passenger plane is forced to make an emergency landing at an airbase in syria for captured the aftermath of the israeli missile attack on the basque defense ministry says put the plane in danger. thing in syria damascus depends its military campaign against terrorist groups and an emergency session of the un security council after western powers accuse it in moscow of indorsing destruction. the sheer scale of destruction both endorsed and facilitated by russia shows that neither they nor the assad regime can be trusted to deliver a ceasefire it is astonishing the desire of some western countries to cross terrorist groups is the moderate opposition. to terminations or stop terror

getting automatic early release from prison search it on a collision course with the e.u. over human rights we put the issue of the debates these are people particularly when it if they're going to start applying it to people have already been convicted already been sentenced already served part of their sentence then it's unfair potentially a breach of human rights potentially unlawful don't forget they violated people schuman rights to being there in the 1st place. very good afternoon thanks for joining us this is r.t. . a passenger plane carrying 172 people has been forced to make an emergency landing in syria after it narrowly missed a being hit by the country's defenses which have reportedly been fired in response to an israeli air strike a defense ministry announced israel claiming that it used severe. as

a shield. only due to the time the actions of damascus airport dispatches and efficient operation of the automated traffic control system did the airbus a 320 manage to successfully land the closest alternative if eld russia's base i was on the streets when the attack happened here in damascus at about 1 12 am local time here on thursday on the sex of this month at about $115.00 local time a loud explosion was heard and that was the syrian air defenses trying to repel what looked like an israeli attack and then later on the syrian army command issued a statement clarifying what happened saying that israeli fighter jets carried out attacks from over southern lebanon on the occupied golan heights against various syrian army military targets in damascus around damascus damascus countryside and also pointed to and which is in that are countryside and the result according to

the syrian army was the injury of 8 syrian soldiers and the russian ministry of defense statement which also gave some information important details that there were 4 actually israeli fighter jets who fired at least 8 missiles on various targets in syria at that time and that israel is using civilian and passenger aircraft in order to avoid being hit by the syrian air defense systems combat operations by the israeli joint staff involving the use of civilian aircraft to shield and prevent retaliation by syrian air defenses is becoming a distinguishing feature of the israeli air force this is a very important point especially that russian made it clear that this is not the 1st time that this happens it happened in 2018 when also russia criticized israel for endangering and putting in danger to passenger aircraft in 2000. in 18 of

course 2018 the israeli strikes not coordinated with russia caused the downing of irrational aircraft with 15 russians on board who were killed were said that time also. said that israel is behind did this incident put the 4th one as well because at the end of the day it's really their fighter jets put actually the russian aircraft in the path of the syrian air defense. systems where israel has previously denied using aircraft as shields against syrian defense systems that it is yet to comment on this particular incident does acknowledge that it's carrying out strikes in syria to stop what it calls iranian military entrenchment artie's contacted the israeli defense forces for comment we await their response. here's what it is now that captures the aftermath of the missile attacks that hit a suburb in the countryside west of damascus on thursday you can see residents clearing rubble from the streets cars buildings they've been completely destroyed

we spoke to people who live in the area. the morning to find this look at this destruction may go take revenge from them look at these people's livelihood is destroyed as you can see yesterday the area was targeted by israel this area has a lot of car hire companies and as you can see many cars were damaged thank god the garbage was only material we discuss the air raid with defense and political commentator amir or and he says that the situation could have gone badly. this particular incident could have been dangerous had the pilots of this civilian airliner panicked and instead of. going to come i mean asking permission to and getting it and lending good coming as an emergency field they would have crashed idea or at damascus international or somewhere near

yes this could happen and it did happen. almost exactly 47 years ago in february of 1973 when israeli planes shot at a levy an airliner and the pilots panicked and crashed in the sinai and there were dozens of fatalities. saying in the region where the syrian government's making progress in its offensive against militant forces in italy province however the u.n. security council the scene heated debate over the operation with syria's envoy slamming western countries for supporting terrorist groups the u.s. hit back claiming syria and russia are endorsing destruction. the situation in northwest syria demands an immediate comprehensible and verifiable ceasefire with whom do you want to hold the ceasefire with the entities that you agree to designate as terrorist groups in this council it is astonishing the desire of some

western countries to cause terrorist groups in it live as the moderate opposition is the russian bombs that have destroyed searing hospitals and driven syrian children from their homes we're hearing all of this criticism against russia but none of it is based on anything the sheer scale of destruction both endorsed and facilitated by russia shows that neither they nor iran nor the assad regime can be trusted to deliver a ceasefire it will be syrian territory and any illegitimate military presence there is the responsibility of the state where those nationals come from. the syrian ambassador there are other the security council seems to be transforming into a nato forum which undermines he says its credibility on the scale of morgan has details. quite strong disagreements were articulated between the countries represented at the 15 member body that leads the united nations now when the representative of the united states spoke she had harsh words for both russia and

syria accusing them of inappropriate and basically unacceptable actions in their efforts to retake the province of live from terrorist forces the trumpet ministration condemns in the strongest possible terms the assad regime iran hezbollah and russia is barbaric and unjust by military offensive the russian representative spoke about how it seemed like the meeting was convened for the purpose of preventing the syrian arab republic from retaking the province of live from the terrorists it seems like the meeting was almost scheduled at a range to try and impede the syrian government's efforts this is what the russian ambassador to ben ziad to say these unplanned meets and syria for. the convene precisely when terrorist groups in the country are under threat and the syrian government is regaining control of its own territory i would like to remind you that these groups are recognized as terrorists by the security council syria

has a right and a d.c. to combine terrorists on its sovereign turn a tree now the representative of the syrian arab republic spoke about the need for his country's territorial integrity to be respected as it is being widely violated with foreign forces in the country who were not invited by the internationally recognized syrian government which is a u.n. member state furthermore you seem to believe that essentially the u.n. security council has been transformed almost into something else you will heard the intervention of the u.s. permanent representative when she said that he is a nato ally so this is no security council but rather a council that she's being used as a nato forum it is an acceptable threat to say inside this house that the united. states of america pretext to keep going as far as nations of the charter and international my dedication reiterates that attempts by countries to impose names whose agenda on the security council would among the credibility of this council and refutes all the pretext used by some to demonize the syrian states 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 his forces now one particular group the yacht terrier al shabab and this is a terrorist group that is widely known around the world for its atrocities for example there are over $1400.00 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 there have been attacks on humanitarian corridors which is a violation of international law in addition they have been using civilians as human shield syrian representative when speaking emphasize that their territorial integrity was being very very widely violated and emphasized that they were determined to defeat the terrorist forces and that it seemed like the united states and nato were essentially trying to undermine their efforts and prevent them from

defeating these terrorist forces and retaking their province of it live. in this mind body things western powers and interested in ending the conflict in syria. well this goes way beyond the concept of terrorists that are is another man's freedom fighter winnowed down to the black and white rove who the west has been supporting all the way through this crisis in syria 2 has been al-qaeda affiliates all the time of all the way the same with turkey the same with the u.k. and the same with israel so it just seems that they have no more cards to play we can only imagine what would happen how the russian delegation the un or iranian or syrian something along the lines of her belief that of her getting isis the west the u.s. and france want to prolong this conflict this is exactly what they're trying to do whatever testing our affiliates it sounds insane doesn't it but that's exactly

what's going on there appealing to the united nations in order to protect. you cannot really made this stuff up but that's exactly what's going on. some of the case 1st policy changes since leaving european union are causing somewhat of a stir in its former club the government says it wants to end the automatic early release from prison of tariff and that's after sunday's attack in london where 2 people were stabbed by a man released from prison just 10 days earlier currently convicted terrorists are automatic release after serving half their sentence britain's proposed legislation could breach the european convention on human rights london its membership however the european commission warns that could force it to any corporation the resist partnership should provide for automatic terminations of the law enforcement cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters if the united kingdom were to denounce the european convention of human rights stephen morris from the english

democrats party human rights lawyer can debated the issue. it's a good idea to have a parole board that deals with each case individually in principle there's nothing wrong with that but if what the reports are suggesting are correct that mainly they want to change the potential released release date from a half of a sentence to 2 thirds and i think that's where the problem comes in well one of the things is a sentence in rules are completely to pot them and if somebody gets given a sentence 5 years than the years the us should be let out early anyway then when the fault then you look at the poor ole and so you are suitable for release that this is a very very serious and complicated situation that calls for nuanced. periods of debate argument consideration not something that the government rushes through in a matter of weeks is a kneejerk reaction well it has to be at the moment because the government over the

last few years of to an absolutely nothing to address this problem and we do know that there is a number of potential of people in prison the moment. issues that are about to be released but these are people particularly when it if they're going to start applying it to people who are already been convicted already been sentenced already part of their sentence then it's unfair and potentially a breach of human rights potentially unlawful don't forget they violated people schuman rights to being there in the 1st place if they're still deemed as a safety risk than they should be in a way because. who is likely to attack all the people is a violation of those pedestrians and those individuals human rights as well in terms of what's been suggested about you know we just keep them up until we sure that there won't be a risk any more than we have sentences in the 1st place to me they should have been stripped away 5 years if they say 5 to 5 years and release and if not it has to be

drawn quickly and it has to be told to make sure that london and all the parts of the u.k. safe. so the german doping scandal continues to grow with an austrian cyclist now. you use the services of the networks blood transfusion that story after the break. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

welcome back a leading cyclist has admitted working with a german doctor who's facing doping allegations concerning more than 20 with more

details is and he's been to all of. doping in sport is at its most fundamental cheating some cheat to win gold medals for others like austrian cyclist stefan din if all he was trying to keep his career following a serious injury although for him it resulted in a 4 year ban i'm not a criminal i wouldn't have got a contract without doping of that sentiment was repeated by cross country skiing your highness do or who received a lifetime ban for blood doping as i see it you can't be at the top without doping both of these disgraced sportsmen were patients of the noun the tory is german dr march mit he ran an elaborate criminal ring providing performance enhancing drugs to 23 athletes in 8 countries his motivation was a different kind of gold money but schmidt's operation came crashing down last year

during police raids that were part of operation adolescence bloodletting in english whistleblowers lead to several athletes being caught made blood transfusion the cocktail of illegal supplements they were putting into themselves cost thousands of euro a bike the elaborate process even involved schmidt transporting his supplies and a specially designed refrigeration unit he could wear business with his clients was dealt with often via text message i'm coming i'm the guy with the cooling box we forgot to speak about the name triple x. in 2 weeks i should be ready the investigation is still ongoing and a lot of information is yet to come to light in fact 5 of the athletes thought to be under scrutiny as part of operation are the last remaining anonymous with suggestions they could still be competing while the bloodletting investigation has claimed some big scalps it's clear the lid has barely been lifted on what's. seems

to be a much larger problem beneath doping is so ingrained into the culture of sports it's a culture of winning and making money that we can never ever get rid of it's all we can do is do our best to say to educate young people say look if you want to tell you early if you want to have mental it's a go if you would have problems then. it's just impossible to get rid of because there's so much money involved unfortunately money is winning out because a lot of very very high right got needs who are not be noted however we see some credit your retirement study would definitely type things to this operation look at all these people involved in sports teams not the players the coaches the doctors to facilitators they're still allowed to weigh in sports and sadly they're using last people to get taught and maybe did maybe did we can restore a maybe speaker a try to get rid of doping in sport put the question is perfectly put played out

why come you know us get the doctors in jail because they know where all the bodies are buried and they will be the last was called every single time. there are fears of further complications in the botched democratic party nominee elections in the u.s. state of iowa after days of delay with almost all of it's finally counted people who judge and bernie sanders are practically neck and neck the following scandals over the counting the bodies chair is calling for the masters how that give the results to be recalculated. 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 vis the democratic national committee is the one pushing for a recount of us right now people in the d.n.c. are also considering bringing back superdelegates for the explicit purpose of stopping sunders when you rick canvass and find that bernie sanders says the winner

are you in the d.n.c. going to get out of the way so we can have a fair primary process one of flipping mess as democratic national party chairman calls for an immediate recount vers they will carry on until they get the result that corrupt dems want. the party apologize for mistakes in the mobile app used to deliver precinct results the tally was also marred by chaos in the reporting process inaccurate calculations unexplained consistencies on this ng data. while the iowa caucus output glitch prompted one congresswoman to resort to really attack take blame russia it is done off takes a closer look. at the us the democratic party has a new policy maker hollywood when a movie franchise starts to lose its audience when people stop buying tickets film studios play the trump card reviving the villain.

well us democrats need a potent anti trump card out of this year's election so how about hollywood's golden rule bring back the bad guy i know president putin and he knows i know him. and he knows me and he knows that there will be similar consequences if he gauges engages in trying to interfere in our election democrats ever so cocky about their imminent victory back in 2016 had to swallow one very bitter and very humiliating pill and since then many believe they've been trying to recover their identity over the past 4 years the democrats ideology has been heavily dominated by a 3 word concept russia is bad that's breaking news russian hackers tried to hack

wisconsin's alexion system russia's hacked into a lot of things russian hackers the kremlin claim it certainly looks like they're again and with an eye towards helping this president and they've put all their trust into this russia strategy thinking it would become. kryptonite for all their troubles and political rivals but the miller investigation turned out to be the bang of a toy gun rather than a nuclear blast but by that point too many people hoped and believed in the reality of impeachment the promise to remove trump from power was too big to renounce gone but as the view is got weary of the main antagonist russia the democrats had to come up with a fresh spin we can't impeach proceedings now against this president we have confidence in our case that isn't peter paul and this president is impeached for life if you find him guilty. you must find that he should be removed the brave

face sharod ultimately fell through when the whole impeachment saga saw 0 plot twists and ended in the most predictable and boring way no one had allusions that the president would be convicted but we made the fight for truth that we made to fight for facts and then came the iowa caucus disaster a glitching our caused improper recording of the results failed transmissions of tallies then botched the count all together and again there's been absolutely no indication that the democrats have tried looking into how they managed to sink so deep they've resorted to the tried and for some reason trust the rush of formula and hope that the i were democrats will ask for an f.b.i. investigation in the end i believe that russia has been engaged in interfering with a number of elections dealing with the 21 election i'm sorry the 2016 election

and so the democrats rubber us like politics once again has them biting their own tail. activists time gather the day french port after a saudi cargo ship dubbed. they said the boats collecting weapons for use in the ongoing war in yemen held signs calling to stop quote illegal arms sales saudi arabia began its military intervention in yemen in 2015 and has received international condemnation for its actions. been forming it shops in hong kong as worried local snap of dwindling supplies of face mask amid ever increasing concerns over the spread of the coronavirus there's increasing hostility towards your thoughts in the chinese territory been accused of not doing enough to protect the population. and student protesters have clashed with police at the national university of colombia they're calling for wide ranging reforms over social

inequalities and corruption scandals facemasks long face masks laws projectiles of the police they responded with tear gas riot act. and you are right up to date time stay with r.t. more than half of. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promises apologise to the people and promise to be you know we've all pots the. bread pretty rough. cut.

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the funder nothing they have no protection. because you. know it's a kid. across the u.s. cruel puppy mills are supported by dog shows and pet stores most of the puppies that are coming from these large scale factory farming kind of operations are being sold in stores even giant good businesses are involved like ogling mom santa there has been a shocking amount of the organizing opposition to adverts to mean for. the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding facilities most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with jobs don't buy dog. seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out just the attitude and engagement equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. greetings and sell you tell you shims 3 days yes 3 days it has now been over 3 days since the iowa democratic caucuses were held last monday night and despite 97 per cent of the vote finally being released to the public. there's still not a clear cut winner in sight for most of thursday the gap between buda jij and

sanders was just point one percent with bernie winning the popular vote count by more than 2500 votes sorry mayor pete declaring yourself the winner and your move to become the next president doesn't mean you actually won the matter how much your campaign gave the wanky voting at maker declaring yourself the winner well you see that only works if you're a us corporate backed pond in venezuela then declaring yourself the winner works for now you still have to let the votes actually be counted here in the united states for now anyway and speaking of vote counts apparently despite 3 full days of said counting the iowa democratic party and the d.n.c. is still can't figure out how to even do that right according to an analysis by the new york times more than 100 precincts reported results that were internally inconsistent that were missing data or that were not possible under the complex rules.