a lot less keep. up with. the last rebel terrorist stronghold in syria is surrounded all parties involved in the conflict prepare for what could be a final showdown in this seven year long war. i. two days of violence on the streets of germany leave twenty people injured as tensions boil over during pro and counter-demonstrations over the plight of migrants in the country chancellor merkel says the protests have become a witch hunt. and a prison strike in the u.s. enters its second week in what could potentially become the largest in american history activists are protesting in solidarity with inmates over poor conditions.

welcome so at the international live from moscow. thanks for joining us this hour. a syrian army troops have been moving towards the front line of the last stronghold of rebel and terror groups in the country the northern province of idlib these are pictures from the ground there obtained by a video news agency ruptly soldiers can be seen on top of lorries also carrying tanks artillery and other military equipment officers say their troops are ready for the final battle against militants so far they're waiting for the final order. syria has also been the focus of the latest u.n. security council meeting this comes after the backers of warring parties there have recently been accusing each other of plans for escalating the situation. has more now on how the involvement of the international community in the war has made the potential escalation an extremely risky scenario. it is

shaping up to be the end a lost showdown between jihad ists and the syrian army it is the last remaining stronghold of islam istead rebels tens of thousands of them the most powerful faction and it being h.t.s. or al-qaeda in syria and they're defiant cranking out and the sprog ganda. bear in mind many of them not even syrians islamists on jihad from china from central asia from the caucasus from morocco to baghdad with nowhere left to retreat what's worse is the foreign power buildup in the region out of the blue u.s.

cruise missile delivery systems guided missile destroyers strategic bombers a re basing and dropping anchor near syria days after the u.s. and its allies warned that take action if chemical weapons are used by asaad and russia which is beefing up its own presence warns that it's the easily mists that are plotting just that the us 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 were unprepared to respond should the president direct such an action the united states denies building up its forces but says it's ready to attack syria if need be the good news is that russia and the united states also apparently in talks to prevent any potential use. of chemical weapons but the

danger remains the worst case scenario an international escalation militarily the rebels stand little chance against the syrian army what could save them is a foreign intervention caused by for example a staged chemical attack. syrian armed forces have no chemical weapons and no plans to use them and that really because there is no military necessity for said this many times before sensible people will not use militarily useless means to draw the fire of three powerful countries upon themselves on the other hand after announcing it and waiting for a false flag attack from militants these very same countries can start on bartman that is what happened last time say the russians staged the incident in ghouta that led to a u.s. french and british cruise missile barash against syria this time what with the

military buildup the stakes and risks of an escalation will be much higher but it hasn't begun yet there will be a big conference on friday but chances of a peaceful resolution look slim the russian reconciliation center has been trying to broker a deal but the g. hardest 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 is many as two million civilians in need lib trapped between the hardest and the syrian army if talks fall through with chemical weapons a use that this battle drags on civilian casualties will saw not to mention the danger of an international escalation and escalation is imminent how that develops we don't know whether it goes. very fierce in the form

a very fierce confrontation between. on one side and its allies and syrian army and its allies on the other side we don't know we hope that it goes as it went in other areas like most recently in di's southern syria we are faction leaders understand that this is a force that they cannot. compete with or fight effectively and they see if they are people and their cities a lot of destruction and death so in that case you know people could go back to under government control as soon as possible to normality basically as soon as possible and we understand that many of them. are hoping to achieve such a feat. some three thousand anti and problem are going to activists have clashed in the past two days in the german city of chemists leaving twenty people injured their arrest was prompted by the arrest of an iraqi and syrian that followed the

stabbing of a local man on sunday peter all of the reports on the latest from germany. well the state of saxony in the city of camden it's a firm the 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 of right wing demonstrators took to the streets of kennett's and they were confronted by counter-demonstrators now that resulted in some violent scenes there was. a week. and what we have seen afterwards is something that has no place in the constitutional state we've seen the videos the show has become a witch hunt a mobbing that there is hate on our streets was. was a bicyclist and i was at the demonstration in chemist's on monday and the scene

there was alarming what happened yesterday is that over a thousand demonstrators registered but it turned out that there were about eight thousand protesters in kemet was . was a decent type and it was assumed 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 all those scenes were all sparked following the killing the stabbing to death of a thirty five year old man encampments 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 is. case now the scenes that we saw they really left people in the city of cambridge shocked at what it unfolded before their eyes between their people for immigration. immigration. and that's a problem for our country or our thirty year i have never seen anyone suggests refugees or have experienced anything like that. until the recent t.v. here fred situation my parents saved don't go into city stay at home came not from pantries say i was it came from they came from tunisia and sent us a problem and then makes the crimes of twenty people including two police officers were injured in violence we also hear from the police that they're investigating

ten people for having given the straight a nazi salute during clashes that is illegal here in germany. monday really monday night's 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. public anger over 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 growth has seemingly is not possible with existing security system also the judicial system to probably take care of the crowing 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. inmates 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 is planned to last nineteen days and encompasses seventeen different states prisoners are demanding an end to what they call modern slavery and for the introduction of a number of reforms. for that matter and today. i want to thank. you for.

all several american departments of corrections claim there have been no sign of any strikes in their institutions we asked them for written confirmation of this

despite reports we have not had any organized stoppages protests or lockdowns related to the strike at our institutions there are no strikes occurring in georgia the g.t.c. is prepared should that change we have been and will continue to monitor the situation only hide correctional institution in swan quarter salt protests inmates were allowed to hang banners from the inside fencing human rights activists claim some facilities have used violent measures to stop with stress. all of prison and all i been i was organizing rare were taken to administrative segregation and when kate is one of the organizers was shackled might have engel and rather cross the prison as a message to the rest of the institution states like new mexico and many others what they did is they began down the facilities and then kept all inmates in

isolation and there in their individual cell as a mechanism for stopping activity. ridiculous misinformation that's how the u.s. led coalition in syria is printed a report on our website the article about a syrian refugee camp was simply quoting the russian foreign ministry some miracle and looks for 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 for to secure the al town from 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 to work on refugee camp in syria and that the us government was fully aware of it which claimed as the coalition support to the misinformation

about the presence of feisal in the camp or that the u.s. was aware of it the group 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 in full treatment is well documented the last un security council report braced fears over potential fateful plots from inside the camp densely populated reuben 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 one camp has 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 or threat of once prompted 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 or isis people in but inside the camp. they. have been for them. to create some sort of sims inside the room when in the seas. to film the camp first story they were told it would be too dangerous because of the presence of islamic state fighters 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 are 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 or she 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 the hopes of a fresh lead in a trump russia collusion probe have been dashed starts off to be attorney for the us president's former lawyer but hold on his earlier claims he now says his client has no proof of any illicit connections more pain reports. 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 there's no 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 the. 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

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 top 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 it has been confirmed that it 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 c.n.n. host live on air the network still defended the decision to run the story anyway. a us presidential candidate an award winning war correspondent for the trump advise

of the u.k. opposition leader and a rock star in the face of it they wouldn't appear to have all that much in common according to one rogue so they're all supporters of so-called. goes down off 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 a sadist to but who 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 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 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 backing 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. we've interviewed a couple of them documented is this ridiculous in many ways but it's also deeply worrying and concerning 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 of my actual views on. what we're looking at here just with this blacklist is something published by someone who we had never heard of before totally obscure figure does 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 all over 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. with the general election looming in sweden right wing supporters gaining momentum summit a spate of arson attacks in cities where gangs talked cars almost two thousand vehicles have been targeted across the country since january earlier this month more than one hundred were hit in a single night. for the most of the custom have the question has to be asked of those people you want

to hack who are you doing out of forgot who do you think you are born as you destroy the whole area of the neighborhood for the children on their way to preschool you have to see burns out cards that are going to be hard response from society any of us so should our tears what if an ocean of visited one troubled districts with a local journalist. or. was. there something to. the hollowness well of this noble souls where we go. right now we're driving to the southern part of stockholm the swedish capital to one of the areas called by police as found the rebel area or especially vulnerable area or risk area how the air referred to it but in the media very often they call these neighborhoods right now around sixty one of them officially listed by police

as no go so and he with me is a swedish journalist tang three thank you so much for being my guy tonight. no gun zone in sweden seriously of course you can go dark. you will have a problem if you go to with the camera or if you're. from here's swedish vulnerable areas have been grabbing headlines over she teen in car burnings the latter has nearly doubled every ten years why do they burn the car and i think it's like the show police there were called for all of the area local police. a lot of people are angry because you know if you could walk if you have a parking lot with what the cost of all and you put one coral fire of course it will spread to the next gora next. week if mr common thing that people leave those areas yes as soon as they make some more money they move away immediately

definitely you don't want your kids to go into school here who are the thing. that sparked the discussion is it true or not if it's a local saw and. just some politician on the city give out for example a social democrat. he called it no it's a go go also you know so he went to holland i used to live there. every said with the police never figure out why they got all the way out of course. charge of a police car so they had to call for what you call the. truck to get the way the police got here will start to prove it's a go go so known for high criminality rate you know he's had also a reputation for drug trade. terrorists place where there's a lot of drugs. people up you kill it there are just go out there are. people standing here and ask for what i have on the line for you even if you're

blind you will see what they were dealing drugs it's not like they are hiding it that this is people who have also never ever i mean violent that would like to. know do nothing do they do know what the. mafia give me money no money ok. did he shoot it down you may know. but what we've seen across sweden small never been amy's looked quite tense just like the country's prime minister has described although he's never agreed many tend to blame him. number in the queen's speech nation. people think that it's related to these details of fifteen immigration crisis but this is because of immigration we are twenty years either a lot of these people are criminal or second generation immigrant parents can if

you want to be from arctic you could say that the worst is still ahead of us. some locals have dubbed the troubled areas no go zones although police prefer to class them as vulnerable areas there characterized by high crime rates and social exclusion social scientist. believes the root of the problem lays with the poverty migrants are facing. understand look. because she discovered. my grants to get into the labor market so it's not that's that's a big brawl and here we are. in there we cannot wait to. story. from the social democrats and getting into a very very. new york.

situation so all sort of course it got or. that's it for this hour from a team ourself here are to join us again in half an hour for the latest. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics score. i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.