just. a very warm welcome to you you're watching us and. danger in the skies of syria how passenger plane narrowly avoids being hit by a fence is reportedly fired in response to an israeli missile attack. meanwhile damascus defends its military campaign against terrorist groups an emergency session of the u.n. security council after western powers accuse it and more scope of indorsing destruction. the sheer scale of destruction both indorsed and facilitated by russia shows that neither they nor the assad regime can be trusted to deliver a cease fire it is astonishing the desire of some western countries to cross to terrorist groups is the moderate opposition brittany's terminations to stop terror

then just getting automatic early release from prison sets it on a collision course with the human rights we put the issue up for the fact 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 so 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 be in there in the 1st place. hello good evening you're watching r.t. where she's called 9 o'clock am in moscow our top story this hour a passenger plane carrying 172 people has been forced to make an emergency landing in syria that after it narrowly missed being hit by the country's air defenses which had reportedly been fired in response to an israeli air strike russia's defense ministry denounced israel claiming it had used civilian aircraft as

a shield. only due to the time the actions of damascus airport dispatches and efficient operation of the all to me to 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 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 system combat operations by the israeli joint stuff 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 russia 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 2018 of course

2008. 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 this incident but the 4th one is wrong because at the end of the day israeli fighter jets put actually the. russian aircraft in the path of the syrian air defense. systems well israel has previously denied he was an aircraft as she was against syrian defense systems although it has yet to comment on this particular incident it does acknowledge though that it is carrying out strikes in syria to stop arraign military intrenchments this footage captures the aftermath of the missile attacks that hit a suburb in the countryside west of damascus on thursday you can actually see the residents clearing rubble from the streets cars and buildings have been completely destroyed we spoke to people living in the end. we woke in the morning to find this

look at this destruction may go take revenge from them look at this 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 looted real the fence and political commentator says the situation could have gone badly wrong. this particular incident could have been dangerous had the pilots of this civilian airliner panicked and instead of. going to come in asking permission to getting it and lending get come in as an emergency. they would have crashed at the masters international or somewhere near yes this could happen happen.

almost exactly 47 years ago in february of 0973 when israeli planes show it to levy an airliner and the pilots panicked and crashed in the sinai and there were dozens of fatalities. meanwhile the syrian government is making progress in its offensive against militant forces in italy province however the un security council has seen heated debates over the operation and series emboli slamming western countries for supporting terrorist groups the u.s. hit back claiming that 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 the loop 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 would be syrian territory and any illegitimate military presence there is the responsibility of the state where those nationals come from the syrian ambassador that did add to the security council seems to be transforming into a nato foreign. reporters 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's barbaric and unjustified 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 it 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 in syria flew a common pattern there convene precisely when terrorist groups in the. country iran with threats 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 un member state furthermore you seem to believe that essentially the un 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 has been used as a nato forum it is an acceptable threat to say inside this house that the united states of america protects to keep it as far away sions of the chance of an international my dedication reiterates that attempts by countries to impose names whose agenda on the security council would undermine the credibility of this council and refute 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 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 have the 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 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 live. so despite

writing things that western power was not interested in ending the conflict in syria. well this goes way beyond the concept of terrorists that are is another man's freedom fighter. and the black and white robes who the west has been supporting all the way through this crisis in syria 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 her russian delegation to the un or iranian or syrian said something along the lines of her belief that her targeting oysters. the west the u.s. and france want to prolong this conflict this is exactly what bush wanted to do whatever testing your car if. it sounds insane doesn't it but that's exactly what's going on there appealing to the united nations in order to protect our corner of

bullets you could not really made this stuff up but that's exactly what's going on . now some of the u.k.'s 1st policy changes since leaving the e.u. were causing something of a stir in its former club because the government says it wants to end the automatic early release from prison of terror offenders that after 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 up for automatic release after serving half of their sentence but britain's proposed legislation could actually breach the european convention on human rights and say london is considering withdrawing its membership however the european commission has now warned that that could force it to end judicial cooperation. he resisted partnership should provide for automatic terminations of law enforcement cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters if the united kingdom were

to denounce the european convention of human rights we debated the story with stephen morris from the english democrats party and also with the human rights lawyer and car. 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 part of them and if somebody gets given a sentence 5 years then the 5 years the us should be let out early anyway then when the fault then you look at the poor ole and the 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 knee jerk reaction well it has to be at the moment because the government over the last few years of 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 human rights to be in 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 the sure that they're good they 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 them if. 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. still ahead future washington has hinted at investing in huawei competitors nokia and also ericsson we'll tell you why just off the. walk through the streets of moscow now drew blood 100 people i would eat a would have the changes of leukemia the blood that they don't have leukemia because in order for them to have leukemia they need the d.n.a. changes but they also need an environment that's receptive and one of the biggest areas of growth medicine in the future is be targeting environment changing so the cancer doesn't want to.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand losing you since you just leave the right questions and the right answers. question. welcome back the u.s. attorney general has suggested that america should buy stakes and phone makers like nokia and ericsson to create strong competition against china's huawei but he added

that huawei is now a leader in 5 g. developments and that the u.s. and its allies need to find ways to counter it. and there are only 2 companies that can compete with wall way right now. in ericsson the main concern about these suppliers is that they have neither wall ways scale nor the backing of a powerful country with a large imbedded market like china now they're going some proposals that these concerns could be met by the united states aligning itself with nokia and or ericsson through american ownership of a controlling stake either directly or through a consortium of private american and allied companies washington has locked horns in the ongoing trade war with china the u.s. claims the firm has direct ties to the chinese government and conducts espionage it also accuses the company of stealing intellectual property ways now banned from the

u.s. market and washington is pressuring its allies to block it from their 5 g. networks denies any wrongdoing politics professor joseph gregory mahoney isn't confident though that such a move would lead to fair competition. raises a number of serious questions with regard to the fair competition 1st does it kill the market in the west and if you choose nokia or ericsson or are one of the other what's the effect on the other competitor what's the effect on samsung another of sort of strange thing that we that we have to think about is the american role as a regulator not only for the american or the american government's role as a regulator not only in the american government but but they have ramifications for global regulation these are european companies are the pride of their nation the fact of the matter is. is the attorney general basically suggesting that there

might be you know what we might call in a market terminology a hostile takeover. threat. it could completely. roil the markets it could it could destroy their business plan. now leading austrian cyclists it's knitted working with a german doctor he's facing allegations concerning more than 20 athletes with more details his pay to all of. the opening in sports is at its most fundamental cheating some cheat to win gold medals for others like austrian cyclist stefan to near full 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 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 sports men were patients of the now and the tory is german dr mark schmidt 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 blood letting 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 in 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 last remain 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 seems to be a much larger problem beneath don't think is so ingrained into the culture of sporting to culture of winning and making body that we can never ever get rid of it all we can do is do our best to say to educate your people say look if you want to tell you early if you want to have mental it's ago you would have problems then. it's just impossible to get rid of because there's so much money involved unfortunately money is reading out because a lot of very very high right got to be to are not be noted however we see some progress your retirement study would definitely type things to this operation look

at all these people who called in sports teams not the players the coaches the doctors to facilitators they're still allowed to weigh in sports and sadly they're usually the last people to get thought i maybe did maybe did we can richard i've made these speakers. critical in sports put the question is pretty poor boy is that why you've probably noticed get the doctors in jail because didn't know where all the bodies are buried they would be the last was called every single toy ah some world news in brief now activists have gathered at a french port after a saudi cargo ship docked there they say that the boat was collecting weapons for use in the ongoing war in yemen and held signs calling to stop quote illegal arm sales saudi arabia began its military intervention in yemen back in 2015 and has received widespread international condemnation for its actions during its campaign . large queues have been forming or shops in hong kong is worried locals there snap

up winning supplies of facemasks that is amid ever increasing concerns over the spread of a coronavirus there's increasing hostility to towards the authorities in the chinese territory who've been accused of not doing enough to protect the population and student protests have clashed with police in the national university of colombia they are calling for wide ranging reforms over social inequalities and corruption scandals students in face masks launched projectiles at police who responded with tear gas and riot tactics. america's war on iraq came at a huge cost in terms of lives but now a new report has shown just how much it cost when it came to money a group of scholars has calculated that the pentagon spent literally trillions of dollars funding its military ambitions something that will have a lasting legacy for u.s. taxpayers one quarter as more story. war has long been part of the american way of

life it's in the news connected to many family's lives a popular theme in the media and donald trump has made it clear in his state of the union address more money is being thrown at it to safeguard american liberty we have invested a record breaking $2.00 trillion dollars in the united states military i we have purchased the finest planes missiles rocket ships and every other form of military equipment and it's all made right here in the usa. we're also getting our allies finally to help pay their fair share with that big of a budget though it's not only america's allies footing the bill the costs of wars project estimates that for the iraq war alone every american taxpayer has paid $8000.00 you could go on

a vacation for that or spend it on home improvements or you know put it away it's 8 times more than most americans have in their bank accounts like ali kaleb mop and asked new yorkers themselves what they would do with that kind of money what would i do a paid $8000.00 extra dollars to spend you pay some medical bills. you donate to the bernie sanders campaign a little bit would pay off my car. savings for my retirement pay my credit card off and with hundreds of millions of americans out there those contributions add up to a lot of money even if the us ministration decided to leave or was it is from iraq immediately the bill of war to the us to date would be an estimated $1922000000000.00 in current $1.02 trillion dollars that's larger than most countries g.d.p. and there's plenty of other ways to spend that kind of money like paying off the entire country student debt you'd still have been. leans more left over and that

could be used to improve underfunded school systems or make sure everyone has health care all that money is just what was spent on the iraq war it's obscene it's criminal. really does anybody no not at all. there you know really reason for us to be there when you ask people how they would like to spend their tax dollars it usually is education health care. public services you know money to go towards the public good but unfortunately we have limited say in how our tax dollars are spent and so some people actually take it to the next step and they refused to pay federal taxes we could have universal health care and universal higher education but instead we're spending money on the military and the pentagon's got way more expenses than just that let's not forget about its longest war in history afghanistan which is so far cost another $1.00 trillion dollars but

the potential cherry on top of this budgetary ice cream sundae is bigger than the entire u.s. economy a $35.00 trillion dollars discrepancy in the pentagon's 2019 budget no wonder it's never passed an audit the pentagon spending accounts who are more spending can't count who're. all the tax money collected every year by american from american taxpayers you know arguably all our taxes go for war everything else is covered by debt you know they borrow the money for the rest of the us budget i think that a lot of this is. driven by the arms industry in the united states and the fact that they bribe our you know illegally bribe our members of congress in the house and the senate with donations so it's a self generating. engine of destruction.

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