here. to be breached. in ukraine attacks vehicles carrying patients evacuated from the coronavirus at the center in china is the country's president like it is the reaction to an episode for the middle ages tell you all about it coming up to a news of the week. russian shock artist is under investigation in front of finding yourself at the center of a political scandal with lawmakers demanding to be set back to russia. the real cost of dumping devices the electronic waste sent mostly from western nations that's blighting the people of ghana with illness food.

hello there i will welcome to the weekly or not international with me kevin owen it's a round of the big stories as reported by us to you over the last 7 days things are taking the time to check us out this weekend 1st the stories in from ukraine one of the big ones the way the president of ukraine reacted with anger to the far from friendly welcome received on thursday by returning evacuees from china riots broke out over fears that the quarantine passengers might spread the deadly coronavirus protests to set up roadblocks clashed with police and pelted buses carrying those patients to hospital lenski said his nation had fallen back into the middle ages the clashes left 9 police officers one civilian injured. but. you. actually. you know we always say that ukraine is yours to

be honest at some moments like medieval europe unfortunately let's not forget that we will human beings. well that flight from the chinese to do what tens of thousands of people have been infected london the ukrainian city of how to cope from the day before the roadblocks was set up and of the regions of the country too following rumors of more quarantine facilities being set up don't call to cover 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 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 bus has made it to their destination in the end but there on welcome reception

wasn't exactly what kiev expected. and i think this is one of the greatest disappointments in my life i'm disappointed in the moral conduct we saw 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. also making news of the week just gone a russian shock artist who was granted asylum in france is now under investigation their lawmakers are demanding people to be sent back to russia after he found himself at the center of political scandal but then ski was arrested for posting explicit video messages that brought down president preferred pick for the mayor of paris no less from where shall i do been reported. your dad probably is a political refugee here in france but it seems even 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 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 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 that's the case of so that probably in fact 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 here on those possible criminal charges what we do know is that his political asylum here has become an embarrassment to the french authorities well for the radical activist. told to

split the queue from chinese agency that his case shows a light on freedom of expression of the country's. every month for months. it is a really monstrous situation because i thought that france was a country that upholds freedom of expression it's not freedom of expression you cannot say or do anything against big lights and he backcrosses. tens of thousands of men taking a stand against racism in germany throughout the week following wednesday's terror attack in hand in which 9 were killed from the town where the tragedy happened over to hamburg in the north over 600 kilometers away people could be seen carrying banners against racism and extremism. has been described by police as racially motivated.

then in the wake of those shootings the establishment in berlin was quick to point the finger at anti migrant rivals it saw the alternative for germany party in particular accused of having extremist tendencies the f.d.a. rejected those claims and said the shooter was mentally ill nothing to do with it but that didn't stop the ruling christian democratic union from calling to cut all ties with a rival. immunity to ensure it's trial if you look at their taxes profile it seems like he had racist xenophobic as well as far right motives and this trenton's mean might believe they're for the c.d.u. you should always be clear not only for the c.d.u.

but for all parties in germany that there can be no cooperation with the party which tolerates far right extremists and let's call a spade a spade not says 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 it yesterday and i heard about it 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 are doing and then it's all of use that it's nonsense it's just fake news and of course we fight against it fic news. also in the wake major health is 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 ascent for

incineration they're releasing highly toxic chemicals known to cause deadly diseases including cancer. don't you follow old would think so i would just move into you. know wolf to deal with such as he said today being so i got a few words from the margins before the heart sinks it will simply last for 3 more wiped out in my head my head the. day he did end up in a page. that's

been writing from the european union. for sort of a review of. 350 of them. for the chronicle if. it can be trying generation no transfer i can say to my child and might be most surprised that. i read it 3 did before you my pledge of the truth sounded these are in the cards and making our crowd the cream of the city enough to not forget.

we're following up from a story i can tell you the week we did contact goddess of our ministry as well as the president's office for comment as when they get back to us we let you know what they had to say. in response. the u.s. house speaker has been turning the screw on brussels warning europe to ditch while way technologies democrat nancy pelosi insists the chinese telecoms john is a major security threat and should be barred from developing 5 g. networks in the e.u. the worry is it could be used for spying but she failed to mention to what makes america's own far reaching global surveillance network a better alternative as caleb maupin reported in the week. 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 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. stood by he said so the story takes us. 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 progress or u.s. and i'm not so much worried about china i'm worried about anybody in 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 probably us. can you would guess just the us given say the alignment of interests from over the us probably you know well the

us is far as i'm concerned. you can go to hell donald trump along with the 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. serious know stories who go into next week as well but the we just go with tensions running high in water on. the leaders of turkey russia france and germany is said to discuss ways to resolve the crisis next month the announcement comes the limited ongoing exchange of offensive this week between syrian government forces and turkish but militants. a full of 3 worry is it could really kick off there anytime soon turkey which support so-called moderate armed groups has recently flooded the

region with troops and equipment it was in response to a syrian offensive in the last terrorist stronghold in the region now considers the province strategically important for its security and their reported fears that syria's forces could advance further towards turkish held safe zones and the worry of a clash the russian and turkish president spoke on the phone on friday in an attempt to try to uphold previously agreed deescalation deals meantime the un was all parties to reach a cease fire before that escalation turns more bloody. the flashpoint of the syria conflict is also seeing lawmakers in the u.s. push for a diplomatic response against syria and russia with an estimated $900000.00 people displaced there at the scene by violence at the same time american military officials acknowledge the complexity of the situation and adlib admitting that the province has become a haven for extremist factions or provinces to be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is and i'm going speak in many ways the raw variety of groups there all of them are a nuisance a menace and

a threat to hundreds of thousands of civilians who are just trying to make it through the winter he goes down or for the way to a close look at how this latest chapter of the conflict in libya is drawing in competing international powers along the way. 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 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 committed to 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 to or 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 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 by 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 the 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 it's actually a proxy war by international players using the syrian country the syrian battlefield as a proxy battlefield so right now the big focus is on what may happen in the near future but of course syria is much bigger than the other parts beginning to get back on their feet now took away

a vital highway between the capital damascus and aleppo officially reopen to the last 24 hours the 1st time in 8 years that follows a successful syrian operation to exert its dominance in the greater aleppo countryside cars and buses were seen back on the road you see if you self which connects syria's north and south. we believe this is the week to a tug of war between the u.k. and greece of a classical sculptures no less it's seen irfan's fell for decades so far anyway to secure the return of relics it says was stolen bricks it could be but change all that though with the e.u. reportedly backing greece's claim to the so-called elgood marbles and brussels could no push britain to return them but about this collection it was originally part of the parthenon of the greek capital but they're currently on display in the british museum in london the question is how did they get from greece to there will greece claims that was stolen by lord elegant back in the 19th century but the u.k. insists it was legally acquired in isn't budging. the u.

case 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 story and when the girl and the political social committee commentator mo and so did talk about it in the week they 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 woken like in 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 missed telling and misstating it we we don't half pick and choose what and how we tell history i mean we can say that letterman this is the worst of it and stewardship of the titans in 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 continues develop our knowledge bike 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 recognize that you know

that these are bigger than the most dismembered 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 brecht'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 britain that we're not that is not accountable to us and how can we can tie on a far lighter and run and losing argument. well ok that's your opinion. beautifully said so far more of our top stories the last 7

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