the french and american presidents make a show of their friendship as they meet in the oval office although key disagreements remain. a saudi coalition air strike hit a wedding party in yemen killing at least twenty people and injuring dozens more. i'm. a human rights group releases a video from the west bank showing an israeli soldier cheering after shooting a palestinian protester with a rubber bullet. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our two international

incheon thomas. to have you with us now donald trump has heaped praise on his guests and i know micron at a meeting in the white house the u.s. president called the relationship between america and france a special one and he had his own unique way of showing it. but the united states lonely frogs thank you. mr president the old saying what a great relationship we have and they're actually correct it's not fake news finally it's not fake news so it's a great honor they don't know that you're here but we do have a very special relationship in fact i get that piece of. peace we have to make room for years for it so it is really it is really great to be with you and your special project now a lot of the basis of recent unity between donald trump and french president mccraw

on has been the recent attack on syria france and the united states along with the u.k. cooperated in the recent airstrikes in syria now it seems pretty clear that mccrie on was hoping that this recent attack could kind of lay the basis for a continued cooperation between the united states and france kron has been referring to the united states as kind of a gerund turf contemporary multi-lateralism however when he brought this rhetoric up at the white house donald trump didn't seem quite eager to go along with it in the long run we need to bring peace want to make sure that syria does not become an enemy in the region be we have spent seven trillion dollars in the middle east and we've got nothing for it nothing less than nothing so far as i'm concerned that difference and striking rebuff from trump is a little bit of a blow to him across on especially when he himself bragged about the possibility

that he had convinced donald trump to keep u.s. military forces in syria now donald trump says that that's not the case but mcclellan has been insisting that it's him who is responsible for convincing trump to keep a military presence in syria trump later went on to underline the fact that the. united states will be leaving syria as soon as they can as far as syria's concerned i would love to get out i'd love to bring our incredible warriors back home when it came to the iran deal just an hour before the press conference donald trump and the french president they were both very adamant in their positions trump was at that point saying what he said for a long time which is opposition to the p five plus one conclusion in the nuclear deal were as mcclaren was saying that there was no good plan b. that they needed to stick to the nuclear deal people know my views on the around it was a terrible being old should have never ever been made we could have made a good deal or a reasonable deal the original was a terrible deal we have to take you as

a part of the road because your trip which is security in the region it's insane it's ridiculous it should have never been made but we will be talking about what we want to do it contains iranian residents in the rigid and d.c. view it's part of this role rather good not going to be restarting anything they restart it they could have big problems bigger than they've ever had before and you could mark it down they restart the nuclear program they will have bigger problems and they have ever had before but after sitting down with the donald it seems that mcclellan has changed his tune somewhat this is mccraw on after meeting with trump . people should any barnacle for a number of months i've been saying that this was not a sufficient deal but it will enable us at least until twenty twenty five to have some control over their nuclear activities if we therefore wish to work on a new deal with iran but mr president you were saying that there was no plan b.

. not enough the. deal was to be preserved no you were talking about a new deal with a boundary why did you change your mind to you david but when i said there was no plan b. if i usually refer to the fact there is no plan it be brutal it was about climate change rather than iran's to put it. simply what do you have a better option i don't see. what is the what ifs and i all your plan b. i don't have any plan b. for nuclear against against iran thank you. thank you. thank you thank you. all right the french president added some symbolism to the meeting with president trump by presenting him with a tree sampling and on the side of the two leaders digging

a hole in the white house garden got plenty of attention on twitter. little poor going into that so it was a great author to take part these are personal and these veterans are they call witness trees that that lived through the war seen around you have continued to grow. looks like they're burying a body like a body of allah dying people kristie ha ha get it prompting across from paul ryan spine of the white. which pink floyd album is based the tsunamis branches look like tiny tree hands to strangle. the soprano season is the best. we can cross live to dennis francesca who is the french national front

representative in the united straits denis thanks for being with us here on r t international so we're going. the united states and france in fact france is america's oldest ally. and trouble appeared to be the best of friends at their meeting do you think that this was a genuine connection between the two leaders or is this all just for show. i think it's is all just for show i mean for about a year you know micro and the french media has just hated trump and there's certainly no trying to appear to be like the new body wealth person my crown i think they just had to show that kind of face value to the world after what happened you know in syria so do they have you know interests in common yes probably but i do also think that it was you know mostly any major that was created for the past twenty four hours one of the things that we've been watching carefully is the iran deal micron in the past has been

a proponent of the deal that is in place but now he has called for a new iran deal despite earlier insisting that the current deal needs to be respected and so is he backtracking in order to keep the u.s. happy or is there some end game that we're not aware of. i think the interventionist in syria you know house prove and also to him and to his staff that france was not happy about it could we have a long tradition of i was sick being cautious about those type of interventions and i think i'm not saying he's backing up right now but i think he's more cautious and that's what he was talking to do but this plan until two thousand and twenty five to make sure you know that iran will be respectful of all the international wallace . i think that. he doesn't want to reproduce the same mistakes. now of course you know what happened in syria i don't know if is true or not it's

very hard to decide with prison micron we have acquired the right to be suspicious and you bring up syria. trump has said that he wants to get his troops out of syria mccrone claims that the new u.s. needs to be persuaded to stay. what is like a key difference in the strategy here. it's very strange because the we spend millions of euros with there this intervention had no strategic values especially that we know that syria held by russia has a right to create about ninety five percent of fundamentalist groups far. so. i said that my friend should have instead. of work on stabilizing this region instead of just continuing this war i'm surprised actually that trump american president with the you know history of you know going to wars into

a part of the world is just like jill's the there's been a shift of characters and now you know mccrone wants to you know. go to war and. play a trump is more like you know let's we have done what we should have done and that's just let's go back home so that's a very interesting you know switch i would say that we have witnessed today and i'm not sure what michael has in mind but i think he will be definitely like triggered between france and the media and french people said you know we have nothing to do there and he is international interest so one thing that we've been paying attention to as well is climate change it's on everybody's mind micron has repeatedly condemned trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate agreement and impose tariffs on european steel do you think the in or do you see rather any

sign that they can agree on these issues as well. i'm not sure i mean we have expect that we have been sold last year has during the presidential in france that michael will basically save the world you know he was this new guy. did you miss arias to speak and so we don't know is what we witnessed in your to stay with donald trump you know like switching his mind very often we see the same coming off of behavior with michael so i'm not sure i do believe that he will try to convince don't trump on that issue i do not believe you will succeed it's going to be interesting to watch as this plays for a vote right now and making a great show of it dennis francesc in the french national front representative in the united states thanks for being with us here on our two international thank you good night. human rights groups are demanding answers after

a saudi led air strike hit a wedding party in yemen the bombing raid killed at least twenty people and injured dozens more this according to local officials but some reports suggest as many as fifty people died now a bit of a warning following video that we're about to show you of the scene is quite distressing. i seven year old boy can be seen clinging to his father's body they are said to have traveled a long way to attend the wedding the man's body was reportedly the last to be taken away following the air raid as the boy refused to let go and many of the victims were women and children. i was the bridegroom on and i was our friends gathered in our place and were hit by an airstrike many and some people were killed and injured.

this is my nephew who was injured last night by the airstrike he's two brothers were killed. well we contacted humanitarian groups for their reaction human rights watch said the saudi coalition continues to target civilians and refuses to compensate victims oxfam condemned the attack and called for an investigation meanwhile the saudi military says it is taking the report very seriously and will conduct a probe saudi warplanes have been bombing yemen for the past three years the intervention was launched to prop up the yemeni government against shia who the rebels the united nations has described the conflict as the world's worst humanitarian disaster earlier my colleague colum bray was joined by the former head of the red cross in yemen who explained just how much needs to be done in the country. why didn't the family in and there is a problem with

a structural collapse of the system in yemen you have problems of water you have problems of sanitation we in the international red cross we try to fix those problems otherwise there would have maybe not be any running water and so on anymore so there is no doubt that what is coming into the country at the moment is not enough and more should be done humanitarian aid is to some extent allowed in but the problem is that more is needed to ensure a decent level of life for the population otherwise the country goes downhill the problem is is one of a structural decay. yemen is not a country like you can find another come. hell is where with village a little infrastructure in yemen you have a lot of infrastructure and this particular infrastructure is falling to pieces and we international organization including the i.c.r.c. we try to do what we can to support these structures but of course we can only do

so much so i do agree with you that bringing back the country on the back on its feet will be a long long lasting tones and that sounds like it's a technical problem that needs dealing with that aid is somehow just a front line is to do with water and food but it's not it's a there are few doctors the ones who are there are being paid the very structures of what the country needs in order to keep rolling and keep facilitating just our very them and it's not only one of the most serious crisis that i've seen it's also as you point out one of the most complicated i have seen and i am afraid that this is becoming a feature of some of the conflicts you know some of the conflict where i work at the begin of my career were very poor country there were poor before the war poor doing the war unfortunately poor after the war very little infrastructure so in a way very little too to reconstruct and the problem was we logically should i say simple to deal with here you have something which is extremely complex you. infrastructures which are falling to pieces up to the point that on the whole

system we have commissioned a study from well known british school that's going to carry out a full study of the health system in the moment to two to know where we are today in yemen you were very serious crises there was a food crisis there is also a crisis that has led to one million suspected community of cases of cholera last year in a matter of six months it went like bushfire in twenty two years in the i.c.r.c. had never seen something like that and feel like an almost impossible task though because you broke almost a year ago quite passionately about your experience in thai ease the difficulty of getting into certain places just what kind of uphill struggle is there for aid workers once they get again unfortunately we had a tragedy three days ago where one of the staff of the yemen delegation was killed in today's and and today i cannot help but think about him his family and and wife and this you know explain is

a stark reminder that working in human remains extremely difficult we do it under extremely difficult circumstances in because of. extremely. tense hard fighting taking place and do the doing this work documenting the cases is something that takes a toll and sometimes takes a toll on the lives of our colleagues. israeli human rights group abet salam hasn't released a video showing a soldier cheering after shooting a palestinian with a rubber bullet in the west back. ah .

we asked the israeli defense forces to comment on the video they replied saying the behavior seen in the video is not what is expected of an i.d.f. soldier but they pointed out that the commander was heard instructing the soldiers to act professionally and the israeli military also said that appropriate action will be taken over the incident the scandal follows three weeks of deadly unrest on the israel gaza border thousands of people have been rallying by the border fence each friday in a so-called march overturn calling for the release of palestinian prisoners and more than forty palestinians including four children have been fatally shot by soldiers now an israeli general has defended the use of live ammunition against people who try to breach the border fence and attack soldiers he said that in such situations fatal incidents are sometimes unavoidable to migrate storage sometimes when shooters small body and you intend to hit is almost shoulder it goes even higher and the picture is not a pretty picture is the price that we have to pay to preserve the safety and

quality of life of the residents of the state of israel and that's the price. on the israeli army accuses hamas which controls gaza of using children to carry out acts of terrorism the i.d.f. released this picture appearing to show a group of boys trying to breach the israel gaza border fence and the israeli defense minister echoed he described as cowards use women and children as human shields however the head of the palestinian national initiative told us that the protesters on the border pose no threat to israel. well it's something that i have seen myself during peaceful demonstrations the israeli army uses lethal weapons against peaceful demonstrators i would presume north over to the soldiers and they are celebrating the fact that they are killing palestinians it's very clear the i.d.f. do you have a case to answer here because of those civilian casualties as the un have said you have said what would you say to those that have said hamas or the parents of those

children are responsible as the i.d.f. of said for bringing these miners very small children to a protest where violence is likely to happen it's young people yes but mainly everybody is but is it with the men women and we've been getting to hummus and to other groups to give to people not to use military forms but to use peaceful nonviolent demonstrations for sixteen years we've been advocating nonviolence and today they accept our methods of nonviolent resistance all we want is for the world is to know the truth and exercise pressure on this country that which is israel that claims to be a democracy why using force in this manner. your government is spending billions of dollars on bolstering its defenses in space and again as more. military defense hollywood style united states air force has opened its high ground of space for day to other nations other air forces who dream

of making such a claim but what if their dream became a reality never expects something trust to turn against you. with. millions give you facts paint your boards infrastructure. so. you. will compete and will win. the u.s. has unveiled its latest splurge in space with a plan to step up security on its satellites not just its own those of its allies to the concern is that potential adverse stories may be capable of hacking or disabling the satellites we were watching hardware as we know is crucial to communication navigation and intelligence gathering all things that would be crucial in the absence of war and it's hope that by sharing this information with its allies that would deter any potential attacks but is just the tip of the

iceberg because space warfare is the big defense trend right now which the new black don't take my word for it ask the u.s. top brass of the air force i cannot think of a military mission that does not depend on space russia and china are developing capabilities to disable our satellites as the u.s. things ahead with its space odyssey it's pouring in billions and roping in the likes of space x. is a long muskrats proven he can not only deliver but he brings the goods fast but with john king of satellites is one thing the question now is how long will it be before we see actual physical attacks in space well some think it's just a matter of time before american forces find themselves fighting from space we're going to say whether this is the case or not one thing's for sure the u.s. is deterred. and to remain a leader in this field the curator of warfare has changed we invasion

a constellation of nano satellites always the predator never the prey and one person on able to contain his excitement is the u.s. president space is a war fighting domain name just like the air and sea we may even have a space force develop another one space force with the air force one of the space schools we have the army the navy now you might think there's no no war regulation on taking things a step too far in space but in fact there is almost a decade ago one hundred seventy eight countries voted on a u.n. resolution to prevent a space arms race only two countries abstained the u.s. and israel washington also blocked a joint russian chinese effort to ban all weapons in space so perhaps an inkling that the u.s. has long been planning on staking its claim to the stars we talked to physicist and

arms control researcher dr mark go broody he thinks of the space threat is being exaggerated. as to the specific stair the specific threats i think much of this is exaggerated actually. the notion that some other country is going to attack the united states sort of sit in a scenario of attack on civilian infrastructure via space i think is quite overblown are mostly some people in congress almost entirely republican and these are the people who have been pushing this idea i don't think the military really wants to lead to an expanded budget could lead to more money for the contractors and i could very well be some of the motivation for people in congress to be pushing this idea i think it's high time that americans woke up to that and realize that we need a different policy we need a policy that would seek to avoid war in space too who i weaponization is based on how she didn't gauges proposals for arms control in space. the german

chancellor angela merkel has voiced concerns over a new wave of anti-semitism in europe since the start of the migrant crisis. noire we have a new phenomenon as we have many refuges and one whom there are for example people of arab origin who bring in other form of anti-semitism into the country i fortunately anticipate isn't existed before that. the leader of the belgian league against anti-semitism told us the german chancellor needs to do more to tackle the problem. saw i hope that some get a message to say it will be followed by deeds by action by legislation and not on the you know the republic to comment on the recent events it's not an issue for jews actually it's an issue for europe jews are the first target but when jews will fall the other will follow more and more people will think that. they will be able

to clear the play which is islam is with which is the far right they should keep in mind you die of boss now jewish communities are facing a similar problem in france french politicians and prominent figures are now pushing for attitudes to change as part of a manifesto against anti-semitism they signed a petition denouncing a quiet ethnic purging that is being driven by radical islam among the signatories former french president nicolas sarkozy and his wife carla bruni actor gerard depardieu and former prime minister manual valls we demand that the fight against this democratic failure that is anti semitism becomes a national cause before it's too late before france is no longer friends. france has the largest jewish community in europe with more than half a million people a recent study found that there was a twenty six percent increase in violent incidents against them during two thousand and seventeen and in many cases this is forcing people to leave france the

president of the belgian league against anti-semitism again believes that we are seeing a worrying trend. but is very new in this article is that they go to the core of the problem speaking about some verses some sort in the koran calling for a game jews and christian against the nonbelievers. to change this to make it actually can make it up so late that could be part of the solution it's not a fight between muslims and on most teams it's a fight between openness between tolerance on one side and on the other side you have darkness you were in toronto you have a. nuke a defense secretary has claimed his country needs to reassess the threat from russia we have to be realistic about the challenges the

challenges are posed by russia or are far greater than the challenges presented as an insurgency in terms of iraq and afghanistan you know edge the russian threat top of the agenda at the g. seven meeting in canada officials described moscow's behavior as irresponsible and a destabilizing and the british foreign secretary called for a joint effort against moscow what we decided was that we will going to set up a do certain group that would look at russian malign behavior in all this money frustrations whether it's cyber war whether it's this information assassination attempts whatever it happens to be and collectively try and call it out we asked a u.k. veteran of the war in afghanistan what he thought about the defense secretary's comments. greatest threat to britain security internal and external governments in london. my qualification to speak to one operational tool with british i

mean how man dot com is standing twenty twelve there was only one thing that truly scared me join my military service and that was the criminal cult that since the british came out and now is a civilian won't think that scares me most is the options a my government the greatest threat to security future prosperity. over fifty days before the world cup kicks off in russia r.t. star studded team is traveling nationwide checking out the preparations for the biggest sporting event of the year and this time legendary goalkeeper peter schmeichel has been seventeen hundred kilometers east of moscow cutting board his full report airs here on wednesday but here is a quick taste of what's to come. this

is the arena and it's one of the most extraordinary venues to host the world cup matches this. now i'm going to produce my old gold. so i could perform as a little bit like a football player as a professional athlete.