russia and the syrian moderate opposition agree on terms for a first deescalation zone near the capital damascus. activists see monitoring how migrants heading to europe are dealt with by coast guard and n.g.o.s are accused of having a racist agenda we confront them on the issue. and an israeli antiterrorist some of the boot camp becomes of popular attraction for tourists a bit control over its choice of location in the west bank. very

good evening to you and a warm welcome my name's neil harvey you were watching r.t. international russia and moderate syrian opposition and signed an agreement setting out terms for a first deescalation zone near damascus in a deer a cheater and partridge discuss the development here in the studio. 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 there 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 and 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 job out factor for

me as you know now known as our nose or 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 it's 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 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 the four of these particular zones who will be responsible for ensuring that this deal is carried out well as you know as you were asked in our peace talks 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 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. the political and militant group hezbollah officially confirmed that it's fighting terrorists alongside the syrian army but the syrian lebanese border. the operations taking place in isis love stronghold along the border with lebanon the terror group set up a military base there in a mountainous area inside syria islamic state had been moving closer to the ah so refugee camp just across the border in lebanon the area has also been a place of operation for the news refer and auntie's only pseudos into the history of 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 making it official. hezbollah claims it's driving and 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 it 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 has blown and also. has 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 western 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 politicians in the fighting these are the 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 fire will go on against the terrorist groups until the end looks like hezbollah those waving its flags openly in syria as is feeling confident it's on the winning side while 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 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 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 that ever 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 sort of going renegade and i'm beginning to show some disenchantment with donald trump's policy in the middle east the actually legal basis of 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 c. didn't necessarily need a 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 conscious of that the legal basis for america to be in syria. is really not very valid it's all. another front against i saw was opened at the end of may when u.s. backed kurdish forces reached a terrorist defacto capital rock up the battle to retake the city is raging but has already resulted in enormous civilian casualties many more remain displaced it's

are some of those fled recall life between liberation forces and terrorists. i. have a title i came from rucker 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 all were hit by the random strikes and. 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 died because of the shelling and i can add that just suffering i studied it was great but kalish walkley still lessons in a team 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 although i am alone on a deviation out of the logic coalition targeted everyone just the same it kills one person from ourself and everyone else around there is no diligence 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 see the streets are full of good bodies. military groups are concerned

about the possible cost of victory in car after another eisel stronghold the iraqi city of mosul was retaken at a heavy price with scores of civilians injured and killed operation lasted longer than the battle for starting drought and at the end the city has been left completely devastated he spoke to medea rather 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 just 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 it's 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 would could and could not do. you know they that they were very restricted in terms of access to food you know obviously mostly made as a humanitarian organization so our primary concern is emad tarion situation and 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. now with the number of migrants arriving in italy growing by the day a group dubbed defend europe is trying to stem the flow it's sailing ship to the region in a bid to turn back my dream boats that are coming from africa versa will be based in the sicilian port of tanya it will be patrolling the mediterranean off the coast of libya the mission says that it wants to expose humanitarian groups that it claims are working directly with people smugglers activists accuse them of effectively providing migrants with a taxi service taking them directly to europe. other groups bankrolling the mission

with money that was raised through crowd funding so far they've received more than one hundred twenty six thousand dollars but the mission's been accused of being racist by some refugee activists estates the rally at the port of guitar near decrying the city patrols the activists were holding banners that read no more drowning and freedom not frontex that being a reference to europe's borders agency the city's mayor has branded the defend europe initiative a provocation or to easily be trying to challenge one of the group's members a. reaction from locals. we're 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. probably

arrive by next week. when 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 fascists 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 the. i'm 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 well 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 as they see the bits and i don't like what they're 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 go on how can someone who is live i mean look at the middle of militancy you know take the bus to africa that's nothing i mean some people call them racists do you agree with that there's no racist birth story there's already too many people here yet no jobs so there's no room for everyone 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. so

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 mob the club the trend toward tea could tiny. ok coming up we're going to take a look at an unusual summer camp in israel is strong heavy criticism why find out after the break. but i do think that archie is propaganda arm of the russian government and helps to spread. information that helps advance russia's interests 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 would maybe not do as good a job presenting the american point of view.

welcome back now if you're looking for something a little out of the ordinary for your next holiday israel may have the server it is running an anti terror of some a camp or you can experience being in

a whole state situation. you know. everyone. quite hurt but every time the. one that wanted to kill me is not like.

me about it. about the idea really. really what they do oh it's. the right. situation in order to go back home and you hear or see. something new. it's not. the surrounding the location is situated in the west bank which palestinians considered to be occupied territory. itself has been condemned by palestinian officials the local mass said the tourists attending the camp are mostly american and directly supporting occupation of the land so spoke to

a middle east expert who thinks that israel is not doing any favors by setting up such a venture. 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 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.

but it's the media has been obsessing over the looks style and monitors sims of this since the billionaire businessman made his bid for the white house but just on pulled me style over substance in food has 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 of any assets i have is by temperament oh just i just.

think a much more humble than you would understand. you call it when you don't like that hague's your twitter account only wrote 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 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 do. approve term do so because of his personality this is a cultural issue they want to force trump into. and because he represents in that sense the other side of the cultural divide the reason i say so it looks like america is 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. . legal analysts law and want people who claim to be in favor of diversity of budging 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. deal with any other problem you have. but i'm not crazy about. transgender migration bathroom oh ok will do i hate but i'm not sure about women's rights ok will bother them. so for this news hour you can always go more depth of all stories by heading to our website and keep up with you on the move by downloading up.

dimension. six thirty five if you have a career and the career involves using your are useful in your computer and things like that in an office. perhaps you sort of killings and it circulates. you could have to stop doing all this i mean this is tell you lou the minutes must be for. my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it in a box. or out at a very strong magnetic field held in my head. it's like a real heart pressure on my skin burned and wireless access point here just continuous all day with our students in the schools. we are just continually. citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electoral small and it's getting worse.

you can revolted against the dictator but what about the day after i think we as libyan people did not give much thought about sounds and so of the way the old fashioned also the resolution does not build nations and certainly does not build the state's. lead.

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