also. there is still some fear it's possible for groups of militants to go into houses and slowly see entire families islamic state ramps up its terror campaign in iraq as a government security adviser admits the media is staying quiet on the increased violence to prevent. the number of leisel kidnappings searched it's not the special forces do not have enough resources to hunt style is there hiding out some remote mountainous areas. also this hour the prospect of a second summit between donald trump and vladimir putin stokes fear in the media and among u.s. politicians despite a recent poll suggesting most americans are in favor of closer ties with russia. and facebook is mocked for banning advertising featuring classic works by the punish artist ruben's due to their perch trail of nudity. 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 in nature. this is our teams national coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just one welcome to the program at least fifty people have reportedly been killed and scores wounded in a series of terror attacks in the southwest of syria the deadliest took place in the city of psuedo where a suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated himself in a marketplace two other militants were killed by security services as they prepared to carry out further attacks there the other assaults happened in villages close to the city syrian state t.v. says islamic state was responsible and the attacks come as forces loyal to the assad government push to capture the remaining i still held pockets in the southwest of the country. meanwhile eisel appears to be on the rebound in

neighboring iraq with its fighters launching a guerrilla campaign of kidnapping and killing seven months after prime minister after the prime minister declared victory over the group a security advisor to the government told us that the number of terror attacks in the country doubled from may to june and. in june the i saw millet's and steps up their activity according to government data there were eighty three cases with the doctors and killed civilians that's twice the number in me when i still had been devastated by the government military crackdown we asked the iraqi ministry of internal affairs for comment we'll bring you their responses when we get them right gusti of looks now at the changing nature of the terror threat in iraq and the tactics being employed by research and i saw. it took very needy 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 terror but done a great job with those as we have just absolutely decimated isis is absolutely obliterated isis in iraq a case of celebrating a little early isis was never beaten and they lost the battles but the war's far from over they've gone back to basics hidden run raids assassinations 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 probably know 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 and they come to protect their lives in iraq isis has gone on the ground this area of iraq is

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 a 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 sawed as much as ten fold in just a few months and iraqi 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 and what an attorney 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 their corpses rigged with explosives and the government's afraid afraid of people finding out how bad it's becoming you know how the. 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. now the 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 have been depopulated now the terrorists use them as military bases jails and command units iraq is 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 to the wall to kill and across the atlantic islamic state has also reared its ugly head claiming responsibility for a shooting in toronto on sunday that killed two people one victim was a child the other young woman thirteen other people were wounded as a result the attacker opened fire randomly at passer bys on a street in the center of the city the shooter was later found dead and identified

by police as twenty nine year old man of pakistani origin mysel saying his parents have said he suffered from mental illness. a second round of talks between donald trump and lot of mir putin could be a step closer the kremlin is confirmed it has received an official invitation for the russian leader to visit washington in the fall and says although nothing. as you have been agreed on it acknowledges the need for another meeting a recent poll taken in the us in the kids that over fifty percent of americans may back a second summit and over sixty 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 many u.s.

media outlets have been voicing grave concerns over the relationship between trump and putin some claim that the leaders summit in helsinki last week marked a major realignment of the current world order so america explains 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. connections with russia the kremlin and the oligarchs i think he's put into print just a 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 a totally outlandish. i don't know which side is the bride and which side of it is the groom anderson but as there were sort of feels like we're at a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president why is president trump putting himself in his of longer of all high stakes an area and letting flag in there putin lead. a 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 delusion of russian meddling allegations the secretary of homeland security told reporters the u.s. government needs to prepare for further interference from russia dahlan term quickly fired back at that statement saying moscow might just meddle in the upcoming midterm 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 find the new president has been tougher on russia than me they will be pushing very hard for the democrats they definitely don't want trump in the latest larry king show politicking c.n.n. journalist jake tapper says that trump still does not believe the 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 russia 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 cloudy head. 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 lash out emotionally on twitter i don't think john kelly. 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 of jared or ryan's priebus or whomever i mean president trump is going to be who he is he's.

president mccrum has broken the silence over his disgraced top security aide who was caught on camera beating up a protester after taking responsibility for the instant he lashed out at the media for its handling of the story going as far as saying they no longer seek the truth charlotte even skiis in paris for us we cannot cross live to hurt charlotte some strong comments from the french president what's triggered this response. well over the last week the french media has being in a complete frenzy over this story is so cool but now like eight. calls home security eight who was cool it on video doing the may day protests early this year beating several protest is now since that video is a marriage that is go on and spread like wildfire in front of a nearly was actually meant to be the observing on an unofficial oh a day off instead he was caught on video beating at this protest is take

a look at this. well but now well banal and has since been fired as the top security aide to president gone and we've heard for the first time president mike on talking in public about this case it's not a statement that he made to the press but actually a statement that he made to his own party members on tuesday when he said he took full responsibility for the so-called gate scandal however he then also lashed out at the press saying that essentially journalists and commentators were acting like the judiciary they were not seeking the truth here is what else might say we have media that no longer seeks the truth the images are they showing with

a desire to cover the truth to present facts in a balanced manner. i see media power as we want to become judicial ones. what we know the president might call on and present from the united states have been pretty chummy for a long time but it seems now the president might go might be taking a leaf out of don't from books in the way that he deals with the mainstream media we know that donald trump has been at war with the mainstream media since before he was even elected. she and it is fake news i don't take questions from i'm against the people that make up stories the level of dishonesty is out of control i'm not going to give you a question you are fake very fake the fake news those who want to talk about a buzz feed which is a failing pile of garbage writing it i think they're going to suffer the consequences. well some may think it's not the best idea for

a present to follow in the footsteps of a president trump but we also know that president micron's approval ratings have dropped since this scandal emerged now the russian media has long been familiar with criticism and being under fire from president not gone but it now seems. that fire not criticism is extending out to all media outlets in france charlotte dubin ski reporting live from paris thank you for bringing us that update. the fine line between what's art and what's not coming up after the break as a gallery in belgium takes on facebook. everywhere in the world my guess is that probably just about everywhere women expect men to make that first move and here we are in an age where men are scared to make the first move don't know how to make the first move don't know what's right to make the first move.

join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see you than. anyone else seems wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to ship out just do something active. and in detroit because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back facebook has shocked the art world by banning advertising featuring

the works of the seventeenth century flemish artist peter paul rubens artist finished the 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 one does to mark zuckerberg about ruben's breasts we have noticed that facebook consistently rejects works of art by bits of paul reubens even though we secretly have to laugh about it your cultural censorship is make you watch for all the difficult flaws in the append that add to the face but see they've even all suck a bag to discuss the matter. so who 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 the needed john strict advertising rules they call the 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 kids nudity even if artistic nature this includes paintings individual bodies such as buttons cleavage so even if it was that we put your head 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 p.r. spin by museum curators it is in fact possible to post artistic names 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 in the face. moderation system facebook's very both take census 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 all this. as you just saw visitors to the rubens house in antwerp were jokingly prevented from seeing paintings by brick masters to protect them from nudity the marketing director of visit told us how people responded to the prank bell they reacted very funny actually because they were not 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 the cheers 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 that they 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. muting paintings or art which is completely different from from utah or pornographic knew what. the u.s. senate has revealed this years defense policy bill that puts conditions on u.s. arms sales to saudi arabia for their operation in yemen it wants reassurances from

saudi arabia that it will do everything to end the civil war and eliminate civilian deaths but as killed martin 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 scrambles over amendments 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 saudi coalition aircraft for missions 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 efforts to 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. getting. 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 on 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 kaleb mop and 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 denied doing that intentionally saudi arabia says that with the rebels pose a threat to its supporters. that's a global update for now but don't forget it. became a camera. roughly once that showed some movie for the. future uncool videos and someone with a broken eastern. down more on string i don't roughly don't t.v.

. time after time here we go underground as leaders from the world's emerging economies gather in south africa for the annual bric summit as people in britain continue to contend with the effects of the twenty zero eight crisis coming on the show tomorrow sees the historic signing of a peace deal between sudan and south sudan even though to raise a me thinks omar al bashir should be at the i.c.c. over darfur we speak to but she is where i will sit on opposition leader and former prime minister of sudan. and is the u.k. really using people's children a spine we'll ask a former undercover police officer about the morality of theresa may putting the lives of young people that risk well from the headlines the enemy is at the gates in gaza while britain opens its gates to the i tell me all this and more coming up

in today's going underground but first while neo liberal media screamed their hatred for donald trump and his foreign policy initiatives what about what happened twenty years ago next month good afternoon. today i ordered our armed forces to strike at terrorist related facilities in afghanistan and sudan because of the imminent threat they presented to our national security yes destroying a vital sudanese medicine factory that tens of thousands may have depended on for life saving drugs was all about national security not the tail wagging the dog over a sex scandal former u.k. colonies are done today though is not being bombed by a clinton one of the most resource rich countries in the world is looking forward to joining the brics nations which meet today in south africa to chart a possible post i.m.f. world bank imperialist world sudan has long had good relations with the brics russia let alone the c. china president xi jinping calls president bashir an old friend and is again

invited him to beijing. china says that he will keep hold of a friendly post with sudan no matter what international or domestic situation changes in sudan this policy why be changed meanwhile britain once president bashir in an international court the i.c.c. not even recognized by the united states who secretary of state has just expressed support for bilateral relations with sudan on my compares vision is definitely not the way some in hollywood see it the governor of sudan led by omar al bashir. and defense minister saying the same three men who orchestrated the atrocities and are for have turned their bombs on the people these are not military targets. is there in this in men women and children yes actor george clooney there making allegations that are denied by the sudanese government for bashir spot he is on the record for blaming nato nations for a policy of sanction divide and rule so his government can never fully exploit his

nation's potential i want to go. down a little bit if. it were actually good to. see. you. again. but you know this is. going to be. well going underground has never been able to get anyone to represent sudan from the sudanese embassy in london but we can now get the perspective of a leader of the sudanese opposition the former prime minister of sudan said he comedy is head of the national party animal of the suv the sex of unthaw and he's chair of the opposition alliance sudan call prime minister welcome to going underground the british government of course enforces sanctions against john lee once president bashir in the hague but egypt sudan becoming more friendly what do you make of there is no potential from friendship between the two and cairo because

in cairo muslim brothers are terrorists in heart of whom they are part that. this is the. post secondly they are in different. axes relations how to maintain an axis really with. egypt is on the other side so there is no potential for agreement but because of certain imperatives in terms of. things like that they keep up pretenses i think that is no more than a public relations exercise. yeah because we are talking about one of the most mineral and channel resource rich countries in the world with when we speak of saddam just tell our viewers what sudan call is you're the chair of the well basically are you know the sudan is ruled by it which came to puerto rico data and

is really administering continuous crises for thirty years for thirty years president bashir denies there is a cause and says he has a legitimate leader here they are in complete crisis sudan called is a group of. sudanese political forces who would like to see if the sudan from this. crisis we have to alternative means of doing so one is we have signed through the african mediation side at old map we want the implementation of that road map if it is implemented we think.