saying georgia is european country is absurd this is the caucasus country. at the gulf coast that i'm. a candidate from georgia in march will be running in georgia's presidential elections in october but with different groups and generations pulling the country in different directions it will likely take much longer for georgia's future to take shape. and also the trial of the captain of a german aid ship that rescued more than two hundred thirty my appearance in the mediterranean resumed today only to be postponed for three weeks for procedural reasons back in june maltese authorities allowed the ship to dock but then impounded and charged its captain. with failing to properly register the vessel insists he's done nothing wrong did have a news met up with him at his home in southern germany klaus peter highish had a comfortable life and bavaria he has a nice house and runs a successful small business but did not want to be complacent so he became a captain aboard a search and rescue ship in the mediterranean and that is now why he is facing legal proceeding

bear in mind many of them not even syrians islamists on jihad from china from central asia from the caucasus from morocco to baghdad with nowhere left to retreat what's worse is the foreign power buildup in the region out of the blue u.s. cruise missile delivery systems guided missile destroyers strategic bombers a re basing and dropping anchor near syria days after the u.s. and its allies warned that take action if chemical weapons are used by as sad and russia which is beefing up its own presence warns that it's the easily mists that are planning just that the u.s. continues to expand its presence of cruise missile carriers in the middle east which is connected to the preparations for another false flag incident allegedly involving chemical weapons russian reports of u.s. military buildup in the eastern med and nothing more than propaganda it's not true that does not mean however that were unprepared to respond should the president direct such an action the united states the nice building up its forces but says it's ready to attack syria if need be the good news is that russia and the unit

bear in mind many of them not even syrians islamists on jihad from china from central asia from the caucasus from morocco to baghdad with nowhere left to retreat what's worse is the foreign power buildup in the region out of the blue u.s. cruise missile delivery systems guided missile destroyers strategic bombers a re basing and dropping anchor near syria days after the u.s. and its allies warned that take action if chemical weapons are used by as'ad and russia which is beefing up its own presence warns that it's the easily mists that are plotting just that the u.s. continues to expand its presence of cruise missile carriers in the middle east which is connected to the preparations for another false flag incident allegedly involving chemical weapons russian reports of u.s. military buildup in the eastern med and nothing more than propaganda it's not true that does not mean however that were unprepared to respond should the president direct such an action the united states denies building up its forces but says it's ready to attack syria if need be the good news is that russia and the united

german chancellor angela merkel is in the armenian capital europe as part of a three day tour of the caucasus after meeting prime minister nichol question on american visited a memorial to armenians killed during the ottoman empire raechel says the atrocities should not be forgotten but stopped short of using the word genocide which in the past has angered turkey. space cabinet has put forward a law that would allow it to consume the remains of francisco franco a former dictator is buried in a national mausoleum the socialist led government wants to relocate the grave to respect victims of franco's regime his family and supporters oppose the move which still leaves the approval of parliament. hurricane lane is pounding hawaii with high winds and torrential rains as it moves across the pacific the storm has now been downgraded to category two and is moving away from the big island but it's still drop more rain there officials described flooding on parts of the island as catastrophic. u.s. republican senator john mccain has decided to discontinue cancer treatment that's according to his stateme

angela merkel has landed in the armenian capital year of honest part of a three day tour of the caucasus america was greeted at the airport by the armenian prime minister nicola pasha on she flew in after visiting georgia and will end her tour tomorrow with a stop in azerbaijan hurricane lane is pounding hawaii with high winds and torrential rains as it moves across the pacific the storm has now been downgraded to category three but can still cause major damage with winds of up to two hundred kilometers an hour each stream downpours have triggered flash floods and landslides. space cabinet has put forward a law that would allow it to exuma the remains of francisco franco the former dictator is buried in a national mausoleum leo socialist led government wants to relocate the grave to stop it becoming a fascist shrine franco's family and supporters oppose the move which still needs the approval of parliament. the e.u. has warned italy to refrain from making threats to withhold funding from the block over a migrant ship dispute crisis talks held in brussels have ended without a resolution a

of the germany's chancellor is in the armenian capital yet a vast part of a three day tour of the caucasus of the missing prime minister nicole i'm going to visit a memorial to amin into killed in the autumn an empire the chancellor said the atrocities should not be forgotten and stopped short of using the word genocide which is anger in the past. for us republican senator john mccain just to discontinue his treatment for cancer according to a statement from his family the eighty one year old a vietnam war veteran who once unsuccessfully ran for president was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer last year his family say he's already survived longer than expected. hundreds of firefighters here in germany are battling an unprecedented the blaze near the capital wildfire has taken hold of a large wooded area around fifty kilometers southwest of berlin but a six hundred people were moved from their homes though some have now been allowed to return. we'll bring you an update from the scene in just a moment first this ripples. to triste summer in living memory has left the region ar

start of the myanmar crackdown that forced them to leave their homes protesters marched through the caucasus bazaar region where hundreds of thousands are living in makeshift camps maher says it's ready to take back the refugees but there's been little progress in resolving the crisis the muslim minority will hinge on are demanding equal rights with others in myanmar. the crackdown began after a hinge islamist carried out coronated attacks on thirty police stations that left a dozen officers dead we take a look at what happened. and never ending line of refugees streaming across the border from nehemiah to bangladesh. that they fled after security forces launched a brutal offensive against them last august. soldiers looted and torched their homes they raped tortured and killed thousands of ranger. across the border in bangladesh the refugees have settled in sprawling camps. as they've tried to settle in here with stories of unimaginable horrors have emerged. soldiers came into every house and shot at us. and they looked me up in my house and then set fire to it i have burns like this. out of

saying georgia is european country is absurd this is the caucasus country. at the. a candidate from georgia in march will be running in georgia's presidential elections in october but with different groups and generations pulling the country in different directions it will likely take much longer for georgia's future to take shape. coming up ahead your coffee cup often ends up in a landfill because so far. has been difficult to recycle but they may have a solution inside. this instance could have a story for you shortly. often fighting for the case taking seriously in the world of what appears this coming out women strong.

analysis on the terrorist groups and their activity whether it's in syria or around the world in the caucasus in them in the u.s. we should all be fired so we have to have the courage to do that it's in my experience of i was involved in the earliest if you will lays on work between the u.s. and russia at the time of the breakup of the soviet union and i don't recall a time when three intelligence chiefs all came together to washington such as just happen and so i take it as a very positive signal of a desire to do more and i hope both sides can find the strength to do that. this is just a chance for politicians to loughton t.v. friendly blaming spies right and left because on the other hand surely they must care about the actual issues of national security right yes i hope so and i have i have a deep respect for senator schumer and i i quote i would question this based on what i've seen in the media and i hope behind it all it's not a seriously questioning why we would be doing this at this time i would also add that again this is a somewhat unorthodox few for someone like me i'm not a belie

correction corruption has been brought to a minimum but at the same time you have regions in the caucasus where you can i do anything without the bribe and that reminded me of of the research you're involved in right now about the differences between the collective farms. that are gone from your research is that what matters in russia the most is not they had what you call framework but you know the actual person in charge is that still the case. in russia i think very much so i think that personal networks are very important i think you know my students looking for jobs now it's often more important who they know than the qualifications that they have it's also you know if you're friends with somebody they maybe protect you they help you get resources that you don't have access to but you know the sort of good old boys' network exists in a lot of american small towns too and that's what it reminds me of the good old boys network and it's because the normal channels of communication often don't work certainly in the soviet union the only way to get things done was to ask your friend who y

german chancellor uncle americal has kicked off a three day tour of the caucasus region her first stop is the georgian capital tbilisi where she was welcomed by the prime minister georgia has aspirations of joining the european union and nato as protection against potential russian aggression but miracle indicated that membership was not a priority. spain has deported over one hundred migrants from its north african territory ceuta the migrants were sent back to morocco after breaching the border fence earlier this week migrant shelters in suits are currently doubled their capacity human rights groups have criticized spain for sending some migrants back before checking their asylum claims. and on a related theme in malta the trial of the captain of a german eight ship that rescued more than two hundred thirty migrants in the mediterranean resumed today only to be postponed for three weeks for procedural reasons back in june maltese authorities allowed the ship to dock but then impounded it and charged its captain klaus. with failing to properly register the vessel hash insists he's don

german chancellor on the macros visiting georgia as part of a three day tour of the caucasus region she met with the georgian prime minister on thursday and said she rejected fast tracking membership for the country so now head to the armenian capital year of on before ending her trip and bridge on tomorrow sports now the new business leaders season kicks off tonight here in germany in the opening match defending champions byron munich will take on hoffenheim germany's embarrassing early exit from the world cup as raise real concerns over the competitiveness of the bonus league abut the players appear ready to prove those doubters wrong. the new bundesliga season is upon us ready to treat fins to another glut of the motions. germany shocking world cup campaign however is still fresh in focus as well as the poor performance of bundesliga clubs in europe paying competition last term internationally german football is going through a blake period only by merely because stood out they made the semifinals of the champions league last season and of march to six consecutive bundesliga titles w

we've lost the showers on the southern side of the caspian sea we've got heavy showers around the caucasus and through on the eastern side of the black sea these are the mediterranean is looking fine temperatures there of thirty one expected in beirut and some a sore temperatures expected through friday so let's head down into the arabian peninsula on the western side of the peninsula temperatures in the low forty's bit of cloud around most is fairly high so just looks quite attractive as the sun sets me more on the eastern side of the peninsula we've got still enough of a breeze to in the course of thursday temperatures here in doha forty degrees celsius but as we head into the weekend i think we're going to find the humidity creeping up as that wind drops somewhat lighter and meanwhile musk out there temperatures of twenty nine degrees and certainly quite a bit of cloud around moving into south africa we've got an area of what we call convergence and you see this area of rain developing across south africa with the chance of some really heavy rain into the south so with snow at the highe

al of the big shop tensions returned to the caucasus you can see the white cloud here and also turkmenistan the far north of iran if you're really lucky they probably weren't the other one to shasta potentially around the caspian but i think iran is going to go towards tashkent and be on the amati to find decent rain is still there in the far north of pakistan little less so in the south but again wouldn't share if you're lucky otherwise the picture is a dry one still a dusty we're on in iraq still about about thirty one mark on the coast of the woods no i'm sure breeze of the east and met now recently the breeze is come out of iraq has brought more humidity with it to cut out the u.a.e. that's like to go back to the dusty size a dusty in eastern side of saudi temperatures rise as a result forty for the full cost which is rather hot the mecca the potential for shyness is still there in yemen and of course the saudi if you still blowing in salalah big shots from tropical africa up in the south a useful addition around the eastern cape there's a lot of cloud recently some decent rain and the

no longer wake up at night wanting to drink there are hundreds of families across russia's north caucasus just like and ours searching for grandchildren mainly fear they will never see them again. to know if there is anything one message one sign that they are alive you have to grab it run around fake ask for help there are good people in the world. which. i do not question i see reporting from russia's republic of dagestan this is the first in a series of reports on the fate of the children we found at the iraqi orphanage one year ago and throughout the week here on r.t. we will bring you other stories on how they're getting used to life after the trauma they experienced. but it's not just iraq where families of four and i saw fighters have ended up stranded in syria there are still refugee camps housing thousands of wives and children whose fate remains unclear. i moved i was so afraid of islamic state because they could have executed me if i try to escape so i had no other option but to sustain. my husband was threatening me that if i returned home he would apply me to the muslim relig

saying georgia is european country is absurd this is the caucasus country. at the start of. a candidate from georgia in march will be running in georgia's presidential elections in october but with different groups and generations pulling the country in different directions it will likely take much longer for georgia's future to take shape. our next up where we have to iraq's kurdish region where. western style suits and ties are not common fashion garments for men but that could change thanks to a gentlemen's club started by a very well dressed young man who has returned to his homeland after years of living in germany but before starting a trend for sharp dressing he had to find a tailor who could make him a tie. to the club members always have their phone cameras ready as they walk through the streets of erbil later they post the pictures online. mr erbil now has forty members a lot more people would like to join but membership is closed for the time being. matt and his parents fled iraq when he was a teenager he lived in germany for fourteen years. there could be yours b

bear in mind many of them not even syrians islamists on jihad from china from central asia from the caucasus from morocco to baghdad with nowhere left to retreat what's worse is the foreign power buildup in the region out of the blue u.s. cruise missile delivery systems guided missile destroyers strategic bombers a re basing and dropping anchor near syria days after the u.s. and its allies warned that take action if chemical weapons are used by as'ad and russia which is beefing up its own presence warns that it's the easily mists that are planning just that the us continues to expand its presence of cruise missile carriers in the middle east which is connected to the preparations for another false flag incident allegedly involving chemical weapons russian reports of u.s. military buildup in the eastern med and nothing more than propaganda it's not true that does not mean however that were unprepared to respond should the president direct such an action the united states denies building up its forces but says it's ready to attack syria if need be the good news is that russia and the united st

that many of them aren't even syrians from all over the world from china from central asia from the caucasus from morocco to baghdad out on jihad in syria and again they have nowhere left to retreat but the biggest danger here is the danger of an international escalation because out of the blue we have u.s. military assets we're talking here about. cruise missile carrying systems cruise missile delivery systems being stationed off the coast of the coast of syria guided missile destroyers as well as strategic bombers an aircraft that could wreck a lot of damage on syria if brought to bear and this is days after the united states and its allies britain and france wanted a joint statement that they would strike syria if there are reports of using chemical weapons the russians though is saying that they're warning that chemical attack is imminent except it will be the rebels who carried out we've been hearing of about this military buildup what do we know about this exactly well both russia and the united states have been beefing up their assets in the region we have a huge russian naval presenc

no longer wake up at night wanting to drink there are hundreds of families across russia's north caucasus just like i am ours searching for grandchildren mainly fear they will never see them again. if there is anything one message one sign that they are alive you have to grab it run around fake ask for help there are good people in the world . i do not question i see reporting from russia's republic of dagestan well that was the first in a series of reports on the fate of the russian citizens who left the country along with their families to join eisel throughout the week we'll bring you other stories on how returning as they're adapting to life back at home. to people being confirmed and sixty others wounded in a major explosion near belong port in italy the shocking moment of the blast was captured by an eyewitness. what. happened after a gas tanker was reportedly involved in a traffic accident and burst into flames on a busy motorway a number of vehicles were caught up in the blast part of the motorway fly over has also collapsed. u.s. president donald trump has reiterated his plan to

call of desires to move to the russian empire and they built german towns on the volga and in the caucasus they worked hard and prospered during the communist era they were dispossessed and in the second world war they were deported to siberia. as an orphan my grandfather my father's father earned his living there in a mine he started a family and moved to fertile kazakstan together with other german seeking to start over. there was a mine here to. live. life to. the story of the deportation the new beginnings the stories of the mind those were the fairy tales of my childhood. the moral of the story work hard work a lot and do no wrong. the germans lived in the russian empire for five generations they kept their culture and language alive even though they faced persecution and discrimination. then communism collapsed and half of the town left the fact that nobody was allowed to take along any money for their new beginning in germany didn't stop anyone those who stayed experience because it stands economic collapse very directly. no water no light no security. the ninety's were a dark time

saying georgia is european country is absurd this is the caucasus country. at the start of. a candidate from georgia in march will be running in georgia's presidential elections in october but with different groups and generations pulling the country in different directions it will likely take much longer for georgia's future to take shape. well it is being hailed as a giant leap forward for weather forecasting after sixteen years of intensive planning a new satellite has been sent into orbit to monitor wind patterns around the globe . i was speaking tonight going as. a rocket carrying the satellite blasted off from the european space agency's spaceport in french guiana it's been named a oh less after the keeper of the winds in greek mythology scientists hope the data collected will help to more accurately predict and stream weather and climate change which. and back here on earth the day is nearly done but as always the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at the news or you can write directly to me you see my handle right there bret goff t.v. and

saying georgia is european country is absurd this is the caucasus country. at the start of. a candidate from georgia in march will be running in georgia as presidential elections in october but with different groups and generations pulling the country in different directions it will likely take much longer for georgia's future to take shape. monica joins me now and we return to this tit for tat tat of imposition of tears with the u.s. and china washington and beijing don't really see eye to eye or they do and in another way amrita because china says it's lapping retaliatory terrorists on sixteen billion dollars worth of u.s. goods this of course after the latest round of u.s. tariffs on chinese exports went into effect this morning in response to what the trump administration calls beijing's unfair trade practices act the hot off this dispute is china's largest expansion of its tech sector the so-called made in china twenty twenty five plan is meant to catapult the world's second biggest economy from the world's sweatshop to a global technology hop. the world's work bench no

the german chancellor is in the armenian capital your advantage as part of a three day tour of the caucasus after meeting prime minister nicola machining and get a makeover visit a memorial to armenians killed during the ottoman empire the chancellor said the atrocities should not be forgotten but stopped short of using the word genocide which has angered turkey in the past. u.s. republican senator john mccain is to discontinue his treatment for cancer that's according to a statement from his family the eighty one year old a vietnam war veteran who once unsuccessfully ran for president was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer last year the family say he's already survive longer than expected. or written ladies pounding hawaii with high winds and torrential rains and moves across the pacific the storms now been downgraded to category two and it's moving away from big island it could still drop more rain their official described flooding on parts of the islanders catastrophic. the tumultuous week in australian politics has ended with the prime minister ousted and a new one sworn

find out any news about their loved ones many have come here from other regions of russia's north caucasus and almost all cases their relatives left russia to join i.c.l. in syria often taking their young children with them these women are united in their quest to have one simple question answered other family members still alive there are over six hundred women and children reported missing at this human rights office and these are just some of the photos that their family members have left in a bid to locate them now avg free picture has the name date of birth and some general information on the back this is a four year old so maya and this child left russia when he was less than they hear but there are so many more of them. that he said doesn't miss a single meeting held at the office she says she has already accepted that she will never see her only son again but she just hopes that her grandchildren are still alive she brought pictures of her son's wife mariam one taken before she went to syria and another when she was over there with her son that he has never even seen her grandchild

saying georgia is european country is absurd this is the caucasus country. at the start of. a candidate from georgia in march will be running in georgia's presidential elections in october but with different groups and generations pulling the country in different directions it will likely take much longer for georgia's future to take shape. sports news now and for the first time in the fee for corruption scandal of a major figure in international football sentenced to jail that sentence coming in a new york courtroom ya. use force here to talk about this good morning to you this is a watershed moment can you tell us more yes you may remember almost three years ago in december twenty fifth dean a number of favor officials were arrested in a zero cotto that was led by u.s. authorities the investigation into alleged record tearing or abroad very if you will so you know one of those officials just say martin has now been sentenced to jail so he's the first high profile football official to be sentenced to jail. he's from arizona he said that he was a former top official. for the

analysis on the terrorist groups and their activity whether it's in syria or around the world in the caucasus in them in the u.s. we should all be fired so we have to have the courage to do that it's in my experience of i was involved in the earliest if you will lays on work between the u.s. and russia at the time of the breakup of the soviet union and i don't recall a time when three intelligence chiefs all came together to washington such as just happen and so i take it as a very positive signal of a desire to do more and i hope both sides can find the strength to do that. so this is just a chance for politicians to fill out a t.v. friendly blaming spies right and left because on the other hand surely they must care about the actual issues of national security right yes i hope so and i have i have a deep respect for senator schumer and i i quote i would question this based on what i've seen in the media and i hope behind it all it's not a seriously questioning why we would be doing this at this time i would also add that again this is a somewhat unorthodox few for someone like me i'm not a

no longer wake up at night wanting to drink there are hundreds of families across russia's north caucasus just like and ours searching for grandchildren mainly fear they will never see them again. if there is anything one message one sign that they are alive you have to grab it run around fake help there are good people in the world. r.t. reporting from russia's republic of dagestan. it was the first in a series of reports on the fate of the russian citizens who left the country along with their families to join eisel the we will bring you the stories on how we return naser adapting to life back at home. conservative activist in united states is founder so suspended by twitter to mimic the racist tweets of a new york times editorial board member caleb maupin has the story she has been removed from twitter because they say that her tweets violate their rules regarding hateful content candace she's from turning points usa conservative organization in the usa what she did was she took tweets from new york times journalist sarah job and simply replaced the words white with the words black or

two countries on top of that you have the american support putin the scent of terrorists in the caucasus on top of that you have opposing points of view on ukraine obviously and mr putin states his case very clearly in this book what his case is which americans don't hear and on top of that you have syria which again it's amazing to me how under reported that war is. archie has covered one of our yemen aren't you guys how are some to report any and i don't have a laundry list i want to be add more about this every and the context in which this book came out fails in a weird way that when the actual cold war is in place it was just clean cut you know you had two sides that where against each other and now for me it's so much more scarier because the world is not a pipe holler and there's so much house around and everyone's trying to pull it all on themselves and all this conflict that you just mentioned and many more that we didn't mention are going on because of that and we don't understand how they're going to end or if they're going to and it's always messy. you're young like hell you

no longer wake up at night wanting to drink there are hundreds of families across russia's north caucasus just like and ours searching for grandchildren mainly fear they will never see them again. if there is anything one message one sign that they are alive you have to grab it run around fake ask for help there are good people in the world. mind you no question reporting from russia's republic of dagestan well that was the first in a series of reports on the fate of the russian citizens who fled with their families to join throughout the way when more stories too on how return easer adapting to life back home. he or she also you were about more news in a couple minutes. we have no idea what safety is doing on the vacation but she will be back on air in september. you know world a big part of the market is in conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the tru

one or two showers on the southern side of the caspian sea so expect the odd show in tehran the caucasus still looking west some big storms here at the moment lot of hot air generating some severe thunderstorms meanwhile around the eastern side of the mediterranean weather conditions gerri looking final though we've got some showers in the southern side of the black sea so if the mediterranean coastline plenty sunshine and highs of thirty one expected in beirut into the arabian peninsula a fine picture here with temperatures just in the low forty's on the western side of the peninsula here in doha we've got a high of forty three degrees humidity creeping up a little bit the weekend because the winds are going to be very light but this should be coming back during the early part of next week driving the humidity levels back down again into southern parts of africa it's largely fine picture bruce breeze there in cape town hundreds of nineteen there looking pretty decent and as we head into the start of the weekend there are threats of showers for cape town and general along the southern po

even syrians these are jihad ists on an international jihad from china from central asia from the caucasus from morocco to baghdad and they've got nowhere left to go other than other than italy but the biggest danger here is a wider international escalation between nuclear superpowers for example out of the blue you have the united states stationing military assets we're talking about cruise missile delivery systems such as guided missile destroyers strategic bombers heavy duty stuff being rebase the dropping anchor near syria days after the united states as well as britain and france warned that they would attack syria if there are reports of acid using chemical weapons the russians have come out and warned that it looks like the use of chemical weapons is imminent except it will be the rebels using them the u.s. continues to expand its presence of cruise missile carriers in the middle east which is connected to the preparations for another false flag incident allegedly involving chemical weapons russian reports of u.s. military buildup in the eastern med and nothing more than propaganda

correction corruption has been brought to a minimum but at the same time you have regions in the caucasus where you can i do anything without the bribe and that reminded me of of the research you're involved in right now about the differences between the collective farms. that are gone from your research is that what matters in russia the most is not they had you know what you call framework but you know the actual person in charge is that still the case. in russia i think very much so i think that personal networks are very important i think you know my students looking for jobs now it's often more important who they know than the qualifications that they have it's also you know if you're friends with somebody they maybe protect you they help you get resources that you don't have access to but you know the sort of good old boys' network exists in a lot of american small towns too and that's what it reminds me of the good old boys network and it's because the normal channels of communication often don't work certainly in the soviet union the only way to get things done was to ask your fri

saying georgia is european country is absurd this is the caucasus country. at the moment. a candidate from georgia in march will be running in georgia's presidential elections in october but with different groups and generations pulling the country in different directions it will likely take much longer for georgia's future to take shape. football news now and the former head of the brazilian football federation joe samaria a marine has been sentenced to four years in prison by a u.s. judge he is the first major name to be jailed as part of the long running probe into the fee for corruption scandal. joe say maria marine until his conviction and u.s. court in december spent a lot of time moving between his temporary digs at new york's trump tower and the federal courthouse that ended with guilty verdicts on six counts related to taking over six million dollars in bribes while handing out broadcast and marketing rights for major soccer tournaments. the former head of brazilian soccer marine was one of the qadri of men at the top of the sport's governing body. on a cold decem