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wednesday morning here at the russian. international from all of us here a very warm welcome here. by the latest u.n. security council sanctions targeting north korea he says the new resolution is nothing to write home about. we think it's just another very small step. not a big deal rex and i were just discussing. not big i don't know but has any impact but certainly it was nice to get a fifteen to nothing vote but those sanctions are nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen well it's certainly disturbing to hear these words from donald trump in the aftermath of a vote at the u.n. security council that was widely perceived as

a victory for diplomacy the words that we heard from u.s. leaders on the floor of the security council were rather diplomatic and favorable to peace and cooperation at this point we're hearing u.s. leaders again talking harsh talking about the possibility of sanctions against russia and against china if they don't comply with the new u.n. resolution if china doesn't follow the sanctions we will put additional sanctions on them and prevent them from accessing the u.s. and international dollar system and that's quite meaningful so now we have these words from trump downplaying the u.n. resolution and many people whose hopes had really been raised for peace and diplomacy being victorious well those hopes are starting to dampen the there is starting to be some some fear that perhaps once again we are in the danger of a global conflict or some kind of war breaking out and the crisis in the korean peninsula could be once again intensifying despite what was seen as a step forward for diplomacy and international cooperation from a u.s.

diplomat jim says washington is sending a confusing message to north korea this is just another dip on the roller coaster and saying this seems every week it with the war where it goes up very high than that maybe this one conciliatory talk some cooperation some diplomacy and then more threats of military force and it's really hard to know what to make of this yes we do have a positive that the regional u.s. draft was watered down considerably it was acceptable to the russians or the chinese but then we have this. fire breathing talk coming from getting out we don't know what the next step is going to be the real question is going to be when do we actually get to a diplomatic track that allows both sides to step down and to my mind that's got to be something like the double three proposal that china has put forward the russians agree with but is absolutely unacceptable to washington it seems it's not only the white house that's dissatisfied with the new sanctions kyung yang isn't too happy

either north korea's ambassador to russia said it's delusional to believe that the north will break under the sanctions. we've been on the u.s. sanctions for ten years it was the u.s. that instigated the u.n. security council to come up with more resolutions on sanctions against north korea so we used to living in such conditions and we still managed to achieve everything we wanted if washington things will bend under these new measures and change our position it's delusional or filmmaker john pilger believes the problem lies not with pyongyang but with washington. the problem is not north korea the problem is not russia of the problem is not china or the problem is the united states the problem for the rest of the world actually now is the containment of the united states sanctions are relevant in the sense to this whole debate what is

needed is a peace treaty with north korea between the united states and north korea and the government in seoul but where it's all heading is the most worrying thing of all. protests time violent in paris where people have taken to the streets to vent their anger at the french president's labor reforms which come into effect in a week four thousand separate strikes and almost two hundred rallies have rocked major cities across the country projectiles and flares were thrown at the paris protest. i i. i. i i. i.

thought at night i thought. opponents of the reform are angry is it gives employees employers i should say more power to negotiate or conditions limits eclipse compensation for dismissal and also mergers workers' councils let's get some more details on this now to shed some light on reports from that latest protest in paris. one of the big newspapers here in france and i know my son's christening over these all the biggest street protests to take place in front ever since he was elected president this year and people here are very unhappy about the labor law that he wants to implement and he wants to shake up the job market and make it easier to hire and fire and now he thinks not. only unemployment rate here in front. of the rates in the u.k.

and germany but the trade unions dead set against the changes and they have come out in full force hitting the streets in that sounds and all that was we've seen by you can see you say that they believe that this represents the likes of the employers in france i know the employees take a listen to what they had to say. this lowers anti social because it's one of. the but in the world this law doesn't provide workers with rights to work doesn't give privileges in both the public and the private sectors we defend the interests of workers what conditions retirement should be full floor thanks eighteen million workers the majority of french workers will significantly limit their rights to make it easier to find people when it's not justified. it's about to lower which is harmful for us this would leave us without any more guarantees of

a monument one major bit about last week when he referred to all the people that. the law can remain on but that is a phrase that is really galvanized a lot of the protesters here and batman poured oil on the fog that may have gotten more people to hit the streets on the road and face the protests here at home and one them. president hu is determined to push these loans through and he says he has a strong monday to know what it's a implement he has just sent off to the french caribbean in order to deal with the fort out in a hurricane. the first am really being built on the showdown between the pro-business president who's come to power to shake up the job market funds the trade union. as the low still but soon it's a stumble upon for this. rush through. over the next

week. and with only a few months at the helm president approval ratings have taken a nosedive and his recent assessment of the protestors could deliver a new blogger to his popularity. anyway. the cynics.

people who are protecting. islamic states. is. with no major city in the country and. the terror groups control the group is now we've been on the back of what is the.

islamic state. never. clear just. yet. every time a terrorist attack happens. there screaming i says so bad someone needs to do something against them someone needs to do something against them and for me. why don't we do something against them because our problem.

is now surrounded by u.s. backed syrian democratic forces consisting mainly of kodesh militias clashes are ongoing as the terrorists are still in control of several blocks of the city and we spoke to the director of the documentary about what team went through during this filming when we went to make this film we had no idea what we're going to come across we had literally no idea we started to build our story. three points are on the road to rock and the point was the medical point the second point was the women's point and the foreign volunteers point.

you're. the one quality that unites all of them is the very altruistic they're very idealistic anybody wanted to criticize them they would say well they're coming like foreign militias to fight a war that's not theirs and then says they they think it's their war is acting every country and it's like people are paying attention for one day two days and then acting as if everything would be normal. and yeah that's not just a terrorist attack in iraq and there are a few people who actually come here and fight and just sort of punishing people when they go back home making really paste actually so you know there's no chance i'm going back to germany right now we were attacked several times there was

snipers usually so the main problems around iraq are snipers and mines and the drones the little drones that isis sons with little grenades so they drop the grenade and groups boards and there's actually one that i talked while we were not even on a permission yet we were about to go to operation. one of. the grenade exploded in mid-air. so interrupted from it didn't calculate the height so if it fell lower it would be done. but. the most shocking story was one that happened when it got to be morning and when everything got to be

peaceful and all of a sudden someone showed up with a huge sword. and started beating random things isis just executed through a few minutes or maybe an hour ago his three kids all of a sudden maybe two minutes later we heard screaming and he just started running to isis space just started running there without a rifle just as if with a sword i think i'm going to strike from the emergency because they're probably sold them on the satellite so they were isis. you know was one of the medics that we were filming. we were the only generation that will never say we want to go back to the days when you're young. and it's true this is our international money story still coming your way here on the program today for example the media now hunting for russian hackers who are expected to be battling on the job in elections just to.

make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes to protect themselves. in the final go around we don't want. to ignore middle of the room sick. leave. syria paradox. parties and was a situation like israel and palestine is not a country where i meet a lot of people were told though everybody agrees.

is a very serious situation people have been much more to say. in any other action. de . good to have you with us today for you and yours with the elections now less than two weeks away media outlets have been chasing down a rush for whom is the time to meddle in the european powerhouses vote. if you haven't been in a coma for the past year you've likely heard a thing or two about alleged russian interference and america's recent presidential election the cia has concluded russian hackers intervened in the u.s. election with the purpose of helping donald trump when packing and leaking that the administration says the russians carried out connect the dots russia did it and while those claims were never backed up by any solid evidence just

a lot of speculation and hearty assurances that hasn't stopped the world from pointing the finger at moscow and also predicting that the big bad kremlin would do the same again in europe the russian hacker scene is huge german security agencies and cyber experts are alarmed own evidence points to russia that's why we cannot rule it out why we are preparing for a similar efforts to influence germany's election many warn that the upcoming german elections would be a prime target for those pesky russian hackers so security was bumped up and investigations were launched but even a year long search by german intelligence for potential russian interference failed to uncover any evidence of kremlin backed meddling or not though that hasn't stopped anyone from seeing russia as democracies and i mean number one a recent article by the washington post examines what sinister implications there could be behind the fact that we have yet to see moscow's hand trying to steer berlin's vote it's just not an election anymore without russian hackers with one thing to director saying the silence worries him quote it doesn't feel right the

article edges that the lack of evidence doesn't necessarily mean moscow's innocent perhaps they just haven't been successful or moscow simply biding its time and it goes on to say that russia's attack me only be seen after the election speculating that russian linked networks may try to manipulate the vote count so remain alert the washington post even quotes a german security association that works closely with german teligent agencies who came up empty when looking for sophisticated attacks coming from russia we did not find any evidence that there are more sophisticated attacks coming from russia in the pre-election period. but that lack is credited to germany's resilience in stringent new legislation against the spreading a fake news legislation that doesn't come into effect until october but you know whatever the article also concede that perhaps moscow decided to leave berlin alone because they're close trade partners something that putin himself has said in the past. was that we did not interfere in the u.s.

elections so why would we created the problems here we have good relations with germany it's our largest trade and economic partner in europe but he is russian after all statements really only become fact when western powers make them so the clear message for russia is you're damned if you do hack and you're damned if you don't. another race related scandal in the united states a british conductor was fired from a prestigious festival in the state of oregon from locking the door for his friend an african-american. however the himself says the joke was innocent. he's been victimized and i'm very upset about it it was an innocent joke that has been entirely taken out of context i'm from the deep south a math you of to make fun of my southern accent just as the eye of to make fun of he's british accent it is understood that a woman overheard the two friends conversation and reported it. matthew holds

contract was terminated despite the fact that he's been a director of the oregon back festival for two years he's known as one of the chorus maust as in europe. with. the. pressure on the festival organizers to reinstate a holes is growing with other musicians coming to his support. phase his friends career will suffer often being tarnished with the incendiary label of racism political satirist i mean where it says that the word racist is losing its meaning as it's being used to readily. the reality is that this social justice crusade that we've been seeing over the past few years has been eating its own where are we as a society you know it's stories like this and it's the use of language like this

which essentially did a new did all meaning from the word racist they've hollowed out the power of that word and the implications of that are massive and most notably when the biggest implications is that when you're really trying to call out racists for truly being racist that doesn't have any meaning the more doesn't have any power anymore it's the the irony is that is the left has become pattern azing to the black community is the left who in fact has become race is not the right i think that's what's so ironic about the entire episode and it's distasteful truly truly distasteful. the largest military drill in over twenty years was launched in sweden on monday on an island in the baltic for us under jago takes a look at why these exercises being held. there is a video out there on sweden that peaceful beautiful land full of green fields good food and very generous social programs.

but actually this video turns into something hard and heavy right away turns out it's promoting the largest military exercise of the past two decades. of war and you've got somebody. you know. i. bet you. and not just any exercise but one designed to deal with a quote a larger sophisticated opponent that one will approach from the next nineteen

thousand participants just from sweden alone as well as military forces from eight other countries have joined these drills called arora seventeen and you guessed it the united states is also there the united states with our allies and partners are doing this this is normal business for us that's going to be our posture normal business we train all the time we work soldiers work always to be at the highest level of preparation not alert but being prepared that's that's our job that's what you would expect us to be ready just like you expect the fire department to be ready at the hospital to be reading very nice business as usual but not for sweden it's getting back it's mandatory military draft which was canceled the two thousand and two but now in twenty two. seen at least four thousand swedes will get the call all in the swedish military is now going to enjoy a nice growth in military spending for the next few years even the low key swedish

resort jewel of gotland with its sandy beaches and intriguing limestone has been introduced to the swedish military they've been stationed there since two thousand and sixteen and still to no avail no attacks have come from the east but wait a second there was a russian spies submarine alert a few years ago the scandinavian military went full swing into a large scale search mission in the end it all turned out to be nothing but a fishing boat seriously so now this week's military are staging these massive drills to make sure they can protect the nation from an attack which they themselves deem i quote unlikely seems like an overreaction i wonder what's that about perhaps stockholm taunting a thread that doesn't really exist as sweden's favorite album once sang that's the name of the game at least when it comes to russia middle france and thiago r.t.

we spoke to a swedish peace activist who says of an involvement with nato could lead sweden to becoming dangerously militarized. opposite me to dream because it's one more step towards militarization of our foreign politics and adding one extra very dangerous component which is nato there's no scale that is necessary according to me. it will be twenty thousand to ten thousand is not really the question i would say that military exercises do not make so make of it make us safer i think that we are going in the wrong direction i would say that there is a large group for need to in sweden i mean there is a lot of money to be made from armaments there's a lot of money to be made from getting closer to nato there's a lot of political careers that can be done from playing on the threats. it wednesday worldwide news headlines continue in about half an hour.

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