here. to be breached. the syrian army exchanged fire near washington now looks to clamp down on damascus on its back. against terrorists in the region elsewhere. protests kicking off between locals and police in ukraine over the coronavirus. nationals know from china to let the warm reception. a trial that threatens the fundamentals of journalism coming up a media freedom group says the future is at stake over it as. possible that

position the u.s. . as a terror attack as the 9 victims killed in what's been described as a racially motivated incident. this friday in moscow life. news center welcome to the program i'm here for the next 30 minutes to update your 1st that i was mentioning those headlines we're going to go to syria 1st in the province where russia is calling on turkey today to ensure safe passage for refugees to flee its after turkish backed militants fired on syrian army positions near the town of. here are pictures from that attack.

meantime other developments washington says it wants to mask it and its backers to face punishment over their military actions in the region despite u.s. officials also admitting it live has been given a haven for terrorist groups italy province seems to be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is an ungoverned space in many ways the river right of groups there all of them are a nuisance and menace and a threat to hundreds of thousands of civilians who are just trying to make it through the winter or next their course when it goes down off takes a closer look at how the syrian conflict has evolved. it's coming to shove in syria turkey and the us russia israel and multiple militant factions all skirmishing in the country and previous motives for warring fading into oblivion.

it's time for assad to get out of the way. we have one a good study says we've beaten them and we've beaten them badly all that is a thing of the past now as new goals vividly take shape the latest fighting in ad lib is a mere accessory to the geo political connotation is global and regional superpowers sparring with each other for dominance ideological and moral borders are blurred with turkey

a nato country teaming up with terrorists to push syrians out of their own province. the operation is imminent in particular we will not leave it to the regime which is not yet understood our country's determination on this issue and those who are encouraging it very committed to making it live a safe place with the people of the region at all costs militants shamelessly boasting turkey provided a.p.c.'s coming on mosques covered by turkish artillery fire russia's air force joins the party together with syrians repairing the onslaught as. moscow officially asks ankara to hold its fire and so it does to prevent militants from moving deeper into syria into route 22 of the russian air force at the request of the syrian command have carried out as strikes against the to or groups this allowed the syrian troops to successful the ripple all attacks

but turkey is not alone in this fight while jihadi groups are doing the bloody bidding on the ground washington cheers from over the atlantic that a very good job or sation with president hurdle was the fact is that he's fighting on it led he doesn't want people to be killed by the thousands and hundreds of thousands the united states will continue to coordinate with turkey on diplomatic approach is to restore a cease fire to the it led deescalation zone in a cheap a pullback of assad regime forces to the $2800.00 so she ceasefire lines the us has its own stake in the syria war and it hasn't signed on very particular and well predictable prizes from geo political dominance to well oil we did leave so just because we're keeping the oil we may have to fight for the oil that's ok i like the oil yet

a nother acting in this conflict israeli jets routinely hit targets on syrian soil it's clear what israel wants to to weaken iran's influence yet another power playing its hand and this massive and messy political gamble unfortunately for the people of syria since 2011 their country has been used as a chessboard on which the syrians appear as pawns and it's somebody else's geo strategic chess board in particular the united states and its allies basically tore syria apart partly designed to topple the. secular legitimate government in syria the sovereign government the government recognized by the united nations partly to topple their government and partly to claim different parts of syria for themselves syria has an important place in geo strategic we in geographically in the resource rich region of the middle east it also has. so yes what we've seen the tragedy of

syria the tragedy of the so-called civil war it's actually a proxy war by international players using the syrian country the syrian battlefield as a proxy battlefield. syria's civil war and so is yet another pivotal stage so long drawn out of this later in the program we look at how the united states is criticizing its own military for magically funding to secure weapons with hundreds of millions of dollars obsidian. next though a health center housing ukrainians and foreign evacuees from china quarantined over the coronavirus has now been put under constant watch by 200 security offices after their arrival and a violent clashes you about to see between police and locals who a very much against their return.

to. the scene brings that reception will travelling from the epicenter of the coronavirus right the flight landed in the ukrainian city of harkov on thursday the clashes left 9 police officers and one civilian injured auntie's don't court has got more the story for you. say some new people moved into the neighborhood they came from the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus pandemic perhaps you'd be worried or angry but it be hard to match the anger brewing in ukraine to just that situation. oh. cool.

for the past several days ukraine has seen violent clashes across the country scores of policemen have been injured by locals throwing bricks riot police have been called in to disperse angry mobs and it's all because the ukrainian authorities tried to do a good deed for the international community they accepted with open arms a number of their countrymen and foreigners trying to flee by plane assuring the public the passengers were 100 percent coronavirus clean an important detail when ukraine itself has yet to see a case of the disease a quarantine zone was even set up at a health center in poltava just to be sure but the protesters did all they could to stop that plane from landing and when that failed they started blocking roads until riot police removed them by force. the only way you.

the number of. the buses made it to their destination in the end but their unwelcome reception wasn't exactly what kiev expected presidency lansky even called out the protesters for showing the uglier side of their humanity it's a shame the not all of us can be proud of the humane reaction the efforts to show funny ways to be. spittles not to let ukrainians back to ukraine we're 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 children are not ukraine's protesters don't seem to be up for a game of russian roulette with the coronavirus. media freedom groups are giving a stark warning about the health of wiki leaks founder julian assange again as he prepares now for the opening hearing on his u.s. extradition next week his father is deeply concerned about julian's health and he's

being telling us about it in more detail in one of julien's of the 1st appearance in judge borat's as court the judge in julian his name and his birth he was in such poor condition that he couldn't remember this is very unusual for a judge to continue hearing the plea of a prisoner when they come from him of their birth or their. concert consequently we believe that julian or to immediately send. in a teacher spittle that's what would happen in a strange judge would not continue the hearing because that proved prisoner was not well and well adding their voices more than $100.00 doctors were around the world are still rallying against britain's handling of the assads case saying he's being subjected to psychological torture in jail they're also calling on this trailing

government now to intervene to try to protect its and the day citizen this is now the 4th open letter from medical profession is the director general of reporters about borders told us this latest chapter is much more he thinks than just an extradition hearing. this is not just the story of one individual it is about the ability of journalists to publish information relating to state secrets so much a songe is being targeted because of his contributions to journalism in 2010 his work is being targeted because it revealed so much specifically on u.s. military operations in iraq and afghanistan i never saw him g.'s forces on trial in the u.s. if he is extradited this will pose a major threat to all journalism but nothing short of a dramatic decade understatement since incurring washington's wrath i can tell you this hour about 50 minutes or so we're going to tell you more of a story to. i 1st heard about wiki leaks you know songs

from the helicopter footage in iraq. i think get down to the people. in the u.s. military who have never forgiven. this guy's a traitor a treasonous and and he has broken every law the united states illegally shoots out of the u.s. really historic to have. independent journalist with his computer to see you is what crimes and to a global audience. the idea of developing an anonymous. and applying it to a media organization that is what he likes that was the 1st. thing i didn't patrol anticipate that he would be for a short while world right and wrong one of the world's most powerful news organizations when you're in a standard coverage founder julian assange in the sun or your son and there was

a great deal of jealousy in the mainstream towards him particularly why won't he be more like off that you seem. feces on the walls. we have julian assange in solitary confinement in prison for terrorist a we don't have a life in prison or work right i don't want to see him die any ice prison. and i think that's what he's facing. the shocking events in germany now berlin's confirmed the shooting which left 9 dead in the western town of hono as an act of terrorism carried out by a right wing extremist to say it's now the 3rd far right terror attack to hit germany in a matter of months jewels have been held across the country tens of thousands gathered across the nation to mourn the victims were saying here the scene in the

town of hanna with attacks took place. political reaction from it in the wake of those shootings the governing christian democratic union was quick to point the finger and the migrant rivals accusing the alternative of germany party of having extremist tendencies. in the interior to ensure it's fine if you look at their texts profile it seems like he had racist

xenophobia as well as far right motives and this strengthens mean my believe that for the c.d.u. you should always be clear not only for the c.d.u. but for all parties in germany that they can be no corporation with a party which tolerates far right extremists and let's call a spade a spade not since in monitoring so we are resolved to have no cooperation with the f.d.a. in any shape or form it's important to keep the spine was tentative for germany it's more or less the parliamentary wing of a right wing movement and if not the right wing terrorists if they want or not they are the ones who give the key. to terrorists and every collaboration by other parties with the what. but give this party more credibility in the eyes of the follow us so we have a level in the public debate that is more of a charmed rational political debate and when i hear yesterday night about that

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 read that money fester of this crazy terrorist and then compare it to what we are doing and then it's all views that it's nonsense it's just fake news and of course we fight against fake news they simply pass in the afternoon moscow hi there thanks for watching us today this friday coming up the past comes back to bite britain now is the new pax greece of returning some long forth over ancient artifacts and it is old to bracks is reporting next.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. bob dylan once said money doesn't talk its chremes former republican new york city mayor michael bloomberg is proving this just the sheer force of blobby spending has made him a serious contender to capture the democratic nomination are we experiencing peak travel arrangements syndrome. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest read. truth to stand listens is just the right questions to the right answer.

question. again so as mentioned before the break a tug of war between the u.k. and greece of a classical sculptures a see now things fail for decades to secure the return of relics it says was stolen however breck's it could be all about to change that now with the e reportedly backing greece's claim over the so-called elegant models and brussels could now push britain to return them to turn the collection was originally part of the parthenon in the greek capital but they're currently on display in the british museum in london a lot to speak to they got their grease claims they were stolen by law delegate in the 19th century while britain insists no britain says they were acquired legally and at the moment anyway isn't budging. the u. case position on the parthenon sculptures remains unchanged they are the legal

responsibility of the british museum that is not up for discussion as part of our trade negotiations cultural story when the earl and political and social commentator mo and surly discuss the links between democracy and the importance of history. you can't go around the world nicking stuff and then just saying we're going to keep hold of it because it's really valuable and we want people to come and see it it just is awash now adays in a i hate saying it but in a relatively woken like in society people are asking for their stuff back and it's very hard to construct a case when we go around the world stealing stuff and don't go back i think history itself is a very complicated place to go history is complex we do very well in britain threat education system and so our western media missed telling and misstating it we we don't half pick and choose what and how we tell history i mean we can say that the item and this is the worst of it. but in time to me we should be trying to we

should be trying to have a decent discussion about this rather than you trying to interrupt me and the point i know it's a case not only do i know he believes there is a history what we can do with these mothers now is continue to learn about history continue to understand their histories and continue to develop our knowledge by returning them back willy nilly to places that demand them we're not caring for the objects themselves we're not looking at these as. pieces of our heritage of global heritage every single argument you make for keeping them away can be used for returning them i'm sure the greek people you know the home of democracy some great thinkers you might consider will be able to figure out how to display this to the public we shouldn't be just using them as as kind of political footballs all taking the moral taking taking the moral high ground taking the moral high ground we live in a world that is constantly changing and we need to i think recognise that you know that these are bigger than the most this moment in history my concern is that by

not coming under the auspices of the european court of justice we're not going to be held accountable how on earth is the british government ever going to be held accountable for the sins that it commits as a state at home and overseas if we don't have a higher court to. so i think britain is is perfectly poised to be able to do exactly what it wants and i think in terms of brecht's it that discussion about it is a discussion about democracy it's about sovereignty there's no point in kind of really hashing old historical arguments when we're when i think we're in a completely new place where people in britain are thinking about how do we have a future where we're free of a bureaucracy outside of person that we're not that is not accountable to us and how can we can tighten up on our light in the run and losing argument. well ok that's your opinion. and so the conversation went on next

pentagon report has accused the u.s. military failing to keep track of weapons with hundreds of millions of dollars in syria it suggests weapons were left vulnerable to loss or theft which in turn skyrocketed operational costs and the other major consequences too is described more than on this $1.00 from caleb maupin today if you were spending hundreds of millions of dollars to send weapons to a foreign country it would probably pay to keep track of them but apparently that's the last thing that was on the pentagon's mind when it came to operation an errant resolved in syria. special operations joint task force operation inherent result person no did not account for the budgeted 715800000 of count on his train and equip fund equipment for fiscal years 2017 and 28 seen hundreds of weapons were not properly stored duplicate purchases were made the amount spent went higher and higher now that might give critics of the military industrial complex something to

complain about but that's not the crux of the problem here take a listen to this special operations joint task force operation inherent resolve on 1st that sustainment command personnel left thousands of council offices trained and equipped for and weapons and sensitive equipment items fordable to muscle theft without conducting consistent inventor reason ensuring proper security for c.t.e. f s equipment 1st c.s.c. could not determine where the items were lost or stolen which could delay the initiation of an investigation so let's be clear they're saying they're not 100 percent sure these weapons and that up in the hands of isis terrorists but that there's a pretty good chance they did now that should raise plenty of questions especially for those who recall that back in 2718 the so-called vetted opposition was getting stock loads of handouts in weapons from the pentagon. the original fiscal year 2017 president's budget requests to train and equip and fits in syria funds

training and equipment for about 14000 part of foods troops from the vetted syrian opposition seems like some of these vetted opposition were not really interested in fighting the ice real terrorists they just focused on their ongoing efforts to violently overthrow the syrian government one of our partner forces there unilaterally conducted patrols outside of the agreed upon deescalation zone and engaged in activities not focused on fighting isis it seems like american weapons pretty consistently end up not in the hands of terrorist fighters but in the hands of terrorists themselves let's see what's been captured.

$715000000.00 can buy are a lot of ammunition now and that much goes missing in a war torn country it's crawling with terrorists eyebrows should be raised for comparison the republic of the congo and gonna spend less than $715000000.00 in their annual military budgets latvia spends slightly more in $27.00 team approximately $1000000000.00 worth of arms transfers were not properly monitored by the pentagon big mistakes were made in this arm and equip program partly it's an accounting issue because the pentagon as we know has never been successfully audited they tried to audit the pentagon once and it was an absolute failure. they have no idea where the money goes and that's one half of the problem they just

don't care because it's not about the fence it's about 1st of all the military industrial complex the more weapons you lose the more you can buy and it's this kind of symbiosis that the war machine in washington has so that is on one hand but on the other hand i think there's an intentional lack of oversight with regard to weapons in syria we've seen so many times advanced american military technology in the hands of isis and al qaida and their offshoots in the region there's of been a flood of weapons into the region there are no consequences to the us it's only a benefit to the well politically connected military industrial complex in washington d.c. to manufacture and send over more weapons they don't care about the misery of the people on the ground who have to suffer u.s. leaders frequently describe their operations in the middle east as efforts to stabilize the region but nothing brings stability like going into war torn country is crawling with terrorists bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars worth of

weapons and then accidentally losing them up and r.t. new york coming up to 28 minutes past the from us they can just have a half an hour i can tell you coming up next a detailed look at the life and times of julian songe one after this break. the nobility of facial or the kind of good intentions of a church or go to or in christian and maybe even 40 years in the french simply evaporated to the north sea of the unpleasurable for 5. years nobody you would know the moon through but it circles modestly. and you don't move to much for the privilege of. marriage if you do more it will do

. quite a good sort of community in the eastern. europe might it seems to trace. pretty good. that that. nuclear power become a battleground in the us in vermont people love demanding the shutdown of a local plant from yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no care power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of

a traditional to just. power lie with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in very real ways a struggle. a lot of young people know nothing about julian assange. do you know julian assange do you know anything about this man and what happens to him do you want to know about that 10 years ago. wiki leaks released a whole lot of information about the crimes that were being committed by western governments a war crimes mostly the us governments and particularly the murder of innocent civilians.