Just got more chaotic as alliances shift the country state media says that pro Regime Forces are going to help Kurdish Militia expel turkish troops from the border region of afrin that turkey invaded last month the move pushes turkey a nato ally and syria one step closer to direct conflict possibly even war and so far neither side is backing down turkeys foreign minister responding to the news by saying that if the Syrian Regime moved to protect the kurds the turkish offensive would continue we will hear directly from the former leader of the syrian kurds in just a moment but first this report on the fighting in the territory that his party currently governs. An entire town in mourning this is become a familiar sight enough rain in recent weeks with residents regularly attending mass funerals for kurdish fighters killed in clashes with turkish troops. Its against this backdrop that syrian state t. V. Reported on a move to change the dynamic of the fighting the news anchor of this bulletin announcing that militias allied to the Syrian Government would soon arrive in a free to help Kurdish Forces push back the turkish offensive. Meanwhile in government held aleppo just south of a free syrian kurds have been demonstrating against the turkish offensive and in support of y p g fighters many of whom can be seen in the city. Now know theyre the syrian army and we are one the Syrian People and we are one we are all one and we have one well. During a visit to jordan the Turkish Foreign minister said a deal wouldnt affect his countrys resolve. If one of my kitchen almost all of my kitchen you know if the Syrian Regime really does enter affray into clans Kurdish Militia then theres no problem however if it comes in to protect them then nothing and nobody can deter and stop the turkish army its very clear Operation Olive Branch and affray names to cleanse these areas from terrorists if it is that it would tell you. Turkey is keen to avoid a kurdish stronghold on its border with syria so its own forces launched a Major Military offensive into a frame last month in a bid to expel the kurdish fighters that control the region the offensive has further complicated an already but will during web of alliances and rivalries in syria. And joining me now here in the studio is the former coleader of the Syrian Kurdish party the p y d salo muslim thank you so much for joining us this evening complain too much do you have a deal on military cooperation and offering with the Syrian Government i know there is no deal yet whether there is and. Maybe with some mediation by the russians and others still they have reached the idea of good they are just waiting for the announcement by them if they have. Anything well it seems as if story and state media at least has announced a deal why do you think that they have gone ahead with that announcement if theres not currently a deal and say well its its rumors on the thats true there is Nothing Happened that may say that forces are moving forces i want me towards israel well even that of the same forces which forces that we just believe in the syrian army and the Syrian Military military service about not the. Procedure and iranians or is all of the others that are not welcome to our areas so. A deal though however is progressing and you seem to be optimistic that there will indeed be a deal in the end. What has been discussed have there been preconditions of the assad regime and what have might those preconditions have been what do they want from you well no actually there is no deal the politics of violence mainly is is a military voice because now we have a priority list now as you know the bush government is piling up part of syria which is in a shot of the north of syria and they are trying to recoup by the house and also and the policies to medicare demographic changes and so the priority is to protect the civilians who of syria and this is the governments duty to do it now it is their mission and we of course from the beginning i mean from the beginning of the Syrian Revolution we stated all the time well part of syria we have to protect that the syrian territory. I mean im not looking for any separation or any different ways all we are trying to do to get the Democratic Syria for all the components including the traditionally poor and others mainly they are saying Kurdish Forces is actually is not Kurdish ForcesDemocratic Syrian forces which include the kurds the out of all the components over there in the north of syria and now even the forces are fighting in off limits to all the components are sharing its not only the clears so everybody is sharing to protect their homes their lands and their villages so this is the case and the priority is to protect this territory of syria so you say its on the military level but of course we know that there isnt such a difference between the political and the military level that the two really go hand in hand at the end of the day ultimately. If the assad regime if the military forces were to step in and aid you know the white e. G. And the p y d. The the kurds there in syria arent you concerned alternately about allying yourself with a regime which has spent much of the past seven years massacring its own people yet the last could be poor protection of syrian territories or that but i mean in syria we have to agree to them by syrian territory and youre enough reading. On all the other areas also north of syria i mean we are talking about shah behavior for example is a core point but Turkish Military already in general is in houses all this area should be protected i mean even the sharma should get out of this areas so we are concerned about this one i mean just protecting growth the syrian territory is the priority now and then we look for the i mean the political solution how to live in syria Democratic Syria but it any time syria cannot return to the time before two thousand and eleven i mean this political regime must this region be could not be they should be in a new syria i mean for the most i think for everybody i mean we are part of if offering is syrian territory. We know of course that that the kurds are currently governing that area would it be an option for you that the Syrian Regime would step in and be the administration in that area in exchange with your some sort of deal should be if you are poke you know the things of course we have a project for the we should see this would be disarmed from allies because now we are talking about sudanese we are talking of the holidays the doozies is a disease the christians muslims and ethnically we are talking about the the curse of me and them two months so have how you can keep all those verses all together should be the most critical of the ones you cannot compare if you are talking about the unity of the syrian territory should be all of those should be in democratic system which we are to decentralize syria it means offering and other places not on the off brother please also they should have a Democratic Administration for these other to live together and the people should decide so in this stage when we are talking about the protection of the syria protecting the syria it means the priority to defend syrian land not to be a coup quoted by the other forces you mentioned a democratic system you mentioned the ability for the people to decide who are currently living there you mention people from various different backgrounds from from to various different areas we know that you have been fighting against the turks and what you say are authoritarian which are are not democratic according to your own definition but doesnt your government also have authoritarian tendencies as well because i mean we have reports for example of forced recruitment force consist conscription and restrictions on press freedom just to name a few demeaning the could share is already in the north of syria you know its not the authoritarian because we have. Everybody is sharing and we have a lections for the maybe communes there were local elections and we were just going to make the elections for all the area also so its democracy where. Everybody is sharing and so is the most with the system even for gender equality for example is not available in syria and other areas what we are trying to build is really democratic system and i think it could be an example for all of syria and it is the first time in the middle east i mean what we are trying to establish over the institutions the most with the constructions there a grassroots democracy where everybody is sharing in it so this is the system you have trying to establish and that that democratic system you actually have a name for it and we just want to mention it for our viewers its called democratic can federalism or Democratic Self Administration of its one that you talk about a lot but you know see that point is we have reports that your party p. Y. T. Does not allow other Political Parties to operate in the areas that you control i just want to bring in this quote from Human Rights Watch and think that you are to respond to it because this is part of Human Rights Watch is world report twenty eighteen this is what they said about your party they said the Security Forces in p y d controlled areas conducted a series of raids to close opposing Political Parties offices and detained and harassed members of the political opposition activists most were detained without any charges brought against them why do you not allow other Political Party doesnt it doesnt sound like democratic countries or at least that is not true we have a low for parties to establish parties varies now at this moment about twenty two parties we should all over that have permission and if in the area different parties but those. Some parties were killed today in turkey mainly specially their heads trying to do without permission they are trying to. Do i think of it to be acted without any permission because they dont want to recognize this is them over there so this is different we dont have parties i mean we have a lot of partners is very it is very democratic its needed only one hundred members to say to get the permission for political work thats all and orderly we have twenty two apologies and everybody is allowed to go and see them its not the i mean people it is one of those parties we were the first party who applied to get the permission who work in Political Activities lets just ask you turkey says that the why peachey and that the id that these are terrorist organizations. They say that they are no different from the p. K. K. Which we know that many governments around the world have classified as a terrorist organization the links are strong arent they know its not true but when you have no war where are you yourself though once with the p k k no i was with them civilian engineer and so there. Was an engineer in engineering why is it that then that nothing to do with why that they met for example the Atlantic Council they say that the y. P. G. s Casualty Data confirms that kurds from turkey total nearly half of the y. P. G. s self reported casualties between twenty thirteen and twenty sixty the implication there now that those are coming from the p. K. No no no we have actually i mean we have some numbers there were syrian kurds or syria they were among the people and then when the syrian conflict started they tended to defend their families and their syrian their curves for them not the people here anymore and we have i mean many people. Because you know somebody for mr odonohue was in syria for twenty years and his appropriation not one of the in syria and all of parts of kurdistan so this is Something Different and to have all going to relations with the because it is different and the we dont see people as a terrorist organization but what to say is trying i mean is that they just the. I mean the account everybody who looking for the democratic votes for the Kurdish People as a tourist and their want to connect them with a figure which is not true i would just like to look forward for a minute before we go because you know everyone recognizes the very Important Role that the kurds in syria played in fighting the socalled Islamic State supported by the United States we have to mention right now its turkey says that it is going to push the y. Peachey out of man bitch and then all the way back to the iraqi border that is threatening the system that you have in place right now that is threatening the territory that you are currently governing are you sure that your American Allies are going to continue to support you well the question is not that trick is just dreaming to do it because we have defeated. I mean which was instrument of turkey. To be. Implemented their plans their dreams because they are still thinking of mr humility and we defeat that i mean i was the Kurdish People why puji envoy p. J. They have defeated the truth is true months and we are depending on ourselves and our people and our organization and they want anybody we dont want any way to to fight instead of us if we are have a new coordination or or even with the International Alliance against the still valid and doing the drop perfect they are doing i mean him. Of course there is older brothers and these attacks and often it is kind of support for advantage because dyson being defeated in the reserve so is a kind of relief i mean to open another front with the Kurdish People and many fighters they were fighting in their resume out there withdrawn too often to defend their families over there so its kind of support of them to feel as supporting them. Depending on the International Alliance yes we have a member of the armed forces really have some kind of equipment with them and then she is not going to be finished used to be there was many statements by the american. I mean responsible people theyre saying theyre not going to throw four members from the areas so it means its not easy not easy for that if you that its that theyre not able is it to go through the border or to any of the like they are just dreaming i think we want to thank you so much for joining us this evening to talk a little bit about the shifting situation there in syria we very much appreciate it former coleader of the Syrian Kurdish party the p. Y. T. Salah muslim thank you very much and from. All the u. S. Special councils decision on friday to indict thirteen russians suspected of meddling in americas president ial election has thrown International Attention back on to kremlin backed internet propaganda d. W. Has been speaking to a former Internet Troll who worked at the Internet Research agency in St Petersburg which u. S. Investigators say is a fake news factory she told the moscow correspondent euro shadow that those thirteen arrests barely scratch the surface of what she describes as a mass operation. Russia apparently behind the fake news operation aimed to disrupting the twenty sixteen race for the white house. Two years ago this Young Journalist was working alongside the socalled Internet Trolls at the Russian Agency for Internet Research in St Petersburg to be official name of the troll factory whose bosses have now been indicted by the United States. And they have. Employees at the troll factory get a list of topics every day that they have to work through the bad news about the United States was always one of the more important topics. It was getting. Two years ago tortured rather try to make contact with various working inside the building to no avail the revelations by lifted the lid on the trial factory on savage being a street in russia second city. Curtains on the windows no sign at the entrance in this that unsuspicious looking building here in san pittsburg so called Internet Trolls are supposed to have dramatically meddled in the us election american investigators say. This video from inside the complex was sent to torture followed by another whistleblower says that better paid than the average russian more than a thousand people are thought to work here and its by no means the only troll factory in russia. Who stands in the last Movement Today that no one can exactly say how far these trolls have really influenced the us elections and individual voters mean yes but but its absolutely clear that there was a meddling going on. And as. Its enough for just one person to put out false information in return for payment that clearly constitutes an attempt to tamper at the. About the. Size the having sort of russians indicted in the us doesnt even begin to address the scale of the measuring. In thats its yours there werent just thirteen there werent even just one hundred thirty of them there were many more there was and still is an enormous operation going on. And the thirteen who have been accused are just the ones the americans have got hard evidence against i hope the investigations will continue to. Get them there are simply so many people who are working professionally for the russian Propaganda Machine i hope that others will soon be investigated. Until that happens face indictments appears to reveal just its a trophy i spoke of russias fake news. Well the Berlin InternationalFilm Festival is underway right now and my colleague scott ross perot and charlie tells them phil are among the lucky who get to see all of the films down there so guys. Its about half time there at the berlin allah what are your favorite so far. Yeah well for me i mean its funny because its the absolute first film i saw i love dogs which opened the festival Wes Andersons movie star Motion Animation film and its just a delight i mean its its working its fun its a really weird sensibility what you expect from wes anderson i loved it from beginning to end i was why i get my tail for the whole thing and i think. And of all the films ive seen since none of them talked this was this is my absolute favorite film so far about how i was really looking forward to this was anderson tell me one of my favorite directed in five days ways and isnt found out that he will not let you down. But i actually have my money on another film for the for the golden best so far and that is a most sensitive moment even film its goofy and me its an italian film very strong cost action a little guile as well in it and it basically tells a very complex story of motherhood and also what it means to be a woman as a female director and i think if this means to climb the name and i really think that this could be a womans year that definitely definitely interesting stuff yeah everyone was wondering what pearl and olive would do with regard to that need to movement but in the meantime i want to ask you guys about an unusual press Conference Today for a movie that was screened right and i understand that you were there. You know the film is called you toilet screen today its a very haunting and harrowing film its the story of the norwegian massacre of true remember two thousand and eleven terrorist attack in norway where seventy seven people were killed and this film is sort of a rican. Struction of the event in real time very powerful at the press conference this morning there were some of the survivors of the massacre and thats right the reason why this helps the director of this film a lot of the scripts and they were at the shoot so they really shared their stories of trying to and shape the picture of what happened that they were given a huge round of applause from the press and in that press conference i think for those of us who watched the film and with drawing with those with that moment on this story i think we heard especially need to then see here to see that here and in person was very moving very very quickly but there has actually been a lot of criticism about this has to be said people worried that it was it was too soon as any seven years since the attack there was also considered concern that it would glamorize the attack and now the right director dress that full on in the press conference he was saying it feels like its the right time its already today for this film if it feels like its not painful that its the wrong time for this he also said that its part of the. Political environment at the moment lets take a listen to what he has to say. You see right wing. Extremism coming up in europe i mean the new york. Bach so we need to remind people of what took place and what can happen again so for me its a mother of sort of bracing into our collective memory about this happened long ago and it might happen again if we dont stand up and protect our society. So such an important topic that was explored today just briefly guys just thirty seconds left in the show whats coming up tomorrow. Or tomorrow its i actually have a lot of. Film so far to morrow its going to be all of the stars that sounds like that sounds very exciting to some phil scott rock spiral on the red carpet as always thank you. Of the day is nearly done but dont forget as always the conversation continues online you can find us on twitter either at t w news my handle is at sarah kelly t. V. And dont forget the hash tag as always is the day thanks so much for watching us you can smile. 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