investigators say sunday's church shooting in southern russia that killed five may have been an act of terrorism. and pro-government forces are reportedly preparing to enter the city of print to help kurdish militia repel a turkish offensive to washington failed to deescalate the month long conflict between its two islands. a former cia director admits the u.s. does interfere in other countries elections when it is quote for a good comment coming in the wake of the alleged russian meddling saga plus. i mean what is this country done for the majority of the countries in the middle east if you're an american i don't like an american. and iranian american fashion blog was dubbed un-american by a t.v. host for criticizing u.s.

policy in the middle east. it's three o'clock here in moscow and you're watching r t international line with me and welcome to the program investigators are not ruling out terrorism as a possible motive for sunday's atrocity in southern russia a gunman killed five people attacking christian church goes in russia's republic of dagestan he was seen on the c.c.t.v. cameras later carrying a rifle and entering the church grounds well to get more on this story but across live. what's been written is it revealed about the attack. well the investigative committee at this stage is looking into all possibilities and ever officially confirmed today that terrorism is also one of the leads they are looking into the attack took place in the town of kids here in the southern

russian province of dagestan on sunday the attacker was identified as. twenty two year old resident by the local authorities he targeted christian church goers leaving an orthodox christian ceremony marking the beginning of a fast of a christian festival here in russia now bystanders managed to film this how ring. the gunman took shots at bystanders with a hunting rifle. much. so we should want is the school more than a year. ago does he she was doing. as we said earlier five people were killed in that attack four injured two of them critically were police officers as well we managed to hear from the priest who was actually taking the church service at the time who described how the churchgoers barricaded themselves inside the building to avoid being targeted by the attacker. as

a control issue just a little bit israel the service stopped and people started to leave the church but a lot of them were still inside then the gunman entered the church grounds he'd already shot some people on a nearby street we saw him through the church window and close the doors protecting the women and children inside he was banging on the doors and shouting but we only opened the doors after he'd been shot dead. while investigators are now looking into any inspirational links the gunman may have drawn from terror groups islamic state of course was quick to claim responsibility on their web site for the attack as they often do after such incidents in the meantime the attack of course has drawn condemnation from both christian leaders and was the authorities in the region as well as the detectives continue their investigation ok daniel hawkins there on an update on that story thanks michel. we spoke to independent journalist in lieu of a who's in brussels

a city that's witnessed terrorist attacks in the past he told us that security services don't exchange enough intelligence on suspects but it's not enough connection between the police forces there should be more done to get information to collect information collectively also with russia of course we are not shipped where we should be in trance of difference that is a great fear among the people that we will see more of the terrorist attacks that we had to paris brussels and other places we are of course very close to the areas where these people come from what i see from we need to do more in terms of connecting our police force. syrian pro-government forces are expected to help kurdish militia to the city of affray and that's according to syrian state media it follows an alleged deal between damascus and the kurds under the agreement pro assad troops will help kurdish fighters to repel turkey's offensive in the region

of a dear agency but please film some of their preparations and our middle east correspondent for the sphere joins me live with more details paula what else do we know about this. when militias allied with the damascus government are due to enter the afrin region of northern syria in the coming hours this is according to syrian state t.v. there they will assist syrian could issue fighters who for the better part of a month have been trying to repel a turkish military assault now the latest developments follow what seems to have been a deal that was reportedly sealed on sunday between the syrian kurds and these pro to mascot's government forces the turkish foreign minister has responded saying that anger has no problem if indeed these post syrian government forces are there to try to help eliminate what he has scored kodesh terrorists but he has warned that the turkish government will stop at nothing if. indeed it transpires that there are still altimeter we will see these pro syrian government forces assisting

the syrian kurds for the last month this part of the region has been in broiled in violence ever since and who launched its so-called olive branch operation that it says is targeted at dealing with what it has termed kurdish terrorists. are i was was was i. was was was. was. now fierce fighting in the region has resulted in multiple casualties and civilians on both sides of the conflict as for civilians inside afrin itself they have hailed

the impending entrance of these pro government forces. as a citizen of our friend i do not find fault with the syrian forces entering some points on the border as residents of our friends we never wanted partition. there is a duty of the syrian government to defend its borders and protect a friend which is within syrian borders. now ankara launched its military operation after the pentagon announced that it was creating a kurdish led border security force along the syrian turkish border and co responded in fury accusing the united states of setting up what are called a terror army now at the same time the united states has subsequently backtracked saying various different things but essentially the conflict on the ground has reached the point of no return the russian front. mr sergei lavrov who has been commenting on developments has said that the american ambitions inside syria has

resulted in this bloodshed. in chicago because we are concerned about the term spot titian syria some of the grounds that the u.s. has already started to realize on the ground. the u.s. claims that the only goal in syria is the fight i sort of preserve the country's integrity but i think that washington needs to back its works with action because right now six actions look provocative the u.s. should use the coach to pursue its own ambitions and that's led to a major conflict in africa. now tensions on the ground continue to escalate despite the fact that since last month the united states has tried at various times to try and deescalate the situation it remains of course to be seen how this latest development or pen out on the ground but certainly will our policy here their reporting from the middle east thanks very much paula. a former cia director has admitted the u.s.

interferes in other countries elections and domestic affairs when it's quote for a good cause artie's broadcaster looks at whether double standards are in play. no one likes a spoiler medlars interference especially when it comes to american elections there who really pure and spoiled and unsullied or they were before the russians got to them they say but judge not lest ye be judged especially when you have a fetish for getting your fingers into foreign elections when i just don't mess around other people. are only for a very good didn't do a vine video on us former cia for a very good cause i never said the former director of the cia it's funny because and when america does it when someone else's even suspected of doing

it no no no bad bad did the russians break the rules or do something bizarre the answer is no lot at all said a thirty year veteran of the cia come on the cia root the book on meddling. we've been doing this kind of thing since the cia was created in one thousand nine hundred seven we've used posters pamphlets mailers banners you name it we've planted false information for newspapers we've used with the british called king george's calorie suitcases of cash add to that assassinations coups information warfare hacking and that's just the stuff we know about this the johnson that helped oversee the cia's exhibit g.'s he'd know the difference is they say when russia does it it's to destroy the woold even when that meddling has no actual impact on the elections as even the justice department just admitted when

america doesn't so the greater good democracy and all that you could ask of course how on earth overthrowing democratically elected leaders as the cia has done is helping democracy how sending billions of dollars worth of guns to gulf dictators is helping democracy but don't well the united states has been interfering in other countries elections since the one nine hundred thirty s. and in the caribbean and in latin america when i was in cia in the seventy's and eighty's in europe i would say that the that the cia and the us government basically were interfering in elections almost every election that was taking place in europe this was just routine that the us wanted a friendly government of a certain type and was willing to do certain things to enable that to happen if we're going to claim that america has the right to interfere behind the scenes

in the politics of another country. it's a little hypocritical for then america to say oh yeah russian intelligence has been interfering in american elections. you don't get to have it both ways. an iranian american fashion blogger has been dubbed american for criticizing u.s. policies she was giving a t.v. interview to talk about her book on taran street fashion when she was suddenly asked about iran's alleged nuclear program however she turned the question around asking her interviews about american policies in the region here's a snippet from the interview. to talk about what. may say we cannot trust iran what are your thoughts i mean i don't think we can trust this country i mean what has this country done to the majority of the countries in

the middle east you're an american i don't like going to. as you just heard the host accused toby of not sounding like an american when she questioned washington's foreign policy and she spoke to us about the exchange i was really shocked by by the question of the statement but also i think it also goes back to sort of the place that muslims in america are constantly put themselves in that we have to constantly prove that we're american enough to deserve respect to deserve being bombed or banned which all of which this country and other western countries are also involved in in the middle east and then the second that we sort of criticize the state for what they have actually done that were deemed un-american cad to be also told r.t. that she's been flattered by the positive comments she's received online tweets range from surprised to praise for the blogger for speaking freely here's cabbie again commenting on freedom of expression and on going viral.

unfortunately i guess after the fact i wasn't too surprised because muslims and people of color in this country and across the west are constantly put in positions where we're constantly kind of being used both as a term as a way of sort of talking about our maybe having to respond for our government policies back abroad but then having to blindly questionably sort of pray allegiance to this country who might be i'm involved in violence in our country. i think that it's sort of these are sort of underlying microaggression that happen every single day and it's not just me that has happened to i was just lucky enough that this is live and i was able to record it and then being able to share online but this happens constantly every single day all the time for any single person who is a person of color a muslim that they constantly are kind of having to do with micro gresham's that are so normalized within society and so that's why one thing that i really

appreciate about sort of the viral of the of this is that people are really standing up now and saying this is not normal this is not ok we shouldn't allow this from happening. at that shipping group is facing accusations of selling a number of fossils with harmful waste scrapyards in turkey and india adding to environmental and health problems that unfairly. right.

live. live live . click click. click click. click click click live. case is playing out in dutch courts the prosecution is alleging the ship's old to be broken apart in india and turkey contained a number of toxic substances which should have been removed and recycled in the same way it also cites the alleged impact of the chemicals on recycling workers and

the environment in those countries have to find over breach of easy waste laws is being sought if convicted shipping bosses face up to six months in jail for its part the company has rejected wrong doing the defense for the sea trade group argues the ships only qualify as waste once they reach their final destination and don't fall under e.u. environmental rules as turkey and india are beyond its jurisdiction lack of proper regulation in the industry is one of the problems highlighted by the ship breaking platform and here the trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions at the south asia were well known to any european company so the choice the trade made was for the highest price. of higher prices because they do not pay for the proper waste management the proper infrastructure and they use migrant workers that are

not trained it's indeed unfortunately is a very common practice more than eighty percent of the world tonnage is currently broken and three total beaches in the world one in india one in bangladesh and one in pakistan this activity causes pollution. the groundwater and is also very dangerous for the work is a fall from heights there are explosions they will be crushed by steel plates so it's basically an industry which is very poorly regulated a former cia agent turned with will power has been released early from prison with a critic case after this break.

what politicians do something illegal. to put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something i want to press. you to go right to be precise this is what before three in the morning can't be good i'm interested always in the waters and back out. there should. be the most. small seemed wrong when old quotes just don't call. me old but you get to say proud disdain comes to educate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground the.

welcome back to the program former cia whistleblower jeffrey sterling has been released from prison he reveals cia mismanagement of a classified program to the u.s. senate and was later sentence under the espionage act to three in the hof years so he was fired after serving over two years of sentence but serling was not jailed for what he told senators instead he was accused of leaking classified information he shared with the senate to a journalist his sentence was softer than the usual nineteen years minimum reportedly that was because all the evidence against him was circumstantial on coney a former u.s. senate candidate to petition for sterling's release explains how he ended up being treated as a traitor beer times reporter james rosen now with the intercept was having about

fifty conversations back and forth with jeffrey and then james rosen released a book about two thousand and five called state of war in which he disclosed the cia's botched release of nuclear plans to iran even jeffrey tried to tell a senate intelligence committee about this information they tried to go after james rosen the find out who his source was just around the same time they arrested jeffrey and they dropped the rise in case because obama did not want to go away after a reporter because the heat was obama in the obama administration because he was going after a journalist or the judge who sentenced stated that while in a perfect world i think criminal case would be decided using direct evidence often that's not possible on men conic and says that they have nothing but circumstantial evidence. they went and took jeffrey to court the only type of evidence that they

had was circumstantial evidence and cia agents saying that it was a disgruntled employee that released information because of his discrimination case jeffrey has maintained his innocence for almost seventeen years then he'll times which eventually published the story of stunning sleuthing to go yeah has not covered his beliefs on men kenny says that many janet has simply forgotten about jeffrey skilling. journalists are never asked about are asking about jeffrey sterling or talking about it and this is a man who has become an invisible man up for batman who's in my mind a hero and the a.c.l.u. with me even handled this case and so we have to reach out to other types of our which are unable to tell his story. and then pick athlete from russia has tested positive paying at the winter olympics in south korea the court of arbitration for sport is now reviewing the case with the world anti-doping agency expected to

announce the results of a second round of tests later on monday the athlete in question is mixed up with current alex christian it's he and his wife won bronze in peeling chairing the first olympic curling medal of russian athletes. has more from. well right now it is all down to that second doping test and if it happens to be positive that will be a real disappointment for many people i can tell you that here and feeling chuang the crowds of literally fallen in love with the russian couple alexander crucial need ski and in this this year are husband and wife they won the country its first ever olympic medal in curling and to watch their family team work on ice was something inspiring the media went on about them for a few days in a row and they were even compared with mr and mrs smith but now alexander is

suspected of taken me i'm the infamous drug that hadn't been banned until a couple of years ago once costs tennis star maria sharapova a year of her career after her team had forgotten to put it on the do not take drugs list and honestly alexander scase if he had made the same mistake or had taken the drug on purpose that would just be riddick. when the oh are under such a close watch here and pianka chang crucially it's he has said that he believes someone could have spiked his food or drinks with it in case the international olympic committee have promised to launch a special probe but that will happen after the olympics are over in the meantime the olympic athletes from russia are getting on with their quest for medals and despite all the pressure despite some of the main stars missing out the zero eight

are have secured some bronze in silver and the cross country skiing squad who were teenagers just a year or two ago are doing particularly well with five medals so far no gold though they spent to supposed radio has done more he says it would have been very unwise of the kind to risk using meltdown him. if they take a burst of energy burst of speed he can work hard because you're courting is a pretty olympic pretty pretty testing sport and self he was the supreme the stupid to be caught for don't you know he has said it was risky said that his drink might have in spite of training camp. to see him on like he got he took it however wanted a bit of information came out overnight that his former or his coach but said that's all he has he stopped taking the dog back in two thousand and sixteen when it was

bad and we have to give him the benefit of the doubt we see a lot of the beast. as a positive we need to find out exactly what happened but again it goes back to you know it will be we we said last week sitting this you say not to get caught for doping the olympics you have to be very very silly and i don't think that the ski is really. the capsule of libya is in danger of losing its historic heritage to current instability in the country. to sites like that and left out in the open a photographer from the city has launched a social media campaign to raise awareness. i'm a little kid in the here thirty third the old city is our history it's our past historically it is the oldest traders to flee with africa.

and even i like to take photos of the old city it's my passion. to remember seeing the no one and fifty there is no restoration of any preservation of ancient buildings. in spite of coming out of people took part on twitter their bloated photos of the old city taken by me and other people they wrote about the city so there was in

fact. the concerns about the historic heritage of libya shared by unesco as well the organization has put five of the country's sights on its world heritage in danger list citing the conflict affecting libya some of those sites date back centuries and even millennia. i'm not fond of the top stories tonight i'll be back at the top of the hour with both sides to stay with us. a plate for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the peach bowl the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money just billionaire owners and spending two hundred twenty million on one player. it's an experience like no one

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