it was. there dines this hour donald trump and turkey's president agreed to jointly oppose both isaw and kurdish separatists in turkey. more than two hundred thirty people were killed in an assault on a mosque in egypt's north sinai province it appears to be the deadliest terror attack in the country's history plus. panic on the streets of london people flee one of the city's busiest shopping districts after reports of gunfire and a high security facility that strikes fear into the hearts of even russia's most hardened criminals we gain unique access to the black gulf and the nation's toughest prison. it is here but some of the country's worst maniacs

serial killers terrorists and you wouldn't have the balls held. their coming to you live from moscow you're watching r.t. international i will start this hour of breaking news to you because donald trump and his turkish counterpart have agreed on a joint fight against eisel and kurdish separatists fight is in turkey earlier in a telephone conversation with the turkish president trump also promised to cease arming us back forces in syria with our correspondent and he's been cross this first and joins us now caliber give us more details there. well according to the foreign minister of turkey donald trump has made quite a promise

a rather remarkable promise it could be said to the turkish government he has promised to stop supplying weapons to kurdish forces in syria now this is what we're hearing from the turkish foreign minister. mr true clearly stated that he had given clear instructions not to provide you with this nonsense should have ended long ago. and now kurdish forces in syria have been key allies of the united states recently when there was a struggle to retake the city of rock which had become the capital of isis activities and terrorist atrocities while that was going on it was mainly kurdish ground forces that were in the operation and they were provided with u.s. air support after that we even heard donald trump vocally praise the kurds for their fighting on the ground against the i still terrorists. we should be using we

should be going to be proven to be the. really proven to be the most reused and we should be working with them. now turkey has been waging the war for quite a while against kurdish forces within their own borders there's a concern in turkey that if some kind of territory or state were to be a stablished for kurdish forces in syria this would serve to serve and further instability in turkey and furthermore there is a concern about there being an abundance of weapons in the hands of the kurdish forces there's a there's a concern that some of those weapons could flow to kurdish separatists in turkey and that could cause further problems as well the turkish prime minister era one has been quite vocal about his opposition to the united states supporting kurds in syria this is what he has said about that issue. fight against the dash terrorist

organization should not be left with another ten. we want to believe that our allies we choose to stand beside us and not on the side of terrorist organizations . now in the past washington has been quite enthusiastic about supporting kurdish forces in syria however it seems that that policy has now dramatically changed in turkey's favor turkey has been asking the united states to stop supporting kurdish forces and according to this report from the foreign minister the united states has agreed to do that however things are going rapidly changing in the region there seems to be very many realignments in recent months so we'll all be watching closely to see how this plays out sure ok fine it's kind of that was artie's kind of mop in there for us in new york. in other news tonight an assault on a mosque in egypt's north sinai region has killed at least two hundred thirty five people and left more than one hundred injured officials say it's the deadliest

terror attack in the country's history. this all took place during friday prayers the perpetrators arrived in for cools and set off two bulbs they then opened fire as people tried to flee the country's president has called an emergency meeting to decide how to respond no one has claimed responsibility so far for the attack although government forces have already killed the militants in an anti terror operation cairo based. has more. security services are not saying a lot about the details of this attack but we already know what the attack means to the egyptian people this is an attack on the state supported mosque in the north sinai this is an attack on the kind of islam it's promulgated by the egyptian administration one that denounces and renounces terrorism and we see that the jihad

is now have decided to go not only against up against the government and up against christians but against muslim or worse a person who are choosing the path of moderate islam that is the mainstream form of that religion here in egypt we do know who operates terror organizations in the sinai and there are groups that are affiliated with isis there are groups affiliated with al qaeda and the egyptians of course are very angry and we see that there is really a stark ideological confrontation here between the kind of islam promulgated by isis and al qaeda and the kind of islam that embraced by the egyptian administration and so this is becoming a religious war inside of islam that has implications way beyond egypt itself but but to the wider sunni middle east. it was a terrorist scare on one of london's busiest shopping streets during black friday.

police responded to reports of shots being fired as people fled in fear surrounding was that city. out of around twenty five there were reports of the force of gunfire coming from from off the second station and we spoke to some eyewitnesses in the area who said that they saw hundreds of people streaming running out of books the street helps asika station and down here into regent street people start finding people not running away he said no you soften up people to me eating very. be your take them back so we can get them to come right the. party on this they were scared he can't. help me but you know it's kind of in the past couple of weeks now of course to put this into context today is black friday which is one of the busiest if not the busiest shopping day of the year many sales are on many

people tried to get those deals before the christmas holidays and so people here are really busy really busy area tens if not hundreds of thousands of people would have been in the immediate vicinity of the station and so what happened was those people were evacuated from other people were being told by police to run into the various shops screamed out to go into different shops and to take cover and then we had heard from the metropolitan police who said that they were treating it as if it was a terrorist incident but we've had since then they've now stood down the incident and said that they found no deaths or injuries actually we did hear of one reports of a minor injury but it was somebody who got injured in the panic trying to flee from the station but which it really highlights exactly how nervous things are here in the campus of especially this year seen a number of terror strikes take place in london which of course have people on a very nervous but one i would this we spoke to say the way the police responded to

the incident made people born of us and pundits are screaming at them so he said but that they should have perhaps due to more calm but in. because what was feared to possibly be a terrorist incident at all the circus looked so beautiful the law of. the roads are no good with the troubles of trying to give themselves and i don't know just one of those. european union chief has been accused of twisting the words of the u.k. prime minister to reason may that after he hinted at russian interference u.k.'s breaks the referendum citing one of mays' recent speeches he was speaking of the eastern partnership summit in brussels. was that the times this summit is all about eastern europe so they talk about things like security shared it challenges and it's not only attended by e.u. states pretty much everyone bordering russia was invited so countries like ukraine

and georgia where there is well not many of them have many good things to say about russia certainly today the forum was heavily focused on the issue of russia and some of the strongest criticism came from the e.u. council president donald tercel take a listen one of the biggest problems with days a real. fake use for example. speech from london. about. hostile activities during the british referendum for example so i don't know if firing that foreign policy speech that reason may gave last week where she tore into moscow she cute the kremlin of attempting to undermine western democratic values through election interference and planting fake news stories but and this is

a pretty important but especially for donald tusk she clarified later on in the week that those sort of russian. steeds that she referred to specifically in relation to the u.k. to look at the speech i gave on monday that will see that the examples i gave of russian interference were not in the united kingdom donald turse clearly didn't get that particular memo from london and this looks now like a case of sort of classic chinese whispers really where the facts don't really matter because it fits an overarching narrative and that is of russia as a threat to the whole of europe it's a narrative that perhaps rather conveniently unifies the e.u. and the u.k. at a time when they have little else in common and to reason they had more to say about russia at the summit today we must be open eyes about the actions of hostile states

like russia russia and the potential growth of the eastern neighborhood and who are trying to tell our collective strength. and i'm looking forward to journey to renewed commitments from european countries to working together to tackle the challenges in both security and development despite the fact that the u.k. is actively negotiating its way out of the european union right now at this summit this east summit today the u.k.'s pledge to spend one hundred million pounds on countering what it calls russian descent from asia and in eastern europe there's a further fifty million pounds from london going towards reform and security in eastern europe as well and talk of russia really appears quite fruitful from a domestic perspective here in the u.k. it's kind of managed to draw the fire away from extensive media coverage of

ministers inappropriate behavior scandals to do with that and constant talk of how fragile to reason may's government is. reporting there what we also spoke with grantees a professor of politics that warrick university in the u.k. and he thinks the language used by task is unhelpful. but seem to be some confusion between the term about what they rushed him and certainly he didn't seem to have very much in the way of the evidence for critique of the statements he was trying to make because the back cost or with all these very difficult to go on breaks it between the united kingdom and the european union to talk about russia or the hostile state is very strong language indeed because one would hope you know who have a constructive relationship between the u.k. the european union russia or not don't think that sort of terminology. helps the development in such a constructive relationship and so on for it because it obviously goes in the opposite direction. and you bundestag president will is facing an

angry backlash after telling employees not to use twitter during sessions in parliament with more on this is peter oliver. the experienced former finance minister and now president of the bundestag has sent a message to his fellow parliamentarians stop tweeting during bundestag sessions and they have responded and they're not happy with the police that president gadgets for tweeting iran wanted you can watch the session live but we can't tweet anything about the plenary session so if you go outside the plenary hall it will be ok on facebook and instagram fine to use a handwritten letter p ok that makes no sense i won't lead choice blair bombs with him from the dark haggling is a part of parliamentary debate at esalen haggling so what you shouldn't have to go outside for that. i have little understanding why twittering is banned and the

transparency also includes commenting on current events. laid out his problems with tweeting in a letter to all members of the bundestag he said it was inappropriate didn't mention any other platforms by name but i think it's implied that he meant they were supposed to post things on instagram or facebook as well some of the wording raises a little smile he says in this letter that a parliamentarian should conduct themselves in a manner that is appropriate to their participation in a plenary session all very good things to say so here's some pictures of playing sudoku on a tablet during one of those bundestag sessions very much a do as i say not as i do from the president there he's not alone in being caught on camera with a device in his hand chancellor merkel has been pictured quite a few times on the phone while she's in the chamber as well not tweeting though that's hardly style but the fact that she has put out this letter it does show the

ten state of german politics out the moment there is no government coalition talks broke down last last weekend at the beginning of this week coalition talks collapsing there is the slim hope of a grand coalition being rekindled but that is still a long way off and all the time that there's no government here in germany we get closer to there being a call for fresh elections political analysts rain or office told us he thinks there is a need for m.p.'s to be able to use devices during parliamentary sessions. he wants to ban the use of twitter to make this jeff sessions and the debates a little less transparent if this is the case if this should be the case then of course the media should ask very rigid questions to this move i would wish that plymouth ariens get quicker and better information during the debates in parliament

because often they don't have this expertise and detail that they would need to decide issues like foreign policy syria intervention etc you need a device that your hand where you can find very quickly very precise information and it's also good to show that parliamentarians are transparent and they share their thoughts and information also with that waters. up next a special report in a unique look inside one of russia's most notorious prisons the black dolphin as it is known as is some of the country's most dangerous and violent criminals or locked away for life for heinous crimes. i. have said the same is built in the eighteenth century and

today it has held hundreds of inmates and is known for its brutal rumors and grueling conditions well our correspondent would have gassed if was granted access to the site. in the provincial town at the edge of siberia is a prison but it's no ordinary prison the mere sight of the statue has broken the moved a soulless butchers the black doll thing russia's highest security prison it is here but some of the country's worst maniacs serial killers terrorists and even cannibals i held in this cell a man who raped forty four miners and killed five children aged seven to eleven some of the people in this prison will never be allowed out so with dread for the things that they've done and then the man in a drunken killing frenzy killed six of his friends in this cell

a murderer killed eleven people. seven hundred inmates sentenced to life between them they've killed almost four thousand people everything is procedural everything intended to minimize risk from sleeping schedules to how inmates are a school that bend to the waist and blindfolded so they can't memorize the prisons layout. it may seem excessive humiliating even but don't forget what these people did to be here to that end every cell door has a description of the inmates crimes any sympathy the guards might feel disappears immediately. you ask me if i do it again i've thought about it and it would have been better for died with them i probably wouldn't have done it but

it's better to die than sacrifice others eagle was just over twenty when he and his father took on a rival gang after killing their enemies they attempted to get rid of witnesses. ordinary civilians in a restaurant seven dead eight injured both he and his father and castrated here do see each other sometimes when he fell ill they transferred me to help him for a while the most important thing is to avoid becoming him bettered it is so easy to turn into an animal here some say a life sentence is worse than the death penalty. with i've been here for seventeen years and i've never heard anyone say they don't regret it or they'd kill more i'm sorry but that's nonsense. i regret it everything is lost the years go by your health worsens everything passes by i think there are a few people left in here who think they did the right thing they are show you that

you were wrong totally wrong you can't do that. to me treat saluted his family his father his mother and his brother he was twenty now he's forty five why didn't he watch t.v. we see people who have committed two or three murders get sentenced to seventeen or nineteen years that isn't so terrible yes we are guilty before the law yes we are guilty before the public but if they're left out after twenty years why are there fraid of letting us out who in their fifty's could be bothered to do anything all they would want is a normal life. the difference is that life sentences are mostly reserved for crimes of such brutality that they escape reason for individuals deemed a permanent danger to society one inmate released early from the black dolphin committed the murder on the very train that was taking him home most will never see release control is total god's check on everyone every fifteen minutes

in cell cameras a monitored twenty four seven and there is three doors to every cell this is a cell for those sentenced to life it's locked with a full metal door a cage door and another one for complete security we're sensually have a cell within a cell it's easy to see why no one has ever escaped from the black dolphin and the most unique sure way out is in a coffin for i guess the odyssey from seoul in let's russia. the israeli prime minister has been talking about the nature of his country's cooperation with a number of arab nations and netanyahu says agreements are normally struck in secret and that should continue. practive corporation with arab countries is

usually covert i believe that this relations will continue to develop and that they will be a fruit for the expansion of the peace orbit. however it's not all hushed up in the perhaps symbolic display to saudi officials were seen visiting a synagogue in paris within the media describing it as a nod to israel it does come after the israeli defense forces chief said the country was ready to share intelligence on iran with saudi arabia shocking bigger explains why tel aviv and riyadh could be willing to overlook their differences israel has been a thorn in the side of a number of middle eastern states for what feels like forever singled out and attacked it was just a fact of life that we are freezing all the forms and levels of communication between the israeli enemy and any arab countries while until israel is going ahead with its crimes against the arab people of palestine and lebanon taking advantage of the silence of countries worldwide. yes sure that i live in the world is

witnessing the reality and the nature of israeli occupation the cruelty and barbarism of this race is regime committing war crimes and crimes against humanity just a few years ago the idea of saudi arabia and israel getting into bed together would have been shocking to say the least but now they look to be on the same page or the times they are changing and whispers of growing ties between israel and the arab world are getting louder respect the other side's wish when times are developing whether it's we saudi arabia or with other arab countries we are willing to exchange information with moderate arab countries including intelligence information there are many common interests between us. a high ranking israeli military official has even been quoted as saying that he agreed with every word his saudi counterpart said at a conference in d.c. adding he felt like they could have been his own words being read by the saudi chief now there is a clear reason for this shift remember the old adage of the enemy of my enemy is my friend i think this is

a wake up call for everyone when israelis and arabs and it's all the arabs and israel i want to agree on one thing. people should pay attention we should stop the syrian take over so the motivating factor for these are likely bedfellows is iran's and the fear of tehran's growing influence in the region is so strong that it has even elbowed aside the question of palestine it's quite obvious that the saudis would consider today that the image of threat in the area is the iranian and that's why they were looking for any allies in the in the area also to be against iran in this matter differently that was absolutely israel which we're launching a huge campaign since ages since years against iran and so there will be a kind of closeness between israel and saudi arabia thinking both that the major in the region is in iran and that's why we believe that you know the saudis are

willing to negotiate even the arab initiative to start with the normalization with israel even before they are addressing the palestinian question and this is absolutely is not acceptable iran has even tried to bring palestine back into focus today the issue of palestine is the primary issue within the muslim world while it seems not anymore. now scores of muslim women have reacted angrily to plans to our schools in england's primary schools why they are wearing headscarves they say would be in an inappropriate and discriminatory move by school inspectors and for some of the people themselves it is a question of choice and self-confidence. i am a ten year old british for muslim girl who chose to wear the hijab and know that when you look at me you instantly isham that my parents forced me to wear the hijab but you could not be more wrong you are doing that is ruining my confidence and self-esteem is the young girl in the confidence of many other little girls well

school inspectors do say the move is about monitoring whether wearing a hijab might be interpreted as the sexualization of young girls and they also warn that parents should speak out if they are concerned about fundamentalist groups influencing school policy and islamic human rights campaigner we spoke to though says children's clothes are not the government's business. this is something that should be a free choice between the parents and the children and it should be something personal and it's not for the state to intervene in such an issue well it's not necessarily them being made to wear it sometimes it's many girls choice of choices i have young girls in my family who chose to wear the headscarf at the age of eight or nine i personally see this this is another reason for poor institution islam. where really. the muslim community first we heard about trojan horse now we're

hearing about muslim young women being targeted when is this going to stop when are we just going to be accepted as being british as being part of the society being allowed to the freedom to practice our faith as long as we're not harming the other individuals and that's how the news looks so far tonight here in r.t. don't forget if you get a chance or do have a look at our website to plenty on there at r.t. doc. i. was ok. he did. not play seated. like i thought it would.

be in the needed. they call me a useful idiot i mean you called me a useful idiot useful idiot useful idiots were expressing my opinions on t.v. there's two things of us doing it behind this record is the same strategy we attack persons instead of talking about what's next why stop me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one hour stretch i should be sent to the town of london because going to try to break me although we'll put up with

a long time of this sort of nonsense you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out in good company i'm in good company you going with me you want to do this because we are free thinkers. you seen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better a lot better and i think they are and hurting whenever my my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by phones in the us how to saute me as i did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see who actually got hit. paid. to return to the.