to. very well welcome you watching r.t. international with me. now our top story this hour a fiery debate has taken place at the u.n. headquarters in new york over the conflict in syria the damascus envoy addressed the emergency session accusing turkey and other countries of occupying and pillaging syria and supporting terrorists groups more pain reports from new york. quite strong disagreements were articulated between the countries represented at the 15 member body that leads the united nations now when the representative of the united states spoke she had harsh words for both russia and syria accusing them of inappropriate and basically unacceptable actions in their efforts to retake the province of live from terrorist forces the trumpet ministration condemns in the strongest possible terms the assad regime iran hezbollah and russia's barbaric an unjustified military offensive. to be quite clear what we are witnessing is deliberate lethal violence against thousands of innocent children women and men now she also mentioned that the united states was going to provide aid to help rebuild syria in the aftermath of the conflict however observers have looked at the situation in iraq in the aftermath of the u.s. invasion many years on and they have cast doubt on those claims and promises now the russian representative spoke about how it seemed like the meeting was convened for the purpose of preventing the syrian arab republic from retaking the province of it live from the terrorists it seems like the meeting was almost scheduled at a range to try and impede the syrian government's efforts this is what russian ambassador to ben ziad to say these unplanned meets and syria flew a common pattern convene precisely when terrorist groups in the country are under threat and the syrian government is regaining control of its own territory i would like to remind you that these groups are recognized as terrorists by the security council syria has a right and a d.c. to combine terrorists on its sovereign territory now the representative of the syrian arab republic spoke about the need for his country's territorial integrity to be respected as it is being widely violated with foreign forces in the country who were not invited by the internationally recognized syrian government which is a u.n. member state furthermore you seem to believe that essentially the u.n. security council has been transformed almost into something else this is what he had to say you will heard the intervention of the u.s. permanent representative when she said that he is a nato ally so this is not a security council but rather a council that she's being used as a nato forum it is an acceptable threat to say inside this house that the united states of america protects to keep its final ations of the charter and international rule my dedication reiterates that attempts by countries. to impose names whose agenda on the security council would among the credibility of this council and refute the pretext used by some to demonize the syrian state's 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 is forces now one particular group terrier al shaab 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 ad lib against their ongoing presence in the presence of other militants there have been attacks on humanitarian corridors which is a violation of international law in addition they have been using civilians as human shield syrian representative when speaking emphasize that their territorial integrity was being very very widely violated and emphasized that they were determined to defeat the terrorist forces and that it seemed like the united states and nato were essentially trying to undermine their efforts and prevent them from defeating these terrorist forces and retaking their province of libs so quite a strong disagreement between countries represented at the u.n. security council meeting that just took place here in manhattan well generalists my grotty thinks western powers are not interested in ending the conflict in syria. well this goes way beyond the concept of terrorists that are is another man's freedom fighter. of the black and white of who the west has been supporting all the way through this crisis in syria has been al qaida affiliates all the time of all the way the same with turkey the same with the u.k. the same with israel so it just seems that they have no more cause to play what we can only imagine what would happen. russian a russian delegation to the u.n. or iranian or syrian said something along the lines of will exist targeting isis the west the u.s. and france want to prolong this conflict this is exactly what they're trying to do whatever takes in your heart affiliates it sounds insane doesn't it but that's exactly what's going on there where they're appealing to the united nations in order to protect our border fillets you could only make this stuff up but that's exactly what's going on. the chair of the us democratic national committee has called for a reassessment of the delayed results from the iowa caucus as off the downs will raise what if they were factually correct so among testy polls. i will caucus the democratic caucus still missing a whopping 3 percent of the results the race is very very close extremely close booted judges in the lead with 26.2 percent and bernie sanders 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 a judge and sanders do have each 11 delegates basically whoever gets the 1st prime 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 we canvass enough is enough 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 iowa democratic party to immediately begin a re canvass so for us a tweet really came unexpected for the democrats who have already seen a lot of how they came as a surprise to them so what this recant this means is 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 delay that these are important results and it's also important to note that this these are 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 the new hampshire were only days away from that. well the 100 precincts reporting consists of phase in their result for missing day so inaccurate calculations also took place if any to validate the results correctly and on totally has caused widespread. folx i don't know what is going on with the iowa democratic party on the slow trickle of results how many of the counties are having their results foolishly reported by the i.d.p. every county needs to release the results no place to go i wonder if they can think the democrats was a deliberate is stalling the release of the iowa caucus results for as is participating in increasing the confusion by asking for even more review even more time to pass between the time the voters voted and the results that they see this is a way of disconnecting voters from the results that they expected when they participated in those caucuses and at a certain point the people of iowa won't remember how they voted and any result that the democrat party wants to report they'll be able to chaos benefits fraud the longer and more difficult it is to understand the easier it will be to report something that didn't happen and people will accept it and the democrat party is terrified that sanders will be the candidate and the democrats will have only managed to tap the brakes on their principal problem which is how to prevent the popularity of bernie sanders from causing him to be the candidate that loses in a landslide to donald trump and they're willing to risk and barest meant to make sure by fraudulent means that he doesn't win. have announced changes to the way they fight doctors materials but the vague warding in the new rules is raising questions as the old quarter expects. 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 satire is another man's trigger there's bound to be those who will find hilarious songs like this one unhealthy for a political discourse. twitter has boiled its definition of so-called doctored images 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 you tube. and information as well as an open platform for who flee political discourse 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 probably every day like a bug just like here. we need new babies out there think we need time to make new ones because the old ones just become so big twitter's 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 elisa tucker means the left can't mean twitter oh yeah well now no one can make your bed in the us 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 comrades 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 prominent american corruption activist and founder of projects veritas james o'keefe pays a council suspended by twitter earlier this week i thought that he was wrongly accused of leaking private data belonging to members of bernie sanders is campaign t. the dispute began when a washington post reporter accused project veritas of publishing secret recordings of volunteers and sons as campaign rather than staffers or james o'keefe then wrote a tweet requesting every trunk shown and providing a link to publicly available election information as proof the volunteers were actually employees and although the reporter retracted his story o'keefe the count was still restricted well twitter defended the ban saying the journalist had violated the platforms rules by posting private information without consent to implicate gave us his own account of what happened. you've 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 he the field organizer for bernie sanders in the state of iowa and then twitter locks my account and does not allow me to tweet it until they tell me i have to delete the tweet reporting the f.e.c. information 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 look at this tweet i've appealed the decision trying to get twitter to change their mind but it was 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. to make a shake up in german politics the key regional prime minister has quit just hours after taking up the post that summit a huge backlash of a political union that brought him to power. this resignation was inevitable the dissolution of the parliament is inevitable if detroit yesterday with a perilous trick of damage democracy there was no cooperation with the f.t. there is no such cooperation and will never be taught 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 and yet he's fairly much in the firing line at the moment and it's been huge backlash to this situation it's unfolded into india backlash from politicians also from the public as 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 india 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 bad day for democracy. chancellor merkel have to say something because she often repeated that promise that there would be no alliance between alternative for germany and hope democratic union it's really seen as the big to boo in german politics to have anything to do with a half day to try and gears them to gain power in fact you saw large demonstrations across germany on wednesday evening against what we've seen happening today new. turns as one of the smallest states in the german federal republic but the rock that being thrown in there and not pool has certainly cast ripples far afield christian linda who's the head of the free democratic party that thomas kennedy belongs to least for now in fact he's called for votes of confidence while speaking to the party leadership when it comes to the cd themselves local representatives in the states of today just saying they don't want to see new elections in the state it does look like that's the direction we're heading in at the moment when you look at that it's hard to think that would have been possible just a short while ago while angle a miracle was hades of the christian democratic union that there would be a local faction of the policy that would be so publicly. against what head office is saying there will be a meeting of christian democratic union top brass here in berlin on friday as they continue to discuss the fallout from what's going on in the states elections. we've got reaction to the story from both sides of germany's political spectrum parliament voted with this majority for this liberal and it is clear that our deputies from f.t. also supported this liberal candidate but it's completely constitutional completely democrat democratic the political left wing a leader of the centrist elite and bowlen is not a willing to accept that in a federal state the parliament elects a liberal to be prime minister because they say he has the support of the wrong after all party if he in 2 renier the 2nd largest force and the people voted for it chose and which states democracy in germany is now after a long government of i get our merkel to lead a. regional federal government and you left it through fascist so this is. a group of which of course it's not a question of legal it's a quest question of politics in this year. of course in the professional political. system on the federal level you are professional you move all and you think forward rich scenarios. and if you know that sooner you can happen the. kind of trick tries to bring in. government religion to meet it it's all fascist politics you should do anything to him to. a group of $130.00 german public figures have signs and a pill for the relief of wiki leaks founder julian assange from prison in the u.k. from a german vice chancellor sigma gabrielle is among the signatories as well as several nobel prize winners. is this. our aim is to make it clear to the public that it's not only about the defense of the sun it's also about the defensive freedom of opinion and the press and consequently of democracy itself this in discovering state crimes journalist whistleblowers and the media need to fear persecution imprisonment or even fear for their lives in the future the 4th power is more than in danger. signs was arrested in london last april and is currently serving a 50 weeks then transferred skipping bail back in 2012 is also facing extradition to the u.s. on espionage and computer hacking charges the american case centers on the publication by wiki leaks of thousands of classified military files in 2010 including this video incriminating u.s. troops in iraq if convicted assad's could get a prison term of up to 175 years the final stage of his extradition trial has been pushed back to may meanwhile us aren't remains in belmarsh prison as long as only recently removed from solitary confinement after repeated appeals by his legal team citing poor health he still faces tight restrictions on visitors what his lawyers say they've also found it difficult to meet their client in an open letter last month dozens of leading medical experts warned the u.k. government that the wiki leaks co-founder could die in prison affair echoed on multiple occasions by the un's special rapporteur on torture. the blatant and sustained arbitrariness shown by both the judiciary and the government in this case suggests an alarming departure from the u. case commitment to human rights and the rule of law unless the u.k. urgently changes course and alleviates the inhuman situation mr songes continued exposure to arbitrariness and abuse may soon end up costing him his life hopefully the judge will decide in a soft as favor and and turn extradition down on the on the grounds that the u.s. is not an honorable partner in these proceedings i think it's clear that assad cannot be will not be given a fair trial fair treatment and the british government should take that into account the prosecution of a sausage is obviously would be a major blow to to press freedom throughout the world he's been put in and solitary confinement until very recently in a maximum security prison and that's obviously having a very damaging effect in terms of as his physical and mental health so it's been it's been extremely harsh treatment. and and certainly belies britain's reputation as a place of civil liberties and civilized treatment of people like that. a healthy girl who's been living in a moscow hospital her entire life is being hounded to social services that decisions being made by a court after her parents fell to take her home for 5 is this girl is 5 years old and she's had a bizarre sheltered life. this is the room where she lives it's not in a house or apartment and her relatives are not by her side it's an elite private hospital in central moscow and for entire life she has never left his grounds for the wrestling machine or stressing me or her up in washington. you. don't have to be here to do much. the voice or sharing is not her mother it's her nanny the mother has decided that her daughter is hopelessly ill and must be confined to a hospital. however doctors say that the girl is perfectly healthy and there is no medical reason to keep her in the clinic although they have been unable to discharge or without parental consent you know the reason i don't she doesn't know and yet in life but she's a good normal girl the girl's parents have paid the hospital huge sums of money almost $200000.00 a year to keep her there in the company of private nannies almost a year ago the parents stopped sending their payments but they still refused to take her home and a legal battle has been raging so the hospital convinced the parents to leave their child in the hospital all this time and that's the logical conclusion the child has been hospital for 5 years and the parents are not doctors they just paid the bills how reliable is information the child is healthy and there is no need for her to stay in hospital. on monday the corps delivered its verdict that seeing the most evil and your resume kim the parents are to be stripped of parental rights to the girl and she will be placed in the custody of child welfare services perhaps soon she will final leave the confines of the hospital and see the world she has been drawing for all these years well the parents can appeal that decision but russian officials do hope to eventually give the girl to her grandparents i would not say but i'd say your thoughts on all stories so if this story has affected you or anything else than to get in touch by following us on social media and even your comments that we're back in just about 30 minutes with the latest headlines you know. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promises 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sanders was just point one percent with bernie winning the popular vote count by more than 2500 votes sorry mayor pete declaring yourself the winner and your move to become the next president doesn't mean you actually won the matter how much your campaign gave the wanky voting at maker declaring yourself the winner well you see that only works if you're a us corporate backed pond in venezuela then declaring yourself the winner works for now you still have to let the votes actually be counted here in the united states for now anyway and speaking of vote counts apparently despite 3 full days of said counting the iowa democratic party and the d.n.c. still can't figure out how to even do that right according to an analysis by the new york times more than $100.00 precincts reported results that were internally inconsistent that were missing data or that were not possible under the complex rules of the iowa caucuses but thankfully folks have no fear because the great man himself yes the chair of the democratic national committee mr tom perez himself has declared from up on high that enough is enough 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.