populists and euro skeptics in italy and the commission in brussels it's a his fate does not lie in the hands of the financial markets regardless of which political party may be in power italy is a founding member of the european union that has contributed immensely to european integration the commission is ready to work with italy with responsibility and mutual respect italy deserves respect as i said those elections in italy could come as soon as september and between now one polling day will show to be a lot of people keeping an eye on what comments are coming out of brussels with regards to which feet which direction italy should proceed in the future well the euro skeptic coalition failed to form a government after the italian president rejected their choice of finance minister he was seen as anti european the president then appointed a pro europe prime minister sergio math that earlier since granted italy's two populist leaders more time to form a government to stave off

a snap election the five star movement's n.e.p. ignazio crowd believes there's a problem with democracy in the. it was a lie that mr suborn out the minister was appointed the from corps lieschen of a five so moment and the league was going to blog blog blow up the eurozone or make equally exit the european union that contract to the wall nor main show of exiting the eurozone norman swan of leaving the european union this is a big lie that was created by the mainstream and all the same this political party this is a majority of people do you believe x. or exercise the. brain in the choosing price choosing represented their representative in the parliament and then this majority is top to buy something there is a problem of democracy there are countries the thing to do you on your own to

belong to there and i'm referring to germany of course because for example what the commissioner appointed by the german government to say yes that mr good thing or said that. the markets have to teach italians how to war as i was mentioning before we cannot accept that we are going to play the role of be calling me or some other counties. now the top diplomats of russia and north korea and you to meet in pyongyang foreign minister sergey lavrov arrived a few hours ago here when we see north korea's foreign minister young home in slab rob his first trip to the country since two thousand and nine and comes weeks before a planned summit between the u.s. and north korea although it's still unclear whether the talks between donald trump and kim jong un will go ahead the summit was recently thrown into after military drills between the u.s. and south korea and mixed signals from the white house.

and to discuss this further we can now cross live to former u.s. diplomat james actress jim thank you very much indeed for joining us to talk about this north korea again they right before the russian foreign minister gave a brief statement ahead of this summit that let's just take a listen to what sergey lavrov had to say we but your blue sky day she says we support the developments relations between the two koreas embassy in pyongyang and washington we hope the negotiations that have been announced will not turn into an ultimatum the task of denuclearization cannot be solved in one stroke it will require a gradual approach with consistency in patients well the gentleman had a lever of what to say i mean what you expect to come out of this meeting between the russian and north korean diplomats. i think my hope is will come out of it some some kind of realism let's be aware there are a lot of people here in washington who do not want this summit to take place and they certainly do not want any kind of accord between north korea and the united

states idea that this could be a gradual process which i think the president trump is open to a gradual process of denuclearization exchange for a step by step change in the relationship between washington and pyongyang is a realistic one but i think here people here would like to present the north koreans with an ultimatum which of course will will will not solve the problem let's hope that this have a look back to two recent events i mean of the recent meeting between the leaders of north korea and china i mean donald trump there was very disappointed let's just listen before we before we go forward to what donald trump had to say then i will say i'm a little disappointed because when kim jong un had the meeting with president xi in jonah the second meeting the first really we knew about the second meeting. i think there was a little change in attitude from kim jong un so i don't like that. change just i mean do you expect any further shift in north korea's position after love

rob's a visit. no not particularly i think what is going to happen is the north koreans are going to be open to talking with the united states but they're not going to just give up everything capitulate and exchange for what amounts to worthless paper guarantees from washington that they won't get khadafi and i think one of the things they're really threw things off track and maybe they're getting back on track was talk from national security advisor john bolton and vice president mike pence about a libyan model which was i think just waving a red flag in front of the north koreans that this was a very dangerous kind of exchange for them to be engaged in but i hope they are getting back on track with a much more realistic set of expectations well before he left sergei lavrov he mentions the three phase right now from regulating the current the korean crisis and the first step involves what they call the freeze for freeze that means north korea should freeze the nuclear tests south korea should stop their military drills

i mean do you think that plan could be in implementing given what's been happening recently on the peninsula it could be at always could be a look that's been on the table for months and something rather like it took place during the olympics in south korea although at least the american side never acknowledged that in effect that's what we had now we had a little dustup a few weeks ago that about u.s. . military maneuvers with south korea the participation of b. fifty two s which the north of north korea found very threatening and in fact mr trump pulled back so i still think that there's the possibility that some kind of a trade off of freezing our military maneuvers and freezing their nuclear missile program is on the table and i hope that that's that's the course we will take and also in terms of recent events as well u.s. secretary of state might bump a or he met north korea's top official as well i mean do you think that was preparation for the top summit or was there something else behind that. no i think

it is and i think mr pompei i would like this to move forward although i can't be sure you compare for example to his all to made him to iran to be there is a certain misstep here between the way we've handled these two things on the what had a nuclear only agreement with iran is not sufficient in fact we pulled out of the j.c. peel way but we we demand that iran accommodate us a whole raft of issues but then we say we're willing to turn around to the north koreans and say no no we're only talking about the nukes you don't have to do anything else well which is why i am a little skeptical that some people in washington will be happy with the notion of a deal just on the nukes and that it may not be an immediate giving up of their nuclear capability and then finally jim on that basis then on given what you just said you think north korea could become less isolated in the short term i think it could but i think it would be a gradual process if there really would involve some flexibility on the part of the

united states and look at i think one of the real drivers here is clearly south korea which has let's let's not forget has very good relations with both china and russia wants to participate in eurasian integration and geographically is isolated from the mainland of which is geographically located because of the problem with north korea i think they would love to see infrastructure pipelines rail and other communications from russia and china down to south korea through north korea and a reintegration economically of the peninsula and see what happens there and particularly given the events that are coming out now jim jack just former u.s. diplomat thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you. but meanwhile donald trump has repeatedly called the investigation into alleged collusion with russia a witch hunt but according to one democrat that's a move straight out of the kremlin's playbook caliber weapon explains. according to a top democrat in congress if you use the term which on to and you say it over and over and over again which of which are and which you may be

a dupe of the kremlin listen to maxine waters talk about trump he's a lying about which but you notice he says which over and over again he has learned some of the russian tactics about how you you know deal with getting people to believe you you say it over and over again so repeating something over and over and over again is a russian thing that may not be the wisest thing for the democrats to say they've had the same song on repeat for roughly two years russia has hacked into a lot of things the criminal clan russia was meddling in our election russia undermined hillary clinton tov or russian hacking operation taken place by russians intelligence committee says that russia is behind this in some form it's goal to do with russia and of course ian brown sugar rush is a russian so if trump invented the term which why did the democrats use that exact same term back in the one nine hundred ninety s. when bill clinton's sex scandal was all over the headlines smells like

a double standard to me speaking of double standards remember how the democrats pounded the podium against gina haskell the new cia chief there are two reasons that i oppose this nomination miss haskel support for torture and her willingness to destroy evidence of the cia's use of torture and i have serious concerns about. her confirmation and what kind of signal sent this lady is the real do i'm telling you we're here with everything we possibly think she answered didn't flinch at all well it turns out that while this controversial interrogation program was going on democrats in congress were getting briefings the entire time and did nothing about it and now after the dog and pony show at the hearings is over gina haskell is getting the job and why is gina haskell the new cia chief because two democrats voted for her to an intelligence committee looks poise. to indorse president trump's pick to head the cia gina haskell today this clears the path for her confirmation of cia director if she gained support from democrat senate democrats

back when she was secretary of state hillary clinton was always criticizing countries around the world for their human rights record she even pushed obama to send cruise missiles to libya back in two thousand and eleven supposedly to defend human rights yet at the same time her personal foundation the clinton foundation had no problem getting donations from the very countries that she was criticizing and sooty arabia giving twenty five billion dollars are all of these countries you talk about women and women's rights so these are people that push gays off the buildings these are people that kill women and treat women horribly and yet you take their money so the democrats talk one way and act another i'm not sure where we're finding all these russian tactics they're constantly making reference to because they seem to be practicing double standards all along. r.t. new york. seven years on since the start of the war in syria is it finally

coming to an end does the country's president have a nickname for donald trump what i guess the of minutes bashar al assad has a preview of his exclusive interview. if anything the syrian civil war is growing hotter on the ground by a child assad is winning the rebels and islamists are in retreat unlike their backers forces from five nuclear powers are now directly engaged in military action in syria each determined to win with salvage what they can on the ground which makes the perfect ground for an escalation an escalation that no one wants but one that nobody would be able to control in the exclusive interview with r.t. syrian president bashar al assad has shared his thoughts on the coming future on the precarious dangerous and fragile months ahead and on the endgame

of this devastating war with regards to the united states relation to would you president trump was called you quote animal asaad you have a nickname for the u.s. president. this is not my language so i cannot toothy miller language the says his language you to prevent him thing there's a very. no in principle but what you see is what you are so you want to prevent or to hoof. it anyway. you didn't move anything and if this kind of language who did anything. for four for anyone the only thing that moves you if what people that you trust are people who are liberal headed people who are thoughtful people or moral if because that would move anything

to do with a positive or negative somebody like tom we will not inform him. of the full interview with the syrian president premieres on r.t. in a few hours and the times are on your screen it will also be available on the website at r.t. dot com. president trump has appointed a new u.s. military chief in afghanistan left on and general austin miller becomes the eighteen as commander in seventeen years since the u.s. invasion despite the high turnover the latest us watchdog report says the campaign has brought little good afghanistan. it is good.

right. and some in afghanistan had hoped america's presence would show in a new period of peace and stability have paid a heavy price as r.t. samir khan explains back in august twenty sixth an afghan man named his son after donald trump but that was before television for the white house now after being inspired by trump's business achievements outlined his books the afghan man hope that giving his son the same name would bring about the same sort of luck but in the us we're very happy to do the best politician and i hope he will become a politician like donald trump as well i gave my son this name to make him lucky

and i want to see him is smart and mindful and story. but that's backfired miserably the family was driven out of their hometown because his community took issue with the child's non muslim name now he's reportedly fled afghanistan after seeing the reaction to my son's name and also the taliban directed assassination of the man who wanted president trouble medal i don't feel safe this comes after the taliban assassinated one of the afghan men who minted a gold medal honoring the us president back in january cold in the b. and his friend a far hot party raise money to produce a special gift for donald trump to thank the state department for a toughened stance on pakistan we are suspending security assistance security assistance only to pakistan at this time. intil the pakistani government takes decisive action against groups including the afghan taliban goal nobody was killed by the taliban and that's according to a taliban spokesperson sadly appreciation for donald trump isn't exactly body armor

his friend who was involved in producing the medal for a party now fears for his life and he blames that washington for failing to protect that. the americans are all friends and can help us in fact we were deceived because we thought the americans really appreciates all work and our intentions we thought the u.s. is a superpower and values friendship but it doesn't look nearly seventeen years ago the u.s. invaded afghanistan to eradicate terrorism but after all these years to even those who still have trust in washington it seems that it can't be protected so meric on our team washington d.c. . and altie reporter has been denied entry to the french president's residence where a conference on libya was taking place cattle call to cough filmed what happened on his mobile phone. this is something you.

don't know mr six young woman who wanted to see if you should live safely you should live with it look up this it was like about him with a gun yes it is true but it sure did. like the assumption that dr bell. most of the first time that this channel has been blocked from covering an event by the french president's team last year r.t. correspondent kelly boyko was prevented from entering my new math class headquarters for the first round of the presidential election campaign despite being promised accreditation i think is a. little more than. it or you might have made that day. was going up for both the holding cell as our. independent journalists nuclear very thing smirk or is trying to control the media coverage of his actions

this is a bit funny you know way you know that most of my court decides who is a good journalist and it was a bad one but the problem is that we are getting deeper and to this system of organizing to news the press is not welcome in the immediate environment of jupiter mccloy he doesn't want the press any more the fall presidents were accompanied by several cameramen something journalists are going to use them sometimes this channel sometimes this other channel and people will welcome at press conferences this is finished now he has his own cameras and it is edited the pictures are edited before they are given to the real press so that the press doesn't like it they don't like being manipulated by mr michael. well for more on these and plenty of other stories that go to our website artan dot com otherwise i'll be back with the latest headlines at the top reacting again.

the imaginary time here we're going underground as edinburgh's the annual general meeting of the bailed out majority nationalized royal bank of scotland ahead of possible tory government privatization coming over the show with the murder rate in the austerity hit british capital overtaking new york city is police censorship of music videos on you tube a sign of desperation we speak to someone who represented one hundred twenty thousand cops steve white former chair of the police federation and taking our liberties that's what growing them seamlessly for the exits newest track which claims inspired by successive drazen may scandals from when drudge to grant fell to the creation of a british hostile environment all the civil coming of a days going underground but first as the e.c.b. desperately tries to prop up italian defacto junk bonds after the imposition of an i.m.f. man as prime minister austerity in britain is arguably leading to bizarre threats

to freedom of speech sadly nic i have had to look at quite a lot of drill music you can access it sadly also very easily not so easily now thanks to her who is the boss of britain's largest police force because you gave police have repeatedly had you tube delete more than half their catalogue of drill music videos while multi-billion dollar corporate hollywood films arguably glamorize violence there is no room for art alleged to articulate u.k. in a city violence by independent musicians well as british police try to get to grips with the u.k. violence on the streets by censoring music videos i'm joined now by the former chair of the police federation representing one hundred twenty thousand police officers steve white seems. coming back all i've got to ask of to your. explaining very forensically what was wrong with government policy why you're no longer cheering the police federation oh well i've moved on we move on in our professional careers and you know i had

a great experience being the chairman but i felt as though there's more that i could give to the rest of policing and that's what i'm doing now because it seems so sudden and the papers are full of stories and speculator freemasonry holds of things but i think it's given me an opportunity to talk a little bit freer about some concerns that i've got within the culture of of policing the culture of policing is got to change it's got to change to keep pace with the new way of policing and of course the new massive new wave of different types of offenses that we've now got to deal with and of course you know draw music each one of those issues and we've got to have a culture in the police service that can respond to that and so you know it's enabled me to speak a little bit freer about about issues such as that which is really important if the police are going to continue to evolve and to professionalize and to be able to address those issues we're going to drill me sick it is that good but you did feel presumably when you were chairing it that your concerns were shared in the main by

the rank and file of officers oh yeah absolutely and of course we've now got a new home secretary who's going to have quite a challenge in terms of delivering what he spoke about at the recent police federation conference and i think it's going to be interesting to see how that that thinking within government may have changed i'd like to think that i played a part in that in the three and a half years that i was the police federation chairman rebuilding those links with government because you know you can be antagonistic towards government if you want and it's relatively easy to do that but what's a bit hard to restructure the work with them to say these are some of the real issues that need to be resolved some of that is about resources some of it as i ses around the changing culture and some of it is actually understanding what it takes to police the u.k. in the twenty. first century and of course the rank and file are absolutely the people that you need to be speaking to malaysian to that before we get to the new home secretary sajid javid you go over to the disgraced home secretary on the road to resign who proudly said that is brother was

a police officer just take us back remind us what has happened to law and order in this country since terrorism into the government as more of a home secretary and and of course now minority government prime minister well of course we've been through a huge tranche of austerity for for seven or eight years now which has meant that there hasn't been the money in some public services that perhaps we could argue and i used to argue should have been putting in those resources i think the interesting thing is that as new offenses now come online and as the government is now beginning to look at issues around cyber crime and digital offenses which is really coming to the fore now i think the beginning to realise that the changing nature of crime means that we've got to start reinvesting into the service and you've got a situation where even some of the more traditional crime types which i have said for quite some time has been on the rise now i think the government is either recognising that that type of more traditional crime whether it be around knife

crime by them be around acquisitive crime property crime burglary robbery unfortunately they are on the rise and we've got to be able to tackle that now it's not just a case of throwing money at the service but it is certainly a case of the service understanding how it's going to use its resources better in the future the service has got to continue to evolve in the same way as any business has in terms of responding to demands and at the moment we're lacking a little bit behind there's a little bit and just a bit of this in context obviously crime in london merges of golar by forty four percent others more dangerous than new york city and we've had sixty killed in twenty eighteen you're this busy with traditional because this got the world to dig to recognise what you say about a reduction in police violence is resorting to stopping you tube videos seems a bit. bridges strange reaction to that kind of level of increase there's

there's a huge issue facing the british police service in terms of where we're where we're going to put our resources and what the priorities i've long since said if everything's a priority the nothing's a priority and of course over the past few years quite rightly so there's been a huge increase in focus around terrorism and an issue such as that and of course we have been incredibly successful but nothing key is entirely successful and we've seen those awful attacks that we had over twelve months ago in manchester and indeed in london in london bridge. very resource intensive those resources are going to come from somewhere and i think what you're now seeing is that as as those resources have been diverted from one priority to another now we're beginning to see the effect in terms of the service reporting an increase in these crimes it's very complex and it's not as easy to give you an arab or visa on the beach because of terrorism or arguably. foreign policy well that is there simply aren't as

many police officers now as they used to be so you know there isn't as many police officers aren't used to be yeah exactly and so that's pretty that's pretty straightforward some will say yes but actually you know bodies on the beat want to they actually contribute to to reducing crime will certainly they contribute to a certain extent in making people feel safer but strangely enough you know if you see a lot of arm place around the city certainly do in london say oh i'm going to board reasonably well but but but the point is we want to see a lot of police officers carrying guns and it actually alarms people rather than reassures the able i think people who are more police on the streets don't want them i would eat machine guns and i would probably agree perth course now we've got certain parts of the u.k. like devon and co for example talking about routinely arming police officers because they have a huge geographic area not very many police officers and they need to be able to respond to the threat whatever that may may be in a timely manner so they're now beginning to talk about actually police officers

carrying sidearms perhaps now i don't think anyone particularly wants to see a fully armed police service in the yard natural going to be some a visit to london where we're. you know where we see what donna says but this is you know this is for us to decide in this country but you know going back to my original point that the police service has a whole tranche of responsibilities a whole tranche of new things that he's got to respond to and if everything is a priority nothing's a priority so whether it be bobbies on the be whether be responding to knife crime whether be responding to the murders that are happening. and whether it be responding to you tube videos we've got to decide what the priority is and make sure the resource is there to be able to deal with it see the twenty sixteen move or winner deborah a purveyor of drill music said that all this kind of stuff with you tube let alone would you're saying about emphases budget is so very huge it was a distraction from things that affect schools youth clubs social housing the cuts

in all of these aspects of society civic society at large. i mean do you think the you tube videos for instance of the big reason why we've seen an upsurge in murder well i'm certainly not an expert in that area but of course i think there is a huge amount of material on the internet which i think a lot of people could interpret as being offensive. that probably could just as it was in medieval times in the inner city loved well obviously not me but it but i yeah and look at the record there in terms of keeping people alive i suppose but of course you know the issue is whether or not large companies such as you tube can self police to a certain extent you know i would probably tend to think that it shouldn't be down to the police service to be going to an organization such as you choose and saying you want to be taking this down one would hope that they would have the understanding in the morality to be able to turn on a saturday that is not appropriate now i'm not making

a judgement on the genre of true music at all because quite frankly i don't really know it and we in a very huge of to govern yourselves to respond to that right and draw music to me was when i was a was a police recruit marching on the parade ground to liberty bell very definitive early on the shores of london but i don't think it's for the place to say whether or not a joiner is right or wrong but it is the job of the place service to do though is to uphold the law and if the law says that you're not allowed to put some of this stuff out and incite violence then the service has got a response. sure there are a freedom of speech concerns there and i should say south london or chicago where which also has it influence what about the fact that sajid javid supports the increased use of stop and search which we know disproportionately targets people of color but i think the important thing around stop and search is that it's always been a very useful tool for the police service what we had were concerns that the statistics that you sort of.