. in other news this week the f.b.i. denied a freedom of information request to release falls relating to hellery clinton's e-mails and claims as a lack of public interest for such a disclosure to go frances santiago has the story new york attorney tyco have

injury has been waiting for more than a year for the f.b.i. to fulfill his freedom of information requests and reveal the files on hillary clinton's e-mails only to get this response you've not sufficiently demonstrated that the public's interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject. well whatever the f.b.i. thinks the public certainly made its interest in the e-mails a loud and clear these are the three questions that are coming out of that timeline that continue to drive the story i'm sorry when you use a private e-mail on a private server your privacy rights are out the window when you're the secretary of state of the united states of america you don't have privacy anymore she chose to do it it was on her and i personally would like to know in a way reminds me of the nixon tapes shouldn't go away on the substance and voters do care about their enough all that fuss was being made while clinton was still running for the presidency but perhaps now the emails won't be as especially given

that clinton insists there was nothing classified in the first let me say that i am confident that i never sent nor received any information that was classified at the time it was sent and received there was nothing marked classified on my e-mails either send or receive only problem for her is that's not true it seems she never sent or received any classified information over her private email was true our investigation found that there was classified information so it was not true just weeks before the of the ice said there is nothing in clinton's e-mails the public needs to know a federal judge ruled that the state department should do more to investigate its servers for clinton's messages related to the tragic been gazi attack which left several u.s. officials dead that decision was welcomed by judicial watch this major court ruling may finally result in more answers about the benghazi scandal and hillary clinton's involvement in it as we approach the attacks fifth anniversary yet still be a vi keep silent insisting there is insufficient proof of public interest to more

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welcome to well it's a part of the tomahawk missiles launched by two american destroyers in syria last week definitely had a bombshell in fact on global politics but they didn't change the balance of power on the ground did that strike represent a pitch for a new american strategy in the region or just a publicity stunt for the new administration well to discuss that i'm not joined by commander keke lippold former commanding officer of the u.s. navy destroyer u.s.s. cole commander it's great to have you on the show thank you very much for your time

well thank you for having me on today a pleasure to be here now contrary to the expectations the news cycle here in moscow today was rather slow the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson already had he's beating with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov but it's still unclear at this point rather he is going to meet to be had the russian president do you expect anything substantial to come out of his russia visit. i actually do i think the despite the obviously tense introduction the. secretary telephone and lavrov had where there was no eye contact made on purpose by secretary lavrov the two of them said down and once the initial posturing for the cameras was all said and done the people that didn't really need to be in the meeting left and then the governments could sit down and start getting down to the real facts the real basis and start discussing what about the chemical attack one of the objectives of each country both in syria and for the region and so i think that there was some very.