tragedy in russia's northwest unsporting sailors are killed in a fire on a submersible president putin has sent his condolences to the families calling the men heroes. also to come this hour after 3 days of wrangling e.u. leaders agree on who will fill the box top jobs nominating a woman for the 1st time to head the european commission and m.p.'s in the u.k. to face what to do with profits made from the assets of the ice did libyan leader moammar gadhafi. by their good morning you're watching r.t.

international where 8 o'clock here in moscow. 14 people have been killed in a fire on a deep sea submersible in russia's northwest president vladimir putin has offered his condolences to the families of the sailors who died. but you see of the 147 or top rank captains who are heroes of russia this is a big loss for the fleet our 1st sincere condolences to the families of the deceased everything must be done to help and support them that was at his emergency meeting with the country's defense minister said again show following this truly tragic incident and that is what a minister short who had to say about what happened there let's take a listen. with the result of the examination and rushes to retore that was of scientific research. who died of the combustion products poisoning due to the software of the fire was eliminated. the deep

water parameters that the. base going to see and hear more from defense minister sergei show because at base to maintain a president clinton came to go personally to the city of 7 more square it happened in russia's northwestern region and to brief afterwards to president on what happened so it was a scientific submersible it is designed to explore the bottom of the sea or the ocean it is believed to be able to operate at the depth of up to 6000 meter deep in order to do a kind of underwater map painting how boats and submarines in the area navigate safely so at the time when the crew of that some very simple has been doing their research the fire broke out and they have been doing that for russian navy and no one can say why that happened in the investigation has admitted limited to find out what caused the fire and we all heard from local acting governor also that the

authorities on the ground are ready to provide any help needed this is a terrible tragedy we're all ready to provide in this is a serious system to the northern fleet the moments region and the fleets always support each other. difficult situations eternal memory to those who give their lives for the security of our country for when such tragedies people get united you know in these times we saw the offices of the russian navy getting we know i did we received picture is you can now watch it the offices in russia's southern port of sevastopol bringing flowers not only offices of the ordinary people with flowers and candles in them at the more. and that city to commemorate those who died so the investigation is under go and we probably going to hear more in the coming days. for notion of there now after 3 days of wrangling member state

leaders have finally managed to agree on who gets the block's top jobs and some of the appointments to come as a surprise to all of reports. 3 days later than we expected the european council that's made up of the heads of government of the 28 member states of the european union put forward their nominations for the top jobs in the european commission now these nominations will be put to parliament they decide whether they get the job so the nominations are for commission president taking over from john claude young on the line who's currently the german defense minister for council president to take over from donald tusk sheilds michel currently acting prime minister of belgium for high representative of foreign affairs basically the e.u.'s equivalent of a foreign minister it's currently occupied by federica mukherjee any it will if it's approved be taken over by your state bell who is currently the foreign minister of spain while christine legarde the current i.m.f. head will take over at the european central bank now if on the line was put in as

european commission president should be the 1st woman to take over that role no i was speaking just after the announcement was made she said it was a great thing that a woman had been given a chance to take over one of europe's top jobs one stuff it would have been able to reach an agreement today which is that we've nominated for the very 1st time it would as the president of the european commission that is. this wasn't an easy process though. very from the european people's party was thought that he would be a shoo in to be the next commission president not so much a day in france to moments from the socialist would he be the next one he seemed almost anointed you know he said particularly those from central and eastern europe we have seen this process whereby a lot of people have started to question this this nomination procedure that goes

through particularly big voices as well the president of france a manual saying he was far from happy with it this despite this. rockey lead in to these nominations then all to the now i guess we can say outgoing european council president said he was happy with the way it had gone we have a greet the whole package before the 1st session of the you feel parliament. 5 years ago we needed 3 months to decide it and still some leaders were against. this year 2 or 3 days and know about divorce against $751.00 that's the number of m.p. any peace that will be voting in the european parliament to decide if those live on the line becomes the next commission president but the m.e. peace themselves were busy on tuesday they were sitting for the 1st time in the european parliament in strasbourg and it wasn't without incident itself there was a number 29 in fact from the break that party from the united kingdom they decided

they were going to stage a little protest while ode to joy the anthem of the european union was being played in the chamber they decided to do this ready. it's a very strange situation because. of all the british a piece of just moment we don't know if they will be and be soon one year time. if they will look. they will withdraw from the parliamentary indicators of the bracks it's absolutely and finally so it's a very difficult situation for the parliament. commissions that you have been a member of commissions on i'm nobody not exactly what will happen. party

any change they were the only ones in the to protest because 2 newly elected members of the european parliament to dress up in support and we can lead. found june a sandwich 3 qualities and clare they came to the summit wearing t. shirts with the words free during the song join them meanwhile a monday court in london began a hearing on provision of documents relating to cases against the sons' italian investigative journalist but it has made a request to see them shoes the latest guest in artie's going underground. this case is not just about julian assange it is about any jordan at least everywhere trying to expose what crimes secret documents provide evidence of torture are sent on this week the upper tribunal with my lawyer defending the right of the press to access the document that if anyone they didn't put pressure on allegation they advice against questioning him he no longer which is worse crucially in creating

the legal and then the diplomatic organizer which kept julian assange and she earned a good knowledge should not be such a prize for exposing war crimes and torture and the same applies to the to the journalistic sources like charity manning she paid a huge price and a journalistic source who expose such valuable and important information in the public interest should not be such a price. now an airstrike on a migrant detention center in the libyan capital of tripoli has killed 40 people and injured 80 that's according to local health officials a word of warning you might find the following images distressing well officials are the target center allege the strike was ordered by the opposition general hurley for hafter who launched an offensive to wrest control of the capital in early april the rival government hasn't commented on the allegation meanwhile british m.p.'s are debating what to do with frozen funds and you can save ousted

libyan leader moammar gadhafi with more on this his party boy. if you ran a business in one of these offices or shopped before 2011 then your landlord what do you mean one colonel gaddafi he liked to be known as the king of kings and his big bank reflected that before his downfall and death in 2011 exactly as libyan investment authority had amassed some 12000000000 pounds worth of assets in the u.k. alone among them is portland house on london's oxford street but the 2011 un back to libyan intervention came with a u.n. backed libyan asset freeze 2 that meant that any libyan accounts in the u.k. were frozen and according to a report by a government committee the u.k. tax man could be scooping tax from those frozen assets the government said make kid

that is and $17000000.00 pounds in tax on the frozen libyan assets in the process 3 years h.-m. revenue and customs that's the tax man here won't reveal any more than mt and now some british politicians want that tax revenue to be put to good use the deputy head of northern ireland people r.t. has urged the prime minister to use those $17000000.00 pounds in taxes collected from libyan assets in the u.k. to compensate the victims of libyan backed ira terrorism as the prime minister will be aware of. the the long standing problem for justice and compensation by victims shows the libyan. terrorism in northern ireland did throughout the u.k. u.s. citizens have been compensated by libyan authorities but the u.k.

should not that's unlikely say the. x. the reason why this is. the other is much more of the mess that political affairs are getting what's more about the relationship between the conservative party. but it's also partly it's just that it's being done because the government is in the midst of a. civil war. and the interest of that money remember the symbols of the question all this raises is when the libyan money well finally returned to the people of libya the country's in a state of civil war and its rival governments haven't requested the funds back in april libya's house of representatives called on the international community not to release any libyan assets abroad until a unified government is formed this u.s. news report is from 2011 the u.s.

treasury department has $37000000000.00 worth of funds that were accessible to more market off his regime frozen in the in the united states the u.s. government is holding this money but does not control what it has to release the funds back to the newlib libyan government when the government requests it and the you want to prove that and of treasury spokeswoman says they are working with libya's transitional council and the state department to do just that that was 8 years ago they're still working on it right now it's hard to see when the situation in libya will be safe enough for the money to be returned without the risk of it being misappropriated by rival governing factions but in the meantime all those frozen assets are breathing life and liquidity into banks in the u.k. europe and the u.s. there's no money to be where it's limited absolutely want to be liquidated it would

cause a massive where their own global markets are just taking that money out of the. when the economy does ready especially when it's that especially in europe especially mysteriously but its present difficulties with. lives of over some years now come across as a result of libya and that's what we're seeing here liquidated macdermott libya because more pressure him but certainly not overtly sunsilk which is where the global markets at the moment it's a very convenient that they do not sense that there isn't a group can be part of that money cannot be put in a european investment bank. time france hundreds of rural schools will be closed for good this summer that is despite promises made by president macron to keep them open he was responding to the demands made by the fs protest movement takes a closer look at the issue. it's been 2 months since french president emanuel look on the promise that no more schools would close in a period of what if we should not have closing schools or hospitals without mayors

accord until the end of my presidential term and it's now more than 350 rural schools are closing their doors and people in communities like this one a furious it's terrible that schools are closing in rural areas because for the education and well being of children small establishment are much better than big schools for kids to go all summer to learn should not be tied to if i have a place to go or not i think it is but it would be a bad decision to close those schools even if there are not enough students when i was on the clip or we need schools to educate the next generation with our future with our schools we can move on it's the foundation of everything if these schools close there will be fewer and fewer children and families in the villages and villages who will die out that's why it's very important to keep schools open to make them attractive so more families will bring their kids there to be fair the french president hasn't gone back on his word he did say local authorities would

have the final say on meet the police officer what he says is that the promise will be kept 100 percent mr mcmahon said that they will not close any schools without agreement from local mayors and this is exactly what we are doing but who's behind the push for local municipalities to do this i am surprised that the mayors are in favor of the closure of a school this is the only social fabric that remains for villages from which have gradually disappeared post offices shops where the school closes it is heartbreaking for citizens and elected officials critics point out the government are always finding elected officials who agree to close schools some mayors have had time to work on their closure project but others have done it under duress so how do you get the mayor's views in some cases they're told anyway there will be. you know teachers in front of your students so regroup while it may not make direct financial sense for schools to remain open when the costumes are not full it hardly

encourages families to move to the rule areas and to trace the growing demographic crisis in the regions when a school is closing i do believe that it is very it's like a heart attack you know because you are just. facing reality in the way you have the feeling that the village is dying that the small town is dying and they were itching is collapsing this is something that my call. it is my console because he hasn't changed you carry out your policy he hasn't changed the financial and budget but it's you know it is you know on just let's say again i'm sure. world why they call on me which is not that the french want. meanwhile schoolchildren in the u.k. have started to petition after they were banned from wearing skirts we debate the

issue after the break. trump's impromptu visit to the d.m.z. separating the 2 koreas was unprecedented and historic indeed it was a bold even brilliant decision of course his political opponents particularly the democrats running for president and the media slammed on board the doc's diplomacy is on the side of peace. in a world of big partisan. lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that. the stream 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 truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. hello again welcome back to wate now people with the u.k. secondary school have started a petition after they were banned from wearing skirts in a bid to promote gender neutrality under the new rule all students at appleton act academy in bradford will have to wear trousers from september the petition against the ban is going to hundreds of signatures but the school doesn't sis that most parents and pupils have responded positively. there are

a number of reasons for this change it is gender neutral in line with the policy in the majority of secondary schools it simplifies the uniform and it removes the issue of pupils wearing skirts that are inappropriate led the majority of parents have responded with positive feedback and are supportive of the change and understand the reasons for its school uniforms they signify one bishop of a body a group of people and usually you know there's a decision about what color what you know the symbols included head teacher often decides what clothes should be worn i hope that what's being chosen has no is not about dogma it's about consistency or think it's probably true to say that it's well intentioned i mean this the mess is toward children in school it's to treat other children as they want to be treated as the golden rule so it's is to help they all g.b.t.

community but actually i think it's going to be counterproductive because many girls will see your skirt is part of the family law dentity so if you take away the scourge so you can wear a skirt you ban the skirts what you're doing is robbing them of their identities form of identity theft and it's going to make life probably more difficult for the algae bt community rather than helping them so i would really go as the school to do what most schools do and not banned this this uniform article for girls i think is going to be counterproductive i know that my the the person speaking opposite me refers to l.g. bt but i'm a lesbian i'm a feminist i mean i'm a poet possibly a bit more neutral about it because i'm also a mother a grandmother and i don't think that we should have these kinds of arguments which are which are. you know one group against another ok it's right to think it is right to think about what young. people want and to listen i don't know to what

extent i mean lots of girls do object to the way that the way that boy is. french fries them or i would say that there's a danger here that quite a lot of children who are who are not part of the algae bt community they will be jet into this they're going to have their view soured by this and i don't think it's going to help harmony we need to bring people together when you stop banning skirts you're going to alienate quite a lot of people and it's going to focus attention on those people who are banning it is going to focus attention on the l.g.b. to community they need support they don't need to have to ban things to help the r.g.b. to community and i'm sure many people on either side of this debate would agree with me you know we help the l.g. bt community by promoting tolerance of inclusion tolerance of the girls of the heterosexual community so we've got to be fair to both sides don't want to over the other give freedom to the girls to. me while sportswear giant nike is

axed a new range of trainers released to celebrate american independence day after a big name in sport raise some concerns relating to slavery and white supremacists as that story. a quick disclaimer before i begin i'm sorry if my local or my store you offend someone these days you never know thank god i'm not a fashion designer whoever buys their stuff or even just comes across their designs may get mad at something and a few creative ideas being ruined the whole business nike came up with a special sneaker series for the 4th of july featuring what's known as the betsy ross flag it's just an early design of the u.s. flag and probably the holiday is a great occasion to remember a bit of national history but in the universe of national football league i can call and cabernet nike can't sell footwear that features a symbol that was used in the times of slavery he got in touch with the brand

bosses and forced them to scrap it some thought he did a great job others were like what good luck making i have certainly purchased my last pair. mikey is an absolute disgrace i didn't know colin copernic was the barometer of offense thanks for sharing over on all my tweets by him from here on out pernik is now in charge of nike's production it's a shoe company for god's sake just a little earlier nike had to get rid of another collection intended for china this time the problem was that the designer brand behind the shoe look had shown support for hong kong protestors online hell yeah these political subtleties do matter better not play with fire nike bosses thought you'd think this lady though wouldn't really look back and what problems so one far away had with her ideas think it is

me. not see you need one. ok even kim carr dashi and i had to tweak the name of her lingerie line up she originally called comodo kim oh no get it but the japanese got furious with this word mrs cardassian west even got an official letter from the mayor of a city in japan asking her to mind her branding language back to sports where the giants that it is too had to pull one of their designs from a shoe collection to honor black history month the problem was it was all white who makes no wise shoes so the brain bloody history month i do think a swing and a nice to d.d. for your information try consulting with actual black people friends i hear they are all over the country this is just the tip of the iceberg gucci ones got in trouble because of black sweaters with big lips offended someone with key chains

that look like black people cathy perry process the online with shoes resembling a black face i mean. really your product may end up annoying anyone which is for instance i'm not messing with you so for a drop there starter which kid parfum box after being scolded by a witch community all cases required some damage control again i respect everyone's feelings but aren't the offended going a bit too far a bit too often. if they're trying to they're just coming up to half past 8 in the morning here in moscow good to have you company we're back again in just over half .

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