the last rebel and terrorist stronghold in syria is surrounded as all parties involved in conflicts 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 kenneth sports second day the unrest was fueled by the stopping of a local man on sunday. hopes of the smoking gun in the trunk russia collusion probe a dash staff to the attorney of trump's former lawyer backtracks on claims his client has evidence of the list its contacts.

very warm welcome it's six 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 front line of the last stronghold of rebel and terror groups in the country the northern province of it live these are pictures from the ground up tamed by a ruptly 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 they're not the only ones ready for what could be a decisive battle for the future of syria our correspondent joins me in this. now

with more details i'm around thanks for coming and now we have seen a big military build up in why is this province why is it in a province so important well they believe shaping up to be the end the last showdown between islam and the syrian military it is the last remaining stronghold of jihad and rebels tens of thousands of them and the most powerful faction in eclipse is al qaida h.t.s. as they're called locally and they've been cranking out now defiantly and less propaganda. bear in mind that many of them aren't even syrians their islam is on jihad from

central asia from china from the caucasus from morocco to baghdad this is their last stand as i said what's worse though is the foreign power buildup in the area out of the blue you have united states cruise missile delivery systems we're talking here about guided missile destroyers about strategic bombers the rebasing in dropping anchor near syria days after the pentagon announced that they're prepared to take action if there are reports of chemical weapons being used by as'ad and russia's warning that that is exactly what is going to happen the rebels what details do we know about this military buildup we've been hearing about well there's there's information coming in the both russia and the united states propping up their assets the russian fleet is is the biggest that ever being in off

the coast of syria you have reports of submarines of frigates of destroyers and the danger here is that all of this you know less collation a potential escalation of chemical weapons are indeed used to stage the tax or otherwise. 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. the united states did not is that it's actively building up its forces but says the that does not mean it isn't prepared to strike at syria if chemical weapons are used russian the united states are also apparently

in talks this is good news to prevent any potential use of chemical weapons but the danger here remains worst case scenario an escalation an escalation that would involve russia the united states made to turkey iran and militarily observers note that the rebels now stand little chance against the syrian military in a one on one fight but what could save them is potentially a foreign intervention a strike by the united states britain and france against the syrian arab army it would be a tremendously dangerous escalation but it hasn't begun yet the russian we conciliation center on the ground in syria is trying to broker a deal is going to be a meeting on friday an international conference on perhaps resolving this peacefully but so far the jihad has to specially the hard line months remain

defiant our weapons are the source of our strength and thinking about surrendering to the enemy and handing over weapons will be considered treason. worst of all is that there are approximately two million civilians trapped in the live trap between jarvis on the one hand and the coaching syrian military on the other if you know if talks fall through with chemical weapons they use that this battle dr zon if there's a foreign intervention. the civilian casualties a going to saw as sad as that is but that isn't to mention the danger of an escalation between nuclear superpowers. thanks for coming in to bring in as those details will be keeping a close eye on the situation of course. moving on now some three thousand anti and pro migrant activists have clashed in the past two days in the german city of

kenya it's leaving twenty people injured the un rest was prompted by the arrest of an iraq into syria that was following the stabbing of a local man on sunday artist peter all of a report on the latest from germany. well the state of saxony in the city of kemet to firmly focus across germany across whitey europe and even across the wider world this follows. a night of violence that we saw on monday evening thousands more that were expected. right wing demonstrators took to the streets of candidates and they were confronted by we counted demonstrates is now that resulted in some violent scenes there was. on the scene where we have seen after the killing does not have a place in the state governed by the rule of law we saw videos with harassment and hate on the streets was

a car. bicyclist 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 kemet most of them were right wing's was was was. was. a decent site. it was a scene from the beginning that there would be twice as many demonstrators as were registered but it turned out that there were about four times as many right wing demonstrators as initially planned for home all those scenes were all sparked following the killing the stabbing to death of a thirty five year old man in cam that's in the early hours of sunday morning two

men in their early twenty's one from iraq and one from syria were taken into custody we've heard from prosecutors that they've ruled out self defense in stopping in fact they're looking to. pursue a charge of culpable homicide in that case now the scenes that we saw they really left people in the city of came that shocked. before their eyes between the people for immigration and the people. and that's a problem for our country or our thirty years i have never seen anyone suggest refugees or have experienced anything like that. received. here fred situation my parents say it don't go in the city stay at home came not from pantries so i was it came from our own cause i came from tunisia and

that is a problem and that makes the crimes of twenty people including two police officers were injured not violence we also hear from the police that they're investigating ten people for having given a straight nazi salute during clashes that is illegal here in germany. monday really monday nights violence really bringing the whole situation in the splits in german society firmly in focus as the right wing and the left wing of german society clashed in saxony political analyst raina rothfuss believes public anger migration poses a real threat. well we can see that the tensions grow higher and higher in respect to the migration issues and the related security issues and the frustration among certain parts of the population grows as into the seemingly is

not possible with existing security system also the judicial system to probably take care of the growing challenges becomes a real threat that citizens who are already really frustrated and aggressive take to the streets and. try to punish. people who look as if they were refugees or migrants and attack them. hopes of a fresh lead in the trunk russia collusion probe past been dashed asked after the attorney for the u.s. president's former lawyer backpedaled on his earlier claims he now says his client has no proof of any illicit connections on his kind of 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 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. 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 a term. 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 the story had panned out it would have meant that finally bob muller 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 trouble associates but nothing related to rush it looks like michael collins 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 from lawyer was actually one of the main sources for a c.n.n. story about collusion this point below 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

. a us presidential candidate to the award winning war correspondent a former trump advisor the u.k. opposition leader and the rock star on the face of it they wouldn't appear to have all that much in common but according to one blog that all supporters that so called assad is them it goes down of explains. 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 to say this to 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 couper lines of regime propaganda narratives steve bannon 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 sad 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 young bull 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 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 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. interviewed a couple of them documented is just ridiculous in many ways but it's also deeply what england concerning it is part of a witch hunt against people who don't accept the government line the military intervention in the middle east support is based on no facts whatsoever. really. takes no account whatsoever of 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 this 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 over the list was a bit of a nobody before giving me his catalogue but as its popularity swells let the public shaming comments. are going to take a quick break now do stay with us. israel's got a lot of oil but there are many refineries and this is take the oil you know they're trying to levers are well positioned through the machinations of a crypto currency you know my suggestion is you know maybe build

a few refineries you know sell a higher end product and put that money back into the economy in this way may take ten or fifteen years but you're not going to be now taken over by some cia operative. seemed wrong. move just don't hold. any. to shape out. come out to. an engagement because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

welcome back where dick you know some misinformation fast how the u.s. led coalition in syria is branded a report on our website altie don't comb the article about a syrian refugee camp was simply quoting the russian foreign ministry samir akong looks at the accuracy of the claims in question. colonel sean ryan spokesman for operation here at 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 r.t. the coalition is focused on defeat isis mission and we continue to work with fora to secure the el temps region in southern syria the article in question was in an op ed that a quote 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 faisel plots from inside the camp densely populated rule camp in southern syrian arab republic contains some eighty thousand internally displaced persons including families of eisold fighters a situation which member states fear might generate new eisel cells and group on campus been hit by at least four terrorist attacks over the past three years the islamic state has claimed three of them in fact the ice will track one stop to the jordanian government to close its border near the camp and concern over possible

infiltration is one of the reasons that jordan has cited for being its borders closed syrian refugees. there are some. people waiting but inside the camp. they. have been for them. trying to. create some sims inside the room when n.b.c.'s. sought to fill in the camp for a story they were told it would be too dangerous because of the presence of islamic state fighters safe so or at least it's meant to be but the jordanian military pilot 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 to 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 i so we look forward to your answer. and maids in the u.s. are staging what could become the largest prison strike in american history the peaceful protest which is now into its second week his plan to last nineteen days and and compass is seventeen states prisoners are demanding an end to what they call modern slavery and for the introduction of a number of reforms. that

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american departments of corrections claimed there has been no sign of any strikes in their institutions we've all just for written confirmation of this despite reports we have not had any organized stop at us protests or lockdowns related to the strike at our institutions. the roman strikes occurring in georgia the g.t.c. is prepared should that change we have been and will continue to monitor the situation only hard correctional institution in swan quarter soul protests inmates were allowed to hang banners from the inside fencing human rights activist cylinder guerrero claim some facilities have used violence measures to stop the strikes angola prison until i'd been i was organizing when were taken to

administrative segregation and when cases one of the organizers was shackled my head engel and drug across the prison as a message to the rest of the institution states like new mexico and many others what they did is they began lockdowns of all facilities and kept all inmates in isolation and their and their individual cell as a mechanism for stopping at it. well if you have something to say about any of today's stories would love to hear from you so do get in touch by following us on social media and leaving your comments back we'll be back in about thirty minutes with the latest headlines join us then if you count.

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also i am not happy in my life. i see a man have to die. max kaiser this is the kaiser report the show that goes further just say we go really far in fact in this episode not only are we in new york but in the second half you're going to be in washington d.c. with none other than tone they own base wow almost and forward it because we interviewed him when we were on our way up here stopped in washington d.c. to talk to him and then we came here to report the news to you and i want to talk about a story that happened last week and it is about venezuela because they are the first to introduce a crypto currency as

a unit of account so this is something actually when we were in washington d.c. and we saw safe dean talk about his book the bitcoin standard he foresees big cooling as a unit of trade account around the world and this is i think obviously madeira and venezuela have are not going to be able to have a genuine crypto currency and we centralized this could be command and control nevertheless they've broken. the barrier to entry so they've got this concept of a unit of account that is a crypto currency yes but i think it's an important milestone i don't think it's going to be all that successful but it is breaking the crypto ceiling if i may coined that phrase with a sovereign and we have other sovereigns in the wings the marshall islands minor stan are going to go into crypto currency to govern their territory and once we get the game theory played out on the geo political level that's inherent in the

bitcoin protocol the magic of the incentives as iterated in suppose she's white paper are going to put the koba on the currency nightmare that has plagued humanity for many many. part of the global imbalances that we see that are causing the geo political strife that is caused by the fia currencies that is caused by not having a trade unit of account it's always been gold and obviously america became very powerful and when they had a huge imbalance whereby they owed a lot of gold to the rest of the world they decided in one nine hundred seventy one forget it we're not going to give you your gold and they defaulted that was one of the probably i would say the biggest the fault in history bigger than any of the currency crises and devaluations we've seen anywhere else boy you know i never really put it on the scale like that but you could be correct they defaulted are real money.