sees the u.s. leader in the philippines where his visit by violent protests but you know. the u.s. president is again offering to help mediate in the region's conflicts as he. china sea disputes we look closer at his arbitration efforts. also coming up this hour and on president a deal between russia and the kurdish military helped bring dozens of children safely home from syria after their parents joined the next day.

as officials proposed to lower the age of sexual consent to thirty for a man is acquitted of raping an eleven year old girl. from our international news center here in moscow with it says are two international my names you know neil welcome to the program our top story this hour donald trump is in the philippines on the final stop of his five nation asia tour he's held his first formal talks with president deter at the summit of regional leaders. to heap praise on each other on the streets of the filipino couple the american leader didn't receive the warmest of welcomes. well hundreds gathered again in manila following sunday's violent marches against

as clashes with police officers resort to using water cannons to disperse them it's . back to the actual summit if there's one thing that should be second nature to donald trump i suppose at gatherings like these it's his presidential hunching but it proved to be a challenge when he took to the stage with his fellow leaders and now forty three on the right over left it one two and three. took a little bit of working and he did get there in the end i'm in fairness to trump he was in the only leader to struggle with it as we can see as for the more important business at hand the u.s. leaders been positioning himself as a peace maker in the region's trouble spots he's been offering to mediate in the territorial disputes over the resource laden sized china sea. but you know.

the disagreement over the area involves several countries both london see europe being contested an estimated five trillion dollars worth of trade passes through that route every year the president of the philippines roderick go to church say how this warning for those seeking influence over the region hard 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 trader now looks at donald trump 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. game this is 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 dialog 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 all of us are going to be able to

handle 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 to pay and 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 with his commercial interests and so we would like to buy from us as little doubt trumps a good businessman but as we all start the beginning would anyone call him a good mediator and all the trade to let the rich altie well asia affairs analyst under long stays donald trump's offers are more about scoring points for the us than finding diplomatic solutions. it was more i mean he even 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 causes problems 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 seized

most of his diplomatic activities in terms of monetary gains in terms of economic gains will be in august rather than contribution something war in tripoli to the group of commons. to another headline stories this hour russia and the kurdish military have come to an unprecedented deal that could a large dozens of children to be brought home after their parents traveled to syria to join islam mixtape reporting from the country because they have. with isis now on its last legs flights like this becoming a regular thing russian citizens looting the wives and children of isis fighters 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 visits the russian airbase in syria but this is

a special exception tens of thousands of foreigners joined isis among them the wives and children of jihad this who flocked 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. ji they came from all around from rocka there is order. it took time to confirm their identities and to secure their release. the deal worked out between the russians and the kurds is unprecedented the smogs the single largest repatriation of isis family members since the terror group appeared. that 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 a man. when the first tried to flee police caught and imprisoned das in total

we were taken to prison on three separate occasions the last time they didn't release my father and after march they said he died it was horrible i said i was hunting last we had to deal with adam bandt months and 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 for how to hire. rank would be on your side otherwise you were nothing. 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 maraca they help me out the children bear obvious signs of trauma stunted speech under development excessive nervousness and other symptoms brought about by what they saw war and carnage the worst

is now behind them it won't be easy readjusting to life in their home countries almost all have family relatives who are more than willing to help when all is said and done there is some responsibility to be taken here these women came to syria voluntarily and not 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 is still lives that can be repaired. and indeed over in neighboring iraq and our teeth team has been working on an orphanage there where children of suspected fighters were left stranded on functionally with the help of our viewers we managed to reunite many of them with their families. her target.

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children. effect. moving on from its is considering introducing a law which will fix the age of consent at thirteen years old it follows the acquittal of a mom who is charged with raping an eleven year old girl with more on the story let's go to join our team charlotte dubin ski you think following developments this high charlotte what has sparked a proposal to change the law give us some background to this. well thirty year old man was acquitted of raping the eleven year old girl when he

was twenty two years old this is a case it's been in the court system for some time in france now and the fact that he was acquitted of raping this eleven year old girl has caused absolute controversy here in france people describing an eleven year old child as being innocent as being unable to give consent to sexual relations godless of what the situation was now some of the details of this case have been pretty horrific it turns out that the girl who is eleven years old at the time she became pregnant following that sexual encounter and then later gave birth to a child a child that's now in the foster system here in france now this case has provoked the french government to say that it will really look at some of the laws in the cases of presumed consent when it comes to children having sex but that in itself is cause its own controversy because the french government has suggested that the lowest age of presumed consent that it's looking at is thirteen years old.

scandals proposal governments and media what do you have inside your had france will become a tourist destination for pedophilia thirteen years still too young why do we absolutely want our kids to grow up so fast let them be children fifteen sixteen years is an age. for sex questions. well it's not just the only case of its kind in france just in the last few months another man was acquitted of raping another eleven year old girl and at the time we spoke to some children's charities who are absolutely outraged at the court system here in france could deemed that a child that young could give consent for sexual relations now we're at the time when we spoke to them they demanded that there be an immediate change in the law but they suggest that that most aid you presume consent should be fifteen and

certainly not the thirteen that's not being scuffed by french ministers you know thanks for the update on the ballot from paris charlotte dubin ski think. a teacher in the u.k. is facing this missile off to referring to a transgender student also a girl when they identify as a boy i speak to him after this. what politicians do you should. put themselves on a lie. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to reach. out to the right person this is what before three of the people. i'm interested in the water.

hello again the creation of a new european wide army is seemingly one step closer to becoming reality twenty three member states have signed a new joint defense pact called pascoe it's been promoted by france and germany are

europe correspondent peter all over takes us through what this could all mean for the block. 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. and by russia 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 us go 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 where is germany here in berlin they're saying it should be a more all encompassing group which its critics have said could make it less effective

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 were expecting now 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 well indeed on the e.u.'s foreign policy chief federica margaret he said a few hours ago that more than fifty military projects have already been proposed by the e.u. countries taking part the defense pact been tided as a new nato by some but there is worries as to whether that will take place or not

let's take a look what's said. i think it's definitely a step into the wrong direction. because of cause there has been quite a nation among the elements of said european countries 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 it's not a spirit of them 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 tempting 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 military structure and with this germany suddenly it's also having the possibility to do actively 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. the former first minister of scotland is r t's newest talk show host with the first episode to earth this thursday here's a quick preview of what's in store on the alex semin show not just the street political show is about people in the past now it is of the day and find out something about the cut it does behind the public face of these personalities and what they've got to say perhaps even about issues which a lot. 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 kind of anticipated the question i guess they thought maybe from the sun of the daily mail but a bit on the other side the other adequate scan back through the. russia today broadcasting and a counted fifty only about m.p.'s there at the tory m.p.'s fourteen s m b m p seven liberals felician feen today you'd be in the green of all appear on russia today programmes so you know. if it's good enough for john mcdonnell jeremy corbin diane abbott john redwood crispin blunt liam for ian black for vince cable and cullen look at this that i can probably stand there the criticism that the they experienced as well well he's already having to withstand the sort of criticism he was expecting with headlines bashing alex salmond's choice to appear here on r.t. british daily the times for example didn't hold back. mr simon

service for the propaganda outlets of a hostile foreign autocracy does indeed evinced our lack of judgment self-respect and shame even the current leader of the scottish nationalist party summons own party of course expressed her died. hi debbie nost which i was and i would have advised him to seek another channel to air the sure and of course alec is not currently an elected politician a nice fee to meet camp whatever decisions he wishes to meet well i found that slightly older actually because normally the scottish national party the party of the both members of a is normally pretty coherent safe 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 saying is disgraceful the x. politician should the platform and somebody or isn't it terrible that why politics should turn various stations in various countries i believe in

a plural say i believe actually that people should appear or whatever t.v. or radio station or whatever platform they want 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. say it's worth hearing different opinions and not say for all of its failings those do that. if you'd like to make up your own mind about the show it premiers as we say later this week on thursday be alec salmond show that's all the news for this hour i'll be back with more stories of the top of the hour this is our team international. that's geysers line it looks like they say maybe the girl. closer to this is this is a central plank support diagram is the problem right now so you stop to that. one

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go and so the shepherd not said they hit it language presidential campaign is affecting the american muslims who fine. themselves increasingly on the receiving end of rising hate crime. into traumas presidency how will the president's words under citizens of the country islamic minority my guest today trita parsi former informal adviser to obama administration on the hat of the national iranian american council. muslims in america find themselves in the crossfire is once again his presidential plea to the tastes of his right wing base hate crimes against those with middle eastern is once again on the rise a struggle attacks become physical with america's fear of terrorism have tragic consequences for the country's space romack minority how can america and muslims

fend off the attacks against them and what can be done to change the climate of aging. trita parsi welcome to the share it's great to have you on our program. it's a day care seven style trump was elected during his campaign he made quite a lot of anti islam comments but so far none of this really being acted on was it all just a poor way to fire up his base or really hold some kind of grudge against muslims. i think is incorrect to say that it's not been acted upon because it only took him about roughly ten days to put into place to first muslim ban which ended up of course being deemed unconstitutional in the courts he went all the way up to the supreme court but then donald trump himself pulled it and presented a new version of that ban which is also now being blocked and will probably end up going to the supreme court so i think it's he clearly has acted on it i think that

he does so largely because he has a base that has been fed some of this islamophobia and wants to see it acted upon but we haven't seen him necessarily do anything concrete in the region yet short of. is decertifying the wrong deal making the future of the iran deal very on cern as well as what is now happening with the alliance with saudi arabia in which trump so far has backed everything saudi arabia is doing now we're going to talk in detail about the iran did a bit later but before that the council on american islamic relations has noted an almost hundred per cent increase in anti muslim hate crimes in the first of twenty seventeen compared to twenty sixteen why is this happening well i think it's quite clear that this is not something that is coming from the bottom up but it's actually being promoted from the top even during the bush era after nine eleven there was an increase in. muslim hate crime but it didn't

actually really start to rise up until during the obama years when you had a republican party that was very much using a language of islamophobia now you have a president who got elected on a platform of islamophobia so it is quite predictable that when you have leaders using language of that kind and essentially giving a green light for these types of bigoted sentiments that that is going to lead to these types of crimes in society but others a lot of people as accused trump of spurring anti muslim sentiment across the country but research from the pew research center shows that a growing number of americans are actually becoming more sympathetic towards muslims as muslim discrimination a part of the u.s. mainstream media stereo or is tom's anti islam rather exemplary i don't know maybe having a reverse of fact i think is having a reverse effect because a lot of people are starting to see that.