A very warm welcome youre watching r. T. International with me karen good to have you with us this hour. Washington is downplaying its support for the kurds amid threats from turkey of a military attack on kurdish positions inside syria and korea is furious over what it sees as broken u. S. Promises to stop backing syrias kurds i think the original correspondent mind has more turkey isnt kidding around day after day it is pulling more tanks and more missiles more troops to the Syrian Border this is the premiere you get to a new war a war within the u. S. Led coalition should. Now americas acknowledged its established an army of terror along our countrys border its up to us to drown this army of terror before it is born. One of the reasons is americas new army or border force which is what it was originally the u. S. Led coalition told us in this letter that it was establishing a Border Security force an army of kurds that would patrol the border with turkey now that is preparing to invade the u. S. Has done a one hundred eighty degree turn that entire situation has been missed but treat misdescribed some people misspoke we are not creating a Border Security force at all the story has changed its not a new army or a border force its thirty thousand troops that will be trained to prevent isis is return on paper for now and if turkey doesnt put a stop to it state department is now on overdrive you get the sense that theyll be bending over backwards for a valuable ally turkey is a very important value nato ally we have a lot of interactions with the turkish government as you probably know the foreign minister of turkey is in vancouver right now where i believe he will be meeting or have some sort of a chat with secretary taylor sent or at least some of our representatives later today so an important nato ally lets not kid around by all appearances america doesnt want to leave syria victory or no Rex Tillerson all but said so himself and that is the tragic twist to expend so many lives so much time and money to defeat isis we need to set the stage for another war a war within the anti isis coalition. Techie experts high cohen believes that squaring discontent with american policies in turkey pushing and correct closer to moscow the u. S. Administration right now is trying to lower the pensions but. You know in the fields what were going to. See is the continuation of the u. S. Support for this entity is and the Turkish Administration would like to see the end the end the clear end of the american support to the Kurdish People idea why p. G. And to basically to redesign the American Foreign policy in syria i can tell you that there is a very increasing antiamericanism right now in turkey because of the american policies and this friction between the United States and turkey is basically pushing turkey towards more to russian arms. One of frances most notorious president has seen two hundred guards go on strike over security concerns at the jail. Yes. Following the strike almost one hundred twenty inmates refused to return to their cells the prison is reputed to be a hot bed of islamic extremism among inmates. Who is behind the deadly powers attacks of november twenty fifth its not the first strike to hit a french prison this week with guards fearing for their safety elsewhere to. Our work is very dangerous where we have aggression and we experience violence which is not taken into consideration by the government. It has become more and more difficult for us to act ive seen physical aggression towards my colleagues every day it happens every time we open the so doors are supported and we denounce the working indications of our colleagues in the prison the security conditions the numerous acts of aggression against them we want salaries to be increased for those who face such risks that work as well as an increase in personnel and better security French Justice minister nicole bello bay met with a number of prison workers on tuesday she outlined a ten point plan to improve their working conditions among the point she highlighted mostafa better equipment and a new director for the discussion on the issue has also been scheduled for march. And you leap from the found to bears Hacking Group obtained by r t house raised questions about how dont think cases were handled during the rio olympics and twenty sixty earlier i spoke about the revelations. So new leaks about the summer Olympic Games twenty sixteen and remember during before and after rio the russian doping scandal was all over the news and that was when the and higher russian track and field team stayed home because of the bands well one i. O. C. Email exchange that we however can not confirm is real was a valid therapeutic use exemptions or to you now correct me if im wrong but is that when athletes to use banned substances for medical purposes yes if youre an athlete and youre sick and this case you may get permission to use medicines from the list of prohibited substances in a sense that is legal doping but that requires a certificate and judging by some of these unverified emails as many as forty four such certificates were given out right during the time of the olympics and most of them just days before the olympics were over thats where all the finals are happening but according to water rules the window between the time when the application is followed the next competition must be thirty days plus if we are to believe more of these on verified emails eight. From rio were never entered into the universe so antidoping database that is interesting have we had of any consequences we dont know but i can tell you that among proved to be a real mess if it indeed happened during the rio games and we know that it is the most high profile sporting event ever the summer olympics and also another email that the fancy bears leaked was supposedly from a brazilian antidoping professor about crucial flaws and the doping test bottles again its an unverified email to the manufacture of the bottles from the times right before the beginning of the rio olympics. Did it weird situation this happened the rio twenty sixteen berlinger bottles seem not all to be stand it did not fit the berling forcing them resulted in breakage of the cap and sometimes it can be used to close the able to look after our quoting e. G. Photos you know just bowling i have a record of this kind of nonconformity so nikki opening the bottles could cause damage according to dr ratner if the emails are real but this is the point when i want to go back to all the russian winter olympic athletes that were banned the head of the winter Olympic Games in korea besides the testimonies and besides all the things that the main. Whistleblower grigori watching of was saying the cornerstone element of the i. O. C. Evidence or basically the only forensic evidence was the damage on the bottles or the scratches on the ones that were used and saatchi and the question i want to know about the state is whether both was at the center of suspicion in sochi produced by that same company yes they were produced by berger that was providing the antidoping officials with equipment for saatchi as well however neither the mcclaren team nor the investigators they were appointed by the International Olympic committee have ever shown us the visual results of their experiments and we were constantly told that the bottle technology is flawless but what if it isnt. Twelve activists in the californian city of alcohol and may now face jail after they were caught trying to feed Homeless People in a park according to current legislation if the illegal to sheffield in public places. Well you should love that you know. Because you know we are out of. The ban on public food sharing in alcohol and was introduced back in october last year as a precaution against an outbreak of infectious hepatitis a the penalty for breaking the law can be up to a thousand dollar fine or even a six month jail to. We talked to the activists who were caught by police they claim the legislation has the opposite effect of what its meant to do. Homeless people who were there were very sinkhole that we were standing up and they were very upset that the mayor in the City Council Members could pass such a heartless ordinance and none of those government officials come out to that park and talk to those people it really seems like this is part of the city for to realize homelessness theyve already. Made it against the law to panhandle to sleep on the sidewalk so this is really like the next step in trying to push the homeless out of their city and the big justification that they use was the happening outbreak in the in the eggo and they say all the parkers the parks are so contaminated with hepatitis a that we dont want the Homeless People to catch it and start trying to protect them but everybody else can still go and have a party at the park and share food with each other and they wrote that into the ordinance and thats what makes it discriminatory because the targets are really its everybody else is not magically immune from have a tie to say within the same space so clearly there are this is not about hepatitis a and the mayor has made comments in Public Session at the City Council Meetings where he has said were trying to make the park less inviting to Homeless People and recent reports on human rights by the un outlines the difficulties Homeless People currently face in america. We see an average of seven to eight hundred people every single day. Congress has reached an agreement on tax legislation that will deliver more jobs higher wages and massive tax relief. Since the recession we have not recovered the homeless homelessness has actually increased theres a problem with high Property Values air b. N. B. Is buying up local properties and evicting the tenants the mayor of alcohol would like everyone to think that all Homeless People are drug addicts and that is absolutely not the case we have a very High Percentage of our homeless are veterans we have a High Percentage of people who are working in this growing criminalization of people who are poor and powerless. Really is also a bigger problem with the mass incarceration of if that happens in our country where we have for profit prisons with Companies Making money off of jailing people still to come on t. International twitter is preparing a brand new tool to alert users about russian trolls more on that so if they show a break. Put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president and you. Want to be rich. If youre going to be the first this is what before you the boy cant be good. Im interested in the lawyers in the. First. I dont think that any country can push a button and get rid of trade this is far too important to be farmers to political backlash money is a very fungible thing and i think it will be very quick before people find ways around it because as i say it but it may be damaging in my credit that but the idea that you could do anything nearly even if something is very unlikely. Welcome back social media giants Twitter Facebook and you tube have again been grilled over alleged russian interference in the u. S. President ial election im assuming that none of you have any doubt that the russians meddled in our two thousand sixteen election and attacked our democracy any question you know its only the latest u. S. Senate tearing the three social media giants have participated in this time round twitter also announced it was preparing a tool to warn users about russian trolls they idea has already sparked concern over just how trolls will be actually identified arties Daniel Hawkins takes a closer look. This time theyve been grilled at a u. S. Senate Committee Session about dealing with terrorist content and other dangerous materials a letter that i wrote calling these companies to individual inform all users who are exposed to false misleading and inflammatory post generated by russian agents we will be working to identify and inform individually the users who may have been exposed to the ira accounts during the election now facebook already enables users to check if theyve been exposed to russian bots and trolls from an apparent russian troll factory named the Internet Research agency which so division and mistrust back in twenty sixteen furner if you buy the Russian Election meddling narrative but it doesnt stop there now it seems twitter is going down the same road we dont yet know the full details of how this will work but in a hidden recording of a Journalist Group project veritas allegedly discovered how exactly twitter picked out other apparent bots. Its a good read. Just look at what you. Guys. Really. Sure. That we have requested comment from twitter can they confirm that the top aimed at tackling and identifying these kremlin trolls is one hundred percent effective what are you supposed to do in the case of a mistake or the company has previously stated people in similar recordings didnt represent official views project veritas of course themselves have in the past been at the center of controversy as a result of their methods for tackling bots is all well and good but what about tom. Opinions that are controversial unsavory or unfavorable nineteen eightyfour anyone. Would. Think. That it. So next time youre browsing social media and come across material that may go against the grain dont overthink things the platform itself will give you a heads up what to believe or not. So with us now to discuss the issue further is adam gary an independent political commentator mr gary thank you for joining us on r. T. International this evening just how reliable do you think twitter is tools are when it comes to identifying bots and trolls. Well based on the evidence that project very top has unearthed i would say not very reliable or tall and they should be very careful before they accuse people of something in a malicious way because there is such a thing as a libel lawyer and many people ought to have them on speed dial if necessary the whole thing though does boil down to the contempt for the average public thats clearly expressed by those senators at the hearing and by those in charge of twitter a person engages with content online if they find it interesting amusing educational or some various combination of the three whether once engaging with someone they know personally a stranger an organization a pseudonym or some out of rhythmic robot machine the quality of the opinion and its ability to educate to into taken or to amuse is what the people are off to how stupid to twitter to really think us the members of the public or that we need to be warned about this as there was something that actually matters like credit card fraud or allegations of trading obscene images online this is just an exchange of opinions and by barking up the tree of trying to expose the source its really just trying to talk down to people as if they are not intelligent enough to make an informed decision based on of variety of opinions that they come across online from a number of different sources in every country on earth just about and there also are risque that twitter could end up discrediting genuine accounts by calling them out as faults. Well thats the very important legal question its of course an ethical and a moral question but when it comes to fighting a Mega Corporation like twitter people need to be legally or md in the sense of having the knowledge and information and Legal Expertise at the fingertips to protect themselves from from what amounts to corporate defamation of an individual theyre a big company and if they try to defame small individuals well the world Class Action Lawsuit means something in the United States where most of this is going on so this is something the twitter needs to be very careful about this do they really want to expose themselves to these kinds of claims just to make their friends and congress happy about an election thats well over a year old at this point its really ridiculous and if the lawsuits stored to come in and peoples pockets strolled to be crunched then i think well see possibly a slightly more rational reaction i think gary independent political commentator thank you for joining us and to discuss this topic thank you thank you. Switzerland may not be part of the e. U. But its meeting one step closer to staging its own version of breaks it is with Peoples Party or s. V. P. Has received permission to collect signatures in support of a referendum to end the countrys Free Movement agreement with the european bloc which could see switzerland take back full control of immigration matters at the moment to open border policies that allow e. U. Citizens to live and work freely in switzerland and vice versa the s. P. P. Has until july next year to collect one hundred thousand signatures if successful the proposal will be considered by the government and parliament in before being put to a vote because the president of the youth wing of the sea s. P. P. Is convince the public would vote in favor of stopping Free Movement. We are the Biggest Party in switzerland we are the Strongest Party and we have made a lot of initiatives and in two thousand and fourteen this was Peoples Party has launched that initiative against Mass Immigration so why shouldnt it work a second time and im sure this race people will wont