mourners grieve for the victims of sunday's church massacre in southern russia which may have been an act of terrorism according to investigators. syrian pro-government forces are reportedly preparing to enter the northern city of afrin to help kurdish militias repel a turkish offensive washington failed to deescalate the month long conflict between its two allies. the former cia director admits that the united states does interfere in other countries elections when it is quote very good comments coming in the wake of the alleged russian saga.

great to have your company money this is r.t. international. in the southern russian republic of dagestan mourners have been gathering at a church where five women were killed in a shooting atrocity on sunday. with. the state is are looking into various motives behind the tragedy terrorism has not been ruled out and hawkins has the latest on the case. well the investigative committee at this stage is looking into all possibilities and they've 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 well you should go does the school. he's doing back or go does he 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 he described how the churchgoers barricaded themselves inside the building to avoid being targeted by the attacker drenching as he said there was a woman here she was begging for money all the city knew her she hit the shooter with her bag and he shot her in the chance to get another man tried to stop the

target was shot while this was happening we managed to close the doors of the church will remind the victims research going on in the city one of them has told her children and another who's trying to stop him. the victims were such kind i want to learn what has taught our children and other to try to stop him yes if it wasn't for people who. are usually i was talking about all of us the gators are now looking into any inspiration any 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. we spoke to independent journalist luke rivera in brussels a city that suffered numerous terror attacks in recent years he says that security services don't exchange enough intelligence on suspects. there is not enough

connection between the police forces the should be more done to get information to collect information collectively also with russia of course we are not 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 in paris brussels and other places we are of course very close to the areas where these people come from way isis comes from and we need to do more in terms of connecting our police force. syrian pro-government forces are expected to help kurdish militias to defend the city of afrin that's according to syrian state media and this follows an alleged deal between damascus and the kurds under the agreement troops will help kurdish fighters repel turkey's offensive in the region and this footage filmed by a video agency on saturday shows what appears to be the construction of

a temporary military base in africa of this policy has more on how turkey has reacted to the potential alliance between the syrian government and the kurdish groups. this latest development follows a deal that was allegedly sealed on sunday between damascus and the syrian kurds now the turkish foreign minister has responded saying that anger has no problem with pro-government forces entering affan but only so long as those forces are there to eliminate kurdish groups that atoki considers terrorist groups if that's not their goal then certainly and where does have a problem. if regime forces enter the city to eliminate the begin the way the terrorists then we don't have a problem with that however if we go there to defend the way b.g. nothing and nobody can stop our soldiers now that's part of the region has been embroiled in better violence for at least a month ever since and queer launched its military operation called olive branch against kurds who. regards as terrorists.

oh oh . now this fierce fighting has resulted in multiple casualties as well as civilian deaths on both sides of the conflict talking about civilians those who live in the afan region have hailed their potential entrance of pro damascus government forces into the area. work 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 sure.

there is a duty of the syrian government to defend its borders and protect a friend which is within syrian borders. and launched its military operation after the pentagon announced that it was helping to establish a kurdish led security border force along the turkish syrian border and co responded with fury accusing the united states of essentially setting up a chord a terror army since then the united states has tried to backtrack but essentially it's too little too late and the situation on the ground is really beyond the point of being able to change the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov who's been following these developments carefully and has said that america's involvement inside syria has resulted in this bloodshed. we are concerned about attempts to partition syria some of the grounds that the u.s. has already started to realize on the ground. the u.s. claims that their only goal in syria is to fight i sort to preserve the country's

integrity but i think that washington needs to brackets works with action because right now since actions look provocative the u.s. used the kurds 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 in the past month the united states has tried on various occasions to try and deescalate the situation what remains now of course is to see how this latest development escalates tensions even further. military analyst says the potential alliance between kurdish groups and the syrian government could threaten washington support for kurds as an excuse to stay in syria. overman consequences are that the u.s. policy of using the kurds for their own advantage could be could fall apart because essentially the americans have been saying that they are present in northern syria to help the s.d.f. and the syrian kurds fight against the terrorists but there are no more isis in

that area and if the syrian government is in the us have to move out so the consequence is that it last remaining car that the americans had in the northern syria falls apart and if the turkish government realize that the syrians have a right to be there this could be a very positive development if however the turkish government choose to keep supporting the syrian rebel groups then there could be a conflict. olympic athlete from russia has tested positive for doping at the winter olympics in south korea the court of arbitration for sport is now reviewing the case the world anti-doping agency expected to announce the results of a second round of tests later the athlete in question is mixed doubles curler alexander crucial minsky in this wife won bronze in pyongyang the first olympic curling medal ever for russian athletes auntie's correspondent has more. 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 kyung chang the crowds have literally fallen in love with the russian couple alexander crucial need ski and in this this year brazil are husband and wife they won the country its first ever olympic medal and 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 the infamous drug that hadn't been banned until a couple of years ago it once cost 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 ridiculous when the oh they are are

under such a close watch here and pianka chang crucially that ski has said that he believes someone could have spiked his food or drinks with in any 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 and 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. we got reaction to the incident from moscow based sports radio host alan moore if they take a burst of energy burst of speed he could work hard because you're curling is

a pretty olympic pretty pretty testing sport and self he will be supremely stupid to be caught for you know he has said because this kid said that's his drink voidable spite or training camp richard. it does seem unlikely that he took it however war little bit of information came out overnight that his former or his coach but said that all he has done 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 piece. as a positive we need to find out exactly what happened but again it goes back to you know it would be we we said last week sitting this you say not to get caught for doping you live because you have to be very very silly and i don't think that the ski is really. also on monday while the anti doping officers interrupted an official rehearsal of champion russian figure skater. the reigning european

champion had to leave the ice five minutes after the rehearsal started and pass a blood test at the same happened to members of the women's hockey team also from russia. a dutch shipping group is facing accusations of selling a number of vessels with harmful waste to scrap yards in turkey in india adding to environmental and health problems there and violating e.u. laws. kirk.

work. was cute. and the case is playing out in dutch courts the prosecution is alleging the ship's old to be broken part in india and turkey contained

a number of toxic substances which should have been removed and recycled in a safe way it also cites feel edged impact of the chemicals on recycling workers and the environment in those countries a hefty fine over breach of e.u. waste laws is being sought if convicted shipping bosses face up to six months in jail. for its part the company has rejected any wrongdoing the defense for the sea trade group argues that the ships only qualify as waste once they reach their final destination the don't fall under e.u. environmental rules as to india are beyond its jurisdiction the lack of proper regulation in the industry is one of the problems highlighted by the breaking platform in geo the trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions at the in south asia were well known to any european company so the choice the trade made was for the highest price. of the 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 on three tidal beaches in the world one in india one in bangladesh and one in pakistan this activity causes pollution to see. the groundwater and is also very dangerous for the work is if they fall from heights there are explosions they will be crushed by steel plates so it's basically an industry which is very poorly regulated now the former cia director is admitted meddling in foreign elections will tell you about the justification after this break.

the walk telling you of the idea that dropping bombs brings to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. for new socks for the tell you the gossip the tabloids myself reporters. doesn't tell you on the cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along with all those walking. with manufactured incentives still to the public will. when the ruling class is protect themselves. with the fine. be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. i mean the real news is.

the former director of the cia has admitted the us into phase in the country's elections on domestic affairs when it's quote for a good cause aunties and i guess the ever looks at where the double standards are at play. no one likes a spoiler medlars interference especially when it comes to american elections they're hooley 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 those former cia for a very good cause. 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 what the british call 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 a democratically elected leader 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 u.s.

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 all russian intelligence has been interfering in american elections. in don't get to have it both ways. a couple of libya is in danger of losing its historic heritage due to the current instability in the country tripoli's ancient sites have been neglected and left out in the open a photographer from the city has launched a social media campaign to raise awareness.

of the fight in the here thirty third the old city is our history it's our past historically it is the oldest trader to flee with africa. i would think. that if i like to take photos of the old city it's my passion. for memphian the no fishing there is no restoration of any preservation of ancient buildings.

in spite of all to people took part on twitter their plated photos of the old city taken by me and other people they wrote about the fifties and i was in fact. swastikas and profanities have been marked on the entrance to poland's embassy in israel that's after poland's prime minister suggested that jews were among perpetrators of water atrocities a comment slammed by israeli counterpart polish pm says further dialogue with israel about the holocaust is needed it's not going to be punishable i'm not going to be seemed. to say that there were polish perpetrators there were jewish perpetrators as there were russian perpetrate

perpetrators as there were ukrainian not on the german paper turtle's. 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 also criticize the polish leaders comments what was served by the polish prime minister is totally acceptable to call jews perpetrators of the holocaust is unacceptable to any person who knows history knows you want to build a future and we did not expect the polish prime minister to say such things but this comes in the wake of a new polish law banning claims that the country collaborated with nazi germany during world war two specifically the legislation brigit's references to water i'm not the death camps in the country as polish as violating the law face up to three years in jail and advisor to the polish president defended the claiming that

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. when three million jews lived in poland prior to the second world war eighty five percent were killed in the conflict around one million jews were killed in the auschwitz birkenau concentration camp built in poland under nazi occupation former u.s. diplomat jim jatra says the problem is both poles and israelis view history soley from their own perspective 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. fifty extreme sportsmen from around the globe descend on the central russian city of could score an epic three day long race on the frozen surface of the largest freshwater lake in the world events called icy storm and it includes skating skiing biking and running about two hundred kilometers long athletes from russia spain france and latvia dissipative eight of those involved managed to finish on the fastest well made it back in ten and a half hours it's the sixth time this race has been out.

of the stuff you write up to date i'll be back it off and on with the latest. you would have thought thirteen russians three had disease and some cash could impact an american presidential election this is where russia gate stands today also more twists and turns in a messy conflict known as syria. and is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos remember wolf it was dismissed it to do if you like you know that this isn't my cup of tea is going up the study hall maybe. you know john i just

hope that they should be the only palestinians who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think this is about those who endure the vision that not only could give this. book and the earth his office that it's got this lady of the muscle that you had i'm going to compete in the doesn't seem to do more in the middle sauce but there's almost. everybody i'm stephen bob taft hollywood guy you know suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v.'s to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru and well he's a little bit different i'm not a. good one of the oh no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road have some fun every day americans. and hopefully start to

bridge the gap this is the great american people. time after time to we're going underground ten years to the day that fidel castro resign the presidency of cuba in thirty two years he made cuba or a health care beacon to the world and eliminated homelessness while creating the best education system in latin america all wealth of vibing hundreds of assassination attempts from washington coming up on the show it was the largest demonstration in british history so fifteen years on after opposition to a war with iraq filled the streets of london how is westminster continuing to feed

terror right across the arab world we talked to iraqi born british professor summing ramadan his violence defacto backed by the u.k. continues to be like the minds of millions and after last night's u.k. version of the oscars we speak to be award winning large miller creator a fictional british secret agent kingsmen who explains why he thinks everything from the state mandated b.b.c. near liberal hollywood has been rocked by scandal after scandal but this new figures show the children are at more risk from armed conflict now than it any other time in the last twenty years we speak to save the children about what needs to be done to protect the next generation dollars or more coming up at today's going underground but first tomorrow b.p. the multinational oil company once owned by the u.k. taxpayer releases its energy outlook report detailing its predictions for long term energy trends and projections b.p. the factor has a long history for instance overthrowing a democratically.