and very well now continue your. after the syrian army liberates a key terrorist stronghold in the province claims and counterclaims are exchanged in the un security council. blivet of millions of civilians are now an even greater risks to the escalation it is not due to the operations of the syrian armed forces but the constant and deliberate provocations of the terrorists. who are going to wave goodbye briggs it gets its final rubber stamping from the european parliament and british only piece of power out with the last curtain call . to cut except the capital city gets here at unifil each on the outskirts of east jerusalem we visit an arab neighborhood behind a concrete security barrier in east jerusalem touted by donald trump as the future

capital of a palestinian state. and for joining us this is r.t. international. russia's branded as unsubstantiated claims syrian forces have killed civilians the claims were made at the un security council by the u.k. and us the pair say the deaths occurred during an offensive on the northwestern province of idlib it was launched more than a month ago to liberate the remaining terrorist stronghold from al qaeda linked fighters moscow puts the blame on terrorists which he claims are using civilians as human shields and far in humanitarian corridors we are appalled by the significant escalation and syrian regime and russian violence in the escalation and it is not due to the operations of the syrian armed forces but the constant and deliberate

provocations of the terrorists the lives of millions of civilians are now even greater risks as the combined forces of the assad. regime russia the iranian regime and has asked. the problem of can't be resolved as long as the terrorists that have been recognized as such by the security council continue to rain there comes a syrian army recaptured one of village provinces largest and most strategic towns . the former hotspot for anti-government protests have been held by rebels since 2012 moscow open humanitarian corridors for those seeking to leave the areas before the operation the u.s. insists the offensive should be stopped these reports now it seems washington as are all the different standards for so direction. the fall of my new month came as a shock to everyone it was a cradle of the revolution later the jihad against asaad rebels 2nd largest

remaining city and they gave it up without a fight a fight for the city that is it self had been a battleground for the past month. but then. in december the syrian military set off an operation taking dozens and dozens of towns and villages in me a week's diplomacy kicked in russia and turkey mediated a ceasefire which then lost the islamists seemingly couldn't keep their fingers off the trigger. about an ellipse and the reason for the escalation is the reason is the militants control totally or nearly totally by chop out all nusra and ayad taria sham which al nusra has turned into and uses as a cover constantly bring the cease fire with the cease fire arrangements create

special corridors for noncombatants so they can leave the combat zones by the way the terrorists keep striking those corridors hindering the departure of peaceful civilians trying to retain them as human shields. seen at all before in ghouta rebels caged the women and pensioners on roofs to prevent strikes i was in aleppo at the end when those same rebels held hostage 200000 civilians refusing to allow a single person human shield to leave the city and you wouldn't even know reading recent headlines it's the usual stuff assad is guilty of every scene and every hurt in syria ruthless actions by russia the iranian regime hizbollah and the assad regime are directly preventing the establishment of a ceasefire in northern syria we condemn these barbaric attacks and call for an immediate cease fire one would think if you really want to the cease fire you'd

stop flooding rebel armories with weapons and advanced guided missiles but ok so what would america do if it was a. tax during the season how would it fight terrorists who hide behind civilians in the state department preaches and voices its concern about the suffering of civilians only when the terrorists suffer a crushing defeat and syrian citizens of finally liberated the state department also published similar hypocritical tweets when syrian cities that are now rebuilding themselves were liberated unlike raca that was wiped off the map by us as strikes they leveled mosul just like they obliterated raca in all tens of thousands of innocents died i remember them back then broken civilians running out of the city mosul every day horrified that isis sent us jets in equal measure but

apparently what america leveled cities it's the right thing to do we're not perfect guys we can make a mistake and this kind of warfare won't happen but we are the good guys and munitions people on a battlefield know the difference isis knows that they can use human shields to avoid being hit it's their air defense system the enemy is using a tactic that actually has them become part of the target that is on them not on us not entirely sure the dead would agree those pulver arised by coalition bombs or the survivors who are still years later cleaning up the rubble i'm surprised the pentagon hasn't blamed them too for forcing america to use so many bombs it's clear the cases in mosul iraq the american and british bombers targeted the jihad the islamic state opponents but these people were intermingled with the civilians they had based. souls and buildings which also house civilians were next

to them it's a case of burying their head in the sand and not wanting to admit that both turkey or russia have helped at least to limit the human cost at least to many many. hundreds of thousands of people i mean it is i think part of the underlying dilemma of the western states that they committed themselves so wholeheartedly to the fall of a sad that they turned a blind eye to who was fighting against him and so they have in the end said anybody who's against assad is better than a sad not a double standards but it's also turning a blind eye to these groups who have after all spawned threats to western europe because some of the supporters have carried out radical terrorist attacks in western europe to correspondent for our big channel was seriously injured in italy province on wednesday. he was hit by an explosion from

a shell abandoned by militants covering the aftermath of the syrian army's liberation of the area she sustained facial injuries and shrapnel wounds to her body. around the session in the european parliament to seen the curtain fall on british peace for the final time after lawmakers approved the brig's that withdrawal agreement britain set to quit the you on friday evening setting in motion a year long transition period the leader of the briggs it party nigel farage and this parting dig at brussels. say this is a final chapter at the end of the road a 47 year political experiment we use our for europe we just hate the european union it's as simple as that nigel for she is a lived in loathed in pretty much equal measure depending on who you speak to when the leader of the breaks that party wasn't going to let his last chance to address

the european parliament go without making a bit of a scene in the chamber there you want to burn our national flags we're going to wave goodbye i will look forward in the future to working with you please sit down resume your seats put your flags away you're leaving and take them with you if you are leaving now and i but the issue with the flags comes after just last week david so i saw you who's the president of the european parliament said that flags fell foul of current rules that prohibit ban is being shown in the chamber as you might imagine mr for a lot to say about that he said it just showed how the european parliament in brussels institutions was trampling over the rights of member states well away from the side show in brussels on wednesday. a there was some serious business being done in fact the deal that will see the door for certainly happen was ratified parliament we heard from the lion the european commission president who

said brussels was putting a very good deal as far as they were concerned on the table for the u.k. to sign but this in amongst all of the goodies they were offering the united kingdom that they were demanding regulatory alignment when it came to things like workers' rights like environmental concerns and social protections we are considering a free trade agreement with 0 tariffs and 0 quote us this would be unique no other free trade agreement offers such an access to our single market but the precondition is that european and british businesses continue to compete on a level playing field. we will certainly not expose our companies to unfair competition for those talks on a trade deal between the u.k. and the e.u. post breaks that get underway on the 3rd of march it may well put the united

kingdom in a bit of a rock and a hard place situation between the european union on one side and the united states on the other london of course once lucrative trade deals with both however that may fall foul of those words regulatory alignments that the european union are insisting upon because if the u.k. agrees to regulatory alignment with the european union they may not get the trade deal that they hope to be able to get with the united states they certainly are leaving on the 31st but they're leaving into this transition period if you think briggs it's going away any time soon another thing coming it's going to be here for a little while yet to talk about. there's outrage among palestinians after the u.s. president unveiled a peace plan which critics call heavily biased in favor of israel more than 40 protesters have been injured in clashes with israeli security forces in the west

bank. go for the streets of the west bank donald trump sr middle east advisor and son in law has poured scorn on the ability of the palestinians to run their own state if they want to get to a conclusion they like people who are ready for a state and they're proving through their reaction that they're not ready to have a state you have 5000000 palestinians who are really trapped because of bad leadership if they if they screw up this opportunity which again they have a perfect track record of missing opportunities if they screw this up i think that they will have a very hard time looking the international community in the face saying they're

victims saying they have rights this is a great deal for them. but a sign that would be handed a capital in abu dis an arab neighborhood on the outskirts of east jerusalem. visited the area and spoke to people there about trump's proposal. this doesn't look exactly like a capital city and yet its hero in the village of abu dis on the outskirts of east jerusalem that the american president wants the future capital of a palestinian state to be now not only has the issue divided israelis and palestinians but as you can see by the security barrier it's also divided palestinians from palestinians so on this side you have some of east jerusalem on the other side you have the rest of it and it's anyone's guess how a city like this well if a function as a capital. structure. our capital of palestine. or the people who are is just sort of start everybody think it's.

you know it's. one of the village in the town and we believe. this is the parliament building here in abu dis now it's closed and it doesn't look like much but this is where presumably a future parliament will function from when trump says that this is a win win situation for both palestinians and israelis well it seems he's being cynical at best about acing and be able to want to make peace but they have to give us what they give israel you know the fear he doesn't give anything to. 0 here. and. he has not earned it for us he doesn't give us from us most of our lands but i think there must. be a shim and people as they have to hear our voice. i think this will lead

everybody to the good to think and to conflict together to say what we want to hear and the people here so want be appraising here don't be upset that key to the city of abu dis but when inhabitants hear themselves are pessimistic as to the promise that it unlocks it's hard to understand why president trump is putting so much faith in it policy a r t. trying to plan also demands the palestinians dismiss all pending actions before the international criminal court as it moves ahead with the probe into alleged war crimes against palestinians rights groups that we spoke to voice their concern over details of the u.s. president still. be all vocals there because that has been happening and what we're seeing with this plan is that it's going to enable. and able to actually act it's a landstuhl annex more which is biased getting a territory and addicts. thousands of palestinians i think say show is.

this is all about a shot of the russian aloft and the american administration is saying that's ok you go ahead with it and if that's the measure goes out this plan is completely one sided where is that i mean voice what is that what is going to start where. this is being because they're going to go to one side it might add obviously the israeli government to do that it's up to show that. it's going to. work with both that it was on a day to day basis we see this going to mean a show. quality and injustice that they have been through and historically and they are wrong on a day to day that it's been you know it's it's already declared war on the international criminal court over its investigation to get its to its animation situation in palestine its put all these issues you choose prostheses the negotiations that are clearly meant as has all their actions cost 3

years meant to produce a palestinian rejection that would pave the way for israeli was an exception the reality here is the united states do you know actually in the works plays a critical role quite literally as a court of last resort in a case like israel palestine where there has been impunity where israel has not held virtually anyone of significance to account for serious human rights abuses over decades and the policies have been the same. and italian cruise ship with 6000 people on board has been quarantined over fears of the coronavirus. measure was taken to teach chinese passengers on board. the symptoms of the virus. being carried out the ship called the cost to. close the road. millions of. destruction in eastern africa bringing the region to the brink of

hunger.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. a modern day plague is wreaking havoc in eastern africa the region is suffering its worst locust invasion in decades hundreds of millions of them swept across kenya somalia and ethiopia with the u.n. warning of the potential for a firm and he's done of exploits. less than a month into 2020 and there's already been a whole year's worth of doomsday panic from fears of world war 3 to the

coronavirus and now a biblical one africa is suffering from one of the worst locust outbreaks in the continent's history. they destroy everything in their path including our farm we want the government to act fast and someplace to spread them but insecticide otherwise they will destroy everything. and. if they can do. that they have desiccated everywhere here you cannot even eat outside never do you have to lock yourself in the house. for the locals the

infestation means much more than just having to stay indoors they've eaten everything farmers complain brought to the brink of desperation with their plantations left barren people facing famine by the races swarms of insects swarms larger than cities i. i i . i. i. i. i. one ally and i had to turn back out of fear as the bugs would claw get sanctions but as apocalyptic as it already sounds experts fear that if not contained now the

situation will get much worse locusts breeding season starts only in march so the swarms will be roaming around ravaging people's food supplies for some time yet there is no limited impact on last season's crops the upcoming season is due to be planted around march or april and this will cause side with a new generation of swarms so that the potential to impact food security and livelihoods in the horn of africa is tremendous kenya has started spraying the swarms with pesticides a desperate measure as it's feared the chemicals could poison what little of the crops remains in the past giant nets flame thrower was and even lasers were proposed as weapons of mass destruction but were never used perhaps now. as the

time. a new report part funded by the u.k. government itself is scathing about his tough new crackdown on offenders. i want criminals to literally feel terror at the thought of committing offenses it's madness to continue doing the same thing and expecting different results and what we have been doing traditionally we'll look at and found or somebody who is at risk and we say psychologists because of psychological reasons or sociologist paves. reasons and biological reasons and so on and then we're trying to minimize that risk. that was one of the authors of the new study into preventing youth radicalization which calls for a fundamentally different approach the report says positive psychology supporting vulnerable young people is far more effective than managing their risks it will equal opportunities for youth in education and the job market while encouraging them to participate in society but the proposals are in stark contrast to the

government's punishing approach earlier this month the u.k. government drew up tough new crackdowns including closer monitoring of offenders together with a mandatory minimum prison sentence for terrorist offenders of 14 years as well as doubling the number of counter-terrorism probation officers or the report's authors again here explains why that's the wrong approach. to a positive psychology or whatever you call it is that it is sas stop looking at the past as a potential risk because of their psychological or biological or source of logical implications look at them s. potential tell them what is that interest that they have as a young person and support that interest and why do you say you would get an increase with zillions when it comes to that risk it's not about replacing is not about stopping this is about prevention is about what we do in schools is what we do universities but we also piloted in actually youth offending is just so we worked with offenders with young often and when we worked with them to see what of

interest and it was it was the football was it and then support that that talent that. what they wanted to do we saw a completely different change in the approach to go about with a base for your top stories in half an hour theatre. what we have time right here is the death of 3 or because planet earth has a debt fear of approximately 3 to 4 times global all g.d.p. which i think is between like 80 trillion so there's like you know almost 400 trillion now in debt it's the dead last year and it's has a profound impact in the 21st century.

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events like the battle of ideas and one of the bobbie confronts this these are the kind of things this could be striving on gives us i've missed kampala making connections with people to set up projects. welcome to the alex salmond show on the evolve bt the day that britain finally departs the european union after many false starts boris johnson has got bricks it does but it looks like the celebration of a new political dog will be somewhat understated we mark the day with an interview

with britain's longest serving peak lord marries her looks back with born this at the concrete achievements of the european parliament for working people. i'd read talk to the secretary general of new european the pro european campaign a group today and i pack up their tents then we'll ask 2 old westminster hands form a liberal democrat presidential candidate and breaks a cheer limbert or pick i'm former pike commie president i'm through european north africa wakely to look to the future of britain's european relationships but 1st to your tweets messages and e-mails and the mighty response we received to our programs on scotland's future and last week sure on the homeless will attend says amazing good guys out there you never hear about doing something constructive to help the homeless give you hope to see people doing miss morton says it's amazing how such good intentioned people whether well in their hearts to make a difference can help those who fallen on such hard times they are brilliant and can teach us all how to be better people well said brian says some of that was

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