in washington what was accomplished in helsinki and what is the point of a sequel some. five hundred meters so way they could see that around a few minutes later they began. killing people dead kills fourteen. children among the victims speaks to witness the scene. head investigative journalist group red fish germany's arms trade. is above board. and. as an.

american on the west praised the evacuation of the white helmets from syria to jordan controversy. just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow tuesday july twenty fourth welcome to r.t. international our top story fourteen people including children have been killed in an earth strike enough down the stand in what was meant to be a military operation against the taliban it is not yet clear if it was carried out by afghan or u.s. or craft spoke to witnesses at the scene and warning you may find the following images. no mine is not on the p.c. when he's on the car no one near one of them because no one with you tomorrow night is ready but you're going to want to look it over that you were here don't see what you did so we're not going to afghan officials have said most of the dead are women

and children the u.s. claims it did conduct airstrikes in the area insisting however there were no civilian casualties here starting. after seventeen years the nile is propaganda by the enemy foreign troops are our friends and we don't target civilians u.s. forces did conduct strikes and on the ground assessments of those strikes reveals no indications they caused civilian casualties. taliban propaganda they claimed with an on the ground assessment to prove it who can argue with that almost sounds like the results of a scientific experiment would have helped of course of that actually visited the place. the americans never visited this area and i'm witness to this national defense forces visited the area to check at first they wouldn't let us

drink out the dead and injured. no foreigners didn't visit this area. they are lying a delegation came here from the local governments and security officials ok so if you take the locals all of them at their word it's the afghan army that lied to the american troops it wasn't until the neighbors relatives erupted in outrage that authorities admitted to potential civilian deaths even the un is on the case so what actually happened. the americans were standing five hundred meters away they could easily see that civilians were around a few minutes later they began bombing the area and killing people. i saw the bombardment with my own eyes the americans first used artillery they bombarded my home and my aunt's home without giving us a chance to flee. then they used

a big bomb and we felt like we were in hell all around us was covered by gunpowder and dust my sister and all my family members were unconscious. first the shell the area where there is an aircraft bombarded it with three bombs there are twelve and one wounded we dug out the victims from the rubble with one missing we found the hand and shoulders and the few other parts of one martir and buried him. the victims the house owners wife and daughter in law. three daughters four grandchildren two sons and more difficult to spin them as enemy fighters even with the pentagon's notorious guilty until proven innocent casualty counting mechanism and locals survivors don't have a lot of faith in justice. my expectations are that they will tell us it was all off in our scene so no proof that there were taliban fighters here this is not the

first time. they always kill civilians and never give us a chance to speak up so that they can say that they killed the taliban. no no i've seen no one help the family i've lived here for a long time during times of now and they've never seen anyone given eight. province which is partly controlled by the taliban as a history of the airstrikes go in astray in two thousand and fifteen when the us had the doctors without borders ospel killing forty two the pentagon denied that at first until eventually barack obama himself had to apologize in the last year when the u.n. investigation found that the u.s. had killed ten civilians in a different air strike again denied that even offered a thorough investigation and again eventually ended up apologizing.

for well in response to a request from our nato repeated its statement that no civilian casualties resulted from u.s. or strikes the expect details from an afghan investigative team in the coming days and he were activist richard becker sees denial has become second nature for the american military. well i think there's been hundreds and hundreds of such incidents in afghanistan every single time we hear of one of these incidents like this with this one it can do so. we hear oh they were all terrorists first and then someone goes out media go out in the interview the villagers and they say no they were just villagers and then the military says well will conduct an investigation and then it's off into the ether and very little ever happens no matter how terrible the atrocities are but this pattern happens over and over again and no

matter what kind of apologies or excuses are given that it's repeated and it's repeated and repeated over and over again. to another over a headline story germany is one of the world's largest arms manufacturers and exporters but investigative reporting with red fish have claimed that not the old german arms are being sold legally here's part of the report which can be found in full on the redfish page. in open the mentor to wish to understand our understand to start to tell as some. as a long call had tired. of playing the element. germany gets a lot of praise for its reasonable approach to politics but the german government has a dirty secret while germany prides itself on having some of the toughest arms export

laws on the planet it's actually the fourth biggest arms exporter in the world lawyer holder wrought by hour has taken one of the country's major on as manufacturers and one of the world's biggest small arms producers the infamous heckler and koch to court they stand accused of illegally shipping weapons to conflicts a heckler and koch trial. is not using that too often it's historic it's a really historic because it shows the i would call it blasphemy this is cheating of etiquettes of the german government because the german people eagle on shipments they're accused of include sixteen batches of g thirty six assault rifles some of which ended up being used in a tragedy which shook the world. in two thousand and fourteen forty three students became collateral in mexico's bloody war on drugs when they were kidnapped by

corrupt police who handed them over to the new tory is guerrero's to needles drug cartel at least several of the students were killed by the heckler and koch rifles the company is incredibly hostile the media interest and public attention it didn't take long for the police to arrive to stop us from filming in the town's residents were particularly enthusiastic to speak to a seal we approached heckler and koch multiple times to discuss the allegations cited in this report unfortunately despite all our efforts. we're very happy to see us. because. you don't want to say something. to me to get an export license german arms manufacturers have to go through several government ministries who will check that the shipment destination isn't subject to any sort of ban by german law if it is in the arms company's application fails then they have another option they can appeal

to the federal security council and here's where things get interesting this council is made up of a handful of senior ministers who sit down with the german chancellor angela merkel in a secretive meeting where they review the application and decide whether to approve it or not the details of this meeting are never made public there is no media presence or independence group. while the heckler company in question say they are fully cooperating with the investigation while also actively contributing to clarify any incidents the defendant's lawyers are quoted as saying that the guns legally went to a well controlled police depo in mexico. germany now say it's resettle eight members of the controversial rescue group the white helmet says well as their families after they were evacuated by israel from

syria canada britain and france have also pledged to receive some of the four hundred twenty two helped out of the region we went through the story earlier. well the praise that this massive relocation effort has received in the west from some of the most senior people in charge seems absolutely unanimous it is a corps but barely anyone of those joining in the course has actually spoken to civilians on the ground and r t how has done that and i'll tell you what there really is a rather strong contrast between what the big names are saying now and the things that we heard when we talked to these syrians that we've been able to get these brave people and their families out of syria after the extraordinary work they've done saving lives this video shows them helping the people but they only help the rebel fighters they really those close to them the last thing they cared about is

civilians we campaigned for the ever creation of the white helmets and i were grateful now that this was successful and that some of these people and their families can be accommodated here in germany where no one did anything out of humanitarian concerns it was all about money the join the what helmets and others only for money no one cared about the syrian people and what was the urgency behind this relocation well right now the syrian government troops are making some serious advances in the south of the country and that's where areas have long been held by the militants that are seeking to overthrow the assad government and i can tell you that there have already been attempts successful attempts i should say to move some of these rebels to the country's north where areas are held by some elements of the syrian opposition but now it seems it is turned to relocate the white house although there are being moved abroad and this is perhaps another sign that these

people have long had some political connections with the west and after all it is no secret that the group is being kept. afloat with cash from western countries and some cases that's taxpayers' money which means millions of dollars and the white helmets have been working very hard on building and maintaining not just a positive image but an image of heroes their networking their p.r. efforts our ferd's to visualize their rescue activities are really impressive but all of this may backfire if you cheat all that was used in april by those trying desperately to prove that the assad government used chemicals against children and duma was a white house video but later the very same people who featured in it insisted that the entire rescue operation after the chemical attack was day. we were

in the basement and then heard someone outside scream go to hospital they were scared they started to pour water on me i don't know why they did this. you can easily think of other controversies for instance videos with jihad as holding exit q. sions and then suddenly out of nowhere men wearing white helmets emblems showing up or videos when people wearing white helmets were waving flags plus you can just take a look at some of the things our correspondent saw when he tried to trace the footsteps of the notorious group on the ground in syria here's what you'll find in one of the rooms of the former white helmets headquarters here in the aleppo bomb elements fiends as well as detonators hundreds and hundreds of empty bullet casings this was by all appearances

a weapons factory of all making factory over here shrapnel. this is what they put in boredom stew cause horrendous casualties over there you'll see an industrial mix up again. what they used to mix chemicals and gunpowder so clearly there's a lot of inconsistency is here how these concerns been ignored by western governments all together no not in all cases you may remember when the white helmets won an oscar for a documentary about the things they were doing when that's when their leader was invited to the u.s. for the awards ceremony but then he was banned from entering the country and that was something that led to a rather awkward situation at a u.s. state department briefing is the u.s. taxpayer supporting a group whose leader you have banned from coming to the states i mean if you have reason to revoke his visa that he could be

a security threat or something like that why would again you just support but again trying to separate this individual from their roots so the government is saying that basically that he is suspect because. well again i can't speak to this if i go against against him and i'm sorry. so it might indeed get complicated when it comes to some elements of the white helmets group and the security back home where russia's foreign ministry has issued a statement saying that the white helmets fleeing syria shows they are hypocritical not there just to tend to civilians all the risk who is a middle east affairs expert believes not all of the western states that initiated the evacuation would readily resettle the white helmets members. this actually reflects a level which the worst find itself in its finds itself supporting terrorists oh well the west to allow these people to settle in sort of in these countries in the

us i'm not sure i don't think that they will allow what i think would really reveal their wish to be true hypocritical but i think that in other countries yes they will be allowed to settle down under this a label with these people are freedom fighters or involved in rescue operations i also would like to point to the following that yes they're here in beirut i heard information i trued to do certain sources that are monks those who were activated not just members of the so-called white helmet spurs in addition to that intelligence officials from nato from certain gulf arab countries in the gulf like you know saudi arabia etc. double trump ours once again last start at around he tweeted on sunday that iran should not threaten the us otherwise it will face serious consequences never ever

threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before we are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death because this america should know that peace with iran is the mother of all peace and war with iran is the model of all wars well u.s. senators have echoed the criticism of to run but that's nothing new as they took a similar stance before the iran nuclear deal was hammered i'd back in twenty fifty p. run supports terrorism. he ron has been listed missiles iran tramples on human rights the things that they are doing to support terrorism ballistic missiles their human rights violations yes they are. is a serious threat. president's iran deal would allow the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. to retain thousands of centrifuges this is

a regime that funds terrorism all around the world meanwhile us secretary of state mike pump aoe has accused the runs elites of enriching itself the expense of ordinary people he gave a speech about the country highlighting many problems some of which are far from unique to our.

with washington. trading insults really artie's polish leader to look at what's next after the us secretary of state explained america will not target the media landscape in iran to try and change perceptions there covertly plotting terror attacks in the heart of europe destroying israel at the core of the regime's ideology that's committed supported many acts of violence and terrorism against both countries now the united states is undertaking a diplomatic and financial pressure camping to cut off the funds that the regime uses to enrich itself and support death and destruction to be geological new twenty four seven for c. language t.v. channel that will expand not only television but radio digital and social media format so that ordinary iranians inside of around and around the globe can know that america stands with them the situation between the united states and iran remains extremely tense and as we see now happening the u.s. has set its sights on the us media in terms of how to deal with as we've heard the

announcement from the u.s. secretary of state that they launch a twenty four seventh's saucy channel it will be under the banner of the b.b. g. which stands for the board cost of board of governors this comprises different radio and t.v. outlets and back in two thousand and sixteen at received a budget of some seven hundred and fifty million dollars now what we're hearing is that this new fasi channel will also be available on digital and on social media and we heard the u.s. secretary of state say there for forty years the iranian people had been subjected to hearing from the leaders about what a great satan the united states was and that now finally they wouldn't have to subject themselves to fake news but trying to saying this pump i also say that the united states was undertaking tough measures against iran of course these comments has prompted and immediately angry reaction from tehran. was you do not play with the lines or else you will regret it. now compare also said that the united states

was not afraid to challenge you ran with sanctions at the highest level and he called on other countries to also jointly combine in these economic sanctions you also went on to say that the united states was undertaking a diplomatic and financial pressure campaign against iran that they were planning on cutting off funds so that quote the regime would no longer be able to involve itself in death and destruction you also said that they will put in maximum pressure on the regime's ability to regenerate and move money now of course we're waiting to hear what other measures the united states is planning on putting in place we know for example that the next round of sanctions goes into effect on the fourth of august so certainly relations between the two countries increasingly tense. chinese president xi jinping has arrived in rwanda as part of his four nation visit to africa to establish

a deeper tree. in twenty sixteen alone china invested thirty nine billion dollars in africa bringing the total to more than two hundred billion that's roughly twice the amount that the united states has invested in this continent with the signing of two remains under earlier this year u.s. ties with several african countries were put under strain by some in from this remarks from donald trump. the president of the united states is racist he really is the devil this is an actual quote from the actual president this is the gift that he decided to give the american people they're not. for one donald trump isn't their president. let's cross live now to journalist io johnson finder of viewpoint africa i always welcome what do you think she jinping will be hoping to get from this tour of africa. well quite different from what the more trouble

otherwise of the received had been such a trip but i think you'll be looking for closely initiative a closer relationship with the afghan that which he already has the chinese president has had long relationships over ten years with with africa and we've seen a lot of trade opportunities we have capitalized on the very much interest in raw materials in a symbiotic relationship providing great construction opportunities for africa with roads bridges railway and now we know that the chinese have open the military bases on the african continent so their perspective here is far more deep. and of course africans are looking at this and think well at least they're choosing for themselves the liberalized continent working voting with its feet and changing supplies at will so it's jobs in china it's a xi jinping first visit abroad since starting his second term what does that say

about china's global priorities do you think. well clearly it has always taken africa seriously it understands its people so position need to understand that africa has great potential it understands that africa would like to . liberalize and of course industrialized which it's clearly has to do if it's got to meet talk with the developed countries of the world and china has gone through that process itself and so it's trying to share what it knows very fully what the opportunities are barack obama repeatedly stressed the importance of investment in africa during his presidency how much has this changed or otherwise since trump took office well barack obama well he was always seen as some of the soil because of his inheritance but i think in his case africa was willing to wait on him be patient with him. because not prepared to offer him any of that he has

shown that he doesn't respect africa doesn't think very clearly as to what africans are about very ill of us africans recognize that they are saying if you don't like us well we don't care about you just as well where does this go with china in africa in the long term how could the chinese economic presence in africa change the continent and would up in your opinion be a good or a bad thing. well it's not whether it would change it has already changed its development thus far has largely been due to the chinese there which is why their footprint they're very much like a sprinter who's so much ahead of the curve that others are never going to catch up and i think the chinese are really spread their sprinting ahead of everybody else nobody can catch them and africa has said they will embrace you to do just that i think china many people have said that china would have to colonize africa in some

shape or. in the future if that's being the case then at least africans would have chosen with their own feet for them to have such an individual to do that on them which i doubt anyway because africans are choosing to do business with china because they want to believe that china is the one of many potential partners full i would johnson describing china trade in africa as you same both basically going around the corner at speed iow johnson journalist and find are all that viewpoint africa always a pleasure. thank you said. a german football star of turkish this sense has a nine state he's retiring from the national team saying he feels on wanted in his own country after months of severe criticism and nationally triggered by one photo ending in the player calling the german football association racist and disrespectful.

here if you chantelle a national lampoon pulls out on his president and lets himself get photographed in from the beach or the muslim congress someone that is not german and someone that should not play football for the german national team is such a photograph as a symbolic value and it is definitely not what is needed at the moment this is clear when you play for germany you represent the country the german values. also with the plan was a mistake it is still a mistake to say the reason the president also gave did not convince me so he speaks of respect but that raises the question of how it is respect for the victims of crimes policy has respect for journalists who are in prison because they have done their job.

as you know the chance to see this open hi steve isn't going to listen to me because i'm the most the national figure he has now made a decision that must be respected and in any case the truth is a. fact that. cause it to miss the most of his picture taking part. well messagers hill said his decision was also done to the abuse he received following germany's peru showing at the world cup here in russia over german football chiefs have quote emphatically denied claims of racism but admitted they could have done more to help and protect the footballer peter shilton is

a professor of international relations at the university of got england and he believes the case illustrates recent trends in german society what we have seen here in the german team is basically. reflection of what is going on in berlin government and german politics we have to have a lift you kates be imperfect. as multiculturalism was basically the. elements of the media of the green party off the list of those are social credit parties and this is with the ring away it is getting slimmer and slimmer especially after two thousand and fifteen after we have set the influx of one point five million. refugees and my migrants from north africa and i'm from sub-saharan africa and while i'm elsewhere it's what leads a person to leave their family convert to militant islam and cardio jihad a claim.