Wednesday. This is your news update from International First whats been happening in syria where progovernment fighters have entered the kurdish enclave of afrin help repel an incursion by the Turkish Military the Development Risks exacerbating the conflict in the region. This was just outside the city of afrin the fighters can be seen waving the syrian flag and chanting the syrian people. But they then came under fire from the Turkish Military president says the shelling forced the pro Syrian Government fighters to retreat ten kilometers however a commander in the military Alliance Claims the militia is now inside africa our Senior Correspondent takes a closer look at the situation. This was a demonstration hundreds of militia fighters with tanks brazenly riding into af. And with smiles cheers and cameras. With. 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 hague t. S. Militia 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 everyone warned that this would happen no one may help the y p g said as for the kurds themselves seize promised to put them in a choke hold in mere days only secure the preparation of 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 duking it out beating each other to bloody pulp one might ask where is america the head of the us led anti Isis Coalition why are you still here a month why are these weapons still arriving america is in the process of creating a terrorist army border 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 of 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. The u. S. Strategy depends on creating new chaos in the middle east to pursue its interests in this region it is sad washington set 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. My guest you have there meanwhile in london a flash mobs been held to show solidarity with the kurds in african protesters fell to the ground and lay still though dead and protest against turkeys invasion of Northern Syria demonstrators also made calls for the u. K. To stop selling weapons to turkey but its not only britain to blame for exacerbating the conflict according to middle east analyst Joshua Landis he says americas support for the kurds is causing 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 church in the United States came up to an agreement that everything west euphrates was turkmens everything east of the euphrates the United States many beaches 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 lie cheat do not attack turkey would lose weapons because the moment you do that you will justify everything in the air to a war that says its going to happen that youre connected with it and so the United States is sitting on the kurds and in essence is telling them why peaches you have to sacrifice your brothers and i mean to preserve us out east of the euphrates. 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 who 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 thats all 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 theyve been rationed to a 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 a pill to admit the practice had taken place were dismissed for years with victims being told that the evidence was simply gone the only 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 will service. Constable 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 ban of disabled she was stunned when i requested the disclosure of the documents regarding my sister surgery they told me the files were just said to have been strictly process had been thrown away the evidence of the mutilation of my sisters body was 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 a. Hotlines have been set up to bring together victims for whats likely to be an extremely long and traumatic battle for justice but all 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 the United NationsSecurity Council between the u. S. Envoy and the Palestinian LeaderMahmoud Abbas delivered a victory over could dress on tuesday aimed squarely at washington for recognizing jerusalem as the israeli capital and claiming america is not committed to the Peace Process but. 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 almost are doing but were ready to begin negotiations immediately in order to achieve peace and security for all in our region and the world. And heres what happened next after finishing his speech abba stood up and walked out of the meeting not waiting for any response from us and bored to have a real even though he has left the room i will dress the balance of moral marks to him. The president asked i sit 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 erekat i will not shut up while the editor of the palestine chronicle isnt convinced he says Development Show that america is now becoming a third wheel in the Israeli PalestinianPeace Process. So u. S. Has lost its right to participate in any kind of International Mechanism that would attempt to bring peace and reconciliation between stein and israel they have lost their right to do so when they decided to flee and biased unfair and cruel is really position the u. S. Has never been an honest broker Mahmoud Abbas trying to send a message to the Palestinian People that after decades of pursuing this frivolous and futile Peace Process and nothing has been achieved as a result his message to the Palestinian People that im still here and im still fighting and im still challenging the american diktats and American Foreign policy. With Islamic State all but wiped out in syria and iraq dozens of children belonging to the Group Fighters have been left stranded but some of them there is hope that their relatives will be found thanks to a campaign by his channel ten youngsters already being able to return home the latest of a young boy called who was orphaned and left to survive in the iraqi capital r. T. Will be at the airport when he arrives back in russia. God. My. God this was one of the interests of whats whats driving. This business. Here they. Think you know it was. Furious. 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 as american that explains. Racial tensions in the u. S. Go back centuries from call and i said 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 the socalled reverse racism for example Yale University has introduced a course 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 night sit 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 play on the kill whitey thing critics are outraged alleging well you guessed it first 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 us or will this only result in further polarization. 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And reaction to all that social commentator Anthony Bryan logan believes the red double standards of play and us society if it was a white Woman Holding a black woman say if the painter were way the painter would be called everything hed be caught in your nazi a basic premises 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 white 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 and when i tell everybody hey im not a racist look at me im fightin the gays the white man im fighting to get by supremacies you get some white people day say to even a white 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 you know without a russian figure skaters are raising the bar of the Winter Olympics outdoing each other in the process will take a look at their successes in the past couple of hours and more of whats in store at the games its after the break. Thats. What politicians do something to. Put themselves on the line. To get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president im sure. More some more want to be. That are going to be for us to see what the four three in the morning cant be good. Im interested always in the waters in the. First six. Welcome back to World Records in the space of just fifteen minutes for russian athletes of the Winter Olympics in south korea the first was set by figure skater. You have gania vetiver that was in the Womens Short Program but it was very short lived her score topped minutes later by her own teammate i mean its a good of a lets go live to pyongyang now its easier for frank it is at the olympics for great news of course but you cant help but feel for poor you have got to you can you. Calling high yes getting him in video could only enjoy her world record of eighty one point sixty one points for just a few minutes as you were saying because then another russian alinas a gift of a did even better and scored eighty two point nine t. Two and i asked her what it takes to set these kind of World Records i can tell you that both includes the most sophisticated jumps and aliments in their programs and it sets a higher risk but if everything goes smooth as it did in the cases of both these two athletes then scores automatically skyrocket and with this looks like the olympic womens figure skating tournament is really turning into a had to had clash between these two russian teenagers gagne amid very of only eighteen years old but. Even younger she has just turned fifteen and the rest of the tom petters i guess they only have to compete for bronze theyre way too far behind but the two russians they got one coach they are from one country but obviously there is only one gold medal for them to win and chang. For serve as well hes also in the spotlight of the games this time around as well tell us why its generating so much interest. Yes call and i can tell you that in just half an hours time the o. A. R. Team will be taken on norway but they have always been in the spotlight both the mens team and the female team and you know with these a little break so far the storys been that at least when it comes to figure skating. They get all of the due respect and appreciation but when it comes to the cocky team they seem to be getting bad press no matter if they lose or when for example when the russian female hockey team were having a real nightmare in the group stage usa today called them bogus and there were so many nasty things that were said in one piece it almost seemed as if the author of that piece had something personal against the russian team but when the meds team who again as i was saying will take on norway and just half an hours time when they beat team usa in the group stage four to nothing they were blamed of all kinds of things for all kinds of things sorry including fist fights or using the strongest line up in the last few minutes of the game and it went as far as to the actual coach of the u. S. Team not agreeing to shake the hand of his russian counterpart after the game so there is always a lot of tension around the hockey tournament right now it is really being felt here in pyongyang we spoke to some of the russian hockey veterans who are saying that they feel like theyre back in the nine hundred eighty s. When the political tensions were of course sky high they are very close to that right now but we wont see any of the competition specifically between the o r team and team usa anymore because the americans have just lost to the Czech Republic and theyre right now out of the tournament ok but even so a lot of pretty much pressure for those guys as you say that