president vladimir putin meets with saudi arabia's leadership on a highly anticipated state visit his 1st to the gulf monarchies since 2007 where there is while following all the events. moscow is bringing plenty of presidents which include russian movies courtrooms everyone is sure about the whole south plenty of surprises ready for mr burton and co but for now what that will be has remained a secret and. also this hour video obtained by our team is roughly agency it shows the syrian army entering a cop province and northeastern syria earlier kurdish officials said they'd struck

with damascus to deploy government troops to the area. meanwhile fears of a potential terrorist resurgence are growing kurdish officials say a turkish bombardment led to hundreds of relatives of foreign isom members fleeing a prison compound with turkey dubbing the claims this information. you're watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here and must go welcome to the program. president putin is in the saudi arabian capital on a rare state visit the 1st in over a decade where he's expected to sign deals worth over $2000000000.00 the 2 leaders have been exchanging gifts the russian leader giving an arctic falcon a bird from the red book of protected species and was given a painting in return for trying to go is following the trip from the royal palace.

just have a look at this massive wooden door behind me the decorations on it the shiny marble and the number of security guards behind my shoulder there you have it we'll tell you that we're inside the wall palace of the saudi king the venue for the 1st visit of the russian president in more than a decade to this country however when mr putin just arrived the whole event began with a bit of an embarrassment for the orchestra that was welcoming him was would like however when president putin stepped inside the wall palace it was clear that the saudi side tried to do their best to make sure that mr putin feels like he's at home here and the wall residence and that was reflected through the things that the 2 leaders

said to each other once they sat down in the so-called blue hall i think this visit would be very productive and they will continue this cooperation between our countries that's what ties between saudi arabia and russia have progressed in numerous areas and we consider russia to be our friend. russia pays a lot of attention to his deepening bilateral ties with saudi arabia our bilateral ties were stop wish to have a 90 years ago in 1926 the soviet union was the 1st foreign country to recognize the young kingdom we value your efforts to boost our ties. the room was obviously full of all kinds of government officials and the wealthiest entrepreneurs from both countries this is how much riyadh and moscow want to do business with each other but they're also up for sorting out the issues that are troubling the middle east nowadays just

a little earlier i walked along the streets of riyadh and looked into the main things on the agenda of the leaders of saudi arabia and russia this monday. saudi arabia and russia is a remarkable example of how 2 countries could be great partners or friends and foes at the same time everything that riyadh gets itself involved in and the middle east be it about iran or syria gets full support from washington and you do realize that and all these cases russia is on the different side of the barricade.

but when the russian leader in the saudi crown prince get along so well in person by the way they are the authors of probably the most famous high profile high 5 in the world the chances that the dialogue could work will always be very high. i have very good relations with both the king and the crown prince we have been making good headway practically and. surely we do have to bear in mind that the 2 countries are the world's largest oil producers are their competitors you know in this case most likely opec plus partners too so all kinds of oil and gas and issues related to the energy sector are on the agenda especially after the drone attack

from last month on one of saudi arabia's most important oil refineries which the country's output by almost a half. and almost put the region on the brink of a real crisis. yemen's who the rebels said we did it washington and allies almost immediately blamed it all on to iran it was feared that a u.s. led strike on iran could have been imminent the incident even led to vladimir putin suggesting that saudi arabia whose army is almost totally dependent on arms imports

from the us should buy a russian made air defense missile systems it's another chance for mr putin to sell those but even without them 2000000000 dollars worth of contracts are expected to be signed between moscow and riyadh. syrian government forces have been advancing towards the turkish border this monday after a deal was struck with the kurds to help propel and going military offensive video agency roughly has obtained footage of the syrian arab army pushing into a province in the country's northeast breaking down the developments here's paul slayer. well as can see in the video that we've obtained there are armed men and vehicles crossing the border and entering the area of has a cut in the far north east of syria now this confirms earlier reports that we were

receiving from local media in the area suggesting and saying that the syrian troops were advancing northwards and that the kurds were out on the streets celebrating as reports of a deal between the kurdish authorities and the syrian authorities broke and that deal to quote is aimed at preventing and confronting the turkish aggression what is significant is particularly this video showing for the 1st time in years that all syrian army has reached kurdish controlled areas where they've been cut off from for very very long time now the long term plan will be for your could expect syrian democratic forces as well as your syrian army to patrol the syria turkish border and for your kodesh militia who are guarding the checkpoints to allow them free passage the syrian media continues to a port that the syrian army is advancing northwards we're hearing from lebanese television that in the coming hours they should be entering the strategically

important border town that is held by the kurds of cold bani at the same time there are reports that the pro turkish forces have cut off the main road traveling east west through the kurdish territory already on sunday you had your syrian army who are portly reaching the area of banbridge in aleppo now that's just 60 kilometers away from co bani and this is after kurdish militia allowed them to pass freely through their checkpoints now this comes as we continue to receive reports that on sunday the turkish bath forces reached the area of tell so far more than 10 people have been killed on both sides many more have been displaced unfortunately it seems as if the situation is just going to deteriorate. the e.u. has been quick to react to the turkish offensive it has condemned the operation against the kurds and called on and grow up to hold its military action in northeastern syria friends and germany have also temporarily stopped arms exports to their nato partner dollar home for his part has said he hopes both turkey and

the kurds can prevent detained islamic state fighters from fleeing amid the chaos kurdish officials have already said that hundreds of family relatives of foreign i some members have escaped from detention because don of takes a look at how the crisis manifold. this is turkish and kurdish fighters beating each other black and blue and there's hate begets hate a hydra that was thought to be called dead is raising its head again. the version does not only threaten the reactivation or revival of islamic states but has revived and activated it stills in chemistry and other areas left all alone against the turkish military under its proxies the as d.f. needs every man and woman who can hold a rifle to defend their homes so the guards abandon some of their prison posts and some 800 i saw affiliates missed no chances here breaking loose from captivity and

more in sensing the lax watch over them are no longer afraid to rattle their cages but of them running for the hills there and while both damascus and its neighbors have plenty to be concerned about because of this it's europe that is really worried. the turkish operation in syria is our main concern our common wish is that the offensive must end we believe that it risks on the one hand creating an unacceptable humanitarian situation and on the other helping to reemerge in the region military action will undermine the security of the coalition's local partners namely the kurdish forces and risk for attacked it is the billet in northeast syria providing fertile ground for that is arrogance. and the latest jailbreaks might be only the very beginning of a truly massive outpour i mean look at this there are isolated tensions centers all

over the kurdish controlled areas they hold tens of thousands of islamic state affiliates thousands of them being former fighters actual former fighters and many of them holding foreign passports yes the e.u. had every. every type of warning bell ringing for them the kurds begged europe to take back jihad us with the e.u. passports and put them on trial at home well the position of the opt out by many european states have also been adopted by many other states across the globe countries are very reluctant to take back home anyone who's been connected with so-called islamic state as a foreign fighters because a the judicial systems within many liberal democracies haven't got the ability to bring evidence that would be sufficiently robust to get through the court systems and prosecute these people and the 2nd thing is to try and monitor them would cost

a huge amount of money europe of course is haunted with p.t.s.d. terror from the caliphate headed smite and we're living those moments he's europe's worst nightmare. so condemn call for dialogue stop every last arms create a turkey all you want now like fixing a crumbling house with duct tape over worked well the situation is worse because evidently old these foreign fighters which were detained under the kurdish. detention centers are now being opened in different ways and these people are being freed on the territory which means does this people 1st of all can be active in the

territory of syria again and possibly being foreign fighters they might even decide or choose to return to europe and therefore to uk to be their selves in europe again. we're joined live now by british author and historian adel darwish now how likely is it that turkey will limit the scope of its operation in syria following the condemnation from the e.u. and the decision by countries like france and germany to halt their arms sales to turkey. i don't think it's not going to make that much difference actually because the most of the arms that it needs either locally many factors or come from america the last actually street move was prime minister boris johnson on the phone call. there to kish prime minister. asking him that britain we cannot

actually support that was quite strong language in not only concern but really cannot support this action and i think without to move from american international move i don't think anything can happen and it was the biggest belief that the americans pulled a like that without even considering security council resolution or at the speaking to other partners on the grounds including russia polluting the pay and then other forces to have some kind of replacement. peacekeeping or observers on the border to stop this kind of mess to what extent are the tensions between turkey and its nato partners likely to undermine the integrity of the alliance. does put in quite the story and i think it was not actually appearing in public is behind the scene. which is that if the in the up. fighting actually the syrians face to face or why they are skilled confronted ation

what will happen turkey's and it will member and. america even publicly is not condoning the kind of the whining will put asia and as we heard releasing all this terrorist fighters there to go out and cause initiative. and then the other nato members actually how even stronger than that in fact the only little member who is appealing to beg you to put is turkey itself so that is causing quite a lot of considerable concern inside nato is there any chance that turkey could actually be expelled from nato over this operation. as ferdie unlikely but again with president trump in office these always come up with some kind of unexpected. move in very unusual the need to member

is facing economic sanctions from america expelling it would actually need some kind of a majority decisions and giving the tension and giving the and the most city. creating its new cold war 2 is russia. it's a very long shot we don't have much time left but i did want to ask you are we likely to see and i still come back as is being argued. as been our good he's been accused of supporting and backing i said and evidently how did i get all this equipment money and so on so is actually a cynical view. you probably doesn't care or even try to get to the released it's a course that i will to damascus author and historian adel darwish thank you for your time and your comments thank you. russia's defense ministry has firmly rejected allegations that its just deliberately carried out airstrikes on 4 hospitals in northwestern syria in may the claims were published in the new york

times on sunday following an investigation by the publication of quarter has the story. article says that the russian air force has been bombing targets hospitals in syria in order to crush government opposition now what kind of evidence does the new york times claim to have they say they have unpublished radio recordings that were allegedly caught by residents in the region and anonymous witnesses who claim to have identified russian planes carrying out bombings against hospitals now we have heard a response from the russian defense ministry and they say that the publication has befallen prey to misinformation 1st of all would like to express our regret that a major news outlet has fallen victim to the manipulations of terrorists and the british intelligence services the real conditions of life in the deescalation zone that's on their allocated to control a terrorist group related to. a very different from what the new york times imagine is done to be the ministry went over a number of problems with these radio recordings number one being the fact that

russian pilots don't communicate bombing targets over radio in the 1st place russian jets in syria don't receive target coaled the detainee open radio transmission this is why all the supposed evidence presented by the new york times is worth less than the paper it was printed on and number 2 with the gadgets used to pick up these radio frequencies and which are featured in the new york times article are too expensive for ordinary residents to afford moscow says that these are most likely connected to an air strike warning system developed by an american company deployed by british intelligence and handed over to the white helmet and so the ministry has cast serious doubt over. a serious suspicion as to who exactly are these anonymous sources there is no other reason except the connection to the white helmet which acts on that the thought to have just had to explain the absolute in the name of all sources in the new york times article. there was also something

about one of the hospitals being located in a cave right there was one located in the cave of kafir is eat up and just recently actually my colleague roman kosar of visited caves in the same area as that one he was part of a press tour that included 80 correspondents from around the world and what they saw from this this expedition was not hospitals in the caves but actually large arsenals of weapons often these weapons were made in the west so with the ministry of defense is response it seems the facts aren't clearly against russia as the new york times claims. global news after this short break. i . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is spearing dramatic development only

loosely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. with more make this manufactured consensus public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the flaming. lips and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick.

welcome back a wave of deadly attacks in the west african nation of burkina faso saw armed men target a mosque on friday leaving at least 16 people dead at all similar assaults in the last month being attributed to armed groups and al-qaeda killing scores of people as concern grows over a surge in religious extremism in the reach him. the

vast region in sub-saharan africa is one of the areas most at risk it spans from the atlantic ocean all the way to the red sea and 9 countries our senior correspondent explains the fears it's becoming a fertile recruiting. these days it's getting harder to sell jihad in the middle east people know what hides behind those pious promises and todd generations culled at this point who could just sick of killing so the fanatics are packing up and leaving apparently for them there's more fun to be had elsewhere at the doorstep of the sahara i know we are all very concerned about the continuing escalation of violence in the city heal and its expansion into the gulf of guinea countries it is already one of the most inhospitable places on the planet and if the merciless heat of the malnutrition and almost total lack of medical care

weren't enough to kill you well religious nutcases will according to n.g.o.s the number of jihad just attacks in the sale have doubled every year from 2016 and if you're a career terrorist with affordance for killing where better to be the same hell is huge almost 7 times the size of iraq plenty of fresh recruits high birth rates high poverty high desperation the perfect place to recruit an army of hopeless youth and start over. this ladies and gentlemen is the setting of the 2nd war and terror this is where

it's going to be waged front's arguably fired the 1st shots when it set up a task force of sale nations the g 5 to stop islamist radicalism the hardly any effect underfunded. the support the dead in smaller numbers than expected in the beginning in 2011 recall that in and states in the so-called nato allies overthrew the regime but more and more cut darfur you saw libya become a hut bit of religious zealotry that has reverberated southward in in fact has reverberated east were as well that's one of the reasons why africa has become a hot bed for so-called religious extremism the war on terror in fact has become so little hot and so complicated that even the africa command.

the pentagon it's decided to be what it is to court german. hundreds if not thousands of miles from the battlefield that does not win up the muslim with regard to the prospect of combating this epidemic of religious zealotry lack of funds was address to the summit in brooklyn a fast so last month with west african leaders announcing a $1000000000.00 plan to combat jihad this violence which is pennies considering the challenge a $1000000000.00 to protect an area roughly the size of a 3rd of the european continent the hell is a gateway to the rich central african ivory coast gonna southern nigeria and when they get there we'll all feel it from coffee prices to food shortages and or oil production declines that will batter the world's economy

and make no mistake this jihad is intended to hurt. we end with some world news in brief starting an aqua door where celebrations have taken over the capital paedo after president struck a deal with the country's indigenous community to cut austerity measures in return for an end to mass protests the widespread unrest had been over ending fuel subsidies and rising prices in general. and the typhoon has now reportedly claimed the lives of 56 people after hitting the shores of japan over the weekend tens of thousands of people are involved in the search and rescue efforts heavy rain and strong winds have caused landslides and power cuts and what's been described as the worst storm there in decades. that's a global news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for tuning it.

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for watching closely watching the hawks. don't have to recount here we're going underground as the british queen opens a pall of it that it's already been a little flea shut down by minority government leader boris johnson as he seeks to bypass legal obligations and leave the european union in 18 days time coming out of the show was world renowned human rights lawyer geoffrey robertson q.c. bugged by the cia in london we ask him what's legal and what's illegal. comes to boris johnson u.s. diplomat scotland yard and you're innocent in u.k. black history month going underground speaks to the son of miles davis one of the greatest jazz artists of all time. is going underground on the day of what u.k.

labor leader jeremy corbyn goes a fast the state opening of the british parliament by the queen joining me is one of the world's top human rights was geoffrey robinson q.c. a founder of daddy street chambers jeffrey welcome back to going undergrads are reports of the queen seeking advice on sacking boris johnson intimations routinely in the press the johnson wants to unlawfully void sending a letter to the european union your queen's councillors the queen consulted you about my obligations as a queen's counsel to advise the queen whenever i must free of charge and i have. not yet. have advised daughter in law wants but not the queen she needs a lot of advice because there are a lot of case about the british constitution of which she is the normal guardian we talk about.