i mean. that. russia warns that terrorists are preparing a chemical attack in syria's italy province that is after a crisis talks with turkey and iran and a tense debate at the u.n. security council. germany's a security chief of questions reports and videos of anti-matter of mobs in the city of candidates. and a new political party in ireland pledges to follow britain's example and leave but the e.u. . are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm 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 nasrallah met with the controversial rescue group the white helmets on friday at the various posable 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 progress the same day the russian turkish iranian president held talks in tehran on the situation r.t. if you could comment or. 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 borning say 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 it live 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 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 these stated humanitarian concerns for the protection of civilians. now it has to be mentioned that according to the u.n. special envoy to syria. the assad government does have access to chemical weapons just like does the predominant in syria but when it comes to this northern province well 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 just the can't just bomb. can't just blindly bomb them in the area because they 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 dismissed efforts by russia and its allies to settle the conflict in syria and insisted that the tehran talks have failed u.s.

military chiefs also claimed there are better ways to go after terrorists in. security analyst believes there is no evidence that assad is planning a chemical attack in italy 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 the necessity military necessity

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

told. you how they did somebody is trying to add fuel to the fire so to damage the relationship between the security forces and the people. in the bass the population is fed up they're suffering and facing this predicament absurdity of witnessing the billions of dollars of oil export that before their eyes they have absolutely nothing you know no infrastructure and on the edge of development high and high unemployment of some seventy percent for day use the government needs to address these issues as soon as possible with a knife not 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 data. archy's by for example. one single water treatment first. you know sewage treatment and so on so where is the international assistance or do you assess the distance for this war ravaged economy north korean leader kim jong un has said he is ready to visit russia to meet to vladimir putin as soon as possible earlier my colleague andrew farmer discussed the story with. this came about from my visit by the russian delegation to the russian federation council speaker violence in a much the enco 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 other 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 but 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. is 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 as you know we took the step to spare for the largest extra charges as

a good faith measure coming out of the singapore sham we have no plans at this time to spend thirty more characters. and those 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 denuclearize a chemise also set a concrete timetable to doing this he said he wants to do this before the end of the trumpets 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 north korea is now what we all saw 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. we had of germany's security service has played down reports of anti migrant mobs in the city of kennett that is despite chancellor merkel condemning the unrest and he's pretty or oliver has more . 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 to be a 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 share the skepticism towards the media reports on rightwing extremist hunts in camden 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 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 that is going. to let them know that i mean it's because a lot of money. is not because that's all just going to the international rioters in the greek city of the salonica have been voicing their fury over a recent deal struck by the government it to. and a naming dispute with macedonia. back in june athens agreed to recognize the name republic of northern macedonia to end a decades long dispute but opponents say the name sounds too similar to the greek

province of macedonia the greek parliament is due to vote on the agreement next year. a new irish political party has held its first conference in dublin and 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 arland 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 stop still our fish out of our waters and impose as they have in two thousand and twelve sixty four bit the i'm buying to . the iraqis it for freedom party wants a clean break from brussels the party plans to put forward candidates for the upcoming national and european elections re bassett a former ambassador and one of the movement's backers says they still want economic relations to be good with europe. and left the european union i would like us to stay in the european economic area and i think the whole idea of moving around

erasmus programs they're all very good but they shouldn't come with a political price that you have to sort of beef up your bigotry that has to change our tax system that you know you have difficulty holding up the public utilities it's a political part of the european union which is scaring people off the irish government's as it should to do the next 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 find argument perverse the party might struggle to win over the irish public to go the latest poll found that just eleven percent of voters want to leave 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 century is absolutely incredible i think it would be absolutely

devastating for a country if we were to do so i would definitely not be voting for that's what we benefit from even though much of it was really should have to sit down have a good look at the before you do anything else joining. us here would be. disaster . i don't think it's a good idea of orange because we're kind of and i'm a nation on the western pits of europe so. i feel our beneficial loss from the you support for i regs it is low but going forward because we will be the first party making an argument for ireland 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 media class on our land are almost to a 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 former u.s. 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 and he's merican has 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 and keep minutes 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 principle 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 ah 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. clashes have erupted in the italian city of riemannian at an anti migrant march. i. was around three hundred activists from the ultra nationalist new force movement to gather to on saturday for an unsanctioned rally demonstrators called for illegal migrants to be deported from the country riot police were deployed to break up the crowd and several activists were injured in the incident as well. but it doesn't for me i will be back in well little bit under thirty five minutes with a full look at your news you are watching our two international and we are glad to have you with us.

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but they don't have to listen to you don't i mean you have no legal say in it put it that way so they can put a wherever they want they don't need any your permission are all under street follows a proper practice is i don't think will have a problem but there's always that if me if they don't then we could have an issue in the biggest issue would be to to ground water as i see it when we live on our air in rural areas most of us depend on wells for our our drinking water and all the water we use in our homes so if that would happen it would be a very bad thing. as all that fracturing job that's where they pump the sand the fluid and you know the chemicals because they use acid is one they use a chemical called bio bio it kills all biological elements so so when they pump out

that often. the ground any kind of bacteria is going to kill any kind of living organism of any kind it kills it because one of our guy has. got some of it on its hands and light and i disturb just swallow his hand and we will bail because that's what my old.