the. us senate votes overwhelmingly against an amendment which could have ended the war in iraq and afghanistan. european commission president claims that the e.u. has too many presidents i think only want to and should be at the helm of. the road. documentary tells the stories of those fighting to drive islamic state from one of its syrian strongholds. and a new development the will done to doping agency confirms the accuracy of a leaked document that shows ninety five out of ninety six russian athletes have

been cleared of any wrong doing. very good evening to you my name is the. international. the u.s. senate has voted against an amendment which could have ended the wars in iraq and afghanistan is across the story she year the u.s. congress passes the national defense authorization act which supplies funding and authorization to the u.s. military for the following year now in the aftermath of the september eleventh attacks the national defense authorization act began to start having a section of it added to it was called the authorization for the use of military force this essentially allowed the united states to carry out military force in the fight against terrorism now u.s. senator rand paul from. kentucky who is

a noted opponent and critic of intervention by the u.s. military around the world he's been described as an isolationist libertarian and the paleo conservative he put forward an amendment to the national defense authorization act that would remove this section remove the authorization of military force which has been present for the last sixteen years as part of the m.t.a. he would have removed it and essentially his removal would have required the u.s. to start bogging down and restricting its foreign involvement around the world it would have restricted the war on terror and essentially not allowed the united states of the commander in chief the president to continue authorizing and carrying out these military interventions now not surprisingly it was voted down even though there was quite a bit of anticipation in the lead up to the vote as the votes in the u.s. senate went down it was sixty one against thirty six in favor now rand paul has said that he intends to make a bigger deal out of this there's talk of potentially

a filibuster he's tweeted out a great deal of frustration saying where is the antiwar left demanding that the war's end where are the constitutional conservatives demanding the right of congress to reclaim the war powers sixteen years this national defense authorization act has included the authorization for the use of military force each year it has been passed and now we're seeing rand paul demanding that it be removed but he has been voted down and it looks like the national defense authorization act will proceed to go to the house of representatives without this amendment proposed by rand paul. to syria now where islamic states grip over the country's rapidly collapsing with no major city any longer under the control of the terrorist group one of the main fronts is dead that's where the tsunami is now close to pushing on completely out of the city locals of already started to return the two or three years siege was broken with the hope of russian air power but some

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

i spent seven days in the jail and then i was taken to the chief of the court sentenced me to sixty lashes but they made me stand against the wall. for the oldest my next year and i was driving along the main broke when a bomb went off in a fragment of the bomb hit my nephew and he died eight years ago we didn't have enough time to save him some people called an ambulance but he couldn't they say that he died even before he got to the field hospital. lamentation i must sort him when we were leaving on 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're very grateful to them i'm very happy that the blockade has been lifted. along with civilians

a syrian army brigade was trapped inside there is zero during the siege it held and defended several blocks of the city including a military port we managed to speak to the bases chief commander. so. a seizure was also a stormy airport this siege was quite severe since i still terrorists attacked the airport another military once daily we had an operation through and everyone knew how to do tanks have 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 and 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 thought i saw in one they weren't able to break any of our minds 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. a. lot

of comanche team has been to the very heart of the battle to rid syria of islamic state crew travel to the scene of fierce clashes to film those fighting to banish the terror group from the country. right now surrounded by u.s. backed syrian democratic forces consisting mainly of kurdish militias the clashes are ongoing due to the terrorist is still in control of several blocks of the city he spoke to the documentary's director about what heard that experience. 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. out. the one quality that you know it's all of them is the very altruistic they're very idealistic anybody wanted 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. acting community every country and people are paying attention for one day two days and acting as if everything we can normal. is now that's not we were attacked several times the 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 beating random things just executed a few minutes or maybe an hour ago. his 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 with

a sword i think. strikes from the americans because they probably saw them on satellite so they were isis. was one of the medics that we were filming. we were the only generation that will never go back to that. and that's true for more firsthand accounts from one of the key battlegrounds in syria you can watch the full documentary it will be airing on r.t. to national next monday. about hunger the top u.s. college on the anniversary of nine eleven has been pulled down after it sparked furious accusations of being anti american get the details from r.t. correspondents a miracle on the line now the media what was so controversial that about this ban it. well controversy erupted on the sixteenth anniversary of nine eleven when students hung a banner that criticize the war on terror the banner featured an uncontroversial

quote by american historian howard zinn and below that actually was the phrase in honor of those killed and displaced by america's so-called war on terror this outraged all campus as one can guess the controversy divided democrats and republicans on on campus democrats defended the banner and in a facebook post the group acknowledged minorities who faced discrimination after nine eleven as well as acknowledge the war on terrorism massive alien casualties unsurprisingly republicans denounced the banner and actually said that only those who served our country. after nine eleven should be considered university a few officials blasted the banner as deeply insensitive but refused to remove it up until yesterday due to its obligation to uphold free speech and hearst

amherst college did however leave a statement on its website honoring the three community members who were killed in the tragic attacks that killed a total number of three thousand people. as attacks serve as a pretext to launch the war on terror which resulted in us soldiers did as well as civilian casualties as well excuse me as far as the banner debate it remains unclear where this will all go but it's also important to note that this controversy raised many questions that still remain unanswered today many thanks very calm bring is the story that. now a new development the president of the world anti-doping agencies confirm the authenticity of the document that was leaked to the u.s. media that document revealed that water had cleared ninety five russian athletes

from nine different sports that were subject to its drugs probe partridge has more this letter is from an internal wider report want to be in the world anti doping agency and that effectively 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 will have now been cleared so as we know this is something that's been hanging around for a while since the mclaren report they gave evidence of apparently there are occasions of state sponsored doping and everything then has been carried on from there but we have had some early questioning as of the mccarron report the i.o.c. actually the international olympic committee they do 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 there 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 effectively banned and also one hundred eighteen russian plates from the rio games also didn't go so if we look at all those parties the blanket bans how it affected those who are guilty and of course those who are innocent as well have been affected over the past couple of years it's now down to how the process continues the ninety five of these athletes affected we've been 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 this all comes in the wake of three russian cyclists who launched the court case against wada over the burns sociology professor ellis cashmore at the u.k.'s aston university says the agency will have a hard time defending itself. was that is that what i did doping agency want to stifle this the very last thing they want is to have to go to court to defend its. defend its decisions i mean they were humongous lee big decisions there what i

needed to gauge is he really wants to get rid of this he wants to try to bury this and make it go away now it really depends on just how prepared they are to dig in their heels they presumably have teams of lawyers behind them and if they pursue it right to the bitter end then it will be a case where mclaren is forced to disclose his evidence and that will be very interesting. president of the european commission has delivered his state of the union address in strasburg and he started by thanking on the twenty seven of the twenty eight members of the e.u. despite the fact that the u.k. will continue to be part of the block for another one and a half years for britain instead of thanks he had a warning. on march twenty ninth twenty nineteen the united kingdom will leave the e.u. it will be a sad and tragic moment we will always regret this and you will regret it quite soon and at the end of the address everybody got up and applauded all except that

it was for a group of british i mean peace among them hard core breaks it is natural. it wasn't just the ukip members though that gave younker a frosty welcome. at all 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 and the commission chief apparently didn't take that attack on his vision of europe too well as the euro skeptic m.e.p. harangued him in that got up and left also during his address you can make quite a few statements including that he'd like to see the positions of the president of the european commission which he currently held and president of the european council merged into warms. it would make the european landscape clearer and more understandable if the european ship was steered

by one and the same captain at the helm. what you think of that idea was. having so much power in the e.u. is that a good idea or not. three separate the institutions of it is that your final balance which is very important and i don't agree with the idea of mr young go to whoever only one president this means that we are going to have a union that is state i believe that the european union should continue as a union of states and not state. the euro is destined to be the currency if the entire european union. so there's no alternative to the euro do you think those countries who haven't signed up for it will appreciate this being forced upon them or not in turn so off for the economy we have the working of the euro which actually has helped or less

only driven economy with absolve a lot of money but the countries of the south are suffering they have a trade deficit this means that the euro zone area and the arrangements have been working more for the strong countries that used to say mainly drawn one year the netherlands and france and less for the countries of the south where you get it has not that the the main issues that are on the table for the moment. with the german general election now less than two weeks away western media have been busy trying to track down russian hackers who 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 a just doesn't feel right that the russians haven't yet struck report and the reason may be that germany has nailed the art of cyber security yet it also states

that no evidence of any attempted meddling has actually been detected that is jacqueline vega takes a closer look. 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 the cia 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 german teligent 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 mark is credited to germany's resilience in stringent new legislation against the spreading a 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. was 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 think when it's 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. according to a poll three of the smaller parties vying for the place in the upcoming election showed up in support over the last week the free democratic party now is a nine percent share of dealing kills and as the left body has more than ten

percent alternative to germany's a fraction head we spoke to an m.p. from delinquent alexander for his thoughts on germany's foreign policy. the tension with russia began to escalate at the end of two thousand and thirteen early two thousand and fourteen with my dad on the coup of february two thousand and fourteen 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 a tanker and a frigate 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 but 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. isn't that i mean you know this since two thousand and eight we've been seeing the end of the eunuch 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 the 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. let's just sit in 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. english football association has warned its national teams players and staff about using public wife i during next year's world cup here in russia it's amid fears that they might be hacked discover the football squad secrets and if a trunk it takes a closer look. basco 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. from 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 why fly everywhere around moscow for all the world cup guests to use it 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 advice is 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 they 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 f.a.a. is concerned that sensitive information such as injuries squad selection and tactical differences could be exposed were members. 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

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 russian hacking menace so next year what a great idea big hacker bosses go and our guys know what it takes to win elections abroad why not win or help when the football world cup now. here's the news is just coming in we're getting reports of a school shooting in the u.s. state of washington it's believed that several people have been injured and medical helicopters were called to freeman high school the south of spokane valley the suspect is in custody according to local media reports we'll bring you more details as they come in. stay with us here in our international i'll be back at the top of the hour c.n.n. . candidate

donald trump ran a campaign that not only question many foreign policy orthodoxies but also lashed out against neo conservative views the world today the president is surrounded by men in uniform some of this soft. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president and she. want. to go right to the press it's like them before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of. questionable.

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