Sweeping this under the rub under the rug theres a chance for some real reform of the fires of process of the of the idea of who we are as a society being surveilled by our government whether the president or just some average guy i hope these issues are the ones that are that are looked at and visited now that this info is out and just one of the big aspects of this entire case what do you think will be the impact on the investigations into allegations of collusion between between trump and russia what happens in that regard. Well anyone who sane and i guess that maybe few of us these days will see that the whole thing has been blown out of the water this whole insane fantasy of Rush Limbaugh its people like senator mccain now are so desperate and he was involved in this dossier dont forget hes saying that anyone whos criticizing the f. B. I. Is doing its bidding this is what he tweeted earlier today i think these people are desperate but anyone again who is not insane who can look at this rationally whether youre not a donald trump supporter which i am certainly not a supporter look at this and say this blows it out of the water this fiction now should be put back on the shelf because its weve seen the movie and we dont like it from the clear coherent unsane down and make out as executive director of the ron paul in st daniel thanks as always. The World Doping Agency says its concerned by the decision of sports top court to overturn the lifetime of limping is given to dozens of russian updates accused of taking prohibited substances why did understand that this decision will cause dismay and frustration among athletes the agency supports the i. O. C. Is intention to analyze these decisions very carefully and consider all options including an appeal to the swiss federal tribe you know. Here just some background on thursday the court of arbitration for sport decided to lift all sanctions imposed on twenty eight russian athletes and reinstate the olympic medals some have won eleven others will miss the upcoming Winter Olympics inside korea but their life time bombs were overturned on sanctions partially lifted however the decision has disappointed some athletes from other countries who were hoping to move into medal positions retrospectively from the sort twenty four games. The. Above anything else this is a very very very dark day for the olympics and this is a very very very dark day for clean sport if there is such a thing if. People are saying they can prove they were dirty in the same breath you can prove that they were innocent or you say they are not guilty or you say they are guilty and they have ruled that there is not enough proof for a doping offense hence they are not guilty and this is very important also because it makes the Mclaren Report to become not. A basis which is enough to convict athletes and everything that was done up to now was based on the Mclaren Report and if this is now not a basis enough to convict at lets then i do not understand why also all the russian at plates could have been banned collectively without having any any proof of the hoping. Yes so we just heard the reaction of some International Athletes to the news the mood of course very different for the russian knuckly cheer relief essentially the overriding emotion for those who thought their dreams and possibly even their careers were finished loyalists in the north i found out about the decision during my training c. A. s decided to overturn my disqualification my ban i had only positive thoughts in my head about that and ive been ready to ski for a long long time keeping up my training but i had a question right away what about the olympics are we able to dispute this and get an invitation but first thing you know i was waiting for the results of the appeal when i came back from practice its amazing yes then my Skeleton Team started congratulating each other such a relief when not guilty and the whole public will know that a lot of people thought we date but only those close to us knew its not true. Ive been training with my push through the whole season and now because of whats happened ive been paired with someone else well have to adapt our techniques and make adjustments for way differences and work a lot in our start. Give you some moto is for me and for those who cant get there the whole situation has only me me angrier and even more determined to win. Twenty eight sportsmans of russia are found not guilty. Of the i was the states that does not mean that they will participate in the olympics the upcoming winter games that means that practically we have a Court Decision that will not be enforced and i see a new population here as there was a violation by the i. O. C. When banning the sportsman so this is actually a little bit odd to me and when we see we have not seen the reasons for the decision right now the Mclaren Report didnt find any individual violations of the rules of individual sport. Disturbing scenes in france earlier today at least five migrants are in hospital after being shot during a march fight at a food bank in the port city of cali there another twenty two people were injured we believe in cali for us now is Charlotte Dubin ski this is one of the many Food Distribution points in cali just take a look behind me and youll see a group of migrants whove come here to receive food to receive clothing and other items and its one of these distribution points that the clashes broke out on thursday hundreds of migrants. With sticks and even gun fighting over what was on offer now we understand that more than twenty people were injured in that bout of violence we. Did first parts of cali including five who were injured from the shooting for those teenagers said to be critically injured this is the latest round of violence in cali and the French Interior minister has described it as reaching new levels. I came to cali because what happened here is extremely serious we have reached a degree of violence not known until today the government will propose a bill in the coming weeks to try and help asylum an immigration problem violence between groups of migrants is nothing new in cali but this is the worst it is being in many months and people here in cali say they just fed up of the situation. I think we need a structure put in place to protect us theres a lot of delinquency here because get damaged every day we have issues young girls cant go out alone at night its a catastrophe for the french and especially for the people of cali the violence is really damaging residents of cali have lived in fear for several years now. Living together migrant is complicated those coming here now are bit different from to refugees who were coming here initially theyre more violent and aggressive were bridgeland people are still being shot its still dangerous and its true that people who live near these areas are constantly being disturbed it makes the city look bad. Some of the people feel like it is starting to get scary firearms were not in the United States here this is still a country where weapons are banned. Callaway is probably best known for the jungle brawling camp with thousands of People Living in squalid conditions it was dismantled back in two thousand and sixteen but still migrants come to cali hoping that one day they will be able to cross the channel to get to the u k. Well todays incident comes just weeks after the french president a manual mccrum proposed a draft bill that would tighten current migration policy the legislation would make it easier to deport undocumented newcomers who do not qualify for asylum it would also increase the length of time authorities can detain Illegal Migrants for from forty five days doubling up to ninety france received a record one hundred thousand up locations for asylum last year. A major Police Corruption scandal is unfolding in the u. S. City of baltimore with astonishing claims of wrongdoing continuing to emerge six former elite officers responsible for reducing gun crime have already pleaded guilty to running a criminal racket and four of them are now testifying against two other ex colleagues who are denied involvement came at me like a gang or something i remember one of the officers saying i looked like someone who needed to be robbed everybodys life is destroyed because of this my kids are afraid to go in the house and the Gun Trace Task force was made up of playing clothes officers son was supposed to be tackling the citys spiraling murder rate it was however dissolved in march last year and the officers arrested the units the tech to face the slew of charges including that they store from next door to dress events as well as committed fraud and falsified evidence in criminal cases similar a can is in baltimore and reports now on how the units crimes were exposed. Well it all started with an investigation into Drug Trafficking in new jersey then as the case unraveled federal authorities found out that the Baltimore Police department was also involved mostly its elite gun traced Task Force Unit months of recordings recovered from a device planted in a Police Cruiser reveal that officers were involved in Drug Trafficking robbery falsifying reports and planting fake evidence in one case a high speed car chase resulted in a crash which the officers tried to cover up one of the indicted acts attacked is involved actually broke down in tears in court it was a really bad accident none of us stopped to render aid to see if anyone was hurt we were foolish although i was doing so much wrong it got to a certain point where too much was too much altogether six officers have already pleaded guilty and two are still being tried but there are indications theres more to the story than just one Rogue Police UnitCourt Records show that the city paid over half a Million Dollars to settle claims of misconduct and falsifying reports involving the very same officers and dating back as far as twenty fourteen so why did they all fortys choose to sweep it all under the rug kind of you see this those offices of very well known industries for door what are they doing and this isnt the first incident where it came up its been its probably been plenty of complaints you cant go an extra help because youre afraid that you know this particular might just do some so you might pencil and comma when we see them coming we go to opposite direction if we can and if we can we deal with this circumstance this has been corruption for a long time you know just because this is one as in a way as though they decide to you know come forward or you know they got caught for what they done is stuff that particular but at the same time as not going to stop interruption has to be done to stop the corruption from these criminals are cops and the cops are criminals then theres the unsolved murder of detective shawn souter that took place in. November last year souter wasnt part of the countrys taskforce but worked with some of the officers were now under indictment and the day before he was set to testify in the corruption probe he was shot in the head with his own weapon while on duty and in another unfortunate twist which some might find suspicious a patrol car transporting the dying officer to a ospital got into an accident theres no suspect in the murder so far and no eyewitnesses except one unnamed partner and when the Police Commissioner tried to redirect the investigation to the f. B. I. The agency refused saying that the case had nothing to do with the corruption probe im growing increasingly uncomfortable that my home aside the texas did not know all of the facts known to the f. B. I. Or the u. S. Attorneys office that good if revealed to us assist in furthering this Murder Investigation in the wake of the scandal Baltimore Police have launched an overhaul including a new commissioner vowing to rein in city violence but investigators still seem to have a very complicated plot to unravel samir khan r. T. Reporting from baltimore. To the middle east now were clashes of broken up between palestinians and Israeli Security forces in East Jerusalem after the Palestinian Liberation Organization called for a major day of rage. In a palestinian neighborhood following friday prayers its really Defense Forces let off smoke and stun grenades to disperse the group but there has been a spike in violence in jerusalem on the west Bank Following the u. S. President s controversial decision to recognize that contested city as the is really. A powerful turn in the fortunes of allied forces both in the east and west during the Second World War and took the lives of over two Million People today friday marks seventy five years since the solvent armys victory over the nazis at stalingrad after months of attrition. Oh you do have enough food in school and dance helped send me a photo please and write to me as often as possible tell me everything i think about you and all my darlings i hope to return home safe and sound. Your son but. The sheer magnitude of the suffering and sacrifice that stalingrad is still etched in popular consciousness in many parts of the world in several french cities including in part us streets squares are named after the bottle thats also the case in the belgian capital and theres even a street in the ancient italian city of belonging commemorates the soviet victory. Well today in russia stalingrad is known as vulgar ground special memorial ceremonies are taking place in the city through friday here are some pictures from a military parade held there. Of troops military vehicles passed through the city center some of the soldiers carried photos some of their relatives who fought in the battle and some of the Red Army Veterans were also marked they certainly in fact one of them showed his memories. Of where. I was decorated five times during my service and received twenty five medals as well when i marched which of them is more important to me i answer the one for defending starving grad here during the battle for starving grad the fate of the whole soviet union was decided the whole world cheered our victory here after stalin grout the red army never retreated we never doubted anymore that we would defeat the nazis and we did it. 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Across talking turkey and syria im joined by my guest Sami Ramadani in london hes a contributor on iraq and the middle east for the guardian as well as a senior lecturer in sociology in oxford we have Dan Glazebrook he is an independent political analyst and author of divide in ruin the wests imperial strategy in the age of crisis and this temple we cross to change he is dean of Political Science is a marmora university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate it ill take the senate bill let me go to you first here are just very simply what is turkeys aims what its strategic goals in syria over since the incursion into Northern Syria can you give us you know two or three major points what turkey wants to achieve. To the s. B. A. Here are you going to clear the first. Ones to get rid of this. Branch of. The white. Or p y d this is the first and the most crucial Strategic Point for turkey secondly after cleaning this area to put some syrian emigrants you know we have three and a half million syrian emigrants in turkey to put down some of them to. Create some kind of buffer zone between turkey and syria or iraq. We can say is safe so on in syria and also i think this is my prediction that. There will be. How can i say its off to political table like. Or sochi or astana or what they will you call it he it wants to be there on the table. You know cards and thats why you know three reasons more strategic. Change of turkey ok but i have to i have to point out that you didnt say the word kurds once ok and thats really what its all about here you know sami ill be really honestly i can understand turkeys position ok i do understand and i dont necessarily agree with it but i will tell you something sammy i understand the position of all the Major Players when it comes to syria except for one country the United States i dont understand what it is doing in syria i mean what were all told is that you know these sacred cows nato must be preserved but u. S. Policy is driving a huge wedge between the two countries that have the Largest Military in nato i mean whos making this policy in the u. S. While for the United States and syria most of the proxy forces that they rely upon have been either defeated or on their way of being defeated in syria what. Or increased their presence in syria is this Dramatic Development of gaining the y p g practic clearly unfortunately i am very sadly for from my point of view that the y p g the Kurdish Group has decided to make an alliance with the United States big. Big general they could you know. Yeah the kurds always truce the wrong side i mean historically they do this and they have done it again. Dan let me its very sad very. Dan let me go to you. What i mean what is the possibility that were going to see turkish and u. S. Forces go head to head because the u. S. Seems to it seems to me its a policy of spite it is a spoiler made one see it lost the war assad still there and it wants to spite the russians and the iranians but thats really childish thinking when you think about it go ahead dan. Yes a spoiler but i dont agree that this collision course necessarily on the between ankara and washington i mean from washingtons point of view the thing is they want their goal is to just we can and preferably destroy any independent force in the global south first that does the big strategy right and so that includes the syrian state grand frankly that includes a potentially independent strong Kurdish Force and it includes turkey so if they see the turks and the y p g tearing themselves apart thats that fits ok into into the us game plan and if theyre doing in the syria inside syria all the better so i dont see this is so odds with washington theyre going to be ok they made this announcement they wanted a border force and its put the spoiler on on that but theres many ways to destroy a country is not many ways to build up a tree but again many ways to do to destroy it so i guess what youre saying there is a method theres a method to their madness go ahead jump in understand go ahead go ahead. Because i would like to add something about american policy we are in turkey as you know government and people are mostly get. Try to create. Kurdish zone between turkey and syria and iraq in order to you know. In order to use this policy to educate turks persians and arabs and also it is good for israel to be created is satellite not independent dependent to united city its creators on just perfect for america and most of people in turkey most of. Us and all you know columnists think that. You know yeah america has Something Like that as a project. To create if. So ok so the United States. I mean it began that the us is exporting democracy in you know in liberalism im sorry its a nice its a fairy tale but its not just for the border force go ahead dan go ahead they might have wanted to they might have wanted to create a little basically syria and kosovo why p. G. Areas in syria need to a fact of partition and it was actually not so much the announcement the border force but the announcement that the two thousand u. S. Troops the announcement by tillerson that the two thousand u. S. Troops were basing going to stay there effectively permanently i mean the wish list of what you wanted to achieve was made it a fact of permanent theyre not going to have any of those things any time soon so that was what really told the turks look theyre basically going to stay us power and on the ground presence is going to establish basically an independent state within a state and of course they could find that as i say ok so that partition was one possible way to destroy the syrian state but. The kurds and turks destroy it and destroying each other is another way to achieve frankly similar goals of the destruction of syria and i have. Heard go ahead sami jump in its part of the program just just to on the other issue i think which needs mentioning is that ted kid of unfortunately. Takes quite a bit of the blame for the disk. Action in syria for the support im backing for terrorist groups inside syria. Its only conflict has been with the with within syria and recent times as with the kurds of syria they got frightened because the United States backing started backing the y. P. But truly turkey should also shoulder quite a lot of the responsibility for the mayhem. Unfolded in both city and in iraq by the way where they still have some forces inside iraq as you out and their policy towards the Kurdish People over many decades has been really bad it must be mentioned that the Kurdish People have suffered enormously from successive regimes tens of thousands of kurds have died inside turkey and this socalled cleansing inside syria turkey is in effect committing aggression against a sovereign state the syrian state which has object to the fish only to the entry of turkish troops so there are a dime if you cations here and that is the other point i wanted to raise is other there is some genuine friction between turkey and the United States since the coup attempt last year which seems to have had. Support to overthrow ok on its going to in istanbul jump in yes. Yeah actually you know its in turkey you know Something Like forty years we have kurdish problems about this this is not really really kurdish problems turkey. Was again its not the Kurdish People of Kurdish People live you know in spandex according to if you compare with other countries such as syria iraq and iran