when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. with vladimir putin on a number of issues including that of the rebuilding of syria as the two leaders meet. the stories that shape the week one of the city's worst hit by the conflict in syria is undergoing extensive reconstruction after years of war. the standoff between the u.s. and turkey escalates with. almost ceased to exist. fresh protests on the israeli gaza border see two palestinians killed and at least

two hundred seventy injured. just off the nine am and blue skies and sunshine here in moscow welcome to the weekly here on r t with. german chancellor angela merkel has sided on a number of issues with vladimir putin and the two leaders met on saturday the rebuilding of syria and the iran nuclear deal were among the top topics discussed daniel hawkins has more details. here in schloss smears a burg about two hours drive from talks have been ongoing between shots on marco and president putin in the government residence just behind me here spike 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 humanitarian assistance was 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 as we're a few jews can return from abroad in 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 and order. 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 year two leaders were pictured enjoying some drinks together though their relationship of course now extends to almost two decades. michael moore well we don't know each other well enough. 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. and you know from time to time since a couple of bottles or rather. what the syrian army reestablishing control across the country efforts are underway to rebuild the shattered nation in a series of reports. travels to the city of aleppo to see how locals there are

slowly picking up the pieces. much of the city of aleppo is still seen 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 aleppo is much more than just a maze of antique streets and attractions from history books.

the militants have stolen computer units with sheeps for the machine they destroyed the factory on purpose they want to damage syrian industry as a whole and specifically industry in aleppo reviving this sex out. one river to go over this area. and feet and basically very dysfunctional hunker. down. but now that the former industrial hub is 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 smoking just like the. day 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 lanham up let them i was lucky enough not to leave my home high and this is the district the rebels couldn't get to at the time there was a blockade once but it was firmly lifted now saying god things are better despite all those things and been through 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 polling 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. but the economic standoff between the u.s. on turkey gaining momentum after both sides impose further tyrus on each other but there were no now says that on korea 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 a new challenge or you know the route was aggravated when i encouraged detained an american pastor of a possible ties to terror among other measures washington slapped additional tariffs on turkish ali many a month steel sending the turkish lira plummeting to record lows against the u.s. dollar so he in turn has hiked rates on key american products like cars and alcohol the u.s. now says sanctions will remain in place even if the pastor is released. one

fortan this this one american to put global financial stability at risk. put u.s. base presence in turkey at risk put a nato ally in line for the nato partner at risk for one american who's being put through the circus 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 is been in train for quite some time and even up when the u.s. government for that role of a sudden stepping in on turkey's side is qatar which has suddenly approved fifteen billion dollars in aid to prop up the turkish economy ati's down 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 us to great tree deals as opposed to the horrible food trade deals the rhine

heritage as your president of the country should not be allowed to come in and steal the wealth of all great you and me. what countries could he mean or stealing could it 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 heard a wand 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. to come more. and do you want to use this for political purposes 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 to move forward with retaliatory measures on july first applying equivalent tariffs as if that wasn't bad enough the u.s. 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 now of course our washington strives with that robot strain for some time ever since the coup attempt against terror go on i suspect there's something going on with the regional politics maybe with regard to syria that is really the reason behind its 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 u.s.

to impose its will on friend and foe alike donald quarter r.t. meanwhile some talks have chosen a rather unusual way to show their protest against washington's so cold economic warfare. oh no no no no no. i. the russian embassy in the u.s. said maria who's been charged with acting as an unregistered russian agent in the us is being subjected to conditions that are tantamount to torture of the pro-gun activist who was recently transferred to another prison without trial warning after she was moved to she spent twelve hours in a quarantine cell without any food or of sleep due to the lights turned on. she's

also being subjected to night inspections every fifteen minutes and is made to fully andress during checks after someone pays her a visit i'll do a walk so have prohibited as our letter is written in russian of affairs they might contain coded messages the twenty nine year old has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for her legal defense a buton his lawyer updated us on her condition. i was unaware that she was transferred until last night at around midnight i received a collect call from her at home and the phone was disconnected before we could get through but i knew it was from alexandria jail so i drove down and tried to get in last night and could not but is able to get in this morning and visit her so she is in alexandria detention facility at least for now for this weekend it's a smaller facility than the d.c. jail as respected facility but it's hard to know why the move was made where there was made for medical or other reasons or in response to complaints about the conditions in d.c. she does have arthritis in one of her legs kind of a history of problems with that leg so she sought treatment for that and so far has

just received tylenol and nothing else and i think she has also been a little bit frustrated by policy when people are in protective custody they do bad checks every fifteen minutes at night to check on detainee safety and i think sometimes depending on who the guard is you know the lights are turned on every time there's a check and so it's very hard to get proper sleep when you're being woken up every fifteen minutes she's segregated from the general population of the prison facility you know no contact really with outside people besides her lawyers and occasional phone calls and when you're being held. in some eyes elation like that it's difficult because every everything i think she wanted to do was kind of a one off request there isn't a very set schedule and so it was very difficult to make sure she was getting a proper exercise and. trips to the library and things like that because everything she did she had to do by yourself i'm not saying anyone would have an easy time in prison but in this is an accomplished student you know someone who i don't think

ever envisioned spending a day in jail or a life to be in you know it's a pretty tough facility. the alleged russian agent was arrested over a month ago she was refused bail after pleading not guilty two weeks ago she's accused of offering sex in the attempt to get a job in an unnamed special interest group if convicted could face up to fifteen years in prison and no date set for her to trial but her lawyer remains optimistic . she's in very good shape she's helping actively with us to prepare the defense she's confident in her innocence there's no allegation of espionage there's no allegation of classified information childish and she was paying anyone off there's no allegation she was recruiting spies none of the things you would typically see in an espionage case the allegations are fairly vanilla that she attended meetings of various groups that were public that she had dinners with various people and she took a lot of selfies as i think a lot of people are twenty's do with with people she met and posted them on

facebook so this is not the kind of a typical this is no comparison to what the allegations were against for example anna chapman or others where there was actual whether they were true or not their actual allegations about the use of sophisticated equipment and payoffs and spy ring and things like that there's none of that here with some point may try to get her released pretrial again we're just looking through documents trying to find the proper evidence to do that and i think we may be able to do that hopeful in the next couple weeks top stories of the day and hope the week weekly continues in just a moment.

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are going to join us today on this sunday two palestinians were killed and at least two hundred seventy injured during fresh protests in gaza on friday demonstrators still demanding ever ton of territory seized by israel a gaza based reporter kinda cool dari has details. augustinian is going to need to protest for that twenty first friday that israelis continue to fire tear gas canisters and live ammunition on the palestinian protesters. that the situation now is escalating as the palestinian protesters are trying to bring you to bring some tires to bear the vision of those ready snipers that israeli forces continue to fly more to gas canisters on the palestinian protesters to disperse them. and you keep them away from the friends at least two policy means injured in the very very critical condition as you see palestinians are are praising the palestinian flag.

throwing stones on the israeli snipers and this is how the palestinians have been gunned down there guys ready snipers and the israeli forces oh my god live many of these units in gas canisters are being fired that gun on the palestinian protesters and as you see if this was a very fired on the part of student protesters where your gas canisters are being fired from on directions as you see the place is filled with with lysol everyone is suffocating from the 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 maybe if you do break the fence was probably dusters our hearts would have. run as that palestinian town that believes it to break up fence dies or

a feisty was right in the shooting live ammunition on the part of the proposition that we want is going back. israeli defense forces said the response of the troops to palestinians trying to break through the fence was in accordance with standard operating procedure as the great march of return on the israeli gaza border started in march and around a hundred and seventy palestinians have since been killed. life .

is off the international a string of attacks has rocked sweden three weeks ahead of september elections it's widely thought that the timing of the fires which are being coordinated was not accidental and speculation is rife as to who carried out the attacks and what impact they may have on the electoral race. reports. it's not even dark people look out their windows and see this. the first train if the locals are just completely baffled and can't squeeze out a word a few moments later the erupt in sheer fury and they scream. and

. thanks to. their next thought is it even safe to leave their homes now the hooded thugs smashed the wall but in the burning mostly cars they know what they're doing they know how to do it the our team in the last few days there were. almost identical scenes everywhere you see a flame i can swedish media say at least about one hundred cars are now burnt out pieces of metal police have made a number of arrests but basically the country still in the dark about who's behind the menace was overthrown for it. you can see. it from there. in about three weeks swedes will be voting for their new parliament well now politicians there have more things to worry about than stuff like their

election promises before the most any custom have the question has to be asked of those people and if there's no one to hack who are you doing what is the guy who do you think you are born as you destroy the whole area of the neighborhood for the children on their way to a free school you have to see burnt out because we're going to be hard response from society any of us is somewhat strong words but not as emotional as society which clearly wants the ones in charge to get the sort of. such neighborhood disasters don't come out of nowhere when it comes to all kinds of street crime lately swedens been getting less and less say what i was attacked by my people they took my all bike stolen there are increased number of shootings has gotten worse in every way police man said that he had never

experienced anything like that changed as. it is not the sweetener and when he hears of ignoring the trends backfired literally with flames some of the swedish elite chose not to talk about mistakes rather they came up with conspiracies or in other words pointed the finger at right wing extremists some quote unquote dark forces. they want the elections to be about arsons they want to fuel discussed and fear i hope the whole thing is not orchestrated by the dark forces that threaten our democracy and our independence. last night's events with my mom left before the election while well organized would not surprise me if the extreme right were involved in some way a false flag by the extreme right version is popular among some journalists to. visit inside desperate fear of peace to explain the attacks including blaming them

on questions trying to for america first before the election. sweden democrats sympathises of running around in the suburbs burning cars in a coordinated action to direct criticism of the suburbs population in the hope of favoring s.d. . to make sure sweden can dodge any russian efforts to screw up its election stockholm has even splashed out on the media so that they could wipe out the never ending think news that was only to be hit by a wave of homegrown conspiracies before the police had at least something solid for the public illya up a train go r.t.e. . swedish police say similar attacks have happened in several towns in previous years but all my fos maula scale and we spoke to swedish democratic m.p. candidate a roth whose party has sparked controversy with us anti immigration stance he says people are starting to realize their country is not as safe as they once thought.

this situation in sweden has started to seep out in the international arena when people suddenly realize whoops sweden is not a nice little this is a country thought it was but now realize what the hell happened to sweden and so this has been on for a long time and we have made you all since and why it's many years back i just saw some statistics that. are still. in cars with the intent that it was going off in twelve to thirty percent from nine hundred sixty seven to one thousand five hundred cases a year or something back i mean it's been going up in actual numbers to. join us for the weekly here on the sunday on odds he plenty more for you in about half an hour if you can join us.

erbil was never great was founded on the rapes in the murder. nothing changed so we said in. response to these situations that we do in the ways. people get there we will this day she is just people kill each other blood to kill the children. so it was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in

america we call from the streets we've got to deal with life this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. for. our. own welcome to the part we may leave in the global village but every corner office elections guided by different polls on what one may or may not same public one man's truthteller has long become another man's bigot while public debate often comes down to have fun ting alex ranger hurling insults rather than discussing

policy is it still possible to have a substantive conversation of those who disagree with you being mean to discuss that i'm now a joint by katie hopkins a british journalist and media personality katie good to talk to thank you very much for your time thank you for seeing. me now you are pretty controversial person in your own country many people consider you purposefully offensive and yet over the past few days that you've been here in russia in st petersburg you've only said nice things that have this interesting honestly is not very used to hearing that it's things about itself being purposefully spiteful i saying all those things as a contrarian. people have been surprised by my reporting from st petersburg because i love this place i love the openness of it and it's been a real surprise to me we are i think in the west in my personal view you know putin is painted as a monster this is very much the monsters.