RT News - August 17, 2018 (12:00 MSK)

We travel to Syria - to witness reconstruction efforts, as the country rebuilds vital facilities, destroyed during seven years of war. The scandal over Donald Trump's alleged use of a racial slur deepens - though polls show that support for the US president among black Americans is on the rise. A Palestinian journalist is arrested by Israeli soldiers - for filming them, and allegedly 'inciting violence.' Ahead of Friday's Gaza protest, we speak to a hip-hop artist who shot to fame with a video filmed during a previous border demonstration. Hillary Clinton expresses her support - for a young girl who knelt in class during the national anthem, in protest against social injustice. We discuss the whole kneeling controversy with our guests.