put more on. this in the selling. more. with. these this is. done with the all business starting there was a sting and all the fun is up and describe some of. the. sunni terror groups claim an attack on a military parade in iran killing at least twenty four people as the country marks the anniversary of its war with iraq. the u.s. state department accuses the syrian government and its allies of assisting terrorists in the country coming up we examine whether or not the claims actually correspond with the reality on the ground. and collision course ahead of what's

being billed as the biggest fight in mixed martial arts history arash one corner mcgregor and russia. meet the press with the person set to do battle in a fortnight's time. bring it all to do my name's kevin though in this is our international live from moscow just in four pm now here this saturday afternoon into that breaking news we're talking about for last five six hours now iran has been hit by a deadly terror attack the smalling is the country remembers an important day in its history terrorists thought to be from a sunni muslim group were dressed as revolutionary guards and opened fire during a big parade it left at least twenty four people dead and dozens of others injured this saturday marks the anniversary of the iran iraq war during the one nine hundred eighty s.

. oh. for the sake of. the . soldiers in crawling on the ground as gun fire blazed over their heads that shooting lasted almost ten minutes iran is majority sheer majority shia muslim country and it would seem this attack had sectarian motives leaders from the u.k. and russia of saying condolences with president putin saying this is a reminder of the battle against the terror in the region meantime iran's foreign minister was quick to blame those he feels were responsible for today's tragedy. terrorists recruited trained armed and paid by a foreign regime have attacked. children and journalists among casualties iran holds regional terror sponsors and their u.s. masters accountable for such attacks iran will respond swiftly and decisively in defense of iranian lives. not a full it is

a professor of political communication at university of toronto hey there things come on short notice so islamic state and other sunni organizations are all claiming responsibility for what happened this morning the been sporadic protests by sunnis in iran do you see this as a sectarian attack and if so what drives the hatred between these two religious groups what do you think is out and here basically. this is obviously a terrorist and. some new community there's nothing good in terrorism i don't think we should describe this as a religious by sue think is external our intelligence services. if your group is funded by intelligence services of the countries that you know and the enemy the united states is the only regime the saudis cooperate in. supporting these terrorist organizations they are terrorist organizations then that's years and certainly the most. engaging in terrorism we have had for five

children. this morning was we have this was a praying. participating attack was in the scream and there was a soft target more than any people show up for the military yeah i mean it wasn't in the capital would you have expected something like this it is a terrorist attack. you said a soft target it was very much on your country's border there why there particularly why particularly the parade do you think. security situation would be stronger. so the terrorist organization that engaged in this wanted to find the soft target the claim to represent the people inside. the the targeted. population the president to watch the military

you know terrorism missions generally have an excuse because. sort of because they want to highlight terrorism and. then you attack. me and there's no justification for what happened this morning caught your country off guard do you think was this was the state of security appropriate enough across the country not just in the capital. it since having a terrorist attack israel in iran. obviously part of the middle east and terrorism for sure. is part of life in this part of the world but iran listen to other countries in the region has been much safer and the last time they would attack was about two years ago you don't get the facts. and i think

security forces intelligence services in iran will be more vigilant making sure that happen again and as was the case just a couple of weeks ago the terrorist organizations inside iraq to. attack the lisick missile. defenses and i think organization that is the sponsor for this attack would be hard it would be hit hard and what these the early days of the countries that supported this organization i was going to say the investigation is still continuing i guess what reaction immediately will be from the iranian government although it be over a longer term we think. i think the government. want to make sure that don't respond to the actual people that orchestrated this attack i think they have a good feeling who was a sponsor going forward and you know the intelligence services of the united states

government is only is the saudis have all been watching different terrorist groups outside the united to engage in terrorism inside the car and pranced mohamed sandman announced this some time ago that he would want to take the fight inside the iranian territory and i think you're seeing the result of that project today. so you don't get back at that there is no no there and they will also come up with projects to make sure that the intelligence services are back and i think it's and it's going to not get to do this again they would be also countermeasures against the activities of these forces are the professor place of communication at university of toronto's for giving us your thoughts on the unfortunate events and on this morning. from president made his own order to declassify documents related to the hong going russian collusion probe the falls are expected

to shed light on alleged conflicts of interest and ethics of certain f.b.i. government officials i met with the d.o.j. concerning the declassification of various unredacted documents they agreed to release them but stated that doing so may have a perceived negative impact on the russian probe also key allies called to ask not to release verse for the inspector general has been asked to review these documents on an expedited basis i believe he will move quickly on this and hopefully on other things which he is looking at in the end i can always declassify it if it proves necessary speed is very important to me and everyone. well monday the president announced he thought of the declassification of several pages of a surveillance warrant on a former truck campaign aide carter page additional documents concern to be a director james komi as well as a former top f.b.i.

officials kind of openness more of why the president put the potentially explosive document release on the whole this delay comes out it apparently he's waiting for the department of justice to reveal qaeda and other terrorist groups for the growth of al qaeda i saw in affiliated terrorist networks inside syria washington pins the bling unequivocally on the force that has spent a large part of the past seven years and lost tens of thousands of men repairing the terrorist onslaught. of. one piece in syria blew to kingdom come in two thousand and eleven al qaeda was busy from the get go given the chance to oust the assad government a fact the u.s. validated itself. al qaeda in iraq supported the syrian opposition from the beginning both ideologically and through the media al qaeda in iraq declared its

opposition to assad's government because it considered it a sectarian regime targeting sunni's so let me recap al qaeda supported the syrian opposition washington also supported the syrian opposition when it comes to picking the company to entrench yourself with the us made the worse choice imaginable another assumption the new counterterrorism report makes is that syria made its border the grand central station allowing al qaeda to run loose in and out of iraq except damascus wouldn't have much time to facilitate that for the most part it had no access cut off by the opposition from its own border syrian regime border forces retreated from the border and the opposition forces took over the posts and raised their flag it wasn't until june last year when the syrian army began to recapture those parts of the country and it did so with the help of a rainy and pro-war rainy and forces who have proven to be a considerable power. but

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so you knew journalists who had many of their members bullied if they weren't for example involving themselves in one day full grown professional practices intrusions in personal personal privacy of people and they were reporting upon so we raise those issues and it all does all come down to a lack of democratic control of our media but the concentration of power isn't only share a critique there is a lack of diversity of british media by u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonald but what's happened since allegedly working with those who support trident nuclear weapons in scotland here is attacking the channel he appeared on one very clear thing that you could do is stop appearing on russia today which is we describe but what if you rode business as a kremlin propaganda vehicle i think that's right now and that's what i'll be doing of appeared on the past sometimes to challenge some of the issues internationally and also to raise issues here that we're concerned about in terms of well not just russia's role but also the international scene overall and i think that's right

because i think from what we're seeing from russian today at times goes beyond objective journalism so why the change and why did they go on to say on the state mandated b.b.c. whose own political editor was criticised for bias against corbin by the b.b.c. regulator that m.p.'s shouldn't appear on this program r.t. is the biggest television news channel on the internet with billions of hits and you can tell us whether you think organs chancellor is wrong or right or why he should be supporting to raise a maze position on media multiplicity via social media that strays i'm a who like corbin's political enemies supported the war on syria it's only a few months since the prime minister herself visited r.a.f. akrotiri in cyprus from where the tornado jets flew their sorties one thing is for sure media has been largely monolithic arguably in britain about to raise a maze a port for rebels trying to overthrow the government of syria and social media is certainly having little of what president putin and prime minister netanyahu had. to say about last week's killing of fifteen russian servicemen after an israeli

warplane attack on syria so let's go to what used to be syria's largest city aleppo joining me via skype for his perspective is aleppo's independent member of the syrian parliament. thanks for coming back on before we get to monday's deal what did you think of president putin's diplomatic response to the israeli bombardment of your country i think it sounded good enough and i think behind it there is a lier.