within for green. tea it's using. believed. a u.s. patrol clashes with residents in a syrian border town resulting in the death of a boy while turkey threatened syria's forces inside its own. french president faces a mass walkout by m.p.'s leaving his ruling party while his popularity crashes in the polls out of crucial local elections. and the united states nato representative claims that every nation's been targeted by either russia or china in cyberspace but shortly after it's revealed that the cia and its german counterpart spent decades spying on the governments of over 120 countries.

also this hour the german city of dresden commemorates 75 years since the 2nd world war bombing campaign which left an estimated 25000 dead we speak to a man who narrowly escaped the firestorm. parents rushed outside took nothing with the others went back to their flat and they died in the flames in the narrow streets the flames were spreading so fast people were suffocating. life from moscow this is r.t. international money welcome to news update this hour a 1st for you 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 u.s. convoy changed its usual patrol route. good . to come by both.

presidents pelted the vehicles with stones as they attempted to pass through a checkpoint according to syrian state media the american patrol that opened fire in retaliation the u.s. military spokesperson said the comparable suspending 2 small arms fire russian military police later arrived on the scene to try to mediate tensions also rose dramatically in northwestern syria on wednesday after the turkish leader threatened military action against president assad's forces with more on that here's what i guess he is going to get. rebels in the islamists are facing catastrophe in the span of a little over a month they've lost a 3rd of their territory so you will understand why turkey which said which paid armed and trained those rebels is outraged at the gun is beside himself he needs to vent the shrike out. the syrian regime as well as russian forces

and you run by militants i've seen 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 this ceasefire again and again and again al-qaeda linked jihad this control 90 percent of it 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 or 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 elder god 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 there is we determined to drive back syrian regime forces from iraq sedation posed by the end of february 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 in russia must stop

i've sent jim jeffrey 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. this is a movie which the americans came in and faced resistance from the villages people who threw stones at them so they answered with gewirtz young man was killed and 2 injured a 14 year old youngster killed to add insult to injury the pentagon in a statement referred to the villagers as a pro asaad militia and accused the villagers of occupying the village they live in also the american soldier who apparently scratched himself as 5 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 conflict not the opposite. turkey has not upheld its obligations not on the saudi agreement but also on the agreement on 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. potentially crucial local elections in france next month president has on his hands and his many m.p.'s from his own party abandoned ship the french is also saying his public popularity is reporting that. 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. porton to 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 huge protests across the country. those changes haven't only every day citizens even his own m.p.'s have questioned the plans. 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 he left and 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 knees a telling them they should be proud 2 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. it is also struggled with movements like the yellow vests 15 months on and not only the protesting on the revolving they accused of being the president of the rich a title surprisingly rejected but a new report by france's observatory for economic conditions suggests it's

a label that perhaps should stay 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 european politics. many within the. of course a large majority it's always the case when a president is elected next elections for parliament his party his group gets a large majority 3318 if not a member 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 supported they don't believe that

michael is interested if his fall is personal at least the president and he doesn't work with a spotty brady 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 him into coming to use. the united states nato representative claims that every nation has been targeted by either russia or china in cyberspace warning the world that it's going to strengthen its files against moscow and beijing that said a report also revealed that the cia and its then west german counterpart rigged swiss made encryption machines back in the 1970 s. allowing them to spy on embassies and government institutions in 120 countries was done in court and our 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 encrypts in 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 thesaurus and later renamed rubicon for over half a century of the company crypto a.g.d. was a captain of the worlds and. option 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 1986 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 side to and hypertext 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 credible extent to which the

u.s. government is monitoring and keeping records of not just our own national security agency has developed to build an infrastructure they could intercept. everything. the national security agency there in the united states allegedly spying on quite vast amounts on. this is state of the group transfixed by president obama who is reviewing the washington spying program has largely defended it although the program had not prevented a terrorist attack it was still vital to him and security. the central intelligence agency has lost 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 julian assange in 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 . 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 they the n.s.a. specifically targets the communications of everyone ingests them by default it collects them in its system and it filters them minute 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 said snowden took the revelations about crypto aid. 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 form a cia analyst and whistleblower john kerry doesn't expect anyone to come clean 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. here without international on the way with china confirming 15000 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours we look at how effective the response has begun and how worried we should still be after the break. seemed wrong. to shape out this day become active. and engaged equals 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 fear is compound it by the fact that there's nothing in the global economy is anchored to anything so. and so you have this remark paranoia by disorientation in a world around any kind of solid anchor and it's only going to get more chaotic. china's confirmed 15000 new cases of the coronavirus in just the past 24 hours bringing the total number of people infected that 60000 there is a glimmer of hope that it was some patients begin to make full recoveries of 2

cases have been confirmed in russia the 2nd chinese national who's now been discharged from hospital in the siberian city of cheater about 300 miles from the chinese border. cumin certifies that you are totally well impose no epidemiological threat. i'd like to congratulate you on your recovery how are you feeling now. very well. i'm now going home to my. and why if. we were. and it's got some scientific expertise on this now biologist you can join says he's a professor at the moscow scientific institute's caltech and also a doctor of ecology and evolutionary biology princeton university welcome to the program the coronavirus has a mortality rate of 2 percent that's a lot lower than the sars epidemic or even the abode of virus so where does the hysteria about the corona virus come from. so i

wouldn't say he's tira but i think it's certainly a valid concern 1st of all this estimate 2 percent but you've just mentioned it's still an evolving situation so that might change quite a beat the main uncertainty right now is the number of mild cases we have that are not diagnosed yet but still 2 percent is certainly not negligible the usual flu pandemics that we face every year still claim. thousands tens of thousands of lives globally and they only have the mortality rate of about 110th of a percent of what 2020 times lower some countries were swift to close borders to stop the spread it's that ineffective measure. well so no single measure is 100 percent effective and importantly the border closures are never 100 percent effective russia has implemented border closure with china but we still have a partial border closure we still have some flights going back and forth and their

efficiency of the balance really on the teach of the pandemic all the demick that you are at eat may be efficient for deal the outbreak in the yukon treat maybe hopefully. if the outbreak in the neighboring country does not develop all that much but as you start having local teases if you start local have. local spread like singapore apparently now dos then you have to try implementing other measures as well you need to trace all the contacts and other measures on the life of the major pharmaceutical firms around the world they're spending billions trying to develop a vaccine how much time do you think they'll need and even at this early stage has there been any real progress there. well that is not a fast progress we've heard some people talking about how these. ways to accelerate

the vaccine development have been new ways they have come up with but the important thing to understand is that no book seen immediately automatically known to be c. so you still have to run those safety trials 1st and then right around those efficiency trials unless you do that you may run into some of the situations that we've had in the 2009 swine flu so-called swine flu pandemic where some of the vaccines that people were trying to use had unpleasant side effects so there was no way to go round the current crop up warner so that steel will have to take months and probably more than a year or so with the sars epidemic in 200-2003 the epidemic has actually died out by the time the vaccine has been developed so the vaccine has never vixen develop and has never been. all the way to the end

russia as i mentioned has killed case of corona virus a recovery there one of the perspective for russian medicine in this area that can that experience behaves in the search for a vaccine. well so that's not a cure it is that's something important to understand most the vast majority of keys this of coronavirus disease that we have are mild cases we don't know how many yet we don't know for sure how many s.m. to my dick he is there are but the ones that we see that have been dug. most are typically mild so there is no known cure for the corona virus right now there are. drugs that people try to throw at. have proven efficiency against other viruses such as ha ve or hip itis c but these are all still in trials there are a bunch of clinical trials going on right now so we're not sure how efficient they are main the main treatment for. this right now is still supportive therapy but

fortunately the vast majority of cases as i said are mild and people are by themselves thankfully indeed given the time frame that you mention there is there a danger that the coronavirus could see mutations which could hold back any progress on getting a vaccine. so that is one concern that we might have i mean i think actually that's not the most pressing concern there is still so much no not known about this. virus it certainly doesn't look like all the other biological objects do like all the viruses do and with influenza we have to change the vaccine every year due to exactly this process these virus. if we. can but seeing well that could impede vaccine development but as i said that's not the main concern right now right now we need a candidate big scene and we need to scale up production rapidly as possible so

it's too early. too early to think what happens down the line ok appreciate your expertise and some of your reassurance as well professor. thanks to a someday in the german city of dresden as it commemorates the victims of a mass carpet bombing campaign it's estimated that 25000 civilians died in the raid that by the british and american air forces 75 years ago to the day since that time the intensity of those strikes in dresden have been called into question as the 2nd world war needed. 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 plains. we have 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 and 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 the bombing started and the house was on fire with the parents rushed outside and took nothing with them and 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 and 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 dresden 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. and sell a difficult day today in a city that still bears the scars right that's it for me thanks for watching kevin evans could be covered with our developing stories in the coming hours he's going to be here after all new cars are reporting.

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