korea continue their war of words cooler minds press for diplomacy and negotiations how much of a threat is north korea to the book and why they strike forced to resign. headline stories this hour the. seizure of russian diplomatic property but the u.s. state department facing a barrage of questions from journalists over the. horrible diplomatic protocol and i don't know if you are working today or what but i. knew ambassador to the u.s. presence his credentials amid one of the worst diplomatic periods that countries face. aid convoy rhymes in the war weary syrian city of. three years of brutal islamic states. the

situation there. with germany's general election just over a fortnight away speaks to the country's foreign minister who takes stock of the campaign rates. twenty four hour news live from russia's capital city this is our to international a pleasure to have your company i'm going to nail our top story the u.s. state department has been facing a grilling over the closure of the russian consulate in san francisco even accused journalists of son being too much like r.t. . that in 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 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 it lead in this let's move on to something else here in russia or any other country where u.s. missions that. could have been searched by the host. government you know what i don't know if you are working for r.t. today or what but i think. in response artie's editor in chief said the channel takes about coleman from the state department as a compliment well the raw spike last week when washington demanded russia vacate its consulate in some francisco and two other diplomatic entities well that follows on from president trump's the session to extend sanctions against russia moscow responded in turn by demanding america reduce its diplomatic staff and on wednesday more searches were carried out by u.s. authorities on what's now the former consulate in san francisco. when earlier this

week vladimir putin said russia will take washington to court over the situation the u.s. state department responded to that up to become focused on the issue of our american counterparts didn't let russia use its property it's a violation of property rights i will tell the foreign ministry to go to court we'll see how well the highly praised she dishes system in the u.s. works welcome to the american legal system mr putin has apparently met the legal system that in the united states. new ambassador to the u.s. on a chilly. u.s. president. part of that see him officially recognized as moscow's representative in washington i'm joined by senior who's in washington has been following the meeting syria tell us more. well a much anticipated meeting between russia's recently appointed ambassador to the

u.s. and u.s. president donald trump has taken place anatoly antonov as well as other as twelve other ambassadors presented diplomatic credentials to president meaning they are now officially recognized as representatives of russian interests antonov predecessor was constantly targeted by the western media portrayed in a negative light over a number of allegations given the controversy surrounding the previous diplomat they are now many speculations around the new figure and as with all u.s. russia meetings this one also attracted media attention especially amid rising diplomatic tensions antonov in particular expressed russia's eagerness to normalize relations with washington. mr rushton figuration. to brief relations between the two countries to relations between the united states and russia. international peace and progress as well as strategic stability.

according to the diplomat the when the meeting took place in a warm and constructive atmosphere commenting on the meeting the ambassador said that moscow is ready to take concrete steps to improve relations with washington and despite the ongoing diplomatic spat between the countries that saw us russia relations sink to one of the lowest points in history and said he believes the situation is mendable provided there is enough will to cast aside political differences and work together now this is all quite a positive shift from the rhetoric we've been hearing from both sides lately and it seems that improve relations between the two countries seems even more promising considering the new russian ambassador was actually a key member of the team that worked on the two thousand and ten new start bilateral nuclear arms reduction agreement so let's take a closer look at his background. we did what we could to improve our relations with

the u.s. unfortunately we still haven't reached a consensus with many. by leaking because here's a link to the policy of containing russia seems to be the main focus of many western countries at the moment the current crisis in international relations unveils the real nature of some western governments which openly trying to dictate their will and the souter's democratic values on top of. that scrape tell him to stop bleeding of his dead and if we have to be united and i will find it against covers.

it's up to washington how far are they willing to good relations or we heard from rights attorney or third down cover like he's convinced that the negative image of russia in the west right now has an impact on relations just the process of speaking of diplomacy will help but i also thank my own opinion is that people in the united states need to get over this anti russia hysteria and that's what it is that's being gend up. by the media here and americans need to call for more friendly and constructive relations with russia it's my firm opinion that russia all along has wanted friendly relations has wanted the us as a partner and there is no reason that we should reject that all of branch that i think russia has been holding out for some time and of course i agree that the us entering that property was a violation of the vienna conventions. and i don't know where it's going to end i

do get the sense from russia that they do not want to escalate. states highest ranking commanders. is believed to be among forty extremist militants killed in a russian or a strike near the syrian city of durance or not supporting to the russian defense ministry howling wolf who was the group so cold war minister moved to syria join dies when twenty fifteen prior to god he was a special forces commander in the former soviet republic of the cheapest down. to the us numerous times for training including with the notorious private military contractor blackwater no known as academy areas in the propaganda video this us legal politician. how is this. law made it. lennon was in black what another i still remember thought to have been killed in

the strike was. challis he was of saudi arabian origin was i so it's finance chief he's also suspected of organizing the twenty fifteen paris terror attacks meanwhile a humanitarian convoy has reached a resort for the first time since eyes those three year long siege was broken on tuesday forty trucks delivered food and medical supplies to residents who had up to that point been relying on earth drops.

we managed to speak to a journalist whose just only starts right now of terrorists or i am a three kilometer away fill from the one hundred thirty seven brigade i am it just less than one kilometer of all these little gatherings in the same mandatory area be just behind that building now the residual area of the designer is just about seven hundred meters it's worth mentioning that some medical equipment and other food supplies have just entered the city fuel i was again you hearing the evidence in the sky now the side of me that there is the military and will today result it's a just a few kilometers and also it is witnessing some fierce the clashes between the syrian army and isel militants.

now with less than two weeks before germany heads to the polls chancellor angela merkel's approval rating remains very high however according to a recent survey there's one politician who's actually more popular than her it's the foreign minister signori gabrielle filing this report from germany put her over . well as the german election fast approaches the campaigns are really starting to kick into gear. the current german foreign minister of course also a former leader of the social democrats is part of the grand coalition between christian democratic union and the social democrats he's been speaking exclusively to r.t. we can hear what he makes of the election campaign where things stand at the moment it shows my advice would be to vote for a party that stands for a good sense of community one that doesn't jeopardize jobs in germany the propaganda by and sometimes by the left party against europe one should understand

we live like we do only because we're a country that exports a lot of products to europe when our neighbors in europe do well we do well to those who seek to destroy or like the f.t. and some in the left parties who destroyed millions of jobs in germany and make this country poorer. it was german foreign minister speaking exclusively to r.t. but of course his party the social democrats aren't the only ones on the campaign march at the moment one of the party that's looking to enter the german bundestag for the first time is alternative for germany so we've called them far right they're certainly anti immigration some of also said that they're very anti islamic as well well they've been on the campaign trail on friday as well that they would joy and here in spawn doubt by the former leader of ukip nigel for. what was he at the citadel in spandau that was the setting for the latest campaign rally for

alternative for germany the anti immigration anti islamic party here but miss bawn store pointed out the amount of times that alternative. germany's policies had actually been co-opted by other parties and. who wants to give parliament in a position for the big laugh. place without our participation now the last d. agenda was discussed then turned to for germany though they've certainly faced a lot of criticism but they are looking likely that they will enter parliament they're gunning for that third place however it does look like it's going to be closely run between them and the free democrats the f.p. day to see who finishes up third this time around in the german elections or staying in germany in the capital of the country one cultural center is taking unusual steps to help refugee children integrate into society giving them kung fu lessons we went to meet some of those involved. i i

i i. i. i i i don't like my brother and my friends started to come through so i came to i wanted to learn more about the cultures of other countries. i. skipped of all kind of the little space when i first did a class was just day after genesis i saw that they had no discipline i realize that conflict might help still at that point stands out and help them integrate into german society better one teenager who came here to train had has some issues with the police because if i take it as him to come from us is to learn to shout from and try and john why spiraled because here nobody is allowed to use martial arts all acetic no one else who lived next to this the train helped him pull himself together and develop as a person. i. couldn't

fool is good both for your body and mind and it helps me with. the governor of florida said everyone should be prepared to evacuate from the state as hurricane earl edges closer highways are already those thousands flee in what could become one of the largest evacuation in u.s. history. if you're told to evacuate leave get out quickly. the roads will philip quickly so you need to go this storm is wider than our entire state is expected to cause major and life threatening impacts from coast to coast my neighborhood right now where i'm at brickell is part of miami dade is one of the many neighborhoods that been that have been put under mandatory evacuation as a matter of fact this is the largest mandatory evacuation miami dade county has ever seen six hundred sixty thousand people have been told to leave their homes in

brickell where i am if you see two or three people walking on the street that is a lot i have never seen this neighborhood like the state it is in right now forty three shelters will be set up in miami dade county but they could only accommodate one hundred thousand people a lot of floridians most floridians are terrified understandings lee because we have been warned that it will be catastrophic there are many concerns that range depending on what neighborhood you look at here in brickell what's been dubbed the manhattan of miami we have so many high rises that have grown in this neighborhood over the past ten years and there are a lot of construction sites those construction sites have essentially been abandoned we have cranes that are littering miami skyline that have not been taken down city officials have said to miami residents if you live around construction sites leave do not stay home because those cranes have not been built to withstand

a hurricane five when they could essentially be fall in or taken down by these fierce winds and flying into buildings so you have neighborhoods that were billions of dollars have been invested that can be destroyed by this hurricane now of course so many people have been told to evacuate ordered to evacuate but we have also seen . that these airports are filled with people that are trying to evacuate particularly fort lauderdale airport and people just can't find tickets or ways to get out of the state fortunately i was able to buy a one way ticket to memphis all the tickets were sold out i kept trying all week over and over again and lucked out now. i have never experienced this in my life in my entire family at so i just thought it might be you know unsafe for me to get out because i have never been in this before and i just want to get out. now eighteen people have been killed in the caribbean by erma as it's it makes its way

to the sunshine state as we mentioned several times this is being considered as one of the most devastating hurricanes in history it's been described as the size of france coming towards florida obviously a very tense situation people are preparing the best they can be rain a port night there well the federal emergency management agency fema has also issued us if you're warning. a hurricane or irma continues to be a threat that is going to devastate the united states in either florida or some of the southeastern states this is a complex forecast anybody from alabama to north carolina should be watching this storm very closely it's not a question of if florida is going to be impacted it's a question of how bad florida's going to be impacted and where the storms in the over the next four to five days as it passes them on. top us

tarrie diplomats met to discuss further military cooperation on friday it comes after donald trump offered to try and help solve the crisis on the arabian peninsula on the ongoing blockade of qatar that was despite an earlier assertion back in june that qatar is a sponsor of terrorism. if i can help mediate between cutter and in particular the u.a.e. and saudi arabia i would be willing to do so the nation of qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level old donald trump made those remarks back in june when four countries in the region cut diplomatic transport links with the gulf nation so do you read the egypt bahrain the you accuse guitar all of the supporting terrorism. lee u.s. has its largest erbe ace in the middle east in qatar and eleven thousand american

troops are stationed there just weeks after welcoming the blockade president trump approved a fighter jet deal as well with the gulf kingdom worth twelve billion dollars so a lot of issues on the table let's bring in former you canvasser to libya oliver miles to discuss some of them you're very welcome and is the united states policy towards qatar changing as the signals being sent i would submit are far from clear because on the one hand from describes it as a terrorist state but equally looks to deepen military cooperation. yes it's very difficult to understand that as i think that trump speaks without necessarily following very closely his brief the fact is that qatar and saudi arabia and come to that kuwait which is the mediating country people from those countries have. money in the past and perhaps continue to send money to

organizations which are universally now regarded as terrorist organizations but don't forget diet islamic state so-called water whatever you want to use is a direct threat to all of these states so that all opposed to it there's no question of any of them actually supporting it they may have people within their countries to support it but they don't support it because you hear that they know that in some threat to them there are a lot of troops in qatar eleven thousand that's the same number that the u.s. actually has in afghanistan does the u.s. need its base in qatar could it move if it disagrees with some of guitars actions has it i suppose options in the region. you mean could it withdraw as a result of a disagreement with gus all right i think that's unlikely if you're asking if you're altering whether america really need to lose bases around the world that's a different question and i would be no i think it's. they have a great deal more committed than they need but that's

a completely different argument the present dispute between qatar and saudi arabia u.a.e. he is. difficult to understand because it seems to be totally artificial it doesn't seem to have any reality behind it all right as for president trump's offer to mediate don't forget he was asked at a press conference off to the formal statements to be made he would also journalist whether he supported koichi mediation and he said yes we do support going to mediation and then he couldn't resist adding and of course i'd be very ready to meet it myself if that would be useful i'm not surprised that he said that maybe it's helpful i think almost anyone any world leader might have said the same thing trump is of course prone to say these things without too much thought and maybe i would have kept my mouth shut but i don't think he did the home on the korean peninsula and the crisis ongoing there we saw the u.s. president also offered to sell more. more military hardware to japan inside korea

we're seeing a similar situation now in qatar to put it bluntly is the u.s. prepared to abandon its principles if it's able to cash in and sell arms. i'm not sure that it's that conflict with its principle they certainly sell arms to all the states involved in this dispute and to the state which is supposed to be mediating kuwait but then the normal only that so does britain for example so i think two of the european countries so does russia and so does china those there's no surprise there but perhaps not in a case where they're actually mediating are trying to lessen a crisis on yet the more weapons to the mix. no i think it would be wise if states were to hold back from selling so many so many arms as they do about. a white

a problem in this dispute about dispute between culture and saudi arabia which i repeat is really an unnecessary and all too official dispute it's embarrassing to the friends of those countries and nearly all the rest of the world all friendly with both those countries because we can't see what they're arguing about as always we appreciate your time on your thoughts on the big issues of the day former u.k. ambassador to libya all of our lives. rush is upcoming military drills with belarus are alarming its neighbors in eastern europe despite assurances from moscow that their purely for defensive purposes. russia and bell the 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 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 south but 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 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 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. paul ingram from the british american security information kinds of believes that russia's neighbors are overreacting to the drills with other groups i don't think there's any reason for the neighbors to be

particularly concerned there's no rational reason why russia would be wanting to actively threaten those those particular neighbors so it's a classic case of. overt concern on the on the part of those countries that are close every reason for russia to be to be exercising because otherwise what's the point of having a military but i think that this is particularly a storm in a teacup at the moment because people are paranoid we move to either be over reactive over paranoid or on the other hand to trigger that paranoia on the other side and take active steps to to to ratchet it down. no one can protect you that's the title of a new on this the international report on bahrain's violent crackdown against activists underfund these over the past twelve months the rights group has documented the deaths of half a dozen people including

a child as well as numerous cases of arbitrary detention and torture. the report also reserves harsh criticism for the international community for its silence over purines rights abuses in particular and takes aim at the us and britain as they are seen as being in a position to influence the kingdom's actions and donald trump is also lambasted for approving the sale of fighter jets to the gulf states and his dropping of human

rights the amount the report say's the gave a green light for further repression well but rain denies the allegations made against it on accuses government critics of trying to undermine stability in the country. happy a member of the brain freedom movement to list out london and washington are essentially complicit in the crimes. of what it is doing is that he is paid sick you would think the people in the political stance of the love of the goes in to have 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 collapsed so i think as long as the from washington and london would definitely need to improvement over the human rights situation and the broadly political transform it into those democracy but they don't want.