the week's biggest stories. of the syrian army exchanged fire in washington. despite admitting it has a massive battle on its hands against terrorists in the region. the center of a political scandal. back to russia. the real cost of devices the electronic waste mostly from western nations but the people of ghana and.

moscow it's sunday and that means taking you through some of the biggest stories covered here over the past 7 days i'm calling 1st for you an update on syria then with tensions running high in the war torn. 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 offensive between syrian government forces and turkish backed militants. turkey which supports so-called moderate armed groups has recently flooded the region with troops and equipment that was in response to a syrian offensive in the last a terrorist stronghold in the region ankara considers the province strategically important for its security and the rob reported fears that syria's forces could advance further towards turkish held safe zones the russian and turkish president

spoke on the phone on friday in an attempt to uphold previously agreed deescalation . the un's warning all parties to reach a cease fire before the escalation turns a more bloody flashpoint 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 of the same time though american military officials acknowledge the complexity of the situation in adelaide 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 ungoverned space in many ways the raw variety of groups there all of them are a nuisance and menace in a threat to hundreds of thousands of civilians who are just trying to make it through the winter because donald takes a closer look at how this latest chapter in the conflict in libya is drawing in 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 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 for a few minutes and making it live a safe place with 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 bidding on the ground washington cheers from over the atlantic that a very good job or say shit with the president her to watch 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 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 oil 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 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 oriel 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 russian shock artist who was granted asylum in fronts is now under investigation nor may consider mounting the pub and be sent back to russia off the he found himself at the center of a political scandal but lensky was arrested for posting footage of the brought down president chromes preferred to be the next mayor of paris from where shall i do bands can now report. your dad 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 to. get this guy out he's a political refugee he behaves like a 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 ski this follows the dissemination of videos and photos on the internet last week of benjamin cleaver a key ally of president macaronis former spokesperson now linsky and his partner were taken in 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. criminal nature. russia

it's sometimes difficult to be and. yes especially for one makes a political declaration out of his art that's the case of for the poverty and we already know and he's just been arrested for setting the door of the former k.g.b. building on fire. so it's not clear where the pov linsky 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 the radical artist and

activist told the sputnik from news agency that his case shines a light on freedom of expression in the country. every month. 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. young. sons of thousands have been taking a stand against racism in germany throughout the week following wednesday's terror attack in hanau in which 9 were killed from the town where the tragedy happened to hamburg in the north over 600 kilometers away people could be seen carrying banners against racism and extremism the attack on 2 shisha bars 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 they have a vote 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. women in theater i ensure it's fine if you look at their text profile it seems like he had racist xenophobia as well as far right motives and this trenton's mean mightily 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 nuts is a monitoring 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 we have a level in the public debate that is more of a child than a 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 fester 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 it thick news. media how fears are being raised over what's become one of the west's biggest dumping grounds for electronic waste the african country of ghana

everything from old mobile phones to computers ascent for incineration they're releasing the highly toxic chemicals known to cause deadly diseases including cancer. don't you fall would. do anything you. know what to do you live such as you said today to be so i've got a margin for the car seat it will simply was put through the wall wiped off in my head my head because he did end up in deep they've.

been running from the european union. for a lever for $350.00 of them. for like 20 quid. it's condi trying generation now transfer i think to my child and my boss it. i read it 3 did before you my pledge of the truth sounded in the cards and making our proud the prima city you know not for god.

or of since contacted god as a ministry as well as the president's office for the commons although some will let you know when they reply. next the president of ukraine has reacted with anger to the far from friendly welcome received on thursday by returning evacuees from china riots broke out of a fear that the quarantine passengers might spread the deadly coronavirus protest a set of roadblocks clashed with police and pelted the vehicle carrying the patients to a hospital but it is a man's case said his nation had fallen back into the middle ages clashes left one police officers and one civilian injured. right 0. actually. you know we always say that ukraine is europe to be honest at some moments like medieval unfortunately for good we will human beings. the flight from the chinese city of tens of thousands of people have been infected landed in the ukrainian city of

thursday before the last roadblocks were set up in other regions of the country following rumors of more quarantine facilities being set up on course to have 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 would be hard to match the anger brewing in ukraine to just that situation. 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. 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. the bus has made it to their destination in the end but they're on welcome reception wasn't exactly what kiev expected. this is one of the greatest disappointments in my life i'm disappointed in the moral. of this 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. the u.s. house speaker has been turning the screws brussels warning europe to ditch while away technologies democrat 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 be used for spying but she failed to mention what makes america's own far reaching global surveillance network a better alternative as caleb maupin explains. 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 this far and snowden he did as you know in the in the in disagreement with you he did violate the law in terms of. releasing 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. while he will be able to continue in crimes and will not be excluded from flight we will send such numbers destruction to 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 probably us and i'm not so much worried about. china i'm worried about anybody here having access to our data. be more. ready to spy on you know in the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world u.s. . you can you would. the u.s. given the alignment of interests from over the u.s. probably you know what the u.s. is far as i'm. donald trump along with 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. tug of war between the u.k. and greece over classical sculptures to see nothing's fail for decades to secure the return of relics it says was stolen however it could be about to change with the e.u. reportedly backing greece's claim to the so-called elkan mobbles brussels could now push britain to return them the collection was originally part of the parthenon in the greek capital but they're currently on display in the british museum in london greece claims they were stolen by law delegate in the 19th century while the u.k. insists it acquired them legally and it isn't budging on that. 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

cultural historian wendy political and social commentator my aunts are discussed the links between democracy and the importance of history. 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 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 threat education system and so our western media miss telling it and misstating it we we don't half pick and choose what and how we tell history i mean we can say that well i think that this is the worst of it. relationship but in time to 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

continues wonder stand 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 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 big. the mo 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 breck'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 person that we're not that is not accountable to us and how can we can tie the father live to the runner losing argument. well ok that's your opinion. because you to make it look like climate change activist gretta tom burke has been slammed online but the swiss makers have defended it as nothing more than dressing up for what's supposed to be an outlandish annual carnival.

declare war on environmental sinners and show the world this is on the brink. do you want to appears grabbed at the carnival for a week and turns to dare you remember all you need is are not quite neutral ground a break with braids. more and more companies are trying to capitalize brighter thunder and it is tasteless because we actually have to deal with the climate crisis. it is sad that carnival fans can enjoy themselves at the expense of an autistic young person many people. of grass and also as a person it is a figurehead as a result the market believes the source wrongdoing is the gist of it but it definitely is.

i think people are overreacting the carnival always has elements of imitation satire at a carnival i think you should keep your sense of humor. that's the way thanks for watching next the personal story of the struggle for freedom of a man condemned on death row that's ahead on r.t. .

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