fifty. the leaders of turkey russia germany and france get together in an attempt to move the syrian peace process forward some say issues will need further discussion. multiple deaths confirmed by police in a shooting at a synagogue in the us state of pennsylvania gunman has been detained. and the european court of human rights throws out an appeal which sought to use the freedom of speech to defame the prophet muhammad put the issue of the debate. we should

have free speech and he goes as far as saying in some instances that it was wrong but we cannot people to use and abuse to become greece is demonized a group of people. here in moscow watching our international law daniel hawkins you are thanks for joining us this hour. and while the conflict in syria appears to be in its final phase people in the water one country still have a long way to go before finding reconciliation that's why the leaders of france germany and russia discussed the situation in istanbul this weekend we know live now to our correspondent who's in the thick of things there at the press conference . a lot of questions asked the link the press conference given by the leaders what breakthrough so we had today.

then hi again well there are three main conclusions after these talks. and emmanuel first of all there is hope and expectation by all the leaders that a constitutional committee in syria could be formed before the end of this year there is also clear understanding that the face. syria lies in the hands of syrian people and there's something very important as well all of the years are saying that there is absolutely no way that violence can break out again in the province but before i move on i just want to tell you about a rather awkward last minutes of the press conference that happened in the building that was just on my right to journalist were expecting the leaders to come together and possibly shake hands stand together for another photo shoot but apparently just as they just started walking in different directions right

after they stood up and then the photographer started screaming at them that's when mr aired on and somehow made this group gather again and then finally that was followed by a short round of applause but it was rather awkward to see that still however it was absolutely impressive to see the four leaders together at one table talking to the journalists taking the questions given the fact that views are just different in some cases they are polar and here i just want to talk about an area in syria once again that could explode any time that is the province on the one hand the syrian government which is backed by moscow wants to take control of it as it is the last remaining of the syrian armed opposition which is still rather strong there and also there are still active terrorist groups on the ground there

including the successors of nusra and. factions that are affiliated with these jihad is now when i say that. despite all these difficulties diplomacy continues to work first of all i mean the efforts by moscow and kharaj which have agreed on a memorandum of under. standing now this document is very important because with that there is hope that violence won't break out once again and it is something that ensures the somehow a way to preserve the so-called demilitarized zone and i just want to explain what that means first of all demilitarized zone is an area where. radical islamists should be withdrawn from besides this it's a zone where the heavy where heavy rubber unary is supposed to be banned and

transit traffic restored this is also a part of syria where according to the agreements it should be patrolled by russian and turkish military police but at the same time as i've said it's still a hot spot it is the point of contention and when we heard the leaders speak we didn't hear direct threats but we heard subtle warnings about the situation there and the first one came from the russian president vladimir putin. turkey to you shortly complete its withdrawal of opposition forces heavy weaponry and military units from the demilitarized zone we see that turkish partners are doing their best to achieve that however if radical militants oppose this if they make. from inside the russia will reserve the right to help the syrian government eliminate this threat. and just minutes later the french president

emanuel macron to head back he didn't warn russia or damascus directly but he said anyone who is backing the forces that are trying to somehow deescalate the situation there and here's what emanuel specifically said. a military offensive by the syrian regime would have an acceptable security and humanitarian consequences our security interests as well as those of true key and europe are at stake. i just want to say that we also heard from the leaders that they are ready to meet again and continue to working in this format that we've never seen before and also they're open for further cooperation with other major international players. have a trunk of their with the latest from a stumble on that press conference focusing on the syrian conflict thanks for that

there you. are now over to the united states where there's been a shooting at a synagogue in pittsboro in the state of pennsylvania the gunman has been identified as forty six year old robert power he is in custody police also confirm the have been multiple fatalities three police officers also shot and witnesses said the shooter had walked into the synagogue during a morning service and opened fire the suspect in the shooting is in custody we have multiple casualties inside the synagogue we have three officers who have been shot . and we have no more information because we are still clearing the building and trying to figure out. if the situation is safe if there are any more threats inside the building there have been mixed unconfirmed reports over the exact number of casualties with claims of up to seven people killed the police officers hits were shots as they arrived on scene the attack happened in what is traditionally the busiest day of the week for synagogues the synagogue which had been targeted it's

called the tree of life it was found about five years ago that's according to its web site it was formed after to communication is in pittsburgh merged together the u.s. president took to twitter about the tragedy saying the events in the area were far more devastating than first thought speaking later to the media you said such a crime should be punished with the death penalty. of the head of the senate go corrugation involved has also been speaking to the media at the scene started i was getting dressed to go up to services little before ten o'clock and. one of the people the vice president that i work with on facility management he had called me from lancaster and he said there's a report that is an active shooter he works for the city so he has special communications with emergency services and he said get up there and check it out i tried heading up shady avenue to the building and it was entirely blocked off human

i'm laborites annoyed because at the scene for us with the latest there is people gathered all around here. a lot of people in mourning a lot of parishioners with their heads in their hands people just trying to figure out what has happened here you know it's a very somber situation this is a bedroom community here in pittsburgh in this we don't see these things happen very often there's a number of synagogues here in squirrel hill this is a very strong jewish community here still in lockdown it's very hard to get in and out of school built this point and i never seen this many police in one place in pittsburgh and then it's really a very tense situation very sad people were very sad. this is the latest a mass shooting at a religious site in the united states in recent years two similar attacks claimed the lives of thirty five people.

in other headlines the european court of human rights has ruled defaming the prophet muhammad falls outside the limits of acceptable free speech judges rejected an appeal from an austrian woman who'd been seeking to overturn a conviction for insulting islam the domestic courts comprehensively assessed the wider context of the applicant statements and carefully balanced a right to freedom of expression with the right of others to have their religious feelings protected and serve the legitimate aim of preserving religious peace in austria the woman identified only as he s. held two seminars back in two thousand and nine called basic information on islam she reportedly used the classes to characterize the prophet as

a paedophile for marrying a six year old that led to a conviction in twenty eleven for defaming religious doctrines and a fine of nearly five hundred euros her appeal on the grounds of free speech had earlier also been rejected by the austrian courts we put the issue up for debate. this is about a faith of course muslims don't like that their prophet mohammed is being criticized but it should be in this instance you know we should have free speech i'm sorry i as a muslim will work on any sort of dialogue or discussion with any critic of islam as long as it is of all of you sit down and we talk but if somebody actually turns around the abuse and becomes abusive then that's a different kettle of fish it's cultural discussions it happens in our societies so . islam must be ready also took the tackle to be a question about certain things that are not acceptable that are also legislations

now against islamophobia why one people should be free to be islamophobia as some people are anti christian for anti-christian for example so it should be free we should have free speech and he goes as far as saying in some instances that perfect mohammad was very wrong you know we cannot allow people to use the concept of freedom of speech which i actually i think is a very important. thing to have but we cannot allow people to use and abuse that to become racist demonize a group of people and then make them into others and there is no cure in this value and then we promote fascism come on come on anti semitism is racism clearly but islamophobia is against a religion and i can moderate it sorry not sort of even that is no no you didn't look you are you're you're really you're really hiding behind the fact of the

mother is i don't want fascism to come back in the streets of europe there is no violence on the part of europeans to what's towards muslims they are welcome in europe but they must remain and a private sphere look muslims will come in europe that is a racist thing to say you know these are people who are part and parcel of what europeans say look what you mean no you're you're you're just saying we'll come off course there will come there are stricken people who are austrian and they've been austrian since two thousand of these are nineteen all that are so excited they're not slim as an aria so they are don't need say that they don't need you to work on them they belong to austria this is a language of exclusion this language of otherness is exactly what i'm talking about the reality is that we can't. sort of have sort of one set of rules and laws for one community i'll give one for i'll do it. the u.s.

justice department has charged the man over the recent wave of possible bombs targeting senior political figures officials identified from his fingerprints and d.n.a. on one of the envelopes he allegedly sent it's since been revealed he had a number of previous convictions the media had been stressing the suspects strong support for donald trump. this is the face police have tied to the anonymous explosive devices mailed this week to prominent democrats and apparently mad bomber has been targeting president trump's favorite targets for his invective caesar holding a sign this is c.n.n. socks as well as a lot of other nonsense and there he is at a trump rally and the fifty six year old florida resident today was arrested and charged with sending a series of explosive devices. fifty six year old is indeed known to be a trump support some on one with a substantial criminal record previously convicted eight times including for call theft if found guilty of the attempted possible bombings he could face

a total of fifty eight years in prison president trump and has condemned the incident. we will prosecute them him her whoever it may be to the fullest extent of the law. we must never allow political violence to take root in america cannot let it happen and i'm committed to doing everything in my power as president to stop it. it tempted bombings highlight how polarized the us has become a new poll shows eighty percent of americans think their country is greatly divided forty percent of those also believe the situation will only get worse a vast majority of those quit say they are dissatisfied with u.s. politics lawyer and political activist christian month said i believe the main task now is to bring people together both sides have to tone it down both the president and the media and other political sectors have to come together and understand that

we cannot continue sending these inflammatory comments on t.v. and on social media because there are people who take it personally and then they think that they have a way to respond and this is one example now is the republican side that has this crazy follower and we also had this democratic extreme left follower a few few months ago when he attack a congressman's colleagues so i think that we have to be very careful because this is becoming a real problem out well before new information emerged in the media initially suggested russia might be behind the parcel bombs in a bid to inflame the current divisions. i have this fear that it could be some russian operation to be designed to do what's happening now. the recent polls though showing that more people doubt the mainstream media's coverage of russia it will put this report. a while back it might be weeks between any russia related stories in mainstream media but times have changed and now it seems that no matter

what the topic mainstream media finds a way to bring russia into it russia harvested american rage to reshape us politics how the russians are trying to turn the tragedy to their advantage to target almost every major american social movement russian bought still pushing divisive past tags apparently accounts on social media even now so with stories of big bad russia playing round the clock on their television screens you would think that people living in western countries would be in a state of anti russian hysteria except they aren't according to a poll conducted by the french institute for public opinion it turns out that nearly half of americans and europeans don't buy into the russian coverage in the mainstream press france takes the lead when it comes to being wary of mainstream media russia reporting however across the pond people are slightly more trusting yet forty three percent of the u.s.

public is wary of the russian coverage around the clock so why are people less trusting well lately the russian coverage has gotten a little bit weird russia is being blamed for the controversy around football players kneeling during the national anthem rush is being encouraged of having stars like emma watson used in memes in order to troll teenagers russia is even being blamed for criticism of the last jet ice star wars movie and a great disturbance in the force of millions of voices suddenly cried out to the sun this time so we decided to show these headlines to new yorkers let's see if they can spot the fake want our russian fire. selling weaves on instagram. maybe i could be real but sound so it sounds great but let's hear the other kremlin back trolls you stars like emma watson to spread discord in the west for real that sounds more real than sound real to the russian bots promote guns after florida

school shooting. yeah true that sounds great does sound real hate for the last jet i was actually spread by russian trolls fake i don't think now is real i think the last is not a true headline trick question there all the headlines are all real headline what you make of it. that's crazy you tricked me i could believe the real headlines that doesn't mean they're real that out of control hook you think the media is a little hysterical want to talk about this stuff yes i think so clearly according to those headlines i think so trying to get a reaction out of the way to the left they're just trying to you know stir up some sort of craze sure some americans buy it but a lot of others don't skepticism is everywhere it seems that rather than forming an anti russian mob a lot of americans have decided to question more cable mopp and r.t. new york was anger in the u.k. over cools for one of its leading of us cities through move

a walled war one memorial because it only features white men will delve into that controversy right off for the short break. you know world big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. trying has been coming up with a lot of statements saying that the arab states of the gulf should take care of the

middle east or other we're still committed to the middle east so there's there's a lot of incoherence there but i think saudi arabia is hugely important to the united states and i think trump understands that and this is this is exactly what was driving his kind of commentary on the. killing i think that's the end of the day it's not going to change the status quo of america's policies of either the. national a british university has found itself at the center of a storm off student union president call for the removal of one hundred year old memorial soldiers who fought in the first world war. as the details. here at the university of southampton a student union president has caused a lot of outrage after she demanded a world war one memorial new movie scrapped the reason it features only white men

mark my words who had taken down as a mural white man in a unit senate droom even if i have to paint myself the problem is it's not just a random white man on the mural the image was painted in one thousand sixteen and is known to students who fought and died in the first world war without being able . to complete their degrees so this remark to get rid of that mural drew a lot of criticism including from a descendant of the artist the sentiment behind the painting is wonderful it's awful to see women like this browsing off on twitter about something as idiotic as that this means that real issues then don't get discussed. i hope she will reflect on what she has said and realize it has been conducted in poor taste those who know the history of our island are fully aware of and appreciate the involvement of black and asian soldiers against tyranny. the university told us this the comments made by the students union president regarding the ruffin stein mural

and not shared by the university of southampton we have very proud to display the miro which serves as a memorial to all members of british universities who served in the great war this is far from the first time you can universities have been rocked with similar scandals or who were i. i i i. despite an apology from the woman at the center of the controversy a petition to remove her from the post of student union president has been quickly gathering supporters let's find out exactly what students at the university make of it all and we disagree with. all of our opinions there are people who are very enraged because it's like you're touching because you're something i narrated you're writing if you want and you are writing a story you're literally blaming these people died for your country and they

couldn't get the degree you have the pleasure to. think they couldn't something real real and that's real i think history is something we kind of have to accept it rewriting it's not the right way that's denying i history i can accept that it's happened and maybe it wasn't right ever but it's not you can only rewrite facts there are many different people for just what many. times over your history if. suppose a white man who is. the point every right i do hope that more people. on campus we'll be discussing it in greater depth. and one of the major stars of n.b.c. has found a self out of work off to televise the scotian about what is and what isn't acceptable cost you to where or how do we.

raise it because because this is truly what you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on the halloween or a black person who puts out a white face yeah we like the fact as a kid that was ok as long as you were dressing up like a character and. i defended the idea saying as long as it was as it was respectful and part of the hollowing costume it seemed ok well i was wrong and i am sorry. to not know historical significance of that she said something stupid she said something indefensible she owes a bigger apology to the folks of color around the country people don't get to decide what's racist and i promise you i don't decide if it hurts or not. there has never been a time in that in her forty seven years that blackface has been acceptable.

where is the man oh man. do you want to be a murderer and go what not a lot of black fulfillments you know. what they say is true in the words of the old spiritual i have gone black. and i can't go back. some time and i call the whole lot over the sky and see what the hail born on up there. if you are full of on other planets fall in a hole like eighty. well if you already are a pro-forma liberal with leftwing views there's no reason to fire you they didn't

have something that they wanted to get rid of for say jimmy fallon or jimmy kimmel the late night comedy talk show host who both in the last ten years have been seen on television dressed as black people famous black people including black makeup on their faces nobody in the american entertainment is has been dented by their occasional forays into blackface except making kelly who was not liberal enough and got punished for exactly that's the way n.b.c. and most american media does business liberalism first common sense way later for myself and a team that set for the saudi join us again at ten pm moscow time for the latest and i will these updates will see that. join me every focused on the alex salmond and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

think about saudi arabia is they is the oil as a weapon and if they get too close to investigating what's going on there they push the price of oil up now on the last ten years because of fracking in america america a position to stop us energy independent and no longer subject to the political pressures that can be borne upon the opec and the saudis so we're going to see a real test of this because. all of the litany of horrors coming out of saudi arabia is making people feel. down after times if you want you're going on the ground thirty two years to the day

of the big bang in the city of london paving the way for one of britain's greatest have a financial crises coming up on the show one of the world's greatest political cartoonists call us live to fun with it tomorrow will mean his country heading back in time to the days of nature nation backed dictatorship and death squads to come up with interesting questions which was from a different angle from the way i found queen guitarist an astrophysicist brian may on the cold war has the feel good place race plus continued selling of weapons to saudi arabia is fine according to u.k. pm to raise him a pm cues all this and more coming up in today's show but first to the week's headlines joining me now to go through some of the week's papers is broke up. vulnerable democrat member of parliament member that picked them but scottish women in solidarity today in glasgow lots of trade union is amazing march an entire island disappearing in the pacific you want to talk about some bearded guy from soho the bearded guy and so let's look at this from the guardian reports the

socialists are coming white house sounds alarm at rise of the left it's the run up to the midterm elections of course action and he's finally running because engels often said he should well know i'm not sure he's running i think it's the dangers of if he did have launched from the white house diatribe about the dangers of socialism apparently there's a lasting specter from karl marx the bearded man himself or bernie sanders not from soho and working mothers in sweden all in the same story and there's a new or logical thing about the way to his council of economic advisers report oh yes two hundredth anniversary to eight hundred nine hundred twenty eighteen it's all in the still that's not the main figure out this is the main figure it's claimed that if medicare for all were financed through higher taxes g.d.p. would fall by nine percent seven thousand dollars per year this report is on trump's desk at the mo.