we have many military option we are not looking to the total annihilation of a country namely north korea but as i shared we have many options did you show us defense secretary jim mantis promises a massive military response if north korea threatens the u.s. after pyongyang confirms it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. the russian foreign ministry slams us searches of russian diplomatic sites as an illegal diabolical circus premises in san francisco and washington was shut down on the state department's order. and in our view of the week islamic state leaves behind

a booby trapped ghost town office driven out of tal afar by the iraqi army we have an exclusive brittle. life in moscow it's the weekly here on our to international i'm rosana lockwood thank you for joining us. tensions on the north korean peninsula ratcheting up in washington looks in no mood to calm the situation with the u.s. defense secretary jim mattis promising a massive military response against 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 george territories including. or allies will be met with a massive military response the response both objective and overwhelming the u.s.

defense secretary made that statement after president with his military officials to discuss the situation regarding the korean peninsula it all comes off the north korean state television and now that the country had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb that announcement was made after an earthquake measuring around six on the richter scale was detected in north korea jacqueline booga has more on the latest escalation between washington and pyongyang but 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 he made even more ominous given the comments made by president trump before he met with madison the other generals we were real.

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 trumpet ministration meanwhile we have china and russia 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 and 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 stay over i've been in trouble in this world. and this may not get away with what he's doing really and this is really r.d.f. plaited past 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's 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 but washington seems unwilling to change their plan of action pushing the whole world closer to the edge of war meanwhile south korea has conducted a snap military jail as a response to pyongyang's nuclear test according to the south korean military the

drills simulated a stronghold the north's nuclear testing site missiles fired from the ground and from fighter planes reportedly hit their intended targets in the sea of japan. earlier we spoke to gregory from the advisory board of the korea policy institute and sound unit from the council of korean americans about this latest escalation of tensions in the region i think the drop in the situation is painting itself into a corner so for instance trump recently tweeted the talks are not the answer and. just leaves the option of threatening north korea which only encourages north korea to accelerate its nuclear weapons program which in turn encourages the trumpeter straight into a pretty i mean. it's a very dangerous moment korean central news agency just recently came out with a statement saying they're not willing to give up their for weapons program unless the united states drops its hostile policy so there's a definite opening for

a diplomatic move if the united states wanted to take this is a full scale diplomatic crisis and i think the 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 president and our government is not devoting the resources the political will that are needed to find a solution to this problem 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. washington says it was looking for explosives when it raided recently closed russian diplomatic sites in the u.s. that's according to the russian foreign ministry which is slab to move. one of you said. this action was aimed at keeping the end to russian agenda alive and illegal

takeover like this is very rare in international relations especially on this scale and at such short notice the intention was to humiliate inflict pain and to put people in an uncomfortable situation is unprecedented in global politics particularly for the u.s. a country founded on respect for private property this action is beyond good and evil. stuff were blocked from accessing the buildings over russia's consulate in san francisco and trade mission in washington d.c. this video is from inside the trade missions crevasses minutes before it was closed as you can see more or less everything had already been cleared out leaving only empty shelves and corridors the diplomatic staff were given very short notice to leave the site only thirty six hours and in san francisco searches were being conducted not only on the premises all of the different attics so but also the apartments of staff members and their families going to slam the move as a deeply hostile act david undermining u.s.

russia relations with more his artes and india are today. you. know. 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 security officials were actually searching the apartments for the president still in the trade center in washington also being searched and head of the trade commission has told journalists that who feels that the search is a tokyo. where witnessing an example of vandalism in international relations it's an illegal takeover russian corporate. we haven't been expecting a session of wanted gas we don't fall come down to stupid am local time the u.s. doesn't think we have to go magic immunity anymore 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 thing we've also had a reaction from the russian foreign minister himself so good after all has spoken out about the decision to close the facilities is also said that russia is not the instigator of those moves measures it sanctions that story was not launched by russia it was started by the u.s. administrator and with the only purpose of the money and u.s. russian relations are completely u.s. we're not seeking conflict with this going truth 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 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. 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 self 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 saying international is down very clearly the one hundred sixty one vienna convention of to plastic relations says that any diplomatic affiliated premises no one country. and any incursion on that territory is therefore seen as an attack on the country that is hosting that diplomatic mission so this is breach of all international law that there is 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 of the international diplomatic system by what the americans and the u.s. government is trying to do. twitter has blocked it all to account that's part of a special project telling the story of the russian revolution through real time tweeting they can use the u.k.'s foreign offices logo as it was given the british reaction to events in one nine hundred seventeen weeks founder julian assange has reacted to twitter's decision accusing the u.k. government of putting pressure on the social media platform 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 seventeen 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 them from factory workers to soldiers then we turned actual history diaries letters and memoirs into real time tweets history became a dynamic role play counseling by the russian telegraph the fictional media outlet and they form a unique twitter ecosystem under the hash tag nineteen seventy life 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 the tagline in tracker following the bolshevik leaders 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 keyes doric play as the revolution continues then does

vladimir lenin himself once tweeted. artie's project has been positively reviewed with reviewers 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 project has also attracted a large online following this includes a renowned journalists and popular accounts like the british library in total all project has over one hundred thousand followers with even more tweets featuring the hashtag nine hundred seventeen life the project's tweets have been seen by over twenty five million people but berish deputy head of social media for this disappointing account was shut down without discussing the issue with altie first. we wanted to give voice to all sides of those surveillance that is why we decided to create the columns of the british embassy into description it's clearly stated

that it is their columns of the united kingdom in the russian empire which no longer exists by the time the account was suspended as it heads 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 their columns without even and it sounds it's a conflict its creators meanwhile characters within the project have reacted to the accounts closure finally someone shut down accounts of imperialist u.k. oh did foreign office close its whatever twitter should better suspend bush weeks propaganda and ban lenin. first we're in the war on social media then on battlefield. the iraqi government this week declared the former islamic state

stronghold city of tal afar liberated however little remains that the city aside from the many b.b. traps left by terrorists and gassed i have sent this exclusive report there were islamiah but here the islamic state will remain you'll find. that plastered all over the bridges and buildings entire frog iraq the same just haven't yet gotten around to covering them up what with being busy fighting. what. one lawyer doesn't want them to what i says sure to leave behind plenty of surprises booby traps every red intel a frog they have to turn the city into a sap as nightmare and come in here we were multiple times not to touch anything no matter how innocent it might seem we knew behind. could be

explosives booby trapped behind the tires even in the right switches. 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 tell a fine you can live in lie down in 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 those 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 mess in the desert in order to get away before the iraqi military in the u.s. led to release and. then to write a fraud of the city of combat the question is how much of tal afar there be left to come back to more i guys deal. from telefon iraq. current german chancellor angela merkel has gone head to head with her main

challenger multan schultz in a live t.v. debate it was the last big chance for both candidates to make their case to the german voters general election should yield on september twenty fourth will bring in a new parliament the bundestag but will also decide whether merkel remains in office for a fourth consecutive term peter all of a picks up the story. well the scores are in following sunday night's debate between the two challengers to become the next chancellor of germany the incumbent angela merkel and the challenger martin schultz and well the scores say that it was pretty much a resoundingly win for the incumbent angola merkel fifty five to thirty five over martin schultz in total but this really was the the big chance for martin schulz and the social democratic party to put across what type of leadership they want to bring to germany we haue saw a lot of agreement on key issues between schultz and merkel where there was

difference where it was when it came to under merkel's refugee policy back in twenty fifteen the german chancellor saying that she wouldn't change anything when it came to the big decision she would do everything exactly now as she did then however martin schultz said that when it came to those decisions there were things that shouldn't have been carried out the way they were i was astonished cancel the american as the waves of refugees have been hitting us not for a couple of days but for months and we always stressed that we need to find a common european solution and according to the dublin convention they should stay where they first arrived in so they are not allowed to come to germany and those states couldn't manage the flow so then your decision to tell them come in i find to be right but i think you should have asked our neighbors for help in dealing with the refugee crisis so i definitely wouldn't say that everything back in two thousand and fifteen was done right but we did see

a little more fire from schultz when it came to the issue of how to tackle turkey the former european parliament president well he very much wants the see a session talks of turkey joining the european off the table right now that he sees as a result a direct result of the policies of president in turkey angela merkel does agree to a certain. point but doesn't think it's up to germany to be making a decision right now. and felt that you know turkey is distancing itself from all democratic norms that a breathtaking pace there would be nothing worse than if we said we're stopping unilaterally all turks with turkey on joining the e.u. and we don't have any majority for that in the european union. i don't see turkey joining the e.u. and i never saw it. but one of these two will be the next german chancellor after the ballot on the twenty fourth of september it looks almost certainly now as if it will be angola merkel it would take almost

a miracle for martin schulz to pull it back but why isn't he able to go on the attack against the incumbent chancellor somebody who's bait in power for an awfully long time one of the big reasons for that is of course that his party the social democrats or they've been in coalition with angela merkel for eight out of the twelve years that she's been chancellor so if she if he was to go out on the offensive into lambaste her legacy to lambaste her policies he would ultimately be essentially attacking his own party's legacy and its own party's policies which is why we're probably not going to see too much change on the german political landscape over the next parliament after the ninety minute showdown was over the german public was quick to react online as many had hoped to see a more heated exchange.

if you look at the t.v. a debate between merkel and sure. there was not really a difference they were both saying exactly the same and on the board prism of a system in germany was not bringing any change so basically i think there is no big . difference perhaps only one that medical is of course having much more knowledge to international policy than assurance and she's the only time a leader of this country and i think so far in these turbulent times she might be not the worst chancellor for the future. hundreds of people took to the streets of

paris on wednesday to protest against president recall this new labor law designed to make it easier for companies to both hall and file workers. reports. but the demonstrators have come out again in front to show how i am happy they are with emanuel not one square and perform the working code they have to start a manual my own as being a man only supports business i once took the rights of look at this is what people have been saying to us and said that keeping. your tax work and workers against it because it has no one. can share the work of. the. big boss says he wants to cut services social protections and everything achieved by workers turns agree that it's 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 code take it in front of 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 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 major piece of lettuce. say she's hearing problems but recess is fails means you see with the call we will be able despite his continuing plunging popularity in the polls in the polls to be able to push this reform through and to appease the french people. ahti paris well as mccraw moves to reshape the economy the latest polls show he's losing popularity you can see it's dropped to forty percent mccrone spokesman however claims the president will quote transform the country while other presidents have fed a lot better at the same points in their careers nicolas sarkozy had a sixty nine percent approval rating and even francois along to his best known as mr popular had fifty four meanwhile some have accused the new french president of arrogance in light of some of the things he's been saying on the world stage.

we have absolutely different positions to vladimir putin i act france will not pass on anything 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 now i think they have different views of their political views i can't even imagine something like that would actually where i. think. the international stage is not really that cool you are now also i am the one obliged to speak to every two on every ten days. yeah this made the film tick i don't think it's a smart move by michael i guess that's like the new thing nowadays to have no

experience and thank you the good is that everything you think that we're going to sign up. i know coming up at. the sports guys talent best of all the red square drawing the best military history all over the world has completed its final day the annual event month it's ten down about three. years. medina could chant i've attended the final day of the festival. reza where has to read all colorful and ride this as it is hosting the final day of the

international military music festival now 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 martial arts specialists from as far away as egypt china. israel and in seattle now we talked 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 of. 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 mobilises is the time where in most schools this year we were able to work with a russian singer who sang an italian song as well as a retard who sing in russian. with the event drawing to a close a massive. red square and adjoining areas of central moscow.