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this hour russia's defense ministry has confirmed the identity of the pilot killed in syria's province and north of the country on saturday he was. phillip off the ministry has described him as a hero and we've got some video now that does appear to show the pilot in a fight with syrians your heart. was shot down it's unverified yet we do have to warn you though you may find some of the upcoming images distressing to take a look. you. know. what i'm going to go live now to all to have a caution of course in a very in the newsroom here but you know thanks for staying across the story what else exactly do we know at this point well this on very fight video that you just saw appeared online shortly after the incident and it shows the last moments of the pilot life now from what we can hear on the video we can understand that the pilot was surrounded by a terrorist and the pilot had waited for the terrorists to get closer to him before he detonated the grenades to avoid capture and now russia's defense ministry has already confirmed his identity and the details of the last moments of his l

the bush so it's ok isn't long with a hand grenade rushes defense ministry has confirmed him as major one month from the ministry said that he was an experienced pilot and it wasn't his first time serving in syria now before that he was based for several years in the region of russia's far east it was also part of a dozen successful military operations now the pilot's plane was shot down on saturday near the province which is located in the north western part of syria which is still controlled by the latest incarnation of the terrorist group and other militants now the pilot was trying to keep the airplane the aircraft in the air as long as he could and he managed to object from the aircraft but then he found himself over a. terrorist he is the weapon was found with and am. magazine and two others have banned now shortly after is that an unverified video appeared online showing militants taking selfies with the pilots the body and also stamping on the debris of the crashed plane russia has there already reacted to this incident carrying out strikes in that particular area and the mini

but one day after him ship which was suspended from office the defense ministry said the accusations appeared to be a foreign disinformation campaign in a statement it said there is a high possibility that this is a white information operation from outside and its aim is to show latvia as an untrustworthy ally. to ministry didn't say which country was behind that campaign but there's little doubt it meant russia the russian foreign ministry and moscow refused comment but the bribery accusations come from a russian businessman and with elections due later this year fears are mounting that the kremlin could be attempting to sway the outcome the defense ministry says that dissin from ation campaign closely resembles others that preceded recent french german and us elections. let's bring in made kotel now editor of the german language newspaper pointed to one show in warsaw or the last in defense minister says this is a misinformation campaign that the implication being that russia is behind it how likely is that. we don't have any hard evidence of course so we can on you only speculate

devotional so long with a hand grenade rushes defense ministry has confirmed him. from the ministry said that he was an experienced pilot and it wasn't his first time serving in syria now before that he was based for several years in the region of russia's far east it was also part of a dozen successful military operations now the pilots plane was shot down on saturday near the province which is located in the north western part of syria which is still controlled by the latest incarnation of the terrorist group and other militants now the pilot was trying to keep the airplane the aircraft in the air as long as he could that he managed to eject from the aircraft but then he found himself all over a. terrorist his weapon was found with an anti magazine and two others half spans now shortly after that an unverified video appeared online showing militants taking so. with the pilots body and also sampling on the debris of the crashed plane russia has already reacted to this incident carrying out strikes in that particular area and the ministry said that over thirty milit

the version of so it's ok isn't long but the hand grenade brushes defense ministry has confirmed him as major one month from the ministry said that he was an experienced pilot and it wasn't his first time serving in syria now before that he was based for several years in the region of russia's far east it was also part of a dozen successful military operations now the pilots plane was shot down on saturday near the. province which is located in the north western part of syria which is still controlled by the latest incarnation of the terrorist group and other militants now the pilot was trying to keep the airplane the aircraft in the air as long as he could then he managed to get jacked from the aircraft but then he found himself all over a. terrorist he is the weapon was found with an anti magazine and two others banned now shortly after is that an unverified video appeared online showing militants taking selfies with the pilots body and also stomping on the debris of the crashed plane russia has already reacted to this incident carrying out strikes in that particular area and the mi

but one day after him ship which was suspended from office the defense ministry said the accusations appeared to be a foreign disinformation campaign in a statement it said there is a high possibility that this is a white information operation from outside and its aim is to show left as an untrustworthy ally. to ministry didn't say which country was behind that campaign but there's little doubt it meant russia the russian foreign ministry in moscow refused comment but the bribery accusations come from a russian businessman and with elections due later this year fears are mounting that the kremlin could be attempting to sway the outcome the defense ministry says that dissin from ation campaign closely resembles others that preceded recent french german and us elections are and we can speak to our financial correspondent clive had a bruise and now who is frank third where the e.c.v. is headquartered good to see frank but frankfurt conrad in frankfurt now in defense ministry is alleging outside involvement it's a new thing it see russia tell us more about this. well berlin well helena h

now russia's defense ministry has confirmed the identity of the pilot killed in syria's province on saturday it was major philip off the ministry has called him a hero we're going to show you the video that does appear to show the pilot in a fight with syrian rebel fighters after his plane was shot down just a warning to viewers though you may find some of the images distressing. this is a. very fired video that you just saw appeared online shortly after the incident and it shows the last moments of the pilot's life now from what we can hear on the video the pilot had waited for the terrys to get closer to him and only after that he detonated a grenade taking his own life and also avoiding capture he even managed to shout that he was doing this for his own colleagues that were fighting alongside him or his defense ministry has already confirmed all these details the details of the last moments of his life how he was fighting till the very end and. major oman salute both fulton so the very last moment of his life against an overwhelming number of terrorists he was bugged me. when it's it was.

that a government fire wall was breached and sensitive information stolen from both the defense and foreign ministries the hackers are said to belong to the same group that attacked the democratic national committee ahead of the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election also coming up the international olympic committee lifts its doping ban on russia after the remaining tests of the country's athletes at the winter olympics come back negative so does this draw a line under moscow's massive state run doping scandal. and fears grow in germany over the welfare of the tens of thousands of homeless people forced to live outside those temperatures plunge to record lows. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us reports tonight coming in that the german government's computers have been hit in a cyber attack berlin confirming that a hacking group infiltrated the foreign and defense ministries and may have stolen sensitive data sources say a hacking group with alleged links to the russian government broke into the government network the attacks were apparently discovered. ember but were only made public tod

defense ministry says. in. the western media. that has broken the truce. monday morning in moscow thanks for joining us. the winter olympics in south korea wrapped up with norway coming out of the medals table at the olympic team came the thirteenth at the doping scandal having prevented many russians from simply competing. takes a closer look at russia's achievements in. well seventy medals chang is the only minus twelve if you compare it to twenty nine team russian medals and saatchi this is not a mon blowing result but it still deserves a huge round of applause given that most russia stars weren't even invited here by the international olympic committee so basically it was mostly a team of olympic newbies but i'll tell you what did blow the mind of russian fans here in p.n. chang it is the first gold medal by their men's ice hockey team in twenty six years the final was really tough neck and neck till the last second with surprise silver medalists germany and the red machine was only able to show who's boss on it's an extra time. speaking of bosses all

defense ministry says militants in syria's eastern district are shelling the capital damascus in violation of a un backed cease fire the western media though says it's the assad government that has broken the truce. monday worldwide news headlines live from moscow thanks for joining us it is r.t. international. the winter olympics in south korea have wrapped up with norway coming out on top of the medals table the olympic athletes from russia. team came thirteenth being scandal having prevented many russians from competing but that did not stop the team from beating some expectations and. now takes a closer look at russia's achievements in. well seventy medals chang is only minus twelve if you compare it to twenty nine team russian medals unsought cheat this is not amman blowing results but it still deserves a huge round of applause given that most russia stars weren't even invited here by the international olympic committee so basically it was mostly a team of olympic newbies but i'll tell you what did blow the mind of russian fans here n.p.n. chang it is the first gold medal by their men

pilots after shooting down his fighter jets over syria's northwestern edge province russia's defense ministry has confirmed the incident and has said it's already launched retaliation strikes on the rebels a pillar of smoke marks the place where the russian war plane came down its pilot was able to parachute to the ground but not to safety russia's defense ministry says he died in a fight with militants it's not clear whether the rebels tried to capture him. there's another. plane came down in a village south of the city of. rebels and locals quickly gathered around the wreckage to celebrate their victory. work well. a reporter well known in the arab world was also there. i mean a lot no one had to watch the residents here call this kind of war plane the machine gun. because of the heavy guns it carries. it attacks roads and cuts them off the death of cars from moving. the plane was a sukhoi twenty five a single seat jet designed to attack targets on the ground. just hottest group linked to the former syrian branch of al qaida claims one of its fighters hit the jet with a portable anti-aircra

i've been fizzling let's do business the latvian defense ministry says corruption allegations leveled at the country's central bank governor a part of a decision from ation campaign from abroad the ministry says claims. so bribes in return for keeping a bank in business were intended to erode trust in the eurozone states and influence elections in october if a has rocked a small bolt of nation which blames close neighbor and former political muster russia. bill maher's. it says he's a victim of a smear campaign he's accusing private latvian banks of trying to get revenge for tougher financial regulations by accusing him of demanding bribes of one hundred thousand euros a month. i have become a target have an obvious and well coordinated campaign of some latvian commercial banks to discredit the latvian state. but one day after him ship which was suspended from office the defense ministry said the accusations appeared to be a foreign disinformation campaign in a statement it said there is a high possibility that this is a white information operation from outside and its aim is to show

russia's defense ministry says he died in a fight with militants it's not clear whether the rebels tried to capture him. the plane came down in a village south of the city of. rebels and locals quickly gathered around the wreckage to celebrate their victory. work well. a reporter well known in the arab world was also there. the middle of nowhere had to was just the residents here call this kind of war plane the machine gun. because of the heavy guns it carries. it attacks roads and cuts them off the homes the death of cars and removing. the plane was a sukhoi twenty five a single seat jet designed to attack targets on the ground. a jihad is group linked to the former syrian branch of al qaida claims one of its fighters hit the jet with a portable anti-aircraft missile system that's not been confirmed but russian officials say they promptly launched an air strike on the area. and some of the other stories making news around the world focusing is underway in cyprus as presidential runoff election hits a conservative incumbent because honest and against against left wing challenger. for a b

pilot after shooting down his fighter jet over syria's northwestern italy province russia's defense ministry has confirmed the incident and says it's already retaliated with a strike on rebels. somebody from of the north a column of smoke marks the place where the russian war plane came down its pilot was able to parachute to the ground but not to safety russia's defense ministry says he died in a fight with militants it's not clear whether the rebels tried to capture him. there's no other way you know. a little more well out of the plane came down enough village so through the city of idlib very sure a lot of our road rebels and locals quickly gathered around the wreckage to celebrate their victory work well how do you. make a reporter well known in the arab world was also there. how do you plan on i mean i learned though i had to was just going to have people here call this kind of war plane the machine gun because of the heavy guns it carries. the bomb is it difficult to get attacks roads and cuts them off to stop cars from moving. you going to. allow the plane was a sukhoi twenty five a

russia's defense ministry says he died in a fight with militants it's not clear whether the rebels tried to capture him well there's nothing like. a little work well out of the plane came down enough village south of the city of. i'm very sure a little our brother rebels and locals quickly gathered around the wreckage to celebrate their victory learn what. a reporter well known in the arab world was also there. how do you mean a lead no i had to watch. the people here call this kind of war plane the machine gun because of the heavy guns of carries. the ball is a difficult it attacks roads and cuts them off to stop cars from moving. you going to. allow the plane was a sukhoi twenty five a single seat jet designed to attack targets on the ground. a jihadist group linked to the former syrian branch of al qaeda says one of its fighters hit the russian warplanes with a portable anti-aircraft missile and one of the that's not been confirmed but russian officials say they promptly launched an airstrike on the area killing at least thirty militants. we'll have more on the story now we're joined

continued to shell the capital damascus despite a un backed cease fire according to the russian defense ministry. the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics wrapped up in south korea with the spectacular closing ceremony for the drama continued right to the very end of the games on the final day n.p.r. unchaining russia's ice hockey team soft germany for three and a nail biting final that one gives a limping athletes from russia a total of seventeen medals in south korea. and in the stories that shapes the week germany's leading tabloid publishes what it thought was undeniable evidence of russian meddling in the country's politics only to realize it was embarrassing hoax . welcome to the weekly here on r t where we wrap up the top stories from the past week we'll bring you the latest developments as well thanks for tuning in. militants in the eastern go to district of syria are indiscriminately shelling the capital damascus that's according to russia's defense ministry that's despite the united nations voting on saturday to implement a cease fire our war correspondent more i've got stan was h

you saudi arabia's king has replaced top military commanders in a shake up of the kingdom's defense ministry the reshuffle includes the army's chief of staff and there is of ground an air defense force inside the state media also announced a plan to develop the ministry but didn't elaborate on how that would happen no official reason has been given for the eval but it comes as saudi arabia faces growing criticism over the war in yemen the director of the gulf studies center at cattle university when he says the latest changes are part of a preparation for mohammad been summoned to succeed his father. i think this is a package of changes started when consume and came to power and it includes changing the economy except where around crew is being controlled by hamas and money his team the media sector also controlled by his team and now they move to the ministries the move now is to the military i think this is part of the preparation the platform for him for his you know. which is expected to come soon actually rather than later i think that confirms the fact that you know mohamed has been sa

but one day after him ship which was suspended from office the defense ministry said the accusations appeared to be a foreign disinformation campaign you know a statement it said there is a high possibility that this is a white information operation from outside and its aim is to show latvia as an untrustworthy ally. to ministry didn't say which country was behind that campaign but there's little doubt it meant russia the russian foreign ministry and moscow refused comment but the bribery accusations come from a russian businessman. and with elections due later this year fears are mounting that the kremlin could be attempting to sway the outcome the defense ministry says that decision from asian campaign closely resembles others that preceded recent french german and us elections. germany's deutsche booked a profit for twenty seventeen despite low trading activity profits for the company that operates the frankfurt stock exchange rose six percent on the year to more than eight hundred fifty million euros something that will please the shareholders as george ebers says it plans to rai

saudi arabia's king has replaced top military commanders the defense ministry shake up comes ninety three years off to saddam led forces went to war in neighboring yemen and russia has vetoed a u.n. resolution criticizing iran for failing to prevent weapons from reaching it rainy and backed the rebels and just type of. saudi arabia's military might on display. saudi generals have been leading a coalition of forces attacking the peace in yemen for nearly three years running back rebels who pose the internationally recognized government to stand up to the door how to remain in control of large areas of the country of the saudi armed forces have been internationally criticized for killing thousands of yemenis or cause widespread destruction and achieving little. abilities all solid has announced a reshuffle of the army's chief of staff and the heads of ground and air defense forces. the war in yemen there is a serious failure when it comes to the so the area that is growing because says i'm from international community and there is a serious pressure there so to stop to stop what they are do

well the russian defense ministry also said that according to its sources armed groups in eastern groups are preparing to use chemical weapons to provoke sign forces into attacking the syrian government political science professor my good buttress believes terrorism no intention of respect ing the cease fire it's naive to say we have to stop the violence overnight and cease fire overnight simply because all the parties involved have interests to continue on with this violence that is groups have instructions to is can lead to violence. terrorist groups in this day of this that they are so disparate that's why i can believe that the can use chemical weapons as the last chord on the tape but meanwhile turkey say's it is not going to halt its military offensive in northern syria in spite of the cease fire i'm grasping currying operation against kurdish militia fighters which it views as terrorists on thursday the turkish army shelled a wine convoy entering the city of a green and chris ses it was transporting fighters and weapons but the kurdish forces insist the trucks were only carrying c

arabia's king solomon has replaced top military commanders in the shake up of the kingdom's defense ministry the reshuffle includes the army's chief of staff and the heads of ground and defense forces saudi state media also announced a plan to develop the ministry but didn't elaborate on how that would happen no official reason has been given for the overhaul but it comes as saudi arabia faces growing criticism over the war in yemen so who's in and who's out the most notable dismissal was the military chief of staff general abdul rahman been. been sidelined and will become a royal court consultant he's being replaced by the former commander of the royal saudi air force general fired been awhile while the changes were approved by consignment analysts say it is the crown prince mohammed bin sol man who's likely to been behind the moves he's seeking to modernize the kingdom's image in the first shake up in the shake up the first female was appointed as deputy minister for labor and social development the director of the gulf study center at catholic university where he says the latest changes a

top military commanders have been fired in the shake up of saudi arabia's defense ministry those dismissed include the army's chief of staff and the heads of the. ground and the air defense forces no official reason has been given for the overhaul but it comes to saudi arabia faces growing condemnation over the war in yemen saudi led coalition is supporting pro-government forces fighting to see rebels backed by iran let's get more analysis of that from james dorsey he's a senior fellow at the s. rajaratnam school of international studies he joins us on skype from singapore james dorsey what impact will this have on the conflict in yemen i think that remains to be seen i think there are probably three aspects to the changes in the military command one is to bring to show that this is a more youthful a younger administration both to the domestic audience and the international audience the problem with assessing the impact on the war in yemen is that we don't know really what the sentiment is both within the saudi public as well as within the saudi military with regard to the yemen war there

a russian fighter jet has been shot down of a syria's northwest and province russia's defense ministry says the pilot managed to eject but was killed in a ground fight near the town of such a cab well russia has retaliated it says it's killed thirty fighters in the area and dozens of air strikes what has been heavy fighting in it for weeks now the u.n. says around a. hundred thousand civilians have been displaced there but it's confusion over who exactly shot down the plane both the turks and the russians are blaming a moderate group backed by the us on saturday was also the deadliest day for turkish troops since you're sold on a freeman began last month eight turkish soldiers died in fighting some of them after their tank came under fire from kurdish forces stephanie decker has more now from the turkey syria border. a lot of luck. this is a russian fighter jet shot down by opposition forces. i mean remember the pilot manages to eject but he didn't survive. for these syrian fighters it's a huge symbolic victory. russian the syrian government have intensified their bombardment of provin

saudi arabia's king solomon has replaced top military commanders in the shake up of its defense ministry now those fired include the saudi army's chief of staff and the heads of ground and air defense forces no official reason was given for the overhaul but it does come saudi arabia faces growing condemnation of the war in yemen saudi led coalition is supporting pro-government forces fighting with the rebels backed by iran. russia has vetoed a u.n. resolution which would have criticized iran for failing to prevent its weapons from falling into the hands of the movie rebels in yemen now instead the u.n. security council unanimously adopted a russian proposed resolution which didn't mention iran diplomatic editor james bays reports now from the u.n. in new york for the middle east this was an important moment russia for the first time casting its veto in the security council to protect iran it came in a moment of high drama in the council chamber to rival resolutions on yemen put to back to back votes the one vetoed by russia was a u.k. draft back strongly by the u.s. which contain critici

and russian warplanes being shot down over syria's northwestern province russia's defense ministry says the pilot managed to eject but he was killed in a subsequent ground fight near the town of saddam had russia has retaliated it says it's killed thirty fighters in the area in dozens of air strikes there's been heavy fighting in it live for weeks the u.n. says around one hundred thousand civilians have been displaced but this confusion over who exactly shot down the plane a group formally linked to al qaida says it did it but al jazeera sources in turkey suggest both the turks and the russians are blaming a moderate group backed by the u.s. stephanie decker reports from the turkey syria border. a lot of. this is a russian fighter jet shot down by opposition forces. i mean remember the pilot manages to eject but he didn't survive. for these syrian fighters it's a huge symbolic victory. russian the syrian government have intensified their bombardment of province over the last two months government forces a slowly capturing territory in the south what is the last remaining syrian province

government forces we still don't know how many russian troops served in syria according to the defense ministry it could be around fifty thousand soldiers but the number of russians fighting in syria is probably much higher that studer russian mercenaries who are fighting alongside pro syrian forces our correspondent emily sure when traveled to a small town in the ural mountains people there say local men joined a private military force. it's about as far as you can get from syria and yet here in the russian town of kid there all the people are waiting for news about seven locals who reportedly went to fight in syria they allegedly worked as mercenaries which is illegal in russia the topic is sensitive many people here say they know nothing about the man with the flu in fact we are repeatedly met with rejection and kid but this building is home to the mother of one of the fighters she had agreed to speak to us about her son but canceled the interview after being told her son had been killed. a local gives us the address of the wife of another mercenary when we tried to speak to her she insists

agency goes further it quotes unnamed sources who say that the german foreign ministry in the ministry of defense have been targeted what sort of attacks are we talking about here that's right the german interior ministry just confirmed these attacks that were carried out by the way during the whole year or maybe even a year ago they were just. discovered in december and published only today by the german news agency that you just quoted it's unclear helping the damage really is the fear is of course that certain networks off the government are infiltrated here what we do know is that malware was uploaded to the government servers here of the interior ministry and probably all the foreign ministry as well and that data will stolen now the d.p.a. story suggests that a group calling itself the a p t twenty eight was behind the attack what can you tell us about this group. well the so-called a.p.t groups are among the most powerful hacker groups worldwide and security experts believe that there are around one hundred fifty of these groups operating on a very highly professional level they're very we

also coming up on the program russian hackers or let's to attack germany's defense and foreign ministry is installing the packers are said to belong to the same group that attacked the democratic national committee ahead of the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election. and fears grow in germany over the welfare of the tens of thousands of homeless people forced to live outside as temperatures plunge to record low voice. hello i'm terry marchant good to have you with its the international olympic committee has confirmed to d.w. that russia's olympic ben has been lifted with quote immediate effect the news comes just two days after russian athletes returned from competing as neutrals at the john shank winter olympics in south korea two russian athletes failed drug tests at the games but the ban was automatically deducted after no further positive tests russia was banned after revelations of state sponsored doping at the sochi games in two thousand and fourteen. well for more on this development let's bring in jonathan crane from d.w. sports hey jonathan does this decision come as a surprise

resolution however according to the russian defense ministry it was militants in eastern guta who violated the truce moscow says damascus was shelled several times after the ceasefire came into effect residents say they never actually believe the militants would abide by the truce in the first place. this truce is similar to the others and we will see it being violated this is the same old story and we are the ones who end up being harmed but don't you see the children old people women and students who should we feel sorry for for these rebellious. we are tired of shelling every day totally took forty four here let me i am against the truth because it only benefits the rebels i hope that it will be over soon and that no gunmen remain there the resolution calls for a thirty day cease fire across syria and this it's hoped to allow allow time for injured civilians to be evacuated and for much needed aid to reach stricken areas a number of terror groups such as lawmaker state al qaida and the latest incarnation of al nusra are excluded from the agreement and forces operating in syria are allow