of course this is very unfortunate and difficult especially during a time of war but it is a very disconcerting statement if he doesn't explain the meaning of that the fact that they're not going to know how to identify what they found in the rubble where airstrikes of that magnitude are concerned i remember in the first u.s. war in iraq that after the war was over our collin powell who was then the chief of staff i believe of the u.s. military was asked what about civilian casualties you said that's not a number we're interested in that is in fact a confession of walk war crimes and they're saying again well we'll never be able to know what they don't want to know that's why they're not able to know they don't make any effort and they cover up what is obvious to the rest of the world that in fact the vast majority of the civilian casualties are being caused by their bomb and u.s. britain france and other allies. he was in syria while the u.s. led campaign to liberate iraq was ongoing these are some of the report was filed by

our correspondent on the extent of the devastation and how iraq has residents were affected by the possible. the u.n. estimates that an average of twenty seven people are being killed in iraq every day nothing is left in iraq except for destruction because of the coalition and i saw but the strength of the coalition will worsen some villages were wiped out some neighborhoods were demolished in all likelihood more than eighty people. were killed in two us said strikes near the syrian city of bragg many have been killed among the my cousin died in iraq up in an air strike the massacres in iraq are committed by isis and the coalition warplanes together what can i say the streets are full of dead bodies. that have appeared in has said russia will work to strengthen ties with all strayer in spite of e.u. sanctions on moscow the russian leader visited vienna on tuesday on his first

international trip since starting his fourth term as president mike garcia of has the details. it's been an incredibly busy hectic day for vladimir putin between all the talks negotiations conferences and press conferences they talked about a whole host of issues and themes that have worried russia and austria of course one of them being sanctions we believe any politically motivated restrictions of protectionism these tools to resolve and political issues are in the end useless in achieving the ultimate goal they're damaging for both sides and i think everyone's interest in lifting the sanctions russia are included we realize it is difficult for individual countries to voice and you know the reasons why however this doesn't stop us from developing ties with austria it can indeed be difficult to voice an independent position in europe on the sanctions against russia for a variety of reasons one of them being that the united states has kept up pressure

in european states to keep the sanctions up another reason might be going against the flow of europe has an established position and the austrian chancellor himself said that as his country assumes chairmanship of the council of europe that he won't rebel and lift sanctions against russia but he did admit that these are tough times and austria would do what it could to defuse the situation and he's being backed by other new european leaders my pin through. that we will support opening up to russia which has consolidated. which has consolidated its international role in various political crises in recent years we will push for review of the sanctions system starting with those that risk punishing the russian civil society. another reason for this newfound

eagerness to make up with russia could be the fraying relationship with the united states the unpredictability of donald trump washington has slapped new tariffs on european companies on european goods and that has incensed leaders all over the continent so making up with russia could be not only of political but also of financial sense take for example liquefied natural gas that the united states has been thrusting on europe that doesn't make much financial sense says the austrian president. recently there's been some let's call it reproach on the part of some american politicians who suggest that the use to dependent on russian gas but the fact it's been overlooked is that american liquid gas if i'm not mistaken is two not three times more expensive than russian gas so it makes little sense from

a purely economic perspective to replace russian gas with american liquid gas to be blunt there shouldn't be any expectation of sanctions against russia being lifted in the anytime soon overnight or in the foreseeable future but what we heard today as well in the in the weeks preceding this this meeting with these meetings is that the currents in europe shifting. personal analyst giuliani for a solid before she thinks he can and benefits outweigh political motives. you mentioned it's all you have to do when you're in this section of utah to last an expert to show russian pre-buy so i'm going to be w. needs to work on their economic crisis. for the russians could be an important market that we can restore. the trade agreements as we have in this when we. come all the problems. you're going to hear in program countries are against you

know this the cannot understand the. economics for energy policy but this is the right moment for the france to work. with many countries in europe. as outrage continues over israel's used of lethal force against protesters in gaza the u.s. is remaining unwavering in its support for its middle eastern ally most recently washington's ambassador in jerusalem dished out some less than diplomatic advice to journalists covering the rallies and which since march at least one hundred twenty palestinians have been killed. the. well the american ambassador to israel david friedman has attacked the media for what he says is failing to fairly cover the recent protests along the

israel gaza border he said that when you have a situation of some forty thousand protesters storming the israeli border and the cover of burning tires and with pistols a molotov cocktails that situation is unprecedented and he says that israel did the best it could and yet despite this ninety percent of media coverage was biased and critical against the israeli defense forces the american ambassador did however concede that some criticism against israel is legitimate now israel's position has always been to blame him us for the protests and the ensuing violence and this is a position that american officials have echoed a mosque terrorist backed by iran have incited attacks against israeli security forces and infrastructure and we understand that israel has a right to defend itself urged the members of the security council to exercise at least as much scrutiny of the actions of the hamas terrorist group as it does to

israel's legitimate right of self-defense now despite the fact that american officials have come out in support of how the israeli army behaved in dealing with those gaza protests there has been unprecedented criticism in the international community particularly by human rights groups you have for example human rights watch saying that the i.d.f. behavior was a bloodbath you have the united nations saying that it was outrageous you have amnesty international saying to quote if there was a horrifying use of live ammunition against protesters now the latest figures we have from the gaza health ministry are that one hundred and nineteen people were killed in nine weeks of violence the situation on the ground is still tense and unfortunately we are bracing ourselves for those figures to climb. journalist and filmmaker david sheen has been documenting the racial and religious tensions in the region for nearly a decade he told us he believes the u.s. ambassador's comments are part of

a concerted effort to deprive palestinians of their rights and surely he's saying you can't report on any massacre it doesn't matter the death toll goes up into triple digits or if there is medics or whatever journalists are being shot you can't report on any massacre unless you first frame it within a narrative that justifies it. you know this is ridiculous this whole trampy and everything is fake news unless you declare the narrative as we see it i think it's pretty clear that they're overwhelmingly demonstrating that the israeli government isn't just trying to defend itself but is actually trying to destroy any idea of palestinian nationalism any idea of the chance that there could be some levels some measure of equality. germany's refugee agency is being investigated for corruption it's accused of offering asylum for bribes chancellor merkel has now also been dragged into the scandal with claims she

was aware of the problems but did nothing to reform the organization our europe correspondent piece all of our reports from berlin. as the cash for asylum investigation into the german federal office for migration refugees all come from speed public focus has turned to the german chancellor angela merkel and what she knew about the agency's problems its former head for and here in place gave an interview to a leading german sunday tabloid which he said he held a face to face meetings with the chancellor and made it explicitly clear that his agency couldn't cope with the pressures being put on it by refugee policy. there was no structure or organized development in the form of specific tasks certain of priorities or occult collation of personality acquirements since no instructions were available everyone could work as they saw feet in response to those claims

a spokesperson for angle merkel had this to say. of course there was an ongoing intense process of changing the work of the german federal office of migrations and refugees when the refugee crisis broke out i'm just trying to make clear that mr vice is repeated reported on these changes in the prove months to the how the federal states the blunder stuck the cabinets he spoke at press conferences and again and again to the public and literally the chancellor was informed about the plan of the reforms and the measures taken in this agency. the investigation began after it was alleged that an employee at the time fought for us in bremen wrongfully granted asylum to twelve hundred people on the list security services say were two islamic extremists one of whom they describe as an actual terror threat while forty four others belonged to islamist groups prosecutors allege that the female employee took both money and gifts to grant asylum wrongfully between

twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen as the investigation continues she did nice those charges against her politicians both from the opposition and from within and glimmer of course on coalition partners saying they want answers. it is not about accusations it is not about vindication of a conspiracy theory but rather about a sober investigation. we have to investigate the accusations of negligence and corruption and you have to do it quickly and everyone who was involved should give testimony the former refugee card and the interior ministry there is a way to be done in this investigation last month the country's largest opposition party alternative for germany launched a loss. suit against anglo merkel's refugee policy they say that the chancellor's decision to welcome around one of the half a million refugees to the country should have gone through a vote in the start and the fact that it didn't is unconstitutional and so we put

the legal course in front of the court to question whether there are there is a legal. explanation or a legal reason to open our borders hopefully we'll have a special committee to go into that scandal well the point we're making is probably the scandal is not something about the so one. office environment and has to do with political responsibility and we have to look who is responsible for everything what has happened there but for now the big question remains if the chancellor knew that the migration and refugee agency was struggling why was nothing done to relieve the pressure betrayal of r.t. early. international nuclear watchdog has confirmed that everyone is preparing to always starts the production of a chemical compound they can be used to produce nuclear weapons to iran earlier sent an official letter informing the organization that it stepping up its

enrichment capacity. right now the electrical infrastructure and utilities in the towns are ready for hundreds of thousands of separate it work you know we started the work yesterday we sent a letter about the start of summer activities to the i.a.e.a. . is of elements come with the iran nuclear deal on the verge of unraveling the two thousand and fifteen accord was the result of long drawn out negotiations that lifted international sanctions against iran and then turn to iran gave up its nuclear aspirations and significantly limited its enrichment program but now that the u.s. has scraps the agreement sanctions are being imposed again and washington is warning there's more to come. we will apply unprecedented financial pressure on the iranian regime the leaders in tehran will have no doubt about it seriousness these will indeed end up being the stronger sanctions in history when we are completely

the e.u. has reacted to it wrongs latest move saying that although it doesn't constitute a breach of the deal the revival of enrichment activities by to run exacerbate the already fragile situation meanwhile both iran and washington are putting pressure on the europe issuing threats and ultimatums is the u.s. going to impose sanctions on european companies that continue to do business with iran i think it would give the answer you know the answer is it's possible it depends on the conduct of other governments. european countries seem to expect the iranian people to pose suffer from the sanctions and give up their nuclear energy activities abiding by the j. c.p.o. a limits i'm telling those countries that this is a dream that's never going to come true this will never happen so i have mohamed around the politics professor at the university of toronto believes iran has shown remarkable restraint and the ball is now in europe's court. i think without

a doubt the iranians have shown a great deal of patience so far when the americans pulled out many expected the iranians to pull out immediately as well because after all this was a multi lateral agreement the united states is the key and agonists and when the united states pulls out the. agreement really becomes almost meaningless however you run ins showed patience and they told the europeans that if they're willing to grow backbone and stand up to the americans protect their citizens protect their business people and their corporations and companies and banking and financial institutions with real commitments if there have solid if they bring forth solid commitments to show the iranians that they're willing to do this then iran can stay within the agreement but otherwise if the europeans are

just going to give verbal support and back down and allow their companies to be sanctioned and punished by the americans then there is absolutely no reason why the iranians should stay in agreement. is eight days and counting until football showpiece tournament kicks off right here in moscow thirty two nations will battle it out to get their hands on the world cup trophy and earlier we got a close up look at the biggest prize in this sport. i'm really proud to tell you that there is more than just a special reason for me to be wearing this golden tie because here in this studio right now we're going to show you a very special shiny gold can we please have a lot. is this the actual trophy world cup winners get their hands on after the final the winning team will lift this exact trophy above their heads and this is the one that

they keep only for a short while. before the ultimate possession they get a so-called the so-called winner's trophy which it looks like exactly this one but only made of bronze and it's a gold plated bronze so even lionel messi seen as the best footballer today can't touch it indeed this is the one in on li made of eighteen karat solid gold the official for world cup trophy and only heads of state and people world cup winners can touch this magnificent pulled the price how far has the trophy traveled on its tour trophy traveled from kaliningrad to vladivostok literally a massive geography we estimated that around forty million people lives in the nearest proximity to the cities where the traffic visited any special moments in russia in kaliningrad for instance a young guy made

a marriage marriage proposal to his girl and that was really really touching and almost you know i almost had tears in my eyes and a lot of new words coming to see this trophy after their wedding there was. a longtime fan of football he was around sixteen years of age and the guy was crying and i haven't seen you know a sixty year old guy crying at the side of the trophy. as the excitement builds over which country will lift the world cup in the final in moscow next month our team has been picking the brains of perhaps the most famous manager out there as a marine here on how the tournament will play out and we invite you to challenge the special one and make your own predictions i don't want to be emotional but they have to be good to contradictions because i want my players to win but i also want my players to go on a holiday so this is going to be tough. so if you feel up to testing your knowledge

against the might of marine e.o. head on to facebook or twitter and follow the hash tag match marino to make sure you don't miss any of the games though we two rounds of predictions from the group stage to the knockouts with the first starting at this wednesday meanwhile teams are beginning to arrive in russia ahead of the world cup's opening game the iran squad is the first touchdown in moscow their england before the tournament and will face one of the favorites spain as well as portugal and morocco the iranian coach described qualifying for the world cup in russia as a dream come true adding that it's taken a lot of assets under terminations on the part of his players. russia has played its last friendly fixture before the world cup gets underway they drew one one with turkey in the russian capital we've asked people outside the v.b. arena in moscow about their impressions of the game and their expectations for the upcoming tournament. so many great players will be coming to russia it's such

a pleasure we are really looking forward to the start of the world cup. i don't know yet another. i mean first of meet the world cup will be a major celebration and these home stadiums they might never happen again just more so that if you like but it is no need. to feel desired from the country the spectators fantastic. or great atmosphere great people. i just do your team could provide them with what it is it really is for russia of course. first second go with my service to my show so if. this is it's a real holiday representatives of lots of different countries are all coming to russia football is united and game we will all be hugging and making. friends.

of. mine on the crown has made an unusual comparison during a press conference with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu answering a c.n.n. reporter's question about a phone call with donald trump the french president byrd a quote from a nineteenth century german statesman also fun bismarck it's. true that you had to strain chris ation with donald trump. i never tell what happens backstage because as bismarck said if you tell people how sausages are made they'll probably stop eating them if you continue normal and earlier c.n.n. report describes that phone call between the u.s. and french leader as terrible we spoke to media analysts leinil he thinks mccrum script fits into a carefully crafted public image public image. but ron is obviously trying to show

that he is tough too maybe he's trying to add more of the pollyanna this is that he is has been alleged to be sporty maybe he wants to beat up don't think for a moment that trump and micron didn't work this out where they said you say this i also say this we'll both be happy and water park later. the world doesn't understand this because a lot of people just don't like trump they think he's a fool than he speaks stupidly at times he has been in the number one television show for ever and this is his first time it seems like he knows p.r. he knows image he knows exactly what to say he knows the way the media will place up the he's very very smart and very very deft and very adept and very adroit when it comes to pursuing and presenting things in terms of the media and mccraw maybe doing the same thing for all we know this could be orchestrated both look tough

both sides when thanks for joining r.t. international this hour we'll be back at the top of the hour with all the latest on his time. or. are. you going to release the lead. in july twenty seventh seen on an attempt to freelance journalist working with a. militant shelling in syria. on his second focus which he has established

a hundred l. such as memorial day will recognize will reporters who often risk then the sake of the truth and through that piece you can submit to your published works in a video well written form until june the twelfth. greetings and salutation. as kids may include it maybe it's used to play the age old child a game of who could throw the biggest rock into the pond to make the biggest splash you know kids pick up rock rock in the water splash makes ripples cause and effect cause and effect and seeing the state of the world of politics today one has to

wonder if the age old lessons of rock and the pawn cause and effect just never quite took hold of our politicians to take the iran deal and the splash and ripples that have been cascading across. the middle east ever since u.s. president donald trump told the united states out of the deal and left the united kingdom russia france china germany and the rest of europe hanging in the balance and now it's being reported that one of those ripples is a potential middle eastern nuclear arms race and kicking off that race is not iran but saudi arabia yes with the iran nuclear deal fraying saudi arabia is now legibly seeking to to develop its own nuclear weapons program the mid press and lose the middle east monitor and many other outlets are reporting that the israeli government has begun selling the kingdom of australia saudi arabia information on how to develop nuclear weapons according to a senior official at an israeli military organization i h l s this of course comes

on the heels of saudi arabia's recent military threats towards cutter over their government's plans to buy the russian made s. four hundred air defense system and a letter addressed to french president emmanuel mccrone saudi king solomon stated in such a situation the kingdom would be ready to take all the necessary measures to eliminate this defense system including military action. one can only wonder just how far reaching and potentially devastating these rocks thrown into the middle eastern pond will be as we start watching the hall. to wonder what it feels it looks like the real thing it's like. as if you were to pull out of it. what they like you but i got. the.

wrong number on the watch of the hard science i robot and i'm tapped and while it's . still more nukes i'm still firmly in may no nukes gunning no new category no nukes grewal i was much more looking for the news of oh we're nukes are gone no more no you don't think the more nuclear weapons in the middle east will bring peace and harmony of the why he went on but you know now that the whole idea of mutually assured destruction as a way to keep from mutually destroying each other is one of the most eighty odd eric. there's so many things they can say about in various parts of the world that big considered inappropriate playing or other big deal in philly and it's really about money and it's about power it's not really about some concern that a nuke is going to magically make everything better well it seems that everyone now

wants to use which was one of the fears of the united states pulling out of the iran deal was the fear that like now we can use iran as the scapegoat for us to buy a bunch of nuclear weapons you know my gosh now now they're buying centrifuges and all these guys that blah blah blah blah blah which is only you know you see those headlines about iran going right now like oh my god they're going to buy plutonium except that was actually part of the original deal that it's not weapons grade put the you know it's not what i was great but i'm going to be aware that you do have to get it into the world brain and it's ok it's interesting because the nuclear deal that's being reported right now is kind of coming you know western surveillances are letting it slip so we don't know how verifiable that is but. ron a senior nuclear commentator for what's called israel's homeland security which is this kind of private company which acts it's not actually a you know israeli division of their government it's

a private company the kind of acts as a hub for all things like defense and security and israel. this guy we do on has been sounding off on the potential saudis really nucular partnership citing a report by error i read the twenty one in the middle east monitor reports that iran expressed concern over the nuclear moves stating quote this information should shock us as we see the world is changing for the worse following the race for the possession of nuclear weapons that passed right over our heads in the middle east and he also went on to say one of the big reasons that israel is suddenly stepping up to share nuclear information with saudi arabia is because they are fearful of like saudi arabia doing business with pakistan to get all pakistan's nukes. as if there by. i somehow israel thinks or israeli politicians to be clear. that israeli politicians are doing that seem to think that if you if you sell someone a weapon they magically can't use it against you right isn't that amazing how they

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