russia calls the u.s. downing of a syrian military jet over a disputed battlefield illegal but in washington's adamant it was an act of self-defense. local speak exclusively to r.t. about the horrors unfolding in the north of the country as the new islamic state cell takes root there plus. legal pressure builds up on the u.k. prime minister treason may after a fourth terror strikes the country in just three months.

this is out international good morning for me kevin owen it's chews day morning the twentieth of june just nine am here in moscow first and the u.s. says it's downing of a syrian warplane on saturday was an act of self-defense but russia disagrees and this whole to its cooperation with the u.s. led coalition in syria over the incident looks into washington's claims. for the fourth time in three months u.s. coalition forces have directly attacked the syrian pro-government forces this time a syrian army jet that was in the skies as part of antiterrorism operations was shot down now on previous occasions there have been harsh words but this time moscow says enough is enough any aircraft belonging to the u.s. led coalition detected in the skies west of the euphrates river with the russian air forces operating will be tracked to targets by russian air defense systems the

usa has responded to moscow with a verbal barb insisting that it has the right to self-defense now the un is worried about things escalating it does bring up more broadly or deep concern about the risks of possible miscalculation and escalation in the conflict in syria let's go over the facts the u.s. coalition says that it acted in self-defense the usa is in syria without the permission of the internationally recognized syrian government after essentially invading a country the usa then attacks the internationally recognized government i think the term self-defense doesn't exactly apply here especially when you take into account the downed a jet was on an anti isis mission secondly u.s. leaders insist that they are operating in a de confliction zone well no one other than the pentagon has ever agreed to that maybe there's owns that have been established unilaterally where the coalition thinks that he will do whatever it wants we don't recognize such zones. as you know

there are already deescalation zones that have been agreed on and established by syria iran turkey and russians and the steps by the coalition which don't receive consent from damascus are not legitimate and that's u.s. foreign policy one hundred one we can the united states can do whatever it wants with no ramifications there's no justification for the united states operating there and u.s. is you know they're going to. to try and justify you know any expansion any operations in any way that they can and what are the motives behind them disagreeing and on this you know it's they want to gobble up territory they want to control stuff and they want to they want to take it away from the syrian government is maybe the first obvious one now we've been hearing about self defense and d. confliction zones for quite a while now the claims don't get any more true the more often they're repeated but how far is the u.s. willing to push its escalation and intervention in syria before things get out of

hand caleb mop and artsy new york washington's top military commander was hard pressed to explain the legal grounds for targeting the syrian with the trees response fell flat indeed we're there and have legal justification in new york through zation use military force we are prosecuting a campaign against isis and in syria general dunford is referring to the authorization for the use of military force that was passed in two thousand and one after nine eleven that was related to al qaeda in afghanistan so now he's trying to pretend that this somehow justifies attacking syrian grown forces and syrian air force inside syria so what we've got going on is a clear violation of international law it's illegal to fund a proxy army attacking a sovereign state it's illegal to fly over a state without authorization and it's obvious act of war and aggression to go into another country and shoot the army and and shoot down the air force of these

sobering standing. and as the war rages across syria civilians and desperately fleeing the conflict we caught up with one man who gave up everything to try to escape rocca where the u.s. led coalition run i was battling to liberate that city from islamic state has some of his story. coalition planes struck the district of dario i was with my daughter at the time and just like that she perished after the blast i lost my work more often than not the u.s. planes hit civilians rather than i still. it's mostly civilians who die in the area district director cultural university the al

how market hospitals all these buildings have suffered from coalition bombers no place is safe. sex this morning exclusive a new islamic state leader has emerged in northern afghanistan after his reported release from the tories background prison and twenty sixteen as userland is the son of an jihadi leader and his rise to power seen him fight off other terrorist groups in the region and force locals to convert to islam our correspondent picks up the story more. beyond this desert and those mountains lays islamic states newest caliph and the realm of warlord as azula starts himself as a warrior of god others call him

a heretic cruel and heartless. has murdered so many and besieged even more there is no end to his killing i lost twenty five members of my family they could people's heads off their legs arms and fingers some victims i couldn't recognize because of what they did to their faces i lost my son everyone lost their sons head moment ammerman he is the most evil men in the world it is because of him that was tough he in poverty he brought his terrorists home homes and murdered everyone as azula is a second generation warlord jihad just like his father dangerous and vicious fanatical until recently he was incarcerated in baghran prison then came his unexpected and unexplained release. he's an international terrorist it was american soldiers who released him from bagram for whatever reason

they let him go and now he's come for our lines which doesn't make immediate sense bag graham is officially run by the afghan government by graham is owned by the americans the afghan government doesn't have the capability to run it it was the americans who released as if they want to they could catch him very quickly but they don't and i can't tell you why as izumi are fed on the chaos and corruption in afghanistan in his rise in me a month she amassed hundreds of fighters an arsenal of weaponry and handedly defeated both the afghan army and the taliban converting his ass. mimi's to his own cause and it wasn't faith that did it you know he's the richest man i know he has support from abroad in soo much money he pays his fighters almost a thousand dollars that's why so many join him for reference that's about five

times more than afghan soldiers are paid attempting some refugees say corrupt afghan army troops sell as is the weapons he needs them and foreign sponsors many chose to resist some did so by running away risking starvation rather than leave and as a radical rule others resisted with arms. is a militia leader he has organized locals into a small force to resist as azula the government the us they don't help we finance ourselves by selling our houses and lands to buy weapons and ammunition all the locals and the fighters we've spoken to say the same thing the afghan army sits idle selling weapons to the united states and its marines jets and coalition

allies and nowhere to be seen leaving warlord as is and challenge to or i guess the of. northern afghanistan i can tell you that artie's reached out to the pentagon for comment about the release from ground prisoner can also tell you we haven't heard back from the just yet but we did hear from the afghan defense ministry. oh. no. video home of the alleged aftermath of a saudi led coalition strike in yemen which killed up to twenty five people at a market on saturday you may find some of the images coming up disturbing here

local reports suggest that the airstrike was comprised of two raids first hit civilians whereas the second then targeted the paramedics who just arrived at the scene of what out in the first time is tactics what's known as a double tap with a second strike hitting those reacting to the first and saudi arabia's reportedly used this tactic before to. i. this was a funeral for one man in samarra and now it has turned into a funeral for hundreds of young men use. the law changed all of.

the saudi attack on a yemeni funeral last october two was condemned by the un the organization warned that riyadh had carried out such attacks and it violates the coalition's obligations saudi arabia carried out it says an investigation into that incident and said it after they received incorrect information from yemen's military former u.s. diplomat jim judd triss believes the kingdom feels like it can go unpunished though for whatever it does. we've got. areas of yemen on the verge of starvation the possibility of the outbreak of cholera this is a war basically targeting the yemeni people inflicting great damage carnage on the people in yemen and how much how much we've seen really at all in the western media about this and meanwhile the united states britain and other countries keep supporting the saudis with weapons with logistic with political support they pretend that they're fighting terrorism there it's really it's really despicable

prince mohammad who feels that he has such a backing from washington he can engage in all sorts of risky and adventurous behavior and it's not going to come back to bite him and i think that if he keeps up this way it's going to end up above all destabilizing saudi arabia coming up here not internationalists holding a fourth terror attack in just three months on that tragic farland that has dented prime minister amazed reputation reveal more details about the break. up prime market was reformed to some degree and the wall street. unable to penetrate that market as they once did so the wall street cockroaches along with their brothers and sisters in the city of london and to get in. they caught me another route they found that our racket and it turned into a trillion dollar car because those cockroaches are never told to stop there's no

nobody in the justice department as a can of raid the spray on the on jamie diamond the cockroach. what do you suppose. they put themselves on the line. they did accept the reject. so when. one of the present. want to be it's. going to be this is what the three of them will be good. i'm interested always in the water. or should. i get monday's attack on muslims worship as in london is adding to the pressure on prime minister to reserve my government facing accusations that it security fairly

is by the role in the terror acts in the capital and also up in manchester in this latest incident yesterday a van drove into a crowd of pedestrians near a mosque after ramadan present just finished in london. looks at how britain has found itself seemed really vulnerable to extremism. was. the method and now painfully familiar and the cold knowing down innocent pedestrians. a country woke to news of another terrorist attack. or an. on the streets of our capital city. this was an attack almost claims their place of worship god you're right it was police declared it a terrorist incident within eight minutes this was. quite

clearly an attack on muslims the u.k.'s prime minister has had to denounce a fourth act of terrorism on british soil in just three months terrorism extremism and hate treat take many forms that has been far too much tolerance of extremism in our country over many years including islamophobia islamophobia has been rise and the since the westminster manchester and london bridge attacks which were committed by islamic extremists the matter of london city khan has acknowledged that violent extremism can now come from anywhere terrorists so much for it but other means other than islamist motivation perverse islam is the motivation of the kurdish but the police recognize this is a challenge a they face just hours after the attack a mosque in east london received a bomb threat and had to be evacuated authorities have now increased security

around all places of worship but that hasn't allayed everyone's fares the important thing to know is that this is a very very different types of things we've had before this was specifically targeted towards a minority community and the key thing to say here is that in the past we've had. about dividing lines between community how you have to separate you know this the british society and this muslim society and how this somehow the dividing line what this attack reminds us is that the only dividing line that exists is those who believe in justice freedom and peace and community cohesion and those who don't there are huge community tensions in this country the british muslim community have quite rightly emphasized that over time there have been rises in the number of attacks on our community islamophobia it's acts what needs to be a socio economic changes to our society and some clearly political leadership what happened here in finsbury park has shown yet again how sadly the bluntest of tools like cars and vans can be when in the hands of those wishing to

commit violent acts of terror figuring out how to prevent such attacks is now a major challenge it's a reason mase government. in international affairs expert joan said the lady says the terror threat is growing at an alarming rate. it was potentially the beginning of a second summer of terror europe experienced this last year was the doubling of terrorist attacks over twenty fifteen and right now according to your own poll the rate of terror attacks in europe is increasing over last year's rate and there's a terrorist attempt in europe mostly in the u.k. and france right now about every nine days the first responsibility of any government is to provide for the safety of its citizens and that is both internally and against external threats in europe you have this dual problem you have

basically citizens of these countries british citizens french citizens german citizens who are becoming radicalized mostly over the internet you simply don't have enough law enforcement resources to stay on top of these jihadi he's tracked them down and of course if they don't actually commit crimes until the terror attacks take place how do you arrest them if you time the number of people dead or presumed dead over the grenfell time a blaze in west london has now risen to seventy nine and two popes and police said that that number could still rise to so far five of the victims only have been identified to the public but it's thought it will be possible to identify everyone who perished we see his latest video from inside the building it shows flats with police accounted for everyone who lived there at least those you can see reduced to ashes and rubble a fire broke out early last wednesday morning it swiftly go for the twenty four storey residential block. u.k. promises response to the tragedy has been heavily criticised and huge protests in

the capital have been calling for to reason made to step down one aspect this particular get the british public was to use a maze you to where the survivors would be re homed. every single family will be re housed in the local area we are committed to ensuring that people are really housed as far as possible within the bara or in neighboring bear as some people may actually want to go to another part of london where trees are maze ordered a further inquiry into the tragedy and pledged five billion pounds to help victims however the u.k.'s labor party leader says that some is clearly not enough jeremy corbyn also suggested nearby vacant homes should be opened up to the survivors there are a large number of deliberately kept vacant flats and properties all over london it's called land banking people with a lot of money buy a house fire flat keep it and you would seize it forever or just just take it for as long as they needed complete i just look at them economically apply it compulsory purchase it requisition it there's

a lot of things you can do the tragic far as dealt another blow to teresa mayes popularity following a snap election in which she failed to win a majority in parliament in fact you see their ratings suffered a severe drops in december according to polls to hugo more than half of britons now are unhappy with me as leader the c.e.o. of a grassroots charity organization u.k. we spoke to believes the prime minister is too distant from the ordinary people of britain right now. with each event that has unfolded since they referenced the bridge attack she is showing herself to be further. away from her people who she's the governor she is disjointed and displaced she may be a good governor on a political or political sphere but she's not the people's voice she doesn't have the people's hearts and the people's will. when she makes her decisions and her

plans. trees may has promised to make public the details of any deal to consolidate a position in government she's in talks right now of course with the democratic unionist party the d.p. in northern ireland that deal is largely seen as a controversial one to us when it's finally signed off because they've got opposing views on issues such as. we heard from a u.k. and pale why people are so concerned. well it'll bring that the u.p.a. into a pull position within governments you know they will have a huge influence for their turn members and so many people are worried about their stance on lots of social issues on the border with the south on the irish language question for example lots of issues where they've use their veto in order to prevent progress towards peace and conciliation we don't see that sort of thing in the governments in the u.p.a. for a several ways of the same time because they were very much in favor of one hand the plex it's stealing to fit in them but they want all the advantages of having

a soft border with the south of the streets in several ways and this doing this for their own advantage quite clearly texas wanting a self-proclaimed prince no less has been living the high life around europe fooling the rich and famous that was of course until the bill arrived which. never dreamt of living like a royal in the lap of luxury this fifty something from italy certainly did and he dreamt big french on it it's claimed to be the hereditary prince of macedonia and serbia in fact and albania and montenegro even though montenegro hasn't had a monkey since one nine hundred eighteen but the information on his official website begs to differ still not buying it while many high ranking officials and celebrities did including the archbishop of monaco and the vatican secretary of state mr czerny just didn't lose any time in turning his life into a fairy tale one thousand former baywatch star power anderson would think bigger

bestowing five orders of chivalry upon himself again check including julius caesar in his list of ancestors sounds more like you and no one bothered to check his documents from fake passports to the license plates on these cars which he drove around with his self-proclaimed ambassador they've been traveling around europe since twenty fourteen but it was only when they refused to pay for a weeklong stay at a luxury resort in italy that people finally caught on the guest asked for the bill to be sent to the macedonian embassy in rome instead of immediately raising suspicion both common have now been detained and are awaiting trial proving that the easiest way to make your dreams come true might not always be the best way for . all of life's big lessons of course now cut out the petty way watchlist programs let's talk about the much of the hawks are not international if you're in the u.k. or ireland though warning of you with us today larry king is a long interview with baseball star nick swisher about his all star career.

let's talk about blackness and the bills of being black. and always well in a big house down the steps we have been told. and relays is such her. we simply forgot i don't. seem we've allowed them to rearrange airplanes you told us the sickness of trusting our enemy and we became their face. that's what i call a lack of blackness or understand in the blues of being black. sheep the blues of being black should mandate that we attack knowing how when and what to do to come this simple in its natural as be beck is simply tat the feelin blue is black and blue.

make us manufacture consent to step into public wells. when the room in clusters and protect themselves. with the famous merry go round lifts only the one person. doing all middle of the room sick. to lose the real needs. armstrong call him all the time neil harvey. we're going to be your hopes for the two thousand and seventeen confederations cup right here in russia we're going to be visiting the host cities or sochi fat sounds to petersburg and moscow can be great when told in full of course also politics i think pretty much covering every

topic the fans need to know about the head of the match so don't forget to tune in to some field i it's going to be fun live in. greetings and sell you say she says it's time for us all watchers to admit the uncomfortable truth that most pundits and jackals sitting on capitol hill and squawking in the news media are too afraid to say out loud but of secretly been cheerleading for quite some time now yes we are at war with the sovereign country of syria when exactly we went to war with syria can be debated but after one takes a moment to review recent events and actions committed by the united states against syria war can be the only honest conclusion anyone who tells you otherwise is

either in disbelief of the reality of u.s. actions there or lost in the spin of humanitarian intervention in the fight against isis just a few short months since conducting a multiple tomahawk missile strike against the air base the united states has now officially shot down a syrian bomber which according to fox news marks the first time in history a u.s. jet shot down a syrian plane and the first time in nearly twenty years the u.s. has shut down any war plane an air to air combat the last time the last time this took place was back in ninety nine over kosovo. and what was the reason for this this attack the shooting down of a plane well according to time magazine the u.s. military said that it shot the syrian plane down in order to protect american backed syrian militia forces from an attack by pro regime troops.

remember that the missile strike in april was also labeled a retaliatory action in response to the it lead province chemical weapons attack that was allegedly orchestrated by the syrian government. i think which time we need to ask ourselves at what point is retaliatory nothing more than just another excuse for military aggression let's find out and start watching the hawks. to. get the. real thing. as you put it out of it. like you know that i got. this.