cease fire in syria is. in failure for a second day as precious reconciliation center says that terrorist shelling is preventing hundreds of civilians from leaving the enclave. the russian olympic committee confirms the country's been reinstated as an i.o.c. member after remaining drugs tests from the winter olympics proved negative. and south africa's parliament passes a motion that could see the entire white population stripped of their land without compensation.

very good evening to you great to have you with us my name is neil harvey this is r.t. international humanitarian pause in syria in eastern has been broken by terrorists for a second straight day that's according to the syrian reconciliation center. after safety corridors established by russia came into heavy shelling from militants preventing civilians from leaving the besieged district correspondent marty arabic is on the scene. now how much any economics the second day of the troops we haven't seen any civilians walking through the corridor it is known that there are many civilians who want to leave their own place to leave it for the one and only corner open for civilians from glitter however militants prevent civilian from exiting and don't allow them to leave due to an evacuation route to which the road to damascus the militant positions are just three or four hundred meters from the current or near the campus are offered in the syrian government has distributed leaflets

amounts of aliens are not controlled and placed this detailed information and a map on how to get into the area under government control you can see that everything is ready here to receive civilians and to deal with any difficulty many tarion situation. the damascus suburb which is under the control of rubble and terrorist groups are seeing an uptick in violence this month the un security council unanimously adopted a month long cease fire resolution across the country on saturday additionally russia also sponsored a five hour daily truth to help civilians escape the fighting in eastern guta but in a putin has been discussing the latest situation there and he's right because there was listening to what was said. to be a pugin a good knowledge that the situation is both complicated and difficult he said that there are civilians innocents in east ghouta who are being used kept as hostages

and being used as human shields by their us radicals and terrorists who are also the least good doctor is really new especially when you know where this issue might work unfortunately there are lots of extremist forces in eastern guta really was a range of terror organizations recognized by the un the shelling is continually coming from that area on some days the number of missile strikes and mortar shell attacks which is fifty to eighty they even reach the territory of the russian embassy should we tolerate this in different. of course not the unilateral cease fire that the syrian army and the right their russian allies have implemented a deed unilateral ceasefire along a humanitarian corridor established by the said parties in east due to allow civilians to leave well that cease fire has been sort of impeded by the rebels for a second day in a room spoiled to ruin which ever way you want to put it they've shelled the humanitarian crossing twice now for two days in

a row so people haven't been able to leave the latest batch of people three hundred civilians in all who were ready who were prepared to use this crossing to get out of guta had to abort their attempt because again there was shelling five shells i gather landed in the queue monetary and cross it nevertheless despite all these efforts that have been put in place that have been tried to ease the suffering of civilians at least to to get them to leave to allow them to leave there's still a lot of criticism from western part was towards russia diplomatically and militarily moscow plays both arsonist and firefighter fueling tensions among all parties in syria then serving as an arbiter to resolve disputes attempting to undermine and weaken each party's bargaining positions russia has placed this progress at risk with their activities which are not focused on defeating isis russia's interests in syria are russia's interests that comment caused quite

a widespread reaction with many saying that it was the pentagon that flooded syria with weapons many of those weapons ending up in the hands of extremists and terrorists but russian foreign minister sergei lavrov also raised his own counter criticisms he said that it is unacceptable that some member nations that sydney human rights council not ready meaningfully to condemn international terrorism in any of its forms he said it's an except. to separate terrorists into good and bad categories especially where the division is based on the declared goals of these terrorists or who their financial backers are but he's also said that russia will continue to back syria as it clears its country its territory of these extremists regardless what flag they're fighting under. so we spoke earlier to professor of political sociology dr saeed sadek at the american university of cairo

he believes it's the us which is fueling tension in syria by supplying various armed groups with weapons always playing with fire the one who is doing that was file is always providing weapons who is providing the scenario who is financing them who is providing media cover for them. and trying to show that what is happening is. is a big muscle of innocent people what they care about is those whom they have supplied who they have finances who they have been breeding in the last few years and now they have lost all but they don't have the same quality to admit that the loss that won't do is do they just keep on bargaining and making all those claims. bulletin plenty of talk about eastern gate on social media with journalists and commentators sharing photographs from the conflict zone but it's kellam open

reports now not everything is as it seems. two heartbreaking photos posted with the words this is syria except it's not actually syria one is from mosul in iraq and the other is from the israeli bombing of gaza now it's been raised in the comments that it's not actually syria but regardless this post by some guy in cleveland has tens of thousands of reach we decided to find out how many people here in new york would be ready to reach wieder share this with jury tweet that. i led i don't typically use twitter but. maybe now it just seems sixth like very politically motivated without have any having any serious message behind it i definitely wouldn't i mean. just because there are horrors happening everywhere and i don't know if twitter is the proper forum for it anyways yes i would and why i'm half palestinian and this is the same thing that's going on in my country interestingly and this is mosul in iraq and that is gaza. so it's not

actually syria you know but it's equivalent the same type of things are going on in syria it's kind of just inform and it might not be you know to a t. informative but it's getting the message across that even if these pictures are someplace else it's ok do you think that you by that i mean to some extent yes if you think that it actually it's like taking initiative then i feel like the pictures don't really matter i think the real issue is scary and sad enough that we don't need to you know misinformed people to have real journalism to have real information and verify you know contact with this be fake news be fake i mean part of why i don't use twitter is because of the information fabrication exists and also has it about facebook its exact reason you can't trust anything anymore and it's a sad state of the world now the saddest part is that some commenters say they don't actually care what they say people are dying in syria aren't they facts don't

matter that's how things are in the post truth world caleb mop and artsy new york. the russian olympic committees confirm that it's being reinstated as an official member of the international olympic committee and give it to the has the story. this is big news from russia as we all know the country has been at the center of a long running doping scandal accused of state sponsored cheating and the repercussions of this have been huge one of the biggest was russia being kicked out of the international olympic committee the i.o.c. so this latest decision to reinstate it to the club is a key milestone as the head of the russian olympic committee points out. read the statement was tied to the doping check of russian athletes who participated in the winter olympics the letter we received today says the i.o.c. is able to confirm all remaining results of the olympic athletes from russia are negative. the i.o.c.

has banned men to many of russia's experience their fleets were unable to compete at the winter olympics in pyongyang this meant of course that those who were allowed to compete should only do so under a neutral olympic flag and they were mainly newcomers nevertheless they won seventeen medals overall now if we go back to the events leading up to the decision to reinstate russia to the i.o.c. there were expectations that it would have happened during the winter in the pics themselves but there was a problem two russian competitors failed drugs tests another consequence to those positive tests was russia being banned from waving the country's flag during the closing ceremony initially they were going to be allowed but the privilege was taken away however it's now hoped the past is behind it competitions planned to take place in russia and not under any threat. well for the concerns i'm prepared for those tournament's the rights which russia already obtained so russia is once

again and active member of the international olympic committee but it is not the end of the road yet there are still two issues which remain unfulfilled a situation of compliance was renewed the rosado is still noncompliant there's still a way to go because the russian anti doping agency restarted is still banned by the world anti-doping agency or wada we saw the last its accreditation and that is yet to be reinstated that's an ongoing saga as russia disputes the legitimacy of that mclaren report which detailed russia's alleged systematic system of state sponsored doping accusations russia has always denied and wada has been insistent that to move forward russia must accept the findings of the mclaren report this is stalemate and it doesn't look like either side is yet willing to back down but for now with the i.o.c. is decision it means russia's olympic athletes will be able to compete under their own flag and play their national anthem when they win medals

a huge deal for competitors and the country they represent and they were tutor r.t. . can speak loven of i'm not a brown a sports journalist and author of the sports integrity initiative good to speak to you and integrity that's the key word to wall of this how do you feel about russia coming back into the i.o.c. fold as other good thing or not. least it will remain a comply with what you are required to do so the i.o.c. is reinstated. as to whether it's. russia there was no systemic system i don't think anyone's arguing. is just it's just these complied with the required it to do. and we must remember the next twenty. twenty. what about the kind of the situation that russia finds itself in now i mean is this

a full road to recovery that we're all now where we say rosado reinstated this is russia pretty much been punished and now it's ok let's just move forward with a clean slate. not entirely i mean the russians you know as you rightly mentioned in your court still has to be reinstated so it still has conditions to meet regarding what requires it's doing our part that is to hand over light of some still held or three due to a criminal investigation being launched by the investigative committee of the russian federation but the samples have been held a number of years now and nobody's really sure i mean russia rocky's what argues that we can't release the sentence because they're subject to criminal investigations were chink however i. wanted that's a requirement i want to insist some samples are released and raised for any possible doping so again if you aren't going southward situation stand regarding not as well and as you mentioned it has to recognize the conclusions of the current

something the russian administration has indicated it's not going to do so no stone rates as you rightly pointed out looks to be the way who what do you think about the fact though that you know russia's been welcomed back it was claimed that it broke the rules in the worst possible way but it's been welcome but is there an element of fear hey do you think because there are so many rumors about other countries are on the on the fringe of being exposed to having many doping athletes is this we need to well be stronger together than if we're separated mentality. well you're right square no i mean one of the things that is not really been explored is the existence of second parents or tree within russia in roll do not i'm concealing concealing comes to us nobody's really explored that decision. so we got revelation. but what about other countries that isn't there a fear that this you know the scandal of doping could reach to other countries and

you know the i.o.c. would really be on its heels well it depends on whether there is any evidence or any or any systemic system in any other country i mean it's been alleged that systems exist in other countries by dr richard cook and so the director of the moscow diversionary. these these allegations need exploring and bringing to light whether richer or not it's too early to say well we they've they've taken his word on a lot of things the same so one would think that would deserve some investigation like you said we'll have to wait to see if any facts emerge of course many thanks andy brown i guess sports journalist and author of sports integrity initiative. now the belgian government decides to make it easier for police to raid refugees but it sparked a backlash details after the break. with

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back the south african parliament voted in favor of new legislation that could see land from white farmers see r.t. correspondent paula joins me on the line now more details on this story when i first heard this poor of this this is going to have huge implications if this actually does go through but how big of a surprise is this development. well it said it will have big implications although it's not much of a surprise to answer your question the south african parliament has essentially backed a motion that will seek to change the constitution and allow for land expropriation without compensation in a nutshell what this means is that white south african farmers will lose their land they will not be compensated despite the fact that this flies in the face of the

constitution as it currently stands now it follows the inauguration two weeks ago of the new south african president so obama poses who has said that he wants to use his presidency to try and redress the whole issue of land discrepancies in south africa and that he wants to speed up the transfer of land ownership from white to black south africans you have a situation in south africa today where it is two decades after the end of apartheid that saw a brutal colonization that resulted in most of the land being owned by whites and still today most of the land in south africa is owned by whites now as you can well imagine this is a hugely emotive issue for south africans you have the ruling african national congress that has long promised to redress racial disparities in land ownership the motion itself was brought to parliament by a radical party called the economic freedom fighters party now it has eighty percent support in the parliament but its motion was backed by the a.n.c.

which controls some two thirds of the south african parliament the leader of the economic freedoms fight his party julius malema had this to say. the time for reconciliation is over now is the time for justice we must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land. now malema is a somewhat controversial and radical figure in south africa in the past he has said that he's not calling for the sorter of white people at least not yet you also have a situation in south africa where in recent years there's been a spate of killings of white farmers so you certainly have white south africans who have been very afraid now those who support the change and the motions say that it will go a long way to restoring justice but of course you have critics who say it will do anything but that if anything they argue it will merely heighten racial tensions

that still exist in the new south africa. and that brings us right up to date many folks of course want paula slew with the latest. go to the news now the belgian government's facing a backlash over plans to make it easier for police to raid homes housing refugees the draft bill being considered word that officers search private homes suspected of sheltering unauthorized migrants devinsky one local who suffered such a road. when the new tourist jungle camping calley was torn apart thousands of migrant skagit many came here to brussels it was meant to be a pitstop instead for many it's become more permanent as belgians have opened their arms and their homes to my quince though for some that's brought its own perils five o'clock in the morning i heard the door. first kind of

a shocker with sleeping in so i wake up with a move in july i get back and i mean flow in my body and i can burn or say yes who is it it is ok that i have no idea where they really are the north while the government friendly and i saw third a man and one woman coming in the door pushing me aside going near her but asking me are you along yes i am a lot it was a case where three they went into the lobby when the the other side wanted to see if nobody was i would really have the impression i was a terrorist that something truly terrible happened sixteen year old mohammed migrant from sudan is the reason the police came around six months ago he was sleeping rough at brussels maximillian park if police going to park my somalia you only come to people they sleep there. five o'clock that morning everybody sleep they all you will see a police front of you if you are. a killer for the take you would

deliver. just wait there wait there used to be you. because they want they want you feel very but they don't want anybody marketing media and so when i came i saw in such a state it was really really you know lee's sixteen and he was there at least already for two weeks knows where to sleep along this path with some friends and nothing so i sent him home in august last year i spent the night at maximillian park it was clear it had become a transit point that thousands had already passed through fearing that a new callee could emerge the government began a program of raids and arrests well for now mohammed has a roof over his head it looks like the government is making a new play in

a bid to evict migrants like him it's due to vote on plans to allow police to search private homes suspected of sheltering unauthorized migrants that's provoked outrage was done yet some are worried that while many migrants are in need of aid others have more sinister motives some terrorists have used fake i.d.'s some terrorists have posed as michael and seeking asylum what concerns do you have about letting people into your home of course the risk of zero there's nothing exists so i cannot tell you that i will be one hundred percent sure that they are not the whole host of course but the persons of make runs that are taoist is so little. for the nuke hosting mohammed has so far been

a routing experience for mohammed it's changed his life how different is your life now compared to what it was just a few months ago three hundred sixty degrees at the surface and like that. everything. now i have formally. i mean the family and really familiar for me. for me i have for a i was all are and how fidel despite his good fortune mohammed says his family back in sudan always in his heart are so alone while you are solved there will bella everleigh while there may never have a hundred luck a lot more turmoil on our mother globe value not that our other guests in charlotte along with a shiver. he. and

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politics and media shining down hard on gun violence and mass shootings it's important to take note of some of the stunning numbers and tragedies being ignored or missed by the news media and capitol hill outrage machine you see they build those things just sit. in that harsh spotlight it's edge sometimes catching the light of day but most often not for the right reasons six hundred fifty murders were committed in the city of chicago with two thousand seven hundred eighty five shootings all in just the year of two thousand and seventeen but did you see any wall to wall mainstream coverage over this tragedy that's not to say chicago hasn't been covered no one is arguing that but the majority of that national coverage was not for the tragedy of losing six hundred fifty lives but rather on the gung ho political calls for getting tough on crime and locking up more young black males

and where is our collective us media outrage over the epic loss of life taking place around the world most often committed in our name the non partisan monitoring group airwaves reported that twenty seventeen was by far and away the deadliest year for civilians in both iraq and syria was somewhere between thirty nine hundred over six thousand civilians. were killed in coalition air strikes in fact the intercept reports that roughly sixty five percent of all civilian deaths recorded by air wars since the air campaign began in two thousand and fourteen have occurred over the last twelve months. you know my fellow you have said to us citizens remember each one of those numbers is an innocent life killed snuffed out loss to our government's foreign policy adventures and taxpayer funded weapons of war now let me be clear no one here is arguing that media coverage of the outrage and political fallout from the park and school shooting isn't important

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