is it more in the idea of a traditional just. demonstrates that struggle in the very real. struggle. germany's dinner party denies claims that it is fueling racism in the wake of wednesday's terror attack in the. fighting intensifies in serious problems with government forces and their russian backers were piling on offensive by turkish aligned rebels and. residents of a ukrainian city clash with police and the authorities attempt to place exactly reason from china. to prevent the spread of a coronavirus. broadcasting

live from our studios in moscow this is r g international. right leading politicians in germany have lashed out at an immigration if tea party in the wake of wednesday's racially motivated mass shooting in which left 9 people dead although the authorities have not established a direct link between the attacker and the party lawmakers are arguing the a.f.p. has helped to create an atmosphere of xena phobia and hatred. but i had at 1st glance it looks like it was a lone wolf but that one moment there is no doubt there were those who had provided him with this i mean mission and the differently moment gifted in germany struggles to come to terms with the events of this week's tragic slayings in hand now 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 a 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 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 that 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 7 the 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 quick as 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 peter by stron is the f.t.'s foreign policy speaker in the bundestag he told us why he believes the party is being targeted. the killer was 'd the paranoid he was because a friend make the point he said it very soon on twitter. this guy had no connection to any any political group to any. extremist to any rising groups and what just 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 a right to win corner so that the people are afraid even to talk to us to listen to all our political arguments we are we are living in. very heavy political oppression and my mind we are not free 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 saw and along . the leaders of turkey and russia spoke by phone on friday about the deadly conflict in syria is italy but province and what i'm reporting and richard tie a pair to one said they remain committed to previous deescalation agreements earlier this week militants backed by turkey launched an offensive against syrian government positions near the town of narrow.

well. with an estimated 900000 people displaced by the violence 2 u.s. lawmakers have called for secretary of state to take diplomatic action against syria and russia however american military officials have also acknowledged the complexity of the situation in italy admitting that the province has become a haven for extremist factions. it seems to be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is an i'm 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 or to see what he's done of it takes a closer look now at how it has become a key flashpoint in the syrian conflict. coming to shove in syria turkey and the us

russia israel and multiple militant factions all skirmishing in the country and previous motives for warring are fading into oblivion. it's time for assad to get out of the way. we have won a good study says we've beaten them and we beat them badly all that is a thing of the past now as new goals vividly take shape the latest fighting in

idlib is a mere accessory to the geopolitical carnage as 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 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 the same. placed with 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 red s u 24 aircraft of the russian air force at the request of the syrian command have carried out as strikes against the van sing armed 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 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 it lead deescalation zone and achieve 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 a sense truth. in 11 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 is actually a proxy war by international players using the syrian country the syrian battlefield as a proxy battlefield. the united nations has sharply criticized the rioters in central ukraine after they attacked a bus taking a vacuum from china to a quarantine facility fearing the spread of the new coronavirus dozens of locals in novi jari demonstrated against of the arrival of 45 nationals and 27 foreigners from the city at the epicenter of the outbreak.

ok 0. the flight from the chinese city of will where tens of thousands of people have been infected landed in the ukrainian city of hot cofa on thursday the clashes left at 9 police officers and one civilian injured and he's done quarter as the story. say some new people moved into the neighborhood they came from the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus pandemic perhaps you'd be worried or angry but it be hard to match the anger brewing in ukraine to just that situation. you. owe. the 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 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. cool.

the number of. 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. spittles not to let ukrainians back to ukraine we're not demonstrating the best 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 us weapons worth hundreds of millions of dollars are believed to have fallen into the hands of extremists in syria the story and much more after a short break this is our international. 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 trying to arrangements syndrome. and welcome back this is our international pentagon report has accused 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 theft or to kill him off and has more 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 result 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 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 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 it partly it's an accounting issue because the pentagon as we know has never been successfully audited they tried to audit the pentagon once and it was an absolute failure. they have no idea where the money goes and that's one half of the problem they just don't care because it's not about defense it's about 1st of all the military industrial complex the more weapons you lose the more you can buy and it's this kind of symbiosis that the war machine in washington has so that is on one hand but on the other hand i think there's an intentional lack of oversight with regard to weapons in syria we've seen so many times advanced american military technology in the hands of isis and al qaeda 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. iran has condemned the latest u.s. sanctions imposed over friday's parliamentary election washington earlier blacklisted 5 members of iran's guardian council accusing them of unlawfully disqualifying candidates from the ballot one of those officials gave his reaction saying the restrictions have nothing to do with supporting a democracy even though the boycotts and sanctions on members of the guardian council the u.s.

regime has soon that it has nothing to do democracy it's a business and is to stop this dictate to sit and nuke the region like a cow we are now more determined to lend old votes to the people. polling stations across iran closed a few hours ago with more than 7000 candidates vying for 290 seats in parliament all candidates were vetted by the 12 member guardian council which is responsible for interpret ing the constitution and overseeing elections is the 1st nationwide ballot since u.s. sanctions against iran were reinstated after washington's pullout from the iran nuclear deal. you know action comes at a challenging time for iran with new kami in recession and recent hostilities with the u.s. over the killing of a gentle soul in miami middle east analyst support alric gave us her views on the latest sanctions i think that it's fine for the west to be pointing the finger at iran because that when they're actually quite in 4 fingers at themselves showing

because the world now has come to laugh at america at the elections that they're beholding to farce and the lies and propaganda but i think there's also a dark message in this and i think that is to actually take iranians inside iran and polarized the united states wants to give the impression that is on the side of the people who have who are more pro west and duct reformists there's nothing more outrageously open and obvious about the interference from these sanctions because the sanctions insult as far as the monetary things go it doesn't make any difference it's just the message they're sending and they're saying how do you not pick the candidates that we would approve of more that's basically what it is. the russian national has reportedly been arrested while attempting to leave spain the russian foreign ministry has said it believes that she was detained at the request of the u.s.

or to sofitel reports. 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 while 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 worked as a translator in the russian center for plant inspection now 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 plane is 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 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 preceded was arrest was instigated by the u.s. but why would washington be interested in her while her mother said the subset of patients have 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 is arrest is part of

a wider pattern of this. stopping 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 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 the family 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. moscow of course is trying to get to the bottom of it that we're following the story as well way. and that does it for me i will be back at the top the hour with more news

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hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm teetotal of l. 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 trump arrangements and. cross talking michael bloomberg i'm joined by my guest in washington he's a g.o.p. strategist in seattle we have zach holler he's an author and media analyst and in los angeles we cross to kim iverson she is host of the kim iverson show or a cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate it it's a toss up now i always go to the person that got up earlier.