oh. oh. oh oh oh oh. islamic state claims responsibility for a string of devastating terror attacks in southwestern syria. there is still some fear it's possible for groups of militants to go into houses and slowly see entire families. in neighboring iraq islamic state also ramps up its terror campaign as a government security adviser admits the media is staying quiet on the increase finally to prevent panic the number of lysol kidnapping searched and so many now the special forces team don't have enough resources to the militants down is their hiding out from the most mountainous areas. also this hour an acting agency looks to stage a fake rally with paid protesters against the qatari amir's visit to the u.k.

and the gulf states activity. is ignoring this. region. the french president goes on a trump white tirade against the media over its handling of the scandal involving emanuel microns top security aide. this is our to international coming to you live from the russian capital with me jaclyn go-go welcome to the program. we start with breaking news from syria medics in the southwestern city of psuedo have told our team that the number of people killed in a series of terror attacks has now risen to almost one hundred and fifty the deadliest attack took place when 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 in the city the other assaults happened in nearby villages. and syrian state t.v.

says islamic state is responsible the attacks come as forces loyal to the assad government push to capture the remaining i still hope profits in the southwest of the city later in the program we will bring you a live report on that story. meanwhile i still appears to be on the rebound in neighboring iraq with its fighters launching a guerrilla campaign of kidnapping and killing seven months after the iraqi prime minister declared victory over the group a security advisor to the government told us the number of terror attacks in the country doubled from may to june. and. in june the ice to milicz steps up their activity according to government data there were eighty three cases with the. us that's twice the number and i still had been devastated by the government military crackdown we asked the iraqi ministry of internal affairs for comment will bring you the response when we get it right got to have looks now at the changing nature of the terror threat in iraq and the tactics being employed by

resurgent eisel. it took very needy the entire world united to defeat isis caliphate in syria and iraq they did it they destroyed the caliph it albeit at a huge cost and proclaim victory some did more proclaiming than others because. as liberal very close to one hundred percent of the terror 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 or my family they would just come over and slaughter us and forces in the camp to protect their lives in iraq isis has gone underground 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 jihad the most 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 fake 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 this is their reward for this service been dumped here on the floor. some of the hostages 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. iraqi state media sting signed about kidnapping those so as

not to spread panic can hinder the government's rescue the number of i still kidnapping says search teams me now the special forces do not have enough resources to hunt the militants down and it 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. now the terrorists use them as military bases jails command units iraq is a crossroads it learned to level the cities to defeat isis caliph it but that doesn't work anymore isis is an idea and zealotry fanaticism it's also an outlet for desperation for violence for blood and ideas the hardest of all to kill. 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 scandal surrounding the incident he lashed out at the media for its handling of the story going as far saying they no longer seek the truth charlotte devinsky has the details of the scandal well in the last week french media has been in a complete frenzy over this scandal which emerged involving calls top security aide . well but no one has since been sacked and on tuesday we heard for the first time what president much more made of he said to a group of his deputies a lot of public amash. him that he and only he was to blame but then he turned around and then laid the blame at the press in the way that they covered

this story essentially saying that the press and commentators were acting like the judiciary not looking to seek out the truth so 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 powers he want to become judicial ones well we know the president might call on the president from the united states have been pretty chummy for a long time but it seems now that president michael might be taking a leaf 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 so you know that 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 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 president 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 but it now seems that that boy and that criticism is extending out to media outlets in france and elizabeth metol who is a columnist for britain's the sunday to. telegraph police mccrone is trying to shift the blame despite taking responsibility it reverts to the usual attitude of politicians when they are caught on something too late and he accuses the media that existed before trump to hold the deduction from she hogged it often from we've seen this before it's not especially a trump special specialty so we can expect something you do this government but

this certainly is the first time that this government has taken a wrong foot chewed in the media spin situation up till now they did very well the media love them and they just let this. for a week and that's completely uncharacteristic of. over to the u.k. now where it has emerged casting agency has offered money to take to extras to take part in a fake anti qatar protest the event was scheduled to coincide with the meeting between the qatari mir and the british prime minister to get more on this let's cross live to r.t. is daniel hearkens. there what are the details behind this paid protest attempt. or protests at state visits are nothing new just look at the recent trip to the u.k. by the american president this though does seem a little bit different the plan demonstration paid protesters and they missed repeat our farm lots of questions what actually happened it all started with

a cost the agency extra people sending an e-mail to their members offering them a job to turn up to downing street yesterday and attend a protest against a visit to the u.k. by qatari emir i mean bring home our thoughts during his meeting with to resume a twenty pounds was an offer to turn up as you can see in in the e-mail do nothing say nothing simply fill up the space that offer was soon rescinded as social media interest and media interest began to grow actions people withdrew that job offer stating that the job was taken on by a junior booker without any managerial approval and there has not been and will not be involved in such events now they say that a company called neptune p r had initially approached them with this request requesting between three and five hundred people to come and attend this demonstration enter that company neptune p r a somebody at least claiming to be them with this quite harsh response saying they adamantly deny this request had

ever been made and lo contacted actually ever even occurred between themselves and extras agency finally threatening legal action for that accusation now this is all very odd given that the twitter profile of this company neptune p.r. was very recently set up as was the company itself according to the company's house the tweet itself also had multiple grammar errors as our viewers can probably see quite unusual for a p.r. company one must admit as well as having a pretty empty looking website when next you p.r.'s typed into google certainly not much information at all doesn't come up all extras people did reply publicly on twitter they published what they allege to be a screenshot. of email correspondence between themselves and their former potential client stating that the rest of the correspondence is with their lawyers so things getting quite heated there are certainly more questions than answers really about this whole story and of course comes against the backdrop of great tension between

cuts are in its neighbors saudi arabia egypt. and bahrain the latter accuse qatar of funding terrorism they've actually launched. a land air and sea blockade of the small government gulf state for quite some time now qatar accuses its neighbors of bullying tactics and sparking tension so this certainly would launch speculation perhaps that this story could somehow be linked to those tensions we have asked for comment we'll still waiting for them to get back to us we'll give you more as more is known about this quite mysterious story then you're harkins reporting live from london thank you for bringing us that report. we now go back to our breaking news from syria where medics in the southwestern city of sweater have told r.t. that the number of people killed in a series of terror attacks has now risen to almost one hundred and fifty we can now

get the details from local correspondent mohammed ali thank you for joining us mohamed what beneficially established at this point. yes the number of people were killed because of the eiffel terrorist explosions in sweden is rising there are conflicting reports on the numbers but it's clear that the numbers over one hundred because what happened was that there was some will to assign bombers that attacked infiltrated first the city offered its way to and then the first suicide bomber blew himself up inside a very crowded area it is actually a popular crowded market in the middle of elsewhere over there and this is why the number of those who have been killed is high. that was that was the first explosion that happened in the morning but then there were two other side bombers chased down by the syrian security forces inside wade that borders and neighborhoods said they

were killed before they can blow themselves up and also there was a force for the side bomber trying to blow him so far inside the national hospital but according to the security forces there and the governor of that suicide bomber was arrested alive this is regarding dallas where the city itself and the suicide bombings but coinciding with those bombings there was also a ground attack by eiffel terrorists on various parts of the countryside of posts where the poor villages in the north and to villages in the east and those attacks were also for been repelled by the syrian army and according to locals also with the cooperation of the people and the residents of those areas in general if we look at the reasons behind such an attack at this time it's because the syrian army is launching an offensive against dies in particularly in the southern part of syria particularly inside the country side of this where they also and yet able to valley northwest of that are they are the army has been carrying out military operations against dice and recently there have been advance of significant

advances for the syrian government forces over their force backed by russian air force over the syrian army today also to control. several areas in the second julian for example and heading towards it in itself which is north west of that eye and yet a move valley there will also advances south of us when they start very strategic area on the separation one of the occupied golan heights the army they're also controlled from the back of areas like by the algernon. low being as much as an even north of france where that there where the most of the activity has been happening today the attacks by that the army controlled actually two villages called raja and duma in general this operation has been taking place since june the nineteenth of june the army carried out and sort of this a wide operation for killing the terrorists of both dice and the on the surface in southern syria and the aim is to purge all of those areas of terrorist security for the first time in about since two thousand and thirteen and that all of the that

are province is now secured except for about less than six percent which is are now under the control of the action the army is aiming to secure there are also some areas some small towns and villages that the army is working on securing whether militarily or via reconciliation deals. press t.v. of muhammad ali correspondent thank you very much for bringing us the latest. on the fine line between what's art and what's not coming up after a break as a gallery in belgium takes on facebook. the pension funds it's guaranteed returns that those being abused by the crooks are using the guarantee to shovel it a lot of toxic garbage that is ending up is a guaranteed job because at the end of the day a lot of these pension accounts not being cut back people who think that they had a passion are being told is being run out you don't have a question anymore you're now flat broke you have to go out in the street and beg for money go get addicted to heroin we don't want you anymore drop dead.

good politicians to do something. we put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. want to be rich. but you going to be the first to see what before three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters of. course should. come back to the program facebook has shocked the art world by banning advertising featuring the works of the seventeenth century flemish artist peter paul rubens

artist initial something delves 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. from visits to mogs about ruben's breasts we have noticed that facebook consistently rejects works of art by paul reubens even though we secretly have to laugh about it your cultural censorship is making life for all the difficult in the append that add to the face but see they've even also a big 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 media giant 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 and to protect your good spirits even if autistic in nature this includes paintings individual bodies such as not to speak cleavage story but it's not just that we put your here 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 advocate 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 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 ours. as you just saw visitors to the rubens house in antwerp were jokingly prevented from seeing paintings by masters to protect them from nudity the marketing director of the flinders told us how people responded to the prank bell they reacted 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 plants a whole campaign of facebook to make the world to aware of five hundred 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 about we would actually it's an open invitation to facebook to make them rethink it 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 the chorus 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 like muting paintings or art which is completely different from from utah or pornographic knew with. the president of the european commission meets donald trump later today in washington but it's not expected to be an easy meeting wish on club you are ready to stand firm on brussels tariffs and trade barriers they came into place after america slaps tariffs on steel and

aluminum coming from the bloc prompting the e.u. to respond with like for like measures and right before the meeting trump gave some insight on the current state of global trade negotiations. terrorists are the greatest either a country which is the united states unfairly on trade negotiates a fair deal or gets hit with terrorists it's as simple as that and everybody's talking remember we're the piggy bank that's being robbed or will be great now the trade standoff hasn't exactly helped create a friendly vibe trumpet as far as calling the e.u. commission chief a brutal killer while describing europe as an economic furrow and hugo 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 luxembourg 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. also 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 country is imposing unilateral measures when it comes to. create. wealth mr young goes looking for inspiration before his meeting with donald trump it could lead to some of the european leaders who have already met with the u.s. president. luke you the benefit of the species we can't just rely on the superpower of the united states but it's all natural for many decades that the united states of america sees itself as a regulatory policy for the whole world. is no longer the truth in the future and. i. think the e.u.

they want to see if they can work something out there we do work it out that will be positive and if we don't it will be positive also if we don't know what you're thinking about those cars are far and near all of those out of that. thank you. lou thank you. thank you. ily. q. q. q.

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