our top stories: a new wave of arrivals from north africa — italy warns the influx of migrants is unsustainableas european ministers meet for crisis talks. iraqi special forces recapture more territory from so—called islamic state, but thousands of civilians remain trapped in mosul. president trump is accused of inciting violence against the media after he tweets a spoof video of himself wrestling. and the milestone stephen hawking thought he would never reach — 75th birthday celebrations for the physicist who overcame disability to become a science legend. when i was diagnosed at 21, i was told it would kill me in two or three years. now, 5a years later, i am still working and producing scientific papers. hello. french, german and italian interior ministers have been holding talks with senior eu officials, in paris, to work out a joint strategy for dealing with italy's growing migrant crisis. so far this year, more than 83,000 people have been rescued in the mediterranean, and taken to italy, while attempting to cross from libya. that's up almost 20% on last year. a source close to the talks t

the latest headlines: a new wave of arrivals from north africa. unsustainable, as european ministers meet for crisis talks. iraqi specialforces recapture more territory from so—called islamic state, but thousands of civilians remain trapped in mosul. the french president, emmanuel macron, says he is determined to help eradicate terrorists in the sahel region of north africa. he was speaking at a security summit in mali alongside, the leaders of five countries in the region. they are seeking support for a 5,000—strong regional force to combat islamist militants. thomas fessy reports. the french president, emmanuel macron, and his west african counterparts, together in bamako to launch a regionalforce. mali, chad, niger, but also mauritania and burkina faso, will each provide 1,000 troops. france will support them with equipment, and it will help them convince western countries to fund their operations. only the eu has so far pledged nearly $60 million, a fraction of the force's total cost, but france remains keen to see it deployed as soon as possi

40,000 allied troops landed on the beaches of north africa and largely possible because of what we know about the activities. and planes bombed the right installations, churchill goes before parliament, the invasion of north africa is the end of the beginning. the war can now move forward and it does move forward for the allies and betty helped make that possible. according to the osf she changed the whole course of the war. after this event the oss and british decide they will go to great things with betty and bruce. bruce's family is well-connected, and members of the oss tech team say wait a minute, the gestapo are going to look at everything, and invent a new biography, and that old goat is old enough to be her father. bruce will be -- there is one other problem. betty is going to be the stepdaughter and not an american spy. and she dies it, doesn't wear makeup, and it seems to be working and something happens. the germans take over france and one of the first things they do, the diplomats were there. and the vichy embassy, and hotel hershey and hershey, pennsylvania, a couple hundr

a new wave of migrants from north africa.taly struggles to cope with the 80,000 migrants that have arrived on its shores since the start of the year. also in the next hour: stephen hawking takes donald trump to task over climate change. he warns the president's decision to pull out of the paris accord could lead to global warming becoming irreversible. reigning champion andy murray prepares to take to centre court. tomorrow he will start his campaign for a third wimbledon title. there is growing pressure on the prime minister and the chancellor over public sector pay rises, after another cabinet minister raised the prospect of the current 1% cap being lifted. the environment secretary, michael gove, suggested the recommendations of public sector pay bodies, which review increases, should be respected. one of those has warned that the cap is putting pressure on the health service. here is our political correspondent iain watson. they save our lives, they keep us safe, they teach our children, and when things do go wrong, they

because we're both really senior iraq researcher in the middle east north africa division thanks for joining us here on r.t. international today can you tell us a little bit more about the report's findings. yes i had the opportunity to visit this town only two days ago and i can tell you it's incredibly bleak also no humanitarian services and you know hundreds of families of women have no understanding of how long they're going to be there and vicarious actually being held prisoner so as far as we understand if the security forces they find a man they say is a nice old terrorist they then they then heard in the family members of that one man and take them to the. correct as far as i understand. well you know i wish it were only happening in that limited fashion and even then it would be quite disturbing but instead what we're seeing is that in areas like the old city that are now finally outside of isis control their security forces are simply rounding up all the women and kids coming out under the assumption that because they are not. your husband must have been isis was killed in

top stories: italy threatens to close its ports after warning the latest wave of migrants from north africa is unsustainable. european ministers meet for crisis talks. iraqi specialforces recapture more territory from so—called islamic state, but thousands of civilians remain trapped in mosul. double wimbledon champion petra kvitova returns to swi9 after a knife attack that made herfear she'd never play tennis again. onjb on jb robertson in onjb robertson in business. xi jinping of china in moscow to meet vladimir putin. trade said to be top of their agenda. china is looking to push its vision of a new silk road. but beijing is also looking further afield for some fresh impetus. from today, global investors can buy chinese company debt through an exchange for the very first time. hello and welcome. italy's threatening to close its ports and impound rescue ships carrying migrants from libya, saying other eu countries need to pull their weight. italy's interior minister has been meeting his french and german counterparts in paris to discuss the situation. the numbers of people rescued and tak

there are quite some indicators showing that they actually cooperate with human traffickers in north africa and that is of course something that people should know about if this is taking place because a lot of people are spending their money on the nation's stare and you know the reactions of these n.g.o.s us to some extent that they seem to be hiding something you know because they are not really happy about the fact that we will show up there but do you really think that this is a common occurrence as far as understand that most n.g.o.s are there for their good will and this is just maybe some violations which are not so widespread in any case how are you going to act when you find these n.g.o.s that as you are saying are potentially. people who violate the law yeah what are you going to resort to violence and then of course not we will just document the way they work if they also need like a helping hand when they have when there are so many people at the risk of drowning we will of course also come to help them. but we will make sure that we are not also bringing people to europe we wi

a new wave of arrivals from north africa, italy struggles to cope with thousands of people heading to its shores. petra kvitova's return to wimbledon after an attack that made her fear she'd never play tennis again. of course, i had some bad dreams afterwards. i couldn't really sleep well. i was still a bit tired, with everything that had happened emotionally. and the milestone stephen hawking thought he would never reach — he is 75 today. good evening. there is growing pressure on the prime minister and the chancellor over public sector pay rises, after another cabinet minister raised the prospect of the current 1% cap being lifted. the environment secretary, michael gove, suggested that the recommendations of public sector pay bodies — which review increases — should be respected. one of those bodies has warned that the cap is putting pressure on the health service. here's our political correspondent iain watson. they save our lives, they keep us safe, they teach our children. and when things do go wrong, that on the front line, dealing with the aftermath. but politicians from all p

was a significant diplomatic focus on north africa on the need for investment on the need to create jobs on the need to stem migration flows does this sound familiar because that was almost twenty five years ago so here we are and germany's it's great that they're doing it but i want to see action not just talk so while it's coming up again and it's going to spotlight parity really does drive on control of processes like migration and other things like terrorism as well but economic incentives aren't going to make this go away overnight what should be done in between not overnight but it would be nice to start because they do work and let's take the example of turkish migration into europe the economic growth of turkey prior to the current crisis was so strong for a lasting period of time that turkish migration into europe was net zero let's take mexico in the united states there is right now net zero migration between mexico and united states because mexico's a fast growing economy so let us be absolutely clear it works economic development works to keep people in their home countries t

they didn't, maybethey came from north africa at some point. but they've been there long enough. the issue today are the people that are in the country. theirability to travel around, and they are getting inspired through online measures. mr. chairman, those are some questions i hope the europeans are asking themselves. we're not going to solve it for them, but i appreciate the information. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york mr. meeks? >> i want to degree, this has been a very interesting hearing. something that we've got to really dig into. let me just try to go a little bit furtheri guess on what mr. duncan was taking about. because i hear a lot of folks talking about the way to prevent terrorist attacks is by banning immigrants and refugees and individuals from coming back into, going into various different countries. so i guess my first question is, do you think by banning immigrants, i think you said, ms. craigin, it was only 3% of individuals coming from the war areas. those returning from battle. but the actual refugees and immigrants, do you think that by

most of his henchmen were from north africa specifically libya and tunisia.it did not start after the arab spring. it was always there, so al qaeda what really annoyed that established committee in upset-- afghanistan just to focus on ayman al-zawahiri and their actions. they said in the letter is and what you doing. take it easy about the killing like this and guess what, dude, why do you behead people. they are not argue with him about the killing. they are all for the killing, but how you do it? you know, beheading makes people just not like us. think about the brand. we have a brand to protect here. so, the differences between ayman al-zawahiri and the leadership in afghanistan is actually the root of the division in the global jihadi movement that we see later on between al qaeda and between isis. because isis is the group that ayman al-zawahiri s-section-sign iraq, so hopefully after you read the ayman al-zawahiri chapter you know everything about the iraq war and then you can make your own judgment, was the iraq war worth it or not because i look at it

he thought to give her an outline of what he had done in north africa and italy. yet many terrifying near misses. in,, a truck he was sitting the person was killed but he was unscathed. some of his stories were gruesome. drinking from a clear mountain creek, only to find decaying bodies in the creek upstream. entering a cave with hundreds of rome.s of a massacre in and hearing a strange sound -- what was that? it was the maggots at work on the bodies. i am not like ernie pyle, he wrote. i do not mind looking at dead men. but these sights and sounds will remain with me forever. hereemed to want to prepare for what sort of man would be coming home. but his letter was not typical. and talk about the weather what he wanted to eat, and that was basically it. ers argues that soldiers try to protect their families from what they were experiencing. when a division went through rome, he hope to talk about what had happened. his family could share the larger context of what he was doing and what he had seen since palermo. and that it possessed found transcendental meaning.

a new wave of migrants from north africa.00 migrants that have arrived on its shores since the start of the year. also in the next hour: stephen hawking takes donald trump to task over climate change. he warns the president's decision to pull out of the paris accord could lead to global warming becoming irreversible. reigning champion andy murray prepares to take to centre court. tomorrow he will start his campaign for a third wimbledon title.

>> normally north africa is the magreb, probably up through egypt, algeria. lebanon. >> syria, lebanon, iraq. turkey, i mean in the broadest historical sense. if were you to refer to isil you would be giving a larger geographic footprint to the entity that's isis, as opposed to isis. >> i think this is a semantic thing of do you use the word they use to call themselves. do you assign something to them. is it the daesh, isis, isil? >> sure. but having spent a little bit of time affiliated with law enforcement and warfare, unless you wish to bolster your enemy, unless you wish to strengthen your enemy, in view of the enemy in the world, you minimize, you might refer to them say for example as the jv team, right if that would be, but normally traditionally you don't want to build your enemy up, right? i guess what i'm driving at is the levant is larger than iraq and syria, and why someone would call them isil to give them greater credibility is beyond me and yet that's been done. fisa, recent reports indicate up to 5% of fisa court applications, upstream informa

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really getting up to speed they are going to take part in the big campaigns of the war, first in north africaand subsequently italy and france. to give you a little bit from italy, in italy they take part in the major landings in sicily and then salerno and anzio. initially some of their special training comes in handy the activity plantings but once they get ashore, they end up fighting primarily as intentional infantry. there's not a lot of opportunity to sneak around germans as there had been with some of the less capable italian and french forces they dealt with in north africa. when they get to anzio, they are part of an early attempt to move inland which leads to the battle of sizer not on january 30, 1944 where two of the ranger battalions are said to take this town and they run unexpectedly into a german division which completely wiped them out. out of 767 troops only six of them escape from that disaster. so this shows pretty clearly that the rangers are not really capable of fighting this conventional war based on their equipment. we will see them mostly get phase out over time. and

more and more migrants are crossing the mediterranean from north africa.as accepted 85% of the 100,000 who arrived this year alone. go live to meabh mcmahon. can we expect anything to come out of today's meeting? >> not really. the european commission said there was no silver bullet to solve the situation. immigration commissioner said this would be all about looking into measures to support italy and calling on member states to show solidarity. today interior ministers will be starting a seven page action plan started in strasburg. in that plan he pledges some 35 million in the immediate funding to help with the crisis. there's also plans for a code of conduct that will be drawn up by italy with some dialogue. the code of conduct that would help coordinate the work of ngos carrying out search and rescue missions in the area. that is giving more support to the libyan coast guard to stop people from taking that dangerous journey and look at a resettlement program resettling people like countries from egypt and bringing them over to europe. he did say in tha

they do mutual evaluations within the gulf region in north africa. it has, you know, the saudis coming in the gulf and saudi [ inaudible ]. the saudis went through one relatively recently, and it has the effect of spotlighting the weak nesses and encouraging improve -- one of the things we tried to do outside of mutual evaluation episode is to go to these countries and say, here is where your deficiencies are against the fatf recommendations and you need to do better. with kuwait and qatar in particular, part of what we used to do at treasury or they're still doing at treasury is to go to regulators in these jurisdictions and say, here is where you're deficient. that has -- you know, it has had middling success in getting i would say the kuwaitis and qataris to get better. in just one place i digress. in 2014 after a lot of internal debate i -- i gave a speech on terrorist financing where we called out the qataris and kuwaitis for terrorist financing. that was -- that was done in part out of a judgment that our private engagement for those kind of fe

really getting up to speed they're going to take part in the big campaigns of the war first in north africa. and subsequently italy and france. give you a little bit from italy and take part in the landings this this sicily and antio. initially some of their -- special training comes in handy with am amphibious landing but conventional infantry. not a lot of opportunities to sneak around the germans as there have been with some the less capable italian and french forces in north africa. when they get to antio, they are part of an early attempt to move inland which leads to the battle of sisterna where two of the ranger battalions are sent to take this town and they run unexpectedly into a german division which -- wipes them out of troops only six of them escape from that disaster and so -- this shows pretty clearly that rangers are not really capable of fighting this conventional war based on their equipment and so we will see them mostly get phased out over time. and the marine corps. side we have formation of the marine corps. ratedders in january of 2042 and here president roosevelt is d

the head of middle east and north africa. good morning and thank you for joining us.ike -- escalation look like? let's get more details on guest: the options for the saudi side are pretty limited. as you heard, one of the ideas that has been floated was eventually expelling qatar from the dcc. that would come with significant risks from the qtaatar sie. de. it would drag kuwait potentially into the dispute. both countries would have to agree to expelling qatar and that is far from guaranteed. it is really a difficult decision to be made by saudi and its allies. other issues are economic sanctions. guest:that is probably looking e the most likely outcome. something similar to what we have now, but essentially in expansion of economic sanctions and the blockade. if they are really looking to turn the screw in qatar, maybe forcing foreign countries to pick a side, essentially saying if you do business with qatar, you cannot do business in saudi arabia or egypt. guy: is this really about terrorism? saudis have a very long list for taking dramatic action. terrorism is one

union agrees t today on ways to slow down the e number of people crossing the mediterranean from north africa. i'm brent goff. it's good to have you with us. tonight on the eve of the g20 summit in hamburg, germany, the u.s. president and german chancellor are meeting behind closed doors. earlier all eyes were on the two worldlanguage. their relationship has been described as both chile and frosty. can their presummit talks pay the way for a successful summit? we will go to hamburg. first, this report. reporter: the g20 summit is set to go underway on friday. a german government spokesperson said t they discussed north kor, the middle east, the conflict in eastern ukraine, and g20 topics, but the statement gave no further details of their meeting. during the summit trap risk isolation o on climate policy after he decided to pull his country out of the 2015 paris agreement last month. many of the leaders attending the hamburg g talks want rapid implentatition of ththe accord,a deal they believe is irreversible. ahead of their meeting, merkel said there were various options on tackling climate

to find a way forward to share the burden instead members want to target ngo rescue boats from north africa which are suspected of being exploited by people traffickers in just a matter of days up to twelve thousand people have landed in italy while more than eighty five thousand of arrive since the start of this year at least top muffy a prosecutor believes the crisis has created a security threat. those who arrive on the day then undergo a process of radicalization that may lead to the realization of terror attacks meanwhile the head of europe's. and for sprint agency ses the terror threat on the continent sits at a twenty year several of the terrorists who carried out recent atrocities in europe came through the med route from africa to italy but the spite italy except in the biggest number of migrants it has thus far been spurred must terror attacks we discussed why that might be with italian police officer and union leader gianni tonelli. said the easiest prey for islamic radicals are desperate men those who are criminals or are in prison a muslim who came to italy and is integrated an

for example restrictions on n.g.o.s that are trying to rescue the refugees that are coming from north africa on boats and also even leading to closures of here in sicily locals who are getting increasingly fed up with the situation there saying that responsibility must be shared i believe that welcoming people is the right things will tell you but the european union must pay more attention to this phenomenon and support italy in this enormous effort of social integration for the. people is a must but the e.u. cannot just look at it from afar it needs to get involved and not abandon italy and sicily in particular. yes we feel abandoned i believe that the european union should really focus on its allies issues especially on the issues that affect the south of the city we have been welcoming italians are true europeans sicilians have been welcoming and supportive for years but we are not willing to be the fools of europe the e.u. has left us alone this is our country we will try in every way possible to block this arrogance and the selfishness which is not european after a serious of protests i

given more support, as it deals with large numbers of migrants crossing the mediterranean from north africa have arrived in the first six months of the year. sarah corker reports. europe's migrant crisis rarely makes the headlines now but it is far from over. every day, italy is seeing more and more people arrive. most come from africa, fleeing war or poverty and these are the latest to be rescued at sea, exhausted but alive. so far this year, 2,000 people have died trying to reach italian shores and the un refugee agency says it is an unfolding tragedy. in a statement, filippo grandi said: he said europe had to organise a system for distributing migrants urgently. it comes as italy is threatening to close its ports after nearly 11,000 migrants arrived in just five days last month. and the european union says it is ready to do more to help. we are ready to increase our support to italy, including substantial financial support if needed. all member states now need to deliver and show solidarity towards italy. and the dangers are well—known. this man was found clinging to a boat rudder at sea

initiative will lead to repercussions italy of course is the closest european country to parts of north africa and it's become the main entry point for a long time of migrants according to the un almost eighty four thousand people have arrived in italy just since the beginning of this year and some estimates predict that number will almost triple by the end of twenty seventeen many of the refugees then the hope of moving further into europe e.u. chiefs this last weekend said they are willing to help and they announced thirty five million euros of additional funding after talks on the crisis last sunday but didn't go too well in rome they're saying that's not enough the italians officials there as well as the u.n. called in other european countries to open up their ports to my boat and share some of the responsibility to. that we do believe we can to leave either italy or greece on its own. or they're giving it up and i'd like to say that it want to help to address this issue there is that we are left a lot czech republic has taken twelve poland and hungary have taken the euro exactly not good

led forces earlier this week the head of the middle east and north africa division of human rights watch says iraqi troops seem to be operating with impunity. they do maps to a sense that we could document for many months now actually visual executions by iraq the security forces both federal police forces as well as the popular vocalisation forces there are really many many cases iraqi soldiers executing suspected isis militants torturing going to be using family members of suspected isis what so sadly i have to say that these are not new or surprising but we have repeatedly graves are concerned with the u.s. government in the plight compound operations in little parts and also really for example about very many instances that we are continuing to document iraqi government forces for plan to date we have never see the rocky government actually hold any soldiers accountable for these abuses that are being documented. these latest allegations come just days after another and amnesty international blamed the u.s. led coalition for thousands of civilian deaths during the battle for mosul th

since the start of this year more than a hundred thousand migrants have crossed from north africa to europe the majority of them arrived in italy which recently threatened to start turning away rescue boats and urged the rest of the e.u. to start sharing the burden we discussed the issue with political commentator mo ones are an austrian activist martin silva who next week will sail to the shores of libya to try to turn back the migrant ships migrant communities muslim communities not just muslim communities all kinds of ethnic minority communities religious majority communities across the world have higher birth rates. and different regions of the world we see them so we have a problem we have a fiscal structural deficit in europe we have an aging population we have an economic crisis we have economic burdens europe is at the end of civilization this is a end of empires issue and as europe pulled away and turned to crumble people are going to come together they're going to populate these these places if we turn all the tools that society has that are currently being turned against i

to find a way forward to shed the burden instead members want to target and rescue boats from north africa which are suspected of being exploited by people traffic is just a matter of days up to twelve thousand people have landed in italy while more than eighty five thousand have arrived since the start of the sheer city's top antti mafia prosecutor believes the crisis has created a security threat. those who arrive on the dinghies then undergo a process of radicalization that may lead to the realization of terror attacks meanwhile the head of europe's law enforcement agency says the terror threat on the continent sits at a twenty year high several of the terrorists who carried out recent atrocities in europe came through the mediterranean route from africa to italy but the spices really excepting the biggest number of migrants it has thus far been spared mass terror attacks we discussed why that might be with the tally in police officer and union leader gianni to nelly. at the beginning of the migrant crisis in europe i explained that there was no security filter i said terrorist could co

there are quite some indicators showing that they actually cooperate with human traffickers in north africa and that is of course something that people should know about you know if this is taking place because a lot of people are spending their money on the nation's there how are you going to act when you find these n.g.o.s that. as you are saying are potentially. people who violate the law we will just document the way they work if they also need like a helping hand when they have when there are so many people at the risk of drowning we will of course also come to help them. but we will make sure that we are not also bringing people to europe we will try our best to bring the people back to where they came from how do you. faced any problems with the officials how much under pressure from the media have you been you know well obviously in terms of media we are very much under pressure just pretty much every news. reporting about us in a very one sided and negative way and as you've seen to false accusations i was shocked ship has been stopped in. egyptian territory but we are still optimi

the lack of ability and opportunities to integrate the boats won't stop arriving in sicily from north africa so let's wait till you hear similar stories from italy's many other. having blasted the rest of the. crisis italian officials seem to have taken up the strategy of a nationwide melting pot will be watching how it's put to the test you'll have a drink tea in sicily. with islamic state losing grounds in its stronghold there have been frequent warnings that many to harvest from europe may flee back home it's thought a twenty two year old dutch rapper could be one of them after he posted this online . so people. see. but that rapper is among hundreds of europeans who left their countries to join us on stage and iraq and syria the netherlands authorities believe two hundred eighty dutch national is headed to the middle east to take up the jihad of that one hundred nineteen manage to join isis while fifty returned back home. eighty of those that left holland are officially classed as children. it seems many jobless were determined from the outside to eventually return home and resettle and

because we are in iraq or north africa should not be brought to day you're going to be a drain on the taxpayer your threat to our national security many people who i've spoken to and i have a relationship with who were former extremists who were brainwashed by the terrorists like i jumped chaudry and. made an isis and either you know through concerted reachin work over many many years we were able to change those minds. agents posing as policemen have received military gear worth one point two million dollars from the pentagon the undercover operation by the u.s. government accountability office was to test weaknesses in a gear giveaway program and as checking the reports it's not the first time that military equipment has gone astray. the pentagon is the home of america's department of defense the body that has a budget of over five hundred billion dollars a year and is tasked with protecting the national security of the united states and yet they were duped by a completely phony outfit into selling one point two million dollars of weapons the government accountability office whose j

the lack of ability and opportunities to integrate the boats won't stop arriving in sicily from north africa so let's wait till you hear similar stories from italy's many other. having blasted the rest of the betraying realm of the crisis italian officials seem to have taken up the strategy of a nationwide melting pot will be watching how it's put to the test of the triangle r t in sicily. back in a few minutes with more news including details of the meeting between iraq's vice president and. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the back to school on. the only show i go out of my way to lunch it was really packed a punch oh yeah it's the john oliver of our two year marriage is doing the same we are apparently better than food. and see people you've never heard of love jack tonight president of the world bank so are you going to really seriously send us an email. local blog selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. to do so for the tell you to be gossip to the public let's. talk about advertising tell me you

the lack of ability and opportunities to integrate the boats won't stop arriving in sicily from north africa so let's wait till you hear similar stories from italy's many other. having blasted the rest of the betraying crisis italian officials seem to have taken up the strategy of a nationwide melting pot will be watching how it's put to the test of a train guard t. in sicily. u.s. forces in afghanistan have been accused of killing eight civilians and then i strike the bombing raid took place in the province on sunday and was targeting islamic state a spokesman for the regional governor issued a statement. he told us the husky forty islamic state militants were killed in the u.s. operation eight civilians were injured another eight killed including women and children well according to witnesses the strike hit a funeral procession several of the survivors are now being treated at a local hospital video agency about we managed to speak to some of them. i heard shots then a jet fired a largely sorrow it leveled five rooms to ground some people were killed and injured later i fainted when i open

year, migrants and refugees have continued to flee wars and persecution in the middle east and north africa, attempting to get to europe. in the first half of this year, 73,000 reached italy by crossing the mediterranean sea. that's a 14% increase from last year, according to a new report from amnesty international. the report calls attention to the estimated 2,000 people who have drowned trying to make the crossing this year, and shortcomings of european governments coming to their rescue. amnesty international's naureen shah joins me from washington to discuss this. it's interesting because for the past couple years, there's been different levels of attention being paid to this. but you're pointing out that there are still more people coming even though the condition have gotten worse. >> that's right, hari. 2017 is actually on pace to be the deadliest year for the world and migration route. we see more and more people drown and at the same time european governments honey said of stepping up are taking a step backwards and trying to see responsibility for what's happening to local libyan

on in the middle east and north africa as for our cooperation in the sea of anti-terrorist fight well we are ready to work bilaterally and we have certain experience and we also are ready to work on many multilateral platform first and foremost within the framework of the united nations as for syria we change the views our estimates in detail and at length have been speaking about that the first. goal is to fight and to claim victory over ice is we just listen at a joint press conference between the russian foreign minister and his french counterpart but we're going to go back to hamburg now because violence erupted there on the streets just a few minutes ago as protesters against g twenty summit clashed with police water cannons and tear gas have been deployed against the riot is things seem to calm down a bit now he responded with firecrackers. was i. was i was. was. was was i. i i i. ok those were scenes a few minutes ago we can get what it's like now directly from hamburg and our correspondent peter all of it is there for speech we were looking at pictures just before you came on