it's a tourist phobia feel fall into an identity. washington calls for the strongest possible measures against north korea over its latest nuclear test ask russia and china see the escalation also ahead. celebrations in syria forces make a final push to liberate the city if there is still from an islamic state. and tens of thousands of people flee me and ma amid a brutal military crackdown on the muslim minority.

from moscow this is all t. international with me rosana lockwood thank you for joining us. the u.s. envoy to the united nations has said diplomacy is failing with north korea after the country's longest ever nuclear test the u.n. security council convened for crisis talks. the u.s. has threatened north korea once again saying that kim jong un is begging for war to the members of the security council i must say enough is enough 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. war is never something the united states wants we don't want it now but our

country's patience is not unlimited baster haley's comments are nothing new even yesterday secretary of defense jim mattis said that the u.s. would use any means necessary to defend itself. the u.s. has been threatening military action for weeks now and the rhetoric has been growing even stronger ever since trub promised to respond to north korea with fire and fury thankfully it doesn't go beyond this exchange of threats however it's worth mentioning that washington is yet to provide a viable solution except for sanctions which have proven to be ineffective for the past decade or so russia and china however in contrast have asked for dialogue with north korea but as a. little bit you know comprehensive settlement to the nuclear and other issues plaguing the korean peninsula can be arrived at so me through political and diplomatic channels we reiterate our readiness to help this process through the

implementation of the initiative proposed by russia and china. china and russia have proposed an initiative for the denuclearization of the korean peninsula it is practical and feasible and aimed at easing the tensions and preventing further escalation. russia and china have proposed the double freeze initiative which would require north korea to stop its nuclear and ballistic missile tests in return for the u.s. and south korea to stop its military drills this is a move that washington considers to be offensive 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 it seems that as of now the situation is in a deadlock at least until the us decides that threats and sanctions are

counterproductive to the situation if they ever do. well for more on this we can now cross live to simone who's from the korea peace network simone do you think the u.s. took the right step there in rejecting the plan for dialogue put forward by russia and china i think this is a wrong step and also to clearly it's a clear united states is not interested in diplomacy and rather escalating the threat and in fact the biggest threat right now is u.s. harsh rhetoric. pointed out as expressed by us u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley and this is clearly a very very dangerous situation and the fact the united states has rejected again again and again the proposal sensible plan put forward by china and russia is

really disappointment and if you look at all the major policy analyst international relations scholars really there are very few scholars who can explain the reason for the united states rejecting such a sensible proposal and instead of contributing to the escalation of the current conflict where you mentioned a un envoy nikki haley she claims north korea is backing for war quote is that actually true do you think and all such statements are potentially harmful. i didn't know you quite well could you repeat the question again so nicky's. nikki haley state with the north korea is quite begging for war do you think that's actually true. sorry that connection is not going to get our apologies. or apologies for that just one more time simone do you think north korea is quote begging for war oh i think we've lost simone there are politics to viewers

at home which try to reestablish a link later. the syrian government says its forces are close to liberating dare as saw after three years siege by islamic state we received exclusive video from an army operation outside the city. government forces can be seen firing rockets and advancing with tanks and helicopters pushing islamic state back getting closer to terrorists or residents have been welcoming the advancing troops. this is for the syrian arab army my god protect them thing god we have been liberated and there is your own happiness today is indescribable we have been waiting for the army for a long time may god help the army i wish i had come earlier the people here are

exhausted really exhausted the residents of suffered for a long time. hopefully the victory will be soon victory is hopefully coming soon. as you can see on the map here the syrian army is now only a few kilometers away from there is saw they have secured a route to attack the terrorist controlled part of the city government forces are advancing rapidly they've gained eight kilometers just over the past day securing strategic positions on the way russian fighter jets supporting government forces have destroyed tanks and armored vehicles at least seventy terrorists have been killed eleven trigger has more on the operation there as war is a city that has been able to survive a total 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 arsal fighters and right now in. 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 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. 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. as isis terrorists raided our house my thirteen year old cousin was staying with us i had here in

a water tank so that the terrorists didn't take her as a slave it was obvious that. the situation in there is or 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 and gives them a suicide bomb as 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 it's state gets kicked out of the province that means essentially that said for their fighters in rock the de facto capital of islamic state they will have nowhere to run and here's the washington defense minister with more on that. today there are strategic locations. which would. have been courageously defending it for years now while food medicine. to them the

liberation of the city would be a point in the. 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 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. film a pentagon official michael maloof they say that despite the latest gains the syrian army faces some major challenges. i resort today represents the last six drawn hold isis will dissipate into other areas they won't have a cohesive strategic region and in fact they considered it so important because they were put in some of their best fighters and heavy equipment into the area which is all been destroyed it was an area of bridge if you will between mosul and and on to rocca where isis was able to concentrate it's probably the last strategic . stronghold of isis that will go however we there's another problem that's going

to be developing the united states along with the help of the kurds under the syrian democratic forces wants to is trying to occupy the same area because of the oil reserves that are there the problem is only going to be beginning in terms of. the future of. almost ninety thousand muslims have fled the southeast asian nation of me in ma and made a military crackdown there hinge a muslim community has faced years of persecution in the mainly buddhist country me and myles de facto leader was once hailed a hero but she's now facing mounting criticism as the day which 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 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. witness to history treated to the. 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 rich 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 ofter clashed with

police as the minority desperately tried to draw the authorities attention to the 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. that. the military destroyed everything after killing somebody injure the military burn their houses and shops now there's a danger to our survival that's why we fled all like that that little model we can still hear their screams and my heart and my ears we are really scared and 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 my heart is beating so fast.

i got a lot of really off to my husband who was killed i had no option but to run for my children's lives we spent two nights in the house and sneaks past the border my children haven't had any food yet and they keep crying we only got hand because people from the camp gave us the bus. refugees coming across the border they're coming across the border of 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 have taken place 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 favorite on sun suit she is doing everything but trying to resolve this deepening crisis the president of the burmese were hinge organization in the u.k. told us global action is needed to prevent a genocide committed to real crisis a growing there is no food no shelter norma do you think you know what's happening right now against really good people in general so if the diary of killings involve whereby me if military is continuing in ten days right now to protect the lives of lice on international community we need international community effort to action to

stop these mass pressure to barmaids military and. the leader adolfo through g. . in other news this hour the founder of the red crescent in yemen has dined in a hospital in sun our he was unable to receive vital treatment as a result of saudi arabia's blockade of the country dr abdullah outcome if she passed away at the age of seventy six after a failed heart operation he was prevented from traveling abroad for surgery and local hospitals lack the equipment needed to save his life in total the u.n. estimates that around twenty thousand people have now been denied crucial health care due to the saudi bombing campaign and blockade. or the son zubair believes the saudi government is directly responsible for his father's death thirty warplanes have been bombarding yemen since march twenty fifteen since then thousands of

civilians have died even before the conflict yemen was the poorest country in the middle east and now an estimated seven million people are starving while hundreds of thousands have been affected by a cholera outbreak a spokesperson for the red cross told us aid groups are unable to cope with the situation. we speak of a country where we have just reached six hundred and seven thousand suspected cases of cording that has your job because the outbreak of our times unprecedented in the century in only four months we see the country well over half of the relation has no access to clean water a country where seven million people wanted it even close to seventy where millions of women and children see through the minority so all of these you need in egypt is going to go it best but we can not so good crisis or you believe it's a good try all of those who are good in this country and that many artists can

bring about a lessening of that they have been suffering that we see in human catch them in a. lot of. this that if it is outside of the limit it doesn't that's up. there. with the world cup on the horizon in russia the focus is on fan safety it comes as germany's national football team criticized a group of its supporters saw after they shouted nazi charts during a world cup qualifying day peter all about has the story. 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 wholly unacceptable by the german team yorkie unload the german head coach said that they've brought shame on our country it's a 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 the day 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 since that story about the online store selling nancy inspired clothing broke the highly controversial t. shirts have disappeared from the site. just three

weeks before germany's federal election chancellor merkel looks as strong as ever according to reaction polls she got the better of her main rival martin schulz in the t.v. debate on sunday night relations with turkey and the european micro crisis dominated the face to face. we always stressed that we need to find a common european solution according to the dublin convention they should stay where they first arrived and so they are not allowed to come to germany and those states couldn't manage the flow think we 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. i see this completely differently and i know that mr shultz 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 all european states couldn't find any consensus on

a solution to the refugee issue because i acknowledge that i think the decision was right. that our kids with their four hundred seats and it's really hard now with the behavior of the turkish president is there who imprisons people systematically and if i become chancellor i will not only cancel the agreement with turkey but also stop short on turkey joining the e.u. because turkey has crossed all red lines waves of refugees have been hitting i was not for a couple of days but for months. and turkey is distancing itself from all democratic norms that are grads taking pace 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 hugh bronson from the alternative for germany party thinks there's no candidate strong enough to challenge merkel. you know what to show you a brooch sheet from berlin it says it was more a duet than a you will have both in agreement on many points and many or many christians it's

a choice between school and crypt as if you ask me they don't see shultz as the other two they really i mean he had a furious start at the beginning of the year he was confirmed by. the party meeting with one hundred percent of all so democrats but ever since then it is being constantly going down the social democrats and berlin at least while the capital city of germany down to twenty percent twenty percent it is not that machall is convincing everyone but there is no real major figure to challenge remember you can get your news on the main by downloading the altie out for free. in just thirty minutes time.

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welcome to the sophie shevardnadze as they hear a pin union struggles to hammer out a solution to its unity crisis israelis one member who needs more attention than others struggling with a refugee and cloaks and with a potential banking crisis on its hands it can use all the help from the e.u. it can get but will rome finding answers to its problems in brussels minister for european affairs sounder agazzi is with me today to talk about all of this. bickering over refugee quotas failing austerity measures and a rising tide of euro skeptic nationalism that's already resulted in the u.k. session the european union project is bracing for a turbulent and testing future and this is a reform starting time before another crisis hits the european powers here the

cause of poor states and can be ambition of the continental union and do another sixty years. it is minister for european affairs sandra garcia welcome to the show great to have you with us and as you got said the euro experiment has failed at least that's what noble economist joseph stiglitz s so are it stays number. no i disagree i do not seeing that your role is an experiment you are always in reality and not seeing it as feed the certainty the eurozone and the governance of the eurozone must be must be shaped up about we have to continue the war this direction not going backwards. no you were talking about reform right every time i heard you talk and give interviews to talk about reform but every hear is own state has its own interests at heart so why is anybody going to listen to what rome is saying right now.