government. must go accuses u.n. chief of secretly blocking its own agencies from helping repair syria's complicated economy. also this hour a teenage girl who escaped translate men from iceland iraq claims she then came face to face with her counter in germany where she fled for safety we spoke with her my boss called the police i told them i'd never imagined possible for an isolated fighter to be in germany however the police were unable to trace his name . and an american defense many factures photo publicity stunt backfires as twitter users son in some home truths about the company's bombs and yemen.

this is r t international bringing you your live news update this hour or more every year tuning in welcome to the program the u.n. is being accused of secretly blocking its own agencies from getting syria's economy back on track the claim comes from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov. because . it's turned out that the political department is the u.n. secretary it produced and distributed a secret guideline within the whole u.n. system in october last year it restricted the organizations within that system to take part in any projects on the reconstruction of the syrian economy our newly humanitarian aid nothing else well first of all we don't hear this kind of criticism for. directed specifically at the u.n. that often but if you really read into what he said you will realize that actually he is upset with what he called attempts by other countries to manipulate the u.n.

secretary it and this is absolutely unacceptable says the russian foreign minister the russian foreign ministry has already been touch with the secretary general they sent a former complaint about the alleged behind the scenes than all the secretary to take part in this syria restoration program picks so the question i think you a number of other russian colleagues it's about this reported quote unquote secret directive there's always where this secret directive it takes me a while to try to find if you actually there is a secret directive but i expect to have an update we've asked some guidance and expected an update a bit later on this afternoon and i nothing new was on the letter then there was also a question by our correspondent who asked sergey lavrov what he makes of the u.s. involvement or rather lack of involvement when it comes to restoring syria says

it's too early to talk about reconstruction efforts until a political settlement is agreed on what do you make of that knowledge school some countries are trying to hinder the return of refugees or refusing to help reconstruction officials it's counterproductive to set off official conditions for the syrian people to return to their homes why. so much concern from moscow about this area well first of all russia has been a key player in syria and moscow is proud of its role of being in charge of the many reconciliation first that we have seen and also moscow's really been helping with rebuilding the economy and the refugees will not come back if the economy doesn't get restored the process has already begun the syrian government has just announced that as many as twenty five thousand syrians have just returned from lebanon and that is within four months and the devastated cities and towns are

slowly getting back to normal which our correspondent has seen with his own eyes. 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 cover 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. joe you know 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 high and 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 now better well things are getting better

and moscow is looking forward to other countries getting on board to russia says it's in their biggest interest as well and obviously they are counting on the united nations too and perhaps that explains the resentment of sergei lavrov. after escaping i saw. imprisonment and fleeing to germany a girl from iraq's huizi minority says she has met her islamic state camp her face to face not once but twice in the european nation we spoke to who told us she still lives in fear can have more we were standing seven girls captured by fighters and taken to syria the worst time in my life was the moment when i still separated me from my family they took us away from our mothers fathers brothers they even abducted girls they tortured us raped test sold us into slavery we were looking for gasland anything sharp knife scissors we couldn't find anything to kill ourselves

with we were trying to escape but they handcuffed our hands and legs covered our heads and raped us they turned us into human shields when they went anywhere they took us with them so that the strikes didn't kill them a large number of easy women have been enslaved by eisel and sexually abused with many still in captivity. has them in the medical profession and are they going to get less bush children by that. without of an abominable push for a newborn best summed up in a though that the woman is that my flesh. you know not is not that the love out of my lower level than the alpha would love a fellow.

is now nineteen years old when she was captured by eisel four years ago she was sold as a sex slave to one of their fighters after being abused for three months she managed to escape and flee to germany but once there she claims she was again horrified by two separate encounters with the same man who once lived her pakistan much as germany was willing to take in one thousand women who had excused from i went there to forget what i'd been through i saw a boo as i was going home after school i couldn't believe my torture could have found out where i lived the next time i saw he was two years later a car pulled up beside me he asked me if i was and i said i didn't know him or schlock how is it possible that my rapist is living here and has the same rights as me my boss called the police and tell them what he looked like and they scratched his face and it looked the same i told them there'd be no other witnesses i told

them i'd never imagined possible for an idle fighter to be in germany however the police were unable to trace his name german prosecutors claim the information provided by a shark isn't enough to identify the man fearing for his safety in germany she decided to move back to iraq. i think i told my dad that the person who raped me was in germany that i didn't want to leave there no matter what my dignity is more important than being in germany i put my life in danger to escape from i still retain my dignity and he wanted me to stay in germany knowing that the one who was responsible for my misery is free in that country all i wanted was to be somewhere safe but after meeting him i was afraid the whole time that he heard me again so i couldn't stay there anymore. we contacted several german government agencies and the police on friday to ask what actions they've taken if any we've yet to hear back but when we do we'll let you know what they say. u.s. defense contractor lockheed martin has felt the wrath of the internet on

a marketing stunt and world photo day back fired up and explains what made twitter user snap. the giant corporation known as lockheed martin had a plan for world photo day the idea was that they would encourage people on social media to tweet back at them what they called amazing photos of their products now keep in mind lockheed martin is one of the top defense contractors it works with the u.s. military as well as nato countries it produces weapons military equipment aerospace and other products used in military activities when requests are made for amazing photos of their products there was quite a response on social media dear lockheed martin you asked people to tweet amazing photos of my new products here it is this is a fragment of your bomb a laser guided m k eighty two which saudi arabia used to kill forty children in

yemen last week here is the product of your products the fact that lockheed munson has a generic happy to cool pretty is one way to me now on its website lockheed martin brags about its relationship with the kingdom of saudi arabia donald trump was able to arrange new weapons deals between saudi arabia and lockheed martin now many people on social media appear to be aware of the fact that a lot of the weapons and bombs being used by saudi arabia for its war in yemen seem to be supplied by lockheed martin now it's being reported that in a recent deadly strike in which civilians were killed including children it was actually lockheed martin that supplied the bomb to saudi arabia to carry out this strike.

i. following the response lockheed martin removed a tweet calling for photographs of its products now those observing the situation will wonder if lockheed martin will attempt to have this kind of social media stunt ever again in the future. and israeli border guard has had his prison sentence doubled to eighteen months or the death of an unarmed seventeen year old palestinian protester the incident happened four years ago and video released subsequently showed that the teenager posed no immediate threat.

the original charge of manslaughter was reduced to death through negligence after a plea deal in which there is a really guard admitted to accidentally using the live rounds four months ago he was jailed for nine months which is up the lower end of the punishment term for such a crime he was also ordered to pay fourteen thousand dollars to the victim's family israel insisted that the boy and others have thrown rocks at the border guards four minutes before he was shot the officer claimed he thought he had loaded his rifle with rubber bullets but it was actually live ammunition the palestine liberation organization described the initial sentence as unjust and part of a pattern of discrimination. such a conviction represents israel was deliberate dehumanization of its palestinian

victims primarily children israel employs an unremitting and lethal shoot to kill policy against palestinians when it comes down to the courts they always find ways to pass more lenient sentences they find gaping the circumstances and of course one can always find such circumstances the accumulated effect of all of these incidents is that there is no big terrence against the next shooter the next soldier who are in a centrally or not so innocently will charge his weapon at a demonstrator staying with palestine now for the first time in eight years the palestinian postal service is back and forth going after male had previously been halted by israel ten tons of undercover packages and letters have been handed over

that's despite an agreement not to intervene with deliveries going to palestine. there was a wheelchair there were some gifts that people had been waiting for all the things were found like toys in the t.v. . i mean since two thousand and eight many agreements have been signed with the israeli side but it's still a voyage direct shipment from jordan. and

. israel says both sides came to an understanding about a year ago on postal deliveries but that did not result in a permanent direct transfer of male. the afghan fundamentalist group the taliban has embraced three buses and kids up more than one hundred fifty passengers in northern afghanistan most have since been freed by afghan forces but the raid came shortly after the president offered a cease fire during the most muslim holiday dinner harkins has the details cease fires have taken place before the last that notable one early is june this year for the end of ramadan when taliban fighters and afghan government forces celebrated the muslim holiday together on the front lines in quite remarkable scenes no such luck this time it seems the president. offered a three month long provisional truce on the condition of course that the taliban also stuck to their side of the pact the taliban mark to their intention not to see

that out by kidnapping dozens of people from those buses as you mentioned earlier this of course also comes on the by. why the offensive launched by the taliban across the country targeting security forces in which both members of the armed forces and civilians hundreds of them have been killed and injured over the past weeks and months. i saw my friend dying and he was among thirteen people including children and women who were killed during an arab street last night and there is no attention from the government to the new facilities for the residents the dead bodies are still on the roads and i've also been injured. taliban commanders have justified their rejection of the ceasefire ceasefire by saying that

a long truce would fall into the hands of play into the hands of nato and u.s. forces in the country who they of course view as occupiers and seek to remove from afghanistan and indeed who've had a bit of a complex relationship with the militant group since two thousand and one as time has gone on as the dynamics of the conflict have evolved you have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table this no talking to tell us when we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish i want to reinforce to the child in the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban trimble's is a hero to give you the video of him for you for the call for the taliban when their choices are to reconcile live in a relevance or die some taliban come on a sub agreed to a limited lol in the fighting as well as some prisoner release an exchange program

is this by no means is not a ceasefire though the right. foreign ministry has also commented on the situation saying it's regrettable that these talks have broken down that a cease fire will not happen and indeed that comes on the back of upcoming talks in moscow coming up in early september at which representatives of the taliban will also be present to try and mediate some sort of solution and make some steps forward to resolving what has been a decades long conflict. based political analyst into. believes there's still scope for afghan taliban taliban relations to change afghan goldman just recently understood the crucial rule by the other superpowers in that region in also in the neighborhood of ghana stanched so russia of course is one of the strongest country and we can understand or maybe the afghan government can believe that for a shot in. the butt to go in and mediating between the taliban and the afghan

government there could be some more progress is in afghanistan and because the different the negotiation in the interaction between the afghan government in taliban it just on the very first speed. there is yet another claim that russia is out to meddle in the upcoming midterm elections and the u.s. this time it's the atlantic magazine pointing the finger and its article mentions this channel as one of the tools being used to try and swing the vote teleporter explains the russians are probably at it again according to an article in the atlantic magazine and probably is good enough especially when the unity of the stars and stripes is apparently under threat by big bad russia the russian government has one overriding objective with regard to the united states to weaken america so that it loses its will and ability to counter russian objectives and to accomplish this goal the article says russia has a devious multi-pronged plan. first is allegedly helping people who

undermine the democratic party and inviting them as guests on r t the walkaway campaign reportedly an organic cum pain of lifelong democrats leaving the party has been amplified by russian social media accounts and featured on the russian propaganda outlet r t walk away founder brandon struck a did give an interview for r.t. in which he expressed his disillusion with the democratic party's identity politics and why his movements getting popularity. among americans i myself was a lifelong liberal democratic voter i would say kind of a democrat by default because i'm a gay man and i think that the expectation for a lot of minority groups is that we are supposed to vote democrat and that we are supposed to be liberal so it's not identity politics heard in the party it's walkaway founder's appearance on r t fueling a russian plot but if that's the case then there must be more russian influencers in america's midst because fox news had him on for

a similar interview discussing the very same walkaway movement and with the attention mainstream newspapers have given his campaign they may be doing an even better job at spreading his message but the buck doesn't stop there. the article says moscow is ready to give its money to russian friendly americans russian businessmen will likely attempt to fund think tanks working on u.s. russia relations to push a narrative favoring cooperation with russia and opposition to sanctions cooperation with russia oh the horror regardless the article doesn't actually provide any evidence as to who or when some russian businessmen will begin giving away free money but it's ok for western businessmen and nato to throw money at anti russian think tanks the articles author evelyn farkas is a senior fellow at one called the atlantic council and it's received millions of dollars from

a long list of corporations and governments internationally who are apparently also very concerned about potential russian election hacking. while there is no way that it is that russia has done so to date at minimum it will likely use its ability to access voter registration databases and election related sites to undermine america's confidence in its own electoral integrity so no evidence the kremlin has done it as the article says but the atlantic is called. all patriotic americans to protect democracy and the tune of its song continues to sound oh too familiar we know that russia today is regarded as a grave threat to our nation to our freedom the peace of the world you see the reason why we are spending billions of dollars in defense production why your family is saying the highest taxes in our history. but russia's apparently not the only threat on the horizon with midterm elections just

a few months away in america the us national security advisor has also listed china among the threats washington fears when it comes to meddling to sufficient national security concern about chinese meddling iranian meddling in north korea meddling that we're taking steps to try and prevent it looking at the twenty eighteen election those are the four countries that we're most concerned. on saturday donald trump also brought up china as a threat stressing the focus shouldn't just be solely on russia washington's concerns over beijing's alleged meddling threat comes amid a trade war between the u.s. and china fearing a high trade deficit donald trump imposed large tariffs on metal imports coming from china back in april the u.s. president then later slumped twenty five percent duties on billions of dollars worth of chinese products hong kong based political scientists joseph chang believes it's about more than just economics. so to me the trade all through the united states and has been spreading to the logical these

issues likely to continue for quite a while because it is not just a matter of trade all the kinda cool countries it is one of the a map or all that poor countries is soaring superiority in the yukon the me in the signs and technology field in the coming and the can for the gears so it is likely that the poor say that the sand and the sentence will continue fall quite a while former cia chief john brennan wants to take donald trump to court after having his security clearance revoked brennan is one of trump's harshest critics but has also been backtracking on one of his stronger accusations against the president.

donald trump's press conference performance in helsinki rises to an exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors it was nothing short of treacherous not only were trumped comments imbecilic he is wholly in the pockets of putin republican patriots where are you. as anyone look to the mistakes that john brennan made while serving the cia director he will go down as easily the worst in history and since getting out he's become nothing less than a loud mouth partisan political hack who cannot be trusted with the secrets to walk . to protect the nation's classified information fulfilling that responsibility. i decided to revoke the security clearance of john brennan.

i mean this huge new treason but it was a term to use nothing short of treasonous. they have the president putin he just said it's not russia i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be. and should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. it would be with us intelligence that's. russia meddled in the election twenty sixth i would say that that is true yeah. that's our breakdown of the day's top news for now but i'll be back with more and just over thirty minutes.

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