in the muslim saudis today when the. i. believe me my. policies video agency ruptly obtains for future presidents who can do this province of afghanistan protesting bombings by coalition and afghan forces demonstrators

also carried the bodies of three women killed in airstrikes this week alone also this is quite a gathering. so a lot of people. are out of the media. continues to make a stir this time on his eighty one minute news conference on the sidelines u.n. general assembly where he kept insisting that america's hard line approach to iran will win through it. doesn't matter what world leaders think going to run a ranch going to come back to me they're going to make good you. trump also turns attention to beijing two week using it of meddling in the upcoming u.s. mid to election and in the u.k. it's revealed that the terrorists who killed five people in last year's westminster bridge attack have been named to security services as a potential threat for a good decade before the atrocity.

again welcome is just gone five in the afternoon here in moscow you're watching the international. now we have received video of angry crowds who gathered in the afghan city of can do so on wednesday protesting against the numerous victims of coalition and afghan air strikes this week demonstrators chanted against afghan and u.s. led forces blaming them for the deaths they carried victims' bodies to the provincial capital as part of the protests at least twenty one other people were killed in separate air attacks over the weekend more than half of them children u.n. assistance mission says twelve members of a single family the dead so that we get more details now. from mickey. mickey just talk us through that there's been plenty of reaction. where you have these protests to come after what has been a particularly bloody week for civilians in afghanistan as you were saying over the

weekend twenty one people killed in two as strikes there in some cases even entire families wiped out that's according to where statements from the u.n. mission in afghanistan also in another case twelve women and children killed including ten of those who were children between the ages of six and fifteen the third strike of the week came on tuesday and this came shortly after the u.n. had released a statement urging for restraint for better protection for afghan civilians and this was seemingly the catalyst for these protests that hc province killing three people after which people took to the streets in angry protests denouncing the government and also u.s. forces this year the air strikes on afghanistan have been increasing at an exponential rate according to the u.n. in the first half of twenty eight seen as strikes killed one hundred forty nine civilians and injured two hundred four we compare that to the first six months of

last year that's a fifty two percent increase so this is all because the afghan forces are increasingly relying on airpower with a lot of support from the u.s. . and although this might be the best mode of action for the afghan government isn't bad news for civilians who are coming under constant fire and according to the un the pretext for which the u.s. forces in afghan forces are using for these strikes is very vague the data is very vague now in recent weeks there have been as many as a dozen strikes every day now as we said on tuesday there was a statement from the u.n. denouncing. the civilian death toll and shortly after we heard from the russian foreign ministry they released a similar tone to statement earlier today also calling for better protection for civilians but also pointing out what it calls a row near store in other words poorly calculated data for these strikes which have

resulted in so many innocent lives being lost needlessly let's take a listen to an extract from that statement. ridge that the iranians strikes of nato forces in this country are already almost an everyday reality moreover no one is responsible for this we consider the current situation a consequence of the groove miscalculations of us all sources in afghanistan and the iran years of the white house on a military solution to the problems of the country meanwhile there has been a response from the us coming from the spokesperson for u.s. forces in afghanistan as ground nearly he said that they are reviewing all operational relevant and credible information regarding operation and also perhaps in an attempt to reassure afghan civilians he said we take more care to avoid civilian casualties than anyone else. ok thanks nicky nicky are in there with the

update. while the russian presidential envoy to afghanistan did speak to us too about the upcoming peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban and what impact they could have on the war torn come. three. the mideast 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 by natural talks between the afghan government and the taliban. now after two days of fractious meetings at the united nations donald trump held a solo news conference on wednesday night some media called it contradictory and self-centered all in all from performances at the u.n. have sparked quite a reaction this is quite a gathering well it's a lot of people. of media. mergers so too i.

didn't expect their reaction but that's. how honest and it's not diplomatic and they find it funny but. let me tell you all day yesterday they were going over themselves to get a picture well planned 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 were and 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 the success achieved there with more his any prank. if syria is on the road to peace that is mostly because of dialogue trump's 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 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 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 for honey 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 greats 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. up we agree with the u.s. presence of genitives on iran but we disagree with the methods for achieving them iraq is a vining by its commitments on the deal it remains the best means of preventing iran from developing a nuclear weapon this is something that we are actively working on together with china iran and the e.u. . well the e.u. and the u.s. have found themselves then in a fresh row over iran in recent days on monday brussels foreign policy chief did announce europe will work with russia and china to create special payment channels to turan bypassing u.s. sanctions and washington clearly wasn't happy. 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 was part

of washington's move against iran the u.s. national security adviser at the demand the independent swift payment system on which banks around the world to rely stops business with the country but john bolton's comments and america's stance against her on 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 the evaded by europe or anybody else. it cannot be accepted that the united states would decide which world regions european companies can trade with they can develop economic activity such as he sometimes says if the president trumps 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 vestment fund manager max off they believe this we may actually end up buying to us demands and

cut ties with iran. us just put a lot of pressure on many actors so swift might do that we don't know but of course the us has a very you know that's really a very aggressive policy of sanctions so swift will certainly listen to those words the us 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 companies 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 or only way that we have to for a strike a new balance. or joining the u.n. session trump vented his anger against china to accusing it of meddling in the upcoming u.s. midterm elections but he goes down off now explains such claims have been heard before in fashion the talent too does own his

a design as bread and butter in political fashion donald trump markets themselves 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 u.s. 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 her very closely what appears to be an effort to expand their influence beyond their own region in places like africa. latin america the pacific islands south asia and we are concerned by some of the tactics they 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 arms export opportunity no wonder the massive new us three hundred and

thirty million dollar weapons to deal with taiwan fell flat with china washington is definitely afraid 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 accident or crisis for the united states of america likewise you see there are states trying to recruit other nations into its anti china cobol particularly japan 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. you watching r.t. still ahead this hour a top u.s.

news site now claims that the russian foreign ministry itself is moscow's latest troll factory i will have a look at that in detail just awful. you know world big part of. a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. all think you know we need to go back to invite more foreign force that's not

self-sufficient that's also the position of the government that the can do the song goes in any case even if there is a number of contingency they were asked to go back one day to the to their country . welcome back now in the u.k. it has come to light that the terrorists behind last year's westminster attack had been identified as a threat by british security services only to be taken off the list five years before the is sold in march twenty seventh seen how it masood rammed a car into protests trains killing four and then fatally stabbed a police officer. and 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 attacker fifty two year old lead masood had apparently been on the radar of u.k. security services dating as far back as two. 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 filed 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 her lead 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 the u.k. security services at the time and a terrorist threat at the time was unprecedented so he says the actions of officials were adequate we have reviewed the decision to close masood as 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 failed to stop them from carrying out those attacks. the u.s. news website the daily beast. seems to be suggesting that the russian foreign ministry itself is now turned into a troll factory its new report claims that more sco has upgraded its supposed troll campaign by using the twitter accounts of its diplomats and embassies the daily beast insists that the ministry is trying to confuse the public by blending the truth with multiple competing narratives and. not.

and the author of the single out one particular russian till the contest for the most ironic post about russia's relations with the west can say the winning picture for the best thing known boris johnson following his anger at the russian foreign

ministry spokesperson being invited to the house of commons and we discussed the story with the columnist and author ted rall united states government does this all the time u.s. government officials make jokes all the time the president of the united states uses social media extremely effectively and makes lots of jokes on it in fact he probably would not be president if he hadn't used twitter extremely effectively so it's mystifying why anyone would say that this is somehow inappropriate the united states. has has house official channels on twitter and otherwise that make jokes i've even seen jokes about things that are pretty grim for example the department of defense twitter account has made jokes about drone strikes and weapons that civilians in afghanistan and elsewhere. those are pretty tasteless jokes so i guess you could say that a terribly tasteless joke might be something that would cross the line but jokes

themselves are why not they're an important part of dialogue. before we go this out let's return to trump's headline grabbing speech at the u.n. because it wasn't just foreign paris he attacked socialism or site came in for some stick in his column often now reports an argument we've heard from him before. 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 socialism and the misery that it brings us 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 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.

who believe that every working class american deserves the opportunity to change their economic destiny and their children's future and that is well that's the message that we need to brains haven't in terms. piecing this. crime says in our democracy where people feel 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 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 for profit you know it's 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 being 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 un 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. thanks for the company the soft name a back again that will. news in the headlines in about half an hour programs continue after the break. through leaks last.

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