pakistan says it. over disputed kashmir capturing two pilots as the new rival violence escalates. one of the most anticipated summits of the year sees the u.s. and north korean leaders try to make headway over. and ending the decade long korean war. and sources told the washington post that the u.s. military disrupted internet access in russia to prevent alleged election meddling during the midterm.

and ten o'clock here in moscow and you're watching international live from our studio with mina to come to the program. there's been a dramatic escalation in tensions between india and pakistan india is demanding the return of a fighter pilot arrested by pakistan accusing it of violating the geneva convention by harming him pakistan released video of the pilot with blood and bruises to his face the pilot was captured after pakistan shot down an engine plane this video which we cannot independently verify is said to show a downed twenty one fighter jet pakistan claims it shot down two aircraft in its place of the kashmir arrested two pilots india says it's one plane and a single pilot pakistan later closes out space nikki aren't outlines the discrepancy between the two sides claim. well what we're absolutely sure we're

seeing now is the culmination of tensions that have been building with more regularity in recent years and essentially things have now come to a head to the importance and consequence of how things play out from here is very significant not just because these are two very powerful countries but because they are a nuclear armed enemy is so if this does continue to spiral downwards this doesn't just impact the region this could have an effect on the whole world pakistan is claiming claiming to have shot down two indian air force jets and captured two pilots and says that its jets have launched air strikes in the indian territory a move that they claimed was in self-defense. pakistan is a responsible country and we don't want to endanger lives of masses we have yet retaliated to india all being done is just what irresponsible country does for its defense our message is peace and not the war now india however claims that these those pakistani jets had been pushed back. this was supposed to do. and

of course this part isn't. in the. course. of the. order to do. this is. because fortunately lost. is missing in action. because. he is in their custody this comes just one day after india claims it hit a militant training camp and killed a very large number of fighters from the militant group jayashri mohammed which took responsibility for that suicide bombing earlier this month which killed forty indian troops now in a bizarre twist pakistan rejected india's claim saying that indian fighters were confronted before they conducted those strikes on the training camp and actually just dropped four or five bombs in an empty field and then fled back across the

border so what's making the situation all the more hard to follow is how the two sides have these conflicting media campaigns both sides are pushing their own narrative and so i was single source of contradictory information online and in the news but at the core of it what is very clear is what we're seeing is the first of the first aerial attacks across that line of control across that delicate kashmir border since the two countries were at war in one thousand nine hundred seventy one now speaking in the past hour the pakistani prime minister imran khan has called for a responsible approach he said noting how both of them are nuclear powers they really couldn't afford a miscalculation. so are you understand what i want to ask a question to the indian government that considering the nature of the weapons that both of us have this can we afford any miscalculation should we not think this moment that if the situation escalates then where will it go it will not be in my control or narendra modi's control i will again tell you that

a better sense should prevail now and we should resolve our issues by sitting together and through talks. that the madhu's does get a lot of spikes in tensions over kashmir they have been up and down over the years and a fresh wave of violence really took hold in the summer of twenty sixteen but kashmir has always been contested territory even before india and pakistan won their independence from britain in one thousand nine hundred forty seven.

is now a multinational appeal for both sides to show restraint and conduct talks we've been getting reaction from experts on both sides here's some of what they told us. i'm from the box on air force but i would like to see peace in the region because both india and pakistan are nuclear weapons equipped and if we do not one of those two escalate to have mutually assured destruction because that is what will happen it will not remain a forthright action it will definitely escalate into a full scale involved it would be norms barred but you see india took an action yesterday and pakistan going to action today and retaliation and shutdown of the aircraft i'm hoping that we let it go our back and sit down and talk to each other and if india has actionable intelligence ah prime minister has a cure even big different action i don't know where there will be no response from

india because there was a response and this is like a counter response which is a was part of the pakistani body see that if there is an attack on their borrower's country and leaders notice to serve any high and we just can't afford a full fledged gone truly so the hope is that change for the not spin out of control and mode science will sort of card dead loss of deceit and decided. let's modi destructor and look forward to some other means maybe we are going to end a war by our means maybe to reduce their mind you could create economic and on because there are no winners and the military don't know who are as we have seen so far. nine people have been arrested in a joint austrian german operation against doping at work at the nordic world ski championships he's our correspondent peter. on wednesday pleas carried out raids on

sixteen addresses across germany and austria resulting in nine arrests linked to a blood doping scandal in the sport of nordic in cross-country skiing and what we understand is that five elite athletes are among those that have been arrested we know that two of those are austrians two of those are a stone ians and one is from kazakstan we also understand that two others being named as cadets in the austrian police force who were also members of australia's national nordic nordic skiing team well the arrests may well be in connection to revelations about blood doping in the sport that were made by this dirt the thirty one year old made his claims in a documentary aired here in germany back in january of this year he admitted to using e.p.o. in carrying out blood doping in fact when he was talking about the sport of nordic

skiing he said it does not work without doping that's a direct quote from him but the austrian police say that these arrests are part of a long time and wide ranging investigation. based criminal group is strongly suspected of having carried out blood doping on elite athletes for years to increase their performance in national and international competitions and thereby to gain illegal income one of the athletes arrested in austria was well pretty much caught red handed according to the authorities your work record an athlete in action who was undergone a blood transfusion in his arm when the police arrived of the arrests that were made in germany one was a forty year old man described as a sports doctor by the austrian authorities have been far more forthcoming with information than their german counterparts the austrian saying that swelled this doping scandal that they believe they've on covered it could well extend beyond.

nordic in cross country skiing and may well extend to other sports as well the world anti-doping agency wada say they're paying keen attention to the news coming out of austria and germany and say that they're cooperating with the police now the reaction that we've heard from this well as you can imagine it's been coming in loud and clear how do you think the federal broadcasters are reacting now it was russia that iridium syria was continuously discredited by in terms of doping well or for as the lynchpin of don't bring those already in the studio have they finally learned adopting is not only part of cycling doping is rampant in sports but our biased media is still obsessed with a cold word see that it's only russian athletes as they've been forced to never start in the program if you will about doping in cycling. a landmark meetings been taking place between the u.s. president and the north korean leader in the vietnamese capital they took part in

a photo call with the body language coming in for some scrutiny. donald trump does is put his either hand on top of that is dominant so he is asserting his dominance we see it when he's sitting down and he puts his hand in a downward steeple position that again is dominance it's that confidence but he's trying to pull it back and from what i'm seeing here is all though he is feeling

dominant and naturally trying to dominate or look he is also trying not to do it he's trying to make him comfortable and i suspect it's a head of the main set of talks that are going to take place tomorrow. of talks and i concluded aunties and functional subset has more on what's to come. this is president trump's second attempt at making peace with north korea the two leaders met briefly for the cameras and are now having close discussions behind closed doors the talks are made up of two rounds one formal dinner and one on one talks but before coming to vietnam prison trip was under severe pressure to make a deal at the summit that came after criticism from opposition back home that said not enough was made through the last summit between the two leaders in singapore but the first summit was a great success and i think this one hopefully will be equal or greater than the first we made a lot of progress and i think the biggest progress was our relationship is really

a good one i think that your country has tremendous economic potential unbelievable unlimited and i think you will have a tremendous future your country a great leader and i look forward to watching it happen and helping it to happen and we will help with that trumper to read it in a tweet that the potential for a deal is quote awesome both countries to sign a piece the collaboration to symbolically end the korean war the conflict ended in the arms this not actually a peace treaty back in one nine hundred fifty three which means the war is technically still ongoing north korea would agree to return more the remains of troops who died in the korean war also the u.s. is considering to opening up diplomatic office in north korea. could show the relations between washington john yang are actually getting warmer north korea will agree to stop producing nuclear materials. facility and perhaps of the other ones as well in exchange the u.s.

will push to lift some of the sanctions on pyongyang and will pursue a joint economic project with south korea but again it's not clear what the deal exactly we can expect from this meeting but the summit does not actually only concern washington in pyongyang so let's actually have a little look and see what are the other regional neighbors feeling about it. despite the fact japan's also over a north korean test missiles flying over a. concern over. the outcome of the talks after all if a deal is struck it's unclear whether japan's concerns will be addressed what made the situation worse with the allegations that japanese prime minister abby officially requested for trump to be nominated for the nobel peace price in fact i think i can say this prime minister robbie of japan gave me the most beautiful copy of a letter that he sent to the people who give out a thing called a nobel price he said i have nominated you or respect me in behalf of japan.

i am asking them to give you the nobel peace price that did not go over well for the opposition especially after prime minister's office refused to comment on the allegations abduction you quit and so to mid range missile issues no two is older though i'm concerned that it would give the wrong message to north korea and the international community if we accept that the current situation deserves the nobel peace prize. south korean's president home just like his ally in washington that has also said that he is expecting great things coming out of the summit. i expect it to be a turning point that advances complete to denuclearization of the korean peninsula new us north korean relations and a peace regime on the korean peninsula president mood might come out as the biggest winner of these talks and in a way it seems that he's risking more than anyone else if these talks lead to a dead end after all it's a country that will be among the prime targets for the nuclear capable north korean missiles south korean foreign minister said his country is looking forward to

a quote tangible and substantial results with all the hopes skepticism and fears involved coming to a specific results might turn out to be a very tough challenge for everyone involved in the situation but considering that the idea of like you west north korean summit started absolutely impossible just two years ago maybe there's still a chance for a happy conclusion. the u.s. military has carried out its first offensive cyber operation against russia so it is told the washington post that u.s. cyber command blocked internet access to what they called a russian factory in the twenty mid-term elections where if an officer is across the story for us. what we basically have is a washington post article claiming that the u.s. military managed to block internet access to one russian group known as the internet research agency on the day of the country's meat turns november last year some in america believe that this might be informed in the alleged interfering in

the country's presidential elections back in two thousand and sixteen washington post a site in a number of officials all of whom spoke to the paper on the condition of anonymous has also added in the article that that attack in two thousand and eighteen was just the beginning of what is supposed to be a massive cyber campaign against russia the operation merged the first muscle flexing by u.s. cyber command with intelligence from the national security agency under new authorities it was granted by president trump and congress last year to bolster offensive capabilities if it was true it simply shows how in secure a cyber wise russia can be interested enough they snooze came at the time when this topic is highly debated here in russia on all levels earlier in february russia's state duma adopted the first trading of a draft law requiring all russia's i p's to ensure it can operate in the situation

when russia's unplugged by foreign companies by foreign forces from the global network many refer to this document as internet isolation and there are critics of course saying that this is just the government's attempt to put some control on online life but the russian authorities keep saying that this is a measure to protect the country's security. i think this will bring huge damage to the u.s. so not only economic but also political damage but he's also but for the special services sitting there gathering all the information about you but don't be afraid i suppose they will think a hundred top. before doing something theoretically anything is possible so we should create such segments that won't be dependent on anybody on wednesday following the washington post article claiming that russia's darkest fears and concerns over internet security may already be a reality we asked russia's president spokes person to me trip to scoff to comment

on which the management of the world's internet is defacto carried out by several companies that potential threat is to consider a sovereign internet it's not linked to the isolation closure of a country it's connected to protection against illegal actions. of british police force has been found guilty of discrimination after it rejected an applicant who is white heterosexual male that's the decision reached by an employment tribunal in northwest england cheshire police were in the middle of a diversity drive when they turned down twenty five year old matthew furlong who wanted to follow his father into the fourth. it is completely started my confidence in the police force recruitment system how do i do my interview form and said i was bisexual for instance there's a strong possibility i would be working for child based on the law i. say they are aware of the tribunals position and if agreed to review the results matthews lawyer

says it's the first discrimination case of its kind in the u.k. we put the issue up the debate with political and social commentator stephen morris from the english democrats party. what they do they are not looking to recruit the best people for the job they are just recruited based on ticking a box so in fact what we see stephen and the others who might think like him is that discrimination and treating people less favorably but for their race or their protective characteristic has been going on for decades and pretty. sad to say by white heterosexual men and they have had the jobs they've had the lion's share of income even though we monitor equal pay they will still have the lion's share and so positive action is about redressing a balance about saying that when things are in mono no positive. results that let me off it was a huge. no no no sorry steve stephen i'm sorry i'll correct you in

a matter of fact on a matter of law having taken race discrimination cases although it's the wrong course of justice no offense to stephen but this is now i do it well i'm not sure tribune official. relations committees on the nasa try to do your employment role as a trade union against. racism we've seen racism in the police force now racism is wrong it should be done on nothing else right now if you're saying positive faction that's just annoyed with related immigration. when we look at positive action we're talking about underrepresented minorities whether they are black whether they are muslim jewish gay bisexual transgender all the people we need policies which are fair in society and absolutely you are right and the appropriate tribute potentially is right and it's binding if they have treated him less badly but for his sex nor to doing this to. him that i was in question he was saying if he was he well let's see i mean appeals and things happen but at the minute the finding we have is that but for the fact of his race and if it being bisexual he

had been he had been more likely to have got a job i agree we cannot discriminate even against wrong be sure you know should heterosexual men it's all about freedom of choice if people do not want to go join the police then fine but find out the. it's not purely down to the recruitment process that. people from the all the gay groups. out ukraine struggle to find a replacement for the chosen entry after the. political pressure but that was just the start of troubles. in the time of the hostilities of the russian federation against ukraine the state must represent the artists patriots of ukraine who are aware of their

responsibility. i joke. in russia. thank you don't you think your reason was created after the second. countries to have a journey to get people to share their culture. i am a citizen of ukraine a paid taxes and sincerely love ukraine but i am not afraid to come up with slogans and torment participation in the contest into a promotion activity follow politics. we would like to announce our decision not to take part in your a vision twenty nineteen. all right mission is to unite people by you're already using but not displayed so our position is solid we want to participate in the euro vision twenty nineteen.

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at the root for. the trump and ministrations attempts to impose regime change in venezuela appear to be faltering proclaimed interim president. hasn't gain much traction this me explain the administration's escalating rhetoric after all we're told a military option is still on the table. time after time they were going on the ground and as india uses french warplanes to bomb nuclear armed pakistan coming out of the show time called an ally former mayor of london ken livingstone on why british media have suddenly learned of the bricks

and policies of jeremy corbin's labor party and as parliament gets evidence of a britain on course for wreck or child poverty a member of the government's social mobility commission reveals the ukase plus feeling plus in the headlines the indian as strikes bordering on war on the venezuelan music promotion which could be a billion as self promotion all this more coming up in today's going underground but first the british government may have long forgotten its ambition to overthrow the government of syria today london is walking to sort of bricks and support each defacto coup attempts in venezuela but according to the latest murdoch sunday times british ground troops have been sent to syria despite elected m.p.'s voting against but aside from the russians jokes and iranians one force has been key in battling isis station al qaeda lebanese party has bulla even time want to c.n.n. used to accept this yes it's just a man on the hill but it even let us film it was pretty remarkable hezbollah are the most secretive of militants but the u.s. government still lists as a terrorist organization taking journalists on

a victory lap they say they've routed hundreds of al qaeda linked syrian militants nusra front yes u.s. mainstream media covering as well as victory against the al qaeda linked al nusra front which the u.k. state mandated b.b.c. expose is linked to british funding yet what happened this week to reward has been a de facto fighting with britain against terrorism now. banned all when the lebanese group has being what it describes a terrorist. and i say to the news surprise qatar funded al-jazeera qatar after all sponsors meetings with hezbollah as a strategic partner for stability in the middle east many in the region wonder how juries make a designate democratically elected lebanese members of parliament as terrorists this after hezbollah did well that elections hezbollah and its political honors made significant gains. help or just over all parliamentary seats according to some u.k. politicians as buller is anti semitic but it's a valid aim is to create

a one state palestine israel solution that embraces jews christians and muslims at least that's according to his will a leader when interviewed by wiki leaks is julian a son john the u.k. object tension in london as determined by the un the only solution is the establishment of one of the one states on the land of palestine and was commanded muslims and jews and the christians taken to the east in a democratic state senator skeptical even asked whether.