Including on e. U. Leaders we asked people in new york and london whether china will the u. S. Is the biggest threat. Probably to us probably us anybody having. Access to our data. Either thanks for joining us this is r. T. International. Start this hour with breaking news because the turkish president s announced that the start of a military operation in the syrian province of idlib is quote a matter of time but now that hes been dissatisfied by talks with russia on the situation in the area. It is human soul that. Turkey has made all kinds of preparations to implement its operational plan. As a narrowing operation we see. Well you can come suddenly one night youre going to put it more clearly operation now a matter of time we will not leave earlier to the regime that still does not understand our countrys determination in this matter and to those who encourage it we never intend to shoulder the burden that the developments of this region placed on our country. Clashes between the Syrian Government unarmed groups occupying the province have been going on for months now moscow says turkey has failed to separate the moderate opposition and terrorists in the aerial footage shows a Turkish Military convoy crossing the Syrian Border a large convoy of tanks Armored Vehicles and supply trucks are reportedly moving towards the outskirts of. Refresher joins me in studio now shes been across the story for us one unhappy with the situation in what is the situation at the moment its very bad actually the situation on the ground in syrias northern province of idlib is very dramatic terrorist activities very high there and you have to remember its a very vast region hope to up to 3000000 people including civilians and they are very often used by terrorists as human shields so actions are urgently needed to protect these people at the same time ankara backed armed forces based in either they are continuing to attack Syrian Forces syrian army countering that is something that damascus military operation. Is in fact and ad so the region is in turbulence and in fact no one is happy with what is going on there. Friends of failed to separate militants from terrorists in the timeframe on the 2018 agreement at the same time provocations from the libs own shearling of the Syrian Armed Forces civilian targets and the russian base have continued naturally the Syrian Armed Forces reaffirming their commitment to the original it is. Including cease fire agreements respond to such provocations and we support them in this. So we rushed for a minister. Explaining what hes not happy about in terms of what turkey has done in fulfilling its obligations where is the blizzard just of the could the big question is who is to blame but it depends on who you are both sides are accusing each other we just heard russias foreign minister Sergey Lavrov say that. I mean he was talking about agreements between and career and most that both sides both turkey and russia were very happy about that the 2 sides came to last year. And according to these agreements turkey is responsible for separating socalled moderate Opposition Armed forces backed by ankara from teris damascus once too far and it hasnt been done properly and this is why we see whats happening we see this violence in the region and this turbulence in the region and its in there mr law provided say a direct plea but the idea is that instead of accusing damascus and accusing most better mind its own agreements and commitment to them for as you said it depends who you are thats the russian position turkey saying turkey say were going to is very clear everyone is accusing more scope of course of breaching agreements of destabilizing the region and what we heard earlier on wednesday for the 1st time that we hear from mr of the gun they have been numerous signals in the last days indicating that turkey is satisfied with how things develop on the ground despite numerous talks between russian and turkish sides including between their foreign and defense ministers so high level talks and it didnt help just recently mr. I mean he even. Threatened syria with this operation lets take a listen. To. The Syrian Regime as well as the Russian Forces and iran backed militants. Are continuously attacking civilians committing massacres and causing bloodshed. Again just last year we saw and. Equally happy with the agreements they came to in sochi so what happened i dont want to say anything but ironically as the guns direct accusations towards coincided with a dramatic shaved and for a washington relations with mr pompei openly saying that america is ready to stand by its nato allies sanctions lifted and american President Donald Trump actually openly battling ethical actions in syria. That a very good job or say should with president her while i respect him we have a very Good Relationship yes i agree hes a tough guy but we have a very Good Relationship by simply do better with the people but the fact is that hes fighting audit led he doesnt want people to be killed by the thousands and hundreds of thousands and he called me about that and other reasons but we spoke about it live and were working together watching walking with. The 2nd see both turkey and america change their traffic and their position actually regarding how cetacean should be resolved and its not healthy bringing peace to that region ok thanks for bringing us up to the roof notion in the studio with me lets go live now to. An attorney at law or in paris who specializes in the middle east. Weve heard the possibility of turkey attacking the Syrian Army Russia so that will be a worst Case Scenario if that was to help him what he can the consequences might be. The concert concert because it will soon as it will be very bad because it would have a direct military action between the turkey army and the syrian army which is backed by the russian government and iran which is in other words its a direction for it would be a direct confrontation between turkey and russia what turkey wants its to have on the north for west of syria to have a safe zone a military zone so it can control the people there because turkey is already harboring more than 3500000 Syrian Refugees and if a war starts and the Syrian Government battery last that takes it leap they would have another tree 1000000 people syrian going to turkey and erdogan doesnt want that and they can not support 3000000 more refugees when someone uses the phrase a matter of time what theyre saying is this is going to happen how seriously do you take that route. Im not sure its very seriously because erdogan is taking a very tough posture but at the same time hes asking for negotiation so you had the delegation a russian delegation went to encourage thursday and. Mr jeffrey who is the american envoy to syria who was in ankara also yesterday so he wants negotiation because in the northwest of syria with air support again cannot do much and in northwest of syria the airspace is controlled by russia whereas in the North Eastern of syria where the Turkish Military went in and seized slides of land and harbor the safe military zone they have the air support but on this other side if they want to go and make any military move they will need to have an air support which they dont have because its controlled by the russian. What you make of the fact that just a few hours ago donald trump was saying that hes working with one on it live. Because. d donald trump he wants to back the gun because they dont want syria and they dont want Bashar Al Assad to seize control of all the syria they want donald trump and erdogan want to counter iran and russia and most more especially for donald trump is to countering iran and syria so. Shall i said doesnt become very strong and doesnt take control of all of they have on the other side you have erdogan which is quite friendly with Vladimir Putin he recently bought some as 400 missiles from from russia so theyre in good terms with each other they can negotiate with each other and on the other side again opposing each other. And again opposing each other in libya and in syria so dont attract is just trying. Who want to be a bit strong there in order to counter iran and russia in syria. Do you think we will see you and putin sitting down in time shortly to hammer this out im. Sorry i didnt hear where where do you think we will see the turkish and russian leaders sitting down anytime soon to try and talk this matter through. I think so i think theyre obliged to sit down because you cannot you cannot have a tree 1000000 people going to turkey to accuse the bloc obliged to discuss and russia doesnt want to go to war or direct war so they gonna sit because now what whats actually now it would be a year 2000. Its too he has. Roots. In in syria so then they want to immediately reason in order to control a bad zone and russia doesnt one of that and they dont want to go to war so i feel. As i said before they have good relations they will sit down and discuss the matter to see how they can resolve it. Many thanks for your time my guess is our cerny at law thank you. In other news australian m. P. s of called on the u. K. Government to stop Julian Assange and his extradition to the United States they visited the Australian Citizen in the london prison where hes being held ahead of an extradition hearing. Easy be on. Someone who is a sobering thought might show proof. Should be rewarded what folks in your tradition incidentally answer these few no one else often. Do reduce. The value of. Their ignorance and its a very strong government. One of those lawmakers George Christensen told us about the wiki leaks founder steve t. V. Rating condition. Ive spoken this wake with professor nils mels of the un special rapporteur on torture. Who come to the opinion along with a number of medical experts that Julian Assange was exhibiting the symptoms of psychological torture visited Julian Assange. And are going to say theres nothing that are sore that actually. Discredited what those doctors and what mills melzer said he is exhibiting signs of disorientation. He did tell us about being kept in severe isolation and ongoing a solution of it as i technically within belmarsh prison the conditions of the subject to apparently. But when you kept by yourself for 20 to 22 it was a die with that minimal human contact youre effectively ocelot it so all of that has led to i guess at the plated state of health for julian a songe and i dont think its fair or told to extradite an Australian Citizen. At of one foreign country into another foreign country to face charges for what for reporting on the facts. Months is dont to sit around the world to condemn the you case handling of the case warning that Julian Assange is being subjected to a psychological torture in jail more than 100. 00 medics on a joint letter urging authorities to take action theres a coldness sterling government to intervene to protect citizens it is the 4th such letter from doctors. In the meantime the Guardian Newspaper has published a feature article on plans to tackle media repression penned by the u. K. Governments envoy on press freedom amal clearly however one key detail was left out links to julian a sons be the most high profile media repression case in the world today clooney proposed to sanction or taking. Jailing journalists for their work including ministers and prosecutors but nothing was said about the fact that no such actions being prepared over the treatment of the wiki leaks founder the article didnt even mention that clearly was actually a songes lawyer in the 2015 swedish extradition proceedings against him and many have been angered by the guardians mission. Congratulations are in order to the guardians Patrick Wintour whos managed to write a whole article on global media suppression without mentioning the phrase Julian Assange the Foreign Office will no doubt continue to be delighted the u. K. Currently has julian assigns locked up at the behest of the us because he exposed war crimes the guardian publishes an article on press freedom failing to mention this unbelievably and unforgivably no mention of julian assigns a journalist broadcaster near clark says that the sons case is too shameful for the u. K. Government to bring up. When to the journalist apparently apparently we not 100 percent sure but apparently didnt see the need to actually brace the raise the case of the most famous persecuted journalist in this interview about the persecution of this its a massive elephant in the room its quite extraordinary d how anybody could write an article about the persecution of john this without mentioning. A sound for the establishment this whole case now is a big embarrassment. And a song its either someone who could be attacked or to big know what its like to be ignored and white good talking about it in this context press that the persecution of journalists is another person is a nonperson you know could careless being persecuted alex talk about other countries official enemy countries that thats fine but not what weve actually got the guy just a few miles away down the road from this banged up in jail for doing journalism because of that with more news for you after this break stay with us. You know beauty for our future. The kind of good intentions of architectures that were increasing today and maybe even 40 years ago simply evaporated i think you know its a time of pleasurable. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Place a nation full community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. What is true. Is. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the. Forum in the shallows. They took to brussels the u. S. House of representatives speak it has warmed e. U. Allies against nancy pelosi insists the Chinese Corporation is a major threat to security and should be barred from developing 5 g. Telecom networks in europe but pelosi mentioned nothing about the far more wide scale unproven u. S. Global Surveillance Network on the scale of more pain reports. Now that the impeachment debacle is all wrapped up guess whos going to europe in order to promote one of the trumpet ministrations key policies its the speech ripper herself nancy pelosi the speaker of the u. S. House of representatives is urging European Countries to drop plans to use while away as their 5 g. Carrier for the benefit of a few corporations you cannot sell the privacy of the people of your country down the river as i said before its like having the state police write the Chinese State police right in your pocket you see nancy pelosi just cares about your privacy odd that shes one of what Edward Snowden called the gang of 8 key figures that are overseeing surveillance in the United States is for and snowden he did as you know on the in the in disagreement with you he did violate the law in terms. Of releasing those documents we dont know i understand and i understand odd timing as well its just been revealed that the cia was the secret owner of a Swiss Company that was offering people encrypt peoples privacy was compromised because the cia had a backdoor what the u. S. Government speculates that china might be doing they have been caught doing themselves while the e. U. Might be more apt to listen to a top democrat then to the donald it seems they still arent buying nancys song and dance her euro 2 were is a flop. While he will be continuing problems and will not be excluded from flying so we will send such numbers destruction to texas to see so we decided to ask people what they think of this supposed danger of china spying on them are they more afraid of china spying on them or the american probably us and im not so much worried about china im worried about anybody having access to our data to be more. Ready to spy on you know in the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world us. Can you would guess just the us given say the alignment of interests from river to the us probably you know well the us is far as im concerned. You cant have dont know trump along with them its a common pattern of Human BehaviorSigmund Freud called it projection nothing drives us crazy or thinking that someone else might be doing that naughty thing that we know we are doing ourselves up an artsy new york. Boom bust spoke way use usas and he notes that the u. S. Has been spying on the whole world for years not least to always so you can watch the full interview by heading to auntie dot com is a preview. It was interesting the u. S. Government says that they declassified the information so we welcome the opportunity to see what the evidence is but we really have to look at this in the broader context of the ongoing geo political dynamic between the u. S. And china the u. S. Has some major issues with china and right now the u. S. Wants to hurt china so badly that theyre going to hurt america in trying to her way and thats really a shame you look back some years ago when i brought snowden revealed information about the u. S. Program prism and about the 5 Year Campaign of the u. S. Government to spy on operation shop giant where they monitored all while why not work for 5 years and could not find any Improper Communications and in the Prison Program they found that the u. S. Government used for example cisco equipment to spiral in the world most recently the Washington Post crypto a. G. D. A Swiss Company that turned out is controlled by the cia so theyve been monitoring encrypted communications of all the countries in the world except for china and russia so the fact is it is important to recognize the role of the equipment vendors and the telecom and mobile operators there is a lawful backdoor by the telecom the mobile operators that is triggered by lawful action by governments such as the u. S. Government or china government we dont have that access we dont control that data. U. S. President ial candidate Michael Bloomberg will sell his media becomes president came ahead of the latest round of democratic debate speaking held on wednesday in las vegas. For the 1st time face rivals he criticized the billionaires massive spending on campaign ads its estimated bloomberg a splash that will them 400000000. 00 on Television Radio and online 10 times more than party from the sun does spend around 325000000 on his entire 2016 Campaign Like the leak and the film are discussed the disease on bloomberg scamping with legal analyst jeff a domestic libertarian president ial candidate for political analyst to. If i could start with you. Says that bloomberg is buying is that a fair comment i do think its a fair comment even if you look at the rules that the d. N. C. Has instituted this is a complete change of what theyve done so far this complete you know this late runners coming into their Campaign Spending 400000000. 00 with perhaps hes spending so much money and so that he can make up for the fact that he doesnt have any real grassroots support but i think it definitely amounts to vote buying its not so problematic that bloomberg is spending money on his own campaign the bigger problem is the d. N. C. What rules is the Democratic National committee Democratic National committee making with superdelegates and with Everything Else because the way the d. N. C. Seems to be operating is that youre allowed to run for president play if you have the money or if we at least approve of you its not against bloomberg its not its not his fault that hes need to spend this kind of money because thats the way campaigns are the Bloomberg Campaigns views would be massively unpopular with a lot of the Democratic Base and a lot of the American People and by fixating on this sort of minor non issue i mean in politics you ought to spend as much of your own money as you want to by trying to get people to fixate on this non issue the Bloomberg Campaign is affectively distracting america from the positions that bloomberg holds that are at odds with the majority of both the Democratic Base and the American People this is a very unpopular person with very unpopular opinions according to the Democratic Party base and also the general population hes polling you know i havent seen one poll where hes polling above 5 percent this is really showing the corruption of the d. N. C. What there is nothing illegal about what hes doing but i think really thats part of the larger indictment of the american political system more than anything else as well as the rules of the d. N. C. As has been stated that this is an indictment that was a perfect description of the american political system of course you can look at the Republican Party a lot of republican candidates had a. A lot of money back in 2016 and yes donald trump spent his own he was not favored to when he was not going to when Hillary Clinton had tons of funding between hollywood between lots and lots of billionaire billionaires so the American People can still vote but that also raises the question when there are lots of different candidates within one party like were seeing with the d. N. C. And i think the American People deserve to see who the candidates are and what their actual viewpoints are and how they stand on things democrats and republicans they control the president ial debates they change the the commission on president ial big debates has changed the debate threshold the do everything they can to keep 3rd parties and independents out of the debates and you can see this in the way that they mistreat any candidate. Opposes a massive military overreach so theyve shut out sanders gabbert all the 3rd Party Candidates who oppose it the United States is definitely an oligarchy and i think that most of the people of the United States know this a lot of these people who voted for obama ended up voting for trump but both of these people received plenty of money from fossil fuel companies from Banking Institutions from Financial Institutions from all these different entities but in a true oligarchy not much has been done about it. And finally lets recap our breaking news story the turkish president has announced that the start of a military operation in the syrian province of idlib is quote a matter of time but when added to that hes been dissatisfied by talks with russia on the situation in the area the revelation comes just hours after publicly said he supports plans for clashes between the Syrian Government unarmed groups occupying the province of been going on for months now moscow says to fail to separate the moderate opposition from the terrorists and footage shows a Turkish Military convoy crossing the Syrian Border a large convoy of tanks Armored Vehicles and supply trucks reportedly moving towards the outskirts of well keep you updated with developments on this story. Rather today join me for more on our top stories and often. Were still in an era of resource colonialism again this is a big risk and the one big thing that could really inhibit the kind of electric vehicle revolution that a lot of us want to see is if we can resource the battery can hone. In a sustainable ethical way that its not going to be a successful revolution. This is a pretty you know the mood but its certainly as much as. You know. The much the blues a little bit in the north and theyre. Going good sort of the you know one of the sins that you know you know the latest in situation. Greetings and sal you take a shit. If the 1st casualty of war is the truth then the civilians caught in the crossfire are most often the 2nd 3rd and 4th casualties of war currently the United States finds itself involved in multiple battlefields across the world ranging from major conflicts like the wars in afghanistan iraq and syria to an unknown number of small regional conflicts and special forces missions that the taxpaying u. S. Public will never be away made aware of until long after the fact or something horribly goes tragically wrong and currently tragically wrong often means the loss of civilian life who were unlucky enough to get caught in the crossfire of americas peacekeeping but how effective is the United States military when it comes to tracking assessing and investigating reports of civilian harm and casualties by its forces that is the question. At the heart of a new report by the center for civilians in conflict and the Columbia Law SchoolHuman Rights Institute after conducting an indepth after conducting indepth interviews and analyzing over 200. 00 investigative reports into alleged civilian casualty incident