i. hate against war protesters in south korea a clash with thousands of police officers overseeing the deployment of a u.s. missile defense system to counter the nuclear threat of. the largest american military base in afghanistan is targeted by a suicide bomber with the taliban saying it was in retaliation for an f. pensive leaflets distributed by the us army. i am angela merkel receives a hostile reception on her election campaign trail as demonstrators in germany jeer

and throw tomatoes during the latest rallies. and r.t. speaks to a russian bitcoin trader detained in a greek prison and wanted by the us the money laundering charges. this is r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital i'm neki arun good to have you with us. and antiwar protest in south korea has seen dozens of people injured in clashes with police and many more arrested demonstrators were trying to block a convoy of rocket launchers for a controversial u.s. anti missile system known as guard.

nearly four hundred peace activists turned down for the rally at the u.s. military base in song a small farming village they were met by eight thousand security offices and to oversee the arrival of the convoy despite the clashes the systems components have now been deployed. well fard or terminal high altitude area defense is designed to destroy ballistic missiles at targets short to medium range weapons and is being supplied to south korea by washington antiwar activist medea benjamin recently visited the site in south korea and told those why the deployment is causing so much anger. well know and one has to wonder why hundreds and hundreds of people would come out to protest a system that is supposedly going to make them so safe for i was in that village just a few weeks ago and it's a very conservative village and these protests are being led mostly by the elders

of the village who say we don't want to be in the eye of the storm we know that president trump has just said he's going to allow more highly sophisticated weaponry to go to south korea taking billions of dollars of people's money there this is a cycle of militarism that is extremely dangerous and the opposite of what people on the plane peninsula need and want meanwhile senior north korean officials have said that america's pressure on pyongyang go against the idea of peace independence you know. the u.s. neglects the international community's will to establish peace on the korean peninsula. against the times to impose sanctions and pressure from washington with powerful council measures. now that was the head of the north korean delegation at the eastern economic forum in russia's thought east correspondent daniel hawkins is that for us and joins us live now daniel good to see you say what have we heard

today at the for. the crisis on the korean peninsula nikki unsurprisingly has that dominated the headlines today as the whole world watches all the key participants in the talks the negotiations are here of course russia japan and south korea they would actually share maritime and land borders with north korea as well as china would just you heard from the plenary session with the leaders of those countries about how exactly to tackle this crisis now actually despite their differences the leaders of the countries do have a lot more in common. sweet stuff i initially put in russia of course their position has always been one of negotiation and dog as we're about to hear. those are. just like my south korean colleague i'm sure that a large scale conflict especially one with weapons of mass destruction will not

happen all of the opposing sides have the same sense of understanding of commitment to their people who live in the region and we will solve this problem by diplomatic means. now this point of view is to one extent or another supported by all sides it's no secret here that the south koreans the japanese who are perhaps in closest proximity to north korea and would perhaps suffer most in the case of an outbreak of conflict they do favor tougher sanctions regime u.n. sanctions particularly targeting the north korean oil industry this is what the south korean leader had to say earlier today. i referred. the need for tighter sanctions and belief in the china and russia are sticking to the same position but what concrete measures need to be taken is something we must discuss together. despite adhering to increased

sanctions they do maintain but they have to be done through discussion through negotiation with russia and china as well who have been key participants in these talks all along and that's the key difference really between the position of the countries here today the representatives here today of the u.s. which favors a much more one sided position shall we say as we remember just days weeks ago when nikki haley. said their patience is running thin but enough is enough trumps of course and. if you recall it's very much part of the tension the pressure on north korea both economic and military but as we know the u.s. isn't here at these talks and there is hope. that with those asian. participants here today some common ground can be found we just heard also from the north korean delegation they've handed out these official statements to the media who are very

keen to hear what they have to say they took an uncompromising position saying that the nuclear program is not up for discussion apart from that really they were not willing to too many questions so it does remain to be see what sort of progress can be made with the leaders there are here today and but of austin ok would you keep us updated on that that's daniel hawkins thank you very much. there was confusion and fear hanging over the crisis in the korean peninsula president trump is holding his cards close to his chest when it comes to washington's next move. however as jacqueline the reports the u.s. could may. billions of dollars selling arms to south korea japan and other parts of the region. the north korean threat is something we hear on a daily basis from u.s. officials with the statement supporting. and his nuclear threats show that he is

begging for war. they will be met with fire fury the stakes could not be higher the urgency is now this may not get away with what he's doing believe and the urgency is so strong the u.s. is rolling out a range of american made weapons to save the day on offer for remaining rocket launchers for the u.s. missile defense system for south korea also increase amounts of highly sophisticated military equipment which trump this kindly allowing both south korea and japan to purchase and the infamously troubled after the five fighter jets also be added to that package i think of bonus but not free of course but look forget that north korea is by no means the only threat to global security and america for decades iran has fueled the fire of sectarian conflict and terror threatening the region and causing so much by a lintz all nations of conscience most worked together to isolate her and all of

those attacks are music to the ears of saudi arabia an american ally and fellow detractor of iran so of course riyadh was all too ready to sign a one hundred ten billion dollar defense deal with from neighboring qatar also agreed to buy over twenty one billion dollars worth of american military hardware now trying to approach the conflict is definitely pragmatic make a quick buck if you can right and clearly this guy can sell anything even managed to find a way to spin continuing america's sixteen year long war in afghanistan as the prime minister of afghanistan has promised we are going to participate in economic development to help defray the cost of this war to us if you can't solve the problem see if you can. at least earn a healthy profit instead i'm a businessman that's what i'm supposed to do that's what i'm supposed to do. i think a lot of people project on the behavior of the united states maybe of other countries

that it's all about business it's all about making money for the arms manufacturers of the plane manufacturers and so forth the people who make missiles the militarization of the policy of using military threats and military force is the only item in our tool kit his son how become so ingrained in their mentality they really don't consider other alternatives you have people who believe that the united states is and must be the global head of mine that every solution must be solved by a dick taught from washington and whatever force and threats are necessary to achieve that end will be employed. and then chancellor angela merkel's been facing a tough week both in and out of parliament and she continues on her campaign trail before this month's election she was given a hostile reception in parts of the country i was jeered and booed by demonstrators during a rally in fenced in boulder yesterday was on tuesday

a protester through tomorrow says that her during an event on europe correspondent peter all of the reports. it's fair to say that this election campaign hasn't been the most exciting ever but one point that has all seen some fireworks at least is be what angle of merkel has showed up in towns where people are strongly against her refugee policy i. was the german chancellor speaking in brandenburg a wednesday evening now she did say that she was specifically going to go to these towns to these areas where people like with political parties like you'll target of to germany had a foothold or at least had some kind of strong base. where people had been voicing their concern over her refugee policy these were the places that she was going to show up one thing that we didn't have on that wednesday evening in brandenburg that

we saw on tuesday evening in heidelberg was flying fruits we can see the chancellor here taking the stage in the heidelberg thankfully wearing that red glaze there because what happens next is all she's hit by one of two tomatoes that was thrown from the crowd clip there on the hip there the other tomato though well that spotted one of the moderators and miller merkel handing her a handkerchief to clean herself up and also it's worth noting that during this rally the german chancellor was asked a question one of your biggest strengths and she said that she was carmen to fire a carbon depression without making any reference to the tomato throwing but we had high hopes that this was going to be a close fought impassioned electoral campaign with martin schulz the former european parliament president pushing angle of a call all the way that we hasn't happened at the moment well the german chancellor looks like she'll be returned almost fifteen percent fifteen points ahead at the

moment with that vote coming up on september the twenty fourth. however the tomato incident wasn't the only awkward moment for the chancellor just before that answer angela merkel was interrupted by the main opposition party while addressing parliament for taking credit for their work eventually chancellor merkel had to remind them who's in charge that's with you but i think it's only when. you don't see humans. you know you will be out. soon. as. if she is she was a group you know sold out and that. when you want to win. if. that's where it was.

for you the latest pictures from syria now where government troops are being put through their paces before an operation to storm eisel controlled areas of the city of dia as on tuesday the syrian army backed by russia reached the city breaking a three year long siege here on the map you can see islamic states territorial losses in syria over the past four months moving towards you as though the syrian army gained around eight kilometers per day eventually united with one of its brigades trapped inside the city the most prominent figure of the dia as the army is some zora dean known as the lion of the republican guard he's a garrison commander who had been trapped in the besieged city for the full three years farah dean has a long record of military service and forth on several fronts during the syrian civil war we managed to talk to him right after the siege was broken. but a lot more during the siege we were like an island in the middle of an ocean

totally isolated the closest city is homes which is more than two hundred fifty kilometers away yet despite the siege by us and the scarcity of all means of survival and. electricity food the army and the friendly forces persevered in defending their lives or. professor side mohammad marandi from the university of toronto sais i suppose ideology still poses a good overall threat despite victories over this have. we are entering the final stages i saw or isis having a presence in syria in the sense that it holds territory that does seem to be coming to an end but the ideology continues exist and therefore the terrorism the extremism that isis represents can continue to be a menace to the rest of the world and of course it's not only isis we have al qaeda and al qaeda affiliates in syria such as the nostra front row or sharm all of these

different groups jaisha this flom they too have the same wahhabi ideology and they continue to hold territory so even after isis is dealt with and the territory is taken the syrian army is going to have to deal with them as well after they finish with isis. to afghanistan now where a taliban suicide bomber has detonated the device outside america's largest military facility in the country no soldiers were killed in the blast at the background airbase it's now a convert port. well a suicide bomber detonated explosives at bag ram air base in afghanistan the attack is believed to be a response to a highly offensive leaflet distributed by u.s. forces in the province on tuesday that depicted part of the taliban flag along with a passage from the koran on a dog this is an animal that's considered on clean in islam the bombing occurred only hours after a senior u.s.

commander in afghanistan apologized for the leaflets the taliban responded saying it showed america's hatred for islam and that it proves the war in the country is a war between islam and belief according to news reports but this isn't the first time controversy struct struck the area in february two thousand and twelve u.s. soldiers mistakenly burned korans at the same background base alongside damaged books and texts from the airfields library with the incident prompted widespread protests and resulted in several deaths but we have to think that while fundamentalism is mostly to blame for this incident it seems like us imperialism plays a strong role in providing these terrorists with a motive to perpetrate these attacks one can only wonder if trump's new policy on afghanistan will further exacerbate the situation still to come russian bitcoin trader is wanted by the us alleged money laundering we have that story coming up after the break stay with us.

moscow with. mark zuckerberg at first but. arguing about artificial intelligence is going to destroy the world. as baby will mark zuckerberg has already struck the

world so why does he care. hello welcome back now the u.s. is pushing for the extradition of a russian national accused of cyber crimes and money laundering alexander vinick was arrested in greece back in july at the request of the u.s. justice department he's accused of using the crypto currency trading website bitcoin to launder more than four billion dollars greek with our teams are currently considering the extradition request mr been exposed to his by phone through his lawyer from prison and his first interview since his arrest.

you know what i worked for the company and carried out my details and it's not right to blame me for that i only found out what the accusations were a month after i was arrested my russian lawyer told me about them. i would say they're mistaken i don't have any planes yours or any other luxury possessions to get to. first because i haven't done anything illegal second i don't understand what the u.s. has to do with me and why they should be judging a russian citizen. the russian foreign ministry has said it's closely monitoring the situation to ensure that the suspects rights are being respected rest of an ex-wife alexandra also spoke to r.t. giving further details about her husband's detention. i turned around and saw that my husband was surrounded by around twenty men twenty men wearing t. shirts and some glasses took part in his arrest he was handcuffed our children were

there the time these men walked him away they also took mobile phones and the key to our hotel room from my bag as far as i know they searched the room me and my children were kept on the beach from eleven in the morning until seven pm under the supervision of three men we couldn't leave the children didn't get anything to you to talk as far as i know from the documents and from the us the biggest cizik to it is were against the law there the document says the members knew they were creating a platform for money laundering because it wasn't registered it didn't have a license and because such business models allow criminals to use the exchange all the charges are being made based on this statement by this way of thinking you could make the manufacturers of frying pans for example guilty because wives hid their husbands with them is the same thing obviously his return to russia is my main goal my husband agrees to be extradited only to russia and no other country he

wants to come home to his family to his children. brazilian law has been falling in the media for three years pretending to be a united nations war photographer artist my girlfriend says that you are has the story. the author of these pictures boasts in an viable list of clients including major news outlets like the b.b.c. wall street journal al-jazeera and or cervelli but wait a minute those are just inverted images by another war zone photographer anyone who knows how to use google reverse image search could have sort of this out but unfortunately no one bothered to check and that's exactly how for twenty years at a wired all martin's managed to pull off pretending to be a un photographer who traveled to syria iraq gaza and many other hotspots the man who actually took these photos was quite shocked the worst thing about it was the way changed my captions kind of like reframing the story the stories of the

photographs a few years for you know to like. me is well you know it's my content and make use more current. cielo e.q. wasn't really vetted because you had a strong social media following years ago other than twenty seven thousand people as twitter and i think there are a lot of the editors of the photo agencies that move to stuff a little lazy yeah i'm really disappointed it's so i do believe that this area's did a lot to foster distrust between the public and the news media at large to make his deception more believable in a wider martens of that's his real name which most likely isn't boasted selfies from somalia and aleppo well you don't need to be an expert to see that this has hints of photoshop but hey the posts had all the right tags of aleppo in ruins and so on so who cares no one bothers to take a closer look even the man in these photos was actually

a british server who was alerted by his new savvy friends that his identity was stolen i was relaxing having some wine when a friend from wavelength magazine contacted me saying that someone has stolen my identity in a kind of a prank on the internet so it seems we're dealing with an internet troll who. caught on some of the biggest names in the world of news into buying his photos perhaps those compelling interviews had a trusting effect once in the road shoots in a conflict or stop shooting to help a boy who was hit by a multiple of drop the camera and help him get out of the conflict area in scenes like this so stop being a photographer and become a human being he was also feeding the media a pitiful story of his childhood which included a battle with leukemia and being abused while growing up both of which he managed to overcome and use as inspiration for war photography he also claimed he was working for and then go children safe drinking water which must have been easy to

fact check but no one did but now the cat's out of the bag the b.b.c. confirms that this was indeed a car man whose bodos unfortunately they've used while promising to better their verification process the fraudster whose identity is still unknown has deleted the photos and accounts associated with them leaving only an unpleasant remnant for the major media system he managed to trick into showing something it was entirely fake media francis and thiago r.t. . so your thoughts on today's stories by following us on facebook and twitter and join me at the top of the hour for the latest headlines. there were not lines up. enough lines often i don't want my next night south the definitions you know i'm back in the. one seeking i mean south. taking the equal city south guess i. would got to give than that and then you're

just going to bring. how we think i'm. young would be right now i think. i'm going to you know well not be yeah i sat. in this just feeling if one means a leftist i you know be deep but let me say this one tokyo found it was going to happen going. to let me ask how. does work with because did a piece of dancing coral cultural reason i called the premise. the united nations on the security council in particular should be it should not be a place full suit i'll get that i. spoke like the last the last of their athletic

skills they should be a place you should be a place. which is we should think we should perform its main responsibility to maintain the security. of. our r r. r. welcome to worlds apart the north korean situation has long favored the status quo as the lesser evil the prospect of war seemed much worse than anything pyongyang was capable of but over the past year or two things changed north korea got new

technology and the united states god and your president but all the bluster about the nuclear blast is the status quo is still sustainable for everybody involved but to discuss that i'm now joined by donald a former u.s. congressman and current president of the korea economic institute of america mr menzel it's great to talk to you thank you for your time it's nice to talk to you thank you for inviting me now the korean problem has long had a tendency of heating up every two or three years but this time around the north koreans indeed have a far more sophisticated technology to back up the death threats and the united states seems to have a much shorter fuse which of these two factors do you find more troubling. questions there. first of all the the the fuse is now with the united states to fuse is with north korea and north korea has continued to violate numerous u.n.

. modest fences to not continue its nuclear capability the broken several agreements with the united states they have continued to test. no other six tests for nuclear bomb apparently they've developed the hydrogen bomb in a period they have the i.c.b.m. and so it's not a question of jet exposes these the growth of the new. we are worse than the system in north korea was saying that the united states has a short fuse i'm not sure i understand where your go and. it's not really surprising for anyone to see that north korea continues to violate international law there is no deceit disagreement on that i think internationally but i think we have never have an american president who would express his displeasure over that in such an abrasive way put the military option so squarely.