died like a dog died like a coward in the stories that shaped the week here on our to international donald trump announces the death of the islamic state leader in syria we compare the raid against baghdad to the operation that killed bin. laden yet again the u.k. is heading for an early general election widely seen as another referendum on leaving the e.u. . and an american journalist claims political persecution after his arrest for an alleged assault maxa blumenthal tells r t he is being targeted for reporting on venezuelan opposition to. the forefront of exposing the us against venezuela and now they're trying to steal my freedom.

and broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories right donald trump's announcement of the death of leader. a week ago shook the world and the terror group has since confirmed the claim u.s. president said the terrorist detonated a suicide vest during a u.s. raid in syria killing himself and 2 of his children a brutal killer one who has caused so much hardship and death. has violently been eliminated he died like a dog he died like a coward this drone video shows the aftermath of the us operation the compound is located in italy but province the last rebel stronghold in syria artie's but i've got to have looked into the similarities between the u.s.

raid against mondavi and the operation that killed bin laden. honestly at this point it's turning into whack a mole whack a terrorist it's like an initiation now for american presidents to kill the biggest the baddest guy you can add and take a really cool photo. the united states brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice. of move a car al baghdadi is dead. that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden the leader of al qaeda and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men women and children deja vu doesn't do this just this big bad bin laden hiding out in pakistan

a friendly nation that washington liberally sprinkles with billions in aid big bad baghdadi id gotten even a bastion of u.s. supported rebels which up until 2017 washington liberally supplied with guns ammunition and missiles it is the last a major rebel stronghold in the north of syria the last rebel stronghold of in that one of the last remaining areas in western syria that the government does not control booth tera honchos were given the same burial ceremony with the same rights baguette his remains were buried it's the in accordance with the law of armed conflict within 24 hours of his death of some bad law his corpse was taken by the troops to the aircraft carrier the u.s.s. carl vinson the he was buried at sea according to muslim tradition of cool 7 things classified new pictures new proof that it was the men they claim to have killed

just there would also hero dogs the dog that helped sniff out bin laden and the pooch who is in the raid in baghdad what are the chances are all well and good the great click bait for the tabloids but the timing in both cases a year before elections to kill the biggest the baddest guy you can add is going to get voters and you aside right the feet of al qaida defeated isis problem is of course they didn't 8 years since bin laden's death we find the cause. alive and kicking with their own mini caliphate didn't even live where they were hosting the leader of isis is a province which is the largest al qaeda safe haven since $911.00 killing bin laden didn't stop al qaida they grew since then now a week off to trump off the baghdadi isis has already proclaimed a nuke

a live but hey at least both a bomb and trump got absolutely bad pictures to 30 commanders in chief. or human and he'll discuss to the death of baghdad and what it means for islamic state with our to america correspondent bush image how significant a development is that what extent will i still be weakened well they've lost the territory long ago i mean what we're dealing with for all intents and purposes are small bands of. leftover bands of fighters their power their true power was was broken long ago with the end of baghdad he is would be a significant development in so far as he declared himself the colleague and this manner of his death has been. there only the legitimizing to that particular role

somebody who claims to have the mandate of heaven such as it is and you know ending in such a fashion which i think was the purpose of president trump's comments the way he phrased it there'd be a lot of anger directed double trouble over his. what was called his betrayal of the kurds and that wasn't very long ago high potentially beneficial might this be in the other aspect for him taking out such a high profile target well your vast majority of americans would react to this with pride and joy ok baghdad. is done for fantastic the media absolutely hated because this ruins their entire narrative about being a bumbling politician who's who's messing up the syria policy who's just needs to be impeached right away that's the narrative they've been trying to sell the american people for the past 3 years it was a terrible day for them and a really good day for trump from the standpoint of inter-marriage an optics for the for the population of the country at large because it helped obama didn't win the

photo that went everywhere and now they're saying that you have a sim very much the same situation analogous situation and yet the treatment is completely different. it was supposed to be a hollowing bragg's it for the u.k. on thursday but the prime minister was forced to ask the e.u. for yet another extension after months of parliamentary deadlock and now the country is heading for a snap election with all options still on the table sums up the saga so far. has hit its hollow we brag deadline and in case you haven't noticed the u.k. hasn't left the european union again they've called a general election instead it's fair to say that for many here in britain brags it is now a joke and since the country voted to leave the e.u. back in 2016 the u.k.'s internet users have been trying to console themselves through the 5 stages. of grief denial when the brags it was

all it was fast announced even the queen was confused the british people have to leave the european union right she said the people. and then there was the time that everyone realized that adele song was about brave visit. and brags that wary journalists started talking about the most important meal of the day instead she will say that breaks it means breakfast breaks it until it breaks breakfast in the u.k. then breaks breakfast we will make breakfast breakfast a success. after denial that was anger best summed up by john bercow trying to keep a lid on parliamentary proceedings or did. she. 6 know what i'm doing.

oh do 6. i want it was time to officially trigger article 50 that's that letter telling brussels that the u.k. really does want not divorce well the analogy is well priceless. then there was bargaining when terrorism a made trip off the trip to brussels trying to get herself a brags it deal off to advance the own set of bragg's it induced depression that was when brits started coming up with drinking games just to make things a little more exciting what we need is a bricks and drinking guy it would be so much more interesting if the whole country lined up some shots and took one every time said. words were mentioned the

government is still searching for the censorship. come on us like you better take bricks or drink you're going to eat a little bit go on. to reason raise government's vision of a successful brags it had become this magical unattainable unicorn. politics you know basically parents who promise their daughter a unicorn to reason why is presenting them a horse with an oist cream cone gluten which while over in brussels the u.k.'s inability to get a briggs it deal through parliament turned into existential angst there is a special place in hell for those promoting bragg's it without a plan said donald tusk and the guest list is still being finalized according to. those still empty and. it means the lot of space. one man we can bet terse may think

will make an appearance is britain's new prime minister boris johnson. with another extension agreed with brussels under a general election on the way the u.k. gets to stay in gregg's it limbo for another few months in fact plagues it purgatory has become the norm for those of us living in these green and pleasant pastures which brings us to the final stage of grief and that is except. an american journalist claims the u.s. is trying to silence him for his reporting on venezuela max blumenthal was recently arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman during a protest at the venezuelan embassy in washington back in may he spoke to r.t. about the case. why 5 months after the incident alleged in the court

documents and this false charge did i have a team of police officers show up and demand entry to my house and take me to prison for 2 days without access to a lawyer i was told by someone who has very good inside knowledge of this case that a judge already rejected the warrant and i for the last 5 months have been able to walk free i have traveled in and out of the country if there had been a warrant at any point i would have already been arrested furthermore. why didn't they notify me that there was a warrant so i could turn myself in and show up at my own arraignment because i have nothing to fear i'm completely innocent i'm not a flight risk why didn't they do that it's an attempt to persecute me for the journalism that we've done at the gray zone because at the gray zone we have been at the forefront of exposing the u.s. against venezuela of exposing one team for the covert and overt u.s.

support they've received and for the massive corruption and now they're trying to steal my freedom. police say the woman in question identified of the journalist from a photo she is a supporter of the venezuelan opposition. was reporting from outside the venezuelan embassy where the woman claims she was badly beaten. i want to make it to be pushed 2 of them to me trying to. passage so i started to how do. i know earlier this year us backed opposition leaders in venezuela 'd launched a failed coup against president nicolas maduro and in washington supporters of the opposition attempted to install themselves in the country's embassy during the tussle for control with the pro-government activist the alleged assault took place blumenthal's attorney told us more about the political persecution claim. they

decided to arrest him right after the gray zone had republic a story that showed that. and his team were receiving funding from usa id now are those 2 things related it certainly would seem like this is some form of retaliation if you sit in a court for arraignment you'll see 3040 people come up and their cases if it's a simple assault allegedly. will be what's called a no paper the prosecution won't bring a case here we have a dynamic where one individual was arrested in may and now 6 months later. they are now bringing a case against max blumenthal on the same matter where i do believe that there are political motives i mean how else does one explain a case that you know is brought 6 months after the fact. you know what was going on in those 6 months prior why did they not bring the case then

because there's not evidence this man didn't do this so here we have a journalist on this topic and on others who has been critically reporting inconvenient facts about powerful people. you know both in the u.s. government and u.s. interests and you know it's reported critically on those which is a journalist is supposed to do and now he's being retaliated against and now you know this is his punishment for speaking out that is what this looks like. we contacted the prosecutor's office in washington for comment on max blumenthal's case we will let you know if we hear back from them. all right huge crowds flooded central baghdad throughout the weekend calling for a radical overhaul of the country's political system. and demonstrators have been blocking major roads and burning tires forcing government offices and businesses to close rallies have also been taking place in the country's south where protesters

disrupting transport networks are in. iraq's government is accused of rampant corruption and failure to restore basic public services adding to the anger it has also launched a brutal crackdown on dissenters killing more than $250.00 since the uprising began . to meet the love of all of the university students in baghdad taking part in this protest it's for our country and most of the people here are deeply patriotic. these protests are sending a message if our demands are not mad we will hold even bigger demonstrations. lead the people decide for themselves let the people form the government please go where the people are protesting said the government should resign everyone is taking to the streets students young people the elderly when everyone is on the streets. middle eastern affairs analyst ali risk told us more about what's driving the protest. but the fact is that you do have lawyers for corruption in iraq and this

is something which iraq all these iraqi citizens have complained over time and again you have to remember that there's a lot of. resources in iraq iraq is a very rich country you know so we rock should be a prosperous nation if you take it will new start does it mine do you know its economic strengths your revenue it's as i said reduced to restructure the worst place where many show up who don't visit so the iraq does indeed suffer from this problem. u.s. prosecutors this week rejected a claim from president trump's former security advisor michael flynn that he is the victim of a plot to set up an innocent man flynn faces up to 5 years in prison on charges of lying to the f.b.i. in the trump russia collusion probe parties don't quarter comments.

michael flynn lied to the f.b.i. flynn is a proven liar practice liar michael flynn is a liar lied to the f.b.i. was a lawyer general flynn casualty number one of the russia gates saga is calling out the f.b.i. he claims they changed the wording of his responses to their questioning and did so to arrest him we also have information that the agents did manipulate the 3 o 2 you know it was long in a quote deliberative state as they called it which is highly unusual in an homage self we have taxes exhibit 11 to our document the comparison of the february 10th and february 11th 3 o 2 that show the addition of substantial additional claims that were not in there before and are not supported by the notes.

the f.b.i. uses 30 tuesday keep an official record of their interviews in flynn's case the form was used by the f.b.i. to claim he lied but did he really it's not so clear anymore flynn's defense team just released a court documents suggesting something very different happened that the f.b.i. actually significantly changed the meaning of what he actually said. the f.b.i. wanted to know if len had ever discussed sanctions with the russian ambassador he said he wasn't sure he had spoken to many i'm basters and didn't really keep a tally although the record showed he said this. flynn stated he did not the narrative of flynn the liar was born but that wasn't the only problem with the interview some of which were there from the get go. the f.b.i. wanted to send agents into the white house itself to interview senior official you

would work through the white house counsel and the discussions and approvals and it would be there and i thought it's early enough to send a couple guys over so who did kill me send on over agent peter struck who was fired for sending messages to his f.b.i. girlfriend funny enough it's those messages that shed some light on how flynn's 3 o 2 was apparently tampered with a major edits and sent them to joe i also e-mailed you the day 23 o 2 a live this was proven to be a lie it was a set up and there is an investigation that is going on by attorney use the f.b.i. for political purposes in order to manipulate or to target certain people like michael flynn by using the countries like russia and others as scapegoats as enemies of the people as is those not to be trusted all of this was set up in order to harm political opponents and these notes that were typed up later were altered

in edited even so much so that the written word in it was altered later it would be as if somebody say you are either normal person was questioned by police officers about a robbery and you say i did not commit this robbery but instead the officer writes down they committed the robbery and then you have to go before a judge and argue that your statements weren't lies within the notes of the officer that's what this case is talking about that's why this is so important. russians are often the go to villains in today's computer games and the latest edition of call of duty takes it to a whole new level though in a big though to protect sales the version for russian market has quite a few key differences take a look. the

russians on the on the stand. so i showed them quite. closely that. understand why. because they killed all soldiers. now look at. the us and allies in rocky's soldiers as they try to flee kuwait and return to iraq . by way of. killing the people trying to escape.

we don't want to say that one of them is correct. a lot of hearts out trying to blur the lines between good and bad but it ends up quickly establishing the good guys as very clearly that's right. and you confessions yes they do but i make no distinction between alcohol and the russian army that are both terrorists coming up right next to me and dichotomies me by. the tough. stuff but the more you know it's.

all that does it for me and of the way kevin old will be heard about what's a 35 minutes with a full and fresh look at your news international weather. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be close that's what before 3 of them or can't be. interested always in the waters in the house. there should. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was right. you know told to shut up but they'd

kill me and i see how it destroyed my life many screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he raped me with his birthing curia if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing tappan but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished and be offended and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the register. this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's men or women.

time after time they were going underground on the birthday of india's most famous bandit queen who learned their view full for justice for the poor about the countryside and parliament before a $21.00 assassination coming up in the show as nuclear armed nations attack each other over india's unilateral decision to take control of kashmir prominent b.j. people additions of romani and swami tells us it will be maybe 3 more weeks before journalists phones on the internet will work again in one of the most militarized places on a bus will genocide to be next for the people of kashmir we speak to pakistan's high commissioner in london about prime minister imran khan calling on the

international community is moral courage to intervene all of them all coming of a days going underground or 1st in a week when the threat of nuclear conflict has roots line colonialism capitalism in the so-called cold war nobel literature laureate toni morrison died at the age of 88 this week here is the author of beloved destroying the idea that the so-called cold war was ever called the consequences of becoming a democracy are out there. we emphasize that part but we're also a major capitalist capitalist a clique formed country. and that's true of all of europe i mean you know the slaves come home from the plantation the war is still going on the cold war that keep talking about these years of peace peace what peace they've been fighting 30 years of wars elts where all the blood was in the war.

a confrontation with russia a confrontation with communism there was no nuclear supposin there were no you know there was not but they still thought well one flashpoint of the so-called cold war was china's war within the year of a kashmir and after this week's delhi decision to seize control of the disputed jammu and kashmir region i'm joined now from delhi by auto pradesh m.p. from india's ruling b j p party dr subramanian swamy severe money thanks for coming back on now were some 40 up 240000 people died since 9087 in conflict there india now has total control what exactly is going on there because landlines have been cut of mobile phones everything is being cut off journalists can't get there are a lot of. my party associates on the ground which. i think is funny. and this all quiet nothing apennine the revolver and that's where the expectation was to and of course on this and more until the

collapse of all this the fuse lifted we will know for sure but i. guess that nothing was. because you probably know that pakistan's prime minister imran khan has compared your party to the not the party under hitler. it's sure you must have been told what to speak by the military that don't mean i don't take anything so seriously well the bugs bunny i commissioner did delhi consult with maging before hand before making this announcement where i don't see a new world console in the on the specifics because they only matter this. walking i do need to making amendments 'd in our constitution. we might say to them that we have followed the constitution these are the. this is going to cost us and.

we're always subject to challenge in the court by those who don't like this i doubt that we were called to change that because none of their business already it's affecting india isn't it the foreign ministry of china said this week the indian side has continued to undermine china's territorial sovereignty by unilaterally amending its domestic laws this practice is unacceptable forget pakistani nuclear weapons china are all busy of nuclear weapons to what exactly has india achieved so far by this unified actual decision for direct rule of jammu and kashmir and that region of we have complied with the promise we've made to the public of india that we remove this nonsensical. court on the cost of tuition of india oh yeah i'm going to conduct a lawsuit to since we called out today for laws on the whole concept of the way and more cows lose.