begging for nuclear war north korea claims washington is seeking all out conflict just days after pyongyang. which it says could hit anywhere on the u.s. mainland. among the stories that shaped the week on r.t. the suicide at the hague a former bosnian croat general swallows a vial of poison after his twenty year sentence for war crimes is upheld. the french president calls for military action against human traffickers in libya but critics say he has no right to intervene as the country not yet recovered from the destruction inflicted by the nato led intervention of twenty eleven. the world cup battle lines are drawn for football's finest as the teams discover who they're up against in russia next summer.

your seven day summary of the biggest stories has covered right here on r.t. over the past week my name calling bright welcome to the program first developments in the past twenty four hours also north korea says the united states is begging for nuclear war the statement comes just days after pyongyang launched a new missile which it says is capable of reaching anywhere on the u.s. mainland that caused quite a reaction from washington and the counterproposal from russia. the dictator of north korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war not farther from it and if four comes make no mistake the north korean regime will be utterly destroyed because of those that. the americans should start with explaining their intentions to us all if they are really looking for an excuse to destroy north korea as the

u.s. envoy to the u.n. said it is security council meeting let them spell it out clearly and let the u.s. leadership confirm it then we will decide how to react according to both north and south korea the missile reached an altitude of four and a half thousand kilometers before landing in the sea of japan that's more than ten times higher than the orbit of the international space station right after the launch south korea stage did own missile exercise. it took place close to the border with the new be a prank because of the valdai discussion club in seoul this week that russia presented its a roadmap out of the crisis. what has been donald trump's approach to sorting out the north korea crisis in a nutshell is a sick puppy we are totally prepared for the second option that's called the military option the distance from here to the border with north korea is only about

forty kilometers and once you end up in seoul which is well in the firing range of kim's artillery you can't help looking at that rhetoric from a different perspective especially if there is what you'd call a totally different approach. joe is absolutely no alternative to dialogue but in order to start a dialogue everyone has to start with those take a deep breath and a step back from the red line which will my staff why can we hope that the only option according to moscow will prevail so russia's been saying hey we've got a plan step one north korea should completely hold its missile and nuclear tests for the u.s. that means and ends to almost nonstop war games with seoul moscow calls it a double freeze step too might be very tough direct talks between washington and pyongyang on rules of peaceful coexistence and finally they should lead to step

three establishing a security framework for the entire region with every player involved what do you think about the russian road map i think that the proposal is really realistic flexible. and your cage in the olympic order parties concerned between what you could between nelson so. you know come up with the most risk restaurant he. north korean knew that in the military option it's always under the table. by putting the military option and. under the table. it's not like we change you know screen behavior as the advisor of the south korean president what do you tell them about the drills no you know i personally in the favor engagement dialogue and negotiation with north korea and some people in the government may have different ideas others openly reject moscow's plan like the

neighbors in tokyo who simply can't imagine security without the drills with their allies so for now south koreans have no other choice but to welcome us raptors in co for the vigilance ace war games anyway for those who live in seoul or who are here to talk about keeping the peace in korea there's something to bear in mind be it for war games or real strikes that would put millions of lives at risk the decision to send let's say warplanes to the korean skies may depend on one single man miles and miles away on the other side of the pacific. erik saroj khan is from the lawyers for demilitarization and peace in korea believes that we're on the brink of a full blown conflict. at a time in which there is this standoff and this misunderstanding and lack of communication creates a very volatile situation it may be seem somehow as intimidating but these have

never worked the proposal that anyone who cares about peace in the region is putting forth right now is that these military options are not realistic and you need to sit down at the table and when they do those exercises something could be mistaken as invasion something could be mistaken as live attacks and such and so we put the millions and millions of people in the sole area in south korea in japan and other places at risk this seems like folly and foolishness when we have such a volatile situation. a former bosnian croat general who fought in the bosnian war in the early ninety's committed suicide during a u.n. cold session of the hague on wednesday we're going to show you video of what happened so please people but it does contain distressing images. we're fortunate you know. we're still police don't.

let venture. look. over here so. i have taken poison. his trial was part of the yugoslav war crimes tribunal the incident itself took place right after the former bosnian croat military commander lost his appeal slobodan probably act was convicted of war crimes and given twenty years for his role in the conflict in the former yugoslavia. the yugoslav was the bloodiest conflicts in european history since the second world war tensions between a complex mix of nationalities forming the state of yugoslavia erupted into a bit civil war originate yugoslavia included six republics with different nationalities and religious groups.

the communist revolutionary and statesman tito who established the federal republic of yugoslavia managed to suppress nationalism but to his death in the one nine hundred eighty s. relations among the republics quickly deteriorated with each of them seeking their own independence as soon turned ugly on all sides the nine hundred ninety five genocide in tripoli needs to is one of the bloodiest pages in yugoslav history the massacre of more than eight thousand muslim both the acts perpetrated by units of the bosnian serb army resulted in their commander ratko being jailed for life by the un special court in november twenty seventh. but atrocities happened on old sites in one thousand nine hundred three sixty nine so being civilians were killed by bosnia and herzegovina army forces in the scale on a massacre but an orthodox church in the cemetery burned to the ground. over all despite much evidence of war crimes conducted similar taney asli by different

forces the cia eventually declared said militants were responsible for ninety percent of all crimes including genocide. tonight and they took those into action against yugoslavia it is indeed tragic that diplomacy has failed and later is now intervening in a war in a sovereign country. and eventually nato air campaign conducted a number of operations to undermine the military capability of the boss and me. to this day the un special court is still investigating war crime cases from the conflict. well a total of one hundred sixty one people have been indicted for war crimes in the former yugoslavia since the tribunal began as you heard there atrocities were committed by all sides party to the conflict but longer sentences have been given to serbians and montenegrins counting up the total time of those jail terms serbian authorities suggest nearly one and a half thousand years were given to its nationals that's in contrast to three

hundred for croats in just fifty years for the other former yugoslavia and republics however the un court has never investigated nato's involvement in the war including the use of depleted uranium munitions and some of the cases have been so lengthy that several defendants have died while on trial at the hague the editor in chief of the news website the duran dot com says the tribunals set up was flawed from the very start and major criticism of the tribunals is that it is not being impartial it was set up in the in the one nine hundred ninety s. . mainly at the instigation of the western powers out at a time when the western powers criticizing serbia and its government and the people of the serbian people of bosnia for the war in bosnia now that is a problematic steps because when the same people instigate the setting up of the tribunals after they have already identified who they think is

responsible for a war it becomes very difficult to expect that tribunals to act impartially. the french president has tabled a new plan to combat human trafficking in libya that involves military action but emanuel macross proposal is drawing wide criticism as the previous french led intervention in libya left the country in ruins as more advanced you have explained . slavery and human trafficking of violent offenses sadly common now in libya but no need to fear president macron is here he has the solution for libya's problem send in the troops to tunisia to zone we are proposing police military action we are not waging war but this is a country in a political transition political transition he calls it does sound better than as

savage civil war more politically correct nevertheless a number of african and e.u. states are ready to help fight this war or rather not really a war says macron but a military operation still round two for france in libya. today we're intervening in libya we are intervening in order to enable the libyan people to choose their own destiny it must not be deprived of its rights by violence and terror the fact that slavery is so rampant in libya is because the country's army and political order were obliterated under nato bombardment six years ago since then libya has been stuck in a brutal and bloody political transition as president calls it or absolute chaos and anarchy as anyone outside call it as long as it is

a failed state the problem will come back as a failed state because the regime of at our feet up was not a mass regime but he says that was destroyed by the french and british together in two thousand and eleven. a bit wider perspective for you here's how the modern slavery problem is spread throughout the world africa comes out worst of seven point six people per thousand of population is followed by asia and the pacific and then it's central asia and europe coming in third but interestingly enough france it's so. as apparently become a key human trafficking hub at least according to the u.s. state department a report by them lists the country as a destination and transit point for men women and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking and this week we spoke to an assistant of the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi but yesterday about sheer chaired the eight billion dollar libyan african investment portfolio and also manage the gadhafi family's private funds this is what he told us.

for the hardest it's not right to see gadhafi betted say the libyan government the libyan government left about two hundred billion dollars in various banks abroad and the u.n. has frozen the money in accordance with the security council resolution and when it comes to the money inside the country those who came to power after his afi claimed there were one hundred sixty tons of gold billions of dollars in libyan dinars in the central bank when gadhafi moved from tripoli to search he took nothing with him and. an accomplice of the older than i was government official not was how i dealt with sarkozy as an official the french media pie and other media outlets claim that some people met with me and then there was a decision taken to pay fifty million i said i have nothing to do with that. alone. nothing is known about that there are good afi statements and sarkozy

statements not better believe because after all. i don't know this person and i never met him if he says he would recognize me if he sees me that's a lie he's taken money from someone he should reveal from whom exactly but anyway that's a french problem not libya's. our thirty two nations or battle it out for the fifa world cup in russia next summer discover who their opponent will be on friday as the draw was made for the group stages in moscow here's how the aid groups look kicking it all off on june the fifteenth will be russia and saudi arabia at the capital's newly refurbished luzhniki stadium groupie meanwhile sees perhaps the most anticipated time of the round pitting rivals portugal and spain against each other russia will also welcome some debutants to the biggest sporting stage with iceland playing argentina in their first ever appearance at the world cup we've been catching up with some of the managers who are taking their teams into the

tournament. i think we've got a group of players that. contrie over eleven million to produce these sort of footballers are something to be proud of the biggest job we have to be able to see the players working hard for each other but enjoying the responsibility of been seen as one of the best generations of belgian football has ever had. we have of course belgium who we know everything about them so. i think that game will capture everybody's imagination at home we feel an exciting thing a team that are only going to get better but we are a team some experience of those big matches. we have to give. you know we are really proud to be qualified for the world we know it will be very difficult. but we are not going to do all good just to stay on the

beaten to so you can go straight to the next round. we will have to make the best decisions we can during the tournament starts in that game against portugal there's no such thing as a good or bad opponents will have to have a victory against the teams we've been drawn against the match against portugal will be a great event and a russia is expecting more than half a million fans to come and support their countries next summer close to three million people applied for tickets when the first batch went on general salah head of the draw and supporters of course have already been sampling the atmosphere in some of the venues for the event earlier this year at the confederations cup.

we when so much mexico russia we thought maybe the like going to be bad we want that's completely opposite they were still playing the lead friendly russian people are so friendly friends and that's the east being me was a beautiful guy there from people who would come back from work to see if he'd be any. more makes them would. not if you go tickets for russia twenty eight take me to forward to saying is that right the cryptocurrency because he has been hitting yet more record highs among all stories when the week he returns after the break. there is no center in the united states political discourse it's all center right

ever since the clinton people came into power the center right has become the right and there is no peace party that exists in my country and i don't see any evidence of it except this third party that is so criticized the green party. global war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles that strong. new socks credit tell you that because of the tabloids where shall. i tell you you are not cool enough to buy. all the hawks that we all love walking.

on saturday french police arrested an iraqi gang that was illegally smuggling around forty migrants a day to the french port of cali and then on into britain last week i also witnessed two violent incidents involving people smugglers and migrants here's how one police officer described those events. the kia vehicle approaching a traffic checkpoint c.r.'s police went through the roadblock he then knocked down a place officer who was trying to stop him my colleague shot at him nine people in the vehicle including one smuggler in another incident an altercation took place between migrants and smugglers smugglers opened fire on migrants injuring five people one seriously because of the height of the migrant crisis and twenty sixteen kalai experienced a huge influx into the so-called jungle camp it was used as a base by people hoping to then travel on into britain the camp was demolished last

year. says. by. police officers

a more than fed up i've been doing this job for twenty six years quite long police union career i can remember times when so many colleagues came to me to say they wanted to leave the police for me it is shocking it is shocking because i do not feel them motivated any more they take in between a rock and a hard place and ministration the legal system and citizens they do not know any more where they going they do not know any more. the deputy mayor of kalai thinks the government should provide more support in dealing with migrants and deport those who commit crimes it is unbelievable after all the problems we've met in the past that. the government is not taking more action against those people. and it is really only realistic it's a bit away from the city center but it could happen to the city center if somebody illegal in the country. young even if he's young if an offense is done

a serious offense is done most be sent back to his country human rights advocate keith best believes that removing the jungle campaign kalai has only made the situation worse destroying the jungle taking away the original refugee camp which you may remember was there some years ago in sangatte itself the run by the red cross those don't help they only exacerbate the situation the fact that the police were stopping many of those refugees getting to a hand out of food for example that just makes the situation worse it's a very very complicated situation. cryptocurrency bitcoin has been hitting record highs the price of one coin right now is over eleven thousand dollars that's up from around one thousand the beginning of this year here's a quick look at how the technology works.

well been discussing the risks of investing in bed going with the financial host max an economics professor steve king. it's such a huge right across encourage people looking at the ceiling of go to be there the entry cost is so unless i'm buying a house and hoping the house model appreciate so people are dogging him because the

process is rausing but that's one of the definitions of a bubble bitcoin is not a bubble the u.s. dollars in a bubble they feel that currency world is in a bubble stocks and bonds you could argue are in a bubble something that's not a bubble would be a big coin you've got the dollar that is crashing in a hyperinflationary crash against bitcoin isn't there a really strong argument that it's being used speculatively as a store of value but actually way can you actually use a bit going out to many places in the come on you can actually spend it and isn't there a danger when people realize that the pony can sell that story value it's being a it's a there are hundreds of thousands of transactions now a day hundred thousand emergence accepted going to the real estate market being up ended by pick on you can buy high end properties went big client but again the timeline here has to be considered the travel from being a store of value to a means of exchange is going to take another few years because even though you can boil those things with it you'd be immediate to buy those things now because if you wipe ten weeks you can botch washers many go through each obs as many so it's

a process to stabilise now my worry is when it stabilizes what will happen to that process i don't think it's going to necessarily reach the stratosphere at a hundred thousand dollars and then stay there if you get to the stage where the only returns you're getting out of big coin modding of the transactions then i think the process to fall dramatically you have gold as a case study gold is used takes a lot of energy to produce gold gold is used as a means of exchange as well as a store of value it's been around for quite some time because it is gold to point out the motherlode it's still taking over the global finance in this way it's putting feet of money out of business and the bankers on wall street are running scared jamie diamond is literally you know peeing in his pants at this point because he knows he's going to be out of a job in five years we don't need the jamie diamond of the world ripping us off we don't need wells fargo stealing money. out of accounts we don't really just b.c. funding the drug lords in mexico to the tune of billions of dollars we don't need those bad actors in society and big going gets rid of all those financial

terrorists and it's about time somebody stood up and did battle because the government's not doing it the academics are doing it so we have to coin to do it. and that's the way the way. say that so from a cold and right thanks very much for watching the next edition of the weekend's without me falling about half an hour. with lawmakers manufactured sentenced to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous. listen to the woman. in the middle of the room sick.

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