analysts are warning that moscow may not have a long term strategy for its role in the middle east vasant force video that you know. this was the moment russian troops and to the hastily banded u.s. military base in membership in the north east of syria was shared on social media in russia as a moment of victory it was shot by embattled russian war correspondent ali on october 15th and titled member is our us all week later president vladimir putin stepped up as a peacemaker and signed a 10 point memorandum with turkish president red chip tayyip erdogan that agreement will put russian and syrian forces in control of border areas and pushed goodish fighters out as long as putin can succeed and expand his influence and his role here will continue to do that and i have to say i'm generally not a fan certainly not a fan of domestic politics. but we have to give him his due he is succeeded quite a lot and i think he is given to even by those people who strongly dislike him globally. but while puttin success in syria was discussed on russia's state channel it's known for pro-government coverage

campaigns because we would like to try to explore other place or means so that we don't have to do is vasant if in the meantime you should god forbid killing the body and innocent possibility or us or a policeman your movements finished and you international support will evaporate over the us i agree and i am prepared to take the risk and you won't come out in public and say we need to stop this the british government has slammed last week has slammed what it called the hard core minorities the violence was unacceptable this is the sound of you international support wavering and and believing the reason that. yes well i believe the escalation of thousands and those violent scenes is my with absolutely be very concerning to the international society when all the free world countries are advocating using peace whole means to. bring the situation to a tree result but the trillions you are going to for already doesn't matter. well of course that matters but i think the most important thing is about how can we hold our government accountable and how can we bring them to respond to our demands wha

justice a search of all the case filed by ukraine against moscow let's go to our correspondent step vasant she's joining us live from moscow and as we wait for that i.c.j. ruling step what would it mean for both ukraine and russia. yes the international court of justice is in session right now reading this important ruling in a case was filed 2 years ago by ukraine basically it wants to take russia to discourse for a weapon giving weapons and no support to the separatist movement in the east of ukraine but also for racial discrimination in the crimea the area that was annexed by russia in 2014 and also for the downing of age 17 so basically this is a very crucial ruling if if the court decides that it wants to accept this case that it has the jurisdiction of course then ukraine will have a very strong international measure in its hand to put more pressure on russia but if the court rules there is no jurisdiction in this case of course this would be a win for russia and then ukraine doesn't have any other legal means at the moment to pursue reduce cases of what they say is an invasion of ru

released details that show a link between russia and the separatist groups in eastern ukraine step vasant is now in ukraine's capital kiev life or so step just how damning is this evidence or is it just circumstantial at the moment. well these details are very interesting that are coming out of this i made 7 investigation into the downing of the airplane here in ukraine 5 years ago these phone intercepts and i've been reading them are fairy fairy detail and shocking at times these are phone intercepts between leaders of the separatist movement here in eastern ukraine and officials in moscow lower officials but also very high ranking officials one of these officials is bloody sluff sukkot of who is a special advisor to fly to be put to him putting himself on ukraine and one of the other calls the name of the minister of defense of the russian federation show you who was mentioned in that phone call a leader from the separatist area basically sas man are coming from moscow with a mandate of show you go to replace the leadership in the east of ukraine with leadership from moscow these are ve

fighters in the east the one who are blamed for shooting down the plane with a russian made missile step vasantt the families of those killed on flight m.h. 17 there are still many unanswered questions why did their loved ones became victims of a conflict fought far below their flight path in eastern ukraine piece by piece the joint investigation team led by the netherlands has reconstructed the crash and events leading up to it in june they proved that the armed group in the don't yet people's republic deep was in contact with russian government officials about military support but new recording show russian influence on the d p r went further than just support they show contact was almost daily in one call from july 1st 201416 days before the crash a d p r member tells the local commander that men are coming with a mandate from sergey show it to russia's defense minister. mahmoud abbas is obviously loves truly. to join europe you know not to go on which are. you serious recall ever come on you good luck with. luck reaching. if confirmed the tapes would provide additional evidence that the kre

beneficial might this be in the other aspect for him taking out such a high profile target well you're vasant in taking out such a high profile target well your vast majority of americans would react to this with pride and joy ok baghdad we've already of americans would react to this with pride and joy ok baghdad we got baghdad isis is done for fantastic the media absolutely hated because this we got isis is done for fantastic the media absolutely hated because this ruins their internet is different. from the bombs from. the bomb a. politician who's who's messing. up. i don't need to be impeached right away that's the narrative they've been trying to sell the american people for the past that it was a narrative terrible that assembled people for the past 3 years it was a terrible day for them and a really good day for trump from the standpoint of entering. this point for american optics for the for the population of the country at large because it helped obama didn't win and the bin laden photo that went everywhere of the country at large because it helped obama didn't win the photo that went

with both the ukrainian army and russian backed separatists blaming each other for the violence so vasant reporter from the front line. europe's forgotten war fought in old style trenches to show support for peace both sides agree to pull back one kilometer to where a new front line is being dark because of this catherine if a village of 150 people has ended up caught between the ukrainian army and the russian backed separatists they can only hope they won't be caught in the cross-fire care for her of chernobyl you see what i'm even scared to go down to the basement to get it because i'm afraid i won't get out so i stay in bed close my ears and pray. the ukrainian army says it's ready for peace but doesn't trust the other side the spokesman does not want his full name to be used. so difficult as with her history teaches us and has a sense of trash as an enemy and you can trust now it's right to trust them again and prove that we have a civilized country which sticks documents. but observers say both sides break agreements in the frontline donmar inka we witness a ceasefire breach it's not

more now from step vasant has n.k.f. . some very interesting details are now coming out of the joint investigation in the netherlands about the downing of m h f one team here in ukraine 5 years ago intercepts of phone conversations between leaders of the separatist movement here in the east of ukraine with the people high officials lower officials in moscow are now being published and one of these high officials is flooded sluff off with a special advisor to vladimir putin on ukraine and in another phone call the minister of defense surely go was mentioned also very close confidant for vladimir putin and in that phone conversation the leader of the separatist movement sat that. man that with a mandate of man were traveling from moscow to the separatist area basically to remove the leadership of that separatist area all these details are important to basically paint a picture not only military help came from russia but these phone calls also being depicted that the whole administration of the separatist area also the whole

the region well for more on all of these developments that we're seeing today we're joined by step vasant in moscow step what do you know about what's happening on the frontline in eastern ukraine right now. well it was uncertain until the very last moment if it was going to happen and it has been postponed a couple of times in the last week but at around 12 o'clock in ukraine 20 minutes or so ago white flares were fired from the separatist russian backed separatist area and also this was responded by a wide flare coming from the ukrainian side this signalled the beginning of the troops withdrawal from this front line the where hifi fighting has been going on for all those years and they have now 3 days to make this withdrawal complete and then this whole area which is full of mines will also 'd be de mind and this is of course a very important symbolic move to make sure that this peace process which has been stalled for also more than 3 years can get some movement again this is basically one of the preconditions these 3 troop withdrawals that have been happening in the last couple of wee