A war against the whole of humanity. Also coming up tonight the World Economic forum is now underway and indias Prime MinisterNarendra Modi today fired the first warning shot aimed at protectionist policies and perhaps a protectionist president yeah im going to take a hack. Give me strength it is essential that the spirit of competition between the major nations of the world does not become a war on between them not. We begin the day with what could quickly become the latest war in Syria Kurdish fighters the Ground Troops credited with knocking out Islamic State in syria are now the terrorist targeted by turkey and in the worst Case Scenario we have a military conflict erupting with two nato allies turned enemies and on saturday turkey launched and land an air campaign known as Operation Olive Branch across the border in the Northern Syrian region of freeze you see right there now why fream well that is the region controlled by kurdish militias known as the y p g and considered to be terrorists by ankara turkey fears that Kurdish Forces could expand their hold on Northern Syria but this isnt just a conflict over an isolated piece of land targeting the why p. G. Essentially puts turkey in direct conflict with the United States a risk that turkey for now appears willing to take had a net positive. Regardless of the price. We will tear down the tetter kota door that they are trying to establish in the region. Well theres some tough talk coming from turkey yet it concedes that it discussed this military offensive with the u. S. And with moscow beforehand well lets pull in our correspondents in russia and the us tonight yuri rich other joins us from moscow and Michele Macneill is in the u. S. Capital washington to both of you good evening yuri i want to start with you can we confirm what russia is saying i mean did it give turkey its blessing for this Operation Olive Branch. Hi brenda there was indeed a small russian contingent enough for a contingent and to the kurds believed even the russians who was there would be more or less safe from terror attacks experts say the kurds obviously believed that the turkish and forces wouldnt come because russia has a sort of agreement with the pentagon covering that part of syria but last week a terrorist military location came to moscow for told with the russian minister of defense and apparently they reached a deal the deal supposedly allowed to Turkish Forces to go to a free while turkey for its part allowed to russian iranian and Syrian Forces so everyone fighting on the syrian governments side to bomb to this here in the position into it so they have obviously been to operations going on at the same time on the ground as a National Duration in one of these socalled these collation zones and to the Turkish Operation against the kurds ok so if we go to operations going on when once the dust settles i mean yuri what does russia plan to get out of all of this well russia is a big military power brand to that the has become an influential player in the region for russia it seems to be very important to the turkey allowed to them to fight against parts of the socalled al nusra front which is a part of the Syrian Opposition in egypt province province so there is obviously Something Big at stake here as well moscow wants to drive a wedge between turkey and nato between turkey and its western allies because for russia the greatest prize could be if turkey breaks with the west and is special with United States yes speaking of the United States what are we to make of washingtons luke warm reaction to all of this. Let me ask you i mean why why has americas response so far been so muted. Well because washington is walking a very fine line on this issue i mean the u. S. Clearly doesnt want to anger turkey a key nato ally but of course it has also no interest in an all out extensive war against the kurds because of course the courts played a key role in defeating the isis the Islamic State in syria so the u. S. So the u. S. In a way is in a very difficult position here and we heard from europe that one of russias aims here really is to destabilize already strained relations between turkey and the u. S. So michelle i mean how is the u. S. Reacting to that if we if one of the goals of russia is to see two nato allies basically fall out with each other well it seems to be that for now at least the u. S. Is siding with with turkey a key nato ally and not the kurds this is of course contingent on on this this this is a kurdish district defense if not not extending beyond a few days probably and also not being a becoming an odd war against the kurds but it seems that so far when push comes to shove the u. S. Sides with them with its key nato ally instead of the kurds and. Michelle let me start with you i mean the kurds they were indispensable in the fight against Islamic State they were considered the best Ground Troops that the u. S. Led coalition had against Islamic State in syria and now weve got a different conflict is the u. S. Willing to let its best Ground Troops just in to be delivered to the turks and just be abandoned. Well it could certainly be read like that right now at least and also critics here in the us who actually actually make that point that you made that the us its basically leave it leaving the courts out hanging to dry and and this could only change and as i said before if if perhaps this this this this offensive which is supposed to be limited extends and becomes a full fledged war than that then it could be that the u. S. Will will will try to rein in turkey and europe briefly i mean is that how wed seen in moscow is well. Yes it seems that the russians have used the currents to achieve their wide goals goals much more important to moscow than surrendering a small seat in syria brant are the correspondents michelle in washington youre in her shadow in moscow do both of you thank you very much. Well in recent months has as we have heard so called Islamic State has lost control of most of the territory that it once held in syria and iraq a victory over borders but what about winning the hearts and minds as defeat looms foreign fighters for i. D. S. Returning to their home countries are posing a growing threat hundreds of vias fighters came from the russian republic of chechnya now what is it about chechnya our Moscow Bureau chief yuri rashad oh wanted to find out himself. To believe that the capital of georgia one of russias neighbors to the self a late last year an operative of the socalled Islamic State was killed here Russian Media celebrated a victory in the war on terror. The man who was tired a chechen carrying a russian passport who had been hiding in georgia previously had allegedly been home in chechnya to recruit fighters. There are roughly eight hundred tensions fighting for isis their return to their homeland is a major problem for russia and russian president Vladimir Putin has already declared victory over the islamist extremists. You can celebrate this victory for a while but you better pray five times that while youre celebrating another terrorist attack doesnt take place. That. Grozny is not only the Geographical Center but also the heart of chechnya. After a debilitating what in the ninetys it was rebuilt with money from moscow. Nowadays the city seems peaceful but appearances can be deceiving. Chechnya has become a hotspot of religious fanaticism since isis began searching for new recruits here. This week. Were due high unemployment social discontent and soured hopes to drive many in the region towards one of the most perverse forms of islam and into the hands of the jihadists. Do artists are sowing on Fertile Ground in chechnya despite a near total state surveillance and the despite a two leader. Of allegiance towards putin and the kremlin rule in the last few years whole families left for iraq and seem. They will be coming back now with a victory of isis has been declared. Here in grozny see those who are trying to return from syria and iraq back to chechnya as a threat to state security their support for this socalled Islamic State has become a matter of profound concern for chechen leader runs on of course a key step in containing militants returning home would be to prevent young people from joining the terrorist organisation in the first place despite a series of military defeats isis is still recruiting fight us primarily among young people so with the government is focusing on prevention in this Vocational School in girls the mother of as militants warn young people of the dangers of jihad to recruitment their children who were around to the same age as the students when they left for syria. I love my fellow chechens in the name of allah i am a patriot but i want to warn you about what happened to me my daughter and her husband left to join isis her husband is dead and there is no trace of my daughter when. Her story hits home. Thank you its the first time were talking about it so openly here at school. I dont know probably because were all afraid to talk about it. What are you afraid of that will go to sleep one night and when we wake up our brothers will have left to join isis no one can see it coming. Obvious not to know anyone who is with them now. I was with them. Everyone says youll find a paradise if you go but thats not true paradise can only be where your mother lives. Thousands of chechens have a different opinion of this sort of paradise in acts of terror. But their path is leading them home. For their families if the our husbands and sons. Put the government though they are terrorists and to no terrorists. I have to understand what is going on in the minds of chechnya and help us do that im joined here at the big table by Christiane Osce told he is a historian who has written extensively on the separatist conflict in chechnya and the role of radical islam there because it is good to have you on the show thanks for having me why did and why do so many chechens end up joining Islamic State well you have to see that many of the chechens who joined this lemming state have been fighting. Against russia for years being members of the socalled caucasus emirate and islamist Terror Organization that has been established in two thousand and seven and has carried out a range of terror attacks in russia such as the airport bombing in two thousand and eleven in moscow. After the rise of the Islamic State many of the those people decided to go a brooch in order to build a caliphate because the Chechen Security authorities had managed almost to wipe out them completely i guess one could say those guys wanted to finish the job in syria they hadnt many to do at home. Just having the desire to join in Something LikeIslamic States did did that come from their experiences in chechnya or was was that imported into their country i mean they have obviously they have an islamic past is it something that is part of their roots or was it something from outside you know although the chechen people west upon a long lasting should vision of Islamic Resistance against russian rule they had never been sunny all to books is extreme. Due to the start of the first chechen war a Certain Group of radical jihadists came to chechnya join the resistance and menage to spread their ideology call them among the people after the chechens had won the war and some in one thousand nine hundred six those people stayed and turned chechnya in what you could call Islamic State that was why were they able to spread this while he visited the youre talking about me what with what was going on what was in the peoples minds at the time that made them open to that you know it is because of the origins of the first chechen war which started actually as a typical separates conflict there was no deal about religion at all but when those people came to chechnya they started to tell the people that theyre not fighting only for their freedom but for the religion and although the chechens have been muslims for Something Like two hundred years their religion never. So many to be very dominant above people you know and yet they didnt have a really profound understanding of what is islam and it was easily for the preachers to manipulate people in their interest so they were vulnerable and it was they were easily manipulated or brainwashing exactly. How is russia responding to the return of these chechens who you know were as fighters and now want to come home and live in peace or maybe not in the adjoining illegal terrorist groups in russia is a serious crime so if the chechen jihad this came home they would either be put into prison or be tortured or killed and they know that the so the Russian Security authorities would deal with them quiet roughly. Which means they will put them away i mean if a chechen came back to chechnya romans one could be personally the site whats going to happen to this guy either he would be killed either he would just disappear we dont know it but can we even talk can we talking about chechens coming home or trying to come home is is that even happening you know i think you know chechen chechnya is a really small country you know that theres a inhabitation something that one Million People families know each other from that point of futile most impossible for homecoming terrorists to remain unseen you know. I guess there are not many people coming home the story christiane was told giving us some very valuable insights into the theory of radicalization and the history of chechnya thank you very much thanks. Who weigh. In on it everyone is talking about an interconnected world i mean we will have to accept the fact that globalization is slowly losing its luster the. Sort of way everyone talks about reducing Carbon Emissions but there are very few people or countries who back their words with the resources to help developing countries to adopt appropriate technology but when you look at low road you look back on it. Now that was never in ramadi speaking earlier today he is the first indian Prime Minister in more than twenty years to address the World Economic forum in davos he warned that global free trade is being threatened by a new wave of isolationism and it came on the same day that u. S. President donald trump slapped tariffs on imported solar panels and washing machines the first move to correct what he sees as a global Playing Field that is tilted against the u. S. Economy. We want to go now to my colleague Helena Humphrey she is covering the World Economic forum for us in davos she joins us now good evening to you helen i mean it truly seemed that modi was offering his answer to the policy of trump isnt today is that what it was you know brian i would characterize this is a passive aggressive speech from the indian Prime Minister modi he didnt single out trump by name but he did single out his policies he said that trade barriers represented a bigger biggest risk to the World Economy in the same way as terrorism in the same way as Climate Change even to Global Security and then of course the irony that waltz neurons are modi was deeding this warning from davos in washington the u. S. President donald trump was busy signing off on those rofft of tariffs stealing a blow to International Cooperation and of course to free trade as well. And today at the same time we had the Nobel LaureateEconomist Joseph Stiglitz criticizing trumps tariffs saying that they will not create jobs and creating jobs is probably the biggest economic class that is hanging over the world right now especially for young people isnt it. Everybody is talking about job creation here at the World Economic forum in davos people are well aware of the fact that robots are taking over more jobs than governments can create off the back of a painful financial crisis and one country that knows about that is greece im delighted to be joined by dessie cherubs conscript now hes working for what and a volt a Greek Energy Company that was founded during the crisis there and has you know is a surprising Success Story how many jobs did you manage to create hell in the midst of a chronic crisis we have managed to create two hundred jobs a sustainable jobs reliable jobs at this hundredth the sustainable level of jobs and were educating our Energy Specialists in greece just tell us then a little bit more about how you managed to create these jobs in the depths of such turmoil because still currently in greece were talking about a youth Unemployment Rate of around forty percent i had this role but we were how always had a vision we had a purpose and we know that were going to do it because then theres this sector is growing in greece and we have to believe and dont not give a patient to what is happening but just work and be passionate about what were doing now some people would say that Success Stories like these are actually only possible out of the ashes of a crisis do you subscribe to that view or would you find that a cynical view i thought of as a scrape where the living room so. We believe that we can they suddenly get something weve only got involved there are Many Companies that that experience that this amazing journey despite whatever is happening in greece and what about the great the brain drain now today that greece is having to battle with i mean do you have a view on that of course you know we are trying to fight the brain drain in greece we want people to stay in greece the youth the same greece and to be there when greece and goes back to development and growth now we understand that greek Prime Minister alexey press will be having a series of meetings tomorrow here in davos is there a point that you would like him to hammer home to his counterparts to call the youth to stay there to will be leaving grace and maybe to communicate to Success Stories that happened the last five fears because maybe of the economic crisis all right does he care of gentes go from what and volta greek and company which is having a surprising Success Story out of what was a very and continues to be a painful crisis brant yeah it is interesting to see to the optimism that she has there considering what we are now what weve all seen happening in greece and in the eurozone in the last couple of years with the euro crisis speaking of europe tomorrow is going to be the day when european leaders take to the stage in davos we have the german chancellor Angela Merkel we have the french president will back on both delivering speeches tomorrow what are you what are you expecting and are you expecting them to also give an answer to trump isnt the way mr modi did today. Thats why theyre coming they will be out in force to put on a european united front in the face of protectionist policies its interesting that german chancellor Angela Merkel will be giving the first address as she hasnt been to davos for the past two years and yet she is coming to spite the fact that she doesnt have a government embodying back home perhaps there is the sense that she has been persuaded lets say by french president emanuel that might call to come and put a united front on him in davos and thats something the french president really needs because he wants to put forward you know a series of years a reforms to backstop the French Economy he has to revive the French Economy and he needs a strong euro zone and a Strong European Union to do so so were really going to see that that team that Franco German team i think persuaded by some of the charisma of a french president and i mean its not its not by chance either that we have two european leaders speaking on the same day we know that president we know that he is depending on the german chancellor to be his partner to push the european project the german chancellor she doesnt have a new government yet is she going to be speaking tomorrow as a a wounded leader i think people are always interested to hear what german chancellor Angela Merkel has to say she has provided a voice of reason in you know past years and i think the devil salit will be looking for that she has championed International Cooperation she will continue to do so tomorrow and the devil salit will surely provide a ringing endorsement of that i think brant and before we let you go ahead with how can our viewers keep track of the talks in davos and keep track of what your doing. D. W. Dot com of course were providing updates also cool as videos reports and of course please to finish fifth follow us all to twitter at d w business we are tweeting like crazy here from the onion reaching the World Economic forum i can attest to that you have been a very very busy busy journalist today that is for sure well look forward to what you have to say tomorrow especially with those two major european speeches are right my colleague Helena Humphrey in davos covering the World Economic forum for us tonight helena as always thank you very much. Well the day is nearly done the conversation online continues you can find us on twitter. Like to me forgive use the hash tag the day and remember whatever happens between now and tomorrow is another day well see you didnt. Touch a. Little. On. What drives the economy. And use the economy to. The media germany always has its finger on the cause. Of the market the damage. And the response to. The jury. The in. 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