turkey demands that the united states and its support the syrian kurds that's amid a spat between the countries over washington train border forces. hundreds of prison guards at a large french prison this thought to be a hotbed for islamic radicalization strike unsafe working conditions. and a new leak from the front seat. of train biopsy raises concerns over how doping cases were handled during the rio olympics of two thousand and sixteen.

it's one am here in the russian capital thanks for joining us this is r.t. international. washington is downplaying its support for the kurds this amid threats from turkey other military attack on kurdish positions inside syria. over what it sees as being broken u.s. promises to stop backing serious kurds are seeing a regional correspondent run against the it 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 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. why. 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 us 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 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 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. turkey expert cohen you're on a check believes the growing discontent with the us policies in that are pushing an proposal 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 idea why p.g. 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 have seen two hundred gods go on strike it's over security concerns at the jail.

following the strike almost one hundred twenty inmates refused to return to their cells the prison is reputed to be a hotbed of islamic extremism among inmates. he was behind the deadly virus attacks in november two thousand and fifteen and is not the first strike to hit a french prison this week guards have been fearing for their safety across the country . 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 where we are of aggression and insult we experience violence which is not taken into consideration by the government. i don't like that it has become more and more difficult for us to act i've seen physical aggression towards my colleagues every day it happens every time we open the doors support. we denounce the working conditions 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 that work as well as an increase in personnel and better security french justice minister nicole bella bay met with a number of prison workers on tuesday and outlined a ten point plan to improve their working conditions among those points highlighted more staff better equipment and a new director further discussion on the issues also being shed of a march he spoke to forward my five officers only marshawn who says that certain

types of prison a need to be held separately. you have a situation where obviously the prison staff are concerned about their safety the ratio of reported one prison member looking after ninety prisoners is really unacceptable when 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 tonight things 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 western world many of these people perhaps are not you know hard line jihadists who've been fighting in syria but actually they've been people who were petty criminals perhaps doubling in drugs 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 jihad is

in prison. which is foreign minister sergey lavrov says that syria militants now have the means to produce their own chemical weapons he made that statement during a u.n. security council session on the situation in syria. we could use the militants are not only using chemical weapons but they also have their own technological and manufacturing capacity to synthesize toxic substances for military purposes they've established far reaching channels to access chemical weapons precursors. the united nations security council in his remarks he emphasized that while allegations against the syrian government regarding chemical weapons he need to be the focus of western leaders at the same time the extremist forces that want to topple the syrian government are expanding their capacity to develop and use chemical weapons but american and british leaders are there envoys to the united nations they

repeated the same old saw 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 wield its veto despite clear conclusions from an impartial independent expert investigation set up by the council itself that the syrian regime and die a sharp repeatedly used chemical weapons. now of course the u.s. and british envoys were referring to the chemical attack in shaker last april well people will remember that in the aftermath of that attack in the direct aftermath just a few days after the attack we heard u.s. leaders and mediately blaming the syrian government even though no investigation had ever taken place now later we heard about how the organization for the

prohibition of chemical weapons for the joint investigative. began investigating the attack came up with a report but throughout their investigation at no point did they ever actually visit the site of the chemical attack in shaikh on the time that the joint investigative luck and as it came out with its report the russian envoy was quite quite critical of the work by the gem. of the u.s. and the u.k. continued 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. in his remarks lab rob continued to emphasize the fact that these extremists in syria with ties to al qaida and other terrorist groups are that they are expanding their capacity to develop chemical weapons and their production facilities of chemical weapons are getting bigger he emphasized that however the focus of remarks from the usa and britain seem to be the same emphasis on a accusations against the syrian government. an avalanche in south west siberia has killed two tourists the victims were part of a snowmobiling party and witness to the tragedy as recounted what happened.

i saw a white ball of snow coming towards the street i thought the others will get through that everything was fine i shouted on the radio but no one answered it was silence well in this video you can actually see people trying to dig out survivors five people were rescued from beneath three metres of snow the avalanche affected an area of around one hundred fifty square metres it happened in a popular tourist destination although the thirty's don't deem it to be a safe place for snowmobiling. a new league from the fancy bird's hacking group obtained by r.t. has raised questions about how doping cases were handled during the rio olympics of two thousand and sixteen earlier on today nicky aaron my colleague spoke to him 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 about therapeutic use exemptions or to you now correct me if i'm wrong but is that when asked. 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 were never entered into the universal 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 buckles seem not all to be stand it did not fit the open his foursome resulted in breakage of the cap and sometimes it can 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. blower 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 with several others injured this video if you sort of just an idea of how strong these winds are that i'm talking about people not some of them with bikes even freight containers have been seen blown away whether alert was issued or the center of the country that's where wind 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 of a game 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. and it's only the latest u.s. senate hearing the three social media giants have taken part in this time around twitter also announced it was preparing a tool to warn users about russian trolls the idea has though already sparked concern about just how trolls will be identified with more alert is down 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 engine see which so division and mistrust back in twenty sixteen furner if you buy the russian election medal 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

good we. just look at what you. guys. look really. good. 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'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.

think. that it shouldn't 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 adam gary and paul rosenberg independent political and financial commentators they told us twitter could face repercussions over how it treats uses possibly even legal action. 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 interests 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 in may 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. we're going to love you know we're. going to you know we are going to go. to. the public food sharing in oklahoma was introduced back you know tobar of last year it was a precaution against an outbreak of infectious appetite to say the penalty for breaking the law to a thousand dollar fine even a six month jail. we talked to the activists who were caught by the police they

claim the legislation was 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 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 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 happening 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 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. everybody else is not

magically immune from have to try to stay within the same space so clearly there 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 recent report on human rights by the united nations outlaw and the difficulties homeless people covered we face in america. 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's a problem with high property values air b.n. b. is buying up local 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 where we have for profit prisons with companies making money off of jailing people . thanks so much for staying with i'll take i'm going home but kate poulter's will be here when you ride up to date in half an hour joined in that.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you there. with the islamic state in its many confederates defeated or facing defeat in syria what is next for this war torn country what justification exists for the u.s. to maintain military forces there does washington want syria partition itself and why. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some

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quite acceptable to the decision makers. of the kaiser 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 headline for 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 delivery service they can't so i truly had no idea that that would have been euthanized and fed ex not but in my own experience it was just this like complete nightmare we had a experience last year with fed ex as well you who member that they give the last a package so just my own personal experience without knowing anything just an

interaction with these two corporations the experience. compared to what is the fact for the workers showed up on my own personal experience with them that's real anecdotal evidence on the ground research and what it's so if you gleaned from this i gleaned that how your workers feel genuinely impacts your brand whether you know the shareholders at fed ex of course want the company to maximize profit get as much profit out of every single worker pay their workers as little as possible but when you're interacting on it you know you're the person here fed ex sign this you know and you're seeing this horrible interaction you feel like i don't want to use fed ex i'd rather pay twice as much to just use the p.s. because why would i want something an interaction like that why would i want an experience like that.