The Berlin International Film Festival after walking phoenixs here but hes in a foul mood well tell you why coming up. Also coming up there were more medals up for grabs at the Winter Olympics thats including the ice dance competition where canadas graceful couple virtue and moir were vying for another gold well bring you up to date on day levon and junk. And adjuster that reverberates through the sting tommy smiths moment of protest after winning gold at the one nine hundred sixty eight olympics he joins us to discuss the challenges he faced and the enduring problem of racism in sports. Im sumi so misconduct good to have you with us the war in syria is heating up on two fronts the United Nations is warning that the situation in the rubble how donkey. Eastern how to is spiraling out of control now monitors say nearly two hundred people have died there in government airstrikes since sunday but equally worrying is the turkish offensive in Northern Syria Turkish Forces are preparing to la
Dialogue with the syrian government. At the same time it takes time to get prepared in the field. That the siege of Afrin City Center will start rapidly in the coming days. I think that the problem this problem is the sort. Of thing. We begin in syria where at this hour the fight for our freedom has become all the more complicated there are reports that hundreds of prover seem fighters have arrived in the northern kurdish enclave to take a stand against a turkish led offensive in the region in fact reports say that shots have already been fired raising the specter of a deadly direct confrontation between turkey and the Syrian Regime turkey says that it will lay siege to the city in the coming days. Well we will ask a high ranking official from turkeys a k party about that in just a moment but first here is turkish president recha type ared won speaking on tuesday. Toward the evening today we determined that they were about ten pickup trucks full of shia militia coming towards a free an
Great to have you along everyone we start off in syria where government backed troops have entered a fitting a kurdish enclave in the north of the country raising the specter of deadly confrontation with turkey columns of fighters were seen moving into afi despite threats from turkey that it would lease siege to the city in the coming days there are reports that turkey has already begun shelling the area the region is controlled by Kurdish Forces turkey considers them terrorists. All right well lets get you the latest on those breaking developments syrian progovernment a freighter is entering kurdish held our friend despite turkish threats dorian jones is in istanbul for you are dorian what more are you hearing. Well youre right theres a force of several hundred drawn up of Syrian Government militia and iranian backed militia crossed into the afrin enclave very heavily armed but we do get reports of turkish or tillery bombarded this convoy possibly also supported by drones and turkish
On whether to join chance on good marriage and a nother grand coalition well theyre in danger of being overtaken by a party on the far right. As a whore king felix said as he usually hates Film Festivals but not the billion dollars where hes starring in a gus van sant movie dont worry you wont get far on foot stick around for all the buzz from our correspondent down at the red carpet. At the rock thanks for your company everyone. The war in syria is becoming even more fraught now escalating on two fronts reports just coming in suggest Syrian Government militias have entered the kurdish held northern enclave of our freen all that would likely put them in conflict with turkey which is preparing to besiege efraim in order to drive out kurdish fighters meanwhile the rebel held enclave of Eastern Ghouta is coming under heavy bombardment by Syrian Government forces monitors say as many as two hundred people have been killed. An air raid on. A suburb of the syrian capital damascus. Scores of
Say more than two hundred fifty people have been killed in the damascus suburbs since sunday. And a new push for gun controls after the Florida School shooting the u. S. President says he supports a ban all devices that turn semiautomatic weapons into machine guns but will that satisfy demands for meaningful change. Also coming up this hour the underwater cave in mexico thats proving a treasure trove for scientists an archaeologist to contain the spread lanes of artifacts going back ten thousand years. And just buy in munich on track for another travel variance already have one foot in the Champions League quarter finals well talk about that much and the rest of tuesday night such. A low im terry martin good to have you with us. In Syria Government backed troops have entered freen a kurdish enclave in the north of the country turkey is preparing to lay siege to the city as part of an offensive against Kurdish Militia it is used as terrorists and a Security Threat but the arrival of tro