turkey announces the start of a military operation in syria against the kurdish held and for in the region it comes despite washington denying claims that plan to support kurdish led forces to form a thirty thousand strong border army that. congressman the woman who was created. at least seven people are injured in russia's eastern siberia as a teenager attacks a school with an axe and a molotov cocktail is the third such incident in less than a week. and a new law in germany about online hate speech strikes again after a right wing party member sees her facebook account blocked for calling for a march against migrants committing crimes in her country we get her reaction also

this hour. r.t. goes on the ground after reports that drug related crimes are running out of control of parts of the paris metro resulting in train drivers refusing to stop at certain stations. to. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me niki aaron good to have you with us this hour and we start with breaking news on r.t. turkey has begun the military operation it's been threatening against kurds in northern syria it comes after the u.s. military commander announced plans to create a border force with kurds in northern syria a move that left an correct raging later the secretary of state tried to climb. so

far the situation saying the u.s. had no intention of creating such a force there but his words haven't been enough to stop the military operation. is he saying that when the pentagon says we're going to try to come up with a force of thirty thousand people that took that long or is he just disputing why wouldn't i would have to refer you to the department of defense on that i think they were clear in the statement that they put out so let me just refer you to them on that. but i'm asking you but most of us yesterday we said there's no border security force that's that's not what it is like i don't have to refer you to the turkish government about what they became so concerned about and the fact that somebody misspoke and i'm not going to name any names and neither was the secretary but somebody clearly just misstated their policy it's as simple as that so he's defense minister says the country's tanks that haven't crossed the border into syria but open fire on kurdish positions from turkish territory. when turkey had first threatened to act militarily the move sparked anger in the region with

kurds taking to the streets to denounce his remarks. and our freedom will be the ones graveyard today hundreds of thousands are protesting to tell him that the people of our friend will never leave their land. and the international community should send a message to turkey telling them to stop. the why putin and stand so we can defend ourselves. we discussed the latest tensions between the u.s. and turkey with international relations professor jamal wakim who believes we're currently seeing damage control being carried out. is trying to limit the damage that was caused to the turkish american relations with this new american move by establishing this border army under the pretext of protecting the border the syrian border with iraq and with thirty but i believe that the main geo political

objective here is for the united states to have such a good army in syria that could ensure that the united states have a foothold on syrian soil and prevent the syrian government from extending its control over the. northeast part of syria so it's regional tensions between the two key allies was then r.t. he goes down enough has been taking a closer look. the middle east has always proved a tough nut to crack for the united states hardly helping matters now though is lacking a unified game plan days ago the pentagon proudly announced it would create a so-called syrian border security force the coalition is working jointly with the syrian democratic forces to establish and train the new syrian border security force currently there are approximately two hundred thirty individuals training in the cynical class with the goal of a final four size of approximately thirty thousand but the us apparently forgot to

run the idea past turkey for ankara kurdish military groups terrorist factions it's as clear cut as that and washington's announcement drove turkey hopping mad shouldn't. america has admitted that it has established a terrorist army at our border and it's up to us to strangle that terror army at birth turkey power projected additional troops along with tanks to the southern border with syria and amid the spouse america's top diplomat rex tillerson intervened to save the day the entire situation has been mis portrayed mr scribed some people misspoke we're not creating a border security force at all being a mouthpiece of u.s. foreign policy these days is one hell of a job especially when you have to contradict your own military to keep a happy but arguably that's not to listens biggest brain wrench right now explaining why the u.s. military is still in syria is first it was the we need to fight the terrorists

mantra our military policy in syria has not changed our priority remains the defeat of isis so called his law make state has to all intents and purposes now been reduced to a ragtag of guerrilla fighters but surprise surprise it's left to to listen to come up with a new purpose for the u.s. military in syria it is crucial to our national. military and diplomatic presence and sir. stable unified independent syria under post assad leadership is functioning as a state. iranian influence in syria is diminished. and as if life wasn't hard enough or to listen here as the tweeter in chief as he's president rex is a bit of a to run a saurus when it comes to social media but he tries to survive.

and. i don't even have a twitter account that i can follow what he's tweeting so my staff usually has to print his tweets out and hand them to me. teenager has attacked a school in eastern siberia injuring six people including a teacher. he ran into the class and inflicted in greece upon three school children and a teacher over the next a child received a blow to the face another one was trying on the battle and another girl lost something.

the girl said she received a text message from the boys from attack the school that she should not go to morning that there will be. a moment much more that i want to know more. outlets through the course of the five years. they've had comes amid a string of similar incidents throughout russia this week duckling very has the details. the past five days have seen a frightening trend creeping up in russia with three different attacks occurring at schools. in all those cases the young perpetrators used basic weapons naives an axis as that was likely all that they had at their disposal and a disturbing online trend may also link these incidents our sources believe that violent online groups that center around tragedies like the columbine high school massacre may also be

a common factor that just to remind you the columbine tragedy took place in the u.s. back in one thousand nine hundred ninety two students armed to the teeth killed twelve of their classmates and a teacher and that horrific massacre is apparently inspiring violence and children who weren't even born when it happened it's so popular that the followers of such groups even have a name for themselves become biters now russia's version of facebook called v.k. has dozens of these pages open to all we did a simple quick search and found scores of them with post that promote violent behavior things like describing the power someone feels when they have a gun in their hands one of the alleged perpetrators of monday's incident has been confirmed to be a follower of such pages and today's and wednesday's instance are being looked into see if the same is true for them as of today russian officials have announced that they will begin shutting down pages with extremist content the communications watchdog groups and social media which call for violence in schools it will be undertaken under the criteria of terrorism extremism and the decent juveniles to

commit suicide but the question remains if closing pages will really be enough in the long run especially given that a number of students have already taken the next stop and used violence against their classmates. and who are in germany which combats hate speech online is making headlines again now south of the facebook account of a member of the right wing gul turn it into germany policy was blocked following her call for people to join a women's march against rape and killings perpetrated by migrants in the country. i organize a women's march to the chancery almost every day we read about horrific rapes and murder of women the more women come the more pressure it will put on merkel and politicians from the old parties together but us take to the streets to fight for our right to freedom and serve the tema nation but despite belonging to a party known for its strong anti migrant rhetoric layla bilger who is a women's and children's rights activist regularly travels to syria and iraq to

help people there she says migrant origin herself and was surprised at the official reason for her face but ban. as going to facebook or shorten my troubles with facebook started a few years ago facebook has a big issue with women and migrant background you can notice that i don't have a nordic location for can see that i am originally from the south here in germany i find the human rights which isn't always easy in islamic countries people like me are silenced by. this i have a certain popularity and quite a large following i was blocked for thirty days then my account was deleted but that wasn't the first time my accounts have now been purged four times and since i am a member of the air of d. which in germany files for women's rights i am a nuisance for facebook and the mainstream media. banned under the new law that forces social media to delete offensive content within twenty four hours after receiving a complaint otherwise companies would face a huge fines earlier this month the deputy leader of the alternative for germany

party saw her facebook and twitter account suspended after she criticized the country's police for saying happy new year in arabic. again says people who express their anger at policies in germany are seeing their voices silenced online. the problem is your policy of the german government and especially of the old this is intended to help young man from islamic or african countries get settled in europe and to accept their religion and culture for this reason and german citizen who has lived here forever is being ignored and in the case of facebook or twitter it works like this they censor all critical statements even though they are consistent with the real situation of course it runs against the mainstream political line in germany for this reason the try to silence critics of the german government's asylum policy. work related crimes are becoming so bad on

parts of the paris metro train drivers are reportedly refusing to stop at certain stations that's according to a letter written by a union which represents the metro and bus network in the capital r.t. sure they do but ski jump on board to find out if those fears are grounded. for most parisians the metro is a staple of life with its winding tunnels and lines that stretch across the city it's often the easiest way to get from a to b. but down in the underground the gritty underbelly of the capital is being exposed drug related crime and violence has been a long standing issue on purpose as metro but now the unions representing the train drivers say it is spiraling out of control dealers and muses including those taking crack cocaine a new god thing what they've doing. lighting up metro drivers is so

fearful of attacks at some stations many are choosing to long to stop there a survivor more for survivor more quickly is very dangerous and it's terrifying if you can range from a simple punch to people using nails knives or. stations like marks and market a year are especially troubled druggy says come here for their daily fix and gangs have taken over. the problem is very dangerous for both the metro workers and for the commuters is even more dangerous they are targets of fast i've seen more than one hundred attacks take place. within minutes of arriving if mark's metro station we witnessed what looks like a drug deal the man with his back to the camera has just arrived with a bag of hand he was the platform stopping and exchanging some packages with people

and then he left with his bag empty this seems to be the new normal. there are lots of drug users and i think that with everything that's happening in the match though they should be doing something most of the time the drug users are aggressive and everyone. he's afraid for the security of my children. twenty twenty five. lived there we would we verse of course. have been attacked just one time because. we had them in the middle of the night is smart for. playing with that problem was the precipice the problem is the security robberies can happen sometimes it's maybe aggression or physical aggression sometimes do buy ceasar man attack another young man. as we traveled through some of the most dangerous stations we saw metro security and police trying to crack down on the problem this exceeded in moving

this bunch a long but in reality all they've done is move the problem to another stop on to another day charlotte. r.t. paris. for people us during the university of berkeley off the claiming to have been injured during last year's anti trump protests we get all the details on that coming for you after this short break stay with us. when lawmakers manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final merry go round listen to the one percent told.

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in afghanistan is working closer to a peace process than ever however the u.n. was recently reporting itself almost a half a million people were displaced in the country in two thousand and seventeen alone let's have a look at some of the latest pictures from afghanistan. the u.s. policy on afghanistan is working. on the we are all were victims of the bombing is ongoing are a lot of houses have been destroyed and several villages about sixty seven thousand displaced families are living in this camp. but i think. we're closer to talks with the taliban and the peace process than we've seen before . as we were the taliban and i said we're fighting each other with them government

forces launched a military operation against our houses were destroyed our life struck world. this is. what. we do not want afghanistan to be a safe haven for terrorism anymore and so we continue to go down that path twenty one international terrorist groups are operating in this country and dozens of suicide bombers are being sent we are and we do everything we can to combat terrorism. hurley has to pretend that u.s. policy is working because she's loyal follower of donald trump she can't say that donald trump's policy is not working his policy is very similar to obama's except to do is now sending another four thousand troops so soon there will be something like fourteen thousand u.s. troops instead of money so that's

a sign that the old policy wasn't working but it's not at all clear that the new policy of sending more troops will work the trouble is that runners five or ten years ago the main opponents were the taliban and since then we've had people coming into the picture there was. work there was good but in the third groups it's come up in the last five years i guess they've been conducting some very dramatic suicide bombings in kabul itself so that car blew itself has become much less than it used to be. four people have filed a lawsuit against the city of berkeley in california and it's you know fast say for injuries they claim they received during riots on the campus that last year the violence erupted over a speech set to be given at the university by a prominent conservative.

we talked to katrina radio show a man who is taking legal steps against the university of berkeley she believes the campus on the city's police acted insufficiently during the protests. but when the

attack started especially after i was pepper sprayed i was completely incapacitated there was nothing i could do to defend myself so i had no choice but to turn around and just face the barricade i was worried about what was happening to my husband it turned out he was just a few feet away from me being beaten worse than any of us he was being unconscious afterwards by the police both the city and the campus police were clearly inadequate given what happened when the injuries that were sustained right i saw personally it was police initially standing outside of the building that they later locked us out of i saw them there. with a wave and by the time the attack actually started they were nowhere to be seen they had locked themselves inside the building and wouldn't give us any aid at all but university of california berkeley has declined to comment but the lawyer representing the victims says they want to send a message to compass top police to do a better job. the injuries caused to her clients two of which were beaten

unconscious and still suffer from psychological disorders post-traumatic disorders so they are seeking money damages to compensate them for that but the main goal of this case is to send a message to campus police and campus universities that they they have to do their job you know i liken what happened here the deliberate effort to not intervene and to not do anything to fire a man from watching a building on fire with their with their opposes water pouring out of them but they're too afraid to go into the building because they might get hurt it's the goal of law enforcement it's the role of law enforcement i should say to serve and protect the public and they did not do that. on friday it means football on r.t. head of the latest episode of his so stan collymore interviews the legendary said to remotes the spanish national team defender and realm of dread captain is

a quick preview. ok so i think. is it important that russia have a good world called the team gets out of the group for the momentum of the tournament. i think that when one plays at home back by their country one always has a higher responsibility it is a plus and gives extra motivation which will shine through i wish the russian team the best because when we have played there they have always given us a friendly reception but i only wish them well until we crossed paths if we ever do . cristela rebelde o.-port you go you spain first game of the world called.

a very interesting game to start to see i believe it's going to be a very exciting game and highly anticipated as well because it is a neighboring country i think they are the ones to beat because they are the current european champions and that will make it a really nice match to watch for football fans we hope to win because it is a very important to kick off the competition with a victory against the favorite. one to forget to have us down the day stories by following us on social media for the latest news headlines are back in about thirty minutes.

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the sentencing of child molester and former usa gymnastics national team doctor lawyer in asar starting this week and going into the next more than one hundred women have volunteered to take the stand in the courtroom and look at the star in the eye and tell their stories of his abuse including seven national team gymnast including olympic stars gabby douglas allie ray's mckayla maroney and four time two thousand and sixteen gold medalist simone by lists the twenty year old bio stated for far too long i've asked myself was i too naive was it my fault i now i now know the answer to those questions no no it was not my fault no i will not end should not carry the guilt that belongs to larry intissar the usa g. and others. like jerry sandusky of penn state or hedge fund billionaire geoffrey epstein predators likeness starforce us all to rethink just where our priorities lie when we allow sacred institutions and powerful individuals to insulate and

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