really have been a used and. assimilated to the idea that they have complete domination of all of their arab neighbors guys and that they have the military right to use it and suddenly they're being told well you know maybe the there's a problem with the road coming in and of course i mean you know putin's given his warning so the israelis also have to think i don't know what missile was used. i doubt it was an s two hundred but it could have been but what also is there are s four hundred who are very potent russian surface to air missiles now if they ignore mr putin's message and say we're just going to take it all out. there's going to be a problem the israelis claim to have taken out most of the surface air defenses of syria i don't believe i don't play cause either because as i said it's an

integrated system with russia it has a russian flag on it they're not going to take out russia's surface defense system because it would be unacceptable they know that so they took out a control tower or something like that but you know what do they do next there's a except there's two they say well look the air defenses of syria and lebanon are only going to get better in the long term we must try and take an early preemptive action to destroy them before they become even better what are they going to do or are they going to say well we have to just come to terms with the reality much as we dislike it that we have lost our military earlier in the break accepting it it doesn't seem part of their d.n.a. i think culturally almost impossible to to the to accept it i think they would try and find some means to avoid it except and i think you know one of the let me jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the

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always about iran it's always about human well and i know that you know you're an expert in the region. there's a lot of bluster in the rhetoric that comes out and you know you have to kind of decipher it but we know that prime minister netanyahu is in trouble politically domestically because of corruption charges and allegations. and then we when we had this shoot down of this israeli plane the israeli media and the military talked about you know these about an iranian death pose and supplies in syria as if syria really isn't even a sovereign country here how much is with this shift that you were talking about and we have the hawks in the pentagon in the white house when it comes to iran is there something coming together right now that iran is always a target for these people is as it moved up to another level yes i think it's changed in a sense for i mean what you're saying about israel is absolutely right but it's not

a consensus in the security establishment of israel the prime minister and his father before him have been iran hold everyone. no that but there are the the the security establishment don't forget many of them said afterwards and have said subsequently when trump became president they said listen the j.c. piro is an israeli interest is our interest so it's not absolutely black and white in israel but where it is black and white is in the circle of the white house where you have iran folks from the head of the cia to the national security country i don't know how it's happened but trump is surrounded by people who believe iran is the source of all evil and of course netanyahu feeds us and is capable of using less and of course we have in saudi arabia another from iran for the person and something happened before this u.n.

security council sold meeting in in in new york this summer because there was a meeting and netanyahu had a meeting with mr trump and the next day he produced that extraordinary diatribe against north korea and against iran and labeled the iran is the source of all evil i imagine that somehow that netanyahu promised him and israeli support for action like this and then what happened saudi arabia tried to contrive the circumstances for an attack on hezbollah by forcing saad hariri the prime minister of lebanon to unwillingly ritter and the security and the army of israel the dog didn't bark in the night they didn't go as a lot of neighborly michael is going on here a lot of them and it's a very toxic mix when it all comes together you talk about. trump and his generals

he seems to just kind of abrogated his responsibility to this and that's the impression i have because we can we see rex tillerson the secretary of state. he's overruled even publicly quite often when it comes from north korea to syria maybe even towards iran here i mean it seems like a very much a a military foreign policy because we've had these posture reviews come out security defense but i'm not expecting a diplomacy review to come out anytime soon you know i mean people have talking talking about caging the president and containing him but in this respect i think i don't think it was so unwilling i think he likes it and you know he keeps talking about my generals and i think he actually i'm commander in chief and these are my generals i mean the something that feeds into trump's ego he literally feeding them are going to only see the easy a men's defense huge immense and they feed him by saying america has got to be

respected and america's got to be powerful and he says absolutely right you know this i agree with so i think i think it's voluntary what is particularly significant is the move we've had from if you like the steve bannan circle which were in a different philosophical view who said america has to be as america is culturally cultures draw the example truly america but it also implied that russia could be a russia as it was and that was a basis where you could have a foreign policy we have now a group of generals that are a vision as generals who believe in fighting the vietnam war to prove the vietnam war was never lost by the americans in mostly what we have nikki haley is there as their bullhorn on the world stage i mean armor when it comes to israel when it comes to iran i mean this is this is this she just perpetuates this this echo

chamber you have to see the language was very important in the second statement to begin with russia and china were competitors and rival. the second statement they're revisionist party now that has a very specific meaning it has a meaning the. will use military force to undermine the status quo of the world order after the second world war in other words saying russia and china are submission is against the global order war or challenging american hegemony and it's you know paul the moment i'm giving a different interpretation. and then they go on to say so these seditionists have taken advantage of us so we're going to have to rebuild the whole nuclear deterrence submarines missiles new weapons and we're going to build the whole any more than rockets are neutral assured destruction is eroded more than it's worth more than that because what we're seeing is the blurring of the

borderline between nuclear war and non nuclear war i mean when they talk about you know using tact using tactical nuclear weapons or conventional setting then the border goes it becomes blurred and even though they've just given a contract to for having cruise missiles with nuclear weapons well if you're a state and you know people fire cruise missiles how do you know whether it's going to be nuclear or going to be conventional it's a big blurring of the whole. in that posture is if you read it rationally in a detached way it is a justification for the united states to use. its own it's not a deterrent to russia in china it's explicit right it's explicit in it that it will use it and even the preemptory action is possible. against be likely to acquire nuclear weapons stay with this past year here because it focused

on russia china of course north korea but it. almost in a dismissive way start talking about in remarkably considering how these two words the war on terrorism that has been degraded i mean it's a term that was invented by the united states to read havoc unbelievable havoc in the middle east in and beyond and now they're walking away from it they are and were and this is really i mean what you're pointing to is really significant because what we have in its stead and they are very explicit about saying it these are forever wars generational wars our enemies we will fight them by coin which is any means information wars cyber war any type of walled regime change over a generation or more and so russia iran is there doing ratio it's theirs and i guarantee

that there will be perpetual wars and the just it will take really quite circular of course of course it does yes you're i mean and of course we're already seeing russia reading this china reading it i'm not you know i don't when i say war when it comes to iran i don't think there's going to be hot for i think we're going back to twenty fourteen and there'll be financial sanctions will be attempts to undermine it by counter-insurgency messages and then they'll be financial war on russia sanctions and on china no will be tariff wars china is the one thing that they can bring everyone together with in the democratic the republican party airlines agreed we must have economic war on china we must cut china down to size and of course it means that there is no foreign policy debate at all in the united states is willing quite remarkable in two thousand three when the united

states was about illegally invaded iraq there was a huge anti-war movement. now it's gone it's changed here it's. during the cold war it was a open agreement between the united states and the soviet union the you don't kill each other on the ground you can use proxies all you want that's changed in syria they don't think a lot of people understand that because there is every reason to believe that the us out of self-defense that's the new just an occasion to reap regime change now targeted russian contractors and killed them that's something that didn't happen during the cold war so i think it's a you're right it's a very serious escalation and i think that it's likely to. continue because. iran and syria i think both made it certainly iran has made explicit that if the americans do not leave voluntarily

they will be made to leave syria they've said the same about the american presence in iraq i think that in the northern part of the middle east there is a clear determination i don't mean. this is a conspiracy i'm just saying there's a clear consensus a view that the american presence in syria and in iraq is going to be disturbing to the stability of the imagination it's upcoming in this temple we're going to have the the russians the turks and the iranians now those three parties had their differences when it comes to syria but they are all united on one issue they do not want american presence illegal under international law presence in syria is that enough to keep them together no i mean it's more complicated but i think the relationship between russia and iran. although there are

a long history of disagreements but it is a real strategic. interest partly because of the financial war they need both russia and iran need if you like commercial depth in order to survive any sanctions sort of put on them so both of them benefit from that and china as part of that axis turkey is more complicated more complicated sometimes it seems to do what was agreed in. sometimes things don't seem to work quite like that sometimes it's not clear what their ambitions are in syria sometimes there's a cooperation and at the moment when you read the turkish press you see they're angry at the americans they're angry at the u.a.e. that angry angry ality isn't really just playing it on the fly because i agree with you i mean what's turkey think today you know i don't know we don't know because i

think one of the great difficulty i mean i don't want to is not predictable and you know autumn on language in autumn one sentiments are rising and the people who are with him let's make no. doubts about. he's got to and that's what the court and that's what worries me is because this operation of branch of all names in meaning in northern syria he can pitch it is being anti-american and he's his his base loves it yes yes and also he's somehow actually in a way managing to bring some sort of togetherness between the secular base and the religious pious base of here that he believes killed in creating a gilded cage for himself as well because he has to succeed that's all the time we have that was wonderful having interview thank you very making you talking with our thank you for inviting me thank you.

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the war. among. across europe. legal battles demanding at least some compensation in two ways first of all the physical damage itself as well that the constant reminder that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been the justice and there's been a couple of. the un's most powerful body prepares for another round of crisis talks on syria's rebel held in eastern. russia accuses the international community of double standards. russian lawmakers consider tougher penalties for child sex abuse allegations emerge from an orphanage in the city of. a florida school massacre further polarizes american society over gun control with both sides suggesting radically different security solutions. first olympic gold for russian athletes at the winter games and

another soldier his two teenage friends top the podium in the figure skating. will take a tool around the olympics host city with donald trump and kim jong. well schooled . in moscow this friday the twenty third of february welcome to your world news update this hour first for you. for russia is calling on all warring sides in syria's rebel held region of eastern ghouta to cease hostilities addressing the security council vasoline events are also criticized the way the international media and foreign powers have been reflecting the situation in the on clay. muscly . there is a massive psychoses in the mainstream media which is spreading so you rubes day

after day even if she doesn't help it's understandable situations. but who would that be and their only hospital is a reason which the syrian army has lots of again it's good that what we just heard was the russian ambassador to the united nations responding to what he characterized as a smear campaign now the meeting was called in response to the situation in eastern guta that was a suburb of damascus located to the east of damascus and at this point it's an enclave of rebels and terrorist forces now there's been increasing hostilities in eastern goods as the syrian government is fighting to retake the city from terrorist russia was responding to some of the very heated words and accusations we heard from other countries in the chamber in the lead up to his remarks systematic targeting of civilians and sheer disregard for human life and attacks against health care and hospitals constitute workrooms the regime wants to keep bombing and gassing these four hundred thousand people and the assad regime is counting on

russia to make sure the security council is unable to stop their suffering now in his remarks to the fifteen member body in the bed he was very clear that situations in eastern guta are rather dire however the situation is much more complex than it's being made out to be but essentially civilians are being used as human shields by the terrorists he pointed out that some of the more extreme allegations being made against russia and syria are being made by the forces that just leveled the city of raka the u.s. led coalition leveled syria's rucka this is in the recent post should be forgotten so the phone when it happened there was no for some reason nobody to moan that international little is a. we were forced to leave our homes because of ice and when we returned we found everything to rubble look at all the devastation our rock is

a ghost city. we're living in the midst of destruction we feel completely abandoned everything around has been destroyed. years horrible the city and rubble have to be to remove the debris we own money there's no running water so we have two boats in barrels and the us coalition caused the destruction of records and has a responsibility to rebuild the city we need to help with restoring the water supply in clearing the rubble. the u.n. says syrian air strikes have killed at least one hundred people in east and go so this week it secretary-general has described a situation that is hell on earth assad government says it's trying to bring an end to rebel shelling attacks that have been killing civilians in the mask us next more august you have looks at who the fighters control in the battle on place actually are. east ghouta is not

a nice place to live in surrounded as it is under siege a constant war zone within and without. the army of islam holds most of east ghouta as the name may imply these guys aren't crusading for democracy and when they are busy killing each other they share power with nuestra while qaeda in syria and the number of smaller groups. these are ruthless people they cage civilians literally put. women and the elderly in metal cages and hoisted them on to roofs where they left them and it's

a real human shield made of civilians to protect themselves their fighters from strikes these same people jihad ists who say they're fighting to free the country from outside then turn their guns on protesters when they day complain about the jihad ists themselves. these infamous incident being one of them a crowd of demonstrators fired upon by rebel fighters john kerry himself once called the rebels holding east ghouta a subgroup of isis and i. remember what the u.s. led coalition did to isis in mosul. what are they leveled and then ties city thousands of civilians dead yet they say

there's no choice the terrorists were sponsible by 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 isis that they now realize if they take human shield they're going to avoid being struck and that actually this is adding to the problem congresswoman i do believe they understand our sensitivity to civilian casualties and they're exploiting one and i do agree that as we move into these urban environments it is in become more and more difficult to apply extraordinarily 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. but the same job that's when these limits blindly shell damascus every day and then salutes

a 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 u.s. state department spokesperson how the now it has also commented on the situation in syria and lambasted russia over its role she also had some harsh words for all to me as well be shout to the russian government to implore them to stop enabling the syrian regime to do what is stealing to its own people is russia listeners i'm not sure that they are but i would encourage each of you to ask russia to take these questions to vladimir putin take these questions to r.t. to sputnik asking them those very questions what are they doing to stop the devastation the deaths and the murders that are taking place in syria i think what she tried to say is that any kind of civilian deaths that take place in the course

of the syrian government offensive are the responsible of the russian government because the russians are supporting the syrians so therefore anything they say the syrians are guilty of russia is guilty of to that same principle could be applied for example when the iraqi forces recovered a bosal from diane or one of the kurdish led forces the s.d.f. recovered rocka from di actually both cases with strong american air support which took a tremendous civilian toll in these areas the. russian lawmakers are considering harsher penalties for child sex abusers and suffer series of extremely disturbing allegations emerged from an orphanage in the central city of two happens.

i asked my son what they did with the man who came to see them my son was stunned and said what made fright the taters i asked what else they did he rape me that was his answer i was lost for words i called another mother she told me her kids had the same story. my son decided to tell me everything you told me i was so afraid they said they would drown me the lake would lock me up in rehab for the rest of my life. children say that one of the supervisors who brought them to this man and his friend just watched them being raped and all the boy saw how they gave money to the supervisors the small children didn't even know what the banknotes were so they just described them as green bits of the.