yeah john oliver of arc to your marriage is. better than. see people you've never heard of. down the. road the world. very. seriously. china plays out its leadership plans for the next five years cementing president she's power and forecasting where the country is heading. the u.s. secretary of state makes a surprise visit to afghanistan and suggests moderate taliban could make up a part of the afghan government while adopted photo appears of the country's leader meeting america's top diplomat and also the family feud over catalonia independence standoff that's causing division not only in spain but in neighboring france take.

a welcome come july from moscow you're watching r.t. international now our top story this hour there are some changes at the top in the world's second largest economy with china unveiling its leadership team for the next five years china also plans to set up its own version of the petro currency the petro un which will rival the us dollar supremacy on the energy market i spoke with about the country's future. so this lineup unveiling has given us a clear glimpse into china's political future just not in the traditional manner not in the way anyone expected the intrigue comes from the fact that the other six men on this committee along with the she usually one of them is a clear successor to the party chair that happened which is she himself with his predecessor but this time around all six of those men were born before one thousand nine hundred sixty which according to an albeit unwritten rule means that all of

them would be too old to take over for she and twenty twenty two and that of course fools already rampant suspicion that she might seek to hold that position for longer than the two term framework as has happened in the past so all this really cements. grasp on power and his legacy and while obviously a lot can change in the next five years nobody has a crystal ball to know what we're really happened it's clear that all this groundwork is being laid for she to not fade into the background anytime soon so that's the leadership but another major topic is china's economy in the growing use of its currency in global trade yeah beijing is in fact looking to introduce a new way to price oil as early as this year and their own currency up till now the u.s. dollar has been the only currency with which large scale purchases of oil work conducted hence the term petro dollar but now it's the idea of the picture you won that's being introduced which would of course mark a significant dent in the u.s. dollars global dominance now the move will allow china's trading partners to pay

with either gold or to convert the one into gold cutting the u.s. dollar out of question altogether and frankly it's a logical move for china because they're of course the world's largest oil importer for example just last year china spent over one hundred billion u.s. dollars on oil so in theory if they managed to make those purchases in you won in the future that would mean a huge chunk of u.s. change completely off the financial markets and one can only wonder what sort of effect that will have and of. course it's a rather ambitious undertaking and there is some doubt that trading partners will get on board to make that possible and of course they go without saying that after four decades of the us dollar priced oil it's not a change that will happen overnight. not rex tillerson the surprise visit to afghanistan has not only signaled a significant shift in attitudes towards the taliban but it's also left reporters a little bit puzzled i'll show you why it's

a case of spot the difference here is the official picture that was released there on the left hand side by the afghan government following the president's meeting with the u.s. secretary of state but later the u.s. also put out a photo notice that in this one the f. sorry the afghan version on the right here a large clock and fire bell as you can see at the top of actually been raised the state department thinks the photo was altered to make it more attractive i think if the afghan government changed those photos are probably to make it aesthetically more pleasing we never like doctored photos but i also understand that perhaps they wanted to present a better image than having that but again that's really all i have for you on that well the u.s. earlier said that the two men had actually met in kabul but the u.s. state department after it's published and official statement here in which the location was corrected to the u.s. military base of background field air base has been constantly attacked by the taliban mostly by suicide bombers to on the anniversary of the nine eleven attacks

a suicide bomber attacked an american military convoy near the compound leaving five servicemen injured five days earlier a suicide bomber tried to enter the airbase but was stopped he detonated his explosives injuring one u.s. soldier a former pentagon official michael maloof told us that despite all of this the bagram base remains the most secure place in afghanistan the photo that we showed you earlier was doctored for security reasons. well i think it was done for security reasons. what was taken out was a clock with zulu time and that indicates a military base i think what president got he was trying to show was that he held the meeting actually in his presidential palace but that was not the case it was actually at a very secure military facility and bodrum does underscore how fragile the security is in kabul if not throughout all of afghanistan. well despite the security concerns rex tillerson does claim there is room for the taliban in the afghan

government the very same fundamental discreet that america has been fighting for the last sixteen yes there's a place for them in the government if they're ready to come renouncing terrorism renouncing violence and being committed to a stable prosperous afghanistan. explains what might have brought about such a key change in america's attitude. while on an unannounced visit to kabul on monday secretary tillerson told reporters that washington things moderate factions among the taliban exist and that there is a place for them in the country's government so long as they were announced violence but this presents a bit of a dilemma as to how the us will be able to differentiate between the moderate and radical factions since it didn't work out so well in syria there has been. intermingling of some of these groups we need to separate them we need to clearly delineate who is where. can you tell us what the total number of trained fighters.

that are in the fight. is because we're talking four four five. let's not kid ourselves that's a joke. we have to acknowledge this is a total failure it's just a failure. this train and equip program has not. frankly lived up to what we had initially thought with as an expectation. but the u.s. is no doubt wary of the pattern could repeat itself in afghanistan now tillerson also stated that the fight against the taliban should still continue quote in order for them to understand that they will never win a military victory but after sixteen years of war neither side has achieved victory so that could possibly be the reason secretary tillerson is now pushing for the political option on previous occasions however when the u.s.

urged the taliban to negotiate the taliban's reply was quite clear. we call on the taliban. to enter into a peace process a legitimate process a real process. i want to reinforce the taliban with the only way to please him politically driven machine for them is through a negotiated settlement. theoretically

it would be nice if they could come if the taliban would decide to want to join the government question is will the afghan government allow it number one but number two i think the taliban have already made a decision that they're just going to wait out the united states they've been quite successful in taking over half the country now before it was far far less it's not certain that the taliban well remain a moderate force if they see that they are winning well after visiting afghanistan the u.s. secretary of state then set off for iraq where he may have got a slightly chilly reception after making these remarks a few days ago. iranian militias that are in iraq they know that the fight against should isis is coming to a close those little issues need to go hold it for the fighters in iraq he need to go a source close to the iraqi prime minister has criticised rex tillerson school less saying he has no right to interfere in iraq's

a phase the prime minister himself later defended the role of the rain back to fight is as did the iraqi foreign minister in an exclusive interview with. the u.s. is playing its own game by own rules and with its own followers were as iraq acts on its territory to the best of its abilities supported by its sons its political parties and movements and those people who sacrifice themselves for the good of their country the militants of the popular mobilization forces have suffered huge losses shed their blood for the sake of their homeland look at their actions during the liberation of so many iraqi cities even cities they don't live in. ok let's go to syria next in what is left of this city of racket although the u.s. backed campaign to liberate the area from islamic state is all but over cuban rights groups are still concerned about safety there is residents do try to return home. the united nations stands ready to assess people with the immaterial

assistance in iraq and its surroundings however at the moment we have no access therefore no humanitarian convoys or assistance can reach the city the humanitarian situation is dire that there is no sufficient water or health clinics and it's not save as many unexploded minutes of this war still remain so that needs to be cleaned up first before any civilian can go back isis has done a lot of harm not only to the inhabitants but also to the social fabric of this city and now it has emptied it of doctors nurses teachers and all things that are bad eat at birth by probably should add to this that the u.s. the coalition has waged a year bombing campaign that have priority. isis over the need to protect the city's infrastructure so now the lingering questions is who will get the hospital

who will rebuild it doctors maintain equipment will rebuild schools roads and all that has been destroyed and it appears that there are little to no plans for reconstruction and that is our major concern. meanwhile russia's defense ministry says that eyesores grip on syria has now been cut to just five percent of territory there having controlled seventy percent of the entire country before syrian government forces have been supported by russia's air forces in their operations to clear out the terrorists and the process of restoring pace in many areas is well underway the statement does outline that almost a thousand terrorist training camps and over five hundred munition factories have been destroyed but the battle to free syria has nonetheless come at a huge cops. and i can. say that i was more than a father to them we were friends and i always told them i supported them and i

would do anything for them. and i husband used to say that if something happens to him the only thing that matters is that he died it was his home and it's you know. a lot of them a lot of pride there were times when i wanted to burst into tears in my mother's arms but she told me that i'm a man and i should be strong she said that we must all be strong but a witness to the death of me my first song i was never left alone all of my family stayed with me so i don't have any that's what is called responsibility. you're watching out a still ahead for you this hour catalonia fight for freedom spills over into other

parts of europe we'll have a look at that in detail person of the story stick after the. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington or washington controls the media the media the voters elected a businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. seemed wrong. just. yet to shape

our. engagement. trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. again catalonia is push for independence is dividing families across spain at the moment but surprisingly it is doing the same in france as well a former french prime minister whose roots in the breakaway region is concerned about the wreak percussions it could have for a broader europe. they need to dismember a state like spain this beginning gradually to dismember europe it is also progressive really weakening europe. box to the collapse of europe. former

french prime minister well miles that mincing no words when it comes to catalonia independence he was one of the most staunch supporters of course you have spanish unity and he was actually born into a catalan family well given his heritage some might say that val's should be on the other side of the argument well that's at least what his sister thinks she's feeling reus and let rip it's him on twitter. for god's sake for the sake of grandfather mcgee this is not democratic and neither is article one fifty five since when has there been such a horrible thing as the suspension of freedoms valves isn't the only one he's been put into a somewhat embarrassing situation by close relatives over catalonia to get along the president himself was also left red faced after his cousin chose to make not

very pro independence move in the wake of the referendum. is moving the headquarters of her company to madrid citing political uncertainty for dear client due to the current political situation invacare would like to inform you that we will soon be changing the location of our headquarters well we all know that nobody can quite squabble like your own family and when politics gets involved as well it may lead to some rather awkward dinners it seems that somehow the vowels and the pooch demotes could end up. in skiing oxy. in other news tonight the actual. of the u.s. drug enforcement administration in honduras is under question following the release of video evidence in two thousand and twelve an anti drug strain that took the lives of four civilians at the time the da said they returned fire when suspected

drug runners opened fire on them the video released under the freedom of information act puts the toll into question in this infrared footage you can see the two boats one carrying dea agents and also civilians in the other it happened after agents captured a cocaine filled a new in a counter-narcotics operation the incident resulted with one man two pregnant women and a fourteen year old boy being shot dead four u.s. senators since then earlier addressed concerns over operations in honduras to the u.s. secretary of state and also the attorney general they say that failures on many levels had resulted in the death and injury of many innocent civilians but the itself says that the case is still on the internal review michael how rivet's from the department of justice earlier said there's no evidence that anyone in the passenger boat fired first. officials asserted to the justice department leadership the u.s.

ambassador of honduras and congress that some of the people in the passenger boat were drug traffickers attempting to retrieve the seized cocaine and that the people on the passenger boat that fired on the officers first are review found no evidence to corroborate these assertions while the dane during school tom brooks finds it alarming that it took so long to release the original video. well i think it's alarming that it's taken this long for this footage to be released it seems it would have helped the families who would help people know what exactly happened at that event if this had been done i don't see what purpose was served other than trying to cover up what was a story that they did not want to have come out and it seems you have some evidence of that in that seems either still reviewing what the are doing with this if you

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