A good evening to you my names the harvey this is r. T. International. Syrian proGovernment Forces have entered the kurdish held Northern Region of afrin however they were immediately pushed back by turkish artillery fire i was corresponding broadcast reports this was a demonstration hundreds of militia fighters with tanks armored brazenly riding into africa with smiles cheers and cameras. All the room of talks in deals which would see the syrian army really end for and have yielded nothing so far instead these militias just went in and the kurds the y. P. G a jubilant Syrian Government has responded to the call of duty and sent military units on the state to deploy along the border and take part in the planting view. If youre serious thirty three and. The turks well see for yourself and koreas response was explosive loaded and delivered in artillery shells leiber why did. It do on warned that this would happen no one may help the y b g said as for the kurds themselves hes promised to put them in a choke hold in mere days i need to be preparation on the ground takes time in the coming days well lay siege to the city what our side wants is obvious to protect syrias sovereignty and reestablish control prevent more of syria from being devastated but here you have two major anti Isis Coalition partners terrorist and aggressor as they call each other turkey in the y. P. G a partner in all but name duking it out beating each other to bloody pulp one might ask where is america the head of the us led anti Isis Coalition. Why you still here why do these weapons still arrive america is in the process of creating a terror army on our good do not encroach on our borders do not provoke us we will run out of patience. The destruction of whats going on up in africa right now which is drone of some of the Syrian Democratic forces they see their fellow kurds afferent under attack so that is causing at least their attention to shift up their. Lets not forget how it all began with this statement a u. S. Declaration that it would build an army of kurds to patrol the Turkish Border that sent into a fit rage and it was that statement that was used to justify this new war washington backtracked its now laying low but the damage was done the coalition imploded and its up to others to stop this. We do not believe that the u. S. Will. Be a year strategy depends on creating chaos in the middle east to pursue its interests in this region it is sad washington said the fire that is now consuming its own anti Isis Coalition and burning africa into the ground the us role has been reduced to diligently expressing its concern worry but not regret. To speak now to Joshua Landis is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma nice to have a chance to speak to joshua a complicated situation where the violence is emerging in Northern Syria could use to explain to the relationship as you see it now between the Syrian Government and the kurds and what damascus might be hoping to achieve by entering afrin. Well damascus as your report said is very interested in maintaining the sovereignty of syria ever since the turks threatened to sue over a month ago syria and. And the kurds have been in negotiations the kurds of course want autonomy they did not want to give up their arms us or one of them give up all their arms turkey seemed to be willing to go along with us the russians were on the phone to ankara trying to smooth the way for a syrian takeover but turkey was adamant that the kurds had to leave the white peachy at that even after they put down their arms completely surrender and for some reason the turks are not satisfied that thats going to happen theyve been ordered and seen if syria goes in to defend the white b. G. Turkey will invade both of them now why its not satisfied we dont know is this because reports have come out saying that irans popularity is has gone way up because of the invasion and he doesnt want to stop it were unsure this is a mystery why only two did to go turkey said it was fine if the syrian army went in. And today its saying its not so the kurds and the syrians of course have been competitors but there are muslims in this situation against turkey which is the common enemy of dots of the Syrian Forces were talking about theyve been described as being progovernment as opposed to being actual Government Armed forces how close are we to a direct confrontation at this point between the Syrian Government and turkey. Well it seems very close because here we have some nasty evidence the Syrian Defense forces which are militias that have been put together by the government and sent up there quickly and this could very easily suck syria into defending its forces defending the white p. G. D. In essence against the turkish invasion well have to see there its still very early its hard to know where negotiations are leading clearly all sides are flexing their muscles and its we dont know what negotiating conditions have cars its just a cost to break out only india you know it look like turkey has accepted the syrian entrance today it doesnt what went wrong we still have to find out the u. S. Has been providing assistance to the kurdish why p. J. Does that extend to weaponry would actually u. S. Weaponry be being used now in any any conflict and how damaging is that for u. S. Relations with what is a nato ally. Well thats a very good question the u. S. Has been supplying a lot of weaponry to the kurds east of the euphrates when the United States first entered syria it and turkey and the United States came up to an agreement that everything west be afraid to use was turkey ends everything east of the euphrates the United States. Mendacious a sore point but thats still to be decided on but thats the way its been and the United States has been giving a lot of weapons to the y. P. To now its obviously telling a white peachy do not attack turkey with these weapons because the moment you do that you will justify everything that aired or that says is going to happen that youre connected with the paper and so the United States is sitting on the kurds and in essence is telling the white peachy you have to sacrifice your brothers and i mean to preserve us out east of the euphrates and a different element to this story Russias Foreign Ministry has said that several dozen citizens of russia another former soviet states were killed recently in syria and its believed to have been in a u. S. Airstrike and there is or would you anticipate any repercussions from that. Well its clear that lavrov and others are very upset theyve told america not to press their luck there is some demand by russia that the United States has to get out of hand and it is another area except our own below the euphrates where the United States is holding right on the main highway that connects baghdad to damascus and very important for trade very important for us not getting back on his feet and making some money very important for syrias economy the United States is blocking that road for what strategic purpose the u. S. Says theyre still fighting isis but its quite clear that assad could do that job and this is a sore point between russia and the United States the u. S. Has upped the ante in its mission in syria and since no longer just hunting isis its also trying to roll back you on and in a sense rollback russia too because russia and iran are allies and thats where the conflict is going to grow up between russia and United States. Russia needs us what you have a healthy economy to begin to put its feet back on the ground in a rebuilt syria the United States is trying to starve syria denying all that oil and Agricultural Land that the u. S. Has taken for the kurds so that russia will get stuck in a quagmire so that iran will get stuck in a quagmire and they wont have it easy so thats the thats the big arm wrestling thats going on between russia and the United States today in syria. Joshua many thanks i found that absolutely fascinating analysis of whats clearly very complicated situation thank you my guest Joshua Landis director of the center for middle east that is at the university of oklahoma. Thank you. Both some poles of a medal Winning Coalition russia have tested positive for the prohibited drug boni and thats according to russian a limb pick officials within the crush on his case already stated that hes never used banned substances and he said to try and has more. With this official confirmation from the russian side we now understand for sure that both doping tests a and b. Were positive and this is bad news for the o. A. R. Team and for the entire country of course as well Russian Sports officials have ruled out that there was systemic consumption of and that alexander crucial need ski could have taken the drug on purpose the man himself also reacted to this by saying i have never taken any banned substances openly stating that i have never used prohibited substances or competed unfairly since i started in sports thats why im the person most interested to see an investigation as soon as possible the Russian Olympic Committee is starting a comprehensive investigation of how the pills may have ended up in alexander crucial need skis body and some of the other key points that i should bring up here are that the concentration of mill donia in the samples suggests single use plus all the tests that crucial need ski went through before the games as many as ten and total were negative so that means that so far there is no proof of systemic use we have already heard suggestions about this unusual case that someone could have spiked alexanders food or drinks and the Russian Curling Federation have said that they are opening a separate probe into these specific claims and for that they have already demanded c. C. T. V. Footage of the places where alexander trained and state other curlers including the russian female team coach have told us that there is a possibility of that kind of sabotage but that was presuming you publish them you dont need to be a secret agent to give athletes of both will with any kind of banned substance that totally unprotected you just put it in the hotel room its easy if you can see the bottle and its like locked and then it can open it you can see it it was locked he open it and drink it and as long as you keep an eye on the bottle thats fine if you just like to turn around for a second so he has this bottle curling is a peculiar sport where accuracy and intellect perhaps lay the most Important Role so in a sense it may be compared to sports like pool perhaps nuker or bowling and experts in the sport have also told us that they cant understand how mole dony him could work and their case with its effects such as enhancing and durrance and helping athletes recover i dont really understand what what it would be approved for what it would improve you in your game but nothing to apply i dont understand what it will do for you i think it is unlikely that a sportsman of such a level as alexander the crucial need ski he used well done him on purpose during the olympics all sportsmen knew they would be checked moreover there is no point in taking a single dose to have an effect and alexander crucial needs keys case the next stage is the hearings at the court of arbitration for sport which is temporarily housed here and young chang they start on thursday february twenty second. Weve also heard from the press secretary for the russian of limpid committee he thinks that given how closely russian athletes have been monitored in pyongyang taking a banned substance made absolutely no sense. First of all we have to sort out exactly what happened a thorough investigation should be conducted on the matter because this instance raises a lot of concerns one hardly ever sees doping in curling its not needed there every athlete doctor or Sports Official will tell you that secondly banned substances were talking about doing which was found in alexanders blood doctors are found that the amount discovered means the muldoon was taken once that has no impact on performance there was absolutely no sense in knowingly taken this substance moreover those two coolers have passed over the past in the past two years alone even when they were preparing for the olympics and theyve never ever had any violations considering how close the russian athletes are being watched at this lympics taking a banned substance two weeks before the event is just sports it was side. Heading over to japan now where recently discovered government documents of shed light on the practice of force their realisation which affected thousands of people with mental and physical Health Issues the procedure was carried out under the now scrapped eugenic protection law was adopted after the end of the Second World War and remained in force up until nine hundred ninety six it permitted sterilization to quote preserve the purity of the japanese race and according to some estimates up to twenty five thousand people in total were subjected to the procedure the newly revealed records deal with fewer than three thousand of those victims some of whom are now taking legal action r. T. Spoke with one of them. Has a hard time getting through the middle school. One of the teachers took me in as a casting at his house that i was constantly be used by his wife i never got enough never got paint and never had the chance to see the official data to back my diagnosis either she hated me. My teacher took me for a magical chacon and i was taken to hospital he didnt explain anything. When i woke up i was there stephen they told me not to drink water at school but i remember. At the time my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have a baby my father didnt agree to arrange this boss to sign documents by teaching and welfare from science. I had many chances to get married when i was young but tough to the operation i found period i married and divorced and married again my husband left me when i told him about the operation. The committee further recommends that the state party adopt specific measures aimed at providing all victims of forced sterilizations with assistance to access legal remedies and provide them with compensation and rehabilitative services. The government should make a point of pay compensation to them if i was not forced and to go the pressure or be happy i know i will suffer until and cried i only i feel the entire time i caught. The womans lawyer told us that the fight is far from being over he says the japanese government is refusing to deal with the problem. Well theres your two and a half years ago i received a call from mrs zucker it was the first time id heard about this matter we found out that people were taken to the facilities and forcefully operated on under instructions from the government it was a whole organized system but japan still has a problem with ideas and eugenics and those who claim that disabled people have no right to live some psychometrist have started speaking out about the things that they did back then instead of taking their licenses away i think it would be better to ask them to bring their confessions to light and open up the issue now that were discovering the truth we need to make those responsible apologize their actions and make sure the victims get compensation its clear now that the main problem here is the japanese government continuing to ignore the problem and advice from the un. Which bans not the only country that has in the past used forced sterilization programs inspired by eugenics among the notable examples are germany during nazi rule and sweden both countries of which since offered compensation to the victims. Afghan citizens have submitted more than a million statements to the International CriminalCourt Alleging that they were victims of War Crimes Court began collecting testimonies in november of last year the statements describe alleged atrocities perpetrated by the taliban and also the afghan army and American Forces we spoke to abdullah whod lost fifty two members of his family in the conflict in fact there are different kind of war crimes happened in afghanistan in the past sixteen seventeen years american born villagers were born where the parties thats one kind of crime another type of crime Afghan Security forces enters villages. Without any reason to kill people without you know identifying whether the armed the are against the government or youre just simple People Living in the village. The end of last year the International Criminal court released a statement alleging American Armed forces as well as the cia commits his war crimes in afghanistan in the early two thousand and its a breed of attorney specializing in Foreign Policy believes that its going to be very difficult to bring about justice there could be many more claims that come out these claims have come out against three different factions the taliban and their Hakani Network in afghanistan also against afghanis Government Forces or of Afghanistan Military there and as well as u. S. Military and u. S. Military personnel in afghanistan now on the domestic side the United States military code has a very strict in stringent of very long list of laws that military personnel men and women have to be subject to and they have to follow but in terms of International Crimes that fall under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal court then no then the u. S. Cannot be held under their jurisdiction because the United States is not a signatory to the rome statute which created the International Criminal court so in that case it would be less likely that they be brought to justice by Member States or those that are aligned or fall under the jurisdiction of the i. C. C. The mainstream medias trash talk on the existence of socalled russian troll farms has been increasingly littering the airwaves in the last few days now cnns latest report has reached a new quite literally. You look through the trash there what did you find because. Yes we did. For some computer. Electronic stuff. The latest hollywood superhero books the black panther has been praised around but for some its a problem of kill him open explains the new hollywood blockbuster black panther is creating quite a stir in an era where diversity is a favorite word the film is seen as a huge breakthrough for africanamericans the first ever big budget comic book story with one superhero the cultural significance of marvels black panther is immense sting praised for its impact on the black community its white people as we see ourselves even as we like to see oh soaps is again masters of our own destinies that we whites see here to come and rescue is from whatever receiving ourselves now theres a common criticism of hollywood that film directors and actors of color are less acceptable in mainstream culture so the fact that a film like black panther is making such a huge splash is seen as a huge breakthrough and success by Many AmericansShows Positive africanamerican heroes and thats something that hasnt been in film and i think its fabulous now this folie a movie that represents black people was like you know the good guys for once the name black panther rings a pretty loud bell it reminds people of the black Panther Party for selfdefense an activist group in the one nine hundred sixty s. And seventys that was quite controversial across the United States now its pretty clear the film is touching a nerve in us society as some say criticizing the film is unacceptable i implore Media Outlets to please seek out rightists of color to you the black parents in the. Not so bold prediction the first critic to write a rotten review of black pamphlet will be white now we decided to ask moviegoers here in new york city if they thought the film was good or bad for american political discourse folks on the internet are saying that if youre white and you criticize the film that thats unacceptable thats racist do you buy that no absolutely not its like any other film its a bad movie its a bad movie doesnt matter what color i think every movie should be criticized on its own regardless of where you or no matter what your background is people have their own opinion do whatever say whatever they want right now just let people be happy you know theyll read it good or very views if you read them later now the film is widely celebrated by advocates of diversity however some activists are criticizing the film for the fact that no l g b t seems or characters were included it looks like today in the age of social media and you just cant please everyone caleb mopp and art see new york. 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The moment is broke when temperatures reach near record in the siberian village of the estimated temperature was around minus sixty two degrees celsius Climate Change is posing a real threat to local peoples lives and life structures. Great stuff you wrote up to date with the latest in half an hour join me every thursday on the alex island sure and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics for those of us