in the. north korea threads its hydrogen bomb in the pacific just now is off to washington stop the state with yet more sanctions. i. learned demanding the release of a dozen regional officials arrested by spanish authorities madrid calls catalonia upcoming independence referendum illegal. and almost ninety percent of syria is now free from islamic states according to the latest figures from the russian defense ministry but the country faces a long road to recovery after suffering the horrors of war. to show exploded and

killed many innocent people including children it is who has been so. welcome to you all to international we're broadcasting live from moscow i'm david tutor 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 been taken and will come from the country's leader. the announcement came just hours after donald trump promised a new round of sanctions against pyongyang however the russian foreign minister speaking at the un general assembly stressed that sanctions are just the quote

provisions to return to the negotiating table. i am announcing a new executive order just signed. that significantly expands our authorities to target individuals companies financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea and the little man went to we strongly condemn the rockets and nucular adventurism of mianyang you can violation of un security council resolutions but the pressure of military history is not just a dead end in the destructive path of this no doubt all resolutions of the un security council should be fulfilled 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 that support the north korean leader branded donald trump a gangster and a rogue in response to the president's speech at the un general assembly adding that trumps unfit to be a leader and as caleb explains many of the heads of state also criticize the

american approach. 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 that 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 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 this.

like they never thought possible we heard the foreign minister of germany slam trump for is national ego ism and warned against pursuing the interest of just one country you know of no country for leads to more national conference nation unless prosperity and there will be losers looking round the world today it seems now will be which puts one's own national interests first and is no longer engaged in the balancing of winches between nations and countries of this world is gaining even more ground national and was worthless as a gucci principle for all for this world views describes the world as in the marina a can of ground which everyone has farts and yes everyone else and which everyone has their own 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. are t.

new york the us representative to the un nikki haley has admitted washington doesn't care about other nations opinions and only does what it wants but global policy expert george believes such policies are doomed to failure first let's listen to exactly what halle had to say. it has never moved the u.s. to care about what other countries say what does move the president is are we doing everything in the best interest security interest for the american people saying what she said she's expressing a kind of us our egos in which they you know just say it's just does whatever it feels like doing it it will not be restrained by any forces at all of course this is completely idiotic because you know it's just this simply isn't strong enough or big enough to be able to have its own way on everything international cooperation

requires everybody to be on the same page and work on the same script and try to achieve the same objectives. over to catalonia now where thousands have gathered outside a court in barcelona demanding the release of a dozen regional officials they'd been arrested by spanish authorities in the crackdown against the upcoming vote on independence went to madrid cause a legal. i. well. i. i. i i. protest there's chanted pro referendum and pro independent slogans a vote on whether catalonia should stay off of spain is set for october the first the central government opposes the move in every way and has depleted wide range of measures to prevent the vote taking place. in the latest move daily fines of up to

twelve thousand euro have been imposed by spain's constituents caught on top line officials for every day they continue organizing the referendum it means officials will have to pay at least sixty thousand in total if they refused to back down before the vote on october the first we heard differing opinion on the issue from a political analyst from madrid and a pro independent activist from buffalo doh. the referendum it's our legal it's against the law. of the of the regional law that is suspended by the highest court in a spain it was that operation which was the only of the house of the original parliament some of the terminations democracy is legal we have voted with absolute majority of the members of our parliament and if they have a problem with them or proceed they will have to justify it to international

community because this madness natale government members are being arrested private people that they all know warehouse they are being arrested and then being questioned he is here not only against the spanish law and they're being revelations it's even against the. most important things right now they have to restore the order there and the law in dr ian. 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 selling their things and their business is the rest of the country so. business in catalonia without the rest of the country they are they all can do anything so that is an important thing and madrid is not forcing anything catalonia is

a dynamic country with. gives a net result to the european and europe we are not different to terry and we are once a most export and i want to receive the most the international investment. there is not compromise on their offer and whom they have to drop that idea and to leave the referendum by me go. is that the reform is not going anywhere catching on as a nation who was all could buy to be three hundred years ago they didn't they got it when they occupied us and we are just correcting we're just amending that mistake. it's little surprise catalan is 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 it's of concern any year is for a state to seek to deny the rate of people to democratically express their will at

the rate of self-determination is an important international principle and i hope 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 and stand with 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 big to choose the future course of the country i feel very proud and that's well very moved to see scottish people especially glaswegian people the building blocks going up for a year to see the big demonstrate in favor of the government process that we're leaving that we shall have a referendum we will cover it for in the and that we will we will vote for you i am very moved to saying that. in fact catalonia push for independence was very much encouraged by scotland's an attempt to go it alone it held a referendum back in twenty fourteen but fifty five percent voted against leaving

the u.k. however following the braggs it voted twenty sixteen when a majority of scots went against the national decision to leave the e.u. talk of a new referendum emerged again we discussed both scottish and catalonian calls for independence with columnist let me read it. 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 even have a vote 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. with the german general election two days away let's adopting 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 to

spice things up. 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 happened 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 angle or merkel and other leading german candidates while putting online and promoting support for the anti immigration alternative for

germany party a lot of the stuff we're seen in germany can be or at least inspired by their movements 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 ferris the 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 an attack is possible perhaps he should look into the german government's own election software since it apparently only took one suzi it's not too long to find holes in it. we have found several fundamental errors in the p.c. wall software dated fourth of july twenty seven c.

including insufficient protection of the servers and lack of encryption the transmitted results the weaknesses allow 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's c.d.u. and martin short leave the race however third place could play kingmaker should there be a minority government currently predicted to add lots of his alternative for germany and france strict anti immigration policies we discussed the f.t. and many other issues in an exclusive interview with the german foreign minister

sic mark up real you can watch the full version on r.t. dot com the his s a quick preview. gabrielle firstly thank you for one ring ounce by agreeing for a second interview agreeing for a second interview is a big honor according to the spiegel yes that's how we would like to thank you can we take it as a step towards a tanter between germany and russia. skipped the fact that i'm giving you an interview no i think we should get accustomed to having more media outlets covering german politics we also communicate with turkish channels and newspapers in germany many people watch russian channels so of course we should pay some attention to them to make sure german policies are expressed in their content i'm convinced that we do need a new day terms with russia despite some very complicated disputes of the crimea and the situation in ukraine we can't tackle global problems without working with russia. key gains have been made against islamic states in syria those details are

coming up after this break. 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. truth to stand down lose business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. question. the strengths of the european union was very detrimental for the development of local and regional economies and only if these economies are developed and. recreate a livelihood for the people they have will be in the final event see the stop of

this i mean gratian from these countries. 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 on the ongoing battle against the terrorists since the beginning of the campaign two years ago russian air forces have killed more than fifty thousand terrorists russian fighter jets have conducted almost one hundred thousand a strike zone over thirty thousand flies to eliminate terrorism in syria one of the country's main battle is now ongoing in dairies or west syrian troops backed by

moscow are trying to eliminate remaining pockets of terrorists or to travel to the city to talk to people who lived there for three years and i still. i. have no money to buy food for my children i've only been able to feed them properly once in the last few months shell exploded and killed many innocent people including children it is or has been soaked in blood. that 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 those children died. when i went outside for ramadan to buy food and massacre my mother she was sick she had a strange one a 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 sit and cry. facebook has agreed to release to congress data about adverts bought by russia made the ongoing investigation into moscow's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election. we are actively working with the u.s. government on its ongoing investigations into russian interference we've been investigating this for many months now and for a while we had found no evidence of counseling to russians look to russia running ads i directed our team to provide the ads we've found to congress as well now as a general rule we're going to be limited in what we can discuss publicly about ongoing law enforcement best occasions so we may not always be able to share all of

our findings publicly but we support congress in deciding how to best use this information to inform the public and we expect the government to publish its findings when their investigation is complete. but claims it discovered three thousand paid political ads have educated have links to russia they cost one hundred thousand dollars a total in the port a big bullet between twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen the company adds all the purchased at the moment i think to quote in authentic accounts we discuss the latest with encrypted service fund chris kits. well they're running out of time they can't prove anything that russia did anything bad with the with the american election so they're obviously trying to you know put some news out there to make to try and keep the story alive well they're contributing to the russian hysteria there you know there's two sides to this there's president trump and then there are the other people and the other people lost power they were surprised they lost the election and now what they're trying to do is get back at president trump it's just

that simple and what's happening now is they're finding that their whole russian story fell apart right in front of their eyes because there was nothing there and now they're trying this so it's going to be it's another bit of nothing they may try and use this is a way to try and regulate people like matt drudge or other with news websites to say well you're accepting ads from you know potentially from foreign people but you know there's no way that a news website really even knows who the advertisers are. battered by hurricane harvey and the americans are now suffering the terrifying ranks of the storm the high winds and driving rain of havoc and the rio ready barreling the islands of try to weaken. maria is the strongest hurricane to hit the territory one thousand years it's

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 politics to divine intervention ati's 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 saying 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 and 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 and see fall stands with b.o.c. to resist trump and his call him a manipulative racist administration whole of the whole say and katia i blame trim for this heart of the government will manipulate the weather 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. watching these hurricanes now and it's really hard especially while promoting this movie not to. feel mother nature is. 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 yeah those you voted for him he deserved it as well can 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 that 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 russian ality and common sense can be overridden so long as it serves their political agenda. a black woman from texas who criticised the sale of cotton decorations for being racially insensitive has faced a backlash online danielle ryder wrote this facebook post off to single cost and being sold as a decoration in a high street stores she complained that cotton represents the hardship of african american slaves and therefore should be removed from style however her post spalt such a strong reaction she's not blocked us social media account. what is really wrong with my post is the reaction that is receiving from the boston nation i have to block by page because my facebook page has turned into. a field of burning racism.

a group of black students also found offense when some of the 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 brian logan believes the issue is being blown out of proportion. lasered a lot of different things. they wash dishes the pate accountancy 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 it's not anything racist what i think is races after 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. on facebook

website but. stay with us. at the united nations us president donald trump described his vision of foreign policy as principled a realist he also tried to convince the gathering of the general assembly that his idea of america first is compatible with this vision nonetheless he sees the world no differently than his predecessors. as.

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