the russian defense ministry denies allegations of civilian casualties in its air raids in syria releasing video of strikes on militant targets. after failing to find any trace of russian hackers interfering in the german election now the media speculating why it wasn't. the tweet that. north korea says the u.s. president's online is a declaration of war. wherever

you're watching international abuse with me calling right now i am here in the russian capital first to syria the russian defense ministry has released video of its strikes against targets in the syrian province of us while there have been allegations of civilian casualties from those raids i got the details earlier from . the so-called syrian observatory for human rights has once again claimed that the russian and syrian airplanes are targeting the residential areas inside this theory and that a number of civilians have been killed as a result they have been particularly talking about the troubled region of the north of syria russia's defense ministry has once again denied these allegations saying that the russian every nation is uniquely targeting the jihadists bases and underground storage units and equipment bases and armored vehicles located outside

the cities and they have supported their claims by releasing the very deuce show in the moments of the attacks and you can see the pictures right now and it's clear you can see that these are not to residential areas targeted the russian defense ministry has also added that all the attacks always follow a detailed research over the situation on the ground and they also have information that these particular bases could be involved in the attack on the russian military police in theory last week remember three policemen were seriously injured and that was a very serious situation but the russian and syrian military have launched account of creation and the jihadist have been stopped the syrian observatory for human rights it's been the go to place for a lot of noise over this and they've made these kind of allegations before that's not for the first time that we hear such allegations from the syrian observatory for human rights and i believe not the last time russia's defense ministry has said

it has serious doubts over the credibility of these organizations the claims made by the observatory science and anonymous witnesses over. traditional. serve as an informational smokescreen for their actions over. and russia's defense ministry is not the only one to question the credibility of the syrian observatory for human rise interesting that just recently we heard almost similar concerns from the commander of the. american coalition inferior the general has said that the claims made by syrian observatory for human rights are often unsupported by fact the bitter irony here is that they sperry daniel has been appointed they supposed under obama administration that as you remember had always referred to syrian observatory for human rights as a very credible source of information yes it comes from from credible aid. agencies like the world health organization like doctors without borders like the syrian observatory for human rights we have earlier been able to speak to the head of

syrian observatory for human rights as you know this is an organization based in london and so far away friends theory and there are not many people involved in the research and he told us he hasn't been to syria since the year two thousand. we are under attack simply because we tell the truth about what's going on in syria apparently nobody wants to hear the truth do you know these people working in syria hundreds you say personally you mention money just no political standing naturally plays a certain role two people may have totally different interests can you really trust all of them. i know all of the activists working for the syrian observatory for human rights you keep saying that you know all these people personally when was the last time you went to syria. the last time i was in syria was in two thousand. meanwhile the russian military has managed to establish a bridge over the euphrates river near the city of david saw the battle for that

city's not yet over but humanitarian convoys are now regularly delivering aid locals can finally get basic food that they haven't seen since i still proceed to the city children seeing some kinds of fruit for the first time in their lives. as the details of what these people have been through is indescribable. and saw. how to. get in there he didn't take. my left hand you can have the video we can hear about it we can read about it watch it but we won't truly understand. the need to our own money make. one last thing i mean and as always it was the young and the elderly hit hardest that died first and again none of them are ok let's do it do it.

had it is not it i do agree insulin is to me so now i know. if it wasn't hunger it was isis shelling if not that i lack of medicine but the city survived life even did as ordered is still far from normal but at least it will be starving to death and the more of the times when people would fight to the death with scraps of food now convoys are coming in day and night with food with medicine as well as things like vegetables fruits candies these are things that the people of that has or haven't seen for three long years. and he. for ninety. i desired a microphone was what i for. syrians all know what dead is or has been through and the nation's heart goes out to its citizens even the older kids can't remember

eating anything that wasn't grown locally. or. maybe she. was. of course news that someone was giving out free banal as quickly spread but first it was a dozen children. then it was dozens and dozens. of . the more enthusiastic children ate the skins before realizing that something wasn't quite right well it was worth it just to see their smiles and the other children in india do cam and. it was a fun election and there are still plenty of challenges isis still holds

a small part of the city is also reconstruction providing clean water and fuel but despite all that this is a city born again more i guess the sea from dead is on syria now if you've been watching r.t. in recent weeks you'll know that we've been campaigning to help find the families of children whose parents joined islam mixtape terrorists in iraq a few days ago there were new arrivals at an orphanage in baghdad as in previous cases most of the children are psychologically damaged there's also a teenager who was married to a militant who's there hear their stories. it's

nice she did play it at the t.v. . i don't know if that's not the time. for that ok. so let's go on a field first a lot of the stuff you put them on only. to be as a. sister nice anyways to show.

the german election results of study of a divided public reaction angela merkel securing her fourth term as chancellor has been somewhat overshadowed by the success of the right wing alternative for germany party which of course gets its first ever seats in the bundestag activists from both sides of the political divide gathered once the for them and the results came out on monday evening there was also a rally in the city of dresden by f.t. supporters from the anti islamic gate in the wall in hamburg and t t f. activists marched against the party's success accusing them of xenophobia racism and sexism. while some experts blame angela merkel for the rise of the f.t. others have made as a dating to blame it on the now infamous russian hackers although most media fail to find any evidence that they in any way influence the election news to go to

everyone suspicious. jacqueline who has been looking at the wider claims against supposed russian online interference in foreign elections the russian meddling predictions fell flat when it came to the german election despite the initial hysteria. we don't see that has meddled in the election campaign maybe they didn't try maybe it's still coming allegations of russian controlled automated accounts promoting a.f.d.

hashtags and the run up to the vote was about as senator as it got and the head of the german federal election committee even felt confident enough to tell a russian news agency there was no evidence of interference but when it comes to last year's u.s. presidential election it seems neither time nor lack of proof can stem the flow of allegations of kremlin meddling that's despite a stanford university study demonstrating that false stories weren't the reason for hillary's loss and that the two most believed news stories were in fact pro clinton articles our data suggests that social media were not the most important source of election news for fake news to have changed the outcome of the election a single fake article that would need to have had the same persuasive effect as thirty six television campaign ads nevertheless fears of russian meddling seem to be mounting most recently in the upcoming catalan independence referendum that has infuriated the spanish government according to some russia is once again lurking in

the background and pulling the strings one of the most circulated daily newspapers in spain has come to that not so surprising conclusion and our channel is one of the main targets of the article work use of running stories about the situation in catalonia forty two times since the end of august not sure why a news channel reporting news is so alarming but yes apparently they counted they also claim that one of our headlines that reads the e.u. will respect the cattle and referendum is out now fake news but respect is exactly what the european commission president said if they were to be a yes very. independent suspect will shift. we will respect that. i mean you know so it's unclear what their issue is the kremlin's position on the matter is also to be found in the peace stating that the issue of catalan independence is one for spain to address. but it seems such denials coming from moscow don't matter to those pushing an increasingly shaky narratives every time the elites of whichever country feels that there might be

a some sort of populist revolt or a vote against what the elite think they should be voting for they almost proactively say oh it must be russia interfering in these elections because they might get a only result that they don't want but it's crazy because we have seen time and time and time again there is no evidence of russian hacking. north korea's foreign minister says donald trump has declared war on pyongyang warned of countermeasures its off the drums inflammatory comments about the north korean leader on twitter. since the united states declared war on our country we have every right to take counter measures including the right to shoot down united states strategic bombers even when they're not inside the airspace of our country it's important to point out that north korea's foreign minister was responding to comments by donald trump on social media specifically on twitter donald trump said the north korea's leader might not be around much longer and so we have this response from north korea's

foreign minister now we've heard from the pentagon they have responded to the comment from the foreign minister saying if north korea does not stop their provocative actions we will provide options to the president and now we have a response from the u.s. not declared war on north korea and frankly the suggestion of that is absurd it's never appropriate for a country to shoot down another country's aircraft when it's over international waters our goal is still the same we continue to seek the peaceful nuclear is ation of the korean peninsula that's our focus doing that through both the most maximum economic and diplomatic pressure is possible at this point there's been quite a back and forth between donald trump and the leaders of the d.p. r. k. the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket man is on

a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. kind of measure would be taken decided by the chairman of the state affairs commission. but i think that the strongest ever hundreds of people might be tested in the pacific. now it's important to note that at the beginning of september north korea tested its first hydrogen bomb a much more advanced nuclear weapon than they previously have tested and proliferated and furthermore they are announcing at this point they intend to carry out another test of a hydrogen bomb but this time it will not take place within north korea itself but rather in the pacific ocean so many are wondering what will happen if north korea does indeed test a hydrogen bomb in the pacific ocean what response will we see from the united states as of yet it's just a war of words but people are concerned many people around the world are no doubt concerned that this could lead to a catastrophic conclusion you're without

a from moscow among the stories still ahead a russian couples arrested for allegedly killing and eating their victims plus a major study into how illegal downloads affect sales and why the e.u. kept it under wraps for two years so coming up. with make this manufacture consent to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final

merry go round certainly the one percent. to ignore middle of the room signal. is the a. stupid. joining you from southern russia now where police have detained while to nudge to be a cannibal couple suspected of killing and eating up to thirty people when i call sort of his in the city of crescent his report does include graphic descriptions of what's alleged to have happened the current being crossed lines are a city in the south are now russia that was recently shocked by absolutely horrifying events sell local couple have been detained on charges all for murdering

women and dismembering the couple now stands accused of being the cannibals as well artie's a source within the local police said that the pair confessed to killing and eating as many as thirty people now the police uncover the chynna details thanks to construction workers who discovered the phone on the side of the road now when they turned the phone on they saw absolutely petrifying images all for a man standing with a dismembered bloodied body parts they alerted the police so obviously who in cern launched an investigation now after the images became public the media quickly began speculating as to how many victims the couple actually killed and ate so well here's. exclusive footage of the police are coming to the couple's home and to

search and they made absolutely shocking discoveries a very as well first of all that found the body parts all of the a victim in the basement of the home of that's the victim that they were arrested for they also found the body parts in some kind of salty solution in the can as well and also the founder of food food fragments and unspecified frozen meat the experts are now trying to determine whether they belong to humans or not while the locals are certainly in shock. after these events and they're wary of the media however with found one person that knew the couple and she agreed to speak with us in the end i didn't notice anything weird about them they were polite he was a construction worker and his wife had been a nurse but she'd lost her job and drank a lot the news came as a shock to me i never had a clue what was going on. so certainly a chilling and horrifying story here in crossroads are the details are still

emerging the police are investigating the matter however as it stands right now the couple could have been killing and eating their victims from as early as nine hundred ninety nine. the u.s. supreme court has perspired a hearing on donald trump's power to ban travel from certain countries is to give time for both sides to file fresh cases on the new rules comes after the administration issued a new set of travel restrictions it's a band that now includes north korea venezuela and chad expanding from the existing list that took in the likes of iran libya syria and somalia president trump says that america's safety is the number one priority and it's also the reason for the new measures but it's a move that's already sparked international criticism here's london mr de carne he says and compares donald trump's language to that of islamic state of the reaction venezuela's slam the travel ban. is open for

dialogue with the united states government with. the area where we will respond. and. strong words iran's also reacted the foreign minister there saying that the new travel ban is even more offensive than the previous one and of all the countries on the listed saga believe the one with possibly the most fractious relationship with the united states more on that with samir khan. over a decade ago iran was named as one of america's greatest existential threats along with iraq and north korea president bush singled out these states as the axis of evil in his two thousand and two state of the union address and not much has changed since iran aggressively pursued these weapons and exports terror. while an unelected few repressed the iranian people spoke for freedom far past time for the nations of the world to confront another reckless regime one that speaks openly of

mass murder valor and death to america destruction to israel and ruin for many leaders and nations in this room american policy has largely benefited iran especially the war on terror the us actually helped overthrow iran's greatest enemies saddam hussein in iraq and the sunni taliban regime in afghanistan we have seen a consistent bullying by the united states reserve the. contras such as north korea iran that is of course have backfired we have seen that in the persian gulf region this by. u.s. pressure ranging from you know punitive sanctions to you know threatening. its own territory our water it's iran's region our employers christine views on the rise and its network of alliances in the region is also is threatening in two

thousand and eleven then secretary of state hillary clinton saw turkey as a steadfast u.s. ally and a regional counterbalance to iran and again iran would be badly miscalculating if they didn't look at the entire region and all of our presence in many countries in the region both in bases in training with nato allies like turkey. fast forward five years iranian president hassan rouhani is received in one car with military honors and despite continuous u.s. sanctions on iran the iranian economy seems to be doing just fine so it's not very surprising that iranians aren't particularly bothered by donald trump's fiery rhetoric you know where not to place and we have that have been since the beginning well you do have been under sanctions for four decades and the people of iran are certainly not afraid now in fact. sanctions have made iran the more independent in many fields as history shows from president bush's era until today american policies intended to harm iran have all backfired perhaps it's all

a sign that iran isn't really america's greatest threat and maybe it's time for the us to re-evaluate who its real enemies are samir khan r.t. washington d.c. . a costly e.u. study on the effects of illegal online downloads which found the effect on sales to be negligible has been left gathering dust on the shelf for two years but three hundred sixty thousand euro reporters now only come to light after pressure from a member of the european parliament here's some of what it says in general the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements that does not necessarily mean that piracy has no effect but only that the statistical analysis does not prove there is an effect i was only down to repeated requests from the german pirate parties soul and me pay that this study is now out in the open and we got in touch with the e.u. commission about this here's what they told us no where did the results question

the effect of piracy incorporated constant sales on the contrary the most relevant results of the study concluded that forty percent of the illegally watched movies would have generated legitimate cells had illegal content not been available. the former chairman of the german pirate party thinks that the e.u. deliberately suppressed the results because they don't fit the political agenda it was definitely intentionally suppressed because report is telling chile that the infringement is not killing them visit market they're not killing the movie markets the scandal about it is basically because it was paid by text money and should be of course that lobby often gives a game to see a sixty new strong when it comes to law making they are having a stronger all be in all the european policy i'm in states like constantly to change the copyright laws in a way that they can still go on with the old business model basically bay have lost

in all the height of this whole thing and we needed to use informational freedom to get this info back to the people it's a scandal and if this typical of the whole entertainment industry. downloads you can legitimately get. downloaded now take our news with you i'll be back to you have an hour all singing that. right now we're in with a good scene over. these fish you please. oh he asked me it wouldn't matter to us moments it's almost time. i could introduce you eat it is to do most powerful drug syndicates. while you're growing marijuana and tomatoes at city. hall there's

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