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factual evidence and that's basically what they what their situation did zero with . their morning here in moscow thanks for joining us when we have your latest world headlines. a significant day for syria as the last islamic state stronghold in the country at the city of. is now liberated and we can show you pictures from the vicinity of the city where syria and iraq back militias join forces to. which is situated very close to the border between the two countries.

i don't either kind of organs are joining us live in the studio with more details on this daniel it's a it's a big day for syria today it is always the last major settlement in southern syria on the border with iraq located in the euphrates valley why is it significant as we said earlier it's one of the final steps if not the final step in the collapse of the self-proclaimed islamic state caliphate it controlled more than half the syrian territory just two years ago now it's located just in a few desert areas villages and scattered pockets in iraq and across the border in syria as well now what makes this operation particular interesting it was captured by an amalgamation of different forces the russian air force to start with had been conducting a very heavy operations in the region just in the preceding few days let's take a look at some of that footage before we go on.

that was the air operation a key factor of course which enabled pro-government forces to take back sways of territory from i still terrorists on the ground the syrian army backed by hezbollah militia as they do with advancing from the west from the north towards. with the iraq you popular mobilization units they've across advanced from across the border from the south. so it's very much a joint operation here now i still isn't defeated is no loyalty. it's not defeated as a insurgent group that can still launch attacks but as a battlefield force as a pursuit of state which it was just perhaps half a year ago nine months ago it really is very much in its death throes many are

asking what happens next now as in northern syria this operation this development brings together the head of a lot of different forces with quite different interests the syrian army backed by hezbollah the shiite militias president assad versus the u.s. backed coalition in the form of the if the syrian democratic forces an amalgamation of kurdish and arab fighters now. they've got very different interests as we've said the syrian government recapture all territory in syria as in some other parts of the country the kurds have declared autonomy they've conducted their own elections they're conducting their own internal policies washington has been unclear so far about how their support for the us and you will find out after i still is ultimately defeated so there's still a lot of compromise in order to go she ultimately perhaps new local conflicts playing out in syria as this happens we'll see how that pans out over coming weeks months perhaps even years very interesting indeed artie's don't you hawkins thank

you. when we spoke to were dave lindorff the founding editor of the news site this can't be happening explain to us the importance of the latest loss of territory by isis. that's a huge knockdown. territory and yeah i would say. it looks like it that's almost washed up for eisel doesn't mean they can't commit acts of terrorism but it doesn't mean they controlled territory any more i think one thing that syria has in its favor is that. the eastern part of syria as a lot of syria's oil such as it is and so getting full control of eastern syria. is a deprived of a lot of the revenues that. are staying in the region the spot between iran and saudi arabia has escalated after a missile attack near the riyadh airport carried out by the rebels in yemen iran's

president warned a saudi arabia on wednesday that it will achieve nothing by threatening the might of iran after saudi arabia laid the blame for the missile attack on terror on. you know the mites and position of the republic people more powerful than you have been able to do anything against the iranian people you are not strong enough to do that. and the proxy war between the two regional powers could turn into a direct confrontation but i'm now looking at how saudi arabia continues to add fuel to the fire. recently barely a days seems to go by without saudia arabia making headlines and it almost always boils down to its enemy iran it is a game of chess that spans an entire region on every front in every country the saudis see iran's evil influence.

the who's the rebels in yemen who saudi arabia has been bombing for many years fire a rocket riyadh that the saudis could only describe as a rainy and aggression iran's role and its direct command of his hooty proxy in this matter constitutes a clear act of aggression the coalition's command considers this a blatant active military aggression by the iranian regime and could rise to be considered as an act of war against the kingdom of saudi arabia the saudis also ready to throw that allies under the bus to create an excuse to denigrate iran. q the lebanese prime minister holding a successful meeting with the arraign eons and then going to saudi arabia and out

of the blue without warning declaring his resignation while launching into a tirade about evil reigning in influence plunging the region into chaos and destruction. were over iran is present it plans discord and destruction of interference in our countries in lebanon syria iraq yemen well i would like to say to iran and its followers that they would be losers in their intervention in arab if they should move wake up because in that in the past and their homes in the region will become. you lose a poor and gain an opening then there's the blockade of cattle. a trade embargo seven ties ultimatums and warnings punishment some say for cata daring to deal with the rain ians and then there's syria the saudi sponsored

rebellion is dying the hardest allies losing an aside is winning this isn't what riyadh planned we hope that and expect that during the interim period of the of the transition period will exit because he has absolutely no role to play in the future is here and while syria may have unexpectedly checkmated riyadh here the saudis are ramping up attacks on iran on other fronts truly this is an international game of chess with nations and populations at stake ironic given that last year saudi arabia's highest islamic cleric banned the chess saying that the game causes and miti and hatred between people and even when played on a giant geopolitical scale well it looks like he was right. independent

political analyst pepe escobar says that saudi arabia's provocations come from a simple desire to change the narrative in the region saudi arabia is isolated in the ne ne amergin you'll be the least they've lost in syria because of the feel of the dash project they lost in iraq i was just back from baghdad and the talk in baghdad is about not vulcanization but that about iraqi national unity they lost again with the blockade against got there they are losing the war on yemen which is horrifying we dance of thousands of civilian casualties and supported by the u.s. congress for that matter and use the american weapons and u.k. weapons and now they're trying to change the narrative they're brave in the run they're trying to ratchet up a confrontation involving lebanon which is scott in the crossfire and it still is the same old story the saudi arabia yes the iran and countries in the middle east

states are going to be caught in the crossfire is absolutely a horrific situation that is collating very very fast. colossal bribery and a fraud has engulfed the u.s. navy that's according to prosecutors in the so-called fat leonard case we've now revealed the true extent of the scandal four hundred and forty personnel and they have been indicted now but that includes over sixty admirals and hundreds of officers all of them accused of leaking secret information in return for bribes such as are a whole and women however prosecutors have not revealed the identities of the people implicated the release of such information would likely reveal sensitive details about the breadth and scope of the criminal investigation and pending cases . more pine explains now how the terms espionage and corruption appear to have been well mixed in this inquiry. so what did they do well allegedly they were seduced by

leonard francis a.k.a. fat leonard he offered them booze parties luxury hotels and cash in exchange for information about where u.s. navy ships were going in the pacific ocean he did this in order to earn contracts now fat leonard aka leonard francis is waiting for trial in a san diego jail so giving away military information launched an inquiry into corruption now these navy officers admitted to giving away ship schedules and they pleaded guilty to bribery but leaking and giving up classified government information under u.s. law as it called bribery it's called espionage why is the espionage act not being applied to corrupt navy officers christian saucer took some photos with his cell phone in a classified area of a u.s. nuclear submarine nobody paid him anything and he didn't leak them to anyone he simply lost his cell phone well he ended up getting sentenced to

a year in prison now his mother thinks her son got a raw deal in two thousand and nine there was no cell phone ban on submarines at that time technology was new and in quetta maybe hadn't caught up yet and i really have no doubt in my mind that it was a twenty two year old guy that wanted to make it out of where he worked yeah we were ready took pictures and so grow louder now when it comes to whistleblowers who reveal u.s. forces killing civilians or the n.s.a.'s massive surveillance it doesn't take long for them to be charged with espionage.

we're you we are. i. so it looks like photographers without malintent and whistle blowers get hit with stiff penalties but if you're a good old boy in the u.s. navy brass and you trade military secrets for sex and cash well it looks like the stiff penalties just don't apply. aren't seeing new york cia director michael imperioli has come under fire for meeting a former intelligence official over the alleged hacking of the democratic party and twenty sixteen of the u.s. intelligence community has laid the blame for the. now met with william binney

national security agency official to the whistleblower binny believe the alleged of the democratic national committee was in fact an inside leak carried out by a d.n.c. employ he also will fit a memo to the president on this issue all the way back in july and let us remind you about the d.n.c. hack announced by a cyber security working for the d.n.c. in june twenty sixth seen it was blamed on two linked groups and the next day an anonymous. two point zero claimed responsibility for the attack it's something on by the d.n.c. . he also took credit for a breach on july fifth and at the end of that month we could leaks released thousands of the democratic party's e-mails i spoke to william binney who believes from abroad could not have been. i didn't believe the intelligence agencies were telling him or the president the truth so i went through the technical data that we

is the veteran intelligence professionals who have technical experience all of the technical data that we had available and could look at the analyze and from that was very clear that it was a local download because of the speeds and all i mean we've even tried to transfer data across the atlantic through the web. and see what speeds we could achieve the most we got was like twelve megabytes per second and you needed at least thirty eight megabytes just to pass the data not counting housekeeping so that meant that the capacity was about one fourth the one eight what would be necessary to transfer that data to somewhere in europe for example and when you spoke about wi on the lies the data is that meaning i was reading about an expert forensic case or is the person who was analyzing the data for you well he was looking at the data yes and so were about five or six other people. and i was looking at the output of that trying to assess that. just to verify and we also tried to test it in the real

world not in the speculative world trying to do the transfer to make it something that would be compatible with that download rate and we could not achieve that either so it had to be done locally there was no substantive evidence anywhere if they could produce some factual evidence that we could look at and analyze find but so far they produced absolutely nothing back in twenty thirteen it william binney was a welcome guest on american news channels when he exposed privacy violations of the n.s.a. spying program then c.n.n. described him as a whistleblower with a dramatic story now they are describing him as a conspiracy theorist benny himself says the channel uses labels instead of actual evidence. they have a problem of course because they've been asserting this kind of. speculation at the gender driven stuff for over a year now and it would be kind of difficult to go back off that so but

i mean to me it basically shows the shallow weakness of the argument when you have to throw labels at people instead of dealing with any factual evidence in fact the f.b.i. knows a lot more about this than they are telling anybody so it is n.s.a. but they're not saying it either so and they're not telling that this is information i'm getting from other sources i don't have it substantiated but they need to come forward and say exactly what they've got so far they have not done that. in the wake of violent clashes in hamburg during the g twenty this summer the german left party is now considering filing a legal complaint against a police commander who was in charge of the operation against protesters it claims he broke german law and allegedly permitted the use of combat weapons during the protests peter all of attacks a closer look. when the g twenty goes riots do tend to follow the thousands of police that struggle to keep the peace this year in humbard have been accused of going too far and using a weapon that they're not allowed to. was

. thank you thank you this is the bit of kit in question the zed p. one multi-purpose pistol during rioting that started on the sixth of july and run through till the eighth this particular weapon was used fifteen times to fire a rubber bullets and sixty seven times to disperse tear gas canisters the police say it's a pistol and they're for. they are allowed to use it however government documents that were leaked to the press here in germany seem to show that it is classified as a combat weapon and therefore shouldn't be deployed at public events the h.k.

sixty nine in h k one sixty nine are considered grenades which are classified as war weapons by the war weapons list the company that manufactures it also doesn't classify it as a pistol when contacted by r.t. police doubled down on their insistence that they were well within their rights to use the m. said p. one the facts have not changed and remain as following there is a person in the cordons with sides who are eighteen part four of security in order act the operation was carried out in full compliance with the existing hamburg regulations it was understood before the summit the police hadn't intended to use rubber bullets or tear gas but after rioting raged out of control they changed tack the decision to employ the m. said p. one has seen lawmakers from the opposition left party consider legal action against the hamburg police chief for breaching the more weapons act there's regulations

what. state of germany and what cannot be used. so we knew it when we see that. it was by police or. against the german. to use it so. i think that is an abuse which. is not. repercussions from the violence seen at this year's g. twenty continue to rumble on long after many have forgotten what world leaders actually gathered at the g twenty to discuss in the first place peter all of. nato is increasing the number of its military headquarters in europe for the first time since the cold war it is so with the alliance can move troops quickly across the continent all amid continued tensions with russia. the other taishan of the

nato command structure will further strengthen our ability to reinforce our lives quickly and effectively. but military will be that this is not only about new moms it is also about the ability to move forces on the quitman quickly with the right transport means the right infrastructure so the idea is to create a europe wide zone where it's easy to move forces and equipment around at speed nato commanders want to eliminate potential red tape to do with moving things like tanks military hardware and personnel from one country to another across the continent and even though the alliances chief insists that they're not targeting any specific country nato. turns on the senses the text of against any specific nation containing russia has been a top priority for nato for a while now we have seen the much more assertive russia we have seen the russia

which has over many years invested heavily in. their military capabilities modernize them into a good bit is there also plans to help protect the lines of communication which in the event of war would be vital for supplies coming into here at this talk of preparedness for a potential war with russia is pretty reminiscent of the cold war rhetoric the kremlin has accused nato of pursuing an aggressive strategy on its front is that threatens to destabilize eastern europe and with nato as latest moves to expand its capabilities on the continent the cycle of military saber rattling appears to only be getting was. president trump and chinese leader xi jinping have agreed to cooperate over the situation with north korea during a media conference between the two when beijing or the u.s. leader also urged all nations to stop doing business with pyongyang. the united

states is committed to the complete and permanent denuclearization of north korea so important china can fix this problem easily and quickly and i am calling on china and your great president to hopefully work on it very hard i know one thing about your president if he works on it hard it will happen there's no doubt about it we call on all nations to implement u.n. security council sanctions and resolutions and to cease doing business with the north korean regime or all nations must come together to ensure that this rogue regime cannot threaten the world with its nuclear weapons the problem of north korea has been a key concern for the whole trump during his asia trip and rather than just resorting to tweets he's now released a video in which he argues that pyongyang is now the world's number one threat.

response. just like. isolate. our response. our duty to run this danger to get. it. right. we. come and see. us. our secret of. the korean peninsula crisis is also being closely watched by the sporting world with the winter olympics in south korea a new me and british olympic association said that it's already working on evacuation scenarios for us at the lead singer case pyongyang were suddenly attacked the south during the games while france and austria both considering the possibility of staying away from their lympics if the situation worsens. well a number of our twenty eighty an olympics venues are located only some eighty

kilometers away from the demilitarized zone between north and south korea there's only so considered to be one of the world's most heavily armed borders however the i.o.c. president things that does not pose a threat of any kind to the security of the upcoming games. there is. not even a he. there is a threat. for the security of the games in the. context of the tensions. between north korea and some of the countries we discussed the issue with several experts cashmore a professor of sociology from aston university says that athletes will be extremely disappointed if their sports federation is pulled out of the twenty eighteen olympics. we have to take into consideration that this would be an extraordinarily unpopular decision from the athletes perspective their view has been traditionally

at least that sport and politics are essentially separate i know they're not but this is the view from the athletes' perspective and they would say that we've got training preparation for four maybe eight years maybe even longer so they're working towards one goal and it's very difficult for them to say well we believe there is a greater cause here so will sacrifice our own chances at an olympic medal and the last four years of hard work so far only about thirty percent of the one point one million tickets being sold for the winter games were only just over. one hundred days to go before the opening ceremony so you could say that the. number of tickets that are being sold are just to put it mildly disappointing the

reason that it's been disappointing are two reasons firstly has been a slight drop in the number of foreign most wanting to come because partly because of the political situation it's a half past eight thursday morning here in moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. international we are back at the top of the young one. that's geysers financial survival stacey let's learn a salad fill out let's say i'm a so i get your police i'm greece the fight street thank you for helping.

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