i. tensions flare in syria as a u.s. military patrol is caught in violent clashes near the northeastern city of commissioning while turkey threatens to launch an operation against bashar assad's forces over nearly a province will tell you all the latest coming up to the u.n. he would write soffits identifies over $100.00 companies which it says are supporting illegal settlements in the west bank provoking the ira of. britain as the b.b.c. faces threats from government cuts ongoing its chairman now highlighting the growing influence of countries like russia and china. on the street the

german city of dresden commemorate 75 years since the 2nd world war bombing campaign that left an estimated 25000 dead coming up we speak to one man who narrowly escaped a huge firestorm. parents rushed outside in took nothing with others went back to their flats and they died in the flame in the narrow streets the flames were spreading so fast people were suffocating. good evening 7 pm here in moscow this thursday live from the arts international world news center is kevin owen with the update hope you'll stay with me for full 30 minutes to. this violence broke out between an american military convoy an armed individuals in the northeast in the syrian city of commission on wednesday it's left one person dead state run major in the country say the victim was a civilian that's a claim that the u.s.

is disputing tonight the fighting erupted when a u.s. convoy changed its usual patrol route apparently and was held up at a checkpoint. rather but. to get on the go. go go go. go there are various reports of what happened there residents pelted the vehicles with stones as they attempted to pass through the checkpoint now according to syrian state media the american patrol then opened fire in retaliation but a u.s. military spokesperson said no that the convoy was responding to small arms fire either way we can confirm russian military police later arrived on the scene to mediate as we reported at the time tensions also rose dramatically in northwestern syria on wednesday after the turkish leader threatened military action against president assad's forces in italy with more but

a senior correspondent. 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 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 and sing with 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 its control 90 percent of the lip and who turkey despite

promising to do so hadn't been able to separate from moderate rebels the steep. 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 ever 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. she was very strong we determined to drive back syrian regime forces from our observation posts 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 the movie which the americans came in and faced resistance from the villages people who threw stones at them so they answered with bullets young man was killed and 2 injured the pentagon in

a statement referred to the villagers as a pro acid militia and accuse 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 public henningsen believes turkey should be doing more now to deescalate the conflict not the opposite. turkey has not upheld its obligations not on the saatchi agreement but also on the agreement on the saatchi 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 deescalation 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. when he writes reports identifying $112.00 companies which it says is supporting illegal settlements in the west bank the findings are coming from criticism from israel though it's called the document shameful and it suspended tallies with the body over it now. who have

a boy good will be bored to the human road gone sue is a buzz buddy that is devoid of influence the state of israel will not tolerate this discriminates he and he israeli policy and will take action to prevent the implementation of these kinds of decisions the united nations was referring to the israeli settlements that are constructed in the west bank post the 19676 day war. the 121 officially recognized settlements house around half a 1000000 israeli settlers these places offer places of worship homes and businesses that serve the region for the israelis this list included 112 companies operating in these settlements they included some international companies such as moral solutions however they also included mostly israeli banks however some american companies like trip advisor and air b.n. b.

were also mentioned in the list however the united nations list does not state that these companies are practicing any illegal activity over that they are only being listed because they are operating within the israeli settlements it's important to note that it is not some claim a blacklist nor does it qualify any company's activities as a legal that would be a separate and highly complicated terminations training mission highlighted 10 types of business activities it viewed as being of particular concern given the well established legal nature of the settlements in the occupied palestinian territory the palestinians welcomed the united nations list that arrived from the human rights council calling it a welcome diplomatic victory and a sign of the palestinians diplomatic efforts in the international community to confront israel publishing this list of companies and entities operating in the settlements is a victory for international law and diplomatic efforts the american administer.

gratian announce the deal of the century palestinians call this deal or this piece of ring pro israel agreement that gave nothing to the palestinians and gave everything towards the israelis this has actually created more tensions between the palestinian authority and the israeli government with these tensions also escalating into live protests on the ground and tensions are only rising in the days to come spoke earlier to to mohamed decide he's the national director of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement in south africa he said he hopes the new report will encourage businesses to end this support for west bank settlements but as a boycott divestment and sanctions movement we see this as a great as a great positive step in the right direction for holding israel accountable for its violations of international law it has taken the b.d.s. boycott of israel just over 15 years to get to the stage and so we really do hope that this nonviolent boycott movement can have an effect on the israeli government

in an attempt to bring israel to the negotiating table similar to how a party that africa was brought to the negotiating table big business is like a b. and b. bookings dot com to be advisor in various others should be on the right side of history and should in this complicity with these that it was a violation of international law. britain the chairman of the b.b.c. he's warned against funding cuts to the national broadcaster they're saying you would help russia and china spread influence the b.b.c. is set to lose 200000000 pounds over the next 2 years as its license fees reviewed by the government with an idea to possibly switch to a voluntary subscription system part of a team in london easterlies got the details for you. it would appear that every time the b.b.c. are faced with these types of challenges they come out fighting although this time it seems they're resorting to scare tactics in order to ward off any threat to their state funding and this perhaps unsurprisingly they've taken

a at russia and china the b.b.c.'s mean competitors or the world funded state backed actors of russia and china who see news as an extension of state influence and its will for democratic disruption very easy of course always to raise the specter of nefarious states abroad trying to infiltrate and influence politics here of course the b.b.c. never engaging in that type of behavior but the chairman of the b.b.c. also going on to sing the praises of his organization and what he says is their commitment to impartiality as a public service broadcaster not a state broadcaster it has been a beacon of journalistic impartiality and a lifeline for millions living in fear uncertainty and captivity worldwide while perhaps a few shared by the chairman is not the same as that shared by many people in the u.k. i mean for a start the b.b.c.'s embroiled in a number of its own difficulties and scandals in regards to for example sexism and

racism and how it treats staff and how it deals with pay between men and women for example but also it seems to be a politicizing of their programming with the very popular victoria darva show being axed in the last few months that led to accusations that the government was trying to interfere with their output but also accusations from all sides of the political spectrum we've seen on the right accusations towards the b.b.c. that they're somehow against briggs it but even more so and perhaps with a lot of evidence behind it according to those who make this claim that the b.b.c. showed a very. and germy corben bias especially in the run up to the election at the beginning of december last year and so it would appear that while the chairman of the b.b.c. wants to defend and sing the praises of the organization and say that this is a vital institution in this country there are rapidly running out of supporters in

the country who are willing to come to their defense but i think a lot of b.b.c. current affairs programs like newsnight can be scrutinized for bias i think that's where the problems the b.b.c. chairman clearly is worried that his organization faces a funding crisis so what does he do he believes clearly believes that the best way to try to get the funding in is to play this russian chinese scare card and they will get some more money so it's it's a really sad indictment of where we are politically but the moment that the chair of the b.b.c. feels that's the way to go best way to behave try to get some more money where is the fact we should be saying i think is the b.b.c. has got a very long history. 80 odd years history of producing good programs we've done it down the years please keep the funding. united states nato representative claims that every nation has been targeted by either russia or china in cyberspace warning

the world must strengthen its fire walls against moscow and beijing that said the reports now revealed the cia and its german counterpart rigged swiss made encrypt back in the 1970 s. along to spawn embassies and government institutions in 120 countries has done a quarter reports. 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 was germany for the privilege of having their 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 1986 u.s. intelligence was listening to libyan officials congratulate each other for the bombing of a burl in 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 if you see throughout our alliance every one of our countries has had side by and hybrid 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 is built into the structure they can intercept almost everything. the national security agency there in the united states allegedly spying on quite vast amounts of. data the group 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 too vital to homeland 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 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 then and see 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. microphone's even their own citizens aren't safe now increasingly we see that it's happening domestically and to do that they the n.s.a. specifically targets the communications of everyone in just some by default it collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyzes them in a measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these ends 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 for the whistle blow job kiriakou doesn't expect anyone to come clean though 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 21 possibly 122 tom good evening coming up dresden in germany remembering the thousands of civilians lost bombing and world war 2 we have the story of one man that fled the compound just before it's.

you know world big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bat. shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. we know in psychology that the more people are told that they can't or shouldn't do something whether it's sexual or otherwise the more it makes them want to do it so trying new things violating taboos are some of the most common and pervasive elements in our sexual fantasies.

it says somebody 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 raids led by the british and american air forces 75 years ago to the day since then the intensity of the strikes in dresden has been called into question as the 2nd world war was nearing its end. and. everything around turned into hell i see a woman in her hands is a bundle it's

a child she runs and falls the child disappears into the flames. where the story of whose parents had the foresight to take him out of dresden

shortly before the bombing began love oh he was only 5 years old at the time he still has recollections of what his family went through. the bombing started and the house was on fire my parents rushed outside in 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 $6.00 to $7000.00 corpses burned at the old market 200 meters from here there are pictures of this there were bodies lying around everything was destroyed 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. militarist or michael jones says the bombing raids on dresden lacked precision and he thinks they were carried out on an excessive scale. well that's always been a controversial of 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 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 targets unless thunderous had been you i think the scale of the station was unnecessary and very regrettable. 4 makers in italy a voted to put the anti migrant senator mattel's salvini on trial over claims his

decision to hold more than 100 people at sea in august 29th seems illegal but the far right firebrand struck a defiant tone when he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity signaling that he's ready for a court battle. i feel is my duty to the country the 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 defending 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 a duty for me. supported history for you would tell severely was italy's interior minister at the time of the instruments calls a major 0 for among rights groups he was pushing for the closure of the country's ports to migrant rescue boats you may recall claiming that other e.u. countries needed to take more of the newcomers prosecutors allege that he acted

alone in refusing to let the passengers disempower in sicily at the time so william self believes that he defended his country and kept his campaign promises he made to fight illegal migration. i think it is a said page for our democracy i mean so many it was a minister who was a minister of the italian republican and the hollande try to defend our national interest only try to defend our borders and this is a political. party the democratic and the 5 star movement so now in italy we have how you know maybe the leftist government in our republican

a story and this government try to attack in a political way because every time the. center right to go to you're in the european elections but maybe except for. election. in the local election every time the center right and leg of that force political party in italy so now what's happened is that some of that the left the can defeat the salvini during their normal election and wanted to defect so mean it with a political attack and wanted to prosecute salvini with the process in the next day . and those sorts from italy wrapping up this polygamous who are things looking for marty so far this evening can tell you done serious for now and always so much more from us no various social media or not dot com for me kevin any big focus of watching a very very good evening from russia. should

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