the. three years under siege the syrian city of the door celebrates as government forces closed in on the remaining islamic state and removing islamic state from one of its last strongholds in the country. any threat to the united states or territory will be met with a massive military response the response both back and overwhelming washington says it will defend itself with the full capability of its power if north korea continues to threaten the u.s. or at sunrise comes after pyongyang confirms it successfully tested

a hydrogen bomb. and fearing persecution tens of thousands of muslims in myanmar flee the asian country as the minority community struggles against violent oppression by the state's old forest. there this is darting international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital i'm lucky erin good to have you with us this hour now we start the hour with breaking news syrian government forces are closing in on i saw positions near the city of zoar one of the groups last strongholds in the country but news has led to scenes of jubilation after three years of being under the terrorists' control. with over one hundred thousand civilians trapped in this city and only drops to

survive on the syrian army operation will be a significant blow to islamic states earlier this syrian army released first to the latest battles against the terrorists saying the army is about ten kilometers. away from the besieged city itself a successful operation by government forces backed by russian and strikes has led to a number of gangs throughout all this the city was besieged by ice on its rise back in two thousand and forty. more on that very late and even a bit as isis terrorists raided our house my thirteen year old cousin was staying with us i hid her in a water tank so that the terrorists didn't take her as a slave it was i did it as a courtesy the situation in there is or is catastrophic terrorist from iraq

executes civilians in the streets and leave bodies lying there for up to five days by secretly drove my sons out of the city otherwise isis militants would recruit them by force inject psychotropic substances and later use them a suicide bomb and. washington says it will use any means necessary to defend itself after the most powerful north korea nuclear test to date and u.s. secretary of defense james mattis promised a massive military response on pyongyang if tensions all and quickly comes. 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 active and overwhelming that actually kind of an unexpected and drastic change in tone coming from. maddest there was 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 see north korea better get their act together where they're going to be trouble like you they should say ever have been in trouble in this world. and this may not get away with what he's doing really and this is really already escalated 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 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 shortly after pyongyang's nuclear tests south korea conducted this not a military drill in response according to seoul it simulated a strike on the nuclear testing site missiles fired from the ground on fighter planes reportedly hit their intended targets in the sea of japan while in another development south korea's environment ministry has approved the deployment of the

american made of anti missile system it was partly delivered back in march but it later turned out that the necessary environmental checks were not carried out in the deployment was delayed however it seems to have been accelerated now with china earlier expressing concerns that the range also system could reach its territory as well earlier we spoke to gregory from the advisory board of the korea policy institute and some use from the council of korean americans about the tensions in the region. i think that trump immigration is painting itself into a corner so for instance trump recently tweeted the 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 trumpeters straight into play and you. know it's a very dangerous korean central news agency just recently came out with

a 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 that 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 all these latest aggressive moves in the peninsula that come right on the eve of the bric summit in china the group has strongly condemned north

korea's latest nuclear test oxys take potshots reports from. well the latest nuclear test from north korea comes ahead of the brics summit here in china and its center dominates the talks over the next couple of days but it also poses a challenge to the political influence of the group and whether or not they're able to insist that there is a diplomatic solution to this particular crisis when north korea's neighbors russia and china have already condemned the move and of course they hear brics with putin and she the president's there already saying that they agree on the importance that there is no chaos on the korean peninsula they also agree that the nuclearized nation of the region is not acceptable but what they are offering is another solution a road map that the two presidents hard already devised something that they discussed when president was in moscow earlier in july and what they're saying is that this particular road map could lead to a deescalation on both sides they see it as mutual deescalation and what they're

suggesting from the north koreans is that they desist in their testing of their missiles in particular their nuclear weapons as well as were looking on the other side when it comes to the u.s. and south korea they believe that they should stop with the military drills that they see that pyongyang is anticipating as a preparation for invasion of course it remains to be seen whether or not these suggestions will be taken up. the south asian country of myanmar is thing more than seventy thousand of its muslims fleeing the country fearing violence oppression by the states or parties one muslim community has been clashing with police and the armed forces to protect its ethnicity from violence methods of persecution mammals population is mainly bird is and both religious sides continue to blame each other for the ongoing conflict and there are two to reports what attributes do you think of when you envisage that the ideal leader may be a symbol of groundbreaking political revolution obviously

a person who holds the interests of the people or do you visualize an individual hailed by the media. as a hero she was an inspiration during the country's revolution in the eighty's and even won the nobel peace prize as well as a u.s. congress gold medal the leader of the southeast asian states of on sun tsu cheek. witness to history country to dixie. greatest. doesn't this sound like democratic perfection but sadly reality is far from perfect while the leader revels in glory the country is home to what the u.n. calls the most persecuted minority in the world the ranger a muslim community of more than a million people the minimal government doesn't recognize them as citizens of the

country effectively making them illegal immigrants last year a series of brutal attacks were launched against the community after it clashed with police as the minority desperately tried to draw the authorities attention to their horrific plight since then more than a thousand civilians have been killed and more than twenty thousand internally displaced government forces have also been accused of wide scale human rights violations also and rape and murder. and. the military destroyed everything after killing somebody of the military burn their houses and shops now there's a danger to our survival that's why we fled all i got that little model i can still hear their screams and my heart and my ears we are really scared we don't feel safe

now where every security as we heard the sounds from here and there were security even when we eat my heart is beating so fast. i got a lot of really after my husband was killed i had no option but to run for my children's lives we spent two nights in the hells and sneaks past the border my children haven't had any food yet and they keep crying we only got scared because people from the camp gave us the bus. refugees coming across the border they're coming across the border bullet wounds was shrapnel wounds quite clearly this is a scorched earth offensive by the burmese military the government has to stop this offensive it has to. basically allow humanitarian assistance and also the

journalists into this area we have to actually see what's happened because quite clearly human rights violations are taken place western officials have been vocal about the ongoing crisis including the u.s. envoy to the u.n. nikki haley who's urging the need to step in and end the violence as burmese security forces act to prevent further violence they have responsibility to adhere to international humanitarian law which includes refraining from attacking innocent civilians and humanitarian workers and ensuring assistance reaches those in need but the leader is not only making no attempt to stop the violence against the persecuted minority she has made the situation even worse by posting hateful content online one comment declares that revenge a makeshift army is a terrorist organization whilst the oppressed muslim minority fights to survive critics warn the west old favorite on sun suit she is doing everything but trying to resolve this deepening crisis

a petition to strip the country's leader of the nobel peace prize she received in two thousand and twelve has been gaining support online we spoke to the chief executive of the grandmother of. feet who says myanmar's problems aren't getting enough media attention. the international community is not doing anything and i just think it's disgusting it's a sad indictment of the international order there has to be an increase diplomatic pressure against on some to clear her government and the idea that you've got somebody like on some kooky who is a nobel prize winner the bastion of human rights in terms of a struggle for freedom or democracy is turning a blind eye is ignored in the crimes of her government and her military is doing everything in their power to not resolve this issue if she remained silent as she has to she is complicit in the murder of so many innocent civilians by the good news of the iraqis. but i live pictures now from the russian city of grozny

where thousands of people have gathered in solidarity with the muslim community in myanmar protesting against the oppression they are facing in the asian country the russian foreign ministry has already voiced its concern over the situation and called on both sides to stop the violence there is also a huge police presence in the area to prevent any possible violence from breaking out earlier a similar demonstration was held in front of the myanmar embassy in moscow. and germany's main opposition candidate has failed to sway voters in the big debate with angela merkel we've got the full story coming up.

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welcome back now the german chancellor angela merkel's main rival martin schultz has failed to win over voters now live to a base that's according to a poll by the t.v. channel but adds their campaign back to the election is set for september the twenty fourth to bring in a new poll limits and will also decide whether merkel remains in office for a fourth consecutive term auntie's piece all of a has a story. well this debate was set up as a a big stage for martin schulz the social democratic party leader and challenger to angular merkel to be the next chancellor of germany where the debate though was ultimately scored as a fifty five to thirty five victory to angela merkel the big thing is that there's not too much difference between the parties on the major issues but when it came to major issues particularly the chancellor's twenty fifteen refugee policy martin

schultz said that there were things done back in twenty fifteen that should there be a chance to do them again or they should have been carried out in a different manner if we always stressed that we need to find a common european solution according to the dublin convention they should stay with a first arrived and so they are not allowed to come to germany and those states couldn't manage the flow getting the should have asked our neighbors for help in dealing with the refugee crisis so i definitely wouldn't say that everything back in twenty fifteen was done right the kids are nothing. i see this completely differently and i know that mr schultz also knows that this is not right in two thousand and thirteen we all knew that we've got a big problem here it's like but still we. couldn't find any consensus on a solution to the refugee issue because i acknowledge that it's taught that we think the decision was right there was a chance for chills to get a little more impassioned if you will when it came to talk turkey and what type of

solutions could be found to dealing with president while in the well frankly atrocious diplomatic state of affairs that exists between and i'm korea right now martin shultz pulling no punches saying that turkey needs to be dropped from all talks when it comes to the european union and joining the european union gunstar kids with their four hundred seats and it's really hard now with the behavior of the turkish president as the imprisons people systematically and if i become chancellor i will not only cancel the agreement with turkey. he would also stop talks on turkey joining the e.u. because turkey has crossed all red lines waves of refugees have been hitting us not for a couple of days but for months the clock a and m. turkey is distancing itself from all democratic norms that are grants taking place 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 out of the twelve years that i'm glad merkel has been chancellor eight of those she has ruled as part

of a coalition with the social democratic party so if martin schultz is to try and slam her legacy and policies and surely he would find himself slamming his own party and their own legacy as well so for the german people though what that means is which ever one of these two when i say said it looks almost certain it will be on the local return city office the german people almost certainly set for more of the same politically coming up over the coming years well there was plenty of reaction online after the ninety minute showdown as many had hoped for a little fiery debate. but.

if you look at the t.v. debate between merkel and sure. there was not really a difference they were both saying exactly the same and on this board president of a system in germany was not bringing any change so basically i think there is no big difference i think now with this debate on t.v. we should find no you're losing completely. i know that a lot of leftists in germany burstow hoping their bill will come like direct red green coalition but dr not all after this t.v. debate i think this is all worth. it the u.s. presence in afghanistan already lasting sixteen years fears are being raised over the consequences of president transplant so american troop numbers in the country caleb maupin now looks at the biggest challenges in bringing peace to the region

how many times have you heard that afghanistan is a huge mess there is a messy mix of extremist jihadists in afghanistan afghanistan an absolute mess blood and fortune there. we were in an illusion. mr chairman i believe we're in a stalemate. twenty seventeen is going to be another tough year for the valiant security forces yes pretty much every year since the two thousand and one intervention led by the united states has been tough in afghanistan since then they've become the world's top source of opium and there's also been a rise in terrorist groups from the taliban al qaida to the islamic state and it's not just afghanistan that's been affected there's been a spillover into neighboring countries first there is iran iran is worried about extremist influences coming in from afghanistan back in june iranian special forces

hunted down the leaders of a local sunni terrorist group who they said had links to american forces in afghanistan he received financial assistance from arab countries and had a lot of meetings with american forces in afghanistan to inflict damage on the rom china is also worried about terrorism spilling over the border some members of the weak are minority in the regions of china that are bordering afghanistan recently pledged allegiance to and then left the country to join the islamic state china will closely check in on whether afghanistan is becoming another paradise for extremist and terrorist groups such a major development may pose a serious challenge to the security of our northwestern border now russia is another country that's affected by the mess in afghanistan its heroin market is being filled by the poppy crop coming from afghanistan that's thriving amid the war and chaos for the time being the terrorist threat has not been reduced whereas the drug threat has been increasing and intensifying in response to our numerous

appeals to our nato partners refused to eliminate the crops of opium poppy although cocoa plantations in colombia or eliminated as a key direction of the anti drug war now what russia china and iran all have in common is that instability in afghanistan is causing them a major headache. and they all happen to be major adversaries of the united states interestingly this hasn't stopped washington from deciding to send more troops into afghanistan despite whatever the consequences may be for their geo political rivals mop and r.t. new york. share your thoughts on the day stories by following us on facebook and twitter and join me for more news in about that. when else chose seemed wrong. but old rules just don't call. me

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