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the meeting with the n.s.a. . what their situation. thanks for joining us with. a significant day for syria as the last stronghold in the country the city of. according to government forces i will show you in just a moment pictures from the vicinity of the city. forces to surround up will come

out which is situated very close to the border between those two countries. are you hawkins are joining us live here in the shooter this morning and it's a huge day for syria but also in the fight against terrorism it really is yes it was the last major settlement on the border with iraq a key strategic point as well to prevent the flow of fighters and arms across the rocky syrian border why is it significant as we've mentioned earlier it's one of the last strongholds in the region one of the last of the self-proclaimed kind of now just two years ago beisel controlled more than half of the territory in syria

and now they're located in just a few desert areas controlling some villages and some other isolated posts in iraq and in syria as well what makes this development so significant well the operation was carried out by an amalgamation of different forces the russian force had been conducting operations in the region for several days before very heavy fighting going on let's take a look at some of the footage from before we go on. and that was the operation in the skies on the ground of course the syrian arab army with its militia allies and hezbollah that advancing from the north from from the west the iraqi border as well and from the south we've had the iraq keep.

mobilization units the. lot the baghdad government they've crossed the border to help the syrian allies retake that very key area as well now this information is coming from local sources from local commanders local media we're still waiting on an official statement from damascus and from the russian foreign ministry will try and get that the day goes on this of course doesn't mean isis is the fee that as an ideology it's not to feel that as a group which can still cause casualties terror attacks both in the middle east and of course in europe as their primary many are asking what comes next now as in northern parts of syria this latest development brings to a head many groups with very different interests the syrian army militias there to the west of the euphrates there as the f. to syria democratic forces there backed by washington a coalition of kurdish arab militias there pushing in from the north and from the east very key area with oil through is located there as well now as we said they've got different interests damascus has said repeatedly assad has said they want to

recapture all territory they lost in syria in some areas of the country because of declared autonomy carrying out their own policies their own elections it's unclear how washington's position will pan out as well with support for the as the if so there's a lot of negotiation compromise reconciliation to happen once i sell is fully eradicated from syria and we'll see how that pans out over the coming weeks and months don't hold hands thank you. but we got reaction from experts on what the latest development means for syria. that's a huge knockdown. territory and yeah i would say. it looks like it's the homeless washed up for. doesn't mean they can't commit acts of terrorism but it doesn't mean they controlled territory anymore 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 . deprives eisel of a lot of the revenues that i think that that region in that country will remain on stable for the first sea of all future islamic state is one of many groups in that country i mean given that i think that the civil war will continue so i do think that assad's probably the syrian government's power is expanding the country but i don't expect him to have all of the country under wraps because there are still remain you know tens of thousands of prepared to fight against the syrian arab army and its militia staying in the region the spot between iran and saudi arabia has escalated after a missile attack near riyadh airport carried out by who the rebels in yemen iran's president warned saudi arabia on wednesday it will achieve nothing by threatening

the might of iran to saudi arabia lay the blame for the missile attack on teheran joe you know the mites in position of the public people more powerful than you have been unable to do anything against the iranian people you are not strong enough to do that. you know someone now of the ongoing and under reported proxy war between the two regional powers could soon turn into a direct confrontation he is now assessing how saudi arabia continues to add fuel to the fire. recently barely a days seems to go by without saudi arabia making headlines and it almost always boils down to it's and it me 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 its 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 their allies under the bus to create an excuse to denigrate iran. q the lebanese prime minister holding a successful meeting with the iranians and then going to saudi arabia and out of

the balloon without warning declaring his resignation while launching into a tirade about evil raney an influence plunging the region into chaos and destruction. were over iran is present it plans discord and destruction of. interference in arab countries in lebanon syria iraq but every human well i would like to say to iran and its followers that they will be losers in their intervention in arab nation move wake up because in that in the past and their hands in the region will become. you lose a poor and gain an opening then there's the blockade of cattle. a trade embargo severed 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 their jihad allies are losing an asse ad is winning this isn't what riyadh planned we hope that and expect that during the interim period of the of the transition period bashar al assad will exit because he has absolutely no role to play in the. and while syria may have been expected to be 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 has highest islamic cleric battened the chess saying that the game causes and mitzi and hatred between people and even when played on a giant geo political scale well it looks like he was right.

independent political analyst pepe escobar says that saudi arabia has provocations come from a 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've 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 only yemen which is horrifying we dance of thousands of civilian casualties and supported by the us congress for that matter and use the american weapons and nuclear weapons and now they're trying to change the narrative their brain in the run they're trying to ratchet up a confrontation involving lebanon which is caught in the crossfire and is still is the same old story the saudi arabia against the run and countries in the middle east states are going to be caught in the crossfire is absolutely horrific

situation that is collating very very fast. colossal bribery and fraud has engulfed the u.s. navy that's according to prosecutors in the so-called london case who have now revealed the true extent of this bill four hundred and forty personnel have been indicted including over sixty admirals and hundreds of offices all of them are accused of sharing secret information in return for bribes such as booze and women over the identities of the people implicated have been kept back to avoid jeopardizing the investigation the release of such information would likely reveal sensitive details about the breadth and scope of the criminal investigation and pending cases a correspondent caleb maupin now explains 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 aka fat leonard he offered them booed 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 the 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 sarsour 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 didn't catch up 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 get out of where he worked yeah we were already took pictures and so-called we're allowed to 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.

what were the agents. were you we were at the time. i. saw 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. well it looks like the stiff penalties just don't apply. aren't seeing new york. cia director mike pump aoe has come under fire for meeting a former intelligence official over the alleged of the democratic party back in two hundred sixteen the u.s. intelligence community has been laying the whole blame. on moscow. met with william

binney a fulbright national security agency official told whistleblower binney believes the alleged attack of the democratic national committee was in fact and in the side leak carried out by a d.n.c. employee he also coauthored a memo to the president on this issue 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 it was blamed on two russian linked groups the next day an anonymous. claimed responsibility for the attack something unconfirmed by the d.n.c. later he also took credit for a breach in july and at the end of that month we could leaks released thousands of the democratic party's e-mails my colleague spoke to william binney who believes from abroad could not have been involved. 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 we analyze 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 william binney was a welcome guest on american news channels when he exposed previously violations in the n.s.a. spying program than c.n.n. described him as a whistleblower with a dramatic story now they call him a conspiracy theorist benny himself says that channel uses labels instead of actual evidence. they have a problem of course because they've been asserting this kind of. speculation of the gender driven stuff for over a year now and 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're 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 gotten so far they've not done that just twenty twenty past the hour here in the russian capital a lot still coming your way on the program including german police accused of using combat weapons during g. twenty classrooms a story and much more after the break. legally . or illegally or.

or or or or at least. in case you're new to the game this is how it works in our economy is built around quite a corporation washington washington media the media. voters elect the president to run this country business because. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. it is good to have you with us today for your news in the wake of violent clashes

and 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. takes a closer look at these claims. where the g. twenty goes riots do tend to follow but the thousands of police that struggle to keep the peace this year and humbug have been accused of going too far and using a weapon that they're not allowed to. was. was was. going to was 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 therefore 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 an 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. humbard 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 follows when there is

a pistol no accordance with sides who eighteen part four of security in order act no operational is carried out in full compliance with the existing hamburg regulations it was understood before the summit that police hadn't intended to use rubber bullets or tear gas but after rioting raged out of cars. troll 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 police chief for breaching the more weapons act there's regulations what can be you. and what cannot be used and. so we knew it when we see that. it was police. against the german. to use it. and i think that

is an abuse which. is not really totally. 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. president trump and chinese leaders have agreed to cooperate over the situation with north korea during a media conference between the two in beijing and 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. 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 on the whole problem of north korea has been

a key concern for the 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. do you run this danger to get. all the whole korean peninsula crisis is also being closely watched by the sporting world with the winter olympics looming in south korea the british olympic association has said that it's already working on evacuation scenarios for athletes in case pyongyang suddenly attacks the south during the games france and austria

both considering the possibility of staying away from the olympics if indeed the situation worsens the number of twenty eight is very close to the border between north and south korea one of the world's most militarized areas however the i.o.c. president thinks that does not pose a threat of any kind to the upcoming games. so there is. not even a he. there is a threat for. the security. of the games in the. context of the tension. between north korea and some other countries as cashmore a professor of sociology from boston university thinks that the current crisis on the korean peninsula will impact on the winter games. north korea is currently under sanctions from the united nations it's under threat from donald trump who says it will bring foreign fiore to them. and so there is

a political crisis i think brewing there whether the olympics themselves will be affected i think i was going to say nobody knows but i think one thing is certain is that there will be an impact the precise impact at this stage i would like to predict. thursday morning here in the russian capital you worldwide headlines are returning in about half an hour. prescribe medication is widespread on the u.s. market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life i just felt like everything was

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