troops from syria in the coming weeks. israel routinely strikes iranian targets inside syria and is currently conducting an operation against the lebanese military group hezbollah which is a proxy of iran. >>> now to the deadly tsunami in indonesia. coastal towns along sumatra and java were devastated after waves smashed into hotels, houses. the disaster follow into corruption and possible landslide when and krakatoa, one of the world's most infamous volcanic islands. indonesian officials say at least 222 are dead and where the 800 others are injured and dozens remain missing. officials also say that more than 550 homes were destroyed along with at least 69 hotels and restaurants. the death toll is expected to rise as search and rescue teams continue their work.>>> every year it seemed that it was start with one or two and now there are 30 or 40 that come every year. >> a special santa that make sure all kids can make the best holiday experience. >>> will it be a white christmas for skiers and snowboarders in tahoe? we will check

the group but against its patron iran it also has been involved in a costly war in neighboring syria israel also not interested in the military confrontation it is worried about hezbollah's growing arsenal the very fact that it believes it has missiles to target all areas in israel this really is about israel putting more and more pressure on iran trying to prevent iran from spreading its influence across the region in recent years it has been targeting iran and its assets in syria but it seems as of late the focus now is on levanon because russia in one way or another is clipping iran's wings in syria it knows to stabilize syria and to get the international community on board it's going to need to weaken iran's presence in syria so the focus now in lebanon on israel's aim is to try to contain hezbollah's growing strength that will not be easy because the group is not only heavily armed it is a controlling parliament and it has the say in the next government. denmark and bersin have been named the top countries when it comes to fighting climate change this is delegates from around two hundr

forces from syria in the coming weeks. israel routinely strikes iranian targets in syria and is currently conducting a anti- tunnel operation against the lebanese militant group, which is a proxy of iran. >>> the u.s. military says the number of active-duty troops applied at the border with mexico is now down to about 2600.the troops just before the midterm the central american migrants heading towards the border. at its peak, the operation included about the 800 troops at the border or in staging areas. troops who have been removed from the operation were sent back to their home stations. the plymouth with essentially set to end on november 15, the pentagon extended it to january 31 at the request of the department of homeland security. >>> in indonesia, thousands of people are in emergency shelters after massive deadly waves wiped out their villages. authorities say 281 people are dead, the 1000 injured, 57 people have been reported missing but that number is expected to rise. the tsunami damaged homes, witnesses, hotels, and o

troops from syria had on the region in terms of share politics is israel feeling emboldened. well president from pulling out of syria it's all about a balance of power right in this country you've got the americans you've got the russians you've got the iranians you have turkish backed forces you have the kurds i think most importantly america's pullout will affect the kurds initially because turkey is looking at an offensive put that aside when you're talking about israel israel's concerns in syria are one and one only and that is has weapons shipments to as well as the presence of iran so what people here are saying officials will tell you is that israel will continue operating as it is we heard from the israeli prime minister saying that if needed israel will escalate but again remember it really is russia that calls the shots in syria at the moment it controls airspace it really has control either you know talking to the iranians talking to damascus israel talks to russia there are all these kinds of negotiations going on behind the scenes i think at the moment the russian

well the situation has flared up quite dramatically between israel and syria and as you say both sides accusing the other what we're hearing from the syrian side is that they say they activated their ground to air defense missile systems in response to incoming missiles from israel what we are hearing is that they managed to intercept eight out of ten rockets now syrian state media says that they intercepted what it's calling hostile and enemy targets that were aiming at areas in the damascus region. we do seem to understand that the main target was a weapons warehouse in that area that belonged either to iran or hizbollah both of course are enemies of the jewish state at the same time we are receiving reports that survey defense systems have been deployed near the syrian capital for the possibility that there could be further strikes from the israeli side now while all of this was happening there were explosions that were heard in southern lebanon it's not quite clear at this stage how and if they are linked but we are seeing hearing reports that israel is responsible for those we hav

syria and israel accuse each other of cross border missile strikes so far there are no reports of casualties. in iraq and a hard place after weeks of massive yellow vest protests on one and a half million people have signed a petition to sue the french government over its alleged failure to act on climate change. fears grow that the notorious mercenary army blackwater implicated in civilian massacres in iraq is making a comeback after a full page ad was published in its name warning we are coming. plus a russian town becomes the subject of a national scandal after the children of local officials go on a trip to turkey using charity money. for joining us here in moscow this is r.t. international. some news just in syria and israel have accused each other of cross border missile fired i.d.f. and syrian military both claim to have intercepted incoming hostile targets let's go to television our special correspondent paula slayer poor seems to be the latest in a series of clashes one of the two sides had to save themselves. well the situation flared up within the last half hour what we receiving

separatism but you want an agreement to be reached and soften this tradition as part of a free syria. israel's alleged actions are not the only serious escalation in the region turkey is warning france against backing kurdish militia in a syria insisting that the final soldiers there are no benefit to anyone that's after france plays to keep troops in syria despite the us announcing it's pulling pentagon forces out. if france is trying to contribute to syria's future great but if you're doing this to protect the militia this will bring no benefit to anyone. two political analysts use. use of welcome to the program firstly now why do you think france. won't pull out of syria like the u.s. if wrong and why is mark on so keen to protect kurdish militia. can you hear me use of can you hear me. i have a feeling that we've lost the connection apologies for the use of her name talking about the militia in syria sorry about that. well i will be back with more news after this break. you should. put themselves on a lot. to get accepted or rejected. so what you want to be president. actually going to be

iran's attempts to start with a military presence in syria and if the need arises through even expand operations there certainly tensions between israeland syria are escalating. more than one and a half million people have signed an online petition demanding to sue france over climate action. takes up the story seems this was a lot the president that much corn was hoping to find under his christmas tree on christmas day this petition is backed by four charities including two charities here in france well it's not just go on and move the one point six million signatures it's also being backed by french celebrities but we are simply going to sue the french state. it's an action regarding climate change we're trying to force the state to drastically reduce emissions another headache perhaps of president gore who has already been having a difficult few weeks as the yellow press protests continue they've been going on now for more than six weeks some of the weekends here in paris have seen would have been described as the worst right seen more than half a century. now they all started six weeks ago on nov seventeenth over plans to increase

for a long time assad has allowed iran to use syria as a transit point to arm hezbollah in lebanon so lebanon can threaten and attack israel. they will now be able to step up those efforts. there is no u.s. presence in syria. there is no u.s. seat at the table. and you can fully expect that iran is going to step up their engagement in syria with hezbollah. let me tell you why that's a problem. i'll get to that in a moment. it has to do with israel. but here's the bottom line. you can fully expect now that iran is going to step up its own presence through the irgc and through hezbollah and through the militias they have empowered in the region right on the border with israel. iran now has the ability to put weaponry and killers right across the golan heights, right on the border with israel. the other big winner in all of this of course is hezbollah. as i said, they now have expanded their area and their supply realm. i'd be remiss if i didn't mention that with all this talk of isis there is still an al qaeda presence in syria. they can change their name all they want. it's al qaeda. they have operatives in syria, and al qa

syria. between tehran to lebanon will exist funnel weapons to hezbollah and other forces aligned against israel. most importantly, none of us believe that isis has been defeated. now, two democrats and one republican saying the same thing. the war has not yet been one. the 2200 syria performing vital national security functions for russ, which includes support for key allies called the kurds and as an insurance policy against the rise of isis in syria and to me we are all worried about the use of this decision regarding russia, iran and assad. so this resolution, the resolve is basically asked the president to reverse course, and make any future decisions of trying to syria on the ground after consulting with the national security team in the same goal of withdrawing from syria but just wanted what an appropriate fashion. finally after the decision itself. he landed yesterday morning coming back from afghanistan and if anyone tells the isis has been destroyed in afghanistan will have a serious conversation. our goal is to withdraw from afghanistan based on conditions on the ground double it dis

forces from syria in the coming weeks. israel routinely strikes iranian targets in syria and is currently conducting a anti- tunnel operation against lebanese militant groups is a proxy of iran. >>> the u.s. military says the number of active-duty troops to point at the border of mexico is down to about 600. the majority in california with the rest in arizona and texas. resident trump sent the troops just before the midterm election because of that huge caravan of migrants from central america that are heading towards the u.s. border. at its peak the operation included 5800 troops at the border or in staging areas. the appointment was initially set to end on december 15 but the pentagon extended it to january 31 at the request of the department of homeland security. >>> governor brown is setting a record before he leaves office, according to the chronicle during his past eight years in office governor brown has granted 1189 pardons and 152 commutations. that is far more than any other governor in california history. most of his p

troops out of syria when you were assessment is the threat from i saw in syria finished and are you concerned about israel's security if those troops leave syria either u.s. decision. specked any decision made by the administration we have our concerns about syria or the presence of a venue and to abstain thea and we will do what every with every to protect our people regardless if you have american troops russian troops or any other nations to continue to follow a policy of not allowing the iranians to build their base in the next our borders all these eisel defeated in syria in israel's estimation wonderful shall we we can tell that they i think has been defeated in thea you can argue whether it's completed or not but. we can there agree with the international community there that the fight against i think has been successful. well of course president trump says those troops are in syria all about eisel and clearly a big debate over whether that mission has been accomplished but the troops that were there were also performing other roles they were not only fighting eisel they were their presence i think w

with victory in addition to taking down from egypt and syria israel began to militarily occupy all remaining palestinian territory in the west bank the gaza strip and east jerusalem suddenly all of palestine is now lost we now had no palestinian land left under palestinian control. you have a huge palestinian population living as refugees or living under occupation. palestinians are governed under military law they are essentially prisoners they are treated as if they were all prisoners of war they have no rights. in the immediate aftermath of the sixty seven war the united nations security council post resolution two too food. citing international though forbidding the takeover of territory by war two for two explicitly calling for israel to withdraw its own forces. to this day israel has largely failed to comply not only holding palestinian territory. compass getting additional land and building massive jewish settlement blocks in the west bank in east jerusalem in direct violation of the food geneva convention which expressly forbids states from transferring civilian populations into terr

forces from syria. israel routinely strikes iranian targets in syria and is conducting anti-tunnel operations against the levin eyes -- lebanese group. >>> ruth bader ginsburg is up and about this morning as she is recuperating from the cancer surgery. she is still recovering as the cancer center in new york. that we do not know when she may return home. ginsburg underwent surgery to remove growths in her left lung. doctors say there is no evidence of cancer. the court meets january 7th despite her health problems, she is never missed an argument. >>> governor de smet governor brown is setting a record. governor brown has granted 1189 pardons and 152 computations. that is more than any other governor in modern california history. most of the pardons erase convictions for drug crimes and nonviolent offenders. when he was first governor in 1975, he pardoned 400. >>> the 18th annual lucky o'toole toy drive is in the final push to collect donated toys for kids. they are trying to break the personal record of toys

no trouble it's breaking out all over the place and especially the iranian situation and then syria and israel and saudi arabia is increasingly dangerous. but also the u.s. seems intent on pouring oil on the fire you know men well you know rand was just mentioned right here. in new britain a book about pax americana i mean i can i understood the post cold war i'm sorry post world war two order that was created by the united states i understand the intent behind it in the context of the cold war but after the cold war and the rise of this kind of neal. neo con ideology i mean a sane person wouldn't say focus all of american foreign policy on iran i mean there are that's obviously politics going on there and also if you look at some of the issues that the the u.s. is intruding upon it on the korean peninsula i mean the koreans are actually making some progress moving towards peace there but the u.s. is dragging its feet and it is planning it seemingly so planning a war against iran how is that possibly in the interest of anyone including americans. well it's very difficult to understand that's w

syria, israel, jordan, these countries that have stood with us, we need to keep working on that. i think syria, we have to be able to contain the crisis. we are constantly hearing -- i have heard it for three or four presidencies, that we don't have a strategy for the middle east. we did here recently president trump talking about wanting to pull troops out of syria. you hear the defense department say that the role of syria is only to fight isis. then you heard the national security advisor say u.s. troops will stay as they counter iran's influence. what is the strategy in syria? >> well, that's the problem. [laughter] one of the pieces of legislation that we just passed was a study iraq modeled on the 2006 study group that came out with a strategy that mirrored to a great extent the surge and some of our efforts there. i am hopeful that we will see some recommendations come out of that that might help us as we are thinking about how to respond. kathleen is absolutely right. what we don't want to do is when we've got something that's working, as in northeast syria, we don't want

policy standing steadfast in our red vans in syria and everywhere else stephanie deca has been following developments from west jerusalem russia's accused israel of a gross violation of syria's sovereignty it also says that israeli aircraft in danger to civilian aircraft one of them that was coming into land in beirut airport and the other one in damascus this is according to a foreign ministry statement what we understand is that israeli aircraft fired from lebanese airspace is according to syrian state television targeting a weapons warehouse west of damascus now israel will act has acted extensively throughout the war when it believes either hezbollah is going to be receiving weapons shipments or any sort of in hans singh weapons capabilities to go to hezbollah we haven't had any official reaction we've reached out to the foreign ministry and the prime minister's office but we've heard from the israeli prime minister talking at a graduating ceremony of air force cadet saying that the red lines on syria stand of course that the there's a complexity between the two actors russia and israel following the downing of a russian reconnaissance air

or any concerns them is syria and that's where they are less confident that the syrians the iranians arsons and indeed the americans can deal eisel. russia says airstrikes by israel and syria and danger to passenger planes nasca says syrian air defenses destroyed fourteen of the fixed in israeli missiles syrian state media reports several missiles were shot down near damascus before they could have their targets and israeli security official confirmed the airstrikes to the associated press saying they had iranian storage and adjust to being used to transfer weapons to hezbollah several deca has been following developments from west to receive them. russia's accused israel of a gross violation of syria's sovereignty it also says that israeli aircraft in danger to civilian aircraft one of them that was coming into land in beirut airport and the other one in damascus this is according to a foreign ministry statement what we understand is that israeli aircraft fired from lebanese airspace is according to syrian state television targeting a weapons warehouse west of damascus now israel will act has acted extensively throughout the war when it believes either hezbollah

no standing steadfast in our red violence in syria and everywhere else stephanie decker has been following developments from western. russia is accused israel of a gross violation of syria's sovereignty it also says that israeli aircraft in danger to civilian aircraft one of them that was coming into land in beirut airport and the other one in damascus this is according to a foreign ministry statement what we understand is that israeli aircraft fired from lebanese airspace is according to syrian state television targeting a weapons warehouse west of damascus now israel will act has acted extensively throughout the war when it believes either has bala is going to be receiving weapons shipments or any sort of in hans seeing weapons capabilities to go to hezbollah we haven't had any official reaction we've reached out to the foreign ministry and the prime minister's office but we've heard from the israeli prime minister talking at a graduating ceremony of air force cadet saying that the red lines on syria stand of course that there's a complexity between the two actors russia and israel following the downing of a russian reconnaissance aircraf

policy no standing steadfast an advantage syria and everywhere else stephanie decker is following developments from west to receive them. russia's accused israel of a gross violation of syria's sovereignty it also says that israeli aircraft in danger to civilian aircraft one of them that was coming into land and beirut airport and the other one in damascus this is according to a foreign ministry statement what we understand is that israeli aircraft fired from lebanese airspace is according to syrian state television targeting a weapons warehouse west of damascus now israel will act has acted extensively throughout the war when it believes either has is going to be receiving weapons shipments or any clue of in hong sing weapons capabilities to go to hezbollah we haven't had any official reaction we've reached out to the foreign ministry and the prime minister's office but we've heard from the israeli prime minister talking at a graduating ceremony of air force cadet saying that the red lines on syria stand of course that the there's a complexity between the two actors russia and israel following the downing of a russian reconnaissance aircraft

remaining two hit a military depo injuring three soldiers israel says its own defense system intercepted an anti-aircraft missile fired from syria stephanie decker has been following developments from west jerusalem. russia's accused israel of a gross violation of syria's sovereignty it also says that israeli aircraft in danger to civilian aircraft one of them that was coming into land in beirut airport and the other one in damascus this is according to a foreign ministry statement what we understand is that israeli aircraft fired from lebanese airspace is according to syrian state television targeting a weapons warehouse west of damascus now israel will act has acted extensively throughout the war when it believes either hezbollah is going to be receiving weapons shipments or any clue of. weapons capabilities to go to hezbollah we haven't had any official reaction we've reached out to the foreign ministry and the prime minister's office but we've heard from the israeli prime minister talking at a graduating ceremony of air force cadet saying that the red lines on syria stand of course that the there's a complexity between the t

russia is accusing israel of putting two civilian planes in danger while attacking positions in syria defenses near damascus opened fire on what syrian state media is calling enemy targets overnight they quote a military sources saying several missiles with down will be targets in the past week israel's prime minister has said he plans to intensify attacks on the iranian targets in the south and syria as u.s. troops withdraw from there it's the first suspected attack by israeli jets in the area since an incident in which a russian plane was shot down during an operation in september stephanie decker has the latest on the strikes near damascus. syrian state television is accusing israel of targeting an arms warehouse west of damascus at a military base saying that three syrian soldiers were injured this is in line with the syrian observatory for human rights saying the same thing there is one different reports in the american public ation newsweek where it quotes a u.s. official from the defense department quoting an israeli official saying that the strike hit senior hezbollah leaders

syria israel also. the confrontation it is worried about hezbollah's growing arsenal the very fact that it believes it has missiles to target all areas in israel this really is about israel putting more and more pressure on iran trying to prevent iran from spreading its influence across the region in recent years it has been targeting iran and its assets in syria but it seems as of late the focus now is on lebanon because russia in one way or another is clipping iran's wings in syria it knows to stabilize syria and to get the international community on board it's going to need to weaken iran's presence in syria so the focus now in lebanon on israel's aim is to try to contain hezbollah's growing strength that will not be easy because the group is not only heavily armed it is a controlling parliament and it has the say in the next government thousands of people including dignitaries from around the world are in the u.s. capitol for the funeral of former president george herbert walker bush these live pictu

when you were assessment is that the threat from i saw in syria finished and are you concerned about israel's security if those troops leave syria . u.s. decision and respect any decision made by the administration we have our concerns about syria about the presence of a venue and troops in syria and we will do what every with every to protect our people regardless if you have american troops russian troops or any other nations to continue to follow a policy of not allowing the iranians to build their bases next to our borders sort of featured in syria in israel's estimation wonderful shall we we can tell that they i think has been defeated and you can argue whether it's completed or not but overall we can agree with the international community there that the fight against i think has been successful. gets various some news against the from the us coming in to us now the us federal reserve has just raised interest rates a quarter of a percentage point to a range of two point two five two point two point fifty percent it's the fourth time they've been raised this year a move that won't go down

remaining two hit a military depo injuring three soldiers israel says its own defense system intercepted an anti aircraft missile fired from syria stephanie decker has been following developments from west jerusalem. russia's accused israel of a gross violation of syria's sovereignty it also says that israeli aircraft in danger to civilian aircraft one of them that was coming into land in beirut airport and the other one in damascus this is according to a foreign ministry statement what we understand is that israeli aircraft fired from lebanese airspace is according to syrian state television targeting a weapons warehouse west of damascus now israel will act has acted extensively throughout the war when it believes either hezbollah is going to be receiving weapons shipments or any clue of. weapons capabilities to go to hezbollah we haven't had any official reaction we've reached out to the foreign ministry and the prime minister's office but we've heard from the israeli prime minister talking at a graduating ceremony of air force cadet saying that the red lines on syria stand of course that the there's a complexity between the t

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with a tree in addition to taking land from egypt and syria israel began to militarily occupy all remaining palestinian territory in the west bank the gaza strip and east jerusalem suddenly all of palestine is now lost we now had no palestinian land left under palestinian control you have a huge palestinian population living as refugees are living under occupation. palestinians are governed under military law they are essentially prisoners they are treated as if they were all prisoners of war they have no rights in the immediate aftermath of the sixty seven war the united nations security council post resolution two too food. citing international though forbidding the takeover of territory by war to food to explicitly called for israel to withdraw its own forces . to this day israel has largely failed to comply not only holding palestinian territory the compass getting additional london building massive jewish settlement blocks in the west bank in east jerusalem in direct violation of the food geneva convention which expressly forbids states from transparent civilian populations into territ

syria. absolutely i mean there's a lot of rumors sat me about how things are going to evolve particular when it comes to israel dealing with the iranian threat inside syria whether it has whether it's iranian militias on the ground i mean the withdrawal of the united states off the record israel will tell you that it is obviously not in its interests it's not happy about it it puts into question how much of an ally donald trump really is on the other hand israel says that it's going to continue what it's been doing throughout the course of this war and it really has been doing this is targeting weapons shipments and weapons warehouses but of course it has anything in syria it is a complicated ground where you have different actors sponsored by state so course is going to be a vacuum there is a concern that iran will expand its presence particularly reaching the shores of lebanon which is the issue of weapons track record and shipments to have my life we're going to have to wait and see israel's been undertaking an operation against hezbollah tunnels on its northern border the prime minister is now trying to ge

the russian defense ministry criticized the israeli operations in syria overnight israel launched a number of rockets against targets in the damascus area it injured three syrian soldiers and it also destroyed or extensively damaged an arms depot now the russian defense ministry pointing out that the israeli operations came as two passenger flights were coming into land in both beirut and damascus and that the civilian lives were potentially endangered we've heard from the syrian side that they were forced to activate their ground to air defense missile systems after the rockets were fired from israel and we're hearing from israel that they were forced to activate their air defense missile systems after rockets were fired from syria now all of this comes as the situation particularly in northern syria is school age the latest reports suggest that as many as forty pickup trucks two tanks alawi's an armored personnel vehicles belonging to the syrian army have entered the northern syrian province of man bridge now this is an area that is controlled by the kurds r.t. sources on the ground have

withdrawal from syria perhaps israel wants to ensure that iranian and throwing in forces like hezbollah don't extend their influence in syria let's that and i think that's come with the understanding good the russian because i think the russian gave them the green light for such an attack because after the downing of the illusion aircraft. two or three months back so. i think that as you know about this strike the very business as you do well they came back and the do these such strike in the future i think this will carry on also in the future all right thanks so much going on to that. houthi rebels in yemen are accusing the saudi erotic coalition of violating the cease fire and her data is un true smallness is the jew to meet to discuss progress the spokesman says at least twenty eight as strikes have been carried out in towns on the outskirts of the city in the last twenty four hours ground attacks are also reported saudi moratti coalition is yet to respond the head of the monitoring team patrick kemah is in her day there after both sides agreed on the ceasefire earlier this month in

the overthrow syria is unfinished business israel wants it they want it for israel. and syria. incredibly has survived. the regime and. the state has survived unlike say libya which was crushed so a modern state has survived in syria a modern state was crushed in in libya. it's it's . it's a time of i mean i think john bolton who was trump's national security adviser said well it's not on her face implied not to march when he said that we alway mean in the middle east is not to support regimes it is to divide it is to keep it unstable so that when we want to move we can. and that's the situation at the moment in the middle east george w. bush famously said iraq was unfinished business from his father what did you make of the unit g.'s to the death of julie h. w. bush when he it's very difficult to get satire going because these a terribly serious subject and george bush was one of the leading undoubtably one of the leading great criminals of the time he was going right back to the one nine hundred sixty s. he opposed the civil rights act. he. he he was when he was director of t