it's 40 years ago. simply to. see. headlines this friday nights in the wake of wednesday's terror attack in the german town of. a party defends itself against claims it's helping to embolden the far right extremists. elsewhere. you can report fighting intensifying in syria's crisis stricken live province with government forces and their russian backers repelling an offensive by rebels we look at what's at stake then for all the external powers involved in the conflict now. more coronavirus for a different place the residents of

a central ukrainian town clash with police because the authorities attempt to place evacuees from china in quarantine to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. international's world view center welcome to the program with me kevin i'm here for the next 30 minutes if you can stick around as we take you through the stories being reported from russia tonight 1st off leading politicians in germany have bitterly criticized the. party in the wake of wednesday's racially motivated mass shooting at hanaud which left 9 people dead although the authorities have not established a direct link between the attack or the party lawmakers nonetheless they were arguing the a.f.p. has helped ferment an atmosphere of xenophobia and hatred. had i not shot through his glance and it looks like it was a lone wolf attacks and one member of the doubt but they were those who had

provided humor with ammunition and the do use differently mom let's go live to your correspondent people of the high paid huge outpouring over this a lot of strong feeling that had no tax seemed to have been sending political shock waves across germany one party in particular under fire tonight yeah. well that's right if germany struggles to come to terms with the events of this week's tragic slayings in hull now we've seen politicians from the christian democratic union the social democrats they are part of the the ruling coalition as well as the left party on the greens as well coming out and accusing alternative for germany the f.d.a. of funding the flames of far right extremism in the country. of course there's a direct connection between the growing strength of the f.d.a. and the increase in right wing violence citizens of foreign descent are being denied their human dignity it's so dangerous because it brings some to

a point where they commit to crime here we have a fatal disinhibited at work and the f.t. bears responsibility for that too. 9 people were killed this week 2 shooting incidents at 2 separate she should bars in the city of homs now all of those that were killed were from an immigrant background most people were most of them were young people as well we heard from one eyewitness who described for us the scenes of that night. the man came in and started shooting at a kiosk then he came to us he shot the 1st person in the head then shot of the 2nd person and we were dropped down to the ground i pretended to be dead we all pretended to be dead we all fell down and he was shooting had emptied his magazine by then and just run away so i opened my eyes i was ok i was still alive but i just didn't want to believe it was real i asked units of everything was ok he groaned he got me he got me there was

a hole in his neck i shouted to the other guy to ask if he was ok he hadn't seen a bullet in the shoulder. he didn't see the fellows he was wearing a coat he said yeah i'm ok but i stood up and saw idris lying in his brother nasser who is that the others are lying there too so i went out and peeped into the kiosk people and there were all that i didn't know what to do i just couldn't believe it was happening. well police have confirmed that the main suspect had killed himself his body was found alongside not of the 72 year old mother the 42 year old own and 2 weapons legally the handgun that he used to carry out the attack had been modified to allow it to release bullets quicker than alongside calls for tighter security and more surveillance of far right to vittie in germany there are also calls for tougher gun laws in the country. peters said not a strong feeling about this thanks for bringing us the latest from berlin tonight peter by stretton is the f.t.'s foreign policy speaker in abundance he gave us

response to he told us why he believes the party is coming for so much criticism right now. is the only way how can they handle. manage to fight against us because they have no real political arguments and call in the political discussion so therefore they are always just trying to push us into a right wing corner sort of that people. should be afraid even to talk to ours to listen to our political arguments we're living in a very heavy political oppression in my mind germany is already a case for. survival and the next elections because we are not we are not free. to express what we want our people are permanently under a tag of left extremist and. you know what what happened now is that

we are putting in the corner where we belong. also tonight as fighting rages in syria's northwestern province russia's now calling on turkey to allow refugees their safe passage to areas under the control of president assad request comes after turkish backed rebel fighters launched an offensive against government positions. now the turn of the other arab on thursday. with an estimated 900000 people displaced by the violence now 2 u.s. lawmakers meantime a call for secretary of state might pompei o to take diplomatic action against syria and russia are the same time the american military officials have also acknowledged the complexity of the situation in italy admitting that the province has become a haven for extremist factions. province's 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 our correspondent goes down off next tonight takes a closer look at how it's libya's become a key flashpoint in the syrian conflict drawing in as well competing international powers along the way. 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 won against isis 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 idlib 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 for both turkey 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 $22.00 of the russian force at the request of the syrian command have carried out as strikes against the terror groups the salada syrian troops the 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 should with president carter 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 u.s. has its own stake in the syria war and it has its eye 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 by 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. next novel coronavirus news to tell you a ukrainian health center has been used to quarantine evacuees from china but now it's been put on the coast to watch by no less than 200 security offices to local residents there in fear of a possible spread of the new coronavirus rioted in protest against the arrival of 45 ukrainian nationals and 27 foreigners from the city at the at the center of that i break 0. you. will love flight from the chinese city ruined with tens of thousands of people been infected landed in the city of how to cope on thursday the clashes left 9 police officers one civilian engine don't quarter picks up the story more detail 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. you. owe it. to ok. 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 cortines own 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. cool. the buses made it to their destination in the end but there 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 has specially 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. moscow time thanks for watching ahead of the break the past comes back to bite britain as the e.u. now backs greece overturning some long forth over ancient artifacts they sold to breaks it tell you more since we're back. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

seemed wrong. wrong just don't call. me. yet to stamp out this thing becomes active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. on the kind of good intentions of my photos. and christening and maybe even 40 years ago simply to see the notes of the compressor with the 5.

hi again some more about the tug of war between the u.k. and greece over classical sculptures it's seen athens that fail for decades to secure the return of relics it says was stolen but brecht's it could be about to change all that with the e.u. reportedly backing greece's claim now over the so-called elgood marbles brussels could even 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 there greece claims the marbles were stolen by a law delegate in the 19th century but britain says no it acquired them legally and in fact it 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 we are cultural historian when the earl and social commentator mo and so whether or not the relics should be returned then. 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 adays in a i hate you saying it but in a relatively woke enlightened 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 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 and stewardship of the tyrants 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 moment 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 answer to so i think. 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 free hashing old historical arguments when we are when i think we're in a completely new place where people in prison 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 on a far lighter and run a losing argument. well ok that's your opinion. a particular reporter's accuse 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 as in turn skyrocketed operational costs of the other major consequences to scale of open reports from 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 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 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 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 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 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 mop and r.t. new york. story and developing one we're hearing the russian nationals been arrested while attempting to leave space the russian foreign ministry to go details about it said it believes she was detained at the request of the united states so it could tailor a co-sponsor across this wednesday night to say details. what do we know this stage why you're quite right the russian foreign ministry has announced that on the 14th

of february spanish authorities detained a russian national a woman who goes by the name of. now why did they arrest her want to know about the past and well she's from the region of novosibirsk which as suggested by the name is a part of siberia and central russia and after completing a university education she moved to the capital and according to her mother over 10 years that's between 2008. was 19 she worked as a clock in the u.s. embassy here in moscow and it seemed that the great part of her job just included taking fingerprints in the international department which was eventually closed down and that is that that lets her critics take a slightly different path and she started working as a translator in the russian center for plant inspection now it was in that capacity that alessio was in spain in the 1st place on the island of 10 a reef it would seem and she was on a short walk ship and was actually part of an official delegation and it was on her

return journey back to moscow that she was arrested and it's thought that she is still being held in a facility on tenor reef now let's listen to how her mother has described the whole ordeal. the sort of the real so who should be most go. out here there is not the airline said she was booked on to the flight but we couldn't find her she didn't answer the food. without knowing where the worse and then it turned out that she was detained. we still haven't even talked to her they stopped her like she was and thinks the didn't know what had happened. well what's worth noting is that there has been some suggestion that her arrest was instigated by the u.s. now why would washington be interested in kosovo in the 1st place while her mother

has said that such an allegations were made against her daughter that she's alleged to have sold all handed over biometric data to 3rd parties which is actually a crime that can carry as much as a life sentence stateside but according to sutton sources the russian foreign ministry is concerned that this is part of a wider pattern of disturbing u.s. behavior. it's a new case of the us authorities an acceptable practice of hunting for russian citizens around the world the russian foreign ministry has repeatedly issued warnings about the dangerous and risks associated with similar actions by the american intelligence services. and indeed other cases would seem to back that up for example alexandra vinick is a russian national an entrepreneur who was arrested in another european country nearby greece again at the request of american authorities now washington claims he's been involved in some sort of bitcoin involved money laundering scheme

something that's fair to noise similarly an executive of a russian state company was arrested and it's in the last year again at the behest of washington so definitely certain echoes that as for this current case with a lesser question of our moscow of course is trying to get to the bottom of it that we're following this story as well we indeed if you get more into it keep us posted thanks very much for now saskia i can tell you don hawkins is here throughout the coming hours the saving to take 3 more on that rather breaking news that comes in from a given oh and thank you for watching out international a great evening. in the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s. and the world. max keiser and stacy herbert dig into the burning questions of this election cycle one topic every week will tax student debt trade wars

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