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

for joining us midnight here in moscow my name's neil harvey this is up to the 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 gators are looking into various motives behind the tragedy terrorism has not yet been ruled out daniel hawkins has the latest on the case while the investigative committee at this stage is looking into all possibilities and have 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. 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 almost looks it clear. he's doing back a good his regime is doing. as we said earlier five people were killed in that attack four injured two of them were 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 drench in this 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 victims were search kind people said one of them had told her children and another who tried to stop him it was just. the victims were such kind people who want to then have taught our children and others who tried to stop him yes if it wasn't for her people would have been damaged all because she managed to hold him back well investigators 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 lou greevy in brussels a city that has suffered numerous terror 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 there 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 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 has threatened consequences for the syrian government if its army enters the syrian city of afrin media say the remarks were made during the president's phone conversation with russian leader vladimir putin all those reports of a deal between damascus and the kurds which is not been officially confirmed by any of the sides and that the alleged agreement troops will hold kurdish fighters repel

turkey's offensive in the region and this footage filmed by our ruptly video news agency on saturday shows what appears to be the construction of a temporary kurdish military camp in a friend of these policy or has more now on how ankara has reacted to this potential alliance between the syrian government and kurdish groups and 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 into an afghan but only so long as those forces are there to eliminate kodesh groups that atoki considers terrorist groups if that's not a goal then certainly and where does have a problem. if regime forces enter the city to eliminate the b.g. terrorists then we don't have a problem with that however if we go there to defend the way to do nothing and nobody can stop our soldiers now that's part of the region has been embroiled in

but her violence for at least a month ever since and clear launched its military operation called olive branch against could sue it were guards as terrorists. the it was. the. my party. 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 afghan region have hailed their potential entrance of pro damascus government forces into the area. for 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. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov who's been following these developments carefully 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 six actions look provocative but the u.s. used the courage 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 analysts says that 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 u.s. the earth 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. and the olympic athlete from russia tested positive for doping 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 results the. let's have a second round of tests later the athlete in question is mixed doubles curler alexander crucial need ski in his wife won bronze employing chang it was the first olympic curling medal ever for russian athletes with details his arteries. 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 and your game kind of things. i don't understand what it will do for you personally it's he has said that he believes someone could have spiked his food or drinks with it was presumed to push through that you don't need to be a secret agent to give athletes of both will with any kind of banned substance that could be unprotected just put it in a hotel room it's easy but 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 pro 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 alan moore if they take a burst of energy burst of speed he can 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. though he has said it was a risk it said that's his drink void of in spite or training camp. to see him on like he got he took it however it 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 banned we have to give him the benefit of the doubt we see a lot of the beast. as a positive we need to find out exactly what happened but again it goes back to you know it will be we 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 that the united states interferes in other countries elections and domestic affairs when it is quote for a good cause autism i guess the 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 the very good didn't do a 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 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 forty 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 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 a 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 that i'm violating a huge north. cuckoo

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sold to be broken apart in india and turkey contained a number of toxic substances which should have been removed or recycled in a safe manner it also cites the alleged impact of the chemicals on recycling workers and the environment in those countries hefty fine over breach of e.u. waste laws is being sought if convicted shipping bosses face up to six months behind bars for its part the company has rejected any wrongdoing the defense for the sea 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 turkey and india are beyond its jurisdiction a lack of proper regulation in the industry is 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 c.

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 when in india one in bangladesh and one in pakistan this activity causes pollution to the sea the air 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. former cia whistleblower jeffrey sterling has been released from prison he revealed cia

mismanagement of a classified program to the us senate and was later sentenced under the espionage act to three and a half years was freed after serving over two years of that sentence sterling was in jail for what he told senators is that he was accused of leaking classified information he shared with the senate to a journalist the sentence was softer than the usual nineteen years minimum reportedly that was because all of the evidence against him was circumstantial on monk only a former u.s. senate candidate who petitioned for sterling's release explains how he ended up being treated as a traitor. jeffrey was a cia officer he has a law degree spoke perfect farsi and he was hoping to work in the middle east and stead prior to his assignment in the middle east they said that it was a going to work because he's too big and and too black and he said to them when did you realize that so they went from one job to another job to worry was dust jacking in new york and he decided at that point this isn't what he was signed up for in

the cia when he came in in one thousand nine hundred three he backed off he stepped down from the cia and he pressed discrimination charges those discrimination charges had to be dropped in the early two thousand during that time period or times reporter james rather than now with the intercept was having about fifty conversations back and forth with geoffrey and then james rise and released a book about two thousand and five called state of war and which he disclosed the cia's botched release of nuclear plans to iran even jeffrey tried to tell a senate intelligence committee about this information they tried to go after james rise and to find out who his source was just around that same time they arrested jeffrey they dropped the rise in case because obama did not want to go after a reporter because the heat was on obama in the obama administration because he was

going after a journalist. judge he sentenced aling stated that while in a perfect world every criminal case would be decided using direct evidence often that's not possible on then county again says that they had nothing but since some stunts eleventh again standing. they went and took jeffrey to court the only type of evidence that they had was circumstantial evidence and cia agents saying that it was a disgruntled employee that released information because of his discrimination case jeffrey has maintained his innocence for almost seventeen years a new york times which originally published the story of sterling's lawsuit against the cia has not covered his beliefs on man cohen he says that many journalists have simply forgotten about jeffrey sterling journalist or never asked about are asking about jeffrey sterling or talking about it and this is a man who has become an invisible man a forgotten man who is in my mind

a hero the a.c.l.u. with me even handled this case and so we have to reach out to other types of outlets unable to tell his story. swastikas and profanities have been marked on the entrance to poland's embassy in israel that's after the polish prime minister claimed jews were among those responsible for the holocaust. it's not going to be punishable i'm not going to be seemed. 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 paper turtles but we should also have a 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 criticize the polish leaders comments but want to survey

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 well this all comes in the wake of a new polish law making it a criminal offense to say that the country collaborated with nazi germany during world war two specifically the legislation prohibits references the wartime now the death camps in the country as being polish and those who violate the law could face up to three years in prison and advisor to the polish president defended the legislation though claiming 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 more than three million jews lived in poland prior to the second world war eighty five percent of them were killed around one million jews

died in the auschwitz birkenau concentration camp built in poland under nazi occupation former u.s. diplomat jim 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 nationalism said 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 and 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 erase crimean tartar culture after authorities moved to repair a crumbling mosque the big mosque is one of the largest on the peninsula and part of the calm palace built quote in the image of heaven itself in the sixteenth century the remarkable example of crimean tartar 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 have to decades of neglect. completely lost their ability to support the building they are all eaten by beetles and filled with fungus previously toes are constantly sliding fully off the building we're leaving everything as it was before but we're going to secure new tiles with special fixtures and nothing will

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