no. the stories that shape the week there's a cold war frenzy in the mainstream media after president putin unveiled russia's new strategic arsenal in his annual state of the nation address the white house and the country learning of that new threat from russian president warning he said at first reason in the west in particular not to mess with russia and he says he's not bluffing one week on the humanitarian corridor or set up in syria's eastern to allow civilians a chance to escape continues to come under heavy shelling as of now only two children of managed to leave hope to bring you live updates my thoughts on that coming up in the program. and just a couple of hours now of voting left in italy's of general election after a bitter campaign over immigration and jobs with the e.u. nervously away from what could be

a game changing result. by the late sunday evening or moscow just turned eleven pm now my name is kevin owen welcome to the weekly around up with the big stories of the last seven days first that president putin outlined his vision of russia's future on thursday just gone delivering the annual state of the nation address to parliament he also revealed details about the country's new nuclear arsenal which he said included missiles that are too advanced to be intercepted by any existing air defense systems a lot of here's a senior correspondent explains more about this hardware he's talking about that's got western news outlets so worked up if you aren't russian in the first hour of putin's speech would have been boring taxes and corruption science and industry that sort of thing after that it got real hot real fast.

russia is a major nuclear power basically nobody wanted to talk to us nobody listened to us. so listen to us now rockets lasers nukes in a rush hooted unveiled an os and all of new weapons bigger faster stronger and deadlier than any that came before me as. i am the some super heavy i.c.b.m. two hundred ton missile capable of penetrating any existing defense in service at the end of the year next an enigmatic new development seemingly nuclear powered cruise missile it flies extremely low to avoid detection and can hit almost anywhere in the world says putin up next it's just fantastic an underwater

drone submarine also nuclear powered with nuclear payload it can reportedly underwater for months and months silent and undetectable next to the oven god the hypersonic missile extremely fost rockets that can actively dog and the vader anti missile defenses to do it it is heading for the target like a meteorite to top all of that off laser weapons systems though putin didn't go into detail saying only that it still classified the russian president says all of this isn't to intimidate or scare anyone or invade anyone these serious weapons designed for one thing restore and guarantee russia's strategic power in an age where an ever expanding nato is trying to nullify it. when it was we have no plans and have never had plans to use this potential to

achieve offensive or aggressive in rushes in his military power is simply a game. and see for peace on our planet for it preserve. restore parity in the world sure that there's no point in gauging in a senseless arms race after all mutually assured destruction has kept the world safe for the best part of a sentry president putin speech caused alarm in much of the western media that he addressed that head on in fact with n.b.c. news after many outlets accused russia of risking another cold war the white house and the country learning of that new threat from russian president warning he said at first reason and in the west in particular not to mess with russia computer graphics of missiles flying over mountains and heading over oceans and he says he's not bluffing several analysts in the west have said this is the declaration of a new cold war are we in

a new arms race right now my point of view is the individuals who have said that a new cold war has started are not really analysts they do propaganda if you were to speak about arms race then an arms race began at exactly the time in moment when the u.s. opted out of the anti-ballistic missile treaty but ima putin also said that the new weapon served to counteract washington's deployment of missile defense systems in alaska and california nato is also expanding further into eastern europe to two sites set up in romania and poland plus new locations assumed to be established in japan and south korea as well as part of several political commentators to get their thoughts on it they told us president putin speech that was really just about emphasizing that russia has an effective and up to date nuclear deterrent. these are not designed for war fighting these are designed to send a very clear message that president putin said quite clearly which is that these

these systems are basically if you mess with us we will nuke you and we will not hold back now that is a strategic statement it's not a statement about escalating to deescalating which is what the russians are often accused of and were accused of officially by the american government. decades after the cold war the usa really ruled the world and that balance of power is now shifting with russia coming in with many other major players from what putin is saying and i hope he's absolutely right that this is a deterrent against the american led defense system and that's a very important effective tool to have. i don't see an intensification of hostile talk or scheming and planning the kurds it's very reasonable to expect that in the short term there will be. calling upon moscow to reenter into overall forward and skip arms to go shushan talks that

is certainly the greatest likelihood and certainly what for dinner putting ourselves capabilities actually depicted a nuclear attack directly on the us the new it even snowed the russian reporter to try to challenge all that and it's not the first time she's caused issued caustic responses to journalists working for russian media either. if you're small to take in the united states it. sends a different direction so i had to say that they are you take out your hand from their shit yeah ok ok enough said that i'll move on. but. what is funny is that there is out there not. a fish because of the russian government the same question that was like ok.

good by the russian government back you were here as a representative of the russian government so called news organizations russian news if you were. misled about a great joke on. some. guy you know what i don't know if you are working for today or what but i knew my mother my. mother you. got it we got to go we. will talk to you after the know your proxy card that. table for the rockies for for cheap. so that was that this is still ongoing no final few voting in italy and what could prove to be a pivotal poll for the european union is being seen as a wide open general election too with some bitterly divisive campaigning in the run up mainly over immigration and struggling economy and this is

a reports that from rome. well it's a highly chaotic and unpredictable election and here in italy analysts have said that you need a magic ball to be able to determine what's going to happen here following this election in terms of the political spectrum we have it all on the central right to force italia party in the coalition or the right lega we also have on the central left the democratic party as well as the antiestablishment five star movement and a handful of other parties that are also partaking in this election now this is a system that's completely new as italy goes to the polls using an election law that has previously been on tested here not only does it encourage parties to form coalitions before the election takes place but it also makes it highly unlikely for anybody to come out with a majority and now this is an election that even italians have themselves have described as confusing the it was pretty complicated it was

a bit unclear and there will be consequences. while you are trying to gain the trust a very tense creating a mess like this amounts to a real shock. and in terms of the issues really one of the bigger ones here in italy has been immigration which has left nobody indifferent with all sorts of opinions flying around about this topic we do know that some of those parties have even promised to expel as many as six hundred thousand migrants another huge topic here is the economy because not only does italy have a big public debt that makes up one hundred thirty five percent of its g.d.p. the second highest in europe but unemployment is really high the economy itself has been quite stagnant over the last several years unemployment is high especially among the youth at about a third and all of these issues taken into account we can be safe to say that the rest of the european union is watching closely what's going to be happening here the polls will be closing at eleven pm tonight and exit polls will start trickling

in van this will come from. interior ministry which is right behind me and of course we will be watching how that unravels throughout the night. here be sure we'll continue to cover it bring you the latest syria now russia's military says only two children have managed to escape from the proceeds syrian district of eastern ghouta five days after russia set up the humanitarian corridor to try to help civilians leave it says that militants in the enclave have been preventing others from escaping by opening fire on them and that the insurgents are using the people there basically as human shields the u.n. security council earlier adopted a resolution demanding a thirty day cease fire across syria without delay now russia sees the opening of that forementioned humanitarian corridor and its attempts to establish ceasefire windows as some step towards implementing that call but we can tell you so far fighting has continued to rage between the government and rebel forces damascus says it's also attempted to send forty six aid trucks to that area but that

militants opened fire along the humanitarian route again aid workers station to the government checkpoint close to eastern ghouta told us about the plight of civilians there. and i'm sure with the syrian army and i'm ready to help leaving eastern ghouta we have ambulances here with the words of the enlisted here around the clock to provide first aid to people from eastern guta a medical labs also work twenty four hours have provided vehicles equipped with all modern facilities medical workers also ready. if there were some people who wanted to leave eastern goods but all of a sudden we only saw a gunman opening fire using mortars to intimidate civilians is still a hellish place right now let's bring up the map to get an idea of where it is eastern ghouta was is located just outside the syrian capital damascus it's been occupied by various rebel islamist groups for years no fight has been under siege his place since twenty thirteen bring it out again here to the north are good is

this refugee camp that it's hoped fleeing civilians will be real ok. needed to be in efforts to try to provide safe passage for those desperate people to escape are being coordinated with the syrian red crescent buses and ambulances are on standby we can report that people inside the insurgent held on klav are being notified about the location of the corridor with leaflets through load speakers and also text alerts first aid points then have been set up near its exit in an attempt to try to help those in most urgent need of medical assistance there are a lot of those people the situation in the district meantime has provoked heated debate as mentioned earlier at the un security council. the fighting has not stopped the opposition groups operating in eastern good to have made clear their commitment to the ceasefire on the very first day the militants use the declared pause to stop an onslaught on the second day the same mortar shelling has continued including of the humanitarian corridor but

a single person has left the danger zone. there were reports that the assad regime once again used chlorine gas as a weapon i'm tired of asking this but do you understand how pointless it would be for damascus to use chemical weapons both from a military and political standpoint whereas for the militants it would make perfect sense i think you understand this perfectly well but you persistently look for a pretext for an armed intervention. russia does not get you know laterally rewrite the terms of the resolution if russia is able to deliver a five hour pause let it deliver a twenty four hour one you wouldn't which really need to me because you're our western partners are portraying the situation as if the resolution applies only to damascus and to russia as if it all depends almost exclusively on the will of our country may i ask you what you have done to implement the resolution would have any

of you lifted a finger if you use your influence on those who you consider the moderate opposition have you persuaded them to lay down their weapons and release hostages. this is a situation a risk is a middle east expert and contributor with a monitor say tonight why do you think western leaders of been so hostile is the best way describe it towards russia's initiative to establish this humanitarian corridor or. well i think that whatever you know the russians try and do you're going to see this hostility and indeed you know the western hostility towards russia is absolutely undescribable the you know this level of hostility which we've seen ever since the post cold war period it hasn't reached this level you know what's not just about syria it's about other issues like those accusations which they make about russia for example

meddling in u.s. elections according to the western claims so we do have this preset him to i think level of demonization of russia. as i said whatever russia does in syria whatever it does anyway but including in syria and that will be a subject i believe of condemnation you know the west will continue to try in a portray russia as being part of the problem even. even while such horrors are going on in chile it's not even time for even a couple of days to put to put that aside what about the countries supporting the syrian opposition forces are they putting any any pressure on them to abide by the un's call for a cease fire on. no no they're not there there's no pressure whatsoever you know that you have this fixed american or you this not american i would work rather than here's west in this fix the western

stance you know that these just reflects all out evil and that space sickly the fact that you know they're not willing to back down from this stance i have to point out here that you know israel does have a big impact on this regard that i think that israel and saudi arabia they do have this ability particularly with the trumpet ministration which is so close to saudi arabia and israel they have this ability hence to stay. i think u.s. policy and western policy in their own direction are ever since it appeared very clear that the syrian government and its allies are winning inside syria israel has raises concerns you know which side of the speak for example about iranian build up with etc that all has the huge impact that takes a huge toll on this western policy but in addition to that you do have this

group of what we will what i refer to as cold war worry is inside the white house there are people like general mcmaster the national security advisor who are the people who have this you know traditional hostile anti russian stance so i just want to point out something very important to those people who are who are in the east in the water who are called opposition by saddam or are called this is a new sort of meaning al qaida al car there which is responsible for here were picked terrorist attacks and i think it's only natural for the syrian government and its allies to further protect damascus from this danger which is solely by a car the you know eastern water everything you've said there all the elements see it as you see it what's that going to mean for this thirty day cease fire is it done and dusted is it going to happen what about the poor people caught up in all this there. well obviously

it seems that. a lot of the wires go otherwise to be for two hours a car that in syria is trying to you the to use the civilians as a kind of you know way to a human shields or a way maybe to prevent the danger to protect themselves by using these human shields but according to my understanding the syrian president bashar al assad issued a statement about one hour ago saying that the operations in eastern will to will continue and that this the fighting will continue until that get rid of the terrorists at the same time president assad also said that we will allow for these exit exit route for the civilians so i think it's quite clear who's in there injuring these civilians the syrian government is saying that you know we are it's ok they can come when we can evacuate them give them a treatment and it appears that al qaida is using these means and that's nothing strange when you look at

a car the tactics car than other groups like isis in mosul for example in iraq and they use the same kind of practices are they going to leave it there i'm afraid but thanks for your time and your legs and lss on what's happening to be on the stage is middle east expert and contributor with our military risk on cue. this is out in the national with me kevin over here this evening coming up a palestinian youngster claims he was forced to lie about how he got a serious head injuries that had been released from israeli custody this story continues we'll tell you more about it when the weekly terms of. everybody i'm stephen ball. hollywood guy. proud american interests george bush and r.v. this is my buddy max famous financial guru just a little bit different. in your windows up with all the drama happening in our

country i'm shooting the good have some fun every day americans. and the stork to bridge the gap this is the great american. focus of ending the war and that's not to mean goldfish humanitarian concern which is the bombing of hospitals of all the civilians of the shelling of damascus by rebel groups that's a lot and also the body by the way as well surely that's a mix of that with the political objectives which some people may still have.

a number of districts in brussels of cold in the belgian government to reconsider plans to grant police greater powers to target migrants and you bill currently being debated would make it easier to conduct raids on home soil to shelter undocumented migrants shala dubin as he spoke to one local who indeed had that knock on a door. when the new tourist jungle camping cali was torn apart thousands of migrant scatted 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 migrants though for some that's brought its own perils five o'clock in the morning i heard the door. both kind of a shocker with sleeping and so i wake up with a look and i mean flow in my body and i came down or say yes who is it it is ok that i have no idea where they really are they know throughout the government

friendly and i saw seven man and one woman coming in the door pushing me aside going her asking me are you along yes i am a lot it was a case but really they went into the they went there the other side wanted to see if nobody was really have the impression i was a terrorist 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 used to be you. because they want they want you feel very but you know he's sixteen and he was there at least already for two when knows where to sleep along this path with some friends and nothing. from home 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 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 i cannot tell you that i will be one hundred percent sure that they are not the host of course but the persons of nigger and the that daoist so little footnote 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. everything. i have family.

really family and really for me for me. or for me i have for i was all. i have fidel despite his good fortune mohammed says his family back in sudan always in his heart and over here a hundred love a lot of oil. that our mother glow value not that our other guests in charlotte are along with a shiver. solet even ski r t brussels. story of another young person a palestinian teenager allegedly hit in the head by an israeli rubber bullet in december says he felt pressured to change his statement about the incident in order to avoid a longer period of detention guy's name is mohammed to me he's still being treated in fact he was arrested on monday is the latest in a dawn raid on a palestinian village nine other people were also detained during the operation having taken part in anti israeli demonstrations the day after his release though

israeli authorities published an official facebook post claiming the boy's injury was the result of his falling off his bike was self-inflicted it went on to say there's a culture of lies and incitement within the boy's family where you can see the apparent severity of muhammad's injuries there his his account of what happened to the police station. the if. they arrested me at my home at three oh yeah they put handcuffs on me and my brother then they took us to their camp when i was arrested i felt like i was going to be sentenced and they made me afraid when we arrived and they took us to the interrogation and they hit me while they were interrogating me to it. when i went to the interrogation place i heard people shouting and getting beaten and there were little kids there the officer started shouting at them to confess and also shouting at me. they started asking me why my face is like this and saying you look funny and said many things about me i

told them i fell off my bicycle to him. when i was injured i climbed the wall thinking they were gone and as soon as i looked over i was shot right here. and then i passed out and i don't know what happened. you know which way the story let's hope because by the same night that's the weekly for now thank you for watching if you're online the close up on your favorite social network up he's got it covered in all platforms one is kevin oh and thanks for watching about the next a live update the road to the weekend just about thirty three minutes time. make its manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final go

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