i was. was. was. was. the headlines on international washington claims it was setting up a kurdish led border security force in syria turkey reacted furiously to the initial announcement quickly shifting its military equipment straight to the border . president. on any talks with north korea but working just direct negotiations between the two koreas resulted in a breakthrough decision to compete under one flag at the winter olympics. and

frustration over migration regulations in europe forces switzerland to consider ending the free movement of people agreement with the e.u. . mid-morning on thursday here in moscow you're watching international and a very warm welcome to you. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has significantly backtracked on the pentagon's claims it was a stop being a border force in syria however to listen says the initial announcement was simply a misunderstanding. entire situation has been mis portrayed mr screened some people misspoke we're not creating a border security force it's all. the coalition is working jointly with the syrian

democratic forces to establish and train the new syrian border security force washington seems to have changed its tune off the turkey gave a furious reaction to the initial announcement president out of the one accuse the us of building a terrorist army on his border and volatile to destroy it a video news agency ruptly film turkey's military equipment on the border with syria as i incur was preparing for a military operation despite washington's eventual denial on wednesday tell us when it was reinforcing the us and tension to stay. but to be clear the united states will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring isis cannot reemerge isis as a so-called caliphate he's dead job done the world can patent self on the shoulder mission accomplished and all that what's left of isis has gone underground

and not the sort of thing you can fight with tags and jets so why is the united states now building an army in syria considering syria already has an army that can reliably keep isis in check why would they need a second one but ok politics the us really wants to stay in syria we're going to stay for several reasons stabilization and assistance in the vital north and northeast. protection was syrian democratic forces but for other reasons as well let me show you something outs these turkish missiles tanks artillery turkey and coalition member preparing for an offensive against syria and the white people who are part of the u.s. led coalition the turkish president isn't happy about america building an army of its should. now america's acknowledged it's established an army of terror along our

country's border it's up to us to drown this army of terror before it is born that's tough coalition trained fighters are about to be attacked by a coalition member what kind of alliance is that add to that the u.s. apparently told no one it was building the new army any activities that we take part in with regard to the syrian democratic forces is something that's internal only internal only to syria internal not but elements been trained by the us a report if you're on the move preparing to defend against that offensive and need to remember offensive with weapons given to them by washington how's that for a tragic twist to expend so much strength time and money to defeat isis you need to set the stage for another war a war within the n.c.

isis coalition. syria's main kurdish party appealed to world powers to act on turkey's threats in europe of taken to the streets to protest against ankara's operations on the turkish syrian border and we asked regional analysts about what to expect from washington which might have to make a choice between its nato partner and its top ally in syria. and we have to be honest i'm merican right now using the kurds as a boots on the ground and nothing more nothing less and then also to put pressure on tourists to put pressure on russia and to bring a peace deal to syria and should get iranian out of that area and really this is a sad thing you know america betrayed the kurds in iraq and they're about ready to betray them in syria at this moment they're only staying around just again to put a pressure on turks and russian to make a deal and syria and i argue turkey will will not stand by and well as invade the

kurdish area and this is a serious mistake and maybe america is allowing this to happen to kind of get turkey in trouble or even i think really is on the friends of the u.s. they don't know exactly what the u.s. they want there is no clear way and and there are politics towards this region especially towards the kurds to keep to it say are a member of a nod to there's a problem if one member of the now two or three to. suit. actually helps them but now. it's a very difficulty about the political the coming of the lead on the usa which support these people if there is a real call to luke was sure u.s. i will not. bag that court today and that is the program for me. the u.s. president donald trump says he doubts talks with north korea could lead to anything

meaningful adding that its predecessors also failed in such attempts as comments came off a north and south korea agreed to go to the olympics under a unified flag in a breakthrough deal following direct talks between the countries he's caleb maupin has more in what trump said in his latest interview. i'm not sure the talks will lead to anything meaningful they've talked for twenty five years and they've taken advantage of our presidents of our previous presidents to listen to trump's words you would think that the dialogue currently taking place between the north and the south was irrelevant that nothing was happening but it looks like some historic breakthroughs have actually taken place this is what's was recently announced. to the north and south marched together in the opening ceremony under the korean peninsula flag from a single north south female ice hockey team. so here we have upcoming a joint women's ice hockey team that will be playing in the olympic games competing

under a unified korean flag this is this is a huge breakthrough we also have two hundred thirty north koreans who are actually coming to the olympics to cheer and observe the games so there are some big breakthroughs going on but trump does not think they are significant trump did not only criticize north korea he's also called out shyness saying that he praised their efforts but he wished that they would do more and he said that russia wasn't helping at all now russia was a signatory to the recent sanctions on north korea and they have stated over and over again that they have not at any point breached those sanctions that they signed on to now with all of this with his criticism not just of north korea but also of russia and of china donald trump seemed to be emphasizing that he believed that his approach and which the north koreans were met with more isolation more economic sanctions more threats and more of a punitive approach he believed that that approach was the best way to bring peace

to the korean peninsula intensifying pressure on north korea was also the key agenda of a meeting in canada between the west and allies of the nineteen fifties korean war the gathering ignored the fact the north and south were already holding direct talks and the vancouver meeting also failed to invite key regional players russia and china and lists we supposed to believe washington fears less so roll in this issue. president trump somehow believes that this pressure approach is the is something different than that has been applied before which it isn't and in reality he wants to pull back some of the thunder if you will back to washington because you have again the north and south talking i think the u.s. is a little jekyll and hyde with its policies because on one hand it wants to have

a resolution wants to have de mille nuclearization wants to have peace and on the other hand pumps up this rhetoric and so the motivations relate to finances they relate to geo political factors of the u.s. power in the region if you will and they relate to trying to ice out china and russia a little bit as a player in this as was evident in vancouver the u.s. is constantly menacing north korea constantly threatening north korea carrying out war exercises that simulate the destruction of north korea a country that was destroyed by the united states between one thousand nine hundred fifty three forty five million koreans died there wasn't one structure there one story still standing as a consequence of u.s. bombers and the main complaint of american pilots was there was nothing left to bomb in that war so it the u.s. annihilated north korea here we have donald trump saying he's promising to do the same from the from the podium of the u.n. just a couple months ago and now trump reflected i think not just as own personal position

but that of the military industrial complex in america fears that peace may be breaking out in the korean peninsula between the two koreas that that's alarming to trump into the military industrial complex but very welcomed by all the people in the world. switzerland may not be in the e.u. but it could still be facing its own version of brecht's it the swiss people's party has received permission to collect signatures and support. a referendum to end switzerland's free movement agreement with the e.u. the move would hand back to the country full control on immigration at the moment the current policy allows e.u. citizens to live and work freely in switzerland and vice versa the s.v.p. has until july next year to collect one hundred thousand signatures if successful the proposal will be considered by the government and parliament in before being put to a vote the co-president of the youth wing of the s.v.p. is convinced the public would vote in favor of stopping free movement we are the

biggest party in switzerland we are the strongest party and we have made a lot of initiatives and in two thousand and fourteen this was people's party has launched that initiative against mass immigration so why shouldn't it work a second time and i'm sure this race people will vote for that initiative that we can stop that free movement to deal with the european union although the results of the twenty fourteen referendum aimed to limit immigration from the e.u. quotas were never imposed by parliament instead m.p.'s agreed on a solution to give unemployed domestic workers preference over edu nationals seeking jobs in switzerland and again believes the amount of new arrivals is simply unsustainable. we have got massive problems with mass migration and we wanted to stop that we had emigration at the early to switzerland for it with about eight

hundred thousand persons that's really a threat to our democracy which will end always wants to remain remain independent neutral and free and then to parliament and the government of switzerland had to time to implement that initiative but they didn't implement that initiative from two thousand and fourteen because they maybe are scared after reaction for european union so i think it is really a big problem because we have got all those left wing politicians in our parliament and the government and that's a reason why that initiative against mass immigration couldn't be implemented. twelve activists in the californian city of alcohol and have been detained after they were caught trying to feed homeless people in a park and according to current legislation it is illegal to share food in public places at attention was caught on camera. you're going to have you should not.

be going to you. know if you go. to a ban on public food sharing and alcohol and was introduced back in october last year as a precaution against an outbreak of an infectious hepatitis a the penalty for breaking the law can be up to a thousand dollar fine or even a six month jail time. when we talk to activists who accord by police they claim the legislation has the opposite effect of what it's actually meant to do. homeless people who were there were very thankful that we were standing up and they were very upset that the mayor in the city council members could pass such a heartless ordinance and none of those government officials come out to the park and talk to those people it really seems like this is part of the city of alcohol and the effort to criminalize homelessness they've already made it made it against the law to panhandle to sleep on the sidewalk so this is really like the next step in trying to push the homeless out of their city and the big justification that

they use was the having outbreak in the end you go and they say all the parkers the parks are contaminated with hepatitis a that we don't want the homeless people to catch and so are trying to protect but everybody else can still go and have a party at the park and share food with each other and they wrote into the ordinance and that's what makes it discriminatory because it targets the whole it's our relation you know it's everybody else is not magically immune from have a tie to say within the same space so clearly either this is not about hepatitis a and the mayor has made comments in public session at the city council meetings where he has said we're trying to make the park less inviting to homeless people a recent report by the un outlined the difficulties that homeless people currently face.

we see an average of seven to eight hundred people every single day. congress has reached an agreement on tax legislation that will deliver more joy higher wages and massive tax relief. since the recession we have not recovered the homeless homelessness has actually increased there is a problem with high property values air b.n. b. is buying up local properties and evicting the tenants the mayor about the home would like everyone to think that all homeless people are drug addicts and that is absolutely not the case we have a very high percentage of our homeless are we have a high percentage of people who are working in this growing criminalization of people who are poor and powerless. really is also

a bigger problem with the mass incarceration of that happens in our country where we have for profit prisons with companies making money off of jailing people who are still to come here with international it is a victory for green company news and from soft for a lengthy decision to build a new board is fine. details and. is must going to fit into steve jobs is coming up with innovative products you know the electronic gadgets market is a little bit different in the car business because the car business is you know you kind of bound by the highway system and you're bound by the whole infrastructure that is the automotive industry and the lobbying of the automotive industry so it's a bit difficult to be disruptive in the industry in a way he's going to open up his charging stations with one nine hundred fifty style

burger and shake joints with servers on roller skates ok that's that's an idea that might take off that might be a new like starbucks like third place that people go to to have an experience that might work. thanks for joining us here on r.t. green campaigners are claiming victory after the french government finally abandoned a decade's old plan to build

a new airport near the city of not opponents claim it would have harmed key environmental areas a protest group called zone to defend was first formed forty five years ago to fight these plans and they stepped up their efforts in two thousand and eight setting up what would become europe's largest squatter at the side announcing the no decision about the airport the prime minister said the stiff opposition made the project impossible. we will put a stop to the no go zone which has flourished in this area for nearly ten years illegal occupants will have to leave voluntarily a few weeks before spring or they will be evicted but the government will poor resources into modernizing the existing nine to airport and extending its runway as suggested by mediators between the two sides last month it was impossible to go ahead with the original plans given the climate of bitter opposition between two sides of the population that are nearly equal in size. our correspondent charlotte

did when he visited the site and talked with her squatters who despite the victory have no plans to leave. fields and trees roll possed as we head to notre donda land is hardly a house in sight all seems peaceful but appearances are often deceptive for almost a decade this land has been a battlefield over the french government's plans to build a multi-million airport. i . often failed to vixens in clashes with the police the government has finally given in there will be no. was we come to the focal point of the celebrations the fashion this is where people

have come together now to celebrate the fact that the french prime minister has decided to cancel much decision to build an airport only sign as you can see people are filling their space dancing singing this is a victory they say it's a victory they want to savor but how sweet that victory may feel now it may not feel sweet much longer as the french prime minister has also said that all of the people who've been sporting here since two thousand and eight will have to evacuate the site but the people here say they will defend their right to live in the lands that they now call their home. defend in this territory we're going to state if the government tries to victor's using force it will see the year twenty twelve repeat itself.

well there are going we are not going to leave our ground just like that we won the first battle now is the second. despite this victory some members of this informal and illegal community still want to remain anonymous these squatters have been called radicals by the french government and some media have even labeled them hardy's so are they. i don't know what it means to be radical for them it means we're with knife between our teeth ready to cut the throats of everyone who is against our movement and it's ridiculous. for now the celebrations continue but all is still not one nearby hundreds of awaiting their buddhas ready to gate crash the party and beat them out charlotte r.t. . and. sweden is to send an updated version of

a cold war era tips and guide booklet to almost five million households in the country it was first published in one hundred forty three with instructions on how to act of sweden went to war later editions included advice on how to survive a nuclear strike the new version will now reflect modern threats such as cyber and terror attacks along with climate change and we spoke to the author of the new edition of christina anderson who believes the government hopes to increase the alertness to war and crises. the swedish government has decided that the knowledge among the sweetest citizens in how to prepare for a crisis but also for the threat of war is need to increase people find that the security in their world as a whole will bend also in europe and in sweden has worsened we believe in a quite safe we're out of the image of threat this is so complex and you can read

about it almost every day in media so it's like it's always it's the wrong thing surrounding you all the time so to speak among the current threats sweden is said to be facing that also of russia the security policy situation in all parts of the world has deteriorated there are more and more reports of russian descent from asian and impact operations and armed attack against sweden cannot be ruled out nor can we exclude military force or such a threat being used against us independent journalist martin summers believes sweden is being pushed down an anti russia path by forces both in and outside of the country. all over the world we're all being fed a dose of fear. about foreign countries immigration terrorism and this kind of comments being made in sweden a part of the general atmosphere of fear there are powerful forces in the west that

want to push sweden into an unseen russian stunts and this powerful forces within sweden who agree with that on the more conservative side of politics that. this is all part of that on going debates and dawdled within sweden and within. europe in general your world headlines continue in thirty minutes. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turn some countries into pegs these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of flow growth even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline almost a decade how good are the results you saw affecting you in feasible by the people

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to be like. this like the korean people. interested always in the last. question. welcome to the alex salmond show this week a focus on international development and twenty fifty the u.k. joined the hunt for countries who meet the longstanding u.n. target of contributing zero point seven percent of national income to overseas aid of achieving a stock is not without controversy and thus come under fierce attack we will be

speaking to the politician who pushed the government to finally reaching that elusive tog the former international development secretary i'm to but. i will also be hearing from tasmania who went to visit people on the front line of international development the fust let's see some of your tweets your messages i'm going to emails. thank you for your tweets and messages let's just take a look at a few a poll by the way says i would love to see a highly regarded oil and gas economics expert on the show highlighting just how much scotland has and is losing out on with oil and gas reserves to westminster well paul with brant crude touching seventy dollars this week and a huge investment decision announced might be a very timely moment to have a look at the oil and gas industry and then there was a great number of messages about brian cox the actor who was interviewed on last week's show shall be gene seaton says i enjoyed your interviewer brian cox he reminded me of my old father when he was asked what he thought of don dorian's

after a long pause he said bolshie but well shelley i think bolshie but fail is a great description of god and says i don't want to give too much away but to my favorite things that malick some i'm sure today brian cox and magic gems is the scottish delicacy that brian cox was warning us all about and there's the clearly says axel interview the actor brian cox love that you give proper time for in-depth discussion and not soundbites how about a rubber button special in the next episode and in the summer vein jeff crilley says why the scotland fail to promote bombs week well jeff those are going to celebrate is going to be going on both from scott on them internationally the robins federation of course is based in scotland and check out the scottish government up that we produced a few years ago as the full body of work in it and the wind from bradford of scotland and far beyond people be making their own celebrations of scotland's

national poet and when next we will now examine sure we'll make our own contribution to celebrating their mortal memory of robert burns. under mitchell was the infamous development for the first two years of the coalition government that's the one elected in twenty ten in that period he set the administration's course and finally achieving a united nations target on international development that was the one for set back in one nine hundred seventy today he states the case for maintaining that level of contribution let's hear from under. the conservative coalition government elected in twenty ten was the first government to implement britain's promise to the poorest people in the world that we would spend more point seven percent of our budget of our g.n.p. on international development and i believe this is some of the best public expenditure britain makes and i.