hello there just go midnight here in moscow you with r.t. international an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council is now underway in new york was requested by the u.s. the u.k. and france and it follows an escalation between syrian government forces and you need leap. in as more. the u.n. security council is set to meet regarding the issue of ongoing fighting in the syrian city of it lip the white house is calling for russia to end its efforts to back the ongoing offensive in the city against terrorists this is a dangerous conflict it needs to be brought to an end russia needs to change its policy now russia recently renewed its offensive against the terrorist forces in it live it is supporting efforts to take back the city from terrorists and jihad his forces now one particular group that the russian foreign ministry has pointed to as being very dangerous is called a yacht terrier al shabab and this is a terrorist group that is widely known around the world for its atrocities for example there are over 1400 attacks with tanks machine guns that have been heavy weaponry that have taken place recently in addition they have been countering civilian protest in it live against their ongoing presence in the presence of other militants that there have been attacks on humanitarian corridors which is a violation of international law in addition they have been using civilians as human shields now russia has also emphasized the recent deaths not just of syrian military personnel but specialists from both russia and turkey within the last 2 weeks of january a load it could have faced over 1000 to tuck's the death toll a number of injured among syrian troops and civilians outside the deescalation zone has already passed hundreds of people russian and turkish special this also among those tragically killed now moscow has pointed to recent statements from the u.s. government that seemed to indicate that the usa views the to rear terrorists as if they are somehow a legitimate opposition group. we would like to highlight several statements made by western countries 1st of all by the us in which the terrorists of hi out to. being painted as an opposition force and protected under the pretext of establishing a ceasefire but we've been saying no to a ceasefire with terrorists so this will never happen now the russian foreign ministry has pointed to some inconsistency is in statements from u.s. leaders the usa pointed to the killing of al baghdadi as the end of isis and saying that a high isis was 100 percent wiped out the ice still terrorist were no more however there has been continued instability and terrorist groups continue to have strength in other parts of syria u.s. sent home and the d i a both assess that the october death of al baghdadi did not result in any immediate degradation to isis's capabilities following the death of isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi the group's capabilities in syria remain the same so there are clearly differences among the international community when it comes to the ongoing offensive against terrorism in the syrian province of ellipse so all eyes will be on the security council as the emergency meeting is scheduled to begin. ok let's get the thoughts this might ready joins us this evening hello mike but we heard that the u.s. is calling on russia to stop targeting rebel groups while moscow is saying that it thinks that washington is trying to protect the last remaining extremist militants in italy why do you think they have such differing perspectives on who are the terrorists and who are not. well this goes way beyond the concept of terrorists that are is another man's freedom fighter. and down to the black and white earth who the west has been supporting all the way through this crisis in syria has been al-qaeda affiliates all the time all the way the same with turkey the same with the u.k. the same with israel in which israel bombed damascus last night just as turkey was there and a huge military contingent crossing the border so it just seems that they have no more cause to play we can only imagine what would happen her russian delegation to the u.n. or iranian or syrian that's something along the lines of we need to stop targeting oysters to the west that would be looked at new york of course they would. this is the last. but the terrorist groups now the other green buses left but are there like them outside of it live there were there was a quite a big change nor the turkey in the last week water. there is nothing left for them to do it is surrender or die it's that serious now. the west and the u.s. and france want to prolong this conflict this is exactly what they want to do whatever taking our carter affiliates it sounds insane doesn't it but that's exactly what's going on there are feelings the united nations in order to protect our counterfeits you could only buy this stuff off and that's exactly what's going on in the last few minutes. at this meeting this emergency meeting that's being called the u.s. ambassador there did say that washington will provide an aid to rebuild syria how do you see that working at high g. think that that that will go down the syrians. i don't think i'll accept that. if anyone knows anything about international aid especially coming from the west it is a complete misnomer there are always strings attached to the aid that the west gives to the developing world for every dollar they donate 26 dollars flows back in the other direction or 3rd thing and the like. and it's insane again it's you know why would we give what would syria give suck up to the same corporations that have been financing and arming terrorists within the country just so the lots of halliburton can come in and rebuild it so that's really what they're asking for the us government is asking for and we lose it's really give massive subsidies to our corporations a fact of nobody will never actually read syria and can't imagine that any reconstruction in the west would be in any way comparable to that from china for instance who would be welcomed i'm sure they would be welcome in syria but syria will actually rebuild itself it has been during the last few years and certainly places like aleppo once the liberation of the 11 happened in december 26th thousands tens of thousands of recently flooded back and the cities actually started to rebuild itself rebuild its industry rebuild is stopped so yeah i don't think they need any help from america and i think you and insult america even suggest that he would be taken seriously in the past. recently to a mike america suggests that despite killing al baghdadi isis is now we still a threat in syria and potentially could remain so for some time. why do you think they can use their stance not because when they kill their leader that the whole thing was now we've defeated isis but they seem to have shifted. over the last few days yasin this all comes down to trump's statement where he said he was with jordan troops in syria and there was a little bit of pushback from the states and they are suddenly realize they have to come up with another pretext to justify their own going to military occupation. this is all part of. some kind of russia now we can solve their problems back to why they have troops inside syria. really ripping through our special 3 illegally obviously so you have to be some kind of just a retiree to reduce their there's a request to. the charter. ok mike nice to talk she going to leave it there that was mike reddy u.k. journalist thank you. prominent american corruption activist and founder of project very task james o'keefe had his account suspended by twitter early this week after he was wrongly accused of leaking private data longing to a volunteer on bernie sanders campaign team the dispute began when a washington post reporter accused project very task of publishing secret recordings of volunteers on sanders campaign rather than staffers james o'keefe them wrote a tweet requesting a refraction and providing a link to publicly available election information is proof the volunteer was actually an employee the camp was then locked by twitter and although the reporter retracted his story. is still being restricted well here are those secret recordings of bernie sanders staffers that kicked all of this off. cities. are going to. be in the. east. so. it's. in his tweet james o'keefe linked to a page on the publicly available federal election commission website when he's a kind was then lost by twitter he logged in to find a warning that his post had violated its rules on quote posting private information we can talk now to the person at the center of all this project very task. joins us this evening. larry is hell h.-e. james thanks for coming on q just what's your reaction then to how this is being handled by twitter i mean i think it's unconscionable we reported publicly available f.e.c. documents in a washington post reporter say that the man you just saw the tape there collier was a quote volunteer so the washington post reporter deleted his erroneous tweet we reported the information showing that he was not a volunteer he was a paid field organizer for bernie sanders in the state of iowa and then twitter locks my account does not allow me to tweet it until they tell me i have to delete the tweet reporting the f.e.c. information so as a matter of ethics this is a publicly available government website the federal elections commission publishes the fact collier was a paid employee i don't want to delete the tweet i think that that would be unethical for me to delete information like that i'm trying to report information the public has a right to know so i think twitter is drawing a line in the sand here and i'm not going to leave this tweet i've appealed the decision trying to get twitter to change their mind. do you think that will have any impact on what you said i mean are you getting much traction elsewhere. i'm getting a lot of traction in the grassroots on social media but. in the united states or it's a very very bifurcated situation the people that don't like me say off with his head and in fact we've had a few verified twitter accounts saying that they should delete the project they're a tossed twitter account now i don't think people really care about about whether it's right or wrong it depends upon which of side of the political aisle you are on apparently i was going to ask you about that i mean do you think the list is just being vindictive by twitter you say that you know you've got friends in the media but plenty of enemies to people who don't like the sort of things that you report on and expose the sort of things you do expose is this all part of that you think well there was the example of c.n.n. and the election showing up to people's private homes there's that famous example where the c.n.n. reporter asked a private woman about russian interference in the elections and what is that if not showing up to someone's private home address so twitter is making the argument that because the f.e.c. paystub had the information about the address of kyle yuruk that's a violation of his privacy but when you're a public figure when you're when you're talking about how great violence is and killing police officers are i think that reporters have a right to publish some things like f.e.c. paystub so i think it's very hypocritical for mainstream media outlets like c.n.n. to show up at people's private homes people do that all the time by the way if you're a public figure and it's newsworthy while also saying it's perfectly justified to lock my twitter account so i think it's interesting to see what happens i'm not backing down and the leaving the tweet i'm going to continue to appeal the decision to see what they do and generally speaking james i mean this is just one of many examples of the hurdles that you do face when you trying to carry out your investigative journalism. i mean this is this is a constant struggle with whether the lawsuits that we face were not c.n.n. or not the new york times they would never do this by the way to a new york times reporter never in a 1000000 years would jack dorsey c.e.o. of twitter take down a tweet from a new york times reporter linking to f.e.c. paystub they just wouldn't do that so it really comes down to how do we define journalism in 2020 is journalism as an activity or does a protected priesthood class of individuals and the powers that be in the united states thinks that it's a protected priesthood class of individuals i think that is anathema to the 1st amendment i think the 1st amendment protects all types of journalism and project verizon's our organization is in litigation right now with all bunch of people who are not suing me for any legal reason they're suing me because they want to stop and hold to me from doing the things that we do here and to that we fight back we don't settle the litigation we don't stop we don't settle we don't compromise our principles i would never any integrity if i did that by the way c.n.n. did settle a defamation lawsuit a couple of weeks ago i would never do that so that's where things stand right now over the few and next few days as we build up to our release in the new hampshire primary we have a story coming there we'll see what twitter does ok we'll look at best of luck james of the all of this good to to project their attacks found james o'keefe thank you thank you. the chair of the democratic national committee school pray recess meant to the results from the much maligned iowa caucus softer dives for a raise whether they were thankfully correct 7 months has been delving the. i will caucus the democratic caucus still missing a whopping 3 percent of the results the race is very very close extremely close to judge is in the lead with 26.2 percent and bernie sanders is right behind with only 26 point one percent then we have warren with 18.2 percent and of course joe biden with 15.8 percent but it judge and sanders do have each 11 delegates basically whoever gets the 1st primary amount of delegates and reaches the $1191.00 before the primaries gets the election but it's clearly too close to call even with 3 percent still missing but in the last hour like you mentioned d.n.c. chairman took to twitter to announce this campus. in light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results i am calling on the i you would democratic party to immediately begin to recant this so. tweet really came unexpected for the democrats who have already seen a lot of how it came as a surprise to them so at this rate canvas means it's similar to recount but not quite we may be seeing another caucus of sorts to go back and seeing a recount of sorts rather to see who will win it all been caused by this error called from the application called shadow the error in coding that could not delayed these important results and it's also important to note that this these these primaries the caucus in iowa the new next one in new hampshire and then south carolina and nevada they really are important to kind of give these candidates the 1st momentum in this race but without the iowa results they could be moving to new hampshire we're only days away from that. more than 100 precincts reporting consistencies in their results along with missing data inaccurate calculations also took place with many iowa caucus leaders struggling to adopt new requirements introduced in recent years many have been angered at the failure to validate results correctly and on time for weeks i don't know what is going on with the iowa democratic party and the slow trickle of results how many of the counties are having their results falsely reported by the i.d.p. every county needs to release the results now human laborites more than conflict actually believes that the whole mess with the iowa caucus was no accident. the truth is that the damage has already been done i mean i was a small state it doesn't have that many delegates what i were present is the chance for the front runner who appears to be bernie sanders to be able to come in and have a strong showing and to gloat and say look on the front runner and then win this thing and that's been taken away from bernie sanders by what has happened in iowa who clearly are not going to use this say out the shadow out. in other primaries but i fear there is going to be more trouble i me a lot of us believe this is not accidental the powers that be at the democratic party do not want to be either candidate they appear to be willing to burn the whole house down and to lose to trump rather than have a fairly moderate social democrat be their candidate and so i think you will see more probs. twitter and you tube and and changes the way they fight talk to materials but the vague wording in their new rules are also raising questions on quarter as more on the story. we all like a good many i know i do and that's why i'm here to warn you that they're potentially in danger because of twitter's new war on altered images and videos that might mislead voters we know that some tweets include many plated photos or videos that can cost people harm today we're introducing a new rule and a label that will address and give people more context around this tweets one man's satire is another man's trigger there's bound to be those who will find hilarious songs like this one unhealthy for political discourse rather coldly. what is boiled its definition of so-called doctor damages down to a few criteria editing of the contents composition changes in its visual or auditory information and anything that simulates real people but who actually gets to make the call on what does or doesn't harm is anyone's guess are these trump dog and rocky memes politically misleading maybe this one with bernie sanders is harmful a political satire well it's always bound to hurt someone's feelings but if you're not on twitter don't think this isn't going to step on your toes you tube's got its own version of this new policy of the 2020 lection season kicks into high gear in the united states people who visit you tube to learn about the candidates and watch the election season. over the last few years we've increased or if it's to make. news and information as well as an open platform for who flee political discourse you remember that video trumps supporters made portraying their president massacring the mainstream media in a church it was funny to them to the mainstream media while they were a bit offended the white house correspondents association says it is horrified by this and is calling on president trump to denounce the video c.b.s. has decided. not to show that video we can't show this video because it's so disgusting is extremely violent it is disturbing and those bad liberating videos could also be interpreted as politically misleading you're probably on the day like a bug just quit right here. we need new babies out there think we need time to make new ones because the old ones just become so big twitters netizens have already picked up on the controversy because people were kind of instances this i love how you use the word doctored because that's the elites attack on memes the left caught me on twitter oh yeah well now no one can make your bed in the eames which may cause harm to the left we can read between the lines there will be no unimproved in the people's republic of twitter coverage it seems that without any ultimate authority to make the call on what is and isn't a violation so many decisions will be left to the rules vague wording who knows how internet freedom will fare as a result. now in a major shake up in german politics a cave regional prime minister has quit just hours after taking up the post amid a huge backlash over a political union the brought him into power. there's just resignation was inevitable the dissolution of the parliament is inevitable if detroit yesterday with a perilous trick for damage democracy there was no cooperation with the a if there is no such cooperation and will never be told us carrick they're quick to say that he had nothing to do with a deal with alternative for germany but well how long he sticks around at the higher levels of the free democratic party with that may be measured in hours similar to his reign as prime minister of the state of today in jail he's fairly much in the firing line at the moment and has been huge backlash to this situation it's unfolded into india backlash from politicians also from the public is well it follows this union basically this alliance between the c.d.u. which is angular merkel's party on the right wing alternative for germany party the f.d.a. to support and back thomas kennedy to be the prime minister of the state of to even get that resulted in condemnation of condemnation from on high angle of merkel herself having something to say about it and this is unforgivable and that's why the result must be reversed the election of this prime minister was a unique process that broke with the basic conviction of the c.d.u. and also of mine namely that no majorities should be won with the help of the f.t. this is a ban today for democracy. chancellor merkel had to say something because she often repeated that promise that there would be no alliance between alternative for germany and her president democrat. but i want to stop that report there because we go live now to the u.n. security council emergency meeting has been held a meeting listen to the russian envoy 1400 attacks by fighters with use of tanks machine guns mortars and artillery fire over the past few days there have been 331 cases of open fire in the 11 hum provinces all this data is accessible on the ministry of defense russia's website we often disseminate bulletins but some distinguished colleagues don't seem to be interested in them we're talking about syrians who are in the territory under the control of damascus some of our colleagues think that these are not the right syrians. the information of the p.r. of syria to the u.n. is also not of interest he regularly informs people about civilian victims and i'd like to take this opportunity to fill in the gaps in the statements of the colleagues and also in the u.n. report in december 200-1000 the beginning of january 202042 people died 5 children 92 people were injured 30 children this mainly happens in aleppo province over the 1st 2 weeks of january there were more than 1000 attacks the number of those killed and injured amongst civilians and syrian military servicemen were in the hundreds. no tension is paid to recent violations by terrorists of civilian infrastructure in the neighborhood of homs material damage was done to the oil and gas complex in syria in rather than in praising the bullets ation the post conflict recovery in syria would be better to lift sanctions and return control to syrians of the oil deposit and not grab the syrian legacy. terms of protecting it saying that every tech thing it that would make a real contribution to improving the humanitarian situation of syrians. these are 2 statements upon peo in his press statement of the 4th of february said and this is a quote the united states the continued just before it will move. on the people of where they are so the regime russia iran and hizbollah let me and i'd like to point not people in it but people of. i'd like to explain it it is not a country it is a syrian province the syrian province of idlib has not citizens of live but rather syrian. citizens in it who have come under the auspices of the terrorists who are running rampant there and so the secretary of state referred to the barbaric attacks in islam but we'll come back to that barbaric nature of the attack later during the counterterrorist operation of the syrian army more than 4000 fighters were killed 17 tanks mortar fires and machine guns in this regard it is astonishing the desire of some western countries to have terrorist groups in italy as named as the moderate opposition. is well maybe not that banned or doesn't really present a threat is something that recently we've heard more often from official persons from those people who've actually convened a meeting today we have a question regarding the calls to have a national ceasefire in line with residents in 20 to 54 paragraph 8 of the resolution says that there is a need however to combat terrorism and we'll come back to that to unfortunately the recent tragic death of the russian and turkish military servicemen is very tragic there are ongoing attacks of the russia came in. base and this talks about the fact that. there is rampant impunity in the air live area for the fighters given the situation we continue to cooperate with turkey in order to d. conflict and to decrease tensions contact is conducted between the presidents the ministers of foreign affairs and political and military departments this cooperation is something we continuing to ensure that nobody is left to one side. just as with cooperation as part of their standard format where along with turkey and iran we are helping to put forward the political process this is something we're doing mr president i would just like to clearly say that the russian federation is firmly committed to the norms of international humanitarian law aims that the russian military is working is the use of resources to hold this and to ensure there is accessible information and our interactions are proportional in nature and a clear demonstration of this is the fact that there is proportions proportionate given the number of facilities in the zone of operation i'd also like to assure you that terrorists in tin and tends to focus on civilian facilities including schools and they're ignoring their special status from their positions they are just revile eating the geneva conventions. the fact that on the 27th of january they seized the central hospital in there and the n.-g. o. that was servicing the hospital announced this in its press release now we're talking about barbarity i'd like to remind you that as a result of the operations in iraq and mosul country and bongos i told you about that thanks to the information. published we know about this in mosul that was taken by the. i still more than half a 1000000 people were attacked from 721-0000 people died as a result of and strikes and several 1000 were injured according to un habitat that assessed this. to ation right after the operation in the eastern most these strikes from the air an artillery destroyed more than 90 percent of all residential homes 90 percent of all residential homes this is the example of cell activity is it that we are trying to be preached about today or should the collie's prove that the hospitals and clinics were not actually touched in most all that they were just in the remaining 10 percent how many open sessions of the kinds we had how many press conferences absolutely 0 there be no u.n. investigation into this either perhaps the operation in iraq or was conducted differently but there were mortars there were so many you to.