Syrias war just got more chaotic as alliances shift the country safe 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 that could 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 find as many of whom can be seen in the city. And then there are the syrian army and we are one of the Syrian People and we are one we are all one and we have one will. During a visit to jordan the Turkish Foreign minister said a deal wouldnt affect his countrys resolve. If one of my kitchen or my solemn occasion if the Syrian Regime really does enter affray into cleanse 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 and if it did terrorists it would then your. Turkey is keen to avoid a kurdish stronghold on its southern 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 e salah muslim thank you so much for joining us this evening from thank you very much do you have a deal on military cooperation and offering with the Syrian Government no there is no deal yet where there is. Maybe some mediation by the russians and others still they have the lease 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 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 saying forces it which forces that we just believe in the syrian army and the Syrian Military military is not the. Procedure and iranians or is one 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 me and 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 the violence mainly is is the military was there because now we have priorities now as you know the bush government is pieing a part of syria which is an issue of the north of syria and they are trying to recoup by the house and also the policies to make demographic changes and so the priority is to protect the civilians who are 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 and. 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 the same Kurdish Forces is actually is not Kurdish ForcesDemocratic Syrian forces which include the kurds the arabs all the components over there in the north of syria now even the forces are fighting in off limits to all the components are sharing and 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 for protection of syrian territories for it but i mean in syria we have to agree to them by syrian territory you mean offering. On all the other areas also north of syria i mean we are talking about china behavior for example is a quick point but Turkish Military already in general seem houses all this area should be protected i mean even to from the should get out of this area is so we are concerned about this one i mean sed protect him growth the syrian territory is the priority now and then weve come look for the i mean the political solution how to live in syria Democratic Syria but i think the time syria cannot return to the time before when two thousand and eleven i mean this political regime must this region is could not be it should be a new syria i mean for democratic for everybody and we are part of if offering is syrian territory. The we know of course 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 for some sort of deal should be if you are talking you know that the most of the things that of course we have a project for the which is the cedar should be decentralized because now we are talking about sudanese we are talking about the holidays the doozies is a disease that christians muslims. Are talking about of ups the careers of many men two months so have how you can keep all those verses all together should be democratic way otherwise you cannot keep them if you are talking about the unity of the syrian territory should be all of those should be in their Marketing System which we are to decentralize syria it means offering and other places not on the off but other places also they should have a Democratic Administration who used 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 coupon above 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 forced consist conscription and restrictions on press freedom just to name a few demeaning the could share is already in the north of syria and only a small thought through to you because we have. Everybodys sherry and we have a lections for the maybe communes and there were local elections and we were just going to make the elections for all the area also so its democracy where. Everybodys sharing and so its democratic 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 for the institutions the movement to constructions there grassroots democracy where everybody is sharing in it so this is this is them not trying to establish and that that democratic system you actually have a name for it and which is what i meant in it for our viewers its called democratic can federalism or democratic self in ministration astronomy its one that you talk about a lot but you know to that point. 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 were 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 and activists most were detained without any charges brought against them why do you not allow other Political Party doesnt it doesnt sound like Democratic Convention and this is not true we have a low for parties to establish parties and very is now at this moment about twenty two parties we should all over that have permission and if in the area different parties but those the. Some parties were killed today in turkey mainly specially their heads and trying to do without permission they are trying to. Do i think of it to be active without any permission because they dont want to recognize this system over there so this is different we dont have parties i mean we have a lot of concerts israel is is very democratic is needed only one hundred members to say to get the permission for political work thats all and already we have twenty two parties and everybody is allowed to go and see them its not the i mean pure it is one of those parties and 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 people id that these are terrorist organizations. They say that they are no different from the p. 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 heard the warning why would you yourself though once with the p k k no i wasnt with them civilian and genero and so there. Was an injury and engineering why is it that then that nothing to do with why is it then that 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. T. G. s self reported casualties between twenty thirteen and twenty sixty the implication there 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 that example could 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 some pity for mr wards island he was in syria for twenty years and hes a procreation not only in syria all of part of criticism so this is Something Different and to have all going to relations with that because it is different do we dont see people as a terrorist organization but what to say is trying i mean is that theyre just the. Same in account everybody who are looking for the democratic process 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 it right this 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 the trick is just dreaming to do it because you have defeated the. I mean which was instrumental to keep the two may be. Implemented their plans their dreams because theyre still thinking of mr humility and we defeat that i mean has the Kurdish People why puji envoy p. J. They have defeated the truth is true months and we are dependent on ourselves and our people in 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 a perfect doing i mean him. Of course there is order in the us and these attacks and often it is kind of support for advantage because the russian being defeated in the reserve so is a kind of relief i mean to open another front with the Kurdish People and many fighters there were fighting in their resume out there withdrawn too often to defend their families over there so it is kind of support of them to feel supporting them. Depending on the International Alliance yes we have. The forces really have some kind of over agreements with them and the issue is not going to finish is that there was a many statements by the american. Men responsible people that are saying theyre not going to withdraw from members from the areas so it means its not easy not easy for that a few that are physically or is it to go through the border or to any of their like theyre just dreaming but i think they 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 form a coleader of the Syrian Kurdish party the p. Y. T. Salah muslim thank you very much and. All the u. S. Special councils decision on friday to indict thirteen russian 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 but u. S. Investigators say is a fake news factory she told the moscow correspondent yuri of a shadow that those thirteen arrest 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 the fischel 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 bad news about the United States was always one of the more important topics. That it would bring. Two years ago tortured rather try to make contact with those working inside the building to no avail the revelations by lifted the lid on the trolls factory on savage being a street in russia second city. Curtains on the windows no sign at the entrance into that unsuspicious looking building here in sun pittsburgh so called Internet Trolls 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 macmiller 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 will. Test boys lets move today that no one can exactly say how far these trolls have really influenced the us elections and individual voters. 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. With. The handful of russians indicted in the us doesnt even begin to address the scale of the meddling. In that since 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 a speck of russias fake news. Well the Berlin InternationalFilm Festival is underway right now and my colleague scott roxboro and charlie bell are among the lucky who get to see all of the films down there so guys. Its about half the time there at the berlin nala 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 open the festival Wes Andersons movie stop Motion Animation film and its just a delight i mean its just working its fun theres 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 and is until hes one of my favorite directors in five days was anderson 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 thing film this could fit in me a its an italian film very Strong Female cause to female action a little girl as well and it basically tells a very complex story of motherhood and will say what it means to be a woman as a female director and i think if this means to climb them i mean 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 was part of the script and they were at the shoot so they really shed the stories are trying to turn in shape a 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 watch the film and we would drawn with those with them on the on this story i think we especially need to then see to see that here and in person is 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 to direct address 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 he also said that its part of the address of the political environment at the moment lets take a listen to what he had to say. You see right wing. Extremism coming up in europe i mean the new. Bach so we need to remind people of what took place and what didnt happen again so for me its a matter of sort of bracing that 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. Tomorrow is i actually have a lot of. Film so far to morrow its going to be all of us to start thanks guys with what came phoenix on the red carpet tomorrow but that was jane a hero and one of my favorites. Of star wars of platoon of star wars a spider man a platoon hes going to be here hes going on a Lifetime Achievement award so its going to be a year on a day full of stars at the ballet no legal rights solo on glad that sounds like that sounds very exciting. Phil Scott Roxborough 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 my handle is. And dont forget the hash tag as always is the day thanks so much for watching to catch marc. Klaas. An entire generation robbed of their youth and their future syrian refugee children and. Their exploited as wage slaves and forced to work instead of going to school its a vicious cycle. But they are the ones who have to build syria. The last generation. The middle age. The scars of. The pain still tangible. For good. For civvies edge but. They have survived but do they also have a future. I really understand people who say they dont want to stay here. But i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something new in peace time what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance darkness cities after more starting march tenth on t w. Youre tuned to tomorrow today coming up. 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