i. turkey demands the u.s. and its support for syrian kurds amid a spat between the two countries over washington train border forces. hundreds of prison guards or the large french prison store to be a hotbed for islamic radicalization strike over unsafe working conditions. and a new leak from the fancy bears packing group obtained by r.t. raises concerns over how doping cases were handled during the rio olympics twenty six.

thanks for joining us this evening money harvey this is r.t. international washington is downplaying its support for the kurds amid threats from turkey of a military attack on kurdish positions inside syria anker is furious over what it sees as being broken u.s. promises to stop backing serious. senior regional correspondent rag as the 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 premiere 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 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 missed but 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 written on paper for now and if he 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 i where i believe he will be meeting or have some sort of a chat with the secretary teller 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. turkey expert in your marriage act believes that there's growing discontent with american policies in turkey pushing ankara closer to moscow 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 redesign the american foreign policy in syria i can tell you that there is a very increasing enter in right now in turkey because of the american policies and this friction between the united states and turkey is basically pushing turkey towards more two russian arms. on of france's most notorious prisons a seeing two hundred guards go on strike over security concerns at the jail.

following the strike almost one hundred twenty inmates refused to return to their cells the prison itself is reputed to be a hotbed of islamic extremism among inmates. he was behind the deadly paris attacks of november two thousand and fifteen and it's not the first strike to hit a french prison this week with guards fearing for their safety astakhov. today we've all come here for a strike because discontent is spreading across france a crucial problem is the security of prison personnel today for each god there are ninety inmates on top of that there's the issue of islamic radicals who are also kept in our jails and who are not isolated from other inmates. it's dangerous for us to be around the inmates because for them we are everything they hate for them

we are enemies by definition. our work is very dangerous we're weak timbs of aggression an insult we experience violence which is not taken into consideration by the government of the versatile they don't like that it has become more and more difficult for us to act and i've seen physical aggression towards my colleagues every day it happens every time we open the soul doors support. we denounce the working in decisions of our colleagues in the prison the security conditions the numerous acts of aggression against them we want salaries to be increased for those who face such risks at work as well as an increase in personnel and better security the french justice minister nicole bella bay met with a number of prison workers on tuesday she outlined a ten point plan to improve their working conditions among the points highlighted more staff better equipment and the new director for the discussion on the issue has also been shed for march.

in other news an avalanche in southwest siberia has killed two tourists the victims were part of a snowmobiling party witness of the tragedy recounts what happened. i saw a white wall of snow coming towards the stream i thought the others would get through that everything was fine i shouted on the radio but no one answered there was silence. in this video you can actually see people trying to dig out survivors five people were rescued from underneath three meters of snow the avalanche affected an area of around one hundred fifty square metres it happened in a popular tourist destination although the authorities don't deem it a safe place for snowmobiling. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov says that syrian militants now have the

means to produce their own chemical weapons. we could use the militants are not only using chemical weapons but they also have their own technological and manufacturing capacity to synthesize took sick substances for military purposes leave established far reaching channels to access chemical weapons precursors. a lot of made this statement during the latest u.n. security council meeting our correspondent was following the session for is and joins us now live from new york give us some context first of all to that warning from the foreign minister well survey lab was pointing out that while western leaders continue to accuse the syrian government of developing chemical weapons having chemical weapons using chemical weapons while they continue to make these unproven claims and that's the focus of their rhetoric the insurgents and the rebels that are fighting against assad they have been

developing chemical weapons and actually advancing their ability to produce them now the words of lab fell on deaf ears as we heard the same old rhetoric from the united states and from the u.k. let's take a listen. it was russia that vetoed three council resolutions that would have renewed the joint investigative mechanism it is russia that has gone to great lengths at the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons in the hague to prevent the assad regime from being held accountable for its actions regrettably it has been russia that has repeatedly in this council wielded its veto despite clear conclusions from an impartial independent expert investigation set up by the council itself that the syrian regime have repeatedly used chemical weapons. now they were referring to the chemical attack last april in the city of can shake in syria now let's recall how after that attack took place without any

investigation before any evidence had been gathered just then the next day we heard western leaders immediately blaming the syrian government for the attack we then saw the joint investigative mechanism come back with results and it turned out in their entire investigation they never actually visited the site of the chemical attack all kinds of all kinds of statements were made and this is been pointed out by russia that so much focus is going to blaming the syrian government without much evidence let's take a listen to it normally would normally go to the u.s. and the u.k. continue to manipulate the opinion of the u.n. security council and of the international community they deliberately refused to listen to us and they twist words in our stance the fools the state that it was worse or that close the joint investigative mechanism and they forget to mention that it was russia that proposed the resolution to enhance this mechanism and its

impartiality but they blocked it we proposed this resolution because the previous joint investigative mechanism discredited itself by its mendacious report which would fail to withstand the least scrutiny so who blocked this resolution the u.s. and the u.k. the same countries that now accuse us of closing the joint investigative mechanism i want to tell you one thing stop playing games with the your p c w and show that you are ready to create an impartial and professional mechanism at least if you really need cooperation and not just a pretext for political manipulations. now western leaders continue to fixate on these controversial and unproven claims leveled against the syrian government yet at the same time there is no question that the extremists and the rebel factions groups with links to al qaida are at this very moment developing and expanding their after rattus of chemical weapons and basically building mass

productive facilities in which to build chemical weapons there's no question about that and these were the points that surrogate lab was making at the u.n. security council many things our correspondent bring is right up to date. moving on a new league from the front hacking group obtained by o.t. has raised questions about how doping cases were handled during the rio olympics of two thousand and sixteen. about the revelations. 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 higher 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 a therapeutic use exemptions or to you now correct me if i'm wrong but is that when

athletes 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

of 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 bottles seem not all to be stand it did not fit the berling open forcing them resulted in breakage of the cap and sometimes it can be used to close the able to after alley quoting e.g.

photos you know just building i 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 i always see whistleblower grigori watching gov 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 and the question i want to know about the state is where the boat is at the center of suspicion in salt shape 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 mcclaren

team nor the investigators there 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. powerful winds have been battering the netherlands at least three people have been killed several others injured take a look at this video which gives you some idea of just how strong these winds have been people some of them with bikes even freight containers being blown over the weather alert was issued in the central part of the country when speeds reached up to one hundred forty kilometers an hour hundreds of flights and train journeys have been cancelled. social media giants twitter facebook and you tube are they've again being grilled over alleged russian interference in the u.s. presidential election 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 you know. it's only the latest u.s. senate hearing that the three social media giants have participated in this time around twitter also announced it was preparing a tool it's to warn users of russian trolls the idea has already sparked concern though over just how trolls would be identified with more amounts here's are these done on hawkins. 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 post 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 agency which so division and mistrust back in twenty sixteen furner 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. good we'd try. to get. you. guys. really.

sure but now we have requests that comment from twitter can they confirm that the top aimed at tackling and identifying these kremlin trolls is one hundred percent effective what he's 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 for tackling bots is all well and good but what about target. opinions that are controversial unsavory or unfavorable nineteen eighty-four anyone. so next time you're browsing social media and come across material let's may go

against the grain don't over think things the platform itself will give you a heads up what to believe or not we spoke to and i'm gary he's an independent political commentator and he says that twitter could face legal action if it misidentifies accounts as bots or trolls. they're a big company and if they try to defame small individuals well the world class action lawsuit means something in the united states where most of this is going on so this is something the twitter needs to be very careful about this do they really want to expose themselves to these kinds of claims just to make their friends and congress happy about an election that's well over a year old at this point it's really ridiculous and if the lawsuits start to come in and if people's pockets start to be crunched then i think we'll see possibly a slightly more rational reaction how stupid do twitter really think us the members of the public are that we need to be warned about this as though it was something

that actually matters like credit card fraud or allegations of trading obscene images online this is just an exchange of opinions and by barking up the tree of trying to expose the source it's really just trying to talk down to people as if they're not intelligent enough to make an informed decision based on a variety of opinions that they come across online from a number of different sources in every country on earth just about twitter is doing this to keep politicians happy these companies don't really have your their users interest in heart the users don't pay them. the user uses twitter or facebook or google or whomever for free so you're not the client you're not the customer you're the product and they are selling you and your personal information to whomever gives them money or whatever in recompense for it.

twelve activists in the california city of el car horn could now face jail after they were caught trying to feed homeless people in a park according to current legislation it's actually illegal to share food in public places. for instance our producer. in the new. well the ban on public food sharing it and go home was introduced tobar of last year it was a precaution against the break of infectious have to tell you just say the penalty for breaking the law can be up to a thousand dollar fine even a six month job. we talked to the activist supercool the police they claim that the legislation has the opposite effect what it actually 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 that park and talk to those people it really seems like this is part of the city of alcohol

in 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 have their outbreak in the in the eggo and they say all the partners the parks are so contaminated with hepatitis a that we don't want the homeless people to catch it and start 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 homeless are really it's everybody else is not magically immune from have a tie to say within the same space so clearly there are 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 on human rights by the un outlined the difficulties that homeless

people currently face in america. thanks. we see an average of seven to eight hundred people every single day. congress has reached an agreement on tax legislation that moved to livermore doing higher wages and massive tax relief. since the recession we have not recovered the homeless homelessness has actually increased there's a problem with high property values air b.n. b. is buying up local properties and evicting the tenants the mayor and alcohol of

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 nothing her ration of that happens in our country where we have for profit prisons with companies making money off of jailing people. you're watching on teams international law thanks so much for cheating and hope you have a great evening wherever you all i'll be back with more news in. the

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that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. i ask. this of the guys report. there's max talk about ilan musk but first i want to talk about a little story that has happened to me. over the past few days because i was waiting for fed ex package and this fed ex package was

they fail to deliver over and over and over again and i went to twitter and i said why is fedex so horrible and why do we always have a good experience with u.p.s. u.p.s. is always really nice we see them in our neighborhood delivering all these amazon packages and blah blah blah and it turns out people said u.p.s. is fully unionized and they all have benefits and you know stable you know schedules and stuff like that all the fedex guys are. their private contractors they have no rights no negotiating power or anything and i visibly saw that in my own experience i had no idea here's a have i'm from mother jones from two thousand and ten it says fed ex versus u.p.s. on unionization there was actually a big battle all the fedex people were trying to get unionized because they fall under different labor rights relations because they started as an aircrew air delivery service rather than ground.