i i. i. a series of explosions ripped through a t.n.t. factory in the russian city of leaving at least 85 people injured. from stories of a war come true in the u.k. city of portsmouth which is beefing up security ahead of his world war 2 d.-day anniversary visit much to the annoyance of some locals and me for instance coming from it's going to be on the screen it's all friends store you can't see anything i don't think much better like. a new computer game based on the war in syria twists facts but trying to have the sling to rescue group the white helmets as heroes of

russian planes is targeting civilians. at least 85 people have been injured in a series of blasts that a russian factory producing bomb materials for the military state of emergency has been declared in the area surrounding the plant in the city of. people who were near the site have been posting videos online. r.t. correspondent or man culture of his in the latest. for standing are right outside the entrance to the plant say it's about to kill longer away and you can see the police behind me they have cordoned off the area as the investigation is it taking place as we have found out that there were actually sued blast authorities say that the explosions were so powerful they shattered windows many many kilometers away

and investigators have also opened up a criminal probe over the possible breaking off safety rules that's something that factory said director has been fired for only only 31st of may so very very recently and also a human error is that believed to be a blame for this incident the investigation is now ongoing and we are waiting to hear from the headquarters of the liquidation committee here at the size and will bring you the latest as soon as we can. u.k. is bracing itself for protests over donald trump's upcoming state visit rallies are expected to follow the u.s. president throughout his 3 day trip his last visit in 2018 so 250000 demonstrated in london alone and protesters are once again expected to poke fun.

crim. giant robot there seated on the toilet has been shipped from china to london specifically for this visit last year or so you can see there a baby trunk bloom was flown high in the skies over the british capital the people behind the counter hoping to repeat the stunt with a new believe and they have the approval of the mayor of london but say that they still need to reach that 30000 pounds fundraising target. meanwhile trump's plans for a war seem to have inspired his soon to be hosts in the u.k. with the u.s. president visiting the city of portsmouth for d.-day commemorations local authorities there have erected a large security fence to the disgruntlement of some locals annual event marks the start of the normandy landings during world war 2 politico has more from portsmouth . he wanted a wall and now he's got it ok so it may not be the wall but it is a wall the naval city of portsmouth is getting ready to welcome the u.s.

president who's going to be visiting here in order to attend the 75th anniversary of the d.-day landings on the 5th of june that's why the barricades have gone up and the is ready and all of this green space where the ceremony will take place is called and off lest anyone get any dangerous ideas donald trump's attendance all of the deejays ceremony will see him come through and in a double layer of security fencing allowing him to watch the day's events from inside there in total safety with the queen and to reason may and some invited guests but the u.s. president's security comes at a cost for the people of portsmouth for whom the view of the day's events will be totally blocked well for those with an official invite view for me inside is rather

splendid they've even spruced up all that excessive saying there is without an invitation all welcome to this general area outside although they'll be subject to security checks while coming in but once inside they'll be able to watch the proceedings taking place in their own large t.v. screens out here for some it's putting a bit of a down on d.-day for those who are involved. in the periphery troops who can be put into people coming from the outside to see the event and now it's because the matrix coming from it is going to feel it's very it's own friend store you can't see anything you want to shoot and draw. but there were helicoptered in and to him it just wasn't like that 24 years ago or no it's a different world but still there has to you know you have to shore up the museum

don't you yeah nothing to do you know when the storm turned on television because of the studio and i put up a wooden paddle fence and. you know i just might sort of mockery of it because that's so common that anybody can use normally we're not allowed on them and it seems like everybody was shocked to try to we will top the other end and we could get through so much why don't i go into the summit much better. i think with the possibility of demonstrators what they've done is basically blocked off any sign of any doesn't demonstrate just so. that shashi are saying well i don't need that much security. here is it portsmouth city's council leader is also unimpressed it will change the nature of the event a great do for us the center of the events was meant to be the veterans with donald trump coming i think the chances are that it will move from being around

commemoration and instead it will be a day of controversy d.-day carries a special significance here portsmouth was the departure point for much of the d.-day landing force in 1944 all that i want to be able to see to this ceremony that will be one special designated area where dissatisfied locals can have very voices the now obligatory looting and the trump protests will have to be erected everywhere the u.s. president goes on his u.k. state visit and portsmouth is no exception. the latest installment of the hit computer game series call of duty takes inspiration from the conflict in syria but it gives a warped perspective from the war strange how this links rescue group to what elements as heroes showing russian planes deliberately targeting civilians. takes a look. it's back in

a big way after years of falling sales and irrelevance call of duty is going back to its roots it'll be more shocking more morally ambiguous than ever before with russians so evil you wouldn't believe. surprise russian suit 25 jet there it is apparently bombing civilians in the next scene white helmets the rescue wing of syria's jihad this rebels a scene helping injured civilians out of rubble just like in their real life propaganda reels the syrian 1st responders who've risked their lives to save others in war torn aleppo in the face of on relenting brutality heroes have emerged they have all chosen to risk their lives to save others.

now it's only a trailer but something tells me we would see the ugly side of the white helmets i doubt we'll see them disposing of freshly executed corpses for islam is terrorists i doubt we'll see them waving the flags as they do in real life i doubt we'll see them staging chemical weapons attacks but i don't doubt there is that the russians will be portrayed doing things that would put satan himself to shame at least going by what those who have already played the game the same. we saw gameplay from the perspective of a young farrar the girl who would eventually grow up to be the commander of the rebel forces fleeing from the invading russian army for her family are eventually cornered by a soldier who kills her father we see kevin crawling under the bed and scurrying about her house to take down an long headed russian soldier with little more than

a screwdriver. to be fair it's only a game artistic license and all that no relation to real life events people or politics it's just a video game for young malleable impressionable kids showing imaginary russians invading bombing civilians murdering civilians gassing civilians and being killed in turn by the protagonist and the white helmets virtually copy pasted from c.n.n. into call of duty coincidence totally what we see is what defines a terrorist is in the eye of the beholder this is not a black and white world oh so i says bombing an airport in europe doesn't necessarily mean it's terrorism as like real life dude we all decide what's good and what's bad like in previous call of duty games where the player gets to massacre hundreds of russian civilians in an airport.

and again by total coincidence call of duty and the pentagon have almost identical perceptions of who is good and who is bad what i meant by coincidence is the opposite of coincidence not only a pentagon employees board in to help design the game but cool of juji writers then go on to advise that the pentagon started thinking about how to change we brought in a lot of outside help military advisors futurologists we got together with the scenario planning from the department of defense who is active in the pentagon which of course means nothing it's only a game for kids i just wonder when will we get a modern warfare in starman where the protagonist is patriotic middle eastern and

fighting to rid his country of an occupying american army what do you think those pentagon advisors would have to say to that. the latest chinese tariffs on u.s. goods have taken effect the import tax on more than $5000.00 items is now 25 percent in follows several rounds of u.s. tariffs which now cover most imports from china and have made donald trump escalated matters further effectively banning the chinese tech giant huawei and pressuring allies to do the same of course now suggest the beijing is planning to mirror this move in the blacklist of u.s. corporations in while acting u.s. defense secretary patrick shannon took a swipe at china while speaking at the asia pacific summit in singapore. some in our region are choosing to act contrary to the principles and norms that have benefited us all they destabilize the region deploying advanced weapons systems

to militarized disputed areas the stabilizing the peaceful status quo by threatening the use of force to compel rivals into conceding claims. you know we're not going to ignore chinese behavior. i think in the past people have tiptoed around the. chinese affairs unless under learn told us that the trade war between the world's 2 largest economies will cause far reaching damage. this the one that. the forum in singapore is being used as a forum to attack china likes the kind of. not just a trait. but a fight between the government seeing at $360.00 degrees kind of back construct the us consumers as well as us which is and even us manufacturers will be affected because a lot of its components manufacturing china and china buys

a lot of the united states and then of course the soybeans almost trumps main or police so i think that's going to hurt us. china as well so this is again that. was something together with other countries because people well this connected in the supply man who changed on your propellants thing in rally in berlin has been met by counted them a whole lot more on that after this break. financial fallout today was all about money laundering 1st to visit this cash into 3 different. oh good that's a good start well we have our 3 banks all set up here maybe something your something in america something overseas in the cayman islands or the real world

these banks are complicit in their tough talk are serious after democrats i am ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we've got all of that and i still dream watch for max and for stacy all beautiful jewelry and how about. luxury on a bill again from that you know like money laundering highly. thank you for watching. sanitise testing. it's a very well done nowadays and you know to say we should have standardized testing to be like saying well we shouldn't have blood pressure checked or or even their weight if you're going to see the doctor those are standardized instruments you need to be able to know how children are doing right from when they start school.

welcome back despite strong calls for its cancellation hundreds of propane listing to bits of taken to the streets of berlin for the annual demonstration that marks the day of jerusalem usually held on the last friday all for ramadan the protest is against was feared by the demonstrators as israel's occupation of east jerusalem israeli community in the city held account of them out and expressed fears anti semitism is gaining momentum in germany almost 2000 people have reportedly gathered for both rallies and his wife and oceans been speaking to both sides. this is what. the ring maybe or even building from was i don't mean you make it

a city but dissipate as they say the cold outside stay march this is it i think they are the city of june most of them and they step in station you know it's 00. 0 or policy of the state of israel and to disagree with. your muscling belongs to israel and here to send for monitoring 1 and people this is right this is hosted. it should be good so the whole world should be for policy and this is how you should you really don't want to 5 we want to be and we just want to be. my brother was wise enough to act as a human shield system for the palestinian morris not to be shot by you know your israel us army knowing the other side of the avenue here in central believing we have what they call themselves to rally against their rally those who support israel we have been able to draw on to be organized and some of the disciplines

it's not about criticizing usurious about delegitimizing israel and about hating jews when people shout jews into gas chambers then it's it's it has nothing to do with israel critics it's only about the hate it is a demonstration against and other liberalization. in acceptable and ties it may take smarts which. was taking place today berlin and we should not tolerate any form of anti-semitism in in berlin and in germany and this is why we are here everybody i know you got to take us to is live is objecting our way of living and this is why we have to do with joel solidarity and this is all that doesn't have anything to do it with israel or it is. you know this is the completely on the. front of this question. what is it except of it's to make it was a year old responsible for what you do in government is doing this in every

advising me to give me an example of the mind that is why we have to show solidarity much this is why i did hear it to support their solidarity with jews with israel and to show how strong they are to show it to these people on the other side of the adding in. the pro palestinian rallies has spread right across the muslim world.

the united nations children's charity unicef says that almost half of all afghan children are being denied an education the war on terrorism in the region has led to many schools being destroyed but r.t. managed to visit an afghan province where classes do continue against the odds. that is that our school was destroyed we don't have any chance to see it on and shouted to take from the sunshine any ascensions for isaac a shame. when isis came here they destroyed their school and opened their own sensors and i want the government to reopen this call for us because the weather is very warm we aren't able to learn in such conditions. there are at least 7 educational centers which have been destroyed during the war

between the isis militant group and the afghan government the clashes damaged or even destroyed places of education and some of the occasional centers became isis headquarters i am demanding that the government helps us reopen our educational centers as soon as possible. with your populace that this school was taken over by isis isis threatened us in closed down our education centers. oh. a little of the band came and shut our educational institutions the teachers were imprisoned and tortured they ordered us to close schools there were 2 educational buildings destroyed we have asked for the census to be repaired but the government hasn't scheduled it yet. i think. film stars and big movie companies are threatening to boycott the

u.s. state of georgia which offers attractive tax breaks for the industry this is over a new law prohibiting abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy however while the likes of disney netflix and warner adopt a firm moral stance inside the united states they seem somewhat less principled when operating a broad as a liberal but expects. as the state of georgia imposes restrictions on abortion a number of multinational corporations have decided to take a stand and no longer do business with the state among them disney netflix and warner media either give it becomes law it will be very difficult to produce or rather doubt we will we have many women working on productions in georgia whose rights along with millions of others will be severely restricted by this law should it ever come into effect would rethink our entire investments in georgia if the new law holds we will reconsider georgia as the home to any new productions but how

consistent are these corporations for example netflix recently blocked an episode in saudi arabia as a favor to the monarchy crown prince mohammed bin salon a k n b s was hailed as the reformer of the arab world needed but the revelations about the show his killing have shattered that image was strongly supported to 6 freedom world was only remove the saudi arabia after we had received a valid legal request but saudi arabia is not exactly a haven for women's rights and progressive thinking on its face it's pretty ironic because those countries say pretty egregious human rights issues is more about a political game those plea as being plea rather than any kind of actual feelings towards the issue and then there's warner media they have a very longstanding relationship with the kingdom of saudi arabia in fact prince our lead been to law was a 5 percent shareholder in time warner at one point and what does that they've been known to put on performances of their best known acts in box rain the last one just over a year ago. course

they never really considered the laws of these u.s. aligned autocratic kingdoms for example there's one law that legalizes rape just so long. as marriage follows the crime are you talking about greater issues abortion guns rights things like they should stay away from me but again it goes back to the whole part of you you would it be culturally to hide your brand recognition out there in the world and also to position yourself better in a particular place where you doing business duties day game the middle east you know a lot of money comes from saudi u.a.e. and that going to go over there is save these particular things because they know a net part of the world this would not be tolerated is what we're talking about the

bigger company disney is so you still have to be. in some of the high level executives who want to preserve their own image for any kind of potential political running to future and also for the overall image of their great company disney yes these american mainstream media and entertainment conglomerates love to virtue signal and act like they're sticking it to george and to the republicans however just like their wheeling and dealing with middle eastern petro autocracies it seems like their recent outrage over abortion has more to do with marketing than with principles. party new york although the latest the top of the l c that. there's an international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 he is the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing the keys economic issues facing russia

emerging markets and the world thousands of business community members attend a forum to address today's and vital issues. especially foreign coverage. facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark so. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results deiced on what they think you should be seen

if they have this kind of power then democracy is it an illusion the free and fair election doesn't exist the more rope we give them the sooner we are all. china is not a partner number one for us yet. and e.u. countries our trade partners number one with this and. i cannot share the. news who are those who say that it's a turn of russia he's. no russia i hope will never turn eastwards. you know russian eagle is looking to both sides west towards a nice towards. say

we're going underground as wiki leaks founder julian assange clings to life in belmarsh prison in southeast london coming up with a show the united nations special on torture professor condemn. british torture of julian assange just the worst case he has seen in 20 years of work with victims of war violence and political persecution and the biggest betrayal in that in american history we ask the man who 1st gave julian assange just signed a former ecuadorian president rafael correa what case means for illegal u.s. backed regime change in latin america all the more coming up in today's going underground but 1st straight to our top story which it's no exaggeration to say impinges on the ability to tell truth all around the world in every country in the world we can leaks expose lies and corruption about the powerful and this before outgoing u.k. minority government leader theresa may welcome the capture of the founder of wiki

leaks julian assange i'm sure that the whole house will welcome the news this morning that the metropolitan police have arrested julian a song the foreign secretary and politician who wants to replace tourism a added but what we've shown today is that no one is above the law julian assange is no hero but jeremy corbin's labor shadow home secretary diane abbott beg to differ the reason we are basing this this off to news is entirely to do with the whistle blowing activities in asuncion wiki it is this whistle blowing activity into illegal move mass murder murder of civilians and corruption or a grand scale that has put the songs in the cross has of the us that ministration been another contender for to raise a maze job diane abbott's counterpart in government said this after the arguable washington proxy of ecuador violated asylum article 14 of the universal declaration

of human rights catalyzing songes capture ecuador's actions recognized that the u.k. criminal justice system is wanted in which rights are protected and in which contrary to what mr santelli supporters may claim he and his legitimacy interests will be protected but are julian assange his interests being. protected by the british justice system in the past few days we understand the wiki leaks founder was moved to the president from array of britain's belmarsh prison in southeast london and joining me now via skype from geneva is someone who has visited a songe in jail the united nations special report on torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment professor niels meltzer thanks for coming back on now i know the findings have been published in the past 24 hours at least the preliminary findings i know the full report so will be out in july. out.