let me appear tonight italian prime minister just said picante hold talks in rome with both lamenting the state of affairs between the e.u. and russia. a mass public backlash erupts against one of the 2 men gunning to be comforted prime minister current foreign secretary jeremy hunt that's after he ties opposition labor party leader jeremy corbin to anti semitism and even auschwitz atrocities. plus germany is in the grip of a heat wave which has also triggered a crime wave including a large punch up just swimming pool.

a low unwelcome news is r.t. international broadcasting to you live from moscow only care in. europe and russia should return to a normal relationship without sanctions that's the joint message from the news conference of vladimir putin on just 30 conti talking about the harm to the economy by those restrictions italy's premie even added an emotional touch. we approach the time the sanctions could be lifted or extended i'm always sad because so much could be achieved and the situation could be so much. well it was no secret that the euro skeptic forces currently in power here and rome are no big fans of europe's anti russian sanctions to say the least but as you've heard prime minister step by conte's message is getting more loud and more clear especially when he's standing shoulder to shoulder with the russian president who once again reminded

about the enormous amounts of cash that both sides were losing just because of this sanctions war. in 2012 we had to trade to the no $1450000000000.00 now it's $207.00 to do in the film not mistaken where these missing $100.00 into to do it i'll tell you where these are lost profits you know to with those we could look at also those of the european countries including italy have occurred. several times during the press conference we heard the words i absolutely agree with my colleague which is a rare thing when president vladimir putin meets western leaders however the who. is definitely an exception and even when the top politicians were taken questions on such an important and troubling issue for italy as libya and the new outbreak of the civil war there the leaders were on the same page and mr putin began with

pointing the finger at nato will show that you let us remember how it all started who destroyed leaved as a state which. is one of the few countries that assist and fulfill the situation a military decision could not lead to libya's unification on the contrary today we are witnessing a dramatic situation. now for a while we haven't been getting any major updates from but as well about the ongoing political crisis there and the last question at the press conference was whether the 2 beaters brought up the matter during the talks and whether they had anything new to say about it well president vladimir putin once again pointed out how exactly the conflict began and also i had something particular to say about the opposition leader one why though. opposition leader mr goh i do walked onto the square looked up to the sky addressed gautam to claim to the president it's all

well and good but we never heard back from goats and how he sees this so proclamations so i think we need to come back to earth and start operating under democratic procedures to rules which while down to dialogue to the need to talk to the people you need to put to come to decide to the boat. so clearly this visit does show that russia is trying to benefit from its close ties with its only under its new euro skeptic government but when it comes to the you as a whole the kremlin doesn't really have any illusions as usual and they're not willing to go too far and he appears in visited the vatican where he spoke with the pope it's the 3rd time that russia's president has met with pope francis after talks in 20132015 they moved to the papal palace when i see ations on the short excursion therese ancient treasury the talks lasted around an hour after which catch additional exchange of gifts for to the pope an orthodox icon and

a russian movie about michelangelo and the sistine chapel the pontiff meanwhile presented an 18th century painting off the vatican that did not hold a news conference but the holy see says that they had discussed global international issues including the conflicts in ukraine and venezuela. the. a mass public backlash sparks against one of the 2 people in line to become pretty prime minister current foreign secretary jeremy hunt after he tied opposition labor party leader jeremy corbyn to atrocities in nazi concentration camp auschwitz thousands have already signed a petition demanding that hunt apologize artie's polly boyko explains the anger. a petition calling on the foreign secretary to apologize to the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn has amassed over 16000 signatures because a lot of people are angry over these comments that really boil down to jeremy hunt

making a link between the leader of the labor party and the atrocities perpetrated by hitler and the nazis take a listen to what the foreign secretary had to say about the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn in an interview with the jewish newspaper a little bit earlier on this week you know it's rather complacently said to myself thank goodness we don't have to worry about that kind of thing happening in the u.k. and no if i myself with the leader of the labor party who has opened the door to anti semitism in a way that is truly frightening to me corbin has been a lifelong campaigner for the rights of palestinians but he's also been accused of failing to root out anti semitism from within the labor party but these comments by jeremy hunt has managed to offend even those people that all natural corbin

supporters take a listen to just some of the reaction on twitter. that someone would visit auschwitz and use it as a means to attack the mainstream political party in the u.k. . during home 20 auschwitz when he came back he was so humbled by the experience he needed he used it as complaining material to insult his political opponents because that's the truth. isn't it jeremy the whole course then might win here a few votes using school cheap political points just to be one of the most despicable things i've ever seen even from a turi jeremy haun is the 2nd favorite after boris johnson to be the next prime minister here there's a conservative leadership race on at the moment. but some say that his desire to reference you know the problem of anti-semitism in the labor party is a way of deflecting from the roué over alleged islam a phobia within jeremy hunt own conservative party and also the chances are very

general in that. page through the years that is really not for instance in jeremy hunt i've been doing the campaign trails and apparently trying to out greg's it each other by pledging to bury me. by the end of that deadline even if there is no deal in case i'm out here and that anywhere greg is it we vote is to look to labor as some sort of alternative to all of this and so there is a genuine fair right now i think in conservative circles of the prospect of all been government and we've even seen stories leaks from the civil service which is supposed to be the paragon of impartiality here in the u.k. suggesting that jeremy corbyn isn't fit to be prime minister and so. jeremy corbyn they will see these latest comments by jeremy hunt as sort of just

another installment of this plot to discredit the labor leader. to try to get our press senior research associate a think tank the bag inside our center for strategic studies warns that nothing is more dangerous than minimising the holocaust for political point scoring. they believe the competition. might be in such a high level. over against goldman who might be the expert really would use. any means in order to get. this is very dangerous because when you try to minimise the mug me to do the holocaust do something which can be used. verb for political issues it is something which makes the holocaust happen again because if it was not such a big thing that we can use it into the good we can use it here little girl

forwardable me like. that again. germany is in the grip of a hate wave at the moment and it seems to be driving people a bit crazy leading to everything from public nudity to mass violence or swimming pools peace all of of course. the heat wave that's being roasting parts of europe has seen some here in germany fall foul of the law take the smoke paid rider brandenburg for example he receives a caution from the police after his attempts to feel the breeze so him decide to write his ski to it with no clothes on but the behavior of some in germany's public swimming pools is being far more concerning at outdoor pool in distilled or so hundreds involved in a must brawl last weekend it started when a group of young men became embroiled in an argument with a family who police want to be cold and deployed at the spring a witness described the scene there was a huge crowd of teenagers who were causing trouble around here they made those men

with children cry police the family away from the scene and authorities ordered that the pool be closed and said they didn't know too much about the identities of those behind the violence now colleagues describe the group as an african looking at the incident and dissolute office fall from the only one to have taken place in germany in the last month here in lynn coutts at the entry to a public swimming pool the place to be called there over in munich $150.00 teenage riot it in the bavarian capital in western germany from a french fry stand so around 20 people involved in a brawl in which chairs and trash cans were used as weapons against sink a 23 year old man he required emergency said you have to being stopped following

a dispute that began in a swimming pool and. pepper spray was again deployed after another bus brawl in many of the incidents police and witnesses reported that those involved were from a migrant background leading to quick. students about integration that's nothing to do with us says the federal office for migration and refugees we have the wrong contact in relation to the facts below it is not the task of the federal office to comment on the situation in german outdoor swimming pools with the warm weather set to continue for a little while yet police pool security will be hoping that while the mercury rises tempers stay cool peter all of a r.t. berlin. saudi arabia's latest effort to look more liberal appears to have backfired a top u.s. hip hop star known for her provocative style will be the key acted in major concert in the kingdom but that shocked many.

oh well if you're not is going to form saudi arabia. imagine waking up from a thief and for things. to be musical festival in saudi arabia i don't think i woke up in some parallel universe. is going to go and shake her all her songs are decent about sex. and then you tell me to where they are by and why how people perceive thousands of saudi women who can't even get out to get

their basic needs thanks to the saudi government the saudi government is bringing him in ash to show the rest of the world we are an open minded country. was. the crown prince how much insulin man has actually been trying to use kind of these stunts or these very superficial changes that are not organic to saudi arabian society at all or to what it means to be a woman in saudi arabia it is kind of a silly image to imagine that the women attending the human r. ce concert are actually fully failed and wearing full length ropes society doesn't really buy it they're not buying into this so-called attempt to modernize sort of society in this way i think that this basically in caps relates the problem with the rule of the crown prince of example to decide mission of hypotheses somebody

who has made absolutely. no real changes during the entire time that he has been rudely as a tool or saudi arabia at the same time we all know about the scandals questions you've asked your war in yemen all kinds of human rights abuses these are continuing that are is attempting to do these very b.c. the ridiculous gestures to kind of seed to misuse them to their local audience. i thought tongues have rolled through washington an unusual independence day celebration which the u.s. president dubbed the show of a lifetime donald trump said the finest fighter jets and tanks will be part of the celebrations there are concerns that the heavy equipment could damage the civilian roads and in a sign of protest demonstrators put up a baby trump a loon near the washington monument or many democrats and mainstream media have also attacks trump saying he's militarizing the event and using it for political

gain ahead of next year's election they also claims the capitol looks more like putin's russia or even north korea. let's go live now to our guest dave lindorff an investigative journalist and founding editor of turner to news thought this can't be happening with a lot of great to have you with those do you think critics are right to bash trump for militarizing independence day well. it appears there's always been somewhat militarized you know the whole concept is sort of premised on these fireworks that are. harking back not so much to the revolution as to the word $812.00 when we had the rockets' red glare that became part of our national anthem which is a word anthem so you know when we when we play the star-spangled banner it's all about it's a. slave anti black. lyrics because

francis scott key was condemning the british use of freed slaves to fight the americans the way americans so you know it's a very complicated issue but to just argue that this is supposed to be a peaceful holiday. mostly it's drinking beer and. going to the beach but. i guess it is a militaristic holiday we just haven't had tanks on display we don't do usually tanks and you know the rockets rolling through red square kind of thing in the u.s. holidays this is the it's not the 1st military parade in the u.s. what the hysteria be the same if the president obama had done it for instance. i think so i mean you know the normal time that we have military parades which is also inappropriate is on what europeans call armistice day we call veterans day

that's become completely militarized in the u.s. november 11th. where is it had been set up by congress right after world war one as it did to remember the horrors of war and never do it again so you know that's now become completely co-opted by the military and we do have light parades of soldiers marching around. and displays of tanks and that kind of stuff. july 4th has traditionally not been about displaying the army old though you know a lot of times you see soldiers being honored and that kind of thing it's more memorial day and better instead where the military holidays i've got through if you say the american loves displaying his military might only around why do you think trump support the july is sparking such a backlash and what you think led him to make the decision today this well i think the thing that has people here teed it is that he uses it to boost himself and make

it all about him whereas and probably i haven't heard his speaking or whether he's spoken yet but. if he's true to form you'll be attacking his opposition and his opponents and that is not what happens on july 4th and july 4th it's supposed to be we're all americans you know and except for the indians so you know. do you get forgotten. it's all stolen land of course united states but we don't talk about that sewed on july 4th everybody supposed to get together be happy and drink beer that end all found again it's of the nice thought this can't be happening thank you for your time. thanks for having me. it's been 4 years now since saudi arabia started a war on yemeni who the rebels who react claims on tuesday launched a drone attack on a saudi airport injuring 9 the alleged cross border strike comes amid

a worsening humanitarian crisis in yemen with starvation becoming ever more widespread in the region so warn you there are some disturbing images ahead according to the u.n. sponsored world food program 20000000 yemenis are food in secure and half of them are on the brink of famine but despite be appalling situation last month it partially suspended sending food to areas controlled by the who fees. the decision was taken as a last resort after a lengthy negotiation stalled on the agreement to introduce controls to prevent the diversion of food away from some of the most vulnerable people in yemen the un's decision sparked outrage in yemen and accusations of corruption both these allege the food program is being used to achieve political aims. the world food program is no longer carrying out a humanitarian operation in yemen but it's sixty's have rather become purely political it is advancing the genders of the u.s. saudi arabia and the u.s.

a key who think concern is their main donors to the food program our state fighting them or supplying the antihero the coalition with weapons they also worry about the collection of biometric data on yemeni citizens which is a condition of the aid supposedly to prevent theft where it is warm this information can be exploited by the saudi led coalition but we spoke to antiwar campaigner jonathan shafi about the allegations. there's a great problem here which is that the war in yemen just like war through history is making money for a small number of people those who run the arms companies and so on when it comes to the question of yemen when it comes the question of how we bring a bit peace the 1st thing that we have to do is to stop the sale of weapons is to open up the channels to deliver food and other aid to the starved people of davis to to g.m. and and to bring about a peaceful solution and so of course there is

a need a dire need for food aid to get through and it seems to me that what's happening is that the request for information on 15000000 individuals yemenis including military officers soldiers and so on that the fear is that handing that information over to the world food program let me end up in the hands of the soda coolish and the funding that goes to the world food program because of it coming from 7 of the sody coalition and because of the deeply complex picture that that they in pain about with such passion all information me end up on about how that information may be used in a military fashion. around has broken out between china and the u.k. over the former british colony of hong kong territory has seen large protests against beijing resulting in a rests and injury lead and support for the demonstrations there has infuriated

china artie's evangelise obsessed reports. the massive protests taking place in hong kong these past few weeks over in the upper post extradition bill have now spilled into an international dis you the u.k. or the former colonial power of hong kong has openly voiced its support for the protesters we should have a sense of all about home comb and we. should have a specific sense of our obligations to the individual citizens of hong kong and that means speaking up about what's been happening it's up to the people of hong kong to decide what they think should happen in terms of their own government hong kong is not part of the united kingdom but the u.k. signed an internationally binding legal agreements in 1904 i think shrines the one country 2 systems rule in trying to the basic freedoms of the people of hong kong and we stand foursquare behind that agreements foursquare behind the people of hong kong and there will be serious consequences if that internationally binding legal

agreements were not to be on it the sense of obligation towards the team a credit 6 future of the hong kong people was openly and widely supported by the u.k. media as well london sense of how trying is an over its former colonial power was openly and supported and more encouraged when the hong kong colonial flake appeared in the legislative building which was smashed on monday some u.k. twitter users even went as far as calling for reagan if they cation or reclaim of their former british colony however though the chinese foreign minister is clearly not happy with the sudden increase of interest of london in hong kong they are accusing london of supporting the lawbreakers in the city. showing them to you that the british won the freedom of hong kong residents is a shameless statement yet there's a whole i would like to ask mr hans what democracy hong kong had during british

colonial you can come won't you the people of hong kong did not even have the right to march on the streets. that comments of course they not sit well with the u.k. government which went far as even to summon the chinese ambassador in response but whatever your view on the hong kong extradition bill is it's hard to take calls from british officials seriously just take for exam. the last the pointed governor of hong kong he was neither elected nor chinese and just to give you a better understanding on what i'm talking about here are the names of the 5 past governors of hong kong under u.k. rule did you notice the trend moreover up until mighty $97.00 which was the last year that hong kong was under a rule no elections will held under universal suffrage today polkas might indeed be fighting for its right spots it's not the former colonial power which should be

weighing in on what there's an element of wounded sovereignty with the british criticism but the chinese want to make it clear this is sovereign chinese territory is the formal or want to go our not you still hold elections when they ran hong kong they're really not in your position criticised i think that's strictly speaking true it from the chinese of course it's hypocritical i'm sad to say that not only the british but the american and most other western governments you know hypocrisy should be part of their be official title of how they conduct their affairs how they deal with their human rights issues at home and then how they will use any pretext to support things like color revolutions this is perfectly fine from the point of view of this government i think of course there's a huge role offers but there's other headlines for you and i see as hash now but we're back in 30 minutes with more of the latest see that.

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