i. believe. this is quite a gathering. a lot of people. out of media. donald trump continues to make a stir at the u.n. general assembly insisting his hardline approach to iran will win through. or what world leaders think want to run around going to come back to me are they going to make a good leader. also turns his attention to beijing to you accusing it of me. telling

also to come the sad case the tense mean streak praises the work of investigators in supposedly revealing the true identity of one of the alleged souls pretax is but mysteriously deletes the tweet just twenty minutes later. i welcome you with r.t. international this thursday afternoon if she's gone two o'clock here in moscow. now after two days of fractious meetings with his counterparts the united nations donald trump held a special news conference for the world's media on wednesday night when he was grilled over his latest claims he received an unexpected reaction. this is quite a gathering. so a lot of people were out of media. mergers

and so today i. didn't expect their reaction but that's so. honest and it's not difficult magic and make find it funny. let me tell you all day yesterday they were falling over themselves to get a picture of what to talk about how great the speech was how strong it was whether she said good things about them or not they love that he's honest with that and they weren't laughing at me they were laughing with me we had fun. well at the press conference donald trump attacked old enemies like iran and china but he also talked about syria the success achieved there with more now from new york is any progress. if syria is on the road to peace that is mostly because

of. own efforts at least that's the way the president sees it i put out on social media and elsewhere i gave my pump a zero john bolton everybody these orders don't let it happen i said don't let it happen. that doesn't mean they can't be selective they can't be you know go in they've got to do what they've got to do with terrorists assume the terrorists but don't kill millions of people. and it stuck to you so that it was quite surprising to hear the president repeat the words thank you to syria iran and russia for putting the offensive to halt but whatever else the president mentioned the word iran it was nothing pleasant to say the least very strong language and also at the press conference mr trump continued to bash

the iran nuclear deal very hard we know that pretty much the rest of the world disagrees with the american leader on that but during his speech mr trump made it clear that he doesn't really get bothered by that this week you put out a call to action to other countries to rally with america to put pressure on iran rouhani still calling for the u.s. to come back into the old deal but after meeting with world leaders this week did you make any progress towards a potential new deal does it matter what world leaders think going to run iran's going to come back to me are they going to make good to you and that's even after president trump's first ever chairmanship of the u.n. security council where he can't have misheard an entire round table of other world leaders and government ministers i ask all members of the security council to work with the united states to ensure the arabian regime changes its

behavior deep great's the united states unilateral withdrawal from the agreement a decision with far reaching consequences that makes more unsafe well you get it bolivia categorically condemn the you do not true posed by the government of the us again. round. you up we agree with us presidents have ject on iran but we disagree with the methods for achieving them is a virus by its commitments on the deal it remains the best means of preventing iran from developing a nuclear weapon this is something we are actively working on the together with china iran and the e.u. well the dispute between you and the usa will have to deal with iran has escalated dramatically in recent days on monday the blocks foreign policy chief announced that europe will be working with russia and china to create special payment channels to allow trade with iran to continue in defiance of u.s.

sanctions and that has sparked harsh words from washington. the european union has this so wrong and it's all because of their ego and their pride. and their small graining who helped. get this deal together she's trying to hold a deal together because she did it but she's not working out for the best interests of the european countries who number one don't want to do business with iran the reason that she's attacking based on ego and pride is because she's deflecting the fact that the united states has had nothing but ego and pride when it comes to the way in which we're mishandling trade deals mishandling the way we treat other countries what the u.s. should be doing right now is actually trying to go in that direction which is to open up trade with other countries let american culture spread would businesses and consumers in other countries learn more about the way we think and the way we are the ideas of america the ideas of freedom freedom of the present liberalism these are great ideas but we're not going to spread them by cutting ourselves off and

there is nothing more arrogant nothing more foolish nothing more counterproductive to cutting ourselves off cutting our ideas off from the rest of the world. but as part of washington's move against iran the u.s. national security adviser demanded the independent swift payment system which banks around the world to rely stops business but the country john bolton's comments and america's stance against iran were quick to provoke reaction banks and financial messaging services such as swift must take a good hard look at their business with iran and ask themselves whether it is worth the risk we do not intend to allow our sanctions to be of aided by europe or anybody else. it cannot be accepted that the united states would decide with which world regions european companies can trade and where they can develop economic activity such as i'm sensitive to present trends comments on the rise of oil prices but i think if he follows through to its conclusion he will realize that it would

be good for oil prices that iran be able to sell economist and independent investment fund manager max out he does believe it's possible swift to u.s. demands and cut ties with iran. u.s. does put a lot of pressure on many actors so swift might do that we don't know but of course the u.s. has a very unilateral and very aggressive policy of sanctions so swift will certainly listen to those words the u.s. has put a lot of pressure on various issues and it has used the sanctions where the economics are more aggressively even against the european companies are going to swiss companies and this is as really. put a lot of tensions on european companies and especially since the financial crisis so at some point europe might wake up and say this is too much i mean we have to go are on the way that we have to fight strike a new balance. well during the u.n. session trump vented his anger against china accusing it of meddling in the

upcoming u.s. midterm elections but is. now explains such tactics have been seen before in fashion tell him to does own his a design is brought in but in political fashion donald trump markets him self as chief. and it looks like russia is going out of style not once was it mentioned in trump's u.n. speech regrettably we found that china has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming twenty eight. election coming up in november. against my administration they do not want me or us to win because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade washington's needlework has already retailer in their agenda actions that china has taken undermine a rules based order unfair trade practices particularly by china the chinese are

very active we can watch very focused efforts to steal american information well china we here at r.t. know what it's like to be showcased in the window of the white house political boutique first things first accusations of election meddling are still in vogue so make no mistake what used to be russian hackers and the presidential vote in twenty sixteen giving way to chinese hackers and the mid-term ballot this season from its continued hacking of our defense secrets to its focus on collecting vast repositories of personal personality. information to better unable to vaduz china that exploits our transparency and open society china is also being introduced to the concept of sanctions being thrown in the same basket with moscow over beijing's purchase of russian weapons in this narrative the trade war waged by

the us on china fits like a glove after all the purpose is the same to hurt and nation's economy our trade imbalance is just not acceptable. china is market distortions. and the way they deal. cannot be tolerated when it comes to pushing an independent foreign policy china and russia cut from the same cloth this trend is also propelling beijing to the top of the u.s. diplomatic kill list we do want it to her very closely what appears to be an effort to expand their in their own region in places like africa latin america the pacific islands asia and we are concerned by some of the tactics that the hunt for chinese spies is in full swing too as if the land of the american dream has been rid of russia's agents and what seems to be a new fad in this china dominated collection military rivalry taiwan is

a breakaway province from beijing's standpoint while from washington's it's a lucrative opportunity no wonder the massive new us three hundred and thirty million dollar weapons deal with taiwan fell flat with china washington is definitely a free that china is in the passingly many economists are predicting that sooner rather than later china will have a larger economy than that of the united states of america that from washington's point of view presents an accidental crisis for the united states of america likewise you see there are states trying to recruit other nations into its china cobol particularly japan australia and india this is a very combustible situation so it appears like russia is indeed stepping aside this fall winter season replaced by china in pretty much every dimension or do you know the boogieman dress is one size fits all.

now the independent investigative group belling katz along with the british newspaper the telegraph claim to have discovered the real identity of one of these cells the nerve agent attack is they give not only reduce lamba share of alleged real name but also some of the surprising details too after the report was released though the u.k.'s defense secretary took to twitter to thank those who've been working tirelessly on the case but twenty minutes later kevin williamson deleted the tweet without any explanation is around it breaks down the details of the report. the online blog which is run by elliot higgins claims of uncovered one of the two men who were named by the british government as being responsible for march's novacek attack in salzburg now the two men when they buy the u.k. as being alexander. bashir of but according to belling cat this is the latter of

these two men who they've done masts they say his real name is an utterly chuck yeager and that he's a colonel in the g.r.u. but according to their own source in the article an operation like the one in saul's we would usually be carried out by a low ranking operative who would be no higher than a captain can't have in the past. again without international now multiple airstrikes by the coalition forces in afghanistan this week of brought strong condemnation russia has hit out at the attacks while the u.n. his voice grave concerns over the rising number of civilian casualties so let's get more details now from marty's nikky aaron mckie good afternoon just bring us up to date then with some of the reaction that we've. well we've heard from the russian ministry of international relations they've released a statement raising concerns over the rising civilian deaths that are happening as a result of these coalition as strikes on taliban positions in afghanistan it

refers to what it calls the rodeos or another was poorly calculated pretext been used for dropping these as strikes and as a result innocent lives being taken and let's take a listen to an extract from that statement. we believe the currency's relation is a result of gross mistakes by the us in afghanistan and the mistaken decision of the white house to solve the problems the country has by using force. well this statement from the russian ministry comes just days after another statement from the u.n. which also raised concerns over the rising number of civilian deaths in afghanistan and also urged all sides to work better to come up with a better system to ensure that civilians are better protected now it's been a particularly bloody year for afghanistan in the first half of the year the u.n. said that as trying to kill one hundred forty nine people and injured some two hundred for now if we compare that to the same period last year that's an increase

of fifty two percent this week has been a really bad week for civilians in afghanistan also we saw twenty one deaths just over the weekend we understand that nine of those victims were from the same family while another strike a preliminary findings detailed that twelve women and children were the victims ten of the children were aged between six and fifteen shortly after that statement was released by the u.n. on choose day we saw another strike this time killing three people in condones province anger among civilians in afghanistan as you can imagine is rife people have been taking to the streets chanting anti governments and anti us slogans and out the words from the u.s. in the form of the spokes person for u.s. forces in afghanistan grantley has said that the u.s. is reviewing all operational relevant and credible information regarding operations baron's assuringly said that the u.s.

works better and more well better than anybody to ensure that it's a civilians caught in the crossfire now the afghan government's a pretty struggling in this fight against the taliban the insurgents are currently spread across thirty four provinces of the country and as the troops on the ground can't handle it they're increasingly relying on airstrikes with heavy support from the excuse me us to target. these positions. there were was a glimmer of hope or is a glimmer of hope that was in the form of peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban they would these peace talks which are to take place in mosco the taliban were willing to go ahead with that but the afghan government actually pushed the pause button we spoke exclusively to the russian presidential envoy to afghanistan about the matter let's listen to what he had to say. it is

now time to act and to move from statements to real steps while organizing these peace talks in moscow a major task is to create an atmosphere that will lead to bilateral talks between the afghan government and the taliban. so we'll have his last we are expecting these talks to happen perhaps within the year and no date has been set as yet so how successful they'll be we can't say all of you sleep but i'm sure bringing all sides to the negotiating table is a good place to start. ok thanks nikki that was in there with the update. headline grabbing speech at the u.n. this week because it wasn't just. that socialism came into some stick to this kind of reports it is no agreement though we've heard from before. trump's u.n. general assembly speech this year contains some old material not long ago venezuela was one of the richest countries on earth today socialism has bankrupted the oil

rich nation virtually everywhere socialism or communism has been it has produced suffering corruption and decay all nations of the world should resist socialism and the misery that it bring to everyone stops at roughly the same thing in last year's un speech and he got a similar awkward response the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implemented. trump doesn't seem to realize that the cold war is over and the specter of soviet style marxism and leninism is no longer hanging over eastern europe meanwhile trump also doesn't seem to realize that socialism is rather popular around the world the german social democratic party the british labor party many political organizations

and leaders across the world adhere to some vague form of socialism in fact socialism is getting more popular in places that are a lot closer to washington than venezuela. we believe that every working class american deserves the opportunity to change their economic destiny and their children's future that is well that's a message that we need to bring into the midterms. leasing out on this crisis in our democracy where people will like the same laws don't apply to the rich.

hand and we should absolutely have a health care system that provides health care for every citizen in our country it socialism is quite popular among millennial is in the united states more popular than capitalism in fact some pollsters say that if donald trump had run against bernie sanders in the twenty sixteen presidential election he might not have been able to pull off his victory we decided to ask dakota lily a young activist why he thinks that socialism is on the rise in the united states to people my age especially the really sick of you know the ills that capitalism brings upon if you look at the student loan crisis right now the student loan debt is the largest holder of debt in the country more than credit card debt you know we have poor profit you know and educational institutions that charge sixty seventy eighty thousand dollars per semester per year you know the unemployment rate trump says it's four percent or three percent in actuality it's eight nine ten percent

third half the room is made up of socialists you know it's made up of people from bolivia and cuba venezuela china you know angola south africa it's made up of people who completely disagree with come on by you know if you look at last speech year's. she said you know it's socialism in venezuela it's not failing because it's being you know put to use wrongly it's be put to use completely correctly no one said anything for a good solid five seconds and then this year they laughed at him actually so when trump repeated his anti socialist tirade at the un the question is was he really aiming at caracas or was he came in at a new source of opposition to his policies here at home where it seems that trump has unwittingly made socialism great again hey look mop and r.t. new york. thanks become thing this often in that side of things looking at so far today we're back again in just over half.

the democrats are not socially liberal they are pro war and so are the republicans and the problem people have a trump a studies. and they have slumped acceptable in america today that runs except for against iran. well you know the top dog is the guy walking the walk and you know you have to do it you have to do but he's not actively going down the path that hillary clinton clearly was going. to use down to the league schools league are good cardio. moves.

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fifteen hundred miles away the country of yemen has seen some of the worst fighting in any country in recent memory since twenty fifteen a multifaceted civil war that includes a never ending pass. of foreign and domestic armed groups that have destroyed much of yemen's infrastructures schools marketplaces and health facilities this means that according to figures from the international rescue committee seventy nine percent of the yemen population is fully reliant on humanitarian aid once trading hubs of the ancient world it is now a place where every ten minutes a child under five dies from a preventable disease the bombing campaigns of the saudi led coalition which includes assistance from the united states has meant that there is little to no safe drinking water in yemen the yemen people are now suffering from the worst cholera outbreak in modern history with over a million cases being reported to the international committee of the red cross and this week a new report from the are in conflict location and event data project reveals that

civilian deaths in the yemeni conflict ever graced by one hundred sixty four percent in the four months since the hood fence of started claiming lives about one hundred sixty six people a month so while the mainstream media continues to ignore the death destruction and war crimes being committed against the people of yemen let's educate ourselves and start watching the hawks.