is here. waiting to be breached. in the headlines this friday afternoon fighting intensifies in syria's crisis stricken. with government forces in the russian backers repelling an offensive by turkish aligned rebels look at what's at stake with the external powers involved in this long running conflict also. coronavirus fears residents of a central ukrainian town clash with police as the authorities attempt to place evacuees from china in quarantine there to prevent the spread of the new virus. a trial that threatens the fundamentals of journalism is being billed as a media freedom group says the industry future is

a very stake as wiki leaks founder julian assange prepares for his possible extradition to the us. why they're just so 5 pm this friday evening in moscow live from our to international world news center it's kevin owen here for the next 30 minutes because stick around to take you through the news we're reporting from russia today as you just heard starting in syria they're fighting in the northwestern province russia is calling now 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 near the town of rab on thursday.

with an estimated $900000.00 people displaced by the violence 2 u.s. lawmakers now called for secretary of state might pompei or to take diplomatic action against syria and russia at the same time though american military officials also acknowledge the complexity of the situation in it admitting that the province has become a haven for extremist factions. and seems to be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is an ungoverned 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 he goes down off next and takes a closer look at how it liberates become a cave flashpoint in the syrian conflict drawing in competing international powers along the way. post-race coming to shove and 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 won 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 superpower 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 van sing 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 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 lead 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 oiled we did leave so just because we're keeping the oil we may have to fight for the us

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 but 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 oriel 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. worries of a proto virus next is kicking off now in ukraine the ukrainian health center being used to quarantine evacuees from china has been put under constant watch by 200 security officers such as the worry and trouble around it itself the local residents fearing the possible spread of the new coronavirus rioted in protest against the arrival of 45 nationals and 27 foreigners from the very center of the to be sent to the city of the in the center of the outbreak there. to take you to.

kuwait. 0 was. due. to as you can see tensions really running high well that flight from the chinese city of wuhan with tens of thousands of people have been infected landed in the accredited. the clashes left 9 police offices and one civilian injured don't quote has been following the story for. 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. 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 number. was. the bus has made it to their destination in the end but there 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 shut off highways to block hospitals not to let ukrainians back to ukraine we're not demonstrating the best of our character here especially given the georgie the passages 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 freedoms groups warning us given a stark warning of the health of wiki leaks founder julian assange just prepares for the opening hearing on his u.s. extradition the big thing coming up 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 borat's was 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 in 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 $100.00 doctors were around the world still running against britain's handling of the a son's case saying he's being subjected to psychological torture in jail but also calling on mr ayling government to intervene to protect it and the day citizen 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 it's just what i know 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 his work is being targeted because he revealed so much specifically on u.s. military operations in iraq and afghanistan i never saw him g.'s forces on trial in the us if he is extradited this will pose a major threat to all journalism no understatement to say it's been nothing short of a dramatic decade for julian massage since incurring washington's wrath today on this channel will be telling his story in more depth. i 1st heard about wiki leaks. from the helicopter footage in iraq.

i think it down to people and i mean i mean us military who have never forgiven him for it this guy's a traitor and treasonous and and he has broken every law the united states illegally shoots out of the u.s. really historic to have. independent journalist a guy with his computer to see you is what crimes and to a global audience. the idea of developing an anonymous digital dropbox and applying it to a media organization 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 you use will rise ration when you're in a standard founder julian assange in the sun or in the sun and there was a great deal of jealous in the mainstream towards soccer in particular why i wanted

to be more like off that you seem. sneering feces on the walls. system. we have julia in solitary confinement in this prison for terrorists away to the house allies in person the person who worked with her i don't want to see him die any u.s. prison. and i think that's what he's facing. in world again on the life of some students in a few i know it's coming up to exactly 14 half minutes past 5 moscow time what we got ahead well this amongst the other stories. as the greece overturning some a lot. it's. looks like there could be trouble ahead about it all of a breath we'll explain more.

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bob dylan once said money doesn't talk it screams former republican new york city mayor michael bloomberg is proving this just the sheer force of lavish spending has made him a serious contender to capture the democratic nomination are we experiencing peak travel to arrangement syndrome. as mentioned before the break there a tug of war between the u.k. and greece over classical sculptures as seen athens fail for decades to secure the return of relics it says simply were stolen bricks it could be about to change all that though because now the e.u. is reportedly backing greece's claim to the so-called elgood marbles and brussels could no push britain to return them the collection was originally part of the parthenon in athens but it's currently on display in the british museum in london question is how to get that grease claims the marbles were stolen by law delegate in the 19th century well britain insists no it says it legally acquired them and

isn't going to budge either 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 we are cultural story when the earl and social commentator mo i'm so whether or not these relics should be returned now. 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 as awash now a days in a i hate you 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 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 so stewardship of the times in me 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 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 just numbers 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 to so i think britain. it's 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 lives to run a losing argument. well ok that's your opinion.

of a conversation with something new next the pentagon report accused the u.s. military of failing to keep track of weapons with hundreds of millions of dollars in syria it suggests weapons were left vulnerable to loss or fair futures in turn skyrocketed operational costs and other the major consequences to caleb maupin reports 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 inherent resolve in syria. special operations joint task force operation inherent result person who 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 is 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 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. 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 to 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. new in again britain's largest defense in aerospace company b. a systems as received to borrow criticism online of his chief executive posted a bump of profits 429000 good results are expected for 2022. 2019 was a good year for the company. we grew sales by 7 percent. and that enabled us to grow our dividend by 4 and a half percent which is the greatest increase we've had of dividends in the past 8 years.

bit about big systems said so u.k. based defense security an aerospace company it's the largest defense contractor in europe and the 4th largest in the world among its biggest and most lucrative market saudi arabia which has of course repeatedly been accused of war crimes in yemen as we've covered so often on this child riyadh became involved in that conflict in 2015 as it intervened in support of the internationally recognized government in its fight against toothy rebels since then the war is claimed over 100000 lives many more people have been displaced i'm about to be a it's always insists that complies with all arms licensing regulations but that's not scott the criticism now online. so glad killing people has brought you a nice dividend manufacturing weapons of death and sell them to questionable states to murder kids but well done. east systems profits more than just financial killing. now as didn't at the expense of human

murderers. well look at other static chris woodburn is chief executive of be a said sales grew by 7 percent and that enabled us he says to grow divided by 4.5 percent question is is it too much fanfare when andrew smith is with us now he's media coordinator of the campaign against arms trade yet found you know it's got shareholders his company shareholders need to they want to make a profit. but a fanfare over others misfortune is the worry here is that criticism justified of be a that it should be a bit more low key but more subtle about this. all the criticism of b. has to be that it is arming and supporting some of newsgroup 200 press release and just as putting weapons into a war zone in yemen which is making the situation in measurably worse because rate no later jets which were made by the systems are flying over yemen. by. masel computers one for one baby and longer about what is going on more. because

where everybody was born quite like there will always be mean to armed companies trying to profit or there's something in there i mean they're not the largest of the 4th largest in the world even if they didn't do it somebody else would step in and do it they're not the biggest boys on the block here why particularly single them out for criticism. i don't think he is the only offenders lots of major arms companies in the world the u.s. is a major arms industry russia has a major arms and strip britain is a major arms industry and whenever there is war and conflict these countries bilby companies who are trying to profit from it well he is sure there's been this kind of war and conflict has been very profitable war over certainly not the only ones the arms trade wouldn't end of the closed its doors tomorrow because the problem isn't just the companies that will become ability of a problem are the governments who are taking such a relaxed approach to arms that your arms controls and are actively arming and

supporting human rights abusing regimes dictatorships and war zones around wattled its band's lead is about level of political support for the arms industry which really needs which needs to stop immediately but be hire some incredibly skilled people we want to see their skills being used for good things like producing renewable energy not war weapons and war see you point back to riyadh and the proxy wars going on in yemen a lot of countries have put pressure on where they've stopped exporting their try to put the pressure on why hasn't be a then. well being is doing what it can get away with and reason it can get away with it is because b. u.k. government and in the case has been particularly supportive of this war of the u.k. government has been particularly supportive of it's a dictatorship from darkness of the consequences and mats why campaign against armstrong to legal action we took the government court last year the supreme court framed that these arms exports to say to you if you have an illegal and they were

going to be in supreme court leaks from somewhere but we don't just believe these seals have been illegal we'll simply 15 actually immortal as well what's needed is not just an end to the arms and mindset which is on loan to b.'s arms sales to acknowledge growth is what about 20 seconds of so sorry be saying a great year the 20192020 that are expected to be really good as well that makes you want to cry get. well we have to who has a terrible year and we'll be doing everything we can to ensure that is because the supreme court this summer we are can we are sure of that this supreme court will also conclude with arms deals to say to libya as well andrew smith from the company get some straight thank you so much for your thoughts of being an art internationally. thank you 2 at home for watching us as well my name's kevin irwin from here the rest the onto team this friday we appreciate you taking the time i check it out in your column or any of us social media for all the other stuff we talked about today stand by too for sophie shevardnadze the latest gas right here right now.