r.t. america is. better than. the sea diver heard of. jack the. president of the world bank very. seriously. i breaking the blockade residents of serious theories or celebrate on the streets as government forces move in to liberate the city has been besieged by islamic state for three years also to come any threat to the united states george territory will be met with. military response. and overwhelming washington isn't ruling out using its own nuclear capabilities if north korea continues to threaten the u.s. or its allies that after pyongyang said it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb and tens of thousands of muslims in the. country is the minority

community struggles against biden state oppression. and i welcome to you live from moscow you're watching r.t. international syrian government forces are said to be close to liberating the city of which has been under siege by islamic state for three years residents of the city have been on the streets celebrating the military's it. the. earth. was. well as you can see on the map here the syrian army is now only a few kilometers away from deer is or they have secured a route to attack the terrorist controlled part of the city government forces have

been advancing rapidly to they've gained eight kilometers in the last twenty four hours securing strategic positions along the way russian fighter jets supporting government forces of destroyed tanks and armored vehicles and seventy terrorists have been killed with more detail says trunk. there as zoar 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 in there is air drops that also means constant fear of either being shelled by islamic state or being captured by eisel fighters and right now it looks like the sea is closer to being broken than ever before at least according to the news that we're getting from the syrian government the army are claiming that they are now approaching the city journalists have been able to

contact the governor of arizona and he claims that within the next forty eight hours or so the syrian army will be able to enter the city of. 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 in these three years of siege. as isis terrorists raided our house my thirteen year old cousin was staying with us i hit her in a water tank so that the terrorists didn't take her as a slave it was obvious that. the situation in a resort is catastrophic terrorist from iraq execute civilians in the streets and leave bodies lying there for up to five days i secretly drove my sons out of the city otherwise isis militants would recruit them by force inject psychotropic substances used in the suicide bombs well actually the area around it is not the

last islamic state stronghold in syria but you cannot underestimate the strategic importance of this area if it happens if its state gets kicked out of the province that means essentially that said for their fighters in iraq the deal. capital of islamic state they will have nowhere to run and here's the russian defense minister with more on that. today there was to teach you. which i would call a priority. have been courageously defending it for years now well food medicine will drop to them the liberation of the city will be a point in the defeat of isis and so it is getting more evident that the joint efforts by the russian military their air force and the syrian government troops have really taken their toll on the islamic state fighters and 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 in a prank reporting now well that we discussed the future of the war in syria with middle east expert. oh i think it's an exciting poignant moment

a real turning point in what we've we've known until this point in the last six years as the syrian war i think once the city has taken on the surrounding region has flushed out of isis fighters we can start to really talk about the end of the war and a new chapter. possibly restoring peace in the country i think western media will play up. the u.s. but victory in iraq. but not report so heavily on the defeat of i saw. it in because it's mixed it's a hugely significant for just the last staging post an hour for this terror organization there are no other huge cities or major towns so now the question is you know what will be the second stage of the of the syrian war will we see a problem now with syrian government forces on their allies like russia has below

and americans in syria. washington says it will use any means necessary to defend itself after the most powerful north korean nuclear test to date the white house says that it could potentially include using its own nuclear capabilities. president trump reaffirmed 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 to 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 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 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 thing 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 television 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. reporting was shortly after pyongyang's nuclear test south korea conducted a snap military drill in response so says it simulated a strike on north the north's nuclear testing site missiles fired from the ground as well as from fighter planes reportedly hit their intended targets in the sea of japan well in another development there south korea's environment ministry has approved the deployment of the american made fad of the fence system was partially delivered back in march but it later to the necessary environmental checks were not carried out on the deployment was delayed however it does seem to be accelerated now concerning a number of countries in the region to china for instance has said that it falls

within the range of the system to go to expert opinion on the tension on the korean peninsula. i think that you're trapped in the situation is painting itself into a corner so for instance trump recently tweeted the talks are not that you know 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 ministration to put him on the. road for very dangerous. for the industry from a came over to him and. they're not willing to give up their for weapons program unless the united states drops its hostile policy from the 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. now with the world cup on the horizon from russia the focus is on fan safety and on friday national football team criticized the group of its supporters after they shouted nazi chants during the world cup qualify peter all of us as the. well outrageous scenes from sections of the travelling support on friday night as germany beat the czech republic to warn in prague in the stands well some of their fans decided that they were going to make some wholly inappropriate chants

we understand that there were nazi chants heard from the crowd from sections there well this is upsetting for a number of reasons they also whistled during a minute's silence that was held in memorial to to check officials who had died just recently and it was also the seventy eighth anniversary of the nazi invasion of poland this was deemed holy but acceptable by the german team came low the german head coach said that they brought shame on our country really angry reaction from the german team to this incident but this isn't the only incident of its kind regarding football just last month was uncovered that a website sells what's called fan wear at times on official products supposed to be worn by fans but some of the t. shirts that they were turning out well they made reference to the nazi invasion of the soviet union during world war two now r.t. reached out to fee for a statement on this for has

a zero tolerance approach to discrimination and has mechanisms in place to ensure that the atmosphere in the stadiums is one of celebration and respect i do this with such symbols and messages are considered discriminatory and will not be tolerated inside the stadiums but ahead of the world cup there's been a lot of talk about fun safety fun security but most of the talk particularly here in europe is focused on homegrown hooligans those that may be in russia with a lot less focus falling on those that perhaps may be planning to travel to russia for the tournament and then we can tell you that since the story about the online store selling not seen spied clothing broke or the highly controversial t. shirts have actually now disappeared from the site you're watching r.t. i'm going to take a quick break we're back shortly. the

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ride. hello again well we can cross live now to the u.n. security council emergency meeting is being held in new york about the crisis on the korean peninsula and the haiti the us ambassador is talking the thousand and twelve the leap day deal failed and north korea conducted two new space launches the security council responded with the adoption of resolution two zero eight seven . following north korea's third nuclear test in two thousand and thirteen the council adopted resolution two zero nine for expanding sanctions to restrict financial maritime aviation and diplomatic activities by two thousand and sixteen north korea had conducted its fourth nuclear test and another space launch they

followed that with more missile launches in response the council adopted multiple resolutions expanding sanctions even further targeting whole sectors of north korea's economy. finally this year the council got even more serious first we adopted resolution two three five six designating high ranking north korean government officials and the military strategic rocket forces command for individual sanctions then just last month after the regime's first two i.c.b.m. launches we adopted resolution two three seven one the strongest sanctions we have ever imposed on north korea that resolution banned north korean exports of coal iron and seafood and impose several other measures that will significantly cut off the revenues needed to fund their nuclear program why did i take the time to go through this history. to make this point. the united nations security council has

spoken with unusual unity and consistency on north korea that's a good thing along the way there have been problems with implementation and the council has at times been too slow and too weak but this is not a situation in which we have allowed divisions among us to stop any action still here we are despite our efforts over the past twenty four years the north korean nuclear program is more advanced and more dangerous than ever they now fire missiles over japanese airspace they now have i.c.b.m. capabilities they now claim to have tested a hydrogen bomb and just this morning there are reports that the regime is preparing for yet another i.c.b.m. launch to the members of the security council i must say enough is enough. we have taken an incremental approach and despite the best of intentions it has not

worked members of this council will no doubt urge negotiations and a return to talks but as i've just outlined we have engaged in numerous direct and multilateral talks with the north korean regime and time after time they have not worked. the time for half measures in the security council is over the time has come to exhaust all of our diplomatic means before it's too late we must now adopt the strongest possible measures kim jong un's action cannot be seen as defensive he wants to be acknowledged as a nuclear power but being a nuclear power is not about using those terrible weapons to threaten others nuclear powers understand their responsibilities kim jong un shows no such understanding his abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is

begging for war. or is never something the united states wants we don't want it now but our country's patience is not unlimited we will defend our allies and our territory the idea that some have suggested a so-called freeze for freeze is insulting when a rogue regime has a nuclear weapon and an i.c.b.m. pointed at you you do not take steps to lower your guard no one would do that we certainly won't the time has come to exhaust all diplomatic means to end this crisis and that means quickly enacting the strongest possible measures here in the u.n. security council only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy we have kicked the can down the road long enough there is no more road left. this crisis goes well beyond the u.n.

the united states will look at every country that does business with north korea as a country and the united states will look at every country that does business with north korea as a country that is giving aid to their reckless and dangerous nuclear intentions and what we do on north korea will have a real impact on how other outlaw nations who seek nuclear weapons choose to conduct themselves in the future the stakes could not be higher the urgency is now twenty four years of half measures and failed talks is enough thank you. the representative of the united states for her statement. i give the floor to the president to do her job. so we were just listening there to part of the emergency meeting that's been held by the u.n. security council over the situation in north korea were listening to the u.n. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley there in essence she was saying the strongest measures now have to be

taken by the u.n. she said the north korea is begging for war we don't want war ourselves but essentially said that the u.s. patience is running out that's a summary of what she said of course we're keeping across this meeting throughout the afternoon. now almost ninety thousand. muslims have fled the southeast asian country of me in march fearing violent oppression by authorities over a million muslims live in the mainly buddhist country mean mars' de facto leader was once hailed a hero but she's now facing mounting criticism and it is chewed up as more. what attributes 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 evolution in the eighty's and even won the nobel peace prize as well as a u.s.

congress tional gold medal the leader of the southeast asian states of myanmar on sun tsu cheek as. witness to history treated like such a. 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 un calls the most persecuted minority in the world the ranger a muslim community of more than a million people the minimal government doesn't recognise 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 osten rape and murder. was. the military destroyed everything after killing somebody of the military burned their houses and shops now there's a danger to our survival that's why we. all i got the how to let him out of 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 in there the worst security even when we eat dinner my heart is beating so fast.

the gun lobby there like 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 the bullet 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 have 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 in the violence as burmese security forces act to prevent further violence they have a 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 while say a press muslim minority fights to survive. critics warn the west favorite on sun is doing everything but trying to resolve this deepening crisis. so that's how things look so far today here in r.t. i'll be back with the latest from that emergency meeting of the u.n. security council at the top of the.

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a well known through intelligence agencies we speak to forward my five agent on the national about the failures of left surveillance plus do all roads lead to five award winning playwright an actor let's just say on thirty years of political neglect captured in his role in the seminal jim cartwright play rude running at london's royal court theatre until the end of this week go the civil coming up in today's going underground but first there are quite a few issues lost in british mainstream media reporting of the north korea standoff if we put to one side us military escalation against russia and china and the fact that modern north korea is the product of u.k. u.s. killing of twenty percent of its entire population there is the issue of nuclear proliferation by britain to resume and blairite labor counterparts so focused on spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the trident weapons of mass destruction system in scotland that they are now scaling back conventional forces it's not something much appreciated the parrot.