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

and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international. and the leader of north korea has told his nuclear scientists to step up their bomb making efforts and kim jong un was speaking on saturday at a huge party to mark the country's sixty ninth anniversary 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 to 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 and chinese plan for a double freeze initiative under the scheme 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 tried groups anti-missile ships as well as fighter jets and helicopters will soon be sent to south korea jacqueline volga explains 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 graham 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 still 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's decades around his fuel before ayers of sectarian conflict and threatening the region and causing so much you buy a little it's 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 bone that every solution must be solved by a dick top from washington and whatever force and threats are necessary to achieve that end will be employed. this week in the syrian army secured a key victory in the fight against islamic state bringing a three year blockade of the city of dairies or. to an end to local journalist john was shot has details. see an army unit regained full control over i've been around the square you are in throes of there as those cities and the international highway of death result now this it cheese month come just also are 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 and there is already. this achievement also shew the determination of syrian and drash and governments to decay to extremism on the syrian soil some analysts and observers believe that this is would be and maintaining bones in the war against eyes the goal is to liberate all that is the initial areas that does just a few it is then szell areas and districts in the hands of the extremist civilians live is going to be much easier from now on and. their suffering will end 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 that territory has been lost during the army's advance on derry's or it was gaining ground around eight kilometers per day the breaking of the siege triggered celebrations among soldiers

and civilians. but i was. only the breaking at the age of extremely significant militarily logically tremendous booth for the morale of the government and the government forces and we must be a bit cautious not clear whether it will take days. or weeks to clear out

of the the main fifty four and then we. can look forward to consolidating the control of the government in some pocket jihad these still. hold sway so it going at best going to take a number of months before the syrian government really control over the whole of syria. well with just two weeks to go before germany's a federal election chancellor merkel has been out on the campaign trail but not everything has been going away was. the chancellor was 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 demonstrators who got in the way of her speeches

in parliament she was interrupted by her main rival from the social demick. rats for taking credit for their work. that's what you buy flick sound when fairly by name a few months humans. as . if. they are really you know sad about. that when you inspect it when clinton is in parliament it's nice story said that he was here and we all know merkel looks said 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 the anti immigration alternative for germany

party is expected to gain its first seats in parliament parties peter all over takes a closer look at the election. with most pundits already calling this german election a win for. schultz there isn't a great deal of intrigue that. has been the battle for third place and who will perhaps become the kingmaker in the next coalition government. want to have close to the amount of. time. to.

bring 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 called to any coalition with. likely to be part of a coalition with the mrs merkel all the free democratic. 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 be. such human rights for choosing your place in the womb. i'm not being harsh this is really speaking a 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 a 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 they if the from the right wing side. has already ruled out forming a coalition with the left party the greens this time out it's at the lagging way behind in the polls there is 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 uncle luke will not be the next

chancellor of germany however the most realistic options are that the free democrats will not only return to the fold to start following september the twenty olds vote but that they will also be part of the ruling coalition peter all of us people in. the russian government responded angrily this week to the seizure of diplomatic compounds in the united states videos of f.b.i. agents on the roof of the san francisco consulate were released by the russian foreign ministry they can also be seen removing ceiling panels and searching through drawers and cupboards moscow claims that the whole operation made 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 towards russia meanwhile the u.s. state department spokesperson 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 it let's move i'm so let's move on to something else here in russia or any other country where u.s. missions that have been vacated have 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 what member. at the start of this month the u.s. ordered russia to close three diplomatic premises with just forty eight hours notice immediately after that eviction officers searched the san francisco consulate and trade missions in new york and washington in response president vladimir putin ordered the foreign ministry to take legal action. because just on 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 school 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 ginned. 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 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 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. switching gears now hurricane erma has slammed into the southern coast of florida bringing storm surges and sustained winds of one hundred eighty kilometers per hour i mean these are pictures from the city of naples which is near the eye of the storm entire roads have been turned into rivers more than six million people have fled the storm's path in the biggest evacuation in u.s. history and the national hurricane center says that for those who remain situation is life threatening over the past week has been devastating the caribbean islands i mean at least twenty seven lives there.

miami has also been hit by severe flooding and high winds have brought down construction crane. across southern florida twenty two and a half million excuse me homes are now without electricity. a. former georgian president mikheil saakashvili has received a hero's welcome in ukraine despite entering that country illegally

a crowd of supporters swept him across from the polish border into ukraine saakashvili is stateless after renouncing his georgian citizenship to become the governor of a desa and then having his ukrainians descend ship revoked by the country's president. 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 a checkpoint with the help of hundreds of locals who overpowered those guards ukrainian police say that he will now face criminal charges for illegally crossing the border a 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 he has also made plenty of enemies in his homeland georgia and also here in russia as well here's a quick reminder of mr saakashvili divisive career.

or. she. told us. all of. it was a. complete shock it's. coming . political commentator martin summers told us saakashvili dealings with ukraine it

show the deep chaos gripping a country. is wanted for corruption in joules it was as we know 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 that he's a play such a big role in ukrainian politics and seasoned ukrainian and being given the governorship of the adesa region which is a very keen region especially because it's cold as russian population or he was parachuted in really by by the west and palace i think what's going on is just shows how to. train in politics all the you know the revolutionists and incredibly salah nobody really knows what to do next the colonies in free fall 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. the work of the tank crews was honored in russia on sunday to mark the event trying to went to

take a test drive in a true bonafide war machine. there's all the battle ready frank quitely 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 that did. 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. so. there is no steering turning right. but. right now. you are running when you're running a regular. the other way. but.

first. let's get a little. well mylan one of the shills 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 three told me oh most everyone at the base has the skills to easily drive the t. eighty three times faster than me but the wind would seem up smoother and we agreed to this so i know other test will i spill any water from this cup if and pray is driving that tack and if he goes full throttle. i'm 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 a. little while i did that if i had a stone up would she was feisty enjoyed it but i leave. you to train cord t. moscow region. trip to cuba which. russian tanks indeed you're watching international and the weekly i'll be back in about thirty five minutes with more news stay with us. it's not coming from the trump administration which is being victimized by this.

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that image was quite controversial something to soar as irresponsible something to sort of dangerous threatening whereas other people including use or as a symbol of something very different was it. powerful. protecting. us from our freedom. but the people who criticize you what the base. are right wing lunatic. eighteen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with the gun i witnessed the grim results of these weapons in hospital emergency rooms morgues in the confused of to mass of mass shooting spree. after each new massacre the newspaper headlines were always the side why did it happen

here. since my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by firearms in the us. five hundred twenty seven thousand people dead and many more injured i decided to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photograph those years ago to understand why despite this death toll there is such fierce resistance to even moderate gun control laws in the us. is thing there was a man on the trigger that's now at the picture is about he's not trying to harm me. he's trying to protect me. i'm looking out for myself my family. my neighbors.

this is. relaxing. the thought that some people would want to take our guns away to me is so ludicrous because the bad guys thugs the murderous the ripest are always going to have guns and are you would be doing would be take them away from the good guys from the law .