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a police officer shooting dead and an armed man he was later cleared of murder and manslaughter. thank you for watching the headlines here at our c international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge and we start with some breaking news new york police are responding to a reported blast at the central bus station in manhattan and we can see the live pictures now police are saying the cause of the blast is as yet unclear there's no information yet regarding any casualties or any injuries but of course we're bringing you more news on that assumes we have it. and meanwhile the top story here on r.t. president putin has ordered the start of the withdrawal of russian forces from syria that's just five days after he announced the complete defeat of islamic state in syria artie's daniel hawkins earlier joined me in the studio with more details.

also in many will view it that way kate especially from a military point of view this of course was a surprise visit as you mentioned earlier to declaim air base in latakia is part of putin's middle eastern visit he is off to egypt next to visit the president méribel fertile c.c. he will discuss the issue with alongside news about his negotiations with. the turkish president as well he has made it clear though that while the bulk of the troops is withdrawing as early as today in fact the first pilots flying back to russia we understand. the military forces will be quick to return if the terrorists include his own words rear their heads once again let's take a listen to a statement. about it on the air to the defense minister and the head of the general staff would have started he would draw all of the russian forces to their permanent base and if the terrorists dare to raise their heads again we will strike back with the strength they have never seen before. now of course the base in

tartus and attack here will remain a little bunk of the bulk of troops is going home over the last two years the russian troops have played a very important role in backing the syrian army and are getting territory ever again around ninety percent of the country russian troops were closely involved in the liberation of aleppo palmira twice in fact of davey's all on the euphrates river bank as well really rooting out giada's hitting those targets the command post oil infrastructure the training camps etc and of course our correspondents have been covering that throughout the whole conflict take a listen to some of the highlights of all reports that. this is the ad based in la talking from which russian jets are launching the sorties against islam mixtape targets here in syria. whether

it's. time the pilots are ready to go that's a moment's notice. in this amphitheater laid down by the romans almost two thousand years ago that isis staged one of its secrets massacres the russian military considers it the crown in jewel of their operation here in syria. you can see here just some of the impressive military hardware that isis have in that possession that has made the battle for power mera so tough we're extremely close to isis. positions less than two kilometers away and.

were as a syrian artillery position overlooking the industrial korda of there is order the battle is said to be fierce isis fired back as we filmed shells began falling wall around. we ran but the syrian batteries kept firing live indeed is or is still far from normal but at least they will be starving to death and the more. was reported earlier new york police are responding to a reported blast at the central bus station in manhattan they say the cause of the blast is as yet unclear and we can see there we've got some live pictures coming through we don't have any information yet regarding any casualties or injuries just

looking to on reports here they say that there was an explosion between forty second street and eight thousand you and also that there were reports of a stampede happening as well run around the point of the metro but as we get more details coming in on the story we'll bring them to you. what we're looking on here some more news coming in the explosion took place near forty second street as i said before and eight that's according to officials now the other reports that were coming through on social media meanwhile a bomb squad has reportedly been dispatched to manhattan's port or saudi boss terminal which you can see there on the live pictures with people seen running from the area and not as we can also see this the emergency services have been called with multiple ambulances have been requested as we need to stress at this point the cause of the explosion has not is not yet clear and we have more more ports directly live we'll have a reporter there at the scene shortly as you see the live pictures coming through the emergency services there of an explosion has taken place in manhattan in new

york with the emergency services center the scene there are no details yet on the cause of that explain coming right now. looking down on the pictures here between forty second and eighth street in central new york reports of an explosion in the central port or so. marty looking down on those pictures there we we have emergency services there a fire crews at the scene and reports that ambulances have gone there we don't have any details yet we need to stress that on any injuries on any casualties but just coming through here some more details coming through the a c. and e. trains were being evacuated this is according to the account the new york police department which they said the police were responding to reports of an explosion this is an explosion which in forty second street and eighth avenue and the a c. and e. trains are train and are being evacuated this is in manhattan and central new york

here one of these from riverside drive as you see there the live pictures coming through and we can hear the emergency services there at the scene there. was that just right. there. right. here some more details coming through the traffic is being routed away from the area of the bus terminal that we can see in central manhattan has been evacuated. we're just going through some reports just to confirm of those details that we do know so far that the new york police department are responding to a reported blast there are details of an explosion has taken place at the central bus station in manhattan police say the cause of the blast is as yet unclear there's no information yet regarding any casualties or injuries but we cannot cross

live to our correspondent. who is there at the scene he's coming through by telephone hi there kelly can you hear me. i can hear you yes fine can you can you give us a moody has about what's happening we have live pictures but we don't have too many cells as yet coming from the the n.y.p.d. what do you know i just. ate the avenue and forty second street now this is where the major bus station the port authority bus station a number of us that the terminal where almost all of the greyhound buses and other buses that are coming in to new york city that's that's where they they are located out and at this time we're hearing that there has been some kind of last in that bus station now the new york city police department is telling us that that the trains in the area are being evacuated and that is that is the most free recent update that we have from the new york city police department that the a train. the

other trains that are in that area that go to a tavern on forty second street are being evacuated in response to this blast and we are hearing the blast as somehow you know it came from a bus station but as of yet it's not clear that this is very close to times square times square is just one block away from this location times square located on seventh and eighth seventh and forty second street so this is this is the in of the center of midtown manhattan this is a place where a lot of tourists who come into the city come from they come from the buses though the buses that come over from new jersey in the morning it's a it's just this place is just swarming with people that they at the time of day that we're seeing right now i mean it's this is this is this is morning this is the time when commuters are just piling into the city to go to work on monday morning you can bet this place is a circus and it's just packed full of people so we're trying to figure out what's going on here now what was the purpose why you know why did this blast happen with

anyone injured was anyone hurt was anyone killed possibly you know what happened exactly but but you can bet that a. like this is just packed with people on a monday morning like this i mean it's just swarming with people that are on their way to work so a lot of questions are being raised as people try to figure out what's going on here now we hear about the evacuation of the trains and that seems to indicate something happening now the building is the port authority building that's that's one of the the largest buildings. in the area and that's the area that's that's the place where the buses seem to drop off that's where the bosses in manhattan on forty second street and eighth avenue are dropping people off the port authority and that's not a small building at all but a very large building where these buses are depositing people so a lot of questions being raised as we see this initial report about the evacuation of trains from the new york city police department so at the moment we just have to

see what happens next and try to get information so i can and so once the time there and when exactly did this did this incident happen i mean having that we sing the same not since imagine to set a says that was a dissertation presumably was well within the last half an hour say. yeah yeah where we're still just seeing the initial reports now the exact. location it's just. right now in their understanding that the explosion happened within the last half hour so this is morning this is commuter time in manhattan you can bet that even on a normal day with nothing going on all the subways would be packed full of people standing room only you know there would be just crowds and crowds of people trying to get into manhattan to begin the workday and that's that's the situation that you've got and you know on on a very very busy busy several a and bus station you can bet it's packed full of

people a lot of people commute into manhattan through through this bus station a lot of buses from new jersey live just over the bridge just over the water in new jersey to come into manhattan for work each day they come in on buses you know so there's buses full of commuters there's trains full of commuters thirty second street in manhattan is just a hub of activity forty seventh and eighth avenue where this is located just a block away from times square is just buzzing with people it's just crowded on any any morning like this it's just going to be packed full of people so any explosion in such an area could have very very deadly impact if you have such a high concentration of people in such a small area at this time with the heavy rate of commuting into manhattan where we're just looking on here kind of there's a new message coming through a the new york city mess has been briefed about an explosion in midtown manhattan and we're waiting for that statements to come straight. what happened when. so i

kind of had the mayor yeah the mayor de blasio has been on top of terrorism and left wing that's important to point out is that times square which is the area this is taking place in times square is just one block away from this is probably the most most surveyors and policed area in the entire city it's the center of tourism you know i mean this is you know this is broadway this is where you know the famous times square with all the billboards in the lights and that's probably one of the most carefully policed areas i mean we heard we remember recently with the incident where the individual was driving their car through times square and people were killed and that area yes just a huge amount of security and you can bet that the mayor de blasio is on top of this trying to figure out what's happened here and we're going to get an update very quickly because this isn't this isn't just like an isolated area this is

probably one of the main centers of tourism and transportation it's just a main hobby in manhattan so this is this is this is a vital spot so you can bet that the n.y.p.d. is on top of this because there's so much of a police presence in that area and had about deaths i will be coming to you again very same in the meantime thank you very much indeed that scalable fence now and he's correspondent in new york well let's just have a look at some of those details than that we know are coming through at the moment new york police are responding to a reported lost at the central bus station in manhattan in new york they say the cause of the blast is as yet. there's no information yet regarding any casualties or injuries there was also a report that as we had on social media looking to us well of a stampede following what some described as an explosion the blast is said to have happened at manhattan's port or fucking bus time and as a head there from kaleb which is situated between the forty second and eighth street police on the twitter feed all warning people to stay away from the area and

it's been evacuated eyewitnesses say there are a lot of police at the scene and as we've seen there from the live pictures also a lot of the emergency services and we'll have more details on this as it comes. meanwhile president putin has ordered the start of the ritual of russian forces from syria that's just days after he announced the complete defeat of islamic state in syria well russia's latest declaration that syria has been liberated from isis sparked a new rift between key foreign forces fighting terrorists in the country and it didn't sit well with the u.s. led coalition which now claims it's the only force that's made what they call meaningful progress against islamic state r.t. and here and explains. everyone was gearing up to celebrate isos grip on syria was loosening the u.s. coalition forces had the champagne on ice we are defeating isis we're really

winning we know how to win races in terms of a physical caliphate will be gone by the end of the year but when the black flag was finally lowered some felt the limelight was stolen and used a bit of the locals to russia's defense minister reported that the military operation on the east and west banks of the euphrates river is now completed with the full defeat of the terrorists of course there could still be some pockets of resistance but in general combat actions at this stage and on this territory are over. how dare russia claim the moment of glory i want to thank general mattis for doing such a great job with respect to this he's not there hello. myself made it possible with what i'd let you do i think. so instead of celebrating some chose perhaps predictably to squabble over. the north i find it surprising that russia takes all

the credit for defeating eisel in reality eisel occupied a large part of syria and iraq and it was the coalition that shrank the territory occupied by the jihadists let's step back and look at how i still lost ground in the south the syrian army backed by russian air power repainted the map from black to damascus red well coalition forces with the help of the kurds did much of the heavy lifting by liberating three waves of northern syria but heaven forbid we should even consider this a team effort. with the support of the russian air force the syrian army liberated hundreds of cities from territories and returned almost all the country's territory to the government controlled. the u.s. led coalition. the russian federation a syrian regime is the only feels that has made meaningful progress. three years the various sides that shared a common goal driving i saw out of syria but now that's been achieved for some the

main thing now is taking all the credit it is still absolutely critical to the us role in the world to maintain this this narrative that it is a response only responsible for. you know the good things that happen in the world while its enemies are responsible for all the bad things and and unfortunately it sees russia as not just a competitor but really as an enemy at this point. for more on this issue let's bring in also and writer abdel bari outran abdullah thank you so much indeed for waiting i mean how significant is the announcement of the russian withdrawal in the sense of starting the process of rebuilding in syria. well actually it is that day of celebrations for russia and its allies and the middle east or russia or russian intervention put an end to that biggest threat to

the region which is that islamic state and other terrorist organization i believe the job is accomplished now. russia are celebrating victory in syria the meeting between president and president bush on. military base on last letter is a sign that but i shall manage to celebrate managed to actually. prove to be the master of the middle east i believe now it's time to pull out that i shall forces from syria because there is no need for them but they can come back as president botha said and deal with any threats from eisel i think russia is sending a strong strong message to the syrian to the whole of the middle eastern arabs

and muslims that there are very very supportive to their allies and they will never let them down didn't accept and power and that syrian most a hundred cities where liberated from the fear of their stomach state i believe it is actually a huge achievement and president bush didn't is not only visiting syria he is going to pay another visit to egypt where he will sign a nuclear agreement with addiction president a bill that that has the after that he will conclude his drive to visit unka to meet the president. of turkey to say that we have to look at that to the stage altar that actually the coming days after that. three against eyes is a means to make a permanent peace in syria param and peace on the middle east and i believe this tour is the most important tool for the president of russia or to the middle east

where actually he emerged victorious well now that everyone seems to be generally claiming that i still they almost defeated just a few pockets of resistance remain do you think that the other foreign countries involved in the syrian conflict were father russia's example and announce they were towards me in particular for example the us definitely us troops in syria was illegal and now they will be more illegal i believe pretexts which actually was taken by the american or used by the american administration to send troops to the syrian now is vanished there is no strong i mean presence of the islamic state in syria and there is no need for these american forces to be there if that action and said a good example by saying that we are pulling out our troops from syria i think this is

a clear cut message to the american administration that they should actually pull out those troops from syria not only from syria but also from iraq so there is no need for them to be there unless they're american actually would like to not the water in the middle east and creates more problems or maybe. supporting or financing isis again to him in order to create more troubles we don't know but i just said i would example pulling out this troop job is accomplished no threats of the isis as it's as it used to be so that american actually should follow suit and pull their troops from syria and iraq and iran that night we'll leave it also and right abdel bari atwan to thank you very much indeed for your thoughts and also for waiting for us thank you very much. well meanwhile let's get back to our breaking news story new york police are responding to a reported blast at the central bus station in manhattan they say the cause of the blast is as yet unclear there's no information yet regarding any casualties or

injuries there was also a report of a stampede following what some have described as an explosion with a blast is said to have happened at manhattan's port or sorry bus terminal situated between four second avenue and eighth street police on their twitter feed are warning people to stay away from the area by witnesses say there are a lot of police at the scene and there are also reports that some subway lines are being evacuated will for more details on this and joining us live for the details on the phone is artie's correspondent. can you hear me and i can we if we don't to just get through to our correspondent there will return to caleb as soon as we have contact. in the meantime we do have some live pictures coming through here let's let's return to some of the details from that breaking news story well the explosion is said to. now we have the life feed coming through

so we can see those pictures new york police department are responding to a reported blast at the central bus station in manhattan they say the cause of the blast there is as yet unclear and there's no information yet regarding any casualties or injuries there was also a report of a stampede following what some described as an explosion or the blast is said to have happened at manhattan's port or thirty bus terminal situated between forty second and police on their twitter feed are warning people to stay away from the area i witness is say there are a lot of police at the scene and there are also reports that some of the subway lines are being evacuated and i think at this point we can now return to caleb moore our reporter who's at the sea caleb can you hear me yes i can hear you i can get more or do we know. so at this point we're hearing reports that the explosion took place in the port authority building that's where the boxes that are coming into manhattan i generally deposit people these are buses coming in from new jersey

these are greyhound buses from around the country and that's where the explosion took place and as of now we're not getting any reports of any injuries or however we're hearing that that in response to the explosion there was a stampede people were evacuated and the n.y.p.d. according to some sources the n.y.p.d. has one person in custody at this time now. we also understand that there are trains that deposit in the area near the port authority doesn't is also a subway stop a train the c. train and the train here in manhattan and all of those train lines are now being evacuated in the subway station below the port authority building is being evacuated in response to this blast. we still are still on clear that made this blast what caused the explosion but at the n.y.p.d. is on the scene from we understand swat teams are on the scene immediately clearing

the area clearing the port authority building trying to get to the conclusion of what's happening a lot of questions are in the works but as of now we're not seeing reports of injuries which seems to be a good sign bad but you know as news travels fast and happen it's not clear as it happened it's not clear as of yet and that's quite a big building it's important to point out that you know there are the trains that deposit that there are many different buses coming in and this is a very very busy time for that building at this point you know it's just it's just it's just almost eight thirty here in new york city and you can bet that people are just piling into downtown and their daily commute you know on a given day at this time. you can bet that seven cars that are going on in on their way into manhattan are just packed full of people you know standing standing room only people you know people just part of the end there is barely enough space so if there were to be an explosion in in this area that potential for injury is quite

massive as the area tends to be quite packed with commuters on mornings like this now the port authority building that's where the boxes that are coming into the city tend to deposit that's also you know at the site of a train station this is just a block away from times square and this is thirty second street this is midtown manhattan which is quite a busy area and that is a very large security and police presence in that area at all times that we've seen that there have been previous incidences there you know most recently there was that there was the incident where there was the individual who was driving through times square trying to injure people with his car and there were fatalities and pat it was really very heavily monitored and police huge amount of surveillance a huge police presence and as we understand now the lead up to the police department on the scene clearing the area trying to clear any any any people from

the area just trying to evacuate the scene for safety purposes as we now are in an incident like this you never know if this is our or not you know so far we know that to be more explosions in the works so you can be sure that they're trying to evacuate the scene to get everyone out of the problem before they are determined so they're able to determine what's happening that the building a safe the thing to say and if things can return to normal you know questions are still being raised as to what this explosion was whether to take place this kind of big building let's with this explosion on was this explosion in the subway or was it was it in the area where the prices were coming in was it on the on the street level of the building was it higher up on. on the higher levels where you know some of the similar process from new jersey deposit a lot of questions are being asked it's all about very clear but as we know again like he is on the scene and people are being rapidly cleared from the area that the

reports are doing the subways are being evacuated the area that we usually be just a harbor that really just a few of the human beings is now being cleared and the grab as we try to get to the bottom of what's happening now the reports to be indicate that one person is in custody at the mob but it's not clear if that's in relation to the pleasure nervous or the person who perhaps was getting the way of evacuations after a lot of things are just not clear as we're hearing reports of the port authority being cleared by the new york city police department and able kind of we'll leave it there i mean we have heard the autopsy has contacted the police for comment but they've neither confirmed nor denied that lawson did know submit that anybody was in custody so we are waiting details on that hillside car i find that it was yet understand why this incident is being treated as a terror attack or not but we do have reports coming through because the bomb squad has been has been sent to the area we'll have more details.