in moments. coming up decades of environmental damage on a picturesque portuguese island in the atlantic leaves locals fearing for their well being as they continue suffering cancer rates they blame the u.s. air force for the contamination. well i'm thirty four years old and i lived my whole life in trying to be doing right by the entrance of the american base both of my parents died of cancer when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer. heated debates all of germany's migration policy sees a storm out of parliament just as a member of the immigration party launches another attack on the chancellor.

live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international my names you know neil welcome to the program russia has called a u.n. security council meeting to address the situation in the terrorist tail eastern region in syria. if it joins me live with the details of that hi there khalid we saw a moment ago the members of the council just getting together it's supposed to start i guess momentarily what are we expecting here at the security council today. while the meeting is set to discuss the situation regarding a rebel held enclave east of damascus eastern ghouta now at this point there are terrorists in the city fighting alongside rebels and the syrian government is fighting to take the area of back so at this point now that the syrian government is working to take the city of bad city back along with the support of russia we're now hearing western countries the united states other european countries especially

saying this is a horrific attack that civilians are being harmed and they are at this point calling for a thirty day cease fire in the city now at this point the russian foreign minister says that the resolution regarding eastern ghouta it basically puts all the blame on the syrian government furthermore they've said that they gave the opportunity to the al nasra terrorists to leave the city they gave them the opportunity to leave the city they did not and that they are essentially a holding the civilians in eastern guta hostage this is what we heard from the foreign minister of russia sergei lavrov. and you screwed me in those just days ago he's working in syria proposed to the militants that they leave peacefully the same . with their families and that. and it's strong we refused. now at this point of the meeting is expected to be

a situation where the different countries will come together and present their view of the situation in eastern guta as the fighting goes on between the syrian government as well as the terrorists and the moderate or so-called moderate rebels so as as folks assemble in the chamber people are expecting it to be a rather tense meeting there is clearly a strong difference between a number of countries regarding the situation so people are are looking all eyes are on the u.n. security council as we await to hear from the fifteen member body the fifteen member body that leaves the united nations a number of countries are expected to speak on the proposed resolution and the situation in syria and we became right on top of pain live this hour from new york . moving to germany where a top representative of the nationalist party has launched a risky thing a talk on chancellor merkel he told

a parliamentary session on thursday about her policies are a failure she is part of a push to impose multiculturalism not just on germany but on those group who drove for more. finger pointing and a walkout by the chancellor is this the new normal of german politics it was a very heated session in the bundestag on thursday morning here in berlin angela merkel was outlining how she see some of the challenges facing germany and europe and what needed to be done on that but it was really the performance from the political new kids on the block alternative to germany well certainly true a lot of the attention first off we heard from alice vidler who's one of their co-leaders she said that the e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for

a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national deal to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was often not going to stick around to hear mr garland say that he supported cooperation between member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because like

them all loath them alternative for germany have the votes there in the parliament we've actually seen them growing in the polls of late but one can't really presume that every time they say something that mrs merkel doesn't agree with she's got to decide she has somewhere else better to be. well while angler merkel is being bashed by the opposition a prominent politician from germany second biggest parliamentary party the s.p.d. has been embroiled in a scandal the country's best selling newspaper has published what it's thought was a smoking gun evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics but in the rush to break the story the top won't feel to check its sources and it backfired spectacularly reporting on this rutgers the it build thought they had a bombshell the makings of an international scandal here's the meat of it build that published a report about how the socialists the s.p.d. was trying to buy the services of the mythical russian troll factory it's

huge it would be the first direct evidence of russian meddling in german politics here the actors kevin kuhn are head of the s.p.d. youth wing who is running a campaign against forming a coalition with angular merkel the no grow cold campaign yuri a mysterious russian agent offering the services of an online army under his control to spread the message what build got their hands on was the email exchange between them it reads wonderfully cold words mistrust secret meetings like something out of a spy movie did kill him i'm yuri i'd like to talk to you about supporting your new group who campaign thanks for your mail j. already told me to expect

a mile from you but just to be sure could you name me g.'s favorite beverage as you can certainly understand this is a delicate matter me you know me you marty ginger dear yuri perfect that's a relief so what can you offer me. basically we can offer you everything an opinion campaign with schultz social bots on twitter and facebook or even a targeted facebook advertising campaign front page stuff but that was on friday by wednesday germany's satirists from tamika magazine revealed that it was all a prank they had written the entire exchange and said to build but build rabbits without jew checks and very few cation what with their and t. s.p.d. stunts and tabloid routes even the email tributed to kevin kuhn or was fake he

couldn't have sent anything from it other german publications saw the exchange and realized it was specious but as to tally it explained bill that was just too excited an anonymous email two or three calls and billed prints everything that piece his agenda remember the drinks name me oh me oh matty ginger well that's now trending on twitter as germans online ridicule build. given kuhner in the star of the show is suing billed for libel and slander but judging by these pictures and he's posted he's also enjoying the show but sense of

humor aside the social democratic parties youth wing leader insists he would have luckily refused any offer of the kind if it had been genuinely been made to. both of them have to see in this book i don't know but this group would refuse any of these offers to work with social mobs i don't have information that even received a new york was in this. meanwhile a satirical magazine behind the hoax posted this triumphant photo online and shows one of its employees posing with the transcript of the fake e-mails and the build article tongue in cheek the pranksters out titanic also turned on kevin for dismissing the story as a quote clumsy fake they say they spent all of three hours coming up with the whole convoluted play. we had to turn it over to record magazine we were up with the same . methods as built so we knew how to fink like and boot editor and

what we did was we came up with a story that was techie like an aspiring movie and we had a good feeling that this would work when there's a story like this for four built they don't care about details it's only interesting if the story is good and it was a good story indeed it was. like a good movie i hope it will be made into a movie sometime the readers of built just like the editors at build there are hopeless cases so you can't help them i don't think anyone will learn anything. new we. the people at build our german politicians or the german people but it was a good laugh now. and i think that's worth something. so another headline stories this hour the windswept portuguese island of turf in the azores in the middle of the atlantic ocean is in desperate need of decontamination

decades of us or a force activity have allegedly left it polluted with hydrocarbons and heavy metals and islanders say they're worried about the prevalence of cancer and other serious illnesses. the marine community back to twenty thousand this is not constant it's also like this if the same releases are never constant is the one now that's eighteen twenty twenty eight hours and twenty thousand twenty days of. the them freely and it's done so in a way from here as well ready to stay too long. in

most what we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by heavy metals or hydrocarbons there are very high levels of lead in some zones copper zinc molybdenum they've all of them heavy metals that in certain concentrations can cause to realty cancer arrhythmia and neverending amounts of problems associated with an excess of these substances. all my family lived in that area both of my parents died of cancer my mom of breast cancer and my dad was a different kind of cancer when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer.

the more cancer cases there are the more that appeal ation asks why is this happening why is private story on the road is that on one side all houses have had at least one case of cancer and on the other side it's almost every other house that is not normal yours. well the u.s. has maintained a presence on the island since nineteen forty three to syria serves as a stopover for transatlantic military flights on this home to the sixty fifth earth based group although it's not known how many personnel are currently stationed there there are one hundred and sixty one has just to accommodate them one former employee told us about the health risks that workers out the facilities say they have also been exposed to. there was also a senate commission that came to check a legal process from some members of the american military who died of terminal

cancer and were exposed to radio to say they were here for a week and june this is on a found out that we are doing here through here to confirm the existence of radiation. radioactive contamination with. well the dire environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged in a classified report written in two thousand and three it's since been leaked it details seventeen major fuel spills in warm fifteen thousand gallons of jet fuel released when a pipeline was on the intentionally activated that was in one thousand nine hundred four and there's been no cleanup since the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in the soil air and water here's what a local experts have been telling us.