moscow accuses u.n. chiefs of secretly blocking their own agencies from helping revive serious conflict economy. a teenage girl who escaped her enslavement from iceland iraq claims she'd been in face to face with her counter in germany where she fled for safety we had a chance to speak with her my boss called the police i told them i'd never imagined possible for an isis fighters to be in germany however the police were unable to trace his name. and an american defense manufacturers photo published in the stunt backfires as twitter user son in some home truths about the company's palms and yemen.

a very warm welcome to the program for me and the whole crew here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour 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 sergei lavrov. because it was it's turned out of the political department of 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 the secretary of to take part in this syria restoration program picks so the question i think you a number of other russian colleagues about this reported quote unquote secret directive is always with this secret directive it takes me a while to try to find it's 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 you want 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 so he

says it's too early to talk about reconstruction efforts until a political settlement is agreed on what do you make of that knowledge some countries are trying to hinder the return of refugees by refusing to help reconstruction efforts it's counterproductive to set off officials conditions for the syrian people to return to their wife's. 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 regions who 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 or 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 under 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 through 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 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 eisel imprisonment and fleeing to germany a girl from iraq says the minority says she has met her islamic state captor face to face not once but twice and the european nation we spoke to who told us she still lives in fear. ten am why 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 of adopted eight year old girls they tortured us raped test sold us into slavery who were looking for gasland anything sharp knife scissors when we couldn't find anything to kill ourselves with we were trying to escape but they handcuffed our

hands and lax 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 you see the women have been enslaved by eisel and sexually abused with many still in captivity. has them in the medical profession and they're going to get less bush children that a say. without an invaluable push for but i you know born best summed up in a though that he wanted it bad that my flesh. you know not is not that i love at another level in the alpha would love someone.

who is now nineteen years old when she was captured by i saw 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 the germany but once there she claims she was again horrified by two separate encounters with the same man who had been slaved her. 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 torturer 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 walking and i said i didn't know him or i should walk how is it possible that my rapist is living here and has the same rights as me my boss called the police and told them what he looked like and they scratched his face and it looked the same i told them there had been no other

witnesses i told them i'd never imagined possible for an hour to be in germany however the police were unable to trace his name. german prosecutors claim that the information provided by a shark isn't enough to identify the male fearing for her safety in germany she decided to move back to iraq thinking 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 want 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. u.s.

defense contractor lockheed martin has felt the wrath of the internet when a marketing stunt on world photo day backfired and explains what made twitter users 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 look he'd monson has a generic happy to cool pretty is why all 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 wahid march 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 to 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 double to eighteen months or the death of an unarmed seventeen year old palestinian protester the incident happened four years ago and video released show that the teenager posed no

immediate threat. the original charge of manslaughter was reduced to death through negligence after a plea deal was reached in which the israeli guard admitted to accidentally using live rounds four months ago he was jailed for nine months which is 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'd 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. conviction represents israel's 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 the circumstances the accumulated effect of all of these incidents is that there is no big terence 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 for the first time in eight years the palestinian postal service is back in full swing after mail had previously been

halted by israel ten tons of underlayment 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. . 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 embellished three buses and kidnapped 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 ceasefire during the muslim holiday dana hawkins has the details but three month cease fire proposed by president danny is not the first such motion in afghanistan it probably won't be the last that has the blessing of the us time for peace has a but a ring to it than war on terror regardless the taliban are firmly rejected it instead continuing a countrywide military offensive. military

commanders say the truce will only benefit the u.s. led forces they've all. when clear no peace will be possible in afghanistan as long as the foreign occupation carries on and as coalition forces approached their seventeen year of operations in the country how simple things seemed all those years ago 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 under barbaric rule a decade and a half later the taliban control large swathes of territory and are able to strike at security forces and civilians almost that will afghanistan has been a battleground for various militant groups something the u.s. views pragmatically the taliban are fighting isis and we encourage that because isis needs to be destroyed the afghan question has forced the u.s.

this way between a military solution and negotiations with the taliban was such a hot cold rhetoric from the white house it's hardly surprising the possibility of mediation is taking years to arise it's been quite a balancing act for washington you have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table there's no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish and i want to reinforce to the chela been that the only pair of peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban tribbles as a hero of the do you know of him the boy before the call for the taliban when their choices are to reconcile live in irrelevance or die in september taliban representatives have been invited for talks in moscow alongside to government officials bypassing the united states if successful these could become a step towards the long list ceasefire of them all

a permanent solution to a decades long cycle of violence something that today looks as this that. african goldman just recently and the crucial rule by the other super powers in the region and also in the neighborhood of russia of course is one of the strongest country and two we can understand or maybe the afghan government can believe that for a shot in a day but to go in immediately between the taliban and the afghan government there could be some more progress is in afghanistan because the different the negotiation in the introduction between the afghan government in taliban it just on the very fast speed. with the united states midterm elections now just a few months away the country's national security adviser has listed china among the threats washington fears when it comes to meddling 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 about 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 a large tariffs on metal imports coming from china back in april the u.s. president then later slapped twenty five percent duties on billions of dollars worth of chinese products. for more on this we're joined live by arvind bora hopefull twenty twenty presidential candidate for the u.s. libertarian party welcome to the program now why do you think the trumpet ministration is starting to focus more of its attention on china right now. this is an absolute absurdity talking about china or even more absurd of the north

korea or iran having the wherewithal to influence u.s. elections it's preposterous the people who are actually influencing american elections are the military industrial complex and teachers' unions if i'm elected i'll be doing everything i can to reduce or eliminate their power starting by bringing the troops home shutting down foreign military bases ending all the behavior of treating other nations with threats and violence and getting the government entirely out of education right now the actual threats that we see the people who are actually meddling in our elections are domestic not foreign now washington is also threatening to hit china with sanctions over iranian oil imports how likely is that is trump to greenlight those penalties against beijing. he's likely to greenlight them but it is a terrible idea poverty creates terrorism because poverty creates crime direct or indirect sanctions against iran is only going to fuel iranian terrorism

if we're going to end terrorism if we're going to reduce terrorism we need to end all saying we need to allow those countries to get out of poverty because it is poverty that is the actual fuel of terrorism and how will a trade war with china affect u.s. businesses and ordinary americans then. it's going to be extremely damaging we've already seen it's being damaging because now businesses have to spend more money on things like steel rather than spending money and resources on innovation skilled labor better computers etc this is a massive drain on american innovation on the american economy if i'm elected i'm going to be doing everything i can to reverse or eliminate all of these sanctions and all of the preexisting sanctions as well are you at all surprised by bolton and terms comments on china. you know this is par for the course finding some

nonsensical absurd distractions to suggest that china had has anything more than a completely nonexistent or very insignificant influence on american elections is absurd the people who are influencing american elections are american special interest the military industrial complex various parts the welfare state especially teachers unions those are our enemies china has no legit has no realistic chance of influencing an american election arvind vote hopeful two thousand and twenty presidential candidate for the us libertarian party and thank you for your time and your comments. thanks for having me on. a muslim couple have been refused citizenship because of a handshake. they did not shake hands with people of the opposite sex religious practice does not fall outside the law the constitution and equality between men and women prevails over bigotry the couple were said to have shown a lack of respect for gender equality laws and failed to prove their readiness to

integrate into society however they have thirty days to appeal the decision back in two thousand and sixteen a similar case took place in sweden that was when a twenty four year old muslim woman refused to shake a male interviewers hand when she had gone for a job their meeting was abruptly terminated however for all haitian one thousands in compensation when sweden's labor court ruled it amounted to discrimination the incident has split social media i've warned about this for years they immigrate into our countries and refuse to integrate and then use our lose against us to impose their religious lose the shouldn't come to a country and expect everything there to change according to what they want or don't want to do if you come to a country you should respect their culture it is racist it's common sense. this isn't a law this is just a customary procedure she's not obliged to follow a custom that's against her and we just believe you don't have an argument good you

can't force anyone to touch someone if they don't want to she wasn't rude the employer was rude earlier we debated the issue on the program. you see if you're an employer in sweden like the guy who wanted to recruit a young interpreter and at interview disco refuses to shake hands she has difficulties to talk to him because he's a man because of our culture that doesn't work this guy doesn't fire her does not hire her and because of that isa blanche to pay four thousand euro to that girl one the swedes here that they say none of that here has a head that the lady in sweden smiled and made this guess church you have to know about that even muslims should also add to their habits or to the customs of the country they're living under shaking hands a suggestion of respect to do with but if someone is not shaking the hand but on the other side showing me that he's respecting me he's smiling in my face peace

he's making a show of like me it's not like this will ever what always also take the tension of this discussion away and try to find a way how we could deal respectfully with each other except in each other talking future other and maybe trying to change some of these things in positively manner well it should stop talking about respect when they come to europe they have our respect they have had our respect for all the time but they should stop trying to influence society to attain what their bigotry insists is absolutely necessary you should adapt muslims should adapt they have adapted for decades this form of islam is not welcome in europe that's the perception of citizens and it's not only populist i think it's something like seventy or eighty percent of the population who believes that you know there are some values these values and the respect that

they're there for the freedom of speech the freedom of changing their faith the freedom to talk to have my own decision how i live but also the freedom of the. even on the freedom of faith so these are values that are in europe we should be proud of it and we should fight to keep them and not accepting anybody who is going to make any injuries or values and our democracy this issue with this young woman refusing to shake hands with a man this is so very much happening everywhere and it's not emotional the way europeans react this cannot continue like that either they adapt and the accept the way we live and they live with us and shake hands like everybody else or else they can go back to their country and the problem is look you're saying don't back to their countries and he can't just imagine that's what stems are europeans and they're living here maybe in the form of generation so i stopped to talk to us this

way go back to the prompter's other countries is our first proper use we didn't tell country could be belgium it could be great britain. former cia chief john brennan once to take donald trump to court after having his security clearance revoked brennan is one of terms harshest critics but he's also been backtracking on one of his stronger accusations against the president. donald trump's press conference performance in helsinki rises to and exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors it was nothing short of treacherous not only were trump's 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 as 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 up. to protect the nation's classified information fulfilling that responsibility i decided to revoke the security clearance of john brennan. other mean that he committed treason but it was a terms i used nothing short of treasonous. they have the president. 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. symmetry with u.s. intelligence that. russia meddled in the election of twenty six that i would say that that is true. that's our breakdown of the day's top stories for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with your next news update thanks for tuning in.

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