Rosenstein neither one would answer the question in separate hearings in front of the congress in open session that doesnt smell good to say the least and if that was the case if they took this photo document full of phony accusations to the fights the court after they paid for it to be assembled and then got the fifes awards to spy on americans an Incoming Administration while out that is huge if we had a fair media in this country theyd be done a man doing the release of those documents and on that point well leave it Steve Malzberg t. V. Host and political commentator thank you very much. Violence has erupted in france at europes largest prison with guards on strike over dangerous working conditions including attacks on staff riot police have fired tear gas at the protesting guards who are demanding an increase in the security level while earlier at another prison in corsica two guards were injured in a stabbing by an inmate whod reportedly been radicalised inside while the incident was acknowledged by a french prisoner union. Oh you know thats a serious incident to police in blue prison ridiculous inmate brutally comics. Or french prisons have recently suffered several similar attacks on gods a week ago three security staff were injured after an inmate attacked them with scissors and a razor blade while on monday at another jail seven guards were attacked by an inmate and in that case according to the ministry of justice the perpetrator had again been radicalized in prison in one run and disobedience and radicalization have triggered a nationwide strike of french Prison Guards and these in turn have clashed with riot police. Today i want to believe was. That. It was good that. I was striking guns on demanding they also artist do something about the dangerous conditions in french jails the front spike two representatives of the president on a pool. Said laugh or to do no no the government representatives are to blame they didnt want to discuss the problem up to find a solution to our poor working conditions but we demand an increase in the number of Prison Guards and also the creation of a special high security wing radicalise prisoners. Some of them will determine if we are really determined to make ourselves heard and to ensure that our demands are met with us and we really want work conditions to be changed especially in terms of security or if the. Turkey has launched a military incursion into the kurdish controlled region of syria or im asked to show by. Our. I i i. With the Islamic State and its many confederates defeated or facing defeat in syria what is next for this war torn country what justification exists for the us to maintain military forces that does washington want syria partition is so and why. Welcome back turkeys defense minister has announced his country has launched a military operation in syrias kurdish controlled african region starting with cross border shelling arties paula slater has more on how events unfolded we are hearing from the Turkish Defense minister that a defect Turkish Military operation has begun across its border now this is been corroborated by the syrian kurds the white who say that since those day night some seventy shells have been fired by the Turkish Military on to their villages now its one of the only a statement by the turkish president and the one in which he said that the United States had admitted to establishing a terrorist army on the turkish Syrian Border any chord on the United States to deal with that terror at its infrastructure and these comments by the turkish president so infuriated could see living in the afan region that earlier they took to the streets also they were protesting against what we see happening slowly on the ground which is turkish tanks needing to retreat in order this is what citizens of us have to say. Right now our freedom will be the ones graveyard today hundreds of thousands are protesting to tell him that the people of our friend will never leave their man. The International Community should send a message to turkey telling them to stop we have bought the white b. G. And so we can defend ourselves. Well this comes after the statement that the Coalition Forces were working closely with the Syrian Democratic forces to establish and train a new Syrian BorderSecurity Force but what weve seen happening is the American Administration backpedaling now on plans to establish such a border force essentially after it created such a huge and furious backlash from americas close ally to. Keith the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has said that the entire issue has been misspoke trade and misdescribed the Us State Department has this to say is he saying that when the pentagon says were going to try to come up with a force of thirty thousand people that that thats a long or is he just just feeling ok why wouldnt i would have to refer you to the department of defense on that i think they were clear in the statement that they put out so let me just refer you to them on that. Part but im asking about closing comments yesterday we said theres no order youre ready for just thats not what it is like i have to refer you to the turkish government about what they became so concerned about and the fact that somebody misspoke and im not going to name any names and neither is the secretary but somebody clearly just misstated their policy its as simple as that the situation is extremely tense on the ground and it has the possibility of igniting into something much bigger so i think what it does so us is that words have the potential to ignite a potential war as. Well as discuss this further with former u. S. Diplomat jim jett trust jim thank you very much indeed for joining us well could the turkish intervention have been avoided if washington had been clear it opposed the move. I dont think so to tell the truth because the United States for whatever reason has chosen to single out the kurds as are made and so called boots on the ground and declared that were going to stay there even after dying after isis has been defeated which they almost have been completely within syria it was inevitable that there was only going to be a turkish reaction i think the real question now is whether they will actually do something very forceful or whether this shelling is just demonstrative and the turks really dont mean to move into the to the for an area which is of course is a smaller area to the west that is detached from the main kurdish held areas but lets also look about whats been happening we saw that washington theyve seriously backtracked since originally announcing that border force that we were hearing about but it hasnt prevented this action from taking i mean where does washington guy from hand. If washington is a very in a very difficult position and it really is part of being contradicted caught in the contradictions of our own policy is that we are supposedly in syria illegally as it happens but nonetheless in syria solely for the purpose of defeating diet or thats been done why are we staying well we now have a new Mission Secretary tillerson reiterated a few days ago the worn out obama line that assad must go we need to block the arabians we need to do six other things in syria it seems so we settle on the kurds as the only force we think we can count on that was inevitable it would provoke a reaction from turkey theres no way out of this quandary it that i can see and now theyre back pedaling and dancing around trying to salvage something and also i couldnt then looking at the kurdish point if you couldnt because aunty that the u. S. Had betrayed them in order to boost Public Relations with a powerful ally as in turkey i mean is that a fair challenge. I think were moving toward that and i think the kurds are probably smarter than that della truth even though the United States might want to say ok great the kurds there are boys you know they can they can do a riff that takes they can look at a map and they can figure out that sooner or later the americans are not going to stay and theyre going to have to consider their other options the turks are not a good one and i think the upshot of this will be at some point that well see more kurdish feelers back to damascus about what their options are for reintegrating into the syrian state and cutting some sort of a deal for more ethnic rights or i dont think i would go as far as autonomy but i think there will be some recognition of the kurds as a as a distinct people within syria and finally jim looking at nations here when is america just looking for an excuse to extend its presence in syria. Yes it is and i think thats for the purpose of socially confronting iran look lets lets face it the United States policy is essentially controlled by the israelis and the saudis in iran is the big boogie man and theyre the issue in syria was always about this socalled shiite shiite crescent between iran iraq syria and lebanon and now thats being becoming more overt as the name of the game here somebody thinks we need to have what thirteen illegal bases in syria i dont think thats going to be viable oh for a very long time catch us former u. S. Diplomat thank you very much and to thank you. Thank you. Well its not just jails that are giving the french authorities a headache drug related crimes are becoming so bad in parts of the paris metro the train drivers are reportedly refusing to stop at certain stations once according to a Union Representing the capitals metro and bus network artesian challenger when ski went underground to see what those fears a based on. For most parisians the metro is a staple of life with its winding tunnels and lines that stretch across the city its often the easiest way to get from a to b. But down in the underground the gritty underbelly of the capital is being exposed drug related crime and violence has been a long standing issue in paris as metro but now the unions representing the train drivers say its inspiring out of control dealers and muses including those taking crack cocaine a new role god thing theyve doing. Lighting up metro drivers is so fearful of attacks at some stations many are choosing to longer stop there a survivor more force of a more pro quo is very dangerous and its terrifying it can range from a simple punch to people using nails knives. Stations like marks dorm and market a year are especially troubled druggies has come here for their daily fix and gangs have taken over the problem of a more. The problem is very dangerous for both the metro workers and for the commuters its even more dangerous they are targets of fair ive seen more than one hundred attacks take place within minutes of arriving if marks door metro station we witnessed what looks like a drug deal the man with his back to the camera his job. Still arrived with the bag in hand he walked the platform stopping and exchanging some packages with people and then he left with his bag empty this seems to be the new normal. There are a lot of drug users and i think that with everything thats happening in the matter oh they should be doing something most of the time the drug users are aggressive and everyone is afraid for their security. Children. Twenty twenty five. Lived there we would reverse of course. Been attacked just one time because. We had in the middle of the night. Smart for. Playing with that problem was the precipice a problem as the security robberies can happen sometimes its maybe aggression physical aggression sometimes two was a star man attack another young man as we travelled through some of the most dangerous stations we saw Metro Security and police trying to crack down on the problem they succeeded in moving this bunch along but in reality all theyve done is move the problem to another stop on to another day charlotte even ski r. T. Paris. A teenager has attacked a school in eastern siberia injuring six people including a teacher. Command into the costs and inflicted injuries sustained three School Children and a teacher with the next a child received a blow to the face another one was struck on the back and another girl lost some friends. Let me say this in this booklet as they were taught in a calm nothing like this could have been expected from that action and that no money could come and dissipate is just what happened. That got the worst of the super. Well this comes amid a string of similar attacks in russia this week. Has more. The past five days have seen a frightening trend creeping up in russia with three different attacks occurring at schools. And all of those cases the young perpetrators used basic weapons naives and access as that was likely all that they had at their disposal and a disturbing online trend also link these incidents are sources believe that violent online groups that center around tragedies like the Columbine High School massacre may also be a common factor just to remind you the columbine tragedy took place in the u. S. Back in one thousand nine hundred ninety two students armed to the teeth killed twelve of their classmates and a teacher and that horrific massacre is apparently inspiring violence and children who werent even born when it happened its so popular that the followers of such groups even have a name for themselves columbine years now russias version of facebook called v. K. Has dozens of these pages open to all we did a simple quick search and found scores of them with post that promote violent behavior things like describing the power someone feels when they have a gun in their hands one of the alleged perpetrators of mondays incident has been confirmed to be a follower of such pages and todays and wednesdays instance are being looked into see if the same is true for them as of today russian officials have announced that they will begin shutting down pages with extremist content group of what each number of groups like this is relatively small its not a mass phenomenon were not going to do it every single mention of every bad thing were doing with calls to action not with information per se we dont think that if a person reads about someone slaughtering somebody will pick up a knife and commit a crime. But the question remains if closing pages will really be enough in the long run especially given that a number of students have already taken the next step and used violence against their classmates. More news at the top of. I dont know what are. You going to do. Like. Youre going to. Have a winner take all the its a lottery mentality in america you know where are your dead and the pharmaceutical companies of course a lobbyist going to washington to change the laws of a possible to peddle whole cost in america and nobody cares because it ever learned a lot as a walmart today they said lets do it again. Hello and welcome to cross talk were all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle with the Islamic State in its many confederates defeated or facing defeat in syria what is next for this war torn country what justification exists for the u. S. To maintain military forces there does washington want syria partition if so then why. Cross talking syria im joined by my guest Jonathan Steele in london. An International Affairs commentator in leeds we have here he is a senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford and in doha we cross the mohammed should we he is a professor of conflict resolution at George Mason University in arthur of what is unlike continuity or rupture in the wake of the arab uprisings or a german cross rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate ive seen if i can go to you first in leads here let me read some of the headlines here tillerson touts indefinite u. S. Presence in syria and assad must go in new plan also tillerson u. S. Military presence in syria open ended will ensure regime change if you like that we got way way past that with the collapse of the Islamic State with talks in afghanistan im sorry in kazakhstan with the russians in the iranians in the turks i thought you know to look this is a blast from the past where is this coming from go ahead ive seen in leeds i think what we see at the moment is effectively germany for cation of syria effectively what we are seeing at the moment is in the postwar german situation when the country became divided between two different spheres of influence and that open ended division changed the security and Political Landscape of the world at least for about forty years of course we have to bear this in mind that at the moment over the last thirteen months what we have seen in the american political establishment is confusion so i really dont want to jump to a conclusion but if mr tenet is absolutely committed to his words and theyre going to keep their forces in syria. Prevent further empowerment of bashar assad effectively is what i mentioned is going to be kind of germany fixation of syrian conflict which will have serious implications not only for syria but for the right that region of course they keep telling us that you know they are not interested in partition and disintegration of syria what if it moves like a duck if you like a dog then probably its a dog you know jonathan weigh in on that because i really quite mystified by all thats what is the National Security interest that the United States to maintain military forces illegally under International Law in syria what is the game plan it seems to me its a lot of spite they dont like the fact that the russians the iranians and assad won that its a fact on the ground they wont a