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headlines this hour australia suspends its air strikes alongside the u.s. led coalition in syria as tensions grow between washington and moscow downing of a syrian jets. in an r.t. exclusive tell us about the horrors unfolding in the north of the country where a new islamic state taking root plus. the pressure builds on the british prime minister after the country's fourth terror attack in just three months.
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where it's now three pm welcome to the program first for you australia has suspended its airstrikes as part of the u.s. led coalition effort in syria amid a militarized route between russia and washington with the details here. looks like the reason why australia has decided to hold airstrikes in syria is because they no longer feel that the situation there is safe here's exactly what the statement said as a precautionary measure australian defense force strike operations into syria have temporarily ceased a decision on the resumption of a.d.f. air operations in syria will be made in june course but what is the situation there not say because the agreement that was signed by us from russia back in october twenty fifteen the agreement that prevents any sort of collisions or dangerous incidents in the airspace over syria that agreement as of yesterday has been halted and that means that as of now there is no any sort of regulations in place to prevent the us air forces and also the russian air force and hitting each other and
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this of course came after sunday when the u.s. shot down a syrian fighter jet and that has prompted russia to announce that any coalition airplane flying on the west of the euphrates river or potentially targets that could be tracked down here's exactly what the ministry of defense would 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 as targets by russian air defense systems well that statement certainly sounds threatening but bear in mind the russia also made it very clear that no coalition play will be shot down automatically that everything will be decided on a case by case basis and action we only be taken if a coalition airplane poses a threat to russian aircrafts another thing to bear in mind is that on sunday's incident is barely the first time that the u.s. has attacked syrian government forces in fact there been four attacks in the past three months and the u.s. actions in syria certainly raise concerns with the u.n.
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it does bring up a broadly or deep concern of the risk of possible miscalculation and escalation in the conflict in syria so essentially what we're seeing here is the potential fallout between coalition partners as straightly as latest decision clearly show that some of us allies. do not feel safe in syria international relations professor jamal wakim told us that australia's move signifies that some coalition partners don't want to take responsibility for u.s. actions in syria the united states is pushing hard now to lose ground in syria especially that the syrian forces are expanding their control over the syrian territory and they were. also able to reach the border with iraq which the american plan to drive a wedge between iraq and syria and this is what makes for example the australians
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and other. coalition members fear afraid because i believe that they might. see themselves as targets for the russian forces stationed in syria. and they they might fear a potential let's say that their jets might be downed by the it often forces let's take a look at how the u.s. presence in syria has evolved under the pretext of fighting islamic state u.s. led coalition airstrikes began in september twenty fourth without the permission of the syrian government we will degrade and ultimately destroy all eisel at the end of twenty fifteen washington officially began sending special forces into syria to help the so-called moderate opposition again without the permission of damascus twenty sixteen u.s. troops were spotted across syria with washington reluctant to say had it set up bases that that bite september twenty sixth in the u.s.
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led coalition bombed a syrian military base for the first time although officials admitted that it was unintentional ultimately we made an unintentional regrettable they were primarily based on human factors in several areas in the targeting process then in april of this year washington launched dozens of cruise missiles at a syrian air base. soft blaming damascus for an alleged chemical attack that was followed by the coalition bombing of syrian pro-government forces on three occasions accusing them of violating so-called de confliction zones self defense of our forces inside in a stab leafed an agreed upon confliction jong than just this month the us deployed advanced missile launches to a base run by its commandos washington's top military commander was hard pressed to explain the legal grounds for shooting down a government jets in this latest attack after his response fell rather flat we're there and have a 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
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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 ground 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 armenians and shoot down the air force of these sort of unsteady and as that brutal war rages across syria civilians a desperately fleeing the conflict we caught up with one man who get up every thing to escape iraq where the u.s. led coalition is battling to liberate the city from islamic state is his story.
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coalition planes struck the district of dario i was with my daughter at the time and just like that she perished after just last week i lost my leg more often than not the u.s. planes hit civilians and one of the guys still. does most of the civilians who die in the area districts of the intracoastal university oh how markets hospitals all these buildings have suffered from coalition bombs has no place is safe.
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exclusive for you now a new islamic state leader has emerged in northern afghanistan after his reported release from the notorious baghran prison in twenty sixteen as a result is the son of an baghdad leader and his rise to power has seen him fight off other terrorist groups in the region and force locals to convert to i sold my gas d.f. picks up the story in afghanistan. 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 soldiers. has murdered so many and besieged even more there is no end to his killing i lost twenty five members of my family the 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
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lost their sons head moment ammerman he is the most evil men in the world it is because of him that was tough he 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. is an international terrorist it was american soldiers who released him from bagram for whatever reason to let him go and now he has 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
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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 mia months she amassed hundreds of fighters an arsenal of weaponry and handily defeated both the afghan army and the taliban converting. his enemies 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 will most 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
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starvation rather than leave. tehran ical rule others resisted with our arms sure he's 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 as the united states it's marines jets and coalition allies a new way to be seen leaving warlord as unchallenged or i guess the of. northern afghanistan we've been in touch with the pentagon for comment about as a rule is released from prison but we haven't heard back from them just yet however we did hear from the afghan defense ministry. can only
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seems wrong. just don't. get to shape out. active. and engaged equals betrayal. when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. monday's attack on muslim worship as in london is adding to the pressure on prime minister to resign may a government faces accusations that its security failures played
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a role in the terror attacks in the capital and in manchester and the latest incident in finsbury park mosque was driven into a crowd of pedestrians after ramadan present just finished. looks at how britain is finding itself seemingly vulnerable to extremism. it was was. the method blunt and now painfully familiar and the cold moving down innocent pedestrians. a country woke to news of another terrorist attack. on the streets of our capital city. this was an attack almost claims their place of worship god everywhere i go i was. at least declared it a terrorist incident within eight minutes this was. quite
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clearly an attack on what strains 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 mare of london city khan has acknowledged that violent extremism can now come from anywhere terrorists so much credit for 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
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around all places of worship but that has until aid 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 in this muslim society and how this somehow the dividing line what this attack reminds us is that the only dividing line they exist 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 and for size that over time there have been rises in the number of attacks on our community islamophobia cuts x. what needs to be a socio economic changes to our society and some clear political leadership but happened here in finsbury park has shown yet again how deadly the
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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. r.t. london international affairs expert johnston leidy's says the terror threat is growing at an alarming rate. seeing 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 day the first responsibility of any government is to provide for the safety of its citizens and that is both internally and against external threats. the number of people dead or presumed dead after the grenfell
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time a blaze in west london turns into seventy nine the metropolitan police say that number could still get rise so far the identities of five victims have been made public but it's thought it won't be possible to identify everyone who perished this is the latest video from inside that child building it shows apartments where police have accounted for everyone who lives their homes though reduced to ashes their belongings incinerated the fire broke out early last wednesday morning and swiftly engulfed the twenty four story blog another video appeared online of firefighters reacting to seeing that blaze for the first time.
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the prime minister's response to the tragedies been heavily criticized and huge protests in the capital have been calling for a reason made to step down one aspect that's particularly and good the british public with mazie cute and where the survive the would now live. 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 areas some people may actually want to go to another part of london theresa may has ordered a thorough inquiry into the tragedy and pledged five million pounds to help victims however the leader of the u.k.'s opposition labor party says it's clearly not enough jeremy corbyn also suggests that 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 buying a house why a flat keeper and you would seize it forever or just just take it for as long as they need it can which i just look at them economically apply it compulsory
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purchase it requisition it there's a lot of things you can do the tragic fires also dealt another blow to to resume a popularity following snap election setback in which he failed to win a majority in parliament as you can see her ratings have suffered a severe drop since last december and according to the polls to hugo more than half of britons are unhappy with. the c.e.o. of a grassroots charity in the u.k. we talked to believe that the prime minister is too distant from the ordinary people of britain. with each event that has unfolded since the rest of the bridge attack she is showing herself to be for and for. away from her people who she is the government she is destroying put in this place she may be a good governor on the political sphere of the 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
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makes her decisions and her plan. anger is rising among berland residents who've learned that a saudi diplomat who killed a cyclist is unlikely to face prosecution due to his immunity peter all of a report. from where the fatal road accident took place one week on and tribute set a by mark the spot where a fifty five year old man was knocked off his bicycle and killed on this busy street as is common here in germany he's only been named as michael out of consideration for the privacy of his family a diplomat from the embassy of saudi arabia unexpectedly opened the door on his porsche s.u.v. at around eleven pm on tuesday evening last week hitting the cyclist knocking him from his bike when he received a serious head injury emergency responders rushed into hospital dyce later the next day the driver of the car has immunity from prosecution judy his diplomatic status
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and as it stands looks highly unlikely that he will face any charges that hasn't gone down well with locals here they're bunch of irresponsible and take responsibility for things like a. disgusting actually that he has munity if he does not want to face the sanction then his hiding be has diplomatic status. as a sham and it doesn't sound good if there are absolutely no consequences if this is the case and this is an injustice because i cannot. it sounds like we live in a society with two classes it's almost like a diplomat saying i can do whatever i want the whole idea of diplomatic community really needs to be rethought the family of fifty five year old michael and demanding justice however it seems extremely unlikely that they're going to get it at this point i don't care if he's a diplomat are not it's not right that someone can take a life like this and get away with that he should receive a proper punishment due to the saudi officials diplomatic status the only options
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available would be to appeal to riyadh to have his diplomatic community waived or for germany to officially expel him however diplomatic sources tell us that the. the most likely outcome is that the saudi foreign ministry will quietly recall him . well the saudi embassy published a statement expressing its condolences to the family of the victim on friday and also saying that they are in close contact with the german foreign ministry. self-proclaimed prince has been living the high life around europe fooling the rich and famous that is until the bill arrived. ever dreamt of living like a royal in the lap of luxury this fifty something from its lease certainly did and he dreamt big french on it it was claimed to be the hereditary prince of macedonia and in fact and albania and montenegro even though months and hasn't had
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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 china 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 and his list of ancestors sounds more like it and no one bothered to check his documents from fake passports to the license plates on his car which he drove around with his self-proclaimed ambassador they've been travelling 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 come and have now been detained and are awaiting trial proving that
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