no. it does look good because did it busy been simple cultural if you polled the families. the u.s. state department faces the most awkward questions over the seizure of russian diplomatic for the sake. of. horrible diplomatic protocol you know what i don't know if you are working for today or what. russia's plan the military drills in bellerive scores are up draw among western politicians we look at whether there's any basis to the widespread panic. and honesty international accuses bahrain of mass told china crackdown against its government critics the human rights group also blames the u.s. and u.k. for ignoring the problem.

hello there is eight am here in the russian capital and you're watching r.t. international with me becky erin good to have you with us this hour. the u.s. state department has been facing some tough questions over the seizure at the russian consulate in san francisco. calling picks up the story. marbled the writing programs are what's your name let's move on let's move on to something else if you still consider that sovereign russian property or were those property searched because there was a concern that they were being used for intelligence purposes which would be like a different issue i'm just not going to get into that let's let's move let's move on to something else there. were any other country u.s. missions that. could have been searched by the. government

you know what i don't know if you are working for today or what but i remember a u.s. department of state spokes person heather nauert was grilled by reporters who focused on the seizure of russian diplomatic buildings last week the u.s. state department ordered the closures of the russian consulate in san francisco a trade mission complex in washington and a trade office in new york u.s. security services subsequently searched the buildings and denied all access to them spokesperson heather nauert characterized it quite lightly calling it a tour which immediately provoked a backlash from journalists russian officials were invited to come along with us as we toured those facilities to get to you so you see things like you walk in and say who. is this is that was this is it this is a very serious activity it was a very serious academic and if i use the word tour and that seemed to light in.

the activity that took place then pardon me for that the russian foreign ministry slammed this move as an illegal invasion it's spokesperson even said that she views the u.s. raids of russian diplomatic properties as some kind of diabolic circus illegal and pointless while the u.s. state department said the measure came in response to moscow ordering the u.s. to reduce its diplomatic personnel in russia russian president vladimir putin has stated that he has taken legal measures to fight the force closures ordering the filing of a lawsuit still remains unclear where this will all lead and how these latest tensions will affect diplomatic ties between the two countries. despite the diplomatic fallout the russian president says the u.s. and russia will not stop economic cooperation that they may appear to also jokes that the current situation is because the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson simply landed himself in a bad crowd but you smothered. despite all our current diplomatic differences we

continue to have contacts with american firms vast energy companies such as exxon mobil to which rex tillerson used to head up we also gave to listen a medal when you he seems to have ended up in a bad company and is headed in the wrong direction but i hope that the cooperation and friendship will lead him back on the right path. a political commentator we spoke to says continued talks between the two countries can only help move away from the current low in relations. with all the developments that are taking place . it may make the situation somewhat difficult but on many areas i think there is cooperation taking place between. moscow and washington us seeking a unilateral lying on many issues politically and also economically putting sanctions on russia putting sanctions on other countries where they score or iran

it really doesn't help american business it doesn't help the european business because at the end of the day you know there was talk that america may be putting sanctions on chinese banks or any bank that it's trading with korea so sanctions the strategy has failed to sanction the strategy does not help the nations on the sanctions are being applied and the sanctions the strategy doesn't help the nations that are applying the sanctions so in that context i think corporation will be helpful to i suppose create a better relationship create more dialogue create a consensus which would help in other political and economic matters as well. and with the german election in a little over two weeks' time at many say a victory for anglo-american is a foregone conclusion but not the chancellor herself. coming down we need isn't

gentleman we hear a lot here that the german election has already been decided i'm telling you that this is simply not true. the latest polls show a party breaking away from him main rival martin shows his social democratic party however so-called third parties mail saying play a key role if a majority can't be formed in government as peeta all of our explains. with most pundits already calling this german election a win for. schultz there isn't a great deal of intrigue there what's more exciting though has been the battle for third place and who will perhaps be called the kingmaker in the next coalition government the smaller parties in germany providing a lot more than that big arrivals. delicateness or p.s.s. on our long beach of guns. to those close to him out of shape.

and he finished only wanted to present to me. about. nazis. bringing some scandal and controversy to the relatively calm seas of the political sea it's alternative for germany it looks like they will enter a pall of it for the first time following this election and they run on a message against refugee policy and what they see is the islam isolation of their country even drafted in one of the out agencies that helped promote trump in his campaign and not seen them produce some role the provocative post is.

a. good alternative for germany it's not going to. because of any coalition with. the chancellor and said so repeatedly likely to be part of a coalition with the mrs merkel of the free democratic party a toxic liberal pro-business traditional ally of christine union but this time around they call it something of an added benefits they charismatic and photogenic leader has appeared front and center of the campaign however he does appear to have lifted sort of his migration policy right out of the alternative think gibney playbook. to refute g.'s that do not meet our criteria should be distributed to their communities and returned very quickly to where they came from we could see a troll form a dot com entrepreneur has been to by some as

a potential next foreign minister. joining a coalition with them but one thing the a.f. did may prove to be a wise move as he looks to shore up his own party's position basically this is just stop political maneuver to get more voters from this from this side of the spectrum f.t.p.'s at the moment constantly collecting in all kinds of fields voters for example with all these digital subjects they took all these photos which are coming like more from the digital natives area and now with this new statement about refugees they try to pick of course also people from the if the from the right wing side the woman who has already ruled out forming a coalition with the left party the greens this time outs at the lagging way behind in the polls even the possibility that we could see into the grand coalition with the social democrats and when it comes to coalition possibilities there are even

some that would see i'm going to look cool not to be the next chancellor of germany however the most realistic options on the for. democrats will not only return to the fold to start calling september the twenty olds vote but that they will also be part of the ruling coalition peter all of a. rush is that coming military drills that will take place in belarus next week after the mainstream media in a panic some outlets went with fear mongering headlines dubbing the exercises a trojan horse for invasion my girlfriend looks into the story. russia and bella roots are to hold joint military training exercises this month i was planning to be real serious about this but hey how can i resist when the reactions pouring in are just so colorful what washington thinks russia does they're about to do an exercise in be able rouche russia. that's going to tell up to one hundred

thousand russian troops moving into into that country the great concern is they're not going to leave and that's you know that's not paranoia on did you get that one hundred thousand troops that's just the russians not counting the forces and bella ruse i mean that's probably enough to storm europe and yes they are concerned what europe thinks russia does it is undisputed that we have seen a demonstration of the capabilities and power of the russians and one who does that has only to look at the high number of forces participation in the exercise more than one hundred south and it doesn't end there there are more fantastic predictions was that a neighbor's think russia does well seriously worried the head of the zappa twenty seven thousand drills is numerous aggressive forces taking part in it and there is a demonstrative preparation for war with the west now russia and belarus are allowing three nato observers to monitor the exercise even though the alliance

thinks there is not enough but hey there are supposed to be a hundred thousand troops yet at the same time nato secretary general mr stoltenberg says. there is no i quote imminent threat to any of its allies confusing right and how this bell or see the upcoming drills we should just stop making excuses whether our drills are defensive or not we have an army we have a joint russian belarus military formation in the west and while it exists which we did make a secret off we're going to train it how to fight just in case now let's take a look at the real numbers from the russian ministry of defense in fact it's thirteen thousand soldiers around a quarter of them arriving from russia plus three hundred military vehicles and twenty five aircraft doesn't sound like a blitzkrieg now does it. bahrain has arrested and tortured more than one hundred fifty activists and relatives in the gulf states crackdown over the last year as

according to a new report by amnesty international titled no one can protect you. it lays the blame for some of bahrain's human rights abuses on other countries as well including the u.s. and britain says they turn a blind eye to what's happening in the country despite having a high level of influence over the kingdom. the countries have the wonderful relationship together but it has been

a little strained it will be strained we should ministration. well bahrain denies the allegations of abuses against its government's critics calling them terrorists to try to try to undermine the stability of the country we got reaction on this from a member of the bahrain freedom isn't. part. of what is doing is that he's been secured being the people the political stance of the lung the goes into an. impact on the policies of the regime that are deemed laws that without their support it cannot survive if without the support of the british and americans of course under through these those you would have called out saw

a strong from washington on london would vividly lead to improvement over the human rights situation and broadly political transform it into those democracy but they don't want that. disney has begun filming a remake of its hit animation film aladdin but the movie giants have come under fire for what's being called white washing the story some fans of the original cartoon are confused as to why disney had to include a new white character a tale that's set in the middle east. we will.

remember any white characters in the movie a lot of. those. oh. i didn't notice they're going to have a white character in this one it's guy ritchie and disney they're redoing it which character do you think they're going to make white. which i think the only way well below the main character i don't know why he would be because he's from the police or not white. they can kill whatever characters they want to in the movie and i don't think

colors always a big issue it could be important it could be a reflection on society especially if minorities were treated badly it's only a few might. well the first humanitarian aid convoy since two thousand and fourteen which is the syrian city of de has a we take a closer look after the break. manufacture

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welcome back now the leader of a muslim organization in norway has found himself in the headlines after refusing to shake hands with the country's immigration minister because she's a woman the man on the left to leave the group called islam that of the minister a bunch of flowers but when she reached out to shake his hand he declined well saw guests for their views on the story. trying to do is push his religious beliefs onto other people and what he's doing is actually not integrated he doesn't want to integrate shake your hands it's just a gesture of friendship and it's not down to religion it's not religious based however not shaking these a hand is wielding sword well i'm not here to defend that particular remark but i'm here to defend the right of people to choose how they practice their faith we have in our country and europe many orthodox jewish people who refused to shake the hand of women so actually it's something which goes on it's not disrespectful it's

a formal respect this is about religious freedom and you know nowhere in it what i just see you know is one of the i'm sure it's not a lively june. well let me know about the hunch it is not unlike their you're so sure you believe initially it let me finish let me let me finish ok it's not about you telling other people what they can and cannot say and it's not about you to decide to determine what's acceptable or not if there is somebody within the jewish community orthodox jew jewish community are refusing to shake people's and do you have a problem well when i run for mayor greater manchester you could come to it was jewish refused to shake hands with women. and i said that was not right that was against our culture so it's not just against islam or what you're talking about is one hundred friendship being given to somebody and it's been thrown in the face so when we go to morsi or we go to synagogues we expect two other women to have

a headscarf we expect to take our shoes off and very sort of things which we do as a matter of respect and i'm saying to you is you've got to understand that if somebody individually wants to express their own way of practicing their faith why do the jewish member of our society why the red muslim or a christian or whichever faith they are from all they have to do all they have to do is decide it is their choice to do that and we have to respect up. to syria now where humanitarian convoy has reached the city of d.s.l. for the first time since and i still see each began in twenty fourteen forty trucks delivered food to people who previously could only be seen basic amenities to airdrops into the city.

these are the latest images from around the whole where clashes with terrorists continue syrian troops have now established a four kilometer long corridor to allow humanitarian convoys to deliver supplies. and they're going to be closely following the liberation campaign india is or one of the largest pockets of terrorist still remaining in syria and we'll be bringing you all the day updates as soon as we get them here at r.t. international.

now hungary and slovakia have lashed out at brussels after the ears highest court ruled that the countries will have to abide by mandatory migrant quotas both countries earlier try to challenge the program and refused to take refugees and. the verdict by the european court of justice doesn't bring any new quality the court has a different legal opinion on the procedure of approving such decisions political position of my government unquote as a migrants has not changed at all. it was not a legal expert but a political decision politics is really european law european values. migrant quota system was introduced back in two thousand and fifteen at the height of the migrant crisis under the scheme all member states are required to take a share of refugees arriving in greece and italy by the mediterranean hungary rejected the program taking in zero hours of its quota of one thousand three

hundred refugees the czech republic and poland took a similar stance a professor if you were paying studies told is the e.u. is putting its own survival at risk by imposing such rules on member states. actually the people who are preaching about solidarity in europe. cohesion in europe are actually undermining the unity of europe by forcing states to do things they don't like they don't want to have which they see as interference in their so heredity so i think that in this case the more our pressure will be put on rebellion states like hungary stonework ia and others that are opposing the open door policy the illegal migration to europe will work like a boomer arm it will undermine european unity and in the end it is

a ticking time bomb that might. contribute to the final collapse of the european union. that some countries are doing their best to where few g.c.'s live in the german capital as embracing foreign traditions and odds by to help boost the integration into the country with a sound and culture club in berlin offering a free country lessons to migrant children. i. mind don't mind going my brother and my friends started doing conflict so i came to i wanted to learn more about the cultures of the country. i was. skeptical kind of the littlest things when i first did a class was just they are fugitives i saw that they had no discipline i realize

that conform might help instill that quality and sound and help them integrate into german society better one teenager who came here to train had has some issues for the police because of fighting as in to come full essence trying to show from and try and john war spiraled because here nobody is allowed to use martial arts also the clock what else you would be excluded from the train help him pull himself together and develop a surprise so. i was like this is good food is good both for your body and mind and it helps me with i. was you get in touch and share your thoughts on the day stories with us by following us on facebook and twitter and i'll be back at the top of the hour with the headline.

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all powerful corporations collect the profit of a nickel we'll put this up will probably globally coffee cup the economy in the us has up the on sounds knock up the supposed to mean it. is a tourist phobia will fit into our own identity. donald trump elbows g.o.p. leaders out of the way and accepted agreement with the democrats on tying hurricane harvey relief to raising the debt ceiling and funding the government how does this affect the republican leader's plans moving forward we'll take a look on this edition of. politicking on larry king on wednesday president donald trump overruled g.o.p.

leaders even his own treasury secretary to reach agreement with democrats on funding the u.s. government and raising its debt ceiling all in apparent effort to get much needed recovery money on his way to those affected by hurricane harvey the three month deal on funding now heads off a government shutdown until sometime in december where does the g.o.p. and the president go from here what battles this is set up for later let's talk about it. with representative jody arrington republican of texas and chairman of the economic opportunity subcommittee of the house committee on veterans affairs he also serves on the house agriculture and budget committees and he joins me from statuary hall in the u.s. capital but what do you make of this relief program seven point eighty five billion for hurricane harvey did you vote for it. i did vote for it larry and and my fellow texans the debt.