russia's top diplomat tells western counterparts at the munich security conference that it's time to seek common ground and reject the false notion of russia as a threat and while european officials warn of the decline of the west the us secretary of state insists he sees no danger to the current global order. also to come a 3rd whistleblower casts further doubt on the chemical weapons watchdogs investigation into the alleged chemical attack in syria claiming he faced intimidation. and the french president faces a mass walkout by m.p.'s leaving his ruling party while his popularity crashes in the polls 2 had of crucial local elections.

good morning and welcome to the weekly here on r t this is our round up of the day's top news along with the headlines that shape the week. now is the final day of the munich security conference on saturday russia's foreign minister told europe that it's time to change course are growing that moscow's international partners need to stop invoking the false phantom of the russian threat sergey lavrov used his address to call for with the west with the details here's peter all for. so to get allow for all of the russian foreign minister he gave a very quick by an address to the munich security conference he started off by talking about what russia sees as attempts to rewrite history of world war 2 speaking as we approach of course the 75th anniversary of the end of that conflict he went on to say that the spirit of alliance is as important today between russia

and the west as it was 75 years ago between them soviet union and the west he did say that when it came to improving relationships with europe as some european leaders have been speaking about here at this year's security conference there remained what mr laffer of called a crisis of confidence the crisis of confidence is being felt particularly strongly in european affairs escalating tensions nato's military infrastructure advancing eastwards the unprecedented scale of the military exercises close to the russian borders the inflating of defense budget beyond all possible measure all of these generate unpredictability the confrontational dynamics of the cold war have been recreated one of those world leaders talking about improving ties between europe and russia with france's money with my call we europeans suffer as much from the sanctions as the russians do in our strategic dialogue with russia we must take the

opportunity to fall through some conflicts and address cyber issues and talk about space and the militarization of space early on saturday he was also speaking out about his idea to get more autonomy for europe when it comes to defense so that european nations could be able to act independently of the united states in one up or new deported we can see that there is a certain weakening of the west that has been observed 15 years ago we thought our values would be universal values that would always ruled world i think we're facing the hour of truth here we have a lot in common with the united states. it's freedom and so on so this is why we fight together numerous was but it's not quite what america wants we need to develop our own strategy representing the united states has interests with secretary of state mike pompei o p reject this out of hand claims this western nations role on the international stage needs to evolve happy to report that the death of the transatlantic alliance

is grossly over exaggerated. the west is winning we are collectively winning the west of. freedom a democracy winning the west will win but keep the other the illusion is that they are winning. the west is winning with what does it mean i mean there was a democracy in the believe you have the. indians you. makes no sense and with the aging is democracy. you know how american they germany now they are not winning in that sense because a very simple. was defeated by their version the opinion the syrians and the. you know the. glee and so the delusion that in their enemies and they think they're winning and then reeling russia's foreign minister also met with his turkish

counterpart to discuss the recent military flare up involving the 2 countries and syria's adlib a turkish television visits russia on monday for talks on the issue are added that work continues to resolve the tensions. going to meet it with my colleague and friend turkish for me is to show sugar today the agreements reached with turkey presupposes the establishment. but most importantly the disengagement of moderate opposition from terrorists this is a complex task but the contacts between russia and turkey at the level of experts diplomats military and security services continue to find ways to implement the agreements only live which were mentioned before. disagreements remain between ankara and moscow over how to resolve the situation in italy and the area is a focal point seen as the last stronghold for i saw militants assad's government forces backed by russia are working to liberate the province but turkey has criticized the 2 countries for taking military action in residential areas

something and a mask us both deny. the syrian regime as well as russian forces and iran by militants. are continuously attacking civilians committing massacres all 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 that our turkish colleagues have failed to fulfill their obligations to separate the moderate opposition militants from the terrorists in these areas global affairs analyst patrick henningsen believes turkey should be doing more to deescalate the conflict that. turkey has not upheld its obligations not 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 20 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 where 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. saying in syria a 3rd whistleblower has now chimed in with claims accusing the world's chemical weapons watchdog of creating an atmosphere of intimidation during the investigation

into the alleged chlorine attack in the syrian city of duma and april of 2018 a redacted e-mail given to investigative news website at the grey zone project highlights issues of integrity during the probe as follows revelations by 2 other watchdog employees stressing the same issue they also question the findings of the final report which in effect pin the blame on the assad government run through the evidence. we like to imagine that these massive google organizations the un the i.m.f. the u.p.c. w. these juggernauts a good but knives that at the end of the day what they do is good for mankind but as with many things in life you take a closer look and you're left the supported one whistleblower saying the u.p.c. w. was biased corrupt well he could be wrong just an opinion to whistleblowers saying

the same thing makes you think could they be right u.b.c. w. says no ignore them spector's a and b. a nots whistle blowers they were individuals who could not accept that their views were not backed by evidence as could be expected their conclusions are uninformed and brum sure one whistleblower could be wrong too well could be wrong but when it's 3 when it's 5 when it's a dozen whistle blows you know something's rotten. those behind the crimes that have been perpetrated in the name of humanity and democracy they will not hesitate to do harm to me and my family just what the hell is going on at the o.p.c. w. what could be so terrifying that its own employees are afraid for their lives and feel their employer could target them and their families it isn't just one individual it's others too whose crimes were that they would just doing their jobs

i submitted a requests to the team leader i asked i repeated this request a number of times all requests were declined or simply ignored just the guy doing his job what it said in the job description at what was a respectable organization according to testimony given at the un that's not what the u.p.c. w. the management wanted all requests were denied the responses i received included this is too big don't make yourself a martyr i deposited a dossier requesting an investigation months later i was informed that nothing would be done i requested a meeting with the director general as i thought the situation was serious enough to warrant him being made aware of it the request for a meeting was denied and i was informed by a senior manager that you will never get to the director general and if you try to go around me to get to him there will be consequences but don't you think the

u.p.c. w. hasn't learned that lesson it has it isn't the lesson you and me might think of you know being more honest the lesson they learned is everyone everyone working for them needs to learn to keep their mouths shut and additional bigotry organization wide confidentiality training program will be instituted for all personnel employed by the secretariat this training will be accompanied by annual are to stations and just in case anyone anyone gets any smart ideas or. the future the bosses over the u.p.c. w. could always show them this letter and tell them this is what happens to you when you speak out against the u p c w or don't want to expose myself or my family to their violence on revenge or don't want to live in fear of crossing the streets as rob mentioned there the o.p.c. debbie went public and doubting the credibility of the 1st 2 whistleblowers were

about the international chemical weapons watchdog to comment on all the latest allegations you know its response if we hear back. and thinking support from both his party and the public for president micron france holds q. local elections next month shall devinsky reports from paris. in 2017 emmanuel. power in france promising a new kind of politics. he set up a new party. he went on to secure a majority in the national assembly but less than 3 years later the wheels already coming off. of important elections he's facing problems on several fronts firstly his government and many of its policies have proven them popular take pension reform which has sparked protests across the country.

those changes. every day citizens even his own m.p.'s have questioned the plan. the desire for reform and the speed imposed have taken precedence over the government's ability to listen and consult with the fringe she since left isn't the only one to have done so the only move party has suffered several high profile resignations and defections m.p.'s and ministers who may have won 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. in a big 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 popularity since his

meteoric rise to the presidency has long been crumbling recent polls show that less than one 3rd of people in france view him favorably he's so unpopular that voters are expected to hand big gains to marina penn's national rally and 2 green parties in france is municipal elections next month. and is also struggled with movements like the yellow vests 15 months on and not only the protesting on the revolving. goal 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 one said for all it's needed a cue for terry and a head to state it seems members of his own party and many citizens disagree with that enough to perhaps bring matt and his new politics crashing down.

on paris. and in another blow to micron one of his closest political allies benjamin has withdrawn his candidacy for mayor of paris following the alleged online leak of a compromising video the president had handpick scribal as his candidate for the position. journalist and european political expert says micron's party looks to be in trouble. or head of course a large majority it's always the case when a president is elected to the next elections for parliament his party his group gets a large majority. 318 if not a member while 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 was interested it is personal at least the president and he doesn't work with this party really so we have seen so many people leave 1819 and his majority easy role being so much it becomes a bit dangerous for him politically speaking in india coming to use. to the u.k. now with the british government's concern that an appeal could see both a killer and a rapist released on bail within days there among 25 violent criminals who avoided deportation from the u.k. this week after a last minute legal challenge blocked their return it to jamaica. now one of those $25.00 was found guilty of stabbing a 50 year old man to death it's her daily is currently serving a 10 year sentence while convicted rapists fabian henry is behind bars for raping 2 teenage girls now they'll stay in britain pending an appeal by the government which

is concerned they might pose a threat to the public but for now they have been reprieved to as the appeals judge ruled that they hadn't been given access to legal advice or if phone u.k. government however says it regrets the court came to that decision and stressed it will act to remove serious offenders who are not british. the offenses which these people are responsible for include one month slaughter one firearms offense 7 violent offenses to which are in the category of rape or sexual offenses and 14 drugs offenses we make no apology whatsoever for seeking to remove syria's foreign national offenders we've got reaction to this story from human rights lawyer schild khan and political commentator andrea walker on whether the deported criminals should have been given sufficient access to legal support even if they pose a serious threat to society. this is not a regs issue they supposedly protection issue and it's also a rights issue people talk time and time again about your rights

a family life your right to live in the united kingdom you don't have a right to live in the united kingdom or less your sits in the united kingdom just like any other british national just as anyone else in the u.k. they committed a crime they said their punishment they were convicted sentence they serve their time now after that they should be allowed to come home to their family they have british spouses british parents british children british families it is not my responsibility to pay for a foreign national to commit crime in my country any of these people they committed a single offense many years ago since then i mean obviously if we had the that just shows how little trust we have in our own criminal justice system they've been in prison there's been a probation since then why have not been able to be have billeted then why haven't we not been able to reduce the chances of a real finding that is the responsibility of the government i don't have a duty to deal with the world's worst people i don't have a duty for my taxes to be paid on these sorts of people get a grip of yourself look if you wish to come to the united kingdom in order to do

a job it all to raise a family it ought to be a reasonable person i love you if you wish to come to this country it ought to sell drugs beat people up rape murder pillage abuse go how many of these people they were not given the right to make their legal claims there is no legal aid for such cases anymore people who can't afford lawyers aren't able to claim their legal rights and that's why there was an additional in the pointer is not just why are we deporting black people the point is why every deporting criminals who have committed relatively minor offenses and relatively short criminal sentences when they have children british families here and reception are separating them from them permanently we do not have a duty to law and support and trust and respect people who came to this country to abuse extraordinary if that sounds brutal i don't care anyone. ever can be put in a situation where the you know in this part of the moment the they act in a certain way but out there that doesn't mean that we should have them and

essentially destroyed their family lives whatever and that's the point we need in the end he looking at other than this is out of the moment in the spur of the moment you commits an act of manslaughter killing somebody in the spur of the moment go buck. the u.s. representative to nato has claimed that every single alliance member has been cyber attacked by either russia or china and the world must strengthen its firewalls against moscow and beijing meanwhile a report has revealed the cia and its german counterpart rigged a swiss made in corruption machines back in the 1970 s. allowing them to spy on embassies and government institutions and 120 countries for decades double 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 encrypt 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 the company crypto agee was a captain of the world's encryption industry based in neutral switzerland most governments were quick to believe their secrets were in safe hands little did they know the cia and west germany's b.m.d. had co-opted the company's founder to create a backdoor into the world's best kept secrets in 1908 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. 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 if you see throughout our alliance every one of our countries has had cyber 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 has built an infrastructure they can intercept almost

everything. the national security agency there in the united states allegedly spying on quite vast amounts of citizens data the group transfixed by president obama who is reviewing the washington spying program has largely defended its goal of the program had not prevented a terrorist attack it was still vital to him and security. the central intelligence agency has walsh control of highly classified documents and computer code about the cia's technical capability to carry out. into electronic devices. like android phones only phones for julian assange and london accusing the cia of devastating incompetence saying the agency has lost control of

its cyber weapons it doesn't matter who you are friend or foe they're coming for your secrets. i have since we started talking about them 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 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 were 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 it ingests them by default

it collects them in its system and it filters them in atlanta laws 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 snowden took the revelations about crypto a.g. 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 time that has passed since the cia and began its reported operation former cia analyst and whistleblower john kerry who doesn't expect anyone to come clean. 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 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. this week the palestinian president

formally it rejected donald trump's middle east peace plan my quote of us had this to say about how it would affect palestine sovereignty. this is the state that they will give us which is like swiss cheese which of you will accept such a state. but didn't abbas to be pragmatic. to negotiate even not interested in finding a valid exclusion to the conflict i have to you to call for a just peace on behalf of the palestinians that is all i have come to you today to reaffirm the palestinian position which rejects the israeli american proposal. was the. as you can see tensions continue to mount in the aftermath of the proposal on saturday israeli police trying to remove palestinians praying in the streets of easter sunday at the temple mount the status would be affected by the peace plan it would formalize recognition of jerusalem as israel's

undivided capital and claims to double palestine's territory also offers $50000000000.00 worth of investment in the new state we heard from a senior political adviser to president abbas. this is not a deal this is an attempt to liquidate the palestinian problem give it a big part of our land in the west bank to israel for peace made israel who sponsor both force our security whatever. shared with us the dock some also. go over all of the east jerusalem and stop giving out of your rights to the refugees there is nothing gulf with really focused on how best to accept in the security council he was very clear. i am i want peace based on a 2 state solution i want to negotiate directly with israel not through america i want the quartet which includes russia and the being union and the united nations

and the united states but i would not submit to the united states i make it the sole all not of this peace process because it is so deadly biased with israelis for many years as our breakdown of just some of the biggest headlines from the past week for more on those stories and the latest news head to our website r.t. dot com.

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