Here in moscow this is r. T. International. Syria real flashpoints will start with our friend first of all there the city its come under heavy shelling from the turkish army has been ramping up its operation the try to dislodge kurdish fighters which it sees as terrorists. Break. Came after a pro Syrian Government. To join the fight against the Turkish Military for his part turkeys president says the shelling forced the group of fighters to retreat ten kilometers but other reports making the rounds suggest in fact the pro Syrian Government forces have no taken up positions and now. I. And these pictures purport to show their arrival in the area on tuesday night our Senior Correspondent lourdes takes a closer look at this a volatile and complicated situation but this was a demonstration hundreds of pro Assad Militia fighters with tanks armor brazenly riding into africa with smiles cheers and cameras. As. The turks well see for yourself and koreas response was explosive loaded and delivered in artillery shells. Today towards evening he was determined by the hague t. S. Militia that about ten pickup trucks were coming towards afrin they were then forced to turn back following the shelling these cases being closed for now. Warned that this would happen no one may help the y. P. G. Said as for the kurds themselves shes promised to put them in a choke hold in mere days i need to keep the preparation on the ground takes time in the coming days we were laid siege to the city of afrin 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 in the store why are you still here why are these weapons still arriving america is in the process of creating a terrorist army and i. Do not encroach on our borders do not provoke us we will run out of patience lets not forget how it all began with this statement a us. Declaration that it would build an army of kurds to patrol the Turkish Border that sent into a fit of 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 rule has been reduced to diligently expressing its concern worry but not regret. And indeed middle east analyst Joshua Landis says to the kurds have fallen victim to americas power play in the region. The u. S. Has been supplying a lot of weaponry to the kurds east of the euphrates when the United States first entered syria and turkey and the United States came up to an agreement that everything western afraid to use was turkey and everything east of the euphrates the United States men beige is a sore point but thats still to be decided on but thats the way its been and the United States thats been giving a lot of weapons to waikiki and now its obviously telling a white sheet do not attack turkey would lose weapons because the moment you do that you will justify everything in the air to warrant says is going to happen that youre connected with the k. K. K. And so the United States is sitting on the kurds and in essence is telling the y. P. To you have to sacrifice your brothers and i mean to preserve us out east of the euphrates. Meantime another situation in another part of syria developing a real hot spot again violence in the Eastern Ghouta area close to the syrian capital damascus is on the rise in fact so much so its provoked an outcry from the United Nations there were those asians calling for an end to all this still it is there at the moment following reports the government is strikes on that rebel enclave of killed at least one hundred people in recent days and a lot of violence there eastern goods there is one of the few remaining Opposition Strongholds now the Syrian Government line here is that it strikes on those militants are in retaliation for shelling attacks that have killed civilians in the capital the area was among the deescalation zones you may recall that were established by the warring parties last year but still a lot of trouble there will be across that story from the hills kicks off from there over the coming hours and days and keep abreast of it on our site r. T. Dot com. Next we continue our look at recent discoveries from japans official archives that shed light on the grim government run Eugenics Program which left thousands of people infertile over the decades it was in force jacqueline delves more into that story. Records of only a fraction of the people subjected to sterilization have been revealed but this may finally help the victims to get justice after decades of suffering and some are already taking action has a hard time going through the middle school thats when i was diagnosed with a mental disability my teacher took me for a medical check and then i was taken to hospital thats when i remember at home my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have babies my father the spot for still signed documents by my teacher and welfare offices there are many movies him the government should make apologies and pay compensation to them its believe theyre up to twenty five thousand victims all under the eugenics protection law in force for almost forty years as late as the mid ninetys the procedures were in order to quote preserve the purity of the japanese race people with mental disabilities or hereditary diseases were targeted but misdiagnosis of such conditions was common causing even more unnecessary suffering we managed to speak to the relative of one such victim when i got married my mother in law told me that my sister has been sterilized after i made an information disclosure request i found out she was only fifteen when the pure ration took place genetic mental disease was the only listed reason for her sterilization however it is not true when she was a one year old she became mentally handicapped because of the anesthesia doctors gave her so she didnt have a genetic condition and over sixteen thousand cases the procedure was even carried out without consent and shockingly victims were as young as nine years old a pill to admit the practice had taken place were dismissed for years with victims being told that the evidence was simply gone the only question is who is responsible for all of this to me is the governments fault thanks a key to the program as well as the National Legislature which adopted the law needs to take responsibility and make apologies a soonest possible doctors well sort of. Sponsible but in a way that we used by the government. I think that the now defunct eugenic protection law existed for the sole purpose to reject band of dizzy bulls little when i requested the disclosure of the documents regarding my sister surgery they told me the files which are said to have been strictly processed had been thrown away the evidence of the mutilation of my sisters body was simply trashed in the case of another victim mrs zucker the documents were thrown into the fire when i heard about it i was beside myself with their anger. Hotlines have been set up to bring together victims for whats likely to be an extremely long and traumatic battle for justice but all victims one compensation they say money isnt the main reason their goal is to create awareness to ensure that horrors like this never take place again. Thats a very good reporting. Probably gratian rallies were held in paris following present microns initiative to tighten laws on refugees people there so therefore he stepped back from his promise to help migrants get off the streets and out of the woods as he put it shall i do better skiers more from the french capital. Well this is seen as being one of the biggest tests of the manual mark one has faced so far in his presidency with around two hundred people coming out on wednesday morning to voice their concerns about this new Immigration Law well whats in the new Immigration Law well first of all they want to double the time of detention thats how long my kids can be held from forty five to ninety days they also want to put in jail for up to a year those migrants who cross into france illegally and they want to shorten the time that people have to apply for asylum well people who protested outside the consulate attack today said they were incredibly unhappy and they expressed why. Leastwise not it has not been passed here but people want parkade because it wants to hold this attention with Asylum Seekers so used to newark i think its a lot selfish its a lot of people dont like the foreigners dont like no one likes. This law is unbalanced because its trying to facilitate the integration of france he g. s but many people also support this law some say it doesnt even go far enough and they say they support it because they have concerns over some of the elements at least hope to deal with including that of fake i. D. s because fake i. D. s have been used by some perpetrators of terrorist attacks over the last few years in france now they will face up to five years and a fine if they found with fake i. D. s now fake i. D. s we used with those who carried out the paris attacks in two thousand and fifteen then just a year later brussels the attack there just over the border in belgium and also last year in march say in two thousand and seventeen and on a europe wide level theres also concern that some people who apply for asylum actually want to carry out terrorist attacks such as the. Carried out tax at the billion Christmas Markets also in stockholm in sweden and in finland what is clear though is that this bill which is due to be debated by parliamentarians here france in april is not going to have a smooth flight. R. T. Paris. The problem of bahraini human rights activists now bill rogers has been sentenced no to five years in prison for criticizing the gulf monarchies role in the war in yemen on twitter hes already of course serving a two year sentence for previous having spoken out against the regime it goes on a noise often when on this channel in the times of hes not been imprisoned rajib rose to prominence has no position leader during the mass prodemocracy protests back in twenty eleven results of the president of the Bahrain Center for human rights between twenty twelve and fourteen he was imprisoned for organizing unauthorized demonstrations while the two years of these currently serving were handed down for publishing and disseminating rumors and false news end quote apparently in connection with a number of t. V. Interviews he gave in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen to remind you of the bahrain upraising started during the arab spring the huge uprising a wave of protests across the middle east in twenty eleven the main demands of the opposition in bahrain at the time were more rights for the shia population and the abdication of the king of bahrain but at the time two Police Responded with whats been described as a brutal crackdown a Senior Advisor at the Bahrain Center for human rights now told us the latest verdict against now bill rogers has completely unjust. Well the sometimes is a clearer mockery to just a slap to the rule of law to human rights values and standards and principles. After hardly more than twenty Court Hearings authorities took was substantial evidence to charge and the be all that was he focused on warning all thought on this destruction was of war in yemen he called upon. To resort to dialogue on to peace rather than to war on destruction and the deal is being charged today for expressing his views old cooley. Rights groups are trying to again draw attention to this case Human Rights Watch asked bahrains allies to push for an obvious Immediate Release nationals involved too its been calling on the king of bahrain to free now below its launched a Twitter Campaign well let you know if any more develops on that coming up good news for limping catholics from russia today they broke two World Records in that minute shit minutes of each other in the last few days of whats happening down there in south korea both in figure skating that was well tell you all about it coming up. What politicians do something to. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So you want to be president. Some want to. Let you go right to be person this is what the three of the four people are. Interested always in the last. Question. When else should seem wrong why dont we all just dont all. Get to shape out just to become active. And engaged equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. I guess thanks for watching Us International now as your twitter being blocked out basically seems some people on twitter in the states are saying their accounts blocked and the list of followers deleted to it has allegedly branded some people with conservative views as boss. How soon will twitter lockout be trans apparently thousands have accounts all received the same locale massah to the same owner to provide found and then it taxes or if occasion. To lock me out last week thousand followers simply because im conservative voice explains mabel chrissy i wonder how many votes i mean followers donald trump must deny. 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Well right wingers are furious over what appears to be a social media sense censorship a concern conservative twitter users are accusing twitter of intentionally restricting a right leaning voices and theyre even holding the Company Responsible for missing followers calling it a great twitter purge and its pretty widespread the hash tag twitter lockout has even been trending on social media but no official for comments from twitter as yet some people online think that it could be a purge of you know socalled russian bot accounts is this all comes amid claims of alleged russian influence but if twitter has indeed implemented these changes to combat socalled russian influence it seems to have backfired theyre now claims that real people were locked out of their accounts in fact when twitter launched its first wave of purges there was an American Woman whose twitter account was suspended because an employee thought she was a russian bot. Been on twitter since two thousand and ten basically when i realized it was permanent i was a little shocked they were actually accused of being a russian operative so theyre being with. Us. That i was somehow working for russia the russian bots that were. Sending out negative information during the election so. For some time now twitter has been helping the u. S. Government catch these magical russian bots who somehow manage to sway elections and theyve detected a massive number of them lets look back at a project veritas investigation for an idea and how they judge whos a russian voter. Goes. Like. This probably oh. Oh good for you. Now the question is if twitter also start restricting leftwing voices who are critical of the u. S. Government that of course remains to be seen for the record that slip of the tongue with only fake news people jumping on this one you are not behind that outage earth here yeah good or i just joking ok no leave new bit of good news final few days of the Winter Olympics to World Records were broken in the space of just fifty minutes by russian athletes at the Winter Olympics in south korea earlier the first was set by a figure skating. In the Womens Short Program her score was then topped by a teammate alinas a get over the details of it all from. The younger russian figure skater had been hot on the heels of her older teammate for a very long time and there you have it even Gagnon Vedova could all be enjoy her world record for a few minutes because then i mean as they did even better and scored an extra point as to what it takes to set these kind of World Records both figure skaters include some of the most sophisticated elements in the sport and we see them at the end of the program all these difficult jumps when the athletes are more worn out its a higher risk but if everything goes smooth it automatically adds skyrocketing points i guess something precious for us journalists to take note of was the reaction of following her and michael a performance she said it was not my best but it was ok and apparently that ok was enough for a world record while indeed we heard from experts in the sport that is either of us program was more difficult so i guess she definitely deserve it when it comes to the other competitors it seems that now they can only hope for bronze they are way too far behind so it looks like the female figure skating competition at these olympics and feeling chang is turning into a head to head class between two russian teenage girls eighteen year old the of getting to be a duo and fifteen year old eileen as they gave them up they got one coach they are from one country but of course they only have one gold medal to compete for at piano and chang twenty thing is can we know by now still making headlines as well i would like to know one hundred gary in skiis performance of the games as fun of the two does fit the big spectacular in its own special way. Then competed fair and square why great elizabeth is a hero for every average person in the world she gets the gold in. Elizabeth swain you disgust me people have worked their entire life to make it to their lindberghs indeed make a mockery of that defendant should be ashamed gotta give credit to the audacity of his about this way. Im not particularly fond of the screen you got into the olympics especially since there are other women who have trained their entire lives not forgetting the financial backers and have a lot to play no matter to even qualify for a team which is just average with money lisbeths sway me is my hero some people are amazing the lengths some people have a degree when you havent the olympic dream when she made it come true which to me deserves a medal in that so. The games are about universal latina about reaching out around the world they are also about the two can go together and we saw really good case theres a great story. A tense encounter at the United NationsSecurity Council between the u. S. Envoy and the Palestinian LeaderMahmoud Abbas to live in a vitriolic address on tuesday aimed squarely at washington for recognizing jerusalem as the israeli capital and claiming america has not committed therefore to the Peace Process. One of. Us of ministration took an unlawful decision which was rejected by the International Community to take the issue of jerusalem off the table and to recognize the city as israels capital almost theyre doing but then we were ready to begin negotiations immediately in order to achieve peace and security for all in our region and the world. Was given. After finishing his speech unlike me this about that stood up and walked out of the meeting not waiting for a response from the u. S. Envoy licky halley. Even though he has left the room i will dress the balance of the narrow marks to him. The president asked i said here today offering the outstretched hand of the United States to the Palestinian People but i will decline the advice i was recently given by your top negotiator side erekat i will not shut up here to reiterate nikki haley was reacting there the comments from the palestinians chief peace negotiator he told her to be quiet and not criticize the Palestinian Leadership the editor of the palestine chronicle told us he thinks america is now becoming a third wheel in the long drawn out Peace Process. So u. S. Has lost its right to participate in any kind of International Mechanism that would attempt to bring peace and reconciliation between palestine and israel they have lost their right to do so when they decided to flee and biased unfair and cruel is really position the u. S. Has never been an honest broker Mahmoud Abbas trying to send a message to the Palestinian People that after decades of pursuing this frivolous and futile Peace Process and nothing has been achieved as a result his message to the Palestinian People that im still here and im still fighting and im still challenging the american diktats and American Foreign policy. For watching this latest news bulletin with me kevin owen live from r. T. Age here moscow take believe now our next programs are part of the breaking unions here in thirty. When the make this manufacture come sentenced to public will. When the ruling clubs assume protect themselves. In the final clearing your realm lives only the woman said. To ignore middle of the room signal. The real news room. Hey everybody im stephen both towns hollywood gun battle suspect every proud american first of all im just started washing an r. V. Im losing steam this is my buddy max famous financial guru well shes a little bit different. 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