stories to shape the week. one of the city's worst hit by the conflict in syria aleppo is undergoing extensive reconstruction after years of war. the standoff between the u.s. escalates the relations have almost ceased to exist. the russian embassy in the u.s. says maria who was jailed on charges of being an unregistered foreign agent is being subjected to conditions that amount to torture. on the israeli gaza border see two palestinians killed and at least two hundred seventy with.

blue skies and sunshine at eleven o'clock on sunday morning here at moscow's international just in time for the weekly and with the syrian army reestablishing control across the country efforts are underway to rebuild the shattered nation in the latest of 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 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 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. with. one trevor to go over this area a feat and basically very dysfunctional congress. he. want to be in. but now that the firm industrial hub is slowly getting back on track

things are finally looking up for the people the last. 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 they. good old 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 lana must lead them i was lucky enough not to leave my home hind 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 the things that been through we're no better than one of them when you know

it's safe and you can return home 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 turned 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. meanwhile donald trump has tweeted that the u.s. has cut its development funding for syria asking other nations to pick up the tab and the u.s. state department says it will redirect its stabilization budget plan for syria to other foreign policy efforts washington says though this will not affect its humanitarian assistance program and what comes out of saudi arabia pledge is one hundred million dollars to the syrian reconstruction projects however the money

will only go to the northeast of the country a region under the control of u.s. backed kurdish forces and while some programs are being cut others are staying in place with the u.s. saying it will stay in syria for some time yet to fight off the last pockets of terrorists. we're remaining in syria the focus is the ensuring defeat of isis we still have not launched the final phase to defeat the physical kind of fight this is actually being prepared now and that will come at a time for choosing but it is coming the united states does not want assad to become too strong there you are hoping to keep leverage in order to try to push you run out of the country to get a better deal for the kurds and and of course they're also worried about what's going to happen if they're from where they are very complex negotiations and in russia is at the heart of so there are many competing agendas in washington and as

long as president trump is not spending a lot of money there i think he's happy to keep a few thousand troops if that increases america's leverage. in the economic standoff between the u.s. and turkey gaining momentum after both sides impose further tariffs on each other out of the one nala says that ankara is ready to challenge washington there's 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 skills and we challenge you were. there our was aggravated when i'm correct retained an american past a possible links to terrorism among other measures washington slapped additional tariffs on turkish and steel sending the turkish lira plummeting to record lows against the u.s. dollar turkey in turn has hiked a rates on key american products like cars and alcohol the u.s.

though now says that sanctions will remain in place even if the pastor is released . what 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 alliance with a 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 not blame the us government for that and yet all of a sudden stepping in on turkey's side is qatar which was approved fifteen billion dollars and a to help prop up the turkish economy. down court now takes a look at how the decades old of lyons between america and turkey spiral at 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 heritages 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 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. to come more. and they want to use this for political purposes but turkey's just one example of how the trump administration 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 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 can't 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 with that group been strained for some time ever since the coup attempt against terror go on i suspect there's something going on with 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 u.s.

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 chosen a rather unusual way to show their protest against washington's so cold economic war. no not. yet another twist in the latest alleged russian spy scandal in america the russian embassy in the u.s. says that maria is being subjected to conditions that are to torture she was jailed on charges of being an unregistered foreign agent and was recently transferred to

another prison who has launched a crowdfunding campaign to pay for her legal defense 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 it's in some isolation like that it's difficult because every every thing she wanted to do is 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 envision 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 because she was refused bail off the pleading not guilty two weeks ago she was also accused of offering sex in an attempt to get a job in an unnamed special interest group if convicted could face up to fifteen years in prison and no date has yet been set for 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 style geishas 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 at a chapman or others where there was actual whether or not there are 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 maybe 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 of weeks. this week a major motorway bridge collapsed in the northern italian city of genoa killing at least forty three people the fatalities included three children well over a dozen people were injured in a response the italian prime minister has declared a twelve month state of emergency in the area.

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way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. fortunately most. simple they want to become lost and i want to ask some just about what if many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the drifter used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities only the last person asked bank of mom. policy to point out. that at best i might get a question that one that. they have or what are they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house over forty couples. both of you who have to be bad to the government affairs it struggles of many couples won't. kill the chance of putting food impulse response both of you doubtful to do the bulk of the.

it is good to have you with us today but two palestinians were killed and at least two hundred and seventy injured this was during fresh protests in gaza on friday with demonstrators still demanding a return of territories seized by israel gaza based reporter include diary has details on list in use continue to protest for the twenty first friday they 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 their division of those ready snipers there israeli forces continue to fly more to gus kind of stores on the palestinian protesters to disperse them and to keep them away from the funds at least to policy

means injured in a very very critical condition as you see palestinians are are bracing the palestinian flag. throwing stones on the israeli snipers and this is how the palestinians have been concentrating their guys ready snipers and the israeli forces oh my god like many in this unit you guys come to search are now being fired that gun on the palestinian protesters and down as you see it this time 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 lights smoldering 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 funds for the first time i see this there is no fence where the palestinian protesters have that but if you do

break the fence was probably just ours are far too bad nobody ever thought it. was. rise that money then you can tell that they need to break up funds that is already in place there was. no i mean it's you know the part of the problem that we want is going back 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 the great march of return on the israeli gaza border started back in march we understand iraq one hundred and seventy palestinians have since been killed.

a string of attacks has rocked sweden three weeks ahead of september elections it's widely thought of the timing of the fires which appear to have been coordinated was not accidental speculation is rife as to who carried out the attacks and what impact they may have on the electoral race. the trunk of reports. it's not even dark people look out their windows and see this.

the first train of thought locals are just completely baffled and can't squeeze out a word a few moments later they erupt in sheer fury and they scream. pass . their next thought is it even safe to leave their homes now the hooded thugs smash the burn mostly cars they know what they're doing they know how to do it the art 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 of the mossad for it. you can.

get 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 problems 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 want to figure out 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 we have to see burns 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 sweden's been getting less and less safe because i was attacked

by five people and they took quiet all the bike told and there are increased number of shootings it's gotten worse in every way police man said that he had never experienced anything like that in the course changed. it is not the sweetest and when the years of ignoring the trends backfired literally with flames some of the swedish elite chose not to talk about the state 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 flashed before the election while well organized did 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 finance a first for the election. sweden democrats sympathises a running around in the suburbs burning cars in a coordinated action to direct criticism 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 fake news that was only to be hit by a wave of homegrown conspiracies before the police had at least something solid for the public up a tranquil r.t.e. . swedish police say similar attacks have happened in several towns in previous

years but on a smaller scale we spoke to swedish democratic m.p. to echo roth whose party has sparked controversy with its anti immigration stance he says people are starting to realize their country is not as safe as they once thought. duration in sweden started to sleep in the international arena when people. nice little country thought it was. what the hell happened to sweden and so this has been on for a long time we have made you are so. many years back i just saw just the. arson attacks in cars with intent. from twelve to thirty percent from nine hundred sixty seven to one thousand five hundred cases a year or something and i mean it's big in actual numbers too. young girl from maryland who was reportedly reprimanded for kneeling during the

pledge of allegiance has won the support of hillary clinton the former presidential candidate tweeted that it takes courage to express disagreement with injustice eleven year old marianna taylor hopes that more people will join her course it's important to stand up. for. you. says that she was inspired by an american football quarterback who knelt during the national anthem before a game and twenty sixteen he said it was against racial inequality and police brutality silent protest soon spread among other athletes and provoked a fiery political debate which reached all the way to the white house. you love to see one of these n.f.l. owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a up the field right now out he started that was not against our anthem or our flag

that was actually kneeling is a reference position responding to the girl's move the american civil rights you know used old maryland schools to guarantee students the freedom of speech without punishment meanwhile the girl's school is easy to statement saying it's not aware of any students being disciplined for such behavior. earlier we discussed the issue with john lydon a full missouri republican and richard goodstein former adviser to the hillary clinton presidential campaign. football is about football schools about school and if you have a protest protest in a constructive way this girl can write letters to the editor she can arrange a little march but protesting in your classroom to irritate your classmate mates and virtue signal and that's what she's being taught mom's teaching her mom is so proud you're taking to the streets is that bothersome to people is that annoying to

people when you get when you get arrested disproportionately when you get shot disproportionately when you get put in jail just proportionally that's not just annoying that's totally ruining your life so the fact you're taking to the streets is not merely disruptive you're trying to make a point in less you have a goal and something that you actually have a path to accomplish then you're just disrupting you're just being an antagonist to your fellow athletes or the fans or in this case to her classmates what does she want what's going to make her stand peace on earth and you know will we ever get to the point where there's no discrimination no there are bigoted people let's stipulate that there are people who are bigoted they will be bigoted forever donald trump is giving them a voice but the fact of the matter is it's not to say it's wrong for them to basically stand up for what they believe in that's what this little girl was doing that's all the democratic party the united states gets her power on dividing people and separating us versus them there's class warfare gender warfare they want to

show that everybody's got a reason for injustice and they need to vote democrat to war in order to fix it and that's all this is it's just it's pure politics and hillary hillary clinton got millions more votes than donald trump did and her campaign theme was being together not dividing people she wasn't mocking handicapped people she wasn't telling punch him in the jaw and i'll pay your legal bills that's not what her theme was thirteen was about bringing people together wrapping up the weekly for this hour here on the international now half past eleven on the. sunday morning here in moscow plenty more to offer you in about twenty five minutes time.