but there is still some fear it's possible for groups of militants to go into houses and still see entire families the islamic state terror group doubles the number of attacks in iraq a government security advisor says the state media there is trying to avoid panic by keeping quiet about the true level of violence the number of lysol could not be searched since may now the special forces do not have enough resources to hunt the militants stone is there hiding out some remote mountainous areas. also this hour the u.s. media and politicians lash out at the idea of a second summit between donald trump and blood in your pool despite a recent poll suggesting most americans are in favor of closer ties. and facebook is mark for branding ads featuring classic works by the flemish artist ruben into their portrayal of nudity. you know if you have

a social media account we have to take you away from the nudity thing to protect you against nudity even if artistic make sure. this is our two national coming to life from the russian capital where it's just turned two pm welcome to the program. first a developing story from syria where fifty people have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of terror attacks in the southwest of the country the most serious was in the city of psuedo one suicide bomber to need his explosives in a marketplace there and two others were killed by a before they could carry out an attack other assaults occurred in villages near the city state t.v. says islamic state are behind the attacks. meanwhile in iraq islamic state is apparently trying to make a comeback but the number of terror attacks doubled in the past month in the country that's according to. security advisor of the iraqi government that we spoke

to iraq to clare final victory of rice all last december. and. in june the ice who militants stepped up their activity according to government data there were eighty three cases with the inductees in killed civilians that's twice the number in may when i still had been devastated by the government military crackdown we asked the iraqi ministry of an internal affairs to comment on this and we'll bring you their response when we get it now the u.s. started its campaign in two thousand and fourteen and is continuing to strike terrorist targets in iraq reports in the fight to eradicate the jihadists it took very nearly the entire world united to defeat isis caliphate didn't syria and iraq they did it they destroyed the caliphate albeit at a huge cost and proclaim victory some did more proclaiming than others coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the

church but done a great job with those as we have just absolutely decimated i was just absolutely obliterated isis in iraq a case of celebrating a little early isis was never beaten and they lost the battles but the wars far from over they've gone back to basics hidden run raids sasa nations insurgency terror but. there is still some fear it's possible for groups of militants to go into houses and slaughter entire families if you were there you are probably not want to stay if i were to go back who would protect me and my family they would just come over and slaughter us and forces then they come to protect their lives in iraq isis is gone underground this area of iraq has colloquially become known as the triangle of death because of this new insurgency.

they operate in small groups half a dozen jarvis that moves making it incredibly difficult to track them down. because remember there are still a few i saw sleeper cells hidden in places such as the desert the forests on the islands of the river and among civilians few sleeper cells doesn't do it justice kidnappings killings have soared as much as ten fold in just a few months in iraq a government advisor told us they target officials plan bombs set up think roadblocks and murder will then vanish sometimes with prisoners. the families children of these soldiers that were kidnapped by isis begged the government for help to find whoever kidnapped them to secure their release anything they got nothing. i mean those are the men who protected the prime minister the

minister of health and many other things source this is their reward for this service been dumped here on the floor. some of the hostages were found dead and their bodies mutilated likely tortured before death and their corpses rigged with explosives and the government's afraid afraid of people finding out how bad it's becoming your home. iraqi state media is staying silent about the kidnapping so as not to spread panic can hinder the government's rescue the number of ice or kidnappings to surge since may be another special forces do not have enough resources to hunt the militants down and that is they're hiding out some remote mountainous areas i still have managed to find sources of funding in the so-called triangle of death they terrorize the locals hundreds of villages in that area has been depopulated now the terrorists use them as military bases jails and commando

units iraq is that a crossroads it learn to level the cities to defeat isis caliph it but that doesn't work anymore isis is an idea of zealotry fanaticism it's also an outlet for desperation for violence for blood and ideas of the hard this is the wall to kill. a second meeting between donald trump and what amir putin seems to be a step closer to the kremlin has confirmed that it's received an official invitation to a summit in washington at the end of the year and recent polls show over half of americans surveyed back a second summit well over sixty percent believe that better relations with russia would be beneficial for the u.s. meanwhile the u.s. state department spokesperson says she does not believe that russia has received a formal invitation that would be something that would come out of the white house so it's you know you'd have to direct that question to the white house about

whether or not it was a formal invitation i don't believe it's been a formal invitation but really i'm speaking that's out of my lane and so i just refer you back to the white house my understanding is that nothing has been set up at this point. the u.s. media has been voicing concerns over the possibility of trump and putin building closer ties many describe the first summit in helsinki as the manifestation of a new world order so america looks into the hysteria that first the first summit caused we don't trust russia we don't trust putin we never well they're never going to be our friend that's just a fact this president is dangerous that he's in bed with putin all of his allies have connections with russia the kremlin and oligarchs i think he has put into print is the next time the two leaders meet could be at the g twenty summit in argentina or right here in d.c. in the nation's capital and apparently john bolton national security adviser will be working out all the logistics the next time he's in moscow but the last meeting

the helsinki summit that took place last week provoked a total hysteria here in the u.s. the media accuse trump of treason just for talking to putin calling him names like a trader a week poppy a kremlin stooge putin's puppet and even accused him of being affiliated with the f.s.b. and the k.g.b. so it was totally outlandish. i don't know which side is the bride and which side of it is the groom enters a bit as it were sort of feels like we're in a wedding you have been watching for ad for the most disgraceful performances by an american president why is president trump putting himself in this vulnerable high stakes in area and letting lattimer putin lead. man that even president trump now says interfered in u.s.

democracy invited to the white house and now the president has apparently doubled down they stand by him to washington so let's collude again. and there's been no let up in the russian meddling allegations the secretary of homeland security told reporters the government needs to prepare for further interference coming from russia donald trump quickly fired back at that statement saying moscow might just meddle in coming elections but only to help the democrats i'm very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming election based on the fight the new president has been tough from russia to me they will be pushing very hard for the democrats they definitely don't want trump and the latest larry king show politicking c.n.n. journalist jake tapper says that trump still does not believe allegations against russia after president trump had publicly sided with putin. over the u.s. intelligence agencies over whether or not russia interfered in the election dan

coats put out a letter affirming that it was in fact russia. president trump tried to walk that back but as we saw just recently president from just called the russian allegations of russian interference hoax so we know he doesn't believe that dan coats is in the doghouse because he is saying what he thinks is true and what the intelligence community reports to be true. is john kelly still got the quality you had. i don't think so but it's also just a question of can anyone rein in president trump can anyone try to get president trump to act the way that a normal president would act to back the intelligence community to back his own intelligence officers to not lash out emotionally on twitter i don't think john kelly could it has obviously been able to has not been able to do that i don't think there's anyone that could really be able to get president trump to do that

whether it's a vodka and jared or priebus or whoever i mean president trump is going to be who he is he. shocked the art world by banning advertising featuring the works of the seventeenth century flemish artist peter paul rubens and delved into the controversy. full centuries these were considered priceless treasure as and masterpieces and now that contentious well according to facebook it appears the platforms take box approach to ads means that console the difference between art and pornography annoying art galleries and museums all of about open from visits to mogs about ruben's breasts we have noticed that facebook consistently rejects works of on bits of paul reubens even though we secretly have to laugh about it your cultural censorship is

make you watch for all the difficult lost in the append that head to the face but see they've even all suck a big to discuss the matter. so what is the seventeenth century artist well his baroque style paintings of famously known to feature nudes and cherubs sometimes delicately draped with cloth but this artistic taste is a big no no with me to john strict advertising rules this flemish tourist company thinking if he's not appropriate for facebook he's not appropriate for you and if you have a social media account we have to take you away from the nudity thing to protect your good spirits even if autistic in nature this includes paintings individually such as a budget speech cleavage story but it's not a list that we put your in front of this painting we are searching for. you for. facebook has said it's open to discussion but there is no doubt this is

great payoff spin by museum curators it is in fact possible to post artistic needs on facebook if it's part of an ad that is in the stricter guidelines and could be rejected but facebook might be playing it safe for different reasons back in two thousand and seventeen facebook came into fire for failing to may have sexual images of children and also failing to stop leaks revenge porn photos all this spot concerns of a. facebook's moderation system facebook's very baltic senses flag posts but it appears that makes it hard to distinguish between pornography and autistic nudity but when it comes to exploitation though you can be sure as a facebook user you'll be protected from our thoughts as you just saw our visitors to the rubens house in antwerp were jokingly prevented from seeing paintings barbara masters to protect them from nudity the marketing director of visit flanders told us how people responded to the park. very funny actually because they were always aware that this kind of artist or paintings are

not able to be shown on the social media they were not aware of it and actually we were not aware of it either because we have planned a whole campaign of facebook to make the world to aware of five hundred two years of flemish masters and it was only in february that we found out that all the new it in the paintings was blocked by facebook but we absolutely know the rules of facebook and about advertising but we would actually it's an open invitation to facebook to make them rethink the rules that they have because we believe that not showing the new paintings is like covering up five hundred years of our art and western history i understand of course there need to be very clear little rules and very good at facebook pay so much attention but we think that it might be possible to make a clear distinction between. paintings or art which is completely

different from from newt or pornographic knew what. the u.s. senate has revealed this year is defense policy bill that puts conditions on us arms sales to saudi arabia for their operation in yemen it wants reassurances from saudi arabia that it will do everything to end the yemeni civil war and eliminate civilian deaths but explains there are ways around the policy. now at first glance it actually looks like washington is starting to distance itself from saudi arabia's war in yemen as washington school ambles over to the new defense bill. the secretary of state would have to certify to congress that the saudi coalition is undertaking efforts to end the civil war and reduce the risk of harm to civilians. without the set's vacation the united states would be banned from refueling some of the coalition aircraft commissions exclusively focused on the civil war some media outlets are all over it but listen to the language undertaking efforts to end the

civil war now that's a clever way of shielding themselves from criticism and allowing any real effort some measure their progress now the saudis have been saying the same thing for some time now that they are taking measures to cease the conflict and they've also been playing the mercy card they've actually donated a billion dollars to the united nations for relief in yemen but that's help for the very same country they've been bombing for over three years with civilians dying by the thousands. to. get. the thing is under u.s. arms control policy it's illegal to export arms to countries that target civilians well not anymore one word changes everything now the white house says it is legal

to sell weapons to countries as long as they don't intentionally target civilians but when has it ever been intentional. and while the defense spending bill is being discussed the saudis already bagged themselves a new contract lockheed martin just signed a deal worth four hundred fifty million dollars all in the name of global security the deal will see saudi arabia acquire full surface combatants as possible large agreement with the u.s. to improve global security and support economic progress this is nothing other than a temp. by congress to put lipstick on the pig in other words to make something that's gross and awful and illegal and immoral and done ethical to make it look as if it's either better or getting better or the us congress people the elected

officials don't want to embrace full responsibility now as congress debates this year's military spending bill including some vague language about saudi arabia the weapons deals just keep rolling in with the lives of civilians in yemen caught in the middle table mopping r.t. new york the saudi led coalition started its bombing campaign against yemen in two thousand and fifteen against rebels the coalition has conducted thousands of air strikes and some have hit civilian areas however they always deny doing that intentionally saudi arabia says that the rebels pose a threat to its supporters. coming up in the program a right wing movement in germany that prints its own money and passports sees a surge in popularity i'll bring you that story and much more after a quick break. the pleasure fund has guaranteed returns that there's being abused by the crooks there

is the guarantee to shovel it a lot of toxic garbage that is ending up is a guaranteed go because at the end of the day a lot of these pension accounts not being cut back people who think that they had a pension are being told is being run out you don't have a question anymore you're now flat broke you have to go out to the street and beg for money go get addicted to heroin we don't want you anymore drop dead. seems wrong why don't we all just don't hold. any. get to shape out just did something active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

and. welcome back the president of the european commission meets donald trump later in washington and it comes of a low point in u.s. relations with the e.u. america slops tariffs on steel and aluminum from the block and then the e.u. hit back with tit for tat measures on tuesday donald trump tweeted that he hopes both the u.s. and the e.u. will drop all the tariffs but understands it won't happen the block doesn't seem to be that optimistic either saying there's no special trade offer on the table for washington. as well as calling the european commission chief a brutal killer trump also described europe as a foe on trade younger had some harsh words of his own trump told me last week claude you are a brutal killer but it is the first time that look somebody has become

a threat to the united states of america he meant that i think as a complement to them even though i cannot be sure. so now we will also impose import tariffs this is basically a stupid process the fact that we have to do this but we have to do it we will now impose tariffs on motorcycles harley davidsons on blue jeans levis on bourbon we can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid totally unacceptable that it come to be pushing to the letter of measures when it comes to. create. trump and pose those tariffs on steel mill and i'm citing national security concerns the e.u. asked to be exempted from the measures but was denied it then introduced its own duty on american products including motorcycles and jeans and if mr younger is looking for inspiration before his meeting with donald trump he could look to some of the european leaders who have already met with the u.s. president.

thank you so very much but the speech was just too long because you told the united states which is full of natural men a decree that the united states of america sees itself as a regular column for the whole world. is no longer the truth in the future. of. the t.v. you really want to see if they can work something out there we do work it out that will be for sure then if we don't it will be far short of also if we don't know what you're thinking about the cars are already here we'll go shopping but. we've.

cut. cut. cut. cut cut. cut cut cut. cut. cut cut. cut. cut. cut. germany's domestic security service has raised the alarm over a growing right wing extremist movement the country's interior ministry says there are more than sixteen thousand so-called citizens of the right in the country the

movement rejects the modern german state and prints its own passports and currency more than one thousand of them own firearms and germany's interior minister says a number of them are prone to violence. soon to say. they are very dangerous ideologically and in terms of organization but five percent of them can be considered extremists but briggs berger and extremists have in common is there an obsession with weapons. the same report also claimed that nearly eight hundred of the country's citizens are islamics and one hundred seventy of them are in prison authorities say the increase brings new challenges but that the country is agencies were strong enough to deal with it a member of the german left party we spoke to believes there's a direct link between the rise of the far right and islamic radicalization. backslash follows the german government in the last year i think what we're seeing

us there and other services. threat from right after this last. you know of it and it's you where we have just seen the court rule which has killed those mothers who overstand muglia yes and these are the first noticed it is the fall of saddam or the insurer government for importing a disservice to stand most of the syrian refugees are not ridiculousness some are and what it is right now just was rediculus and terrorist. probably got reports that germany wants to take some of the west cards from syria well those people what are they going to do in germany you just crush. the u.k. was recently shaken by a house of lords committee that revealed that children were being recruited and police operations to infiltrate criminal gangs they stayed in dangerous thing in

mental and physical welfare action rotund say for marty's going underground spoke to former undercover police officer who was aware of the practice certainly had several near death experiences. well i've been threatened with a summer i sort of with knives in various occasions strips at gunpoint and you know you hear some of the information certainly from organizations like the children society they report the kind of things that's going on to children involved these gangs already they are being forced to carry drugs in their rectum. being intimidated and filmed in compromising situations that the level of intimidation that already exists is quite horrific and that should be enough information to to say to say that there is no policing solution to this and to ramp up the violence even more by using child informants is just the wrong way to go now i have to have to point out most people who have commented on this topic have rightly talked about

the human rights and protecting the individual child involved a child who may be chosen to infiltrate a crack that's a legitimate point and i agree completely but we have to look at this in a broader sense the use of child informants like this will make it more dangerous for effi child exploiters because it will increase the violence and exploitation. that's a global update for now but don't forget you can always had to our website our to dot com for the details on all those stories and more thanks for tuning in. we're told to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to. let you go right to the press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always

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our. are going to. her. greetings and sal you take should see. in the ever changing world of pop culture two thousand and eighteen will go down in the history

books as one of the standout years in the new renaissance of black culture like a phoenix rising out of the ashes galvanized by the black lives matter movement black artists entertainers and political figures have been dominating the headlines and box offices like no other time before starting with the global box office supernova that was black panther even before its release last february the growing buzz there. the film was deafening featuring that rarest of rare in hollywood a major studio film made with a predominantly black cast and crew black panther broke down barriers and defeated expectations delivering a hero's journey to a marginalized movie going audience so often resigned to seeing the characters that look like them cast as the sidekick or comic relief to the white character in the lead role but it wasn't just the movie screens that were showcasing the new black renaissance music sod's revolutions as well with the continued rise of artists like

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