her. i. brush warns that terrorists are preparing a chemical attack in syria's province that is after crisis talks with turkey and iran and a tense debate at the u.n. security council. germany security chief questions reports and videos of anti migrant mobs in the city of cabinets. and a new political party in ireland pledges to follow britain's example and leave the e.u. . are broadcasting live direct from our studios moscow this is r t international and john

thomas certainly glad to have you with us. russia says terrorist forces are planning a chemical attack to frame the assad regime the warning has come from the defense ministry which says it has evidence that members of terror organizations including al nusra met with the controversial rescue group at the white helmets on friday. at the meeting various possible scenarios first stage in a chemical attack against civilians and as if carried out by government forces were discussed and approved all those involved in this stage you know. the evening of september the eighth all right on friday the fifteen members of the u.n. security council met to discuss the crisis in italy province the same day the russian a turkish and iranian president held talks in tehran on the situation r.t. if you could on of comments. 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 the tone of how the situation in egypt has been discussed ever more babies

in italy than there are terrorists and i think we should keep those engaging in military action pools the thought when russia and the assad regime say they want to counterterrorism they actually mean they want to bomb schools hospitals and homes. we are firmly under the impression that our western partners the stoking hysteria around it live 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 fandom is still the assad government does have access to chemical weapons just like does the predominant in syria but when it comes to this northern. well the leaders of russia iran and turkey set down here in tehran on

friday right before the u.n. security council meeting and they discussed the focus on the situation there and 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. can't 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 rocky's by for example. one single water treatment facility. you know sewage treatment and so on so where is the international assistance or systems for this war ravaged economy switching gears now north korean leader kim jong un has said he is ready to visit russia to meet vladimir putin as soon as possible earlier my colleague daniel farmer discussed the story with

a hawk. this came about from my visit by the russian delegation to 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 the u.s. south korea to see what 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 no we took the step to spare for the largest extra charges as a good faith measure coming out of the singapore show. we have no plans at this time to spend any more characters. there is war games that mr matters was referring to that 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 denuclearize ation 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 a to b. and co is a quote that these sanctions the western sanctions on north korea are draconian that they lead to nowhere 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 has played down reports of anti migrant mobs in the city of kemet despite chancellor merkel condemning at the restaurant he's bitter all over has in store for us. 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 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 have 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 cannes it's always 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 that chancellor angela merkel cited these videos herself in her condemnation of right wing violence in kenya it's also 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 and it's going. to let them know that i mean it's because of the law defining what it is not because that's all just going to go beyond what. you want to have make a. decision he says martin but he's not. if you don't like that so you take it on i think the most part did all this but i 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 the 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 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 if there was a general election tomorrow would make them the second largest political body taking a seat in the bundestag are a member of germany's love party believes all signs are to blame for the recent surge of nationalism in the country it seems to be very difficult to leftist 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 chaos if one interior intelligence chiefs asked know all of this is just fake news you know i don't know the 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. a new political movement in ireland is pledging to take the country out of the e.u. that story much more when we come back you are watching our confessional. the. lead.

seems wrong. to shape our. culture. and indeed it was betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic to follow can only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk.

how welcome back this is our team international riders in the greek city of thessaloniki have been voicing their fury over recent a deal struck by the government to end a naming dispute with macedonia. back in june athens agreed to recognize the name republic of northern macedonia and a decades long dispute but opponents say the name sounds familiar it's too similar

to the greek province of macedonia the greek parliament is due to vote on the agreement next year. and you irish political party has held its first conference in doubling its mission is to quit the e.u. . we are here today to launch a new party with new ideas for ireland 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 sit still our fish out of our waters and impose as they have in two thousand and twelve sixty four billion by. the regs it for freedom a party who wants to clean a break from brussels party plans to put forward candidates for the upcoming national and european elections re bassett a former irish ambassador and one of the movement's backers says they still want good economic relations with europe. lefty european union i would like us to stay

in the european economic area and i think the whole idea of moving around erasmus problems they're all very good but they shouldn't come with a political price that you have to sort of beef up your military budgets to change a tax system that you know you have difficulty in holding up the public utilities it's the political part of the european union which is scaring people off the government's as it should to do the bracks negotiation at the moment that's completely baffling it's quite clear that our interest is 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 argument perverse. the party might struggle to win over the irish public the latest poll found that just eleven percent of voters want to leave in the european union some people told us why quitting would be

a bad idea the benefits that i retired from being a member of the tree is absolutely incredible i think it would be absolutely devastating for our country if we were to do so i would definitely not be voting for what would benefit from even the most of the those really have to sit down have a good look at the before you do anything else joining. us so. i don't think it's a good idea because we're kind of a nation on the western of europe so. i feel 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 ireland to leave the e.u. . take its democratic party as we make the case the popularity of the cause will increase for sure the political media. are almost too modern woman completely . we. have freedom party will be like almost like rebels with

a cause those. fighting for freedom those going we will be the contrarian's. intellectual terms that is a good position to be in. former us president barack obama has made an appearance at the university of illinois urging students to vote in the upcoming midterm elections in a speech he gave a stinging critique of donald trump policies or to america as commentary 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 cavemen 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 to remove all the human rights and

democracy obama supposed that commitment to human rights involved turning to 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 closing up to russia what happened children republican party. its central organizing principle in foreign policy. it 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 they 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. right that does it for me i'll be back with more of the top there watch march international stay with us. my body told me that i belong with the boys but my thoughts my mind with that

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chance for your life with an unemployment rate of zero percent and wages it three or four times more than the national average the promise of prosperity in desperate times is too great to ignore cheered by a common hope thousands of men and women throw themselves once again into a desperate rush towards the mythical american tree and at any cost. history repeats itself in the midst of his new girl no doubt the most impressive in u.s. history. they need there's more work out here than they got able to do it. don't believe. i still believe there's a dream or a well yes i can still believe. it's like a gold rush it is very very similar to a gold rush. all

there is fresh out of cincinnati in two thousand and twelve after being unemployed for months he hears about the boom happening in with us to. think. at first he works for an oil company but soon his desire for independence takes over and he sets up his own service company. bought the company and we had a sweeper truck and the situation williston went from a manageable situation where i owe it get like some sleep at night and i could like keep up with like daily activities like taking showers every day to like an all out sprint trying to like keep up with so much work it was amazing go from one job to the next to the next to the next to the next as it is now i have not right now i have not taken a full day off in over nine months and i'm very thankful i'm here i'm not

complaining one bit very thankful for the money an opportunity here was like someone who'd been starving for years for like money like all of a sudden there's like. all you can eat like buff a day and all you have to do is go out there and get the work done and people give you money to do it was amazing this year i'm probably going to be making around two hundred fifty thousand is a lot of work involved a lot of work it's twenty four hours a day seven days a week. well i guess i should get back to work. we're in an inhospitable land full of contrasts before the boom willison was a small conservative agricultural town and in many ways this aspect seems untouched everything has its own place including border emptiness and silence the streets are practically deserted it's a town that has motion this within its history of the past. and then you have

another town the one that needs to welcome this new wave of residence oil company settling down a large numbers with the goal of extracting at least a million barrels of oil a day. this is the one we unpacked like a raft gift and a real without so growing up with a kind of you know.