we have many military option but we're not looking to the total annihilation of a country namely north korea but as i shared we have many options to do show us defense secretary jim mattis promises a massive military response if north korea threatens the u.s. to pyongyang confirms it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. the russian foreign ministry slants u.s. searches of russian diplomatic science as an illegal a diabolical circus privacies in san francisco and washington were shut down on the state department's orders. and in our review of the week islamic state leaves

behind a booby trapped ghost town office driven out of talent fall by the iraqi army we have an exclusive report. live from moscow it's the weekly here on r.t. international i'm rosana lockwood thank you for joining us. tensions on the north korean peninsula are rock shooting up and washington looks in no mood to calm the situation with the u.s. defense secretary jim mattis promising a massive military response towards 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 or 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 all to president trump met with his military officials to discuss the situation on the korean peninsula it all comes off the 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 the north korea jacqueline view that 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 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 fury. like the world has never seen north korea better get their act together where they're going to be trouble like you. it 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 in 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 by 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 ground and from fighter planes reportedly hit their intended targets in the sea of japan. earlier we spoke to gregory ealey from the visor board of the crip policy institute and sam union 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 that talks are not the answer and so just leaves the option of threatening north korea which only encourages north korea to accelerate its nuclear weapons program which in turn encourages the trumpet ministration to put him on the. road to very dangerous. 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 slammed the move. one of us at the polls this action was aimed at keeping the end to russian agenda lies 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 being conducted not only on the premises over the diplomatic side but also in the apartments of staff members and their families moscow has slammed the move as a deeply hostile act and undermining u.s.

russia relations with more here's artie's madeira tutor. 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 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. we are witnessing an example of vandalism in international relations it's another go take a russian corporate road we haven't been expecting so she wanted gas so we don't fall come down 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

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 it sanctions. he 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 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 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 of the vienna convention states immunity remains in

place until diplomatic style leave the country. the 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 is done very clearly the one hundred sixty one vienna convention of to plastic relations says that any diplomatic affiliated premises in a song country. and any incursion on that territory is an attack on the country that is hosting that. diplomatic mission so this is the breach of the international law that there is 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 as part of a special project telling the story of the russian revolution through real time tweeting the account use the u.k. foreign offices logar as it was giving the british reaction to events in one nine hundred seventeen we can leaks 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 nineteen seventeen years of the

russian revolution we looked at the revolutions until. 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 the russian empire then from factory workers to soldiers then we turned actual history diaries letters and memoirs into real time tweets history became a dynamic role played counseling 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 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 keys story play as the revolution continues termed as

vladimir lenin himself once tweeted. artie's project has been positively received with reviewers calling it a for mythical work the creation of an entire world and an ambitious attempt to create a new genre as well as rave reviews the project is also trying to launch online following this includes renowned journalists and popular accounts like the british library in total our project has a 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. the head of social media says it's disappointing the account was shut down without discussing the issue with r.t. first wanted to give voice to all sides of their surveillance that is why i would decide it's a creed the current of the british embassy in its description it's clearly stated.

there is the columns of the united kingdom in the russian empire which no longer exists by the time they account for suspenders it had over three thousand followers 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 so contact 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 bolsheviks propaganda and ban lenin first we were in the war on social media then on battlefield. the wrong key government this week declared the former islamic

state stronghold city of tal afar liberated however little remains of the city aside from the many booby traps left by terrorists. said this exclusive report there were islamiah but here the islamic state will remain you'll find graffiti like that plastered all over the grills and buildings entire frog iraq he sent his haven't yet gotten around to covering them up what with being busy fighting. why the lawyer doesn't want them to what i says sure to leave behind plenty of surprises booby traps everywhere intel a frog they have turned the city into a sap as nightmare and coming here we were bloomed multiple times not to touch anything no matter how innocent it might seem. behind these. could

be explosives booby traps berms behind the tires 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 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 tel afar and 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 us 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 your opportunity presented itself as the battle began braving the merciless desert in order to get away before of the iraqi military in the u.s. led to a release and really it's a very bright fire fraught with the instability of the combat the question is how much of tal afar verby left to come back to more i guys do you have from telefon iraq. in other news from the weak

current german chancellor angela merkel has gone head to head with her main challenger martin schulz 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 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 things going to come of. waves of refugees have been hitting us not for a couple of days but for months evolve and we always stressed that we need to find a common european solution and according to the dublin conventions should stay where they first arrived and so they are not allowed to come to germany and those states couldn't manage that slowly done so then your decision to tell them cummins 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 and. 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 or the k. and m. turkey is distancing itself from all democratic norms that are breath taking place 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 so 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 into 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 assurance and she's the only time a leader of this country and i think so far in these troubled 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 macross new labor law designed to make it easier for companies to birth hire and fire workers sheltered you bensky reports. the demonstrators have come out again in front to show how i am happy they are with emmanuel why and perform on the working code they have described emanuel back on as being a man who not only supports business i once took the rights of workers this is what people have been saying to us that keeping small town is a tax work in the workers. we're against it because it has no a share now and we can share the work. the. big boss says and those who want to come public services social protections and everything achieved

by workers agree with that. it's about ideology to be able to sack workers more easily and stop work in fact he wants to get rid of employee protections altogether it's a big attack of the hierarchy deals will now take over those are some of the reasons why the demonstrators here feel so passionately against these reforms to the working code but not everybody is happy with the plans to reform the working code here in france. 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 a manual match point to go in when he introduces that working reform some people have described this as being a bellwether for my presidency because this is his first major attempt to pass

a big piece of legislation here in front but recess is have failed to see. will be able despite his continuing plunging popularity in the in the polls to be able to push this reform through and to appease the french people charlotte devinsky altie paris well as mccraw moves to reshape the economy the latest polls show he's losing popularity as you can see it's dropped to just forty percent mccrone spokesman however claims the president will quote transform the country and well other presidents have fared a lot better at the same points in their career is nicolas sarkozy had a sixty nine percent approval rating and even france was all low and who is known as mr unpopular heard fifty four meanwhile some have accused the new french president of our guests 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 any he's 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 figure they have different views if they're pleased to go through i can even imagine something or that actually where people. think. the international stage is not really that clear. also i am the one of the large to speak to and to on every ten days. here does that leave the field think

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 data so that you can let our son know. how you know cut. the spot sky a talent festival in red square drawing the best mitchell bistro smol of the world has completed its final day annual event month its tenth anniversary this year. medina and i've attended the final day of the festival. rez choir has turned all colorful and. right this as it is hosting the final is

a the international military music festival that crowds of people gather aids 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 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 india 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 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. 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 singer whose son. as well as all retire this thing in russia. with me if that story requires a lot because you play a little red square and adjoining areas of central moscow.