italy's prime minister resigned his and accuses interior minister south of pushing the country into a political crisis. u.s. attorney general william paul removes the acting director of prisons after the suicide of jeffrey epstein we discussed the conditions of the jail when epstein took his life with his former lawyer. but fundamentally wrong with that is that jeffrey abstained not long enough for saluting to begin with. the u.s. military and answers plans for new intermediate range hypersonic missiles off the pulling out of the i.n.f. treaty with russia and test launching a new cruise missile. silo

you're watching r.t. international on rosana lockwood thank you for joining us. now more than a year of tensions in italy is that ruling coalition have come to a head with the italian prime minister just to picante resigning after the country's interior minister matteo says vini called for a vote of no confidence to do bensky reports on the unfolding political crisis. yes. well that resignation over its lease prime minister said because they had been widely speculated for the last few days and now it's happened to force plunging italy into a fresh political crisis in his resignation speech on cheese the often he launched a blistering attack on the deputy prime minister and to him in the cemetery he was so beany over the leak basically accusing him of doing everything to profiteer

himself and profiteers party but the government and he accused mattel you sophie me of being the one who's driving the governments into crisis you make it all up to the pole montra debate will go to the president of the republic to officially communicate then to this government intended in my resignation this prime minister well salvini had cooled 2 weeks ago for snap elections amidst the summer holidays in italy saying that the coalition government as it stood was simply not workable saying that he just couldn't work under the constraints of that government. on the world of business of the man as those that produce things but it's really demands action so the only thing that italy canada forward is to waste time anyone who is wasting time is doing so because they're afraid of losing this seat we asked that we vote as soon as possible the italians would choose a government the government

a coalition government was formed back in june of 2018 and it was a pretty evenly or pretty or coupling between the left wing party of the 5 star movement and the anti immigration anti establishment party over the league the 2 coming together to form that government back in june of last year following the elections in march since then what we have seen is a rather rocky road with the partners having several disagreements including recently about a rail willing. between france and italy what also has happened is there's been a reversal in the fortunes of the 2 parties since those elections about 14 months ago back then we saw the 5 star movement taking the lion's share of the vote compared to the league and now it seems to have flipped on its head with poll suggesting if a vote was held today that the league that's material being his party would take some 38 percent of the boat significantly higher than what the polls say would happen to the 5 star movement so what does this all mean for italy now well that's

perhaps the $1000000.00 question there is the chance that the 5 star movement to last of the biggest party could now go on to form another coalition government with of the parties including the democratic party led by italy's former prime minister material renzi and that was something that the materia sylvie actually hinted about today when he launched his own attack in the senate we could also see a technocrat government or a national unity government or of course there could be those snap elections or research center for electoral studies out there paro believe such a coalition never had a chance of long term survival. it was the 1st government formed by these 2 parties this by someone and never been in government and their legal previously in government but with certain right governments so this was a new experimental coalition governments we have problems that clearly show governments that these unique one was not expected to last

a bit longer regardless of what the mean is there is hope to end the clearly in the beginning but of course nobody expected these to fall or long will start so close to live balance to be left alone but this is completely surprising and even m.p.'s from the league didn't really understand why salvini moved to so fast in this very moment. in other news the u.s. attorney general william barr has removed the acting director of u.s. prisons from his post after the recent death of disgraced millionaire geoffrey epstein some lawmakers have praised the decision amid concern over the conditions of the jail where he took his own life. was convicted of paedophilia back in 2007 at the time he was sentenced to 13 months in prison as part of a deal signed by then u.s. attorney alexander acosta epstein had friends in high places among them donald trump bill clinton and prince andrew at the time of his death the financial was

awaiting trial for sex trafficking offenses he was being held at a facility reserved for the most dangerous criminals among them the drug baron el chapo scene had been taken off so assad was despite having made a recent attempt on his own life we spoke to his former lawyer mark furnish who thinks conditions at the jail may have pushed him to the edge. the conditions to which he was subjected would go even the needs of the strongest among us it's this is one of the toughest federal pretrial detention facilities in the country and the conditions are inhumane epstein was subjected to conditions that were similar to those of guzman but not remotely justified by his character or what he was accused of because he was not. a violent individual like chapman chapo was alleged to have been and he's not

a guy who has escaped from prior facilities like guzman was alleged to have done so one would be comparing apples and oranges to liken the 2 to each other but yet their conditions of confinement were strikingly similar and there's something fundamentally wrong with that and what's fundamentally wrong with that is that geoffrey abstain did not belong in that facility to begin with. just my own personal opinion it wouldn't surprise me to learn of anything that might have happened with jeffrey epstein and in my view at that in that facility the real story the real miracle is that we don't hear about these sort of things more about murdered pretrial detainees or suicidal pretrial detainees because the facility. is barbaric and it's a whole. it's like i don't use the word lightly lightly but it's sort of like an

american go log for people who have not yet been convicted of anything so the real shock here is that we don't hear about deaths at pretrial oppressive onerous pretrial detention facilities like the m.c.c. more often. any of us could one day find ourselves rightly or wrongly on on the. business and of of the united states department of justice and nobody nobody sued should be subjected to the conditions that epstein was exposed to for many reasons one of which is that compromises your mental and physical functioning and you can't assist adequately in preparing your own defense and it crushes people we don't really know what happened to mr epstein but certainly i believe personally that being a locked in a facility like that under extraordinary conditions would logically wreak havoc with one's mind and bodies so i certainly i certainly believe that they

personally that they could have played a role absolutely i mean i think we would be foolish to to deny that but again one doesn't want to treat the symptom while ignoring the disease and the disease is how people are routinely denied bail with a shocking ease given the laws that congress passed allowing prosecutors and judge to do that epstein did not belong locked up pending trial and he didn't belong in a hellhole like that before he had been convicted of anything. russia and china have requested a u.n. security council meeting following a u.s. cruise missile test the weapon was previously banned under an arms control agreement with russia and russia's foreign minister claims the u.s. was preparing for the test long before the i.n.f. treaty expired. the symbol has been known from october of last year when the us

national security advisor john bolton visited us he said that donald trump statement about washington's withdrawal from the treaty is not an invitation to dialogue but a final decision it appears that then or maybe even earlier the u.s. started preparing the missile tests conducted on sunday and banned by the i.n.f. treaty the department of defense conducted a fly test of the conventionally configured ground launch cruise missile of the us west coast sunday the test missile exited its ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted this target after more than 500 kilometers of flight intermediate range nuclear forces treaty was signed by moscow and washington back in 1987 it banned certain types of short and mid range missiles and donald trump scrapped the treaty on the 2nd of august on tuesday the us military has announced plans to develop new midrange hypersonic missiles u.s. politicians have welcomed the collapse of the i.n.f.

treaty as an opportunity the united states must regain the strategic advantage by expediting the development and deployment of a new generation of ground launched missiles now the department of defense will be able to conduct those research and development activities bent under r n f treaty so the department of defense will start their steps on building those system they couldn't before former u.s. diplomat jim jacques trust gave us his views on the missile test and the collapse of the treaty. i believe that the decision of the i.m.f. was made of bad faith with the idea that we can attain strategic superiority over russia make russia's security situation i'm annabelle and that report. just with political leverage which ultimately will result in regime change i think that's what these people think and i think of the speed with which this test was made is indicative not not dispositive not prove but indicative that that was the agenda

all along united states establishments not necessarily mr trump would be a fabulous but she is china as another adversary to be eliminated i think they are on deck after the russians but nonetheless that's the way they tend to look at in all the news all foreign t's and southeast turkey a cracking down on kurdish protests these are some of the latest pictures from the city of d.r. backing away of riot police used water cannon and take ass to break up the crowds the region has been great fun rest since the firing of 3 kurdish mayors who were elected back in march the interior minister has accused them of links to the p.k. k. which banquet considers a terrorist organization $400.00 protesters have been arrested in southeast texas since monday and the government crackdown comes amid phase of across border a minute trip aeration in kurdish areas of northern syria the. social media platforms twitter and facebook say they've blocked a number of chinese accounts for trying to undermine the protests in hong kong. we

are disclosing a significant stayed back to informational pression focused on the situation hong kong this disclosure consists of 936 a cancer originating from within the people's republic of china over all these accounts were deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in hong kong including undermining the legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement on the ground we removed 7 pages 3 groups and 5 facebook accounts involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior as part of a small network that originated in china and focused on hong kong. the protest movement in hong kong started back in june a draft legislation allowing the extradition of suspects to mainland china the demonstrations have since the political issues and over the last 11 weeks rallies have frequently tend violent. and rubber bullets against protesters. who takes

a closer look what's motivating them. freedom fair elections democracy it's words like these you'll find throughout the western media coverage of the protests in hong kong but the reality of it is all much more complicated. it's not just politics motivating the violence racial slurs against people from mainland china can be heard throughout the crowds and seen graffitied on official buildings protesters have also been seen brandishing the infamously racist pepe the frog me an internet hate symbol and this is enough phobic violence has even spilled over to protests in other countries. right god. wrote. this anti china extremism comes from a concept called hong kong exceptionalism the idea that hong kong has more in

common with the west than with china because of its british colonial past and that ideologies it here in sa are not exactly shy about their love for all things anti china 6 6. despite all the american flags and anthem singing donald trump says he had no idea why protests were being blamed on the u.s. but his cabinet might have an explanation since they've been meeting with one of the opposition's main icons jimmy lie i'm hit. appreciation lies a self-made billionaire who's made a huge mark on hong kong's opposition movement he landed himself in hot water with beijing back in 2012 when his newspaper published an ad portraying pregnant chinese women as locusts and he's very open about his feelings for american values we need

to know that america is behind us but back in our some america is showing moral authority because we are the only place in china which shares your values and is fighting the same battle you have with china but there's another younger and not so rich rebel leader at play here too joshua wong a fresh 22 year old face of revolution a face loved in many corridors of washington to marco rubio was so in all he nominated wong for a nobel peace prize leave it to washington to nominate a leader of violent protests for peace when it suits them agenda the u.s. is very determinately supporting these protesters every arm of the corporate media. radio television social media is is raising them and always referring to them as pro-democracy protesters where they're not at all this has nothing to do with democracy and they are determined to sabotage in every way that they can any normal relations between china with hong kong and

it it is creating intentionally a great deal of confusion among young people who have been pulled into this against their own interests and we asked the u.s. state department leaders of the hong kong protest movement to comment on the alleged links we've highlighted so far we've not received a response. and tensions between beijing and washington are also high over another part of china taiwan beijing is furious that the trump of ministration has approved the sale of fighter jets to the island and is warning it will take action if the deal goes ahead. china has made numerous solemn representation to the u.s. on the sale of the f. 16 jets to taiwan the u.s. just about all the consequences triggered by the sale it's $8000000000.00 u.s. dollars it's a lot of money that's a lot of jobs and we know they're going to use these f. 16 s responsibly the deal still needs to be approved by the u.s.

senate but if it goes through it will be the 1st sale of f. 16 fighters to taiwan since the 1992 previous requests for jets buying taiwan were rejected by the bomber administration last month the u.s. state department approved another arms deal with taiwan it includes 108 tanks and more than $200.00 missiles the deal is worth some $2200000000.00 that the time beijing also accused the u.s. of meddling saying it would cut ties with every american company involved in the deal or taiwan is officially recognized by only 18 countries but the u.s. has an officially been supporting the island's military since the 1980 s. china sees taiwan as part of its territory china expert and lee says beijing will point the finger at washington if tensions escalate. there is some unity in washington to go hard on china and some of these folks who are elected they're basically elected with the same funding for the people who got

people into the trumpet midst gratian and who fund the think tanks in washington and so it's all basically representing the same elite interests china sees this as an aggressive move by the u.s. to try to provoke them into war the chinese basically up and say that the u.s. is going to be at fault here because there are not being consistent and not honoring promises that were made in previous administrations and so this big departure is going to be on the u.s. and that's where they want to place the blame here if there is any military escalation that happens. u.s. democrats have been accused of abandoning some effect cool values in the bid to get rid of donald trump in 2020 that's also they collaborated on a book on how to defeat him orphaned by someone accused of sexual harassment.

i was. given him a book once again put him in the position of authority and that is a slap in the face to all of their woman that he has victimized. for the 1st time many women felt empowered to speak about their own experiences because society to them seriously and to their claims to be credible there's an awakening taking place across the country women and yes men well aware of the sexual misconduct and harassment that has gone on for yes i seen the policy has been quite equivalent and strong in saying we have a 0 tolerance policy. westen

major source is a warning that russian radiation monitoring stations have gone silent following an explosion this month at a military site in the country's north medina cocina has been digging deeper into the story. 2 russian radiation money touring stations have resumed operation and this news follows a number of alarming reports that were made earlier by a number of foreign news media claiming that several russian radiation money touring stations went offline allegedly after a nuclear accident that happened in russia north on august 8th now the wall street journal wrote that 4 stations that were designed to detect nuclear radiation all went silent right after the blast the article raised concerns that russia was attempting to conceal evidence from the explosion. site the wall street journal

quoted. both the executive director of the comprehensive nuclear. nation we receive data from monitoring stations around the world now he heard jack to the potential path of the plume from the explosion and posted it on his twitter feed now right after the accident russia sends special access very to the site to monitor the situation and just yesterday the country's president vladimir putin said that there was no threat of a radiation leak. but there is new and there's new spy can break you should levels experts military and civilian specialists and there's no significant change there. to avoid any surprises. me now right after the accidents there were indeed very few details available on what happened and that mostly fueled western tabloids so with the rumors of a true novel like disaster whispers

a radiation leak also appeared in the media with some even writing about the number of the disease to being higher now later the russian nuclear agency issued a report revealing that the accident happened on the sea platform after its. of trials and that there was no threat of a radiation leak. a us democratic lawmaker has apologized after pictures showing the marcus s. nation of president trump went viral illinois state senator martin sunbelt says an entertainment hired for one of his fundraiser events was behind them the pictures were posted online by the senator's supporters who were at the fundraising event 2 in the photos a man a seen pointing a gun at another person wearing a trump mask the post has provoked quite quite an outcry the apology from senator sanders all for the detestable pictures from his event depict in assassination of

president trump is too little too late it's inexcusable for an elected official to allow the promotion of violence in any way if the individual pictured as a star for all volunteer they should be terminated immediately martin sun devil in illinois is further proof it is the democrats who are inciting violence i have yet to see a republican promote such violence every democrat should be asked if they support to disavow this the editorial director at the reactionary times who year rivera believes violent behavior has become increasingly except among some parts of the left or unfortunately the rhetoric from the liberal left has continued to get more and more violent this is becoming increasingly excepted by the left in the mainstream media continues to blast this message oh we're seeing an increase in violent behavior from the left people complain about the polls are negative you

know divisive rhetoric from president promise but i've never seen a president from stage a mock assassination of any of his democratic opponent what happens is it has the potential to radicalize the weak minded you know today's assassinations become tomorrow's assassination attempt. more than 30 children in the south of france have been diagnosed with all snake poisoning after a flood back in october released toxic mud from a closed off gold mine parents award more children could be affected. me in october 28th seen a way flooded the entire school courtyard and carried away all the walls that were here after this the yard was covered with

a layer sedimentary mud and unfortunately 6 months later in april we unexpectedly found out that the level of arsenic was abnormally high then a team from the geological research office conducted an independent examination and said that now despite the conclusion of the previous team there are no more traces of arsenic. on italians who all of us were worried day and night our boy had very strong symptoms but when the results were given to us at the hospital the doctors told us the symptoms were related to the levels of arsenic we're still at they did deference of tory's all the dust is simply swept under the carpet while there is more a more obvious evidence that there was a natural sanitary problem and. my son got arsenic poisoning at school and in the

valley of all b.l. where everyone was a tourist of one faction and especially my son because he suffered from their facts of the flogging in the schoolyard. news around up this hour i'm resigning and i'll be back here in just over 30 minutes time with the next round up of headlines from around the world see them.

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greetings in salutation. mark your calendars talk watchers because this past sunday august 18th 2 30 pm. the united states officially put the final nail in the coffin that was once the i.m.f. treaty as burial services for the landmark end of the cold war era deal made between the united states and the soviet union to rein in the build up of intermediate range nucular forces were held at san nicolas island off the coast of california the highlight of the services on the island beach of the u.s. military testing a new ground based 500 meter range cruise missile the department of defense press release stated the test missile accident its ground mobile launcher and accurately impacted its target after more than 500 kilometers of flight and that the data

collected lessons learned from this test will inform the defense of the partment of defense development of future intermediate range capabilities. great for them these latest moves by the pentagon has left many rightfully concerned as this test comes just 16 days after the united states officially withdrew from the treaty back on august 2nd newsweek writes the both china and russia are criticizing this latest test reporting that kremlin spodes spokesperson dmitri cited president vladimir putin as saying tuesday such tests only prove that from the very start the americans were determined to direct the i.n.f. treaty and were making preparations for it so under the rocket test red glare treaties tore it up on the floor and the threat of another nuclear arms race knocking at the door at think it's time to start watching the hawks.