working needed and those who do at a, a, at least 6 children are killed in heavy fighting in north west syria, while president biden hills, the scale and bravery of american commandos, they main bay, kale, the leader of islamic state, of the same time on the location of the, coming up on the program, russia shuts down the moscow office of deutsch avella day after germany's media regulator. bon dar t's sister journal r t. d also coming out to london. police chief is under fire. and after a report exposes how officers, some of whom are still in the job, shared jokes about rate on violence. on the new zealand catholic

church. myths that 14 percent of clergy are being accused of various forms of abuse since 1951 survivor till the swab with not only was i abused as a young boy in middle school here in museum. i went on to catholic school. secretary level was abused sexually and physically again with evening here in moscow this thursday, february, the 3rd i'm you know, neil, this is the news our on our at least 6 children been killed in heavy violence over nights in northwest syria. baths announcement came from unicef rights after president biden hailed a successful raid targeting the leader of islamic state in the exact same location

. and not the same time or senior correspond. murat gas div joins me live in the shim ross, syria war zone, sorry, as an area. you know, well you've reported extensively from there. now, we're hearing this announcement from joe biden. we're hearing another from unicef. some might say they appear connected while they appear to be connected because these casualties half a dozen children for women, occurred in the town of acme, where the united states launched an overnight trade targeting the. the 2nd leader of isis at the re began, according to witnesses in the early hours, will, late at night at 1 am just off the midnight and last 4 hours, they describe helicopters, united states, helicopters hovering in the air, and then explosions, lasting 4 hours. one of those helicopters, by the way, a party malfunction though, or something befell it. it was destroyed at the side by us special forces,

as they evacuated from the scene after what present button is described as a successful operation. again, a unicef has confirmed that in the same town, at the same time, at least 6 children perish, one was seriously injured and for women were also killed. unicef confirms that at least 6 children were killed and one girl was badly injured over night in the border town of at my, in the north west of syria due to heavy violence. it is of course, important to note that this was all happening in the province. this is northwest and syria. italy province is one of the last remaining rebels strongholds in syria . it is entirely controlled by hard blood. islamists, rebels are radicals among them, the dominant faction that is h t s, which is formerly known as news for fraud to al qaeda, is affiliate in syria. and these are all po turkish fighters with,

with extensive links to turkey. and it's worth noting also that in 2019, when i will bucket baghdad you, the founder of isis was killed, it was the same area. it lived in a town just 5 kilometers away from the turkish border. at may is just 2 kilometers away from the turkish border. now, joe biden has come out we've, we've heard the customer emissions successful as the same. the same woman statement that we heard from president obama when he killed been lot, and then from trump, when he killed the, when he killed a bucket, i bugged you, the founder of isis, and now we have the same even photo op of joe biden sitting, sitting in an office watching the the live feed does, this operation was under way forces carried out the operation with the signature preparation of precision. and i directed to the partners fast to take every precaution possible to minimize civilian casualties. these snooze insulation

about civilian casualties may perhaps be extremely bad to buy them aside from the fact. this is a, a huge tragedy because the bottom administration had been rattled after of gustavo, the deadly drone strike that ended the war there. we were there at the time we are at the airport of campbell as the united states evacuated from the country. the drone strike there killed 7 children as well as a number of women and a man who of whom were as it turned out innocence. and for which the burden administration refused to fire the one. 0, hold anyone accountable. and just a week ago, lloyd austin, the secretary of defense, ordered the pentagon to come up with ways to do more, to minimize civilian casualties caused by the united states and its troops. in war zones, because that doesn't reflect the value of the united states and a week after. after that you have the news of the united states raid in the middle

of a night's and for, and 6 children killed as well as for women. not thanks for us to bring us through all other senior correspondent morocco, steve, or we also spoke with julia tumor, who is the unicef advocacy and communications chief in the middle east. she said sits so far on clear how those 6 children were. i was explaining, died in northwest syria, and the surgeon fighting we know is taking a deadly til it is very hard to confirm the exact circumstances or the reason behind the fact that 6 children the case and one girl fix children were killed. one girl was injured due to the time the violence that we witnessed the overnight, the ne, in the northwest of syria, perhaps staying on escalation and violence in that area on what this means is that the children paid 1st and they pay most. and if we compare the number of

casualties of children during the month of january in comparison to, let's say, december last year, the number is so it's in the higher. and this has been the case since the beginning of the year. and this has got to stop children continue to be the 1st and most to pay in this 11 year long conflict. at least 90 percent of the theory of population lives in poverty. and that's start to in comparison to how it used to be before the war. began 11 years ago, the war house car i've got to comes in and it comes conflicts have got to stop. we call all sides and all parties to the conflicts in syria to stop the fighting for the sake of serious children. and it's future even if the war stops today. the picture a so be for. busy millions and millions of people among the many children. the russian foreign ministry has published

a list of retaliatory measures against germany. it comes a day now after the german media regulator blocked her sister channel r t d. my colleague, re survey, discuss the latest developments with our is don quarter on charlotte davinsky deutsch avella, its offices are going to be close throughout russia. its journalists are going to have their press accreditations taken away and all of their russian language broadcasts are going to be taken off the air. now ga bella has since responded to this, they put out a media statement. they said that they're not going to take any action until they get official confirmation from moscow of these measures. and when they do, they are going to appeal them. but this isn't where the rushes retaliation stops. actually a blacklist is being set up of german government officials, media regulators, basically anyone who is possibly involved in this enormous censorship campaign of r t d. russia is drawing up a list of representatives of state and public structures in germany involved in

restricting the broadcast of r t d, and putting pressure on the russian media outlet, who will be denied entry to the russian federation. now this development comes just one day after germany's top media regulator rules that rtp must stop, all of it's broadcast. that means via satellite, via internet, social media, basically everywhere. the required media lo license was not available. the organization and distribution of the tv program via a live stream on the internet via the mobile and smart tv parking news and via satellite must therefore be discontinued. of course, r t d e can still appeal this decision, but this is just one episode in a drawn out pressure campaign aimed at obstructing our team from broadcasting in germany. i mean, the german government says it does. it's not playing a part in this campaign, but banks have not been doing business with our channel. and germany's top regulator seems unwilling to compromise on this issue. and this is all the while as

r t has a legal broadcasting license in the european union. there's generally absolutely no broadcasting happening from berlin at all or t d e. the tv channel is oh broadcasting right here for moscow via a license that was obtained with absolutely all according european rules and regulations, according to the european convention on transferred to your television. and we are free to broadcast via that license in the 30 plus territory across europe. now, going back over the past several months, what we mean by pressure campaign, of course, is for example, the fact that our tv set up an account on youtube and it was almost immediately taken down by the platform when it started attempting to broadcast over satellite the signal was so poor that people weren't able to tune and, and on top of that, german government officials have described r t v as a quote, irritant. so it's not too difficult to imagine that these setbacks could have been

set up on purpose to stop our tv from being successful in germany. and this is something that even the russian president vladimir putin has commented on before. which i know about the closure of bank accounts and so on. there's a large number of tactics they're using. so r t d console operate, they're infringing on freedom of speech and that's very bad. now, like i said before, russia's foreign ministry takes this violation of freedom of the press very seriously. and it says this is only the 1st stage of retaliation that it's willing to dish out. so you know, we could see couple of things play out in the future. perhaps a back and forth between german and russian media authorities, or maybe everyone will come to a compromise will out to see, you know, or on, as you say, r t d e taking flat from the german authorities. but it's not just confined to germany over to france. stunning by live in pirate charlotte dubin ski. apparently our t frogs is also in the cross charlotte artie from seas in the cross has of the audio visual and digital communications regulator hearing from stacy's all

come now. this was something that was put out in a magazine article that magazines called challenges. halem, france, and in it it alleges it all come is about to start looking at how r t phones are assist. the channel here has treated several subjects since it started broadcasting. the subjects in the yellow, vast protests, also stories from syria and stories from central africa, all pretty sensitive topics in the country at the moment. now they have any official confirmation from all come about this. in fact, i checked out their website on tuesday afternoon. nothing on that even called the press office and they didn't have anything to say about that notification in the magazine challenges, all the fonts itself says it hasn't received a notification that this is about to happen. but we have had reaction to that from

the head of the channel. according to the challenges website, the french media regulator, all com has opened a probe into our t, france. perfect timing right after the situation with our tv. if it is confirmed that the regulator is investigating sensitive topics concerning associations, let's welcome a new world of censorship. while she went on to refute that there have been complaints against the channel and said that there was one issue that was dealt with by the csp, which is the old regulator. and that was to do over an issue for miss translation of something from syria, which was a genuine mistake and since been resolved. now we have reached out to all come, but we have not yet received a response. as soon as we get, we of course, bring that to you here on auto international. but what is interesting is this a parent dig it the channel comes at a very crucial time. here in france, we just 2 months now before the presidential elections take place. and we know that

my call president microns party is extremely concerned about what they've described . spin foreign digital interference and missed information head of those elections . artie france in r t international selves. i've actually been denied entry to the least a polished a couple press conferences to be able to question the governmental decisions that are made. and that has been the case now for the last few years since president mac cone was elected that has been flagged up as being of serious concern by the national union of journalists and proxy described. this is having a flavor of speech. censorship about it is clear though, as we get closer and closer to that presidential election, there are likely to be more tax on all channels simply for doing what we do. and that is questioning more just approach a quarter of an hour into the program. let's move on now. a police watch dog in the

u. k. has revealed the disturbing internal culture of massage jeanie and jude's on sexual violence. a warning he may find some of the contents offensive. the report includes private messages between officers of the metropolitan police force, which serves greater london in one an officer said he'd like to rape a female colleague. another jokes about getting a woman into bed using a knife. now on some of those behind the text are still in their jobs, are t shabby. edwards dusty takes a closer look at the findings. all kibble incidence of hey crime involving racist texas and home aside. the messages have been discovered by a watch drug investigation into the police. thousands of messages taking place between 20162018 were reviewed yet only 2 officers sucked. 9 of the 14 investigated are still serving in the 4th one another holds

a contract to stop role. now the commission of face is cool to go, but not just from the public, but senior politicians as well as former high ranking offices. we're not seeing one of instances we've seen now too many instances of the most appalling behaviors. i also think it shows a feeler obliteration in some quarters. the med police may be the worst for institutional mist sultani and racism, but they're not the only ones. only a statutory judge lead inquiry will do. only new leadership will do. surely, christina, dick can not be proud of her record when this is the norman charing cross neck, yet her 6th through your salary, past was renewed last auden, which feels like rewarding failure. the defense just bank apparently, in fact the independent office, so please conduct found an officer was named mc. great. be right. the following rumors about bringing a woman back to the police station to then sexually assault the met says it was sorry. we are deeply sorry to london,

isn't everyone they have failed with their reporting conduct and acknowledge how this will damage the trust and confidence of many in the met in the u. k. officers, i suppose the police by consent, but how can trust be restored or even wasn't ever that what investigate to say, the insidious culture is widespread. we believe these incidents and not isolated or simply the behavior of a few bad apples. the highly dumbing report is just the latest scandal under police commissioner, crescent dick's watch. institutional feelings were placed under intense scrutiny by the rape and murder of sara evarado by a serving metropolitan police officer known to colleagues as the rapists during his earlier corin. i'm just the meta serious about ridging the force of rotten abuses of power. surely those individuals must go and that boss to all is a toxic, dangerous culture that yet again, leadership times a blind eye to any cost. when we actually started our an issue

and it made your strong all work on that one investigation, actually mushrooms and to 9 separate investigations and what we uncovered were cds. so the thing that was happening here was that they thought it doesn't just have a public it also has a devasted. ready on the internal culture with the b service, because these officers that were involved with the women, they were officers who come from different cultures and p service as in the promot culture, which supports officers no matter where they come from, their sex and they won't enjoy their trust and confidence and enjoy they

have in the to weapons and rebuild the trusted confidence of the communities that these very offices control the end of the story to bring you today. the scale of alleged abuse and new zealand catholic church has been brought to light in a bombshell report, commissioned by the country's prime minister. the reports claimed that 14 percent of catholic clergy and being accused of abusing children or adults since 1951 survivor spoke candidly to r t about the trauma he suffered. i was abused by a catholic school teacher, a brother, brother of a religious order, who abused me sexually on several occasions. and it's may not help. i've filed the complaint, it's been up but, but then when i went on to high school, i was also abused again by a priest of the of, of the,

of the society of mary, the, for a religious priest. abused me. therefore, in my particular case, i wanted to identify the, the patterns. because not only was i abused as a young boy in middle school here in new zealand. i went on to a catholic school and secondary level was abused sexually and physically again. and then i was abused by a priest in the diocese of, of the cast up the catholic diocese here in new zealand as well in dependent of the school. so i, because of my connection to the institution and because i remained connected, i was abused and at risk at least in 3 cases. so in the end, when i recorded the abuse, it involved 5 people. the research group probed reports of abuse

file between 19151999. most of them came from children. nearly 1700 reports against members of the catholic church were made by over a 1000 people the allegation spon, physical, sexual and the psychological abuse of the new zealand catholic church. i said it is deeply ashamed of the findings ungrateful to those behind the research. it also pledged its commitment to transparency, christopher long hearst again thinks the revelation so far. just the tip of the iceberg is that then not the 14 percent is simply the numbers of those people that have reported to the church and the church has recorded. now this number is extremely low based on the information that we have. for example, most of our members have not reported to the church. and we know that the church

has not kept records of all those who have reported why. why do i know this? because members are religious orders and use them and have had told me that applying the matrix for each one complaint received. they were all between 6 and 10 people out there in the community who have suffered abuse and have not lodged a complaint. so if we do the mess the application of it forensic would mean that and use the ones catholic church alone. that would be between 11 and 14000 people who have been abused. 12 times the number that the church is reporting who have dealt with the abuse by leaving and being quiet. russia and china is 1st top level summit and over 2 years is set to take place on friday. it will coincide with the grand opening of the beijing winter olympic games are t z. greg shut down off reports from the chinese capital. so the russian president,

glamor fulton, and his chinese count of archie, jane pain about to sit at the same table face to face something that they have not done in over 2 years. the occasion is as good as it gets the opening ceremony of the winter olympic games. here in b g, a head of his meeting with his chinese counterpart, lateral potent even wrote an article for china's dominating news agencies in what they focused on the cordial relationship between the countries between the leaders and the on the historical ties between the 2 nations. but given the geopolitical and diplomatic agenda has indeed accumulated between the 2 countries over the course of the past couple of years. it sounds like a perfect opportunity to, to some sports on related events. given that both nations out rule face a common adverse re. that's the united states, washington has been applying pressure on both russia and china and will,

in doing so, it has been doing so in very similar ways. for example, the mainstream media headlines have been dominated by speculation. whether or not russia will indeed you crate speculation spearheaded by the white house and it's allies and well, the general consensus among mainstream media analysts have being that, well, bet you money on. yes, that's despite russia vehemently deny any plans or intentions of the sort. and even ukraine also saying that it's not seeing any significant threat going on, or anything well particularly threatening going on. it's buddhist with china. ukraine is swap for taiwan and the rhetoric is very much the same. the rhetoric is very similar when it comes to, well, the chinese ambitions and one taiwan is in question. and even the very subject olympic games has been util by washington to apply pressure on

b. jane. for example, washington announced a diplomatic boyhood of the games that's as the f b, i advised the american athletes to use her phones, citing the thread over spine as the main reason. so in the lever code and the teaching thing have a lot to talk about, and it has already been announced that the 2 leaders will sign a very hefty pile of documents. and this includes of whose political initiatives, like, for example, creating an independent fiscal system that would allow both russia and china to withstand and to counter any unilateral sanctions that may be imposed against the nations by the united states and its allies. business deals are on the table as well, mainly in the energy market, given that russia is a major export of gas. and also it has been teased that black recruitment, cheating thing will sign them around them over new ways of building international

relations in iraq. whatever it means we'll, we'll hopefully find out very shortly. and hopefully we'll also see if there are any well mystery books is hidden in the drawers of the presidents tables. i'm english don reporting from beijing oxy. bigger and big desk. we spoke with economics professor benjamin chow. he said, it is unfortunate that some professional partners have been quick to politicize. the games. the beijing olympics is starting tomorrow, but the west is not reporting how well pitching is. so is a time we check specially valuable for the statement trust them putting has made today because the west is now reporting how much beijing is facing the pressure diplomatic boycotts from several key western countries on this. we're not change the fact that it's a special olympics we will be held after all, the spotlights should be on the, on the athletes, not on politics, but you will still be nice to have some support from the national leaders. so,

and here we go, we have person for team, highly acclaimed virginia corporation, and he believes that vision we host into when he picks up the highest standard at the same time. china is also very important to russia right now. if the situation at ukraine for developed to west is very likely sanctioned russia even for that, with balance to faith, a rational china relationship, even more as russia chinese trade to reach a historic high off about 140000000000 last year. ok. update to a story we've been closely following for some time now the chief of police and also was suggested calling up the canadian army to handle truckers protesting against mandatory cobit shots. there may not be a week solution to this demonstration. this is a national issue. every option is on the table to resolve this demonstration.

despite the ominous words, truckers are standing firm blocking roads in several regions including a border crossing with the u. s. and they say they won't budge unless the government makes a u turn on the current rules. anyone entering canada has to quarantine if they're not vaccinated, thousands of truckers say that makes it impossible to do their jobs until this he's being overwhelmed as well by the level of public support numbers or spanish. and when you're travelling on the convoy, i was the lead truck and every bridge you came up to overpass. the crowds run believable. there is one bridge that i had to get a crash to pick up. part of my convoy and hamilton that the police were calling me and say, you know, when are you coming? i might have to close it for lean bridge. there's 500 or more of your supporters on this bridge. it's getting unsafe by i was able to get through there, but i mean, it was yeah,

there was people. hi 5 in me as i drive to drop my truck. it was just unbelievable . every bridge had flags on it flying. there was companies that had been creams up in the holding flag. there was, it was, there is thousands and thousands and thousands of people that we've seen and bridges wait for us in the fields by their farms logging companies, sitting along the edge of the roadway before us. it was just, it was unbelievable. but the go fun me website has block donations to the drivers side thing legal issues. so far the campaign has raised the ron $10000000.00 canadian dollars for the convoy. facebook is also stepped in removing a page promoting their campaign. critics have slammed out of censorship at its finest the trucker we spoke to say the protesters will given me all that canada

is supporting us. we are getting support. busy for everything, we're not going to run this applause. we're not going to run out of time. what our prime minister doesn't understand is all those trucks that are there. they're all working because of his mandates. we have nowhere else to go. we can stay in our trucks where we're used to sleep in and out. busy or trucks for weeks on and we stay on the road. we have just a quick count. we got thousands of trucks or i time in moments for another visit to the news. use hughes studios, cat scotty now and the theme on your screen rights to the with humanity. all we want the impossible day 1st day.