—— stephen sackur. relations between the us and russia are at a post—cold war low point, filled with mistrust, unpredictability and potential danger. in washington, there's a president whose mixed messages tie his own staff in knots. meanwhile, in moscow is a president who seems intent on exploiting western division. my my guess today is konstantin kosachev, chairman of the russian senate's foreign affairs committee and an influential russian voice on foreign affairs. does russia see opportunity in diplomatic chaos? konstantin kosachev, in moscow, welcome to hardtalk. and kew. -- thank you. you have been an observer of international affairs since the 19805. of international affairs since the 1980s. can you ever remember a time when the russia — us relationship was more dysfunctional, more unpredictable? well, i have studied historical relations between our two countries during the cold war period and definitely, we have had much worse examples of frozen relations between our two countries so what is happening right now is definitely rather unusual and unwelcome period in our bilateral relat

unlawful such as thing to go to court over this he also added that russia still reserves of the right to send out more u.s. diplomats working here and russia up to one hundred fifty five diplomats now this latest route between the two countries has been happening and the past few months russia says that it was not started by moscow but the u.s. administration both sides continued to say that they want to establish good relations but given the latest and precedented circumstances it is unclear whether it is still possible. a warship from russia's black sea fleet has made its first ponselle into the crimea bridge the current strait now the bridge is still under construction with the first of two central arches put in place just last week it's absolutely gigantic honesty to be completed next year it will connect the crimean peninsula with mainland rochelle's for the bottle ship it's heading to the city it's named after absolve to mark the ports nine hundred fiftieth anniversary. let's return to our breaking news this hour these are live pictures we have from protests taking place in saudi k

it hasn't been blown out of the water just recently or only with russia even look at julian a song in the ecuadorian embassy precedented i don't undersea charade for years. this it's all since one nine hundred ninety two with the uni polar moment the us political establishment became addicted to not being here into the rules and the american exceptionalism. so if the u.s. is not bound by the rules of international law or the etiquettes of international diplomacy and this is this is only the latest round of this and also there's other factors of the game now i prefer to think it is a great games and i call going back to the nineteenth century and nineteenth century that weren't ever established and rules cyber warfare i mean this is suddenly a siren klaxon coming out of the us media over russia several tactics the u.s. has been cyber attack in russia in other countries for years that's never been reported on there are no rules established for that president putin has asked repeatedly for the u.s. to sit down and negotiate rules for cyber warfare for economic warfare for these other

israel in seattle now we talked to some of the people who came here to russia to be a part of this festival. it's my second time in moscow and the festival and very good impression and i really like working with such kind in the he's very interesting just being in the festival. this is my first visit to moscow and it's absolutely beautiful especially dancing here in the red square it's just said dream come true that sunni believe. the impression i got from the first of all is just mobilises is the third time where in most school this year we were able to work with a russian singer who sang an italian song as well as or italian sing on this thing in russian. stay with me if that story to a close i'm not saying because you play little red square and adjoining areas of central moscow. i'll be back with more of the stories that shape global news over the past seven days and around hoff now it's time live from moscow this is. bustling the dubrovnik in venice are will fix travel destinations so it must be nice to live there or is it. crowds of tourists disrupt the city's economic and soc

in russia or any other country where u.s. missions that have been deleted have been searched by the host. governments you know what i don't know if you are working for r t today or what but i think. in response artie's editor in chief said the channel takes that comment from the state department as a compliment of the rawest spiked last week when washington demanded russia vacate its consulate in san francisco and two other diplomatic entities well this follows on from president trump's the situation to extend sanctions against russia over alleged meddling in the u.s. election moscow responded by demanding that america reduce its diplomatic staff to the same number russia in america. earlier this week a lot of her putin said russia will take washington to court over the situation the u.s. state department responded to that as well because you sure are american counterparts didn't let russia use its property it's a violation of property rights i will tell the foreign ministry to go to court we'll see how well the highly praised she dishes system in the u.s. works welcome to the ameri

past three years. of conflict with russia has become much more real people have seen me an exciting crimea how price of war in eastern ukraine but downing of m. and seventeen and more recently the cyber attacks on the u.s. and france that many have blamed on russia and this is one very small country trying to work out how the friend itself from a giant neighbor. and friend decided to learn combat they were among hundreds of young women to join the league after russia invaded its neighbor crime here. just like the russians next to. the first. time a country people worried about a little bit like maybe it's going but no we don't know that you want to be ready yet. to actually fight you know we're working on it. that's why we're here you know for i mean that the idea. of course. war is awful and i don't want to have a war. as they say if you don't want to war prepared for war. a stone here feels it has good cools to beacons. in world war two it was invaded by the soviet union the communist empire dominated by russia. capo caruso was a boy when a stony a finally won independence in one

an outside interference intensifies in the american media. today marks two years since russia launched its anti terror campaign in syria we look back at what's been achieved in that time. although there you're watching aussie international broadcasting to you live the most studio in moscow and you karen good to have you with us. spain's catalonia is on the edge of what could prove a momentous occasion is controversial independence referendum on sunday is planned as the two and a half thousand polling stations will participate even though madrid has ordered them to be shut down as it were gone to the vote is illegal locals have staged sit ins to prevent the crackdown on medina cotton of i reports from one school being used as a polling station. we're standing very close to one else these schools located here and the barcelona city center it is a place for voting on sunday now police have been ordered to shut down old polling station so the people of this neighborhood decided to stay within the doors of the school inside of the school to prevent this from happening you know you'

directly to russia it also took a swipe at r.t. by revealing confidential information regarding how much this channel spends on twitter adds we spoke to former u.s. congressman and presidential candidate ron paul about the escalating accusations. i think it's a witch hunt that i think that they don't care about what hillary was doing and they want to they're very biased against that from him pain so far they haven't showed me an ad that was a that was a pro trump ad that was paid for by the russian government most of the time you could look at some of this stuff that's going around and i think it's all coming from sore losers i thought it would be better with more outlets and the internet to counteract some of this but it looks like sometimes this backfires and they actually end up using the internet to try to stir up more trouble frankly i don't have the sensation that boy this is a big deal you know if we don't find out and find out exactly what russians did to our elections you know the end of the world is coming i think that's a bit of fear mongering i can understand everything that

be provoke of if that's the case then russia should not be objecting to the to the installation of the rest of the of the. anti-missile projectiles if you're talking about a provocation if you're talking about the sense that they're going to have to wonder why russia and china are both opposed to south korea defended itself with your new defense of. project tells calls well i think you you know the answer to that question because you know that both china and russia and russia have their own strategic and security interest in the region and non of them wants to see south and north korea as a nuclear power but they don't don't want to see american and south korean military exercises in the region the i'm sure you're well aware of that as well on the world the fact also but. president putin also said the only thing that is left is years of words that he just simply quote to you with president putin said in to a certain degree of. approve of what he said he said the of the us going to north korean crisis could cause a quote planetary catastrophe and huge loss of life ramping up militar

russia's oldest consulate in san francisco have officially closed now by the u.s. state department. and shelves and cover doors these are the pictures that artie's rugby video agency filmed inside one of those now closed probably sees russia's trade mission in washington d.c. . the counterterrorism chief has revealed britain has the highest number of islam is the extremists in all of europe. was here out why. a member of the black yeah we only got black people right. and police lieutenant in the u.s. has been fired after this dash cam video showed him assuring a woman during a traffic stop the police only kill black people. very good evening to you my name is neil harvey you're watching our international trade mission in washington d.c. has now been officially closed to more diplomatic probably sees including russia's oldest consulate in san francisco will also be closed today and these are live pictures for you so the deadline is passed the building has now been cleared out in washington and what we anticipate now is the u.s. or thirty's going in. just to clarify that everybody's moved

can it get how low can russia u.s. relations go at this point it's anyone's guess but one thing is for sure donald trump's call for better relations is now dead in the water. russian u.s. relations i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have petro he is a professor of political science at university of rhode island and we have to me he is a political analyst we spoke to international all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it professor let me go to you first here. where are we in this relationship right now we talked about this earlier edition of bullhorns. what does each country want to achieve in this spiraling downward effect it wants to embarrass the other side yeah that's tit for tat and it's like to bullies in a schoolyard i guess they they have to keep sniping at each other so it's a prestigious you right now more than anything else particularly on the issue of the expulsion of diplomats in the closing of these diplomatic missions t

diplomatic protocol you know what i don't know if you are working for today or what but i think. russia's plan military drills in belarus calls uproar among western politicians with some saying moscow is trying to increase its troop presence there take a look at closely those claims and rights groups national releases a new report documenting it deadly bahrain crackdown on government critics accuse britain and the u.s. of turning a blind eye to the big since. i welcome it's just turned six o'clock here in moscow you're watching the international now the u.s. state department has been facing a grilling over the seizure of the russian consulate in san francisco and even accuse journalists of sounding too much like. more people do that in programs are what's your name let's move on move on to something else if you still consider that sovereign russian property or were those property searched because there was a concern that they were being used for intelligence purposes which would be like a different issue and it's not going to get into that let it lead in this let's move on to something el

restore ties with russia. as a trumpet administration being left isolated and powerless or does it still have cards. while i ask former reagan administration official author and political columnist. with the american media allegations of the president russia and politicians doing the russian card to score points against the administration the white house's attempts to normalise moscow has so far be. political necessity forcing the two sides to work i'm pressing international problems will the global reality hold will. bring about the long awaited for a while the world struggles continue to be held hostage by the new cold war spy. former reagan administration official political connelly's to forbes and other media welcome to the show it's actually great to have you with us. the new low in u.s. russia relations in both countries expelling each other's diplomats and u.s. congress forcing president trump into a new round of sanctions on moscow do you feel that donald trump's compay to idea of and the spat with russia is now a dad for good absolutely not it's in america's interests and

republicans and democrats. ties with russia. as a trumpet administration been left isolated and powerless or does it still have cards . former reagan administration official author and political columnist. president russia and politicians doing the russian card to score points against. white house's attempts to normalise moscow has so far. political force. problems. reality over will. bring about a long awaited will the world. by the new cold war. former reagan administration official political connelly's to forbes and other media welcome to the show it's actually great to have you with us so the new low in u.s. russia relations in both countries expelling each other's diplomats and u.s. congress forcing president trump into a new round of sanctions on moscow do you feel that donald trump's compay to idea of and being the spat with russia is now a dad for good. absolutely not it's in america's interest and accords with america's values to to to find a rapprochement with russia so why is it that trumpet didn't want to pass new sanctions was corner of into doing that by congress which is co

i'm peter lavelle spiraled downward this applies to both russia u.s. relations and the ongoing advance on the korean peninsula have we passed the point of no return. cross talking real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow mark silva older he's an international affairs and security a most we also have bitter or levity he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have alex chris afore he was the director and writer for the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you first here i guess this is the drama of tit for tat in u.s. russia relations why. close this consulate why search and where is this all where to come from and what is it going to lead to and what does the u.s. hope to accomplish ok well i mean we have to see where this all began back in december with obama's parthian shot in an attempt to sabotage the incoming. administration's campaign policy of detente with russia they kicked thirty five russian diplomats out of th

to take control of the situation we're in now what the people of russia me think about russia's foreign policy every citizen of russia he's entitled to having his or her opinion on the any issue regardless of their job or. what you do you want to now regional leaders again this applies to them as well. but i assure you. it's not like mr could tear if he is in opposition now so there's nothing here to talk about everything looks fine the inquiry into so you must now your question about the u.s. president. and you could you just need to be very inappropriate for us to talk about. you know madela it is inside the u.s. it's not our business it's. the you know the show and people of the us going to set any you asked me if i'm disappointed with trump this is a very naive question it's not like he's bright i'm not he's groom. we're statesman and each country has. their interests that's on the trump and what he does is based on the u.s. national interest what i do is based on russia's national interest and i really hope that the u.s. president has said as much i really hope that we'll b

in case of provocations against us now russia iran and turkey have agreed on the borders of the so-called deescalation zone and so on and the province the details were worked out of the sixth round of severe talks and because like capital astana. currently under the control of opposition groups those are the headlines on al-jazeera and search potence russia as the next. i'm fond drain across of a filmmaker and journalist and i've spent the past year traveling my country trying to understand. the soviet union was almost as large as the russian empire which spanned three continents in the nineteenth century. today's russia has lost many of the territories the towers conquered and the soviets regained but some are still part of russian business and no swedish finnish town of baber soviet union invaded in one thousand thirty nine and finally and next respond to them in nineteen forty four. russia remains the largest country on earth even they only the ten most populous. it's still extremely diverse with about one hundred languages spoken by some hundred fifty catholicity. the former so

is it will fail. her. u.s. acuity service is planned to raid russia's san francisco consulates according to the foreign ministry in moscow the move could pose a direct threat to the safety of russian diplomats and their families. policy is searching for any relatives of two more children the suspected deisel fighters the youngest is a two disc to speak after what they've been through. the news no. one . has up to twenty five thousand radical islamists that's according to peace counter-terror coordinator more than any other country in the european. good afternoon welcome it's just turned two o'clock here in moscow you're watching international our top story this hour u.s. security services are reportedly planning to search the russian consulate in san francisco which was closed on washington's orders as part of the ongoing diplomatic route between the two countries russia's foreign ministry says such searches pose a threat to the safety of diplomats and their families the u.s. security service intends to raid the general consummating san francisco at some time by the second incl

. leaders again talking harsh talking about the possibility of sanctions against russia and against china if they don't comply with the new u.n. resolution if china doesn't follow these sanctions we will put additional sanctions on them and prevent them from accessing the u.s. and international dollar system and that's quite meaningful so now we have these words from trump downplaying the u.n. resolution and many people whose hopes had really been raised for peace and diplomacy being victorious well those hopes are starting to dampen now they're starting to be some some fear that perhaps once again we are in the danger of a global conflict or some kind of war breaking out in the crisis in the korean peninsula could be once again intensifying despite what was seen as a step forward for diplomacy and international cooperation this is just another dip on the roller coaster and saying this seems every week with the war where it goes up very high than than maybe this one conciliatory talk some cooperation some diplomacy and then more threats of military force and it's really hard to know what

mention that this comes only a few days off toward russia back forces managed to break the siege over the it was the initial areas here in there's still. some analysts and observers believe that this is would be and maintaining bones in the war against bolton's goal is to liberate all that is the initial areas that are just a few of his then szell areas and districts in the hands of the extremists so his goal is to achieve is a ration and to retake this there is then chill areas again. one last thing to please let me say that civilians live is going to be much easier from now on and their suffering will end. you syrian military has been advancing rapidly in recent months back in june islamic state controlled a quarter of the country three months later half that territory has been retaken and now government forces are on the verge of fully liberating the city of various or one of the last strongholds in syria we heard from a syrian army commander on the subject. of the syrian air force played the main role in locating the terrorist forces known as i still there identify their ammunition wa

rare interview at a regional economic forum in russia. i know. dozens are injured in clashes with police inside a career in protest against the deployment of u.s. missile. forces prepare for the next stage of their liberation offensive in did. to the city about the civilian suffering. also to come here and see the. potential. refugee status just two weeks before elections in the parent attempt to win over votes in the. uk. good evening welcome you're watching international a rare interview with international media seen a north korean official has said america is undermining efforts to end. on the. the hole in the u.s. neglects the international community's will stablished peace on the korean peninsula pyongyang will retaliate against attempts to impose sanctions and pressure from washington with powerful counter measures with deeply condemn the leaders of south korea and japan for using the eastern economic forum for their own clean political purposes their attacks on our self defense of means strengthening the hydrogen capabilities of north korea clearly diverged from the goals o

confirmation ambassador the u.s. to russia. he answered questions before the u.s. senate foreign relations committee. this hearing is about one hour. >> nato remains vital to the security of europe and the united states. the european union is a critical partner in trade and politics and global humanitarian efforts. france and the united kingdom russia's bad acts complicate much of the good that the united states tries to do. the russian federation possesses not only the second strongest military power in the world but a seat on the united nations security council. years,last several .ussia invaded ukraine vladimir putin entered the syrian war on the side of the regime and has repeatedly used chemical weapons on its millions. last year, russian efforts to influence the 26 in u.s. election fund mentally damaged our bilateral relationship. u.s. election fundamentally damaged our bilateral relationship. hand, we have issues of common interest. we have to figure out a way to . thatetween these issues will be a challenge for our next ambassador. today's nominee will need to perform some of the m

last four years i remember the two thousand and thirteen campaign when relations with russia were more or less ok and the syrian crisis was still in its early stages what do you think has happened with security policy over the past four years. is that. yes the syrian crisis escalated greatly in recent years it seems though that we are pulling into the homestretch with this matter it looks like the islamic state a terrorist organization banned in the russian federation will soon be defeated once this happens russia and western nations will have to divide syria into their respective zones of influence that's number one number two ukraine the ukraine conflict started in november twenty third and reached its peak in the spring of twenty fourteen this conflict remains unresolved it is still boiling it may become another frozen conflict at the same time the situation in germany is changing the military has adopted a new policy boosting the number of personnel building up the number of troops the amount of weapons financial resources germany wants its share of the pie it wants to increas

matilda have resulted in two chains canceling it before release prompting condemnation by russia's culture minister vladimir putin skiing to calm down the hysteria any attempts on the ground to ban the release of the film any attempts to pressure private or municipal cinema as a pure lawlessness and censorship is directly against the russian constitution and with the film's russian premiere still more than a month away the director himself is stunned by the strength of feeling especially as the public haven't even seen it you know all this discussion can remove the surprise to me when i first started to work on it i could move or believe something like this could have been the absurdity of the situation is that those who are protesting against the film haven't actually seen it no one has seen the film yet missile that isn't the first film to court controversy martin scorsese's last temptation of christ elicited cries of blasphemy and bans for depicting a sexual jesus ron howard's the diving she code was also boycotted for proposing jesus and mary magdalene had a daughter and the catholic c

relations with russia were more or less ok and the syrian crisis was still in its early stages what do you think has happened with security policy over the past four years. yes the syrian crisis escalated greatly in recent years it seems though that we are pulling into the homestretch with this matter it looks like the islamic state. a terrorist organization banned in the russian federation will soon be defeated once this happens russia and western nations will have to divide syria into their respective zones of influence that's number one number two ukraine the ukraine conflict started in november twenty third teen and reached its peak in the spring of twenty fourteen this conflict remains unresolved it is still boiling and may become another frozen conflict at the same time the situation in germany is changing the military has adopted a new policy boosting the number of personnel building up the number of troops the amount of weapons financial resources germany wants its share of the pie it wants to increase its influence and this includes projecting its military power what do you think

live from russia's capital city this is our to international a pleasure to have your company i'm going to nail our top story the u.s. state department has been facing a grilling over the closure of the russian consulate in san francisco even accused journalists of son being too much like r.t. . that in programs are what's your name let's move on move on to something else if you still consider that sovereign russian property or were those property searched because there was a concern that they were being used for intelligence purposes which would be like a different issue i'm just not going to get into that let it lead in this let's move on to something else here in russia or any other country where u.s. missions that. could have been searched by the host. government you know what i don't know if you are working for r.t. today or what but i think. in response artie's editor in chief said the channel takes about coleman from the state department as a compliment well the raw spike last week when washington demanded russia vacate its consulate in some francisco and two other diplomat

russia were more or less ok in the syrian crisis was still in its early stages what do you think has happened with security policy over the past four years. yes the syrian crisis escalated greatly in recent years it seems though that we are pulling into the homestretch with this matter it looks like the islamic state a terrorist organization banned in the russian federation will soon be defeated once this happens russia and western nations will have to divide syria into their respective zones of influence that's number one number two ukraine the ukraine conflict started in november twenty third and reached its peak in the spring of twenty four to. this conflict remains unresolved it is still boiling and may become another frozen conflict at the same time the situation in germany is changing the military has adopted a new policy boosting the number of personnel building up the number of troops the amount of weapons financial resources germany wants its share of the pie it wants to increase its influence and this includes projecting its military power what do you think about this p

linking them somehow to russia but themselves say they were unable to verify any specific concrete russian connection. at. all it seems also given all marie made sure roy it's up there amongst the votes of the trolls in the militias which have revealed exactly how much the shuttle strains on the marketing world social media platforms which is what a mobile crisis for many global news organizations and given there's no specific allegation of any wrongdoing against all t.v. which have been staging a document it's raised a few questions as to why autumn is mentioned no now this social media scandal of course goes back a few weeks to the case of facebook facebook the let's go down to fight one hundred thousand dollars worth of spending on up to three thousand votes posted between twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen now they allege they would connect to russian both accounts russian troll but treats. in the grand scheme of things that question does have to be off one hundred thousand dollars may be a lot of money of course but over two year period that's fifty thousand dollars per year t

get them even there. russia seized a big part of ukraine. they ceased seized crimea in 2014. fighting in other parts of eastern ukraine ever since. "daily beast" has good reminder how russia fights using information warfare alongside military tactics like blowing up depots and invading neighboring territory. as facebook is struggling to answer questions in this country how its platform was used in the russian attack in our election last year by russians and why not been more helpful in figuring this out. "daily beast" reports that facebook has been in this space before with the russians. at the same time that russian in 2014 russian information war fair troops were invading crimea, operators were using surprisingly effective technique on facebook to clear ukrainian voices off social media so they wouldn't have competition for the media space. while it was invading that neighboring country. what these russian operatives would do is find ukrainian activists, arguing in favor of ukraine in the conflict and go to online facebook posts be those people and click report on those posts. whate

even let the violent mass protests among locals. wow. meanwhile other regional players like russia and china offered to their solution to the standoff over north korea an emergency un security council meeting this was on monday moscow and beijing proposed what's being called a double freeze initiative under the plan north korea would stop its nuclear and ballistic missile tests and in return america and south korea would stop their joint military exercises over the u.s. dismissed the whole proposal calling it quote insulting well our washington correspondent jacqueline frugal looks at who stands to gain from an escalating situation on the korean peninsula. the north korean threat is something we hear on a daily basis from u.s. officials with the statements pouring bremer and and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war. they will be met with fire and fury the stakes could not be higher the urgency is now this may not get away with what he's doing believe and the urgency is so strong the u.s. is rolling out a range of american made weapons to save the day on offer for rem

us an e-mail. russia summons the deputy chief of the u.s. embassy in moscow to protest plans to search russian diplomatic sites in america remove the browns illegal and aggressive. at the shelves and corridors these are the latest pictures we're getting from russia's trade mission in washington d.c. it's one of three russian premises in the u.s. that the state department has ordered to close and as you can see there is barely anything left a couple of calendars and a potted plant and that is about. counterterrorism chief has revealed that britain has the highest number of islamist extremists in all of europe. was. a member of the white yeah we only got black people right and a police lieutenant in the united states has been fired after dash cam video showed him assuring a woman during a traffic stop the police only kill black people. my name is neil harvey you're watching our international. artie's ridley video agency has filmed inside russia's trade mission in washington d.c. which was ordered shut by the state department along with two other russian diplomatic sites and as you

military exercises russia. will be conducting in about a week's time it's called. which means west two thousand and seventeen and the western media is all up in a tizzy about it why do well it's not the first time it's really extraordinary let me just remind you that in two thousand and fourteen when the events around ukraine happened mrs merkel said would you know it's not going to stop here we're going to talk about moldova going to talk a bold georgia and ask serbia what kind of come next ask serbia and all the balkan nations and the quote so nothing happened to moldova nothing happened to georgia since then everyone forgot to of course what mrs merkel said no one held her up to her words but now we have a new threat you know and immediately of the german defense minister will fool on that land says that there are valid hundred thousand birds but in reality there how many less than three thousand you know this is where you want seven hundred to be pretty good so there's really the minds of the early ages there was a book by robert conquest that's reassuring historian who did the rea

in declaring it will testified to congress plus. today marks two years since russia launched its anti terror campaign in syria we look back at what's been achieved in that time. you're watching r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate cartridge thank you for joining us. the spanish region of catalonia is only edge of what could be a momentous occasion with its controversial independence referendum taking place on sunday both pro and anti independence rallies are taking place today in the local capital barcelona. well let's cross live now to medina caution about here's in wasilla in the forest well hello that machinery what's the mood like on the streets . while as you can see behind my back crowd skip coming into the doors of the barcelona city hall now people that are gathered here protesting against the referendum on the independence of catalonia they came here holding flagship spain at a very shouting slogans of a spondee at which is long live spain and really the crowds here you can feel this an energy now we've got last then twin. the four hours before the

accusations of russia's meddling in artie's alleged role with our correspondent daniel hawkins just when you think there couldn't be any more chapters in the solder new one pops up this time it's about social media if they can't find evidence through officials then get some social media platforms involved in this particular report by twitter they've released a report to congress which is of course investigating those alleged russian links to the hacking of the election in two of the sixteen. report really discusses a lot of detail troll accounts bought stuff that twitter calls malicious automated accounts and now they've managed to find a few hundred of these accounts out of the well hundreds of millions that must exist in the twitter sphere and in the by and those accounts effectively we can all say that those accounts those bots have been officially linked to russia while you're absolute think so of course given the title of the report the russian interference into any sixteen u.s. election bots and misinformation so you could be forgiven for thinking that but actually twitter the

a sixth round of talks to end the civil war the discussions in a stand being brokered by russia turkey and iran the united nations high commissioner for refugees says there'll be an increase in aid relief for more than three hundred eighty thousand or hinge or who fled violence in rakhine state aid agencies along the bangladeshi border have been overwhelmed with the number of ranger since the military crackdown began at the end of last month. the inquiry into one of the worst fire disasters in modern european history is now beginning in the u.k. at least eighty people were killed in london's grenfell tower in june the investigation is expected to look at several factors including building regulations and the response of local government those are your headlines adrian is here with the news hour in thirty minutes i'm back after that i will see you very soon people in power is next. it makes a building up its present some of europe's northeastern borders and russia this month carrying out massive war games of it saying could these rehearsals ever translate into a great thing and h

hear them out of the government of russia who are he has crossed a very dangerous red line he has decided to resurrect the burst of franco as. law and order in the region is maintained by the catalan regional police force that's known as the squad that are this replace the spanish police locally almost ten years ago and it's controlled by the catalan government and their catalan forces have been tasked with preventing sunday's referendum from actually taking place however fiza being expressed in madrid that officers might not comply with that order the spanish government has deployed national military forces the civil guard to the region they're going to be going there to ensure that the vote doesn't take place six thousand civil guards have been stationed at ports in the region and they arrived on cruise ships they were chartered by the spanish interior ministry and they will stay in barcelona until october the third earlier this saturday morning a convoy of police vans left the port area heading into the city the spokesperson for catalonia police force says that all orders will

the trump russia probe. and our interview with the turkish president. what he had to say with his relationship with russia and the ongoing conflict in syria. david: donald trump announces new actions to expand u.s. authority to target individuals and financial institutions that finance or facilitate trade with north korea. >> today i'm announcing a new executive order, i just signed, that significantly expands our authorities to target individuals, companies, financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with north korea. here to talk about what those sanctions could look like and what options are still on the table for dealing with north korea, kevin cirilli joins us from washington. greg orton is our washington executive editor. kevin, this has been teased all day, the president saying stay tuned after another meeting today. we got what he got to say this afternoon. what is this different on how we have seen what is it limited so far? the japanese prime minister put it well when he said this is the next evolution, so to speak, of the u.s. foreign-policy in pressuring

two years since russia launched its antti terra campaign to syria we look at what's been achieved. thank you for watching r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm quite. despondent region of catalonia is on the verge of what could prove to be an historic decision with its controversial independence referendum taking place on sunday tensions are mounting between madrid and barcelona with both sides trading accusations of extremism if there is disturbance it would. clearly be on the side of those who are advocating the referendum that are. adopting nazi like attitudes by you know pointing out people who. are against that referendum that the enemy. has crossed a very dangerous red line he has decided to resurrect the past stuff frankly is. they want an anti independence rally is currently underway in the castle on capitol vassallo nuff marti's martine a question about reports from the gathering so you can see behind my back crowd skip coming into the doors of the barcelona city hall now people that are gathered here are protesting against the referendum on the independen

russia r t has been supporting a campaign to try to find the youngsters families back home and bring them to safety. coming up this half hour to the spanish government seeks to prosecute hundreds of probably dependents mayors in the rest of region of catalonia ahead of october his forthcoming referendum. and the turkish president rounds on his nato allies after they raise concerns over an arms deal with russia. good morning ten am here in moscow this thursday when i was kevin zero in thanks for tuning to r.t. international revue around the world this morning hope your day is going good we're starting with this first the story of two children from families that traveled to iraq to join the islamic state terror group who've now returned to russia to be reunited with their relatives and some form of safety it's believed the children's immediate families had been killed in the fighting here in r.t. we've been launching a campaign called bring them home to help trace these orphans relatives help the authorities back here in russia because we're going to talk about here are added and how t

. diplomatic route between the two countries russia's foreign ministry says such as pose a threat to the safety of diplomats. the u.s. security service intends to raid the general consummating san francisco and some ten by the second including the flats of staff members residing in the same building who possess immunity from being so we are talking about invasion of the consular offices in the apartments of the diplomatic stuff with the latter being asked to leave not to stand in the way of the f.b.i. the news of these searches is really an unexpected and forceful further escalation on america's part now russian russia's foreign ministry spokesperson maria zahar of a said that this order poses a direct threat to the security of russian citizens because the searches will not be limited to the consulate itself but will also include the apartments of the russian diplomats where they and their families live and all of whom of course have diplomatic immunity now on saturday staff members and their families including children will have to leave their homes for up to twelve hours understandably

. international is just turned four o'clock here in moscow russia has some of the deputy chief of the u.s. diplomatic mission in the country to express anger at the american security services intention to search a russian consulate moscow has described it as a clear act of aggression. we consider the planned illegal search of russian diplomatic premises in the absence of russian officials and the threat we have received to break down the door of the building is an unprecedented act of aggression. but for more this now we're joined by medina question of a good afternoon to you bettina a lot of tension over the last few days neither is more what's going to happen next you think well next in several hours staff members and their family so along with children will have to leave their homes for up to twelve hours so that u.s. security services will be able to search the premises now russian diplomatic staff were given only thirty six hours warning the state department has said that the facilities will be close to an anti or access there will be granted only with a special permission now fo

russia have recaptured a launch fortified area held by islamic state in the city of d.s. or that's according to the russian defense ministry. syrian troops found and network of tunnels after taking the position equipped with weapons medical supplies and food it's also been revealed that the area was defended by terrorists of mainly former soviet republic and russian origin. russian warships targeted the militants helping the syrian army stormed the fortress. the latest operation as part of a launch a campaign to force the i still find out. which has largely been occupied by the terror group for the last three years since then it has become one of the largest pockets of terrorist forces in syria. right now are you are. these the take is that two government on the brigades reuniting with one another after being trapped inside the school for the duration of those three years they finally met after the troops broke i guess those siege of the city yesterday or trying to has more on the liberation campaign people of duress or won't have to pray for these to appear in the skies anymore fo

nothing. remains of russia's most wanted terrorist model have been found by the federal security agency he was killed four years ago and was behind the moscow metro bombings also the. streets to oil fields in kurdistan off the region invoked overwhelmingly for independence and the you proposes a new migrants relocation plan to take in fifty thousand more silencing the previous two year long scheme fails. hello good evening welcome it's just turned eight o'clock here in moscow you're watching international our top story this hour the grave of terrorist leader who has been uncovered by russia's federal security service it was found in the caucuses region i know hawkins tells us more now about the man who was once russia's most wanted. moros death was speculated on by media more than a dozen times since the year two thousand it was back in twenty thirteen he was eliminated in an f.s.b. operation but nobody was ever found that's all changed today a militant returning from syria gave the information pertaining to the location of his grave of was why do labeled as russia's bin laden he

. russia relations in both countries expelling each other's diplomats and u.s. congress forcing president trump into a new round of sanctions on moscow do you feel that drone trumps compay to idea of and then this spat with russia is now a dad for good absolutely not it's in america's interest and accords with america's values to to to find a rapprochement with russia so why is it that trump who didn't want to pass new sanctions was corner of into doing that by congress which is controlled by his own party why are republicans working against their own president well it's trump is not a cradle republican if if you understand what i mean he ran on the republican ticket but his allegiance to the republican party is weak and the republican party's allegiance to donald trump is weak and this was intraparty warfare but it would seem like as time goes on it's in others interest to kind of bond why isn't trump succeeding in getting them on his side. well there is a lot of hostility from the republican regulars for donald trump they've they've tamp it down because he did run on the repub