tensions flare in syria as a u.s. military patrol is drawn into a violent standoff near the northeastern city of. the u.n. human rights office identifies over 100 companies which it says are supporting illegal settlements in the west bank. as the b.b.c. faces threats from government cuts. to the growing influence of countries like russia and china in the media. and the german city of dresden to commemorate 75 years since the 2nd world war which left an estimated $25000.00 dead.

in the flames in the narrow streets the flames so fast people were suffocating. welcome to the program. the violence broke out between an american military convoy and individuals near the northeastern syrian city of commissioner on wednesday even one person dead state run media in the country say the victim was a civilian claimed to us. the fighting erupted when a u.s. convoy changed its usual patrol route and was held up by the checkpoint.

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

and iran by militants. continuously attacking civilians committing massacres on 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 this ceasefire 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 matter. 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 live 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 office of asian 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 and 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. but that 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 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 patrick hannifin what if turkey should be doing more to deescalate the conflict. turkey has not upheld its obligations not on the saudi agreement but also on the astonished agreement on the saatchi of granta 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 agreement. if you remember back in the fall of 20 teen there are 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. the un human rights office has reported on defying 112 companies which it says is supporting any settlements in the west bank the findings have come in the shop criticism from school documents shameful and suspended ties with the body. who have a boy good boy could do to the human rights council is a buzz body that is devoid of influence the state of israel will not tolerate this discriminatory anti 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 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 illegal that would be a separate and highly complicated term a nation finding 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 and out of the deal of the century palestinians call this deal or this piece of ring a 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. decide is the national director of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement in south africa the new report will encourage businesses to end their 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 off is the deal just over 15 years to get to this 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 invidious others should be on the right side of history and should in this complicity with the is that a violation of international law or we did ask the companies mentioned on the list to comment on the story we'll let you know response. the chairman of the b.b.c.

has warned against funding cuts the burden is that broadcaster saying it will 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. has the details. 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. unsurprisingly they've taken a 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 in how we treat 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 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 dermie corben bias especially in the run up to the election at the beginning of that to somebody last year and some 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 or colleague came in and spoke to journalist neil clark about the challenges confronting the broadcaster and what the proposed changes might mean this whole license thing is a piece of history and the b.b.c. these to up its game do you agree with that it is a great institution i think the problem has been really in the last i would say 10

years or so it's been with its political programming i think that that's where a lot of discontent lies we heard easterly talking there about people believing or thinking with not without any evidence that that there were a lot of bias but sample against europe we called it now we're hearing today b.b.c. saying propaganda from the likes of china from the likes of russia are they really that important is it such a problem you know i think the funding so i don't know about the chinese or c.c.t.v. funding but i know from reading articles or reports that in fact the b.b.c. as a whole gets more funding than r.t. gets so i think that's a bit of a red herring so to speak i think it's sad that he's felt that charities for obliged to make that comment to get that to get russia because it really is and should really be about that it should really be about do we need a public sector broadcaster i think we do and how is that public sector broadcaster funded what he should be saying i think is look 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. the u.s. representative to nato warns of cyber threats from russia while the media expose yet another cia and german that intelligence from years ago find out more than just a few hours' time.

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 so trying new things violating taboos are some of the most common in pervasive elements in our sexual fantasies. the program the united states nato representative claims that every nation has been targeted by either russia or china in cyberspace what in the world that it must strengthen its far rules against moscow and beijing that said reports reveal the cia and its german counterpart rigged swiss made encryption machines back in the

1970s allowing them to spy on embassies and government institutions in over 100 countries little quarter has more. 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 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 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 his bill to keep the structure they could intercept almost everything. national security agency there in the united states allegedly spying on quite vast amounts citizens 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. into electronic devices things like android only 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 in it and lies is the minute 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 most cia analyst

john kiriakou doesn't expect anyone to come clean over the reported operation. you know we 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 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 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 a somewhat i am of german city of dress then as it commemorates the victims of a mass carpet bombing campaign it's estimated that up to 25000 civilians died in the race led by british and american air forces 75 years ago to the day since then the intensity of the struct and dress that have been called into question the 2nd world war near its conclusion. and. everything

around turned into i see a woman in her hands is a bundle it's a child she runs and falls the child disappears into the flames. her head at it from my man whose parents had the foresight to take him out of

dresden shortly before the bombing began though he was 5 years old at the time he said as recollections of what his family went through. the bombing started and the house was on fire 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 which is there and michael jones says the bombing raids of dress the lack of precision level carried out on an excessive scale. well it's always been a controversial is on right from the bombing itself on the 13th of february 945 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 and sandra's had been you i think the scale of devastation was unnecessary and very regrettable. up next corona virus is a global pandemic now inevitable can public health measures hold up to transmission until a vaccine becomes available find out all that excitement. and

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oh yeah. i can link up my. welcome to the alex salmond she will return to the subject which has dominated the headlines over the last month the wu hunt corona virus is a global pandemic now inevitable or can be extreme public health measures hold up the transmission of the new virus until such time as

a vaccine writes to the risky alex turns to mark one it's about his book pandemic century charts the progress of pandemics throughout history does more than science make them contain a bull or does martin travel make them ever more dangerous. virus the pops up anywhere in the world can be anywhere else in the world within 72 hours will have is a domestic help for travel within china not only that but it has a $113.00 known stock flights to 20 destinations worldwide so that is absolutely astonishing but 1st to your tweets and e-mails on our program on the future of the labor party we had on the rule over the candidates for the leadership election and this is what you had to see caton says well they're barking up the wrong chivas least and as far as i'm concerned kenny says 20 labor no difference james says well after emily storm based hustings up by s.n.p.

she was a plausible shadow pm but she sure colors for the rant and apology done silenced only seeing saudi after her rant was made public david says remember it's an english labor so called scottish labor is just a branch of the english party they are told directly what to do and see finally james says hi alex we all know labor is finished in scotland they stab the country in the back in 2014 they took their voters for granted. now at the beginning of the peloponnesian war in $430.00 b.c. this syrian general paid a cleese thought to keep his people safe and secure behind the walls of athens it proved a fitful decision as a pandemic probably of typhus or smallpox wiped out half of the city's population of $300000.00 far more casualties than even the spartan army could have affected it is an indication that the right human history disease has been the real enemy the.