this is not a story line but her life at the moment is she the most recent victim of the west. related to russia. headline stories. for a string of devastating terror attacks in southern syria. but there is still some fear it's possible for groups of militants to go into houses. families in neighboring. terror campaign government security adviser admits the media is staying quiet on the increased violence to prevent. the number of kidnappings since many special forces do not have enough resources to hunt the militants down because they're hiding out some remote mountainous areas. also ahead it's revealed actors were offered money by a u.k.

casting agency to take part in an. event during the visit of the country's leader to london. paris. the french president goes on a trumpet like tirade against the media over its humbling of the valving. top security a. reverie your tuning in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to r.t. international and your company i'm you know neal our top story in the syrian city of told r.t. but the number of people killed in a series of terror attacks by islamic state has now risen to almost one hundred fifty well bruni from r.t.r. a big. reports. that the security has been strengthened in some way to province

after a series of terror attacks that currently where on the square near the market where in the morning as you said bomber blew himself up in a crowd of people there are stalls all around people who are shopping we can still see the puddles of blood and the body parts not far from here there's a square and a residential area where two are the suicide bombers trying to glow of yourselves up at a small train is iceland carried out a massive offensive in the northeastern part of this way into prominence they managed to take control of several villages but the syrian army that managed to free the territories with support from the locals but not before is still had killed and taken several people hostage as well as flight two hundred as in the area. but we also know that they two suicide bombers at the marketplace were shot dead by security forces and the third arrested before they could detonate their explosive devices this string of attacks comes as president as the forces of

violence against israel that is in sway the problems near the frontier with the israeli controlled golan heights rascasse space correspondent mohammed ali has more . if we look at the reasons behind such an attack at this time it's because the syrian army is launching an offensive against and particularly in the southern part of syria particularly inside the country side of this where they also and yet move valley northwest of that are they are the army has been carrying out its military operations again and recently there have been advances significant advances for the syrian government forces over their course backed by russian air force all of these 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 meanwhile in neighboring iraq i still appears to be on the rebound there too with its fighters launching

a guerrilla campaign of kidnapping and killing seven months after the iraqi prime minister had cleared victory over the group a security adviser to the government told us that the number of terror attacks in the country doubled from a to jews. and. in junior high school militants stepped up their activity according to government data there were eighty three cases with the doctors in killed civilians that's twice the number in me when i still had been devastated by the government military crackdown well to get another picture in this we asked the iraqi ministry of internal affairs for comment when they gave us their response we will get it to you now iraq as the of looks out the changing nature of the terror threat in iraq and the tactics being employed by a resurgent isel 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 claim victory some more proclaiming than others coalition to defeat has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the territory but do 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 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 are 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 in the camp to protect their lives. in iraq isis has gone on the ground 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 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 in iraq a 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 on 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 were found dead in 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 could hear iraqi state media staying silent about the kidnapping so as not to spread panic can hinder the government's rescue a number of i still kidnapping says search since we now the special forces do not have enough resources the hundred militants down it is they're hiding out in 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 matter area have been deported and now the terrorists use them as military bases jails and commando units iraq is that 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 thirst and ideas of the hardness the wall to kill. among your. lush france's media over its handling of the scandal involving the president's top security aide that's after the french leader said he was taking responsibility for his bodyguard attacking a protester charlotte dubin skee picks up the story. well in the last week french

media has been in a complete frenzy over this scandal which emerged involving top security aide alexander. well but now has since been sacked and on tuesday we heard for the first time what president much more made of this of he said to a group of his deputies a lot of public amash the buck stops with 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 in commentate is acting like the judiciary and we're not looking to seek out the truth so we have media that no longer seeks the truth the images are they showing with the design it's uncover the

truth to present facts in a balanced manner. i see media policy want to become judicial ones well we know the president might call on the present from the united states of being 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 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 very think 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 i'm not going to give you a question you are fake well some may think it's not the best idea for a present to follow in the footsteps of a. president trump and 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 by not criticism is extending out to all media outlets in france well i'm elizabeth who is a columnist for britain's sunday telegraph believes mccrum is trying to shift the blame the spy taking responsibility for the scandal reverts to the usual us a huge politicians when they are caught on something too late and he accuses the media that existed before trump. holders and from france we've seen this before it's not especially a trump special specialty so we can expect something to do this government but this certainly is the first time that this government has taken a wrong for to 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. let's turn attention to the u.k. words emerged a casting agency offered money to extras to take part in a fake protest the event was scheduled to coincide with the meeting between they could tare amir and the british prime minister on tuesday r.t. standing hawkins' reports from london. well protests against the visiting heads of states are nothing new in the u.k. of course just look at the recent trip by donald trump for example fake protests paid demonstrators and mysterious p.r. firms there are something very different and that's what's really attracted some attention and indignation here in the u.k. over the last couple of days how did it begin casting agency x. people sent an e-mail to their members offering them a job simple enough turn up to downing street take part in a fake protest don't say or do anything just fill up space as the e-mail said

twenty pounds and you'll be done by twelve thirty that was the e-mail sent out between three and five hundred people were needed to make this protest against the visit of qatari emir. outside downing street as the media attention began to grow and social media speculation was rife because the agency took back this trouble for saying it had been a mistake in a reconsidered and it would not be involved in such an event they said who was behind this was a client called neptune p r which had requested five hundred people to turn up and act as protesters now enter p.r. at least somebody pertaining to be them they tweeted saying that they had denied making any such request to extra's people or ever having in contacted them now this was very odd given that the twitter profile of this alleged p.r. company neptune p.r. was very new as was the company itself the tweet as you can see there was life with the grammatical errors and indeed the website of this p.r.

company was suspiciously empty extra's then public replied they showed allegedly a screenshot of an email conversation with this p.r. firm notion p.r. . which gave them the billing address for these services stating that the rest of the conversation was with their lawyers now this really gave more questions than answers of course this all comes against the backdrop of tension between qatar and its gulf state neighbors egypt saudi arabia the. they've imposed a law and their and sea blockade on the gulf state citing funding for terrorism coming from qatar qatar accuses its neighbors of bullying tactics and sparking tension now speculation will no doubt grow that this has something to do with that visit and with those that provide tensions although given how little of emotion is available about this mysterious p.r. firm and just how this whole event turned around something quite unusual of course

for the u.k. will no doubt keep people guessing as more information comes to light or r.t. has contacted them to n.p.r. the firm in question asking for comment on the situation we will let you know when we receive a response if we do from them. the u.s. senate has revealed this year's defense policy bill that puts conditions on american arms to goes to saudi arabia for their operation in yemen washington wants reassurances from saudi arabia that it will do everything to end the yemeni civil war and avoid civilian deaths but this killer and 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 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 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. 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 of surface combatants of 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 and other words to make something that's gross and awful and illegal and immoral and unethical 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. r.t. new york. coalition began its bombing campaign against yemen in twenty fifteen targeting rebels the coalition has conducted thousands of first strikes with some hitting civilian areas riyadh has always denied doing so intentionally. rebels pose a threat to its borders. president spoken to the e.q.

commission president in washington with the talks dominated by the issue of targets on trade barriers. but over the years you know this has been losing hundreds of billions of dollars with the european union and we just wanted to be a level playing field so well despite that the u.s. president said he was optimistic a consensus could be found the meeting seemed quite tense despite junkyard young person pressing they are alive and that both sides need to work together however in the run up to the talks in washington trump gave a blunt assessment of how he currently sleeze global trade on twitter. with terrorists of the greatest either a country which is treat the united states unfairly on trade negotiates a fair deal or he gets hit with terrorists it's as simple as that and everybody's talking remember we're the piggy bank that's being rocked or will be great well after america's slap tart of sun steel an element in coming from the e.u.

what around two months ago now the bloc responded with like for like measures the trade standoff hasn't exactly help create a convivial atmosphere earlier trump went as far as calling the e.u. commission chief a brutal killer while describing europe as an economic fall and younger had some direct words of his own as well trump told me last week john 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 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. junkyard younker is seeking inspiration before his meeting he could look to some of the european leaders who

have already met with the u.s. president. q. the benefit of the species we can't just rely on the superpower of the united states which is both natural and man a donkey the united states of america sees it 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 positive and if we don't it will be far short of also if you don't know what you're thinking about the cars are already here local so that. we've. got

a. few a few of. the. jury duty thank you. thank you a few we've. with. you we. are. deeper into this whole thing on go live to economics writer on libertarian jeffrey albert jeffrey is the executive editor of the law say for books on is

looking splendid tonight i have to say and jeffrey what are your predictions for the outcome of this meeting are we likely to see the trade war worse than both sides are talking tough. yes i should mention that i'm speaking to you from the tree where workers the american institute for economic research is your founded in one thousand nine hundred three we've been fighting for a true free trade ever since then and i've been warning for two years that donald trump is a convinced economic nationalist he does not want free trade he's tweeting out now tariffs are the greatest tariffs of the greatest so i think this phrase is going to go down in history as being a catastrophic ideological opinion what he's doing right now is extremely dangerous he is not interested in any kind of compromise and all this rhetoric is is just bluster about how you want so you're up to end subsidies he said this on the same day that he's subsidizing u.s. farmers for twelve billion dollars to make up for their losses because of is tariff

war that's what's going on right now and it's a calamity for consumers for producers and really it's affecting the entire world what's the top thing that both sides are hoping to achieve in this. well what trump wants if i can be very blunt with you about this he wants propaganda victories for himself i'm sorry put it this way but he is not interested in negotiating a deal he's interested in high tariffs he thinks that goods coming into america are alike and beige and this is just bad economics and every economist in america knows this and i'm so sorry that people are he's flattered by this rate so people are coming to washington begging him to not not to ruin these supply supply chains not to ruin trading relationships trampas and enjoy this obsequious displays donald trump he's actually like like like like a villain there in

a comic book you know. and it's deeply embarrassing to every american economist and i don't know what to say it's he's got a theory of the world that economists do not share but he have a captive audience won't it because you've got the e.u. commission chief there are the european union is coming to terms of course with brags it doesn't need to be careful that it doesn't risk alienating a major trade partner but attention facing another hit here. well so everyone it's a good faith effort right and this happened with with china it happened with canada it's happened with mexico and with with europe everyone's trying to preserve what they can out of the post world. effort to lower tariffs airs and to have three or unfair trade and it's a good faith effort i'm just afraid that it's not going to work what people need to understand is that that it's a feature of the american system now that all trade power rests with the president

and it's not supposed to be this way but that's what we've ended up with so unfortunately is his his own views are going to prevail he wants high tariffs walls and and we are regarded as a check free and i'm just sorry it didn't drop i'm just looking at some of the headlines twenty five percent tar of talking about on foreign cars now that's obviously going to get a lot of support among business and the car industry in the u.s. but if he supported that's what he's talking about. no this is not true what you said i mean the american automobile manufacturers have went to washington to lobby against against this which is unprecedented that in other words they do not support this and if you look at the stock prices of american automobile manufacturers over the last forty eight hours they're falling very dramatically their forecasts of profits are are dramatically down every carmaker now knows that cars are now got

a global product you have plenty of foreign car manufacturers operating in the u.s. this has been going on for twenty five years. american companies are operating abroad that's been going on now for twenty years we have a cooperative relationship with you and this is impressive it is usually high tariffs or lobbied for by a domestic industry and that is not the case here this is chosen trade advisor and donald trump the only two people according to news reports in the white house who actually favor this and industry is is almost entirely against it ok we have to end it there thanks so much for taking the time to speak to us a economics writer libertarian jeffrey albert who is the executive director of the a lot safer. executive editor excuse me a lot safer books thanks jeffrey my pleasure thank you. donald trump decided to postpone part two of a historic summit with vladimir putin until

a later date in twenty nineteen the move comes less than a week after the u.s. president ordered an invitation to be sent out for further talks in washington following the helsinki summit earlier in the month so a bit topsy turvy let's get the details now from similar accounts from here it did not take long for the american president to change his mind what's behind it. well john bull and national security adviser explained the decision saying that it was the current political climate as saying the meeting should take place after the quote russia witch hunt is over after the first of the year now this comes after a new poll showed that the majority of americans support the second meeting between the two leaders but what's interesting is that trump made this announcement or trump's administration rather after sending an invite to the russian president so

that's a little confusing as well but last week's helsinki summit to lead to total hysteria in the u.s. some even demanded that trump release the full transcript from the meeting but it's also worth mentioning that if announcement was made as mike pompei a secretary of state testifies before the senate regarding this very topic so whether this changes anything remains to be seen ok thank you much for the update on the developing story samir accounts from washington d.c. . ok we're back to betting on the cross talk shortly peter other guests are here right after these.

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