And the discovery of oil in congo has environmentalists concerned about what drilling will do to the rain forest. And in sports olympic organizers insist the cancellation of julys tokyo games isnt being considered the torch relay through also set to start this month despite the coronavirus so. We begin this news hour with the latest on the diplomatic tensions due to turkeys intervention in the syrian conflict and the European Union Foreign Policy chief joseph brellier is an honor to meet with turkeys foreign minister. They are there and to president richard type bell says he told turkish officials the situation at the border with greece was unacceptable turkey and greece a trading accusations about the growing crisis there thousands of refugees and migrants at. Trying to cross into Greece Athens has dismissed reports its Border Security shot dead a migrant on the battlefront Turkeys Defense Ministry has confirmed 2 of its soldiers were killed in syrias if the province Turkish Forces re
We begin with the latest on the diplomatic tensions due to turkeys intervention in the syrian conflict the European Union Foreign Policy chief joseph brawl is an honor to meet with the turkeys foreign minister have a shoulder that they are and hell also meet with president trichet top barrel says he told turkish officials the situation at the border with greece was unacceptable turkey and greece are trading accusations about the growing crisis there thousands of refugees and migrants are trying to cross into Greece Athens has dismissed reports its Border Security is shot dead a migrant on the battlefront Turkeys Defense Ministry has confirmed 2 of its soldiers were killed and serious in the province Turkish Forces retaliated by striking Syrian Regime military targets the ongoing violence is also causing tension. Between russia and turkey russian president Vladimir Putin will host his turkish counterpart in moscow on thursday to discuss the developments in syria lets bring in hashem alb
With civilians are increasingly being caught in the middle of fighting between the Myanmar Military and the are can on an ethnic group. We begin with the latest on the diplomatic tensions involving turkeys intervention in syrias war of European Union Foreign Policy chief has met turkeys president and foreign minister and uncle Joseph Burrell says he told them the situation on the border with greece is unacceptable. Increased pressure due to it being union turkey border and unilateral actions. Of not bringing any budget eventually and not being in benefit to anyone. Like a country can only create problems and made the situation worse and they want who is who will pay the price. People shooting and refugees from migrants. Turkey and greece a trading accusations about the growing crisis there thousands of refugees and migrants are trying to cross into greece the greek government is dismissing reports that a Border Security guard shot and killed a migrant on the battlefront in syria Turkey
A very warm welcome to you know watching r. T. International with me mickey airing. Our top story during an emergency meeting at the u. N. Security council on syria damascus has accused turkey of harboring al qaeda and islamic states so casey one envoy in return wants the Syrian Government not to directly target turkish troops he will not abandon those and well going to you all military reinforcements. Are all the different my country is combating terrorism in its own territory and we are committed to using tools to defend our people and the unity of syria. In response to the ongoing violation of the cease fire within the loop zones of the syrian army has every right to subdue the terrorists the assad regime russia and iran must halt their offensive before more innocent civilians are killed and displaced. The emergency meeting followed reports 33 turkish soldiers were killed during an offensive by Syrian Forces the president s of russia and turkey have held a phone call in which they d
Country turkeys illegal military presence has created a Major International crisis and no one is between a rock and a very hard place. Across talking some real news im joined by my guest here in moscow glenn these and he is a professor at the Higher School beacon nomics as well as author of the decay of western civilization and resurgence of russia we also have Dimitri Bobbitt she is a political analyst and editor at internet media project and in athens we cross to alex cross of our oh he is the director and writer for the duran dot com. In effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate glenn let me go to you 1st here. Weve spoken many times about the situation in syria and particularly iran give us real quickly there are 2 opposing media narratives one coming out of the the ground and what youll see in western media whats the differ. Well thats a good question i guess from the west the main thing you get is that this is all about human rights so its about a