the. these this is. the old in there was and still is a funny thing these crowds of. the russian military plane was shot down off the coast of syria killing fifteen servicemen the president calls it a tragic chain of events after the russian defense ministry accused israel of provoking. israel admits war planes in. the time of the tragedy but insists that damascus is fully responsible for the russian plane and search teams find the remains of some of those on board the plane which fell into the mediterranean sea.

with us now we start with a very sad story fifteen russian servicemen have died in a friendly fire incident off the coast of syria their plane was hit by syrian anti-aircraft guns which were responding to israeli airstrikes for is really fighter jets had been targeting syrian facilities in mottaki a province at the time russian defense ministry accused israel of being in directly responsible strikes the working hotline that is used to portray such information the russian defense minister also said that there was no way that the pilots could not have seen the russian planes bearing in mind that it was coming into land from an altitude off some fire. all of this followed before israeli. that pounded

against various syrian sites on monday night seven people were injured at a power station during that attack there was also a french frigate that was flying from the mediterranean sea the result was fifteen russian servicemen killed just as the plane was coming to land at the russian air force base of humain near the syrian city of latakia all of that happening around ten o'clock local time monday evening. the downed russian plane was an eye all twenty this patrol aircraft is known by nato as for qute it has a top speed of six hundred seventy five kilometers per hour and has a wingspan of around thirty seven meters we're now in for its. twenty has been in service since the soviet era. residents of the russian city of sevastopol have paid tribute to the fifteen crew members of the downed aircraft people gathered at the walls of stoppel air base where prayers and a minute's silence were held in their future and said the downing of the plane was

due to a tragic chain of events. when people are dying especially in such circumstances it's always a tragedy it's a tragedy for all of us for the country and for the relatives of our killed comrades and i extend my condolences to the relatives of those killed in this situation is different from the one when a turkish jet shot down our plane back then turkey intentionally shot down the aircraft but now it looks like a chain of accidental events our position on this incident was presented in the ministry of defense statement which was fully coordinated with me about our response first we will do everything we can to provide even more security for the russian military in syria and these will be steps that everyone will notice a former british ambassador to syria peter ford believes israel has no grounds for

attacking syrian targets. the israelis can have their own opinions but they can't have their own facts and the fact is that iran and hezbollah and syria have not launched a single unprovoked attack on israel since at least two thousand and six when the dollar was defending lebanon against an israeli attack since that date there not being one single unprovoked attack from the syrian side that that is the fact it's really is not on the stret from iran or hizbollah this is a pretext to attack syria i very much doubt that israel will change its behavior because israel is given the diplomatic political cover by the united states in the un security council just imagine if the boot was on the other foot and that with syria or iran that was launching strikes on israeli coastal

cities just imagine that to get some idea of the enormity of what israel is doing but of course there is no way of calling israel to account because of the u.s. veto in the security council. monday night incident was not the first time israel has been in action against syria artie's in india a tutor was here in the studio earlier discussing the previous cases. the reason why russia pointing the finger it at the israelis is because of those past hostile actions so that israeli forces often took aim at syrian targets so if we go back rewind to the tenth of february twenty eight hundred that's where an israeli f. sixteen fighter jet crashed after being hit by syrian air defenses during an offensive in syria the two pilots parachuted to safety before the crash in northern israel and it's believed that that was the first time that israel lost one of its

jets during the syrian conflict following that incident a phone call did take place between president putin and prime minister netanyahu now i'll explain a couple more incidents on the ninth of april russian syria accused israel of carrying out strikes against the four airbase which is near palmira in central syria just one month fall if we go forward there was a face to face meeting between putin and that and they are on the eighth of may in trying to eighteen and let him how he came out after that meeting and said that russia was unlikely to live it actions in syria israeli actions in syria two days after that meeting another incident happened and we can't forget the syrian reaction considering that these airstrikes are taking place without a u.n. mandate we will move radicalized out of this conclusion. really together with russia we will make maximum effort to get rid of all radical groups from this territory turkey and russia will both patrol this territory to

ensure compliance. the gist of it is getting radical islamists al-qaeda in syria for one away from the front lines withdrawing heavy weapons artillery tanks to make sure the fingers don't spark any more escalations opening up the routes allowing travel through contested territory is for civilians and russian turkish troops would oversee it all patrol this demilitarized zone but there are concerns the initial impressions to the future the main concern is that the militants pose a threat to aleppo province the city of aleppo and to a military compounds in syria tartus and may mean the problem is the hardest who are bent on spoiling any peace effort they have everything to lose if it falls it will mark the end of the syrian war their final defeat assad knows it wouldn't be

easy or clean it seems to be for this deal it looks like the military operation has been shelved for now probably drove the military and diplomatic solution to the the decision is very important indeed the worth of was looking for a military confrontation really. but there is no there is more causality if there is normal interoperation the it is not expected clashes between the government forces than the radical groups in the long run probably does the militarized zone will be the way where the radical groups will leave the area not only the people about all for. the turkish president wasn't exaggerating when he said the world's eyes were on this meeting stakes are so high here for the gulf states for the west especially they spent untold billions arming and financing the

syrian rebels only to lose. we consider any assault and lead to be a reckless escalation of the conflicts if assad russia and iran continue down the path their own the consequences will be dire the world will hold them responsible how much of that was genuine concern for civilians and how much is bitterness over losing you decide for yourself it's occurring that we have the discussions that are ongoing discussions we are one and president putin. is for is you watch what's taking place on the ground and start to see the potential of this and i think i think. the discussions that are having we just down a path of a potential that you're going to get something that's what's kinetic if they're actually engaged in a level of dialogue nevertheless the united states pentagon seem cheered by this latest deal

a bloody battle has been averted and geodes to being marginalized but perhaps most importantly is the precedent for compromise and that's happened red. china has announced a tariffs on u.s. goods worth sixty billion dollars in response to president trump's latest measures against beijing. then to move on the response to the action taken by the u.s. side china has to take necessary cons or measures to defend its own lives either with rights and interests and save guard the global order or free trade today i direct the united states trade representative to proceed with placing additional tariffs on roughly two hundred billion dollars of imports from china the terrorists will take effect on september twenty fourth twenty eighteen and be set as level of ten percent until the end of the year when generally the first the terrace will rise twenty five percent a trumpet ministration had already imposed two rounds of tariffs on chinese imports

this year first aluminum and steel were targeted then in the summer charges were raised on thirty four billion dollars worth of other chinese goods. on the streets of beijing the chinese government retaliation was met with proof. ok you should be being used to stop the u.s. from posing reasonable policies we're trying but not to start a trade war with each other therefore. of course and this has a significant factor in china china's countermeasures show that we're not afraid and we will strike back but you example i think trump imposing tariffs on chinese goods is absolutely wrong or at least breaks the rules joseph chang professor of political science at the city university of hong kong told us that the tariffs could damage both countries being attacked that is what you say they all told the brain on the that conversation capital could be held in the next few weeks

unfortunately the so-called trade war you come on to this field which in the country increasingly seen as. the super bowl due to share in the economy and in the science and technology field in the coming year and the thirty year old the cost that the fields will tend to be long drawn out although still part of the key problem anything in on sales training wall which will be very damaging the whole country. president putin has hosted a meeting with hungary's a prime minister in a kremlin high on the agenda were energy supplies and also that use split with viktor orban over his migrant crackdown and he only a tranquil comments. last time the garion prime minister viktor orban was here in moscow was only two months ago right now we're here at the crown one and he's back

again right there you can see the seats for the leaders of russia and hungry and victor or britain's right hand side and vladimir putin's left hand side there are seats for the senior government ministers the summit in this room comes right when hungry is experiencing serious trouble with pretty much the rest of the european union over its stance on the migrant crisis the solutions that europe keeps coming up with are just unacceptable for beauty and mr has always been open about it would like to raise the voice of the people all over in the year old that they are full of fear we need more union in our refugee problem is not the european problem we need a fair and just distribution the problem is the german problem it is not a problem b. create a new legal situation at the borders saw it to be even more freaked than it was at

the same time moscow and beat a pest have been maintaining a kind of special relationship and this is something that we are also hearing about today in this room. hungary needs would be partners i'm very happy that we've balanced relations with each other recently i can't say that we're always provided with stable international conditions but problems exist in order for us to fight them and i think we succeed in that and i want to thank you for all the work we're doing together. just a few days ago the european parliament has already backed punishing hungry for its international behavior but the final decision on the end to hungary sanctions will be made later this week at an informal e.u. summit and definitely the things that are being said here in the kremlin will be brought up at that european get together well ahead of the meeting r.t. sophie shevardnadze spoke to hungary's foreign minister pair to see and you can

watch the full interview on sophie and co on friday but here's a quick preview. we're always honest we are we are in favor of straightforward speech we hate each other we have even told openly here in russia that we will never break the unity of the european union because unity of the e.u. it is a value on the other hand we made it very clear that there must be a dialogue there must be a discussion an honest discussion a straightforward discussion about further sanctions have been successful or not and then let's see if things factually but the european economies whether it helped russian economy or by the retell to implement the music agreements and so on and so forth so there are very straightforward questions and there are very easy answers yes or no and then after giving honest answers to honest questions we should make a decision of whether future now the current italian government. seems to represent

the same position that nor automatic rollover and the discussion must be made and see if they are a strong country a big country a g seven country it will be much easier for the smaller e.u. member states to represent this position together with the because. i. the german spy chief who question the migration policy has been removed from his post but still he remains in a powerful position within the government as are two peter oliver explained. masson is out as the head of germany's interior security services that it's roughly the equivalent of say m i five in the united kingdom all the f.b.i. in the united states isn't going to be out of work though he's moving into a new position in the interior ministry as the state secretary for that ministry it seems although out of one position he's found

a new home alongside horse example for the office of the president of the office for the protection of the constitution will. be reshuffled mr become a state secretary in the interior ministry interior minister whole silver has high regard for mr marson abilities on questions of domestic security it's fair to say though that the opposition here in germany far from happy with this move in fact alternative for germany the largest opposition party in the bundestag saying ultimately it's the voters that lose out in this recent game of musical chairs america has cleared in other critic out of the way under now this can be celebrated in the s.p.d. as tough and see how fair could pull his head out of the news again the voters are losing again because the critical removal of mass in highlights the final consequences of immigration policy the root of this move for mass and

a couple of weeks ago where he gave a an interview to the bill newspaper now it was in relation to the demonstrations in the far right activity that we saw in k. minutes following the killing of the thirty five year old man to asylum application sa currently in custody and all the main suspects in that killing now that prompted the group so far right to look at this too. well to go out on to the streets of the east german city now they would videotape it work term and refugee it which gangs of these hooligans was filmed roaming the streets hunting down anybody that looked for and now mr marson said in this interview that he found that those videos had been faked and that they'd been put out by the media with the deliberate intention to mislead people now there would be calls for him to come forward with some evidence hasn't done that and that is incensed those that were calling for his sucking the head of the federal office for the protection of the constitution with

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