For joining us and our to International Daniel hawkins with the tonights welcome to the program. Kurdish military forces claimed to have repelled an attack on a border town in the north in the north of syria thats in the province of raka earlier today turkey launched a ground offensive against kurdish groups and Islamic State terrorists in the region this comes after a 1st phase of airstrikes on 2 northern towns where the video footage shows thousands of locals fleeing the area following the launch of the Turkish Operation the Syrian Democratic forces say 5 civilians have been killed in the offensive earlier it also accused her of deliberately targeting civilian areas this is what locals have been saying about the situation. America and other countries should protect us theyre committing sin here our Children Women is there really no mercy let everyone stand up for us arabs foreigners sin sin. This is an occupation we are a peaceful people we live calmly work to our own business it is
And that 2 people are killed after numerous shootings in the german town of landsberg one of them reportedly took place outside a synagogue one suspect has already been arrested at this point in time earlier police said multiple armed suspects were at large. Also this hour in ecuador a violent anti austerity protest lead to the government relocating from the capital. Here watching our team to National Bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. We start with breaking news this hour turkey has announced the launch of a military offensive in syria president says its aimed at the Kurdish Workers Party and Islamic State terrorists Syrian State Television reports that operation peace spring began with turkish fighter jets delivering airstrikes on the town of a. Elaine in northern syria. Now prior to the operation donald trump withdrew troops from the area moved out was both condemned within the u. S. And abroad with republicans and democrats saying
Destruction. And as the u. S. Is roundly condemned for abandoning its kurdish allies in syria we look at whether the decision was somewhat predictable. Youre watching R T International bring you a live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. German Police Report 3 shootings 2 in the city of hall and one in landsberg some 15 kilometers away 2 people have been confirmed killed video of the suspected shooter has emerged in the german media showing the moment one of the attacks one shooting occurred outside a synagogue and another at a shop there are also reports of a grenade being thrown at a Jewish Cemetery across live now to evangelise whos in berlin for us bring us the latest. Well as mentioned earlier 3 shootings have been reported by the police on wednesday afternoon and highly germany one took out of a synagogue the other at a local could shop and the other one about 15 kilometers away at a nearby town called landsberg it all happened at 1 pm local time ar
Found in ecuador violent anti austerity protests lead to the government relocating from the capital. Great to have you with us this is r. T. International. The president of turkey has lost the military offensive in syria against kurdish groups and Islamic State terrorists the airstrikes were reportedly launched on 2 towns in Northern Syria. Amid a son witnessed the assault. How do you know the nearest. From here i can hear turkish fighter jets flying behind my back i just got an urgent message that the eastern part of the town of commish lee was attacked 3 mortar shells by turkish artillery are full of here near. Locals very concerned about whats happening its quite possible that civilians will start leaving this area its expected that thousands or maybe even hundreds of thousands of civilians may flee so the operation by turkey has in the begun but no concrete action is being taken by the International Coalition or Syrian Democratic portables. Operation peace spring was announced earl
President and also preparing to vote at one of the vastly of bigger scale and in the outlines of general election plans which will take 3 months and consist of 7 phases why this is all the international reaching you live for moscow welcome to the global updates and by from here in moscow, i have michael quiet. Moscow says its 4th is a 4th or the afresh. A 10 by you trade in troops to infiltrate russian border regions. Drone footage, released by the Russian Defense ministry, shows a group of ukraine. And so just trying to sneak across the board into the above broad region. Moscow sets up a sub and to us was quickly beaten back, losing up to 30 soldiers, 3 tags and multiple other vehicles in and out there on such a day to civilians. Ready killed and 3 more when they dr. Residential part of the russian city of belgrade came on the ukrainian shelling and thats according to the regions golf. No more ukrainian strikes has since been reported in the area with no casualties so far are to produ