not any criticism of any of israel's extreme use of force by anyone in the trump administration hamas terrorists backed by iran have incited attacks against israeli security forces and infrastructure so israel is not responsible for shooting mostly peaceful palestinian protesters some of whom were just children shot down by their own soldiers but if you're a place israel with syria suddenly nikki haley's heart bleeds for the dead in far less clear cut situations. yesterday morning. we awoke to pictures to children being carried in the arms of desperate parents yes all the talk about human rights does not apply to palestinian protesters they do not get america's support because they're not protesting in the right country. big protests in iran the people finally gets unwise as to how the money and wealth is being stolen and squandered on terrorism looks like they will not take it any longer the

u.s. is watching very closely for human rights violations with israel all bets are off on world press freedom day heather now it was all about championing the rights of journalists that is until somebody mention gaza we see all too often that journalists continue to take great risks to pursue this important work would you also condemn the recent deaths of journalists and also in the gaza strip look there are unfortunately a lot of journalists who die all around the world i'm not going to be able to list every single death of a journalist and we understand that israel has a right to defend itself back in april yasser move a palestinian photo journalist was wearing a jacket clearly marked press was shot by israeli sniper now if this was intentional it could possibly constitute a war crime by israel but heather nauert thinks it was self-defense either way she doesn't have time to talk about every journalist who's been killed and apparently

his death doesn't fit in with washington's agenda caleb mop and artsy new york. on wednesday north korea threatened to highly anticipated talks between kim jong un and donald trump. is furious about ongoing joint military war games conducted by washington and south korea. there are exercises that are legal there are planned well well in advance we will continue to go ahead and plan the meeting between president trumping kim jong un the drills come at a time when pyongyang and soul are enjoying improved relations with north korea as well as are angry about remarks by top u.s. officials saying that it could suffer the same fate as in libya. auntie's but i guess dia looks at how the last deal between pyongyang and washington. we all know

what carrot and stick diplomacy is but these these goes beyond that way beyond their will get private capital that comes in north korea is desperately in need of energy support electricity for their people we can deliver that and as i said earlier this week we can create conditions for real economic prosperity for the north korean people that will rival that of the south talk about extremes not so long ago people were seriously talking about nuclear war those with a penchant for the dramatic really made the best of the opportunity north korea best not make it work threats to the united states. they will be met with fire fury. like the world has never seen well north koreans must be sighing in relief instead of fire and fury they're now getting the carrot will they have to do is give up nukes nice let's just hope they have short memories

so i think iran is on notice and they are going to have to make a choice are they willing to go down the path which i think ultimately will lead to greater prosperity and security for iran. giving up. the acquisition of nuclear weapons or will they continue down a path that is going to lead to confrontation or quit the radians gave up on nukes dismantle their program complied absolutely with every requirement in the end it didn't matter they gave up nukes and then america took back the whole perspire ity thing we'll see how we do with the rand probably we want to very well with them but that's ok too they've got to understand. life because i don't think they do understand life when life gives you lemons make

lemonade so long as trump doesn't take the lemons to regardless perhaps this time things will be different iran was a one off right wrong i am pleased that the united states and north korea yesterday reached agreement this agreement is good for the united states good for our allies and good for the safety of the entire world in one nine hundred ninety four bill clinton made a deal with north korea north korea could tells its nuclear program and the u.s. builds two nuclear reactors for it to compensate energy loss gives it hard for million tons of fuel per year and normalize relations they never built the nuclear reactors they never sent any fuel and they never signed an official peace agreement you're seeing a pattern here right perspire it seems to be the carrot except what no one seems

the realizes it's dangling not for tasting that just life they've got to understand. life because i don't think they do understand life. supporters of the parties that look likely to form italy's next. government of od'ing on their proposed manifesto the five star movement has already confirmed that its members are in favor of the program now if approved by all it could pave the way for the formation of a government eleven weeks after the election the level that we did something new for the history of the italian republic we outlined program point by point we have to respect. the euro skeptic likely coalition partners have outlined several key areas ranging from pension and tax reforms to a major review of treaties with the e.u. it also includes a new approach to the refugee crisis italy is currently experiencing and to russia

viewing moscow as a partner and not as a threat. object to the contract it's a really nice. list to everyone even the only european level now from now on. the reality i hope to change the cetacean they're too young resourceful and brave men. and i'm voting yes i vote yes although i'm not the least member because i think this iteration you need to leave has to change are still to come here on the weekly on r.t. international over twenty thousand people reportedly evicted in tanzania and that's in the mix of the weekly in just a moment. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the

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i could have you with us today africa has promoted itself as a safari holiday destination catering not least to what all travelers through like this. though it appears the reality on the ground is often less rosy so far have been looking to expand their territories according to a new study has led the government of the east african state of tanzania to mass of indigenous communities at the evictions began in the early two thousand tensions arose after some twenty thousand people were allegedly left homeless last august

and september alone i would nearly six thousand homes deliberately damaged some of those affected have told the story. we got to come out of the fight. or not we got the model was kind of like that across that because i want to forget that it was when i met. about thirty. one and i whatever you know we don't but i forgot that while your. on the go with a come on his human arm and we got on a like a lucky. you know side loop i was a. close and the idea was in a suburb. called why do i. need to know my cousin. in the hope that when i. go to those. who are mom then the one visit to one is over for good assess come out in the legislation and landlubbers in the name of conservation the government or tanzania has been

dispossessed in the indigenous kluges these legislations have been used to basically do not i them aside their access to grazing lands their access to water holes but not just that it has allowed some of the safari companies that are operating in the area to conclude that the local officials who have been intimidated who have arrested and beaten the villagers because they have tried to use their ancestral lands we also find that they have been violent addictions and these are all being carried out in the me most rewarding tourism are some of the noise and in the absence of food it has led to widespread hunger managership and disease the kind of disposition that the report priest you shills that the again not just be forced out of their homes and lands with their messiah been forced out of existence. the head of one company probe thompson has so far as i strongly

denies being involved in the evictions as director rick thompson as they also work with local communities in the government to improve access to water however activists on the ground do tell a rather different story even look for example what happened back in. government and mixed it to people from an hour and five times and yet the cost at least but it was so much of our mission and now we're well the house is well you know full well the logical. side to go. there was a little in the planning well. you know when you live in that place you wrong you have a structure you have a little social status and now you hold it just to the forests so if you ask me well i must say how. well they out you when you've been told. russia has issued a diplomatic memo to ukraine raising concerns about the safety of russian

journalists in the country of this comes off to security forces raided the kiev offices of a russian media group and detained its director karylle efficient ski who's in charge of ria novosti is ukraine bureau was detained on tuesday for alleged treason his relatives have not heard from him since his arrest. now after efficiency was arrested a ukrainian security services also broke into the offices of ria novosti ukraine the searches lasted more than eight hours the houses of journalists working for the agency will also searched now there has been a high level condemnations of kiev's actions many organizations are accusing the ukrainian government of an attack on media freedom and demanding visions keys release and we discussed this with our rachel denver deputy director at the european central asia division of human rights watch she says complaints over media freedoms in the ukraine are on the rise. under no circumstances should the

government be criminalizing speech and media activities that groundlessly and ukraine i think this is out of line with ukraine's these raids and detentions are out of line with ukraine's obligations to protect media freedoms there's a there's an obligation to provide some kind of transparency about what exactly is grounding treason charges that's an extremely serious serious charge that carries a hefty prison sentence so they get a cut they need to come forward with what it is that's causing the grounds for this charge because working for you know working for ria novosti or having a russian passport or not grounds for her treason charge we and other organizations have have been expressing i think more frequently concerns about media freedoms in ukraine. i want to thank for sharing some of your sunday with us here at r.t. international law much more of the weekly in about half an hour.

when lawmakers manufactured them sentenced to public wealth. when the right wing closest to protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lives and be the one percent told. to ignore middle of the room sick. i mean real news in the real world. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on off and spearing dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical

time time to sit down and talk. welcome to worlds apart the united states and the philippines have a curious history together once a colony down a staunch military ally when you least now are trying to take steps to redefine and rebalance its relationship with washington and by extension some of its friends and

foes how is it going so far well to discuss that i'm now joined by alan peter secretary of foreign affairs of the philippines secretary it's a great pleasure great honor i'm welcoming here in the studio thank you very much for coming on for the honors mine thank you very much for having me now your visit to moscow comes at a time when. you can't even describe the relationship between russia and the united states intelligently i mean it's a it's a big mess and i don't think we can even put some label on it i wonder if you believe this trip of yours will be noticed in washington where the friends in need their friends in the russia the russian federation president putin came today the philippines while we were fighting terrorists and now mara we and we owe it to russia to also come and show our friendship where there are world issues are not being discussed our bilateral relationship is strong and we want it to be stronger

now let's discuss your relationship with the united states first because obviously it has a much longer history then your relationship with russia i heard you compare your relationship with a washington to that of a family with a kid who came of age and wants to try and he's a her own. on path which means meeting with people that apparently do not necessarily approve of and do you yourself come from a very well placed family i'm sure you on earth you have carrots requests and everybody else's is that how the philippines relates to the united states these days well my father a filipino from the smallest town in metro manila and my mother is an american and my mother my father loves my mother very much but always said that the americans cannot dictate to the filipinos what to do and it's up to the filipinos to chart their own destiny precedent that there comes from this generation of appreciating

the history noting that there were no points in the history times that we were taken advantage off but nothing also that the strong military ties and the aide and the help and the people to people relationship there's three point five million filipino americans or filipinos in the in the u.s. having said that you know it's like you love your parents but they can dictate your life to us a little about the secretary i think in every functioning family the parents remain the authority figures even after the children leave the house this is what i'm trying to get from you how much of of an authority you have vast in the preferences in it in the opinions of the united states at this point of time well that's precisely what we want to change you know. we we will not swallow hook line and sinker that we have called one or the same interest when our interests they verge

we will pursue what this in our best interest when their common interests we should pursue it but gone are the days when anything that the west or. american to say is good for us you know we're not in the cold war i came from well some people say we are in in an even worse period than. there are students today students for international relations from the cold war mentality we should have the coldplay mentality you know and it's all about fixing ourselves about you know seeing the light and being honest with each other we live in a motor polar world and the u.s. and other great powers have to find its place in the new world order now this new policy of independence is associated first and foremost with president reagan to terra there who judging from polls remains quite popular among your country man but as you yourself never tire of saying the philippines is a democracy and therefore can elect somebody with

a totally different vision help us understand here how much of the current poster is tied directly to the president his personality and how much of it is institutionally driven that bill outlast him. well in the sense that president that that made no gave no illusions and joining the campaign said this is how i'll treat china this is how i will treat the u.s. i don't want any one dictating upon the filipino people i'm accountable only to the philippine people so in that sense it's very institutional in the sense that it's very personal it's really the president under our constitution that dictates foreign policy but our constitution says independent foreign policy meaning a foreign policy for us but in the past we've always said whatever the u.s. or the west that's right for what is your sense of your own people's desires do you

think that kind of irene taishan is going to stand for longer than four years that he has it now my godfather was always telling me in the time that we had walkmans if you asked anyone do you want an i pod no one will say i want an i pod because you didn't know what it is' you didn't know what i tunes to us so you know we're now discovering what the independent foreign policy is what it is to have mature friendship with the us what the hell in them that we want a mature relationship with russia we have a dispute with china but still we want the relationship with china and the rest of the world so it's too early to tell but i can say there's a lot of excitement there'll be a lot of benefits for the chinese people the filipino people the russian people we have a lot of chinese filipinos but when the former president went again to china they were just quiet so now there are some noise there some people are quiet in the u.s. but they know that the people to people relationship you know but still different

from the international relationships of state to state now there isn't asking you because the philippines is definitely not alone in adopting this more versatile foreign policy what you say is very slim. to how for example the pakistanis. describe their relationship with the united states and other actors it doesn't look like a broader trend the question is and it is often asked by our american colleagues is whether it is likely to make asia more or less stable i mansour question by a direct example so you talk to the americans and they saying they're increasing their presence in the south china sea and in a sea because. the chinese are also getting more aggressive in building some defensive posture and putting military assets on some features in the south china sea and according to the americans the sea lanes there are too important for world com worse you talk to the chinese they'll tell you that seventy percent of their

economy passes through that channel and commerce is too important to that so both are saying the same thing but from an opposite point of view so what do we do if filipinos believe the pro chinese are doing be pro america or do we tell both of them were pro filipino and you guys have to talk and work out this region. so that the us in a sea and the philippines will be caught in between so i think it's not just a trend it's the right thing it's really difficult not to be caught in between especially as time just but it's not the cold war anymore there's no left and right through right than wrong or evil and good you know it's a multi-polar world you have bilateral relationships you have multilateral relationships you have transnational crimes you have to resume so you know we have to get we have to find a way not only to live with each other but to find the world order where all of us have an opportunity for great and i ask you though we just discussed

a little bit the complexity of your relationship with the united states how you try to rebalance it while retaining the positives i'm sure your relationship with china i mean it follows a different trajectory but you would agree perhaps that the call. that is just as complex and challenging on a personal level on professional level who do you find more challenging the americans or the chinese when you negotiate. say said in think back in the us the americans are veterans but we're saying we're off to college and allow us to pick our own friends the chinese are roommate you know they're close neighbors so regardless what we do with each other and how we treat each other it's going to affect our economy our people are security. you know so. the complexity comes in not in the bilateral relationship but in the overall. regional and world grieve agrees and in the world order so it's equally.

challenging but we are speaking this frankly to our american counterparts and to the members of the u.s. congress who care about the philippines and we think to a frank discussion you know we'll get somewhere now you just mentioned your talk at the council on foreign relations last year and in that talk you also suggested that the russians i'd be cautious of pursuing a relationship they philippians because of the says deeply ingrained called war perception of your country as a very very close american associate not even an ally it would say i think more like an associate more and ate how far have moscow and manila gotten. have in practical terms my perception is that both in moscow and manila there were policy makers who say you know take it a step at a time be cautious this just might be a connection between precedent that within and president there are very good talks

between prime minister medvedev and president you know but from that time on you know we have had for example we were buying arms from the u.s. and because certain members of god. and that's where making noise about alleged human rights violation you know when we need that the most it to us and there but here comes china and here comes russia despite policymakers in beijing and moscow saying let's be careful let's see what's happening you know took a leap of faith and came to manila and don't get me wrong the u.s. also helped us in malawi and the australians the japanese you know and we appreciate this but what we're saying is that we want that much your real friendship we may be a smaller country well that that friendship also has a material benefit to all this and this is all it's not only friendship but we're not that far away i mean russia or not and i have

a perfect question for you on the subject because i think you have some very funny amazing metaphors i heard you say that with ten million filipinos living abroad the you guys x. print in long distance relationships i think we here in russia and a bit more said that to me tend to develop stronger ties with those who are either close to us and these dos we can reach to territorially through land what could possibly breach this eight more than eight thousand kilometer distance bits been in moscow and manila discovery i think the more we discovered russia and the more russian discovers the filipinos will find out that we have a lot of things in common. we both have a strong sense of identity and are finding our place not only in society in the world but both of us just you know want to get along with the rest of the world have enough food that they know we're also often misunderstood in our intentions

right that this is one and one of the things me because again the cold war mentality i mean again it's always spot caged in some western media that this is correct this is so wrong you know so we have to judge countries actions and leave their said directives case burke. you know you're going to everything the us the historic or you can oppose or say everything the u.s. is wrong so we need more objective but the reality is. you know media tries to give the facts but also leans. their worldview so this is where social media and direct communication comes in unfortunately it's sometimes called fake news that sometimes is but it's sometimes actually a different world view packaged as fake news by powerful people now i know that russian particularly is interested in marketing its nuclear power and transfer the expertise to the and to the philippines i wonder is that something that may be of interest to you particularly the nuclear energy issue from what i understand it's

quite a contentious subject in your country we are interested in everything that they saw russian and we hope that we can interest russia with everything that's filipino from our warm hospitality to our beautiful islands countryside mountains from your sophisticated military hardware to your transport them vehicle is exciting motorcycles you know i ask you specifically about it then you can take us from what i knew if you actually built one nuclear power for but it never went into operation because building wind of the us that infested with corruption we pay of course u.s. . company under the guidance of international financial institutions the us which corruption has been exposed in the last few decades so the contention it's not the you.