phase of the government please pop a new government b. they say to mil to any is the old please don't touch my my pride with my phone patch, my business don't touch my feet. and this is an impossible contradiction. ah, at least 6 children are killed in heavy fighting in northwest syria, while u. s. president biden hills this still and bravery of american commando, claiming they kill the leader of islamic state of the same time in the same location with russia shuts down the moscow office of don't your vella day after germany's media regulator, bonds r t sr channel r t c, d with

the austrian parliament approved europe to tom for his vaccine mondays. with all adults required to take a coven shot or face, hefty fines, with wherever you're counting the program from today. welcome to moscow on to the news, our and artsy, let's get into our top story. the pentagon has acknowledged out, at least 3 civilians were killed in a raid on terrorists in north west syria. unicef said at least 6 children died in what appears to be the same incident or your president biden hailed a successful operation targeting the leader of islamic state. r t. senior correspondent murat gazda told me more earlier. half a dozen children killed as well as 4 woman locals have described these speech

battle that took place what a m, just after midnight syrian thought. and that lasted for hours in which presumably these half a dozen children as well as for women, were killed as well. as the leader of isis, a boy abraham me. alas, she me, i crazy. she the 2nd lead the vices after the death of baghdad in 2019, also the result of an american operation strike against him during that episode. also, a number of children were killed, but in this instance, locals, the scribe, how helicopters hovered in the air for hours. soon as i left them, there were helicopters flying at low altitude, about 4 or 5 aircraft, m and, and then we saw soldiers landing. the soldiers targeted a house near where i live. so the house was surrounded. they spoke through loud speakers telling people to surrender or the house would be destroyed. then the fighting started near or inside the house, and after about an hour,

the helicopter carried out 4 or 5 machine gun attacks on the house. 11 came on a lie. we're preparing to go to sleep and suddenly we heard wind and the sound of helicopters on my end went out to see what was going on. she found the sky totally red. they asked us through the loudspeakers to go out. we didn't at 1st, then we went out, they searched us and handcuffed my father. they asked for our names and what we knew about our neighbor. we said we don't know anything. they asked us to move to the neighboring house and started rating hours. and then the united states says that he detonated a suicide vest while together with members of his family, we still have new and verified information as to how will these children perish? these, the civilians, as well as women, whether it was american missiles fired by helicopters, small arms, far by us, special forces in the ground, or indeed, these suicide vest. what we know is that these casualties have occurred. multiple sources of said this, including unicef. 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. all of this happened in syria's it live province, which is where abu bakar baghdad the found of isis was killed in 2019 a similar us rate. again, a number of children killed that died in that grade also, but he was killed in italy province, which is ruled by pro turkish rebels. many islamists, among them, indeed the dominant faction there is h t esl, neutral front, which is seen as a branch of al qaeda in syria. the town of acme, where the, the secondly, the of isis was killed is just 2 kilometers away from the turkish board. where the found of isis was killed was just 5 kilometers from the, from the turkish board. and despite these are reports of civilian casualties,

we have heard a president biden tell audiences about the strike, which he called precise, are forces carried out the oper. well, we spoke with juliet tonight, the unicef advocacy communications chief in the middle east. she told us it's so far on clear how those 6 children died in north west syria. but the surgeon fighting is taking a deadly talk. ms. larry hi, around to confirm the exact circumstances or the reason behind the fact that 6 children the case and one girl fix children with kids. one girl was injured due to the heavy violence that we witnessed the overnight in a, in the northwest of syria. perhaps staying on escalation and violence embeds 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 have 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 19 percent of as serious population lives in poverty. 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 is so beek for. busy millions and millions of people, the many children the russian foreign ministry has published a list of retaliatory measures against germany that comes

a day after the german media regulator blocked her sister channel r t d. my colleague research shade, discuss the latest developments with r t correspondent, charlotte duban ski and 1st don quarter deutsch. avella, its offices are going to be closed 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, darcia 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 are tv must stop all of its broadcast. that means via satellite via internet, social media, basically everywhere. the required media, low license was not available. the organisation and distribution of the tv program via a live stream on the internet via mobile and smart tv party 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 r t 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 r t d e. the tv channel is oh, broadcasting right here from pasco, via a license that was obtained that 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 30 plus territories 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 te 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 in. and on top of that, german government officials have described r t, d e as a quote, irritant. so it's not too difficult to imagine that these setbacks could have been set up on purpose to stop

r t d e from being successful in germany. and this is something that even the russian president vladimir putin has commented on before. i know about the closure of bank accounts and so on. there's a large number of tactics they're using. so all t d consol crate. 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 shout. so 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 lot to see, you know, or don't as you say, r t d e taking flat from the german authorities. but it's not just confined to germany over to fraud. standing by live in paris, charlotte dubin ski. apparently the fraud to the also in the cross charlotte. off the front 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 that 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 impact 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 tea, france. perfect timing right off to the situation with all 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 they have been complaints against the channel and said that there was one issue that was dealt with by the csc, 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 the, we of course bring that to you here on ot international. but what is interesting is this a parent dig it the channel comes at a very crucial time. here it prompts 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 miss information head of those elections off the fronts in auto international selves. i've actually been denied entry to the lease 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 korn was elected that has been flagged up as being of serious concern by the national union of journalists in france. you 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 attacks on our channel simply for doing what we do. and that is questioning more the parliament of austria has just approve the most stringent vaccine mandate in europe,

despite staunch opposition. it now needs final ramification from the president. under the bill, every adult is required to tick a cobit shot or pay fines, adding up to thousands of euro less, cross live to our europe correspondent, peter, all over. either peter, indeed, tickers through the latest on this harsh new measure in austria and how it fits into the broader picture in europe. while the boomers rob the open house of the austrian parliament, they voted through the mandatory vaccination plan on thursday evening. it was a long debate, took several hours to get it through. it was the result of majority though $47.00 in favor, 12 against we saw only really the freedom party of austria putting forward a case against the mandatory vaccination plan. what happens now is it goes to the desk of the austrian president, he'll put his signature on it,

and it becomes law. what it means is that everybody over the age of 18 who doesn't have a valid medical exemption or isn't pregnant, has to get a covert 19 vaccination. it is going to take a little while before punishments start to be told out. now these punishments could run into the many thousands of euro fines ranging from 600 to 3600 year. however, the messaging does seem to be that every step will be taken to try and avoid some of the more punitive fine until punishments. they are going to start checking photos until the 15th of march. you have until then to make sure that your affairs are in order and you have one of the vaccinations. what we have seen is a number of protests against this particular move. even though the move has been popular across the whole of austria, a nucleus of those against that, how been incredibly vocal since it was 1st announced that the end of last year by

the previous chancellor survosity and codes. it's continued through this chancellor and it will run into, well now law in austria, also being watched very closely around europe over the border here in germany where i'm speaking to you from. they haven't decided to go for mandatory vaccination. it has being debated in the bottom, the stock here in berlin, but what they have gone for, and what is said to kick in the next phase that it's mandatory to be back today to the coven. 19. if you work in the health care sector, we're hearing on thursday that a number of people that, that would involve putting forward a case at the constitutional court in germany. they say that breaches that constitutional, right? so the, so some time left to run on that particular situation. yet also when it comes to vaccinations in germany, we're hearing from the authorities that those over the age of 70. and those who are deemed to be immune of compromise, could well be looking at getting a full shot of

a coven, 19 vaccine in the very near future, or at least by the end of this year elsewhere. but what we have seen across europe is a number of nations either loosening all, getting ready to loosen cove at 19 restrictions in france, they'd be talking about the possibility of getting rid of the vaccine passport by the summer, the czech republic, they're going to get rid of mandatory testing against cobit 19 or the end to particular places, sweden, they're going to follow denmark and get rid of absolutely everything when it comes to coven 90 measures. now both sweden and denmark have very high infection rates at the moment. in fact, if you look at the danes, i think it's roughly around one 3rd of all day new shuttled over the age of 18. i have cove at 1900 right now, all recovering from the virus. however, they do have incredibly high vaccination rates, fully vaccinated rates, which means that in most of those cases, the people that have covert 19,

how much mild case of it sweeten the denmark deciding, gotta get rid of those particular measures. now if i was to return to austria, one moment to go back to vaccinations, it's not all about the stick in vienna. the moment it's all about those punitive fines on thursday. the chancellor cars near hama, he also revealed a new plan to try and get people to come forward to get the vaccinations that the lottery. it means that everybody that comes forward, every 10 person that gets a vaccination, while everybody that goes for gets a ticket, i beg your pardon and every tense ticket there when 500 euro, the chancellor saying a 1000000000 euros being put forward for this. i can certainly tell you that there was nothing like that for me here in berlin when i got my vaccines. he paid thanks very much for sorry your correspond peter oliver. bring this right up to date. well, let's say continue with this story and flesh it out a little bit. i'm delighted to welcome reversible at face of experts to talk us

through it microbiologist simon clark join just from the u. k. run jute brock and it just consultant, surgeon, also in britain and fellow of the hamburg institute for advanced study paulo bernardine joint, just from germany. gentlemen, you are all very welcome, simon. can we kick off with you? many european countries, scandinavian, even italy in france who work quite stringent. they're rolling back, their coven restrictions, and now we're seeing this very coney and measure from, from austria, get job, or paid 3600 euro. why do you think austria is doing this and take off this one wrong? it's a really good question and we've not had any clarity from the parties why they think it's necessary to do this. i think the experience in other countries is not enough. people are going 1000000 of people are going to come to care, let alone being admitted to hospital to, to warren stringent measures. so i do wonder whether the austrian measure is

a bit of a have from previous concerns and they, they don't sort of right back on what was initially proposed. it does seem to me run g, the u. k is going in the opposite direction to austria, scrapping vaccine mandate, friendship stuff, or at least it looks like that. who's right here? well, of course, the u. k is really backroom measures, not really because of the will of the government so much as the resistance of the people. there was a mandatory law for vaccination pass, which said that by the force of actually necessary by the 1st of april if people are not fully vaccinated. so that means if they haven't had their 1st shot by the 4th or 5th. so tomorrow, in other words, the and the work for the and a chest that they would be sacrament with resistance to that, which has forced them to road that they make it. and i think if you look at the fact that now be on the chrome very into dorman,

that omicron is far weakest strain. but in particular we're dealing with now it's very difficult, different situation in terms of the if you lightly immunological landscape. and when the, when coverage started, we were worried about cover pneumonia in the elderly, invulnerable, which is a very large section of our population. and that it was extremely infectious virus . and there of course was total naive a t immune logically speaking in the population. there was essentially 0 prevalence of antibodies to corporate, to immunity, to a quiet and mean teeth that you've covered. now that's not the case. in fact, if we look at the statistics we're looking at in excess of 98 percent of the population of britain have antibodies to the virus. and that will be partly through vaccination and partly through exposure to natural infection. and therefore, this is precisely what we thing a very limited as my colleague said, number of people presenting in needing intensive care or certainly not as level

hospital. so i think in terms of the science medicine, it's clear to me that mandatory vaccination is not helpful, particularly when you think that actually it's not stopping the spread. the people when vaccination and with anti bodies are still getting milder, still getting and transmitting the vine. ok, ok, so i think you just wanted to come in there for a 2nd. paula will go to you in just a moment, simon. it's worth remembering that the vaccine actually does drive down your chances of getting the virus. and if you don't have a, you can pass it on. but it's, it's not fair to say that it doesn't have any impact on community wide transmission . ok paulo we had a former austrian foreign ministry here in the studio the other day. she thinks the vaccine mandate is on lawful and will eventually be overturned by the supreme court there. do you think politicians are getting ahead of themselves? are you talking to me? yes. follow. oh yes, thank you. thank you. yes,

i think so. i think for my part of you are not the expert on the also constitution . i know much more obviously about the time constitution. but as far as i couldn't this time, i think these mandate vaccination is against the constitution goes against the austin constitutional. whoa. and so would be over told by the supreme court. i don't see the point of doing dr. while it's clear that the bible says much less powerful than before, these only comparing is much less powerful than the delta current. wherein and last part of the you states like a bad law, i live quite close to double because i leave the non loosening the controls and them and the vaccination policies. so i think the what also doing what it is doing goes against the reason before going against the constitution. i'm in the goes

against colon santos. and i think of what is happening, natal, easy, or the following go because i mean people are stupid from schools or kids who are not vaccinated. the are putting in quarantine. and the reason there are cities in over a level and b level resist a discrimination which is absolutely and to go to chicago. and we don't know about these discrimination types of 1928 when the jews were discriminated mostly with their racial roles. so i'm pretty confident and also supreme court ruled down these of the nation, which i think some of the nation according to the constitutional law. so which is a very liberal, were locked in the constitution. okay, so i'm in a similar point to you. the world health organization say europe today in fact, is now entering a plausible end game to the cobra. 1900 pandemic, should governments take on board and prepare for life, foster cobra, and maybe make the tough decisions and open up quicker. i certainly think we're

moving towards the in game with the chrome, but what happens in the future if and when that happens at all, nobody can possibly know. so government can't keep people's lives on restrictions just because something might happen in 61218 months time. so that being the case, i think they do need to bear in mind that things are getting better and a lot better and start to, to move towards opening back up again and moving to was how things were 2 years ago . run gte in austria, just reading through what's going to happened. the rules are going to be enforced by police checks on the streets. it's not a worrying precedent potential civil rights violations. what, what's your thoughts suddenly draconian measure and the concept of carrying against colleges is anathema to many in britain. but there are many countries where

identity cards are necessary in internal passports marrying that biometric and medical information is a lot of many of the ruling classes of the various of the european union and european states. and the long term plan of various british governments from tony blay onward. so these are, these are plans which are being tied to the back of the management of the panoramic, which i think and related to defend any more about population control of a period. when is rising with the rising discontent, amongst many sections that went from throughout europe, partly on the back of the country and more especially on the back of the downtown or the colony in general with being another own country that there's like $37.00 or 8 percent inflation in the next month, which payments are going up. energy bills, the building up there is going to be a wave, i think of homelessness and homelessness crisis. so if in this context that we're

seeing increased measures of population control, which i do not think can legitimately be ascribed to reasonable measures to come that current virus. paulo we've seen widespread protests were against that . a lot of these kind of vaccine mandates worldwide. comedian truckers right now we've been covering not for quite some time how our government's going to repair the damage that's been done. i don't think, i mean that's fine. i mean, because before we tell it is very difficult to repair the dimension. they did. i mean, italy as being italians, economy has been a really damaged by those policies. we are not as strong as we do in terms of trade in industry. fine, also rely a lot on to is and to be almost restored by the bonuses. so it's very difficult to go back and we will catch up on may be 5 or 6 years. so i don't think

the reason they were ration possible. and i think gall, our government is very stubborn and implementing those measures. this goes against reason, i guess most ability against the welfare economy against the human. right? so i don't know why italy and also also our stock to do this when the world is going in another direction. so it's going to be very difficult and especially we lost what was left a lot of work, trusting to the government and to tell you government. and i think we will either read out general election in 2023. and we will see, i think, a major change of and italian political landscape, but before good, obvious. yeah. your you think that people will have their say at the polls? simon, germany's not recommending a 4th job for vulnerable categories of people. is that taking things too far? what point do we say people have had enough doses more immunities after

the job make does way off about 10 weeks. i think it is. but another meeting based in teams having dose after dose. that is a possibility. well, you will forward to think that there is a chance of something coming back. the virus is still circulating relatively high levels in the community, then it will probably want to maintain a high level of immunity in the most vulnerable people. as things stand by saying that they're the probably the only ones who are likely to get for those most of the same way as they would get a flu jap. it's not your issue then with with austria, simon is, is that they're not maybe targeting those most at risk. they're just doing a general sweep of everybody. i'm going to find those. anybody over anything who's and vaccinated? yeah,

i think so. i think the student authorities need to be clear about what they want to get chances this, you know, they're going to make everybody have a vaccine. now what's gonna happen in 6 months kind, if the virus still circulating but not putting too many people in the hospital intensive care, what's gonna happen that i think is going to stop 90 people's lives than they need to be very clear about where they're going. run g t the last 20 seconds to you and how do you think countries should build a strategy of edge and cobra? how big question i know, but what should be getting done now? it's really time to think about the countries around the world who have not had access to vaccines. some cases been subject to sanctions, even when they paid for that, since it's been a while and not receive actions is to make sure that the world has access to good health care to protect against this and emmy and any future health challenges we face to create a global community and combat and quality that is a real.