you know. when i started my. ministry of defense a terrorist posts on weapon were hoses into probably. the russian military. far from civilian areas.

plus the face of the alternative for germany party resigned over internal strife less than forty eight hours after the right wing groups break through in the federal elections and for the first time also. we have. is the same as always every minute we have. i want you to those who promote hate and division i can't make any more proposal it is up to the e.u. to make. a manual. to shake the european union calling on a joint. defense force. the university where. his speech.

i. eleven am in dallas nine thirty pm in mumbai and seven in the evening right here in moscow this is our t. international i mean i know neal a little welcome russia's defense ministry has launched earth strikes on terrorists positions in syria is it lib terrorise or provinces the strikes targeted. post destroying military equipment and arms stepan. told me earlier. according to russia's defense ministry of 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 end on him a source says 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 this week the reuters news agency published an article claiming russian strikes had hit those us by rebels or problems the opposition forces won't move its fighters have been killed two others injured in what they described as a quote treacherous attack by russian he also threatened retaliation so if the fence saying they would not just stand by idly by the russian ministry of defense has refuted the report saying all the strikes took place in confirmed terrorists locations. ministry of defense has released images showing us special forces

and their allies come inside former islamic state strongholds in september the seventh to leave was very different the gray areas which were just on the screen there were under ice no control there we go with in the days armored homers could be seen there with her equipment all of the u.s. coalition gear there are no visible signs of fighting to rita. take the locations from the terrorists leaving questions about a possible there's also a worrying lock of patrols in the area to alert camps in case i saw militants look to retake positions well the u.s. led coalition says' the accusations made by the russian defense ministry which suggests a deal may have been struck with isel our faults but refused to comment and the further russia's defense ministry believes the lock of explanation raises many

questions over the u.s. special forces operation and tourists were. meanwhile the syrian army supported by russia's our forces are fighting to eliminate the last photo of in during the war province the liberation of the city has been widely seen as a major breakthrough in the war on terror after being on the siege for three years where residents there are trying to return to some kind of normality while the city's youngest are now experiencing a new way of life and tastes for the very first time in iraq because the it is there for us. what these people have been through is indescribable joy and saw. a little out of saddam in the way he didn't even 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 what it

ought to be a need to our no one moneymaking but one last thing i mean and as always it was the young and the elderly hit hardest that died first and i can be the last thing a good nurse do i do it a little hard to hide it is not it i do agree insulin is to me 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 order is still far from normal but at least they will be starving to death and the more gone are the times when 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.

my a bill of one. four ninety. four i desire to myself and was what i for syrians all know what that 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 this smiles and the other children in india do. 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 see from that is on syria. back to europe where the co-chair and leading figure of the alternative for germany party a petri 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 of

our fence unfolded. broken petry has stunned alternative for germany and all of those watching german politics by announcing that she will step down and leave the party this follows that historic victory for the for the a.f.p. as they took their first seats in the bundestag in sunday's federal elections now the announcement that she will leave the party follows a straw to put 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 out sed it

a coup of sorts within the party a few years ago 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 our economy guys today thank you it. was it does seem that the relationship between petrie and others at the top of the party has become well frankly toxic we heard from vital saying that

herself and alex on the galant haven't. in months this is as they were fighting it campaign in the election campaign against a lot of opposition here in germany to try and end to the bundestag the fact that this is existed and go on for so long it was clear that most come to hate it some point and it seems that they've not immediately post-election petrie's not the only one who's going to be leaving the party pianist and three others including her husband marcus quiet who say m.e.p. 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. so as peter mentioned victory is somewhat being overshadowed by the success the story surrounding alternative for germany this week on the country is now seeing large scale protests following sunday's result let's take a look activists from both sides of the political divide gathered once the

preliminary results came out there was a rally in the city of dresden on the left of your screen there by e.f.t. supporters from the islam movement and the number if the activists marched against the party success accusing them of xenophobia racism sexism while some experts blame for the rise of the f.t. others didn't hesitate to blame it on the now infamous russian although the media failed to find evidence that the in any way influence the election it's known fact the absence of hacking that seemingly has everyone suspicious. 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 fixed 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 the 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 piece 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 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. actively say oh it must be russia interfering in these elections because they might get or any 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. let's go to southern russia were chilling story has emerged police have detained what is alleged to be a curveball couple suspected of killing and eating up to thirty people ramon cost roads in the city of cross the door to his reporting includes graphic descriptions of what's alleged to be warned. we're standing outside a detention facility in crossman's are a city in south in russia that was there recently shipped by absolutely horrifying events a local couple has been are taken into custody for murdering and dismembering a woman moreover now they're suspected of cannibalism as well artie's

a source so within the local police said that the pair confessed to killing. police uncovered chile details thanks to a road workers who discovered at telephone allegedly belonging to the suspect on a vis a very street. after they opened up the phone they discovered absolutely a picture of flying images of a man posing with their bloodied dismembered body parts of course they alerted the police right away and they began an investigation now the images from that phone already began circulating online and the media are now speculating about the real number of their victims. after seeing the horrific telephone footage that police detained both suspects and here's artie's exclusive footage when the authorities searched the home all day keys the couple and made even the more

shocking discovery as well they found more remains of their recent victim but her body parts stashed in the basement of the building and also all their body parts that were placed in a container some kind of a salt solution and also unspecified food the frozen meat fragments in the kitchen experts will now try to determine whether those are human are not the locals are certainly in shock i know 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 that live right here let's have a listen. the investigation 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 called for an artsy cross and our southern russia a new vision of e.u. unity particularly when it comes to defense spending france's president has been outlining his views in part but it's being met with protests more and not just live reaction in ninety seconds time. to make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling

classes protect themselves. with the famous. listen to the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. you're welcome back to the program a protest against the money will crawl on the scene fighting brick guy to tween

students and police to the party university where the french president is giving a speech. was. was. was was. was was. was were clashes erupted as the president elect to push forward changes to the european union now he focused on reforming european migration policies stressing the need to send refugees who don't have the right to asylum and one of their is major proposals is the creation of a continent wide european army well a common defense budget. was a hundred one national pork we are in need of profound changes i proposed to our

counterparts to create a european army and i open this initiative towards the french army and all militaries coming from all european countries voluntarily that france has to possess a joint intervention force common defense budgets your common doctrine to act only a united europe can efficiently defend our borders secured what received goes with the right to asylum and help them integrate it all and send back those who don't meet the requirements for such protection as long as the procedure for receiving asylum seekers remains long and scrappy as long as we fail to organize migrants being returned without the right to remain we lose both inefficiency and inhumanity . yeah the big idea there from the french president well to discuss the issue let's cross live to political commentator intervene yell and adrian you're welcome to the program and just first of all in the timing of this you think that's important from across the speech on race shaping the european union essentially right after the

election in berlin. well i think it's more the i think the oldest lee that has been the election in germany now we have a likelihood of the coalition between i'm going to school and now it's going to come off i. who also get annoyed you see coming up and we press it on the agenda there are conversations going across the whole of europe asking what is europe's future what does the the new european union look like in the future so i think it's pretty setting out his stall his vision for what he believes the european union should look like in the future and it is a well trodden path that he's speaking about that that is the typical. speed approach to europe which is that the you have the peripheral states of the european union that are outside the euro zone and you have the in a call which is within the eurozone and what he's saying is that there should be greater cooperation between the eurozone states which would include potentially

even budget transfers greater cooperation on taxation greater cooperation on documentation cried the member of the european union yet nevertheless though it's the two big beasts here isn't it are making these things what the election night of a statement by g.d.p. france and germany they rule the roost at the moment in the european union the issue is though merkel is most likely coalition is going to include the free democratic party the greens and they're both against the kind of budget changes mccrone is proposing who's going to have the influence who's going to win when the fight here. well that's a very good question factors for the question and that's one that we can't run in time certainly lindau's party are opposed although they occupy the same political space that sort of the center a little space that's on rush occupied they have an entirely different view of

budgetary affairs in the european union i think they're very much more concerned about how the german taxpayer is going to respond i think the greens to a degree of walmart's was micron's because issued in the liberal party in germany so it is a very good question it's too early to say at this moment but certainly these are the big questions that need to be asked about the future shape of the year we are going forward just looking at some of the me and points of macross speech it almost could be labeled a strongman speech would we go as far as to to label it like napoleon. macaronis is popular he used he powerful in terms of the mandate that he's received both from the presidential election and also the national assembly election in france but he's in no way is the napoleonic. what he's talking about is stuff that's been trialled many many times before this is the. chicle integration is the gender that people are. been peddling for many years

and there's nothing new in this this is simply highlights from the problems that european union faces and saying that they all sort of the problems is more european union we need great dissent from our powers we need the institutions in brussels to have more power more policy less members from the more your personal incredibly controversial one of my position has forced yeah you have to condemn out european union what about this issue of a continent wide european army hike you expect germany to react to two mccraw speech do you think berlin is going to welcome reform this joint defense force. well the reality is that there is already the prototype of exactly that policy there is already cooperation between the various songs in europe it's just that the on where european union potch what they're doing is they're off. and on

these across the member states that cooperate together upon policies that come out sort of the central european union institutions so what do you know this is not a new policy but what he's doing is he's taking it one step further this is what the five presidents were talking about in their reports probably eighteen months ago certainly it's the beginning of what could be considered to be an army the police the european borders that would grow out of the european court of force again already exists we mustn't forget that there is already european navy in existence although it's very small and it operates mostly in the mediterranean so what they say is this is about stretching the remit of the european union and giving the european union who are tracking what expect nation states to have. political commentator thank you very much for your time on thoughts this hour thank you. that's where we leave the news for now under former is here in just over

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