what. 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 threatens consequences if the syrian army enters the syrian city of african drum confirmed aboard syria's pro-government forces were getting ready to help kurdish militias there repel a turkish offensive. and a former cia director admits that the united states does interfere in another country's elections when it is quote for a good cause comments come in the midst of the alleged russian meddling saga.

this is r.t. international. in the southern russian republic of dagestan the mourners have been gathering at a church where five women were killed in a shooting atrocity on sunday. this is a. video. and. investigators are looking into various motives behind the tragedy terrorism hasn't been ruled out and hawkins has the latest on the case while 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 killer 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 shows the gunman took shots at bystanders with a hunting rifle much. oh you should go does the school almost looks it clear. he's doing back a good education 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 he described how the churchgoers barricaded themselves inside the building to avoid being targeted by the attackers 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 don't see one of them had told her children and another who tried to stop him her sister asked the victims were such kind of people i want to learn have taught our children and others who tried to stop him yes if it wasn't for her people we'd been down at all because she managed to hold him back all of us the gate is an hour 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 a in brussels a city that suffered numerous terror attacks in recent years he says that security services don't exchange enough intelligence on suspects but it's not enough

connection between the police forces they should be more dung 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 create fear among the people that we will see more of the terrorist attacks that we had in paris brussels and other place. we are of course very close to the areas where these people come from what i see 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 africa the media say that the remarks were made during the president's phone conversation with russian leader vladimir putin follows reports of a deal between damascus and the kurds which has not been officially confirmed by any of the sides under the alleged agreement troops will help kurdish fighters

repel turkey's offensive in the region and this footage from ripley video news agency on saturday shows what appears to be the construction of a temporary kurdish military camp in africa what is politically has more now on our entry has reacted to the potential alliance between 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 anchor has no problem with pro-government forces entering affan 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 begin b.g. 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 queer launched its military operation called olive branch against kurds who it were guards as terrorists. i'm going. 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. 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 want to 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 and some of the grounds that the u.s. has already started to realize on the ground a worry the u.s. claims that their only goal in syria is to fight eyesore 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. in the. as the potential alliance between kurdish groups and 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 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 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. and 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 results of a second round of tests later the athlete in question is mixed doubles curler alexander crucial need ski in his wife won bronze in junk chang the first the lim pick medal ever for a russian athlete 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 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 peeling chuang i don't really understand what what it would approve or what it would improve you and your game kind of things. i don't understand what it will do for you personally and ski has said that he believes someone could have spiked his food or drinks with but there was a reason you would miss them you don't need to be a secret agent to give athletes of both with any kind of banned substance that is totally unprotected just put it in a hotel room it is easy to show you have to be really careful with all the food taken and all the drinks it taking and we all know pretty well that if you can see the bottle and it's like locked then it can open it you can. 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 to turn around for a second bottle 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 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 go reaction to the incident from moscow baseball's radio host. if they take to make it in 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 christmas said that's his drink voidable spite or training camp. it does seem unlikely that he took this however wanted a bit of information came out overnight that his former or his coach but said that 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 still know of the beast the samples tested 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 as you say not 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 u.s. interferes in other countries elections and domestic affairs when it's quote for

a good cause auntie's more i guess they have looked 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 the very good didn't kill vine video and 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 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 activities 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 such 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 country's 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 u.s. 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. the dutch shipping group is facing accusations of selling a number of vessels with home for waste to scrap yards in turkey and india adding to environmental and health problems there as well as violating e.u. law was.

cool to. see the to look. at the touch. the tax cut. cut cut. cut cut cut cut. cut . well the case is playing out in dutch courts the prosecution is alleging the

ships sold to be broken apart in india and turkey contained a number of toxic substances which should have been removed and recycled in a safe manner it also cites the alleged impact of the chemicals on recycling workers and the environment in those countries have to find over breach of waste laws is being sought if convicted shipping bosses face up to six months behind bars . for its parts the company itself has rejected any wrongdoing the defense for the trade group argues the ships only qualify as waste once they reach their final destination and that they don't fall under e.u. environmental rules as to india are beyond its jurisdiction a lack of proper proper regulation in the industry is just one of the problems highlighted by the ship breaking platform engineer. 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. 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 its 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. media outlets are accusing russia of trying to raise crimean tartar coacher after authorities

moved to repair a uniquely beautiful but crumbling mosque the big car mosque is one of the biggest on the peninsula and part of the calm palace built quote in the image of itself all the way back in the sixteenth century the remarkable example of crimean tartuffe palace architecture is the subject of numerous works by russian writers musicians and poets we spoke to reconstruction worker that to gauge exactly what is being done to save their excited after decades of neglect. completely lost their ability to support the building they are rotten all eaten by beetles and fooled with fungus previously trolls are constantly sliding fulling off the building we're leaving everything as it was before but we're going through new tools and special fixtures and nothing will fall off. swastikas and profanities have been marked on the entrance to poland embassy in israel this is

after poland's prime minister suggested that jews were among the perpetrators of water time atrocities it's a comment slammed by his israeli counterpart polish pm says that further dialogue with israel about the holocaust is needed it's not going to be punishable not going to be seen as crimean taught to say that there were polish perpetrators there were druggies perpetrators as there were russian paper trail perpetrators are 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 your appeared rabbis as also criticize the polish leaders remarks. what was served by the polish prime minister is totally unacceptable to call jews preparatory those the holocaust is unacceptable to any person who knows

history knows you and want to build a future and we did not expect the polish prime minister to say such things 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 is being polish as violating the law face up to three years in jail 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 in the holocaust and 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 former u.s.

diplomat jim jatra says the problem is that 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 and 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 capital of libya is in danger of losing its historic heritage due to the current instability in the country tripoli's ancient sites being neglected and left out in the open a photographer from the city has launched a social media campaign to raise awareness. it is putting my hand to the old city is our history it's our past historically it is the only strangest fitly with africa. and i would think to find something in the name of i like to take photos of the old city it's my passion. the.

i mean see on the no return fifteen there is no restoration of any preservation of ancient buildings. in this but also people took part on twitter and their plated photos of the old city taken by me and other people there are about the fifty seven i was in fact. that brings us right up to date i'll be back with the latest news headlines and offer no.

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hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle who would have thought thirteen russians three entities and some cash could impact an american presidential elections this is where russia gate stands today also more twists and turns in the messy conflict known as syria. cross talking those thirteen russians i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have alexander me curious he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com and we have dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with international as always gentlemen cross-like roles in effect that means you can jump any time you want and i always appreciate let's go to those thirteen russians three entities and all that cash maybe not so much because i was and you've been writing about it from a legal perspective give us your major take over the first point to say is that of

course none of these people are going to be tried so mr miller has prepared a very complicated sees portentously word indictment which is never going to be tested because there is no extradition extradition but all the russians are not going to extradite these people they get to stay in russia sees doesn't have to prove any of the things that he has said what seems to have happened is that some of these people have gauged intruding on the internet and they've done things which let's be straightforward. mr molder but not unheard of the note on. them and not just specifically to rush as if it were actually going to hear nothing you hear at all. anybody who goes on the internet comes across troubles what most has done is he wants to prove that there is this vast intricate dangerous conspiracy he's put all this together he's labeled as the internet

agency in st petersburg is responsible and he strolled around to various laws that he can stick offenses against these people essentially what this was if you read the indictment well this was a commercial barket thing is what it was and and even the indictment itself admits that it was pro and trump. hillary clinton and for everything in between i mean there's no specific political for him to it there's no connections at all there's not even any allege any connections between this. supposed company which is run by a guy who's known as putin chef because he ran a catering business but before and. that is even if they're catering businesses for russian schoolchildren in the course of which a lot of cold food you know it was just dinner and they were all media so in russia there labeled him that and there's no connections at all.