if you're. going. to make this manufactured sentenced to public well. when the ruling class is project themselves. the frame of. the room. donald trump shows little faith in new u.n. sanctions against north korea and warns of tougher steps should the country fail to

abandon its nuclear ambitions not a big deal those should just nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen. the road to rocka a new documentary tells the story of those fighting to drive islamic state from one of its last syrian strongholds. and ninety five ninety six russian athletes from nine different sports have been cleared of any wrongdoing by the world anti-doping agency that's according to a letter published in the u.s. media. watching r.t. international live from moscow studio with mean a day or two to welcome to the program donald trump seems impressed by the latest u.n. security council sanctions against north korea he hinted that more action will still need to be taken to detail pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. we think it's just

another very small step. not a big deal rex and i were just discussing. not big i don't know but has any impact but certainly it was nice to get a fifteen to nothing vote but those sanctions are nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen well it's certainly disturbing to hear these words from donald trump in the aftermath of a vote at the u.n. security council that was widely perceived as a victory for diplomacy the words that we heard from u.s. leaders on the floor of the security council were rather diplomatic and favorable to peace and cooperation at this point we're hearing u.s. leaders again talking harsh talking about the possibility of sanctions against russia and against china if they don't comply with the new u.n. resolution if china doesn't follow the sanctions we will put additional sanctions on them and prevent them from accessing the u.s. and international dollar system and that's quite meaningful so now we have these

words from trump downplaying the u.n. resolution and many people whose hopes had really been raised for peace and diplomacy being victorious well those hopes are starting to dampen the are starting to be some some fear that perhaps once again we are in the danger of a global conflict or some kind of war breaking out in the crisis in the korean peninsula could be once again intensifying despite what was seen as a step forward for diplomacy and international cooperation this is just another dip on the roller coaster and saying that every week with the war where it goes up very high than that maybe this some conciliatory talk some cooperation some diplomacy and then more threats of military force and it's really hard to know what to make of this yes we do have a positive that the original u.s. draft was watered down considerably it was acceptable to the russians or the chinese but then we have this fire breathing talk coming from going getting we don't know what the next step is going to be the real question is. going to be when

do we actually get to a diplomatic track that allows both sides to step down and to my mind that's got to be something like the double freeze proposal that china has put forward the russians agree with but is absolutely unacceptable to washington seems a little surprised that isn't exactly happy about the new sanctions either despite the fact that they are no way near as harsh as the u.s. and britain have wanted north korea's i'm positive russia says it's wrong to believe the sanctions will change anything. we've been on the u.s. sanctions for ten years it was the u.s. that instigated the u.n. security council to come up with more resolutions on sanctions against north korea so we used to living in such conditions and we still managed to achieve everything we wanted if washington things will bend under these new measures and change our position is delusional author and filmmaker john pelletier believes the u.s.

is acting like a bully. the problem is not north korea the problem is not russia of the problem is not trying the problem is the united states the problem for the rest of the world actually now is the containment of the united states sections are relevant in the sense to this whole debate what is needed is a peace treaty with north korea between the united states and north korea and the government in seoul but where it's all heading is the most worrying thing of all. to syria now where islamic state its grip over the country is rapidly collapsing with no major city any longer under full control of the territory one of the main front is there is still where the syrian army is now close to pushing out of the city locals have already started to return after a three year siege is broken with the help of russia power however some pockets of

resistance remain in certain districts. half. they told us first don't forget you're in syria if it gets all the benefit second if you have to go to bed early t.v.'s banned radios banned cell phones have banned a woman can go outside dressed so that the only thing which can be seen is her eyes . saw. we saw them breaking into houses then they approached our house they were banging on our door slamming and banging first i didn't open it for them but they smashed it down it got inside a smashed up all the things in the house. i

spent seven days in the jail then i was taken to the chief of the court sentenced me to sixty lashes but they made me stand against the wall as a teacher. for the old in the city my next year and i was driving along the main road when a bomb or not a fragment of the bomb hit my nephew and he died yesterday we didn't have enough time to save him some people called an ambulance but he couldn't be saying that he died even before he got to the field hospital. lamentation i must sold him when we were living under the blockade we had no cucumbers tomatoes apples or potatoes i have all that now thank god we get groceries and food boxes from the red cross we are very grateful to them i'm very happy that the blockade has been lifted. along with civilians

a syrian army brigade it was trapped inside terrorists or join the siege it held and defended several blocks of the city including a military airport we managed to talk to the bases chief commander. so. a siege was also imposed on the airport this siege was quite severe since i still terrorists attacked the airport another military points daily we had an operations room and everyone knew his duty to tanks had their role the soldier had his role the leaders were side by side with the soldiers we fought to the death none of our soldiers ran away and we defeated eisel their bodies were in the ground even before the siege was broken we received munitions by air drop because all the roadways were under eisel control and using those munitions we fought eisel and won they weren't able to break any of our lines hundreds of them were killed all their attacks against the airport failed even when using car bombs and suicide attacks we

faced them down bravely. while our documentary team has been to the very heart of the battle to rid syria of islamic state a creature able to the scene of fierce clashes to film those fighting to banish the terror group from the country. is now surrounded by u.s. backed syrian democratic forces consisting mainly of kurdish militia clashes are ongoing as the terrorists are still in control of several blocks of the city we spoke to the director of the documentary about her team and what they experienced. when we went to make this film we had no idea what we're going to come across we had literally no idea we started to build our story. three points are on the road to rock and the first point was the medical point the second

point was the women's point and the foreign volunteers point. was. the one quality that you know it's all of them is the very altruistic they're very idealistic anybody want to criticize them they would say well they're coming like foreign militias to fight a war that's not theirs but as long as they know they think it's their war i says acting community in every country and it's like people are paying attention for one day two days and acting as if everything will be normal. no that's not what we were talked several times snipers usually so the main problems around iraq are snipers and mines and the drones the little drones that isis sons with little grenades so they drop the grenade and groups boards and so there is actually one that attacked us while we were not have been on

a permission yet we were about to go to operation. the grenade exploded in midair so it dropped from it didn't calculate the height so if it fell lower it would be done. the most shocking story was one that happened when it got to be morning and when everything got to be peaceful and all of a sudden someone showed up with a huge sword. and started building random things isis just executed it's true a few minutes or maybe an hour ago. these three kids all of a sudden maybe two minutes later we heard screaming and he just started running into a guy says space just started running there without a rifle just for this with

a sword i think they go straight from the americans because they probably saw them on satellite so the world i said. you know was one of the medics said that we were filming. we were the only generation that will never be able to go back to the days when real young. it was true. for more firsthand accounts from one of the key battle ground in syria you can watch the full documentary on r.t. international next monday. ninety five ninety six russian athletes from nine different sports have reportedly been cleared of any wrongdoing by water that's according to a letter published in the u.s. media auntie's capon trade is across the story. this letter was from an internal water report want to be in the world anti-doping agency and that is set to be said that going by insufficient evidence that's the key phrase here that ninety five ninety six russian athletes that have been implicated across nine different sports

have now been cleared so as we know this is something that's been hanging around for wasn't the macao report they gave evidence of apparently there are occasions of state sponsored doping and everything then has carried on from there but we have had some early questioning as all of them carol report the i.o.c. actually the international olympic committee they'd also raise questions about the mccarren report a key point that they had used is how to demonstrate that came up time and time again based on those allegations so that the have been rumblings that some of these allegations that some of the athletes implicated we're talking about a lot of athletes i mean if you look at how they affected the paralympics all the russian team couldn't go to the paralympics they were fit to be banned and also one hundred eighteen russian fleet. the rio games also didn't go so if we look at all those parties the blanket bans how it affected those who were guilty and of course those who are innocent as well have been affected over the past couple of years it's not down to how the process continues the going to find these athletes effectively being given the all clear by wada so now it's a case of all the international sporting federations coming together saying that's

rubbish start this let's put our cases forward and get the rest of the athletes cleared and brown are right with these sports integrity initiative told us the investigation is likely to continue and it's important to know how many samples have been analyzed. i think there has to be some sort of statement card cation from water specifically really in relation to the number of samples that are still held at the the most caliber tree i mean initially said that they couldn't access a lot of the samples that were held because of an investigation by the russian investigative committee which is still going on however it is said that the samples it's now said that the samples of being provided the ones originally seized to the international federations however a number of samples are also destroyed so how many samples have been provided to the international federations to work which is actually a key question because you need evidence to bring forward an anti doping or

violation so you need an address in a analytical finding from the urine sample. it's crucial how many samples have been handed over to the i asked to analyze from the mclaren report that information needs to be closure of. mainstream media step up the hunt for russian hacking of germany's elections with just two weeks to get that story and more after the break . all the feeling of. every the world is experienced. and you get it out of the old the old. world according to josh. walk of the modern world come along for the wrong side. of the world was selling

you on the idea that dropping bombs brings planes to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you thought to try to tell you that every gossip the tabloids were filed. by. the. welcome back to the program the president of the european commission's delivered his state of the union address in the book he started by thanking only twenty seven of the twenty eight members of the e.u. despite the fact the u.k.

will continue to be part of the block for another one and a half years and from britain instead of thanks he had a warning. on march the twenty ninth two thousand one thousand the united kingdom will leave the e.u. it will be a sad and tragic moment. we would always regret this and you will regret it quite suit. at the end of the address everyone got up and applauded except for a group of british army peace among them the hard core breaks a tear nigel for raj but it wasn't just the ukip members that gave younker a frosty welcome. but the european union is not europe and europe is not the european union. wants to force the european union to become a single state yet we know that the euro is not a success story we have extraordinary levels of unemployment and social instability

. the commission chief apparently didn't take this verbal attack on his vision of europe too well as the euro skeptic i mean he harangued. got up from his seat and left the room. now with the german election now less than two weeks away western media have been busy trying to track down russian hackers who as they assume should have already started meddling in the european powerhouses vote in a washington post article one security expert is quoted as saying that it just doesn't feel right that russians haven't struck yet the report as the reason may be that germany's nailed the art of cyber security yet it also states that no evidence of any attempted meddling has actually been detected artie's jacqueline vega takes a closer look at the story. if you haven't been in a coma for the past year you've likely heard a thing or two about alleged russian interference and america's recent presidential

election has concluded russian hackers intervened in the u.s. election with the purpose of helping donald trump when packing and leaking that the administration says the russians carried out connect the dots russia did it and while those claims were never backed up by any solid evidence just a lot of speculation and hearty assurances that hasn't stopped the world from pointing the finger at moscow and also predicting that the big bad kremlin would do the same again in europe the russian hacker scene is huge german security agencies and cyber experts are alarmed own evidence points to russia that's why we cannot rule it out why we are preparing for a similar efforts to influence germany's election many warned that the upcoming german elections would be a prime target for those pesky russian hackers so security was bumped up and investigations were launched but even a year long search by german intelligence for potential russian interference failed to uncover any evidence of kremlin backed meddling or not though that hasn't stopped anyone from seeing russia as democracies enemy number one

a recent article by the washington post examines what sinister implications there could be behind the fact that we have yet to see moscow's hand trying to steer berlin's vote it's just not an election anymore without russian hackers with one think tank director saying the silence worries him quote it doesn't feel right the article edges that the lack of evidence doesn't necessarily mean moscow is innocent perhaps they just haven't been successful or moscow is simply biding its time and it goes on to say that russia's attack me only be seen after the election speculating that russian linked networks may try to manipulate the vote count so remain alert the washington post even quotes a german security association that works closely with germ intelligence agencies who came up empty when looking for sophisticated attacks coming from russia we did not find any evidence that there are more sophisticated attacks coming from russia in the pre-election period. but that lack is credited to germany's resilience and stringent new legislation against the spreading of fake news legislation that doesn't come into effect until october but you know whatever the article also

concedes that perhaps moscow decided to leave berlin alone because they're close trade partners something that putin himself has said in the past. is that we did not interfere in the u.s. elections so why would we create any problems here we have good relations with germany it's our largest trade and economic partner in europe but he is russian after all statements really only become fact when western powers make them so the clear message for russia is you're damned if you do hack and you're damned if you don't meanwhile according to a poll three of the smaller parties vying for third place in the upcoming election have shot up in support over the last week the free democratic party now has a nine percent share. also known as the left party has over ten percent with alternative for germany a fraction ahead we spoke to an m.p. from dealing. for his thoughts on german foreign policy.

the tension with russia began to escalate at the end of two thousand and thirteen early two thousand and fourteen with my daughter the coup of february twenty fourth team that it was crimea joining russia and at the same time the war in syria with the presence of both western and russian troops germany also has a military presence in syria with recon aircraft but do very little for it and that contradicts international law because the syrian government didn't give permission we are also present in ukraine the west is playing referee at the cost of the ukrainian people warning that russia must be penalized with the west e.u. and nato member states like germany the u.k. and the usa are deeply involved in this conflict just as much as the warring factions. i mean you know this since two thousand and eight we've been seeing the end of the unit polar world

order where the west can enforce its own agenda that we're switching now to a multi-polar world order and it is difficult to accept to coordinate foreign and security policy with other powers like china russia or the brics countries and respect their interests in the last twenty five years we got used to doing what we want and not caring about international law and now we're in a situation where this does not work anymore it didn't work in ukraine or georgia in two thousand and eight in syria the west did not succeed with violently changing assad's regime on the contrary we are most likely the losers there. it's just sick and twenty sixteen no washington university study revealed that most refugees coming to europe originated from countries that were bombed the second group is economic refugees when the west destroys other economies which are not competitive with in demand free trade and say we want to sell our goods there and

if the economy turns to ruins we don't care about it because these are the states in africa in asia in latin america and we shouldn't be surprised when people pack their bags and want to come to germany because they want to normal life it's understandable it's. english football association has won the national teams players and staff by using public wife by hearing next year's world cup in russia and if they might be back to discuss the squad secrets. takes up the story. moscow is getting ready for the world cup in twenty eight saying the city authorities are working hard reading through the tourist friendliness textbooks but something they've already done a good job with is why far. anyone who's going to wait for a bus at this stop can use y. find.

millions of people use moscow's underground metro system every day. why five networks that have been out there for ages at let's say cafes restaurants why fi is almost everywhere in moscow nowadays what if the russians did it on purpose like they put off wife i everywhere around moscow for all the world cup guests to use a twenty four seven all in a bid to hack into their gadgets apparently that's what the folks at england's football association are thinking they're really worried about their coaches staff players and everyone else around the world i assume because they even sent a letter to feed their strong advices once you're in russia stay away from public

wi-fi be it inside hotels or restaurants otherwise brace yourself for some real cyber trouble twenty eight see if a increases cyber security of a hacking concern. so who would take advantage of that kind of snooping. my wife eyes on so let me read into the british media. the essay is concerned that sensitive information such as injuries squad selection and tactical differences could be exposed remember so. twenty four to the winter olympics the biggest sporting event in russia's modern history visitors to russia can expect to be hacked welcome to moscow to be used to a new smartphone to browse for information about the sochi olympics almost immediately we were hacked that was two years before the western world started blaming everything on the washington hacking menace so next year what

a great idea big bosses go on our guys know what it takes to win elections abroad why not win or help when the football world cup now. the news this hour don't forget to check us out on social media on facebook twitter and of course i website that salty dot com i'll be back at the top of the so stay with us.

desperate for a single. day of a super. star training very young. eight months of intensive school. reps. and they saved lives. syria. is and was a situation like israel and palestine is not a country where i meet a lot of people were told though everybody agrees. is a very serious situation and people have been much more affected than in any other

conflicts to day. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered time peter lobo canada donald trump ran on a campaign that not only question many foreign policy orthodoxies but also lashed out against neo conservative views of the world today the president is surrounded by men in uniform some are calling this a soft coup.