mourners priefer the victims of sunday's church massacre in southern russia which investigators think could have been an act of terrorism. turkey's president owen reportedly threatens consequences if syrian forces enter their own city of afrin after rumors they were preparing to help kurdish militias repel a turkish offensive. and in the midst of the alleged russian meddling saga a former cia director admits the u.s. doesn't interfere in other country's elections when it's for a good corps. thank you for watching the news headlines here totty international broadcasting live from

moscow i'm kate partridge. mourners have been gathering at a church in the south the russian republic of dagestan where five women were killed in a shooting on sunday five other people including a policeman and a national guardsman were also injured. this is a. number of those. with our own. investigations are looking into various motives behind the attack and terrorism hasn't been ruled out r.t. as daniel hawkins has the latest 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 qusayr in the southern russian province of dagestan on sunday the attacker was identified as collateral for a local 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 the gunman took shots at bystanders with a hunting rifle much. oh you should only 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 the trench and this is there was a woman here she was begging for money all the city knew her she had 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 the start of 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 would have been damaged all because she managed to hold him back all of us to go it 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. brussels based independent journalist new crib a says security services don't exchange enough information about suspects but it's not enough connection between the police forces they should be more dong 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 a great fear among the people that we will see more of the terrorist attacks that we had in paris brussels and other places we are of course very close to the areas where these people. and from what i said from him we need to do more in terms of connecting our police force. turkey has president erdogan has threatened consequences for the syrian government if its army enters its own city of afrin turkish media say the remarks were made during a phone call with russian leader vladimir putin it follows reports of a deal between syria and the kurds which hasn't been officially confirmed by either side well under this alleged agreement pro assad troops will help kurdish fighters repel a turkish offensive in the region this footage filmed by video agency raptly on saturday apparently shows the construction of

a temporary kurdish military camp in africa artie's paula slayer has more on how ankara has reacted to the potential alliance between syria and the kurds 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 ankara 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 their goal then so does have a problem. if regime forces enter the city to eliminate the begin why b.g. terrorists then we don't have a problem with that however if we go there to defend the way b.g. nothing and nobody can stop our soldiers now that's part of the region has been embroiled in but her violence for at least a month ever since and clear launched its military operation called olive branch

against could it were guards as terrorists. thank you. 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. 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 friend we never wanted partition sure.

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

integrity but i think that washington needs to brackets works with action because right now since actions look provocative the u.s. used the kurds to pursue its own ambitions and that's led to a major conflict in africa. now tensions on the ground continue to escalate despite the fact that in the past month the united states has tried on various occasions to try and deescalate the situation what remains now of course is to see how this latest development escalates tensions even further. military analysts kemal alarm says the potential alliance between syria and kurdish groups could threaten washington support for the kurds as an excuse to stay in syria. i think 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 world and 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 road in 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. russian alexander crucial needs he has initially tested positive for the banned substance melburnian at the winter olympics in south korea he had earlier one bronze in the curling mixed doubles with his wife the court of arbitration for sport is now reviewing the case in the world anti-doping agency is expected to announce the results of his second test later on it's can partner as the sampras girl of a beach the norwegian pair eight four to clinch russia's first ever and in pick medal artie's reports from pyongyang. well right now it is all down to that second door being tested and if it happens to be positive that will be

a real disappointment for many people i can tell you that here in pyongyang the crowds of literally fallen in love with the russian couple alexander crucial lead ski analyst 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 taking moldova meum the in for. this 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 chang i don't really understand what what it would approve or what it would improve you in your game and 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 but there was presumed you don't need to be a secret agent to give athletes of both with any kind of banned substance that totally unprotected you 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 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 to turn around for a second tell me is this 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. well meanwhile the russian curling federation has asked japan and south korea to hand over video footage showing crucial need to be training he's also asked the russian investigative committee to look into the case sports journalist alan moore believes it's unlikely the athlete took the banned drug if they take the dog to make it

a burst of energy burst of speed he could work hard because you're curling is a pretty olympic you know a pretty pretty testing sport and self he was the supreme the stupid to be caught for you know he has said chris in this case said that his drink might have in spite of training camp and. it does seem on like he got he took it however it wore little bit of information came out overnight that his former or his coach that said that's all he has done he stopped taking the dog back in two thousand and sixteen when it was bad and we have to give him the benefit of the doubt we see a lot of the beast be 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 you know you said he was using it to get caught for doping you're limply she would have to be very very silly and i don't think that christmas is really. a dutch shipping group has been accused of selling vessels containing harmful waste

to scrap yards in turkey and india the sale would violate e.u. laws as well as add to the country's environmental and health issues. players. play. live

click click. click click click click click click. click click click live. prosecutors allege the ships contained various toxic substances which should have been removed and recycled safely but they were apparently sold to india and turkey to be broken up there they also cite the alleged impact of the chemicals would have on recycling workers and the environment and they're looking for the court to impose a hefty fine for breach of e.u. waste laws and if convicted shipping bosses could also face up to six months in jail where in response the company c. trade has denied any wrongdoing their defense argues the ships only qualify as

waste once they reach their final destination and don't fall under e.u. environmental rules as turkey and india are beyond its jurisdiction and lack of proper regulation in the industry is one of the problems highlighted by the engine you know ship breaking platform the trade is a dutch company and certainly in two thousand and twelve the conditions at the in south asia were well known to any european company so the choice the trade made was for the highest price. of the higher prices because they do not pay for the proper waste management the proper infrastructure and they use migrant workers that are not trained 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 the groundwater

and is also very dangerous for the work is 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 a former cia boss has admitted the u.s. does interfere in other country's elections that story and more after the break.

were america's worst mood. americans are ruthless. sharks who we are and that's a dollar. that's right and like go back a bomb that's what. welcome back the former director of the cia has admitted the u.s. interferes in other country's elections james woolsey said this only happens when

it's for a good cause and in the interests of democracy aussie's what i guess if he looks at whether double standards are at play no one likes a spoiler medalists interference especially when it comes to american elections. who we pure unspoiled and unsullied or they were before the russians got to them they say but judged. 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 to do that through vine video and those former cia director 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 lot at all said a thirty year veteran of the cia come on the cia root the book on meddling. we've been doing this kind of thing since the cia was created in one thousand forty 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 us 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. swastikas have been drawn on the entrance to poland's embassy in israel this comes after poland's prime minister. claims jews were among those responsible for the holocaust it's not going to be punishable not going to be seemed. to say that there were polish perpetrators as there were jewish perpetrators as there were russian paper three perpetrators are there were ukrainian not on a german paper trail it was the introduction 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 has also criticized the polish leaders remarks what was said 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 and wants a bit of future and we did not expect the polish prime minister to say such things well these comments come in the wake of a new polish law making it a criminal offense to say the country collaborated with nazi germany during world war two specifically the legislation prohibits references to watering nazi death camps in the country as polish those violating the law face up to three years in jail and then visor to the polish president defended the legislation 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 before the second world war eighty five percent of them were killed in the holocaust around one million jews died in the auschwitz concentration camps built in poland by the nazis former israeli military intelligence officer mordechai kedah says there is strong evidence for polish complicity in nazi german war crimes the polish. or lore that chewed wark against poland because there are many many many evidences that the poles beat the poles to cook very active part in the whole of course nobody says that the state which was under occupation did it because this they was dysfunctional those use of the war and they didn't function as a nation but many of the individuals. took very active part

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