russia has set up humanitarian corridors to let civilians out of the syrian enclave of eastern but it's not clear where the rebel and terrorist groups of people find that area will allow anyone to leave. this weekend's general election protesters across the country seem happy to unleash violence to stop a center right coalition from coming in so to come this hour. i . was the olympic games in south korea come to an end russian athletes are being greeted back by jubilant fans and their families.

good evening and welcome my name's neil harvey this is r.t. international russia says that it's setting up humanitarian corridors in the syrian enclave of eastern. civilians out of the war ravaged district and the area in question is located just outside the capital damascus it's been occupied by multiple rebel and terror groups for a year is violence has escalated there once again recently with both sides exchanging fire and accusing each other of targeting civilians moscow now says that it will help to establish a humanitarian corridor or daily five hour humanitarian pauses to provide the necessary aid to people in territories occupied by militants the un has said that it will use the opportunity to help civilians. five hours is better than no hours

but we would like to see any sation farces be extended. thirty days as the security council has said but we will effort to do whatever we can within the time that we're able to work earlier the u.n. security council unanimously approved a resolution calling for a nationwide face fire across syria this was made to enable humanitarian access and to evacuating injured civilians however despite the establishment of humanitarian corridors it's not clear whether militants occupying eastern goods will actually let anybody out of explains. resolution twenty four zero one which called for a pan syrian ceasefire without delay so far is a dud everyone is interpret it in ways that suit them radical islamist terrorists ignore it josh al islam the army of islam has not stopped shelling

damascus dozens of casualties over the last few days alone the syrian army says it has the right to defend itself against extremists until the shelling ends citing a clause that excludes terrorists from this resolution but even then if you talk to syrians there's not all that much enthusiasm for this ceasefire. this truce is similar to the others and we will see it being violated this is the same old story and we are the ones who end up being harmed don't you see the children old people women and students who should we feel sorry for for these rebels this is because we are tired of shelling every day about thirty to forty shells fall here money mileage i am against the truce because it only benefits the rebels i hope that it will be over soon and that no gunmen remain there but it's not only

rebels and terrorists in east ghouta it's also civilians russia has announced the establishment of humanitarian corridors by which people can leave east ghouta it says the syrian army will abide by a limited unilateral ceasefire to allow civilians to leave if they can rebels is limiting ghouta which include al qaida have barred civilians from leaving the enclave for years according to amnesty international and others and reportedly they are still doing. so we're talking here about the same rebels who caved woman on roofs as human shields against s. strikes so no surprise it isn't just damascus and east ghouta that are burning its afrin in northern syria to turkey which says it is exempt from the ceasefire

because it is carrying out an operation fighting the y.p. jeep syrian kurds whom it calls terrorists and says it won't stop its operation when we look at the un security council resolution we see that fight against terror organizations is outside its scope therefore it will not affect turkey's ongoing operation thousands have died over the last month of turkey's incursion turkish president ed do on and said this cease fire has failed at this point resolution twenty four zero one looks dead on arrival. water right under the bar and one told us that it's too early to judge on the fate of the humanitarian poles but the idea is supposed to help civilians if they're allowed to leave. it is very very. premature to tell actually what will happen but i believe this about people responded there are six million we're allowed to leave school to all to leave the

fighting definitely this will reduce the human casualties among those people russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has claimed that there's a decision from asian campaign underway he says it's targeting the syrian government first of all it's want to hear exactly the words of lover of. frequent ports are being planted in libya by chlorine allegedly used in eastern good news outlets are citing an anonymous source from the us let me remind you we've been warning about such great stories since yesterday and there will be more such stories from social media from the white helmets a provocative with a history of freak reports especially when it comes to chemical attacks for which there is no evidence so these provocations will continue with the single girls to blacken the syrian government accusing it of all sorts of violations and work. so we've seen in the worldwide media claims of hundreds of civilian deaths some

reports of chemical weapons being used what do you think what sergey lavrov has said is the mainstream media being balanced in its coverage definitely of it is that deliberate campaign i noticed for example as a journalist that there is no mention at all of the victims in the other side nobody mentioned talked about you know kind of so called does of the capital damascus. tensions are rising across italy as the country prepares to vote in the general election this weekend police have been deployed in cities throughout the country to face opposing rallies or the defending or slamming center right parties security forces are expecting further protests on election day and beyond because the votes not expected to produce a clear winner of the senate explains the key figures on italy's political stage. it's nice general election a show like no other starring a convict a tramp want to be the poster boy confused well let me break it down for office

contender is the grounds old age of eighty one and has a scandalous past of ford convictions and sex scandals oh and he's also been the former prime minister of italy multiple times it's still very scold me i'm still young so i'm ready to work. well at least he's young at heart and he has plenty of supporters. i will vote for berlusconi and the rest i don't care about to get things done. due to his conviction he can become the prime minister himself but if his goal is only part he does well he could be the man to pick the head of the cabinet go it's a little it's a coalition which spans the range of italian sense right politics is thought they could gain thirty eight percent of the votes part of this coalition includes our next contender matteo salvini and his leg a party for me and i want. italians first. to tell us first wait

a second doesn't that battle cry sound familiar america first and i'm sure there's more. myron trump is the fact that he is keeping most of the promises he made during the electoral campaign now just like trump salvini tweets about anything and everything moving on swath that contender now the young face of the anti establishment party only thirty one years old the leader of the five star movement is seen by some as a bit of eye candy and he makes sweet promises to. we are the only political force that in recent years has made promises to the italians and has kept faith with those promises we're the only ones to renounce the privileges of politics while the politicians continue to obtain these privileges i give up my annuity and cut my salary. is the complete opposite of the party's found and. stand up comedian bet they agree low his cool calm and collected and it seems to have captivated young voters i will go with tomorrow tomorrow will be

a baton and point i hope that the five star movement comes to power because it understands us young people better they are more aware about technology they think about the future of us young people but they're still a huge group of those and show which way to votes on march the fourth poll suggest almost a third of eligible voters are either undecided or will abstain honestly i don't trust anyone anymore. for mean they're all the same whichever political party it is they come here they make their promises i say this i will do that but in the end it was nothing what they might have their reasons italy has seemed sixty governments and even more prime ministers since the second world war that's roughly new cabinets every fourteen months so we'll see if any of these cars can sway the voters and stay long enough to actually keep any of their promises the polls also show the center left parties including the current ruling want along through to

struggle at the election but sandra goes italy's junior minister for european affairs under member of the ruling democratic party believes that the large amount of undecided voters means the outcome is not set in stone. there are four million of italians for media of in their years who say that they would go toward the woods appalls. they have steve to make up their mind and that is why the opinion polls of ours now are not reliable because. we depend on the movement on the electoral of year of these four million people and also there are people who are abstaining there as in our elections who are saying they would have stayed and this is the duty of all the political forces in this week to perswade they are as number possible of voters to go to the polls because these are elections they need to be very important for italy for our positioning in the european union and i think that

they are also very important for the possibility to relaunch their european union itself. winter olympics in south korea have finished and the team of a limb pick at least from russia has landed back home the squad finished thirteenth the doping scandal having prevented many top russian sports men from competing artie's done you're talking greeted the team at the airport where they were finally allowed to display the national symbols. also. today's little places like athens russia but everybody knows david russia will still yes yes it is fantastic rival holders with people have a nice well wishers shady sports really a festival atmosphere here today now of course before they defaulted for korea there was a lot of discussion as to whether they should you decide whether they perhaps should boycott the games we all see here today so you can hear by the cheering is

self-evident yes they should have gone yes they should it was at that country and the people you know crowd spoke back there often it's. certainly really got a third place in history impish during the trial some petition someone found before him and you found to assume there managed to grab the third place. that was the chance it. will be mostly grazing the whole national team of course but we're waiting the hockey players the most we were very worried for them but we'd like a seven am to see the final just now we want to greet them and say thank you it was just like i'm here good thing for everyone but i fold every match and there are athletes like. that by officials just before the start i just want to put speaking to compete for a medal because it was really hard because of the whole neutral flock he sure but

i'm glad that i got a good result. here except for the skating rink and my room in the canteen i haven't seen anything else and young chang was very busy with training. he always is like i was at first of course frustrated we simply did not know how to behave because it was the first time in our careers that we for to subpoenaed under the neutral fly to watch it it's never the last we tried our best not to give it too much attention we had to prepare to focus on our tasks at hand you know the most important thing for me was to qualify for the games and win under the flag it doesn't matter as you. the large crowds greeting the athletes at the airport created the perfect moment for two men to pop the question to their a limp pick medalist girlfriend. but. with the olympics now over we spoke exclusively to fifteen year figure skating gold medalist elin is the gates of about her world record achievement. tonight. before competition i

fully distanced myself from the outside world i didn't mind the attention from the journalists fans and the fact that i'm participating in the olympic games for me it was the same as any other competition of course i supported the other athletes from russia but i didn't feel this big burden of responsibility maybe that helped me because of the book spoke with a go i just you were so calm of your performance never once said that the only source single tear what did you do to say so spoil the bus i work on so this i'm going to know this is a hit actually there were no tears at all and i'm always like that keeping my emotions to myself but when i go home i always share all my emotions with my parents. i think when i get home i will be dancing and jumping for joy i hope by the time i get home i will realize what i have achieved. the courts. so you haven't been jumping and dancing so far because when you put it go up but i get i only during my routine. what about your relationship with. your

rivals and nice but is it true that you're actually friends even if you have a reason to do is that yes absolutely we have to go to have a coffee or a chat on social media between training we always share funny videos on instagram and have a good laugh together yes and there was a mission the order that all of you said you don't notice the media attention but we have to ask you about the american skates and ashley wagner who criticize your routine saying the putting of a very complicated elements at the end is basically cheating what would you say to her. no one goes because it just it's i can say that this only encouraged me to do more and better so i wanted to prove even more that what she was saying is not true but you cannot prove anything to people like her know that i say let her compete in the olympics with my program and i'll gladly see how she'll manage to do it of course figure skating is developing really fast nowadays there's always a new generation younger than me maybe someday. i'm i think like that too because

in my group there are already some girls who can do quadruple jumps but i will try as hard as i can to stay in sport as long as i can i'm already thinking about the next season is that everything view which is skating all you think about but. for now i cannot think about anything else i try to be as careful as i can and not make any mistakes so i can stay in skating for as long as i can do it. some forty seven thousand asylum seekers have found themselves unable to leave greece to two close border policies on the e.u. turkey accord on refugees while the two thousand unaccompanied minors are waiting to be placed into shelters and that's left many of them in a vulnerable situation. i'll miss about. what it took to. feel on the hot day in a new bottle mosaddeq china six sawyer get up that's all that

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young boys flirting with passers by a friend drugs or themselves one of our refugees wanted to tell us more about the neighborhood but asked us to conceal his identity because he's a regular here. on our fee so i had done morning that just about the there. can be no yet on also harbison and. just up their own. then don't i know. a foreigner one on another mark on the shore be my second gents. as should know the engine see or not to get a mark in my. live on you jeb bush asked me to hustle so you feel like a huge brother. and want to set the unfair. cafe hard. on the dollar. while i knew just. how out of the howlers consulate in on that the scenario and only mr lolly home well you know

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a we that people but not all part of you need to share the responsibility within the european member states so they are under the pressure of a population that is county not to this pool. of many of the other members these seem to be trying to prevent that reproduce seeking as in their own countries we also are there we're many cases these might bring are going to be the asian could even the trafficking action of these children for sure on the sex environment but even more dangerous situation would be traffic court organs we need to prevent these children being put under the tension we need to identify their relatives and to speed up the process of reunifying of the children with their families. but also one of the holiest sites in jerusalem has been closed in protest against

israel's decision to levy taxes on religious properties the church of the holy poker is believed to be on the site where jesus was crucified shared by the greek orthodox the armenian apostolate and roman catholic churches they're all united in fury at israel's move on these poor asli has a story. i'm standing here in one of the most sacred sites in christianity of the church of the holy city because this is a place where just believe that christ was crucified and buried and ways are registered but as you can feel the door to the church is closed following a decision by church leaders after jerusalem municipality announced it was going to start collecting tens of millions of dollars in property taxes from churches for church and property without houses of worship now this flies in the face of a generation's old agreement i've been talking to pull guns here from all over most of whom of course disappointed when it is they come to visit the city of jerusalem

and the holy land and they are leaving their families the pool of blood and deal for of money to spend on hotel is transportation. and so on to leaving their jobs and to leaving their family and to come to his the church and they want to put the fun the church is closed we felt bad because we came all the way from the philippines and this is actually one of the highlights or the highlights of the. pilgrimage and we were already in front of the church when the church was closed and that's really bad we were sad because one of the main reasons coming to israel was to visit the church for us to have to find a peaceful solution said should talk about it like a human being. sit down and don't use it politically for any saying not say israel is not such a church as nobody just sit down and live what religion should be it should be

peaceful church leaders are also concerned of a proposed legislation that they fear could result in the state being able to confiscate church land but the sponsors of the bowl say that they're not trying to interfere with the church and what it does with its own property but only when that property is sold to a third. r.c. here in israel properties belonging to churches synagogues and mosques are not taxed it's far from clear how the situation what was all that stuff coming as it does just weeks before easter course they are talking to was slim. the economist recently ran a front cover showing russian president vladimir putin as a meddling octopus attacking western democracies but it seems that the magazine was just deploying a tried and tested formula. don't

know what's more striking the liberals have been using the putin as a soviet menace trope for a full decade although they've been using russia is not to push for a full century. western depiction stand to screen between the deal aggressive briery and tenacious wily octopus. picture needs revising should show us as a giant squid russia as a tiny little octopus we did title very biased q how do you know that states menaces the world's democracies.

this is a very old trick to. the funny thing is how this kind of thing is used to working even even today it will be more and more popular at this kind of a comparisons using motifs very popular during the times of the cold war era russia is no longer soviet union it's presented as the same enemy you know direct mainly the reason why you have this guy comparison this kind of came pain propaganda campaign against russia is exactly because russia now is a relevant player in the global politics thanks staying with us you're watching r t international the very latest news headlines and updates coming your way at the top of the hour.

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a sleeping pill. does. the scientific sweat terrible but not on the road as shown in dutch one for the world to hear not war. across europe victims astonishing legal battles demanding at least some compensation. in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well the concert mind that the people who take this call it has never been able to justice and there's been a couple. now

. glowing welcome to crossfire for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle are you a confused by washington syria policy rest assured you're not alone trump says one thing while his generals do otherwise also brinkmanship with north korea isn't working and why moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem is still a bad idea.