deescalation turned on its head as he threatened syrian forces in. the conflict. to face his trial. $100.00 refugees at sea as the senate votes to investigate the politician. in the german city of dresden commemorate 75 years. campaign. 25000 dead. there were bodies lying around everything was destroyed it was because there were many refugees from east. that's why you don't know how many in fact died.

welcome to the program 1st for stepping up its involvement in the syria conflict president threatening to attack syrian forces if another dog when i reports on the. believes it's holding all the cards. rebels and the islamists are facing catastrophe in the span of a little over a month they've lost a 3rd of their territory so you can understand why turkey which said which paid armed and trained those rebels as outraged at the gun is beside himself he needs to vent the shrike out. the syrian regime as well as russian forces

and iran by militants icing with it continuously attacking civilians committing massacres on a kurd in syria might find strange of the guns concern for civilian casualties but russia took those accusations seriously pointing out rebels had launched ceaseless drone attacks on the russian base violated the cease fire again and again and again al-qaeda linked jihad its control 90 percent of and who turkey despite promising to do so hadn't been able to separate from moderate rebels the statements made by turkish representatives about alleged russian military attacks on civilians in the edward discolorations zone are false the real reason for the crisis and ad lib unfortunately is the turkish colleagues have failed to fulfill their obligations to separate the moderate opposition militants from the terrorists in these areas but the gun appears death ended mute to his own faults instead of explanation he's

flooding it live with troops with tanks with artillery vowing lesion for anyone who dares shoot at them. what there is we're determined to drive back syrian regime forces from our observation post by the end of february and we will do whatever is necessary both on the ground and in the air without any hesitation and without any delay and egging it all on is washington apparently they've forgiven ever the gun for his little crusade against syrian kurds and have lifted their sanctions on turkish officials involved in attacking kurds they went further saying they stand with their god as he invades a sovereign state my condolences to the families of the soldiers killed in yesterday's attack in the ongoing assaults by the assad regime and russia must stop i've sent jim jefferies to ankara to coordinate steps to respond to this

destabilizing attack we stand by our nato ally. there are now 4 nuclear powers engaged in syria 5 if you count israel and they're fighting on different sides the danger of escalation is colossal and happened when the american convoy drove into a village where they weren't welcome. but this is our current village the americans came in and face resistance from the villages people who threw stones at them so the americans answered with bullets. a young man was killed and 2 were injured a 14 year old youngster killed to add insult to injury the pentagon in a statement referred to the villages as a pro acid militia and accuse the villages of occupying the village they live in also the american soldier who apparently scratched himself as fide no need to worry they literally separately tweeted about that so there you go an ugly day in our

glee war and as things stand liable to get a whole lot uglier still global affairs analyst patrick henningsen believes turkey should be doing more to deescalate the conflicts not the opposite. turkey has not upheld its obligations not on the saatchi agreement but also on the agreement. the deescalation zones are not going to work if turkey doesn't. maintain its side of the bargain and in order to separate the militants supposedly from the regular moderate rebels we know in reality that there is no difference really between those 2 so that part of the agreement is neither here nor there but the because of this there's no way to have the escalation zones on the greenman. if you remember back in the fall of 28 teen there were a number of things agreed and one of the key things was that turkey would assist in

the liberation of the international road to damascus to aleppo road or the the m 5 highway to turkey has never done that and the reason none of these agreements are working is because actually turkey appears to be pursuing a parallel agenda and as long as it's doing that there's no way that they're going to meet those obligations and therefore the situation will become dysfunctional very quickly. set to stand trial on charges of holding more than $100.00 refugees at say for a week last august a majority of the senate voted for. it was stripped of his palm entry immunity last month to face a court hearing has our europe correspondent. the former italian interior minister materia salvini will face trial on charges of illegally detaining migrants at sea this is after the tally in senate voted by a majority to revoke his ministerial immunity for his time in office it all relates

back to an incident that took place in july of last year this was when the italian coast guard ship the betty picked up around 140 migrants who were crossing the mediterranean from libya to italy some of those on board required immediate medical attention and they were taken off that left 116 passengers 16 migrants on board who were left there for days as material salvini demanded that other nations chip in and take them what prosecutors are saying is that in doing this. you know laterally and that he repeatedly and willfully ignored requests from the prime minister of italy giuseppe conti to allow the ship to dock at an italian court. to trade him self as a campaigner against migrants coming to italy putting himself up as one of

the big defenders of the italian borders and saying that. the e.u. nations must do more to help italy when it comes to the migrant crisis he will now be facing a courtroom on charges of having illegally detained these people he will in his own words be facing this trial well in his own inimitable style. i feel is my duty to the country italian people and to my children i want to be proud of what it is to hold my head high our constitution says that protecting our homeland is a sacred duty for italian citizens as a minister as a man as an italian fighting people traffickers to. ending our borders and security defending the pride and dignity of my country protecting italians from all the illegal migrants in the country is not a right but the jews before me along with greece italy has been on the front line of europe's micro crisis the 1st port of call for many desperate people making the

dangerous crossing over the mediterranean. salvini faces a nother vote in the senate later this month that could see him stripped of his ministerial immunity again this time relating to another incident last year in all when he refused the migrant ship open arms to be allowed to dock at an italian court what we're hearing from the italian prime minister just said the context is that the time material was obsessed with keeping migrants out of italy so best to sell the meat will face a court we will face trial on one count of having illegally detained migrants he

may well see that double to 2 counts by the end of this month. it's a somber day in the german city of dresden as it commemorates the victims of a mass carpet bombing campaign it's estimated the 25000 civilians died in the raids led by british and american air forces 75 years ago to the day some historians now question whether it was a necessary move as the 2nd world war needed to end. everything around turned into town i see a woman in her pants is a bundle it's a child she runs and falls the child disappears into the plains.

and we have the story of a man whose parents had the foresight to take him out of dresden shortly before the bombings began and although he was only 5 years old at the time he still has recollections of what his family went through. my father rented 2 small rooms for my brothers and for his mother in law and where we were temporarily accommodated we

were evacuated on feb 11th and did not witness the attack ourselves if we had been in dresden we would have not survived in the city center if we children had stayed with our parents they would never have left the house and managed to escape the flames my grandmother and my 2 brothers went to the train station every day and checked if our parents were still coming if they were still alive or not after 6 or 7 days i don't remember exactly they arrived from dresden and we were all happy and lived with 6 people in 2 very small rooms for 5 years the bombing started and the house was on fire parents rushed outside and took nothing with them others went back to their flats and they died in the flames in the narrow streets the flames were spreading so fast people were suffocating it was a simple struggle for survival after the attack no more no less for weeks afterwards the corpses were burned at the old market my father had to help there to

from february to the beginning of may they started to clear some rubble and burned the bodies there were 6 to 7000 corpses burned at the old market 200 meters from here there are pictures of this there were bodies lying around everything was destroyed. we were 30 kilometers away dressed in was bombed and destroyed we didn't know where our parents were and i know that they tried to survive during the attack a 70 year old grandmother suddenly had 3 children and did not know where her daughter and son in law were these are feelings that cannot be described the grandmother almost went crazy it was chaos because there were also many refugees from poland and east prussia that's why you don't know how many in fact died because there were so many unregistered people here who were burned the corpses could not be identified. a military historian michael jones says the bombing raids

on dresden that lacked precision and were carried out on the excessive scale. well it's always been a controversial oven right from the bombing itself on the 13th of february $945.00 dresden was a very beautiful city it was a cultural city so the question was asked was it really necessary there was a lot of destruction and i think it was excessive and with hindsight it would have been much better for a number of reasons if the bombing raids had been more targeted and less than sundress had been used i think the scale of the station was unnecessary and very regrettable. had a potentially crucial local elections in france next month president mccrum has a mutiny on his hands and as m.p.'s from his own party abandoned ship the french leaders also seeing his public popularity hit new lows reporting next from paris he shouted to betty. in 2017 emanuel power in france promising

a new kind of politics next. party. he went on to secure a majority in the national assembly but less than 3 years later the wheels already coming off the bus. into elections he's facing problems on several fronts firstly his government and many of its policies have proven them popular take pension reform which has sparked protests across the country. those changes. every day citizens even his own m.p.'s have questioned the plan. the desire for reform and the speed imposed have taken precedence over the government's ability to listen and consult with the fringe she since left isn't the

only one to have done so the only move party has suffered several high profile resignations and defections m.p.'s in ministers who may have once toed the line have begun to question the party's position there was a syndrome of us all being very well behaved because we didn't want to cause problems for the government but today there are lots of members of parliament who don't want to play that role in a bid to rally the troops mark or invited his parliamentarians to the telling them they should be proud of being perhaps not too subtle reminder that they should fall in line popularity since his meteoric rise to the presidency has long been crumbling recent polls show that less than one 3rd of people in france view him favorably he's so unpopular that voters are expected to hand big gains to marina penn's national rally and 2 green parties in france is municipal elections next month. and is also struggled with movements like the yellow vests 15 months on and

not only the protesting on the revolving they accused him of being the president of the rich a title he has not surprisingly rejected but a new report by france's observatory for economic conditions suggests it's a label that perhaps should stay cool no one said from needed a jew for terry and a head to state it seems members of his own party and many citizens disagree with that enough to perhaps bring mark and his new politics crashing down. on paris signaling that european politics journalist says many within the on the move. markov had of course a large majority it's always the case when a president is elected the next elections for parliament his party his group gets a large majority equal 3318 if i remember well members of parliament which was

a lot much more than a needed but since then he has lost some 18 or even 19 members of parliament people of resigned 2 of left who will stay on but as independent many people in his political party don't believe that it is a party anymore they don't believe that michael is interested if his fall is personal at least the president any doesn't work with this party brady and so we have seen so many people leave 1819 and his majority is eroding so much that it becomes a bit dangerous for him politically speaking in india coming 2 years. this is also international on the way a spying operation come get up in washington and burn a limb that allowed intelligence agencies to steal secrets for more than $100.00 countries for half a century as we reported around 90 seconds from now. when

i was still seemed wrong. but all wrong just don't call. me the world police yet to see. disdain become educated and indeed from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. now at 2020 we have the global potential pandemic here and people's fear is compound by the fact that nothing in the global economies and curbed anything so little and so you have this remark shriveling paranoia. disorientation

in a world around any kind of solid anchor and it's only going to get more chaotic. describes as the intelligence coup of the last century it's been reported that the cia and its german counterpart rigged swiss made encryption machines back in the 1970 s. allowing them to spy on embassies and government institutions in $120.00 countries the whole quarter has more on the so-called project rubicund. the washington post is calling it the intelligence coup of the century the cia working with west german secret services pulling the strings of a swiss encrypt company and stealing government secrets from over 120 countries

foreign governments were paying good money to the u.s. and west germany for the privilege of having the most secret communications read by at least 2 foreign countries it was a foolproof operation 1st called the soros and later renamed rubicon for over half a century the company crypto agee was a captain of the world's encryption industry based in neutral switzerland most governments were quick to believe their secrets were in safe hands little did they know the cia and west germany b.m.d. had co-opted the company's founder to create a backdoor into the world's best kept secrets in 1978 western spies had come. pleat access to the egyptian president's communications with cairo during the camp david peace talks with israel a year later washington was spying on a rainy and officials during the hostage crisis and as late as 1900 $86.00 u.s.

intelligence was listening to libyan officials congratulate each other for the bombing of a berlin disco although the c.i. a and b. and d. weren't able to hook their main rivals russia and china had enough foresight to look elsewhere for their encryption needs nowadays though those 2 are the scapegoats for all of the west's cyber woes. alliance every one of our countries has had side and hyped attacks from russia some from china for washington it's become a routine to point the finger at russia and china but it's not like u.s. intelligence operations have wound down since then on the contrary they've adapted . edward snowden is the 29 year old intelligence contractor who leaked top secret national security agency information revealing the incredible extent to which the

u.s. government is monitoring and keeping records of not just our phone calls the national security agency has developed to build an infrastructure they can intercept almost everything. the national security agency there in the united states allegedly spying on quite vast amounts of citizens data group in time to find president obama who is reviewing the washington spying program because largely defended it for the program had not prevented a terrorist attack it was too vital to homeland security. the central intel. insurgency has walsh control of highly classified documents and computer code about the cia's technical capability to carry out into electronic devices things like android phones only phones and julian assange and london

accusing the cia of devastating incompetence saying the agency has lost control of its cyber weapons it doesn't matter who you are friend or foe they're coming for your secrets but i have since we started talking about the n.s.a. always made it clear to the u.s. president that spying among friends is not acceptable and if you take wiki leaks vault 7 documents into consideration it makes operation rubicon look like child's play the scope and direction of the cia's global covert hacking program its malware arsenal and dozens of 0 day weaponized exploits against a wide range of u.s. and european company products include apple's i phone google's android and microsoft's windows and even samsung t.v.'s which are turned into covert microphones even their own citizens are unsafe now increasingly we see that it's happening domestically and to do that. the n.s.a.

specifically targets the communications of everyone in ingests them by default it collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyzes the minute measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest most efficient and most a valuable way to achieve he says snowden took the revelations about crypto eiji even further comparing it with a formerly secret $10000000.00 contract between the n.s.a. and a major u.s. computer security firm it begs the question what info grabbing operations are still going on right now under our noses. given the passage of time former cia employee and whistleblower john kiriakou doesn't expect anyone to face prosecution over the reported operation. i can only speculate but we have a mandatory declassification law in this country where if information is at least 30 years old and it is not operational in nature that is it doesn't include

information related to sources and methods that it has to be declassified and i wonder if that's really what this is all about that the information is old enough that that there's no reason to keep it classified anymore the u.s. has interfered in more elections around the world then any other country in the world and i wouldn't be surprised if it was more than all other countries in the world combined this is something they that the u.s. does routinely regularly this may at least temporarily serve to take the attention off of russia off of china and other countries because this is something the united states does all the time not only will there be no criminal repercussions i would not at all be surprised if those responsible for this operation who are still in the cia or n.s.a. are not given medals for what they've done. it's been claimed that

a staple of the vegetarian diet tofu is more damaging to the environment than eating meat according to early research by a british scientist if you look at tofu which is processed so there is more energy going to its production when you correct for the fact that protein in it is not as adjustable compared to meat based products you can see that it could actually have a higher global warming potential than any of the morning gastric animals to get the same amount of protein tofu is worse tofu is a soya based product and a good source of protein and it's been eaten by people in asia for thousands of years and staple food for many but for me thomas in the u.k. it's become a challenge we spoke to the director of the sustainable food trust and dairy farmer patrick holden. when you look at the nutrition we derived from tofu and you compare it with the nutrition which you could get from grass fed beef for instance grown in the united kingdom where i thought. actually the nutrition per. kilogram

of the produce might actually be more efficient and more sustainable not about whether i should become or eat meat without asking the questions because it's just as important to us the questions about the plant elements as it is about the livestock grettir extinction rebellion need to know more about the difference between unsustainable and sustainable agriculture livestock managed in a sustainable and ethical way are part of the solution or can be part of the solution not only the problem. of the teenage environmental activist gretta tom burke mentioned that has long called for livestock production to be one of the main drivers of climate change but a natural health scientists we've been speaking to believes that's not entirely true. most of that soil is genetically modified and is very real arms and extremely large amounts of what herbicides i'm going to say and then it has to be transported

from south america for example to to europe. the impact is is is is massive and i'm trying to put your fingers absolutely on accurate figures is difficult but i think we're now in a position where we can say that. removing livestock from the diet overall particularly when that livestock is come from sustainable systems pasture or it animals that are maintaining the soil that are also found on marginal lands that cannot be used for our will farming is actually better for the environment than still relying on exclusively on using solar amaze as a primary staples. that if and i'll get l.t.d. news alerts 247 with the app and also remember we've got plenty of shows for you to stream on you tube and facebook from a caller brought in the rest of the moscow news team have a great day be back to a day with just over half an.

hour. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to get out of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there. in 24 you know bloody revolution here to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it your goal here i mean your list put me in the new bill is that i do believe it or the former ukrainian president recalls the events of 2014. of those who took part in this today over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these and other calls that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic.