puts governments under a cyber threat and not only that she must put more on. this this is an easy sell the only one. more stop the the all the. problems with. these this is. one study done with the all business starting there was a sting of all things a fund is up and describes on the fly and. in the stories that shape the way karen r.t. china gets its military ready for war and the trade in territorial disputes and worsening relations with washington. meanwhile donald trump announces the renewal of all pre nuclear deal sanctions against iran a decision that angers washington's european allies who vowed to protect their business interests in the islamic republic and we've talked to

a survivor of rwanda's genocide his human rights groups call for the reopening of an investigation into the french army to respond to the best they started it will smarts. by their welcome the latest news in a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching weekly here on r.t. international. china's president has raised the specter of a potential conflict after instructing the country's military to be ready for war but how much of this is merely posturing is murder. so here's the thing the chinese government almost never says anything you wouldn't expect that's their thing their game ik they're incredibly careful reserved at least with their tongues so when the chinese president orders his military to prepare for war serious indeed.

the military to concentrate on the bouncy revenues for war the chinese are preparing for war out loud how over how did we get to this well trump for one aside from land blasting the chinese at every opportunity is tariffs is sanctions his trade war he's also being very heavy handed congress has just approved a second arms deal with taiwan in eighteen months. of untruthful the sales of weapons by the united states to taiwan damages china sovereignty and security interests that beijing sees china and taiwan as two parts of a whole two chinese entities same culture ethnicity same languages with two separate governments communist capitalist the end goal is to reunite into one state

there are differences of course currently preventing that and about one hundred kilometers of c. that separate the two and trump always a fan of sticking it to the chinese he's been through it in his warships right between the two china's eyes in one thousand we have expressed our concerns to the u.s. side the taiwan issue concerns china's sovereignty and territorial integrity and is the most important and sensitive issue in china u.s. relations. for starters how about you express your concerns about these important and sensitive issues to someone who cares a little more because that interim. if you worry about. i don't worry about things. let's be greats never worrying about anything unfortunately others are there are those in china who believe that america wants taiwan to declare independence and the chinese are preparing for that eventuality

militarily. as your own you know we are resolute to defeat any scheme or act of taiwan independence in any form. thing is the taiwanese don't really see a point to defending themselves taiwan which recently switched from conscription to a volunteer army is having huge trouble recruiting even reserve troops dodging the juicy after all that's the point the devil when. the government needs to think whether it's necessary to bring conscription back if they think national security matters but taiwan is a minor player in these confrontation if war does break out it likely be the

people's republic of china slugging it out with the united states rather than taiwan and that is a war that trump really really ought to be worried about the world is really at a cross rolled the united states has been pushing china round china and imposing unilateral tariffs on the chinese exports china does not want to have a trade war with the united states and china does not want to have the conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these things aren't to china i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government and the chinese military meanwhile on friday the trump administration announced that its reimposing or sanctions against iran that were lifted as part of the twenty fifth a nuclear deal the u.s. president took to twitter to taunt but then used in a post resembling the tagline from the hit t.v.

series game of thrones the sanctions slated to come into effect on monday follow america's you know that for withdraw in may from iran's nuclear agreement new sanctions do come on top of those already imposed by washington focused on oil painting lising states that refuse to hold crude imports from iran the u.s. secretary of state says the main target is the iranian government before issues here core areas of iran for economy it is aimed to deprive a regime of the revenues that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world or people on the streets of tehran mo told us it's ordinary civilians who will end up bearing the brunt of the sanctions. time about manson's a hard to come by because of sanctions no doubt if you are caring for a patient your life is affected by these sanctions sanctions decrease the quality of life as people cannot now obtain things they used to obtain easily the forms for them but it was i am a merchant in a century cannot trade with businesses outside of iran any more it would take its

toll and we have yet to see to what extent that affect ordinary people and merchants. tax every year or every two to three years they say new sanctions will be imposed so people have gotten used to sanctions but that doesn't mean we accept them and it doesn't hurt it means we've had them so long they don't affect us anymore they harm the regime in the nation they have always been there for the past four decades and they've been harming the e.u. reigning in nation all along their inquisition that's why many other. states that are under sanctions like russia like any of theirs they are all against this move especially because this new round of sanctions by washington it doesn't have the u.n. support it doesn't have the support of even the united states close allies like the europeans that have stated their opposition in defiance china turkey or russia and many others have defied the u.s.

sanctions against iran and many are worried in washington that this could make this sharp tool or weapon blunt and make you know take it off the menu even for future u.s. administrations if it goes ineffective. despite pressure then from the u.s. the european union has confirmed the blocks commitment to the iran nuclear deal brussels is also valued to protect companies that do business with terror and but despite all the tough talk washington may be more flexible and is letting up. we ask all nations to isolate iran's regime. as long as its aggression continues but we do not intend to allow our sanctions to be evaded by your poor any body else. you know we will work to maintain the framework of the twenty fifteen deal in spite of the american decision by ensuring

that our companies can stay in iran looking at the latest official so for the next shot i want to see them sitting. with friends like that who needs enemies. who want to do want to be muscles that wouldn't be blinded to what americans do want us europeans to say to put up with economic interests a move one time economic relations with iran. would never threaten anyone but we do not tolerate threats from anyone. we want to we want to achieve maximum pressure but we don't want to harm friends and allies we. want. a mean for zero export

on. our now giving two countries themselves for you. for that indicates that they have maximum pressure on the wrong. and now they are changing that maximum pressure enough pressure. that's also on the question because they cannot. be needed they think against iran because now there is an american capital. ministrations on the disconnecting iran from the international c. system and they have the. same messaging that can be a. tough. economic the but we have this inside the. dome of. officials in the cabinet. that french human rights

groups are calling for an investigation into the nine hundred ninety four rwandan genocide to be reopened and off the release of the video which disappeared to show a senior french military officer being informed about a massacre taking place in an area known as the best say said who hails the failed to enter the. before you would be only too confessional now human rights activists are demanding answers one leader of the organization survey is a plaintiff in the case she says it was too premature to close the case while other lawyers are accusing france were in direct complicity in the genocide lines of inquiry were not sufficiently followed up to allow investigators to determine france's military and political responsibility french military authorities were aware that from the afternoon of twenty seventh of june on words civilians were being killed the survivors opened the case thirteen years ago although back in july

it was scrapped due to lack of evidence and lack of convictions but survivors of the massacre claim they asked the french military for help on june twenty seventh one thousand nine hundred ninety four but the military only came three days later already after hundreds of people were killed in the massacre and the allegation now is that the french government actually knew what was going on and specifically decided not to intervene the genocide was committed mainly by the hutu government and its backers against the ethnic minority tutsi tribe allegations of the french government supports for the hutus who carried out most of the slaughter in the genocide have been rough on the french government's relations with the rwandan government for years but the french although they admit that they have made mistakes they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there.

but we are one survivor of the mask of she was surprised by the new he found video . norad to do almost no video doesn't surprise me i was very happy that media published the truth that we the survivors have known this really a long time it's important that the french people knew what happened back in one thousand nine hundred ninety four when the military was there you know because i only know that promise to declassify the archives they didn't work out which everything he was already known the only thing i have to add is that the french people have swallowed the truth. an english seaside village has found itself

getting some unwanted attention in the u.s. mid-term election campaign joe weeks. locally is one of the u.k.'s most economically challenged areas but it's images of it's the lappet i could streets have a paid on the republican party poster boy boy explains. what links this essex seaside town to the upcoming u.s. mid-term elections an insensitive political one hundred that's what locals here in jail exxon's in essex have been left fuming after a pro trump republican candidate for the senate for the state of illinois used a photograph of j. wick sands on his social media feed as an anti advertisement so the caption next to the photograph read only you can stop this from becoming a reality but the problem is the picture wasn't quite reality the image of jay wick sounds that he used was taken several years ago and since then the local authorities have made quite a few improvements to the local area so the locals here all rather cross country to

try to park in america and then you come to a cover of a walking tour a week and you see the different plane. when it is in america we don't remember for there right now again i was iraq everything america we here is just like saying we can refuse it winds come in use an old fire of africa somewhere and say look your town's going to look like this is the bad news. and much nobody should be used are going to put a good preacher on it we've got a bit of hostility with the camera down there is it kind of is is do you guys feel a bit kind of burned by the negative press attention that you guys have are yes because it's a really show that happened way before yeah now when you want to come study would say they come with sticks in people's faces it's just you know we would you know people don't like it they don't like it or the offending advice has now been removed and dr nick stella's spokesperson has issued an apology or cough an

apology our intent was never to smear to town and to photo known to us as jay wick sands in essex we never used a name for us it was an example of a town overburdened by poor governance. which is exactly what we in our district are seeking to provide at every level back in two thousand and ten and two thousand and fifteen the government named the area as the most deprived in england in fact i was here to report on it at the time the time was thought up as a holiday resort for city dwellers back in the one nine hundred twenty s. these are all meant to be summer houses but because rents were so cheap people started living here all year round some parts of the town like tarmac roads street lighting or even pavements the last few shops that were here have been boarded up unemployment is rife in the town in fact sixty two percent of the people that live head to pend on welfare payments.

in the town isn't exactly a luxury seaside resort it is still a deprived area and even though local authorities have been keen to stress that they have invested in new roads and new drainage systems it could use more money there is some hesitation when you talk to the locals as well they don't want to talk to the cameras they've been burned before by bad press and they're keen to turn the image of the town around some concede that they could definitely use more investment but it's not up to politicians in america to judge their hometown one interesting suggestion came from the director of a documentary about j. which she said that dr nick stella should come over here and she could show him around the town and so he can see for himself all the improvements that have been made i get the sense that the locals here would have one or two things to say to

him. pretty boy reporting still to come for you this frozen moment in time from the second world war isn't covered africa camera is found in a trench in russia still containing its original film we'll have a look at that just after the break. leg. lifts. join me every thursday on the alex simon shore and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm sure both of those i'll see you. in terms of last week i mean last week has never actually been used to nobody has been prosecuted but you are right it was only renewed ten years ago by a previous government and it really shows how out of step the political

establishment has been there's been a huge movement of women and young people and dave been pushing the political establishment you know relentlessly on the issue of the abortion rights because ten women a day leave the country and five others were taking abortion pills online illegally . you're watching a week now the u.s. bank syrian democratic forces which are mostly made up of kurdish troops have announced a temporary halt to operations against islamic state it does come as several kurdish villages were attacked by to near its border with syria the u.s. has been supporting kurdish forces in the region washington does consider them to

be effective fighters against isaw well meanwhile on the opposite side of syria i saw terrorists have gained ground close to the border with iraq killing over forty u.s. backed fighters during an offensive there and the group's resurgence goes against what many have been led to believe as you go down off explains. from all the boasting you may have gotten the idea that ms alarming state in syria is so two thousand and sixteen the coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the territory we've done a good job with those as we have just absolutely decimated but the latest carnage is a clear signal that the terrorists are not ready to buckle just yet they've squeezed every drop of profit from the victory they've been craving for so long from obvious territorial gains to a massive p.r. push they filmed their operation and spoils of war from all thinkable angles it

seems even with reinforcements america's proxy ground force the kurds couldn't hold off the surprise onslaught hard for its incursion tuesday both sides but we will continue to go after them in the weeks ahead i saw the latest propaganda video even includes a not so subtle threat a skyline view of the government controlled town but hold on just how much of a surprise was this latest isola tag really sure they've moved in under the cover of a sandstorm but it's not like the kurds which are in charge of eastern syria didn't know eisel was on their porch they have been fighting terrorists in the area for a whole year but despite their best efforts to little success and that could be due to the fact that their effort has been dwindling gradually apart from i saw the kurdish fighters have been focusing on skirmishes with the syrian army and repelling the turkish operation against them in the north this plays into the yard

as sounds perfectly since assad's forces are not going anywhere and neither is turkey as president erdogan tease the next phase of what he calls an anti terror operation in syria but don't use them as you know we have started active intervention operations against the terror organization in the last couple of days we will. soon come down hard on the terror organization with more extensive and effective operations the united states also has been convincing the world it's hell bent on cleansing syria of terrorists yet years on it's their area of responsibility where i still strikes well with its bloodiest attack in months and i wonder could it be because american troops are in fact miles away from all the action we don't have a cantor arena mission here we have a defeat isis mission there are many players in the syrian conflict and all of them are hungry for a geo political bounty in syria and writing off eisel early means risking another

wave of terrorist resurgence. well earlier we did get the chance to speak with barrenness caroline cox she's a member of the u.k. house of lords and has been heavily criticized to over her stance on syria she thinks though the media is turning a blind eye to many things happening in the war ravaged country. very vicious articles about me in. the newspapers like the london times there is a big media onslaught but it is very biased indeed and it really does not give an equal representation of the horrific atrocities perpetrated by the tea hardest but it's not going to stop me people to say thank you so much for putting your turn to put to me we knew we were not getting all the truth from the b.b.c. we knew there was more to it than that in thank you for telling us the other side of the story and i'm sorry to say that the u.k. and saudi arabia big time have been supporting the jihad is i've managed to find

out questions in parliament that the british government has used at least two hundred million pounds of taxpayers' money to support the hardest related groups and the truth must come out to have a democratic and open discussion and i've said in the houses of parliament in the house of lords that i think russia's been doing the right thing in syria russia's been helping the syrian army to get rid of the jihad is that must be the priority and i really respect russia for doing. that finally this hour on the weekly a camera dating back to the second world war has been recovered from a trench in southern russia all small against all the old one frame from the road the film inside has survived. but that's the troops couldn't approach the strange they kill him with the ground

cover. we're lucky that this is a good camera and expensive film also the fighter covered camera with something like a notebook. one thousand story that's how things are looking on the weekend so i thought that i would back again in thirty five. united states under many presidents as

a long warning have of break in it's treaty and other promises that the united states says it's going to leave a treaty again. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to crush the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful protests to be recently violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just a lawyer who got to a pretty meaningless book video thriller in the new bill is that idea just pulling it out of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen and those who try. it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. i am not terrorist i am at the other this.

but. these days no matter where you are in the world the chances are you're being watched. in the deaths of innocent keep you can strike any anywhere blankets over ten thousand beats him yet you probably won't have the slightest idea. and if you won't see it coming. soon post nine eleven scenario that in case of focus on syria had been given a license to kill their villages their villages their houses their mud houses the bomb and sometimes the terrorists and then you see he is alive so who have to kill. children for

a country for profit. smile. there's no break here in rwanda no weiss's terrorist. bad memories. twenty four years ago this country saw a real end of the world. after the genocide there a mom. women in rwanda men. filled to women to fix the broken.

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