thank you for watching the weekly headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge five women have been killed in a shooting at a christian church in russia's southern republic of dagestan five other people including a police officer and a national guardsman were also injured the following report begins with footage taken at the scene. no she's she's. much. so all you should turn to the school nurse dr clear. is used to record those rituals through. local authorities have confirmed that five people have been killed and several others have been injured after a gunman with a hunting rifle targeted crowds in the southern russian region of dagestan now it's believed the shooter targeted people as they attended a service that an orthodox church is the final day for orthodox christians before

they celebrate the great fast is a day in which families would usually attend a church service now it's worth mentioning that dagestan is a predominantly muslim region here's an eyewitness account well you did a good. while people were leaving the church a gunman approached armed with a rifle he started to shoot people started fleeing he started shooting people he ran outside to was shot within the churches grounds just outside of those injured two are said to be in a critical condition the shooter who has also been confirmed dead has been identified as a twenty two year old local man and the investigative committee are working to establish whether he had any links to any underground terrorist groups. israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu has lashed out at iran comparing it to nazi germany he criticized the current nuclear deal saying it's unleashed a dangerous iranian tiger. one spot argued nuclear weapons. iran's

aggression will be unchecked. and it will compress the entire world the nuclear agreement with iran has brought the countdown has begun the countdown to a new reigning nuclear arsenal little more than a decade and the sanction relief that they do provided has not moderated iran does not make them more moderate internally and it's not made more moderate extremely contract it's unleashed a dangerous iranian terror in a region and beyond netanyahu has never been a fan of the a new nuclear deal that was signed back in two thousand and fifteen and on multiple times over the years he has caught iran a great danger well of course talking about a deal in which to iran signed off to limit its uranium enrichment in response for financial sweetness i think this deal is a bad. deal now what we hear today from the israeli prime minister is again

urging the international community to slap more sanctions on tehran he has called the country the greatest threat to the world and he drew the parallel between the nineteen thirty eight munich agreement that failed in its attempt to appease nazi germany and the two thousand and fifteen iranian agreement he has also said that this deal did nothing short of unleashing the rainy and tyga and to support his point he used visual props here's a piece of that iranian drone mr zarif. do you recognize this. you should be george. you can take back with you a message to the tyrants of. do not just israel's resolve the iranian foreign minister zarif responded to prime minister netanyahu is comments by saying that they were nothing short of

a cartoonish circus that in fact an awful quiet response and that they were probably motivated by in italy are whose problems back at home here he was referencing corruption charges that have been leveled against the israeli prime minister of course when the iran nuclear deal was signed back in two thousand and fifteen the obama administration was not supportive of netanyahu viewpoints but since then we have american president trump in office and he not only has supported netanyahu is views but he recently to certify the deal when the rainy and foreign minister was asked as to his response to this this is what he had to say i can assure you that would be iran's interest are not secured iran would respond really respond seriously we not be the first ones to worry that an agreement will reach all of us troy is spite of netanyahu to attempt to achieve we

achieved it in spite of him we implement it in spite of him and the world view to maintain that agreement in spite of his good luzhin all attempt. this was quite a tense exchange between iran and israel coming as it did at a conference in munich aiming for world peace it raises the tensions here in the region up another notch. defense and government analyst army or and says netanyahu is position doesn't reflect what a lot of israelis think. many israelis believe that the nuclear deal was a very good one for israel of course everyone always says i would have gotten the best a better deal but in reality if it would have been a better deal for one side the iranians wouldn't have signed it in israel people understand that the other parties to the deal that is russia china germany.

the united kingdom and france along with the european union are not going to withdraw from the deal and if in three months time president drum withdraws from the deal the united states will be isolated rather than iran so netanyahu has of course the right to speak up to speak his mind but it doesn't reflect the opinion of many israelis. a passenger plane has crashed in central iran with fears that all sixty six people on board have been killed grief stricken relatives are struggling to come to terms with the tragedy but that the grandmother to. do it is a two hundred two or. so that cylons are not. the only other bad signs are those on the national golf meters it did not short of that is a hollow bone near. the designs are saying is that the length of simple chairs.

the plane took off from the capital tehran and crashed in the zagros mountains close to its destination the southwestern city of us today according to media reports wreckage has not been found press t.v. journalist yousef jalali reports from tara. due to adverse weather conditions due to foggy weather the pilot lost his vision and he was trying to find a place where he can make an emergency landing and according to eyewitnesses in the city of sydney room he was trying to land and make an emergency landing on a pasture but unfortunately on this process the plane crashed. while the plane was operated by assman airlines it's the third largest carrier in iran it operates domestic and regional services local media reports claim this particular aircraft had suffered technical problems in the past well the a.t.r.

seventy two turbo prop is a french italian short haul aircraft the model was first introduced at the end of the 1980's the last time assman airline suffered a fatal incident was twenty four years ago when the plane suffered a sudden loss of power sixty six people were killed in that disaster. on wednesday seventeen people were killed and a dozen were injured after one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history nineteen year old nicholas cruz a former student at the school in the florida city of portland was arrested after the attack. dead body there on the floor and blood all around the floor how many people like five on the third floor. they look like students it was one teacher and four students. so they do pull the fire drill you want to side

boom boom boom boom various gunshot i doze firecrackers but other lash out like oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh i. don't like to come in bringing a gun to shoot at school you like start taking your family i love you never know a biggish are killed are there's no word that can describe how you feel because at that moment you're wondering what if my kid is your k.z. say i am. but as we saw there during the shooting many of the students were hiding in classrooms posting messages

online we spoke with police and i lay nick who was in the school at the time. world around flake about to leave school those ten years before the bell rang supposed to ring. but the file out of and started so loud but the school. and cry because it's not a fire drill it was school grad and at first like everybody still thought it's going to feel like the they do in the schools but then we just here are the people second talking about life is short you know like in the next. stuff i already got killed and this is serious. world as i told us still be on the floor like so nobody can see us and all that stuff like not to be on our phones and. also when we realized this for real and we

were just like are you waiting at some point they came in and then they told us like like thirty minutes later they told us like everything was clear around but like we're not going to let you out like right now because we still don't like you know the school everybody was just trying to reach out to their friends and their family. world i must harm i just like feel very kind of lost because like i don't know what so rigid so will i call it sort of like it's all stuff because like it's just never happened so me and i just don't think that going to school is going to be like the same up there with fun. well as you said police identified the suspect as nicholas cruz a nineteen year old former student at the school who was expelled for disciplinary reasons he was also linked to a white nationalist group police said he was armed with

a semi automatic rifle and had multiple magazines cruz has confessed to carrying out the shooting he's since been charged with seventeen counts of premeditated murder fellow students described the suspect as troubled reports also claimed teachers were warned about him some time ago due to his enthusiasm for firearms while the f.b.i. and police have admitted they'd received tip offs about the gunman long before the attack but failed to investigate. we have on target at the broward sheriff's office that we've got approximately twenty calls for service over the last two years regarding the killer the f.b.i. has a chairman there protocol was not followed. the information was not provided by big deal but. in no further investigation was conducted that. we've seen time and time again over the last few years our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the ball in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not

following up on those threats and you taking out defensive measures it seems lessons not being learned they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do how can they best protect the people of their country to protect against these threats and that doesn't seem to be done. well in a tweet president trump slammed the f.b.i.'s mishandling of the tipoff about the shooter he suggested the blame lies with the intelligence agency as it dedicates too much time to investigating alleged collusion with russia which he denies well this week the first legal cases were brought regarding alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election all those targeted were indicted with conspiracy to defraud the us and we'll have more details on this later. now there have been two more medals for the olympic athletes from russia team at the winter olympics in south korea of took the bronze in the men's freestyle skiing

while earlier the men's team took silver in the four by ten kilometer relay the young team were missing some of their leading skiers as the more experienced members didn't receive an i.o.c. invitation despite having never tested positive for doping well accusations of drug use had prompted the i.o.c. to ban us russian athletes for life they appealed against the decision and the court of arbitration for sport overturned the bans for twenty eight russian athletes at the start of february the court then did the parent u. turn deciding not to go against the i.o.c. well we spoke with the court secretary-general match your review and asked him about the reasons behind the court and i.o.c. has decisions the full interview is on our website r.t. dot com but here is a preview. these athletes applied but were denied access to the games because the i.o.c. decided not to invite them so it was not a sanction it was an eligibility issue that's a legal difference for us. the only review the question of the

application of the law of the rules of the i.o.c. it reviewed only the process whether it was fair whether it was nondiscriminatory discriminatory. it found that it was not critical there was no. the rules were not unfair and they have complied with by the i.o.c. so it was only a legally stick approach again there was no review of every. for the entire case of the sochi case was not discussed here the report was last discussed here. the fact that you cannot establish the give evidence of the. doesn't mean that you have established the innocence of the athlete this is the other way around with the sochi case because the i.o.c. had to show that the athletes were guilty the fact that they are only able to show the guilt of an athlete doesn't mean that the athlete has nothing to do other with

the case. we are not acting on the pressure so it was not a pressure for us because we have different panel of arbitrators they work independently and they are not really. they are not employees of caste they are independent people. once they have been notified to the parties we will publish them. a controversial new law in poland that makes it illegal to hold the country responsible for the holocaust has provoked around with israel palin's prime minister. says jewish perpetrators were involved in the genocide as well as polls israel's prime minister binyamin netanyahu calls the claim insensitive. it's not going to be punishable not going to be seemed. to say that there were polish perpetrators there were jewish perpetrators as there were

russian paper trail perpetrators are there were ukrainian not on the german perpetrators of the usual charge of the polish prime minister's remarks here in munich are outrageous there is a problem here of an inability to understand history and a lack of sensitivity to the tragedy of our people the president of the conference of european rabbis has also slammed the polish leader's remarks what was said by the polish prime minister is totally unacceptable to call jews perpetrators of the holocaust is unacceptable to any person was who knows history knows you and wants a bit of future and we did not expect the polish prime minister to say such things . but as mentioned the new law makes it unlawful to attribute nazi war crimes to the polish nation specifically it prohibits referring to nazi death camps situated in the country as polish those violating the law could face up to three years in jail and adviser to the polish president defended the legislation claiming israelis

are ashamed of their own role. and supposed sentiments in israel comes from the feeling of shame and the passivity of the jews during the holocaust. for more than three million jews lived in poland before the second world war most of them were killed during the conflict the auschwitz birkenau camp which was built in poland under nazi occupation was responsible for the deaths of one million jews former u.s. diplomat jim jatra says the problem is both poles and israelis view history solely from their own perspectives. well look i think all we have here is a clash of nationalisms that obviously the israelis and the jewish people see the events of world war two through the lens of their suffering what happened to them and the people in poland have a somewhat different recollection of it based on their understanding and their suffering in the millions of poles that died during the war and i think this is rather unfortunate that they would be conflicting in this way how they recall things poland i think i think the main point poland is trying to make is that they

were victims of the nazis that they were not these were not polish death camps they were german death camps set up in occupied poland and even though there were obviously there were collaborators among many of the nations of europe of various sorts that poland should not be blamed for the existence of these these camps. the us is joining the chorus of growing concern in europe about foreign islamic state fighters returning to their home countries washington has actually allies particularly britain to pay more attention to citizens who fled europe to join the terror group the u.k.'s defense secretary gavin williamson has previously saves they should not be allowed to return i don't think they should ever set foot in this country again they turned their back on britain our values and everything we stand for they are the worst of the worst. we are working with the coalition on foreign fighter detainees and generally expect these detainees to return to their

country of origin for disposition. currently i still terrorists of u.k. origin who return home face prison sentences while other european countries have tried to reintegrate the former militants into society in denmark x. she had ists have even received apartments and jobs to promote reintegration. but we put the issue of how to deal with returning jihadists up for debate. initially britain said we're going to make them stateless remove their passports not going to allow them reentry other countries then said let's take a more light approach some of the nordic nations said let's try to repatriate them have. programs which in part have actually been quite successful in some areas at the same time then the u.s. is now taking the lead in the u.s. defense said foreign countries need to repatriate their own citizens and deal with them using the rule of law and i think that's essential way to go they should not come back here it's as simple as that because they've committed the crimes abroad

so why should the church which foot the bill for all this rehabilitation and all the. probably the doing jail for quite a while. when these crimes have been committed of course let the authorities deal with it under the rule of law in them. you know there are lots of different stories about what happens to these people if we make them stateless stand simply they will stay out there they will keep breeding extremism terrorism and radicalization and they'll keep killing and they'll keep hating us so we have it's a problem have to deal with you can't hide from it you cannot fall back on this british passport so you know i committed atrocities abroad but all for we british passport into the mix so i get sent back oh no how do you know people have committed crimes without putting the evidence in front of them and putting them on trial just to assume people went out there so i don't want to go out of here i'm in london and regularly on trial here i go on my own regularly well these are worried but obviously the you. and if so weak it's laughable the you you again is so weak

just nonexistent the should have. should about the un peacekeeping forces make you safe and so we could properly categorize these people rather than so ok these people go in to fight for whichever side these people fight of dissent against. because they fight for the cure to be classed here it becomes a ridiculous situation. the us justice department has indicted thirteen russian nationals and three companies in connection with alleged meddling in america's twenty sixteen presidential election but as there's no such criminal offense in the us as meddling the defendants were charged with conspiracy to defraud the united states well among us three enterprises indicted is this and petersburg based internet research agency which is accused of conspiring to sow political discord another is a catering company which is suspected of having helped fund the whole scheme. while

the certain defendants allegedly used methods ranging from organizing political rallies to parenting as grassroots activists however some of their reported methods were rather unorthodox for example driving a hillary clinton impersonator dressed as a convict in a cage on the back of a truck they also allegedly bought facebook adverts to promote a rally in titled support hillary save american muslims but despite the lengths they apparently went to it's been admitted these ploys have no impact on the vote. there is no one elevation in the indictment that the charged conduct alter the outcome of the twenty sixteen election they wanted to quote so discord by. breaking into elections no stealing the numbers no changing the numbers no voter fraud no book by merely providing information through advertisements are the listings and social media accounts that

were shared by americans the mentally ends of dollars that have been involved in the russian investigation so far special constable council muller has indicted for people for that so that's all he has to show and so far nothing has been done let me remind you that we still don't know what russian collusion is we still don't know because deputy attorney general rosenstein today made it very clear that there was no evidence. well i'll be back with the latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on or about stories that ossie dot com.

failed to practice is the precious oppressive measures being deployed against the palestinian people everywhere on the set of colonialism the theft of our land and the many many. you know there's a stating things that there are many ways of doing of course the gun cools the intifada uprising. palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos him in bill fit of to finish it to do it loving you i committed these years and my compass is going up the study hall mediated you know john showed up with

a ship the only palestinians it gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think this is about those ruined the world under the oak vision the only could give us. and the earth is a laugh at that it's got to this lady of the most obvious to how i'm going to compete in the doesn't seem to do more commitments also don't piss off. welcome to worlds apart when you look at value certain race russians are not that

much different from the european neighbors when it comes to individual rights and freedoms except for one thing they have ever a low tolerance of uncertainty politically that translates into a strong electoral benefit to the incumbent making power transitions in russia and pick areas will russians are stop playing safe politically well to discuss that i'm now joined by admitted with a call for russian opposition politician and a former member of parliament mr it's good to talk to thank you very much for your time now you're not running in the russian presidential elections but i think you may have contributed more to voters in gauging and then some of the candidates have really appreciated the program that you created in the listing citizens or voters as monitors which i think really helps to energize the base but why do you think projects like this capacity building projects democratic projects like this so rare in russia you know. i think that there is a good thread is used to produce a bit in the election if we don't think that it's

a real elections because you know one of the. critiques at least in the world me. was to produce a good in this election so there is a serious political position so. listen i want to launch an electoral campaign to break all those elections i think that we need to support those produce critics who will be in the belak list so i try to unite the people from different strategists into one project we would like to organize the overs in moscow in order to provide every polling stations with at least two or worse in most schools there are three thousand five hundred polling stations. and we would like to recruit seven thousand people to more new tour elections in order to create a big political force for the future elections in moscow i'm going to do them relations and i are going leave those people hear you and the way you phrase it you

pursue obviously a personal goal but what i find actually far more important is the citizens and gauge of it because in russia politics is still about getting terrorists we should i think is a rather primitive very limited form of political persistent patient being monetarists requires a much bigger commitment it's twelve to fourteen hours of monitoring on the election day plus all day education the training that goes into that in my view that's much more important for democracy than whether or not you win actually and yes of course because all these people will be involved in the politics it will be very important for the future elections for all democrats who are positioned looters and or comforted so we will need to work of the grassroots level this will help us.