for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. in the stories that shape the way karen are tantamount to torture the conditions in which russia says the us holding the kremlin. we speak to her lawyer very difficult situation a bit particularly for someone like her who out of the government vision spending a day in jail or alive to be. a pretty tough. u.s. turkey tensions hit new highs his own career warns relations have almost come to a complete halt and the syrian city of aleppo one of the worst hit by the war is undergoing extensive reconstruction after years of conflict.

so i welcome the latest developments and look back at what's been happening over the last week to you watching 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 buthe 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 i'm registered foreign agent a crowdfunding campaign has also been launched to pay for her legal defense a 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 isolation like that it's difficult

because every everything i think 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 herself 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 and it was released by sorry refused to pleading not guilty she's innocent keys to vote for in sex in the tent to get a job with a nine special interest group if convicted based on the faces up to fifteen years in prison now a date yet has been set for the trial however 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 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 maybe 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 a key economic standoff goes from bad to worse with bayside slapping big tariffs on

each other president has warned that ankara is ready to challenge washington. because 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 what tensions rise after ankara detained and american pasta for alleged terror links washington then put you tiresome to metal sending the lira to record lives against the dollar anchor then in turn hike to write some key american products including cars and alcohol the u.s. now in sis it sanctions will stay even if the past is really just one of fourteen this just one american to put global financial stability at risk. u.s. base. in turkey at risk put a nato 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 was stepping in on turkey side which will fifteen billion dollars into the country's economy aussie's down quarter has been looking at how the decades old alliance between the u.s. and turkey has come to this. 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 castor brunson and president heard a wand lashed out in defiance calling the us 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 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 us president went and slaps 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 treat for testing and i do not for a new york minute think that the pastor is really what is going on here now of course are washington's ties 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. what in protest against washington's actions some to decide to destroy their i phones and posted the footage. i am of the mind of. the man if i.

with the syrian army reestablishing control across the country efforts are underway to rebuild the shattered nation. of travel to the city of aleppo to see how local with the slowly picking up the pace. much of the city of aleppo still. 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 chips for the machines they destroyed the factory and purpose they want to damage syrian industry as a whole and specifically industry in aleppo reviving this that was. what. trevor cook oh. and basically wrote this song for the. yeah man. syria is one of the events 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 days the undertow 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 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 about are despite all the things we've been through we're no better than him at that 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 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 war gone finally some traders are coming back to the streets. don of reporting from aleppo in syria. this weekend major motorway bridge collapse in the northern italian city of genoa killing at least forty three people including three children in response the country's prime minister has declared a twelve month state of emergency in the area. different

outcome of the political. effect of us with the. electors i call it the. must have developed into a way to conform political to a more above normal for the drop. of us all all over him up a little bit of wood with. the ball because it covered a lot of you. by the window invited to bust me because of your. well as an investigation into the tragedy continues the company which manages the bridge is set up a fund to help the victims and also has pledged to rebuild the crossing it will use funds amounting to around five hundred million euros earlier the company's

management apologized to the people of genoa and all those who suffered and he watched the weekly here and i think we're back with more in a couple of. show seemed wrong but all wrong just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day advocate and in gateshead equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart when she still look for common ground. regain his national camera. roughly once they showed some leave for the. future own two videos this summer with the rocky string. going down more on string i don't rightly dot t.v. . welcome back to the wakely now a young girl from the us state of maryland he was reportedly reprimanded for nailing during the pledge of allegiance at school has won the support of hillary clinton the former presidential candidate tweeted that it takes courage to express disagreement with injustice where levon year old marianna taylor hopes more people will join up. it's important to stand up. for.

the other people making. mariano there said that she was inspired by an american football quarterback who notes 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 that provoked a fiery political debate which went all the way to the white house but you love to see one of these. 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 what responding to the girl's move the american civil rights union urged all married in schools to guarantee students the freedom of speech with that punishment meanwhile the girl's school has issued a statement to saying it's not aware of any students being disciplined for such

behavior well we put the issue up for debate with the former missouri republican john and also richard goodstein former advisor 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 put 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 her team was about bringing people together. that afghan government is unable to see with the town. ban in light of muslim celebrations worldwide truce comes after a significant escalation in fighting between the two sides hundreds of people including civilians have been killed. i saw my friend dying he was among thirteen people including children even women who were killed during an airstrike last night and there is no attention from the government no facilities for the residents are you going the dead bodies are still on the roads and i've also been injured. by the city of guns here where the

offensive by taliban forces started has long been considered a strategic area due to his close facilities in the capital kabul fighting there escalated on friday when the taliban attack attempted to storm guns and and take control of train can i looks at how almost two decades of the american led war in afghanistan isn't any closer to achieving pace. this is what's happening just a little more than a 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 taliban 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 an 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 their 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 them a 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 us 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 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 the so-called war on terror which was launched after the september eleventh attacks as 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 and 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 be more precise in

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way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. costume dramas to the world of simple they want to take on most. of the lastest on this but many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the drug used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities. person asked bank of mom. policy to point out i am not a person i get a man on a bus and i want that. they can watch as they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all over for the gravels. the who to beat up to the. offense it struggles of many couples. the political political spawn both of you up with approval of the.

dark. welcome to worlds apart we may leave in the global village but in every corner of this village is guarded by different walls on what one may or may not seem public one man's truthteller has long become another man's bigot while public debate often comes down to have done hurling insults rather than discussing policy is it still possible to have a substantive conversation of those who disagree with me to discuss that i'm now joined by katie hopkins a british journalist and media personality katie good to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for seeing me now you're a pretty controversial person in your own country and 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 country honestly is not very used to hearing nice 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. this is very much the way of people almost actually of coming to russia because this is somehow a frightening place and all i've been trying to present to people and show people i think is that it's only ever what i feel or my truths and my truth from this place is that i love it i feel very safe here much safer than in london for example and i

also find people here to be really russian they identify as russian to me and that's a real difference from the country that i well let me pick up on that point because you had want specifically about seemed to rile a lot of people you describe this. place untouched by the myth of multiculturalism and deranged diversity and i'm sure you've seen all those dozens of replies of people pointing out to you the. most multicultural city in. the world that of course one hundred sixty nationality built by. the french in the buildings and the dutch name of one i mean we also have a very vibrant muslim community who petitioned this hour for a small cost. yet no i don't like to see that i get what people are saying i get them but when you come to some petersburg as an outsider and i'm an outsider it's russian people if you speak to people in the street or with help but i speak to

people in the street they identify as russian first you go to the u.k. you won't find any of that russian meaning then after the. affiliation or it may mean a national affiliation so most of the different nationalities who will love to have in this city would also identify as russian i wonder if you given that so much maybe multiculturalism is not such a bad thing after all no because i don't buy your definition of multiculturalism at all and just because you have one most with five thousand people able to fit into it that does not in any way replicate the europe that are you know i've just come from belgium in fact the jihadi capital of europe where they have twenty two mosques in a six kilometer square do you have miles or kilometers here kilometer yeah six kilometer square area twenty two months so it's very different for me where i live in terms of multiculturalism which is much more about monaco choose to live in ghettos and it's a very different definition to the one that you might understand.