moscow accuses un chief of secretly preventing their own agencies from helping to revive serious conflict economy. a teenage girl who escaped turned slave men from are still in iraq claims she then came face to face with her captor in germany where she fled for safety with a chance to speak to her. my boss told the police i told them i'd never imagined possible for and i still find her to be in germany however the police were unable to trace his name. and an american defense venue factures photo publicity stunt backfires as twitter users sent in some home truths about the company's bombs in 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 united nations 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's turned out that the political department at 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 to take part in this syria restoration program picks so the question i think you a number of other russian colleagues had sent 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 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 efforts it's counterproductive to set off officials conditions for the syrian people to return to their homes why so. 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 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. 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 same 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 i saw imprisonment and fleeing to germany a girl from iraq's years easy 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. can we were saudi 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 have a ducted eight year old girls they tortured us raped tests told us into slavery who were looking for gasland anything sharp knife scissors who couldn't find anything to cure selves 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 years the women have been enslaved by eisel and sexually abused many are still in captivity. has them in the medical profession and they're going to get less bush children by the us to. have an invaluable push for a newborn pressed on whether you know though that the woman if that mouthwash. you know now is not that allowed in a lower level then the alpha would love someone.

is no nineteen 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 where than 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 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 walking and i said i didn't know he were 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 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 male. u.s. defense contractor lockheed martin has felt the wrath of the internet and a marketing stunt on a world photo date back fired up and explains what made twitter user step. 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 and 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 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 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.

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. with the united states midterm elections now just a few months away at the country's national security adviser has

a china is among the countries america fears could attempt to interfere with its political process to sufficient national security concern about chinese meddling iranian meddling in north korea meddling that were taking steps to try and prevent it looking at the twenty eighteen election those of the four countries that were 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 def high trade deficit donald trump imposed large tariffs on middle 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. democrats are demanding the white house released documents relating to national security adviser john bolton's past work with a woman accused of acting as

a russian agent maria bush in the who was charged with working as an unregistered foreign agent is the founder of a pro-gun group in russia called the right to bear arms. given the alarming and unprecedented nature of these revelations and the high level position of trust mr both the no holds we request that you produce documents relating to whether mr bolton reported his previous work with this alleged russian spy on his security clearance forms or other white house vetting materials prior to president trump appointing him to his current position the program gun group founded by bush in the back in two thousand and thirteen released a video featuring john bolton who at the time served as the head of the n.r.a. subcommittee he was asked to record a video to promote gun rights in russia where the russian national government to grant a broader right to bear arms to its people it would be creating a partnership with its citizens that would better allow for the protection of mothers children and families without in any way compromising the integrity of the

russian state. to discuss this further we are now joined live by political cartoonist and columnist ted rall welcome to the program now this video is five years old why is no one paid any attention to it previously. well there's no telling you know why things get ignored like that it's not unprecedented we often see cases where documentation that video's information that's often in plain sight available to a simple you tube or google search goes unnoticed for a very long time ward churchill a controversial figure here in the united states after nine eleven wrote an essay that went unnoticed for years and then finally it drew the attention of some campus conservatives where he was speaking

a few years later and it blew up in national news at that time people scraped things up dig things up i suspect that what happened here is that. someone probably sort of had an accidental finding someone was searching for something else and just blundered across it and thought hey we can use this now well john bolton has a top position in the white house he was cleared by security in order to get to that position the democrats really just believe that such information could have been somehow missed by that clearance. while i don't know what the democrats are thinking i think that you can what is safe to say is that it's a fishing expedition look the democrats are out to get whatever they can on the trumpet ministration including mr bolton and if true these allegations could be potentially pretty serious. has been arrested by the f.b.i. she's being held under very harsh conditions. solitary confinement mr bolton

is at the vet literally the national security adviser is the right hand of the president of the united states when it comes to national security so you know the idea that he might be seen as. hobnobbing with a russian spy would obviously be something the democrats could make a lot of hay out of they haven't been getting very far with the russia gate probe that's going into its third year soon so. they're looking for whatever they can find now this video was actually meant to encourage russian news on gun rights couldn't you argue that then it was more of a concern about employing threshing views then influencing american views well it's clearly what the video was for mr bolton is a very far right very pro second amendment pro-gun rights figure and he's obviously

trying to spread the message overseas including to russia and that was very clearly the purpose of. of the of the video that he made ted rall political cartoonist and columnist thank you so much for joining us on the program thank you more news after this short break.

just don't. get to shape our. culture. and in the. trailer. find themselves worlds apart wait to look for common ground. welcome back the afghan fundamentalist group the taliban has ambushed 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 eat all other dinner hawkins has the details . the three month ceasefire proposed by president garny 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 better ring to it than war on terror regardless the taliban are firmly rejected it instead continuing a countrywide military offensive. and . militant commanders say the truce will only benefit the u.s. led forces they've also been clear no peace will be possible in afghanistan as long as the foreign occupation carries on and as coalition forces approach 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 controlled 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. to sway between a military solution 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 to have

a caliper and 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 was. to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban crumbles as a year of thirty first we have no idea the boys or 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 of them all a permanent solution to a decades long cycle of violence something that today looks as this didn't as ever . we can now cross live to nic with j.s. davies author of blood on our hands the american invasion and destruction of iraq

welcome to the program now why do you think this cease fire proposal has been so roundly rejected. well i think as. as you already said. i think the taliban probably quite intelligently recognize that this would be a chance for the u.s. and its allies in afghanistan to regroup. and at this point. the taliban are on the offensive and the americans and their allies in afghanistan are you know seem to be completely at a loss as to what to do and so really. you know despite all the tough talk we just heard from american generals and

american politicians the u.s. is losing this war as it has been for most of the time since it began and there really is no way for the u.s. to recover from this situation and why do you think the u.s. has struggled so much to devise a clear political strategy for afghanistan and a position on whether or not it's acceptable to negotiate with the taliban. well. you know once the taliban's first demand right the way through has been first of all for u.s. troops to withdraw foreign troops in general to withdraw from afghanistan they have not recognized the government that the u.s. installed in two thousand and one they do not recognize it and.

you know they're you know they have time on their side they always have this is their country and so. you know. they they seem to be trying at this point to apply more pressure to force the u.s. to actually talk to them about withdrawing finally after seventeen years and at this point how likely is it that the taliban will take part in the upcoming moscow talks on afghanistan. i really don't know that i can't answer that. ok and what do you expect america's approach to be going forward. well. if the last seventeen years are. you know are what we can base that on then you know they're just going to keep muddling along at the expense of

tens of thousands or overall hundreds of thousands of afghan lives. you know this for but this this really should be unacceptable. you know really. where we've seen with these various cease fire offers and and by the the havior of the afghan soldiers in the afghan national army and the taliban that that in fact there isn't a deep animosity that would lead to a prolonged civil war once the foreign troops withdrew. and. and really these various talks about cease fires and truces indicate. that there is a way forward for afghans on both sides and and all the civilians caught in the

middle if the u.s. would simply withdraw nicholas chance davey's author of blood on our hands the american invasion and destruction of iraq thank you for your time. you know that's our breakdown of the day's top stories for now thanks for tuning in. we have no idea what safe is doing on a vacation but she will be back on air in september.

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