we're going to the. north korea threatens to test a hydrogen bomb in the pacific just hours after washington slapped the state with yet more sanctions. i. confidence in barcelona demanding the release of a dozen regional officials arrested by spanish authorities in a crackdown over the upcoming illegal independence referendum. and almost ninety percent of syria is now freed from islamic state according to the latest figures from the russian foreign ministry but the country faces a long road to recovery after suffering the horrors of. show exploded and killed

many innocent people including children it is or has been so much. you want to be international live from moscow with me in india today welcome to the program. north korea has threatened to test a powerful nuclear weapon in the pacific ocean saying it comes in response to escalating military talk from washington the north korean foreign minister says it could be the most powerful detonation of a hydrogen bomb the pacific region has ever seen he added that the final decision had not yet taken and will come from the country's leader. you know when it came just hours after donald trump announced there will be a new round of sanctions against pyongyang however the russian foreign minister speaking at the u.n. general assembly stressed that sanctions adjust the quote provisions to return to

the negotiating table but i am announcing a new executive order. that significantly expands our authorities to target individuals companies financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea and the little ones who are we strongly condemn the rockets and nucular adventurism of pyongyang in violation of un security council resolutions but the pressure of military history is not just a dead end in a destructive path of this no doubt all resolutions of the un security council should be fulfilled the day long with sanctions continued provisions for the need to return to the goetia we call for a halt to the blocking of these provisions it's appalling meanwhile world leaders are not exactly behind all washington's diplomatic. explains more as world leaders gathered for the united nations general assembly the united states seems to be out there on their own when it comes to the iran nuclear deal donald trump called it

one of the worst and most one sided transactions that the united states has ever entered into france sees things differently look at all so i would like to defend the nuclear agreement with iran are engaged went on nonproliferation allowed us to work out on the fourteenth of july two thousand and fifteen a solid robust and verifiable agreement that enables us to ensure that iran does not obtain nuclear weapons renouncing it would be a great era this could apply to north korea to immediately dialogue control a multilateral ism these are the efficient weapons this is the only way forward meanwhile russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov stressed the need for diplomacy on north korea and stir the pressure and threats we've been hearing from the trumpet ministration they will. be met with fire fury things will happen to them like they never thought possible we heard the foreign minister of germany slammed trump for his national ego as and warned against pursuing the interests of just one

country you know. and there will be losers. looking around the world today it seems there will be which puts one's own national interests first and is no longer engaged in the bouncing of winches between nations and countries of this world is gaining even more ground national and was worthless as a true principle for a world for this world views describes the world isn't a rino a con of the two ground which everyone has farts and yes everyone else and which everyone has to so the room interests the united states likes to present itself as the leader of the free world but if you look at this year's general assembly speeches it seems like the free world is a little bit reluctant to follow washington's lead. r.t. new york. over to catalonia now with thousands of gathered outside a cotton ball flown and demanding the release of around

a dozen regional officials that been arrested by spanish authorities in a crackdown against the upcoming but illegal vote on independence. well. i i. i. protest this chanted pro referendum and probably independent slogans the vote on whether catalonia should say part of spain is set for october the first the central government is the move in every way and has deployed a wide range of measures to prevent the vote taking place we heard differing opinions from the political analysts from the trade and the pro independence activists from barcelona. it's our league out it's against the law. of the of their regional law that is suspended by the highest court in a spain it was. young it with was their only of their house of their original

parliament some of the terminations democracy is legal we have voted with at. certain majority of the members of our parliament and if they have a problem with them or crazy they will have to justify it to international community because it's madness natale government members being arrested private people that they all know warehouse they're being arrested and they're being questioned here not only against the spanish law and they're being relations it's even against. the most important things right now. to restore the order there under law. we're not going to step back we will talk with all the international committee. with which we already have thousands of treaties the main places that they are things and their business

is the rest of the country so. business in catalonia without the rest of the country they are there can do anything so that this. is not forcing anything catalonia is a dynamic country with gives a net result to the european and europe we are not deficit area and we are once a most export and i want to receive the most the international investment there is not compromise on the river and when they have to drop idea to leave the referendum bar because that the referendum is not going anywhere and only as a nation it was all. three hundred years ago they didn't illegality when they occupied us and we are just correcting we're just amending that mistake is little surprise castle in his bid for freedom has the backing of

a number of other regions in europe where talk of succession is strong one of which is scotland. i think use of can say in any year is for a state to seek to deny the rate of people to democratically express their will and the right of self-determination is an important international principle and i who very much that it will be respected in catalonia and if we did a survey and there's a chance for glaswegians to stand with the people of council want to go. about them on the basis of fundamental democratic values we believe that whatever your views are on catalunya independence the catalonian people themselves should be the ones who have the right to choose the course of the country i feel very proud and that's well very moved to see scottish people especially glaswegian people to be living for a year to see that they demonstrate in favor of the government process that we're leaving that we shall have a referendum we will cover a friend and that we will we will vote for you i'm very moved to saying that in

fact it's castle and his push for independence was very much encouraged by scotland's own attempt to go it alone it's how the referendum back in twenty fourteen but fifty five percent voted against leaving the u.k. however following the braggs it vote of twenty sixteen when a majority of scots went against the national position to. talk of the new referendum emerged again we discussed both scottish and catalonian calls for independence with columnist leslie riddick. for the catalans and for the scots the case is being made as an aspiring saying these are nations who want to become states now do you tend to think as an onlooker what else can the catalans do if their attempt to event haven't thought is resulting in such heavy handed approaches so it looks like it will be in practical terms it may be impossible to halt but the question is what next. now with the german general election two days

away news outlets are dubbing it one of the most boring campaigns in memory especially after the fireworks of the vicious french campaign just months ago and many were waiting for reports of russian meddling termers just to spice things up r.t.s. peter all of our picks up the story we're into the final stages of this german federal election but one question keeps popping up with the question suppose to interfere in this. expectations that russia would try and meddle in the german vote half and being met but that doesn't mean that there hasn't been interference the house just hasn't

come from moscow german researchers say they've tracked down online trolls who've been posting attacks against angular merkel and other leading german pundits while putting online and promoting support for the anti immigration alternative for germany party. a lot of the stuff we've seen in germany can be or at least inspired by the right movement in the us the german cabinet meets every wednesday morning just behind me and after this week's meeting the interior minister came out and sounded almost disappointed that they haven't uncovered a russian plot to the fair asli fiddle in this year's federal elections. we don't see that putin has meddled in the election campaign maybe they didn't try maybe it's still common since mr seems to think that the time is possible perhaps we should look into the german government's own election software since it apparently

only took warner i t enthusiastic not too long to find holes in it. we have found several fundamental errors in the p.c. will software dated fourth of july twenty seven c. including insufficient protection of the servers and lack of encryption the transmitted results the weaknesses and now influence an election results in various attacks and are issues with fewer than two days to go before polls open fear mongering over a russian hacker of the election come to nothing perhaps with this election being something of a foregone conclusion it's no wonder that we've seen conspiracies and fantasies about foreign intervention and interference being a little more interesting and more exciting to pitch than talking about the race itself peter all of our. latest polls show that two parties angela merkel see. the race however that place could play kingmaker should there be

a minority government currently predicted to at that spot as alternative to germany for a strict anti immigration policies we discussed the f.t. issue in an exclusive interview with the german foreign minister. signal gabrielle . in. german parliament has never given the floor either in bonn or in berlin to people who promote nazi propaganda i think it will change once again not all members of the f.t. and not all of their voters and nazis but you have to be aware of the fact that some of the party leaders do have those ideas and they want to encourage other people to act in a particular way it is not just alexander galland there are other people who have lived off the state who get a state pension and are now pitting the people against the government we know it can happen and it is happening right now it is outrageous there are also people with really dark intentions there are people who will not work for the peace of our

country or europe we need to talk about it out loud. and i would like to refer to quote by hillary clinton who once called half of trans voters a quick basket of deplorable so do you have a concern that by talking in this way you are only mobilizing those people we saw that in the us people responded to such statements in the following way no it is not true and i will vote for them anyway. first of all i think we need to stop pretending that the issue doesn't exist the voters need to act responsibly too you can say i want to live in the country use the opportunities provided by the democratic system and then disappointed by something vote for politicians who will destroy democracy unlike other countries this nation had prior experience of what could happen if these people become part of society i have never seen an election campaign like this one before so much for russia to even violence when members of democratic parties are exposed to verbal and sometimes physical attacks during door

to door campaigning the country is in good shape and we want to keep it that way we do not want discordant division here are my two major points we must expose the real intentions behind the ideology of people like beer and hooka and at the same time. talk to us citizens about their concerns i've always argued that germany is facing the challenge of a dual integration we need to help refugees settle down here and at the same time unite people who already live here shouldn't create the impression that the authorities are doing everything for one group of people and nothing for the other i think angle merkel made a major mistake when she refused to back the idea of a minimum level of pension benefits that is something our nation needs then i would be able to tell those communities that are seeing a wave of refugees we will compensate your expenses regarding refugees and will also provide the same amounts for your own residence we need to pay to improve our

schools health care and child protection services so that people do not have a false impression your thirties have forgotten about them but there is one thing we cannot agree on we cannot downplay the threat of what is happening in the mines and unfortunately hearts of some of the f.t.'s leadership this is a dangerous path for the country. gains have been made against the islamic state in syria it is health coming up after the break. here's what people have been saying about redacted and i was actually just pull on . the only show i go out of my way to you know a lot of the really packed a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than that and see people you never heard of love redacted tonight

president of the world bank hey. sent us an e-mail. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand down the news business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. welcome back to the program almost ninety percent of all syrian territory is now liberated from islamic state these are the latest figures from the russian defense

ministry in the ongoing battle against the terrorists since the beginning of the campaign two years ago russian air forces have destroyed almost one hundred thousand terrorist positions and as fights russian fighter jets have conducted more than thirty thousand flights one of the main battles in syria is now on going into areas where syrian troops backed by moscow trying to eliminate remaining pockets of terrorists traveled to the city to talk to people who lived that for three years and i saw siege. i had no money to buy food for my children i've only been able to feed them properly once in the last few months show exploded and killed many innocent people children has been soaked in moment.

i would play with them i would push them and trust them i was like a mother and a father to go but all of this. started when i went outside to buy food and medicine for my mother she was sick she had a strong going to heart attack when i was out i was injured by a shell must what can i do now i used to do all the housework and stand in line to buy food now i can only see and cry. battered by hurricane harvey and the americas and now suffering that's horrifying of frank's afresh with the storm the high winds and driving rain of hurricane maria already the islands of puerto rico.

larry is the strongest hurricane to hit the territory in eighty years it has already left nineteen dead and dozens injured with hundreds of households destroyed the turks and caicos islands on the bahamas are expected to be the next victim however maria has weakened to a category two storm. and with one hurricane following on the heels of another people are coming up with some rather surprising explanations from bad politics to divine intervention samir khan reports with natural disasters ravaging entire cities and driving millions from their homes some see them as a form of divine punishment i'm looking at all those and i'm so here's a city that has boasted of its l.g.b. t. devotion its affinity for the sexual perversion movement in america they're

underwater. and most americans repent and misused to repent unless new orleans repent they will likewise perish that's the message that the lord jesus christ is sending home right now but if you don't buy into the divine punishment idea what about the blame trump theory. stands with p.r.c. to resist trump and his call him a manipulative racist administration how the whole say and katia i blame triumph of this hard the government will manipulate the whether to exterminate blacks even if they have to queue whites some hollywood celebrities have turned that around suggesting mother nature has an axe to grind with trouble that climate change is due to human activity and we continue to ignore it and the only voice that we really have us through voting. so. we voted and it was really startling. me watching these hurricanes now and it's really hard especially

while promoting this movie not to. feel mother nature's rage around celebrities love making outrageous claims for attention but that's hardly what you'd expect from a respected academic i don't believe in instant karma but it kind of feels like it for texas i guess since we're a red state we deserve some bad karma too right yet those who voted for him here deserve it as well story a sociology professor was fired for tweeting that texans deserved hurricane harvey because they voted for donald trump and guess who else believes hurricanes and earthquakes are divine punishment. the islamic state well i just think it's absolutely i mean anybody who thinks that a hyper active hurricane season is anything new doesn't know how to do minor historical research i think there's been a growing trend i've noticed at least in america that this belief that whatever you

like. or think or agree with you automatically hate the opposite entirely you're either this half or you're this half and you two are supposed to hate one another and so now we're at a point where no matter what anybody believes or says even if it's a joke they're demonized by an entire group now it seems that when it comes to natural disasters rush analogy and common sense can be overridden so long as it serves their political agenda. a black woman from texas who criticized the sale of cotton decorations for being racially insensitive has faced a backlash online dannielle writer wrote this facebook post after seeing rule cotton being sold as a decoration in a high street store she complained that cotton represents the hardship of african-american slaves and therefore should be removed from south however her post sparked such a strong reaction she's that blocked a social media account. what is really wrong. is the reaction.

i have to. because my facebook page. feel it burning racism. a group of black students also found offense when similar cotton decorations were used as a table centerpiece at a dinner hosted by the university's president he later apologized for the instance saying he should have been more sensitive political and social commentator and believes the issue is being blown out of proportion. plays it a lot of different things work days nurses they wash dishes the pate kinds of bacco turnip greens mostly greens the whole thing is just silly because if you follow that chain of thought then everything that you pretty much use on daily basis would not be able to be using the more if you're a white person you know these days you get called a racist ass where you stand being called a murderer or anything else an average black person is just being honest about it is really silly is just a flower is not anything racist what i think is races abba high bar for actually

what's being a racist if you are using racial slurs or you try to deprive someone of opportunity i think that americans need to kind of up our bar as well because it a racist in that received. through all of us social media we're on facebook twitter and of course our website come i'll be back at the top of the hour so stay with us.

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really nobody got a. commercial. islamic states claims it was behind the manchester terror attack by the militants front so kill the priest every time a terrorist attack happens all these people are out there screaming i says so bad someone needs to do something against them. something. you've. been told a number. of cases. check if these chinese hafiz. is going. to kill innocent.

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world to future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. low and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle at the united nations us president donald trump described his vision of foreign policy as principled realism he also tried to convince the gathering of the general assembly that his idea of america first is compatible with his vision nonetheless there is every reason to believe.