the week's biggest stories on. the syrian army exchanged fire in washington down on damascus despite admitting it has a massive battle on its hands against terrorists in the region. is under investigation in france after finding himself at the center of a political scandal. back to russia. the real cost of devices the electronic waste mostly from western nations. with toxic food.

from moscow is sunday so we're taking you through some of the biggest stories covered here over the past week 1st. tensions running high in the water. 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 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 terrorist stronghold in the region considers the province strategically important for its security and there are reports of 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 deals meanwhile the un's warning all parties to reach a cease fire before the escalation turns even more bloody another flash point to the syria conflict is 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 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 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 because dawn of takes a closer look at how this latest chapter of the conflict in aid libya's drawing in competing international powers. post-race 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 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 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 route 22 of the

russian air force at the request of the syrian command have carried out as strikes against the terror groups the salada 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 should with 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 led deescalation zone and achieve a pullback of assad regime forces to the $2800.00 so she ceasefire lines the u.s. 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 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 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 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 with the focus of the conflict other parts of syria are beginning to get back on their feet a vital highway between the capital damascus and the city of aleppo has been reopened for the 1st time in 8 years follows a successful syrian operation to exert its dominance in the greater aleppo countryside cars and buses were seen back out on the road this week which connects syria's north and south. a russian shock artist who was granted asylum in france is now under investigation lawmakers are demanding that peta pub lansky be sent back to russia after he found himself at the center of

a political scandal but lensky was arrested for posting explicit video messages that brought down president preferred pick to be the next mayor of paris for my show to do ben's can now report. here to the pub linsky is a political refugee here in france but it seems even though he is too hot to handle with these latest allegations even members of macaroons 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 this comes after the latest scandal involving pawlenty this follows the dissemination of videos and photos on the internet. last week all that been cheering a key ally of president matt go on his former spokesperson now linsky and his partner were taken in by the police and they were questioned in regards to those

videos question didn't to 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 he did you feel casting certain videos without the consent of the author is 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 rule 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 2nd like to the doors of the bank of france in the basti area in fact he is currently serving a suspended sentence for

a 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 an artist yes especially for one makes a political declaration out of his art that's the case or for that probably an accident we already know and there's just been arrested for setting the door of the

former k.g.b. building on fire. so it's not clear whether perhaps linsky will be sent back to russia chucked out of france or whether he will face the music here and those possible criminal charges what we do know is that his political asylum here has become an embarrassment to the french authorities of the radical artist and activist told the sputnik frumps news agency that his case shines a light on freedom of expression in the country 3 months or months dorsett to us your thoughts it is a really monstrous situation because i thought that france was a country on upholds freedom of expression it's not freedom of expression for cannot say you're anything against. young. sons of thousands have been taking a stand against racism in germany throughout the week following wednesday's terror attack and how now in which and i were killed from the town where the tragedy happened to hamburg in the north over 600 kilometers away people could be seen

carrying banners and against racism and extremism the attack on 2 should pass has been described by police as a racially motivated. in the wake of the shootings the establishment in berlin was quick to point the finger at anti migrant rivals and so the alternative for germany party in particular accused of having extremist tendencies they have to either 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 the millionth year to ensure its full if you look at their texas 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 there can be no corporation with a party which tolerates far right extremists and let's call a spade a spade not says a man 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 we have a level in the public debate that is more of a child and 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 1st $2.00 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 fic news. major health 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 a scent for incineration they're releasing highly toxic chemicals known to cause deadly diseases including cancer. don't you fall would. get into you. know will feed these with such as you said today to be so i got

a few words from the margins before the heart sinks it will simply last for 30 more what's in my head i had to eat because he did end up in a page. that's been writing from the european union. for the good of a reader a. few 100 of them. for like 20 quid. if condy trying generation no transfer i can say to my child and my

boss it. i read it 3 did before you my pledge will be improving standard in the cards and making our proud the prima city you know not for. a brief contact a gun as environment ministry as well as the president's office for for the common we'll let you know if we get a reply. ahead. new crane is a patient's return from the outbreak epicenter of the corona virus it's our next story in around 90 seconds. freedom of speech is one of the pillars of democracy and also one that in the wist

is perceived as being in greatest peril with the left claiming that it's become a vehicle co-opted by the right to spread hate and the right to riding the left as sinister snowflakes sensis just want. of free speech. the chrono virus now has proven this point because even though all the while own 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.

news from the past week out the president of ukraine reacted with anger to the far from friendly welcome received on thursday by returning in fact from china riots broke out of a fears the quarantine passengers might spread the deadly coronavirus protesters set up roadblocks clashed with police and pelted the vehicle carrying the patients to a hospital but even he said his nation had fallen back into the middle ages the clashes left 9 police officers and one civilian injured. but. i think. you know we always say that ukraine is your it at some moments we don't like maybe unfortunately it's not. good we will heal and be well the flight from the chinese city of tens of thousands of people have been infected landed in the ukrainian city

of haka on thursday before the roadblocks were set up in other regions of the country following rumors of more quarantine facilities being set up don't quarter house 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 thank god. 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. the buses made it to their destination in the end but there unwelcome reception wasn't exactly what kiev expected with the losing church groups around them on these really great. disappointed in the moral conduct we saw this is a disgrace for the whole world i'm truly ashamed ukraine's protesters don't seem to

be up for a game of russian roulette with the coronavirus. the us house speaker has been turning the screws on brussels warning europe to ditch while away technologies democrat nancy pelosi insists the chinese telecoms 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 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 assessed 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 as you know on the inmate in disagreeing 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 france and will not be excluded from flying but we will send such numbers restrictions protect themselves and 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 spying unit in the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world over us. can you would guess just the us given say the alignment of interests that program for 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. city known for being outlandish and controversial issues a swiss carnival season has got environmental activists hot under the collar off the one firm started selling a gratitude costume for the event. declare war on environmental sinners and show the world this is on the brink. do you want to appears grabbed at the carnival for the dare you remarks all you need is are not quite climate neutral ground away with braids.

more and more companies are trying to capitalize and reza tundra and 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 it is a figurehead as a result the market believes the search wrongdoing is legitimate but it definitely is. i think people overreact to the carnival always has elements imitation satire and a carnival i think you should keep your sense of humor. and that's it for me thanks for watching kevin having to go next edition of the weekly on the way though max and stacy take on wall street reform next in our brand new series from running.

become a battleground in the u.s. . people are demanding the shutdown of a local plant from yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous. power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond. it's operational limit. just sort of puts a magnifying glass on the power in this. moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of traditional. people this demonstrates that struggle in the very real. struggle. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be

an arms race in. dramatic development only really exists i don't see how it will be successful.

welcome to the front running 2020 with banks kaiser and stacy herbert as we look at the issues and policies heading into the election now today stacy we're taking a look at energy policy. and fracking that's what the millennial n.z. want if their support for bernie sanders and elizabeth warren is anything to go by of course obama and that democratic administration their signature policy was fracking obama brought in fracking to the nation we've seen a doubling of the production of oil because of that joining our our dan collins and tyson slocum now barack obama championed fracking it has seen since 2008 to 2018 the u.s. crude oil production doubled from $5000000.00 barrels today to $11000000.00 barrels per day hillary clinton as secretary of state flew around the world trying to get

nations like poland for example to bring fracking there so this is the older school the neo liberal policy for democrats that was really championed now the younger generation they're against what do you think about fracking and should we ban it or is it an issue well fracking obviously is sort of the centerpiece of u.s. fossil fuel production there are huge concerns not just about some of the environmental issues related to fracking which involves inge. acting water because with chemicals and particulates like sand very high pressure deep into hard rock formations you're basically putting a jet engine on the drill and using water at high pressure instead of the drilling operation so there's tons of environmental issues water issues but there's also climate change the more oil and natural gas produce we produce the more greenhouse gas emissions we admit into the atmosphere and so i think what young people are

responding to is we have to respond to the climate crisis and the only way to effectively respond to the climate crisis is to limit our fossil fuel production to limit our fossil fuel consumption and so we can't just talk about banning fracking without talking about specifics on alternatives to liquid transportation fuels and alternatives to natural gas in the power sector obama did call it a bridge fuel in terms of getting us off coal but it seems to be much more of a geo political issue we see with the fracking and the doubling of production it's really hailed across bipartisan issues as like where the number one oil producer in the world so once it jumps to that level it becomes way more difficult to.