he's here. to be reached. but he intensifies and serious crisis stricken province with government forces in the russian black is repelling a major offensive by turkish aligned rebels coming up we look at what's at stake for the external powers involved in this long drawn out conflict. what you see here residents of a centrally clashing with police is the authorities attempt to place evacuees from china in quarantine there to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus a lot of trouble a lot of fear will bring you the latest also. a trial that threatens the fundamentals of journalism a media freedom group says the industry's future is at stake as wiki leaks founder

julian assange prepares for his possible extradition to the u.s. . to is german he warns the 9 victims of wednesday's my shooting the turn of the authorities in germany confirmed that it was a racially motivated terror attack. 4 pm no hit this friday here moscow life from r.t. international's world news center well welcome to the program with me kevin i was here for the next 30 minutes because stick around to take you through that he's recovering from russia starting with this from syria as you mention of those headlines as fighting rages in the northwest province there russia is now calling on turkey to allow refugees there safe passage to areas under the control of president assad the request comes after turkish backed rebel fighters launched an offensive against government positions in the. on thursday.

with an estimated 900000 people displaced by the violence 2 u.s. lawmakers now of call for the secretary of state might pompei or to take diplomatic action against syria and russia at the same time though merican military officials have also acknowledged the complexity of the situation in italy admitting the province has become a haven for extremist factions italy province seems to be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is an on going space in many ways the raw variety 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 it goes down off takes a closer look next to how it has become a key flashpoint in the syrian conflict drawing in competing international powers to a long way. pushes 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 are fading into oblivion. it's time for assad to get out of the way. we have won a good study says we've beaten them and we beat 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 for a few minutes and making it live a safe place for both and 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 su 22 of the russian air force at the request of the syrian command have carried out as strikes against the terror groups this allow 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 say shit with president her 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 live deescalation zone and achieve a pullback of assad regime forces to the 2018 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 act 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 that 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. or was serious civil war and showing a decisive stage another twist and turn coming up later the program for let you know look at how the u.s. is criticizing its own military for allegedly failing to keep track of weapons supplied to friendly factions. crew of us next fear over it a ukrainian health center being used to quarantine evacuees from china has been put

on the constant watch by 200 security offices a lot of trouble itself the local residents fearing the possible spread of the new coronavirus rioted in protest against their rival 45 nationals and 27 foreigners from the city at the very at the center of that outbreak. but. 0 flight from the chinese city where tens of thousands of people have been infected landed in the ukrainian city of how to cope on thursday the clashes left 9 police officers and one civilian in jude don't quote has got the story. 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 would 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. you. know. the bus has made it to their destination in the end but they're on welcome reception wasn't exactly what kiev expected president selenski 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. because 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 as he prepares for the opening hearing on his u.s. extradition next week his father is deeply concerned about julian's health as he's been telling us direct. then one of julian's of the 1st appearance in judge barrage of court the judge 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 can't remember their birth or their. concert consequently we believe that julian or to be immediately sent for

in a teacher hospital that's what would happen in a stroller the judge would not continue the hearing because the present prison was not well and adding their voices more than 100 doctors know from around the world are still running against britain's handling of the assad's case saying he's been subjected to psychological torture in jail they're also calling on the australian government to intervene to protect him to the day one of its own citizens this is now the 4th open letter from medical professionals the director general of reporters without borders told us this latest chapter is much more than just an extradition hearing. that distressful that no this is not just the story of one individual it is about the ability of journalists to publish information relating to state secrets mr assad has been targeted because of his contributions to journalism in 2010 years his work is being targeted because he revealed so much specifically on u.s. military operations in iraq and afghanistan i never saw on g.'s forces on trial in the us if he is extradited this will pose

a major threat to all journalism understatement to say this has been a dramatic decade for julian assange since incurring washington's wrath i can tell you coming up later on he will be telling more of his story. i 1st heard about wiki leaks. from the helicopter footage in iraq. i think the general people and i mean in the us military who have never forgiven him for it this guy's a traitor a treasonous and he has broken every law the united states illegally should suffer but he was really historic to have. independent journalist die with his computer to see serious triumphs to a global audience. the idea of developing an anonymous digital truck parts and applying it to a media organization that is what he makes that was the 1st. i didn't the tour

anticipate that he would be for a short while the world's right and wrong one of the world's most powerful news organizations clearing the standard for founder julian assange in the story of the sun and there was a great deal of jealous in the mainstream towards him particularly why won't he be more like off the i choose heem. in feces on the walls. system. we have julian assange and in solitary confinement in this prison for terrorists a way to keep the house alive in person the person because. i don't want to see him die any u.s. prison. and i think that's what he's facing. your

authority is a confirmed the mass shooting that left 9 people dead in the town of hadera wednesday as an act of terrorism carried out by a right wing extremist it's the 3rd the top of its kind in the country in recent months vigils have been held across the. with tens of thousands gathering to mourn the victims but a more local level this is what the town of high now look like 25 kilometers east of frankfort in the immediate aftermath of those deadly shootings.

and so the politics comes into play in the wake of the shootings the ruling christian democratic union was quick to point the finger at its anti migrant rivals it accuse the germany party of data very extremist tendencies. humanity to ensure its trial if you look at their texts profile it seems like he had racist xenophobia as well as far right motives and this transcends 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 i'm on its ranks 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. the 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 child than a rational political debate and when i hear it 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 to read that money fester of this crazy terrorist and then compare it to what we're doing and then it's all views that it's nonsense it's just fake news and of course we fight against it fake news. this is our national coming out still this friday after the break because compactified britain is the grease now returning so long for the ancient

facts and it's all down to breakfast we'll tell you all about it since we're back. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. maybe even 40 years ago. simply to see. the. whole business about blaming russians america is getting really pathetic because

here's a guy who is effectively trying to d.c. humanize the group of people slavic people of the states this is remarkably ironic coming from white black. again so a tug of war between the u.k. and greece over classical sculptures a scene athens failed for decades to secure the return of relics it says was stolen of a better change all that with the e.u. now reportedly backing greece's claim to the so-called elgin marbles and brussels could now push britain to return them as well the collection was originally part of the parthenon in athens but it's currently on display in the pritish museum in

london question is how it got there greece claims the old marbles were stolen by more delicate in the 19th century while britain insists no aid acquired them legally and further says it's not going to budge over it. 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 but as cultural historian when the earl and social commentator mowen say whether or not the relics should be returned then. you can't go around the world making 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 as 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 histories are complex we do very well in britain 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 they. should put the times in may we should be trying to we should be trying to have a 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 dismembered 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 answer. 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 are 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 tie the far lighter to run

a losing argument. well ok that's your opinion. a political reporters accused the u.s. military of failing to keep track of weapons with hundreds of millions of dollars in syria it's just weapons were left vulnerable to loss or theft which has in turn skyrocketed operational costs a lot of the major consequences to war on it from our correspondent philip mopin in new york city. 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 budget is 715800000 of count arses trained and equipped 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 in hebron 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 that 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 partner foose troops from the vetted syrian opposition seems like some of these vetted opposition were not really interested in fighting the i.c.l. terrorists they just focused on their ongoing efforts to violently overthrow the syrian government one of our partner forces there you know laterally 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 that'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 it 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 defense 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 time advanced american military technology in the hands of isis and their offshoots in the region there's a 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 with a view from new york city with a view from moscow that's it for me kevin going for now i have a great rest of this friday for me the rest of the team but was more just about 32 minutes tonight and then stand by for more stateside studios it's the latest what she will hold.

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and salyut a shoe wow this week is shaping up to be a blast from russia gates' past my hawk watchers you see in the span of a few short days the names of roger stone julian assad's john brennan donald trump and of course russian acting have once again banned on the tips of pundit tongues across all of cable news land retro russia gay we kicked off across the pond in london england at the westminster magistrates' court on wednesday when one of us songes legal team declared to the court that according to witness testimony u.s. president donald trump offered a pardon wiki leaks founder julian assange if he said that russia had nothing to do with wiki leaks publication of democratic party e-mails 2000 and.