the u.s. says the fight against islamic state is far from over as terrorists and their families leaving their last stronghold into syria never to be defeated. and alleged a cyber attack on a british instituted seeks to counter russian this information is now being investigated by the u.k.'s crime agency despite having no forensic evidence the head of the institute already insists that russian intelligence is to blame. thing which makes sense this is the russians they attack our assessment and it gets out because we go further and be proved is a p.r.

use. and china tells us not to interfere in beijing's partnership with italy after the white house it slams roams the plans to join the belts and road infrastructure initiatives. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. are now hundreds of islamic state finders officer held area near the iraqi border in addition to the jihad us who have surrendered there are also women and children at the scene some of them are wives of the i said finders and they still believe this is not the end of the caliphate. villages has been

a focal point for the syrian democratic forces for several weeks now despite donald trump repeatedly declaring victory over i salute the top u.s. general says the fight is far from over. as commentary. have a look at but who's right there near the border with iraq we didn't really hear about it in the course of syria's civil war misery now's the time it is really being called the last remaining eyelet of territory in syria about to be stormed by u.s. backed kurdish troops we expect a fierce battle later at the end of the civilian evacuation given the will remain in bank who's all the ones brimming with a few jihadi ideology and the ones for whom is not an option indeed we've seen crowds of escaping civilians and even jihad as who did choose to surrender the current say they want to make sure all innocent people make it out of the goos before the guns go off but the main still be trapped in there either not able or

not keen to escape just a short while ago though donald trump was bragging about his army and allies crushing islamic state completely we just took over you know you kept hearing it was ninety percent ninety two percent the caliphate in syria now it's one hundred percent we just took over ever since then however we've kept hearing absolutely different takes from those who are actually responsible for what's happening on the ground the head of u.s. central command is sure eisel hasn't surrendered he's confident it's not been defeated instead the terrorists after some tactical thinking have chosen to lay low and wait for the right time to make a comeback reduction of the physical caliphate is a monumental military accomplishment but the fight against isis and violent

extremism is far from over we have won against isis now we've won and at least for now president trumps proud announcement that the american soldiers were pulling out makes less and less sense the. well out would have definitely scored mr trump some valuable political points but nothing seems to be certain here especially with this but google's thorn in the side you could in that vacuum see a resurgence of isis see a resurgent you know they're going out will come back if we have to anyway whatever happens next depends on what ignites in this small but vital strip of land known as booze. joshua landis a professor of middle east studies believes the fight against islamic state is likely to suffer further setbacks. well as general votel testified in congress recently and just today he said that. yes this is the end of the territorial state which is very important but it's not by any means the end devices

there are a lot of fighters that have gone to ground and that have formed we believe that forms sleeper cells which are going to activate in the you know it's some future date trying to later clarify that this is the territorial state and that's why he's reversed his opinion on u.s. troops remaining in syria you know there's a there's a hundred ways to count troops and that may not include a lot of the regular soldiers perhaps national forces you see advisers diplomats and an aid organization so there's likely to be a lot more americans there there's going to still be a lot of isis trouble and we're seeing bomb attacks being carried out in iraq on a weekly basis and there have been isis attacks in northern syria as well so isis is far from over and. whatever claims about this the president is making are

misleading. i suspect in cyber attack on a british institute that seeks to counter russian descent from asian is now being investigated by the u.k.'s national crime agency or he's an associate you're going to has more here in the u.k. the now infamous highly likely formula pops back into the spotlight as that report circulates citing white a whole sources claiming that russia's military intelligence service the g.r.u. had been according to them the one to have an up until recently not very well numbers that now that's been announced that the national crime agency here in the case carrying out an investigation into the cyber attack of this think tank and at the same time we're hearing that a former senior. our ministry of defense civil servant who is also a co-founder of this institute for statecraft is already claiming that it could only have been russia despite a lack of proof so far the only thing which makes sense is that this is the root of

our assessment and it is up because we are going to go for and prove this is the g.r.u. this institute for statecraft and its program the integrity of initiative that has been in the headlines for the last couple of months on and off is a program that aims to tackle what's called russian descent for me sion they try to expose feek news all of this is done to the tune of over two point two million pounds provided by the british government and this institute and its files had been taken and posted on a third party website first time back in november so this is how all of this unraveled and the g.r.u. is now brought into all of this and of course if you remember the g.r.u. is familiar with this sort of highly likely accusations ever since the sold very scandal the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was

responsible all quarrel is with putin is criminal and we think you're likely to do it was his decision it was highly likely that russia was responsible for this reckless and despicable act the russian president's spokesperson discourse has commented on these latest developments he said that the russian state is not involved in any cyber attacks and in fact that russia had offered international cooperation with when it comes to issues of cyber security however to no avail but in this particular case let's see what happens of course this investigation is going on so let's see if they do end up providing some proof in the end to all of these accusations. china has defended its growing partnership with italy after criticism from the u.s. that's after the white house urged rome. not to join beijing's belt and road infrastructure project. we view belts and road initiatives as a made by china for china and they should see if we're skeptical the italian government's indorsement will bring any sustained economic benefits to the italian

people and it may end up harming italy's global reputation in the long run this position taken by the u.s. side is lawful as a major country it's only knows exactly what policies of its own interests and it can make its decisions independently from is expected to sign up to the initiative when chinese president xi jinping visits at the end of the month at least coalition government is talking up the benefits one way for us to increase trade values is to first increase investment this is done by these memorandums one belt one road it is a very fertile area for investment in china's belt and road initiative is a global trade and infrastructure project proposed five years ago it will link china to europe asia and africa with roads railways and ports but the u.s. and some other western powers have expressed security concerns over the project and questioned china's motives sociologist paolo bernardine believes italy has much to

gain from the initiative. clearly there is a strong political crisis because the last numbers they are thinking about that of these guys is to act in this particular not as in going to frankly. i mean not a would even be. telling us what we have to do it is a kind of a pox on eyes in the way. you know we know what to do and. we don't need anyone from coming. nations have in this case acting for the poor the benefit also for the benefit of the environment i'm an american i think would be a great advantage for me. on several points of view it would be really really people i was intimate if they were out in trade with. the both of their names and the both of us that i don't know we have to be reminded that actually the secret

world is into six sections or pull them away or by way of the full of the way by way of c and they are always doing beneficial for you there would be a new thing in the same great continent all the way and i don't see any potential damage. on the sponsors and. the democratic party in the us has refused to allow the conservative fox news channel to host any of its debates during the two thousand and twenty presidential election cycle donald trump has threatened to do the same with pro democratic channels foe he didn't specify which ones recent reporting in the new york only inappropriate relationship between president trump his administration and fox news has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fan a neutral debate for our candidates than for fox news will not serve as a media partner for the twenty twenty democratic primary debates democrats just

block folks news from holding a debate. that i think will do the same thing with the freak news networks and the rather cool if democrats in the general election debates. in announcing their decision to boycott fox the democrat side of the report in new yorker magazine describing the close relationship between the channel and the trump administration it says the network has turned into trump's propaganda machine the article points out that various fox news pundits are now working in the trump administration they include former fox co president bill shine who is now the white house communications director it also claims citing sources that trump was given advance notice of a primary debate question with the help of a former chief executive of fox news roger ailes now although the leak of a debate question on the other side of the political spectrum in two thousand and sixteen was actually confirmed former c.n.n. commentator donna brazil admitted that she used her position to give a heads up to hillary clinton on questions at the c.n.n.

hosted debate in two thousand and sixteen she was working as a party chairwoman at that time political commentator steve malzberg sees democrats responses hypocritical. you know how many members of the obama administration are now staffing the positions at c.n.n. and m s n b c n n b c and c.b.s. and a.b.c. the whole thing is just obscene and ridiculous in the tank they all are the opposition to donald trump they're not fair and balanced this is just more dementia if you will or trumped arrangement syndrome whatever you want to call it they hate trump so much so you know we're going to take it from fox news fox news is the epitome and the body image of all that's evil in the world i think one way or another see it motivates their base and they were just looking for some excuse to pull off of fox and they came up with an excuse. i'm not much of a sports guy but even i can see that it has been an exciting couple of days in

football's champions league title holders a real madrid crashed out on tuesday while wednesday saw in porto and man united through to marino who is now back on r t with a new show on the touchline you can watch the full version next hour but here's a quick test. they were not afraid to to play at the bottom of the show great. attitude you know that put the needle in the wounds when sings go wrong. everybody goes into the direction of the guilty man there's a. manchester united results from no no results eventis man city barcelona bind to take the loss for a little closer i would go with a third to go before. the judge say and everybody speculates about where you're going next can you give us any hints and now i'm going home. i hope to be

working in the in the summer promise if one day that is unsing to say i mean that's a no. the documentary about michael jackson has sparked protests in the u.k. more on that after a short break this is our two international. i do think the numbers mean something they've measured us as over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar weren't happy each day. eighty five

percent of global wealth he longs to be old rich with six percent world market rose thirty percent some with four hundred five hundred three first second per second and that we rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers over. the only number you need to remember one one business show you know ford the one and only bloomberg. and welcome back this is our team international fans of michael jackson have

protested outside the u.k. t.v. channel over it's a documentary alleging child abuse. i mean i mean. moving at neverland the features interviews with two men who claim they were molested by jackson as children since the movie premiered back in january a global reaction has followed with the radio stations in canada and new zealand dropping jackson songs. i want to be able to speak the truth. as loud as i had to speak the lie for so long. leaving neverland is a joint production between channel four and h.b.o. both alleged victims featured in the movie wade robinson and james save chuck for years they denied they had been abused but they were called as witnesses for the defense at jackson's trial in two thousand and five when he was accused of molesting a thirteen year old boy. the film has been condemned by the jackson estate which

earlier issued a statement saying the accusers have testified under oath that none of the allegations are true our guests debated whether an artist's work can be evaluated separately from the person. this is still pending and investigation and also the whole outrage is happening because of a documentary that is obviously one sided because we only have the version of the victims i really have a huge issue with access to arts and to things that have been created in the past by somebody like i said who is dead and who cannot do anything about this at the moment if radio stations want to ban the music i think if the listeners of those particular radio stations are calling up and saying you know what this is criminal behavior that r. kelly and michael jackson have actually engaged in. and we're not ok with that i think that's perfectly fine it's

a scary area if we all are judge him for ourselves with very limited facts with facts that we don't really quiet cross-examine with actual evidence or you know interviews and documentaries that. humanitarian show a lot of evidence. well it's an evidence that it's not been again cross-examined in the court of law it's your if you don't fall we should not be talking about michael . jackson's music michael jackson's music was created through decades of also a lot of suffering but actually i think maybe the real lesson in all of this is that you know every time a michael jackson song comes on i know for myself i'm going to think differently about it i mean i'm not going to say i'm never going to dance to a michael jackson song again because you know maybe it'll play at a wedding or vomits but i might start dancing but at the same token i said i am never going to think about michael jackson in the way i used to and maybe that's the real lesson so let me ask you this when you look at a picasso painting or you read

a hemingway book or or you've been looking to start to that was created during the renaissance period where like you know the catholic church was you know torturing and killing people in the name of god are we not able to separate the our that was created the best moments of these artists from the actual person who was a human being. some of them admitted those fair good argument but i think also i think we're entering. a new era where i think people that engage in criminal behavior and sexual abuse shouldn't be rewarded in this society and i don't think there's anything wrong with that and if their music doesn't get played so be it. the pentagon has announced it's revising its arctic strategy in light of a perceived threat from russia and china are these my guys you have comments now on the geo political rivalry around the north pole. the arctic what comes to mind when

you hear that word sea fish ice it's always russia isn't it russia because that when she rattles when the fall is most closely to their to their borders they've begun to move on periodic times to the different weapons systems of control of the area updated our plans as a response as a result of that we've had to change the posture of some of our forces so that we in fact deter and we send a signal of the importance of the arctic to us but there is a new gold rush brewing thanks to global warming it is opening the arctic up around fifteen percent of the world's undiscovered oil thirty percent of natural gas may be that perhaps more important though is the northern sea route by two thousand and forty there should be soon little ice that ships will be able to pass year round terrible for the environment rate for shipping it would have the journey time for

ships travelling from east asia to europe a journey that usually takes them through the suez canal it would save billions upon billions for consumers companies governments ergo the gold rush contenders have been quick to make and file their claims and oil their gardens the united states is going at it intensely with military war games reportedly to train military forces to fight and win in the arctic speaking of russia it hasn't been idle either during the recent exercise that successfully tested a new hypersonic antiship cruise missile thats it. because there's also the flag which russia planted exactly at the north pole she bed a decade ago still annoys other contenders that norway another big claimant

they're spending hundreds of millions rebuilding old the cold war facilities in the north perhaps symbolically norway also moved its military headquarters within the arctic circle in fact norway was so involved and enthusiastic about recent nato war games that one of its brand new warships ended up colliding with an oil tanker which is neither very covertly nor very fast people are still wondering how that happened no arctic claims but rather than each to get involved we need to protect our national interests we will be launching our new defense arctic strategy the u.k. has unveiled a new arctic strategy where they plan to defend the arctic which may be

difficult to do with britain's couple of ice breakers but they go to make up they've even sent a royalty to the arctic great for the cabaret is. also china it has potentially hundreds of billions at stake just in trade chip transport costs it recently launched the snow dragon to an ice breaker that doubles as a research vessel the least goes on and on frankly the degree of militarization is alarming. but what choice is that russia for one filed its claims that the un will back by geographic data year is years ago and nothing has beat almost no progress on the diplomatic front the jew to political pressure or

incompetence the fact remains that when diplomats have paralyzed the military but pays every nation state wants to grab all they can grab and go some are much worse than others so we have the us putting all their military in there because allegedly . there are afraid of the russians doing so us of course is as good it's its troops as everyplace and all over africa over asia all of a lot of america they're going to have i guess mr trump would like to have the more in latin america this is all terrible. the us military budget is far too big it's as much as all the other countries in the world put together and of course they keep needing more and more more more more more killing machines it's a sad thing to see this happening in what is actually the spectacular beauty of the arctic but of course that the. military is never mind destroying destroying things

. and the orthodox and christian charity forum has been launched in southern moscow at the. state. dedicated to. elizabeth who ruled russia in the mid eighteenth century and it is part of a series of the form was attended by historians along with. church workers. thirty ultra-orthodox jews have been arrested at a protest in jerusalem against military conscription. was hundreds of demonstrators block the roads and rail tracks and roads and rail tracks and near the city center they were voicing their anger over the arrest of a student at a religious seminary for refusing to report for military service protestors we will

die and not be drafted. to break up the crowd. and it doesn't for me more news of you are watching our international. will this is all that good.

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