the media the media the voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals. boom bust it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. we have many military option we are not looking to the total annihilation of a concrete namely north korea but as i shared we have many options would you show us defense secretary jim not his promises a massive military response if north korea threatens the us to pyongyang confirms it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. the russian foreign ministry slams us searches of russian diplomatic signs and illegal diabolical circus premises in san francisco and washington was shut down on the state department's orders. and review of the week

islamic state leaves behind a booby trapped ghost town after instruments of tal afar by the iraqi army we have an exclusive report. live from moscow it's that we can hear on r.t. international i'm rosana locoed thank you for joining us. tensions on the north korean peninsula are ratcheting up and washington looks in no mood to calm the situation with the u.s. defense secretary jim mattis promising a massive military response regarding north korea should it threaten america. we have many military options and the president wanted to be briefed on each one of them any threat to the united states george territories including. for our 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 trump met his military officials to discuss the situation on the korean peninsula it all comes after north korean state television announced 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 duca has more on 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 because 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 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 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'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. and the kind of language that kim jong un will understand but clearly america really has no plans of changing their tactics 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 drill as a response to pyongyang's nuclear test according to the south korean military the

drill simulated a strike on the north's nuclear testing site missiles fired from the grab and from fighter planes reportedly hit their intended targets in the sea of japan. ok we spoke to gregory from the advisory board of the korea policy institute and sam yoon from the council of the korean americans about the latest escalation of tensions in the region i think that. 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 putting on the. road the very day. for the very recently came out with pretty much 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 science in the u.s. that's according to the russian foreign ministry which has slammed the 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 of russia's consulate in san francisco and trade mission in washington d.c. this video is from inside the trade missions premises 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 big conducted not only on the premises of the diplomatic side but also in the apartment to start members and their families moscow has the baby as a deeply hostile act aimed at undermining u.s.

russian relations with more his. daughter. 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 is also being searched and we 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 another. russian corporate. we haven't been expecting such and wanted gas and we don't fall come down to stupid am local time the u.s. doesn't think we have just a magic immunity 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 team 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 has also said that russia is not the instigator of those moves measures or the sanctions story was not launched by russia it was started by the u.s. administrator and with the only purpose of the mornin 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 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 search is all legal claiming diplomatic immunity is revoked following any closure however the vienna convention states immunity remains

in place intil 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 saying international down very clearly the one hundred sixty one vienna convention of to class relations says that any diplomatic and affiliated premises in a song country. and incursion in that territory is therefore seen as an attack on the country this is hosting that. diplomatic mission so this is reachable internationally but 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 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. twitter has blocked an r.t.a. account as part of a special project telling the story of the russian revolution through a real time to eating they can't use the u.k. foreign offices logo as it was giving the british reaction to events in one thousand nine hundred seventy we can expand the julian assange has reacted to twitter's decision accusing the u.k. go. 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 then from factory workers to soldiers then we turned actual history diaries letters and memoirs into real time tweets 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 hashtags than in 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 the live q. and a sessions featuring keys doric 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 project has also attracted a large online following. this includes renowned journalists and popular accounts like the british library in total our project has had over one hundred thousand followers with even more tweets featuring the hash tag nine hundred seventeen life the project's tweets have been seen by over twenty five million people. he had a social media says it's disappointing the account was shut down without discussing the issue with r.c. 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 the 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 the head the forty social media over across here tried to concerts and the actual u.k. embassy in russia but there was no reaction whatsoever it is very sad that the u.k. for in office decided to shut down their columns without even and it sounds it's a conflict it's crazy hours 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. should better suspend bush weeks propaganda and ban lenin. first we're in the war on social media then on battlefield. iraqi government this week declared the former islamic state

stronghold city of tal afar liberated however little remains of the city aside from the many baby traps left by terrorists. in this exclusive report there were islamiah but here the islamic state will remain you'll find graffiti like that plastered all over the bridges and buildings entire 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 work i says sure to leave behind plenty of surprises booby traps everywhere intel a fraud they have turned the city into a sap as nightmare and coming here we were ruined multiple times not to touch anything no matter how innocent it might seem we knew behind these. could

be explosives booby traps behind that even in the right switches. would be one where officers went into a house and sat on a sofa and 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 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 merciless desert in order to get away before the iraqi military in the u.s. led to release and. then to write a fraud west 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.

in other news from this week current german chancellor angela merkel has gone head to head with her main challenge of malton schultz in a life t.v. debate it was the last big chance for both candidates to make their case to german voters general election shuttled 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. 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 score 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 the few things going to come of. waves of refugees have been hitting us not for a couple of days but for months off and we always stressed that we need to find a common european solution and according to the dublin convention zones it for me should stay where they first arrived and so they are not allowed to come to germany and switzerland and those states couldn't manage and slowly done so then your decision to tell there isn't cummins i find to be right for each of us but i think you should have asked our neighbors for help in dealing with the refugee crisis there so i definitely wouldn't say that everything back in twenty fifteen was done right and. we did see

a little more fire from shultz when it came to the issue of how to tackle turkey the former european parliament president well he very much what's 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 angle a merkel does agree to a certain. point but doesn't think it's up to germany to be making a decision right now or the k. and m. turkey is distancing itself from all democratic norms that a breathtaking pace there would be nothing worse than if we said we stop being unilaterally all turks with turkey on joining the e.u. and we don't have any majority for that in the european union but that's ok i don't see turkey joining the e.u. and 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 and to lambaste her legacy to lambaste her policies he would ultimately be essentially attacking his own party's legacy and his 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. debate between macklin and sure. there was not really a difference they were both saying exactly the same and on this lee they are both president of a system in germany that was not bringing any change so basically i think there is no big difference perhaps only one that machall is of course have been 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. elsewhere in europe hundreds of people took to the streets of paris on wednesday to protest against president micron's new labor law designed to make it easier for companies to both hire and fire work it's trial that you've been reports. but the demonstrators have come out again in front to show how unhappy they are with a manual that once one performs 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 bosses and those who want to come pick services social protections and everything achieved by

workers agree with that. it's 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 corporate deals will now take over those are some of the reasons why the demonstrators hey i feel so passionately against these reforms to the working code but not everybody is happy with the plans to reform the working . front. suggested will mean. 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 my presidency because this is his first major time to pass.

big piece of legislation here in front but recess is have failed so means the scene will be able despite his continuing plunging popularity in the party in the polls to be able to push this reform through and to appease the french people. altie paris well as mccrone moves to reshape the economy the latest polls show he's losing popularity you can see it's dropped to forty percent mccrone spokesperson however claims the president will quote transform the country well other presidents have fared a lot better at the same points in their careers nicolas sarkozy had a sixty nine percent approval rating and even francois along who is best known as mr unpopular 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 block in your future i asked france well not so many he's ready to follow us and then we will have some. really imagine all the other nice thing they have different their political views i can't even imagine something like that actually where people can. do that because . the international stage is not really that clear. also i am the one to blige to speak to and to want every ten days. that the film take i don't think it's smart move but

i guess that's like the new thing nowadays to do. you have no experience and think you're the greatest at everything you think you were so no. i know cut. the spot sky italia festival in red square drawing the best military. has completed its final day and what about marked its tenth anniversary this year. medina the chant of 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 its and red square get a chance to see ensembles from fourteen different countries where there are 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 quite player is some macho along the square as you can see fireworks are right behind my back now that march of the performance of the armenian military band now in addition to the best russian military bands and the gods and the trauma bands and also. specialists from as far away as egypt china has trailed and 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 of the festival and 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 it's only been. going from the first of all is just mobilises is the time where in most of 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 must see if i were to spend this all red square and adjoining areas. central moscow.

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