i think i. in the stories that shaped the way here in r.t. tantamount to torture the conditions in which russia says the u.s. is holding the accused kremlin agent. we speak to her lawyer very difficult situation particularly for someone like her someone who out of the government business spending a day in jail or a wife to be. pretty tough to sort the. u.s. turkey tensions hit new highs design korea warns relations have come to an almost complete halt. the syrian city of aleppo one of the worst hit by the war is undergoing extensive reconstruction after years of conflict. follow that welcome the latest developments and

a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international this week there was another twist in the latest alleged russian spy scandal in the u.s. the russian embassy in washington says that maria buton a is being subjected to conditions that are tantamount to torture she's been charged with being an arm registered foreign agent recently transferred to a different prison meanwhile a crowdfunding campaign has been launched to pay for her legal fees 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 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 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 eyes elation like that it's difficult because every everything i think you want 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 and it was refused by a law to pleading not guilty she's with the keys to the offering sex in the tent to get a job with an unnamed special interest group if convicted she could face up to fifteen years in prison and he has been set. the trial however 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 post 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 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 hopefully the next couple of weeks. now is the u.s. to a key economic standoff goes from bad to worse both sides 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 challenge you what tensions rise off the anger of detained in the american past for alleged terror links washington then put new tariffs on to sending the naira to record lives against the dollar and could then in turn hike right some k. american products including cars and alcohol the u.s. now and say see sanctions will stay even if the past is really just one foot in this this one american to. global financial. stability. put u.s. base presence in turkey at risk because of a nato alliance with a nato partner at risk for one american who's being put through the searches just so you are saying this is our faults turkey is 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 first so this is been in train for quite some time and

you cannot blame the us government for that or stepping in on to the side as being cattle which will fifteen billion dollars into the country's economy meanwhile artie's down quarter has been looking at had the decades old alliance between us and to has come to this country was built entire if so now leading us to great new trade deals as opposed to the horrible food trade deals that are inherited as your president of the country should not be allowed to come in and steal the wealth of our great you say. what countries could he mean are stealing could be turkey the countries 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 brunson and president her to want lashed out in defiance calling the u.s. move and attempt to force turkey to surrender and make them a slave to the greenback this is come through of doing things. to come more well in the reboot and do you want to use this for political purposes but turkey is 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 treat 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 of strain 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 this 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 corridor r.t. what in protest against washington sanctions have decided to destroy their i phones and the footage. i don't know i want to i. with the syrian army regaining control across the country efforts are underway to

rebuild the shattered nation hugo's you've done of travel to the city of aleppo to see how locals there is slowly picking up the pace says. much of the city of. 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 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 next hour. we're. going to go over this area. and basically wrote this hunger. 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. i was lucky enough not to leave my home behind this is the district the rebels couldn't get to at the time there was a blockade once but it was firmly defeated now saying god things about or despite all the things we've been through we're no better than one of them 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 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 war gone

finally some traders are coming back to the streets. don of reporting from aleppo in syria. this week a motorway bridge collapsed in the 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. effectiveness of the. electorate

a lot of the. oval office of the last several of them to want to have to conform political don't want to come on the broad. of us fall all over them up a little bit of work because it. was a lot of yeah. they're going to invite it to bust let me go to your. well as the investigation into the tragedy continues the company which manages the bridge is set up a fund to help the victims and has pledged also to rebuild the crossing it's also apologize to the people of genoa and all those who suffered. watching weekly here and i think the national will be back with more news just after the break.

you know world big partisan through things a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream 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. with all make this manufactured consensus instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round lifts only the one percent.

we can all middle of the room signal. the real news is real. welcome back now a young girl from the us state of maryland he was reportedly reprimanded for nailing during the pledge of allegiance at her school has won the support of hillary clinton the former presidential candidate tweeted that it takes courage to express disagreement within justice marianna taylor he's only eleven years old hopes more people will now join a. it's important to stand up. to us as well. but it is you know i think people are just making their. mariano there said that she was inspired by an american football quarterback who notes during the national

anthem before a game in twenty sixteen he said it was against racial inequality and also police brutality silent protest soon spread among other athletes too and that provokes 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 of a up the field right now our this guy that was not against our anthem or our flag that was actually kneeling is a reference position more responding to the girl's move the american civil rights union all maryland schools to guarantee students the freedom of speech without punishment meanwhile the girl's school says use a statement to saying it's not aware of any students being disciplined for such behavior we put the issue up for debate with the former missouri republican john loudon and also richard goodstein he's the former adviser to hillary clinton's 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 just reportedly 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 thirteen was about bringing people together. that has been. deceiving in

the commune. in a suburb of paris which has reportedly left at least twenty two people injured seven is said to be in a critical condition including five children the fire started around seven pm and the top floor of the free storey building around eighty firemen fought to bring the situation under control there a policeman who were first on the scene among those who've been injured in the course of the fire is not yet. several news sites have been blocked by facebook recently without explanation on monday international news channel telling had its english page banned for the second time this year and it joined fellow latin american outlets venezuela analysis and haiti analysis on the blacklist facebook told police that it had violated the terms of use although telesur denies it's done anything wrong. we were not doing anything different from what we have been doing since the beginning of our english so we were aware of the terms of us when we started and we were not

reading this terms and we would like to change the way prospect of their careers we do for this not an inch. venezuela analysis and haiti analysis all provided alternative views on world events after extensive media coverage they were on public criticism of the band was reinstated and even received an explanation although it was different to the one facebook gave to our take the team informs me that there was instability on the platform which caused this problem but now everything should be an order was temporarily unpublished to protect itself to be detected suspicious activity once secured the page was restored venezuelan analysis page was also restored after a number of hours although haiti analysis has remained unavailable on facebook the band's follow the blocking on facebook and other social media leading into alternative voices including him for was this month. english multimedia director

thinks that facebook's actions are disturbing this remove brings like. alarm about what have facebook works and how. like any instructors to help them and to have them into accountable facebook could be a place where plurality. and some voices are not allow. can government has announced a cease fire with the taliban in light of muslim celebrations worldwide the truce comes after a significant escalation of 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 and women who were killed during an air strike last night there's no attention from the government and no facilities for the residents of the dead bodies are still on the road signs i've also been injured. well this is now the city of gas and where the taliban offensive started has strategic importance to to its close vicinity to the capital kabul and the taliban try to take control of that on friday. now looks at how almost two decades of the american led or in afghanistan isn't any closer to achieving pace. 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 ban is back in action and if it wasn't for us 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 in 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 earned them a reputation of out reich 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 are 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 the strategy from the beginning of the so-called war on terror which was launched off to the september eleventh attacks has chosen this war has turned out to be an auto failure. you know i was we all know taliban now is 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 a prank and that's how the weeklies looking safe today we're back with more and how . join me every foes on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

america was never great it was founded on the rapes and murders. nothing changed so we said no response to these situations that we're dealing with. people get sad every day she is just sad people kill each other blood for killing 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 why this is the reason i

have to ride like this is the reason. a new stage appeared on the world map in two thousand and eleven south sudan. gets separated from its neighbors done after an independence referendum. since then between government and insurgent troops has never stopped it is in fact

a continuation of a much older struggle between different tribal factions. yeah . ok we go. ok it was gunshots one tub two men from fifteen match so many fresh. broken so don't want to go do it directly to the left doesn't go to the chest and gesture was. lost on me and he's going well ok we go. on trying to do opposites but he just. blushed going in which meant get that out so you know your mind.