in the wake of wednesday's terror attack in the german town of how. he defends itself gates claims it's fueling extremism. is in serious crisis stricken province with government forces and the russian backers repelling an offensive on rebels look at what's at stake for the external powers involved in the conflict. residents of a central ukrainian clash with police as the authorities attempt to place about china the prevent the spread of the virus.

from moscow thanks for joining us tonight author international diana hawkins welcome to the program a leading politicians in germany have bitterly criticized the modern day of tea party in the wake of wednesday's racially motivated mass shooting in which left 9 people dead. haven't established a direct link between the attack on the party. if he has help for meant an atmosphere of xenophobia and hatred. but that at 1st glance it looks like it was a lone wolf but at least one member doubts but there were those who had provided him with this i mean mission and the differently moment the gifted in germany struggles to come to terms with the events of this week's tragic slayings we've seen politicians from the christian democratic union the social democrats they are part of the ruling coalition as well as the left party on the greens as well coming

out and accusing alternative media day 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 a crime here we have a fatal disinhibited at work and the f d 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 of them were young people as well we heard from one eyewitness who describe for us the scenes of that night when condom on 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 we'll drop down to the ground i pretended to be dead we all pretended to be

dead we all fell down and he the shooter had emptied his magazine and by then and just run away. from my eyes i was ok i was still alive but i just didn't want to believe it was real i asked unit everything was ok he groaned he got me he got me there was a hole in his neck i shouted the other guy to ask if he was ok he hadn't seen a bullet in the shoulder yet he didn't see the blood as he was wearing a coat he said jamiroquai i stood up and saw interest lying is brother nothing it was dad and the others were lying there too so i went out and peeped into the key. the people in their ruled out so i didn't know what to do i just couldn't believe it was happening or 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 owned 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 preferably strong is the foreign policy speaker in the bundestag he told us why he believes the party's coming in for so much criticism. the killer was the paranoid he was because a friend make the point he said it very soon on twitter and this guy had no connection to any any political group to any. extremist to any rising groups and what is what is just terrible. the situation that the all political parties are trying to get somehow to the a.f.c. this is the only way how can they manage to fight against us because they have no real political arguments and policy in the political discussion so therefore they are always just trying to push us into. corner so that the

people are afraid even to talk to us to listen to our political arguments we are we are living in a. very heavy political oppression in my mind not 3. to express what we want our people are paramount and really under attack of left extremists and you know what happened now is that we are putting in the corner where we donned the long. tensions running high in syria's war torn italy province the leaders of turkey and russia held a phone call on friday to discuss ways of resolving the crisis both loving person and the recipe a bedouin said they remain committed to previous the escalation agreements a conversation comes a day after turkish forces and allied rebel fighters launched an offensive against syrian government positions near the town of

a let up. over the next the mated to 900000 people displaced by the violence 2 u.s. lawmakers have called for secretary of state to take diplomatic action against syria and russia at the same time though american military officials have also acknowledged the complexity of the situation admitting 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 rev wright of groups there all of them are a nuisance a menace in a threat to hundreds of thousands of civilians who are just trying to make it through the winter it was that of the exit closer look now at how we live has become a key flashpoint in the syrian conflict drawing in a competing international powers. 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 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've beaten them badly all that is a thing of the past now as new goals vividly take shape the latest fighting an

adlib 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 has 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 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 route 22 of the russian air force at the request of the syrian command have carried out as strikes against the terror 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 bedding on the ground washington cheers from over the atlantic that a very good job or say shit was 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 lip 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 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 it'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 their government and partly to claim different parts of syria for themselves syria has an important place in geo strategic we in geographically in this 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. you know to nations a sharpie criticize the rioters in central crane off their tact of boss taking evacuees from china to quarantine facility fearing spread of the new coronavirus dozens of locals in son johnny demonstrated against the arrival of $45.00 nationals and $27.00 foreigners from the city at the epicenter of the outbreak.

of the flight from the chinese city of will haunt where tens of thousands of people have been infected landed in the ukrainian city of call called on thursday clashes left 9 people police officers and one civilian injured little quarter as more details. 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 on welcome 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. hospitals not to let ukrainians back to ukraine were 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. britain's largest offends an aerospace company b. a yeast systems has received the barrels of criticism online that's after its chief executive boasted the firm made bumper profits last year 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 dividend in the past 8 years. or be a systems is the largest defense contractor in europe on the 4th largest in the world and among its most lucrative markets is saudi arabia which accounts for 15 percent of its annual group earnings the company's dealings with riyadh have been repeatedly called into question though over accusations the gulf kingdom has committed numerous war crimes in gaming and said arabia became involved in the conflict there on 2015 as it intervened in support of the internationally recognized government in its fight against with the rebels since then the war has

claimed over 100000 lives many more people have been displaced a b has always insisted it complies with all arms licensing regulations but that's not stop the online criticism. so glad killing people has brought you a nice dividend manufacturing weapons of death and sell them to questionable states the murder kits but well done. b m e systems profits more than just financial killing. didn't at the expense of human murderers and respect as a media coordinator for the campaign against the arm straight he told us earlier the government's need to take far more stringent approach to weapons south criticism of has to be that it is arming and supporting some of the digital and repressive regimes and boiled it is putting an end to the war zone in yemen which

is make the situation in measurably worse because rate no thing to objects which are made by systems are flying over yemen firing missiles which you need by. missile computers one bird one maybe. longer about what is going on and more we have profiteered because we're every bit as war and conflict there will always be major armed companies trying to profit from it because the problem isn't just the companies what will become please do you have a responsibility of a problem are a bit governments who are taking such a relaxed approach to arms that you know arms control and are actively arming and supporting human rights abusing regimes dictatorships in war zones around what is its bat's lead is about level of political support for the arms industry which really needs which needs to stop immediately. 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 it was stolen however bricks it could be about to change all that with the e.u. reportedly backing greece's claim to the so-called elegant models brussels could

now push britain to return them but the collection was originally part of the pantheon in athens it's currently on display in the british museum in london and greece claims the marbles were stolen by in the 19th century while britain insists it acquired them illegally and isn't budging. the u.k.'s 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 put in a shop for debate with a cultural historian when the social commentator mo answer about whether the relics should be returned. 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 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 get 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 letterman this is the worst of it and stewardship of the time to me we should be trying to we should be trying to have a discussion about this rather than you trying to answer 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 continues wonder stand their histories and continue to develop our knowledge bike 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. there's no point 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 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 britain 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. and you can report has accused the u.s. military of failing to keep track of weapons worth hundreds of millions of dollars in syria you suggest weapons were left vulnerable for loss loss or theft which has in turn skyrocketed operational costs and has another major consequences to a moral not an hour from caleb moore but 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 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 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 whether 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 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 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 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 caleb mop and r.t. new york. and other headlines the russian nationals been arrested while attempting to leave spain the russian foreign ministry has said it believes she was the taint at the request of the u.s. authorities so as to telescope more details. the russian foreign ministry has announced that on the 14th of february spanish authorities detained a russian national woman who goes by the name of a lesser what do we know about her well we know that she is from a part of siberia and such a russian the mother says that for over 10 years between 20082019 she worked as a clock in the u.s. embassy in moscow and maybe she was just taking fingerprints in the international

department which was eventually closed down off to actually worked as a translator in the russian center for plant inspection now it was in that capacity that unless it was in spain in the fast pace on the items of 10 a wreath and she was part of an official delegation on a short walk trip and it was on her return journey back to russia that she was arrested thought that she is still being held in a facility on the island now let's listen to how her mother has described this whole ordeal the sort of the real similar she should be in most. here there is not a line said she was booked on to the flight who couldn't find her she didn't. know in. other words and then. she was detained. we still haven't even talked to her they stopped her leg she.

thinks they didn't know what had happened now what's worth noting what's very interesting is that there has been some suggestion that christopher was arrest was instigated by the u.s. but why would washington be interested in her while her mother said the subset of patients had been made against her daughter that she sold. biometric data to 3rd parties something which can be punished with as much as a life sentence stateside but putting to such insults as the russian foreign ministry is concerned that actually this rest is part of a wider pattern of. 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 alexander 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 the family denies similarly an executive of a russian state company was arrested in italy last year again at the behest of washington so definitely certain echoes that as for this current case with. musk of course is trying to get to the bottom of it that we're following the story as well way. of free press champion or dangerous maverick or to documentary gives a portrait of julian a song discovery up in just a few hours time. you know being a place to order the kind of good intentions of a teacher's go to worth in christening to and maybe even 40 years ago and have

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