turkey demands the u.s. ends its support for syrian kurds a major sponsor between the two countries over washington trained border forces. hundreds of prison guards go on strike over on the slave can get what conditions are just french jails want to be a hotbed for islamic radicalization. and also a obtains a new league from the fancy best looking group that raises concerns over how i don't think cases were handled during the rio olympics in twenty sixteen.

thank you for watching the headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow. 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 spread person has in now it we would call on 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 we're talking threatened armed intervention in the kurdish held african region after it emerged the u.s. was planning to work with kurdish fighters in establishing a so-called border force in syria boche following and grows fierce reaction washington seems to have backtracked on to senior regional correspondent what does the it 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 pregnant

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 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 his return 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 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. 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. following the strike almost one hundred twenty inmates refused to return to their cells and jail is reputed to be a hotbed of islamic extremism while me and made up to smile who was behind the deadly attacks in paris in november twenty fifth eighteen it's not the first strike to hit a french prison this week with guards across the country fearing for their safety.

but audiologist looking 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. 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 experience 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 but it happens every time we open the doors of support we denounce the wording in addition 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 only met a number of prison workers on tuesday he outlined a ten point plan to improve their working conditions among the point she highlighted when more staff better equipment and a new director further discussion on the issue has also been shared to all from march we spoke to former m i five obvious animation she says 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 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 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 the 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 were petty criminals perhaps doubling in trucks coming out of the deprived areas of our countries and it's when they were serving time for those lower level crimes that they are indeed radicalized because they can indeed associate with islamic jihad is in prison. 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. well you can you camilla tints are not only using chemical weapons but they also have their own technological and manufacturing capacity to synthesize toxic substances for military purposes. at the united nations security council and his remarks he

emphasized that while allegations against the syrian government regarding chemical weapons in he need to be the focus of western leaders at the same time the extremist forces that want to topple the syrian government are finding their capacity to develop and use chemical weapons but american and british leaders are envoys to the united nations they repeated the same old saw that 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 now of course the u.s. and british envoys were referring to the chemical attack in qana last april well people will remember that in the aftermath of the top we heard u.s. leaders of neatly 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 cannot be tolerated later we heard about how the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons formed the joint investigative knocking isn't. began investigating the attack came up with a report but throughout their investigation at no point did they ever actually lose at the site of the chemical attack in conflict and this has been pointed out by russia so much focus is going to blinding the syrian government without much evidence. the russian foreign minister also pointed out that the west has turned a blind eye to chemical attacks by terrorists in syria while leveling the same accusation and damascus in twenty sixteen western backed militants reportedly used poison gas on several occasions in their attacks on government held areas in aleppo . our current oh.

yes. ok we'll. look at that would. be. worth i think that these kinds of weapons could be just self meaning i do not think you know i don't like nuclear weapons there doesn't need to be part of government sponsored it's not difficult getting the bizarro material we incentivize to use that would be friends with the international community more or less

definitely claim you know the security in their environment and the russians without suspecting the rebels and so the last time there was a chemical attack in the fall for. that attack him down all sorts of sympathy for the so-called syrian opposition then so that the rebels certainly know that. and so if they do have chemical ruffo's i wouldn't be surprised if they were used for. an avalanche in southwestern siberia has killed two tourists the victims were part of a snowmobiling party and witness to the tragedy explains what happened. last year i saw a white ball 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 it was silence . in this video you can see people trying to dig out survivors before five people

were rescued from under three meters of snow the avalanche affected an area of around one hundred fifty square meters it happened in a popular tourist destination and those are your sorties don't deem it a safe place for snowmobiling. now r.t. have obtained a new leak from the fancy bez hacking group which raises questions about how doping cases were handled during the rio olympics in twenty sixteen earlier artie's aber trying to discuss the revelations with nick here in. so new leaks about the summer olympic games twenty sixteen and remember during before and after rio the russian doping scandal was all over the news and that was when the and hire russian track and field team stayed home because of the band's well one i.o.c. e-mail exchange that we however can not confirm is real was about therapeutic use exemptions or to you now correct me if i'm wrong but is that when

athletes 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 e-mail 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. it weird situation this happened the rio twenty sixteen berlinger buckles seem not all to be stand it did not fit the openness forcing them resulted in breakage of the cap and sometimes it can be used to close the a boat will after seeing photos you know just have

a record of this kind of non-conformity so nikki opening the bottles could cause damage according to dr ratner if the emails are real but this is the point when i want to go back to all the russian winter olympic athletes that were banned the head of the winter olympic games in korea besides the testimonies and besides all the things that the main. whistleblower grigori watching of was saying that 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 and saatchi and the question i want to know is whether both was at the center of suspicion insult produced by that same company yes they were produced by berger that was providing the anti-doping officials with equipment for saatchi 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. the social media giants have been back before the u.s. senate regarding alleged russian meddling in the presidential election on that after the break.

but politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be preached. to the right to be christ this is what. real people are. interested always in the why. question. welcome back social media giants twitter facebook and here to have 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. it's the latest of the u.s. senate hearings the strange social media giants have participated in this time twitter also announced it was preparing that soon to wall news about russian trolls well this is sparked concern about exactly how these trolls will be identified artie's daniel corkins takes 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 for enough if you buy the russian election meddling narrative but it doesn't stop there now it seems twitter is going down the same road we don't yet know the full details of how this will work but in a hidden recording of a journalist group project veritas allegedly discovered how exactly twitter picked out other apparent bots. it's good we. just look at what you. guys. look 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 are you 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 evaded for anyone. to think. that 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 and we spoke to independent political and financial commentators gary and paul rosenberg they told us twitter could face repercussions over how it treats its users and 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 of 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 or 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 as catch can 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 . we're going to love you you know. because you know we are out of you know. 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 coming 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 of what it's meant to do the homeless people who were there were a very thing fall that we were standing up and they were very upset that the mayor in the city council members could pass such a heartless ordinance and none of those government officials come out to the park and talk to those people it really seems like this is part of the city for to

realize homelessness they've already made me that against the law to panhandle to sleep on the sidewalk so this is really like the next step in trying to push the homeless out of their city and the big justification that they use was the happening 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 are trying to protect but everybody else can still go and have a party at the park and share food with each other and they wrote that into the ordinance and that's what makes that discriminatory because it targets. 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 the recent report by the un on human rights has outlined the difficulties homeless people currently 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 move deliver more jobs higher wages and massive tax relief. since our session 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 that happens in our country where we have for profit prisons with companies making money off of jailing people. more news at the top of the. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us and i think it's full on awesome is the only show i go out of my way to do you know what it is that really packs a punch. yampa is the john oliver of archie america's use to say we are apparently better than nothing. you see people you've never heard of love or die for the next

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abroad and apple is taking advantage of the recent tax bill which allows earned or received to be quote unquote created to the u.s. at a rate of fifteen point five percent as opposed to the previous corporate tax rate of thirty five percent president trouble cited apple's decision in support of this tax cut or apple's talk. about eighty eight billion dollars before the tax cut instead apple will pay thirty eight billion dollars in improving their bottom line and ultimately cost in the u.s. treasury fifty billion dollars apple also says they will spend thirty billion dollars in capital investments in the u.s. over the next five years and build a new campus apple says the planes will create twenty thousand jobs a regular daily. clock is ticking down with less than forty

eight hours to go lawmakers are faced with reaching a deal to avoid a government shutdown this could mean big trouble for the stock market and could be costly for the tiger country here's our to correspond especially banks not to write barnsley i was a government shutdown and the lawmakers do not want to start with. five hundred. thousand non-virgins zero point three per cent i was struck out according to experts in the transfer market not. the interruption and government service earlier the. strong. possibility of a government shutdown looming over investors' minds now the dow down. two hundred and. closing down ten point three zero point three s. and p. five hundred psylocke as well their percent. on the back.