Hello there let me pm here in moscow youre watching r. T. International and were start with the rising tensions between russian backed Syrian Forces and turkish troops in series province it does follow reports that 33 turkish soldiers were killed in a syrian attack on terrorist positions the president s of russia and turkey have left had a phone call in which they discussed holding a high level meeting about the escalation earlier russias foreign minister spoke out in support of the syrian armys right to respond to ceasefire violations and called for cooperation between all sides within the greek framework. But. We reaffirm our commitment to agreements reached by the president s of russia and turkey a suggestion is that everyone should already start fulfilling there was the syrian army have every right to respond to regular violations of cease fire from inside their lives around to neutralize terrorists we cannot restrict the syrian army from fulfilling requirements written in the euros aleutian in fighting terrorism. The syrian army has been engaged in a very violent fight to defeat the last militant stronghold in syria and the province according to moscow the turkish troops that were killed on thursday were among terrorist fighters involved in a large scale offensive against the syrian army but the russians say they werent even informed of the presence of turkish troops until they were hit by that airstrike on february 27th near the settlement of b. Whom turkish soldiers who were embedded with terrorists came on to the Syrian Army Fired at the same time according to the coordinates transmitted by the turkish side to russia there were no turkish troops or units in the area and the Russian Reconciliation Center says that they immediately rushed to the aid of the injured turkish troops after discovering what had happened its certainly strange they werent informed in the 1st place since the center maintains regular contact with ankara and the russians say that the data turkey provided suggested that there were no turkish troops there although ankara recently denied this and said that they did inform russia of their troop locations the banker also called for a consultation with its nato allies following the attack leading to an emergency meeting of the military alliance and theres even been speculation that article 5 could be a vote now what that means is article 5 would potentially draw turkey turkeys allies into a war against syria and russia but again as of now that is thats just speculation but we also heard from the countrys minister of affairs and he said that syria will be held accountable for what happened to turkey is determined to continue to it fulfills its objectives in accordance with its legal rights the murderous regime and those who encouraged it will account for their betrayal in the most severe way a lot of this chaos stems from disagreements over a ceasefire that came into effect earlier this year on the one hand turkey accuses syria of violating that cease fire with this stuff. And so against the militant stronghold in ad lib and on the other hand syria and russia accuse turkey of not holding up its end of the bargain apparently ankara was supposed to remove terrorist groups from the region while negotiating with the more moderate groups but making a firm dividing line between the 2. Possibilities between groups there but the efforts that its made to that effect have been quite ineffective and more talks are scheduled in march actually between iran and turkey and russia on the issue so well have to see if that yields any results of that can solve the crisis currently going on in this syrian province one quarter that will mean nato has held a special meeting in brussels the request of the k. Secretary general said that the alliance stands behind ankara that it cold on all sides to find a peaceful solution. Allies are constantly looking into what more they can do to provide further support for turkey nato allies are engaged in trying to move forward in the efforts of the un their 1st to find a peaceful solution we call on turkey we call on the all new. Russia to fully engage in such un led efforts to find a peaceful solution where we spoke about this without mark almontaser political analyst and the director of the Crisis Research institute and he believes that nato support will remain. I dont think nato forces will enter syria in support of those who come the problem to turkey as the Nato Alliance is principle it is an attack on one is an attack on all but the turks might be risking trying to say that an attack by one nato states brings in all the others to support it and i think has a lot of reluctance to see new to come into our confrontation with russia so theres quite a lot of powerful voices in nato who support the turks desire to see the syrian armys offensive stopped but im not sure they want to go beyond words and perhaps symbolic gestures. There is the military conflict continues in the region large groups of refugees continue to head for europe earlier on friday there were reports of a turkish official saying that the country would no longer stop refugees including syrians from crossing into the will these pictures from our video agency ruptly do you show people in to see some of them carrying children reportedly making their way to the border with greece in greece at the moment these new pictures to show migrants arriving on the island of less boss by volunteers have been meeting them with blankets and essential supplies but process of also gripped greek islands in recent days with locals opposing government plans to build the migrant camps their home and again believes that turkey is using tensions around the migrant controls to blackmail europe to support. Simple crimes in recent months turkish government. Himself was forced to turkey has through the hole through 3 quarter 1000000 refugees the rich pay him to go after movie youre pretty should be moved to move up and go to europe and she could be what hes now doing the risk crisis you seem to be if you do. I have a weapon i can use your societies remember what happened when the little whore refugees arrived in germany in 2015 will spin off on politics and wish to appear important in a way a person i dont understand your friends or support me but if you do and i think blackmar we will open the floodgates to perhaps 2 or 3000000 refugees trying to enter the European Union that makes it. Hard to have a few true too strong to hold a gun to your head as well as in his other hand the gum to the head. Big hitters in the Us Democrat Party are being urged to unite behind anybody but Ernie Saunders a wealthy donor has made the play but leaving that sanders could not beat donald trump in the next president ial election Saskia Taylor has more. They say money cant buy you friends or happiness but might be true but they could just buy you the white house mega dona Bernard Schwartz has been digging deep in his pockets to help the democrat course but its not entirely a no Strings Attached situation we should know who is the best person to be dull trump and with all due respect bernie sanders. So which horse is short is betting on well hes not fussy but either of his friends from the Billionaires Club will do who just like him arent shy on splashing the cash and since were already here together lets look at just how much cash with the king take joe biden now hes discovered that he cant just rely on his instagram a bromance with obama to take him all the way so decided instead to drop a 6 figure sum just one for good measure though he did keep in some a bomb in the style. This is an extraordinary man with an extraordinary career in Public Service youve got to admire him though if i were trailing 12 percent behind the top counted and had my own backers jumping ship id be a bit tighter on the past strings by the way biden still pales in comparison to what his buddy bloomberg has spent so far its estimated the ex new york mayor has dropped a casual 400000000 on his campaign but hey its only no point 6 percent of his 64000000000. 00 fortune so no biggie also at least hes having some fun with it not even the aspiring u. S. President is above a cheeky trolling campaign and it seems to be paying off because hes risen from the very bottom of the polls to somewhere near the top of course lets not forget he is an old hand when it comes to knowing just what money can get you all of the new democrats that came in put nancy pelosi in charge and gave the congress the ability to control this president i got them hoops well lou. Father field now at some of the candidates like. To its credit he sensed that people might not be found of this whole exclusive club of the rich so i decided to play the role of the average joe just the man on the street and im the only candidate on those debates stages in this race the major candidates whos not a millionaire or a billionaire whats this a penniless candidate and big Money Politics well if you believe bunny not quite were going to contrast our views with mayo to judge 40 billionaires who are contributing to his campaign the heads of the c. E. O. s of the large pharmaceutical industries the Insurance Companies and so forth well since bonnie is made to the parents lets peek inside his coffin he might go about divvying up the cash once he gets his hands on those Government Funds but until then it seems hes more about treating himself he has dipped into his funds and brought out around 14000000 dollars for just a few t. V. Ads so it seems that no matter what side of the political spectrum youre on you know that to win in this case you need a lot of the green stuff to help you along the way but money is always played a big part in american elections especially since 2010 with the u. S. Supreme court ruled in a case called Citizens United that you could spend as much money as you wanted on candidates because corporations spending money on politics is free speech spending money is free speech corporations are people thats what this Supreme Court decided thats a travesty and thats really undermined american democracy even more and made it more a money game then ever before thats a big problem in the us money yes and the role of money is growing even more but you know i dont think its at a point where a Movement Like senators could still prevail. In other news tonight a new report in the u. K. Has found that minority groups are being overrepresented in the media black asian another ethnic minorities have twice the presence on t. V. Than they actually have on the streets of britain and the same also applies to to the l. G. B. Community where one of the channels looked at in the report does say it is actually simply trying to reflect reality channel 4 c. Claims its main goal is to reflect modern diversity in its out push although critics do say its gone too far. Grobe characters to revert demographics or wont provide gander you know what else is overrepresented on t. V. They hate for white people that its even worse there are 4 characters here well to have to be nonwhite and one must be gary the country isnt 50 percent nonwhite and a quarter gay we put the issue up for debate with the new York Observer columnist andre walker and also with the human rights activist Peter Tatchell. This highlights the ludicrous idea of having quotas for everything i genuinely believe that in Television Like in all the rest of life you should have the best people for the job but you know what if youre going to have quotas then when the white middle class heterosexual mad represented then youve got to throw somebody else out or we dont have a quota system in british t. V. There are attempts and have been successful attempts according to these statistics to redress the marginalization exclusion and collect past decades and i think thats a great thing to celebrate because it does show that we are a more accepting understanding Inclusive Society this is about normalizing the fact that we live in a Diverse Society this is not about diversity it ought not to be about diversity what it should be about is the best person for the job television is bad to tell humans so you pick the best guy for the job or the best woman for the job who acts in the best way all the social change that Peter Tatchell is talking about all of this lets get a gay person cause that gary or black person has a black its just a load of 970 s. Rock im certain that all those black and gay actors are chosen not because of their race or sexuality but because they happen to be good actors we need to fight discrimination we need to ensure that people who are disabled or gay or black are not discriminate against the idea of just lets just pick this person whoever they are just in order to fill a quota yes no it doesnt nobody you know everybodys doing the right. They choose good after peter you know peter peter i love you to pieces if youre out of date. Ok lets go over to the u. S. State of montana now where a total of 4 City Council Officials have now asked the Prosecutors Office to drop charges against whistleblower Brandon Bryant who is famous for lifting the lid on civilian killings in a u. S. Overseas Drone Operations the air force veteran have been charged with threatening city officials in the video and hes currently in detention over the past few months hes attended multiple City Council Meetings criticizing the way tax money. He is being used brandons mother claims his incarceration is politically motivated shes launched a campaign in the hope of raising 100000. 00 for his bio. My son was the u. S. Air force whistleblower who broke the code of silence on the Drone Program now hes in jail in the basilica county detention facility he has no criminal record and yet he is being held on 100000. 00 bail under detention he is isolated from this family and his friends in from his medically i mean indeed an emotional support animal. As a u. S. Air force drone operator from 2006 until 2011 having left the military he began exposing cases of what he called to be civilian deaths resulting from american drone strikes brian claim that commanders often prioritize the elimination of a target over accuracy resulting in innocent people being killed in the process as revelations bush did when a german whistleblower award in 2015 intensified debate in the european country over the role of the Ramstein Air Base where the drone warfare took place is how brandon described his experience to us back in 25th. I actually talked with a lady whose husband. Was killed whose has been in brother was killed in a drone strike or talked to or face to face and she asked me why her husband and brother had to die and they werent bad guys and i just looked at her and i said i dont know. Not really the best thing that i can tell someone who is asking questions about why someone that they cared about was killed and they need to know the answers and the really true hard answer to say is that im sorry that. The mistake happened and im doing everything that i can to prevent further mistakes from happening but authorities do say that bryant was recently arrested on a felony charge after he had allegedly exhibited threatening behavior during City Council Meetings and on top of that he threatened to eliminate its members in a video former f. B. I. Agent and whistleblower believes brians current predicament is connected to his past revelations. This does seem to be more retaliation for his having spoken out about the Drone Operations and the fact that they were killing innocent civilians more so than what hes now done typically with the whistleblower they look back in your personnel file 1st to see if theres anything bad that they can use to discredit the messenger and if they cant find anything bad bad in someones background or personnel file then they wait for the whistleblower to you know make a small error or mistake and id say the draw was a blow or are in a fragile emotional state already as you can see with all the veterans they have they suffer from p. T. S. D. And we know from many other cases of retaliating and persecuting was so blowers that that seems to be the standard m. O. You can also see from the the current prosecution of the other drone whistleblower daniel hey all they are now prosecuting him after quite a number of years the government is in perpetual war and so the war goes on for ever that means that even if you speak out even years ago and if especially if you continue to speak out about the wrongful actions and the war crimes its going to continue i mean certainly its a continuation this is not to negate the fact that brandon certainly he erred if he made any threatening remarks or comments he certainly should be corrected and he should receive more treatment but i dont think he should be punished the way hes being punished. Such an erotic footage has come out of paris a scene where a fire did break out nathan yet got to be on crying station in the french Capital Police say it was started by a group of people whod been attending a concert of a congolese artist named by i describe the groups action is totally unacceptable in the cry for support of the. Did try to prevent firefighters from getting closer to the blaze firefighters they did manage to extinguish the fire a number of vehicles were destroyed the station has been evacuated along with the metro and people have been asked to avoid the area. Meanwhile france has been angered by comments made by the ambassador of his ally mali he was critical of french antiterrorist squads in the west african country charlotte the as more tensions have risen diplomatically between mali and france following those comments by the passage of france in which he criticised denounce the actions of french soldiers on the ground in his country. Elements there are no desirable some elements of the army because we see it all we see to use all over and we dont know what they are doing on the streets of the market would night and its not good for the image of france. Well those remarks have provoked anger here in frogs while an ambassador was hauled in front of the Foreign Affairs with history to explain those actions meanwhile the French Armed Forces with us to florence didnt notice that this big hole so that old so on except of all this was a statement from her ministry rather than channeling and spreading false accusations we expect the ambassador of mali to devote all his energy to implementing the post summits and achieving success for everyone it comes just off the frogs held a big summit just a few weeks ago in the south of france to discuss the future over the sawhill region and operation volcano this is fraught says a lot just overseas operation with all the 5000. 00 troops stationed across 5 countries in the sawhill region including mali now president marcos also said at that summit that french soldiers were paying for the conflict in blood and lets have a look at some of the recent attacks in the sawhill region. It comes amidst of the tensions that just before a test sold the brand against french troops are being stationed in bali protesters saying they dont welcome to also saying that france is still treating the country as if its a colonial entity and it comes of its the fact that the moment present. It himself this is that his government has opened talks with john hardest in a way to find a solution to the conflict now we know that mali is sending its Foreign Affairs minister here to paris to try and smooth things over but the reality is this latest diplomatic incident is going to raise more questions about why are french soldiers in the ground possibly offering up their lives to fight for a war thats not their own. Germanys top court has upheld a ban on judges and trainee lawyers wearing headscarves at work rules that the clothing violated the neutrality of the court room with more details on this his paper on. Germanys Constitutional Court has decided that when it comes to wearing islamic head scarfs court rooms are a special case a blanket ban on religious symbols similar to what they have in france isnt favored in germany but when it comes to wearing islamic headscarf in court thats a different matter the court has rejected the constitutional complete against the ban on wearing a headscarf for certain official activities all those obligation constitute an interference with the completeness freedom of belief and other fundamental rates this is justified the case was brought by a german moroccan legal trainee who argue that the state of paces rules that she couldnt wear red scarf while carrying out certain official duties was unconstitutional the ruling by the Constitutional Court has raised a few eyebrows on social media with people asking the question why a crucifix is allowed in a court room but a headscarf is not on the one hand the state may prohibit women lawyers in training from wearing the headscarf in court in order to maintain ideological and really just neutrality on the other hand. Germany a courtroom must be religiously neutral hands the headscarf ban also germany. Headscarf ban because the court should be neutral at the same time crucifix on the wall because it is known not to be a religious symbol has scarf bans target the group that is most discriminated against in germany in making the ruling the Constitutional Court pointed out that headscarf can be worn in the Court Building there only prohibits its carrying out public duties in the court itself i spoke to people on the streets of berlin and asked if they made this decision ok. I think its absolutely landslide believe in a free country and everyone here has the right to freedom of expression and freedom of religion. In this nation are unknown. No i think that its wrong because it concerns religion if legion obliges him to hurry it then you have to do it no matter where you go thats why i dont think its right that its forbidden. That. We are old people they have their own culture and we have our culture those people have to adapt to where they are i have nothing against it those people who come to germany they have to adapt but i have nothing against the headscarf. Germany 16 states have differing rules when it comes to religious symbols in this case the court ruled that the trainee lawyer couldnt wear a headscarf as it went against the neutrality that a court room must show however it has led to questions over there being one rule for christians and another for muslims this is not a job this is something we need to do so this is something its belong to the law and the constitution only needs to represent the constitution and it should be neutral all all we know about to be out of here in a country was a christiania to remain a that was the only change and they need to respect that and the main of the people a lot of people in this go to they dont want to see a lot of muslims on of their allegiance who are being the symbols of privileges to presenting the constitution in the court this isnt something we are told know yet about the main constitution of the country and they make us more were going to need people will be tortured im presenting the law without any other religions to be mixing in this law. Some of trumps middle east peace plan builds by the Us Administration is the deal of the century has met for the resistance 50 former leaders and ministers from across europe have written a joint letter expressing their concerns about the proposal for a slayer has more details 54 may european Foreign Ministers and leaders have expressed outrage over this socalled deal of the. Intially they say that it is a kin to apartheid and of urge for action to oppose it to prosperity is not a road map to a viable 2 state solution nor to any other rigid solution to the conflict the planet visitor is a formalization of the current reality in the occupied palestinian territory in which 2 people fall even side by side without equal rights such an outcome has characteristics similar to a bar fight a term we dont use lightly now the peace plan includes jerusalem as israels undivided capital palestine is to be demilitarized and its capital is to be in the outskirts of jerusalem palestine is also to comprise of the west bank and the gaza strip and these 2 areas will be connected through roads and tunnels and 50000000000. 00 of investment is to be made to palestine both the american President Donald Trump and israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu have welcomed the deal my vision presents a win win opportunity for both. A realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risks of Palestinian Statehood to israels security its a great plan for israel. Its a great plan for peace now the palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was quick to slam the deal on the same day that it was announced he said that your wrist 11 is not for sale dear friends we heard a little while ago from President Trump and Prime Minister netanyahu talking about with a cool deal of the century would we describe it as the slap of the century we will say 1000 times no to this proposal so you now have a situation there 50 european leaders as well as the official European Union russia or 22 countries of the arab league are against this deal now the palestinians have been given for years to come to agree with it but it certainly seems in the long run that this is going to prove to be a fruitless effort for washington. By moves are hollywood movies might have just become a bit more predictable thats because. 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