mourners grieve for the victims of sunday's church massacre in southern russia which may have been an act of terrorism according to investigators. president reportedly threatens consequences if the syrian army enters the syrian city of afrin that's after reports of serious pro-government forces were getting ready to help kurdish militias there repel the turkish offensive. the former cia director admits that the united states does interfere in other countries elections when it is quote very good course comments coming in the wake of the alleged russian meddling saga.

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. investigators are looking into various motives behind the tragedy terrorism has not been ruled out daniel 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 footage as the gunman took shots at bystanders with a hunting rifle much. so well you should go does the school know more looks it clear. these things back or go 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 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 chest another man tried to stop the attacker

but was shot while this was happening we managed to close the doors of the church the victim's research kind people one of them had taught her children and another who tried to stop him it was just started the victims were such kind people one of them had taught our children and others who tried to stop him yes if it wasn't for her people we've been damaged all because she managed to hold him back 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 website 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 in brussels a city that has suffered numerous terrorist attacks in recent years he says security services don't exchange enough intelligence on suspects. but it's 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 hip where we should be in terms of the fence that is create 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 what i see from and we need to do more in terms of connecting our police force . the turkish president threatened consequences for the syrian government if its army enters the syrian city of or for in turkish media so those remarks were made during the president's phone conversation with the russian leader vladimir putin this follows an alleged the deal between damascus and the kurds under the agreement pro assad troops will help kurdish fighters to repel turkey's

offensive in the region this footage filmed by a video news agency on saturday shows what appears to be the construction of a temporary military base in africa on this policy has more on how turkey is reacted to the potential alliance between the syrian government and 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 into an afghan 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 does have a problem. if regime forces enter the city to eliminate the begin to terrorists then we don't have a problem with that however if we go there to defend the way produce nothing and nobody can stop our soldiers now and that's part of the region has been embroiled

in better violence for least at. east a month ever since and it's a military operation called olive branch against could see it with guards as terrorists. the was. my. thanks. 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 goes your car 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 clear 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 and some of the grounds that the u.s.

has already started. realize on the ground a worrying the u.s. claims that their only goal in syria is the fight i sought to preserve the country's integrity but i think that washington needs to back it works with action because right now it's actions look provocative but 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. let's discuss this story now more detail with the law who is a professor of international relations professor what do you make of threats to the syrian government over potential advance on syrian territory. thank you very much for having me of course a lot of information today about the agreement there is not often sure who are

porous about what happened but i think that what they were suggested to courts in the first this before the turkish military operation now is existing. and because of that nobody thought king about the details of this agreement you know wants called mr go down on him anything to do that russia was not involved in these discussions and in these negotiations but in a way i think today the telephone conversation between birth and booted and was it our the guy and it gives us an impression what's going on that the torques is accepting the entering of syrian army. and that they're they one q. why b g. troops still with all from a friend are they think that we are going step by step to finish this problem as i

still wish in your free is there is difficulty for the white b.g. and if the situation will continue and the talks when the operation bought it could be cause for their very high price from the other side the core of this union accords it's a good abortion to for them to do this he really and people from the sky from the war and from mr bush's so all sides here is winning it doesn't matter what every say this about the agreement but i think that the themes is going by a core addition between forests it's the syrian government or russia iran and turkey i can see the situation from the moscow's leg that this is my opinion not the government that opinion but in a way without of course. the nation between for us this is it's difficult to make any kind of agreement especially a in

a free and nowadays is the syrian government in a situation here would you say where there has to pick a side between turkey and the kurds. i think this here government is there in it in a true situation if there. is this in government is reading into situations if the chords now going towards the syrian government it's a it's a good result for syrian government from the from one sign to we are we doing there the syrian corps are our citizens but there are some heads inside there are leaders who are talking about. independent or about independent or story to which this year the government is not accepting with it and from the other side we couldn't see any kind of see any c.m. flag inside the free which in which reflect think on the above little binion in

syria because of that they couldn't find a lot of support from the syrian bubbling opinion because of that i think that just syrian government is reeling and b.s. and this is the wish and this here and that august government is really in because there will not continue the military or persia which is the means for them that their condition is is already fulfilled by these agreements and the thanks for joining as my guest of the law professor of international relations thank you. in other news and the 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 with the world anti-doping agency expected to announce the results of a second round of testing later the athlete in question is mixed doubles curler alexander crucial net ski he and his wife won bronze in pyongyang that was the

first the limpid curling medal ever for russian athletes with 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 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 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 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 peeling chuang i don't really understand what what it would approve or what it would improve you in your game things. i don't understand what it will do for you certainly the ski has said that he believes someone could have spiked his food or drinks with you have to be really careful with all the food taking and all the drinks it taking. it all know pretty well that if you can see the bottle and it's like locked then it can open it you can see it was knocked he open it drink it and as long as you keep an eye on

the bottle that's fine if you just like turn around for a second tell me is this bottle 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. we got reaction to the incident from moscow based sports radio host animal if they take majority make use of a burst of energy burst of speed he can work hard because you curling is a pretty olympic pretty pretty testing sport in itself he will be supremely stupid to be caught for don't you know he has said christmas has said that's his point in

spite of training competition. it does seem on like he does he took this however one with a bit of information commotion over noise that his former or his coach but said that's all he has he stopped taking the don't you bucky to test the sixty when it was bad and we have to give the benefit of the doubt we still don't know to be. honest i suppose if we need to find out exactly what happened but again it goes back to you know it would be we we said last week he said he was using it to get caught for doping the olympics you'd have to be very very silly and i don't think that christmas is really. on the full madonna rect of the cia is admitted meddling in foreign elections will tell you how he defended the practice after the break. hey everybody i'm stephen ball. test hollywood guy you'll 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 just a little bit different i'm not a. good one though no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the brood have some fun every day americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people. so they have all the seasoned israeli practices they will press oppressive measures being deployed against the palestinian people everywhere the set of colonialism the theft of all of the land and the many many. you know there's a stating things that this woman is of doing of course the again calls the.

uprising. welcome back a former director of the cia has admitted the united states in to phase in other countries elections and domestic affairs when it is quote for a good cause autism i guess they have looks at whether 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 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 not 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 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 no russian intelligence has been interfering in american elections. you don't get to have it both ways. a dutch shipping group is facing accusations of selling a number of vessels with harmful waste to scrap yards in turkey and india adding to environmental and health problems that are on violating e.u. laws.

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a. few. well the case is playing out in the dutch courts the prosecution is alleging these ships sold to be broken apart in india and turkey contains a number of toxic substances which should have been removed are recycled in a safe way it also cites the impact of the chemicals on recycling workers and the environment in those countries have to find over breach of e.u. waste laws is being sought if convicted shipping bosses face up to six months in prison for its part the company has rejected any wrongdoing the defense for the sea trade group argues the ships only qualify as weights once they reach their final destination and don't fall under e.u.

environmental rules turkey and india are beyond its jurisdiction a lack of proper regulation in the industry is just one of the problems highlighted by the ship breaking platform and. the trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions that 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 title 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. very good to have you with us they saving us don't forget you can always follow your news on the go we're on facebook twitter and also there's a website plenty most tori's that don't. apply for many flips over the years so i know the game inside guides. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the super money kill the narrowness and spending to

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elliston is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos remember wolf it was dismissive to do it long before you i can believe this isn't my cup of tea is going up the study hall maybe. john i just hope. the only palestinians who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world and the location of no one who could do this. and know it is all of us not just the heart of this lady of the most of which the heart i'm going to continue muslims you know do more commitments also don't put this off. where americans were smooth enough but what that's not us americans are crude ruthless huckster golf playing sharks that's who we are and that's who don trump is

that's why i don't like to go barack obama that's what the lunch all. to me. i will continue so if you don't kill. shevardnadze america's backing of jerusalem

ousting israeli capital has thrown the palestinian peace process into disarray already we go from here my guests today's das are all could whether former foreign minister of palestine and palestine is a bastard to the united nations. stephen result question of palestinian independence has been weighing heavy on the neck of the middle east now with new settlements across the west bank appearing in renewed u.s. support for israel and the palestinian quest for sovereignty beholds what can make these reticent palestinian restarting turn this process towards peace and what fresh ways can be found to take the process out of the dead in. nasser could well former palestinian foreign minister and he won a massacre welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us now master of palestinians don't trust us peace efforts anymore and want to establish a multilateral format of his negotiations talking about moscow hosting the future

talks but israel said it would only call parade is american leave if the americans that if this process so how do you expect we are a multilateral format to work if israel isn't part of it well we don't think that the truth will go without israel but we think that it's the duty of the international community to push the israelis to accept certain things including to establish a multilateral format as you said the a mechanism that mechanism and i want to mind should be responsible for putting together the basis for negotiations and for following up the negotiations and sponsor them. donald trump has recently said that he's not sure both israel and palestine want to move forward peace towards peace at this point and he then said let's wait and see before things can move forward do you agree has to us let peace process stopped in.