but i would r.t. we love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do keep in touch by following us on social media are back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines us either. hey everybody i'm steven both of the task hollywood guy you know suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v. to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru just a little bit different i'm not a abraham lincoln high no no no no doubt with all the drama happening in our country i'm hitting the road to have some fun meet everyday americans come home and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people which. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to me to people the simple simple song alone even some company elsewhere they invite private companies to take over the utilities anybody tell us that opel . allowed for miss you guys who got booked but you buy them to pick them up to go buy been this is us to quote the

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. a humanitarian pause in the syrian enclave of eastern has apparently been broken by terrorists first second day safety corridors established by russia came under heavy shelling from militants preventing civilians from leaving the besieged district the situation was discussed at a u.n. security council meeting as artie's caleb maupin reports. the assad regime and their supporters have been pummeling eastern ghouta where four hundred thousand people live under siege and constant bombardment needs to be understood and still legitimate targets of military operations they are asking civilians to leave eastern good to on the false premise that they can then attack anyone left in the area as much as they would like to set up temporary settlements most civilians ambulances because we've been through this before we know what russia will say today when you know you don't know they will say that there are t

sex drugs and refugees premieres this wednesday here on r.t. international you can watch the full documentary at r.t. dot com as well. one key destination for asylum seekers reaching europe germany is also struggling to cope a food bank in the city of s. and has taken the step of barring foreigners from registering citing the growing number of refugee applicants and concerns expressed by elderly germans but the decision has drawn criticism and accusations of xeno phobia. for two and a half months we have stopped the admission of foreign citizens because the percentage of foreigners is increased to seventy five percent and we in essence want to give germans a chance to come to the food bank unfortunately we don't have enough for everyone. people are going to be difficult time because so many refugees who many people have used to get. a discussion about this and show. that in our society people only pay attention to accusations of race. many people depend on tough we need a social policy that protects the dignity of people all the people whatever

well r.t. has asked the international olympic committee whether it will investigate these dating allegations and we're still waiting for a reply however sports lawyer david larkin says it's worrying the i.o.c. hasn't publicly commented on this issue. what's interesting is you heard the outcry in the media about these allegations you haven't seen any action by wada as it currently stands i don't see there being an investigation which you know is in the light of everything we've discovered with regards to the russian doping allegations is troubling everybody where there is a problem should be investigated we need to understand that the doping is in fact a gobal problem is raised by this documentary we need to understand that doping is happening and occurs across the world and that this is not an incident slated to russia that this is a global problem it's a continuing problem and it's something we need to address seriously right now even be the greatest it's a doping experts in the west as the wa

is making money by hiring out its studios to r.t. the television channel controlled by moscow the b.b.c.'s dealings prompted damian collins the conservative chairman of the commons media select committee to question the b.b.c.'s ethics. there's nothing like two independent journalist and commentator martin some as this is the most thank you for joining us on the program now it is what we're seeing here just in case of business is business and the times is trying to see a scandal that isn't there or is it a matter of serious concern as the newspaper claims. well i think it's one of the strange of the times which is owned by rupert murdoch and of course a lot of print anything it likes takes a particularly hard line for example on briggs it but they say the b.b.c. can't engage in commercial activities on the side which they've been doing for years without any interference whatsoever it's rather old the b.b.c. is there as it hires out studios to other media just like other international media why do you think the times is suddenly tryin

headlines on r.t. international the winter olympics come to a close in south korea here on the program we speak to russian figure skating gold medalist. about her achievement at the big game. this is. actually there are no tears at all i think when i get home i will be dancing and jumping for joy i hope by the time i get home i will realize what i have achieved. but asylum seekers in greece struggling to find shelter jobs. drug dealing and prostitution to make ends meet. the firsthand accounts of stores. 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 ru

r.t. international. islamist rebel fighters shot down a russian jet in syria. then they killed the pilots in a shoot out after he refused to surrender on verified footage of the incident has been posted online. with. a lot of work. you do have to look good you've got to there's a nice to be somebody from out of the norm. but those who want to be on those look. at the the video has also surfaced online purportedly showing the rebels posing with the dead body of the pilot a warning you may find me following him which is upsetting the clip appears to show one of the militants taking a selfie next to their victim others are also taking pictures and chanting russia's defense ministry says the plane was shot on using a portable surface to air missile. or opposition group has claimed responsibility for the attack it was formed just over a year ago from five other java's functions including the number of day in the movement which is in the past being supplied with weapons by the u.s. some observer

thanks for joining us here on r.t. the king of spain a paid a visit to barcelona or on sunday prompting both pro unity and pro independence demonstrators to hit the streets resulting of course in scuffles with the progress . it was king philip's first visit to catalonia since the region's referendums on independence to hundreds of people many carrying cattle on flags gathered in the city center where they were met by riot police at the rally carried on into the night with people chanting support for jailed cattle and leaders who were imprisoned off of the referendum vote last october which of course was deemed illegal by the spanish government is a quick look back at how spain's biggest political crisis unfolded in the past forty i i. i . i was thank you and even thank you. i thank you has been for here we decided to set the president vice president and other high ranking officials in the council on government. thank you was. i madrid it remains firm in his position that the referendum was illegal warning that any atte

of this sort by joining us so far here on r.t. international and in the mix of stories still coming your way today at the former headquarters of the nazi party's secret police in the city of hamburg is undergoing a big make over some locals are none too pleased about it details in about. here's what people have been saying about rejecting the night was actually just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to i'm going to leave it just really packed a punch. yampa is the john oliver of hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than nothing. i see people you've never heard of love redacted the night my president of the world bank take your money that's what i mean seriously send us an e-mail. with politicians to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to. have to go right to the press was like before three of the more people. i'm interested in the waters in the house. first. thanks for joining us u.s. military chief james mattis says urge congress to i

r.t. paris. the problem of bahraini human rights activists now bill rogers has been sentenced no to five years in prison for criticizing the gulf monarchies role in the war in yemen on twitter he's already of course serving a two year sentence for previous having spoken out against the regime it goes on a noise often when on this channel in the times of he's not been imprisoned rajib rose to prominence has no position leader during the mass pro-democracy protests back in twenty eleven results of the president of the bahrain center for human rights between twenty twelve and fourteen he was imprisoned for organizing unauthorized demonstrations while the two years of these currently serving were handed down for publishing and disseminating rumors and false news end quote apparently in connection with a number of t.v. interviews he gave in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen to remind you of the bahrain upraising started during the arab spring the huge uprising a wave of protests across the middle east

to watching the weekly here on r.t. international always mean a day or two later this is all round of the top stories of the last seven days and the latest up to date news welcome to the program syrian rebel fighters have shot down a russian jet in syria's it in a province and then killed the pilot and verified video of the incident has been posted online by the militants. a lot of work. but. there's a lot. of. second video has also surfaced online reportedly showing the rebels posing with the dead body of the pilot and a warning hey may find the following images upsetting. the clips appear to show one of the militants taking a selfie next to the victim at this they're also taking pictures and chanting. has more on the incident. well the incident took place in the northwestern village of mussar on an province and that's one of the last remaining rebel strongholds in the country now according to the russian defense ministry the pilot did manage to eject from the plane and parachuted down to the ground in an area that's a

party but they said they were too busy however they made their feelings about our year saying that r.t. would look to undermine it also accused the channel of being a propaganda to answer jested that russia had interfered in the breaks vote dividing the u.k. for europe this fight a lack of concrete evidence. when you clearly doesn't have a problem when it comes to seeking the advice of a foreign power such as france when it comes to reversing bragg's it a referendum in which the majority of voters or pleased to leave you so it seems that through you meddling is ok it just depends on the country involved jollity even ski r.t. paris. julian assange just to remain stranded inside the ecuadorian embassy it's after a british judge ruled that an arrest warrant for the wiki leaks founder remains in force the president of ecuador meantime says his country will continue to protect our signage. our go to. inherited the issue of the mistress sons from our predecessors clearly it causes a certain inconvenience but since the first days in office we pledged our support for him until he is safe and w

r.t. new york. and also you spoke to former cia analyst on whistle blower john kiriakou he told us he believes the developments of really bad the shadowy practices of the f.b.i. . this contains some troubling evidence of f.b.i. malfeasance those of us who are critics of the f.b.i. have been saying this for years this is how the f.b.i. does business they do it surreptitiously they do it by stabbing people in the back they do it by setting people up by entrapping them by tricking them and that's exactly what they did with the face of court they played the face of court judge by not telling them the source of this deal they plead to a judge by not telling them that this was a a partisan. report and and they got their warrant they got their warrant anyway. and other headlines two people have been killed and seventy others injured after two trains collided in the us state of south carolina a collision between an amtrak train and a freight train happened at around two thirty am the amtrak train was operat

on marsh party not only bank the idea but have reportedly been given advice to the parties founders r.t. shallot do bensky has more. this is really a brand new political party that's about to launch in the k. its goals are quite ambitious pledging to transform british politics and reverse brigs it it wants a second referendum on it i think there's no chance of bragg's it being reversed the brave people have spoken and that's an end of the matter they can bash their head against a brick wall but all the get is a sore head while the party is launching in the u.k. it's getting advice but of course they can all hear it from the helping hand coming from a manual much calls party the republic of march with advisors said to be at a recent meeting consulting about tactics and its north one your girl friends was glad you came here like us and like many other countries looking for hope because it was feeling despair i think and today july increasing you can look at the future musical and i think the movement that greece and others i meet with when you use the future you can embrace. during the id

r.t. staten island. and half an hour. ago was telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings you to the chicken or forcing you to fight the battles that. you stopped trying to tell you that the gossip the public. doesn't tell you are not pulling out like the product. of all that we are on walking. i'm completely confused about why a republican administration made a change that was the same surely. part of the democratic philosophy i can only think that sal away had deep within what they called a deep state in the us treasury they were left leaning bureaucrats who who implemented this change to a territoriality based system of taxation without anybody actually being aware of what was going on. later on. this is broadcast around the world from washington d.c. i'm partial to and coming off the u.s. trade deficit has widened we'll talk about what it means for the trope of the companies and workers and trinity charges has details on some troubling trends with air b.n. b. and congressional leaders may surprise us all and pa

i'm back here on r.t. international the international olympic committee has rejected the requests of thirteen russian athletes and two coaches for invites to the upcoming winter games the sportsmen and women were recently ruled not violated doping rules by sports highest court the i.o.c. however still has the power to decide who competes and who doesn't we are glide the same street procedure after an extremely disappointing custody up holy number of repeats. the privilege to be invited requires more than just the excellence of a same. soul we have in right. now the athletes were seeking invitations to compete along with other clean russian competitors under the banner of neutral athletes from russia the switzerland base court four of arbitration for sport said on thursday that the i.o.c. has evidence that the twenty eight had taken banned substances was insufficient gas arbitrators unanimously found that the evidence put forward by the i.o.c. in relation to this matter did not have the same weight in each

r.t. trap. the u.s. is joining in the chorus of growing concern coming out of europe over foreign eisold fighters returning to their countries of residence washington has urged its allies particularly britain to pay more attention to citizens who fled europe to join the terrorist organization earlier the u.k. defense secretary said they should not be allowed to return i don't think they should ever set foot in this country again they turned their back on britain our values and everything we stand for they are the worst of the worst we're working with the coalition on foreign fighter detainees and generally expect these detainees to return to their country of origin for disposition for now i saw terrorists of u.k. origin who come back and do face prison sentences while other european countries have tried to reintegrate a former eisold militants back into society denmark x. jihadists or even received apartments and jobs to promote reintegration. earlier we heard opposing views from our guests on how to dea

charlotte even ski r.t. brussels. angela merkel has acknowledged the problem of so-called no go zones in germany it is the first time the chancellor has made certain admission with more details his piece or all of. we've seen an unexpected change of tack from the burkle when it comes to talk of no go areas in germany and in no go there should not be any no go zones there can be no places where nobody dares to go by these zones exist and they should be named and something must be done about it. burkle had previously used the same injury phrase no go area to describe parts of the country with a high crime rate but that rate has been going up the government's own figures released earlier this year point to a ten percent rise in violent crime between twenty fifteen and twenty sixty ninety percent of which is attributed to young male refugees there was criticism of last year of the way the german media covered the refugee crisis in a highly respected group of researches said this editors acted as a public educators and tha

r.t. international sad news coming through that we hear in the last hour or so a passenger plane has crashed. we believe it was an antonov a n one four eight that was operated by sarette off airlines carrying sixty five passengers and six crew we've got flight number reading this down here it's flight number six w seven o three we believe it's crashed outside of moscow city itself in the in the moscow county it was heading to central rough russia and it was run by surat of the airlines it was heading to a place called in central russia. details of that coming through of course throat the afternoon sadly and we yet to hear about casualties and indeed how many people may have perished there in the flight post not looking good. on the new political party set to launch in the u.k. says it will reverse britain's exit from the european union and it's to gaining popularity in france present manual micron's parties even offering up advice about it to charlotte do bensky as more. this is really a b

foreign secretary he was quiet hostile towards r.t. towards this channel and you know there is a bit of a negative media climate right now i mean how do you feel about politicians yourself appearing on r.t. did you have to us boris johnson perhaps get his opinion on your appearance saw as you say in your position in a rage at something you don't worry about. i started certainly didn't talk to anyone to get permission to come on to your program i decided to come onto your program not because i agree with you but because i want to improve relations between our two countries and between western europe and the russian federation and the c.i.s. just in terms of the latest example i mean there's been a kremlin report released in america putting together targets for potential sanctions in the future some of said the list is almost didn't put together in a bit of a random fashion what are your thoughts on that i mean lists are very the in thing to do enough or are they lists of useful idiots are you not afraid of appearing on a list just for c

their in denial they can't believe it one of the arguments on it is that being used on this is that r.t. has a wide reach online i suppose apology how can not be regarded as meddling if people read and share and it's proven to be correct information as well. well it's not meddling in democracy as a democracy we realize foreign television companies to operate in this country you can watch for german television you can watch american television you can watch the any television r.t. it's just one one other foreign news program the british people are the right to watch and of course just because you watch r.t. doesn't necessarily mean you believe everything you hear on it likewise of i watch the b.b.c. very often i don't believe what i hear on it so you know we're democracy and people can make up their own minds and r.t. can operate the same way that other foreign media operate. allan scared professor emeritus of international history at the london school of economics allan thanks for your time this hour thank you. an adviser to the polish president has come under fire for what some are cal

it looks like today in the age of social media angsty you just can't please everyone caleb mopp and r.t. new york. it's been one year since the death of fatah and chalk and one of russia's most prominent diplomats is so vast russia's ambassador to the un enjoying one of the toughest periods in global relations for moscow he died of a heart attack on the eve of his sixty fifth birthday. if you will is to come a country in a commanding time we get. to study to see who is her presence to have to live with her speech as if she was mobile so rings of her selfies remember the trite cringe you country isn't. normally if we needed to be preached to read go to a church if we wanted to hear poetry would go through a few tough words we expect from you and officials of the security council as an object this is. an interest of i don't mind who likes me and who doesn't i'm just doing my job with the russian delegation have just informed us of the untimely passing away of ambassador vitaly churkin this morning. at the un security council new york he was greatly respected this man is our diplomats beca

he would r.t. h.q. this friday it's an eleven am him welcome to the program the stories we're tracking this hour russia's u.n. ambassador is calling on all warring sides in syria's rebel held region of eastern ghouta to cease hostilities addressing the security council of vaseline a benzo also criticized the way international media and foreign powers have been representing the situation in the on clay. muscly. there is a massive psychoses in the mainstream media which is spread in same room as day after day it doesn't help to understand the situation. they put food would be ideal but there are only hospitals and eastern ghouta which the syrian army fighting against now what we just heard was the russian ambassador to the united nations responding to what he characterized as a smear campaign now the meeting was called in response to the situation in eastern guta that was a suburb of damascus located to the east of damascus and at this point it's an enclave of rebels and terrorist forces now there's been

as r.t. knows too well my call has already bought some media outlets from the elisei in accordance emanuel micron organizes a briefing off camera just before his trip to cali he sent invitations to the media when i arrived there i discovered that i wasn't on the list of accredited media they said i'm not a journalist and that i had to leave so what impact does that have on your ability to do your job in manual mode emanuel macro wants to pass a law against fake news but refusing to accredit certain media you know the result is he blocks access directly to the real information and sources of information it's not as if the president who once famously compared himself to cheaper to the roman god is media shy he simply prefers to use social media platforms like this you tube page to make statements. although it seems not many a watching and it means there are no awkward questions from journalists to answer afterwards a government spokesperson said moving the press call from release a was made for

he also told r.t. she's been flattered by the positive comments she's received online tweets ranged from surprised to praise for the blogger for speaking freely and he was cut again commenting on freedom of expression and on going viral. i. unfortunately i guess after the fact i wasn't too surprised because muslims and people of color in this country and across the west are constantly put in positions where we're constantly kind of being used both as a term as a way of sort of talking about our maybe having to respond for our government policies back abroad but then having to blindly questionably sort of pray allegiance to this country who might be involved in violence in our country. i think that this sort of these are sort of underlying microaggression is that happen every single day and it's not just me this is happened to i was just lucky enough that this is live and i was able to record it and then being able to share online but this happens constantly every single day all the time for any single

this hour on r.t. international from exotic toxic decades of environmental damage on a portuguese island in the atlantic leave locals fearing for their wellbeing as they continue to suffer increased cancer rates. the german tabloid newspapers are running a bogus story about russian meddling in german politics one of the pranksters tells r.t. how they did it we knew how to think like an editor and what we did was we came up with the story of the techie like in the spine it was a. prominent conservative commentators in the united states claimed that being censored by twitter after a way for a temporary account suspension. lose you this wednesday thursday sorry the twenty second. in moscow this is your world news from r.t. international first off the exotic portuguese island of tessera in the azores in the middle of the atlantic ocean is in desperate need of decontamination decades of u.s. air force activity have allegedly left it polluted with hydrocarbons and heavy metals and islanders say they're worri

it seems that for a new meddling is ok it just depends on the country involved challenged even ski r.t. paris. a recent poll has found that most americans believe their media is biased it comes at a time when ever more former senior government employees are moving into t.v. punditry with the controversies surrounding the recent new nurse memo given them lots to talk about summer can exploit if there are grounds for presumption of bias . many people seeking expertise on the nunez memo must be switching through channels these days so is it a big deal or is it underwhelming was the right to release it well here's a familiar face to answer all of the questions the fact that the newness of republicans denied the ability of the minority the democratic members of that committee to put out its report is just appalling he has abused the office of the chairmanship yes that was john brennan former cia director and now a member of the m s n b c family as a contributor brennan was a prominent figure in the intelligence community appointed by barack obama but that background doesn't necessarily mean

headlines in r.t. russia's foreign ministry says that this information campaign has been started in the media reports of an alleged chemical attack in syria is eastern ghouta designed simply to slander the assad government. also to come this hour the winter olympics come to a close in south korea we speak to russia's figure skating golden girl i mean is a good survivor about their achievement at the gate. some good news this is a he said actually there were no tears at all i think when i get home i will be dancing and jumping for joy i hope by the time i get home i will realize what i have achieved that when you play. with asylum seekers in greece struggling to find shelters and jobs some are resorting to drug dealing and prostitution for make ends meet but have firsthand account of their stories. follow their you watching r.t. international this monday afternoon where it's just turned two o'clock here in moscow our top story this hour the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says some media outlets

so it seems that for a new meddling is ok it just depends on the country involved jollity even ski r.t. paris. now a man interrupting a woman to explain feminism may not be the wisest idea about what canada's prime minister has done just in trudeau told a woman to correct her supposed gender biased language and is now being called a sexist himself. i am a feminist being a founder of the feminists and i will keep. it there is repeating i held the feminist. maternal love is the love that's going to change the future of mankind so we like you to look what we like to see people kind not necessarily mankind. and there's lots of things you can do to be a better feminist as a man but here's a simple one don't interrupt when. bribing. people calling. the u.s. senate has reached a two year budget deal that includes a massive financial boost for the military it's being seen as a major victory for the u.s. defense secretary james mattis who managed to get it through by fighting up the apparent russian threat. today's congressional action will ensure our military can defend our way of life preserv

r.t. new york. a former cia analyst and whistleblower john kiriakou says this follows what the f.b.i. has been doing for years. this contains some troubling evidence of f.b.i. malfeasance those of us who are critics of the f.b.i. have been saying this for years this is how the f.b.i. does business they do it surreptitiously they do it by stabbing people in the back they do it by setting people up by entrapping them by tricking them and that's exactly what they did with the place of court they played the face of court judge by not telling them the source of this deal does the they plead that judge by not telling them that this was a partisan. report and and they got their warrant they got their warrant anyway. the court of arbitration for sport overturned the lifetime bans of twenty eight russian athletes on thursday as well as reinstating the assault elim pick models or part of the doping scandal dating back to twenty fourteen with russia accused of widespread substance abuse eleven other athletes s

r.t. international a rundown of the week's top headlines. today thanks for joining us. now is the most rebel fighters shot down a russian jet in syria's province on saturday then killed the pilot in a shoot out and verified video of the incident has been posted online by another opposition faction. a lot of work. to do other. good you got to do that. be somebody from out of the norm. of the. world. and our second video has also surfaced online reportedly showing the rebels posing with the dead body of the pilot and warning you may find the following images disturbing the clip does appear to show one of the militants taking a selfie next to the victim others are also taking pictures and chanting russia's defense ministry says the plane was shot down using a portable surface to air missile the salafist but it all sham opposition group has claimed responsibility for the attack it was formed just over a year ago from five other jarvis factions including the nord al denialism q movement which h

encourage each of you to ask russia take these questions to vladimir putin take these questions to r.t. to sputnik asking them those very questions what are they doing to stop the devastation the deaths and the murders that are taking place in syria i think what she's trying to say is that any kind of civilian deaths that take place in the course of the syrian government offensive are the responsible of the russian government because the russians are supporting the syrians so therefore anything they say the syrians are guilty of russia is guilty of to that same principle could be applied for example when the iraqi forces recovered a bosal from diane or one of the kurdish led forces the s.d.f. recovered rocka from di actually both cases with strong american air support which took a tremendous civilian toll in these areas to a lot of people got killed leading a liberating those areas so that accusation works both ways. russian lawmakers are considering harsher penalties for child sex abuse and softer series of harrowing on occasions emerged from an orphanage in the central russian city o

are broadcasting live director our studios in moscow this is r.t. international and glad to have you with us. russia and the united states have voiced their alarm over and armed standoff between israel and syria in a phone call president putin urged prime minister netanyahu to avoid any new confrontation while the u.s. state department described the latest incident as a calculated escalation started by iran now it started with israel intercepting what it claimed to be an iranian drone crossing israeli airspace israeli forces that reacted by bombing twelve targets in syria including so-called iranian facilities syria then shot down an israeli jet calling it a response to a violation of airspace but the perspectives in syria and israel on the situation differ in certain respects. confirming. syrian air defenses intercepted israeli fighter jets that were carrying out an airstrike on location in central part of the country and then later on some news agency the state news agency said that israel carried out subsequent strikes on locations west and south

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. russia says it's setting up humanitarian corridors in the syrian enclave of eastern gooses who allow civilians to leave the war ravaged district. like i did just outside the capital damascus and has been occupied by various rebel on terror groups for years violence has recently escalated there with both sides exchanging fire and accusing each other of targeting civilians moscow now says it will help establish a humanitarian corridor and launch daily five hour pauses to provide aid to people in territories occupied by militants the u.n. had also said it will use the opportunity to help civilians. five hours is better than no hours but we would like to see any secession of houses be extended thirty days as the security council had said but we will effort to do whatever we can within the time that we're able to work. earlier the u.n. security council unanimously approved a resolution calling for a n

you watching the weekly here on r.t. international with mean a day or two day this is all round up of the top stories of the last seven days on the latest up to date news welcome to the program syrian rebel fighters have shot down of russian jet in syria's italy province and then killed the pilot and verified video of the incident has been posted online by the militants. a lot of work. somebody from the. second video has also surfaced online reportedly showing the rebels posing with the dead body of the pilot i want to now you may find the following images upsetting the clip appears to show one of the militants taking a selfie now. next to the victims others are also taking pictures and chanting russia's defense ministry saying the plane was shot down using a portable surface to air missile. shortly after the attack to syrian rebel groups claimed they were behind it the first is widely believed to be affiliated with the former al nusra front is known as josh our last are and in the past received weapons from washington t

dark as its slogan would prefer its secret intelligence actions never see the light of day samir khan r.t. washington d.c. protests have erupted in gaza are over the killing of a palestinian terror suspect story and more still to come. local blogs show you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles that. you stopped by to tell you will be gossiped about. i'm telling you all and i like. that we all know why. i'm here that muddy field stadium the home in the heart of scottish rugby i'm here to interview a scotland legend. a man who fought many great battles on this behind me now he's engaged in the greatest bottle of all his struggle against motor neuron disease. welcome back bitcoins roller coaster ride continues falling to below six thousand dollars on tuesday down from twenty thousand last december but it's to spite signs of a massive selloff the cryptocurrency continues to attract global interest. well the rapid rise a bit coin last year drew comparisons with the true net bubble in the netherlands back in the seventeenth century eco

samir a card has been following it all for r.t. . this weekend activists are calling for a seventy two hour cease fire asking for a weekend without any violence whatsoever this is a third event of its kind in the last six months but these cease fire weekends began in august when baltimore's homicide rate reached a record high last year with three hundred forty three murders the highest in the u.s. people all around the city make commitments to just be peaceful and not be violent for three days and to celebrate life and do life affirming event so their events all over the city would distort what a weekend he would keep it into a weekend of no home the sides the rise is partly attributed to a drastic drop in arrests made by the gun trace task force which is now dissolved as most of its members are on trial but there's been some damage control authorities have replaced its police commissioner baltimore police commissioner kevin davis was fired the notice shocked many this morning as mayor catherine pew pushed out a press release at eigh

party but they said they were too busy however they made their feelings about our clear saying that r.t. would look to undermine it also accused the channel of being a propaganda to answer jested that russia had interfered in the briggs's vote dividing the u.k. from europe despite a lack of concrete evidence. when you clearly doesn't have a problem when it comes to seeking the advice of a foreign power such as france when it comes to reversing brigs it a referendum in which the majority of voters or pleased to leave you so it seems that for a new meddling is ok it just depends on the country involved jollity even ski r.t. paris. a recent poll has found that most americans believe the media is biased it comes at a time when ever more former senior government employees are moving into t.v. punditry but the controversy surrounding the recent nooners memo giving them lots to talk about samir khan explores if there are grounds for presumption of bias. many people seeking expertise on the new nose memo must be switching through channels these days so is it a big deal or is it underwhelming wa

in a few moments stay with us this is r.t. from moscow. with make this manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round lift be the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million real new. welcome to a very special edition of the alex simon show this week the what a good member of the holocaust and a serious of events internationally we therefore examine how best to combine memorial in education and our collective desire never to let smugness happen again our generation will be the last to be privileged to hear direct from holocaust survivors and so i'll be talking to freddie nola will also be speaking about the plans for the new memorial here in victoria a total goblins adjacent to the policy of westminster will be leveling from all four stable about what was necessary to survive the nazi occupied frons and slightly from that the arnold the daughter of a woman safe from the holocaust by the cannot transport program the first was told you have to show messa

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. and germany's social democratic party leader martin scholtz has announced his resignation with immediate a fact his decision comes after he lost out in the german election to chancellor angela merkel and then faced criticism over agreeing to a grand coalition government for a second time he said his decision will allow the party to refresh itself and come back stronger. yes you did all. this big you need to compute when you will put organization including its personnel and this is the urgent wish of the party members with my resignation and also the relinquishment of my federal government membership i want to help bring an end to this debate and then allow monitors to really focus on coalition the green party. with the background to this decision here's how the debate is going. we know that resignations is something that martin schultz's done well in the past he actually resigned his job as the president of the european

hour's time will be along and of course she came up to date with all our news twenty four seven at r.t. dot com. i i. i. i. i. i i. i. twenty forty you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just the way i mean you know liz put that he would put him in the. school and you go to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty forty. of those who took had invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. lawmakers manufactured sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round be the one percent. that's not going to nor middle of the room sick. i mean real news is really low. and in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's long debt. and studying so hard it requires transit. to go through humiliation to enter an elite society. and parching to death sometimes quite literally. want other

is making money by hiring out its studios to r.t. the television channel controlled by moscow the b.b.c.'s dealings prompted damian collins the conservative chairman of the commons media select committee to question the b.b.c.'s ethics well in response the b.b.c. says it runs out studios like any other international media organization independent journalist martin summers sees double standards in the times article. i think there's a general attack all arty in that you know political attack in the west they don't like your t.v. station because they see it as competition for their own narrative about events of course there is a whole attempt in the west to diligence somalis the russian point of view of things core of the strains of the times which is owned by rupert murdoch and of course a lot of the print anything it likes takes a particularly hard line for example on briggs it but they say the b.b.c. can't engage in commercial activities on the side which they've been doing for years without any interference whatsoever is not imparti

the president of the red cross has told r.t. that not enough international attention is being paid to libya despite the number of devastating crises suffered by the country. i've been in libya for the last three days and what you can see is that certain parts of the country are of course quieter today maybe one or two years ago in certain in other parts of libya fighting is continuing and therefore needs are enormous because of the disruption of basic social services health water sanitation and others impact on civilian population is important is heavy libya is one of those countries with the largest percentage of displaced populations and therefore the humanitarian needs are important more needs to be done to support the different thought it is in libya more of course has to be done also to find the political solution within libya so there is for me an unquestioned necessity to put libya much more in the center also of international attention comparable to the attention the international community has other crisis in the middle

is making money by hiring out its studios to r.t. the television channel controlled by moscow the b.b.c.'s dealings prompted damian collins the conservative chairman of the commons media select committee to question the b.b.c.'s ethics well in response the b.b.c. says it runs out studios like any other international media organization independent journalist martin summers sees double standards in the times article. i think that there's a general attack all artsy in you know political attack in the west they don't like your t.v. station because they see it as competition for their own narrative about events of course there is a whole attempt in the west to deal with the russian point of view and i think its core of the strange of the times which is owned by rupert murdoch and of course a lot of print anything it likes takes a particularly hard line for example on briggs it but they say the b.b.c. can't engage in commercial activities on the side which they've been doing for years without any interference whatsoever is not impartial i

a very warm welcome you're watching r.t.international broadcasting to you live from moscow and looking at. all the winter olympics twenty eighteen have now officially started with the opening ceremony in south korea's young china just under way nearly three thousand athletes from ninety two countries took part in the opening ceremony of the fifty third winter games our correspondent has more from the event. via lympics stadium n.p.n. chang is flashing lights i've heard it roar a few times it is happening at the opening ceremony of the winter olympic games twenty saying but to this opening ceremony is special for many other reasons so let me just name a few that is the north and the south korean team was marching under the same flag then the oh a our team or the olympic athletes from russia marching without their flags and this is the first time we don't see them wash and black out and a little bit opening ceremony in the one nine hundred ninety two back then the athletes from the former soviet republics are marching under th

headlines on r.t. international the u.s. secretary of state it meets turkey's president as america begins to adjust its rhetoric regarding the conflict between ankara and the kurds in syria. the olympic spirit is being embraced by competitors from around the world at the winter games in south korea with rivals even helping each other out. proud to be able to help another nation. it always feels good when we get help from them as well. as french president. move out of the presidential palace which has been their home for decades. right now turning midday here in moscow on this friday this is r.t. international a very warm welcome to you. the u.s. secretary of state is in turkey in an effort to mend ties with ankara rex tillerson has held talks last in more than three hours with president know one of the nato allies have been at odds over kurdish forces in syria in fact in the run up to the meeting the turkish defense minister made clear what i want from the united states . we demand that this relationship and by that i mean w

headlines on r.t. international dozens of russian athletes have their hopes dashed just hours before the winter olympics kick off in south korea the court of arbitration for sport dismisses their appeals against a doping related. more than seven hundred fifty thousand children are in need of basic medical services in the war ravaged iraqi city of mosul. mosul city probably faced one of the biggest urban warfare since world war two. and republican lawmakers in the us are threatening to cut funding to a global research program after it was linked to america's most widely used weed killer made by monsanto to cancer. and o'clock friday morning here in moscow is watching r.t. international thank you for. a last minute appeal from forty five russian athletes and two coaches against a ban preventing them from competing in the winter olympics has failed the court of arbitration for sport secretary general announced the ruling with just hours to go before the games got underway in south korea. the treaters have