this is the dubliners live from berlin syria a war with turkey in all but name of damascus strikes a deal with kurdish rebels syrian kurdish forces will work together to repel turkish troops in syria's a free region syrian state media says pro-government forces could be on the frontline within hours also on the program. france's president promised to end the problem of migrants sleeping rough now he might is with a new law making it easier for france to deport them. here inside russia in the

fake news factory a whistleblower tells to tell you about the thirteen people indicted for alleged meddling in america's election i just the tip of the iceberg. will bring you the latest news from the winter olympics in pyongyang shot. i'm limping debut snowboarding big and competition wowed the crowds in korea. and phil gramm welcome to the program. syrian state media has been reporting the pro assad forces will enter a serious a free in region to help kurdish militias repel troops those troops could arrive in the well rebel held area within hours turkey offered offered a measured response to the deal with the prime minister. a solo saying that any move by damascus to clear out. militias from the border area would be welcome but

if the syria regime moved to protect the kurds it's a result would go turkey began its cross border offensive into syria they call it the operation olive branch last months. because one until yulia han who is in istanbul welcome so this was a kentucky's a foreign minister looks as though turkey is taking these reports seriously. well the turkish foreign minister is the first high ranking government official here to commend on this potential cooperation or deal between the syrian regime and kurdish forces in north and syria let me quote him here directly he says if the regime is entering there to cleanse the p.k. k. and p y d then there are no problems however if it comes to defend them then nothing and nobody can stop us or turkish soldiers so

a really harsh comment here which indicates that turkey is indeed taking these reports very seriously and that there are in the worst case willing to escalate the situation however so far we don't have any direct confirmation of such a deal by the syrian regime by domestic goes we just have state media reports and on the kurdish side there are also conflicting information so the situation is very unclear right now we don't have any exact information on what's going on on the ground or what might be happening within the next hour as so how would a deal between the kurds and syria affect is a ration olive branch. well turkish troops would not only be confronting syrian kurdish fighters and within syria but also forces allied with bashar al assad's regime this would of course make the whole military operation much more tougher much more complicated and it would also complicate turkey's

larger goal of ofter often moving further north north of towards the majority kurdish controlled area of beach so everything overall an already unpredictable situation will get more unpredictable you have to understand there are so many local and international actors trying to calm fears of influence in syria so the outcome whatever it will be the situation is probably getting more messy so cooperation between the kurds the the syrian government of one state would have been unthinkable so what does each side get out of this well this is of course right now speculation since we don't know if there will in fact be such a deal the cuts could be out for up for a pragmatic alliance with bashar al assad's regime in order to first of all push back turkey's military offensive there is no talking so far about a political agreement for bashar al assad of course it would mean that he would be

maybe getting control back over these kurdish controlled areas in north and syria his troops have backed out in twenty twelve so if he finds somehow a deal with the cuts it would mean that he is back in charge and it would give him overall in the end major advantage in the syrian civil war and just looking at least a complicated situation for move from a wider perspective we have kurdish militias in northern syria who have been working with the united states against islamic states washington of course poses serious presidents so the kurds seem to be at risk of alienating the u.s. allies by this move. well phil as your question already suggests the situation is very very complex and my feeling is as we saw in the past years in the civil war alliances are shifting there are often very pragmatic alliances that can

shift very quickly so right now it's really not possible to say anything of course american support for the kurds was focusing on the fight against isis not on the fight against president bashar al assad so we'll have to be a bit patient and see what's going to happen there on the ground and wait for further reports from both sides the syrian government and the kurdish forces. both thank you so it's ok bogged down in syria ankara is seeking to improve military ties with allies including germany where the past few days have brought a dizzying turnaround in relations between the two countries having released a german turkish journalist and he's huge oh who's been held in istanbul for a year without charge it looks so turkey's now angling for a quid pro quo critics of an increase offensive against syria's kurds fear that it may involve a previously proposed deal for a tank factory. seeking speedy approval from germany turkish

prime minister banally yielder him is hoping the two countries might soon cooperate on building tanks in turkey a deal potentially worth billions. in january german foreign minister sic mark gabrial signal berlin would ok a proposal to retrofit tanks with new anti mines systems but that plan was put on ice after turkey invaded syria's a freedom region with german built leopard tanks gabriele rejected speculation a deal for a tank factory would be approved critics fear there may be a secret deal to approve the factory in exchange for the recent release of the german journalist dennys you tell. the foreign minister would never admitted it but in my view it's perfectly clear there's a connection there if you look at the whole story i assume is a direct link to. the german foreign ministry has denied those claims it

says the country's acting government doesn't have the mandate to make such a deal and the putting on this ticket in this country's future governing coalition has agreed in its negotiations to further tighten weapons exports so i wouldn't be able to support an agreement like that. after turkey's controversial use of german leopard tanks against the kurds in northern syria both sides know a strengthening of ankara and butlins military ties would likely be unpopular. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world iran's civil aviation spokesman has said on state media that he cannot confirm the wreckage of a plane that crashed on sunday has been found this came after early reports that search crews had located the crash site they say that all sixty five people on board and i presumed dead. five women have been killed in a shooting at a christian church in the city of kids leah in the russian republic of dagestan

a twenty two year old man fired at people leaving an evening service before being shot and killed at the scene islamic state group said it was behind the attack. and hungary's prime minister has called for a global alliance against migration. as a right wing party has begun campaigning ahead of an april election that it's expected to wed as the obama has been pumping has been pushing this anti immigration stance ahead of his bid for a third consecutive. aid workers in france say thousands of migrants are sleeping rough in appalling conditions despite an election promise by president mccraw to curb the problem by the end of twenty seventeen now it looks as though the government may have hit upon a solution lisa lewis reports from paris on new immigration or it'll streamline the asylum process and make it easier for thor says to deport migrants. when abraham arrived in paris last year he thought he'd finally be able to start

a new life the twenty year old senegalese had fled his country after his parents were killed by independence fighters in the southern region of cousin and yet he has still not found a safe haven here. the police often come here to take us us there was a time when they showed up almost every day sometimes they tear down our tents just cause mayhem if someone had told me before hand that this was happening in france i would never have believed them and france calls itself the country of human rights i am deeply disappointed i feel sick. abraham has applied for asylum he could stay at a public shelter but he prefers to sleep under this bridge he ironically calls this the hotel of the one thousand nine hundred small here it feels less at the government's mercy than at a public shelter. i'd rather die here than go to

a government shelter he migrants need to be respected to and we are not facts leaves or beggars everybody could be in the situation no matter what the color of their skin portugal. aid workers say the pressure on migrants has been mounting since president invited about call came to power and they think this could be just the beginning the government is working on a new tougher immigration law so it's really frightening we journey no any more what to tell the migrants this new law will give migrants less time to apply for asylum and the government will be allowed to hold them in detention centers for twice as long as you so you'll have more time to find a way to throw them out front setting up the downright importation machines used to send people back home. but the government says the stories of police violence against migrants. just rumors and that even under the new law those who need

protection will still get it and i haven't seen any pictures of policemen hitting migrants or taking away their tents if that were happening it would be a scam and we would have to put an end to it we believe and go on from one at the same time being humane of you to the new law would streamline the asylum procedure so that migrants get a cricket decision and am stuck in limbo for so long if their request is turned down we will be able to deport them more easily they should trust us to give them the protection they need. but many of the migrants here don't trust the government about one thousand of them are camping out in the streets of paris despite freezing temperatures even in this cold these people say that they won't go to public celsus because many of them are scared that if they do they will be picked up authorities and thrown out of the country. even i am hopes nevertheless that france will grant

him asylum so that he can finally start over again. and i'm not asking the french to give me money or anything only want to continue my studies a neat them to protect me so that i can integrate into society i am praying for france to give me a chance politic in what. he wants to study french literature and one day find a girl and start a family then he will no longer be afraid or ashamed to show his face to the world . this is day to lead his life from violence still to come over fake news factory worker tells the tale be that the u.s. government against thirteen people allege meddling in america's election results and against just a tiny part of a huge problem. will bring it i says from day ten of the winter olympics in shanghai snowboarding to being competition by our crops.

hell of a home for your house and use of one of europe's top bankers accused of wrongdoing in some hot water about being of essential bank governor of latvia fill in moslem save it was detained on sunday after being questioned by anti corruption authorities and they say they detained the remains of it she was also a member of the european central bank's governing body over allegations that he demanded a bribe of not less than one hundred thousand years. that feels top banking official from savage arriving at the country's anti-corruption agency from savage seen here wearing a cap was questioned by authorities after they raided his offices and property it's unclear exactly what charges he is facing but the news comes a week after u.s. authorities proposed banning one of his largest private banks a.b.l. the bank for allegedly to north korea like his finance minister sought to offer reassurance with. i can assure you that the latvian finance system is

stable banks don't have liquidity issues so depositors' can feel completely safe it's an inference that only good look at the moment i'm going to use this going on to assure you that in order to protect the finance sector stability and reputation i think that room sivits should resign from his post while the investigation is ongoing enough not to have the latvian prime minister has also called for him savage to step down but markets are still likely to remain an easy about the state of his banking system on monday the e.c.b. said it was stopping all bank payments amid the u.s. investigation and whether in savage case isn't linked to the a.b.l. the probe it calls beyond the country's borders as a member of the e.c. peace governing body savage has access to confidential information relating to europe's most powerful financial institution tracking this story for us is all financial correspondent con-ed booze and in frankfurt home of course to the

european central bank conrad look at the fallout from this case. well it could be enormous the anti corruption of thora tea in latvia says that the allegation against the central bank governor is that he demanded a bribe of no less than one hundred thousand euros which is of course a crass allegation against such a high ranking official and it's not the only piece of negative news coming out of the financial sector in latvia we have this bank. a b l v that is said to have infringed on the sanctions against north korea it had to be supported by money from the central bank in latvia one hundred million euros and also the government in latvia says that it is suspending any new sales of new government bonds because it is of course concerned that all this might have harmed the reputation of the

country and what's more of course one has to ask whether the supervision of the banking sector sector in not only latvia but the eurozone as a whole is really done effectively whether the e.c.b. really has done a good job here it's plenty going on in latvia at the moment meanwhile way you are we've also seen a dip in diner shares so what's driving that. well behind this are reports or concerns among investors that might face a comparable fate than fox fox in the united states and yes i'm talking about again use papers here in germany report that the diamond to installed software in its these little cars well software cheating software meant to cheat the authorities that control these emissions if that proves to be true and if we take

into consideration how much money folks walk and had to pay in the u.s. at least twenty five billion euros i think it's no surprise to hear that investors are very concerned today not really no doubt who is in for us in frankfurt thank you. and japan a group of researches has developed a thin lastic display that can be pasted directly onto human skin university of tokyo professor who came up with the display says it would improve and even save lives i feel we should have that piece for you in just a minute the display is about one millimeter thick and consists of micro illy d.'s embedded in a rubber sheet it measures just six by ten centimeters just the right size to stick on the back of a hand the developers promise to monitor one constant comfort to users it can be

adhered to any flexible areas of the body. this can display will allow everyone to access information on vital functions much more easily than ever before the purpose of the display is to help improve people's quality of life the device has direct applications in hospitals where patients can wear the display and sensors will allow doctors to read information like the patients electrocardiogram that's why. that's why back to fill in the charles behind the fake headlines. now the u.s. special council's decision on friday to indict thirteen russians suspected of meddling in america's presidential election a certain international attention back onto kremlin backed internet propaganda d.w. has been speaking to a former internet to troll who word the internet research agency isn't petersburg which u.s. investigators say is a fake news factory she told d.w. moscow correspondent to unicef so those thirteen arrests barely scratch the surface

. russia's second city st petersburg apparently the center of the fake news operation aimed at disrupting the twenty sixteen race for the white house two years ago this young journalist was working alongside the so-called internet trolls at the russian agency for internet research the official name of the troll factory whose buses have now been indicted by the united states. employees at the troll factory get a list of topics every day that they have to work through bad news about the united states was always one of the more important topics. it was getting. dutch avila tried to make contact with those working inside the building to no avail. the revelations by littman then lifted the lid on the troll factory on seven

kena street instant petersburg. curtains on the windows no sign at the entrance into that un suspicious looking building here in san pitt as burke so called internet trolls a supposed to have dramatically meddled in the us election american investigators say. this video from inside the complex was sent to dutch of l.f. by another whistleblower that millicent's their better paid than the average russian more than a thousand people are thought to work here and it's by no means the only troll factory in russia the cool. toys last movement today no one can exactly say how far these trolls have really influenced the us elections and individual voters mean yes but but it's absolutely clear that there was a meddling going on him and that he is. it's enough for just one person to put out false information in return for payment that clearly constitutes an attempt to

tamper at the. up with google yang. minister says the handful of russians indicted in the u.s. is only the tip of the iceberg. in that's it's yours there weren't just thirteen there weren't even just one hundred thirty of them there were many more that there was and still is an enormous operation going on it's a ticket that i suggest that those biscay and the thirteen who've been accused are just the ones the americans have got hard evidence against. i hope the investigations will continue. with them there are simply so many people who are working professionally for the russian propaganda machine hope that others will soon be investigated. until that happens simply just bag is unlikely to be the sole source of russia's fake

news. we'll start with china russian medalist they went to a lympics has tested positive for a banned substance the international olympic committee is currently awaiting the results of the big sample while the court of arbitration for sport has launched what they call a doping procedure crucial in its case who won a bronze medal with his wife in the mixed doubles curling as tested positive for mel dhoni and if confirmed it would be a major blow to russia's attempts to emerge from a drug cheating scandal crucial netsky is reported to have travelled to seoul and will be sent home if he's failed test is confirmed. so let's go through the latest then from up on chatting with that they do sports knocks merrily welcome max let's start with this is that doping mel don't you know what is it it's actually a hot medication it's widely available in russia it increases blood flow but what

it can also do for athletes is boost stamina essentially and it was used by maria sharapova now it was banned in two thousand and sixteen. very quite suddenly and a lot of russian athletes were using it and dropped it maria sharapova didn't drop it saying she didn't see that the substance had been added to the banned list not so have banned from tennis. only just returned and it does make sense to ban it can help athletes is as i say over the counter a lot of places in russia you can buy it without prescription in fact but if this is confirmed it would be a shoes blow to the russian as athletes. piecing under a neutral flag out these winter games hoping to restore this image of a nation rocked by doping scandals ok so let's talk then about the reaction from officials and indeed from athletes yes i mean the cast as you mentioned has opened an investigation calling federation the international calling federation that is and the i.o.c. also looking into it and they're waiting the confirmation of the b.

sample now they have been a lot of reactions from russian athletes quite a few of them actually suspecting foul play saying that they can't imagine why why a crucial netsky would have dope in a sport that is very much reliant on accuracy rather than strength and stamina and you can see where they're coming from the head of the russian calling federation dimitris has gone a step further saying that there's some sort of foul play here but also the russian calling coach saying that he can't really believe that he doesn't it doesn't make sense it would be quite a stupid thing to do after mel downie was so publicly banned and then subsequently sharipov it was banned for neglecting to adjust a medication so also the swiss coning coach getting involved saying he's been in the sport for thirty years he doesn't understand why anyone would dope it doesn't help you at all so yeah the reaction largely one of the muse meant ok so let's let's get up to date then with the big stories the nice stories from chad how much

a day ten has been a world record in the ice dance from a canadian comeback couple if yes it's a test a virtue and scott more more in virtue you can call them they own world records school in the ice dancing which is essentially bull room dancing on ice we can see them here performing their routine and they won gold in vancouver in twenty ten silver in sochi and twenty fourteen then retired and then twenty sixteen they came out of retirement and since then they've only lost one single time. they've already won the gold in the team figure skating at this olympics and the poised to gold here they've got one more round to go and they face the twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen world champions let me get this right gabriella papa doc is and sister of all affronts. let's talk about begat which is a new sport what is it yes made its debut today at the olympics and it's part of

keeping the olympics relevant it's another snowboarding sport as you can tell by the picture here and if you look at it you can see why it's called being as there's a forty nine needs a high slope. and then a long jump to impress the judges but i'm a flourish i believe this one is called a cab double cork and eighty. and here we have another snowboarder attempting to impress the judges a lot of press but that they're. just pretty much on the right way any day impresses me max thank you much medal from data that set you up to date we'll have more for you at the top of hour in the meantime of course as always about side by state when you don't have a good. powerful

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