i. think. russia warns that terrorists are preparing a chemical attack who is in the province plans after crisis talks with turkey and iran at a tense debate at the u.n. security council. and other news germany security chief questions reports and videos of anti migrant mobs in the city of candidates. political party just to follow britain's example and get island out of the european union. thanks for joining us this hour you're watching our international. we start this hour with syria where terrorists are said to be ready to stage

a chemical attack to frame the assad regime that warning has come from russia's defense ministry which says that it has evidence that members of terror organizations including al nasra met with the controversial rescue group the white helmets on friday at the meeting various possible scenarios for station a chemical attack against civilians and made to look as if carried out by government forces were discussed and it proved all those involved in this stage you know the roots of the evening of september the eighth. on friday the fifteen members of the u.n. security council met through discuss the crisis in italy province the same day the russian turkish and iranian president talks in tehran on the situation is not easy to start off with the details it's not the first time we're hearing warnings from the russian defense ministry about a chemical false flag attack prepared by militants in some further details

apparently the militants are planning to use chlorine eight barrels of chlorine chemical of chlorine gas of the chlorine talks in have been brought to the province and the white helmets why they were present allegedly at that meeting they are supposed to cover to film the whole thing the russian defense ministry is not the only institution making warnings about a potential chemical attack washington d.c. for example the white house is saying that it will be the assad government the assad forces that will use chemical weapons trying to capture it but it definitely what is what is happening right now the situation the chemical concern for well it is sending ripples from all across the geopolitical scale just on friday the u.n. security council members set down together and you can have a listen to how the situation in libya has been discussed ever more babies in italy and there are terrorists and i think that should give those engaging the military

action pause for thought when russia and the assad regime say they want to counterterrorism they actually mean they want to bomb schools hospitals and homes unless. we are firmly under the impression that our western partners the stoking hysteria around it lip and in any case are attempting to prevent the fall of the last major terrorist stronghold in syria and this is far more political than the stated humanitarian concerns for the protection of civilians. now it has to be mentioned that according to the u.n. special envoy to syria to find a mistura the assad government does have access to chemical weapons just like does the predominant faction in syria but when it comes to this northern province the leaders of russia iran and turkey said down here in tehran on friday right before the u.n. security council meeting and they discussed the focus on the situation there what

they mostly talked about is how to get rid of terrorists there while this area is so densely populated by the civilians because they agree that the syrian land should be cleared of terrorists but you just can't just bomb the can can just blindly bomb them in the area because the front would use civilians as a human shield. everyone knows that there are a lot of civilians in there and we must take into account the russian military and the syrian army who have always tried to guarantee the evacuation of civilians right now the focus seems to have shifted completely to the chemical concern when it comes to according to the russian defense ministry by the end of saturday the militants will have completed their preparations so we can expect something to come out as soon as sunday. the pentagon has songwriting slammed the moves by russia and life to settle the conflict in syria insisting that the tehran talks failed u.s.

military chiefs also claim that a better ways to go after terrorists in italy we discussed this with security and political analysts. think that accusations of assad planning a chemical attack in italy are groundless. the major threat against civilians is a terrorist threat the major threat against civilians comes from the. groups that are terrorist groups and that is recognized by the security council itself and i think it's absolutely ridiculous why would the syrian regime and the russians use any chemical weapons or allow the use of any chemical weapons for the last stronghold of these terrorist organizations i mean they all that is the right the syrian army and the russian army were able to control most of the syrian territories and they still have this small province why would they use chemical weapons and kill civilians that's absolutely senseless i mean that's that's that's that's not that strategically wrong that is not necessity military necessity that

is not a political there are no political gains out of this. iraqi government has declared a curfew in the city of basra after days of rioting an awesome saturday morning rockets were fired at the city's airport and the day before an angry mob torched the reigning consulate the building was almost completely destroyed but iranian officials say no diplomatic staff were inside according to the local health ministry though at least two demonstrators were killed forty five other people were injured the protesters accuse iran of meddling in their country's politics tehran has condemned the attack and shut down part of the border with iraq. and this follows days of rallies across iraq against government corruption and a lack of basic services so far government offices have been set on fire in basra by protesters.

gathered there somebody is trying to add fuel to the fire to damage the relationship between the security forces and the people. in the baster population is fed up they're suffering and facing this predicament absurdity of witnessing the billions of dollars of oil export there before their eyes they have absolutely nothing you know no infrastructure normally aged development high and high unemployment of some seventy percent for the u.s. the government needs to address these issues there soon as possible international energy companies that are investing billions of dollars in that area also have

a role to play the international institutions such as the world bank have failed to assist the rockies by for example failing or wise in one single water treatment facility in basra or you know also which treatment and so on so where is the international assistance or do you assess systems for this war ravaged economy. north korean leader kim jong un is said that he's ready to visit russia to meet. the soonest possible likely going to form a discuss the story with daniel hawkins this came about from my visit by the russian delegation to putin yang of the russian federation council speaker violence intimate feeing co past the letter. from the russian president inviting him to attend these bilateral talks in moscow we understand of course this will be discussed through diplomatic channels in good time but from what we hear from the russian side mr kim jong il the north korean supremely leader is key not to delay

and to visit moscow as soon as time allows the two leaders have of course corresponded before if this visit does go ahead that will be the first time at least in recent history that a north korean leader will visit moscow for bilateral talks now on top of this we know north korea has been in touch with the u.s. south korea to see what the what is the state of play between those countries at the moment while very much changeable obviously went from the brink of conflict just about easter time to that summit in singapore with donald trump which she was very keen to advertise as something highly successful something very productive and now things have taken another step back toward some pretty hostile rhetoric the u.s. has accused north korea of cyber warfare of hacking and trying to stifle free speech in the west take a listen the north korean backed conspiracy attempted to crush freedom of speech in the u.s. and the u k. it robbed banks around the world you know we took this step to show. the largest picture showed

a good faith measure coming out of the singapore sharma we have no plans at this time to spend any more characters. there is war games that mr matters was referring to there did very little to reassure north korea it seems they've accused america of quote hatching a criminal plot against pyongyang and gazing into talks while planning some sort of hostile action through those military games there. nevertheless though there is some positivity out of all of this according to what's being co. is committed to denuclearization he's also set a concrete timetable to doing this he said he wants to do this before the end of mr trump's first time in office that's the first time a north korean leader has specifically set a deadline to do with nuclear reservation use also committed to the reuniting of the two north korea is now what we also heard from the russian delegation from much fear in co is a quote that these sanctions the western sanctions on north korea are draconian

that they lead to nowhere and negotiation diplomacy and communication is the way to go to resolve this ongoing crisis so we're very much looking forward to hear if and when that pretty historic visit will take place the head of germany's security service is played down reports of anti migrant mobs in the city of kemet despite chancellor merkel condemning the unrest the to all of it has the story. right wing demonstrators were back out on the streets of ten minutes on friday evening around a thousand people gathered in the city they were holding up banners saying that we are the people also that they were not nazis that wasn't a repeat of the type of violence that we saw last week or even two weeks ago they seem to have gone off relatively peacefully but on friday there was another big development this is after the head of germany's internal intelligence service the beer file pointed to videos that emerged around two weeks ago of the demonstrations

that were said to show far right demonstrators hunting down chasing people that looked like foreigners and trying to attack them now he gave an interview to a major newspaper here in germany saying he doesn't think they're legitimate there was no reliable information that such hunts took place based on my cautious assessment there are good reasons to believe that this was intentional false information possibly to detract attention from the murder in candidates and i share the skepticism towards the media reports on rightwing extremist hunts in candidates well there's been a lot of calls for mr marson to clarify what he said or produce evidence for the reasons why he said it one of the the main reasons for this skepticism is the fact the chancellor i'm going to merkel cited these videos herself in her condemnation of right wing violence in cabinets although there certainly are extremist right wing people among those crowds we've seen straight arm salutes the nazi salute of

course in the in the past there but there are also those who are coming out to these demonstrations who are just saying they're not right wing extremists they're just concerned citizens so that is going. to let them know that i mean it's because of a lot of money. that is not because that's all just going to go beyond what. you don't have make a. decision he says martin but he's not. if you don't get out there i think most of the thought that my did do to do something well amongst those talking about the demonstrations and in fact saying that he would take part in water under different circumstances was the always outspoken german interior minister. if i wasn't a minister i would have taken to the streets as a citizen but of course not with the radicals under merkel has accused the far right of exploiting the killing of that thirty five year old man for their own aims however whether that's true or not alternative for germany the right wing party

that has well being claimed to be anti islam anti immigrant in the past they have shot up to second place in polling here in germany seventeen percent of those polled said that they would vote for them in a general election that if there was a general election tomorrow would make them the second largest political body taking a seat in the bonder stark a member of germany's left party believes that all sides of the blame for the recent surge of nationalism in the country it seems to be very difficult to left as myself and the son of an immigrant i have to say that it's also the fault of my party that we should have been guiding those people but instead it's the radical right that are doing and radical things and they are people in the wrong direction i think what we've seen after this is complete and utter chaos if one interior intelligence chiefs asked not all of this is just fake news you know not under

normal circumstances he should have been fired already and i don't know what to tell us about the state of the german government that angela merkel is apparently not capable of firing him right now. and when you political movement in ireland is pledging to take the country out of the european union we'll have that story and others after the break. conspiracy going on between wall street and the energy companies create these fake energy on unsustainable debt that's a conspiracy that we reported this five six years ago and gave the exact same reasons that the new york times is giving today it was called conspiracy theory all conspiracies begin as a theory it's called investigative journalism. to

put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to be press which is what the before the three of them or can't be good. i'm interested in the waters in the . first ship. riotous in the greek city if you have been voicing the fury over recent deal struck by the government to end naming dispute with must.

i. back in june nothing's agreed to recognize the name republican or the muscle and a decades long dispute but opponents say that the name sounds too similar to the greek province of macedonia the group. parliament stude to vote on the agreement next year. despite the controversy surrounding brags that the u.k.'s this isn't a go it alone is inspiring others a new irish political party has held its first conference in dublin this mission to quit the e.u. we are here today to launch a new party with new ideas for arlen that we can have

a new free of foreign domination no longer be beholden to the european union stop paying them a bucket load of money to make our laws to stay still our fish out of our waters and in polls as they have in two thousand and twelve sixty four billion by. the ira exist for freedom party wants a clean break from brussels the party plans to put forward candidates for the upcoming national and european elections. former irish ambassador one of the movement's backers says that they do still want good economic relations with europe ireland left the european union i would like us to stay in the european economic area and i think the whole idea of moving around to rouse most problems there are very good but they shouldn't come with a political price that you have to sort of be for pure military that has to change a tax system that you know you have difficulty a whole another public utilities it's the political part of the european union which is scaring people off the host governments as it should to do the blacks

negotiation at the moment it's completely baffling it's quite clear to our interest in getting the united kingdom a good deal because we are so dependent on some people in ireland who are i've still got a lingering anger phobia and they will be pipe prepared to be much more hardline even if it damaged our interests as long as the damage united kingdom i find that argument perverse. meanwhile a recent poll found that just eleven percent of our citizens actually want my country to leave the european union so people told us why quitting could be a bad idea the benefits that i retired from being a member of the century is absolutely incredible i think it would be absolutely devastating for a country if we were to do that so i would definitely not be voting for what we benefit from the even though much of it was really should have to sit down have a good look at her before you do anything else joining. us here would be. disaster . i don't think it's a good idea for injury the e.u. because we're kind of an island nation on the western states of europe so. until

our beneficial lawfully you support for iraq's it is low but going forward because we will be the first party making an argument for arlen to leave the e.u. and take by its democratic party as we make the case the popularity of the cause will increase for sure the political and media class on our land are almost too modern woman completely. we. have freedom party will be like almost like rebels with a cause those fighting for freedom those we will be the contrarian's. intellectual terms that is a good position to be and for us president barack obama has made an appearance at the university of illinois urging students to vote in the upcoming midterm elections in his speech he gave a stinging critique of donald trump's policies so mary kom takes a closer look. president obama has returned to the spotlight with

a rousing speech almost universally applauded by mainstream media while attacking both republicans and democrats but mostly republicans he bragged a lot about himself and his in cave months in office when you hear how great the economy is doing right now. let's just remember when this recovery started in fact a quick glance at an economic growth chart would suggest that these numbers were generally weaker under obama although admittedly a number like g.d.p. and never tells the whole story but what about foreign policy we help spread a commitment to certain values in france like the read of all in human rights and democracy obama suppose that commitment to human rights involved turning two wars into seven expanding u.s. military operations from just afghanistan and iraq to syria libya yemen somalia and pakistan and that policy has only continued under trump but surely obama handled things differently when it came to russia they're undermining our alliances cozying

up to russia what happened to the republican party. its central organizing. in foreign policy. was the fight against communism and now they're closing up to the former head of the k.g.b. we should point out that putin was never head of the k.g.b. and there was a time when obama mocked his opponent mitt romney for using outdated cold war language when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing america you said russia that al-qaeda you said russia and the nineteen eighties are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because you know the cold war's been over for twenty years. but let's go back to trump cozying up to russia how does that actually look the current president has imposed sanctions on moscow and has even armed ukraine something even his predecessor didn't want to do during the speech obama did spare a few moments to attack the democrats but bashing the republicans seemed to be his

main goal but over the past few decades the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home. in the republican party. president trump couldn't care less what you think of president obama's speech and i said i'm sorry i watched it but i fell asleep. i ses very good. very good for sleeping. since leaving office president obama has become one of the ten highest paid speakers in the world he's even giving speeches to wall street firms charging hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single speech but let's be fair every former president wants to defend his own legacy and why not make a quick buck while doing it ok as you can probably tell from the thai that's all for me for today don't worry though you are in safe hands if i some say you are in better hands sean thomas will be at the top of the out to bring you right up to

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before but some. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out disdain become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when we choose to look for common ground . i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand dollars fine tempi.

eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to the old bridge eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent raise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and that one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is what one can afford to miss the one and only. way we're the a way. to go oh yeah good you know the companies you know where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. so let me get this straight an anonymous source in the

trump white house wrote an op ed for the new york times saying that people in the white house are secretly trying to stop trump from doing stupid. which puts them in the category of all americans are we all know how to do it and look well i want people to stop trump what the corporate media won't tell you is that unfortunately what this secret resistance considers smart presidential behavior used to romain on the brink of nuclear war with north korea get to the brink of nuclear war with russia trouble over all hundred bombs a day in the middle east destroy the environment etc etc so yes. her secret resistance to this secret republican. resistance is not like slipping from notes that say climate change is real or not that's not happening but

i don't want to die but i want to about something that's not plastered all over mainstream media and it's not jeff phased us however in order to not talk about jeff bezos i've talked about jeff bezos. so here we go. that total look at is the richest man in the world somehow he's managed to achieve a net worth overall hundred fifty billion dollars by selling everything that's ever existed risk free shipping. it turns it turns out the only thing that was keeping everyone in the world from giving all of our money away to one guy was that pesky four ninety nine shipping fee though. but let me let me let me stop right here even the way we talk about this stuff is influenced by a capitalist culture that tells us amassing wealth hoarding money is the answer to everything you notice i said bay's osa cheve net worth of one hundred fifty billion dollars and that seems like

a normal sentence achieved what an achievement what like you know would you say like if i said jeffrey dahmer achieved eating the livers of ten different people. would you be ok we know you have a problem with that sense but having a hundred fifty billion dollars is a pound of equally sociopathic and yet we use the terminology as if it's right but this segment is not about j.f.k. this it's about clean water clean water is one of the most important things to end human life personally i'd say but in terms of you know it's in terms of sustaining human existence clean water is second only to. say. yet millions around the world who don't have clean water or they struggle to get a report by the u.n. estimates is that three hundred million people on the continent of africa more than a third of the population have no fixed supply of clean water millions of people in

total die each year from a lack of clean water and millions of children have to fill their water balloons with soy sauce because they have nothing else it would cost. ten billion dollars a year to bring clean water to the entire world jeff bezos himself one dude could provide the world with clean water for the next fifteen years could save millions upon millions of years but instead of doing that it will just continue to enrich himself by delivering sex toys in a box with a smiley on it. and god forbid that box gets damaged in route then arrives at your door like this. because you know that could scar a kid for a life that really really could but this is not about jump.