moscow accuses un chiefs of secretly preventing their own agencies from helping you to revive syria's conflict economy. the teenage girl who escaped her enslavement from eisel in iraq claims that she then came face to face with her counter in germany where she had fled for safety we've spoken to. my boss called the police i told them i'd never imagined possible for an fighter to be in germany however the police were unable to trace his name. and an american defense manufacturers that photo published the stunt of bank fires as twitter users send in some home truths about the company's bombs and.

are broadcasting live direct foresters moscow this is r t international and john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the united nations it 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 if 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 so the question i think you a number of other russian colleagues that sent about this reported quote unquote secret directive is always with 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 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 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 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 the undertow 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. well after escaping eisel imprisonment and fleeing to germany a girl from iraq's minority says she met her islamic state captor face to face not once but twice in the european nation we spoke to a walk who shared her story with us. john hamm or i 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 abducted 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 cure selves with we were trying to escape but they handcuffed our hands and lakhs 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 young women have been enslaved by eisel and sexually abused many are still in captivity. had them in the medical profession and either got a. chill on my desk. without an invaluable push but i know boring best summed up in a though that you want it bad. you know not. that the lot of my lower level in the alpha would not have found one.

is now nineteen when she was captured by i so 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 inflated germany but once there she claimed she was again horrified by two separate encounters with the same man who had enslaved. germany was willing to take in one thousand women who had excused from isel 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 tortured 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 he were schrock 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 ideal fighter to be in germany however the police were unable to trace his name. german prosecutors however say the information provided by a walk wasn't enough to identify the man fearing for her safety in a german issue 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 wanted me to stay in germany you know in 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. because i'm tied to several german government agencies and police on friday to ask what actions they have taken if any we have yet to hear back but when we do we will let you know what they have to say

. where u.s. defense contractor lockheed martin has felt the wrath of the internet when a marketing stunt on a world photo day backfired spectacularly artie's kilmartin 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 multitool to spirit 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 lives who cool pretty his while 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 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. israeli border guard has had his prison sentence doubled to eighteen months over the killing of an unarmed seventeen year old palestinian during a protest incident happened four years ago and video released subsequently showed

the teenager posed no immediate threat. the original charge of manslaughter was reduced to death of through negligence after a plea deal was reached in which the israeli guard admitted to accidently using a live rounds four months ago he was jailed for nine months which is at 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 minutes before he was shot and killed the officer claimed that he thought he had loaded his rifle with rubber bullets but it was actually live ammunition the palestinian liberation organization described the sentence as unjust and fitting

a pattern of discrimination. such a 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 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 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 under livered packages and letters and been handed over that's despite an agreement not to intervene with deliveries going to palestine. i. think if there was a wheelchair there were some gifts that people had been waiting for other things were found like toys in the t.v. .

israel says that both sides it came to an understanding about a year ago on possible deliveries but it did not result in a permanent direct transfer of mail. now the taliban has taken scores of people hostage in northern afghanistan just one day after the country's president proposed a cease fire and more on that after a short break stay with us the start to international.

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international the afghan fundamentalist group the taliban has ambushed three buses and kidnapped more than one hundred fifty passengers and northern afghanistan most have since been freed by afghan forces the raid came shortly after the president offered a ceasefire during the muslim holiday. daniel hawkins has details for us. the three month cease fire 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. oh no. no no no no no no no.

i saw my friend dying and he was among thirteen people including children even women who were killed during an arab street last night and there is no attention from the government no facilities for the residents of the dead bodies are still on the roads names that have also been injured. military 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 seventeenth 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. to sway between a military solution negotiations with the taliban was such a hot cold rhetoric from the white house so it's hardly surprising. the possibility of mediation as taking years to arise it's been quite a balancing act for washington to 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 i want to reinforce to the taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban trimble's as a hero of the first week but. the fourth before the call for the taliban when their choices are to reconcile live in a relevance. 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 cease fire of them all a permanent solution to a decades long cycle of violence something that today looks as this didn't as ever the afghan government just recently and the crucial rule by the other super powers in that region in the neighborhood of afghanistan still russia of course is one of the strongest country and we can understand or maybe the afghan government can believe that fresh in. it but in mediating between the taliban and the afghan government there could be some more progress in afghanistan because the different negotiation in the interaction between the afghan government in taliban and just under very fast beat. with the united states midterm elections now

just a few months away national security adviser has said china is among the countries america fears could attempt to interfere with its political process. it's a sufficient national security concern about chinese meddling iranian meddling in north korean 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 characterized china as a threat saying it's a mistake to fixate too much on russia comments come as the trade war between the u.s. and china escalates fearing a high trade deficit donald trump imposed large tariffs on metal imports coming from china back in april and the u.s. president then later slapped twenty five percent duties on billions of dollars worth of chinese products are going vote who hopes to run as the libertarian party candidate in two thousand and twenty u.s. presidential election told us washington is seeking to create fictitious enemies

for the sake of political expediency trump is obviously using china as sort of this target to make it the new big bad guy the big justification he has had for at least steel tariffs is that because of the chinese government gives such a huge a subsidy to its own domestic steel production that we need to fight back of course he's going to want secondary justifications you know suggesting that china try to influence elections or whatever else the united states has a horrific record in foreign policy instead of trying to focus on the sins at home that we need to wash away that we need to do everything we can to improve the u.s. government is creating one false enemy after another and using that to justified politically unjustifiable behavior. us democrats have written to the white house to demand it released documents relating to national security adviser john bolton's work with foreign nationals over the past seven years and comes after gun

rights advocate maria boots and with whom bolton had ties was charged last month with working as an undercover russian agent. given the alarming and unprecedented nature of these revelations and the high level position of trust mr botha now 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 appointed him to his current position by can two thousand and thirteen bolton recorded a video for boo to his pro-gun rights group while he was working as the head of a national rifle association subcommittee quick promotes the expansion of gun rights in russia but is being taken by democrats as evidence of a possible kremlin influence operation in the u.s. has pleaded not guilty to the charges against her and russia has said the case is politically motivated 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 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 i don't think that there's a lot of chance that this is going to go anywhere and i'll tell you why the rush to get well has been so polluted by two years of telling the public we've got the proof you got the proof no really we have the proof and then they don't come up with solid evidence or even not even solid evidence or any much evidence at all the democrats have really messed up they they've been talking out of turn they have not been able to come up with any kind of evidence or proof. of the of russia collusion

so at this point i think most of the public has really tuned out. muslim couple have been refused swiss 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 but the couple were said to have shown a lack of respect for generally quality laws and failed to prove their readiness to integrate into society however they have thirty days to appeal the decision by can two thousand and sixteen a similar case took place in sweden i was when a twenty four year old muslim woman refused to shake a male interviewers hand when she had gone for a job the meeting was abruptly terminated however for. one thousands in compensation when sweden's labor court ruled it amounted to discrimination 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 laws against us to impose their religious lose they 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 isn't 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 they employ it was rude. we debated the issue on the program earlier. you see if you're an employer in sweden like the guy who wanted to recruit a young interpreter and at interview this girl 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 no on off out here they had the lady in sweden smiled and made this guess church you have to know 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 they do with it but if someone is not taking the hand but on the other side showing me that he's respecting me he's smiling in my face piece he's making a show of like it's not like this everywhere all we 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 ph other and maybe trying to change some of these things in positively manner while

they should stop talking about respect when they come to europe they have respect they have had 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 of beliefs that you know there are some values these values of the respect they have 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. leaving on the freedom of fate so this i would values that are in europe or should be profits and we should fight to keep them and not accepting anybody who is going to make any and

dangerous for 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 they accept the way we live and they live with us and shake hands like everybody else or us they can go back to that country and the problem is look at saying do on back to their countries and he can just imagine the muslims are european send their living here maybe in the us for generations so stop to talk to us live this way go back to the cultures other countries is also quite a sweden help come to compute belgium a could be great britain more news coming up in about thirty minutes stay with us this is our two international.

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