thank the u.s. leader in the philippines where he is where his visit has been met by violent protests. but you know. the u.s. president is again offering to help mediate in the region's conflicts as he dives into the south china sea dispute we'll look closer at his arbitration efforts and also to a landmark deal between moscow and the kurdish military helps bring dozens of russian speaking children safe and home from syria after their parents joined islamic state and the fate is starts in france as officials proposed to lower the age of consent to thirteen after a man is acquitted of raping an eleven year old girl. well can you watching our international this monday evening which just turned eight

o'clock here in moscow our top story donald trump is in the philippines on the final stop of his five nation asia tour he's held his first formal talks with present due to the summit of regional leaders and although the two did he preys on each other on the streets of the philippine capital the american leader didn't receive the warmest welcome. hundreds gathered again in the year following sunday's violent demonstrations against history police employed water cannon and sonic weapons to disperse the crowd let's go back to the summit though because if there's one thing that should be second nature to don't trump at such gatherings it's his presidential handshake but it proved to be quite a challenge when he took to the stage with his fellow leaders. actually on the rightful ruler in one two three.

get there in the end of me and in fairness to trump he wasn't the only leader to struggle with it as for the more important business at hand the u.s. leaders been positioning himself as a pace maker in the region he's been offering to mediate in the territorial dispute over the resource laden south china sea well you know. while the disagreement over the area does involve several countries and both land and sea are contested an estimated five trillion dollars worth of trade has passed through the route every year the president of the philippines for three go to a had this warning though for those seeking to influence the region so hard has would like us to come from china and the rest of the world on so many issues the so china sea is better left untouched nobody can afford to go to war in

a day or two takes a closer look now donald trump's latest attempt to promoting his peace keeping services abroad. u.s. president donald trump the mediator and arbitrator or at least the 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. 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 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 have done. 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 to make the greatest missiles in the world greatest minds in the world really is commercial interest and so we would like to buy from us as little doubt trumps a good businessman but also we also in the beginning would anyone call him a good mediator and all the traitor that they were to to altie. and asia affairs analyst andrew long says that donald trump's office offers sorry are more about scoring points for the u.s. than finding diplomatic solutions. 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 causes problems for countries dealing with the united states because he was american first american always wins that the other party is very loose. sees most. diplomatic activities in terms of monetary gains in terms of economic gains will be in august. something walang truly to the group of commons. now in other news this evening russia and the kurdish military have come to an unprecedented deal that could allow dozens of children to return home after their parents traveled to syria to join islamic state with the details he is . with isis now on its last legs flights like this are becoming

a regular thing russian citizens looting the wives and children of isis fighters being collected wherever they're found they've surrendered or been captured and taken back to russia to rejoin their families it isn't often that a high ranking syrian kurd 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. they came from all around from rocka theirs or my idea and 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 iran . that's when the first tried to flee ourselves police and imprisoned 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 us plus 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 if you had a high rank would be on your side otherwise you were nothing but

a year from the very beginning i wanted to leave syria but didn't know how there were in a way promote husband and try to reach the kurds maraca they 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 war and carnage the worst is now behind them and. 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 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. i was at more aghast d.f. reporting well in neighboring iraq cannot say the same has been working at an orphanage there where children of suspected eisel fighters were left stranded and thankfully we are pleased to say with the help of us today we have managed to reunite many of them with their families but. i should like to take up that model was it was an unusual. move or is it what the menu by numbers that we're. now we're. looking. at the option.

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prosecuted for rape though because there is no evidence that what took place was without consent surely devinsky takes a closer look at the story. well the 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 actually 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 well that's led to french ministers discussing a proposal to change the law to create

a presumed age of consent in france but ministers say that that presumed age of consent could be as low as thirteen and that has caused extreme controversy here in france with many people unhappy that a child at the age of thirteen could be able to say yes or no to having sexual relations scandals proposal governments or media what do you have inside your had friends 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 reasonable for sex questions well it's not just the only case of its kind here in france just in the last few months another man was acquitted of raping another eleven year old girl another time we spoke to some children's charities who are absolutely outraged at the court system here in france could deem that a child that young could give consent for sexual relations now one other time when

we spoke to them they demanded that there be an immediate change in the law but they suggest that that lowest age of. consent should be fifteen and certainly not the thirteen that's not being scuffed by french minister shot at the reporting that we got some reaction to this from people in powers but strategically thirteen is the first stage of a teenager i personally think it should be the age of consent should be sixteen at least i think that's what it is world wide don't sway to. i think thirteen is very young to decide and each i guess fifteen is the most reasonable age for sexual decision. is easy to manipulate a person of the age to consent that's terrible thirteen is young enough for. washing out international so they had twenty three e.u. member states to sign a defense pact that could pave the way toward

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go out of my way to market is the impact of. the john oliver of marty america's doing the same we are apparently better than. the c. people you've never heard of redacted the next president of the world bank very. seriously send us an email. welcome back to the creation of a unified european army could soon be a reality twenty three member states have signed a new joint defense pact called pascoe and it's been promoted by france and germany our europe correspondent peter oliver takes us through what this could mean for the book. 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. now the former first minister of scotland is artie's talk show host with. this this day so here's a quick preview then of what's in store on the alec samaj show. not just the street political sure as a people and personalities of the dea and to find out something about the characters behind the public face of these personalities and what they've got to see perhaps even the issues which a lot. normally released to their or to their their business or their political political views i think that's of interest as well to see something of 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 haven't disappeared that question i thought maybe from the son of the daily mail but a bit on the other side i'd a quick scan back through the. russia today broadcasting and a counted fifty only about m.p.'s thirty eight tory m.p.'s fourteen s m b m p seven liberals felician seen today you'd be in the green of all appear on russia today programs so you know. if it's good enough for john mcdonnell jenna corben die and john redwood crispin blunt liam fox ian black for vince cable and cullen look at this that i can probably will stand there the criticism that the they experienced as well and he's already having to withstand the sort of criticism he was expecting

there with headlines bashing alec soundings choice to appear here on r.t. british daily the times for example didn't hold back. mr sturm and service for the propaganda outlets of a hostile foreign autocracy does indeed evinced our lack of judgment self-respect and shame and even the current leader of the scottish national party salman's own party expressed her. hadn't been asked 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 and he's free to meet care whatever decisions he wishes to meet well i found that slightly odd actually because normally the scottish national party the party of the both members of a is normally pretty cohesive well i think it's very all the situation 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 isn't it disgraceful that x.

politician show 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 poor our will 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. saying it's worth hearing different opinions and for all of its failings those do that and you will be able to watch and examine show then here on r.t. that's how the news looks a far tonight more for me just over half an hour. i fear that we may see the iranians taking the first steps towards restarting the nuclear program which will only further ratchet up tensions and further increase the risk of the war the big danger here this is not just about killing the video this is automatically putting the united states on it was

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