close to liberation the syrian army recaptures a large fortified area in the city of did it all finally breaking a three year long siege by islamic state the operation was backed by the russian military also in syria even accused the massacres of using chemical weapons on civilians in italy province back in april this year that's according to a new report from the world body. the russian president says mounting pressure on point pyongyang will not solve the north korea crisis putin held talks with his south korean counterpart at least an economic forum in russia's far east let's not be driven by emotion and push north korea into

a corner. and also to come gladly proposes sending in u.s. u.n. peacekeepers to help ease the conflict in eastern ukraine move back to germany but not by ukrainian officials. they're welcome to live from moscow you're watching international syrian government forces backed by russia have recaptured a large four to forty five area held by islamic state in the city of did it saw us according to the russian defense ministry.

syrian troops found a network of tunnels after taking the position equipped with weapons medical supplies and also food it's also been revealed that the area was defended by terrorists of mainly former soviet republic and russian origin on tuesday a russian warship targeted the militants there helping the syrian army storm the fortress the latest operation is part of a larger campaign to force eisel fighters out of deities or which has largely been occupied by the terror group for the last three years since then it has become one of the largest pockets of terrorist forces in syria. right now i was. these are

pictures of two government army brigades reuniting after one is trapped inside the are still for the duration of those three years they finally mass after the treaty i still see the city yesterday are seizing up or franken now has more on the liberation campaign the people of doors or won't have to pray for these to appear in the skies anymore for three years air drops what they're all the lifeline and they prayed for what was really just a handful of syrian soldiers to never let the city fall completely to islamic state wow i saw used any means absolute. anything to take their resort it's all over now but nearly nine months ago a sea of eisel all around the city and beyond how the country and black as you can see on this map since that point it's only been shrinking two thousand and seventeen so far and nightmare for islamic state in syria i'll break down the

milestones for you number one palmira. the city with more than three thousand years of history had really been caught in a tug of war before march when the syrian army with russian air support took full control number two the city of rock the one known as the capital of the self-proclaimed caliphate. no more capital in iraq looks like the terrorist commanders ran from there and thanks to the efforts of the kurdish units and other u.s. led coalition fighters the hottest in the city are fully surrounded number three breaking the siege of errors or. if.

this was one last chance all the remaining war might be had to offer off it went to deir ez-zor according to russian army intelligence crossing islamic state in this area is the next step time to check up on the map now that's progress three black traces left the rooms of the self-proclaimed caliphate. in a prank reporting we got reaction to the latest developments from peter ford a former u.k. ambassador to syria certainly the breaking of the extremely significant militarily. remember booth for them or all of the government and the government for through. we must be a bit cautious not clear whether it will take days or weeks to queer eye for the

truth we the main fifty your and then the fourth look forward to consolidate thing the control of the government in pocket jihad these will. hold sway so going that beth going to pick a number of months before the theory of government real control over the whole syria. away from the field of conflict into a very different one because syria's national football team has claimed a place in the playoffs for the twenty eighteen world cup in russia. huge crowds here gathered in damascus to watch the final game against iran screens were set up in the city center to show the match being paid in tehran searing equalized in the final minutes of that match tonight school line meaning that they

will now face the strain for a chance to reach the world cup final the very first time after the final whistle celebrations erupted with car horns and chanting along to the know. now that the u.n. has accused the syrian government of using sarin gas on civilians in an attack that happened in italy province back in april we can get the details now from our middle east correspondent paula slade joins us good afternoon paula all this is we said has come out of a new u.n. report. what exactly did they conclude. well yes as you say the united nations syria commission has issued a report in which it found that there was a chemical attack that was carried out back in april in live and that those responsible were government forces using sarin gas against the civilian population they based their contributions first and foremost on interviews with eyewitnesses

victims and medical workers they also used videos and photographs but what is important is that the investigators themselves did not travel to the scene of the attack and not at the investigators of a previous report that was conducted by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the o.p.c. w and the findings of the o.p.c. w. report for also used by the u.n. commission as of this time around but what is also important here is that the o.p.c. w. reported not assign blame it really was investigating whether or not this attack took place so what this means is that the question of who is to blame who is responsible is still open now the united nations report to not only focus on this alleged chemical strike it also looked at the question of civilian casualties due to the coalition air strikes in syria and what is not clear is why they mixed these

two topics together particularly because the coalition civilian deaths constitute an important part of the report and they are based on solid evidence not least because that evidence is coming from the coalition forces themselves they have a detailed look at civil cases that are confirmed by the coalition forces and you have the coalition as meting to killing more than six hundred civilians although activists say that that number goes into the thousands now a huge chunk of those you report is devoted to. this question of civilian deaths caused by the coalition forces and only white at the end of the report is they mention about this chemical attack and yet despite this on twitter the united nations has called those a report into the use of chemical weapons in homs shy couldn't and not reports into civilian casualties that were caused by the coalition forces in syria. ok thanks

paula that was our middle east correspondent. that president putin says that sanctions and mounting pressure will not solve the north korea crisis as pyongyang feels it is being backed into a corner putin sat down with south korea's leader at the eastern economic forum underway in the russian city of bloody stark artie's don't you hawkins is there for us with the details this foremost primarily a place for business and trade interests to find common ground but as you say there's only one thing really hanging over the four and one key thing on the agenda and that's been the korean crisis the crisis on the korean peninsula and president putin of south korea how often are concluded the talks they've done a joint press conference where putin again as russia's position has been over the last weeks and months that diplomacy negotiation was the only way long to solve this crisis take a listen it's obvious that the korean peninsula problem can't just be solved using

sanctions and pressure it's impossible let's not be driven by emotion and push north korea into a corner. and i was evident that there are some differences between the south korean and the russian position here the south korean government of course do favor a strengthening of u.n. sanctions against north korea particularly targeting the oil sector something that will very much as an escalation in this crisis the russians of course have favored diplomacy negotiation long term and that still seems to be the case aside from that it's very much business as usual here for quite literally there's delegations here from over fifty countries several thousand people in attendance here hoping to sign trade and business deals last year that equal about thirty two billion dollars so very much significant in the asia pacific region and hawkins reporting but also for the governor of the u.s. state of california and he says that north korea poses a great risk to global security and that dialogue is needed. north korea of course

is a threat nobody can ignore this thing is moving quickly with north korea we talked about i didn't feel there was any real clear path forward of what i do in the. close of throwing exchange between russia us and sure other countries in the region are it's absolutely crucial and wiser minds i hope will prevail in be able to move north korea off this very dangerous path that they're on jerry brown there was speaking at the valdai discussion group being hosted at the forum in vladivostok and including russia china japan and also america. meanwhile washington has announced it will continue to deploy troops and weapons to the korean peninsula a move a top u.s. army official says is to address the self destructive actions of north korea the

deployment will see american military hardware joint south korea's navy for a number of drills this includes aircraft carrier strike group and miss our ships along with fighter jets and helicopters south korea may also ask the u.s. to redeploy its nuclear weapons to the peninsula with more his jacket. south korea is currently eyeing a possible redeployment of u.s. nuclear weapons on its territory which if approved would bring the military buildup around north korea to the highest level. we would need to find realistic countermeasures by reviewing all the political military options in a serious security situation with north korea's nuclear and missile threats but the question is will this drastic move have the desired effect of making north korea back down well if the past few months have taught us anything no but he and yang and washington are nowhere near to dialing their saber rattling back only raising the stakes higher and higher kim jong un shows no such understanding his abusive

use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war any threat to the united states or territories including. or our allies will be met with a massive military response. president reaffirmed the commitment of the united states to defending our homeland territories and is using the full range of diplomatic conventional and you can you capabilities so disposed so as a nuclear option the next step would trump make that call looking back trump has always had a rather shall we say unconventional approach to nuclear weapons during his iconic one thousand nine hundred interviews with playboy he confessed nuclear war was on his mind and it seems the idea hasn't exactly gone away first of all you don't want to say take everything off the table just you know better go shoot or if you do this nuclear weapon nuclear should be off the table but with be a time when it could be used possibly the trouble is when you said earlier even america's oldest allies can't count themselves one hundred percent safe can you

tell the middle east or not use the nuclear weapon and never say that i would never take any of my car just to take about europe we won't use and you're not going to take it off the day you might use it in europe you know and surprisingly trump wants the u.s. to expand its nuclear arsenal because apparently if you're going to have nukes you better have more than everybody else it would be wonderful a green would be that no country would have been. but if countries are going to have nukes we're going to be. at the top of the pack yes for every major world leader at the option is always on the table and to be fair trump has said that it's highly highly highly highly unlikely he would resort to a nuclear option and prefers a world without nukes but even if it's just about scaring the enemy when nukes are dominating the thought processes of kim and trump the rest of the world would appreciate more predictability and transparency in the thought process. r.t. washington d.c. . now a new round of searches is being conducted by u.s.

authorities in a vacated russian consulate in san francisco at the moment this comes from russia's foreign ministries facebook page it also posted a video of men the building ripping up the wooden flooring the statement also says that i don't know who the people are exactly will discuss this a bit further we're joined now by the media. who's across the story for us. and the explanation then as to what was going on exactly here well so far we haven't received any information concerning that and as just as you mention searches and the building of the russian general consulate in san francisco continue and there are reportedly conducted by and done to fight man who are vandalizing the place while the building it is still owned by russia however it is no longer operating a consulate now earlier russian foreign ministry published the videos of searches and the russian diplomatic properties in san francisco and the trader of presentation in washington and of the ministry called this video published avodah

illegal actions by u.s. authorities now the ministry also said that the examination or these so-called examination of the russian diplomatic property constitutes as a violation of international law and also called it an invasion and the lead to a ministry suppost on its facebook page sounds that u.s. security services conduct on known works on the territory of the consulates they have also damaged expensive property and do work without permission it was also a note to the u.s. representatives behave like it is some sort of a raid attack now this is the only development after initial searches that began last week on saturday when the russian diplomatic staff was only given some thirty six hours warning to leave the place for the searches to be conducted russian

president vladimir putin called these searches on lawful and said that russia still reserve the right to send out more u.s. diplomats working here in russia up to one hundred fifty five diplomats now this a late. this rally between the two countries has been happening in the past few months russia says that it was not started by moscow but the u.s. administration both sides continued to say that they want to establish good relations however given the latest unprecedented circumstances it is now not clear whether it is still possible sure is an ok thanks between if it was me the question of if. you want you off the international still to come for you to be leading in the polls but i'm cool has been pelted with tomatoes along the election campaign trail we've got the story plus of the after the break. it's.

the feeling. every the world has experienced. and you get it on the old well. according to josh. come along from iraq. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us exactly it's. the only show i go out of my way to the times you know it was really packed a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than the blue. sea people you've never heard of love redacted tonight president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail.

again tonight people from russia and the german election but she has been met by an angry crowd on the latest stop of her campaign trial peter all of us has the details it is fair to say that this is been a fairly tepid election campaign in germany even by the well relatively low ball set by german elections in the past moments of drama how of combe could to see if those right wing political activists who've been turning up at angola merkel's campaign rallies now these people who are on the whole fundamentally opposed to unglue locals and refugee policy all they've been turning up doing cheering and blowing whistles. event says she's traveled around the country the latest happened

in heidelberg in the south of the country well this time there was an added edge as to tomatoes were thrown as angle of the pool took the stage one of them clipping the german chancellor on the hip another one of them though splattering one of the moderators angela merkel in fact offered her a handkerchief to clean herself up during the debate though during the rally she was asked a question about what does she think her best qualities are and she pretty much said karmas under pressure noticeably not making reference to the flying fruit that had occurred earlier in fact anglo-american was so unfazed by the tomato incident it's even kept the same jacket on when she appeared at a later rally in the city of stuttgart now it was expected that this campaign could have been a very closely run thing between angela merkel in a christian democratic union party and martin schultz and the social democrats if we go back to march they were almost neck and neck now though angle of merkel leads

by around fifteen percent in the polls and it seems almost impossible for the social democrats the core that back and it does seem that angle a miracle will be returned as chancellor but they're still a couple of weeks ahead but when it comes to drama in this campaign we're really picking up crumbs and. russian president vladimir putin is pushing for u.n. peacekeepers to be present in ukraine to help resolve the conflict in the east of the country. all the presence of u.n. peacekeepers or not necessarily peacekeepers but those you can provide security for the missions would be fair and reasonable i think it would only contribute to resolving the crisis in southeast ukraine you can consider this in order to the foreign ministry to introduce such a resolution to the security council however the move by moscow has been met with reluctance by kiev ukraine's foreign ministry called the possible resolution a distortion of any peacekeeping operation but the german foreign minister has

given his backing to the russian president's idea but it's not that i see reports that president putin has voiced an initiative to do what the chancellor and i have been insisting on for months this is our chance let's make use of it we need more of this detente policy if things work out well with this blue helmets this would be the first step to removing sanctions against russia well here's a quick reminder of how that conflict unfolded back in twenty fourteen shortly after the so-called my down revolution two eastern regions in ukraine declared independence the army then launched an intervention trying to restore its influence one year later a cease fire deal was signed in minsk the capital of bettering despite those efforts the conflict is still ongoing according to a un report the total death toll stands at the back ten thousand people but at least another twenty four thousand injured. so i think i did discuss the proposed

peacekeeping mission with russia's new envoy to the u.n. here's a quick preview you can watch the full interview this friday here an r.t. . heard about bald ideas floating vague vague talk about the certain peacekeeping mission in ukraine that was aired by. but the we are taking that as a disguise to implemented the minsk agreement because the only plausible solution to the cries at the moment. indorsed by the u.n. resolutions un security council resolution so we didn't hear anything definite conclusion from them on the peacekeeping mission while all a proposal is based first of all on the. twenty two zero twelve twenty fifteen which means the package of measures to be implemented the means could claim and it is a aimed solely at the at protecting the special monitoring mission of the ois sea observers

or other. because these tasks belong to the established formants like like the memories see which i mentioned all the the group or the normandy formant. sanctions unfortunately do not work first they ignored secondly they have been long time fact of the certainly new set of sanctions may be motivated to the negotiating table but that of the new tests we facing with a political and diplomatic solution chad and russia has already proposed even in july an action plan to solve the crisis with an initiative on double suspension. the situation on the ground in syria is changing and then it is changing for the better you know that the process led by. turkey has led to the separate

from all the three deescalation is a zones. where life is coming back to mobile work humanitarian aid people with the old. being being negotiated we can see the political crisis in the syrian crisis and you can watch that interview in full or not on friday that's it for me for the moment i'm back in thirty five minutes. how bad can it get how low can russia u.s. relations go at this point it's anyone's guess but one thing is for sure donald trump's call for better relations is now dead in the want to. you know. mark zuckerberg at facebook. arguing about artificial

intelligence is going to destroy the world. maybe you will mark zuckerberg has already destroyed the world so why does he care. exploring america's deadly love affair with. a bad guy trying to get to one of my family members he would have better. inheriting whenever my. book was published in the year two thousand more than hold for a million americans have been killed in the us how does. this this is a middle school we go through drills we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see. him. to return to

the subject to try to. do all those years ago. but we are not. welcome to this special edition of broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. for tonight catch me if you can we've got a panel from to sides of the aisle talking about the all important tax debate in this country trying to talk policy but two panelists with very strong opinions also we dive right in the latest on this from capitol hill on these divisive topics expect some fireworks and then of course we hope we go right over to china. where brics is unfolding before our very eyes we take a look at what these five economic powerhouses brazil russia india china and south

africa are up to stand by the bus parked right now. the details are unfolding the ninth annual brics summit just wrapped up in shame in china that's a gathering of leaders from brazil russia india china and south africa they were thought of one time to be five of the world's major emerging economies a few have taken major hits in recent years leaving some outsiders to question the strength of brics as a whole during the summit this year brics leaders strongly refuted any claims that it was losing its luster simone del rosario joins us from sharm in china with how these five countries are trying to take an even bigger role on the world stage.