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russia and the syrian moderate operation opposition signed an agreement on how to set up the first deescalation zone near the capital damascus. activists see monitoring how migrants heading to europe dealt with by and n.g.o.s are accused of having a racist agenda we confront them over there. and an israeli terrorist summer boot camp becomes a popular attraction for tourists amid controversy over his choice of the location in the west.
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you're watching r.t. international live from our moscow studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program the first document establishing a deescalation zone in syria has been signed between russia and syria's moderate opposition parties kate patras joined me in the studio with the latest on the development. it finally is the first deal that's been signed as a deescalation zone in the key strategic area of the scooter which is fifteen kilometers east of damascus and its key strategic area a one time population of two million people prior to the syrian conflict key point strategic importance of signed a document it's the first time it sets out also how people are going to behave and also how they can keep the peace what is the deal mean in practice what in practice it's been a bit of a military free for all there so you have the government forces fighting against the rebel forces nor so you have the rebel forces fighting amongst themselves as well and you've you've had the reports of even the terror group. just for me as you know none of those are that was fighting there as well so now of course this sets
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out a peace process that is going to be no more fighting there we're going to have humanitarian and medical aid most of those going to be a road map on how they rebuild the infrastructure there that's been decimated as we've seen by some of the pictures and also there's going to be a means of having safe passage for the civilians that are left there been able to leave seems like there's progress it's been a long process so far but there will be next steps what lay it in terms of the syrian peace process what will it be well the idea is that this is the first of four particular deescalation zones while they're still nailing out the final details so we're also looking at other key flashpoints in live in homs and see whether they can then come together and establish four of these particular zones who will be responsible for ensuring that this deal is carried out well as you know as you were at the us last interview stocks this is very much a follow up of what was happening there so the guarantors will be turkey iran and russia at the moment this particular deal has been trashed out growth but in cairo by egypt those are the three countries that were the initial peace talks and
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they're looking to work together to ensure that this is guaranteed this time around and also it looks like it's going to be a long road ahead and see how they manage it. lebanon's political and militant group hezbollah has officially confirmed it's fighting terrorism alongside the syrian army at the syrian lebanese border these are the latest pictures of a joint operation in western culture. the operation is taking place in the last stronghold along the border with lebanon the terror group set up a military base there in the mountainous area inside syria islamic state and be moving closer to the refugee camp just across the border in lebanon the area has also been a place of operation for the new front. into the history of has police presence in syria. lebanon's hezbollah has long been fighting alongside assad government forces throughout the six year syrian civil war but for the first time the armed group is
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making it official. hezbollah claims it's driving isis terrorists as well as rebels out of the last foothold on the syrian lebanese border a mountainous region seen here on the map the green part here is controlled by al nusra and rebels and the black here by isis so far sounds like just another development in the ongoing fight against terrorism in syria right so what's the big deal let's break it down. as well as presence in syria has always been a bone of contention as israel the u.s. and the arab league all view the group as a terrorist organization and levanon hizbullah a terrorist organization uses towns to shield itself of tens of thousands of illegal rockets its militias stand side by side with syrian troops as they slaughter the the syrian people. iran continues to support terrorism including
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palestinian terrorists has blown and also. has is a terrorist organization and they are currently. cross international loans in fighting in another country over it's in no way trying to demonize a group that is fighting against west against american against israeli and saudi interests in the region. but not everyone categorized as hezbollah fighters as terrorists the list of those who don't include syria russia china and of course iran which funds it and helped create the group in the eighty's the russian. and allies and they came here legally they support us again the terrorists there are many politicians in the fighting these are the
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syrian army forces and those forces with the usually called pro-government including his which is supported by the iranians his blood is fighting alongside this. block against the terrorist groups the western media has proven that they were supported by western countries by the united states by saudi arabia and also by israel. so why is hezbollah being more brazen in syria all of a sudden raising the flag. might be an attempt to assure the supporters of hezbollah that the fight will go on against the terrorist groups until the end looks like has both those waving its flags openly in syria as is feeling confident it's on the winning side meanwhile of america's most senior generals has admitted that the u.s.
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presence in syria has little legitimacy saying that if russia played the legal card washington could be obliged to leave the country here's the conundrum we are operating in the sovereign country of syria. the russians they're there they're stalwarts they're they're back stoppers have already uninvited the turks from syria were a bad day away from the russians saying why are you still in syria us and it's it is come up in the form of some some close calls there but it'll it'll be hard i defer to the lawyers in the crowd and others in terms international law on the basis for us staying there other than our c.t. writ we went there for all the righteous reasons but if the russians play that card we may want to stay and have no no. ability do it they they could play to our. journalist martin j. say more people are coming round to the idea that america's presence in syria violates international law it's interesting that senior military officials are now
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sort of going renegade and beginning to. show some disenchantment with donald trump's policy in the least the actually legal basis for america being in syria is a very shaky one it's based on u.n. rules that were adopted in two thousand and five which argued in theory that she didn't necessarily need the u.n. security council agreement to engage yourself in military activity in another sovereign states to prevent what could be. harm or a war situation and i think the europeans particularly are conscious of that the legal basis for america to be in syria. is really not very valid it's all. and at the front against i still was opened at the end of may when u.s. backed kurdish forces reached the terrace de facto capital dhaka the battle to retake the city is raging it has already resulted in its next has how some of those
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who fled to make or life between liberation forces and terrorists. i came from rocker nothing is left in rock except for destruction because of the coalition and i saw but the strengths of the coalition were worse some villages were wiped out some neighborhoods were demolished houses families children women were hit by the random strikes. i left my neighbors at home in the evening and went to sleep outside i came back in the morning just to find twelve of the dead the children the mother and the man i buried them they don't like because the shelter and i can cut the grass suffer i
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studied it was great but kalish walkley still less than thirty a man they carried out in their strike on my school and killed a lot of people as there were refuges from aleppo obviously all the time a little money. out of the larger coalition targeted everyone just the same it kills one person from ourself another one else around there is no religion that's not been targeted some people lost their houses or the lost their children and wives. the massacres in iraq are committed by isis and the coalition warplanes together what can i say the streets are full of the bodies. humanitarian groups all concerned about the possible cost of victory in iraq after another eisel stronghold
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the iraqi city of mosul was retaken at a heavy price with scores of civilians injured and killed the oppression also longer than the battle for stalingrad and at the end the city has been left totally devastated we spoke to they have from u.k. based charity muslim eight she visited mosul and described what she saw. what i saw was just. i mean it was indescribable it was like a movie set it's completely obliterated the whole city is ruined. you know those cars that have been completely obliterated it was like you know i've said this to other people it's like a movie set it was just crazy nothing like i expected next even though i had seen the movie. pictures before. it's different when you're there because what you can't seen in photos is is the smell. you know it i was in
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a school where which had not been cleared yet. there was still bodies underneath the rubble. and i asked my colleagues i said you know what is that smell and they said it's you know people have died here and they've not been cleared so there's basically the smell of death and small and sewage and it adds to the whole atmosphere of the whole city being ruined all the buildings are destroyed i don't think i saw one clearly standing building is it's just the entire city is gone it's going to take a long time to to get back to what it was. they were living in very difficult conditions they. were very restricted in what they could and could not do. you know they they were very restricted in terms of access to food you know obviously mostly made as a humanitarian organization so our primary concern is humanitarian situation and so when asking the question it was mainly you know along the lines of what it is that
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they need. and they were all very malnutrition because you know under occupation they were not able to access that much food or water or even medical care you know everything that the prices of everything shot up so you would see people having to you know sell everything they own just to get you know some sugar or rice. with the number of migrants arriving in italy growing by the day a group defend europe is trying to stem the flow it's selling a ship to the region in a bid to turn back migrant boats coming from africa the vessel will be based in the cillian port of could tanya and it will be patrolling the mediterranean off the coast of libya the mission says it wants to expose humanitarian groups that it claims are working directly with people smugglers the activists accuse them of effectively providing migrants a taxi service directly to europe. the bank is but the group is buying the mission with money runs through the crowd and so far they have received more than one
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hundred twenty six thousand dollars however the mission has been accused of being racist. challenge one of those behind it and also reaction from local italians were at the port of in sicily among the ships that come into the sport you will every now and then see boats full of migrants but we are here to talk to an activist who is expecting the arrival of a very different kind of boat with a very controversial purpose. so somewhere around here will probably arrive by next week. what we cherish of course is a cultural identity are you a racist or an extremist organization your final purpose is what. we want to ensure that europe stays in europe this is what some people call racism . i think the european union should feel ashamed now they want to use sicily as
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a rallying point for disgusting racism that does not belong to our culture i know that our welcoming culture is disliked by european sashes but we won't give up we are not going to be silent in the face of this call to violence against desperate human beings these peoples need to buy history books we're not trying to provoke a situation where anybody's life is at risk so you're not attacking them i know we're not attacking migrants we're not going to attack the n.g.o.s we would just try to document what they're doing and we want to make sure that these n.g.o.s are not working as some kind of proxy for the human traffickers what happens if you see that someone's life is in danger we will also come and rescue them really and what are you going to do when a refugee on your boat well we would try to bring them to africa again. people of sicily have gotten used to migrants to the many n.g.o.s that have come
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here to help but an anti migrant ngo patrolling the mediterranean that is something most people here have never heard of so let's ask the locals about the concept what do you think of the n.g.o.s that are working in the mediterranean to help the migrants to the moon is this the bit i don't like doing what if this is right twinging and geo both doesn't sound good this is the boat. the right wing activists will be on this boat they will be patrolling the mediterranean to make sure that there is no illegal migration and to make sure that the n.g.o.s don't break the laws what do you think about that good job like that it's good and the opinion of the migrants. they don't want migrants here i mean. if they don't one migrants i mean you have to doubt the make of. the sense that they say if they rescue migrants from the boats they will take them back to africa that this is
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a that is very good on how can someone just live i mean up to the middle of militancy you know take the bus to africa that's not fair i mean some people call them racists do you agree with that there's no racist but story there's already too many people here yet. so there's no room for everyone or do you think that's racist i don't think so and i'm not against helping migrants but we should help them in their own country so here's a seeing that seems to have become typical for sicily we've got a park where we can see the migrants then and geo group to help them and also there are locals who are still feeling the burden of the economic crisis and don't want migrants and their hometown and all of them are in one same park not too long before right wing activists join the club to try and warranty could really. coming up we'll look at an unusual some a company israel is drawing heavy criticism find out why after this break.
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called the field we don't need somebody. everyone in the world to be a real leader that you can get all the old the old. the old according to josh. in case you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington the washington post media the media
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don't voters elect the businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . welcome back if you're looking for something a little out of the ordinary for the holidays israel may have the answer it's running an anti terror someone you can experience being in a hostage situation. but the people. that are. still. arabs will be. terrorists and i'm cheating on terrorists everyone anywhere anyplace
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situation in order to when you go back home and you hear or. something new you know the war it's not. the main controversy surrounding the compound it's location it's situated in the west bank which palestinians consider as occupied territory the boot camp has been condemned by palestinian officials at the tourists attending the compromise the american and all that by directly supporting the occupation off the land we also spoke to a middle east expert who thinks israel is not doing itself any favors by setting up . this is something israel has been doing for a very long time reinforces the notion to american visitors in particular that the conflicts can only be solved by military force that the palestinians of the bad guys that the israelis are the good guys i don't think the
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israelis are really doing themselves a favor though by having this sort of very blatant violence and. tourist oriented operation of bring in americans in particular to train them on the so-called palestinian terror threat it is a move that is so clearly rejects the international view of what should be happening in in occupied palestinian territory. the media has been obsessing over the look style and mannerisms have done that since the billionaire businessman made his bid for the white house but how important is style over substance checking has been trying to find that. america's commander in chief is meant to be a representation of the country as a whole and its values and what does america pride itself on if not diversity we believe our diversity our differences when joined together by
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a common set of ideals makes a strong americans are a diverse people with respect and concern for every single human being in this country and being very different from previous u.s. presidents donald trump seems to know what it's like to be the outcast his everyday guy in your face persona is one of the things that got him elected i think by single greatest of any assets i have is fight temperament oh just i just. think i'm much more humble than you would understand. as. you call it when you don't like that higgs your twitter account only rule that you know donald. but it's also what he's attacked for by some of his detractors recently we've seen the media become preoccupied with trump's personal habits some choose to dissect his food choices slamming him for his love of red meat exotic meals fast food you name it it's true he's not like obama who reportedly only eats seven lightly salted almonds
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for a night snack others criticize the president's lack of obvious exercise dubbing him the least athletic president in u.s. history well maybe a more athletic build is the key to being popular and a few outlets have gone as far as to warn that trump's unique and often unscripted style of speech may be an indicator of mental health issues and many fell in love with obama because he was seen as a cool hip guy. which apparently is not the case with mr trump and that could be hurting him more than he knows because according to a recent poll that's how his predecessor scored high in approval ratings and that same poll shows that sixty five percent of those. who disapprove of trump do so because of his personality this is a cultural issue they want to force trump into. and join because
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he represents in that sense the other side of the cultural divide the reason i say so it looks like america's champions of diversity disapprove of trump despite him being the man who arguably has made the presidency more diverse perhaps a few more hip trappings could help but probably not. r.t. washington d.c. we also legal and media analysts line ally people who claim to be in favor of diversity of bashing one of the most colorful presidents in u.s. history the biggest con in the world is that what people call the liberals and they're not liberals they have no belief system they have no platform they have no ideology no truth no future no nothing these are the people who supposedly are liberal they're the ones who are calling for war with syria why because who ever was against term they were for you just say i hate trump and you're it. they'll deal with any other problems i hate but i'm not crazy about.
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transgender migration bathroom ok will do i hate but i'm not sure about women's rights ok well. don't forget you can find us all across social media on facebook you tube and of course. dot com i'll be back at the top of the output for the toronto of the top stories of the day. but i do think that archie is a propaganda arm of the russian government and helps to spread. information that helps advance russia's interest and so that's why i think it's important for people like me to come on if it were me would be somebody who was less capable who would maybe not do as good a job presenting the american point of view. you
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this is where they pierced america's hearts on the eleventh of september two thousand and one fifteen years after the attacks. as the military. parade to our no one point five million troops the save years of freedom every eleventh of november this parade on as generations of troops. to those returning from iraq or afghanistan their replacements. the young generation the future of the most powerful military. these recruits are still in school.
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