so the. headline stories are russian foreign minister sergei lavrov compares the leaders of the us north korea to children in the kindergarten urging them to stop saber rattling and return to dialogue. russian submarines fire rockets terrorist positions in western syria the russian defense ministry saying all targets were hit. by. the time. the. chancellor merkel of germany had hecklers whistling booing her at

a campaign rally just ahead of sunday's. live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international i mean o'neill just after ten pm here in moscow this friday september twenty second a little welcome our top story russia has been given new explanations why the u.s. korea are refusing to allow it china suggestion to freeze their military drills a step towards resolving the north korean nuclear crisis that's according to foreign minister sergei lavrov who give a media conference at the u.n. general assembly so hours ago my pen is in new york for art i spoke to him earlier the russian foreign minister was taking questions from reporters at the u.n. . headquarters in the press briefing room and he touched quite

a bit on the crisis on the korean peninsula one of the main thrusts of his his comments was that there should be a rational solution and that the kind of heated dialogue we've been hearing from the united states and from korean leaders is not going to solve the crisis he directly spoke about the need for for rational words to be used for diplomacy this is a surrogate elaborate of addressing the crisis on the korean peninsula it's unacceptable to sign it we watch north korea's nuclear test but it's equally unacceptable to start a war in the korean peninsula apart from sanctions all security council resolutions without exception demand a political process but our western partners refused to work in this direction china and russia will continue to insist on a move reasonable approach in contrast to the emotional one we see now where they behave like children fighting each other in kindergarten and nobody can stop them but it's necessary to cool those hot heads we need to pause we need dialogue. in

donald trump's united nations general assembly speech he referred to kim jong un as a rocket man and talked about a possibility of totally destroying north korea then there was a response from north korea's leader kim jong un said that donald trump was mentally deranged he called him a rogue and he used the old english term doto to refer to donald trump now donald trump a shot back and referred to kim jong un as a madman now as these heated words and accusations and threats are being exchanged we've heard that north korea may possibly test a hydrogen bomb in the pacific the united states has said that if it were to go near the u.s. base in guam that they would intercept it one thing that was raised is that from the beginning of the crisis russia and china have had a joint proposal for what they call a double freeze they've called for south korea to end its provocative military exercises and in exchange north korea would end its nuclear proliferation and its

provocative missile tests this proposal from russia and china seems pretty straightforward but no one seems to be taking that proposal seriously now later in the press conference was asked about the iran nuclear deal and he said that russia stands fully in support of keeping the iran nuclear deal intact and said that it's actually particularly relevant to the crisis in korea if the iran nuclear deal were be to be abandon and u.s. leaders were to were to change or pull back on the nuclear deal north korea could look at that and say look the united states is not keeping agreements that it has made and it could have a negative impact on a diplomatic solution for the korean crisis so a lot of interesting comments from surrogate lab rob but specifically talking about the korean crisis he was saying people need to be mature and they need to focus on diplomatic solutions and not the intensification we've been seeing. let's turn our attention to syria where the russian defense ministry sees its

submarines have targeted news retire risks in the province of idlib. against the of is in syria nothing's been following developments for us. in the mediterranean. terrorists. which is the domain of. syria they targeted various. terrorist strongholds their troops and even vehicles. such as drones one of the targets intended to be struck struck it isn't by coincidence that the russians chose to shrike. about the rebels headed by. the syrian government in northern how mona twenty kilometer wide front and trapped in it was a unit of russian military police twenty nine strong they were then

a deescalation. have been happening at dool they were surrounded and for many hours the. special forces unit was scrambled to help them to break through to them and evacuate them the operation was successful of itself has been stalled they managed to penetrate twelve kilometers into government territory but almost everything they took his been retaken huge casualties as well we had a few days ago about eleven tanks lost. and dozens of vehicles. and eight hundred and fifty apparently killed. well just putting this into context almost ninety percent of syria's territory is liberated from islamic state that's the latest figures that we've received from the russian defense ministry in the ongoing battle against the terrorists well since the beginning paying two years

ago russian forces have killed more than fifty terrorists russia. fighter jets have conducted a double that figure on earth strikes during over thirty thousand flights to eliminate terrorism in syria one of the country's main bottles is no injuries or worse syrian troops by buying mosque or trying to get rid of remaining pockets of journalists or to travel to the city to talk to people who live there for three long years. have no money to buy food for my children i've only been able to feed them properly months in the last few months shell exploded and killed many innocent people children it is on has been soaked in moment.

that i would play with them i would push them and trust them i was like a mother and a father took down but only to die. suddenly when i went outside to do it and that's it for my mother she was sick she had a strange kind of heart attack when i was out i was injured by a shell 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. with the german federal election just around the corner our politicians are busy making a last push in their campaigns for america it's been a particularly tough day her speech was riddled with whistles. it's rihanna's

does your. buy in the mentions i think. once medina no i am not. was the streisand. was sitting on c. is true and it undermines the good old school guy. who did so comes down it's not on this father no mom. the child is noted to the funded super storage dance. this has started to be if it had counselors main rival martin shool sol so held a rally today in berlin and r.t.e. daniel hawkins has been following the day's electioneering for us from the. today is the final day of campaigning all over germany the final opportunities for parties to make a fresh and make their case to german voters angela merkel is way ahead in the polls has been for some time now that is beyond a doubt but really she could have had a better day at her rally on the ground in munich although booze and even tomatoes

being thrown seems to have become a rather regular occurrence on her recent campaign trail was. easy to see she does she said. that's not the issue and start. flying kids i'm sure they know i know i did though here at the rally that's just concluded behind me most of the schultz played his trump card while merkel called for unity he spoke of reforms all income tax reform increased school funding secure pensions and gender parity taking a swipe at angle of michael's perceived action on that matter. we're going to i'm going to michael says we invest enough she says we don't need to invest any more in schools we don't have enough daycare places we're short by one million elementary

schools. i'm nothing different to women unless the men in this country and i'm sick and tired of accepting that the woman at the helm of this country just doesn't care about you but is it all too little too late for mausam schultz just a few months ago he was touted as a real opposition figure head to anglo michael as his chance for real change since then though his campaign has fizzled his figures in the polls have windell it was always going to be hard for him of course given that he had to play simple taney see the role of an opposition leader and the leader of a party in coalition government at the same time meaning many voters viewed his campaign as lacking real firepower him attempting to play two roles simple to mislead in a fine. we spoke to some of the people that attended his final meeting today here in central. sizzles to clean your shoes and so he's just i mean is marty has been in government or bust years so he's going to need to change i think

it's a problem because they were the government now in just a couple of days we'll find out if martin schultz and his party the social democrats have managed to harness some of that resentment and frustration that voters do have towards merkel and turn that into votes while third place seems to be the real bottle raging between the un team a gratian a day or alternative for germany and d. link or the left or to the speaker all over visited today stealing a party in berlin there really are. i don't think i supported them is. basically. because i want change in germany because we had now twelve years and i think it's time for a new party to get into a position of power. that can be there is. able to make. the future and more

steps into the right doing at the moment i'm afraid just to talk a little bit about who the left. on the left side of the political spectrum here is their name suggests they're campaigning on this election in the minimum wage for. rents in cities like the major cities across the country also they want to see. more investment in health care and the dissolution of nato there strongly against that. they also want to see higher taxes a tax rate of seventy five percent. being one of those that's caused some controversy as being one of the candidates for. controversy suggesting the berlin wall was a necessary evil also her views when it comes to refugees and migrants. receive a cream pie in the face from some of her party members or some of those that

support the party anyway who say that she was too critical and even closer to the populist alternative for deutschland. policies when it came to refugees we spoke to alex on the noise he's a senior member about where they stand on the refugee crisis and what caused it in their opinion. in twenty six tino washington university study revealed that most refugees coming to europe originated from countries that were bombed the second group is economic refugees when the west destroys other economies which are not competitive with in demand free trade and say we want to sell our goods there and if the economy turns to ruins we don't care about it certainly coalition with angela merkel is off the table the chancellor saying that she wasn't interested in any potential coalition with the left all with

the right wing alternative for germany so they could well be the third party and but they all certainly set to be the left wing opposition to whoever forms the next government here in germany while tomorrow saturday we begin our special coverage of the german election twenty seventeen. now if facebook has agreed to release to congress data said led to be bought by

russian that's amid the ongoing investigation into moscow's alleged interference 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 russia and look to russia running ads and when we recently uncovered this activity we provided that information to the special counsel we also briefed congress and this morning i directed our team to provide the ads we've found to congress as well 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 while facebook claims its the scabbard three thousand paid for political odds that could have links to russia they cost one hundred thousand dollars in total and were bought between twenty fifteen and twenty seven doing the company all the purchase the advertisements are

linked to quote in authentic a constant the kremlin has reacted to facebook's moves saying it has never placed any political ads on the social network meanwhile donald trump has reacted on twitter saying the accusations of moscow meddling in u.s. elections are just quote a hoax we discuss the latest with the finder of the on scene encrypted server chris gets. 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 are 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. turning our attention to cut a loony and work rides of proven empty independence activists are facing off in barcelona over the region's upcoming referendum tensions were fired on path or a number of regional officials were arrested by spanish authorities in a crackdown against the plan which madrid brown's illegal here's a look back at the events surrounding the council on referendum.

this is legally legitimate for a thousand year old nation the likelihoods of that's lonia referendum will be held and on sunday the first of all time. i'm. ok. it's just us that has the problems in this case the spanish justice system and not the some one hundred twelve my as. if. this aggression is and was signed into law it damages the state's ability and all of the constitutional guarantees. this referendum can organize it was never legal all it gets moot. thanks. i.

i. earlier we heard differing opinions on the issue from a political analyst from the trade on a pro independence activist from barcelona. the referendum 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 when he was there all of the house of their original parliament some of the time in a show on democracy is legal we have voted with absolute in my journey to of the members of our apartment and if they have a problem with democracy they will have to justify it to international community because he said magnus no. only government members are being arrested private people that they all know warehouse they're being arrested and they're being questioned is here not only against the spanish law and the european relations it's

even against the. most important things right now. they have to restore their order their under 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 and net result to the european europe we are not deficit terry and we are once a most export and the ones i've received the most are international investment.

there is no compromise on the river and when they have to drop that idea and to leave the referendum back because that are a friend is not going anywhere catalona is a nation he was all. three hundred years ago they did an illegality when they occupied us and we are just correcting we're just amending that mistake. subprime loan is paid for freedom has the backing of a number of other regions in europe where talk of secession is strong one of which is scotland i think is of concern anywhere 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 and stand with them on the basis of fundamental democratic values we believe that whatever your views are on the indian 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 living glasgow now 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. well in fact catalonians push for independence was very much encouraged by scotland's only attempts to go alone it held a referendum back in twenty fourteen but fifty five percent voted against leaving the u.k. however following the breaks a vote of 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 cuts alone in calls for independence with columnist leslie riddick. for the catalans and for the scots the case that's 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. it's been over three years since the first economic sanctions were imposed on russia shortly after the country responded with country measures banning imports of western food into the country it sparked an all mix pectin boom in russian food production r t smeagol front to santiago visited some moscow's stores to check out of domestic farmers can compete with the

west. the twenty four against russia caused russia to take retaliatory measures and include a ban on most fish meat vegetable fruit and there with products from you're creating a vacuum that's no more beloved ricci's are plenty on where on the russian menu so local farmers and the producers of the so-called slow food had to create those types of foods here in russia. this is a local cheese manufacturer a farmer company called luca and they have some of the most interesting jesus to my taste in our product is unique as this one hundred percent make sure all there is nothing besides me into nice to no chemicals. and now about to try the world famous loft to lock up the many or russian dumplings in other words the gentleman i

seem ready tried for work colleagues let me go toward cuts. but. i was also raised by a boat you'll soon see its rights. actually i discover that though there may be a local great slogan or source of oil we also managed to catch up with the russian deputy prime minister of our cottage and get his take on the track. the background of that as of sanctions of being produced. against sanctions. by our. other. partners those sanctions provide that additional. incentive. for all producers but the important thing is. is to ensure the border of our own products is sufficient to the subsidiary according to actually not just. it is but the border and this is what they are

working on that. we are about to enter the mint market a local food store in the middle of moscow now what sets this place apart you were average grocery store is that it is a part of a global movement called slow food and what this trend is all about is supporting your local farmers and food manufacturers and it's been ever so prevalent all over russia since the twenty fourteen sanctions let's check it out. ok the russian peanut butter ok so let's do this absolutely amazing with some natural russian boysenberry jam i'm sure this would make a perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich. this is the russian ginger ale they say . out of the drawing. has no chance.

and here we are inside the block a lot of slow food restaurant if you will in moscow russia was this is just a fairy tale this is just fascinating plus they have good wine i've never tried russian wine it was amazing. i found russia's slow food trend quite phenomenal the sensation of decent quality is surely amazing a cow that's been slowly grown to the right size without the use of hormones or g m o's and served to you in that medium rare you just love and you never even stop to think this dish you drink so much is fully made of russian grown products thanks to the sanctions the slow food is heat out of moscow russia began to see if ya go hard to. miguel francis santiago in his healthy appetite reporting and you can always

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