it. was. turkey demands the u.s. and its support for syrian kurds amid a spat between the two countries over washington trained order forces. hundreds of gods of different prisons thought to be a hotbed for islamic radicalization go on strike over unsafe working conditions. and also a obtains a new leak from the fantasy best working group that raises concerns over how don't be in cases run handled during the rio olympics in twenty sixteen.

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. the u.s. has urged turkey not to attack syria's african region and focus on fighting isis instead that's according to the state department spike's person has a know it we would call. certainly on the turks to not take any actions of that sort don't want them to engage in the violence but we want them to keep focused on isis. well turkey threatened on to intervention in the kurdish held african region after the u.s. was planning to work with kurdish fighters in establishing a so-called border force in syria but following ankara's furious reaction washington seemed to have fun trying to see the original correspondent would have guessed the of explains. 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

predator you would 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 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 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 where i believe he will be meeting or have some sort of a chat with secretary taylor. we're only 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. over two

hundred guards have gone on strike in one of france's most notorious prisons over security concerns. the following the strike almost one hundred twenty inmates refused to return to their cells the jail is reputed to be a hotbed of islamic extremism and one of the inmates. who was behind the deadly attacks in paris in november twenty fifth it's not the first strike to hit a french prison this week with guards across the country fearing for their safety. but audiologists must only look at his own eyes 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 i don't know if you lose 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 teams of aggression and we experienced violence which is not taken into consideration by the government. 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 of support. we denounce the working indications 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 nicola bello barrie met a number of prison workers on tuesday she outlined a ten point plan to improve their working conditions and among the point she highlighted one more staff better equipment and a new director further discussion on the issue has also been show jeweled from march we spoke to former m i five officer and you may show she says a certain types of prisoner 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 to knife 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 west and. many of these people perhaps 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 increasing. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says syrian militants now have the means to produce their own chemical weapons he made the statement during a un security council session on the situation in syria. we're going to billiton are not only using chemical weapons but they also have their own technological and manufacturing capacity to synthesize toxic substances for military purposes. of the united nations security council and his remarks he emphasized that while

allegations against the syrian government regarding chemical weapons continue to be the focus of western leaders at the same time extremist forces that want to topple the syrian government aren't. possible to develop and use chemical weapons while i'm working on british leaders are there envoys to the united nations they repeated the same old saw the syrian regime has repeatedly used chemical weapons against its own people the syrian regime have repeatedly used chemical weapons in syria regrettably it has been russia that has gone to great lengths to prevent the assad regime from being held accountable of course the u.s. and british envoys were referring to the. last april while people will remember that in the aftermath of the tick tock we heard u.s. leaders immediately blaming the syrian government. yesterday morning. we awoke to pictures to children of beautiful little babies being

carried in the arms of desperate parents these haters actions by the assad regime. it cannot be tolerated later we heard about how the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons for the joint investigative lock and. began investigating it talking about the report but throughout the investigation at no point did the really look at the site of a chemical a talking consul current and this has been pointed out by russia that so much focus is going to blinding the syrian government without much other. analysts cause this issue further let's cross live now to max abrams assistant professor of political science at northeastern university in boston max thank you very much indeed for joining us from boston well as we heard terrorists in syria have learned to produce chemical weapons how sophisticated can these pay well know one of the main difference between nuclear weapons you can. have many more.

manufacture and deploy chemical weapons or or you know a wide variety of different types of chemical weapons that could be used but we've seen you know i'm a bit out of your serum dowse for example or chlorine i'm not you know i'm an expert on job but chlorine you know is much cortin talked about that is my understanding. and so i don't really agree with my our obsolete men in the sense that surely thought some of them know what to do you have to know how or even chemical weapons you can use them and and that is a very your concern in terms of their use whether it's in syria or iraq or frankly whether foreign fighters are returning home and intelligence know using some kind of rogue low grade drama or do you say you know in europe well as are

several terrorists in syria they've established the means to produce these types of weapons who might be helping them. who but i think that these tribes the weapons could be just so many i do not you know i'm like their weapons there doesn't need to be a government sponsored or not just a call getting the material oh so i'm not sure i agree with the assumption that they require any kind of oh well let's also look back on the headline grabbers that have been chemical weapons we had before that mean other instances the syrian rebels carrying out chemical attacks but the west seems to have turned a blind eye to these i mean why do you think that's the case. well there's a big impure recall to you about who is perpetrating these chemical attacks when there is a chemical attack in syria the international community overwhelmingly when the

regime. the united states stands with the international community and shares that view. i do not perfect you know get involved in this impure recall dispute about who is responsible for the attack because you know i'm based in boston but what i can say is that this you know who is responsible for the attacks has been very very politicized so it's almost used as a bludgeon to kind of undermine you know whoever you don't like in syria and so there's a lot of finger pointing you know about not just the store employee who has used them but there's almost an expectation that they will be used to get along and so the various times are kind of laying the groundwork to say look it's actually the rebels are look it's actually the assad regime but you know presumably behind the

attack because once the attack can be blamed on one of the sides that generates all sorts of international. towards that person and so you know it's a lot like when there's collateral damage is it intentional who did it i think when it comes to chemical weapons even more so because w m d are sort of understood to be taboo and so if the government can be blamed for you things w i did that really turn the international community against. one of them as iran's political scientist thank you very much indeed thank you. now also has attained an unique from the fantasy best talking point which raises good questions about how typing cases were handled during the real impacts in twenty sixteen and in the cab and spoke with him at the checkout 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 the 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 were never entered into the universal anti-doping database so 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 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. force in them resulted in breakage of the cap and sometimes it can be used to close the able to after. photos you know just have a record of this kind of non-conformity so nicky opening the bottles could cause damage according to dr ratner if the e-mails 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 the bottles or the scratches on the ones that were used and saw and the question i want to know

that as to whether both was at the center of suspicion insult produced by that same company yes they were produced by burger 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. social media giants have been back before the senate regarding alleged russian meddling in the presidential election and that's the way. the don't walk on the idea that dropping bombs brings to the chicken or forcing you to buy the battle. that you saw for the tell you that everything. off of the public

life out. of her eyes and tell me you are not pulling out by product. of a heart that we along with god walk. around. i.

i thank you both the welcome bag social media giants twitter facebook and youtube have again been grilled over alleged russian interference in the us 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. it's the latest on the us senate hearings the strange social media giants have participated in this time twitter also announced it was preparing a tool to warn users a bunch of russian trolls sparking concern over how these trolls will be identified r t s daniel hawkins reports. 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. just look at what. was. really. sure but we have requested comment from twitter can they confirm that the tool 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 talk. opinions that are controversial unsavory or unfavorable light iterated for anyone.

but it. 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. twelve activists in the california city of alcohol on 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 or if you're going to be like. you know we are. you know in a week. when the city's ban on sharing food in public was introduced last october to prevent an outbreak of the infectious disease hepatitis a the penalty for

breaking the law can be up to a thousand dollar fine or even six months in prison when we talk to the activists who were caught by police they claim the legislation has the opposite effect to what it's meant to do. homeless people who were there were a very sinkhole 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 criminalize 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 indiegogo 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 we're 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 the targets which are really 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 and a recent report by the un on human rights has outlined the difficulties homeless people currently face in america. see an average of seven to eight hundred people every single day. congress has reached an agreement on tax legislation that will deliver more journalists higher

wages and massive tax relief but. i'll be back with the latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more news twenty. young children have worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million doing so today. this culture led to the development of bolivia's new liberal and highly controversial children's code in two thousand and fourteen which gave children as young as ten the right to work under certain circumstances when there's an islamist.

eat one of them with us in the end all. from the six years. but there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operating completely outside the local. mining work is strictly forbidden by the children but it's never enforced and that means the school boy mine is here continue risking their lives for the money they need to survive on.

altie we have a great team but we need to strengthen before the free world cold and you're better than a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waiting spirit to the r.c.c. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last will come from that steroids are as we've. thousand zero zero zero zero. russia. left left left more left ok stuff that's really good i think that is what it was needs confidence and confidence is based on on common goals i strongly believe that the u.s. and europe out for the place to be croly and the united states has been

a partner in creating that pool based system. i'm afraid that's. true if forwards and especially language person trump has been using and i'm not that confident that the contribution of the united states to that rule based system is still as relevant as superspeed. welcome to the alex salmond show this week our focus is on international development and twenty fifty the u.k.

joined the hunt for countries who meet the longstanding u.n. target of contributing zero point seven percent of national income to overseas aid of achieving a stark is not of controversy and it's come under fierce attack we will be speaking to the politician who pushed the government to finally reaching that elusive target the former international development secretary and a bit chilly m.p. i will also be hearing from tasmania who went to visit people on the front line of international development the first let's see some of your tweets your messages and your emails. thank you for your tweets and messages let's just take a look at a few a poll by the way says i would love to see a highly regarded oil and gas economics expert on the show highlighting just how much scotland has and is losing out on before and gas is to westminster well paul with brant crude touching seventy dollars this week and a huge investment decision announced might be a very timely moment to have

a look at the oil and gas industry and then there was a great number of messages about brian cox the actor who was interviewed on last week's show shall be gene seaton says i enjoyed your interviewer brian cox it reminded me of my old father when he was asked what he thought of don dorian's after a long pause he said bolshie but they are well shelley i think bolshie but failure is a great description and god says don't want to give too much away but to my favorite things i'm alex um i'm sure today brian cox and midget gems is the scottish delicacy that brian cox was warning us all about and there's the clearly says axel interview the actor brian cox love that you give proper time for in-depth discussion and not soundbites how about a rubber button special in the next episode and in the summer vein jeff crilley says why the scot will feel to promote bombs week well jeff those are going.