the syrian army captures a key location in the province opening the road to the regional capital still controlled by terrorists. driving their way in france where punishing new levies are coming into force for s.u.v.s and trucks as part of the battle for low emissions. and u.k. arm sales to the south becoming a spike over the last 5 years despite britain signing up to a treaty to protect human rights. good morning from moscow it's 8 am wednesday december 25th and if you celebrate in a very happy christmas for me in the team here at the international 1st to update

you on the syria this morning the government forces there every captured a key battleground in the province after a week long offensive more on that now from where i guess if it's been awhile since i've made headline news it's been everyone but america selling out its allies and pilfering syrian oil. bullying claims of bias that the. but no last until now. thousands of syrians forced to abandon their homes and flee for their lives as hundreds of ground and air strikes hit the region of it late overnight some thursday part of a new ground offensive by syrian government forces. russian backed government forces up intensified their bombing campaign well of all out i will go to the camps near the turkish border to escape from us and rockets the syrian military has been a bit of a role capturing a slew of villages and towns and media days of course whenever that happens the

media and his opponents exploded in outrage same thing every time we want a peaceful resolution we want talks we want. we want we want we want with do with al qaida. it is ruled by a high at the sharm an offshoot of al qaida h.g.'s feeds on war and drinks violence it turned deadly into a cesspool of zealots and fanatics mercenaries and foreign jihad ists on a world war i mean the fact that it was where they found the founder of isis it's

the safest place you could find kind of gives it away and h.t.s. refuses any negotiation with the syrian government are you seeing the issue here how do you get a peaceful resolution when one of the biliteral is a homicidal maniac that just wants to cut your head off in the name of god or interest lies in killing the terrorist in order to protect the civilians not leaving those civilians you know. under the supervision of the terrorist and being killed by bit earth the issue here is refugees for now civilians have fled from the immediate war zone but they have to do somewhere in the safest place for now is north. look 50000 people are once again coming from egypt to our lands we already have 4000000 people and now another 50000 are coming and this main crease even further russian and turkish diplomats are in overdrive trying to manage what's

happening and prepare for what's to come it is absolutely clear that the status quo is over america selling out its allies and camping out in oil fields turkey diluting kurdish territories with arab refugees and now the last islamist stronghold if it falls it will mean the end of the syrian civil war it will mean as sad wins. the military operation in needly province is in line with the policy goals set by bashar al assad if so we aim is to liberate the entire territory of the syrian arab republic because. it is their right to clear and to extend the. sovereign the state. of clear territory in peace is what they're doing at present the sooner or later i believe that the syrian army will expose

these people from from being flippant from ben syrian territory and i don't think that it is the stuff of will from knowledge it may be difficult it may take some time but sooner or later they are going to be expelled from from the syrian territory understandably those who spent billions fled in syria with weapons and ammo with fighters and propaganda they don't want that to happen so certainly logical for them to insist on impossible talks so long as he's wasting his time waiting for the other side to pick up the phone the turks can continue colonizing northern syria the americans can continue pumping out its oil we're now at the last domino and it's. already fall. as a national strike in france against pension reform goes into its 3rd week people there are facing another crackdown a bruising tax hike on vehicles to boost the new e.u.

rules reporting next from parish to do better. as pricing being rocked from under the christmas tree is the french government has given its citizens a gift that they may want to return its past a new law to increase taxes on s.u.v.s and trucks meaning that vehicles that pollute the most will pay you more than 2020 the new pollution tax will come with a $20000.00 euro price tag that's up from the current $12.00 and a half 1000 you raise it's no doubt that s.u.v.s are heavy polluters but despite that they are still popular in france making up some 30 percent of sales in the 1st 11 months of 2019 so want to drive us in paris of the tax hike even if. it's true that those vehicles consume a lot but people have to get around people who work every day when they need those types of vehicles for war it's be true there is no other way to earn money. everything's you're missing the price now it is and we've seen the whole country on

strike looking for the government can tax its citizens duckman eventually they will have no choice but to protest. in france you have to pay taxes are rising while salaries a stay in the same new tax comes on top of already tough new measures are to european level to lower car emissions many governments are pushing people in the direction of electric cars which is seen as being greener and better for the environment but at the same time the french government is actually considering reducing cash incentives for new electric cars perhaps not great news for those who are thinking of buying one but also plans to ban fossil fuel cars within the next 20 years. haris they could be banned in the next 10 years so do people here feel that they are being pushed by higher taxes vehicles that use traditional fuel towards electric cars. it's

a natural progression that was seen one which will lead to more and more electric cars. electric cars why not it's a good we can use them in our country if the government helps us to buy electric cars why not but otherwise it's referred to drive my car for even if it pollutes it's not that bad and there are other concerns was many people say they want to be green charging points for electric vehicles are still not widespread while still in paris there are plenty of around the city elsewhere that's not always the case before like you don't we need to have enough places to eat charge them in addition to service center is the same 6 like lanes in germany a long way behind it we have to develop cycle lanes and we have to develop charging stations on the. vehicles in front seem to be developed but that's not the case with the off on throngs even the president doesn't set a good example travels by car while we travel by food by bicycle by scooter so it

seems there are still many mental barriers for people even thinking about buying electric cars but as the cost of taxes on fossil fuel vehicles are set to steeply roys they may feel that there is no other choice. altie paris and hitting the road in the u.k. police there are going green with a major splurge on electric cars but as he explains the vehicles aren't quite up to speed. imagine being a criminal in london and you have c.c.t.v. numberplate the texas police patrols and more to keep the peace if you need to escape the police it might not be the easiest thing to do but one thing might be working in criminals favor increasingly police forces are adopting the use of electric cars and that means they may not be able to keep up with. vehicles that are less damaging to the environment are struggling to cope with the

arduous needs of emergency service autonomous driving and safety systems are not conducive to pursuit or response driving and even if the electric police cars could keep up they might not last very long because the batteries they use would soon run out plug in electric cars do not have adequate range and they take too long to charge up which is a significant challenge the motivation behind the deployment of these cars is desire by the police to be more eco friendly figures from 30 police forces across the country show that 448 green vehicles have been leased or bought by the police at a cost of around a $1000000.00 and a half pounds but now it's being reported that the vehicles are only being used for not of agencies and for police officials to travel around before they were being used in a patrol situations and the metropolitan police have set themselves and i'm bishop target to cut all of their vehicle emissions to 0 by 2050

a politician should be checking always. ensure the public has body for money because truly the money is very much needed are in place also has across the country to. share with all all sorts of crime she just always had to improve and our credential or star seem to be a strange not citizens goal for our hearts. all reaction. cards of prove there in effect in this in other countries in september police in the u.s. were forced to give up a chase with suspected crooks in the back in their tesla police vehicle when dead british police are making a noble effort in the war on climate change but the cost could be a price to pay in the war on crime sally r.t.

. there's been a sharp rise in british weapons sales to saudi arabia and its coalition partners over the last 5 years that's despite adopting a treaty meant to regulate trade that could violate human rights the increase has been calculated by the charity oxfam which is deeply concerned over the way you came a weapons are being used in the conflict in yemen according to oxfam over the last 5 years since the arms trade treaty came into force the u.k. license sales were nearly 6 and a half 1000000000 pounds to 8 members of the saudi coalition in the years before the accord was adopted it amounted to just under 4 and a half 1000000000 now the arms trade treaty was adopted way back christmas eve 2014 at the time 105 sovereign states ratified it and a further 32 signed up to it as well it regulates the way the arms trade treaty that is meant to stop human suffering and ensure that weapons are not sold to those violate human rights or break humanitarian law back then the british government is also keen to stress its importance. the a.t.t.

is the only legally binding treaty regulating on promoting legitimate and responsible trading conventional arms he remains a unique and valuable instrument 6 months ago the british government had to put the saudi arabia on hold the court of appeal said they were on lawful and made without assessing if the gulf state of violated humanitarian law in yemen it's expected that the government's going to appeal that decision in the supreme court saudi arabia since vention in yemen started in 2015 to fight who think rebels who they see as terrorists however it's the level of civilian casualties in the conflict that are a major cause of concern. or

if china from oxfam told us there's clear evidence of violations in yemen and that the u.k. should stop selling arms to the saudis. there is many more weapons been so after the arms trade treaty to saudi and that kind of partners as there was before i think there's just been sake you know the u.k. kind of living up to the treaty and the word is that treaty the evidence is really i have a well meaning that there's been consistent violations of international law and the case is really clear that the government is going to continue to license weapons have to be clear about what that there is a pattern of violation in that violation. so i very. that.

and i think it's very sad that the government have chosen to appeal this decision and wish to continue to sell weapons that are being used in a war is causing untold profits and harm and destruction and the people of yemen. i must be top of the u.s. democrats christmas wish list to see donald trump kicked out of the white house but the president seems to be spending the holidays full of good cheer saying he's in a very good position the head of his senate trial and with that in mind arty's saskia taylor invites you now for a cheeky sees no impeachment drinking going this claim up if you're not 18 change channels and those 18 pluses out drink responsibly 3 months ago 3 long months ago the impeachment inquiry against donald trump was announced and now the house of representatives a say in my go for a double whammy and impeach trump for a 2nd time if more evidence comes to light so since we're clearly in it for

a while yet and it's christmas after all we've come up with a little bit of a migration based game pick a drink answer. so let's lay down the rules if ok when trump takes a swipe at not to post he also says that it's all a witch hunt bottoms that slow and steady wins the race let's make it a half he does that a lot more to war than if politicians uncharacteristically locate their moral compass and decide no one is above the law. no one is above the law president trumps continued actions but the rule of law is that america no one is above the law we vote to defend the constitution and our democracy so that the president trump and every future president would know that they are not above the law now and the stakes if a republican admits the troubles may be probably protection just a little bit naughty drain. just joking that's never going to happen but for any

republican who steps forward to defend his need to it is because if that has been one moment of clarity in this whole saga it's about 2 camps if you will blue you want about the merry impeachments hashtag if you're right you'll probably be reporting the hash tag and seeing red ok so if a journalist got a bit tipsy at the christmas party who betrayed the oath of objectivity sawyer good and said journalist is better and thinks that writing trump equals bad of course is a good cup of his bias so i'm take a and before i forget if anything to do with my mention. that might be the one to tip you over the. letter you know friend primary objectives within the united states is to show this to foment unrest for their nation there are 2 police propaganda machine here in the united states i think you've got the gist but in case you were in any doubt any mention of a quid pro quo it's a simple question yes or no i do. i do not have sexual relations of. one instrument

but seriously i wasn't joking about the dems gunning for a 2nd impeachment if that is. they managed to wring out evidence suggesting that trump somehow obstructed the investigation that we all know with unlikely to need anywhere i mean even donald's barely broken a sweat i don't feel like i'm being impeached why would he sure the democrat controlled house of representatives can pass as many impeachment articles as i want but the senate also needs to sign off on booting the president from the white house and the senate with current controlled by the republicans making up a bit of a long shot maybe not need to finally recognize that shouting each month trump the election quite the opposite in fact it seems america actually quite nice this particular underdog probably why they chose him in the 1st place goodness that was exhausting my need to drink. britain's guardian newspaper has been forced to

amend an article published last year about russia's role in an alleged plot to extract julian assange from the ecuadorian embassy in london. takes up the story. of the crime and the punishment the guardian newspaper gave a misleading pression to readers and was forced to clarify that its article was well something that you might be tempted to call fake news the piece in question published in september last year claimed that russia had a secret christmas plot to smuggle julian assange out of the ecuadorian embassy in london to moscow a tentative plan was devised that would have seen that we call expounder taken out of london embassy in a diplomatic vehicle and transported to another country one ultimate destination multiple sources have said was russian the involvement of russian officials in hatching what was described as a basic plan raises new questions about a son just ties to the kremlin but the investigation which was led by

a high profile panel of academics and journalists and last 13 months found that the also got carried away with some of their claims the plan in relation to miss. the sun's ability to be brutal we could do an embassy was not devised instigated by russia there was nothing illicit about the plan as described in the article the investigation was triggered by a formal complaint from the former consul of ecuador 3 they'll not a virus or describe several of the papers assertions as falls and defamatory party talk to him they talk about secret talks of russian diplomats in london and they have put trained me us this past contact with. the kremlin in order to execute some kind of plot that's why i feel 'd. their article needed to be challenge. and i myself

needed to have an apology from the guardian apology there happen but did review panel has. decided and has ruled that the article was indeed misleading breach in the heart of conduct of the press in the united kingdom but i'm not completely satisfied with with a correction the other thing is that they have not being. amended does the article still says that russian diplomats. secret talks in london in order to help julian assange chiefly the embassy that's not true finally enough one of the journalists who penned the piece luke harding was behind and nother controversial article published by the garding that piece also published last year claimed that the old transcom pain manager paul mann a forward had held secret talks with a son to an ecuadorian embassy somehow one of the most surveyed places on earth

didn't manage to capture any evidence of that alleged high profile visit the guardian didn't retract the story but. change the headline shift in the responsibility to its sources mr know rise has called the latest corrections he story journalistic fiasco for the guardian for again publishing false information that's not the only article there's a part earned by the same mouth those are the same out there there's a pattern they have accused of spying into the embassy they have. several articles which i mentioning in my complaint. as a pattern from the same journalese which have disgraced the newspaper in his complaint mr not a virus accuses journalists of hiding behind confidential sources the article indeed cited various sources and it seems by sources they probably meant their

imagination. and taken warning u.s. military personnel against using a home testing d.n.a. kit suggesting that the collection of their personal data by private companies could create security risks. are largely unregulated and could expose personal and genetic information and potentially create an internal security consequences and increased risk to the joint force and mission. because they used to provide buyers with information about their ethnic groups and susceptibility to certain diseases typically consumers will send a saliva sample or cheek swab and get the results back via e-mail however the u.s. military fears that sensitive information about its personnel could potentially be sold on to 3rd parties and used for tracking and surveillance former pentagon official michael maloof says it's right to be cautious of these test. we're living in a different era now and it's all digitized and we have no way to control where it goes

once it once it's out and there's been a breach of someone's database and that's and because the defense department of the tells community have no control over that then it makes it makes everybody everybody vulnerable i don't care how many firewalls you might put up you're going to find someone who's going to who's going to try to. meet up to the challenge and try to and borin look at far if our own intelligence. databases can be hacked from time to time even in the classified. that's. anything can be hacked and i think that given the warning that the defense department just put out. people need to take note and be careful as particularly if they want to hold on to any semblance of personal data and and privacy but for the most part privacy is out the window

today and. this christmas morning from moscow your next update from us is in just over half an hour and other if you're celebrating the holidays or not have a safe and peaceful december 21st. taxes are not going to do it and you have to go right to the root of things it's assets and debts at the balance sheet balance sheets is what they should talk about and that's where we can be clear because taxation is the dumb way of trying to get the wealth back from the from the wealthy. so there are good this is the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat to good. what in syria the cia and the us military were engaged in covert

actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military windows funding an army of death squads there's no phones anymore because there's always a small column of people for a really good that's good for profit. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something i want to. have to go right to the press was like before 3 in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters in the house. passes should. israel media

a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led to some. direct. what is truth what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. maybe in the shallows. seemed wrong but all roles just don't all. i mean the world to get to shape out these days to come out to and engage with equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. you know world of big partisan. lot and conspiracies 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 on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle earth for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

god definitely once the innocent to be set free now the question is what happens when that doesn't occur like in the case of this gentleman where he was wrongly convicted. the man was falsely convicted the last 20 years of his life who knows how he was abused in prison maybe and so that is a great evil yeah this is one of the more challenging questions that we as human beings you know have to deal with it's almost an existential question that you know if there is a god and certainly i believe that then how can we allow evil to occur. no question there are quite often i mean this. as i want to know who the true in

the hand and that's where life is and go to me. my name is drome oregon i'm now 42 years old i was all for me arrested and eventually convicted in a sense in that the age of 17 for murder did not commit. the sin is to die in prison by the expiration of my life.