same event micron's said france would increase its support for the coalition in syria and reinforce the us military presence in the north of the country he also stated that he is unsatisfied with the astonished peace process since he believes it has produced few results across and went on to express hope that efforts by smaller groups of nations would serve as a bridge between the geneva and negotiations. as the syrian military works to secure complete control of the battle scarred city of duma kilometers of rebel built tunnels have been discovered r t has exclusive images of the vast subterranean network of it helps to sustain the islamist insurgents.

they starved this they harassed if they moved around in our blood as you see these tunnels are massive they make catches work on them as well as civilians that they wouldn't feed those who refused to work and you can see how big they are and how much they have in there is like a city beneath a city was the. product we would be taken to the spot where the fighting with the and they would give as a matter fifteen minutes before it started they showed us how to act and who to shoot the guy who told us what to do you would then disappear after that it all depended on luck before the fighting they used to tell us about you had these martyrs of jihad and about heroic death on the battlefield but other times they treated us like dogs. are the russian defense ministry has displayed fragments of several missiles recovered from syria it says the missiles had either malfunctioned or failed to

reach their targets they were part of the barrage launched by america u.k. and france earlier this month r.t. is nuclear and has more. well as you know we've been bombarded with two different versions of events of those strikes that hit syria in mid april and today the russian defense ministry really upped the ante by providing some actual tangible evidence all those missiles that it says were either intercepted or simply malfunctioned and this is going to be the barras thing development for the u.s. side which has lauded the success of those one hundred five as strikes which it said was were precise and overwhelming also dismissing any suggestions by russia that any of those missiles have been intercepted also insisting that the syrian air defense capabilities had been largely ineffective with syrian missiles merely being fired into open air take a listen with over one hundred missiles shoot one down the equipment didn't work too well there are equipped with. the one you know you heard all the show forty and

then they showed fifty and there were. no sure every single one of. the russian defense ministry also went into detail about the targets of those one hundred five missiles twenty two only twenty two of those one hundred five missiles actually hit their intended targets and it's been revealed at that that they actually hit civilian objects rather than the ledge chemical supplies the u.s. has been so persistent upon take a listen just to. some of the missiles don't reach the targets apparently due to malfunction the real threat to civilians there in civilian buildings at the same time the logic of the u.s. who kate and france in choosing the targets is unclear see there were stockpiles of toxic agents there if they were hit by cruise missiles this could lead to widespread poisoning and if it was for damascus itself tens of thousands of people could have died so this latest development is probably going to deal of blow to the

u.s. presidency ego as well he had boasted so optimistically about the performance of his missiles and after those strikes even still his popularity on the upturn with his approval rating jumping a few percentage points so this turnabout is not something we could expect him to let lie. the top diplomat federico greeny has warned against splitting syria and spoken in support of efforts to keep the country united she gave his remarks at an international conference on syria held in brussels greeny also added that the lack of cooperation could have a negative effect on the situation in the region with no meaningful un let's. focus and it's only a matter of time before the next made it to the escalation of the position of the use top diplomat seems to be far from consistent though calling on the world to stop splitting syria marina openly associates herself with u.s. policy by saying that you will fund serious reconstruction only in connection with

a new government in syria meanwhile the u.s. house of representatives has passed a bill ruling out any american reconstruction support to assad controlled territories in the war weary country the legislation says united states may look at the prospect for assistance if the government of syria is no longer led by bashar al assad and his proxies earlier we spoke to defense analyst and author ivan eland who thinks that e.u. and u.s. reluctance to provide humanitarian help evenly prevents it from reaching those who really need it. probably contradictory claims she doesn't want to split up the country but of course you know if she's aiding only the rebel areas that you use only. ending the rebel areas then that would be different from that but you don't know where the aid is going when you're putting it in there and i'm not sure you know the if and neediest people are getting it and the u.s. it is they don't like assad the u.s. government is never liked assad even under obama trump so they're trying to aid the

people that you know they they they that oppose the government which is probably a mistake since a lot of these people are islamicists but it's supposed to be humanitarian aid but of course. you know a lot of this can be used for politicized by the various groups and that sort of things but i'm not sure that any of this aid gets to the right people. the man who allegedly served as osama bin laden's body guard has been living on welfare in germany for more than twenty years with details here is political. even though some of the laden was killed in two thousand and eleven by u.s. special forces operation he was just the figurehead of the group and some of its members are still out there one of them it turns out has been living in germany for over twenty years now and has been getting welfare payments to boot he's been named in the media as a he's

a tune is he anational and he's believed to have joined al qaeda in afghanistan back in two thousand and illegibly worked as one of osama bin laden's bodyguards because he was already a german resident by that point he dented germany three years prior a need on a student visa when he came back he filed an asylum request that was denied in two thousand and six and a court in germany described him as an acute and considerable danger to public security but a higher court subsequently overrode the deportation order and they cited concerns that this man sami a would be subjected to torture back home in tunisia now sami a was never actually charged with terrorist activities in germany but all sources deemed him a security risk and he has to report to a police station on a daily basis he and this whole story has been unearthed again because it's caught the attention of the alternative for germany party they're the ones that put in

a request with the regional authorities to find out the status of this man and how much money he's getting in benefits payments and it's triggered harsh criticism from both the f.d.a. party but also from senior voices within angular merkel's own c.d.u. party german asylum laws being shamelessly exploited here do we have to give a terrorist tax money because we cannot deport him i have no understanding of these cool. now this situation where suspected terrorists use human rights laws to avoid deportation is by no. means that new here in the u.k. there have been similar cases last year a government report a home office report here revealed that over forty foreign born terrorists are devoid did deportation from the u.k. i think the reason this case with sami a in germany has caused so much concern is because it's very hard to stomach this idea that somebody who's

a suspected terrorist is getting government money. when it comes to asylum in germany political scientists who were sold told us the whole system needs a refund. these shortcomings of the german legal system and the fact that we are not yet ready to handle these complicated issues of immigration of asylum seekers we have to deal with this person as we deal with all other persons of this crime the thorny issue is there are states like tunisia that do not simply accept the return of their citizens to the contrary then do not make any of the missions that they would not torture they when going back this is an open diplomatic problem we have a new wave of discussion with our law system is adequate and is well fitted for handling these problems and without any doubt that in the cools off these legislative term

would have further clarification. russia's consulate in the us city of seattle has it now officially been shut down with police patrolling the perimeter after reportedly breaking the locks on the main gate to the premises earlier on wednesday two cars arrived outside right before the deadline set for russian diplomats to leave one person stepped out wearing a police uniform while the others were in plain clothes though the building is now empty it is being patrolled by u.s. authorities the russian embassy called attempts to enter the property unfriendly and added it will continue to monitor the situation the closure comes after president trumps expulsion of sixty diplomats in march over allegations of russia was behind the poisoning of former double agent sergei sprit paul and his daughter in the u.k. . thousands of people across germany have been demonstrating over recent attack against a person wearing traditional jewish headwear in the german capital the violent incident has led to chancellor angela merkel admitting that she is worried by

a spike in anti-semitism our europe correspondent peter oliver was at a rally in berlin. it was just last week when one thousand year old syrian asylum outlook and attacked two jewish men in the rather well to do friends allow a bird area of a lane no no no susan was going to fish there is your message she says to me do you know you know that from jewish leaders in the city to say they see jewish people should refrain from wearing the keypad now that prompted well that prompted many people to come out here on to the streets of the german capital in order to say that they were going to wear the traditional jewish headdress the the yarmulke depending on how you want to call it they came out here today this evening and said no we will defy that we will wear it and we are proud of our jewish heritage i spoke to some of those and asked them exactly why they were here and what they

wanted to say i think we really need solidarity with all or alert circles. within all or addictions christians jews people and. muslim make us well every religion has this right to live here and to leave and it's freedom to govern that's my opinion of my belief. to live here to govern otherwise it's. i muchly christian jewish people belong to the same group of religions as i do i'm here to show my support what's happening in germany right now is no good we've seen people beaten simply because they're wearing a kippah schools have to be protected at all times kindergartens as well this is unacceptable as we've seen from some of those people we just heard for this isn't just you jewish people that have come out wearing the yarmulke in support of the jewish community here in berlin people from all faiths have done the same thing now we have seen a recent rise in anti semitic attacks in berlin we have seen

a recent rise and understand that it is. events in germany in general some of those involving schools now we did hear from the german chancellor angela merkel who had this to say about recent arrivals and their contribution towards the un systematic problem in germany right now noir we have a new phenomenon as we have many refuges among whom there are for example people of arab origin who bring in another form of anti-semitism into the country fortunately and to cement isn't existed before that. and it's not that's prompted thousands of people to come out here to the streets of the german capital to say you know challenge the semitism in this city that you know the semitism in all its forms. a photojournalist to from gaza has died of a bullet wound he sustained while documenting a demonstration at close to the israeli border earlier this month twenty five year

old. was shot in the stomach by an israeli defense forces sniper he is the second journalist to have been killed or covering the ongoing great march overturned protest campaign house and was reportedly working at a permissible distance from the border fence when he was hit. the i.d.f. has claimed it does not intentionally target journalists and investigates deaths in such circumstances however there has been a global backlash over the israeli military's brutal suppression of the rallies in gaza since the end of march its soldiers have killed forty palestinians including four children during that period.

a number of incidents involving african-americans being arrested or asked to leave public facilities in the u.s. has led to protests by anti-racism campaigners three such incidents have occurred in only the last two weeks first one happening at a philadelphia starbucks where two black men were arrested after being told to leave because they had not placed an order another case took place at a golf club in york pennsylvania where five of black women were asked to leave for playing too slowly the club later apologized then at a waffle house diner in alabama an african-american woman was wrestled to the floor and arrested for allegedly belligerent behavior the video of her arrest has gone viral. the c.e.o. of starbucks ordered all restaurants to close for mandatory anti-racism training following a nationwide campaign against the coffee chain earlier we asked economist and author dave perkins and human rights activist randy short to weigh in on the controversy ok racism against the two shins is real and the prejudice is

real but we need to care about america as well as an entire society and look after everyone if we don't do this we're going to have worse problems two guys loitering and not purchasing products from the store while using their facilities how do you stop that from happening again i think there are a lot of cases where people are overboard in terms of responding to people of different races that they perhaps could dial it back but i don't think that's a little girl running the starbucks as best she can and reluctantly calling the police sighing saying loitering again is thinking about using loitering laws against black people yes there are people that have a literate and businesses yes there are folks out of order some of them a black but i've worked with a lot of white drunks in my day and they don't get handled quite the same way this

is a fact this is a problem that businesses are entitled to deal with especially those that serve the public in a way with limited space and a lot of turnover yes they're entitled to say you need to either order something or leave as along as people pretend that injustice and mistreatment of people is ok as long as it does not impact yeah that is the problem with the majority it they lack an understanding that it can be us today and it could be them tomorrow now this is where i asked myself the question at what point do you treat black people like ordinary people and subject them to ordinary rules of society at what point do you stop taking every incident as racism and start evaluating them as human be. means another actor that's my question. the pursuit of beauty has contributed to a humiliating fall from grace for the former leader of spain's madrid region cristina . resigned earlier on wednesday after

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i'm after him we're going underground forty eight hours since the world learned of british backed saudi bombs hitting a wedding in yemen killing or injuring nearly one hundred men women and children coming up in the show the u.n. security council today discusses syria we go to syria to speak to the m.p. for a number of foreigners shahabi and ask him whether british missile strikes on his country were based on lies and as britain's trussell trust reports that nearly five hundred thousand food bank parcels went to british children last year we speak to food bank volunteer and writer of the play food bank as it is about to resume allegedly putting lives in danger plus all the headlines why homelessness is a singular problem for single parents on the broadcast where you could be left out if you're left wing all the more government today is going underground but first remember this from eleven days ago because nato nation media of arguably already forgotten about it for our a.f. tornado bombers taking off from akrotiri in cyprus on

a mission to punish the syrian regime for its use of chemical weapons this evening i have authorized forces to conduct coordinated and targeted strikes but one of these suspected chemical attack in eastern guta joining me now from aleppo in syria it's a member of parliament far as shahabi who is also chairman of the syrian federation of industry finance thanks for joining us before we get to other matters presumably your predictably going to say that the assad government was not responsible for any chemical attack endearment. definitely definitely because it's a clear hoax many western journalists went there and they broadcast from there and with their wrote articles from their last the thirteen the hospital or clinic of dumas where there were the videos the original videos were shown all deny there was ever an attack including doctors and and medical the clerks and indeed the same

hospital so all evidence that there was nothing and the most important thing is our troops were nearby were there is no way and we declare victory in the same area that means there's there was no need to use any extra force including chemical weapons that we already don't have as the o.p.c. w itself said two months ago well obviously where in no position to verify what you say we're going to wait until the o.p.c. w. makes its decision although of course britain says it definitely was a chemical attack which is why they took their action you presumably believe it's a violation of the un charter does that give her the syrian government the right to attack britain because of in the name of the un charter in terms of self defense. yes i mean the result of that presumably because the how can britain and france and . now we call of the french pulled out of the white house hope that he that us in

violation of international law on the eve of the of the chemical inspection team ironical to damascus i mean before they start working before they start inspect inspection they just at that yes this is we don't live in a jungle it's you know the earth and the. whole world is not only united states and everything else is just the backyard certainly in the past twenty four forty eight hours the israeli government the british backed israeli government is now saying it will attack syria again if the syrian government uses russian defensive technology against missile strikes or what do you think of i believe to be something of us is just just is just pure israeli arrogance. let's let's wait and see let's wait and see if we if we get these you know or defense systems and they get that us and then we will escalate i mean we these these missile systems are to defend ourselves then we don't we don't want to get them to at the other

people there are there are surface to air defense systems so basically and we have had it with the israeli assaults on us many of many of these assaults took place to help the various jihadi groups on the ground everytime we got to an area to liberate an area i guess al-qaeda or i since once we are winning then the second day or the third day or even the same time we've seen an israeli strike somewhere so basically the israelis they have to be part of a big lesson not go after us anymore i mean we've found a couple of planes a month ago and we are willing to escalate we have nothing to lose we have nothing to lose that anyone but israel and everything to gain we are willing to escalate and we are ready to sculley it with these israeli. it's really cowards that just that us from a distance if you want to really go to war we are ready to go to or guess what when we got to or we've been in a war for six six years now seven years now what are you going to do are you going

to live in shelters are you going to live in bunkers for a long time let's this let's wait and see this wait and see you see that that's all very well and i would say that even in london there's growing recognition that your government has been victorious against the nato proxies in your country why did it take so long and well it took so long because we had we have like two hundred fifty thousand jihadi mercenaries from one hundred men from one hundred nations. in waves wave after wave after wave i mean it's a miracle that we're still you know all together was there not withstanding as a country. ninety percent of the population lives in a government controlled areas it's a miracle how we could withstand this terror just still to solve this little war supported by nato on us for no eighth year consequently and i say given that there's a recognition that you're winning time now to look at these strategic mistakes your

government made because let's not forget that your president was arguably sucking up to the british government shortly before this war began huge strategic blunders by your government as it tried to. pivot towards the west. we don't want to we really don't want to rush or force the west any more we have to be more balance in our international mission ship we have to really appreciate. the help that the help and cooperation we've received from our real friends in the russia in iran china many many other countries more than half of the world actually and we have to really. focus on strengthening the you know i wish it from these countries instead of really trying to please the west you know the bigger additional colonial powers the west what was wrong with the elite classes in syria that they somehow

thought that nato nations allied to israel would forget syria's role in protecting palestinian rights against those perceived to be israeli interest well but they actually did not think that they just try to modernize the country economically by by having some cooperation with western countries it's all it was all about economics it wasn't it wasn't like we're trying to really solve liberate the golan heights or solve the palestinian cause by you know being friends with the with nato countries and i guess even that is as great an austerity didn't it because you implemented neoliberal reforms that are yes led to the break out of this are absolutely revolutionary government absolutely and actually actually just a list also s.-chip in the civil war against this rapid liberal reforms we had to do with more in

a balanced way more slowly we had to focus on the disabuse of wealth we had to focus on economic and social development in the early years and we have to focus on local production whether industrial production or a bit of cultural production instead we we the government. rushed to liberalize the economy according to. you know world bank formulas that's really the to be just the one harm with. not one single good came out of there before you even get back to that kind of reconstruction of course they'll have to be surely some sort of truth and reconciliation committee or they just going to be massive death penalties against those that the assad government believe people trying to destroy syria. actually you know it's not as simple as those so we don't want to you know we want to hear the wants now we want to do all equally asia we learnt from our mistakes the hard way the hard way and i

hope we learn from our mistakes and we have to really more forward in peaceful beneficial way that every everybody in syria has to be a winner the most important thing is by winning the. conservation. because the option the building war and most importantly rebuilding the human be rebuilding. the people you know that you know these are our love for each other this is the real war this is the real battle and it's it's it's coming off the do you think it will take it live back in the us yes every inch of yes every inch of it will think about it live now it's worse than. than afghanistan was ever it's a small area. cluster with jihadi mercenaries from all over the world not only thought of all al-qaeda we have mercenaries from all over the world with

different ideological backgrounds not only like one color or one dimensional ones like we saw against their no this is the multinational. the numbers are so big. you know liberating it live and if there is should be should be a wall they ask i mean and if we want to do it then we should be appreciate it internationally because we are doing the world trade but right now we see when you when you say cleansing how are you going to liberate it and i'm going to ask this question did the syrian government ever use chemical weapons during these past seven years against even if one except that they were foreign backed proxies did the syrian government of use chemical weapons never never even when we had chemical weapons even before spent them in our chemical weapons when we had them in our hearts.