please listen to music still in the news this is one of the the i think. most of the people the. problem with. these this is. often striking down with the old vision stopping the war since june as a front is up in these crowds and the fine. protests erupt in iran as the us through a new sanctions including an oil embargo but the east says it will keep doing business with terror on. a rundown english seaside village ends up front and center in the u.s. midterm election campaign are mistakenly being used to illustrate

a dystopian future in the states pays a visit. a lot plainer remove the american. want to come study was to become a speech in people's faces just you know. and human rights groups call for a probe to be relaunching the french army's failure to prevent a massacre in rwanda in one thousand nine hundred four we talked to a survivor i mean the only things i have to do is that's the french people have swallowed the truth. is the weekly here on r.t. international with me in a day or two to around the top stories over the last seven days on the latest up to date news welcome to the program. thousands of people rallied in iran's capital on

sunday against the u.s. decision to reinstate sanctions against the country the protest also marks thirty nine years since the storming of the u.s. embassy in tehran demonstrators set fire to american flags along with israeli flags the sea the u.s. embassy in one hundred seventy nine lashed lasted more than a year and caused in a rift in relations that continues to this day the reimposed u.s. sanctions come into effect a few hours from now they follow washington's withdraw from the twenty fifteen nuclear deal the measures include oil embargo 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 a bit depriving the regime of the revolution that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world people on the streets of tehran say it's all civilians who will end up bearing the brunt of the sanctions. tamim the sanctions imposed by the u.s. which they say will target our government will definitely affect people's lives

putting much more pressure on us even though the sanctions haven't manifested themselves in the market yet they are already on people's minds and closing them and not. less family are going on all sanctions we have experienced similar restrictions in the past and we've managed to get by somehow less so we now have more experience than we did back then moreover we now have the international community on our side which wasn't the case in the past given both these factors i think will be ok and then and. those sanctions will have no impact on the either people's lives or on the government as usual these are just empty slogans and look i'm going to use sanctions i do you know actual sanctions this means that the international community will not support them based on that i don't think america will be able to achieve its goals. when they harm the regime in nation they have always been there for the past four decades and they've been harming the you're a nation all along they're in position that's why many are there for war states

that are under sanctions like russia like many others 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 from the u.s. the european union has confirmed its commitment to the iran you can't deal bustles also bound to protect companies that do business with tehran but despite all the

tough talk washington may be more flexible that it's letting on. we ask all nations to isolate iran's regime. as long as its aggression continues we do not intend to allow our sanctions to be invaded by europe or any body else. 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 decision so for the cha cha i want to see them sitting. with friends like that who needs enemies who want to be want to be bustles from want to pay blindly to what america. wants us to the same economic interests. economic relations with iran.

we never threaten anyone but we do not tolerate threats from anyone. we want to use want to achieve maximum pressure build we don't want to harm friends and allies he. wants. aiming for zero zero zero zero zero exports. are now giving to countries themselves for you in for. the day have on just the maximum pressure on the wrong. and now they are changing that maximum pressure to enough pressure. you will succeed or not that's also on the question because they can not. be needed do you think against iran because now there is

a difference in american cabinet minister ation on the disconnecting iran from you know the archibald c. system and they oppose the science in messaging. against iran this in the mix that we have inside the united states between donald trump. officials in the cabinet. and english seaside when it has been getting some unexpected attention in the u.s. midterm election campaign signs is one of the case at least prosperous areas and images of its dilapidated streets have appeared on the republican party poster explains why. what links this essex seaside town to the upcoming u.s. midterm elections an insensitive political one hundred that's what miracles here in jail exxon's in essex have been left fuming ofter 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 miracles they're all rather cross country to try to pocket america are and then you come to a cover of walking and you see the different plane. when it is in america we don't need him or for there right now i was iraq and everything america are we here is just what we can refuse it winds come in use an old fire of africa somewhere and say look your town is going to look like this is the bad news. a match normally should be used are going to put a good picture we got

a bit of hostility with the camera down there is it kind of is do you guys feel a bit kind of burned by the negative press attention that you guys have are yes because of the t.v. show that happened way before yeah nobody want to come study would so you become a switch in people's faces just you know we would you know people that work they don't know all 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 not known to us as g week 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 lost to shops that we have been boarded up unemployment is rife in the town in fact sixty two percent of the people that live here depend on welfare payments. and 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 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 che which he said that dr nick stella should come over here and she can 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 would say things to say to him. french human rights groups are calling for an investigation into the nine hundred ninety four abandoned genocide to be reopened after the release of the video which appears to show a senior french military officer being informed about a massacre taking place in the area known as a health yet the army failed to intervene. when you're only two could but 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 off 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've made mistakes they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there. we asked one survivor of the massacre if she was surprised by the newly found video . nor have 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 very long time it's important that the french people knew what happened back in one thousand nine hundred four when the military was there so you know because i only know that promise to declassify the archives that they didn't work out it's everything he published was already known the only thing i have to add is that the french people has a lot to know the truth. on me but the u.s. midterm elections some politicians have been accused of playing on people's faces but this caleb maupin explains what you thought his family ost might surprise you efforts to influence to twenty eight eighteen mid-term elections the fake news and divisive stories and post caravan of impoverished migrants white nationalists prepared to take to the streets trump administration plan could a race a definition of transgender but according to a new poll. inducted by chapman university in california americans actual fears

don't really line up when given a list of one hundred things to be afraid of including nuclear war zombies ghosts and other terrors americans listed their primary phobia for the fourth consecutive year as being corrupt politicians. and perhaps this fear isn't exactly baseless we do have a president whose tax returns are still under wraps and he seems to be pretty blatantly doing favors for his next of kin i've heard evolved i've heard how good would it be. the fifo that know there's nothing to do with that but does that but i want to tell you the people that know you know that he wagner would be dynamite but . then be accused of nepotism if you could believe it right and trump got a lactaid by tearing into his opponent hillary clinton he called her crooked hillary because her reputation for shady deals has been around for years the f.b.i. even looked into her clinton foundation the former secretary of state never shied away from taking big sums from financial heavyweights you have to be paid six

hundred seventy five thousand dollars well i don't know that's what they offered. accusations of corruption are abundant in american politics even though they rarely make the legal field in the united states there's all kinds of politicians being accused of insider trading lavish gifts as they say welcome to american politics but it seems that the mainstream media is working overtime to direct our phobias elsewhere there's no living with the russian federation. to undermine american democracy while you know what we have to work on immigration i have a big dairy district to live a great culture a lot of undocumented workers but these things aren't even in the top ten because we have so many of the. things that relate to your life or the future of your kids and things like that not trumped of things like you know terrorism is going to get you. or the bridges are going to fall down or something it's real life things that

people are worried about a part of it is the economic ones including the corruption of politicians i was interested in the corrupt politician thing being at the top because for a long time people haven't recognized how corrupt their politicians are they think it's thinking in gradually that the whole system really stinks american politicians have learned that playing on people's fears is a big seller but it seems that what scares the americans the most is the very spare mongers trying to manipulate their fears caleb mop and r.t. new york. right after the break a frozen moment in time from the second vault war then comment after cameras and it still containing its original film.

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welcome back to the weekly china's president has raised the specter of potential conflict after instructing the country's military to be ready for war but how much of this is merely posturing takes a closer look so here's the thing the chinese government almost never says anything you wouldn't expect that's their thing their give me their 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. kind of untruthful the sales of weapons by the united states to taiwan damages china's sovereignty and security interests. beijing sees china and taiwan as two parts of a whole two chinese entities same culture this is the 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 seeing his warships right between the two chinas i see. 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 in trump we worry about. i don't worry about things. let's be great 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 there when the government needs to think whether it's necessary to bring conscription back 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 across rolled the united states has been pushing china around he really

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 armed conflict with the united states but if the united states really wants to impose these things on to china i think the chinese people will be fully mobilized behind the chinese government and the chinese military. after almost two decades at the forefront of german politics and i summoned her she was stepping down as leader of the christian democratic union party and she ruled out running for a fifth term as chancellor merkel's decision followed her party's disappointing performance in regional elections. the figures that came out overnight from her selection a holy disappointing and better choice but he does kinetically it can no longer be business as usual process after this result of the result and bavaria after the

conflicts between the c.d.u. and the c.s.u. in the summer and off to the difficulties in forming a government coalition as the previous attempts to form one between the c.d.u. c.s.u. f.t.p. and the green party would fall through. began her political career after the fall of the berlin wall joining the c.d.u. in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine ten years later she became party secretary general and then its leader in two thousand and five work history by becoming germany's first female chart's lawyer says that she has been reelected a further three times but over the last few years her popularity has taken a hit. that those who flee mystery who are oppression political oppression we have

a responsibility to help them based on the geneva convention for refugees based on our side in policy and article one of our constitutional whether we want to. measure along political rationality there is more fire going to merkel is not surprising at all. because her party was losing. confidence among the electorate and the reason and so to speak the burden of this party was under merkel

herself so it was quite rational for her to leave office as party chairman but they were the less whenever something important happens you usually are surprised by it happening right now and this is why there was really surprising that anger merkel is so quickly stronger consequences out of the disastrous delay electorate defeats during the last eight elections and if they aren't and it has. now accommodating back to the second world war has been recovered from a trying to southern russia and against all odds one frame from the by the from inside has survived. but that's the troops couldn't approach a strange they kill him with nate's ground cover and.

we're lucky that this is a good camera and expensive film also the fighter covered camera with some things to note. in watching a week here on r t international able to take over at the top of the hour with more but first it's the great american culture which. united states under many present as a long walling have a break in its treaty and other promises not the united states says it's going to

leave the treaty again. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution to to crush the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know are here to put him in your list put video and put him in the neighbor lose out on the split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. of those who took part in it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. previously

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