it. an emergency meeting at the u.n. security council over an escalation in serious didley province will convene in a few hours from now with the u.s. calling on russia to stop its military activities while moscow claims washington is protecting the last remaining jihadists like a regional prime minister steps down in germany right after being elected i made a huge fallout over you need struck between the german chancellor's party and the right wing alternative for germany plus also on the way is the us election primary starts with a follow future you can change in policy a lot of videos and images but the fade wording of the new rules does spark concerns the tech giants may use it to censor supporters of politicians they

dislike and in moscow a cool kids custody to social services of a completely healthy child left by parents in hospital for 5 years. hello welcome just gone on the clock in the evening here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council is to convene in new york in a few hours from now the session has been called by the u.s. the u.k. and also france and it follows an escalation between syrian government forces and the need to live. in as the details. the u.n. security council is set to meet regarding the issue of ongoing fighting in the syrian city of dilip the white house is calling for russia to end its efforts to

back the ongoing offensive in the city against terrorists this is a dangerous conflict it needs to be brought to an end russia needs to change its policy now russia recently renewed its offensive against the terrorist forces in it live it is supporting efforts to take back the city from terrorists and jihad is forces now one particular group that the russian foreign ministry has pointed to as being very dangerous is called a yacht terry or al shabab and this is a terrorist group that is widely known around the world for its atrocities for example there are over 1400 attacks with tanks machine guns that have been heavy weaponry that have taken place recently in addition they have been countering civilian protest and ad lib against their ongoing presence in the presence of other militants that there have been attacks on humanitarian corridors which is a violation of international law in addition they have been using civilians as human shields now russia has also emphasized the recent deaths not just of syrian

military personnel but specialists from both russia and turkey within the last 2 weeks of january a load it could have faced over 1000 to tuck's the death toll a number of injured among syrian troops and civilians outside the deescalation zone has already passed hundreds of people russian and took especially this also among those tragically killed now has pointed to recent statements from the u.s. government that seem to indicate that the usa views the to rear terrorists as if they are somehow a legitimate opposition group. we would like to highlight several statements made by western countries 1st of all by the us in which the terrorists of. are being painted as an opposition force and protected under the pretext of establishing a ceasefire but we've been saying no to a ceasefire with terrorists so this will never happen now the russian foreign ministry has pointed to some inconsistency is in statements from u.s.

leaders the usa pointed to the killing of al baghdadi as the end of isis and saying that a high isis was 100 percent wiped out the eisel terrorist were no more however there has been continued instability and terrorist groups continue to have strength in other parts of syria u.s. sent home and the d i a both assess that the october death of al baghdadi did not result in any immediate degradation to isis's capabilities following the death of isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi the group's capabilities in syria remain the same so there are clearly differences among the international community when it comes to the ongoing offensive against terrorism in the syrian province of ellipse so all eyes will be on the security council as the emergency meeting is scheduled to begin. to get reaction now because we can go live to the independent journalist and author of blood on our hands the american invasion and destruction of iraq nicholas j.s.

davies with this a very welcome what do you think we can expect from this emergency meeting this being called and will happen in the next couple of hours as. i think. so often these days in the u.n. security council we can just expect a lot of grandstanding on all sides obviously no resolution is going to pass with the you know disagreements between the u.s. and its allies on one side and russia and china on the other. so you know i think this is just a way for different parties to try and frame what is happening in the way that they want to but it will have no effect on the ground it's curious from the outside for somebody perhaps who knows nothing is watching about what's going on in italy a bit 2 sides can have completely different interpretations of who the terrorists are many people would understand one group to be terrorist or not and yet we have.

the u.s. the u.k. france saying no this group isn't terrorist related russia says it is therefore we're continuing with our offensive. well since 2001 when the u.s. declared a war on terror or terrorism and adopted the you know this militarized approach to terrorism you know what the world has seen has been an absolute explosion of terrorism you know into areas where it never even existed before and of course this this was really entirely predictable there is no military solution to terrorism and as noam chomsky said at the time there's a very simple solution to terrorism which is just stop doing it and what we're seeing in syria is the result of the u.s. you know only 10 years after september the 11th supporting

these. is alarmist extremist groups in syria to try and overthrow. oh the government. now the role of turkey has been insidious because most of the foreign fighters and most of the weapons including very heavy weapons. have flowed into syria across the turkish border and now of course turkey is closing its border to the refugees trying to flee from the results of its own complicity in their destruction of syria how do you think this situation could be resolved particularly with regard to weirdly because we know the terms have been made to set up human corridors but russia is saying look you know these are being targeted by the terrorists or maybe think they're trying do to alleviate the situation from russia's perspective to help civilians

who are there seems to be countered by morons from terrorists in their opinion how do you think this situation could be resolved in the italy. well i think i think it needs to be resolved peacefully and. there have been successful initiatives in the past since 20172018 you know the initiatives that set up those humanitarian corridors in the 1st place. i think i think there has been useful diplomacy by russia to sit down with with turkey and syria and try to resolve some of these situations and. you know turkey. has a lot of responsibility for the presence of the terrorist groups if you want to call them that but these are. groups you know the salafi and

wahhabi. islamic groups fighting the syrian government. and you know perhaps turkey should. that some more response for them and you know and not. instead of you know starting now to actually clash militarily with the syrian armed forces perhaps turkey should provide some safe passage to get some of these people out of syria who it helped to introduce to syria and the 1st place and that could that could perhaps provide a least part of the solution sure ok we'll listen intently to what's going to be said the u.n. security council meeting is going to take place shortly but for the moment thanks very much for your time that was nick davies who's an author who wrote the american invasion and destruction of iraq thank you. and i just shake up in

german politics a key regional prime minister's quit just hours after taking up the post amid a huge backlash over a political union that brought him to power. the all flues all this just resignation was inevitable the dissolution of the parliament is inevitable if detroit yesterday with a perilous trick of damage democracy there was no cooperation with the a.f.p. there is no such cooperation and will never be taught us carrick they're quick to say that he had nothing to do with the deal with alternative for germany but well how long he sticks around at the higher levels of the free democratic party would that may be measured in hours similar to his reign as prime minister of the state of to enjoy he's very early in the firing line at the moment there's been a huge backlash to this situation it's unfolded into india backlash from

politicians also from the public is well it follows this union basically this alliance between the c.d.u. which is angular merkel's party the right wing alternative to germany. part of the a.f. there to support and back thomas kennedy to be the prime minister of the state of to india with that resulted in condemnation of condemnation from all the high angle of merkel herself having something to say about it and this is unforgivable and that's why the result must be reversed the election of this prime minister was a unique process that broke with the basic conviction of the c.d.u. and also of mine namely that no majorities should be won with the help of the f.t. this is a bad day for democracy. chancellor merkel have to say something because she often repeated that promise that there would be no alliance between alternative for germany and her present democratic union it's really seen as the big to boo in

german politics to have anything to do with a half day to try and gears them to gain power in fact you saw large demonstrations across germany on wednesday evening against what we've seen happen today new. turns as one of the smallest states in the german federal republic but the rock that's been thrown in there and not pool has certainly cast ripples far afield

christian linda who's the head of the free democratic party that thomas kennedy belongs to least for now in fact he's called for votes of confidence while speaking to party leadership when it comes to the cd themselves local representatives in the states of today just saying they don't want to see new elections in the state it does look like that's the direction we're heading in at the moment when you look at that it's hard to think that would have been possible just a short while ago while angela merkel was head of the christian democratic union that there would be a local faction of the policy that would be so publicly. against what head office is saying. there will be a meeting of christian democratic union top brass here in berlin on friday as they continue to discuss the fallout from what's going on in the states elections. now

twitter and you tube have announced changes to the way they fight talk to materials but the vague wording in their new rules is raising questions to one quarter as more. we all like a good many i know i do and that's why i'm here to warn you that they're potentially in danger because of twitter's new war on altered images and videos that might mislead voters we know that some tweets include many plated photos or videos that can cost people harm today we're introducing a new rule and a label that will address and give people more context around this tweets one man satire is another man's trigger there's bound to be those who will find hilarious songs like this one unhealthy for a political discourse. twitter has boiled its definition of so-called doctored images down to a few criteria editing of the contents composition changes in its visual or

auditory information and anything that simulates real people but who actually gets to make the call on what does or doesn't harm is anyone's guess are these trump dog and rocky memes politically misleading maybe this one with bernie sanders is harmful a political satire well it's always bound to hurt someone's feelings but if you're not on twitter don't think this isn't going to step on your toes you tube's got its own version of this new policy of the 2020 lection season kicks into high gear in the united states people who visit you tube to learn about the candidates and watch the election season. over the last few years we've increased or if it's to make you tube. and information as well as an open platform for who flee political discourse remember that video trumps supporters made portraying their president massacring the mainstream media in a church it was funny to them to the mainstream media while they were

a bit offended the white house correspondents association says it is horrified by this and is calling on president trump to denounce the video c.b.s. has decided. not to show that video we can't show this video because it's so disgusting is extremely violent it is disturbing and those bad liberating videos could also be interpreted as politically misleading you're probably a little they think a bug just quit right here. we need new babies out there think we need time to make new ones because the old ones just become so big twitter's netizens have already picked up on the controversy because people were kind of insanity is this i love how you used the word doctored because that's the end he said tucker means the left caught me on twitter oh yeah well now no one can make your bed in the eames which may cause harm to the left we can read between the lines there would be no unapproved thought in the people's republic of twitter coverage it seems that

without any ultimate authority to make the call on what is and isn't a violation so many decisions will be left to the rules vague wording who knows how internet freedom will fare as a result. so to come on the program a moscow court grants custody to social services of a completely healthy child who'd been kept in a hospital by their parents for 5 years. join me every 1st week on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. chose to build their economy in such

a way. that spawned the crisis of the problem virus and for that there is an economic i don't think and the us could inherit a benefit of that economic penalty similarly the us build its economy in ways that cause other kind of extra nowadays that are highly detrimental to the us economy. i walked through the streets of moscow now drew blood on $100.00 people i would pound each of them would have the changes of leukemia in the blood that they don't have leukemia because in order for them to have leukemia they need a d.n.a. changes they also need an environment that's receptive and one of the biggest areas of growth medicine in the future is be targeting. changing news so the cancer doesn't want to. live again now a healthy girl who's been living in

a moscow hospital whole life is being handed to social services decisions being made by a coat off to her parents failed to take a home for 5 years this girl is 5 years old and she's had a bizarre sheltered life. this is the room where she lives it's not in a house or apartment and her relatives are not by her side it's an elite private hospital in central moscow and for entire life she has never left as grounds for the wrestling machine or stressing me or her captain washington's embrace. you. don't have to be. the voice or shearing is not her mother it's her nanny the mother has decided that her daughter is hopelessly ill and must be confined to a hospital. however

doctors say that the girl is perfectly healthy and there is no medical reason to keep her in the clinic although they have been unable to discharge her without parental consent knowing the reason i don't do it she doesn't know and yet in life but she's a good normal girl the girl's parents have paid the hospital huge sums of money almost $200000.00 a year to keep her there in the company of private nannies almost a year ago the parents stopped sending their payments but they still refused to take her home and a legal battle has been raging so the hospital convinced the parents to leave their child in the hospital all this time i guess the logical conclusion if the child has been in hospital for quite a few years i'd be parents are not doctors just people. information the child is healthy there is no need for her to stay in hospital on monday the core delivered

its verdict that and your resume can the parents are to be stripped of parental rights to the girl and she will be placed in the custody of child welfare services perhaps soon she will finally leave the com 5. of the hospital and see the world she has been drawing for all these years while the parents can appeal that decision but russian officials do say they hope to eventually give the girl to her grandparents. the chair of the democratic national committee has called for a reassessment of the results and much maligned iowa caucus that's after doubts were raised whether they were factually correct. enough is enough in light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results i am calling on the iowa democratic party to immediately begin a recant versus what with 96 percent of the votes counted be to boot leads with 26

percent bernie sanders is right on his heels and it is a both war and remains in 3rd place just over 18 percent while joe biden is back there in 4th however not everybody is convinced by these figures citing errors and in consistencies. folks i don't know what is going on with the iowa democratic party and the slow trickle of results how many of the counties are having their results falsely reported by the i.d.p. every county needs to release the results now more than $100.00 precincts reporting consistencies in their results along with missing data inaccurate calculations or same taking place to many caucus leaders struggling to adopt new requirements introduced in recent years so let's get some reaction to this we've got them covered his human and labor rights lawyer he joins us from the states good evening to you dan let's just start with a couple of technical things 1st every canvass of the caucus results i'm not quite

sure what that means or no it's not a complete recount can you fill it in. i just can't it's not clear what that means but you can see it doesn't seem like they're going to redo the entire caucus which would be incredible feat to try it does appear what they're going to do is do recount of what they have. but again no one really seems to know what that means when do you think this will resolve itself. i don't know. clearly it's not going to happen this week maybe next week the truth is that the damage has already been i mean i was a small state it doesn't have that many delegates what i will. the sense is the chance for the front runner who appears to be bernie sanders to be able to come in and have a strong showing and to gloat and say look on the front runner and win this thing and that's been taken away from bernie sanders by what has happened in iowa or is

there a danger that this could also be repainted another caucuses in the primaries. i mean the same thing probably will not happen they made it clear they're not going to use this a out the shadow apple. in other primaries but i fear there is going to be more trouble i mean a lot of us believe this is not accidental the powers that be at the democratic party do not want to be either candidate they appear to be willing to burn the whole house down and to lose to trump rather than have a fairly moderate social democrat earth be their candidate and so i think you will see more problems and overall i mean how does it impact on the democrats. potential to do well in the general election the people i mean what sort of reaction in amongst us citizens and also the u.s. media they sort of criticizing is

a lot of heavy criticism on the democrats now. i mean there has to be this it best is incompetence and it seems like willful in part but it's again because they're afraid that bird is going to be the guy to win and you know what he didn't mention in your summaries and he he has 6000 more votes in iowa even though he may have less delegates which of course doesn't add up. i think there is a lack of belief in american democracy in general and now a very strong lack of confidence in the democratic party and its internal function i suppose we shouldn't forget either should be down that these changes were brought in to the system. were brought in after the so-called russian interference but of course it's only lead to errors as well and much embarrassment to the democrats well yes and you saw for example when we knew this was going to happen that sheila jackson has now tried to blame what happened in iowa on russia every time the u.s.

does something wrong or makes a mistake apparently now it's always russia's fault which is it's ridiculous and. you know people in this country have to start looking at their own country look at the fact that we do not have a functioning democracy and those are my words are the words of jimmy carter and we need to fix it and we need to fix it internally this is not about foreign interference frankly it's about the interference of the rich in our elections that are nice if you are going to leave it there that was done covered it there in the united states human and labor rights and i thank you thank you. thank you for watching that's the news site father salar back again in about 35. still seemed wrong. just don't call. me.

yet to see how this thing comes down to. and it gets me because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. so the politicians have basically stuck the american public with the delegate to negotiate for drugs and both parties who are financed very heavily by the pharmaceutical industry have done this so on your own people vote they should look at how much does this politician get from the power pharmaceutical industry last.

welcome to the alex aventura return to the future of the labor party the christmas election was a crushing blow to cork in late labor instead of the hope for elections such as in 2017 borders johnson quest it's 10 year long fight when and labor were left. this is how the labor leader conceded defeat on election night and set the scene for the current contest or to also make it clear that i will not lead the party in any future general election campaign i will discuss with our party. to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward now to take part in the race for labor leader each trying to

have a number of hurdles to jump m.p. support consistency party support and trade union support before they get to the opening of the ballot in 2 weeks time a number of potential candidates have already fallen at the 1st hurdles leaving just 4 hopefuls with their eyes still on the special conference just out on saturday the 4th of april we assess their prospects and thus the future of british labor with 2 key commentators steve richards and professor richard murphy if johnson is a disaster the question is is kier starmer the man who could replace him if the johnson is excessive doesn't matter what kid stallman does because johnson is going to be in power for 10 years so the question is can he actually know johnsen down i can see legally potential lisa nandi. in a way that i didn't expect to you know a few months ago i can see why she is doing as well as she is she started as the

least well. but has forced her much the most impressive and interesting of the campaigns the new labor leader will face the change political landscape of bricks that britain and on that point this is how you reacted to our program on bt james says great show again but that welsh led day lembit should join the tories well at lambeth nor james stephen beat says we are not utopian because a bunch of backwards and a forbes dictate whether we are or aren't we are europeans because that is where our heart slowly we will still be europeans after 31st what ever westminster see after all we still call ourselves scots despite over 300 years of attempted assimilation petitions said the country did not vote for brics it only england did and then put us into a tortie dictatorship why roberson says it's a withdrawal agreement nothing's going to change on the 1st if a body.