the rebuilding of syria as the two leaders meet. by the war in syria.

welcome to the weekly. and of course of the week but. on a number of issues with. the two leaders. the rebuilding of syria and the iran nuclear agreement were among the top topics discussed. reports from. here in schloss smears a burg about two hours drive from talks have been ongoing between shots of marco and president putin in the government residence just behind me here spy their previous rocky relationship mrs merkel and mr putin have been pushed together into a sort of political marriage of convenience through to a rift with the united states both countries have been affected by u.s.

tariffs russia has been affected by sanctions mrs merkel has been criticized for being overly reliant on russian gas import it did have points on which they did agree syria being one of the key ones both of them agreeing that emphasis on humanitarian assistance was the key to solving the conflict version of the letter she would certainly should cities it's important to do move for the humanitarian situation in syria and most importantly bring aid to its people and who loses areas where a few jews can return from abroad and the issues are going to use this from my end there's this we have to do humanitarian catastrophe in syria there may be less fighting now but that doesn't mean we have peace until we would have. the iran nuclear deal which of course the united states recently pulled out of was another point upon which they could agree with mr putin emphasizing the importance of maintaining that international deal sanctioned by the united nations security council the nords dream to part from project was also something that was discussed

as the day here draws to a close and the limousines pull up to take this back to their residences mrs merkel will take this as an opportunity to consolidate her position as a european leader capable of negotiating with russia and putin while the russian president will view this as a chance to take steps to bring russia out of its isolation through those sanctions and find common ground with one of his oldest political colleagues. the two leaders were pictured at one point are sharing some drinks together though their relationship of course extends now almost two decades. michael moore well we don't know each other well enough by her ability to listen.

to. this because it is known that the russian president likes to drink german beer and sometimes there's a possibility that we can make exchanges i've also got a very good smoked fish. angle from time to time since a couple of bottles or rather the. but the syrian army reestablishing control across the country efforts are underway to rebuild the shattered nation and the latest in a series of reports. to the city of aleppo to see how locals there are slowly

picking up the pieces. much of the city of aleppo is still in ruins reviving it to its former glory is a task of gargantuan proportions and of immense political and economic importance the citadel of aleppo has become the symbol of the city's resistance. but our lipo is much more than just a maze of antique streets and attractions from history books.

the militants of stolen computer units with chips for the machine they destroyed the factory on purpose they wanted to damage syrian industry as a whole and specifically in the street in aleppo reviving this sect out. one never took control of this area they emptied and basically very dysfunctional hunkered. down in one of the events but now that the former industrial have been slowly getting back on track things are finally looking up for the people of aleppo. two years ago during the war we couldn't even open our shops the shelling snipers were everywhere you couldn't live under such circumstances we covered the roof of the building back then so that we could take cover it was unbearable we took shelter for about half an hour whenever the shelling started we just locked ourselves in here thank god now we can work

peacefully day and night we just hang around smile. just like the good old days the under joe a little the atmosphere is really good around here the weather is nice everybody is feeling safe and it's only getting better you can see getting better day by day lana must let them i was lucky enough not to leave my home high and this is the district the rebels couldn't get to about the time there was a blockade once but it was firmly lifted now same god things about her despite all those things that we're no better. than your mother when you know it's safe and you can return home and if your house lies in ruins you can still fix it the main thing is it's safe now. just a couple of years ago these tents used to protect people in the street from falling shows and debris well now they're sheltering them from the sun historically the city of aleppo has been the economic capital of syria and now with the world gone finally some traders are coming back to the streets. of reporting from aleppo

in syria. this is about international with the economic standoff between the u.s. and turkey gaining momentum after both sides impose further tariffs on each other over there one. is ready to challenge washington produces you know some believe they can threaten us with the economy sanctions exchange rates interest rates inflation here's what we tell them we've uncovered your schemes and we challenge you or you. was aggravated when i encourage detained an american pastor of a possible links to terrorism among other measures i washington slapped additional tariffs on turkish alimony and steel sending the turkish lira plummeting to record lows against the us dollar turkey in turn has hiked rates on key american products including cars and alcohol the u.s. now says sanctions will remain in place even if the pastor is released. well.

in this this one american to put global financial stability at risk. put u.s. base presence in turkey at risk put a nato ally alliance with a nato partner at risk for one american who's being put through the turkish just so you're saying this is our faults turkey is our financial situation has been in the works for quite some time and it dates prior to the imposition of sanctions on august i believe was august the first so this has been in train for quite some time and even up when the u.s. government for that and suddenly stepping in on turkey's side is qatar were chosen just approved fifteen billion dollars and a to prop up the turkish economy has done a quarter now takes a look at how the decades old alliance between the u.s. and turkey spiral to this point. she was built the entire entire roof so no leading

goes to great tree deals as opposed to the horrible food trade deals the drawing heritage as your president of the country should not be allowed to come in and steal the wealth of all great you. what countries could he mean are stealing could be turkey the country's lira shed a quarter of its value against the dollar in just one week after trump's tweet about doubling existing tariffs investors are running away screaming inflation surging and turkey's leadership is bracing for an all out trade war the reason for such a calamity against an old nato friend was ankara's refusal to release an american pastor accused of both terrorism and espionage it's punishment time for a rebellious ally that tariffs that are in place on steel would not be removed with the release of pastor bronson and president her to one lashed out in defiance calling the u.s. move an attempt to force turkey to surrender and make them

a slave to the greenback this is coming through of doing things. will. come more. and do you want to use the. fifth but turkey is just one example of how the trumpet ministration treats longtime allies in fact many of america's friends have already been forced into the fray in a war of tariffs and sanctions canada had heavy steel and aluminum tariffs imposed earlier this year and trump perhaps thought the stars and stripes needed some protection from its northern neighbor who didn't take too kindly to it that it's kind of insult you move forward with retaliatory measures on july first applying equivalent tariffs as if that wasn't bad enough the us president went and slapped tariffs on europe today i'm defending america's national security. by

placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum brussels tried to hit back with restrictions of its own tried to appeal to the transatlantic solidarity special relations bonds of friendship but to no avail and it begs the question with such a long list of enemies the us is currently fighting from iran to north korea russia china why kick your allies i think this has become a real tit for tat thing and i do not for a new york minute think that the pastor is really what is going on here of course are washington's times with that group been strained for some time ever since the coup attempt against terror go on i suspect there is something good going on with the regional politics maybe with regard to syria that is really the reason behind competitors like beijing and moscow attempting to pack as much heat as the us these days sanctioning and scaring everyone in view may be the only way for the us to

impose its will on friend and foe alike donald quarter r.t. . meanwhile some talks have chosen a rather unusual way to show the protest against washington's economic warfare. the . amount of i'm on it. this week a major motorway bridge collapsed in the northern italian city of genoa killing at least forty three people fatalities including three children while over a dozen people were injured in response to the italian prime minister has declared a twelve month state of emergency in that area.

a different outcome of that for people. if it comes with a form of electricity called the. cover off of the last several other two and a half two point zero most comfortable when water buffalo on top of the hour it had a few little sheet of us fall off over came up awful a lot of the work the music i'm opposed to visit my father a lot of year me. and some others by the window invited to bust me going to be out for me but she didn't that god given right and i'm going to the local friends to stand by jody get out of this didn't want to put up

a great show. but that it took their summer kinematic and the steam out and sold down to a little better so the beat article. will be on my list people now. and they took a plaintive request at the serenity to do to push son off at will for either the international product or service or that it should call it up seek out the momentum going into that amount to get the featured a little resistance. prime minister visited the site of the catastrophe calling it an immense tragedy the highway company responsible for the bridge said the collapse was unexpected and unpredictable so it's twenty eleven report says the bridge had been suffering from. political analyst because he believes the bridge was carrying more traffic than it was designed to handle. iran to. this tragedy. probably is not due to the lack of mountain and so all to do

well. and we know was. there is east for fifty years much probably the capacity to access it. right there to an excess of user due to decrease of traffic now beyond the responsibility. and increasing our keys that it is possible to identify a responsibility to the state both of these and in particular only to the government here in the field or to create a new infrastructure comparable to respond to the increase of the volume of decreasing traffic volume and in not being all but these are not a problem of only done infrastructure but it is a problem on all in the european states our top stories of the week the day your

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a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business show you can afford to miss the one and only boom bust. to be joined us today two palestinians were killed in the early start two hundred seventy injured during fresh protesting dollars on friday that demonstrate his continuing to the moderate tone of territories seized by israel and gaza pressure for him to quit dari which at the latest. list in news continue to protest for the twenty first friday they israelis continue to fire tear gas canisters and live

ammunition on the palestinian protesters. the situation now is escalating as the palestinian protesters are trying to burn you to burn some tires to blur the vision of those already snipers there israeli forces continue to fire more to gas canisters on the palestinian protesters to disperse them and to keep them away from the friends at least two cars immunes injured in a very very critical condition as you see palestinians are are bracing the palestinian flag. throwing stones on by israeli snipers and this is how the palestinians have been condescending have it there guys right the snipers and the israeli forces oh my god like many in this unit you guys got misters are now being fired that gun on the palestinian protesters and down as you see it have to be fired on the part of student protesters where your gas canisters are being fired from all directions as you see the place is filled with with what is holding

everyone is suffocating from a tear gas fired this is also one of the injuries are from the tear gas fired just right now. no signs for the first time i see this there is no sense where the palestinian protesters have that but if you do break the funds was it protesters are far too late or whatever talking. about. was that the only thing and how badly did you break up friends died thirty five. sooting live ammunition on the part of the problem that we want is going back to. the israeli defense forces said the response of the troops to palestinians trying to break through the fence was in accordance with standard operating procedures. afghanistan has been hit by a string of attacks this week as taliban forces launched an offensive against our

government soldiers hundreds of people including civilians were killed also an education facility in the country's capital was targeted by a suicide bomber and dozens of students died in the explosion islamic state said it was behind the attack. which. my friends and i were sitting an exam in class the first period finished when we went out for break time afterwards all the students return to class just two minutes later the bombs suddenly went off when i heard the sound i couldn't feel anything from the.

united nations continues to maintain that could be no military solution to the conflict in that country. i have escaped from gaza province where the fighting is still ongoing and you can get some in about five days since the conflict started not be a god many people including one of my neighbors were killed there i saw my friend dying and he was among thirteen people including children and women who were killed during an air strike in gaza in the opponents. of the city august near where the offensive by taliban forces started has long been considered a strategic area due to its close a facility to the capital of fighting escalated on friday when the taliban attempted to storm gosney and take control and looks at how almost two decades of the american led war in afghanistan has failed to make the country as it appears and a safer. this

is what's happening just a little more than one hundred kilometers from the capital kabul there's barely a camera in gaza any available to film this dreadful battle locals say there are stronger descriptions than simply the tele band is back in action and if it wasn't for u.s. airstrikes the afghan army could have been in far worse trouble so it makes you wonder do american diplomats and their military keep in touch there is nothing that precludes us from engaging with the taliban we're doing everything we can to ensure that our actions help the taliban and the afghan government does the same table everything they can only a few weeks ago the state department said talking with the taliban was a good idea and regardless of how hostile their actions the extremists say they're

forward to this is what we wanted and were waiting for to sit with the u.s. directly and discuss the withdrawal of foreign troops from afghanistan the rumor is there's already been some direct contact at least we know for sure alice wells went to qatar last month where the taliban's got a political office i'm confused the armed group has all but regained its might which not so long ago are in the reputation of out right islamist barbarians in america and pretty much all over the world we acted and the taliban no longer is in power in afghanistan which is not only good for the security of the free world it is incredibly good for the people who suffered in afghanistan on the barbaric rule . time flies us administrations common go fair enough but the things the people in charge say about insurgents today could be totally different

tomorrow taliban this taliban that the taliban are fighting isis and we encourage that because isis needs to be destroyed. oh so they're good for something at least if it's about knocking out islamic state yet just a few months earlier general nicholson said the taliban's fight against dyess was a piece of russian propaganda we see here and there are live that's being used that grossly exaggerates the number of isis fighters here this narrative then is used as a justification for the russians to legitimize the actions of the taliban and provide some degree of support complicated hol of ghana's stan business as usual and the american strategy for afghanistan see above the american strategy a strategy from the beginning of this so-called war on terror which was launched off to the september eleventh attacks has chosen this war has turned out to be an auto failure. you know i was we all know it was in

a stronger position than it ever was. two thousand and one. so hence i think it's proof that the u.s. has been pursuing a wrong strategy in defeating terrorism on the contrary i think that the u.s. involvement up until now when the focus on military force in the region has the growth of terrorism the taliban is not just pulling out a gun it's firing it it could be time for the pentagon and the state department to hunt for ideas together and to be more precise. c.n.n. present chris cuomo spot of controversy for saying on this week that violence coming from the left wing movement in the u.s. is more morally justified than violence which comes from the far right the comments were made a day off to and arrest police on journalists while countering a white nationalist rally. all punches are not equal drawing

a moral equivalency between those espousing hate and those fighting it because they both resort to violence emboldens hate legitimizes hateful belief and elevates what should be stamped out. we've got reaction both for and against chris cuomo has comments. every time i see them on television they seem to be getting some kind of fight some kind of altercation it always seems to come from them it is a matter if they're fighting hey or whatever they claim you can't put your hands on somebody even hide behind some kind of moral high ground don't touch people if you don't want to be chased is really just the simple is day it doesn't matter what political affiliation the other person is violence even if it's the most justified and righteous violence that you can have it still creates negative karma it is still very problematic seemed to be. something that should be diverted to only when

it's absolutely necessary these people really are what they purport and associate be against they're talking about being anti fascist but a lot of their actions mirrors that of what was on the mussolini's time with the whole black church situation it seems like they're doing the same thing i'm not saying it directly to same as what was going on back then in italy but a lot of their tactics seemed to mirror what they were doing just because i mean what he's like to do that is an ideal or we all got a hold on hold on wait wait wait wait just because somebody is hateful in your eyes does not mean that it's ok or somehow justified at all to hurt then you can't say violence or maybe justify it no it's not if somebody does not put their hands on you you cannot put your hands on them is very simple if you put your hands on somebody then that person has a right to defend themselves you know you talk about don't put your hands on somebody will you know that he had hired somebody that as a yes there's somebody that wears a mask attacks dangerous people without personal provocation puts their hands on

them you know who it is it's batman this type of behavior is justified in our society violence can be used to prevent greater violence it's a boils down to no doesn't it is against the law to commit violence against another individual yeah of course the law does not dictate or al of the law is just the law many people talking to both. morally acceptable to her. those who are talking about hate but what about the innocent people who actually members of the media get attacked by and used to use schoolteachers do you know i mean is also here attacked by diane is completed wait wait well wait hold on hold lawyer mechanician you see people today are people of color as to left likes to call them being attacked by these individuals because if their political opinion so i don't really understand this whole thing about both it's ok if somehow justify for the values that it's because most of the time when i see jimmy gaijin news about nooses against those who just have different points of view you know i'd have to see it see the statistics on that. you know we have seen

a outbreak in street fighting between fascists and anti fascist said absolutely has happened these people are just afraid they're cowards and they're acting in a way that is totally irrational because of their fear. wrapping up their weekly for this hour here on international though he can join us in about twenty five minutes we'll have an updated program for you to see you. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see them.