the last leg. asian tour sees the u.s. leader in the philippines where his visit has been met by a violent protest also this hour. u.s. leaders again offering to help mediate the region's divisive call dives into the side china sea dispute we look closer on this our protection effort. on president a deal between russia and the kurdish military helped bring dozens of children safely home from school after their parents joint islamic state. time or european operations on the cards with the bulk of members signing up to cool the

fence the source. of the world this is r.t. international mine and you know neal welcome to the program our top story donald trump's on the final stop on his lengthy asian tour he's in the philippines for the summit of southeast asia leaders he's been holding his first formal talks with president deter take on the streets of the capital though the american leader house and receive the warmest of welcomes there. i know hundreds gathered again in manila following sunday's violent marches against his visit clashes with police officers resort to using water coming to disperse. well to the summit and if there's one thing that should be second nature to donald

trump at gatherings like bees it's his signature move the presidential but it proved to be a challenge when he took to the stage with his fellow leaders. and now for the us we are right over left one two and three. yeah he did get there in the end and in fairness to trump a waltz and the only leader to struggle with it was for the more important business of the u.s. leaders been positioning himself as a peacemaker in the region's trouble spots including the disputed territorial claims in the resource laden size china sea. the territorial disputes in the side china sea that trumps proposing to moderate include several countries in the region both land is being disputed over an

estimated five trillion dollars worth of trade passes through drought routes every year president of the philippines roderick will deter take who is meeting with from behind closed doors right know in fact have this warning for those trying to have influence with the difference one has would like us to come from china and the rest of the world on so many issues the south china sea is better left untouched nobody can afford to go to war well if you're a cheater looks no adult trumps the latest attempt at promoting his peace keeping services approach. u.s. president donald trump the mediator and arbitrator or at least outside he seems to think let's have a look at the conflicts he's dabbling in. there are at least two major conflicts currently brewing in this region and the longest and bloodiest one is between israel and palestine and of course trump wants to be the man in the middle the palestinians and israelis must work together to reach an agreement but i

would love to be a mediator or an arbitrator or a facilitator the problem is he appears to be playing games with both sides promising one thing to palestinians and almost denying he made those promises to israel is this really how mediation works. staying in the region america's allies have been having a bit of a spot of late early the summer saudi arabia the united arab emirates egypt and bahrain cut off diplomatic ties with qatar and started an economic boycott they cited qatari funding of terrorist groups and later it increasingly close relationship with iran as their reasons trump though claimed he was ready to roll up his sleeves and sorted out i can help mediate between carter and in particular the u.a.e. and saudi arabia i would be willing to do so and i think you'd have a deal worked out very quickly i think it's something that's going to get solved fairly easily but nearly six months since the fallout nobody's talking.

so if mediations not proving his forte what about ruffling up those crises already settled the iran nuclear deal is now in jeopardy thanks to trump decertifying it the very deal that took a decade of tense talks and negotiations by six nations to agree this is a difficult and dangerous game it's not up to any single country to terminate president of united states as many powers not this one when. i'm saying it would be a great era of dialogue control and multilateralism these are the efficient weapons . perhaps the donald's biggest test has been north korea and again he posted hate achieve what his predecessors failed to what had old earth are going to be able to have done it will be it will be handled we handle everything trumps recipe for success threaten threaten and threaten again

we are totally prepared for the second option totally destroy north korea that's called the military option they will be met with fire fury topped out with huge military drills and selling weapons to every nation he could during his recent asia adventure tour prime minister of japan is going to be purchasing massive amounts of military equipment as he should he will shoot them out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the united states the president and i have agreed they'll be buying a which they want and which they need and everybody thinks it makes a lot of sense we make the greatest military equipment in the world and south korea will be ordering billions of dollars of that equipment which frankly for them makes a lot of sense we make the greatest missiles in the world greatest minds in the world really is commercial interest in the world so we would like to buy from us as

little doubt trumps a good businessman but also we also at the beginning would anyone call him a good mediator and all the traitor that they were to to altie. asia first underlying cease donald trump's offers are more about scoring points for the u.s. than actually finding diplomatic solutions is more i mean he. look at what he has been doing what he has been saying everything is calculated in terms of some sort of tangible gains for the united states that horses problem for countries dealing with the united states because he was american first american always wins that means that the other parties may may lose trump sees most of his diplomatic activities in terms of more literary gains in terms of economic gains will be in august rather than contribution something wall in tripoli

to the group of commons. living on russia and the kurdish military have come to an unprecedented deal to cut a large dozens of children to be brought home after their parents traveled to syria to join islamic state reporting from their rockets the. with isis now on its last legs flights like this becoming a regular thing russian citizens looting the wives and children of isis fighters is being collected wherever they're found whether they've surrendered or been captured and taken back to russia to rejoin their families it isn't often that a high ranking syrian could visit the russian air base in syria but this is a special exception tens of thousands of foreigners joined isis among them the wives and children of jihad just. to the caliphate from dozens and dozens of

countries many came from russia nineteen russian speaking woman along with twenty six children were being held by the y.p. they came from all around from rocka theirs or my idea and it took time to confirm that identities and to secure their release. the deal worked out between the russians and the kurds is unprecedented the smocks the single largest repatriation of isis family members since the terror group appear is not that not it was dangerous to flee directly for three or four months we try to find a way out of syria my husband wanted to escape as well but it's impossible for around them that's when the fast tried to flee police caught and imprisoned in total we were taken to present on three separate occasions the last time they didn't release my father and after march they said he died it was horrible.

plus we had to deal with adam bandt months then i was in my i'd been bombs were falling on us like rain i happened to be buried under the rubble four times with my child there never was any civilization no economy like it was always described there were only courts and only had to hire. rank would be on your side otherwise you won nothing here but you know from the very beginning i wanted to leave syria but didn't know how then run away from a husband and try to reach the kurds rucka to help me out the children bad obvious signs of trauma stunted speech and the development excessive nervousness and other symptoms brought about by what they saw more and carnage the worst is now behind them it won't be easy readjusting to life in their home countries and most in need have family relatives who are more than willing to help when all is

said and done there is some responsibility to be taking the oath that these women came to syria voluntarily and that they may yet have to answer for the damage isis has wrought is indescribable countless people have been killed entire cities razed yet even amidst the ashes of this disaster. is not lost there are still lives that can be repaired. meanwhile in neighboring iraq an r.t. team has been working out an orphanage where children of suspected fighters were left stranded unluckily with the help of our viewers we managed to reunite many of them with their families.

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could a new european wide army be one step closer to reality well twenty three e.u. countries have just signed a new defense pact called pascoe promoted by france and germany let's see what this might all mean for the block and go live to berlin on our europe correspondent peter all over hi there peter so the defense strategy its freshly inked within the past hour or so what's been agreed upon and what does it mean. well permanent security cooperation or pascoe is essentially in layman's terms a military agreement it would allow the free movement across borders across national borders of military hardware and personnel without them having to be stopped to be checked its architects say it's been drawn up in response to the

threats posed by terror organizations and by russia federica maka raney who's the high representative for european affairs at the european union said on her way into the building this morning in brussels that she expected defense history to be signed today well out of the twenty eight member states that was put in front of twenty three of them said yes to what federica mocker any calls defense history the ones that said no we're the u.k. and denmark who have opt outs already written into their agreements as being part of the the european project the republic of ireland which is a neutral country and malta and portugal who said they hadn't made up their minds just yet whether they would be joining now the whole idea behind pascoe and what it may lead to a european army were expedited talks on these were expedited following the vote in two thousand and sixteen by the united kingdom to say that they were going to leave

the european union the u.k. had long been an opponent of an e.u. army one person who isn't an opponent of it is the french president they are in need of profound changes i proposed to our counterparts to create a european armies are now and those when this initiative this was the french and english and all militaries coming from the european countries voluntarily that france has to possess a joint control bench and force a common defense budget a human common doctrine to act. it is worth noting though that two of the big boys at the european table in france and germany have very different ideas about how they see pescado operating in reality france well they say that they wanted to be a much smaller force a much more targeted force that fits with current french military operations that are in that are under way it also according to paris should have the ability to be a interventional force it should have the ability to strike first as well where is

germany here in berlin there saying it should be a more all encompassing group which its critics have said could make it less effective now the signatures of already been put on the on the documents in question for pascoe what we need now and what we're expecting now is a meeting between the e.u. leaders and the nato leadership we're expecting to hear from yen stoltenberg the nato secretary general a little later on to find out what he has to say about what federica mocker a need the e.u. foreign minister in all intents and purposes says is a historic day when it comes to european defense and yes the leading to a lot of questions artie's peter all of our thank you for the update. believe foreign policy chief federer said on monday morning down to more than fifty military projects have already been proposed by the e.u. countries defense pact being tided as

a new nato by some but chris expect it will be a strategic disaster. i think it's definitely another step into the wrong direction because of cause to has been quite a nation among the elements of said european countries defense purposes but overall this has taken place in the context of nato and there is no real difference because the policies which have been. persuaded and a spirit of that and much confrontation against russia the nato build up so i think it is to be seen in this context and definitely it's not it's not something which should be seen as some kind of separate whatever in time nato i would not directly see it as aggressive move but of course i see it quite critical first of all germany with its history should not be more than a defensive the military structure and with this germany also having the

possibility to do actively some military action i think it will how to play always the cop good cop and bad cop the good cop is then the european army and the bad cop is the nato so i think they will really work arm in arm. artie's latest talk show signing is already kicking up a storm in britain's car doors of power even though this particular political veteran series hasn't even been on air yet we'll introduce you right after this. break. level was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles. that you saw to try to tell you that

every gossip and public by fell. off the bad guys and tell you on the whole and look like they're probably. all the hawks that we along with all the walking. welcome back former first minister of scotland is our teasing us talk show host

with the first episode to air this thursday here's a quick preview of what's in store on the alex salmond's show it's not just the straight political show is about people and past now it is of the day and find out something about the caught it goes behind the public face of these personalities and what they've got to say perhaps even about issues which are not. normally released to their or to those of their business or their political political views i think that's of interest as well to see something of the the human being behind the public figure are you not afraid of been hosts in the rush of the program taking into consideration all their publications on the media. attention to russia today can have anticipated that question i thought maybe from the son of the daily mail but a bit on the west side adequate scan back through the. russia today broadcasting and a counted fifty liebert m.p.'s there the tory m.p.'s fourteen s m b m p seven liberals

friesian fain to do you'd be in the green of all appear on russia today programs so you know. if it's good enough for john mcdonnell janet corbin diane abbott john redwood crispin blunt liam fox ian black for vince cable and carlin look at this that i can probably. stand there the criticism that the they experienced as well and he is already having to withstand the sort of criticism he was expecting with headlines busting alex salmond's choice to appear here on r.t. british newspaper the times for example did not hold back. mr salmon service for the propaganda outlets of a hostile foreign autocracy does indeed evinced our lack of judgment self-respect and shame well even the current leader of the scottish national party of course summons own party expressed her dart. the nost which i was and i would've advised

them to seek another channel to hear the sure and of course alex is not currently an elected politician a nice fee to meet whatever decisions he wishes to meet well i found that slightly old actually because normally the scottish national party the party that both members of is normally pretty cohesive well i think it's very old the situation that we seem to be increasingly in where people want to know platform various individuals in various stations you see all the time news article say disgraceful the x. politician sure the platform and somebody or isn't it terrible that why a politician turned up on various stations in various countries i believe in a plurality i believe actually that people should appear or whatever t.v. or radio station or whatever platform they walk because it's important to create a sense of dialogue we don't want to be in a position where all we have to get is the b.b.c. said it's worth hearing different opinions and not say for all of its failings those do that. laura deadly updates three hundred forty people are no

thought to have been killed in a powerful earthquake that struck the northern border region between iran and iraq a further six thousand more people have been injured that is according to iranian state t.v. on the iraqi side of the border the earthquake has killed at least seven injured more than five hundred thirty the seven point three magnitude quake struck on sunday evening causing buildings to collapse here there have also been landslides in the mountainous region a desperate search for survivors is underway for many thought trapped under rubble the number of casualties is expected to rise tremors were felt in baghdad as far away of south east turkey to electricity has been cut off in several cities in both iran and iraq communications are disrupted and bring the rescue effort. so do you reappear her succumb to pressure. from the u.n.

humanitarian organizations says it will begin reopening and seaports in yemen it comes after a week long total blockade of the country earlier unicef said four hundred thousand children in yemen are facing starvation on top of that there is a deadly cholera outbreak half of those affected are children under the age of fifteen local doctors and humanitarian organizations have also been increasingly concerned by the dire situation in the country. was it that whole incident with full confidence i can say that these numbers will increase and humankind will face a horrific catastrophe when it will discover one day that it hasn't fulfilled its tutti as it should if the catastrophe indeed happens we beg the international community to pressure the coalition food and medicine not when it does things that has nothing to do with weapons they shouldn't be in any delayed yemen which is the purpose country and they are of world is a really running out of food medicine and fuel the saudi led coalition claimed its

blockade was to stop the alleged flow of weapons to rebels from iran after a hooty missile was fired at the saudi capital last week the coalition launched its military operation against rebels back in march twenty fifteen supporting the us to the yemeni government but it is the locals who are suffering the most both from relentless saudi bombing and the blockade. and what about this. this. is. about global phenomenon not the other. mr.

there is no logical reason we couldn't sort of take medicine actually deal with issues of cholera there is no logical reason that we couldn't sort of give food. support to doors who are starving the only thing that is holding off back is the fact that the saudis are under allies with the help of the support of united states and the west are the. very effective sort of blockade which no food no medicine gets through no reports to get through none of the humanitarian organizations would operate i mean do you even united nation cannot have access to these people to stop the sort of these almost small at least. in this in people who are facing a stall ration disease. news updates literally by the minute on our twitter page

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protect themselves. with the famous merry go round. nor middle of the room sick. or let. alone welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle one hundred years ago. russia was consumed by revolution and unprecedented violence it is not

an understatement to say the russian revolution or bolster big coup d'etat was the defining moment of the twentieth century how did it change russia and the world. crosstalk in the russian revolution i'm joined by my guest here in moscow geoffrey robertson is a professor of history at university college cork and a member of the royal irish academy we also have marc sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst and of course we have a political analyst with sputnik international all right gentlemen as always crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it. geoffrey robertson we go to you first here one hundred years on i will ask the most obvious question was it worth it was it worth it yes i think it was because what the revolution showed was that it was possible to. get nine hundred seventy eight was that the people into being.