russia and the syrian moderate opposition agree on for a first deescalation zone near the capital damascus. activists is seen monitoring how migrants heading to europe are dealt with by coast guards and n.g.o.s i recused of having a racist agenda we confront them over that. and an israeli antiterrorist becomes a popular attraction for tourists amid controversy over his choice of location in the west bank.

watching r.t. international live from our moscow studio with me welcome to the program russia and moderate syrian opposition have signed an agreement setting out terms for a first deescalation zone near damascus partridge join 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 north so you have the rebel forces fighting amongst themselves as well and you've you've had the reports of even the terror group job out factor al shaab just for me as you know none of that was fighting there as well so now of

course this sets out a peace process that is going to be no more fighting there we're going to have humanitarian and medical aid most of us going to be a roadmap 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 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 storks this is very much a follow up of what was happening there so the guarantors will be turkey iran 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 they're looking to work together to ensure that this is guaranteed this time around

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 as fighting terrorism by the syrian army at the syrian lebanese border in the west and. the operation is taking place and i saw it last stronghold along the border with lebanon the terror group set up a military base in a mountainous area inside syria islamic state had been 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 been his presence in syria. lebanon's hezbollah has long been fighting alongside assad government forces throughout the six years syrian civil war but for the first time the armed group is 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 i says 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 you just towns to shield its balance of tens of thousands of illegal rockets its militias stand side by side with syrian troops as they slaughter the syrian people. iran continues to support terrorism including

palestinian terrorists and. hezbollah is a terrorist organization and they are currently. cross international loans in fighting in another country overtly 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. allies and they came here legally they support us again the terrorists there are many participants in the fighting these are the syrian army forces and those forces that are usually called pro-government

including his which is supported by the iranians as 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 till the end looks like has both those waving its flags openly in syria as is feeling confident it's on the winning side meanwhile one of america's most senior generals has admitted that the u.s. presence in syria has little legitimacy saying that if russia played the legal

can't washington could be applied 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 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 could played out janice martin jay says ever more people are coming round to the idea that america's presence and syria violates international presence tingle senior military officials are now sort of going renegade and i'm beginning to. show some

disenchantment with donald trump's policy 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 volatile and that the front against i sell was opened at the end of may when u.s. backed kurdish forces reached the terrace the fact the capital rucka the battle to retake the city is raging it has already resulted in enormous civilian casualties many more remain displaced here's how some of those who fled to record life between liberation forces anti-virus.

meanwhile but i came from rocker nothing is left in iraq except for destruction because of the coalition and i saw but the strength of the coalition will worst some villages were wiped out some neighborhoods were demolished houses families children women were held 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 suffering i studied it was great but kalish walkley still lessons in

a team and 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 to learn a little management really are. out of logic coalition targeted everyone just the same it kills one person from ourself and everyone else around there is no religion that's not been targeted some people lost their houses or their 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 eyeful stronghold the iraqi city of mosul was retaken at a heavy price with scores of civilians injured and killed the operation lasted

longer than the battle for stalingrad the end the city has been left totally devastated we spoke to from u.k. based charity muslim aid 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 a school where which had not been cleared yet. there were 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 so when asking the question it was mainly you know along the lines of what it is that 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 sailing a ship to the region in a bid to turn back migrant boats coming from africa the vessel will be based in the sicilian port of 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 affectively providing migrants a taxi service directly to europe. the group is bankrolling the mission with many ways through crowd funding so far they've received more than one hundred twenty six thousand dollars however the missions being accused of being racist by some. pro

refugee activists have staged a rally at the port of. trolls the activists were holding banners reading no more drowning and freedom not a reference to his agency the city's mayor has branded the defense initiative a provocation. trying to challenge one of the group's members and also case reaction from locals. were at the port of could turn 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. probably 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 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 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 ngos 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 and what are you

going to do one a refugee or a migrant ends up on your boat but we will 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 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 the moon is this a bit of i don't like doing what if this is right twinning 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 they have to be out

the make of. the sense that they say if they rescue migrants from the boat they will take them back to africa that this is that is what they want how can someone just live i mean up to the middle of militancy you know take them back to africa that's the thing 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 scene 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 their locals who are still feel. 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 monthly club trend toward tea. more needs after the break. 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 weren't me would be somebody who was less capable who had maybe not to his good job presenting the american point of view. saying the seller industry is

a job booster and california generates tens of thousands of jobs new york tens of thousands of california is going to have a lot of jobs on the side where nobody is on this but they have a lot of desert obviously if they go solar they get a lot of job in texas and folks in texas going to say your ideology sucks we want to job this solar jobs you're out of office we're going to bring a folks to do it california's doing isn't that the way democracy works in america. welcome back to the program you're looking for something a little out of the only for the holidays israel may have the answer is running an anti terrorist some account play you can experience being in a hostage situation. but there. was. still.

arabs. you know. everyone anywhere anyplace in. thirty five times. my wife heard but every. one that wanted to kill me is not like. right now no. doubt about it about. the i.d.f. really excited to see how they train and really what they do oh it's up to the. house to treat the right it's all new experience situation in order to when you

go back home and you hear or. speak something new. it's not. the main controversy surrounding the camp is its location it's situated in the west bank which palestinians consider as occupied territory the boot camp has been condemned by palestinian officials said the tourists attending the camp a mostly american and by directly supporting the occupation and we also spoke to 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 but the israelis are the good guys i don't think the

israelis are really doing themselves a favor though by having this sort of very blatant violence and. tourist oriented operation of bringing 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 of donald trump have a sense that been in that business man made his bid for the white house but how important is style over substance. i've been trying to find out. 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 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 passion of any assets i have is fight temperament though just i just. think a much more humble than you would understand. you call women you don't like that hague's 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 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 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 full strength into. and because

he represents in that sense the other side of the cultural diversity that i've got 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. our t. washington d.c. males legal and media analyst line of white people who claim to be in favor of diversity a busing 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 your ideology no truth no future no nothing these are the people who supposedly are liberal they're the ones who are calling for war was syria why because who ever was against they were for you just say. and you're it. they'll

deal with any other problem you have i hate but i'm not crazy about l g b d q are you transgender migration bathroom ok will do i hate row but i'm not sure about women's rights ok we'll. we'll have more news at the top of the hour with neil harvey here on out international. you can revolt against the dictator but what about the day after i think we as libyan people did not give much thought about that and so they waved

caution off the resolution does not build nations. and certainly does not build states. with manufacturing consent to stick to public will. when they're moving closer to protect them so. that the final. nothing we can all middle of the room sit. in the. room.

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a certain percentage are deeply flawed human beings with very little training and of. their kind of all right i think it's just because of my bumper sticker that says just say a word to drugs. thing they don't like anyway the boys do have a tough job to do and now they're facing a new drug that is ripping communities apart sometimes causing the deaths of innocent people the side effects of this illegal narcotics are our mood swings including manic like episodes leading to violence impaired judgment feelings of invincibility nervousness extreme irritability delusions hostility and aggression considering all that our nation's cops are already asked to deal with how can they possibly also take on people jacked up on this drug especially since the drug i'm talking about is steroids and the addicts i'm talking about.