turkey demands that the u.s. to end its support for syrian kurds amid a spat between the two countries over washington trained for the forces. and who leaked from the fancy back as hacking group of tamed by our tea raises concerns over how doping cases were handled during the real impacts in twenty sixteen. plus twitter says it will notify users about russian trolls raising concerns over how the social media giant will identify the.

very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me making erin good to have you with us this hour washington is downplaying its support for the kurds as turkey prepares for a military advance on kurdish positions in syria and turkey is foreign minister said the u.s. had broken his promises and warned washington it did not want to have to face off against its ally on the ground our senior regional correspondent ryan has more turkey isn't kidding around day after day it is pulling more tanks and more missiles more troops to the syrian border this is the pretty new to a new war a war within the u.s. led coalition should. now america's acknowledged it's established an army of terror along our country's border is up to us to drown this army of terror before it is born. one of the reasons is america's new army

or border force which is what it was originally the u.s. led coalition told us in this letter that it was establishing a border security force an army of kurds that would patrol the border with turkey now that is preparing to invade the u.s. has done a one hundred eighty degree turn that entire situation has been misspoke treat misdescribed some people misspoke we are not creating a border security force at all the story has changed it's not a new army or a border force it's thirty thousand troops that will be trained to prevent isis is return on paper for now and if turkey doesn't put a stop to it state department is now on overdrive you get the sense that they'll be bending over backwards for a valuable ally turkey is a very important value nato ally we have a lot of interactions with the turkish government as you probably know the foreign

minister of turkey is in vancouver right now where i believe he will be meeting or have some sort of a chat with secretary taylor sent or at least some of our representatives later today so an important nato ally let's not kid around by all appearances america doesn't want to leave syria victory or no rex tillerson all but said so himself and that is the tragic twist to expend so many lives so much time and money to defeat isis we need to set the stage for another war a war within the anti isis coalition. i cannot discuss this further with guest a doctor dr hate cohen you know ira jack from tel aviv university welcome to the program sir it's good to have you with us so do you think the pentagon actually misspoke harris tell us and said don't you think there may be other reasons for this backtracking. well what i see right now the

turkish administration is not very much satisfied with what is going on today the turkish prime minister being a leader made it very clear that the united states have to put an end to this confusion and they need to choose their sides very very clearly from turkish point a few people why the y.p. g.'s the is the continuation of to the other side of the border in this regard they see these entities this entity as a terrorist organization and they are very much disappointed with the u.s. current policy and besides that i would also like to emphasize that due to the. failed coup attempt of the last year and since the according to turkish government the mastermind of the failed coup attempt to luck residing right now in pennsylvania and the relations between the two countries was you know as far as you know dettori aid to unprecedentedly and in this regard i can tell you that this friction between the united states and turkey is basically pushing turkey towards

more to russian arms at turkey doesn't seem to be convinced by this u.s. retraction does it why do you think that is i can hear i can't hear. dr gary being here yet our john can you hear me it's nic in the studio and most guys ok ok can you hear i don't know i can't now i can hear you please repeat your question if you ever ask. me i was i was asking you why do you think turkey doesn't seem convinced by this where traction on the u.s. policy. i cannot blame the turkish decision maker since the american administration is providing arms to the kurds and when we're looking at the map. if the american decision makers would love to go back to syria and have a breach had that particularly region of course they're going to choose the kurds and not any other actors in this regard we all know that maybe the u.s.

administration right now is trying to lower the tensions but. you know in the fields what we're going to see is the continuation of the u.s. support for this entity is and the turkish administration would like to see the end the end the clear end of the american support to the kurdish people why the n.y.p.d. and to basically to really design. to redesign the turkish for the american foreign policy in syria and in this regard i can tell you that there is a very increasing anti-americanism right now in turkey because of the american policies and i guess the american administration is also taking this into account how far do you think the u.s. would on to really go what kind of risks do you think washington is willing to take in order to stay in syria can you please repeat your question i want to ask you what kind of risks do you think washington is willing to

take in order to stay in syria. well. you know u.s. administration took a very important decision under president obama and they left syria and now. they're trying to get back to see things to the kurds and. as far as i can tell you know the american administration is like dancing on a very tight rope between the kurds and turkey when they are putting both of the relations to a scale they are coming to the conclusion that the turkish side is you know can offer a lot more for instance in southeastern turkey we have the air base where the american air force is residing. in this regard when we're looking at the kurds this is a land locked in to it's a minor actor on the other hand turkey's

a nato ally even if there are some disagreements between the two sides and so we are looking at the whole picture for united states it's not an easy decision because united states doesn't want to sacrifice its relations with turkey and also doesn't want to be sort. of the kurdish the kurdish fighters there alone so it's will be like embattled in policy. dr high cohen you know john turkey expect from tel aviv university thank you for your time. now a new leak from the found seabass hacking group obtained by r.t. has raised questions about how do you think cases were handled during the rio olympics in twenty sixteen or earlier i was joined by to discuss this. so new leaks about the summer olympic games twenty sixteen and remember during before and after rio the russian doping scandal was all over the news and that was

when the and hire russian track and field team stayed home because of the band's well one i.o.c. e-mail exchange that we however can not confirm is real was about therapeutic use exemptions or to you now correct me if i'm wrong but is that when athletes allowed to use banned substances for medical purposes yes if you're an athlete and you're sick and this case you may get permission to use medicines from the list of prohibited substances in a sense that is illegal doping but that requires a certificate and judging by some of these unverified e-mails as many as forty four such certificates were given out right during the time of the olympics and most of them just days before the olympics were over that's where all the finals are

happening but according to water rules the window between the time when the application is followed the next competition must be thirty days plus if we are to believe more of these on verified emails eight. from rio we're never entered into the universe so anti-doping database that is interesting have we had any consequences we don't know but i can tell you that among proved to be a real mess if it indeed happened during the rio games and we know that it is the most high profile sporting event ever the summer olympics and also another email that the fancy bears leaked was supposedly from a brazilian anti-doping professor about crucial flaws and the doping test bottles again it's an unverified e-mail to the manufacture of the bottles from the times right before the beginning of the rio olympics. did it weird situation this

happened the rio twenty sixteen berlinger buckles seem not all to be stand it did not fit the building open is forcing them resulted in breakage of the cap and sometimes it can't be used to close the a boat will after alec quoting photos unix have a record of this kind of non-conformity so nikki opening the bottles could cause damage according to dr ratner if the emails are real but this is the point when i want to go back to all the russian winter olympic athletes that were banned the head of the winter olympic games in korea besides the testimonies and besides all the things that the main. whistleblower grigori watching of was saying the cornerstone element of the i.o.c. evidence or basically the only forensic evidence was the damage on the bottles or the scratches on the ones that were used in saatchi. the question i want to know

the answer to is whether both was at the center of suspicion in sochi produced by that same company yes they were produced by berger that was providing the anti-doping officials with equipment for as well however neither the maclaurin team nor the investigators they were appointed by the international olympic committee have ever shown us the visual results of their experiments and we were constantly told that the bottle technology is flawless but what if it isn't. twelve activists in the californian city of alcohol and may now face jail after they were caught trying to feed homeless people in a park according to current legislation it's illegal to share food in public places . for instance you know. there's you know we are. you know. the ban on public food sharing in alcohol was introduced back in october

last year as a precaution against an outbreak of infectious hepatitis a the penalty for breaking the law can be up to a thousand dollar fine or even a six month jail term we talked to the activists who were caught by police they claim the legislation has the opposite effect of what it's meant to do. homeless people who were there were very things fall 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 for to realize homelessness they've already made me that 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 in the eggo and they say all the parkers the parks are so

contaminated with hepatitis a that we don't want the homeless people to catch it 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 that into the ordinance and that's what makes that discriminatory because it targets the whole nature it's everybody else is not magically immune from have to 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 and recent reports by the un outlines the difficulties homeless people currently face in the west. thank you. we see an average of seven to eight hundred people every single day.

congressman's reached an agreement on tax and i just mentioned that moved to livermore doing higher wages and massive tax relief. since the recession we have not recovered the homeless homelessness is 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 of alcohol is 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 veterans 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. well

back after this short break. i don't think that any country can push a button and get rid of trade this is far too important to be farmers to political backlash money is a very fungible think and i think it will be very quick before people find ways around it because they say it but it may be damaging it might cut it back but the idea that you could do anything nearly to the south of it is very unlikely. but holds as. you put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to be first this is what before three of the people. interested always in the water. there should be. welcome back on twitter has announced it's preparing a toll to warn you says about russian trolls the measure was announced by the social media giants during the u.s. senate however the way twitter tracks alleged trolls on faults is being questioned as daniel hawkins reports. misinformation fake news subverting democracy the russians have been up to their usual tricks for some the allegations of kremlin interference in the us presidential election are simply beyond question i'm

assuming that none of you have any doubt that the russians meddled in our two thousand sixteen election and attacked our democracy any question. well judging by the silence the representatives of facebook twitter and you tube agree but of course they've grown well accustomed to hearing after hearing on alleged russian meddling do you believe that any of your companies have identified the full scope of russian active measures on your platform you have a huge problem on your hands does it trouble you that it took this committee to get you to look at the the authentic nature of the users in the country this time they've been grilled at a u.s. senate committee session about dealing with terrorist content and other dangerous materials a letter that i wrote calling these companies to individual inform all users who are exposed to false misleading and inflammatory posts generated by russian agents

we will be working to identify and inform individually the users who may have been exposed to the ira accounts during the election now facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian bots and trolls from an apparent russian troll factory named the internet research engine see which is so division and mistrust back in twenty sixteen fair enough if you buy the russian election meddling narrative but it doesn't stop there now it seems twitter is going down the same road we don't yet know the full details of how this will work but in a hidden recording of a journalist group project veritas allegedly discovered how exactly twitter picked out other apparent bots. it's a good read. just look at what you.

guys. really. was. for sure but. we have requested comment from twitter can they confirm that the top aimed at tackling and identifying these kremlin trolls is one hundred percent effective what he supposed to do in the case of a mistake or the company has previously stated people in similar recordings didn't represent official views project veritas of course themselves have in the past been at the center of controversy as a result of their methods tackling bots is all well and good but what about targeting opinions that are controversial unsavory or unfavorable isolated for anyone.

that is. so next time you're browsing social media and come across material that may go against the grain don't overthink things the platform itself will give you a heads up what to believe or not. when campaigners are claiming victory after the french government finally abandoned a decades old plan to build a new airport this is not and opponents claim it would have harmed key environmentalists areas a protest group called zone to defend was first formed forty five years ago to fight the plans they stepped up their efforts in two thousand and eight letting up what would become europe's largest squatter at the site announcing the no decision about the airport the prime minister said the stiff opposition made the project impossible. mithi phone 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 the government will pour 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 to our correspondents holiday bensky visited the site and talked to the squatters who despite the victory have no plans to leave. fields and trees roll past as we head to not treat donda land this 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 euro airport.

off the failed the 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 of sashimi this is where people have come together now to celebrate the fact that the french prime minister most decidedly to come so much decision to build an airport and as you can see people are filling their space john saying singing this is a victory they say it's a victory they want to savor but how sweet that victory may feel now they may not feel the street much longer as the french prime minister has also said that all of the people who've been squatting 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. will be defend in this territory we're going to stay if the government tries to use and force it will see the year twenty twelve repeat itself. 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 all they asked. 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 homes are awaiting their orders ready to gate crash the party and boot them out. ski. hill and. will be back at the top of their. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turn some countries into pigs these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of 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 after almost a decade how good are the results in your view for providing people living with the

people with your. choice. the plumbers i mean if a legal. challenge must be more than this he was always think it's just something. while the same measures still in place. too weak. blue bird flu this movie will first be one of those this is the truth the consider is that the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision makers. prescribe medication is widespread on the us market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life i just felt like everything was ashes my family was literally coming unglued i had planned. to commit some site

what or who has made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what the doctors told us to do we were being responsible and what the real side effects why it. was chemically altered what i did was done on a cocktail of legal drugs. just because something's legal doesn't mean it's safe join me every first day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see of that. later on.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm bart chilton. and coming up might the one hundred twenty five year old general electric company beyond the breakup path actually bank starts our conversation about what that might mean and have you given or received a counterfeit gift millett chan will help explain a lot most of us don't know but take to it you will and as digital currencies crater we'll talk about what can help ensure that digitals do the bulk and live long and prosper plus atocha sweet looks at the economic and horrific human impact of those california mudslides but first let's get to a few of the business and financial headlines. recent bank earnings statements paint a surprisingly dim picture for some of the biggest names in the sector heads turned yesterday when citi group than outfits bigger its quarterly loss ever eighteen

point three billion dollars city took a onetime hit of twenty two billion dollars from changes to the tax law the loss came out to seven dollars and fifteen cents per share about three billion of that twenty two billion came from the newly enacted changes related to companies overseas earnings city executives are bullish however about future profits. meanwhile goldman sachs announced their biggest quarterly loss in six years the tax changes resulted in a four point four billion dollars hit to goldman's bottom line one seven point eight three billion dollars in revenue the bottom line for goldman a one point nine three billion dollars loss and bank of america also share the temporary pain from the tax bill change two point nine billion dollars worth in q four the fourth quarter and bank of a big bank of america rather still posted a profit of two point three seven billion even given that loss and they take it as a sign from analysts that the bank has gotten past

a fairly rough period. market watchers are buzzing over news that general electric's leadership is considering a breakup of the iconic u.s. mega-corporation c.e.o. john flannery had floated the idea before and said tuesday that g.e. is quote looking aggressively at many permutations this story is big if true and as they say we'll keep an eye on it but to give you a sense of how big it is archie's ashley banks joins us to explain what a breakup of this mega corporation would mean and how all these pieces of the puzzle could be put together or apart actually well bardot all three it is now scrambling to evaluate the standalone value of g.e.'s visit says now over the last year the company's stock has been the worst performing on the dow jones industrial average according to fact that that's more than a forty percent decline g.e. owns a slew of business as capital.