A new course examining what it means to be white in the United States and how socalled whiteness impacts on modern life. Hello welcome to the program its nine am wednesday morning here in moscow my name calling this is your global news from International First to whats been happening in syria progovernment fighters have entered the kurdish enclave of afrin to help repel an incursion by the Turkish Military. This was filmed just outside the city of afrin the fighters could be seen waving the syrian flag and chanting the Syrian People are one but they then came under fire from the Turkish Military president says the shelling forced the processor and government fighters to retreat ten kilometers however the commander in the prophesied military Alliance Claims the militia is now inside africa our Senior Correspondent what i guess they have takes a closer look at the situation. This was a demonstration hundreds of pro Assad Militia fighters with tanks armor brazenly riding into africa with smiles cheers and cameras. The turks well see for yourself and koreas response was explosive loaded and delivered in artillery shells. Today towards evening he was determined by the hasty s. Militias that about ten pickup trucks were coming towards africa they were then forced to turn back following the shelling these cases being closed for now. Warned that this would happen no one may help the y. P. G. Said as for the kurds themselves hes promised to put them in a choke hold in me a days i need secure the preparation on the ground takes time in the coming days we will lay siege to the city of us here you have two major anti Isis Coalition partners terrorist and aggressor as they call each other turkey in the y. P. Ji partner in all but name juking it out beating each other to a bloody pulp one might ask where is america the head of the us led. The Isis Coalition. Why are you still here why are these weapons still arriving america is in the process of creating a terrorist army. Do not encroach on our borders do not provoke us we will run out of patience lets not forget how it all began with the statement a us declaration that it would build an army of kurds to patrol the Turkish Border that sent into a fit rage and it was that statement that was used to justify this new war washington backtracked its now laying low but the damage was done the coalition imploded and its up to others to stop this. We do not believe that the u. S. Will. Be year strategy depends on creating new chaos in the middle east to pursue its interests in this region it is sad washington said the fire that is now consuming its own anti Isis Coalition and burning africa into the ground the us role has been reduced to diligently expressing its concern worry but not regret. Meanwhile in london a flash mob being held to show solidarity with the kurds in africa protesters fell to the ground and lay still as though dead in protest against turkeys invasion of Northern Syria the demonstrators also made calls for britain to stop selling arms to turkey but according to middle east analysts Joshua Landis its not just london thats to blame for exacerbating the conflict he says americas support for the kurds has caused the situation in the region to deteriorate. The u. S. Has been supplying a lot of weaponry to the kurds east of the euphrates when the United States first entered syria. It turkey and the United States came up to an agreement that everything west you priest was turkmens everything east of the euphrates the United States men beige is a sore point but thats still to be decided on but thats the way its been and the United States has been giving a lot of weapons to white egypt now its obviously telling a white chief do not attack turkey with those weapons because the moment you do that you will justify everything that your door that says is going to happen that youre connected with it and so the United States is sitting on the kurds in essence is telling them why peaches you have to sacrifice your brothers and i mean to preserve us out east for its. Next we continue our look at recent discoveries from japans official archives which shed light on the grim government run Eugenics Program which left thousands of people infertile over the decades that it was in force jacqueline has their story. Records of only a fraction of the people subjected to sterilization have been revealed but this may finally help the victims to get justice after decades of suffering and some are already taking action has a hard time going through the middle school thats when i was diagnosed with a mental disability my teacher took me for a medical check and then i was taken to hospital. Well i remember at home my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have babies my father discourse to sign documents by my teacher and welfare offices but there are many victims the government should make apologies and pay compensation to them its believe theyre up to twenty five thousand victims all under the eugenics protection law in force for almost forty years as late as the mid ninetys the procedures were in order to quote preserve the purity of the japanese race people with mental disabilities or hereditary diseases were targeted but misdiagnosis of such conditions was common causing even more unnecessary suffering we managed to speak to the relative of one such victim when i got married my mother in law told me that my sister has been sterilized after i made an information disclosure request i found out she was only fifteen when the ration took place genetic mental disease was the only listed reason for her sterilization however it is not true when she was a one year old she became mentally handicapped because of the anesthesia three different doctors gave her so she didnt have a genetic condition in over sixteen thousand cases the procedure was even carried out without consent and shockingly victims were as young as nine years old appeals to admit the practice had taken place were dismissed for years with victims being told that the evidence was simply gone the only show the question is whos responsible for all of this to me its the governments fault thanks akita the program as well as the National Legislature which a doctor the law needs to take responsibility and make apologies a soonest possible doctors also responsible but in a way that we used by the government. I think that the now defunct eugenic protection law existed for the sole purpose to reject a band of disabled. When i requested the disclosure of the documents regarding my sister surgery they told me the files were just said to have been stripped. If process had been thrown away the evidence of the mutilation of my sisters body will simply trashed in the case of another big to mrs zucker the documents were thrown into the fire when i heard about it i was beside myself with anger. Hotlines have been set up to bring together victims for whats likely to be an extremely long and traumatic battle for justice but while victims one compensation they say money isnt the main reason their goal is to create awareness to ensure that horrors like this never take place again. Theres been a tense encounter of the United NationsSecurity Council between the u. S. Envoy and the Palestinian LeaderMahmoud Abbas delivered a vitriolic address on tuesday im squarely at washington for recognizing jerusalem as the israeli capital and claiming america is not committed to the Peace Process. One of. The Us Administration took an unlawful decision which was rejected by the International Community to take the issue of jerusalem off the table and to recognize the city as israels capital. Were ready to begin negotiations immediately in order to achieve peace and security for all in our region and the world. Well after he finished speaking out stood up and walked out of the meeting not waiting for a response from the u. S. Envoy to the holy. Even though he has left the room i will dress the balance of the narrow marks to him. President last i said here today offering the outstretched hand of the United States to the Palestinian People but i will decline the advice i was recently given by your top negotiator so i erekat i will not shut up we go reaction from the editor of the palestine chronicle who says recent developments show that america is now becoming a third wheel in the Israeli PalestinianPeace Process so us has lost its top artists have beaten any kind of international mechanism. To bring peace and reconciliation between palestine and israel they have lost their right to do so when they decided to flee and biased and. What is really position us has never been honest peace broker Mahmoud Abbas trying to send a message to the palestinian. That after decades of pursuing this fruitless and futile Peace Process and nothing has been achieved as a result of this message to the Palestinian People that im still here and im still fighting and im still challenging the american diktats and American Foreign policy. Americas Prestigious Yale University is launching a new Study Program aimed at deconstructing what it means to be white in modern day American Society but not everyones happy about it samir khan now explained. Racial tensions in the u. S. Go back centuries from colonization and genocide to slavery and racial segregation the countrys troubled past continues to fuel and tag an ism between the races and people of color have a waged war on what they see as a system that favors White Supremacy but whats been happening in the us seems to have turned the tables reinforcing the conversation on socalled reverse racism for example Yale University has introduced a force in countering whiteness through plays poems and memoirs and to quote the program constructing whiteness counter narratives in any creative form and its not just yale many universities in the us are making quote white awareness programs available but critics are fighting back or using that white awareness programs are just as racist as black or honest ones in another extremely divisive case some women of color felt isolated and unsafe in their communities so they organized a healing retreat and coast rica and then banned white people from attending to white people is to let us have our space let us have our room and go hang out with other white people broke a you know youve done enough damage well of course screams of hypocrisy and reverse racism ensued and then theres this picture depicting black women beheading white women the artist explained its a quote unquote sort of a play on the kill whitey thing critics are outraged alleging well you guessed it reverse racism they say imagine what would happen if a white person was shown chopping off a black womans head however when it comes to all of these claims reverse racism may not exactly stand up to scrutiny when looking at the history of the countrys racial dynamics but whether or not these cases qualify as hypocrisy or reverse racism the question remains will any of this actually qual racial tensions in the u. S. Or will this only result in further polarization. So r t washington d. C. Social commentator Anthony Bryan logan believes some of the criticism would be received very differently if white people were behind them. If it was a white Woman Holding a black woman say if the painter were away the painter would be called everything hed be called a neo nazi supremacist because the default reaction to anybody white doing something against somebody black or even painting a picture is to say that white person is a racist because the default thought process is dead why people are racist anyway and theres some say that if youre not white you can not be races which is really ridiculous theres been a lot of things floating around about White Supremacy as of late that these things become normalized is seen as a rational thing to say in public so people again they get to feel guilty any want to tell everybody hey im not a racist look at me im fightin the gays the white man are fighting to get by supremacies you get some white people they say to even hate whites and say how do you hate whites your way it doesnt make any sense was like do you hate your parents do you hate your grandparents is really a crazy thing. Where theres a mixtape all but wiped out in syria and iraq dozens of children of the Group Fighters have been left stranded but for some of them there is hope that their relatives will be found thanks to a campaign by r. T. Ten youngsters have been able to return home and the latest is a young boy called ziad who was left to survive as an orphan and the iraqi capital. Doesnt work. For. Us. Because that is the i just. Want to. Say it was my this was your idea to missile get away. Well. This mean this. Is i. Think you know. The waiting is almost over to later on wednesday off to months of legal procedures that is it will finally be able to see his relatives once again hes going to travel to moscow and then take another flight to his home town will be at the airport his arrival as he welcomed home and reunited with his family. This is all t two World Records in fifteen minutes for russian figure skaters at the Winter Olympics were live at the games after the break. To you something to. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president. Some want to. Let you go right to be for us this is what before three of them all cant be good. Im interested always in the waters in the. City. Still seems wrong but. Just dont. Get to shape our. Active. Engagement equals betrayal. When some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Again two World Records in the space of just fifteen minutes for russian athletes at the Winter Olympics in south korea the first was set by figure skater you have met in the Womens Short Program her school was then taught minutes later by her teammates alina and i get to the lets go live to pyongyang now our correspondent is trying to. Its great news but you cant help but feel some sympathy for you have a moment of glory somewhat short lived take us through it. Hi colleen well its amazing isnt it as you were saying two World Records within the space of just a few minutes and it looks like the female bank figure skating competition is turning into this had to head clash between two russian girls eighteen year old the again and fifteen year old eileen is the eaves of other girls have one coach they are from one country but of course theres only one gold medal to win here and young chan i can tell you that the rest of the competitors are way too far behind so perhaps they have no chance for it the two russian girls have already shown what theyre capable of and the Team Competition they received record breaking scores back then too but after ziggy that was performance one american figure skater whos not even taken part in these the lympics tweeted literally its not a performance its not a program so you know with these Winter Olympics if you believe the doping story the doping scandal aside the story has been that team o. E. Are would always get bad press from someone no matter if they win or if they lose for example when the russian female asked hogg Ice Hockey Team sorry were receiving were really having a nightmare with the group stage usa today called them bogus and said so many nasty things felt as if the author was having something personal against the russian team but when the man squad who by the way are going to take on norway in the quarterfinals and just about an hour when these guys be team usa four to nothing they were blamed for all kinds of things the likes of fistfights or using their strongest line up in the last few minutes of the game and so why. That the russian hockey veterans have said that young chang it almost feels like theyre back in the nineteen eighties the time of the cold war but were not going to see any of that tension at least at the ice hockey arenas any more when it comes to the mens tournament because team usa have just lost to the Czech Republic and theyre out of the playoffs ok for now if you are trying to the olympics in south korea thanks for that. Picking up on what he was losing to the russian olympic curling who tested positive for a banned substances insisted he would never have taken it intentionally on tuesday Russian Sports officials confirm the both of alexander crucial samples contain the traces of melburnians the amount detected suggests that only one dose was consumed the drugs believed to help improve recovery times after intense exercise and its been banned since twenty six