headline stories this hour russia's ministry of defense say it's hit a terrorist i post. this is in two provinces of syria the russian military strength strikes were far from civilian areas rebels. the face of the alternative for germany party resigns over internal strife less than forty eight hours after the right wing groups break through in the federal elections and parliament for the first. french president to money will. shake. union. university giving

a speech. from moscow to the world this is r t international welcome to the program our top story this hour rush's defense ministry has launched earth strikes on terrorist positions in syria's ungenerous or provinces the strikes targeted. destroying military equipment arms depos with the details earlier medina caution of a spoke to me. according to russia's defense ministry the strikes conducted by russian forces targets i sell and positions the russian military stress that all these star gets were away from residential areas and at a safe distance from u.s. backed forces now there is a reason for such

a comment coming from the ministry as early as the controversial u.k. based monitoring group they were in a preserve atory of for human rights have accused russia of conducting air raids against civilians and serious province and moscow has dismissed of these allegations saying that the claims are unsubstantial and based on an on a must sources and also added that a russian planes target only terrorist positions with high precision strikes they have supported these statements by releasing food from the air strikes and the province where earlier in the week news agency reuters published an article claiming russian strikes had hit those u.s. rebels endure resort province now the opposition forces allege that one of its fighters been killed two others injured in what they described as a quote treacherous a talk by russia now they also threaten retaliation in self defense so it would not

just stunned idly by the russian ministry of defense has refuted the report seeing all the strikes took place in confirmed terrorist locations the russian ministry of defense has released soft images showing us special forces. come inside former islamic state strongholds on september seventh the lay of the land was very different greer is on the right were under control and within days armored hummers could be seen with all the requirement as well all of it u.s. led coalition gear there are no visible signs of fighting to retake the located. from the terrorists leaving questions about a possible hummed over there's also a worrying lack of any patrols being conducted in the area to alert the camps in case the militants were to come and try to take the locations well the russian defense ministry said it raises a question exactly who the u.s.

special forces are fighting in syria no explanation being offered so far we asked international affairs commentator johnston steele walked these developments in der is or actually mean. either of his hootin you can speculate but that you can be sure of any allegations of collusion. these rioters people are clearly losing them in may well be that they want to retreat to make sense for an army of it's. under severe pressure to. run but it's also true that the kurdish forces circle syrian democratic forces which are kurdish held by the americans are trying to advance as far as possible to get to the oil in the. province before the syrian army gets there is a kind of very scary on a very valuable assets which both sides would like to control and then use

potentially the americans get the first as a bargaining chip with the syrian regime and. with the russians well the background to this of course is that the syrian army supported by rushes or a force are fighting to eliminate those last hold interest or province liberation of the city has been widely seen as a major breakthrough in the war on terror after being out a siege for three years residents there are now trying to return to some kind of normality while the city's youngest are now experiencing a new way of life on tastes for the very first time right because the of is there a force. what these people have been through is indescribable joy and saw. out a little out of saddam in the way he didn't leave. my left hand come in handy. we can hear about it we can read about it watch it but we won't truly

understand what it ought to be a need to our own money making but one that has been in an epic as always it was the young and the elderly hit hardest that died first and again none of them are doing ok unless you do do it little hard to hide it it's not it i do agree insulin is tinny sound 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 or is still far from normal but at least they will be starving to death any more gone of the times what people would fight to the death over 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 to my a bit of one and he. for ninety. four i desire to myself and 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. yet you see. yes. of course news that someone was giving out free but not as quickly spread at first it was a dozen children. then it was dozens and dozens. more

enthusiastic children ate the skins before realizing that something wasn't quite right well it was worth it just to see the smiles and the us who needed to do. it wasn't on the national 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 these. born again more i guess do you have. from that is on syria. the co-chair leading figure of the alternative for germany party for ok petrie has resigned amid a split within the party it comes right after the group secured seats in the german parliament for the first time in its history our europe correspondent peter all

over. stone the alternative for germany and all of those watching german politics by announcing that she will step down and leave the party this follows in a storage victory for the for the day as they took their first seat in the bundestag in sunday's federal elections that the announcement that she will leave the party follows a straught but sweet statement on monday that she would not sit with a fifty members in parliament. we want to create real policy and that's a long consideration i decided not to be a member of the parliamentary group in the bundestag i would like to ask you three understanding i will not answer any questions on this. on the phone. for petrie had been the face of alternative for germany since she took over the leader of the party from burned luka who she helped oust in

a helic of sorts within the party a few years ago and she had pushed a more moderate view for the party certainly a right wing view but far more moderate than say the likes of alexander golland or others who are idle who were running as the candidates for chancellor the special candidates as they're called in this most recent election we can see what it comes to t.v. appearances certainly petry far more composed at times than some of those that will remain in leadership in alternative to germany. in violation of the colleague i was thank you kitty to. get. accurate it does seem that the relationship between petrie and others at the top of the party has become well frankly toxic we heard from advisers saying that herself and alex on the galant haven't spoken to. in months this is as

they were fighting a campaign in the election campaign against a lot of opposition here in germany to try an end to the bundestag the fact that this is existed and gone on for so long it was clear most come to a head at some point and it seems that they've done not immediately post-election petruchio told he's going to be leaving the policy going to stump three others including her husband. and a very influential figure in the party will also leave as well the question that's been left is did they jump what they pushed is peter mentioned it was a big result is victory somewhat overshadowed indeed by the success of alternative for germany and the country is not seeing large scale protests following sunday's result activists from both sides of the political divide gathered once the results

were it was all sort of rallied in the city of dresden by e.f.t. supporters from the anti islam heat of the wall and homburg on the right of your screen there. activists marched against the party success using them of the xenophobia and racism and sexism while some experts blame for the rise all of the f.t. others didn't hesitate to blame it on the now infamous russian hackers a little the media failed to find evidence not they in any way influence the election it's indeed the absence of hocking that seemingly everyone suspicious being who has been looking at the wider claims against supposedly 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 putin 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 words the reason for hillary's loss and that the two most believed fake 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 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 it were to be a yes. in favor of. independence 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 elite of which have a country feel 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 her and it 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. a protest against the money or mccrone seen fighting between students and police on the part of versity where the french president is giving a speech. was . was. the. was the clashes erupted as the president looked to push forward changes to the european union you focused on reforming european migration policy stressing the need to send away refugees who don't have

the right to asylum one of his major proposals though is the creation of a common grippy an army on the common defense budget. surplus one national pork we are in need of profound changes i proposed to our counterparts to create a european army and they opened this initiative towards the french army and all militaries coming from all european countries voluntarily france has to possess a joint intervention force common defense budgets your common doctrine to act because. the twitter talk of another president lead to conflict in asia north korea sees the u.s. has already declared war in the country the latest coming up later in the program.

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let's start back now with some chilling news from southern russia police detained what is alleged to be a come a ball couple suspected of killing and eating up to thirty people. in the city of krasnodar his report includes graphic descriptions of what's alleged to have happened. we're standing outside a detention facility in crossman's are a city in south or russia that was there recently should by absolutely horrifying events a local couple has been are taken into custody for murdering and dismembering a woman moreover now there are suspected cannibalism as well r.t. source in the local put be said that the pair confessed to killing police uncovered chynna details thanks to a road workers who discovered a telephone belonging to the suspect on a vis

a very sweet after they opened up the phone they discovered absolutely a picture flying images of a man posing with the bloodied dismembered body parts of course they alerted the police right away and they began an investigation now the images from the fallen already began circulating online and the media are now speculating about the real number of their victims after seeing the horrific telephone footage the police did saying both suspects and here's artie's exclusive footage when the authorities searched the home all day keys gospel and made even the more shocking discoveries well they found more remains of their recent victim but her body parts that in the basement of the building also all their body parts that were placed in a can saner some kind of a salt solution and also unspecified food have frozen meat fragments in the kitchen experts will now try to determine whether those are human are not the locals

a certainly in shock and a wary of the media but we managed to find one person a shopkeeper that says lives in this area and you the couple pretty well as they were her constant client says the live right here let's have a listen. to me. then. station is ongoing but there is a suspicion that the couple have allegedly been killing and eating their victims over the last twenty years so perhaps we could see some more developments more horrifying details in this story as the investigation progresses ramon coffer of artsy craftsy dar south in russia. north korea's foreign minister is saying is don't want from declared war on pyongyang warned of country measures itself to be american presidents inflammatory comments on twitter about the north korean leader

and. since the united states declared war on our country we will have every right to take countermeasures including the right to shoot down u.s. strategic bombers even when they are not inside all countries as space the question of who won't be around much longer will be on the. 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 for itself we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. what kind of measure will be taken is decided by the chairman of the state affairs commission. but i think that the strongest. 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 asia specialist thinks it's very unlikely north korea will intentionally shoot done an american plane. for north korea to shoot down. american aircraft outside north korea's territory would be a uni that through. the war and were triggered

a cardiovascular which is no good for four for kim that's not what he wants and why does he want to do that and what it was all that and i feel asian obviously gene is an insurance policy against regime change is the only credible insurance policy is a peace treaty a formal peace pact with the united states because his main threat is not from japan or china is from. a lot of states but if you put more pressure on him the more that he will feel reaching change the more you will hasten this nuclear program so it is a no brainer but i think the west needs to understand and trying to understand that that's the crux that i matter. so abrasions have swept through the streets of erbil the capital of the kurdish populated region of iraq the kurds have voted in an independence referendum this spite opposition from both baghdad and abroad.

we just want to show the world what our people want to the world that we want to head for independence in a democratic way through dialogue and negotiations with baghdad this is an unconstitutional decision against the social fabric of our citizens we will not recognize the referendum or its results. six million people were eligible to vote on turnout was reportedly seventy percent official results are expected to be end of the week but the prediction is that there will be an overwhelming yes vote by dent sees the referendum us another source for a destabilization of an already fragile state and doesn't want to lose its oil rich region the kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups without a state some forty million people spread across four neighboring countries turkey syria iraq and iran all of oppose the referendum fearing it would embolden their own kurdish community iran has closed its kurdish airspace started conducting

military drill it's on its border turkey for its part is conducting joint military drills with a rock threaten to block an oil pipeline operated by the kurds and pretty even suggested the possibility of military action. should expect us to tolerate a new conflict zone right next to our border this recent development poses a threat to our nation's very existence and its future we will not hesitate to take military action similar to what we did in syria when we read cities of ice and fighters as i have said we could take action at any time we discuss the iraqi kurdish referendum with abdullah from rudolph a kurdistan media network a former cia officer jack rice. it is actually kind of surprising for iraqis the kind of harsh rhetoric we're hearing from president add on because as you know

that turkey the kurdish region have had excellent trade and economic relations over the past few years appears that he's in a fight against all the kurdish people and once he's a recently he's a rational behind opposing this referendum apart from the fact it is held by a group of people called the kurds theories that this is a ripple effect we're talking about six million people who are kurds in northern iraq but there's another six million or so in iran there's another couple million in syria there's fourteen and a half million in turkey there's some in armenia i mean the fear is that if one gets independence what about the others what's the possibility of a larger greater kurdistan if one starts to get truly autonomy and really a country of their own does this mean they actually band together remember the turks have already said they will go to war over this more r t programs right ahead and often are.

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