that week's biggest stories on r.t. is turkish backed militants in the syrian army exchanged. washington looks to clamp down on damascus and its backers despite admitting it has a massive. terrorist in the region. a russian artist is under investigation in france after finding himself at the center of a political scandal with lawmakers demanding he be sent back to russia. and the real cost of devices the electronic waste sent mostly from western nations the people of ghana and.

we're taking you through some of the biggest stories covered here over the past 7 days welcome to the program we're going to start with an update on syria with tensions running high in the war torn italy province the leaders of turkey russia france and germany will discuss ways to resolve the crisis next month that announcement comes amid an ongoing exchange of offensives between the syrian government forces and turkish backed militants. which support so-called moderate armed groups has recently flooded the region with troops and equipment in response to a syrian offensive in the last terrorist stronghold in the region the russian and turkish president spoke on the phone on friday in an attempt to uphold previously agreed deescalation deals meanwhile the un's want all parties to reach a cease fire before the escalation turns more bloody. a flash point to the syria

conflict also seeing lawmakers in the united states push for a diplomatic response against syria and russia with an estimated 900000 people displaced by the violence at the same time though american military officials acknowledge the complexity of the situation adlib admitting that the province has become a haven for extremist factions easily proven 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 and your dollar takes a closer look at how this latest chapter of the conflict in libya is drawing in completing competing international powers. post-race coming to shove and syria turkey and the us russia israel and multiple militant factions all skirmishing in the country and previous motives for warring fading into oblivion.

it's time for assad to get out of the way. we have won a good study says we've beaten them and we've beaten them badly all that is a thing of the past now as new goals vividly take shape the latest fighting in ad lib is a mere accessory to the geo political connotation is global and regional 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 for a few minutes and making it live a safe place for both and the people of the region at all costs militants shamelessly boasting turkey provided a.p.c.'s coming on mosques covered by turkish artillery fire russia's air force joins the party together with syrians repairing the onslaught as. moscow officially asks ankara to hold its fire and so it does to prevent militants from moving deeper into syria into su 22 of the russian air force at the request of the syrian command have carried out as strikes against the. 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 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 live deescalation zone and achieve a pullback of assad regime forces to the 2018 so she ceasefire lines the us has its own stake in the syria war and it hasn't signed on very particular and well predictable prizes from geo political dominance to well oiled we did leave so just because we're keeping the oil we may have to fight for the oil that's ok i like the oil yet

a nother act in this conflict israeli jets routinely hit targets on syrian soil it's clear what israel wants to to weaken iran's influence yet another power playing its hand and this massive and messy political gamble unfortunately for the people of syria since 2011 their country has been used as a chessboard on which the syrians appear as pawns and it's somebody else's geo strategic chess board in particular the united states and its allies basically tore syria apart partly designed to topple the. secular but legitimate government in syria the sovereign government the government recognized by the united nations partly to topple that 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 is actually a proxy war by international players using the syrian country the syrian battlefield as a proxy battlefield. elections shock artists who was granted asylum in front is now under investigation will make a demanding piece of linsky be sent back to russia after he found himself at the center of a political scandal but then he was arrested for posting footage that brought down president preferred pick to be the next mayor of paris shuttle explains. your 3rd pub lenski is a political refugee here in france but it seems even he is too hot to handle with these latest allegations even members of my own party and are calling for him to be sent back to russia if you get this guy out he's a political refugee he behaves like the 1st thing to do would be to put him on

a plane streets of russia and he will see with mr putin if you can do this kind of crap this comes after the latest scandal involving pawlenty skee this follows the dissemination of videos and photos on the internet last week of benjamin a key ally of the president back on his former spokesperson now linsky and his partner were taken by the police and they were questioned in regards to those videos questioned in 2 invasion of privacy and broadcasting videos of a sexual nature without the permission of the person who is in those videos the interior minister here in france has said he should face the full weight of the law if it did you feel casting certain videos without the consent of the author or subject to criminal sanctions in our country resulting in a substantial fine and 2 years imprisonment and these offenses must obviously be prosecuted it is a matter of respect for democratic rules and this is not the 1st time that pawlenty

ski has been headline news here in france he was recently accused of brandishing a weapon a knife or to a new year's eve party and of injuring 2 of the party goers at that event further back he was also found guilty of setting light to the doors of the bank of france in the basti area in fact he is currently serving a suspended sentence for that criminal act in france and that comes after a series of stunts that he pulled in russia of a similar. nature. russia

it's sometimes difficult to be and. yes especially for one makes a political declaration out of his art and that's the case of so that probably and we already know and he's just you know arrested for setting the door of the former k.g.b. building on fire. so it's not clear where the public will be sent back to russia chucked out of france or whether he will face the music a on those possible criminal charges what we do know is that his political asylum here has become an embarrassment to the french authorities. all the radical artists and activists told the sputnik france news agency that his case shines a light on freedom of expression in the country. it is a really monstrous situation because i thought that france was

a country that upholds freedom of expression its not freedom of expression you cannot say or do anything against big lies and hypocrisy. and thousands have been taking a stand against racism in germany throughout the week following wednesday's terror attack in one hour in which 9 were killed from the town where the tragedy happened in the north over 600 kilometers away people could be seen carrying banners against racism and extremism the attack on 2 she has been described by police as racially motivated.

and in the wake of the shootings the establishment in berlin was quick to point the finger at anti migrant rivals it's all the alternative for germany party in particular accused of having extremist tendencies the day they rejected the claims and said the shooter was mentally ill however that didn't stop the ruling christian democratic union from calling to cut all ties with their rival. immanent here to ensure it's true and if you look at their texts profile it seems like he had racist xenophobia as well as far right motives and this trenton's mean my believe therefore the c.d.u. should always be clear not only for the c.d.u. but for all parties in germany that they can be no corporation with a party which tolerates far right extremists and let's call a spade a spade not since i'm on its ranks so we are resolved to have no cooperation with

the f.d.a. in any shape or form it's important to keep the spirals. tentative for germany it's more or less the parliamentary wing of a right wing movement even of the right wing terrorists if they want or not they are the ones who give the key. to terrorists and every collaboration by other parties with the what. but give this party more credibility in the eyes of the followers so we have a level in the public debate that is more of a charmed rational political debate and when i hear yesterday night about that shooting i instinctively knew that our opponents would blame us for being responsible for it it is completely ridiculous and i can only ask everyone to read that money festa of this crazy terrorist and then compare it to what we're doing and then it's all views that it's nonsense it's just fake news and of course we

fight against fake news. like you how fears are being raised over what's become one of the west biggest dumping grounds for electronic waste the african country of ghana everything from old mobile phones to computers sent for incineration they're releasing a highly toxic chemicals known to cause deadly diseases including cancer. don't you follow old would. do anything. noble from deep with such as he said today to be so i've gone from the margins before they got sick it was simply was the more water in my head i had to eat because he did

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i read it drifted before you my pledge will be improving standard in the cards and making our proud the prima city you know not for. we've since contacted god as a bottom of ministry as well as the president's office for further comment we'll let you know when they reply. this is the way. violence in ukraine as patients return from the outbreak at the center of the coronavirus story abol around 90 seconds. to put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to be for us this is what

before 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. the chrono virus now has proven this point because even though all the supply lines are choked and deliveries of critical parts are not happening stocks are still stable or going higher because it's fed by cheap money right it's all cheap money that cheap money is is created out of nothing to create the simulation going.

i get more of the week's headline news now into ukraine where the president's reacted with anger to the less than friendly welcome received on thursday by returning evacuees from china riots broke out of a fee is the quarantine passengers might spread the deadly coronavirus protest as set up roadblocks clashed with police and pelted the vehicle carrying the patients to a hospital but even selenski said that his nation had fallen back into the dark ages the middle ages rather the clashes left 9 police officers and one civilian injured . i think. guys you know we always say that ukraine is europe to be honest at some moments we don't like medieval europe unfortunately let's not forget that we're all human beings. the flight from the chinese city of we're on where tens of thousands of people have been infected landed in the ukrainian city of holocaust on thursday and

before that roadblocks were set up in other regions of the country following rumors of more quarantine facilities being set up then of course as the story. say some new people moved into the neighborhood they came from wu han the epicenter of the deadly coronavirus pandemic perhaps you'd be worried or angry but it would be hard to match the anger brewing in ukraine to just that situation. oh oke. oke 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. you. know. the buses made it to their destination in the end but there on welcome reception wasn't exactly what kiev expected we're going to go on think this is one of the

greatest disappointments in my life i'm disappointed in people in the moral. this is a disgrace for the whole world to see i'm truly ashamed. ukraine's protesters don't seem to be up for a game of russian roulette with the coronavirus. us democrats house speaker has been turning the screws on brussels warning europe to ditch war way technologies nancy pelosi insists the chinese telecom giant is a major security threat and should be barred from developing 5 g. networks in the e.u. which could then be used for spying she claims but she failed to mention what makes america's own far reaching global surveillance network a better alternative that's kind of more been explained. now that the impeachment debacle is all wrapped up guess who's going to europe in order to promote one of the trumpet ministrations key policies it's the speech ripper herself nancy pelosi the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives is urging european countries to drop plans to use while away as their 5 g. carrier for the benefit of a few corporations you cannot sell the privacy of the people of your country down

the river as i said before it's like having the state police write the chinese state police right in your pocket you see nancy pelosi just cares about your privacy odd that she's one of what edward snowden called the gang of 8 key figures that are overseeing surveillance in the united states is far and snowden he did there on the in the in disagreement with you he did violate the law in terms. of for leasing those documents we don't know i understand. and i understand odd timing as well it's just been revealed that the cia was the secret owner of a swiss company that was offering people encrypt people's privacy was compromised because the cia had a backdoor what the u.s. government speculates that china might be doing they have been caught doing themselves while the e.u. might be more apt to listen to a top democrat then to the donald it seems they still aren't buying nancy's song

and dance her euro 2 were is a flop. well he will be a continuing problem and will be excluded by the we've said so in the district of texas to see so we decided to ask people what they think of this supposed danger of china spying on them are they more afraid of china spying on them or the american probity us and i'm not so much worried about china i'm worried about anybody having access to our data to be more. ready to spy on you know in the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world us. you can you would i guess just in the us given say the alignment of interests from river to the us probably you know well

the us is far as i'm concerned. you can't have don't know trump along with them it's a common pattern of human behavior sigmund freud called it projection nothing drives us crazy or thinking that someone else might be doing that nobody thing that we know we are doing ourselves. are to see new york. exco stream to make you look like climate change activists gretl book has been slammed online but the swiss makers have defended it as nothing more than dressing up for a carnival. declare war on environmental and show the world she's on the brink. do you want to appears grad at the carnival for the dare you remarks all you need are not quite

neutral ground a break with braids. more and more companies are trying to capitalize on it is tasteless because we actually have to deal with the climate crisis. that carnival fans can enjoy themselves at the expense of an autistic person many people perceive gresson not as a person this is a figurehead as a result the market believes that such wrongdoing is the gist of us but it definitely is. i think people are overreacting the carnival always has elements imitation. of a carnival i think you should keep your sense of humor. and that's the way for this looking at free speech as a weapon of hate next you know new worlds apart.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by a dream shaped by those.

slow dares thinks. we dare to ask. i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you my story in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. they could charged with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody imagine living in your vast for the week with his son of a $23.00. i doubt that had to. get out of the very. confined within 4 gray walls funded seems to. help him to leave dennis room.

full of welcome to worlds apart the freedom of speech is one of the pillars of democracy and also the one that in the west is. perceived as being in greatest peril with the left claiming that it has become a be coopted by the right just great paid and the right deriving the last best sinister snowflake sensors just one of the boundaries of free speech to discuss that i'm now joined by a british activist. mr robinson it's good to see you thank you very much for coming over it's good to be saying now what brings you to russia. giving

a presentation tomorrow to explain the history and the dangers of grooming which is more right. now speaking about the topic of your talk correct me if i'm wrong it's tied to the rape of britain i know that you are prone to generalisations but isn't that too broad and too threatening overstatement. generalisations are. right in discussion we talk about islam muslims in general how can you talk about islam and not talk about muslims in general because islam is annoying it's a book it's annoying to criticize a practice by muslims but if. every christian. does so when we see the right levels that we've seen in our country and from a population muslim i would make up 2.2 percent of the british population they are

responsible for 84 percent of the convictions of these talks. and what you have to ask the question is why which were not allowed well i think you pointed out very specifically that it's this type of rape and i suggest that we talk in more detail about various kinds of rape but before we do that when i hear it when i heard the title of your talk of the rape of britain the media association that i got of was with the book the rape of nanking it's a very famous book describing 6 weeks in 937 during which the japanese. forces killed at least 200000 americans billions and raved 20000 at least 20000 chinese women even with those races even with those cases that you're trying to highlight the statistics the rapes the distance and in britain is nowhere near that.