We will get response from awardwinning investigative journalist allan nairn just back from honduras. His new story for the intercept is headlined u. S. Spent weeks pressuring honduras opposition to end protests against election fraud. Trump and republicans are tempting a rightist revolution with a massive transfer, locking in the structural advantages, attacking immigrants and the poor, and working people. They have made tremendous headway, but at the same time, people are fighting back. The outcome is completely up in the air. The november elections will go a long way toward determining whether the country makes a radical swing to the right now or whether this is stopped and whether weekend repair for a time where we start to get a more sensible amy we will speak with allan that about the stories shaped 2017 as well as what has happened in honduras. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President trump
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With turkey. Taking it lying down protesters take their message to the white house as pressure might some lawmakers over the Florida School shooting. Oxfam issues its first direct apology to the haiti government after an internal report reveals that new details about the prostitution scandal thats rocked the ngo. And she needs under threat the passage of time overtakes the philippines favorite many buses. And sport norway are enjoying their best ever Winter Olympics thats top of the medal table after winning two more golds on day ten its a long shot. But we begin in syria where developments near the border with turkey have the potential to further complicate the Battle Ground turkey says its troops will fight forces loyal to the syrian president if they enter the northern on klav of afraid to defend kurdish fighters syrias state News Agency Says the Syrian Forces would enter our freedom within hours to join what it called the resistance to turkish aggression a report now from Stephanie
Recall that innocent civilians are trapped in the in the middle as your report just showed so we should first remind that but i think that this situation now is precarious because the Syrian Government forces will have to move to our three and there is no other choice aphelion is part of syria so therefore if they let the african down and they do not actually interfere that shows that they. Lenient with their vision of the territory and that is not the position of the Syrian Government in fact this turkish escalation brings the city as together it creates more unity among the city and it makes them realize that in the end they will have to be under the authority of the government the legitimate government in syria and that is the legitimate force equating to International Law that is supposed to control all syrian territory including after now the the turkish incursion into africa and under the pretext the alleged pretext of eliminating terrorism is there you know this alleged pretext
In fact a different kind of war crimes happened in afghanistan in the past sixteen seventeen years american born villages with policies thats one kind of crime another type of crime Afghan Security forces into villages. Without any reason you kill people without you know ive been fighting with. The other against the government or just simple People Living in the village at the end of last year the International Criminal court released a statement alleging American Armed forces as well as the cia committed war crimes in afghanistan in the early two thousand Jennifer Breeden who is an 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 afghanis