the north korean leader congratulate his nuclear scientists on their latest bomb test and orders them to redouble their efforts despite stern warnings from washington. the syrian army breaches islamic states a three year blockade of the city of gerry's or. chancellor merkel and has a tough week on the campaign trail ahead of germany's federal election.

by broadcasting live coverage from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international now the leader of north korea has told his nuclear scientists to step up their bomb making efforts kim jong il was speaking on saturday at a huge party to mark the country's sixty ninth anniversary pyongyang has continued to defy warnings from the u.s. government. enough is enough i think enough is enough the stakes could not be higher the urgency is now time is short action is required our country's patience is not unlimited the policy of strategic patience is over or is never something the united states wants the united states does not think conflict only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy all of our counterparts need to impose to sanctions we will defend our allies and our territory the united states is prepared to use the full range of our

capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies earlier the u.s. rejected a russian chinese plan for a double freezer initiative under the scheme of north korea would halt its nuclear and ballistic missile tests and in return america and south korea would stop their joint military exercises but the pentagon has shown no sign of scaling back its role in south korea it recently announced plans to provide extra troops and weapons for u.s. bases in the country aircraft carriers try groups anti-missile ships as well as fighter jets and helicopters will be sent to south korea and our teams are jacqueline of all the explains that the crisis means big profits for arms makers. the north korean threat is something we hear on a daily basis from u.s. officials with the statements pouring bremer and 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 in the infamously troubled after the fire 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 threatening the region and causing so much you buy a lintz all nations of conscience most work 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 turn a healthy profit instead of i'm a businessman that's what i'm supposed to do the sort 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 and 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 detached from washington and whatever force and threats are necessary to achieve that end will be employed. this week of the syrian army secured a victory in the fight against islamic state of breaking a three year blockade of the city of terrorism local journalist john that mossad has details for us. syrian army units regained full control over a panoramas quaver in drones of their els over said to you and the international highway of their results now this it cheese month come just off to work a few days of. lifting full siege of the city of their resort and

just a few hours after they broke the siege of gaza militants on the military airport in their resort. this achievements also show the determination of syrian and drash and governments to educate extremism on the syrian soil some analysts and observers believe that this is would be and maintaining points in the war against goal is to liberate all that is the initial areas that are just a few of those areas then szell areas and districts in the hands of the extremists civilians live is going to be much easier from now on and their suffering will and the syrian army has been advancing rapidly in recent months in june islamic state controlled around a quarter of the country but three months on around half of that territory has been lost now during the army's advance on there is or was gaining around eight kilometers a day the breaking of the siege triggered celebrations among soldiers and civilians

. but i was. on. the breaking of the siege of extremely significant militarily logically tremendous booth for them are all of the government and the government forces and we must be a bit cautious it's not clear whether it will take days or or weeks to clear out

of the the the main fifty or and then be on for food can look forward to consolidating the control of the government in some pocket where jihadi still. holds sway so it going at beth beth it's going to take a number of months before the syrian government really control over the whole of syria. just to do it go before germany's federal election chancellor merkel has been out on the campaign trail but not everything has been going her way . the chancellor was a booed at a rally on thursday and two days earlier she was hit by a tomato thrown from the crowd at a similar event but it wasn't just her demonstrators who got in the way of her speeches while addressing parliament she was interrupted by her main rival from the

social democrats for taking credit for their work that's been hit by thick sounding when fariba name. has. been. if. the was really you know side out. there when you inspect it when he's in parliament it's nice that that's because we all america looks set to win a fourth term as chancellor with polls giving her party a clear lead over the social democrats the left party trails in third place with the free democrats behind them and then the anti immigration alternative for

germany party is expected to gain its first seats in parliament as well and he's pretty oliver takes a close look at the election. 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 become the kingmaker in the next coalition government. documents or p.s.s. iraq's longer guns. were to. come out of. the. nazis. bringing some scandal

and controversy to the relatively calm seas of the political scene it's all to 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. policy even drafted in one of the out agencies that helped promote trump in his campaign. good alternative for germany is not going to be faulted any coalition with. likely to be part of a coalition with the mrs merkel all the free democratic policy of the liberal pro-business they film charisma and photogenic media has appeared front and center however he does appear to have lifted so of his migration policy right out of the

alternative think jodi playbook if peace prevails refugees must. choose a new place in the will. i'm not being harsh this is really speaking 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 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 likud has already ruled out forming a coalition 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 into the grand coalition with the social democrats on this when it comes to coalition possibilities there are even some that would see him do

a little not be the next chancellor of germany however the most realistic options that the free 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. the russian government responded angrily this week to the seizure of diplomatic compounds in the united states and videos of f.b.i. agents on the roof of the san francisco consulate also ripping up the ceiling were released by the russian foreign ministry and agents checked basements and addicks drawers and cupboards with moscow claiming the whole operation making no sense and washington's unexpected move sparked outrage in moscow russian officials describe it as a gross violation of international law and an openly hostile act against russia meanwhile a u.s. state department spokes person faced a barrage of questions after she referred to the searches as

a tour of the facilities. this is normal that in programs are story 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 here in russia or any other country where u.s. missions that had been deleted had been searched by the host. governments you know what i don't know if you are working for r.t. today or what but i think the member. one of the start of this month of the u.s. ordered russia to close a three diplomatic premises with just forty eight hours notice immediately after the eviction officers searched the san francisco consulate and the trade missions in new york and washington in response president of lebanon put in order the foreign ministry to take legal action because because the american counterparts didn't let russia use its property it's

a violation of property rights i will tell the foreign ministry to go it's a coup see how well the highly praised she dishes system in the u.s. works two days after putin's remarks the u.s. state department had this to say. we would like that's relationship to improve we don't want to continue this kind of diplomatic tit for tat people in the united states need to get over this anti russia hysteria and that's what it is that's being. 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 want to friendly relations has wanted the u.s. as a partner and there's no reason that we should reject that all of branch that i think russia has been holding out for some time on us entering that property was a violation of the vienna conventions. and i don't know where it's going to and i

do get the sense from russia that they do not want to escalate. all right hurricane irma is causing havoc in florida with warning of a life threatening situation there that story much more coming up watching our internet. in case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around. washington washington. over. the businessman to run this country business. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. what a whole existence to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and sure. want to.

have to do right to be for us this is what before three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the water. fish. are welcome back to watching international from moscow let's go to the states now where hurricane earl has slammed into the southern coast of florida bringing storm surges and winds of almost a two hundred miles apart. now these are the latest pictures from the city of naples which is near the eye of the storm entire roads have been turned into reverse and more than six million people have fled the storm's path in the biggest

evacuation in u.s. history now the national hurricane service says that for those who remain that the situation is life threatening over the past week has been devastating in the caribbean islands claiming at least twenty seven lives there. miami has also been hit by severe flooding and high when. as have brought down construction cranes there across southern florida two and a half million homes are now without electricity.

switching gears now former georgia president mikheil saakashvili has received a hero's welcome in ukraine despite entering the country illegally saakashvili is stateless after renouncing his georgian citizenship to become the governor of a downside and then having his ukrainians addition to ship revoked by the country's president and a crowd of supporters swept him across the polish border now into ukraine.

earlier on sunday saakashvili attempted to cross the border by train but was forced out by officers he later caught a bus and got past the checkpoint with the help of hundreds of locals who overpowered the guards and the former official was once a close ally of ukraine's president but they fell out last year after saakashvili accused petro poroshenko of blocking efforts to tackle corruption now he has almost made plenty of enemies that in his homeland as well georgia and also here in russia and as a quick reminder of mr saakashvili divisive career. beasties

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will. say it was a. coming . political commentator martin summers told us dealings with ukraine show the deep chaos gripping the country checkers believe self is wanted for corruption in jewels it was as we know and of course the danger of him coming back this is that the full net with the most experience in but it's still just a face. so the second bit of a risk by trying to come back into the country is very old to be safe play such a big role in ukrainian politics and seasoned ukrainian and being given the go in the ship of the adesa region which is a very keen region especially because it's russian population parachuted in really

by by the west and palace i think what's killing on is just shows how to disarray in politics all. you know the revolutionists and incredibly salah nobody really knows what to do next the colonies in free fall they're not going to be joining the european union and so on saying they talking about joining nato but all that will do is present potentially spall for the war. now for something completely different of the work of tank crews was honored in russia on sunday to mark an event aren't easily trying to go in to take a test drive in a war machine. there's all a battle ready frank quite all the training range but before i get close to it i have

to test the dodgy terrain myself. you know. we don't like that but i call those the. one of my goals is a test drive to see if a person with a regular license like myself can get this t. a to go in. the driver's seat is right here. here we go. this dirt everywhere. trust me there is not much room in here. there is no steering her right. but. right now.

when you're driving a regular. or. the other way. but. first. let's get a little. well obviously i didn't do that well but at least i didn't get off track and i'll tell you what these guys got a really tough job aside from firing the cannon and. everyone at the base has the skills to easily drive the eighty three times faster than me

but the wind would seem much smoother and we agreed to this so i doubt their test will i spill any water from this cup if andrei is driving that track and if he goes full throttle. i built by him. old far so good. oh well. i managed to keep the cup almost full good job and drink i'm going to tell him about it. i don't know i did that if i didn't. see the choice if i leave. moscow region. should set a. well that was certainly interesting that does it for me i'll be back in about

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