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turkey demands the u.s. and its support for syrian kurds amid a spat between the two countries over washington trained border forces. hundreds of prison guard a large french prison as thoughts of a hot bed for islamic radicalization strike over unsafe working conditions. and a new leak from the front hacking group of cain vile raises concern over how doping cases were handled during the rio olympics of two thousand and sixteen.
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for joining us this neil harvey this is our. washington is downplaying it support for the kurds amid threats from turkey of a military attack on kurdish positions inside syria ankara's furious over what it sees as being broken u.s. promises to stop backing syria's kurds are senior regional correspondent has. 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 premise 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 it's up to us to drown this army of terror before it is born. one of the reasons is america's new army
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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 misplaced 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
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minister of turkey is in vancouver right now i 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. or turkey expert cohen check believes the growing discontent with american policies in turkey that's 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.
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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 anti-americanism right now in turkey because of the american policies and this friction between the united states and turkey is basically pushing turkey towards more to russian arms. all of france's most notorious prisons has seen two hundred guards go on strike over security concerns at the jail.
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following the strike almost one hundred twenty inmates refused to return to their cells the prisons reputed to be a hotbed of islamic extremism among inmates. 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 across the country. is 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
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very dangerous we're weak teams of aggression and salt we experience violence which is not taken into consideration by the government of the birth of their own legacy it has become more and more difficult for us to act like i was in physical aggression towards my colleagues every day it happens every time we open the cell doors to support them and we denounce the working in decisions of our colleagues in the prison the security conditions the numerous acts of aggression against them obviously we want salaries to be increased for those who face such risks that work as well as an increase in personnel and better security french justice minister nicole bell with a number of prison workers on tuesday and 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 settled for march we spoke to former m i five of the army marshawn who says that certain types of prisoners need to be held separately. you have
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a situation where obviously the prison staff are concerned about their safety and the ratio of reported one prison member looking after ninety prisoners is really unacceptable and it comes to safety and there have been a number of attacks as well in different prisons across france over the last few weeks showing that they are vulnerable you know it and i think and being beaten up one of the issues they really need to address is this question of how they manage the prison population because we have seen time and time and time again if the last few years with these so-called lone wolf terrorist attacks across most of the west and. many of these people perhaps not in a hardline jihadists who've been fighting in syria but actually they've been people who are petty criminals perhaps stepping in trucks coming out of the deprived areas of our countries and it's when they are serving time for those lower level crimes that they are indeed radicalized because they can indeed associate with islamic
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chartist in prison. this is foreign minister sergei lavrov says that syrian militants now have the means to produce their own chemical weapons. but you can use the militants are not only using chemical weapons but they also have their own technological and manufacturing capacity to synthesize took six substances for military purposes leave established far reaching channels to access chemical weapons precursors. make that statement during the latest u.n. security council meeting go to more point was falling session in country two inches long from new york kaleb bit of context please then to the foreign ministers warning yes the russian foreign minister is here in new york and attended the meeting of the united nations security council and in his remarks he talked about how while u.s. leaders continue to focus on accusations against the syrian government accusing them of maintaining chemical weapons using chemical weapons while that's the focus
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of the usa and britain it seems like forces on the ground the insurgent groups that are fighting against the syrian government are increasing their ability to produce chemical weapons this is a lab or of the russian foreign minister speaking before the u.n. security council. now when we heard these remarks this was in reference we heard u.s. leaders the leaders of britain referencing the chemical attack in qana shake now this took place last april and immediately after the attack took place without any investigation being carried out immediately we heard the syrian government being blamed for that attack now as u.s. leaders immediately blamed the syrian government then we saw the joint investigative mechanism that was formed the joint investigative mechanism went in
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to do its research but it was pointed out by the russian envoy at the security council at that time that at no point did the joint investigative mechanism actually visit the site of the chemical attack this is the russian envoy speaking before the council at that time. it was russia that vetoed three council resolutions that would have renewed the joint investigative mechanism it is russia that has gone 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 the twisting words in our stance the fools least 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
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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 ensure 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 the russian foreign minister made a point of pointing out that on the ground in syria in areas controlled by the rebel groups there is an increased production of chemical weapons currently taking place now he made these remarks but we did hear these same rhetoric from the usa and from britain are focusing on the syrian government not on the proliferation of chemical weapons by anti-government fighters. just a quick apology there caleb the sound bites we're playing a little bit mixed up there but you know what our viewers are intelligent people
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that have worked it all out beautiful explained as well many things. now in other news an avalanche in the southwest in siberia has killed two tourists the victims were part of a snowmobiling party a witness to the tragedy recalls what happened. i saw a white ball of snow coming towards the street i thought the others would get through that everything was fine i shouted on the radio but no one answered there was silence now in this video you can actually see people trying to dig out survivors five people were rescued from any three meters of snow the avalanche affected an area of around one hundred fifty square meters it happened in a popular tourist destination although your thirties do not deem it to be safe for snowmobiling. and you leap from the fancy bears hacking group of tainted bayati has raised questions about how doping cases
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were handled during the rio olympics of two thousand and sixteen earlier on my colleague aaron spoke to our. 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 of 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
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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 the money 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 e-mail
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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 manufacturer 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 berling force in them resulted in breakage of the cap and sometimes it can't be used to close the a boat will have to alec quoting photos you know. i have a record of this kind of non-conformity so nicky 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
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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. and the question i want to know the answer to is whether both is at the center of suspicion insult she produced by that same company yes they were produced by birth that was providing the anti-doping officials with equipment for as well however neither the mcclaren 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. powerful winds have been battering the netherlands at least three people have been killed many others injured here's
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a video that gives you some idea of just how strong the winds have been people knocked over some of them with bikes freight containers even being blown over a weather alert was issued in the center of the country where wind speeds reached up to one hundred forty kilometers an hour hundreds of flights and train journeys have been canceled. in other news a social media giants twitter facebook and you tube have once again been 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. and this is only the latest u.s. senate hearing that the three social media giants have taken part in this time around twitter also announced that it was preparing a tool it's to warn users about russian trolls the idea has those spot concern over
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just how trolls will be identified dung hawkins has taken a closer look. 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
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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. just look at what. was. really. good. for 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
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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 and gary he's an independent political commentator who says that twitter could face legal action if it misidentifies accounts as box or trolls. they're a big company and if they try to defame small individuals well the world class
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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 really it's well over a year old at this point it's really ridiculous and if the lawsuits start to come in and it 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
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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 alcohol may now face jail this is after they were caught trying to feed hung this people in a park and according to current legislation it's actually illegal to share food in public places. we're going to rob you know we're. going to. do we are going to go. to the public food sharing in oklahoma
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was introduced by you know last year it was a precaution because that outbreak of infectious patella to a penalty for breaking the law to a thousand dollar fine even a possible six month jail. we spoke to the activists to cool the police they claim legislation does the opposite effect of what is 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 that 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 into 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 happening outbreak in the indiegogo and they say all the parkers the parks are
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so contaminated with hepatitis a that we don't want the homeless people to catch on and start trying to protect them 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 it discriminatory because it targets the whole situation it's everybody else is not magically immune from have to try to stay 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 ability of nations outlawing the difficulties homeless people currently face in america.
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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 jobs 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. and b. as fine a focal properties and evicting the tenants the mayor of alcohol 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 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 if that happens in our country
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where we have for profit prisons with companies making money off of jailing people . very sad story much appreciate your company this evening hope you'll be around in half an hour's time about the latest news headlines. is iran must going to fit in to steve jobs kids by coming up with innovative products you know the electronic gadgets market is a little bit different in the car business because the car businesses 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
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