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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 Decker. Syrian state television and now says that forces loyal to president Bashar Al Assad will be deployed to a free in. Turkey launch an operation against the Peoples Protection units or y p g who are in control of the province almost a month ago and calls the y. P. G a terrorist organization. The United States considers the group its most effective ally in fighting eisel. This new move by damascus in africa could mean its allied militia directly confronts turkish troops turkeys foreign minister was defiant yes in the name of the regime is in trying to clean the k. K. And p. Y. T. And there are no problems however if they come in to defend the y. P. G. Than nothing and nobody can stop us the supplies to efren as well as members into the east of the Euphrates River the developments hence said behind the scenes negotiations the details of which are unclear if the kurds are going to accept the major conditions of the Syrian Regime well decide on that very heavy weapons. Dance artillery rocket launchers will they be exiting the city because the Syrian Regime is Syria Democratic forces to exit the city and to move to the east of the euphrates the kurdish why p. G. Holds the areas in yellow which include the region of africa in the green areas land controlled by the Syrian Opposition supported by turkey and theyre advancing on africa and under the Turkish Operation olive Branch President assads government controls the area to the south and the i. P. G. Is territory to the east of the euphrates is where the u. S. Has military bases and personnel on the ground syrias seven year war seems to have entered a new phase with the foreign powers who have long backed different sides trying to solidify their spheres of influence Stephanie Decker aljazeera. Or Russian Media says the leaders of iran russia and turkey are planning to meet in turkey in april turkeys president has discussed the african operation in two separate phone calls with his a rainy and and russian counterparts tire bordeaux and warned Vladimir Putin over the actions of the Syrian Government which is russias ally osama bin jovian has more now from istanbul. The first batch of kurdish fighters has reached the city of free and thats according to s. T. s which is a u. S. Backed force and these kurdish fighters have travelled from the city of aleppo this is a city which is under the control of the Syrian Government forces so syrian fighters have been saying that this group prove their point that kurdish fighters off the right to Peoples Protection units have been allied with the Syrian Government all along there is expectations that more convenience of progovernment militias not regular Syrian Government forces will do the city of against this operation that is being launched by the Turkish Forces called all of branch on the diplomatic front weve been hearing from president ial sources that the turkish president has been speaking to his russian counterpart and hes told them that there will be consequences if the Syrian Government continues on its path this is the part that the foreign minister had also alluded to saying that the turkish government has no problem with the Syrian Government contains and controls its own territory and borders but it will have a problem and it will confront anyone who allies itself with the with these kurdish fighters that turkey sees as terrorists well joining me in the studio is tell a. Researcher at the university of texas strategy and Security Institute a tell a very warm welcome to the program as you were just talking a second ago about how intrinsically interlinked and complicated i mean things have always been complicated but it just appears to be getting more intense so whats your take on the syrian kurds coming to this agreement with the Syrian Government and allowing the syrian army. I guess we have to figure out what that actually means as well afraid i think whats important is that the syrian kurds this is not the first on the deals with the assad regime early on in the conflict they did the very much same thing and basically they allowed the they would draw. This is the acid regime that is withdrew from kurdish claim territory so that they can kind of split the ranks of the Syrian Rebels make them fight against multiple fronts so this is not completely unusual whenever they feel pressured theyll come to some kind of accord with the Syrian Regime its also important to point out that this isnt the syrian arab armies its no its not the official as abridging mommy these are kind of militias that are backed by iran who kind of support the assad regime and who will be trying to make their way in its unlikely though that theyre going to be able to top the balance in the favor of the white p. G. So where then does that leave russia because they back as sad Syrian Government forces but theyre also allies of turkey so the russians had apparently tried to come to an accord with the kurds before this operation in started the idea was that the kurds agree for that region to come back under Syrian Government control when the kurds refused when the refused the russians essentially give the green light to the turks to continue on with their Operation Olive Branch which is what the results of a with what were seeing today now russia may be using this kind of operation to bludgeon the kurds into accepting look because either side with the regime come back into the fold of the unitary state possibly with some kind of concessions from federalism or else were just going to leave the turks to. Back to you frankly so the russians are probably going to play this by ear and theyre also going to make sure that they also keep the turks happy. How concerned diplomatically should our other players in this conflict in the region be i mean how much more messy could this get do you think it can get significantly more messy but like i said it all depends on what forces are committed to any assad regime intervention if its just these militias semi official anyway so the assad regime can distance itself from it although the official state news has been kind of pumping that up. Because theyll say well hang on this isnt our official army its not the regular forces these are irregulars so if they were to commit regular forces though we have to bear in mind that the syrian army has historically lost every single war its ever been involved and its never actually one of war so it will come up against a nato quipped trained and you know a highly proficient and professional fighting force as the turks army its highly unlikely that theyre going to win or come out not bloodied so is what were seeing. I dont want to use the language of a new phase out another phase in what is a conflict now of seven years in length i mean im no where do you see things going except to become even more complicated well i suppose it is actually the thing that the defining characteristic of this was the things become more complicated not less so even when you have the de confliction zones of the escalation zones that the russians and the turks were supposed to be overseeing that didnt quite work out and for obvious reasons because at the end of the day the russians have an interest in crushing the rebellion as well as the assad regime as well as the europeans and the turks are kind of just there to try and sort of gather what they could of whats left. Especially when were now looking at the situation in africa in its only going to get worse its not going to get better and we have to bear in mind the situation in libya as well if the turks are successful and managed to break the why previous hold of a flea in their free syrian army. Allies are going to be in a position to reinforce for the units in it live and also possibly open a route to aleppo which was you know so brutally taken from the revolution about a year ago so tell that when when we talk about that some of the talks that weve seen that happen inside medicine do you find yourself sort of raising you know your eyebrows northwards and thinking oh well here we go again or are they still important in a way despite the fact that whats happening on the ground becomes more and more and more fractures also has become more of a theater these days so you have for example the the u. S. Backed talks in the un backed talks in geneva and on the other hand youve got the astana process and the two divergent processes so while views things on both going on the reality is the Syrian People that are suffering and who are dying every single day so its gone a bit beyond ridiculous now because theyre just talking and not achieving anything while people being bombed tara thanks very much for joining us like he is still in syria at least eighty five people have been killed by airstrikes in eastern thats according to the Monitoring Group syrian observatory for human rights local observer to believe that attacks are a prelude to a major offensive on the rebel held territory which has been under siege since twenty thirteen in a horder reports from beirut and a warning some viewers may find some of the images in her story distressing. Rockets missiles air strikes activists fear the renewed bombardment of the besieged opposition area of eastern hooter could be the beginning of a large scale military operation. It seems russian broke at the gauche ations to bring about a gravel surrender they have so far failed and in a week of relative calm yet again civilians were the victims since the end of december a stepped up military campaign killed more than four hundred people at least one hundred of them were children the fear now is that the numbers will only rise if a wide scale attack begins. The Syrian Government and its allies are sending military reinforcements to the edges of the rebel enclave just outside the capital damascus progovernment media are promising victory and what they say will be a decisive battle it will be the first time they will try to storm. Past ground offensives where we by rebels and people are defiant. We have man who. They wont be able to capture one inch of his land. This is what we have been steadfast for seven years they tried many times and he was all kinds of weapons but they werent able to take anything out. The Syrian Government and its allies havent taken ground but over the years they have. Residential neighborhood the Syrian Government. After securing these. Other controlled areas. In the northwest. Of the people and. About four hundred thousand people. Heres a live Civil Defense volunteers say its not usually the case. Oh no no no no no. I did this a mass funerals been held in the iraqi city of basra for a group of shia find to see were killed by axel eisel fighters killed at least twenty seven men during sundays ambush in the outskirts of how we in Northern Iraq they were disguised in their walkie Army Uniforms and pretended to man of fake checkpoint massoud the governor of nearby koku warned eisel still poses a Security Threat in the area. The white house says u. S. President donald trump supports improved background checks on gun purchases in the wake of last Wednesdays School shooting in florida and he gun protesters have been holding a live demonstration outside the white house seventeen students and Staff Members were killed by a teenager with an Assault Rifle in the floria florida city of parkland will trump this to speak to survivors on wednesday and whats being called a listening session alan fisher was at that demonstration outside the white house. Theres still a handful of people here from the protests that we saw earlier where young people who started talking on social media on friday about making their voices had decided to come together here in front of the white house and stage what they call a dying where they lay on the growing and called for action they say its time that the politicians put aside the money they get from the n. R. A. And they start taking action to protect young people many of them said that they were scared to go to school because they dont know what school is going to be next though we saw the people who gathered here and there were dozens and dozens of them and they brought along their parents and their grandparents the red or the names of everyone whos died in a School Shooting in the United States since one thousand nine hundred ninety and there was a lot of them and they say that florida is perhaps a time of change that every incident like this is described as a breaking point but maybe no this is the breaking point that they can make people understand that this is the republican issue or a democrat issue this is about a School Safety issue but people feeling safe when they go to school and that is why theyre calling on the politicians to take some action its not just events like this were seeing this plan for a march on washington on march the twenty fourth and also a National Walk out of schools across the country at some point in april the young people see the no they cant vote but theyre determined that here in washington after this latest tragedy in florida their voices will be hurt and while the gunman accused of carrying out that mass shooting in florida has appeared in court that class could has confessed to taking a legally purchased semiautomatic life or in some large areas still in high school and opening fire. Seventeen counts of lighter. Well there are reports that get another agent to the u. S. President is likely to plead guilty as part of the f. B. I. s investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen president ial election according to the l. A. Times Donald Trumps former Deputy Campaign manager richard gates who pleaded not guilty to charges of fraud in october is now expected to change his plea gates would become the third leading travel aide to plead guilty particle him has more now on the story from washington d. C. We should point out that the l. A. Times is pretty much solely reporting this right now but it wouldnt be all that unexpected if you read the tealeaves in Washington Gates recently dumped his legal some of his lawyers and the reason why was under seal that led to broad speculation that he was going to make this plea deal obviously you dont need high powered attorneys if youve already done a deal its a federal holiday here in the United States so i dont expect that well see anything in the courts today but if it is true in the next couple of days we should see rick gates come and plead guilty now the reason this could be important is he was not only part of the Trump Campaign but he stayed when man afford left and if you read the indictment it is very damning and the team has case after case of what they say proves Money Laundering they have Bank Accounts they have purchases they have the records so if someone does this makes a plea deal like this usually theyre doing it because theyre evil to provide evidence on someone higher up the food chain oxfams apologized to haitis government over allegations of Sexual Misconduct by some of its staff during an aid mission its former director for haiti has the midcity using prostitutes during rebuilding efforts after the quake in twenty ten charities also released an internal report revealing three of its workers threatened witnesses during an investigation into Sexual Misconduct oxfam published the report after being criticised for a lack of transparency over the allegations are to be ph