it is a tourist phobia wolf in a fellow in town identity. we have many military option we are not looking to the total annihilation of a country namely north korea but we have many options to do show us defense secretary jim mattis promises a massive military response if north korea threatens the u.s. after pill confirms it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. in foreign ministry to us searches of russian diplomatic sites as being an illegal diabolical circus in san francisco and washington was shut down on the state department's orders. you know review of the

week islamic state leaves behind a booby trapped town after is driven out of talent by the iraqi army we bring you an exclusive report. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. . tensions on the north korean peninsula are ratcheting up and washington looks in no mood to calm the situation but the u.s. defense secretary jim mattis promising a massive military response on north korea should it threaten america. we have many military options and president wanted to be briefed on each one of them any threat to the united states or territory. or our allies will be met with a massive military response a response. and overwhelming u.s.

defense secretary made that statement after president met with his military officials to discuss the situation over the korean peninsula it all comes after north korean state television announced the country had success. fully tested hydrogen bomb that announcement was made through earthquake measuring just over six on the richter scale was detected in north korea. has more in the latest escalation between washington and pyongyang. that's actually kind of an unexpected and drastic change in tone coming from modest there who is really starting to sound more like trump now he did add that america is not seeking the annihilation of north korea but it's highly unlikely that those comments will be of any comfort to anyone in north korea given how quickly his stance changed from there's always the possibility of a diplomatic solution to we don't want to kill you but we certainly can if need be now these statements are made even more ominous given the comments made by

president trump before he met with madison the other generals we were. earlier on sunday trump did tweet that all options are being considered when it comes to north korea but it is clear that the military option seems to be becoming the favorite for the trump administration meanwhile we have china and russia are urging all sides to show restraint but it seems that team trump is going to stick with the aggressive rhetoric that we've seen from the president as of late they will be met with fire fury. like the world has never see north korea better get their act together or they're going to be trouble like you they should stay over the trouble in this world. and this may not get away with what he's doing and this is really already at play to pass just a war of words we've already seen america bolster their military presence in the

region and continue to conduct drills with south korea much to the displeasure of their northern neighbors and trump has gotten a fair amount of backlash for some of his aggressive comments both here at home and abroad but the u.s. state department for their part has defended. his comments saying that it simply the only way to communicate with the north korean leader 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 clearly america really has no plans of changing their tactics but despite the fact that all of their aggressive rhetoric and saying that talking will not work and attacking north korea has only lead to further threats from north korea and more missile tests by washington seems unwilling to change their plan of action pushing the whole world closer to the edge of war expose that we've spoken to believe the u.s. is hostile rhetoric has pushed north korea to move forward with its weapons

programs. 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 our president and our government is not devoting the resources the political will that are needed to find a solution to this problem 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 what the north koreans are trying to do is love cost more to start a war what do they gain from having a war because america's of course the military is the most powerful in the world and they're going to easily destroy the whole of north korea the north koreans want surance of the billet away from the threats of region change and

they do not believe any more kind of rhetoric and that's why they want to have this trump card in hand in order to do two to secure a long term deal. washington says that it was looking for explosives when it recently closed russian diplomatic sites in the u.s. now that's according to the russian foreign ministry which slammed the move. one of you said wrong this action was aimed at keeping the end to russian agenda alive of an illegal takeover like this is very rare in international relations especially on this scale and as i said short notice the intention was to humiliate inflict pain and to put people in an uncomfortable situation it's unprecedented in global politics particularly for the us a contract founded on respect for private property this action is beyond good and evil our staff were blocked from accessing the buildings of russia's consulate in

san francisco and its trade mission in washington this particular video now is from inside the trade mission minutes before it was closed and as you can see everything pretty much has been cleared away the diplomatic staff were given very short notice to do that though just thirty six hours to tidy up and get out. meanwhile in san francisco searches were conducted not only on the premises of the diplomatic site but also in the apartments of staff members and the release. of as being a deeply hostile act aimed at undermining u.s. russian relations with more luck here's our he's an idea to do. 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 mission has told journalists that who feels that the search is. an example of vandalism international relations it's another. russian corporate. we haven't been expecting so she wanted gas. to stupid am local time the u.s. doesn't think we have to going to community anymore if we look at the reasons the us 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 to have spoken out about the decision to close the facilities is also said that russia is not the instigator of those moves measures or the sanctions already was not launched by russia it was started by the u.s. administrator with the only purpose of us russian relations concerning 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 it looks like our american partners are breakdancing on their own 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 the search is legal claiming diplomatic immunity is revoked following any closure however the vienna convention states immunity remains in place until diplomatic staff have left 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 saying

international lays down very clearly the one hundred sixty one fianna convention of to plastic relations says that any diplomatic affiliated premises nifong country. and any incursion on that territory is their forces an attack on the country that is hosting that. diplomatic mission so this is all international terrorist some sort of meaningless parade of power by raising america the big issue 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. twitter has blocked an r.t.

account this part of a special project tells the story of the russian revolution through real time tweeting the use the u.k. foreign offices logo as it was giving the british reaction to events in nineteen seventeen we could expand it during the songs reacted to twitter's decision accusing the u.k. government of putting pressure on the social media platform for you is a look at our project. have you ever dreamed of time travel party brings you a digital time machine that takes you back to nine hundred seventy the year of the russian revolution we looked at the revolutions and scenery and wondered what if twitter existed a hundred years ago. so we set up dozens of real twitter accounts in the names of historic figures from vladimir lenin to the russian emperor then from factory workers to soldiers then we turned actual history diaries letters and memoirs into real time to its history became

a dynamic role play all the accounts are linked by the russian telegraph the fictional media outlet and they form a unique twitter ecosystem under the hash tag nineteen seventeen live so with the stage set tweeting of the revolution begins with events from a century ago reported like breaking news as if it's all happening now. with hash tag tracker following the bolshevik leader's return to russia from european exile in real time. with timely opinion polls on the burning issues of the fading russian empire and even live q. and a sessions featuring key is to play as the revolution continues to end as vladimir lenin himself once tweeted. project has been positively received with reviews calling it a formidable work the creation of an entire virtual world and an ambitious attempt

to create a new genre as well as rave reviews the projects also attracted a large following. this includes renowned journalists and popular accounts like the british library in total the project has more than one hundred thousand followers with even more tweets featuring the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live the project's tweets have been seen by over twenty five million people club rachelle forty's deputy head of social media says it's disappointing though the account was shut down without even discussing the issue with r.t. first we wanted to give voice to all sides of those surveillance that is why we decided to create their current of the british embassy into description it's clearly stated there is the account of the united kingdom in the russian empire which no longer exists by the time they can't wear suspenders it had over three thousand forwards and they had the party social media over across here tried to contact the actual u.k. embassy in russia but there was no reaction whatsoever it is very sad that the u.k.

foreign office decided to shut down the account without even and it sounds it's a conflict it's creators it hasn't ended though with characters within the project itself reacting to the accounts closure finally someone shut down accounts of imperialist u.k. oh did foreign office close it whatever. should better suspend bolsheviks propaganda and ban lenin first we were in the war on social media then on battlefield. iraqi authorities have declared the city free from the grip of islamic state militants that story coming up after the break. seemed wrong. to shape

our. engagement. find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground.

welcome back the iraqi government this week declared the former islamic state stronghold city of tal afar liberated however very little remains of the city aside from the many booby traps left behind by the terrorists. this exclusive report. then the islamiya but here the islamic state will remain you'll find graffiti like that plaster whenever the bridges and buildings entitle frog iraq he sent his 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 said sure to leave behind plenty of surprises booby traps every red intel a frog they have ten the city into a sap as night and coming in here we were ruined multiple times not to touch

anything no matter how innocent it might seem for we know beyond any of these. could be explosives booby traps baboons behind the time even in the right switches. has been one where officers went into a house and sat on a sofa that exploded along with the house they had booby trapped the sofa another example they were explosive to light switches when he turned 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 was 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

does 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 did 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 few of the iraqi ministry in the u.s. led coalition brits to. turn night or. of the city of combat the question is how much of tal afar there be left to come back to more i

guys. from telephone iraq. hundreds of people took to the streets of paris on wednesday to protest against president emanuel micron's new labor law it's designed to make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers do pinsky has more. of the demonstrators have come out again in front to show how unhappy they are with a manual one perform on the working cause they have to start a manual my own is being a man only supports business i once took the rights of look at this is what people think saying to us and said that. if you tax work and workers against it because you don't. has no wish and we can share the work. the. big boss says those who want to cut the services social protections and everything

achieved by woodworkers turns agree with something. about ideology to be able to sound. 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 so take it in front. suggest it will mean the employers will 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 in front of me but recesses have failed to see. it 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. altie paris. first of all it was red square drawing the best military orchestras from all around the world has completed its final day daniel event well the first story this year.

i. t's medina coach should have attended the final day of the festival. reza where has turned all colorful and ride this as it is hosting the final say of the international military music festival that crowds of people gather aids and red square get a chance to see ensembles from fourteen different countries wearing their colorful uniforms playing a dance from across the square now this grand festival welcomes some of the past bands and uniforms not only from russia but from across the world we just saw one hundred and twenty i cal take flight player is some macho along the square as you can see fireworks are right behind my back now that it's marked at the performance of the armenian military band now in addition to the best russian

military bands and gods in the trauma bands and also. specialists from as far away as egypt china. israel and syria now we talk to some of the people who came here to russia to be a part of this festival. it's my second time in moscow and have the festival a very good impression and i really like working with such kind in the it's very interesting just being in the festival. this is my first visit to moscow and it's absolutely beautiful especially dancing here in the red square it's just a dream come true for the sunni believe. the impression i got from the first of all is just is the first time we're in this year we were able to work with a russian. as well as a retired. general. of

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our. own while come to walter 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 didn't 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 kick. former commanding officer of the us 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 the rex tillerson already had he's bidding with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov but it's still unclear at this point rather he's going to miss a bit of 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 that. secretary teller hsan 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 object is of each country both in syria and for the region and so i think that there was some very good discussions these had to take place following these strikes to not do them what i think

a been more detrimental to both country's interests in the region while commander on the eve of this meeting the russian official said that di expectational very fairly modest they just want to simply understand where they trumpet ministration stands on a range of middle eastern issues and i wonder if you think that they trumpet this ration if south knows about its stance i think they do i think in this case when you look at it one of the things that came through very very clear was while the previous administration under president obama put that red line out there and then never did anything of substance to enforce it to the trump administration felt that the use of chemical weapons in clear violation of international law merited a swift and forceful response in my opinion it was forced it was proportional it was appropriate and it's done i think it hopefully send a signal to the assad regime that this will not be tolerated anymore mr de paulo the bombing of the syrian arab a says dramatic as.