we have many military option we are not looking to the total annihilation of a concrete namely north korea but as i said we have many options. u.s. defense secretary jim mattis promises a massive military response if north korea threatens the us to pyongyang confirms it sex successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. the russian foreign ministry slammed us searches of russian diplomatic signs as an illegal diabolical circus privacies in san francisco and washington was shut down on the state department's orders. and in our view of the week islamic state leaves behind

a booby trapped ghost town office driven out of town a fall by the iraqi army we have an exclusive report. from moscow it's the weekly here on r t international armors other lockwood thank you for joining us. 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 all north korea should 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 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 north korea jaclyn view 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 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 trumpet ministration 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 today 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 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 drill as a response to pyongyang's nuclear test according to the south korean military the

drill simulates a strike on the north's nuclear testing site missiles fired from the ground and from flights planes reportedly hit their intended targets in the sea of japan have . we talked to gregory ealey from the advisory board of the crippler sea institute and samuel and from the council of korean americans about this latest escalation of tensions in the region. i think that repetition is painting itself into a corner so for instance trump recently tweeted that talks are not the answer and. just leaves the option of threatening north korea which only encourages north korea through accelerate its nuclear weapons program which in turn encourages the trumpeter straight into a pretty. or a very dangerous. interview just before we came up with a payment. they're not willing to give up for weapons program left 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. 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 slam the. glop one of you said. this action was aimed at keeping the mc russian agenda license and illegal

takeover like this is very bringing 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 it's unprecedented in global politics particularly for the u.s. a country founded on respectful travel. this section is beyond good and. one of the staff were blocked from accessing the buildings of russia's culture as 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 played out leaving only empty shelves and cordle's 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 diplomatic side but also in the apartments of staff members and their families has slammed the move as a deeply hostile act aimed at undermining u.s.

russia 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 the security officials were actually searching the apartments with 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 searches are a typo. we are witnessing an example of vandalism in international relations it's another. russian group which. we haven't been expecting so she wanted gas we don't 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 circular for a few spoken out about the decision to close the facilities he's also said that russia is not the instigator of those moves measures or the sanctions. was not launched by russia it was started by the u.s. administrator shin with the only purpose of the money and u.s. relations concerning the us 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 or 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 in told to promote expel for 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 think international down very clearly the one nine hundred sixty one fianna convention of to class relations says that any diplomatic affiliated premises no one country. and any incursion on that territory is their forces an attack on the country that is hosting that. diplomatic mission so this is breach of international law 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 i guess embassies with which they don't have good relations with this is a collapse of all. the international diplomatic system by what the americans and the u.s. government is trying to do. has blocked an altie 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 logo as it was giving the british reaction to events in one thousand nine hundred seventeen weeks founder julian assange has reacted to his decision accusing the u.k. government of putting pressure on the social media platform here's 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 lenin to the russian emperor them from factory workers to soldiers then we turn to 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 a 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 track up 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. project has been positively received with reviewers calling it a formidable work the creation of an entire. virtual worlds 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 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 led to a rash of artie's deputy head of social media says it's disappointing the account was shut down without 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 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 party 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 bus 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 booby traps left by terrorists gassed you have sent this exclusive report then the islamiah by the islamic state will remain you'll find graffiti like that plastered all over the grids 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 work 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. behind these. could be

explosives booby traps berms behind the even in the right switches. would be one where officers went into a house and sat on a sofa exploded along with the house they had booby trapped the sofa another example they were explosive to light switches when you turn on their lights the house explodes they were bombs into refrigerators and even the door handles when you open the door and explodes. i've just come back from telefon you can didn't lie down on the bed without cyprus check and first drop bombs and wires everywhere we don't touch anything. i will do all we can to disarm everything but there's only so much we can do some houses will have to be destroyed. this bomb was intended for others but the planes and helicopters destroyed the roads and i still couldn't get

the car bomb out our engineers found it and dismantled it if it had been used it would have done as great damage they disarm the explosive canisters and detonated them in a controlled explosion. iraqi troops wouldn't let us into the center of telephone saying would still far too dangerous but having spent some time here in the suburbs we haven't seen a single civilian most of them ran when you're patootie presented itself as the battle began braving the merciless desert in order to get away before the iraqi military in the u.s. led to release and brits to their right for a frog west of the city of combat a question of how much of tal afar there be left to come back to more i guys do you have from telephone iraq. and other news from this week current

german chancellor angela merkel has gone head to head with her main challenge of martin schulz in a live 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 all these peter all of our 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 a few 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 double interventions ruins 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 it's everything back in the twenty

fifteen was the times 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 swelled 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 or 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. turkey is distancing itself from all democratic norms that are breath taking place and 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 but that's ok i don't see turkey joining the e.u. and i never saw it. but one of these two what will be the next german chancellor

after the ballot on the twenty fourth of september 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 been 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 in to 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 elsewhere in europe hundreds of people took to the streets of paris on wednesday to protest against president new labor law designed to make it easier for companies to both hire and fire workers. reports.

to. the demonstrators have come out again in france to show how exactly they are with the money on that one square and perform on the working code they have just god and man your mark on this being a man who not only supports business and wants to the rights of the workers this is what people have been saying to us and said that keeping small tony is a tax will. in the workers who are against it because it has no a share now and we can share the work. resents the big bosses and those who want to come look services social protections and everything achieved by workers agree with. it's about ideology to be able to sign. 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 hey i feel so passionately against these reforms to the working code but not everybody is unhappy with the plans to reform the working through the front lines of forms that suggest it 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 a manual match point 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 attempt to pass a big piece of legislation here in fronts but recess is have failed to see. will be able despite this continuing plunging popularity in the polls to be able to

push this reform through and to appease the french people. altie paris well as mccraw moves to reshape the economy the latest polls show he's losing popularity as you can see has dropped to forty percent spokesman however claims the president will quote transform the country well of the french president's half a lot better at the same point in the. careers nicolas sarkozy had a sixty nine percent approval rating and even france was all on who was known as mr popular and 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 and i think they have different views their political views i can't even imagine something where 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 enter one every ten days. yet that made the film tick i don't think it's a smart move by my i guess that's like the new thing nowadays to have no experience and thank you the good is that everything you can pick a word or sign up. i know come to.

the spa sky tower festival in red square drawing the best military officers from all of the well has completed its final day annual event mom should tenth anniversary this year. medina could chant of attended the final day of the festival france where has terry doll colorful and raw. as it is hosting the final say 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. 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 past of all. 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. 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 and italian song as well as a retard who sing in russian. with the event drawing to a close safe. red square and adjoining areas of central. that's the weekly make ever and will be large from here almost to a studio in just thirty minutes time with all the latest news and headlines stay

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