using human shields a sad fact of war two billion casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation do you agree that some of the the high level of i think ridiculous standard that we had previously is now created this. behavior by ice is that they now realize if they take human shields they're going to avoid being struck and that actually this is adding to the problem congressman i do believe they understand our sensitivity to civilian casualties and they're exploiting that and i do agree that as we move into these urban environments it is going become more and more difficult to apply extraordinary high standards for the things we're doing although we will try for some reason this time around they seem to be avoiding any mention of who it is that controls east ghouta all but the same job when these limits blindly shelled damascus every day and slaughter more and more civilians well that's war when the syrian army responds suddenly it's an

atrocity remarkable isn't it how the rules change entirely depending on who's calling the shots. ok for more on this let's now bring in charles shewbread charles is a security analyst and former u.k. army officers i'm not sure if you just saw the pictures the report from our correspondent there charles very evocative pictures from the past and indeed the worry here is that the proposed ceasefire could actually help the terrorists fend off the syrian army which is trying to clear them from the city in your opinion how valid is that concern. well there are of course very good reasons for safe as there would be in all conflict situations and going a little bit further perhaps or building on the comments that your correspondent just made i would doubt that if we go back to the days of the british an american led as it was called bombardment of mosul plus of course the u.s.

led bombardment of raka in syria and i can these only just a few months ago. there were no calls of course for a cease fire to take place and those that did certainly there were no cause amongst the western media like most western politicians and very few agencies but some of those that did call for a cease fire in those circumstances where the u.s. led bombardments and sieges of these areas was causing immense suffering and loss of life among slim populations the response was that no this would help the terrorists who are occupying that area and that applied then they were being accurate in that and also it's now of course equally accurate to say that a cease fire at this stage may well actually in the short term produce some benefit to the civilian population but it would prolonging the problem in the long term because then it would allow the rebels to recreate it would allow. formations to reorganize ammunition to restock and so on and so even though it sounds brutal to

some no doubt but from a military perspective this is better to be gotten over with quickly and to end the suffering as quickly and painlessly as possible and of course this kind of situation is never going to be painless for civilian population we saw this very much with aleppo we had exactly the same kind of coverage from the western media atrocities were being predicted and reported and it turned out that most of those if not all of them were actually false propaganda claims and we're seeing a repeat of the situation again interestingly of course and again now we've seen the suffering of the people. of aleppo that took place for many years under siege and bombardment as a natural function of war those suffering suffering is now over and people are free of the jihadists and others that were occupying them and they're no longer under fire and that could soon be depicts a situation in eastern guta to foreign minister of russia certainly a lot of rough he said the terrorist groups this is

a little bit earlier the terrorist groups including are using eastern good as a base to shell residential areas of damascus it's quite near the capital of course why do you think we we aren't seeing the same international effort to defeat those terrorists that we saw as you just so eloquently said in iraq and in iraq's mosul. well there was actually virtually no coverage of the situation in iraq and mosul there were occasional articles but the majority of the coverage for example i would quote the b.b.c. the b.b.c. did a very strong report on iraq and the devastation the bombardment of caused and the guardian did something similar for example and i just cite them as one of two couple of examples from mo so but crucially very ports were made after the assaults had finished and soon other words it's too late to bring any public pressure to prevent or to stop those attacks taking place and of course when you look at the

sequence of events here not just in iraq and most of but in aleppo indeed now we're seeing with even if we look at further afield for example in yemen where british an american ally saudi arabia is causing carnage a mix of million population using british and american weapons it's receiving almost no coverage from the us the media and so you have to come to the conclusion even if it's reluctant one ok actually the reason why these things are not being covered is because it's not conducive to supporting u.s. and u.k. foreign policy which of course is still even now to destabilize and undermine the assad government charles always great to get your take charles shewbread security analyst and former u.k. army officer live this hour on the program. a senior figure in the anti immigration i'll turn it up for germany party has launched a scathing attack on chancellor angela merkel prompting her to storm out of the chamber with more here's peter over. 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 do 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 cowen say that he supported co-operation between the e.u. 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. it was busy in the bundestag shortly after the incident peter described the german lawmakers debated a motion from the f.t. to islamic face coverings the book. is the oath for the manifestation of islamic culture the tourists or women being veiled would be a fateful sign that our constitutional state is falling back under the cultural colonization of radical islam our fundamental values i adhere to people who are free and equal before covering as a signal that there isn't a will to participate in our open society even colleague and. dear colleagues a wolf in sheep's clothing sits in our bundestag this proposal isn't motivated by the stated reasons but rather as the applicant has already claimed to the press before we had it on our desks and how we've just been confirmed to be as a measure against the culture recall an ice age as the often quoted if your

proposal is successful the women who are up until now forced by their families and husbands only to leave the house while fully covered what in the future no longer be able to leave the house at all therefore you're not helping these women rather you're robbing them of the last morsel of freedom and participation in our society it. is evil and the other way it is true when you don't want to hear these arguments because they come from their own faction you are aware i no longer belong to them but the need for action in this matter is still as it was before the really don't like i got to go about their religious freedom belongs to germany other politicized there's not going to turn against this and average where this politicized islam attempts to restrict our way of life because if usual state it will stand the poles to this side. the portuguese island of turn in the atlantic ocean is in desperate need of decontamination decades of us earth

force activity have left it polluted with. waisting trading heavy metals and islanders say they're worried about the prevalence of of cancer. but back to twenty thousand this is not constant it oscillates of the same releases and of a constant as the one now that's eighteen twenty twenty thousand twenty thousand twenty thousand. of them freely and it's done so in a way from here as well ready to stay too long.

the 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 base all of them having metals that in certain concentrations can cause to reality in 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 like when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer. much confusing the more cancer cases there are the more that appeal ation asks why is this happening why if private story i wrote is that on one side all houses have

a had at least. one case of cancer on the other side it's almost every other house that is not normal your. just some background here at the u.s. has maintained a presence on the island since one thousand nine hundred three it serves as a stopover for transatlantic military flights and is 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 hosts is to accommodate them one former employee told us about the health risks that workers at the facilities say they've been exposed to. you going to have meant there was also a senate commission that came to check a claim a legal process from some members of the american military who are dying of terminal cancer and were exposed to radioactivity on to so they were here for about

a week and during this time i found out that we are doing here they were here to confirm the existence of radiation on the island radioactive contamination with. for all the dire environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged in a classified report written back in two thousand and three that's not being leaked it details seventeen major fuel spills in one fifteen thousand gallons of jet fuel were released when a pipe line pub was on intentionally activated and that was in one thousand nine hundred four there's been no cleanup since the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in this sort of air and water here's what local experts have been telling us. we found in the data that was published referring to the two thousand and seven two thousand and eleven period a higher number of certain cancers in the prior to victoria area than the rest of the source especially regarding the rarer cancers for example i can say with thirty

three percent of the cases being in prior divots or while the area has only eight point five two percent of the story in population. and. this is the repeat itself on various islands occupied by the americans this is almost a scorched earth policy where the problems accumulate and the local government doesn't react the population has no capacity to take a stance maybe as a result of scientific illiteracy or lack of knowledge on the cause effect relations. you know we still to dig a little bit deeper into this and contacted both the u.s. and portuguese governments as of yet we received no response as to the specific questions we asked we did however get a response from the u.s. government with a press release that they had released last december it states that the two countries are aware of the situation are seeking expert advice on how best to proceed. clashes have erupted in the northern

italian city of children who are ulti fascist activists rallied against the nationalist house upon party police used water cannon to break up the protests. the scenes come as the leaders of cust launch their best stilling candidates for next month's general elections it's. the world's biggest sporting event is coming to russia less than four months from now a fast approaching in the millions of fans will be heading to the twenty eighteen world cup for the organizers keeping everyone safe is the top priority security

chief of russia's football union spoke to us here at r.t. a counterterrorism center in one of the eleven host cities. have invited our colleagues so they can share with us the methods used to european football or this workshop aimed at countering and preventing terror threats these stadiums built for that certain amount have been designed in accordance with all security requirements supplied by the union of european football associations as well as russia security here is very good for all experts who were present in russia during the confederations cup last year have noted that we had the highest level of security for. keeping the sporting thing to russian being stripped of their olympic bronze medals in curling by the court of arbitration for sport after one of them tested positive for a bond substance at least a tranquil has the latest there from south korea where the winter games are going.

so cas is officially saying that the first ever russian medal in curling that was won by the o. a are mixed deal will now have to be taken away from them the announcement comes just about fifteen hours after alexander crucial lead ski who's both doping test samples turned out to be positive formal dhoni chose not to proceed with the court of arbitration for sport hearing that was planned for thursday afternoon. it's silly to do don't they don't be moved violations when the presence of a prohibited substance was consumed by to doping tests i'm ready for the verdict which is predictably the same in all cases and i weigh the pros and cons and decided to withdraw from the cas hearings and i think in this situation it's useless and senseless so the russian curler has admitted that there was an anti-doping rule violation formally but he maintains that he is not guilty and that

he has never taken the pills on purpose today we found out that alexander crucial needs and his wife are not giving up the legal battle completely the russian curling federation will be looking to help them through trying to prove his innocence eventually and also they will try to get back these medals for now they haven't been able to obtain the c.c.t.v. footage or any other possible evidence that could play in favor of the o.a.r. athletes but if they do so the court of arbitration for sport provides the opportunity to relaunch the arbitration later the concentration of mill dony i'm in these two don't bring test samples pointed to single use and we heard from the man who invented the drug that taking the pills once or twice is absolutely useless besides this we've spoken to the coaches experts other curlers who had

suggested that there may have been some sort of samba taj that someone could have spiked alexander's food or drinks although if the curlers want to get their medals back they will obviously have to prove that and that is a very difficult process. on a lighter note they cold to each other names threaten each other with nuclear annihilation well they finally met but not quite take a look at this. and you can twitter what are you going to give me my nobody uses twitter anymore. what a taxi ride that would be now it's a of course i will trump on kim jong parsonage appearing together n.p.o. there you are to screw with them and we've got a special something for you in the making check back for a report later all right. now in

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