one minute past midday here in moscow on this the 1st monday of march welcome my name's. tensions continue to rise on the border between greece and turkey where a buildup of migrants is being described by often sounds a threat to its national security turkey opened its border with the e.u. on sunday leaving tens of thousands to head their response the point extra soldiers is vowing to increase the turns violent clashes break between police and migrant. because. 7 i. always go to the greek kodori who've been arrested. and in my mind this is me go way over entering one country. well turkey's decision is linked to the increased self its military presence in syria on its southern border it violates a deal reached with the e.u. in 2016 under which un korea took charge of millions of asylum seekers in return for financial aid turkey by the way is accusing europe of not fulfilling its promises it also saves it come off to cope with the amount of people fleeing syria's war greece says it has already blocked more than $10000.00 migrants from illegally crossing its border the greek government also claims turkey is using the migrant crisis that put pressure on europe over the syrian conflict migrants stuck at the border hoping describing the hopelessness of their situation. there's just a lot of that turkey has opened its doors but greek soldiers are blocking the refugees they won't let them cross there are kids there everyone is waiting in the cold at the border yes on the ground look at the deal because. the border is open ok by greece and i mean i have an open there it's unclear what will happen next i want to sonoma them when we arrived at the border the police bombarded us and killed several children the border is shot and that is causing a lot of problems men. are using tear gas against us several children were killed we have critical conditions in the shelters yes the greeks aren't helping us there are teasin eisenstadt. middle east analyst amar what car believes the refugee problem will not appear on till syria regains control of its territories. were earlier than once what the turkish authorities want is some cover for their operators in need leap they want europe to become a stakeholder forth their operations say apparently that they want to make sure that no more refugees would cross the border between syria and turkey and that in a sense just defies for them farming the likes of juba's. against the syrian army program hence consolidating the problem rather than solving the problem because the only way this problem is going to be solved by syria restoring its you know territorial integrity in people going back to their homes as long as there is fighting and there will always be fighting as long as there is a bit of syrian land outside syrian government control as long as there is fighting there will always be refugees he's just blackmailing europe in order to effect some cease fire in egypt and prolong this suffering for we don't know god knows how many years. to moving for a long anticipated peace deal between the u.s. and the taliban to end the almost 2 decade long war in afghanistan has had to hurdle the afghan president the proposer release of 5000 taliban prisoners or a u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo and says all control. so are so their abilities that it actually happened there have been prisoner releases from both sides before we've managed to figure our path forward under the current terms the u.s. pledges to cut its troops by around a 3rd to really $600.00 by the middle of this year it also states that the pentagon will poll that remaining contingent within 14 months depending on taliban cooperation but the question does remain will valid agreement hold saskia taylor takes up the story. 18 here is $1.00 trillion dollars over $150000.00 dead for raf gonna start in the us the road to peace has been long bloody costly but a new dawn is on the horizon and it's being hailed as a victory we will keep going to the furthest. if you know you're right or there's already today and even if. they need force to get it because of. her reading comprehension it's easier we achieve this is for peace i need you but i'm going. the deal signed by washington and the taliban has promised to bring to a close what seemed and on ending a war times many thought it wouldn't happen the deal has come off to 18 months of pulling and tugging of head shakes and walking away but in doha the paper was finally signed and it seemed to be one of those rest situations where in parties involved were happy well almost all because apparently someone forgot to ask the afghan government what its take was fun spoiler a lot it's got a few concerns the in could betty dried on the deal when the afghan president vetoed a key clause the release of 5000 taliban militants as part of a prisoner swap now there is no commitment to release 5000 prisoners i have shared this with dr colleagues this is the right and the decision of the people of afghanistan they have requested it so it could be included in the agenda of the interim afghan talks but it cannot be a prerequisite for talks. now this is not a side note to the deal it is in fact to the condition on which intra afghan peace talks will start a veto the full threatens to bring this entire thing grinding to a halt. president gone his reaction there shows how washington has missed the point here that signing the piece of paper is ironically the easiest pot and the promising prisoners would join yours is as unhelpful as dropping to mons that the taliban officially recognize gandhi's government granted government was not even invited to the negotiations and when they were participating not only participated . not as a government present protests because ordinary afghans and that in itself is a very significant indication of the situation was the president guy who said this we have been fighting. for about 80 to 90 percent of the. battles have been waged by afghan troops or basically. or anybody else up to deal with government so this is maybe one of the hurdles. but let's not forget the u.s. is an old hound pretending to be the peacemakers even when it's cause the mess in the fast place and with an election just around the coup want to trump probably wouldn't be against adding to his eye make great things happen rhetoric sure has middle east deal of the centrals will bust the boom and kim jong un isn't quite ready to step away from his nuclear rockets but trump got his photos and it seems he's already eyeing up his next money shops be meeting personally with taliban leaders in the not too distant future. and we'll be. very much hoping that. they will be doing what they say they're going to be doing they will be killing terrorists when in doubt sign a deal pose for a photo then crown jewel south victor leave others to figure out the logistics tried and tested. it was just part of the u.s. mission creep in africa to the true extent of the pentagon's military footprint on the continent is revealed in previously secret documents following the deaths of 3 americans at a base and kenya in january we'll look into that a little later. for employee russia's sputnik news agency in turkey have been released after questioning the editor in chief and 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday that follows nationalists trying to break into the homes of 3 sputnik employees in ankara we spoke to mark seam turn of head of the sputnik turkey office in istanbul . a group of about 20 people came directly to each of our employees at their residential addresses they shouted threats and accusations against them look after our colleagues went to the police station to report the incident we could not then reach them for many hours however according to the police their phones had not been taken from the right now we want to know how this crowd of nationalists found out the addresses of all of our employees their names and surnames understory did not and then today a group of police officers arrived at our istanbul office as well as to the editor in chief of turkey now the police are making copies of our employees hard drives as i understand it article on the turkish province of ha time served as the basis for the searches given the recent events i want to say that we will now take measures to maximize the security of our employees working in our office. staff detention came after sputnik published an article describing how turkey was given a piece of syrian territory 80 years ago when it was still a french colony the russian foreign ministry spokesperson for the european security organization the o.s.c. were quick to condemn turkey's actions. the attack on the employees of the turkish bureau of prudent news agency and their detention is a gross violation of the rights of journalists this represents a significant encroachments on freedom of expression and media freedom of the kountry it is paramount that the authorities ensure the safety of foreign correspondents at all times including during conflicts. russian media play itself come under pressure in turkey before and 2016 following critical comments by vladimir putin the by the turkish leadership the sputnik website was blocked by turkey's internet regulator let's go live now though to the general secretary of the european federation of journalists ricardo gutierrez for his take good to see you turkey is known for having a troubled relationship with journalism but foreign media mostly being left alone could there be more of this to come do you think. well i'm rather concerned by. even week and. it's not the 1st time the key is well known. for attacking arresting journalists but in this case. but by the fact that there were no reason at all no objective reason i mean to detain and arrest these journalists i think it's a clear case of intimidation and maybe it's not the last 11 intriguing aspect of this the sputniks stuff in question say they voluntarily went to turkish police to report what happened but the turkish media reported that they were detained over an inflammatory article what does that perhaps say about the media environment in turkey right now. well. i'm representing journalists not media outlets i can tell you that the journalists union. strongly condemned these actions against journalists working for russian media in into a case or from the journalistic community i would see that we have an enormous. you know on this case it's a clear case of arrested and intimidation we strongly condemn it now the way media reports depends on many issues including you know the link with the with the government what i fear in this case is a coordinated action from a key i believe that i have not i cannot prove it but i believe that they re some connection between the demonstrators who attacked the journalists on saturday and then the legal actions against journalists i don't see any reason for that kind of escalation and i fear as. and it's going to between both believe that these journalists are being for the tension between russia and syria and particularly in leap province. that's and. i think there is a kind of instrument delays ation of the police legal actions not for journalistic reasons but for political reasons. just on the reaction to this story riccardo the incident it really didn't get much coverage brought i'm just looking through some of the news links to it if perhaps this was reverse that happened here in russia you would accept spec western media to be really all over it why do you think it isn't getting traction in the mainstream news elsewhere because it is a big story would run the vacations is it not. again i'm not responsible for. the jury. what i can tell you that is that from our point of view from the professional point of view we we take it. seriously we will rebuild this case to the council of europe platform for the protection of journalism. and the safety of journalists it's a serious case of our resident intimidation and we will ask the council of europe will ask explanations to the issue authorities about these events what does this mean for journalists though we understand that this situation was quickly resolved after the russian foreign minister called his turkish counterpart do you think that more caution will be shown in future or is this going to force foreign media to be more cautious when they're operating in turkey. we should be cautious as a journalist operating in for sure it's not the it's not the 1st time as i told you maybe you remember in the 17. dukie correspondent for developed german newspaper. was arrested for so-called terrorist propaganda. in fact it was just a way. to put pressure on dreman authorities and. in particular. i think spent one year in prison you know he was released after. negotiations between both governments so. turkey's used to do it's a kind of habit you know to put pressure on journalists in order to solve or to put pressure to solve political issues regarding thanks very much for your time this hour record of good here is general secretary of the european q adoration of journalist speaking to us from brussels. ok this is r.t. international lots more news coming our way in 90 seconds and counting. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. hello again there is a backlash against sexual minority rights in poland where a 3rd of municipalities up then cleared themselves. free zones. they move clashes with the wider cornerstone of shared european values. in its simplest terms the idea of the e.u. is one of many countries working together under one umbrella towards a common landscape yet you don't have to scratch far below the surface to find divisions what seems to be becoming more clearly etched is the divide between the west and the east in the latest round of disconnect between the values of the east and west the focus has turned to l g b t rights anti l g b t sentiment has been on the rise in poland. now in poland nearly $100.00 miscible local governments have a claimed himself to be free from l g b t ideology covering an area that some say is up to a 3rd of the country it follows a come pain by poland's ruling norton justice party which declared this type of ideology was an invasive foreign influence that undermines traditional values the european commission has been quick to react we cannot allow the distribution of algae b.t.i. free zones take us or the adoption of. resolutions and not feel responsible for the next phase where physical attacks that take place even if they are then carried out by other people one french town was so incensed by the backward nature of anti l g b t rights after 25 years of being twinned with the polish town it's taken drastic action and suspended ties francis committed to combat things human rights violations based on sexual orientation. we cannot accept that the ties that unite our 2 suiters through an oath of winning should be tainted with the position taken by. but in poland there is real concern about the promotion of l g b t ideology and the shore themselves too much these people the people have been round all the time and they didn't boast about it i did a child can grow up in a normal gay family have 2 fathers or 2 mothers have a good indication travel around the world know languages and they're good and interest and very soon as you get one of their children grow up in a family of a fire then a mother i know this from my own experience one recent poll found the biggest threat concerning young polish men was the l g b t movement and gender ideology and it's not just an issue in poland at a recent festival in croatia residents were filmed cheering the burning of an effigy of a gay couple. the annual review by the european of the international lesbian gay bisexual trans and into sex association also accuse several other countries of growing official hate speech by government officials countries singled out included bowl garia the czech republic hungary and slovakia in hungary for example it said that there was a decrease in the social acceptance of homosexuality. the eurobarometer 2019 found that hungary was one of a handful of e.u. countries where the social acceptance of l.g.b. people has decreased since 2015 following bogey area on gary and were also the least supportive of legal gender recognition or 3rd option gender markers some have described this disconnect between east and west in each state as being a king to still having an eye in curtin and while the e.u. is currently facing off with an internal battle over its budget in the aftermath of breaks it perhaps the real problems it faces a far more in cranes in the cultural differences of its member states. ski r.t. in paris. let's bring you to the philippines where police there are talking a hostage situation at a shopping mall just the capital. one official saying security guard is holding around 30 employees hostage after apparently trying to rally former colleagues to take action against small monitors thousands of customers and staff fled for the exits suffered gunshots were heard the local myrtle reporters that one person has been shot and is in hospital the shopping malls being sealed off the gunman we believe is talking to negotiate at the moment is the mountain to speak to former colleagues to reporters. a set of mops showing the full extent of u.s. military bases in africa last year has appeared online it follows a deadly attack on an earth field in kenya in january in which 3 americans died raise concerns over washington's wider mission on the continent the documents have been obtained by the investigative news website the intercept and show the locations of 29 u.s. military bases they formerly secret data also discloses the whereabouts of american military operations in africa this is how the pentagon describes itself proclaimed light footprint there. we will grow more efficient to contribute to higher defense priorities and refocus resources to global power competition we cannot take pressure off major terrorist groups like isis and al qaeda today after calm does that using a light and relatively low cost footprint by supporting african and international partners who are leading these efforts with by the statement the effectiveness of the u.s. effort to country period to african security is being questioned last year there was a record high level of islamist activity currently there are roughly 2 dozen militant groups operating in 14 countries on the spite the rise in violence washington believes it has a positive influence in africa. tomorrow security demands leadership today we're trying to make sure that we are efficient with our resources and we're not depleting efforts and whatever it is doing on the african continent is complimentary. so the bottom line is the united states is not walking away from africa we're committed and we remain engaged militarily claims that this is a light footprint but you know it's hard for an elephant to leave a light footprint and certainly the pentagon is a giant elephant and its presence in any country instructive is a base of and if it comes at the same time that there is concern concentrated economic dislocation then the whole thing stabilizes the entire country and that's what it's meant to do it's meant to assert u.s. military power not economic growth and development as a matter of fact economic growth is there's an effort to destroy that and to push countries back or into almost a colonial position of the past and that is really us now is an attempt to do to restore to old colonial of nations. what ever happened to the remains of napoleon's best friend killed by colin powell in western russia or documentary following my general attempts to follow it on its next. you know we've talked a lot on the show many years about economy and currencies and what makes a currency really what makes a currency is scarcity for example gold is a currency it's money because it's scarce that's the primary reason people use it as money keynesian economics or a socialist is usually a workable because the people who are organizing it think that well you can just print all the money you need you need a program print more money there's socialism for banks on wall street as was pointed out recently one of the big presidential debates you know a bank gets in trouble just print more money well what's the ultimate scarce commodity what is the ultimate scarce commodity think about it what is the ultimate scarce commodity. time of the time to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important. transitions to sustainable prize board sustainability. more equitable and sustainable. they claim that production is completely hama's. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far 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