mourners grieve for the victims of sunday's church massacre in southern russia which may have been an act of terrorism according to investigators. turkish president reportedly threatened consequences if syrian army entered the syrian city of alfred after unconfirmed reports serious pro-government forces were getting ready to help militias repel a turkish offensive. and a former cia director admit the united states does interfere in the country's elections when it is quote for a good cause. in the midst of the alleged russian meddling saga.

very good evening to you thanks for joining us. 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. but. investigators are looking into various motives behind the tragedy terrorism has not yet been ruled out and 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 a town of his they are in the southern russian province of dagestan on sunday the attacker was identified as

a local twenty two year old resident by the local authorities he targeted a 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 almost looks it clear. he's doing back a good regime is doing. well 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 attackers drench and as he said there was a woman here she was begging for money all the city of new ownership she hit the shooter with his bag and he shot her in the chance to get another man tried to stop

the target of the shot while this was happening we managed to close the doors of the church which will remind the victims research kind people don't see one of them had told her children and another who tried to stop him. the victims were such kind people i want to learn i have taught our children and other to try to stop him yes if it wasn't for her people who were. obviously i was 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 luke grieve in the 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 they should be more done to get information to collect information collectively also with russia of course we are not where we should be in terms of the fence that is great fear among the people that we will see more of the terrorist attacks that we had in paris brussels. in 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 has threatened consequences for the syrian government if its army and is the syrian city of african media say the remarks were made during the president's phone conversation with the russian leader vladimir putin that follows reports of a deal between damascus the kurds which is not be officially confirmed by any of the sides under the alleged agreement pro assad troops will help kurdish fighters

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 kurdish military camp enough room. has more on how ankara has reacted to the potential alliance between the syrian government and kurdish groups. this latest development follows a deal that was a little 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 afrin but only so long as those forces are there to eliminate kodesh groups that atoki considers terrorist groups if that's not their goal then certainly does have a problem. if regime forces enter the city to eliminate the. terrorists then we don't have a problem with that however if we go there to defend the way we do so nothing and

nobody can stop our soldiers now and that's part of the region has been embroiled in better violence for at least a month ever since and clear knowledge of its military operation called olive branch against kurds who it were guards as terrorists. are. 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 clearly 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 to realize on the ground a worry the u.s. claims that that will only go in syria to fight i sort to preserve the country's integrity but i think that washington needs to back its words with actions with good because right now since actions look provocative the u.s. should use the kurds to pursue its own ambitions. 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 a military analyst says that the potential alliance between could have groups in the syrian government could threaten washington support for kurds as an excuse to stay in syria over the 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 the 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 u.s. have to move out so the consequence is that the 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. in libya 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 tests later the athlete in question is the mixed doubles curler alexander ski in his wife won bronze in pyongyang showing it was the first olympic

curling medal over the russian athletes as 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 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 ridiculous when the oh they are are under such a close watch here and pianka chang 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 it you have to be really careful with all the food you're taking and all the drinks are taking. we 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 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 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 animal if they take majority make it a burst of energy burst of speed he could work hard because you curling is a pretty olympic pretty pretty testing sport itself he will be supremely stupid to be caught for don't you know he has said christmas has said that's his point of in

spite of training competition. it does seem on like he does he took it however one 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 back in two thousand sixty two when it was bad and we have to give him the benefit of the doubt we still don't know to be. honest i suppose of we need to find out exactly what happened but again it goes back to you know it would be we we said last week you said he was using it to get caught for dope in the olympics you have to be very very silly and i don't think that christmas he is really. a former director of the cia has admitted the united states into fizzing of the country's elections and domestic affairs when it's quote for a good cause he's going to get there if he looks at whether a 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 the very good didn't do a vine video on us 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 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 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 what 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 all russian intelligence

has been interfering in american elections. you don't get to have it both ways. swastikas and profanities have been marked on the entrance to poland's embassy in israel this is after poland's prime minister suggested that jews were among the perpetrators of water i'm atrocities comment slammed by this israeli counterpart polish prime minister 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 as there were jewish perpetrators as there were russian paper to perpetrators as there were ukrainian not on the german perpetrators. 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 is also criticised the polish leaders comments which are served by the polish prime minister is totally unacceptable 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 it all 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 prohibits references to war time nazi death camps in the country as polish as violating the law face up to three years behind bars and advisor to the polish president defended the legislation claiming israelis are ashamed of their own role and supposed sentiments in the israel comes from the feeling of shame and the passivity of the jews during the holocaust. more than three million jews lived in poland prior to the second world

war eighty five percent were killed during the conflict around one million jews were killed in the auschwitz birkenau concentration camp built in poland under nazi occupation when u.s. diplomat jim gentry says the problem is that both poles and israelis view history solely 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 paul and i think i think the main point paul 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. media outlets are accusing russia of trying to embrace crimean coach or after authorities moved to repair a uniquely beautiful but crumbling mosque the big car mosque is one of the biggest on the peninsular and part of the calm palace built in the image of heaven itself all the way back in the sixteenth century and a remarkable example of trauma on top palace architecture is the subject of numerous works by russian writers musicians and poets we spoke to a reconstruction worker that to gauge exactly what was being done to save the historic site after decades of neglect. they have completely lost their ability to support the building the only lots and all eaten by beetles and filled with fungus

previously trials are constantly sliding fulling off the building we're leaving everything as it was before but we're going to secure new tunnels and special fixtures and nothing will fall off. 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 there and violating e.u. laws. think i.

cook. should. cut. cut cut q. . the to. cut. cut cut cut. cut cut. cut. while the case is playing out in the dutch courts the prosecution is alleging that

the ships sold to be broken apart in india and turkey contain a number of toxic substances we should have been removed and recycled in a safe 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 e.u. waste laws is being sought if convicted shipping boxes face up to six months in jail for its part the company has rejected any wrongdoing the defense for the sea trade group argues the ships only qualify as waste on savory's their final destination don't fall under e.u. environmental rules as turkey in 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 geo. the trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions that the odds in south asia were well known to any european company so the choice the trade

made was for the highest price and these are 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 brings us right up to date thanks for starting with this evening latest news headlines coming your way in just over half an hour. her.

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or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or some want to preserve. it's a good life to be for us this is what before us three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. time after time here 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 simon ramadan he is 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 if you would really love 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 as new figures show the children are at more risk from armed conflict now than at 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 all those more coming up in today's going underground but first more of b.p. the multinational oil company once owned by the u.k. taxpayer releases its energy output report detailing its predictions for long term energy trends and projections b.p. the factor has a long history for instance overthrowing a democratically elected leader in the middle east mossad back in iran and in nineteen fifty three also direct was. the president cia and others got rid of them to protect british petroleum interests the shah of iran came in a brutal dictator and he was strong. revolution and that is where we are in iran today but in britain that once taxpayer and company is remembered for it being flogged off by a tory government look at the distance from the people only a piece of the station. it's britain's biggest cheer on.

the part of good he would go on to be courted by labour's alleged iraq war criminal leader tony blair that led to the alleged b.p. deal over lockerbie prisoner abdel baset on the ground he convicted of britain's biggest ever terrorist atrocity how did b.p. get itself to get these contracts that is the question because the british deny any quid pro quo between the release of. the contracts b.p. denies it i'm sure so what's the evidence well look in two thousand and four when gadhafi came in from the cold then gave up his nuclear game and. tony blair paid a number of british prime minister paid a number of visits on and on his second visit in two thousand and seven b.p. in the libyan government in an oil exploration deal well this month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the biggest ever demonstration in britain against the war in iraq and b.p. is now the biggest foreign player in the iraq's oil sector just one of their fields

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