The spread of extremist views online and the Grenfell Tower disaster in london a damning indictment of the Emergency Response there a Public Inquiry excuses the fire brigade of serious shortcomings in tackling the blaze which killed 72 people. On lock think you so much for your Company Everyone already strained relations between turkey and the United States have taken a turn for the worst on 2 fronts turkeys president ial terry barito on has condemned a resolution in the u. S. Congress which acknowledges the mass killings of armenians by forces of the Ottoman Empire in the 1st world war as genocide early one said turkey did not record recognize the vote and called it worthless the house of representatives also called for sanctions against ankara for its continuing military incursion in Northern Syria. Lets get you more on this story we want to take you now to istanbul to our correspondent yulia han who is covering that story for you. Prime minister our president at one obviously very unhappy about those developments in the u. S. What exactly did he say oh yes president earlier today slammed the u. S. Genos side a resolution let me quote him here he called it an acceptable and the biggest insult to the turkish a nation he also blamed the measure on end sentiment in the u. S. Now several countries including germany and france have recognized the mass killing of armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 and the following is as geno side but for the us it is really an unprecedented move a move that is seen as a serious provocation here in turkey the government in ancora except so many armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were killed in clashes with also many forces during world war one but strongly denies that these killings constitute geno site now this resolution was passed as you mentioned by the house of representatives its nonbinding and also the sanctions decision passed a little later still needs to go through senate so the fate of these measures remains unclear as we speak but the damage has been done and are also summoned the u. S. Ambassador today now obviously the damage has been done as you have been reporting a ties between these 2 very very important to nato allies have while hit rock bottom how did it get to this. Let me try to cut a long story short the us turkey relations have been problematic for quite some time even before Donald Trumps decision to withdraw u. S. Forces from north and syria which essentially gave the green light to taki for its a military operation against kurdish fighters that now this is an offensive that has drawn a lot of cross its criticism from the Us Administration the political arena there in the us then again turkey is a nato ally it has recently purchased a russian made Defense MissileDefense System that has angered washington and turkey on the other hand is very frustrated about the us is refusal to hand over fit to lead the man blames for the failed to military coup here in turkey in 2016 so there are a lot of issues interesting late president edwin still relies on his past in a relationship with donald trump any plans to go to washington in about 2 weeks time and meet him of course one of the things that has angered lawmakers in the u. S. Turkeys recent actions in Northern Syria talk to us about the cease fire that has and that there were mr irwins plans for the region. Well now he plans to have joint patrols a with russia there in the area on the syrian side of the border they are expected to start on friday this is according to a deal between moscow a deal which allowed for the withdrawal of Kurdish Forces from that area now while the russians say most of the Kurdish Forces have indeed withdrawn still is very skeptical and president add on today very harshly said that if there are going to be violations he will restart his racial let me quote him again and retaliate in the have iest way now this is all in the area where i dont wants to set up a socalled safe so on and resettle up to 2000000 refugees Syrian Refugees currently living in turkey very controversial a plan there reporting from istanbul you leon thank you. And the war in syria of course has raged for 8 years and continues despite numerous peace initiatives aimed at ending the conflict of political solution has remained elusive but one promising proposal to emerge from those talks is a new constitution for syria delegates from the assyrian government opposition and Civil Society have now started work on a draft in geneva the process is being described as syrian owned and syrian led and its hoped it can build help build rather the trust need it for a future peace deal. Id like to welcome now here in the studio on a flesher see she is a syria expert at the Beirut Office of the foundation which is associated with the german were Germanys Green Party a very warm welcome good to have you here with us what a month its been for syria. Lets start about the lets Start Talking about the process thats going on right now in geneva there have been previous attempts to jump start peace talks or talks before the talks theyve all either went nowhere or petered out what makes this one different. I think its important to keep in mind that were not actually looking at peace negotiations at the moment which was always the aim often even at the un backed process for syria we are looking at a Constitutional Committee which is tasked reworking the already existing syrian constitution which in and of itself is not the problem the rights laid out in the constitution as it is right now are not the main issue right who gets to have a seat at that all important table and who has been excluded. This committee is made up of regime representatives of opposition and of Civil Society representatives the process of the picking of the members of the committee was indeed quite opaque for most syrians and was not very kiraly laid out so we know for example that kurdish players have been excluded from participating fully in this committee ok. Of course this comes at a time when mr assad has the upper hand i mean he basically controls 2 thirds of the country right now. Is he really interested in a political solution i mean if you was when you have done it before is this just spin. Indeed i would agree with reading the situation that this is not actually working towards a political solution in syria the assad regime has no reason to make any concessions at this point quite on the contrary the Constitutional Committee actually constitutes a way for him to normalize relations to sit at the table again with players such as the opposition and Civil Society and to make it seem in fact that they are moving into the right direction when really it is all about process and not about outcome the ongoing human rights abuses inside syria the oppression and the war indeed are the problem and the main cause for suffering of syrian civilians and this committee sure they will not change that ok well lets talk a little bit more about this committee because this committee has a daunting task so it is tasked with building the political framework for reconstruction of syria. Lets just a look now at how daunting we want to illustrate how daunting a task that is take a look and well continue our conversation after that the toss is enormous 80 years of war have taken a savage toll more than a 3rd of syrias houses are damaged in some places entire cities are as good as destroyed schools hospitals roads all need to be repaired or rebuilt. The United Nation estimates that it will cost 250000000000. 00 of the say it will be closer to 400000000000. 00 yet the syrian governments anti a budget last year was less than a 9000000000. 00. Damascus has launched its own reconstruction programs but so far it has yielded little not only that the vast majority of what money is available is spends in areas that supported the government while Opposition Strongholds have been left in ruins. Syria Needs International back as to rebuild but its closest allies russia and iran do not have the money the russian economy is struggling under western sanctions over its aggression in ukraine tehran has its own sanctions to deal with russia wants the west to pay for the reconstruction but both the United States and the European Union have said that as long as Bashar Al Assad remains in power they will take no part in the rebuilding of syria. So the e. U. And the u. S. Theyre not going in business with mr assad who is going to pay for this reconstruction that is indeed a very good question and i think a question that is on everybodys minds at the moment i do believe its important to hold the line that the who has taken we have seen different attempts off Member States to normalize relations with the Syrian Regime so it is important for the e. U. To hold this very important decision no reconstruction without political transition. Surely we are looking at a situation where. The Syrian Regime is looking for ways to finance that was meant as was mentioned in the piece but it is not clear at this point do you think it was a good decision by the e. U. To normalize to try and see to normalize relations with a man who is responsible for war crimes. I mean so far the u. The e. U. As a player has not normalized we have seen different attempts and as i said Member States however it is not a good not a good decision in my opinion to normalize relations with a regime that is killing a civilian population that is causing massive suffering among the civilian population inside syria massive i. D. P. s internally displaced population is living in dire circumstances surely this cannot be the way on the flusher syria expert. From titian thank you for coming in thank you so much. Want to tell you now about some of the stories making news around the world. Chile has announced it has canceled 2 Major International summits as unrest continues across the country decembers Global Climate change conference in the asia pacific summit scheduled for november will not go ahead at least 20 people have died in the violence antigovernment protests that have rocked chile for several weeks. Facebook says it has suspended 3 russian accounts that were attempting to interfere in the politics of 8 african countries the announcement comes on the same day that facebook agreed to pay a 500000. 00 pounds fine in the u. K. Related to an investigation into the use of Data Analytics for political purposes facebook did not admit any liability. Police in cape town have arrested about 100 protesters while dispersing a sit in by refugees and Asylum Seekers they had been camped for weeks outside the United Nations Refugee Agency asking to be resettled abroad following a wave of attacks on foreigners this year. Swedish teenage climate activist tune berg has declined an environmental prize worth almost 50000. 00 euros from a scandinavian enter problem entry body to bird who is currently on a tour of north america that quote the Climate Movement does not need any more prizes. 4 testers in lebanon are removing their camps and roadblocks after the resignation of Prime Minister said that heavy the protests fueled by anger over rising living costs and corruption have brought the country to a standstill for the past 2 weeks the president has asked the government to stay on in a caretaker role until a new cabinet can be formed its unclear who will take over from haiti as there is no obvious candidate to succeed him as Prime Minister. If. Soldiers dismantle a protest camp to let through the morning traffic this one blocked a major highway north of beirut. The night before thousands stayed on the streets to celebrate her release resignation. They say has the park her as a victory but for them it is just the 1st step. Basically on the part of the establishment that back this up that demonstration was to change still insist that moxie that was stolen by Political Parties by taking here was that that was on tuesday protesters celebrated the moment of the 1st big change to that political system Prime Minister hariri announced to the nation that he was stepping down. And i thought ill see about that i am going to the president ial palace to submit the governments resignations to president michel aoun and fat people in all regions in response to the will of the many lebanese people who have taken to the streets to demand change. But there are powerful forces in lebanon who are against the change the protesters are demanding before hariri and then says resignation supporters of the shia Muslim Political movements hezbollah and amal rampage through the main protest camp that. As the worst violence since protests started nearly 2 weeks ago. Activists are determined to continue their fight to reduce departure has lifted their spirits but it may not be enough to end the countrys turmoil. The German Government wants to get tough on online hate speech new proposals have been announced to strengthen existing regulations the measures include stricter monitoring of hate speech online and require social media platforms to inform security agencies and police about hate content they also give authorities more powers to prosecute extremists the new law was drafted in response to a rise in attacks by far right extremists. Who want you. Im now joined here in on the set by a staff im lower from the dairy Antonio Foundation which works to combat right wing extremism a very warm welcome stefan how does this new initiative tackle online hate speech while one of the main things is that. If a mission insults that written down online online hate speech. Strong sanctioned so that is a good thing. Also to fund other aspects of how are they punished is it a fine do you have to show up at court house in a way they sanction well its basically more less sanctioned like it was before but there will be a stronger. It will be more considerate that this has been done online so the press conference this morning. The minister of justice explained its a different thing if you insult someone in a pop in a bar or if you do it online where everyone basically can read it right this is a hope that much more serious yes how are they planning to ensure that social media platforms where role monitor and also implement and enforce these new regulations well i assume that the dead there will be fines i suppose if they do and. If they dont do this but the thing is that this is not a new law does law already exist in germany its just basically a maastricht version of it. And i did mean its also privatization of law really because the social media platforms have to decide for himself if content if is if an opinion is is extremist is. On not and i think thats a big problem it is for now there are no guidelines basically. Well theres the law of course you know all the general laws against defamation against what we call fox for headstrong illegal. Insight into hate and hate speech he had speech yes. And these laws already exist as well but yeah we dont really know whats going to happen but im just wondering in terms of process saying all of this legally yes i mean this is really going to overwhelm the system absolutely and its already right now of all running the system basically because as i said this law is not june so we arent already have quite a few cases that we know off and we also know that quite off the quite a lot of those cases have not been processed and this law is already in existence for modern media. Stiffen our from the i dare antonio stiff dont Foundation Tasks against right wing extremism thank you so much greatly appreciate it. And next the report of a Public Inquiry into the ground fell tower fire in london has set the Emergency Response had serious shortcomings 72 people died in the fire more than 2 years ago todays report only covers the Emergency Response which the judge led inquiry says had systemic failures and was gravely inadequate alone and corresponding to good marks filed this report. Needed to be. Grand felt how inflamed use the fire loss to all night people jumped out of the windows in a desperate attempt to feed the blaze joe delaney live by in film ditto just says that he said the firemen couldnt get in because that key didnt fit and they seemed overwhelmed to get one tiny tool it was just chaos because. You could just see that. They really. And some of them even without breathing apparatus. Breathing apparatus some of them didnt have helmet saving. Money provided his video to the inquiry he says he wants to see the people responsible for the safety lapses brought to account. People and people in courtrooms people in jail cells. You know people in print where it says what theyre done wrong because. The inquiry has had about a catalogue of failings that led to the fire spreading uncontrollably such as fire lives for the Emergency Services not working and also that the building itself did not comply with fire safety regulations and the criminal convictions that the residency is so desperately want to see are not expected any time soon they can only come out of a separate investigation thats being led by the police the inquiry report criticizes the fire brigade for a series of bad decisions on the night of the fire with disastrous consequences but many people blame the local council they say complaints made before the fire were ignored and that they didnt feel safe. In the facts were neglected totally neglected for decades they had intentions to sell it and therefore they were just probably waiting to phase out spent minimal money on it and gave it minimal attention because it was of minimal worth to them at the time as well we are in full occurred in a context of cuts in the context of privatisation in the concepts of deregulation and in a context of. Residents of social housing will not listen to. Local people hope that there will be real change in the future and they want to see faults like those in grunfeld tower remedied in the buildings to avoid a repeat of the disaster. So sports news now for you another twist in the route over the venue for next years Tokyo Olympic marathon earlier this month the International Olympic committee announced that the event would be switched to the northern japanese city of sapporo due to high temperatures in tokyo in august while test events had been carried out in tokyo and the city governor says the decision to move the marathon. As a quote tremendous shot on now an i. O. C. Official visiting japan says he wont leave until he has found consensus on the marathon venue. In the United StatesCollege Sports are popular and lucrative but despite generating plenty of run of revenue student athletes cant be paid well thats about to change College Sports governing body has taken the 1st step towards permitting students to make money from the use of their name and image rights. Its hard to imagine a university in the u. S. Without sports and their popularity has made College Athletics a 14000000000. 00 industry student athletes have long been strictly prepared and from receiving compensation that means the 1 point one 1000000000. 00 of revenue the National CollegiateAthletic Association raked in last year was on the backs of unpaid athletes. After years of campaigning the n. C. Double a has given the green light for compensation to student athletes which a former player believes couldnt have come soon enough. Its happening right on time and i think it would be good for the next generation of Football Players to come out the way to be a look back and like we did. Athletes still cant receive a wage for their play but will now be able to profit from marketing opportunities. And the board took a big step today to say that it is indeed within their policies and they want the schools to go on and promulgated rules that will allow students to be able to take advantage of their name image and likeness but do that in a way thats consistent with the collegiate model of sport so its a big step change has been a Long Time Coming this is also a response to new developments in opportunities for athletes over the last couple of years the impact of social media on the internet and different ways that one might think of name image and likeness monetization that werent really even possible 5 or 10 years ago that new space has come and put i made this a much more compelling thing for us to think about with the new rules coming in 2021 student athletes will soon have plenty more than pride to play for. This is due to. Our top stories. The u. S. House of representatives has voted to recognize the mass killings of armenians by Ottoman Turks a century ago as genocide the house also called for sanctions on ankara for its offensive in Northern Syria turkey condemned both vote device. A u. N. Sponsored syrian Constitutional Committee begins its work on rebuilding a rabbit syria after 8 years of war more than a 3rd of buildings in the country would have schools and hospitals are damaged and some entire cities have been destroyed estimates for the total cost range between 250000000000. 00 and 400000000000. 00. The Public Inquiry into the grim fell tower disaster in london has condemned serious shortcomings in the Emergency Response 72 people were killed in the blaze the report says lives could have been saved if the fire service had been better prepared. 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