in the wake of wednesday's. defends itself against claims it's fueling extremism. in syria's. problems with government forces on the russian. rebels look at what's at stake for the external powers involved in the conflict. the. residence of a central ukrainian police as the authorities attempt to place evacuees from china and. the spread of the.

moscow thanks for joining us. welcome to the program. a leading politicians in germany have bitterly criticized. in the wake of wednesday's racially motivated mass shooting which left 9 people dead there was. a direct link between the attack on the party lawmakers are arguing that help for meant an atmosphere of xenophobia and hatred. that at 1st glance it looks like it was a long ways but at least one member girls on the outside but they were those who had provided him with this ammunition and the differently moment the gifted in germany struggles to come to terms with the events of this week's tragic slayings now we've seen politicians from the christian democratic union the social democrats they think they're really coalition as well as the left party on the greens as well

coming out and accusing alternative media if they are 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.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 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 down 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 to his brother nasser who is dead and the others were lying there too so i went out and peeped into the key. the people in there ruled out 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 of the 7 other 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 quick is that 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. but of a strong as the f.t.c. foreign policy speaker in the bundestag it's all this why he believes the party is coming into so much criticism. the killer was a paranoid he was sued because of franek and the police said it very soon on twitter. this guy had not gone to action to any any political group to any a ride to extremists to any right wing groups and what this world as terrible as the situation that the the all political parties are trying to stick it somehow to the empty this is the only way how can they manage to fight against us because they have no real political arguments and pull in the political discussion so therefore they are always just trying to push us into

a right to in corner sort of people are afraid even to talk to ours to listen to our political arguments we are we are living in the in the very heavy political oppression in my mind 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 don't belong. but tensions running high in syria's war torn limb province the leaders of turkey and russia held a phone call on friday to discuss ways of resolving the crisis both let me put an ad the recipe to and said there remain committed to previously escalation agreements their conversation comes just a day after turkish forces and allied rebel fighters launched an offensive against syrian government positions near the town of al that up.

with an estimated 900000 people displaced by the violence the 2 u.s. lawmakers a call for secretary of state to take diplomatic action against syria and russia the same time the american military officials have also acknowledged the complexity of the situation in libya admitting the province has become a haven for extremist factions. it seems to be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is an on going space in many ways the rev wright 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 because thought of takes a closer look now at how it was a bit of a key flashpoint in the syrian conflict drawing and competing international powers . 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 a 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 geopolitical carnage as 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. we're 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 and marse covered by turkish artillery fire russia's air force joins the party together with the 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 the river su 24 aircraft of the russian air force at the request of the syrian command have carried out strikes against the van sing armed 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 bedding on the ground washington cheers from over the atlantic that a very good job or say ship with president her was the fact is that he's fighting audit 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 ed liddy escalation zone in a cheap a pullback of assad regime forces to the 2800 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 soldiers because we're keeping the oil we may have to fight for the oil that's ok i like the oil and there's yet another 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 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 that 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 sharply criticized rushes in central ukraine if they're attacked of boss talking about kiwis from china to a quarantine facility in the spread of the new coronavirus dozens of locals in over you son johnny demonstrated against the arrival of 45 nationals and 27 foreigners from the city at the epicenter of the outbreak. good good good to.

see you. on 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 cough on thursday the clashes enough none police officers and one civilian injured stunnel quarter has the 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. 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. her own 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 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. 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. britain's largest the fencer aerospace company b. a u. systems has received the borrower's of criticism online after its chief executive boasted that the firm made bumper profits last year 29000 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. will be a systems is the largest defense contractor in europe and the 4th largest in the world along 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 the over accusations the gulf kingdom has committed numerous war crimes in yemen saudi arabia became involved in the conflict there in 2015 as it intervened in support of the internationally recognized government in

its fight against hooty rebels since then the war has claimed over 100000 lives with many more people displaced he has always insisted it complies with all arms licensing regulations but that's not stops its 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 lives murderers and recently if is a media coordinator for the campaign against the arms trade he told us earlier that governments need to take a far more stringent approach to weapon self. criticism he has to be that it is arming and supporting some of the digital interests of the she means and while just his putting way to the war zone in yemen which is make the situation in measurably

worse because great no thing to objects which are made by systems of flying over yemen firing missiles which you need by. missile computers one 3rd one by. longer about what is going on and more we have profiteered because where everybody is 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 these do you have a responsibility problem arbet 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 its bat's lead is about level of political support for the arms industry which really needs which needs to stop immediately. the pentagon reporters accuse the u.s. military of failing to keep track of weapons worth hundreds of millions of dollars in syria it suggests weapons were left vulnerable to loss or fairford which has in turn skyrocketed operational costs as well as other major consequences more on that

story from caleb. if you were spending hundreds of millions of dollars to send weapons to a foreign country it would probably pay to keep track of that but apparently that's the last thing that was on the pentagon's mind when it came to operation inherent result in syria. special operations joint task force operation inherent result person no did not account for the budgeted 715800000 of count arses trained and equipped for and equipment for fiscal years 2017 and 2018 hundreds of weapons were not properly stored to 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 mosul 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 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 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 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 described 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. where the headlines are russian nationals been arrested while attempting to leave spain the russian foreign ministry said it's believed she was attained at

the request of us all thought he's just a 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 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 what translates in the russian center for plant inspection now is 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. most go. to the plane is here

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 who 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 chris of us 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 thought parties something which can be punished with as much as a life sentence stateside but according to such and sources 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's fair to noise 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 a lesser question of our moscow of course is trying to get to the bottom of it that

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hi welcome to. all my guest today is a true explorer someone who loves to hate the present in order to figure out the future i'm here with architect urban writer thinker rahm call in his office to talk about the future of the city and the future landscape. graham it's so good to have you here on our program i've been wanting to ask you all kinds of questions big questions i was essential ones yes but like i want to start with your exhibit at the guggenheim that's opening. so it's called countryside the future. and it's really funny you say that because most of the

people i've spoken to big thinkers futurologist most of them agree that the future is within big cities that want to win become trees just big cities so when you name it like that do you is it just a concept or do you really believe the future is there and it's of course provocation but it's a very calculating provocation because in 2007 the un said that half of mankind for sleeping in cities may see me from that moment cities are the only thing anyone has been looking at and cities has been what people have been kind of policing about doing studies about. intellectual concentration is going to cities. the prediction is that. maybe 70 or 80 percent of mankind to live in cities and i think there are 2 point become a completely absurd situation that could be you know over this or concentrating on

very overcrowded kind of situations and that we leave the countryside to be its potential all its beauty all its history its. its nature. and so. it's statement that let it happen and that we need to look at the country again that we have to be prepared to live in the countryside. of course in a totally new way. and we're showing some evidence of that between also showing the need for that but is it a statement that actually offer some solutions i'll tell you i'm saying because like the country where account from it's a huge territory and i see that 17 villages every year disappear from the member of russia and i'm not i mean it's understandable the where there are the monies in the cities the living conditions all of that but maybe something we're.