as it will fit into an identity. the syrian government believes closer to liberation the city of dia is all that she has been under siege from islamic state three years. any threat to the united

states george territories will be met with a massive military response to respond. and overwhelming washington isn't ruling out using its nuclear capabilities of north korea continues to threaten the u.s. or its allies that are pyongyang says it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb and fearing persecution of thousands of muslims in mean maff leave the asian country as the minority community struggles against violent oppression by the state's authorities. good afternoon welcome you're watching our international start with the news that syrian government forces are closing in on i saw positions near the city of diodorus or one of the groups last strongholds in the country with the details his . there as or is a city that has been able to survive

a total toll siege by islamic state for some three years and that means that the only way to deliver food. there is air drops that also means constant fear of either being shelled by islamic state or being captured by fighters and right now it looks like the siege is closer to being broken than ever before at least according to the news that we're getting from the syrian government the army . they are claiming that they are now approaching the city and it's clearly visible on the map it looks like they've only got ten kilometers to go journalists have been able to contact the governor of their resort and he claims that within the next forty eight hours or so the syrian army will be able to enter the city of their resort and of course in this case the government is really determined they're

confident and no wonder the locals are celebrating we've already received the first pictures of that but here's something for you to understand the suffering that they've been through and these three years of siege. and even a heavy 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 obvious that. the situation in their resort is catastrophic terrorist from iraq execute 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 gives them a suicide bomb and while there is actually the area around it it's not the last islamic state stronghold in syria but you cannot underestimate the strategic importance of this area if it happens if it makes state gets kicked out of the

province that means essentially that said for their fighters in iraq are the defacto capital of islamic state they will have nowhere to run and here's the russian defense minister with more on that. today there are strategic locations such as do resume which i would call a priority. have been courageously defending it for years now will food medicine. to them the liberation of the city will be a point in the defeat of mosul so it is getting more evident that the joint efforts . the russian military their air force and the syrian government troops have really taken their toll on islamic state fighters in the area we've put together a reminder of the latest successful military ops airstrikes and advancements in the last few weeks.

so let's wait for more news from the day or a store front line at least if we are to believe the syrian army we are going to get them very very soon. going to prank them can i talk to you with that a risky middle east expert joins us to name. just from you'll point of view how long do you think that it could be before we see the liberation of diesel given the gains the syrian government have made recently. i think that you refer to about forty in the next forty eight hours i think that

would be the maximum period i think it actually could be short of maybe even today we could witness this but i don't believe it will exceed forty eight hours especially as the momentum is turning more and more against isis you know as a sort of string of string of defeats as you know the moral is very important in warfare and battles and right now with the role of isis he is in talk to his its lowest level maybe ever since it came into existence just as i was trying to. the piece which i referred to so as i said i expect it to happen today or tomorrow at the most and has mention that it will indeed be a very very significant to defeat for isis the area all the province of daters order is the largest province inside syria and i think that just gives you an idea how how much of the us of a defeat this really is i mean i give them what you said

then in terms of defeating isolate the whole i mean what would you expect to see isilon rabble complete and in quite a short time period. exactly how i do expect that to happen you know that's what usually happens when these groups suffer a string of defeats but i think what's so also important to mention is the military strategy which was pursued in here right now i'd like to point out of the fact that before we had you know this current attempt to to retake the latest order we had the defeat of isis in strategic locations in iraq for example in mosul now we have it into law far and what's important in that regard is that with the defeat of them in neighboring iraq those invaders who are prevented from going using that border area like fleeing towards iraq then going back to those who are in this particular

case they have been forced to stay and they lose order because of the because of the successes made by the iraqi army and called popular liberalization units so odds are you want to focus on that fact that the offensive you know it's not just about a battle inside syria i think they're probably going to start to see in the region as a whole iraq in syria mainly speaking has enabled them to you know isolate these militants will these terrorists inside that they are. without allowing them to flee hence are available to syrian army to go ahead with what appears to be our ideas source of our rapid victory ok good to get your thoughts soften him leave it there finale was highly risky middle east expert thank you. but washington says it will use any means necessary to defend itself after the most powerful north korean nuclear test to date white house says even using america's own nuclear capabilities can't be

ruled that. president trump reaffirm the commitment of the united states to defending our homeland territories and allies using the full range of diplomatic conventional and nuclear capabilities at our disposal. 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 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 the statements are you made even more ominous given the comments made by president trump before he met with madison the other generals the president we were real. earlier on sunday trump did tweet that all options are being considered when it comes to north korea but it is clear that the military option seems to be becoming the favorite for the trumpet ministration meanwhile we have china and russia urging all sides to show restraint but it seems that team trump is going to stick with the aggressive rhetoric that we've seen from the president as of late they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never see north korea better get their act together where they're going to be trouble like you day should scare ever have been in trouble in this world. and this may not get away with what he's doing 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 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. will these latest aggressive moves in the peninsula do come on the eve of the brics summit in china the group has strongly condemned north korea's latest nuclear test. reports now from chalmette the latest nuclear test bomb north korea came ahead of the brics conference here in china and deservedly overshadowed is as well i mean it's also a challenge to the political influence of the group here and will they be able to then instigate what they see as the only solution to the crisis which is a diplomatic solution or we'll have to see about that one but most korea's big neighbors which are russia and china and the also three nations that make up brics have now roundly condemned the new testing but also the leaders of russia and china who think that presidents putin and she they have already said we need to emphasize here that the reason no play offs in the korean peninsula we need to ensure that there is pomp and also there an agreement that should be given you kill eyes they should that is that they say that having nuclear weapons that is totally

unacceptable but what they are offering instead use a solution what they would call a road map. which is something that the two presidents discussed when president cheney was in moscow in july and they were at least actively saying the way forward the way to reduce tension is true mutual deescalation so what they're suggesting is that north korea stops with the missile testing with the u.k. testing and then return to the u.s. and south korea should stop with those military exercises that pyongyang considers to be a precursor of preparation for invasion well i discussed all these issues a little bit earlier on with russia's deputy foreign minister said get out and he believes that the road map is the way forward coupled with renewed diplomacy there is no further pressuring the country we know there are some. around the world who believe there is nothing else to do but to pressure pressure and threaten their strong we we believe what we experienced before showed no result is achievable strewed these pressures and other pressures that is there and is developed by

russia and china and there is available and we will pursue this course we will try to convince everyone. of asia expert. joins us hello and thanks for coming on the afternoon we were just hearing there i'm not sure if you could hear from the report from kate that you know russia and china believe there could be a diplomatic solution in a deescalation here what are your thoughts is that likely to happen while this attention seeking action from north korea of course is a distraction and it's very unfortunate in the face of this very peaceful and benevolent. bric summit it's very unfortunate. what's come out of it though from this brics conference so far is the a proposal to solve the problem with north korea china and russia saying look we can deescalate the situation of north korea stop these missile tests if the u.s.

stop its military drills with south korea do you think that's a workable proposal. that is a vocal proposal indeed but you must keep in mind that the brick summit most that it's own for points right is mostly about economic it's over peace and stability and then tire regions so this a commitment these five countries have to make. a common proposal for this of course they have to come up with something. amid regards to the brits conference then as a whole what further things you'd expect to come out of it because this is this is central isn't it at the moment this north korea crisis yes it is really over shouting at everything it's very unfortunate but still keeping an eye on the on the whole summit right there four points that she didn't mean was laying out first of course it's closer cooperation of these five countries secondly is

global peace and stability thought the economic factor are building the building blocks integrating it into the world economy further and fourth of course it is the expansion of bricks maybe even inviting new members in the future and it reminds me by the way that the chinese word for bricks is not bricks but is this drum it means gold and bricks ok well let's see what comes out over the next couple of days get the thoughts. and nature expert thank you and i move in seventy thousand muslims are facing the majority putting put east countries me in ma fearing violent oppression story of the sick after the break.

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to. me and mari seeing more than seventy thousand of its muslims fleeing the country fearing violent oppression by the state's authorities when muslim community has been clashing with police and the armed forces to protect its ethnicity from violent methods of persecution nader has been hailed as a political hero in the majority but his country by some but there's been plenty of criticism as well is there a cheetah now reports what do you think of when you envisage the ideal leader maybe 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 tional golden medal the leader of the southeast asian states of on sun tsu

cheek as a. witness to history treated like some. great is taught. 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. 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 a little more of you 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 in there. the worst security even when we eat i know my heart is beating so fast. 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 fare. refugees coming across the border they're coming across. quite clearly this is a scorched earth offensive by the 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 happening 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 meanwhile thousands of people have gathered in the car. battle of russia's chechen republic and solidarity with the muslim community in me in mar a protest against the impression they are facing in the asian country russia's foreign ministry has surged both sides in the conflict to end the violence there

was also there was a huge police presence in the city of grozny to prevent any trouble among those at the rally earlier a small demonstration was held in front of the me in my embassy in moscow. now german chancellor angela merkel's main rival martin show says failed to win over voters in a live debate that's according to a poll by the t.v. channel that ad it the election is set for a september twenty fourth and will bring in a new parliament tomorrow also decide whether merkel remains in office for a fourth consecutive term with more his piece or all of. well this debate was set up as a a big stage for martin schulz the social democratic party leader and challenger to angola 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 and lost the key to our nothing. i see this completely differently and i know that mr schultz also knows that this is not right in two thousand and fifteen 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 i acknowledge that i 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 on turkey and what type

of solutions could be found to dealing with president in the well frankly atrocious diplomatic state of affairs that exists between burley and and i'm korea right now martin schultz 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 is that imprisons people systematically and if i become chancellor i will not only cancel the agreement with turkey. it also stopped talks on turkey joining the e.u. because turkey has crossed all red lines waves of refugees have been hitting us now for a couple of days but for months the cookie and 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 as i 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 that plenty of reaction online after the ninety minute showdown with many actually thinking it was a bit boring. 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 their sleeve they are both 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 you know you losing completely i know that a lot of leftists in germany burstow hoping that there will come like direct red green coalition but drag now after this t.v. debate i think this is all were. so that's how things look so i thought i here or not i'll be back with more news in just about often.

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