you thought it was going on and give the go ahead. bush's call to help the syrian army repel an offensive in the province launched by militants with the support of turkish troops. and german authorities say the suspect who killed 9 people in a drive by shooting on wednesday night had xenophobe motives for the battle condemns the poison of racism in german society. as a month wrong vows to battle islamic separatism in france to see bids to win votes ahead of next month's local elections. others are joining us this is r.t. international and start with breaking news this hour because syria militants backed

by turkish forces have launched an offensive against the syrian army in the water a little province but russian airstrikes have helped to repel them let's get more on this story now from our colleague standoff has been following events and. first inspection it all sounds very serious it sounds like it. an escalation. just exactly how you describe events on the ground in syria well i would describe it as the worst escalation that we have seen so far in that particular syrian province because according to the statement of the russian defense ministry here's what happened terrorist groups launched an offensive on the positions of the syrian army in that province in that northeastern syrian province the offensive was large scale with the use of very heavy weapons and artillery so syria. syria it has well it took its own jets into the skies and asked russia's air force also to help them repel the attack. so what the did but apparently according to moore school

according to the russians turkish forces turkish troops to fish regular army also supported that offensive on the syrian positions with artillery strikes so russia had to ask them to stop russia reached out to ankara and saying look you should really stop doing that and apparently ankara and curry did so really this is a very serious situation because you have effectively 3 sovereign states potentially engaging in a military conflict one of those states being a nato ally so as i've said the situation is very serious and turkey has already confirmed that through soldiers to their soldiers have been killed and 5 more wounded as a result of airstrikes now it is not clear who who launched those airstrikes whether it was russia with the syrian air force but again this sounds this sounds like potentially

a very explosive situation again given the 3 silver instincts are involved and given more everything you've just explained there were no literal 3 parties no sign of any of them backing down at this point that's what makes it so dangerous how it is that it would get to this situation well so far just to make it extra clear the rebels those terrorist groups and various factions they have fallen vast so far so the syrian army managed to stop the offensive but yet essentially turkey has been has been talking very harshly about the situation in the syrian province of idlib they have been saying that the syrian army should stop its offensive should stop its attempts at retaking this province and move back behind the line of troops behind assault your troops line and it had erdogan has been giving deadlines 1st he was saying that turkey has until the end of february to get out of the excuse me that syria has until february until the end of february to get out of but then he

added on that thing and he said that he won't end until the end of february to launch the attack and he said the attack was imminent have a listen. this human soul. has made all kinds of preparations to implement its operational plans and as in every operation we see we can come suddenly one night to put it more clearly. is now a matter of time we will not leave to the regime that still does not understand our country's determination in this matter and to those who encourage it we never intend to shoulder the burden that the developments of this region plays on our country. well it looks like the time has come here and apparently they're there this imminent attack is and interestingly enough turkey has been encouraged to throughout the way throughout all this time to engage more in this conflict for instance just hours before the offensive just hours before today's rebels

terrorists advance nato official nato twitter account posted a video in turkish mind that's an international account in turkish with a message that we all know you know and and encouragement in general americans have also been encouraging turkey's saying that they stand by their nato ally in this conflict that they will support them they apparently even sent an envoy to turkey to try and get behind the steering wheel of this conflict there are also reports that turkey has asked washington to provide them with them patriot missile systems to help them counter russia's to kind of to keep russian air force at bay now russia has russia has in turn been saying that turkey has failed to provide a clear distinction between hard line terrorists and more to moderate groups who are in liberate now and that was sort of a key

a key task to task on turkey shoulders and according to russia they have failed to do so while now there's all those lead to well an open and a very large scale i have to say military. confrontation and it looked so ugly we'll have to see how that turns out and whether or not the sides will calm down and get back behind in the meeting table where the military offensives of the go no doubt the political offenses will follow a expect we'll see some more action at the u.n. security council before too long many thanks for the story for us. the suspected shooter who killed 9 people in the west of germany was said to have xenophobic motives 5 of the victims were turkish nationals chance the medical condemned the attack branding a far right and racist. it's too early to give a conclusive assessment everything is being done to find out what was behind this murder but a lot already suggests pyrite rhesus knowledge of the of the attack and he apparently acted out of hatred towards people of different descent religion. racism

is a poison hatred is a poison and this quickly exists in our society and has led to many crimes. well at a press briefing from the interior minister of the state of peter but we found out more information relating to what went on on wednesday evening through to thursday morning that's left 11 people dead including the main suspect in the shootings on wednesday evening 9 people were killed after 2 separate incidents of different she should bars in the city of her now a man then believed to be the gunman was found dead at his home on thursday morning alongside the body of what is understood to be his 72 year old mother the attorney general has confirmed that an investigation into potential links to right wing terrorism is underway this is after a 24 page manifesto from the man understood to be the gunman was found in this

document he expresses a hatred of foreigners and non-whites and calls for the extermination of certain north african middle eastern and central asian countries those that have read through it it has been leaked and seen by some media organizations have described it as confused and riddled with racist tropes that also broaches far right ideology like janet in this dog. now there was also a video published by the man believed to be the main suspect in this shooting just a few days ago in that video there was no links that he was intending to carry out this attack it appears to have been directed towards u.s. citizens and is conducted in english in that video he makes a number of wild conspiracy theorist claims and says that there's a conspiracy for modern day slavery in secret operations by the united states

government well the s.c. and state government themselves have canceled their parliamentary sessions for thursday as well as other state legislatures around germany angler merkel the federal chancellor is also canceled her meetings as she focuses on these tragic events of unfolded in her now what we understand though is that the police are investigating a xenophobia the motive behind the killings and investigating links to far right are organizations just mention it's poison to see people as enemies to see yourself as a superior to make strangers out of fellow citizens it is a poison that's increasingly penetrate in our society and that can eventually lead to this crime. the federal justice minister has said that no stone will be left on turned in a thoughtful and thorough investigation carried out to find out what the motivation was for this terrible attack on wednesday evening said left 9 people dead or 2 she

should bars in the city of now. to speak now to maximally crime who's a member of the european parliament for the f.t. party thanks for joining us mike civilian let's just start with some harsh criticisms of your party that have been made saying that it's responsible for a recent rise in far right extremism in germany do you think there is any credibility to such criticism do you think any members albeit a minority of. your party have sometimes crossed the line between legitimate political conversation and extremism. in this case it is obvious that there is no connectivity i should a read to money fest of this terrorist and i also of watch his video message and if you read it is hard enough then you will see that he is a psychopathic person that he believes that there is

a secret organization behind the intelligence services the rule of rote and every saying what he is explaining is being on that fundamental teasers that there is such a secret organization and just an example he believes that they can read minds and did he personally had the idea are for the plot of the movie basic instinct 2 and because they have read his mayans basic instinct 2 was produced in the way it happened that is to level and i can assure you we may have people in our party that sometimes talk with more certainty and intelligence i would love to see but i don't know anybody who believes that he has the i.d.r. for hollywood blockbusters and that a secret organization has read their mind so it's complete nonsense if you read the manifesto you know. we are out of that game and even if you would do

mistakes that we are definitely not willing to anything of the mindset this terrorist act ok let's listen now to the chair of the cd and a good caraballo who is pretty quick to mention your party in the wake of the shooting let's have a listen. to ensure that if you look at their texas profile it seems like he had racist xenophobia as well as far right motives and this trend and my believe that it was a seedy. you should always be clear not only for the city but for all parties in germany that they can be no corporation with a party which tolerates the far right extremists and let's call a spade a spade nazi is monitoring we are resolved to have no cooperation with the aid in any shape or form it's important to keep the spine in even. given what you've said makes a 1000000 about you said there's no connection between the attack and his beliefs

and anything to do with your party how do you feel about that approach that connecting your party to this tragedy using this occasion to bash a political opponent how do you feel about that. i mean it's exactly what i expected that is how german public brit is rocking right now we had some weeks ago at the regional parliament of the neighboring state of touring and elected a government from the liberals. really a liberal a centrist and he was elected together with our votes of our members of the original parliament and then after we elected a liberal man. the chairman of the liberal party in germany blamed us for voting for one of his own canada so whatever we do today we are guilty if it rains to morrow and bolan and probably it's because we haven't eaten enough of our of our

lunch today or anything like that so we have a level in the public debate that is more of a charmed and a rational political debate and when i hear it yesterday night about it shooting i instinctively knew that our opponents would blame us for being responsible for it it is completely ridiculous and i can only ask everyone to read that money festa of this crazy terrorist and then compare it to what we're doing and then it's all of use. that it's nonsense but no one reads that money 1st and so opponent think if they only repeat and repeat and repeat that we are somehow linked to that or did that just terrorists had links to us and enough people would believe in our ok maybe it happens but it's just fake news and of course we fight against you maximillian thanks so much for joining us here on our team cries my guest for the

party in germany. as the german chancellor vowed to battle racism in her country the president of neighboring france announce he's fighting islamic separatism and on your micro made the claim our campaigning ahead of next month's local elections are to show the devinsky reports from paris. it was a long awaited speech from president outlining how his presidency will rally against political islam. we can advance in a credible way to fight against a political ideology this islam is separatism which is incompatible with freedom and equality of compatible with the indivisibility of the republic and the necessary unity of the nation. 1st in the firing line is foreign interference corn has vowed to end a program that allows countries such as old jewry and turkey to send moms and teachers here to provide services without supervision this scheme in place since the 1970 s.

allows those foreigners to provide language and cultural lessons to help children maintain a link with their country of origin around some 80000 children attend these classes every year. i'm not comfortable with the idea of having women in many schools of the republic who can teach without the education system exercising. and we no longer have control over the programs they teach you cannot teach things that it clearly not compatible with the laws of the republic or with history as we see. instead mark on wants to have more trained on french soil that would also be an end to the hundreds of additional religious leaders who arrive in france during ramadan mosques will be funded in a transparent way we need to know where the money is coming from who uses it and why he said interesting lead this echoes a policy from his political rival marine le pen during that head to head in 2017

per mandate said this. close all the extremist mosques identified by the ministry of the interior and prohibit foreign funding of place of the washer and their personnel strong words coming from the president or is it just a last ditch attempt to woo voters ahead of difficult local elections in just a few weeks. always found to shore up his position with the right wing electorate also with some of the left of course the question of. the secular state in france is important right across the. relationship with parties on both sides of the spectrum. is important and he needs to make this sort of statement of municipal elections neutering those voters could be a double edged sword france is home to europe's largest muslim community there are said to be around 6000000 here that's about 8 percent of the population and back in

2017 this community overwhelmingly voted for president he's already showing that he's moved away from those centrist ideologies that he once espoused when it outlines a tough stance on immigration another policy direct from the playbook of the pen so by grasping at ideas that some see as being from the hard right wing is he likely to lose voters from the left and from muslims there are some areas particularly some local municipalities some towns in areas where this is a concern for french voters and so what is doing the context what it is is to try to reassure that where there are law muslim communities muslim communities that the republicans still searching the values of the secular republic. the election whether that will succeed or not remains to be seen in the opinion polls are not.

it would cause for next month's elections a seen as being a referendum on macaroons presidency and on his policy on the move could they signal the beginning of the end of mcqueen and some solid ski auti paris you're watching off international to stay with us plenty more news coming your way after this break. this 10 year period of 0 money velocity where money has gone directly into the pockets of the few oligarchs and countries of doors in america and around the world into these silos like these 12500000000 dollars properties when they when the infrastructure for that starts to crack and illiquid he starts to see balance

you get inflation for real for stuff like food and we're seeing this happen now where people are noticing that the cost of every day living is starting to spike higher. in obesity and face your. kind of good intentions of i think we're in christian and maybe even 40 years ago there was simply evaporated and did not see the kind of pleasure wolf. welcome back on wednesday the u.k. home secretary unveiled

a new points based visa system the move is intended to reduce the amount of cheap migrant labor flowing into the country. this is the 1st time in decades the government has been able to take control run its own immigration system after we've left the european union and free movement and low skilled migration to our country which means that we will get migration numbers down and that essential to this policy of a points based system. and the new system requires immigrants to prove their knowledge of the english language as well as professional qualifications and skills and existing job offer meeting a minimum salary mark would also be required ph the qualified specialists would receive extra points making it easier for them to gain entry for the new rules will prove quite a challenge for those who've already made a career in the u.k. . i don't know if i'd actually be in this country under these rules would you with your parents they wouldn't qualify it would this is

a very different system to what has gone on in the past and don't forget this is a point based system you make on the labor market. non u.k. citizens have until now made up a substantial part of the country's workforce close to the 1000000 immigrants working in the low skilled sector in 2018 liberal democrat politician jonathan fryer believes it won't take long for the new system to reveal its faults. really a very dangerous game that the home secretary is playing basically just to satisfy the promises that the conservative party made joining the general election and to deliver briggs it as it was proposed many businesses have warm but it's just unreal this stick to assume that you can change the nature of the workforce in the way that the home secretary and presumably the prime minister want this doesn't solve the problem which i think is going to arrive very soon which is

this country needs a lot of people in the top for the moment lower paid jobs basically what this new policy is saying is that the sorts of work they're doing often for not very high pay is not being valued maybe they're not being valued as members of our society. and the move marking deepening defense ties between the countries greece has held a live fire training to with us army aviation forces it comes after athens recently bought military equipment from the us and another nato ally france. the us chris relationship is stronger than it has ever been our defense ties defense cooperation is an essential component of that the united states really believes in the idea that greece is forced to go it is a lynchpin of our law strategy for the larger region. of the us signed

a new defense agreement with greece last year it was an expansion of a deal 1st struck in 1900 and it allows the american military to use. greek facilities including for training refueling and emergency response by the agreement on a visit by the u.s. secretary of state sparked massive protests or not. the protests were organized by the greek committee for international deterrence and peace call for people to mobilize and go against the government's decision to work with the u.s. as it argued it was dangerous to follow imperialists political analyst good thinks

that the closer ties that i see grace doing exactly what washington wants. so far there has not been tangible benefits for greece from the u.s. point of view. re serves the us interests for example one recent development. greece. is very reluctant to get engaged and there are conflicts with. the gov the greek government decided to give back to mr wells with technical stuff from saudi arabia after the instruction of us we can and there are differences as well that's just one small example of what the ratio of the venerable benefits dangers these are going to be getting us reese relations. hysteria is spreading in 3 ukrainian regions where protests have been held over the country's nationals being brought

back from the coronavirus epicenter of the flight carrying 73 people evacuated from china eventually landed in the ukrainian city of. so in the london. correspondent donald call to. cross the story for us the passenger is a back from. just how big is the concern here of the corona virus spreading across ukraine. while neil the ukrainian authorities are trying to assure everyone that there are no infected people on that plane now about half of the passengers are ukrainian and the other half coming from a number of different countries and all were screens twice before even being allowed to board the plane but that clearly wasn't enough to put minds at ease in the ukraine in a country where there hasn't yet been a case of the coronavirus in the region of laval of groups of protesters were blocking streets to a hospital where the passengers were supposed to be quarantined for several weeks after their arrival the police were quickly sent there and the scene there could be

seen police dragging people away from the crowd of protesters there and similar skirmishers have been going on between protests protesters and police in other regions in the country as well now the government has been trying to sort out where this quarantine zone would be for a while now and with all the added chaos of these protests president selenski said that not everyone can be proud of the kind of reaction that these people had to it to an action intended to help people in need. is the shame the not all of us can be proud of the humane reaction the efforts to show find ways to block hospitals not to let ukrainians back to ukraine not demonstrating the best of our character here especially given the majority of the passengers are under 30 to most of us they are almost children. so with a quick clearly pretty harsh reaction to allowing this plane to come to the ukraine we're going to have to see how the situation influences any kind of future efforts

in the country for receiving people that could possibly have been contaminated with the coronavirus from kosovo a correspondent with the latest on the story to thank you. thanks to you guys at home for staying with us also a place you could be no thanks for tuning in to r.t. to join me for updates on the top stories and often are. i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you must store in 993 this man was sentenced to death. they could charged with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for that week with just under $23.00. i doubt that had to be. confined within 4 gray walls fights using. can all tell them to leave

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