i've seen long have to guard. the last rebel and terrorist stronghold in syria is surrounded as all parties involved in conflict prepare for what could be a final showdown in this seven year long war. twenty people have been left injured after thousands of anti and pro migrant protesters clashed in the german city of candidates for a second day the only rest was filled by the stopping of a local on sunday. hopes of the smoking gun in the trump russia collusion probe on the damaged after the attorney of trump's former lawyer backtracks on claims his client has evidence of illicit contacts.

a very warm welcome it's five pm here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international with me. our top story this hour syrian army troops have been seen moving towards the frontline of the last stronghold of rebel and terror groups in the country the northern province of lib these are pictures from the ground obtained by our video news agency soldiers can be seen riding on top of lorries carrying tanks artillery and other military equipment officers say their troops are ready for the final battle against militants but so far they're waiting for the order and then all the only ones ready for what could be a decisive battle for the future of syria all artes more advanced you have joined me in the studio now with more details on this more i thank you for coming in now we've seen a big military build up in a province. why is this province so important when it's the last as you said rebel

stronghold in syria this is where they'll be making their last stab we're talking here about tens of thousands of jihad ists and rebels the most powerful faction in a libyan h.t.s. or rebranded al qaida in syria the smaller groups paying who much to them and taking orders from them bear in mind that many of these jihadi foreigners they're from goods from china central asian school cajuns arabs from morocco to iran jihad just of all flavors that have flocked to syria to fight this we war jihad as they call it and these this is their last stand and rebels have been cranking out propaganda nonstop.

also as showdowns go this is this is it this is zero and they'll have nowhere left to retreat if they do indeed lose here tell us more about this military buildup that we're hearing about well this is what's so worrying and unexpected out of the blue we start hearing reports of increased u.s. military presence in the area we're talking about cruise missile delivery systems cruise missiles who's been the weapon of choice when the united states britain france every time they strike at the government of president bashar assad of his forces we're seeing guided missile cruisers destroyers being stationed in the area strategic bombers rebasing to the area and you know it's. the question why of course is all happening near days after the united states france and britain again

warned that take action if there's any reports of chemical weapons being used and that is something that russia has warned could be imminent. the u.s. continues to expand its presence of cruise missile carriers in the middle east which is connected to the preparations for another false flag incident allegedly involving chemical weapons russian reports of u.s. military buildup in the eastern med and nothing more than propaganda it's not true that does not mean however that we are prepared to respond should the president direct such an action. injectivity speaking the rebels have from a military point of view a little child's in in this fight what could save them is an intervention an intervention by the united states britain and france whereby they could attack the syrian arab army if they did so the rebels would stand more of a child so it's the russians are saying it's in their interests and they're

planning to stage a chemical attack to pull the united states france france and britain into this war and prevent you know the destruction at the hands of the syrian arab army nevertheless we must bear in mind that the other worrying thing is that there's so many civilians two million approximately civilians in libya amidst all the jihad is still the rebels and that is what is worrying human rights groups as well as turkey turkey and russia who are still going on friday last minute talks about the adlib offensive turkey has tried to segregate the extremist rebels from the more moderate ones but it has been unsuccessful it is complain that hard line jihad just impeding it trying to do their best to prevent any sort of any sort of sort of the russian reconciliation center that he said when syria is trying to work out a deal is trying to avert the hostilities but progress is being lackluster

in the job this have said themselves they'll be no surrender here. our weapons are the source of our strength and on thinking about surrendering to the enemy and handing over weapons will be considered treason. so there you have it a last big showdown in syria to win the civil war the dragged on for seven years now the next few hours and days could prove to be incredibly decisive but as always our concerns are with the civilians in the area thank you for that update. i'm moving on some three thousand down to me and probably my current activists have clashed in the past two days in the german city of kevin nix leaving twenty people injured the unrest was prompted by the arrest of an iraqi and a syrian following the stopping of a local man on sunday we can now cross live to germany and to our correspondent there are all of a piece that we've been hearing reaction today from german officials about mondays and rest have

a way. yes that's right well the stabbing to death of thirty five year old man in the early hours of sunday morning has really brought the city of chemist's and the state of saxony firmly into focus across germany crosswise to europe in the wider world the two people that have been arrested in connection with the killing of two men in their early twenty's one from iraq and one from syria no prosecutors have said on tuesday that they have ruled out self-defense in that incident and they will be pushing ahead with a charge of culpable homicide well that initially saw a group of far right demonstrators come out onto the streets marauding through the streets of. sunday reportedly looking for foreigners and now it's well only was ramped up on monday evening when thousands more that were expected right

wing demonstrators took to the streets of kennett's and they were confronted by left wing counter-demonstrators now that resulted in some violent scenes there here in the state capital of saxony dresden we've heard from lawmakers who've been shocked by the state of the violence and they were joined in that shock by chancellor angela merkel. because in the us what we have seen after the clearing does now have a place in the state governed by the rule of law. we saw videos with harassment and hate on the streets it was the sickest and i was at the demonstration in chemist's on monday and the scene there was alarming it shocked me personally what happened yesterday is that over a thousand demonstrators registered but it turned out that there were about eight thousand protesters in chemist's most of them were rightwing us it was.

the only two decent type and it was a scene from the beginning that there will be twice as many demonstrators as were registered but it turned out to there were about four times as many rightwing demonstrators as initially planned home it was it was. twenty people were injured during those clashes between right and left including two police officers ten people are also being investigated by the police for having given the straight arm nazi salute something which is banned against the law here in germany as well monday's demonstrations spiraled into violence. between the people for immigration and. immigration. and that's a problem for our country or our thirty year i've never seen anyone suggest refugees

or have experienced anything like that. until the recent trends here fred situation my parents saved don't go into city stay at home came not from pantries so i was it came from morocco as they came from tunisia and said it's a problem and that makes a crime. but all eyes are on the state of the me right now is violence erupting on monday evening following the violent death the killing of a thirty five year old local man on the in the early hours of sunday morning as these violent scenes really highlighting the splits in german society. ok thank you for the state as i thought his piece on of our reporting from germany. our political analyst a rain a role first spell of public anger either migration poses a real threat. well we can see that the tensions grow higher and higher

in respect to the migration issues and related security issues and so the frustration among certain parts of the population groups. seemingly is not possible with the existing security system also the traditional system probably take care of the growing challenges to become a real threat to citizens. already really frustrated and oppressed take to the streets and. try to. look as if they were refugees so migrants. attack them. now hopes of a fresh lead in the trump russia collusion pro palestinians our first that's also the attorney for the us president's former lawyer backpedaled on his earlier claims

he now says his client has no proof of any illicit connections. reports from new york the attorney representing trump's lawyer michael cohen has been going around the mainstream media indicating that he's getting ready to release a bombshell about trump russia collusion now the press has been salivating like a hungry hound anxious to get their hands on the smoking gun the trump russia probe has been waiting for i can tell you that. mr cohen has knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest to the special counsel and is more than happy to tell the special counsel all that he knows davis isn't just speaking in generalities he said he had information about the d.n.c. being hacked he also said he had information about the now infamous meeting between donald trump jr and two russian nationals supposedly about digging up information about hillary clinton now he says he's willing to share. all this information with

the special counselor except now he's backtracking he says it's all a big misspeak i should have been more clear including with you that i could not independently confirm what happened i regret my ira now the attorney for michael cohen isn't just retracting his own words he seems to be throwing cold water on something that c.n.n. treated like a breaking news explosion sources with knowledge tell myself and call that michael cohen claims then candidate donald trump knew in advance about the june twenty sixth meeting in trump tower crucially these sources tell us that cohen is willing to make that assertion to the special counsel wabbit moeller the reporting of the story got mixed up so michael cohen does not have information that president trump knew about the from terror meeting with the russians beforehand or you know this c.n.n. stands by its report why let the truth get in the way of a good story but for donald trump who has been screaming the f.

word for months that word is fake by the way this fits his narrative perfectly michael cohen's attorney clarified the record saying his client does not know if president trump knew about the trump tower meeting out of which came nothing the answer is that i did not know about the meeting just another phony story by the fake news media so why is this such a big deal well if this story had panned out it would have meant that finally bob had some significant evidence it's been over a year and a half since the special counsel has been sent out to investigate issues related to trump and russia collusion so far he has uncovered some foul play from some former trump associates but nothing related to russia it looks like michael cohen's lawyer had everyone convinced that finally there would be some real evidence surfacing but alas it looks like we got faked out again still no evidence back to square one but it looks like the investigation has no sign of stopping. r.t.

. new york. in the latest development has been confirmed that cohen's lawyer was actually one of the main sources for a c.n.n. story about collusion despite the lawyer lanny davis himself backtracking on those claims to a c.n.n. host live on their the network still defended the decision to run the story anyway . now ridiculous misinformation that's how the u.s. led coalition in syria has branded a report on our website r.t. dot com the article about a syrian refugee camp was simply quoting the russian foreign ministry samir a car looks at the accuracy of the claims in question. colonel sean ryan spokesman for operation here and resolve the u.s. led coalition against myself said that we were pushing quote ridiculous information after reading one of the articles of syria to be distracted by ridiculous misinformation from oxy the coalition is focused on defeat isis mission and we continue to work with. to secure the l.

towns region in southern syria the article in question was in an op ed that it quotes from the russian ministry of foreign affairs who asserted that i still had infiltrated work on refugee camp in syria and that the us government was fully aware of it which claimed as a coalition support to the misinformation about the presence of feisal in the camp or that the u.s. was aware of it the look on refugee camp is located in the southwestern all done such region in syria in an area controlled by the international coalition it's one of the largest refugee camps in syria hosting tens of thousands of refugees and islamic state infiltration is well documented the last un security council report braced fears over potential fateful plots from inside the camp densely populated ruled by on camp in southern syrian arab republic contains some eighty thousand internally displaced persons including families of i still fighters a situation which member states fear might generate

a new eisel cells and group on campus been hit by at least two or terrorist attacks over the past three years the islamic state has claimed three of them in fact the ice or threat of ones trying to deter dany in government to close its border near the camp and concern over possible infiltration is one of the reasons that jordan has cited poor being its borders closest syrian refugees. there are some. people. trying to. create some. good in the cities. sought to fill the camp for a story they were told it would be too dangerous because of the presence of islamic state fighters just say so or at least it's meant to be but the jordanian military pilots who took us in wouldn't fly over it and the isis fighters these people fled from our inside it so the presence of ice on the camp hasn't been

a secret washington stated goal in syria is the defeat of islamic state terrorists so it's hard to believe that their presence in an area controlled by the international coalition would go undetected if the u.s. military isn't aware of the issue ortiz is more than ready to provide open source information party has reached out operation here at resolve to find out what part of the article was misinformation but we've yet to hear from them that's international would like to know what part of this article was ridiculous misinformation if there are no ice or fighters in the area what is the mission of the us military base in the region given the stated goal of all us operations is the defeat of isis we look forward to your answer we'll be back after this very short break stay with us.

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string i don't rightly don't t.v. . welcome back a us presidential candidates and i want a winning war correspondent a former trump advisor to the u.k. opposition leader and a rock star on the face of it they wouldn't appear to have all that much in common but according to one blog they are all supporters of so-called sunday's them it goes down of expense. labeling people as in fashion has been for the past couple of years in fact populist mainstream deplorable or when it comes to syria and a scientist like a sadist a but it also supports the syrian president at least that seems to be the logic behind an index of names recently claude together i chose primarily this term rather than the narrower term pro assad because some of the public figures in this

list explicitly denied being pro assad but still persistently repeat coraline's of regime propaganda narratives steve baron and glenn greenwald boris johnson norm chomsky let's say the chances of coming across any other list banding these people together are slim you published an article full of lies because you're too lazy and or malicious to care that you're doing it i never defended the assad regime in my life this is astonishing how many useful directory of people defending this sudra sheen what an absolute joke in fact the author was quite meticulous coming up with a ten point quote unquote scale of a side ism and having read through those i figured that maybe i should offer my amble assistance in completing this list as by no means does it look finished take this point implying the west has somehow supported al nusra or isis i think we're back in people we have no idea who they are the rebels we call of the rebels the

patriotic rebels we have no idea lot of people think you know that they are isis how about expanding it with the whole staff of the us state department and they denied entry to the leader of the white helmets over security concerns and after all being mean to them is a capital offense to any individual in any group. suspected of. ties or relations with extremist groups or was that we had believed to be a security threat to united states we would act accordingly but as for those who are. already on the list of interviewed a couple of them document is this ridiculous and many ways but it's also deeply worrying and concerning averted it is part of a witch hunt against people who don't accept the government line on military intervention in the middle east supporters based on no facts whatsoever. really.

takes no account whatsoever my actual views on. what we're looking at here just what this black list is something published by someone who we have never heard of before totally obscure figure is just like comical level of research and it's being promoted by the same people who have been not only promoting western intervention in syria but who have been dedicated for the past two years to attacking and smearing anyone who gets in their way the author of the list was a bit of a nobody before giving man birth to his catalogue but as its popularity swells let the public shaming commence. the un say the military officials in myanmar should be prosecuted for genocide accusing them of the greatest crimes against a range of muslims the minority group which number to around a million at the start of two thousand and seventeen are not regarded as citizens of the southeast asian country the patterns of gross human rights violations rape

gang rape sexual slavery forced nudity and mutilation of the greatest crimes under international law we didn't. cooperation from the myanmar government we are deeply disappointed that state cancer down suki has not used the position or the moral authority to prevent or condemn the unfolding events in it over the years that. the country's defacto leader has repeatedly denied any ethnic cleansing has taken place she also blocked the u.n. fact finding mission from accessing the area in two thousand and seventeen or despite that she's been seen as something of a hero in the west she previously want to nobel peace prize and a u.s. congressional gold medal hollywood even made a film of her life story while top world leaders called her an inspiration power of

your example which is inspiration to people all around the world including myself a fearless champion of human rights and democracy your example your perseverance and your beliefs is a huge inspiration to people across britain and people around the world. clearly you will be playing a key role in your country's future for many years to come thank you for your inspiring message. head of the u.n. fact finding mission in myanmar most suki there are as many believe the country's leader has ignored the atrocities in the region when you use terms like ethnic cleansing which i think is a little extreme i don't think this ethnic cleansing going on i think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what's happening at the state cancer. would have been a boon to do more good and what she has done. she was clearly. of her responsibilities reduced to

disappointment that if you don't you moral authority. to do something about this either to stop. policies. you need to be there to address. the u.n. considers the range of the most persecuted minority in the world and just call the situation a human rights catastrophe at least three hundred ninety two of the villages have been destroyed and thousands killed as a result of the military offensive the un also said women had been gang raped and children assaulted. would you get in touch and share your thoughts on all of our stories by following us on social media and join us again at the top of the hour.

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