the sale of national security goods that are sensitive like technology the the second round the tougher round that will come into force in november. could include the banking sector restrictions on imports and it would actually suspend diplomatic relation there and actually terminate flights between the two countries now moscow has said that this amounts to economic warfare against russia this is what has been the response i suppose that i'm not saying not support of russia will consider retaliate remasters in response to yet more adverse steps from washington mutual in light of these the confirmation by the u.s. administration of its read and that is to keep improving relations with russia just looks ridiculous it's a blatant hypocrisy yes it was supposed to be the but if something follows something like a restriction of the operations of russian banks who use a foreign currency it can be called for what it is a declaration of economically and it will be necessary to respond to this war with economic political if necessary because of the method you. now it's still an open

question whether the u.s. the u.k. and the european union will all fall into line against russia when we are as of yet having waiting to see any solid evidence to back up the accusations that are justifying these new sanctions and economic attacks meanwhile the u.s. treasury has frozen millions of dollars worth of russian assets or washington correspondents america has more samir it's getting harder to keep up with the rate of sanctions washington's imposing what do we know about this latest statement from the treasury well the treasury department did explain it all and its statement saying that these efforts have been taken in order to counter russia's efforts to challenge the u.s. and its allies listing a few examples including the occupation of crimea subverting western democracy its neighboring the assad regime just to name a few now in the statement to the treasury department also reiterated how well

they're saying that they go away saying quote the treasury's russia sanctions program is among our most effective and impactful since january twenty seventh team this administration has sanctioned two hundred seventeen russian related individuals and entities for a broad range of activities check out what else was the bread and brazenness of russia's malign conduct demands a firm and vigorous response our actions are imposing an unprecedented level of financial pressure on those supporting the kremlin's malign agenda and on the sectors of the russian economy though russia's malign activities continue its adventurism undoubtedly has been checked by the knowledge that we can bring even more economic pain to bear using our powerful range of authorities and that we will not hesitate to do so if its conduct does not demonstrably and significantly change

now while these sanctions are fair a. that's what the us claims they come at a pretty steep price not only do they impact the u.s. but they also impact europe and the european commission had a few words of course u.s. policies are impacting on german foreign trade individual companies are grinding their teeth and a severely affected german companies fear a short term loss of ongoing business operations worth hundreds of millions of euros furthermore the short term terminations of contracts with suppliers for example could lead to production losses along the entire production chain since a replacement of equal quality has to be found first. america first cannot mean that europe's interests come last. the fear is that american policy will restrict the behavior of european companies and the impact in their view policymaking with the in the. europe's energy supply is

a matter for you or not the united states of america even though trump says that he wants to improve relations with russia it seems that that washington doesn't really want that to happen one of those malign activities you heard mentioned earlier that's upsetting washington right now supposedly russian hacking and microsoft claims it's sort of a fresh attack the tech giant says the targets were the u.s. senate and conservative think tanks but mainstream outlets reporting on microsoft's findings rushed to draw their usual conclusion about who might ultimately be behind it. attempts by russia to hack u.s. senate and conservative groups by hacking group affiliated with the russian government russian military operation the intelligence operation the russian military intelligence you know well basically what the companies they've seized control of from some group that they believe are russian hackers over a bunch of websites that were recently created and designed to copycat this is the websites of some republican groups conservative groups of the congress and so on

and so forth this technique in the i.t. talk is called fishing and it's basically designed to lure people in to deceive them to make them believe that they're visiting the actual web site while they're not and then the perpetrator can pretty much do anything they want and microsoft is saying that it is resembling this situation and developed right before the presidential elections in twenty sixteen have a listen we saw this during the united states general election in twenty sixteen last major in the french presidential election and now in a broadening way as americans are preparing for the november midterm elections first and foremost are these websites then can be these domains they can be created from anywhere in the world they can be created from any basement from the contact with the comfort of anyone's flat or apartment really microsoft insists it's fantasy bears it's like kind of in the notorious hacking group and we won't delve deep into this but let's just say that they're linked to the russian government is very very debatable it's a subject to debate it's not over in establishing

a fact but even still if if it's found the thing is microsoft explicitly says that they found and i quote no evidence that these domains were used in any successful attack moreover they do not have any evidence to indicate the identity of targets or even the number of targets of these apparent planned attacks so what we have here on our hands is a bunch of is a bunch of websites that were created and no one has even attempted to do anything with them and this is what the russian statement on this matter pointed out. again we have to state what was still to be obvious despite our desire it's impossible to comment on statements made without any evidence and that are clearly created for public attention it's sad that a big international company that successfully worked for a long time in the russian market and has to be a part of the witch hunt now has invaded washington. well bottom line is that every

time you hear the word king especially journalists well they jump out and they automatically assume russia is personally if they have you know the trigger words in the text well now they are nevertheless microsoft is of course a veteran of the tech world they carry a lot of weight and they insist that the threat is real well the us act on that warning world microsoft in front has even made a suggestion as to how the potential victims of the attacks should act and they've suggested that it's their tool they should be installing they've announced that they're developing is a thing called microsoft account god and well don't i wish i could say the follow the money trail but it isn't here the are they will be there promising to provide it for free to anyone who may fall victim of the attack there will be threat notification and they promise to guide these their clients through how to make these networks and email systems more secure so ultimately i'm afraid i have to say

that it looks like a very well designed have to admit p.r. campaign on behalf of microsoft and anywhere whether there is a threat or whether the reasons they're pushing their tool here. the syrian army is gearing up for an offensive on the last major rebel stronghold it live the battle for the enclave marks the final stage of the syrian war and if assad's forces manage to retake it it will bring almost the entire country back under government control however ahead of the campaign many western media outlets have been doubling down on the narrative against a masochist with some saying the assad forces are certain to inflict heavy civilian casualties the same media though it fails to mention the un clave is under control of jihadi groups accused of war crimes you are trying to takes a closer look. these yagur a few of the syrian civil war has strong it's now pretty much about this part of the country the northwest basically here in and around it is where you'll find all

the armed rebel groups the ones still putting up a real fight no wonder getting hold of this area would be the ultimate success for damascus five days after multiple airstrikes hit this once quiet neighborhood in province killing dozens of people shattering whatever illusion of safety that may have existed if you listen to the c.n.n. piece and get the impression it looked province had been a peaceful oasis till showered by those bombs how about telling the viewers about the dicey melting pot it actually is the syrian army has been on a mission to win back land those rebels or even internationally recognized terrorists who stood in their way were given two options take out the white flag or get a one way ticket to it no kidding some were moved there on buses and that's when the real mess began instead of teaming up various groups and went to war with each

other and let's not forget some of the mightiest organizations running the show their moderates. h. t. s. or high yet to. arguably the most powerful and hair raising the very same people who used to be known as moose row or syria's al qaida branch and if that name doesn't ring a bell just picture nine eleven or any other bloody carnage that took responsibility for. this is quite a trio to those who've heard of nor aldin. would likely associate them with the beheading of a palestinian boy on camera they've also been blamed for torturing journalists and aid workers jaish al islam paraded kates hostages through the damascus suburbs they

once controlled only to use them as human shields later this group along with was firmly on john kerry's terrorist list when he was in charge of the state department we've seen pictures we've heard testimony of shocking crimes committed by our by book. by al-shabaab it seems even in london a staunch ally of some rebel groups has lost patients britain won't send anymore cast to fighters and ad lib as it says in the times newspaper u.k. diplomats have admitted the remaining rebel areas are falling into the grip of the hottest t.v. giant sky news came up with a teaser for their exclusive report from edward province on twitter but online many warned by the media's attempts to portray that place as just a rebel held clave so the question is if he'd lived was mainly ruled by al qaida

who gave sky news the exclusive access they are not rebels. which rebels did you get access to perhaps they've seen this reporting tactic once before during the siege of syria's economic hub aleppo activists say close to one hundred children have been killed in that beeston rebel held area of aleppo mill your seat in the battle districts of rebel held east of the unable to convince moscow to stop bombing civilians all they talked about was how civilians and moderate opposition fighters were being slaughtered by assad. the russians there was no mention of the hardest though and there are since something our reporter saw with their own eyes. and the rebels are pushing to aleppo again. beyond that you're into

the rebel held parts of aleppo that is the black flag of job nusra. brainchild in the syrian civil war. after. a year ago we had we. had. our duma always black and white legal regime again we. enjoyed killing. obviously a child which is the ocean accompli we have. concerns have been raised that a large number of child slaves trafficked from vietnam and china could be working

on cannabis farms and london it comes as figures disclosed under a freedom of information request show the scale of the illegal drugs cultivation the high number of cannabis farms across london and trafficking of vietnamese children to work in them is extremely worrying potentially thousands of children and young people are being trafficked from vietnam and exploited by ruthless criminal gangs. hundreds of cannabis farms have been discovered in the british capital in recent years and specifically that number is said to be at three hundred fourteen that's one farm every two days from january twenty sixteen until april this year and of course what makes these matters worse is certainly concerns about who it is that's being to work at these farms or factories as they're described we do know that experts from campaign groups have been raising red flags about this issue for at least a decade now with headlines circulating in the british press on and off throughout recent years trying to raise attention to this issue however experts are continuing

to say that large numbers of children and teens from countries like vietnam and other places are trafficked to work out of these kinds of farms and indeed this is being described as extremely worrying it's being said that over two thousand suspected trafficking victims were referred to officials just last year and that's a number that's being described as the highest on record and one of the concerns that competitors have on this issue is that oftentimes these people when discovered working at these farms could be treated as criminals as opposed to victims and this is certainly seen as a very serious issue and we have sent out requests to the home office to the metropolitan police and trafficking groups such as anti-slavery international so we will be.