was. the joke. the u.s. state department faces them or could questions over the seizure of the russian diplomatic property. horrible diplomatic protocol you know what i don't know if you are working for today or what. russia's plans military drills in belarus cause the uproar among western politicians will occur whether there is a need based to the widespread panic. and honesty international accuses bahrain of mass torture and a crackdown against its government's critics the human rights group also blames the u.s. and u.k. for ignoring the problem.

hello there is nine am here in the russian capital and you're watching arsing international with me thank you allan good to have you with us. the u.s. state department has been facing some tough questions over the seizure of the russian consulate in san francisco artie's similar con picks up the story. oracle writing programs are what's your name let's move on move on to something else if you still consider that sovereign russian property or were those properties 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 their election or any other country us 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 us department of state spokes person heather nauert was grilled by reporters who focused on the seizure of russian diplomatic buildings last week the us 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 into those you know the dangers this is that which is this is a this is a very serious activity and it was a very serious damage to me 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 us 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 the economic cooperation from a putin also joked that the current situation is because u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson simply landed himself in a bad crowd but you should despite all our current diplomatic differences we continue to have contacts with american firms including vast energy companies such as exxon mobil to which rex tillerson used to head up. gave to listen i'm. going to

do seems to have ended up in a bad company and is headed in the wrong direction and i hope that the cooperation and friendship has to lead him back on the right path. a foreign affairs commentator we've spoken to says america's ruling class is against cooperation with russia despite it being a negative for the u.s. as well. president putin has always been keen on cooperation and it's the endemic raso phobia in the american deep state system that makes sure that cooperation doesn't reach the proper level it should be at it's counterproductive for the us as well because really it's driving russia away in many ways both financially and militarily and in terms of all kinds of cooperation in all spheres it will probably be in the long run will damage to the u.s. than it will to russia i think what really. present puts it on the russian or indeed are saying is we can escalate the stakes if you do as well we can also play

hardball do you want us to so really it's a question being posed all the americans unfortunately most of americans seem to want to play hardball the system is being phased out through the liberal chattering classes of believe and swallow without any evidence or claims are being made at the expense of russia within america it's the bogey states to justify the military industrial complex getting its money in so. i don't see that changing too soon. with the german election in little over two weeks many say a victory for angela merkel is a foregone conclusion but not the chancellor herself it seems many dumbing down the 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 angela merkel's party breaking away from her main rival martin schultz's social democratic party however the so-called third parties may also play a key role if

a majority can't be formed in government as pays all of explains. with most pundits already calling this job 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 sparkle and that big arrivals. alex of us are the p.s.s. on our longer guns. want to have close to come out of. his in and he finished only wanted to present to me. by.

bringing some scandal and controversy to the relatively calm seas of the german political scene is alternative for germany it looks like they will enter parliament for the first time following this election and they run on a hardline message against calls refugee policy and what they see. is the islam isolation of the country even drafted in one of the ad agencies that helped promote donald trump in his campaign and not seen them produce some rolled up provocative posts. good alternative for germany it's not going to be halted any coalition with. the chancellor and said so repeatedly likely to be part of a coalition with mrs merkel on the three democratic policy tussock liberal

pro-business traditional ally of christine union but this time around they call it something of an added benefit they film 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 jodi playbook. the refute the do not meet our criteria should be distributed to their communities and returned very quickly to where they came from the thirty year old told the dot com entrepreneur it's big to buy so much as a potential next foreign minister and deliver a joint in 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 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 that 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 if the from the right wing side on the move to has already ruled out forming any. it will issue with the left party the greens this time outs at the end lagging way behind in the polls there's even the possibility that we could see you know the grand coalition with the social democrats and that's when it comes to coalition possibilities there are even some who would see. not be the next chancellor of germany however the most realistic options are that the free democrats will not only return to the book to start following september the twenty votes but that they will also be part of the ruling coalition peter all of

a. russia's upcoming military trials that will take place in belarus next week have got the mainstream media and european politicians in a panic my girlfriend says santiago looks into the story. russia and bell the rules 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 or about to do an exercise in be able rouge russia. that's going to tail 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 in neighbors think russia does well seriously worried the head of the zoppot 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 that is not enough but hey they 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 join russia and 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. i want to islamic states most prominent commanders of good road color mob is believed to be among forty i'm still fighters killed as a result of a russian air strike near the syrian city of diaz or as according to the russian defense ministry was a command done special unit security forces and he moved to syria in two thousand and fifteen and became an i saw war minister another i saw member thought to be killed in the strike is r.p. mohamed al she shyly he was i saw as finance chief of saudi arabian origin he

suspected of all combining the two thousand and fifteen terror attacks in paris. was staying in syria and the result a humanitarian convoy has reached the city for the very first time since and i still see began in twenty four c. forty trucks delivered food to people who previously could only receive basic amenities through air drops in the area.

but these are the latest pictures from around the all where clashes with terrorists continue syrian troops are now establishing a four kilometer long corridor to allow humanitarian convoys to deliver supplies. so we will continue to closely follow the liberation campaign india is or one of the largest pockets of terrorists still remaining in syria and we will be bringing you all the updates as soon as we get them here on r.t. international. when disney has begun filming a remake of it hit animation the film allowed in but the movie giants are already coming under fire some fans of the original cartoon are confused as to why disney is including a new white character for a tale that's set in the middle east. we were.

the white characters in the movie a lot. 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 middle east not white.

they can kill whatever characters they want to in the movie and i don't think colors are always a big issue i think it could be important it could be a reflection on society especially if minorities were training badly it's only a few might. araf easel to shake noways immigration ministers hand has been grabbing the headlines in europe will tell you why after this short break.

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fight their product please. keep all the hawks that we along with our audience with one leg. welcome back 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 who leads a group called islam that offer the minister bunch of flowers but when she reached out to shake his hand he declined we asked our guests for their views on the story . boy's 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 sure these hummed a real insult but 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. the june. well let me the hunch is not only so far you believe an issue of let me finish let me let me finish ok it's not about you telling other people what they can and cannot say air and it's not about you to decide to determine what's acceptable or not if there is somebody within the jewish community orthodox jewish community are refusing to shake people's and do you have

a problem of doubt well when i run from a greater manchester you could come that 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 it 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 synagogue 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 are i'm saying to you you've got to understand that if somebody individually wants to express their old way of practicing their faith why do the jewish member of our society why there are muslims or a christian or whichever faith they are from all they have to do is decide it is their choice to do that and we have to respect our. bahrain has arrested and tortured one hundred sixty nine activists and their relatives in the gulf

states crackdown over the last year that's according to a new report by amnesty international titled no one can protect you. the book. lays the blame for some of bahrain's human rights abuses on other countries as well including the u.s. and britain he says they turn a blind eye to what's happening in the country despite having a high level of influence over the kingdom. in bahrain denies the allegations of abuses against its government's critics calling them terrorists who are trying to

undermine the stability of the country we call reaction on this from a member of the bahrain freedom a. lot. of what is doing is that he's been sick you would think the people the political stance of the lungs of goes into the. impact on the policies of the regime that a team knows that without their support it cannot survive if without the support of the british and americans of course of this that with these there is you would have pulled out so i think a strong from washington and london with the with the need to improvement over the human rights situation and the broadly political transform it into those democracy what they don't want. hungary and slovakia have lashed out at brussels after the e.u. has highest court ruled that the countries would have to abide by mandatory my current quotas and both countries earlier trying to challenge the program and refused to

take refugees and. it was not a legal expert but a political decision politics has raped european law and european values. by the european court of justice doesn't bring any new quality political position oh my good man unquote is a migrants has not changed it's all. the migrant quota system was introduced back in two thousand and fifteen at the height of the migrant crisis under the skin the only states are required to take a share of refugees arriving in greece and italy vie the mediterranean hungry rejected the program taken in vero out of its quota of one thousand three hundred refugees the czech republic and poland took a similar stance a professor of european studies told is that the e.u. is posing 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 pressure will be put on rebellion states like hungary and start working and others that are of voting the open door policy 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. but some people in the german campus illiterate best to help refugees settle into the country with

a shaolin culture club in berlin offering free kung fu lessons to mike were children. i. know. mine don't mind my brother and my friends started doing conflict so i came to i wanted to learn more about the coaches of other countries. i was. skeptical kind of the listings 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 into conflicts since trying to show for and try and john war spiraled because here nobody is allowed to use martial arts also the clock or else he would be excluded the train helps him pull himself together and develop as

a person. i was the good food is good both for your body and mind and it helps me with. a follow us on facebook and twitter for the latest updates on not days stories and i'll be back in about thirty minutes with the top headline. the u.s. and north korea continue their war of words well clear minds pressed for diplomacy and negotiations how much of a threat is north korea to the water and why states threaten force to resolve this cause. absolutely the dubrovnik in venice are all fixed travel destinations so it must be nice to live there or is it.

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ruling classes protect themselves. with the find. me the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. the real news is. the world. call them to. the north korean nuclear crisis is testing the results on the international committee. the permanent members of the u.n. security council still struggling to agree on a common strategy will the world's powers find

a way out of the crisis and panned the united nations serve its purpose and prevent all out war while. the united nations. is my guest today. north korea's nuclear test sending the world into crisis mode the syrian war in full swing and the world's super powers my distrust the united nations is left standing as the only place where emotions can be cooled and peaceful solutions hammered out. of the challenge. of corruption and inefficiency how can the international body regain the global trust and north already have enough clout to make sure the world does not descend into conflict. russia's envoy to the united nations mr newman it's good to have you in our program welcome it's our first so going to start right away russia's u.n. delegation is dealing with several.