it was. the ceasefire in the syria don't cave of eastern fails for a second day as reports of terrorist shelling stopped hundreds of civilians leaving the war torn area. facebook admits it still found no sign that russia interfered in the u.k.'s prox it vote despite a renewed effort to dig up proof. and south africa's parliament passes a measure that could see the entire white population stripped of their land without compensation. partridge and you're watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us. a humanitarian pause in the syrian enclave

of eastern ghouta has apparently been broken by terrorists per second day safety corridors established by russian came under heavy shelling from militants preventing civilians from leaving the besieged district the situation was heatedly discussed at a u.n. security council meeting is artie's chemical weapon reports. the assad regime and their supporters have been pummeling eastern ghouta where four hundred thousand people live under siege and constant bombardment needs to be understood and still legitimate targets of military operations they are asking civilians to leave eastern good to on the false premise that they can then attack anyone left in the area as much as they would like. someone specific ambulances are there because we've been through this before we know what russia will say today when you know you don't know they will say that there are terrorists in eastern guta so the assad regime can bomb as ferociously and discriminately as it wants to ask what do you do

to implement the resolution did you influence those who consider a moderate opposition did you persuade them to stop shelling and say can people hostage it was a heated meeting in the halls of the u.n. security council we heard from different countries addressing the council regarding the situation in eastern guta now we've also heard russia's president vladimir putin comment on the situation and point out that essentially this enclave in eastern guta is being used to attack civilians in damascus and that civilians in eastern go to are being used as human shields. and you know look i'm fortunately there are lots of extremist forces in eastern guta result is 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 reached the territory of the russian embassy should we tolerate this indefinitely of course not. there's been

a large number of efforts to protect civilians in the area russia carries out a five hour humanitarian pause on a daily basis in the hopes of protecting civilians and allowing them to get out through the humanitarian corridor furthermore the un security council has passed a resolution calling for a thirty day cease fire now a letter was sent to the u.n. security council by some of the opposition and rebel groups saying that they would honor this u.n. resolution however at this point always three hundred civilians have been prevented from leaving due to the the attacks they've experienced as they try to escape now the russian representative pointed out that these kind of humanitarian concerns and outrage were not being raised while the liberation of rocket was taking place because. when you were lumbering rocco's was you. it's be months instead of the city or through. the security council requires the

circuit looks producers to send a mission to assist you with that in news that there was quite clearly a gap in the international media in the way the different situations have been portrayed when the syrian city of raka and the iraqi city of mosul were being liberated by the u.s. led coalition and a lot of bombing was taking place so we heard u.s. leaders saying making statements to the effect that civilian casualties are just a fact of life civilian casualties or a fact of life in iraq and in syria people are much more accepting that because it's their city being liberated they understand where they were suffering civilians will get caught in the crossfire civilians will get hurt civilians will get killed if you want to liberate your towns and cities it comes at a price unavoidable part of war and commanders have to press on despite that the responsibility for civilian casualties in iraq and syria lies with isis

that is on them not on us that we are the good guys and munitions people on the battlefield know the difference. the arabic correspondent bruny reports on the latest developments in eastern. now how much any account it's the second day of the truce we haven't seen any civilians walking through the corridor it's known that there are many civilians who want to flee the enclave to leave it through the one and only korea there were open for civilians from guta however militants prevent civilians from exiting and don't allow them to leave through the evacuation route to reach the road to damascus the militant positions are just three or four hundred meters from the corridor or near the campus are offered in the syrian government has distributed leaflets a monster brilliance of the militant controlled and place with detailed information and a map on how to get into the area under government control we can see that everything is ready here to receive civilians and to deal with any difficulty money tarion situation. professor of political sociology dr saeed subject says it's the us that

is fueling tensions in syria by supplying weapons to various armed groups. always playing was fire the one who was doing that was fire is all it was for voting weapons was providing there is who is financing them who is providing media coverage for them. and trying to show that that what is happening in all that is is a must sardar is a big good must let go of innocent people what they care about is those whom they have supplied who they have finances who they have been breathing in the last few years and now they have lost the war but they don't have the same college to admit that they lost the water was do they just keep on bargaining making all those claims. iraqi refugees in the countries anbar province feel safer in camps than in the homes they're being forced to return to that's according to

a joint report called the long road home from three humanitarian organizations the report says eighty four percent of refugees feel much safer in that counts only one percent are sure they still have a house to return to while half of those questions know their homes have been destroyed testimonies in the report appears to reflect those figures. and. we didn't make it to this place without seeing death with a thousand times. along with what. we can't return to ramadi my house was damaged by isis i'm worried about the canned management telling us to leave and return home i heard rumors that he might close the camp but there's nothing official lots of my friends have returned back to ramadi but i can go i can't afford to repair my house the way that i'm not the only

one of them we are stuck in here like ship. well last month an arty crew was filming in the iraqi city of mosul which was liberated from i saw over a year ago but as these pictures show there's still little sign of the city returning to normal locals claim your searches have no idea what the situation on the ground is really like. how many bodies have you removed since you started working in this area approximately five hundred are there any more yes in houses and on their odds as you write and i challenge any member of parliament to live in the conditions we are currently living in here i bet they are even afraid of entering this area they have no idea how horrible the smell is or how critical the medical situation is. we haven't received any kind of aid or support since things finished here seven months ago on one occasion did they receive a small box of food problems no food nothing. melanie markham from the norwegian

refugee council who worked on the report says refugees fear traps and violent reprisals if they return home there's a number of dangers i think one of the largest threats is that a van exploded balls unexploded mortars and baby traps and in fact we heard one report of a family who returned home only to find their house be trapped and it killed a family member some of the other things that make it unsafe for papal violence from the community around them people who even are suspected of having links with isis particularly vulnerable but other people under the threat of violence by. members of their own tribal community so there are a number of reasons why it's unsafe still on so for people to return home. now the russian olympic committee has confirmed it's been reinstated as an official member of the international olympic committee r.t.

is there to richard or has the details. 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 full 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 drug 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 in these threads. well for the concerns i'm preparing for those saw him and the rights which russia already obtained so russia is once again an 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 situation of compliance was renewed the rosado is still noncompliant there's still

a way to go because the russian anti doping agency restart it 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. his 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 an idea or tutor r.t. now the head of russia's world cup organizing committee alexis iraq even told r.t. host stan collymore that the i.o.c. is decision was the right one. justice prevails that's the only motion thing that's

it's only it's only just. that after we complied with every requirement that was that has been put forward no matter what we think about this requirement but. russia has complied and just as has been done to us and very happy that our athletes will not complete a complete complete with their proper uniform and with their proper flag. afghanistan's president has extended a new army branch to the taliban following decades of war more on last sound of the stories after this short break.

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welcome back facebook admits it still found no sign that rushing to counts interfered in the u.k.'s breaks it votes despite a renewed efforts to want to have some proof. has more. this is actually the second attempt by facebook to investigate and see whether russia was involved in any attempts to try to influence the brig's that referendum in december their investigations found that there were three adverts which were taken out by russian accounts but the budget for those totaled less than one pound only reached two hundred people so not exactly extensive proof of russian meddling facebook vend went back and investigated again upon the demands of damian collins who's a leading member of parliament here in the u.k. and that's where that letter comes from again saying that there has been no

additional evidence of any russian interference in the braggs that referendum now mr collins traveled to the u.s. to try to grill the officials from a number of leading tech companies and again the message was clear that russia has been interfering in the democratic processes there be looked at all advertisements of any connection to russia and we found no evidence of our services being used to interfere in the referendum a very small number of suspected research agency linked accounts forty nine such accounts were active during the campaign which represents less than not point five percent of the title number of accounts these are very low level things now despite those testimonies that runs against what we've been hearing from leading politicians including the prime minister to resign may who insists that russia is up to no good it is seeking to weaponize information deploying its state run media

organizations to plant fake stories and photo shopped images in an attempt to sow discord in the west and undermine our institutions so i have a very simple message for russia we know what you are doing and you will not succeed so all in all thought really frustrating for those who have been attempting to find a link between russia and the briggs it referendum and no matter how hard you try you just can't find something that isn't there. well brooks it isn't the only case in which russia has been accused of meddling similar charges have been made about last year's catalan independence referendum our colleagues at r.t. spanish spoke with john in a read to a basque senator in spain's parliament he said the spanish government has also failed to show proof of russian interference. amid the stir that was caused by the spanish defense minister's statement made on january sixth that we decided to send an inquiry to the government for them to specify the cases of meddling which

are obvious according to the minister however there is no such station the answer that we received yesterday due to that we think that the target is to blame extra no enemy for all possible internal problems since the answers not been received in statutory terms the government will have to answer a verbal way to the parliamentary committee of defense when it is convenient for. south africa's parliament has voted in favor of new legislation that could see land from want to form a seized without providing any compensation artie's paulus lear reports. a south african parliament has backed emotion that calls for changing the constitution and allowing for lead exposure without compensation essentially white south africans will lose their land they will not be compensated this despite the fact that it flies in the face of the current constitution it follows the inauguration of the south african president oppose

a two weeks ago he has said that he wants to speed up the transfer of land from white to black south africans now despite the fact that a party ended two decades ago you still have a situation in south africa when most of the land is owned by whites this is a hugely emotive subject for south africans the motion was bought in parliament by the economic freedom fighters party now it did receive the support of the ruling african national congress that holds some two thirds of the parliament the leader of the affair 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 malema is a controversial and somewhat radical figure in south africa in the past he has said that he's not calling for the sort of white people at least not yet in recent years there has been a spike in the killing of farmers in south africa now those who support the motion

say it will go a long way to restoring justice but those who criticize it say it will do anything but there are those who say it will lead to unforeseen consequences and also will be a scapegoat that the a.n.c. can use to explain away its own failures nonetheless it certainly seems as if we're a far way from restoring racial tensions in a country that has so much history mired in them. afghanistan's president ashraf ghani has called on the taliban to join talks to bring peace and stability to the country has also promised to recognize the terror group as a legitimate political force. taliban ambush the taliban leadership and every other taliban member accept peace accepted with honor and come together so we can make this country safe and secure. all the taliban has yet to respond to the invitation but two weeks ago the group issued a statement calling for peace and urging u.s.

congressman to pressure the transfer of ministration into negotiations it came in response to don't trump only a declaration that ruled out any possibility of peace talks between washington and the taliban there's no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish what nobody else has been able to finish we're going to be able to do it political analysts muslim shares that thinks the afghan president lacks the all soroti to propose peace talks with the taliban why the taliban after seventeen years should come to the table with a government where the taliban saying they didn't have anything to to do with their solve otherwise the united states is going to decide the conflict of afghanistan and the other issue i don't think that the afghan government especially prison gani and in u.g. michel unity government can be tackled the ongoing issues because when you can do and compromise with your cabinet ministers i mean prison actually afghanis how you

can convince a group like taliban would defy the seventy years of the control of the territory for five years and now they have support of several countries to cut the table so the big question is do you have this authority to do forward. not because you know this is inside the country and they decide you should talk would have taliban or should fight with the taliban. germany's chancellor angela merkel has acknowledged the problem of so-called no go zones in her country it's the first time she's made such an admission artie's peter oliver has the details. we've seen an unexpected change attack. when it comes to talk of go areas in germany. there should not be any no go zones there can be no places where nobody dares to go because these zones exist and they should be named and something

must be done about it. burkle had previously used the same injury phrase no go area to describe parts of the country with a high crime rate but that rate has been going up the government's own figures released earlier this year point to a ten percent price in violent crime between twenty fifteen and twenty sixty ninety percent of which is attributed to young male refugees there was criticism of last year of the way the german media covered the refugee crisis in a highly respected group of researches said this editors acted as public educators and that the whole refugee crisis in the arrival of hundreds of thousands of people was covered in too favorable a light. and i doubt. that

. the only people who had been talking about no go areas were alternative for germany and they were around mocked for doing so are common enough that all guns are lying can you as a woman walk alone on vaal show streets on a weekend evening would you dare will pause for show or nearby streets and then they say and make it look like we are the aggressive ones and say bad things about the city no what we do is look at things in perspective what we do is simply address facts and facts only ladies and gentlemen. that is the thing in order to secure a ruling coalition angela merkel has been trying to win over the right wing of the conservative alliance and should try to secure that fourth term chancellor she may

well be thinking. taking a step towards the social policy of alternative for germany could help get those hardliners back on the side with the drop of a booming. on also talks wedding ceremony took place in a town in the u.s. state of pennsylvania on wednesday the congregation celebrated the naturals armed with semiautomatic rifles the church he invited people to come to a mass wedding armed with a ar fifteen rifles in an effort to show their willingness to defend their families and religion the ceremony prompted a local school to relocate their students to a different campus for safety reasons although the weapons were unloaded at the ceremony spot a counter protest outside the building criticizing the presence of arms up the service the event was held two weeks after a nineteen year old student killed seventeen people in a florida school shooting using a semi automatic aof fifteen rifle. well for more on these animals plenty of

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and salyut. history is a fascinating fascinating thing arc watchers especially in regards to how quickly we choose to forget or ignore our shared histories this week on february twenty seventh u.s. citizens got themselves yet another round of russia fear mongering this time in the form of obama era holdover admiral michael was rogers in the senate armed services committee aghast in horror over russian mid-term meddling at will rogers declared to the committee that president donald trump has not given him any new authorities to combat the evil russian cyber scourge of internet memes and facebook ads and that we're taking steps but we're probably not doing enough and if we don't change the dynamic here this is going to continue who there's speculation congress

prompted the un crowned queen herself as hillary clinton to tweet out i say this as a former secretary of state and as an american the russians are still coming. uhm this all comes of course without well any actual evidence the raj is in any way gunning for the us mid-term elections or the politicians running it haven't seen anything that they know is produced any evidence and basically we're all just supposed to accept all of this the word of our illustrious intelligence community and civil servant politicians. and you know and one of the great ironies that only history can provide all of this rush fear mongering comes on the eighty fifth anniversary of the rise tog fire yes february twenty seventh one thousand thirty three is when the infamous communist terrorist attack took place on the headquarters of the german parliament which i'm bold in the new leader.