israel strikes twelve targets in southern syria after damascus downs in israeli fighter jet for the first time in thirty six years. meanwhile turkey's president says one of his country's military helicopters has been downed near the syrian border is carrying out an offensive against kurdish militias. thank god. the far right surge is causing concern in italy ahead of a general election anti-fascist activists rallied in several cities after six african migrants were injured in a shooting. and. invites the south korean president to visit north korea in the latest sign of improving relations between the two countries.

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow the international john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now russia and the united states have voiced their alarm over an armed standoff between israel and syria in a phone call president putin urged prime minister netanyahu to avoid any new confrontation while the u.s. state department described the latest incidents as a calculated escalation started by iran now it started with israel intercepting what it claimed to be an iranian drone crossing israeli airspace israeli forces reacted by bombing twelve targets in syria including so-called iranian facilities syria then shot down an israeli jet calling it a response to a violation of airspace but perspectives in syria and israel on the situation differ in certain respects. the syrian army commander should just statement confirming that syrian air defenses intercepted israeli fighter jets that were

carrying out an airstrike on location in central part of the country and then later on some news agency the state news agency said that israel carried out subsequent strikes on locations west and south of the syrian capital damascus also said that the fences from the tsunami have been intercepting piece attacks we all we can also confirm that the sites that were targeted in the earlier attack that took place on don't today is the t for everybody in central syria in the deserts of central syria near the problem iraq my mil three sources are saying that there has been no casualties only three want to talk to us in this don't attack but there is no official confirmation so far who has been hit before by israeli airstrikes. earlier this year and back then israel said that it was a believed to be and a gathering of iranian advisors and the command building of the syrian army's first

armored division well it's a play in three acts it all started with any iranian drone a remotely piloted vehicle which entered israel proper we don't know yet where they are for surveillance or attack and it was shot down by an israeli armed apache helicopter now following that particular incident the israeli air force has retaliated against the launcher of this particular drone. hitting the. command and control vehicle and perhaps the launcher itself and during this attack one of the israeli f. sixteen s was. i dare heats by syrian ground defenses or the

pilots got the impression that they are about to be hit and bailed out israel has again retaliated heating the a twelfth august several of them being iranian and several syrian this is the most serious incident. between israel and syria and definitely between israel and iran in many years meanwhile the israeli prime minister is under growing pressure in his own country thousands marched through tel aviv on saturday calling on benyamin netanyahu to resign over corruption probe journalist max blumenthal has more. for over a year protesters have been gathering every week to demand the indictment of prime minister benjamin netanyahu for corruption and graft this protest in tel aviv has taken on an especially electric atmosphere that's because this tuesday the police chief of israel is expected to recommend netanyahu is indict earlier tonight so many nuff tali

a former maintenance worker for the netanyahu who helped launch these protests told me he fears that netanyahu has influence on the investigation could fatally compromise its independence a palestinian member of knesset. complained that nailing netanyahu on corruption charges would be like jailing al capone for tax evasion completely evading the fact that netanyahu is committed much greater crimes in the gaza strip that's of yahoo for his part has struck a defiant tone declaring that the truth will come out and that its critics are engaging in fake news. with less than a month to go until the general election in italy tensions are boiling over several cities witnessed anti-fascist to demonstrations on saturday and the long protesters clashed with police. i.

think on. the march was called after racially motivated shooting in the central city of much of last week here you can see footage from the anti-fascist protest from musharraf's itself just this thursday hundreds of supporters of the far right party clashed with police there that was after a shooter targeted african migrants injuring six he said he wanted to avenge the deaths in the tally and woman allegedly killed by a nigerian asylum seeker. the incident has fuelled concerns about the rise of neo fascist forces in italy. national as well as foreign media have weighed in the shooter's lawyer told us journalist that his client was greeted as a hero in prison police say racial and religious violence has soared in recent years and these are the numbers from the italian police force hate crimes have jumped ten fold in just four years we spoke to professor of politics marco bassanio

who believes there are deep conflicts within italian society and people need answers no matter what political movement they support so many seventy five percent of the town were very afraid of this wave of my regime you see the last wave of migration came in a country that's got more than twelve thirty percent on employment rate it's really this clash of the people of the population will locals and the margarets thing is all the political parties are not addressing the issues that everybody know so clearly well almost half of the leaders will vote for a lot of parties or parties that would be considered on time system already and everybody knows that. it turkish military helicopter has crashed near syria's northern border or turkey is carrying out an operation against kurdish militias which it considers to be terrorists two turkish soldiers died in the incident now the circumstances of the crash are unclear but president on said the aircraft was

shot down and vowed retaliation. our helicopter has just been down and of course all this will happen we are at war casualties on both sides yesterday we destroyed their missile surely will make them pay a heavy price what we do know is that the helicopter came down according to the kurdish fighters near the village in syria's afrin district and north of the country according to the turkish side according to the president that helicopter was shot down in her thai province that's a southern province in turkey which borders after and to the west of that region now we know that two turkish soldiers were killed in that incident we don't yet know the type of helicopter but according to the prime minister been alejandra the cause of the crash is unclear we don't know if it was a technical malfunction weather conditions or actually brought down so still unclear as of yet what we do know is that this incident certainly won't help the

current situation in the region we also know that it's the third aircraft to come down in the region in the last week or ten days the first one was the russian su twenty five shot down over by rebels the other one the israeli f. sixteen by syrian anti-aircraft fire this helicopter as well proving that groups in the area do have the weaponry to hit targets and bring them down at a distance and so lots of people are wondering why turkey was on syrian territory in the first place well. the turkish general staff said they hit nineteen targets in the region that included shelters i mean mission gun positions belonging to terrorists. the turkish government often uses to describe kurdish militias in the area now it's been three weeks since operation all of brantford launched on january the twentieth the turkish military operation to clear the border region of terrorists as they're described by or they want to bring the syrian land back to syrian people who were recently stated that once our friend is liberated the turkish army will go further take

a listen you know you know we're going to continue the all of branch operation until we. chivo goals and then as promised we will clear man beach of terrorists after that we will continue our struggle up to the iraqi border until no terrorists are left. the turkish forces are a long way from reaching into lube or any areas of true deep inside syrian territory but what this does mean is that turkish forces in the long run could get bogged down in a quagmire against armed groups which ironically have been supplied by the united states so what's the threat there we could see things escalate further there's definitely a risk of escalation u.s. forces are present in northern syria in kurdish territory where they've been involved in those train assist the quick missions helping kurdish fighters against islamic state now and said man bridge is a city that could be next where this could bring the turkish forces into direct conflict with those of the united states take a listen to how much this worries the americans we would call on certainly on the

turks to not take any actions of that sort don't want them to engage in violence but we want them to keep focused on isis now turkey and the united states of course our nato allies they have been for decades but in this particular conflict they support sides which are diametrically opposed and certainly when the fight against isis may well be over that conflict those tensions in northern syria are unfortunately only at the very beginning of what could be a long and difficult drawn out process. we ask a middle east expert a risk whether the deadly incident could lead to further escalation by turkey in syria. i think that the turks the turkish president of russia. already intends to escalate so i don't think that this particular incident will be used as a kind of justification as we heard in his remarks you know he intends to go on to members and then go on elsewhere reaching up to the iraqi border but i think that he will face some very very huge monumental challenges because even in

a free and as i said turks are encountering such difficulty. will be a different story that could threaten a potential showdown with the us i don't think turkey is ready for that so i think that the turks are in a somewhat difficult position but. it has climbed this ladder of escalation and i think the problem he faces is who can bring him down allow him to withdraw at the same time saving face it's quite a big predicament i think which he faces. the south korean president says he is willing to accept an invitation to visit chang opinion rather excuse me from the north korean leader when the conditions are ready this potentially sets up the first meeting between korea's leaders in more than a decade the invitation was delivered by kim jong un's sister who is attending the winter olympics in south korea she's the first member of the north korea's family

to visit the south since the one nine hundred fifty s. she met with president moon for a three hour talks in the opening ceremonies of the winter games also hinted at thawing ties between the two states with both teams marching together. and while media attention focused on the v.i.p. section at the opening ceremony it was revealed that not everyone was too happy about the unified korean team u.s. vice president mike pence made headlines after not standing up as the korean team marched during the ceremony reports say he was one of only a few who remained seated and did not applaud prince later explained is that he

came to pyongyang to cheer us athletes but still the recent friendly relations between the two koreas are widely seen as a breakthrough that's after their countries held their first talks in two years hong kong city university's joseph chang a political science professor believes the presidential invitation is a major step forward this is a small brick through president moon also korea understands that his people would like to see the escalation of tension in the korean peninsula the conditions normally will be cessation of all nuclear powers and this south pass on the pa all of north korea and north korea in turn will. determine nation all last scale military exercises on the path

of south korea and and the united states. of the two koreas were able to march under a single flag olympic athletes from russia from the o.a.r. team as it's known entered the opening ceremony under a neutral flag although the russian flag was banned by the international olympic committee it still found its way into the stadium to believe the trunk explains. no russian flags at the opening ceremony nations parade and chang the i.o.c. said some very strict rules and promised no excuses for anyone who'd violate them so who would have thought the russian tricolor would still make it into the ceremony all thanks to a blogger by korean t.v. just as team france were walking into the arena a russian flag i can bobbed up well while the zero eight our team were carrying the white a live big flag many russian flags flashed around the arena at the stands but it

turned out that not only russians brought them there we spoke to one american fan who grabbed one too i thought it would be nice to you know show a bit of support for them because they've basically worked for years for this moment to represent their countries and now they can't and so i was kind of trying to sort of you know help them feel at home i was trying to sort of send a message that they should be included because the olympics is for all countries i don't exactly know the particulars of the doping thing i don't know what the right decision is really i'm just trying to show a sense of unity i'm trying to kind of put the politics aside i'm trying to support these athletes because we know for a fact that these athletes are clean there's no doubt about it but then they're being punished for what others may or may not have done and so that's collective guilt and i don't like collective guilt i think when you have all so many verses that's athletes banned just before the games instead of you know just for the game so they can't appeal they don't actually have any they don't communicate directly what they did wrong but then all their best athletes are sort of banned and this i

think that is true much to be co-incidence. and saturday has brought the first olympic medal to the team or olympic athletes of russia short track competitor semi on the rocks off as earned a bronze which he dedicated to all those russian athletes who were banned from participating in the games. now british university has courted controversy with its stance on gender research that story much more still to come is our international. so my mummy boy and entertainment have become good at it in our culture and we have children grow up playing playing war games on their computer this war has somehow been to mystic hated as entertainment to russia there's nothing funny about it is so serious russia will be the last to give up nuclear weapons because russia

regards nuclear weapons as the bow. of the against inflation a war but it's a period cover the snowfall. in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decades long debt. studying so hard it requires trust to. go through humiliation to enter an elite society. sometimes quite literally. wants other true colors of universities in the u.s. . back this is our team international psychotherapist and a gender specialist in the u.k.

is challenging the university which is blocking research into people who regret undergoing gender change james caspian claims of the move by bad spy university is an attack on free speech. it's been extremely stressful to find myself embroiled in these proceedings which i think should be of great concern to anyone who values free speech and knowledge i deeply believe that the research i proposed is important to the well being of the transgendered community the research proposed by mr caspian was initially approved by academics back in two thousand and fifteen but was later dropped in december of two thousand and sixteen a high court judges ruled in the university's favor according to mr caspian the university dropped the research because it feared there would be a backlash on social media r.t. discussed the issue with wall to hire who reversed his decision to become a woman and i've been back now to my first gender for twenty five years have been married for twenty years and you know when i discovered. that this holds that this

whole transgender thing is built solely on feelings there's absolutely no objective proof that anyone is a transgender except by then self identifying as a transgender is no bedikat proof that anyone is a transgender and there's no proof that anyone benefits from the surgery over the long term some people like myself feel like we had a good time while it lasted but when the truth rears its ugly head and you want your life back you want to live in reality and not in. you know surgically made transgender life i found out in my many years of working with transgender people that there is a groundswell of people be transitioning i'm working with them all the time now more and more letters from around the world from people who after five seven twelve maybe fifteen even twenty years they wanted to transition back calling the surgery

and their gender change just pure folly and foolishness and totally unnecessary so they want to help the transition just as i've done we have to bath spa university to comment on its decision regarding mr costin's research. mr caspian's research proposal was not refused on the grounds of topic but on the methodological approach the university was not convinced the approach would guarantee the anonymity of his participants and the confidentiality of data the researcher lost the first round of his court battle and he set up a crowdfunding page to cover the legal expenses and mount a fresh challenge against the university that has so far raised almost fourteen thousand pounds all higher again believes the university was politically motivated in its decision. well i think it's political absolutely i think it's totally political airfreighted b l g b d which is so powerful it would probably overwhelm university if they start studying this like james caspian wanted to do at the

university what they would find out is there's a bast number of people who are already transitioning because they regret having changed their gender so i think they're fearful of the truth coming out and this is their way of preventing research from being done with it rats are said to far outnumber persians in the french capital over the years authorities have tested a variety of methods to try and improve the problem but now the city is resorting to quite literally revolutionary tactics. to a. but

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