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right now may day in moscow on this thursday thanks for joining us on r.t. international your latest world headlines. a significant day for syria is the last islamic state stronghold in the country the city of. liberated according to government forces we'll show you in just a moment pictures from the facility of the city where syrian and iraq backed militias joined forces to. which is situated very close to the border between the two countries.

countries participated in the joint operation to liberate the city which saw heavy clashes over a number of days in that area. kemal 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 of weisel 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 dozen terrorist controlling some villages and some other isolated close in iraq and in syria as well what makes this develop ration was carried out by an amalgamation of different forces the russian force had been conducting operations

in the region for several days before. syrian arab army with its militia allies and hezbollah that would have not seen from the west from the south we've had the iraqi popular mobilization units the. militias out the baghdad government they've crossed the border to help the syrian allies retake that very key area as well this information is coming from local sources from local commanders local media was still waiting on an official statement from damascus and from the russian foreign ministry will try and get that the day goes on 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 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 the oil fields located there it's unclear how washington's position will pan out as well with support for the s.t.s. 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. we've got reaction from experts on what the latest development does mean for syria that's a huge knockdown. of territory and yes i would say. it looks like it it's almost washed up for. doesn't mean they can't commit acts of terrorism but it doesn't mean they control 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 seeable future islamic state is one of many military groups in that country i mean given that i think that the civil war will continue so i do think that assad's power of the syrian government's power is expanding throughout 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 there barmy and it's militia staying in the region at 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 was in saudi arabia on wednesday it will achieve nothing by threatening

the might of iran of a saudi arabia lay the blame for the missile attack on terror on joe you know the mites in position of the public people more powerful than you have been able to do anything against the iranian people you are not strong enough to do that. some concern that the ongoing under reported proxy war between the two regional powers could turn into a direct confrontation. of investigations recently barely a days seems to go by without saudi 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 iranians and then going to saudi arabia and out of the balloon without warning declaring his resignation while launching into

a tirade about evil reigning in influence plunging the region into chaos and destruction. were never on his prison to plant discord and destruction attested to by interference in arab countries in lebanon syria iraq yemen well i would like to say to iran and its followers that they will be losers in their intervention in arab affairs and they should move wake up because in that in the past and they hinds 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 their jihad just allies are 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 bashar al assad will exit because he has absolutely no role to play in the future here and while syria may have unexpectedly checkmated riyadh here the saudis around picking 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 geo political scale well it looks like he was right. independent political analyst pepe escobar says that saudi arabia's provocations

come from a desire to change the narrative in that 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 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 uki 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 caught in the crossfire and it still is the same old story the saudi arabia against 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. 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 is in charge of the operation against protesters it claims he broke german law and allegedly permitted the use of combat weapons during the protests. are all of our investigations. where the g. twenty goes riots do tend to follow but the thousands of police that struggle to keep the peace this year and humbard have been accused of going too far and using a weapon that they're not allowed to. was. was was she was sure 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 fight the use the m. said p. one the facts have not changed and suppressed along the cordons but part four of security in order act now operation was carried out and chief for breaching the wall weapons act there's strong regulations what can be instant state of germany and what cannot be used and. so we knew it when we see that. it was vocalise or we knew that. 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 peace rule of. cia director mike pong peo has come under fire for meeting a former intelligence official over the alleged hack of the democratic party of twenty or sixteen the u.s. intelligence community has been laying the blame for all the way on moscow where pompei o. with william binney a former national security agency official tunde a whistleblower binny believes the alleged hack of the democratic national committee was in fact an inside leak carried out by a d.n.c. employee he also co-author of memos straight to the president on the issue back in july for a moment here let us remind you about the d.n.c. hack announced by a cyber security firm working for the d.n.c. in june twenty sixth a and it was blamed on two russian language groups the next day and then one of us

have to point to claim 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 wiki leaks released thousands of the democratic party's e-mails my colleague bill harvey spoke to william binney who believes a hug 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 and 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 aids or is the person who was an allies in 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 fine but so far they produced absolutely nothing this is r.t. international thanks for joining us so far the presidents of russia and america are set to meet inside twenty four was that story after the break.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to.

let you go right to be for us that's what before three in the morning can't be good that. i'm interested in the waters in the. first six. by strong us here on this first day it has just been announced that president putin will make has made his american counterpart boat old trunk that will be this friday in vietnam that is according to the russian president's office let's get more details on this. course moment if you're trying to joining us here live on the program what else do we know about this upcoming meeting. rory hi again well lately journalists have been attacking pretty much anyone who can shed some light on the second meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin

and history that is how crucial it is there is no need for any additional explanation here and there you have it finally a lot of our putin's foreign policy adviser mr you were told reporters that the two presidents will meet on friday nov tenth here and done on vietnam at the apec summit twenty seven think although he couldn't give the exact hour that is still something that's being decided the first time the two presidents met was at a difference progress in the syrian cease fire and the deescalation zones will putin then trump bring out bring up syria this time most likely yes the terrible state again massive difficulties in which the the two countries find themselves when they get along washington moscow sure plus ukraine and north korea donald trump has been on tour around east asia so the two presidents will have pretty

much many things to say to each other when it comes to this and also perhaps hear from each other so we're all waiting for when it happens the second meeting between putin and donald. the top nominee for the most important highlight of the apec summit and vietnam. thank you. colossal bribery and fraud engulfing the u.s. navy that's according to prosecutors in the so-called fat leonard case who have now revealed the true extent of this scandal four hundred forty personnel indicted including over sixty admirals and hundreds of offices all of them accused of sharing secret information in return for bribes such as al gore hole and women something that is being treated as fraud not as espionage however the identities of

the people implicated are being kept in secret that is 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 . now explaining how the terms espionage and corruption appear to have been rather well mixed in this inquiry but 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 dances is in the san diego jail so giving away military. the months later i started with the agency where you we're at the time were you tube.

so it looks like photographers without malintent and whistle blowers get hit with stiff penalties but if you're a good ole 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 kill them up and are seeing new york a busy thursday if you will but headlines are going on so you can to national we were at the top of the hour.

yes i've got a very wide grin on my face because that saudi friends. we tell them it just good and now yet all is well confiscated basically put on an air b.n. b. and some brits will tell the middle riyad. pump up. the. tough.

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welcome to worlds apart the vast bulk of international crises has created a situation in which humanitarian commitments increasingly look more like utopian ideals legal obligations faced with meager budgets and the need to help more and more people it's easier to just look the other way or push the problem to a neighbor what does it take to well to discuss that i'm now joined by francesca rocket the newly elected president of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies well mr olcott thank you very much for your time and congratulations on the election thank you thank you very much it's probably the worst time to be in charge of the i f r c given both the growing scope of humanitarian needs and the man's challenge of securing the funding to meet them why

would you even want these kind of job but let me clarify first of all that this is not our job. and i am a volunteer i'm not paid for my position i've been. in my national society for many years this is a this is a passion for sure for humanity try to improve. the way in which we need to get there and for me this is my role was my priority having the owner and that is for me to do it in the most important most relevant to your money toward it's really well mr rocca because it's a volunteering effort how do you keep your faith in what you're doing alive seeing the misery divide len's the suffering proliferated to an extent they have been for the past decade or so yeah. this is. a mission i'm not the only one we

have seventeen million people i've decided to do the life tool to set of humanity. over your nine. our legacy oh of course. to sacrifice part of our work time and i mean really the first. prize and these are our families our friends but this is why we have decided to. every now organization and and there were. volunteers based for the volunteers out of the corps auction on the local level and i do my best to bring the volunteers voice. please of the ward because this is where this will be my my role in the next four years now mr ok i know you rely on volunteers but you also have to work with local actors including local governments and i may be too pessimistic but it's a common view here in moscow that the so-called international community has no problem coming together to create problems like the ones we observe in the middle

east or north africa but it's very very rarely joins hands in order to solve.