have enough food that they will know you're also often misunderstood in our intentions right there this is one one of the things me because of again the cold war mentality i mean again it's always spock aged in some western media that this is correct this is so wrong you know so we have to judge countries actions and lead there said the rector gives case per case you know you're going to everything the us the us is correct or you can oppose or say everything the us is wrong so we need more objective but the reality is. you know media tries to give the facts but also leave. their worldview so this is where social media and direct communication comes in unfortunately it's sometimes called fake news it 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 transparent 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 russia 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 that vehicle is exciting motorcycles you know i ask you specifically about it don't you think this from what i knew if you actually built one nuclear power for but it never went into operation because building wind of that was 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

use of nuclear power itself or aid or help or fresh air or russian technology the issue of more of it's the location of where the nuclear power plant is that the controversy is more if we should build there because there are strong feelings given the history but in so far i ask operation in this map that we've signed agreements where very our scientists are very excited by point of science and technology our department of energy is excited that the way work with your. agencies in atomic and nuclear fields ok well secretary we have to take a very short break now but he will be back in just a few moments. united

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welcome back to worlds apart but alan peter thomas secretary of foreign affairs of the. secretary we mentioned the situation in. before and i think it would be fair

to say that both the attack on that long destructive siege that followed deep fears among asian countries as well as across the world that isis may seek to expand in other locations after suffering defeats in syria and iraq just the other day we heard the devastating attack in indonesia perpetrated by a whole family including four children the whole return from syria do you in the philippines understand how to deal with your how good you are all. first of all our hearts go out and we express our condolences to all the victims of terrorism worldwide even here in russia you are no stranger to. extremism and acts of terrorism. it was a painful experience you know fighting. your own countrymen and fighting extremists you know it was the first time that there was fighting in

a city in an urban setting it's usually outside and sunni they say that you know if there are religious undertones or society or historical differences but here it was just filipino against filipino in the name of a pervert dead. and i will write to you say on one occasion that there was a real danger at one point of time. forming from being a battle between terrorism and the. war that the danger is there the president is in the best position because he's seen this he was going around the camps already saying watch out keep a keen eye you know it will just take it's like gasoline spread all over and it just takes a spark and he knew at that time that syria and iraq would soon stab allies and the diaspora and isis would be defeated and where we'll go the couple hundred or a couple of thousands of southeast asian jihadist fighters who joined where will

they go how do you think these people should be dealt with because the eights not only the fighters it's also the families it's also the children again the indonesian recent internation example shows that the children could also be used as he said bombers well you know. it should be dealt a no nonsense father with a firm hand but then open heart you know no one wants to scold or put in jail or stand in the corner his son or his daughter you know but if you lose your lad these people back into your house and. i know that they present a potential danger if they are terrorist then they are a trip to all nations to all people having said brothers in the govt have to communicate that to us there's need for rehabilitation there's a need to communicate to their families that they have been rescued and not captured you know but there's so much to be done from intelligence sharing from

taking out the fertile ground to for recruitment of that kind of mentality so poverty and crime and drugs put together just creates that fertile ground of breeding extremists and this kind of ideology now you mentioned already did that the united states and the philippines have just. joint military exercises to build on the lessons of the siege involving some eight thousand troops from both sides as well as a small contingent from australia and japan is that a sign that your political relations with the united states to be restraint as you sad over the criticism about the war on drugs. is it a sign that that relationship isn't proving well i don't know the term military to military. relation you know never suffered. it is fact friends they do tend to say that there is an exercise this would be suspended we suspend all of the exercises

in the south china sea and with regards to certain aspects of the eight thousand you mentioned today it was more for disaster prevention so yes we focused on that and he's keeping it that way what i'm saying is that if people two people the relationship is still strong military to military relationship be strong and you know russia and china have never said to us and never interfered with our relationship with the united states so that they don't have such close to the million ties yes but that makes the relationship strong when you respect the bilateral relationship before. her friend with the other friend you know this isn't grade school or high school way and if you fight with a friend you want all your other friends to fight with him or do you know you have to have much your relationships and that includes security and defense arrangements now speaking about maturity and leadership present to terrorists personal style his temperament his sense of humor sometimes compared to that of donald trump do you find that comparison flattering. you know they're both authentic speakers they

say or do a tweet what what they want but you know in the philippines he's been compared more with president put in political determination political will a vision of what to do in the country remember the problem with the there is just not only who and what they do in the direction but also the circumstances at home you know it's very hard to judge a president donald trump he's a good friend to the philippines but he is in a political circumstances where there are you know challenge just in all fronts so we have challenges with the u.s. congress challenges with the n.g.o.s who are using human rights as a political weapon challenge just sometimes with the state department but we're trying to build those bridges you know but in the meantime president that there that this is really care who it is compared to you know he just wants to do a good i understand that it's very easy for the leaders to publicly shrug that kind

of that kind of criticism and i think it gets to you and when your country's being maligned over and over again it's it's not pleasant especially for you're dealing with some real life but president that they're the best and care as far as he's concerned he likes president trump they have a good connection they talk frankly but this fire as the president that is concerned he very much like see he's called president putin one of my idols you know so and he says it's none of your business if i like him or not now incidentally. president trump also has his own druck epidemics to tackle and correct me if i'm wrong he has not only refrained from criticizing the philippines over the conduct of the war on drugs he actually sat and praised president for the quote unquote deliverable job joe job on the drug problem does the philippines assessed chomps efforts to address the american opiate crisis in the same way do

you even analyze what the end of the demo the president has said that he's very supportive he has empathy he understand what the americans are going through unfortunately the. us and western media do not understand that there are different challenges when it comes to drugs. now a president is talking about opioids but in the past it was about more of cocaine and cocaine and methamphetamine have different effects in cocaine it's a health issue with the person but that person doesn't go around raping people killing people raping two years old shooting their father met them fit the means have that effect and that's what they were trying to. do you can counter that with saying that even when you have a mentally disabled person committing a crime you do you put him through an assessment and that's that's what we're doing

but this human rights groups wants to legalize prohibited drugs and it's making it appear there's an even the you end up with two and said there's no evidence that this kind of drugs need to violence so even with the mentally disturbed person you know identified a dangerous dangerous to himself or herself then just to family and do remedies so we are just remedying the epidemic of drugs illegal drugs in the philippines respect president trumps efforts but we also recognize said that human. rights and drug issues have become so politicized you know that we're not discussing it in the level to solve it but to criticise each other and helpful. secretary i notice that the war on drugs is pretty much the only thing that the western reporters ever ask you about and i don't want to focus on too much as that but i do want to ask you one more question on on this issue i came across a poll from last year we suggest that seventy three percent of filipinos worry

about becoming victims of extrajudicial killings and that's about as high as the general public support for the crusade again against crime so that leads me to conclude that people supported that goal but they're a little bit apprehensive about the math do you share because it depends on the question in the poll so if you ask do you support so for example if you say do you support nuclear power and you get eighty percent and then a fall out happens somewhere and you ask the same question are you concerned that the fallout will happen of course your answer will be you know but look at the later polls nowadays you know people are seeing that we have safer streets people are seeing that yes there are abuses but this was because of fund abuse of police force not because of precedent that there is this directive and with us now by modern day quick men more surveillance more c.c.t.v. cameras there more assurances to the public that you know this drug is

precisely against those who violate the law and those who are violent you know president there has told president trump and president has listened carefully that we don't shoot people in cold blood but did the american media report that president that there did not discuss human rights so you know they're focused on the form that on the substance they did discuss human rights in a manner of a friendly nations respecting each other sovereignty what would you say to those who claim that they detect administration has been a bit blinded by this and to drive campaign and overcommitted police and army resources to counter the drug problem at the expense of other security challenges which. could have the situation we describe discussed previously in the romney well we care about the filipino we care about the philippines and we know that we would have would open up the day that we were narco state if we don't do this so we don't

really care that much about the people who has the luxury to provide solutions that didn't work or were given the chance to solve the problem and didn't in order to problem so any country with an existential trap is always criticise that they focus too much on that trip but precisely why you call it the next the stench of trip it's a threat to your existence so if we don't believe that if we didn't if the president didn't put that focus will wake up one day that the all the families in the philippines have problems with drugs with violence and narco state that we've already seen generals we've seen the politicians we've seen hype officials we've seen billions millions thousands of vessels in drugs we've saw a cache of cash and drugs in mirali so i think we prove our point that it is a real danger to us and if other people want to ignore it if other n.g.o.s want to politicise it that's their problem but we'll deal with the real problem secretary

and force do we have to leave it there i really appreciate your time very late to shape this the fortunate thank you and i encourage our viewers to keep this conversation going on our social media pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here on worlds apart. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies who create interviewed by whistles with simple song alone events like on the biggest elsewhere though they can find private companies to take over the

utilities many by the telescope was allowed to go. by been this is. a more you will deliver bill broader locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than war it's about the hurt and the redistribution of. their debt downwards the one dollar. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race move this off and spearing dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

back. in the stories that shaped the week sixty palestinians die and hundreds are injured after the opening of the u.s. embassy in jerusalem triggers rioting on the israel gaza border but washington votes against an international probe into the killings. the european union vows to defend its companies against u.s. sanctions after washington. pulls out of the uranium nuclear deal. looking at the latest if it was there for them. the world could see them fitting. with friends like that who needs them at least. and in crimea europe's longest bridge opened six months ahead of shared joy linking the peninsula to the russian mainland.

this is the weekly news round up here at r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. the u.s. officially moved its embassy in israel to jerusalem on monday sparking faith a long rest on the gaza border the protests have become the deadliest for four years. water the more you remember this morning. q. this is true. but at the top of that with the alert we extend a hand in friendship to israel the palace that is and to all of their neighbors may

there be peace we pray for the peace of jurors the talk of a. protocol. to live. live. on. the opening of the embassy went ahead to shed fuel despite more protests outside the gates of the new compound. reports from the scene. angry crowd has gathered there protesting against him to see meet the needs raid police are trying to keep the crowd at bay why you have. i'm here to pose

a decision by the u.s. administration to relocate their embassy in the heart of the contested city in the heart of the city for thirty five to forty percent of its residents are living under occupation most of them are not citizens of any state in the night of basic rights i'm here with a group called all that's left for the diaspora jews against the occupation we're here because we oppose terms and to see who we think it's playing with the lives of israelis and palestinians alike in our lives and if it is not a game. tb and israeli parliamentarian why what do you what do you think about the whole incident. in a demonstration which has been licensed by there's been a police but immediately after we arrived they attacked attacked a member of the knesset just because we had it been true the question and for them and then they are. pushed us to the back we are here to see that jerusalem east is

ok if i did it today it could be the capital of the state the funniest thing that tensions are definitely running high hair as you can see face scuffles and clashes and we're being pushed forward and backwards was a lot of anger. on what happened let up in fact right behind us the heart of the firefight up to me till the data of this shit is really i don't think i've. come. up on it this coming as the embassy just across the road is opening so while the world is witnessing crum pictures of a historic occasion of the two we see them in a sea opening just across the road are these kind of scenes i'm sitting where there's a lot of anger and out of frustration and a lot of disappointment that the american government went ahead with this move. well the israeli army has defended its use of live ammunition on the gaza border

officials said rioters were hurling fire bombs at soldiers and trying to breach the fence here's a closer look at why the status of jerusalem is such a divisive issue for israelis and palestinians. jerusalem is a city that's been a point of contention for nearly a thousand years ever since the first crusaders arrived to drive the muslim population away for nearly two centuries the area was governed by christian congress under the name of the kingdom of jerusalem but the end of the thirteenth century had been a crusade of the holy land and up under muslim control with so much turbulent religious history today the area holds significance for christians jews and muslims alike all regard different parts of the old city to be their holy sites and since the formation of the state of israel in nine hundred forty eight israel considers jerusalem to be its capital the subsequent conflict with their arab neighbors so israel captured and annex the entire city of jerusalem the move has never been recognized by the united nations stands firm on the idea of establishing the two

state solution where israel and palestine exist independently so by president trump announcing moving the embassy to jerusalem is on the line that the u.s. recognizes the holy city to be the capital of israel for the international community value goes against the notion that any change in the city status should come through negotiations and not like unilateral action. well we discussed the long running dispute over jerusalem with three guests. already here in israel some people around us want us to expose tolerance to those who declare that they want to kill us who declare that they want to get into israel by movie by clutching called by a guy falls poorer than me they're just you know all of the regional hundred military stories very our other ones are exactly i. have not heard or under some years later in that i was only two for for eleven years your start up is always

what policy has brought to the world where we have anything resides raises schiffman and. a lot of n.r.a. anything jews are now a small minority and that population and the more of a minority they become the more undemocratic. and racist israel becomes there are zero israeli injuries zero israeli casualties over two thousand palestinians injured over fifty seven palestinians killed including l.o.l. how sorry how magic. what do all of the do protests hamas is not my favorite organization hamas is a politically bankrupt group which has completely failed to exploit israel's gross gross contradictions and to use them

against the this increasingly raissa state i have something to tell you we want to stop the policy in the future the two state solution is the international solution it's not the palestinian solution alone i do believe still that there is a chance for this solution but it will take courage and it will take resolve from the international community to step up. well some of america's allies have criticized the decision to relocate the embassy calling it a breach of international law some of that criticism was voiced as an emergency session of the u.n. security council on choose day over the us ambassador nikki haley insisted the move did not undermine the peace process it has no bearing on jerusalem's holy sites it does not prejudge whatever the parties might negotiate in a peace agreement it does not under mind the prospects for peace in any way and yet

for some this is supposedly a cause for violence. well the u.n. human rights council has since voted to launch an international probe into the deaths on the israeli gaza border but the u.s. is opposing the move. and reports the day that the american embassy was officially moved to jerusalem was a day of great jubilation for american and israeli officials. this morning. but across the palestinian territories it couldn't have been more different in beleaguered gaza there was nothing but suffering and chaos our greatest hope is for peace the united states is prepared to support peace negotiations united states is prepared to support a peace agreement in every way that we can and i don't think it hurts the peace plan. the peace plan will be introduced at the appropriate time there was certainly

not any criticism of any of israel's extreme use of force by anyone in the trumpet ministration hamas terrorist 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 who finally get some wise as to how the my.