in the stories that shaped the way karen r.c. tantamount to torture the conditions in which russia says the u.s. is holding the keys kremlin agent. to speak to her lawyer very difficult situation particularly for someone like her someone who i don't think ever envisioned spending a jail or a life to be you know what's a pretty tough sort of. u.s. tensions hit a new high is ankara warns relations have almost come to a complete halt on the syrian city of aleppo one of the worst hit by the boys and they going extensive reconstruction after years of conflict. so i welcome the latest developments and

a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watch the weekly here on r.t. international. now this week there was another twist in the latest alleged russian spy scandal in the u.s. the russian embassy in washington says that marie putin is being subjected to conditions that are tantamount to torture she has recently been transferred to a different prison after initially being jailed on charges of being an unregistered foreign agent crowdfunding campaign is also being launched to pay for her legal defense her 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 i was 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 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 isolation like that it's difficult because every everything she wanted to do was kind of a one off request there is a very set schedule and so it was very difficult to make sure she was getting her

proper exercise and. trips to the library and things like that because everything she did she had to do by yourself or 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 and it was refused by a law to plead not guilty of accused of offering sex no attempt to get a job with an unnamed special interest group if convicted he could face up to fifteen years in prison now date has been set yet for the trial and a million 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 at a chapman or others where there was actual whether they were true or not their actual allegations about 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 i think we may be able to do that hopeful in the next couple of weeks. now is the u.s. to cancun only standoff goes from bad to worse by side slapping big tire of sunny chadha president on his will and that ankara is ready to challenge washington. this is 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. what tensions arose after i encouraged detained in american past for alleged links to terror links washington then put new tariffs on turkish metals sending the lira to record lows against the dollar and korea then in turn hiked right song key american products including cars and alcohol the u.s. now insists it sanctions will stay even if the pastor is released one day. this one american to put global financial stability at risk. put u.s. base presence in turkey at risk put a nato alliance with an equal partner at risk for one american who's being put through the turkish just so you're saying this is arafat's 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 was stepping in on turkey side here is catarrh which has fifteen billion dollars into the country's economy artie's on quarter looks at how the decades old alliance between the u.s. and turkey has come to this. she was built. leading us to great trade 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 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 seal would not be removed with the release of pastor bronson and president her to want 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 come through of doing things. to come more. and they want to. 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 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 robot strain 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 its 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 some to have found an unusual way to vent their anger against washington's latest actions. i.

with the syrian army reestablishing control across the country efforts are underway to rebuild the shattered nation you know as you've done of travel to the city of aleppo to see how locals there is slowly picking up the pace. 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 chips 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 that. would. see one trevor took control of this area. and feet and basically very dysfunctional congress. he's. going to be immense 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. 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 lanham outlet and i was lucky enough not to leave my home the wind 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 we've been through we're no better than your mother when you know it's safe 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 current 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. don of reporting from aleppo in syria. 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 and response the country's prime minister has now declared a twelve month state of emergency in the area. different

outcome of the political. focus of the. electorate a call to the. oval office via must have a lot of drawing. political mother back on the drive. to the shore law or will come up probably because of the work because it was a volatile deal because it covered a lot of year. by the window invited to bust me because of your. well as an investigation into the tragedy continues the company which manages the bridge has set up a fund to help the victims and its pledge to rebuild the crossing it will use funds matching to around five hundred million euros earlier the company's management apologized to the people of genoa and all those who suffered. so come on the weekly

this out of school girl in the u.s. is one supporter of hillary clinton for protesting against racism and sexism we'll have details just after the break. you know world a big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig

deeper to get the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. the weekly now a young girl from the us state of maryland he was reportedly reprimanded for needing in the pledge of allegiance in school has won the support of hillary clinton the former presidential candidate tweeted that it does take courage to express disagreement with injustice eleven year old marianna tyler now hopes that more people will join. it's important.

to us as well. but if you think you know it but it was leaking. well marianna vest said 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 also police brutality is silent protest things brought among other athletes also and that provoked a farida political debate which reached all the way to the white house but you love to see one of these or their followers when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son over the field right now our this guy 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 union urged all mary lynn schools to guarantee students the freedom of speech without punishment meanwhile the girl's school has issued a statement to you saying it's not aware of any students being disciplined for such

behavior but we put the issue up for debate with the four missouri republican john bowden and also richard goodstein he's a 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 and lets 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 her team was about bringing people together. and i said when the sides have been blocked by facebook with that explain why. on monday international news channel telly says english page was banned for the second time this year and it's going to fellow latin american outlets venezuela analysis and also haiti analysis on the blacklist facebook told that it had violated the terms of use although tele certain eyes has done anything wrong we were not doing anything different from what we have been doing since the beginning of her english so we were aware of the terms of use when we started and we were not growing this terms and we would like change that with a prospective with the currents we do for this not an inch. venezuela analysis and haiti analysis all provided turnitin views on world events after

extensive media coverage and public criticism of the band was reinstated and even received an explanation that it was strangely different from the one the social media giant gave to our take the team informs me that there was instability on the platform which caused this problem but now everything should be in order the bridge was temporarily unpublished to protect it's have to be detected suspicious activity once secured the page was restored the venezuelan analysis page was also restored after a number of haiti analysis remains unavailable on facebook the ban follows the blocking on facebook and other social media of leading alternative voices including info was this month police's english multimedia director again told us that facebook's actions are disturbing. this remove brings like. alarm about how facebook works and how. like any instructors to help

them and to have them into accountable facebook could be place where plurality. or a span and some voices are not allow. the afghan government has announced a cease fire with the taliban in light of muslim celebrations worldwide truce comes after a significant escalation in fighting between the group and the government hundreds of people including civilians have been killed. so my friend who was among the people including children and women who were killed during an airstrike last night there is no tension from the government and no

facilities for the residents of the dead bodies are still on the road i've also been injured. well the city where the offensive by the taliban forces started has long been considered a strategic area due to his close vicinity to the capital kabul fighting there escalated on friday when the taliban attempted to storm gosney and take control of franco looks now almost two decades of the american led war in afghanistan seems to have led to a resurgence in violence. 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 bed 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 gauging 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 us 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 outright 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 u.s. administrations come and 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 a narrative 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 hollow of ghana's stan business as usual and the american strategy for afghanistan see above the american strategy a strategy from the beginning of the so-called war on terror which was launched after the september eleventh attacks as chose this war has turned out to be an utter failure. you know i was we all know it was in a stronger position than it ever was in two thousand and one. hand so 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 looked to 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

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