donald trump and turkey's president want to breed to jointly oppose both iceland kurdish separatists in turkey. more than two hundred thirty people are 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. on the streets of london people flee one of the city's busiest shopping districts after reports of gunfire. in a highly high security facility that strikes fear in the hearts of even russia's most hardened criminals we gained unique access to the black a dolphin nation's toughest prison it is. some of the country's worst maniac serial killer as terrorists and he wouldn't have been held.

for whether it's your birthday and you're watching from the r.t. control room or fresno california we are national and certainly glad to have you with us now we start our program with breaking news now donald trump and his the turkish counterpart. have agreed on a joint fight against kurdish separatist fighters in turkey earlier in a telephone conversation with the turkish president trump also promised to cease arming us back to kurdish forces in syria are to correspondent came up with reports . well we now have a statement from the white house describing a phone call that took place between the president of turkey errol juan and the president of the usa donald trump now according to the white house statement what was discussed on the phone call was u.s. support for its allies and how the us way would continue to militarily support its

allies in the region that are fighting against terrorism now the turkish foreign minister says that on the phone call between the two heads of state donald trump agreed to work with turkey in the fight against eisel and the fight against p.k. k. kurdish forces in turkey and furthermore donald trump promised to end u.s. support for the wipe kurdish forces in syria this is what we've heard from the foreign minister of turkey. used to try clearly stated that he had given clear instructions not to provide you with this nonsense should have ended long ago. now the united states has been supporting the why p.g. in syria in the fight against terrorism most recently in the city of raka kurdish forces fought i still on the ground they fought against the city that had been declared to be their capital the city of rock which was retaken and while they were on the ground fighting the united states provided air support to the kurdish y p g fighters furthermore after that took place we then heard u.s.

president donald trump speak very highly of the wife and praised them for their efforts on the ground this is donald trump talking about the kurdish fighters we should be using we should be going to be proven to be the. really proven to be the most really good we should be working with. however the usa has other major ally in the region turkey has a history of fighting against kurdish forces there is a concern within turkey that if some kind of territory were established for the kurdish forces in syria this would serve to further inflame tensions within turkey furthermore there is a concern about the flow of arms and that if too many arms of an abundance of weapons were to develop in the hands of kurds in syria that this could end up getting into the hands of forces in turkey and causing bigger problems in the past

era one has just been adamant that the united states should not continue supporting the y.p. g. these are some of the words he is used to fight against the dash terrorist organization should not be let with another terror organization we want to believe that our allies would choose to stand beside us and not on the side of terrorist organizations. so it seems we have quite a dramatic shift in u.s. policy that has been declared according to what we're hearing from the foreign ministry the united states has agreed to stop supporting the y.p. g. in the past they've been very enthusiastically doing so we heard those words from trump but apparently this has changed now the region is quite constant and it's changing state things are constantly changing there's constant realignments and shifts so we'll just be watching and rather the whole world it seems will be watching to see how all of this eventually plays out. 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 is the deadliest terror attack in the country's history. the assault took place during friday prayers the perpetrators arrived in for off road vehicles and set off two bombs 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 for the attack as of yet government forces have already killed thirty militants in an anti terror operation kyra based journalist jacob worst shafter 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 were worse a person who are choosing the path of moderate islam 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. there has been a terror scare on one of london's busiest shopping streets during black friday

sales armed police responded to reports of shots being fired as people fled in fear or. was at the scene for us. thank you so five there were reports of the force of gunfire coming from from off of the second station we spoke to some eyewitnesses in the area who said that they saw hundreds of people streaming running out of options street helps asika station and down here into regent street people start finding people running. knowing if i can soften up people to be eating very well. be your take and actually we gave them to right the. party on this they were scared. me but you know it's kind of been the good of the past couple 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 as we've heard 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 what i would this we spoke to said actually the way the police

responded to the incident made people born of us and panicked by screaming at them so he said but that they should have perhaps due to more common. but in any case what was feared to possibly be a terrorist incident here at oxford circus. so if it falls along. these roads opened with shoppers again trying to get their cell phone i don't know christmas holiday. the european union chief has been accused of twisting the words of the u.k. prime minister theresa may that is after he hinted at russian interference in the u.k. press that referendum citing one of mays' recent speeches he was speaking at the eastern partnership summit in brussels or his political reports. this summit is all about eastern europe so they talk about things like security shared 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 as well are 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 take a lesson for all of the biggest problems. for example. in london. to do during the british referendum for example so donald tusk referring there to that foreign policy speech that reason may gave last week where she tore into moscow she accused 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 terse she clarified later on in the week that those sort of russian misdeeds that she referred to were specifically in relation to the u.k. to look at the speech i gave on monday that was the 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 run. 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 who threaten the potential growth of the eastern neighborhood and who are trying to turn our collective strength. and i'm looking forward to journey to renewed commitments from european countries to working together to tackle these 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. we talked to when grant a professor of politics at warwick university in the u.k. two things one would used by to ask and to me is unhelpful. the seem to be some confusion between the two them about what they rushed in and certainly he didn't seem to have very much in the way of the evidence look at taken the statements he was trying to make but it was the but close to with all these very difficult negotiations on bret's it between the united kingdom and the european union talk about pressure of the hostile states is very strong language indeed because one would hope have a constructive relationship between the u.k. the european union and russia are not didn't think that sort of time and all that she. helps the development of such a constructive relationship is not one thought to conceal this thing goes in the opposite direction the president of germany's parliament is cramping down on tweeting by politicians see what reaction he is getting after a short break. with

the old make this manufactured consensus instance of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the finest merry go round gifts and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room see. what politicians to do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some people want to.

let you go right to the press this is what the full story of the more people get. interested always in the waters and how. things should. one back this is our two international from moscow now the bundestag president wolfgang schauble is facing an angry backlash after telling m.p.'s not to use twitter during sessions in parliament as art has put it all over with more. 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 bill to stop president gadgets for tweeting or unwanted you can watch the session live but we can't suite anything about the plenary session so if you go outside the plenary hall it will be

ok our facebook and instagram fine to use with a handwritten letter be ok that makes no sense i won't lead choi blair buns with me from the bundestag 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 in the bundestag 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 a merkel style but the fact that she has put out this letter it does show the ten state of german politics at 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. your political analyst. told us that 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 media should ask very rigid questions to this move i would wish that parliamentarians 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. like foreign policy syria intervention etc you need a device that your hand 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. special report now and a unique look inside one of russia's most notorious prisons the black dolphin as it is known how some of the country's most dangerous and violent criminals are locked

away for life for his crimes. i. the facility was built in the eighteenth century today it holds hundreds of inmates and is known for its brutal rules and grueling conditions our correspondent what out of gaza have they granted access to the site. in these 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 most soulless butchers the black doll thing russia's highest security prison it is here that 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 another 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 thought about it and it would have been better for died with them i probably wouldn't have done it it is 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 an bittered it is so easy to turn into an animal here some say a life sentence is worse than the death penalty. but 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. years we 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 i'm one of the 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 essentially have a cell within a cell it's easy to see why no one has ever escaped from the black dolphin and for moved to the uni sure way out is in a coffin for i guess the. from solar let's russia.

the israeli prime minister has been talking about the nature of his country's cooperation with a number of arab nations benyamin netanyahu says agreements are normally struck in secret and that should continue protective corporation with arab countries is usually coverts 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 is not all hushed up in a perhaps symbolic display to saudi officials were seen visiting a synagogue in paris with the media describing it as a nod to israel what comes after the israeli defense forces chief said the country was ready to share intelligence on iran with saudi arabia explains why television and riyadh should 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 should i let the woodies 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 takeover so the motivating factor for these unlikely bedfellows is iran 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 will consider today that the major 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 so there would be a kind of closeness between israel and saudi arabia thinking both that the major enemy in the region is in iran and that's why we believe that you know this i would these 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 that issue of palestine is the primary issue within the muslim world while it seems not anymore. i drag on for good reporting for us there you are watching our two international i'll be back in about thirty three minutes with more news there with.

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because they sort of they they could see how we are struggling with the with the policy off merkel and with the with the millions of migrants coming into europe and then in the end also maybe coming to you kate. years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with the gun 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 when i buy my babies says my book was published in the year two thousand more than home for a million americans have been killed by phones in the us how to thought to me as i did this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves some real scenarios it

was interesting to see who actually got hit by the gun i just saw i did to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago i don't know that but we are not. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle serious years long catastrophe is coming to a close foreign backing of opposition and terrorist forces are in retreat in face eradication but the struggle just far from over the war is essential.