i. believe. my. presence of can do province in afghanistan carried the bodies of victims of u.s. and afghan airstrikes to the provincial capital to draw attention to the effects of constant bombings. this is quite a gathering. a lot of people. a lot of media. and. also to come this hour donald trump continues to make

a stir this time at his eighty one minute news conference on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly play he kept insisting that america's hard line approach to iran will win through. doesn't matter what world leaders think going to run a ranch going to come back to me and are going to make good you. also turns his attention to beijing accusing it of meddling in the upcoming us me election and in the u.k. it's revealed that the terrorists who killed five people in the westminster bridge attack in march been known security services as a potential threat for over a decade for the atrocity. hello there well chris just gone four o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now we have received video of angry crowds gathering in the afghan city of protesting against. the numerous victims of coalition and afghan strikes

the demonstrators are chanting against afghan and u.s. led forces blaming them for the deaths of at least twenty one people over the weekend in airstrikes across the country some of the victims are teenagers russia's criticize the bombings with the u.n. voicing grave concern too over the rising number of civilian casualties let's get more details now from marty's here and he joins us good afternoon again mickey just tell us more them firstly about the protests. while these protests are really a combination of the fear that these people are feeling and the anger is so it's hardly surprising that they've taken to the streets especially after such a bloody week for them we've seen in the past six days two airstrikes over the weekend with nine of those victims coming from the same family while another strike killed twelve women and children ten of those victims were children aged between six and fifteen and there are thirty s. trying to this came on tuesday this came shortly after

a statement was released from the u.n. urging restraint when it comes to these airstrikes and this airstrike took the lives of three people and that seemed like it was the final straw and this is when the protest starts people took to the streets. chanting anti government slogans anti us slogans and just to give you an idea of the kind of life at least civilians are living in the first six months of this year the u.n. said that as strikes have killed one hundred forty nine people and injured two hundred and four if you compare that to the same period last year that's a fifty two percent increase now the afghan government are having a really difficult time pushing back the taliban the insurgents are now in thirty four provinces of the country and the troops on the ground just can't do enough to push them back so this is why the afghan government are now heavily relying on air force with a lot of help from the u.s. but all of this might be. best mode of action for the afghan government it's really

bad news for the civilians civilians on the ground especially considering what the u.n. said in its statement that it's you know the the pretext for these airstrikes is always so vague. and apart from. what's been the international reaction to what's happened. well the u.s. has responded the spokesperson for the u.s. forces in afghanistan has said that the u.s. side revering all operational data also perhaps trying to reassure the afghan people that he said we're taking more care to avoid civilian casualties than anybody else but this really comes off the back of that u.n. statements that was released on tuesday it was strongly condemned the rising death toll for civilians and urged all sides in the conflict to really work harder and take stronger measures to ensure that these innocent people are protected and this was closely followed by a statement from the russian ministry of international relations which came out

earlier today which took a similar line to the u.n. statement but also referred to what it calls the rohani esteem in other words poorly calculated a pretext that the coalition are using for these airstrikes and resulting in all these lives being lost for no reason so we can take a listen to an extract from that statement right now. we believe the current situation is a result of gross mistakes by the u.s. in afghanistan and the mistaken decision of the white house to solve the problems the country has by using force. and let's talk about hope for the future because there was. a glimmer of hope when those peace talks were announced there was to be held in moscow between the taliban and the afghan government everything looks rosy but the the afghan government actually pushed the pause button on that the taliban were ready to go we did speak to the russian presidential envoy to afghanistan

exclusively about this. 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 all hope is not lost there is reason to believe that these peace talks will still happen before the end of the year although we don't have a death date at this point how successful it will be will just have to wait and see but the fact is that if we can bring all sides to the negotiating table it should be a very good place to start you ok thanks nick it was in there with the latest on the situation in afghanistan. now after two days of practice meetings at the united nations donald trump held a solo news conference on wednesday night some media called it contradictory and self-centered and all in all trumps performances the u.n.

have sparked quite a reaction. this is quite a gathering. a lot of people. out of media. america is so true i. didn't expect their reaction but that's so. they love how honest and it's not diplomatic and they find it funny but. let me tell you all day yesterday they were falling over themselves to get a picture with pan to talk about how great the speech was how strong it was whether he said good things about them or not they are. honest with that and they weren't laughing at me they were laughing with me we had fun while at the news conference

trump attacked old enemies like china and iran but he also talked about syria to even the success achieved there with more his. 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 and 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 it was quite surprising to hear the president repeat the words thank you to syria iran and russia for putting the offensive all a 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 a good deal 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 on c. well you get it bolivia categorically condemn the you do not true posed by the government of the us against iran. we agree with the u.s. presence of genitives on iran but we disagree with the methods for achieving them iraq is a binding by its commitments on the deal it remains the best means of preventing iran developing a nuclear weapon this is something that we are actively working on together with china iran and the e.u. . in the meantime the u.s. and the us a phantom selves in the fresh rout over iran in recent days on monday

brussels foreign policy chief announced that europe will work with russia and china to create a special payment channel to tehran bypassing u.s. sanctions washington though clearly wasn't happy initiate some rather undiplomatic responses. the european union has this so wrong and it's all because of their ego and their pride. and that's not graining who helped. get this deal together she's trying to hold a deal together because she did it but she's not looking 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 disliking 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 when 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 while as part of washington's moves against iran the u.s. national security adviser demanded the independence with payment system which banks around the world do rely stops business with the country but john bolton's comments and america's stance against her own were quick to provoke reaction thanks 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 with they can develop economic activity

such as we saw some 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 conason independent investment fund manager does believe though that swift may end up bowing 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 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 against swiss company use of this is 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 a way that we have to fight strike a new balance now during the u.n. session trumpets a vented his anger against china accusing it of meddling in the upcoming u.s. midterm elections but is. now explains that such claims have been seen before in fashion the talent to dazzle has a design as bright and bottom 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 un 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 retailing 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 permits continued hacking of our defense secrets to its focus on collecting vast repositories of personal personnel to find the information to better unable to vote is china 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 monitor 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 passing lane 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 a 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. donna for posting here with our table but with team. the democrats are not socially liberal they are pro war and so are the republicans and the problem people have a trump is that he's pro peace and that's not acceptable in america today that runs except for against iran. well you know the top dog because the guy walking the walk and you know you have to do it you have to do but he's not actually going down the

path that hillary clinton clearly was going. forward saying you know we need to go back to invite more foreign force that's not so position that's also the position of the government that's the mission to the song goes in any case even if there is a number of contingency they've got to go back one day to the to the country. hello again i'm in the u.k. it has come to light that the terrorists behind last year's westminister attack has been identified as a threat by british security services years before he sold how did misuzu dram to

current pedestrians killing four and then fatally stabbed a police officer. has been following the official inquest into the case and inquiry into the westminster attack of march twenty second of last year where six people including the perpetrator had died and dozens were injured has now revealed that the. tucker fifty two year old believe masood had apparently been on the radar of u.k. security services dating as far back as two thousand and four now by twenty ten he was linked to al qaeda training in pakistan and had been identified as a threat to national security this is according to a senior m.-i file for officer who was testifying in court here in the u.k. this week presented only as witness al to protect the officer's identity he said that masood had been given a holding code identifying him as

a threat to national security but was later downgraded that same year by december twenty ten to quote an individual who may be of interest to national security and then by twenty twelve this man masood was already characterized as a quote closed subject of interest and remained that way until the attack in march last year and according to this m i five officer who was speaking in court as part of this investigation he said that thousands of people were monitored by u.k. security services are the crime and terrorist threats at the time was unprecedented so he says the actions of officials were adequate we have reviewed the decision to close masood is a person of interest with the benefit of hindsight and we conclude the decision was sound it was logical necessary and proportionate to consider him a good well according to this officer he also pretty much confirmed that there's always a danger of somebody slipping through during those hearings and there's there's

always going to be a chance that somebody might get through and of course this is far from the first time that concerns about people slipping through the net when it comes to such terror attacks and not of course just here but also in europe come to the forefront when it does get revealed that officials had known something about those people involved. but somehow field to stop them from carrying out those attacks. now let's return to a headline grabbing speech at the u.n. because it wasn't just foreign powers he attacked socialism also came into stick in this color in their reports it is an argument we've heard before to. trumps un 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 of socialism and the misery that it brings 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 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 here to some vague form of socialism in fact socialism

is getting more popular in places that are a lot closer to washington than venezuela. who believe that every working class american deserves the opportunity to change their economic destiny and their children's future that is well that's the message that we need to brains haven't in terms. of piecing this. prime sisson on democracy where people will like the salon just don't apply to the rich. hand and we should absolutely have

a health care system that provides help here for every citizen in our country 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 the co to 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 its 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 him on by you know if you look at last year's speech he said you know socialism in venezuela is 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 trouble repeated his anti socialist tirade at the u.n. the question is was he really aiming at caracas or was he aiming 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 him up and r.t. new york she's coming up the whole post here in moscow back again at the top. don't forget though you can also keep yourself updated on our social media pages and you can. buy a. gun

and welcome to worlds apart israel has long made the point that it puts its security and build lives of its service men above everything else and maxim that may have contributed to the downing of the russian reconnaissance plane over syria now there's moscow a mirror's this approach of the back of israel candy to preserve the mode of accommodation they were once so proud of well to discuss that i'm now joined by a body count and of director general of the russian international affairs council mr carter enough it's good to talk to you thank you very much for the time thank you for inviting me now one of the reasons russia and israel of president putin the prime minister netanyahu have been getting along so well is because they both are hard core realists with very strong i would say unashamed focus on security and

good times that could lead to a better understanding but in bad times that could also provide a basis for a very sharp collision is the latter are likely. well i think that it is getting a little bit more difficult for our show to plea its traditional role in syria which is their role often known as broker. has always been proud of being able to preserve good relations with all the sides of the continent including shia and sunni including iran and gulf states including israel is and by those two noons and i think specifically talking about two years ago there was a gentleman agreement between russia and the ease of who. did not want to interfere into the conflict between user and iran and in exchange.

made a commitment clearly and listen commitment not to interfere into the civil war in syria now can i says on that say on that precise point of the gentleman's agreement because the russian military explicitly now blames israel for what happened in syria even though i think president putin tried to soften that a little bit by calling it their chain of tragic events but the russian military actually alleges and then tanned that these railings knew what they were doing doesn't mean that the dynamic between the two will have to change going forward because if they did it deliberately then that means that the gentleman the gentleman's agreement is definitely off well i think it is only natural to see the difference in the. emphasis made by the russian military and by the russian political leadership of course there are military are working very closely with the iranian contact with the sort of with the syrian counterparts both to some extent

with their new counter process as well and they have their own real so i think that these shades of opinions are important and they can be. explain but let me tell you that indeed it's not just about the recent incident though of course it is a tragedy and you know we should do sort of that such things can still happen but the situation in syria is changing so for example. your own use of much much better entrenched in syria than it was two years ago and of course it is a concern for you if we take the containment of iran as israel's main objective in in syria one could argue that russia has been a very very helpful partner to israel in that regard why would it done and risk this strategic accommodation it has achieved in moscow for the sake of all.