deescalation turned on its head turkey threatens syrian forces in its own provinces and a u.s. patrol clashes with residents of an eastern town resulting in the death of a boy. faces a trial charged with illegally holding more than $100.00 refugees as the senate votes to investigate the politician. the german city of dresden commemorate 75 years since the 2nd world war bombing campaign which left an estimated 25000 dead we speak to a man who narrowly escaped the ordeal. there were bodies lying around everything was destroyed it was chaos because there were so many refugees from poland.

that's why you don't know how many in fact die. there would live headline news 247 from moscow this is r.t. international 1st going to developments on the main headline story for you this morning a syrian boy has been killed and another man injured during clashes between american troops and locals near the border with turkey the fighting broke out when a convoy changed its usual patrol route residents there began throwing rocks at us vehicles as they rolled through american troops were stopped at a syrian army checkpoint and forced to reroute then opening fire russian military police also arrived on the scene to try and calm the situation. not only the united states presence in syria that's fueling clashes turkey stepped up its involvement in the conflict president has threatened to attack syrian forces in it live. if

another turkish soldier is targeted there where i guess they have reports on the war stricken province and white 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're going to stand why turkey which said which paid armed and trained those rebels as outraged at the gun is beside himself he needs to vent strike out. the syrian regime as well as russian forces and iran by militants are using with it continuously attacking civilians committing massacres a kurd in syria might find strange of the guns concerned 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 it's control 90 percent of and who turkey despite promising to do so haven't been able to separate from moderate rebels the statements made by turkish representatives about alleged russian military attacks on civilians in the discoloration zone are false the real reason for the crisis and ad lib unfortunately is that our turkish colleagues have failed to fulfill their obligations to separate the moderate opposition militants from the terrorists in these areas but every gun appears death ended mute to his own faults instead of explanation he's flooding it with troops with tanks with artillery vowing lesion for anyone who dares shoot at them. what is wrong we are 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 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 an american convoy drove into a village where they weren't welcome. this is our cause.

americans came in and faced resistance from the villages people who threw stones at the americans answered with bullets. young men 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 the pro asaad 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 and out of the war and as things stand liable to get a whole lot still global affairs analyst patrick henningsen believes turkey should be doing more to deescalate the conflict not the opposite. turkey has not upheld its obligations on the saatchi agreement but also on the astonished agreement on the saatchi agreement 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 deescalation zones on the a stunner agreement. 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. 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. a staunch anti migrant leader in italy is set to stand trial on

charges of holding more than $100.00 refugees at sea for a week last august a majority of the senate in rome voted for. it was stripped of his parliamentary immunity last month to face a court hearing here's 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 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 get ettie 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 60 migrants on board who

were left their foot 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 that he repeatedly and willfully ignored requests from the prime minister of italy giuseppe conti to allow the ship to dock at an italian port now mr v.v. has long pro-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 duty for 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. of the.

material 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 august when he was the migrant ship open arms to be allowed to dock at an italian port what we're hearing from the italian prime minister just set the context is that at the time material he was obsessed with keeping migrants out of italy so mr salvini will face a court room 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 in which it was estimated that 25000 civilians died in the raids led by british and american forces 75 years ago to the day some historians now question whether it was

a necessary move as the 2nd world war neared it end. everything around turned into now i see a woman in her hands is a bundle it's a child she runs and falls the child disappears into the flames.

we heard the story of a man whose parents had the foresight to take him out of dresden shortly before the bombing 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 where we were temporarily accommodated we were evacuated on february 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 the 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 so. 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 of a military historian michael jones says the bombing raids on dresden lack of precision and were carried out on an excessive scale. well it's always been a controversial event 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 sandra's had been used i think the scale of devastation was unnecessary and very regrettable. ahead of potentially crucial local elections in france next month president across the has a mutiny on his hands and as m.p.'s from his own party abandon ship the french leaders also seeing his public popularity hit new lows reporting next from paris he shouted dubinsky. 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 a huge 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 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 had 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 a not too subtle reminder that they should fall in line khan's 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. there's also struggled with movements like the yellow vests 15 months on and not only the protest along the ring but the revolving the accused 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 that france needed

a jew protégé ahead 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. united states nato representative is claiming that every nation has been targeted by either russia or china in cyberspace in the world to strengthen its fire walls against moscow beijing. a reporter for the cia and its german counterpart brig swiss made encryption machines back in the 970 s. allowing them to spy on embassies and government institutions in 120 countries and i report. 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 and christian company and stealing government secrets from over 120 countries foreign governments were paying good money to the us 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 saurus and later renamed rubicon for over half a century of the company crypto a.g.t. 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's b.m.d. had co-opted the company's founder to create a backdoor into the world's best kept secrets in 1988 western spies had complete 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 1906 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. that our alliance every one of our countries has had time to and hypertext from russia some from china or 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 has built an infrastructure they could intercept

almost everything. the national security agency there in the united states allegedly spying on quite vast amounts of citizens data the group by a president who is reviewing the washington spying program has largely defended it although the program had not so far prevented a terrorist attack it was too vital to security. the central intelligence agency has washed control of highly classified documents and computer code about the cia's technical capability to carry out into electronic devices things like android phones and julian assange. 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 . 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 it's 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 and ingests them by the fault

it collects the minutes filters the minute hand law system and measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest most efficient and most valuable way to achieve 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 now given the passage of time former cia employee and whistleblower john kerry often 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 the 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 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 create for the fact the protein 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 saudi based product and source of protein that we need by people in asia for thousands of years and remains a staple food for many but for me farmers in the u.k. has become a challenge we spoke to the director of the sustainable food trust 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. actually. all of the produce might actually be more efficient and more sustainable it's not about

whether i should become. eat meat without asking the questions because it's just as important to ask the questions about the plant elements as it is about the livestock grettir 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 but teenage environmental activists kreta tomba it was mentioned there has long called livestock production one of the main drivers of climate change but a natural health scientist we spoke to believes that's not entirely true. most of that soil is genetically modified and it's very real an extremely large amount so what herbicides i'm going to state and then has to be transported from south america for example to to europe. the impact is is is is massive and 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 dart overall particularly when that livestock is come from sustainable systems pasture reared animals that are men tending 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 soy and maize as a primary. and that's the way it looks from moscow so far this thursday february 13th thanks for watching it next r.t. international update from us follows the alec salmon show. in the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s.

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