you think obama didn't know about any of this this was his justice department his f.b.i. they were trying to get hillary elected i think this is going to go right to the top and by the way if this is such a bunch of nothing and that's bad talking points and blah blah blah blah blah from adam schiff and the democrats on the committee then why not vote to release it so you could clear all this up whether everybody see it the democrats want to hide this document and we better get to the bottom of it and we all need to see it when republicans are even speculating that the infamous tom dusty it was used to obtain a surveillance warrant against the chung campaign i mean is it possible that a political document with unproven allegations could be used today that. i fear so because as i indicated when point blankly asked if that was the case both the f.b.i. director and the current the number two man a justice who is heading the russian issues because sessions recused himself

rosenstein neither one would answer the question in separate hearings in front of the congress in open session that doesn't smell good to say the least and if that was the case if they took this photo document full of phony accusations to the fights the court after they paid for it to be assembled and then got the fifes awards to spy on americans an incoming administration while out that is huge if we had a fair media in this country they'd be done a man doing the release of those documents and on that point we'll leave it steve malzberg t.v. host and political commentator thank you very much. violence has erupted in france at europe's largest prison with guards on strike over dangerous working conditions including attacks on staff riot police have fired tear gas at the protesting guards who are demanding an increase in the security level while earlier at another prison in corsica two guards were injured in

a stabbing by an inmate who'd reportedly been radicalised inside while the incident was acknowledged by a french prisoner union. oh you know that's a serious incident to police in blue prison ridiculous inmate brutally comics. or french prisons have recently suffered several similar attacks on gods a week ago three security staff were injured after an inmate attacked them with scissors and a razor blade while on monday at another jail seven guards were attacked by an inmate and in that case according to the ministry of justice the perpetrator had again been radicalized in prison in one run and disobedience and radicalization have triggered a nationwide strike of french prison guards and these in turn have clashed with riot police. today i want to believe was.

that. it was good that. i was striking guns on demanding they also artist do something about the dangerous conditions in french jails the front spike two representatives of the president on a pool. said laugh or to do no no the government representatives are to blame they didn't want to discuss the problem up to find a solution to our poor working conditions but we demand an increase in the number of prison guards and also the creation of a special high security wing radicalise prisoners. some of them will determine if we are really determined to make ourselves heard and to ensure that our demands are met with us and we really want work conditions to be changed especially in terms of security or if the. turkey has launched

a military incursion into the kurdish controlled region of syria or i'm asked to show by. our. i i i .

with the islamic state and its many confederates defeated or facing defeat in syria what is next for this war torn country what justification exists for the us to maintain military forces that does washington want syria partition is so and why. welcome back turkey's defense minister has announced his country has launched a military operation in syria's kurdish controlled african region starting with cross border shelling artie's paula slater has more on how events unfolded we are hearing from the turkish defense minister that a defect turkish military operation has begun across its border now this is been corroborated by the syrian kurds the white who say that since those day night some

seventy shells have been fired by the turkish military on to their villages now it's one of the only a statement by the turkish president and the one in which he said that the united states had admitted to establishing a terrorist army on the turkish syrian border any chord on the united states to deal with that terror at its infrastructure and these comments by the turkish president so infuriated could see living in the afan region that earlier they took to the streets also they were protesting against what we see happening slowly on the ground which is turkish tanks needing to retreat in order this is what citizens of us have to say. right now 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 man. the international community should send a message to turkey telling them to stop we have bought the white b.g. and so we can defend ourselves. well this comes after the statement that the

coalition forces were working closely with the syrian democratic forces to establish and train a new syrian border security force but what we've seen happening is the american administration backpedaling now on plans to establish such a border force essentially after it created such a huge and furious backlash from america's close ally to. keith the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has said that the entire issue has been misspoke trade and misdescribed the us state department has this to say is he saying that when the pentagon says we're going to try to come up with a force of thirty thousand people that that that's a long or is he just just feeling ok 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. part but i'm asking about closing comments yesterday we said there's no order you're ready for just that's not what it is like i 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 is the secretary but somebody clearly just misstated their policy it's as simple as that the situation is extremely tense on the ground and it has the possibility of igniting into something much bigger so i think what it does so us is that words have the potential to ignite a potential war as. well as discuss this further with former u.s. diplomat jim jett trust jim thank you very much indeed for joining us well could the turkish intervention have been avoided if washington had been clear it opposed the move. i don't think so to tell the truth because the united states for whatever reason has chosen to single out the kurds as are made and so called boots on the ground and declared that we're going to stay there even after dying after isis has been defeated which they almost have been completely within syria it was inevitable that there was only going to be

a turkish reaction i think the real question now is whether they will actually do something very forceful or whether this shelling is just demonstrative and the turks really don't mean to move into the to the for an area which is of course is a smaller area to the west that is detached from the main kurdish held areas but let's also look about what's been happening we saw that washington they've seriously backtracked since originally announcing that border force that we were hearing about but it hasn't prevented this action from taking i mean where does washington guy from hand. if washington is a very in a very difficult position and it really is part of being contradicted caught in the contradictions of our own policy is that we are supposedly in syria illegally as it happens but nonetheless in syria solely for the purpose of defeating diet or that's been done why are we staying well we now have a new mission secretary tillerson reiterated a few days ago the worn out obama line that assad must go we need to block the

arabians we need to do six other things in syria it seems so we settle on the kurds as the only force we think we can count on that was inevitable it would provoke a reaction from turkey there's no way out of this quandary it that i can see and now they're back pedaling and dancing around trying to salvage something and also i couldn't then looking at the kurdish point if you couldn't because aunty that the u.s. had betrayed them in order to boost public relations with a powerful ally as in turkey i mean is that a fair challenge. i think we're moving toward that and i think the kurds are probably smarter than that della truth even though the united states might want to say ok great the kurds there are boys you know they can they can do a riff that takes they can look at a map and they can figure out that sooner or later the americans are not going to stay and they're going to have to consider their other options the turks are not a good one and i think the upshot of this will be at some point that we'll see more kurdish feelers back to damascus about what their options are for reintegrating into the syrian state and cutting some sort of

a deal for more ethnic rights or i don't think i would go as far as autonomy but i think there will be some recognition of the kurds as a as a distinct people within syria and finally jim looking at nations here when is america just looking for an excuse to extend its presence in syria. yes it is and i think that's for the purpose of socially confronting iran look let's let's face it the united states' policy is essentially controlled by the israelis and the saudis in iran is the big boogie man and they're the issue in syria was always about this so-called shiite shiite crescent between iran iraq syria and lebanon and now that's being becoming more overt as the name of the game here somebody thinks we need to have what thirteen illegal bases in syria i don't think that's going to be viable oh for a very long time catch us former u.s. diplomat thank you very much and to thank you. thank you. well it's

not just jails that are giving the french authorities a headache drug related crimes are becoming so bad in parts of the paris metro the train drivers are reportedly refusing to stop at certain stations once according to a union representing the capital's metro and bus network artesian challenger when ski went underground to see what those fears a based on. 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 in paris as metro but now the unions representing the train drivers say it's inspiring out of control dealers and muses including those taking crack cocaine a new role god thing they've doing. lighting up metro drivers is so

fearful of attacks at some stations many are choosing to longer stop there a survivor more force of a more pro quo is very dangerous and it's terrifying it can range from a simple punch to people using nails knives. stations like marks dorm and market a year are especially troubled druggies has come here for their daily fix and gangs have taken over the problem of a more. the problem is very dangerous for both the metro workers and for the commuters it's even more dangerous they are targets of fair i've seen more than one hundred attacks take place within minutes of arriving if mark's door metro station we witnessed what looks like a drug deal the man with his back to the camera his job. still arrived with the bag in hand he walked 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 a lot of drug users and i think that with everything that's happening in the matter oh they should be doing something most of the time the drug users are aggressive and everyone is afraid for their security. children. twenty twenty five. lived there we would reverse of course. been attacked just one time because. we had in the middle of the night. smart for. playing with that problem was the precipice a problem as the security robberies can happen sometimes it's maybe aggression physical aggression sometimes two was a star man attack another young man as we travelled through some of the most

dangerous stations we saw metro security and police trying to crack down on the problem they succeeded in moving this bunch along but in reality all they've done is move the problem to another stop on to another day charlotte even ski r.t. paris. a teenager has attacked a school in eastern siberia injuring six people including a teacher. command into the costs and inflicted injuries sustained three school children and a teacher with the next a child received a blow to the face another one was struck on the back and another girl lost some friends.

let me say this in this booklet as they were taught in a calm nothing like this could have been expected from that action and that no money could come and dissipate is just what happened. that got the worst of the super. well this comes amid a string of similar attacks in russia this week. has more. the past five days have seen a frightening trend creeping up in russia with three different attacks occurring at schools. and all of those cases the young perpetrators used basic weapons naives and access as that was likely all that they had at their disposal and a disturbing online trend also link these incidents are sources believe that violent online groups that center around tragedies like the columbine high school massacre may also be a common factor 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 columbine years 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 group of what each number of groups like this is relatively small it's not a mass phenomenon we're not going to do it every single mention of every bad thing we're doing with calls to action not with information per se we don't think that if

a person reads about someone slaughtering somebody will pick up a knife and commit a crime. 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 step and used violence against their classmates. more news at the top of. i don't know what are. you going to do. like.

you're going to. have a winner take all the it's a lottery mentality in america you know where are your dead and the pharmaceutical companies of course a lobbyist going to washington to change the laws of a possible to peddle whole cost in america and nobody cares because it ever learned a lot as a wal-mart today they said let's do it again. hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle 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 if so then why. cross talking syria i'm joined by my guest jonathan steele in london. an international affairs commentator in leeds we have here he is a senior lecturer in middle east politics at the university of bradford and in doha we cross the mohammed should we he is a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university in arthur of what is unlike continuity or rupture in the wake of the arab uprisings or a german cross rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate i've seen if i can go to you first in leads here let me read some of the headlines here tillerson touts indefinite u.s. presence in syria and assad must go in new plan also tillerson u.s. military presence in syria open ended will ensure regime change if you like that we

got way way past that with the collapse of the islamic state with talks in afghanistan i'm sorry in kazakhstan with the russians in the iranians in the turks i thought you know to look this is a blast from the past where is this coming from go ahead i've seen in leeds i think what we see at the moment is effectively germany for cation of syria effectively what we are seeing at the moment is in the post-war german situation when the country became divided between two different spheres of influence and that open ended division changed the security and political landscape of the world at least for about forty years of course we have to bear this in mind that at the moment over the last

thirteen months what we have seen in the american political establishment is confusion so i really don't want to jump to a conclusion but if mr tenet is absolutely committed to his words and they're going to keep their forces in syria. prevent further empowerment of bashar assad effectively is what i mentioned is going to be kind of germany fixation of syrian conflict which will have serious implications not only for syria but for the right that region of course they keep telling us that you know they are not interested in partition and disintegration of syria what if it moves like a duck if you like a dog then probably it's a dog you know jonathan weigh in on that because i really quite mystified by all that's what is the national security interest that the united states to maintain military forces illegally under international law in syria what is the game plan it

seems to me it's a lot of spite they don't like the fact that the russians the iranians and assad won that it's a fact on the ground they won't accept it go ahead jonathan well i think they've made it clear that to do it against iran initially it was against iris and it was against. iran very clearly they've built a grown up into a bogeyman and i'm going to listen was talking about this northern arch to some kind of arch invisible to anybody except to listen in the american administration to the. mediterranean coast and it's nonsense i mean for years syria was completely calm country. minimal influence there had no troops no toll it's only because of the collapse of the authority in syria of commune authority is restored in damascus and assad can exert control as he's hoping to do throughout the country so no need for the president's and i'm quite confident that it would be

dramatically reduced it's a bogeyman in the eyes of the americans it's nonsense yeah ok to mohammed in doha i mean i agree with you it's really. a farce here that the u.s. is a created in pursuing here but it has real life implications on the ground here i mean the interesting. thing is that the syrian proxy civil war never gets simpler we have the whole situation ok granted it's an illusion but turkey is not and this is we have this collision that's going on between two me and nato countries the united states and turkey are having a collision over the kurds here and i don't see any real easy way out except for maybe a deterioration of nato relations within the alliance i mean that's certainly can't be what the americans want is it go ahead moment. while so for we have seen one year off from prism in the us foreign policy and so far what we are witnessing is

basically politics with no specific strategic objectives good so far by the ministration has not has not to resolve the isis problem for sure at the same time the syrian conflict now is a limbo and instead of the scale eighteen this particular conflict in the middle east what he has tricked another conflict with tookie so far now we're faced by with one open ended conflict that is going to be between the united states and then go into if you cations in iran and beyond so far in terms of conflict and there is i don't see a particular strategic way out of this mess unfortunately we had a lot of tory coming from the white house but we don't have any effective strategic decisions try into the skill of distribution or at least help with the syrians

outcome that would be favorable to all parties. in this because the whole journey for process now has been become history yes and i've seen i mean that i'm so i don't want to sound naive here but there is a way out here it's called sitting down at. the table and negotiate an end of this have internationally observed elections i have nothing against that. make sure no all these foreign proxies leave make sure the gulf countries stop sending arms and money to these various groups i mean there is a way out it's not that hard there's no political will particularly on the side of the united states that has no geopolitical incentives what so ever to be in that country go ahead. there is no easy way out because there are too many con of foreign interests involved in this conflict and in my

opinion we are only beginning to end to the second phase of this bloody and multifaceted multidimensional conflict in the first phase we can see that kind of long is allies like old russia iran and hezbollah have been the main conduit for women but now we are entering the second phase in this phase maybe we are going to have an active involvement of other regional players important regional players who did not play a leading role and here i'm talking about is the reason that the united states is going to keep kind of at least two thousand soldiers in syria and at the same time training another thirty thousand of soldiers within the framework of s.t.a. forces is because of the fact that they want to maintain a military balance in the second phase because it seems that they are extremely

concerned about permanent military bases by countries like russia and the islamic republic of iran so in my opinion basically fighting against or basically taking measures to prevent further empowerment of bashar assad is nothing but a pretext against against what's happening at the moment so they want to just create a balance of power. and that can create and all conflict for a very very long time that's a very interesting way of looking at i go to jonathan i mean but you know what i i guess you know these other outside forces forget that syria is of sovereign country it can invite other countries in to set up a military base i mean the united states does it all. all over the world ok and the syrians want to have the russians there have the ratings there where they were not there before i mean that the rank hypocrisy of all of this you know why should

these foreign powers they decide who can have a military base in syria when they have no right to do so under international law go ahead jonathan. well i mean i agree with you on that i mean you know who rock the americans were invited by the iraqi government of nuri al maliki initially and hyderabadi afterwards they came in but. syria they've never been invited in and they've been never been proved presence by damascus so it is completely illegal and finish off i mean the trouble is the council behind eating away at u.s. policy is this issue of trying to get assad to resign early on in twenty eleven thought he would resign or be toppled by the crowds in the street like what happened in syria what happened what happened in egypt i mean what happened in two news you're going to didn't happen they must admit that they made a terrible mistake and if they want peace in the country if they want reconstruction if they want to get

a few jews to go home and the i.d.p.'s to go home they have to recognize that our side is the winner in this you must deal with him and construction and reconstruction is go through him and all these rebel groups from outside funded by the gulf countries and turkey and so on must go home and leave the country alone well mohamed to me if i go back to go back to last minute before we go to the break here i mean since two thousand and eleven to the present can you explain to me in our audience what difference does that make it because saad is there a reason not there we have seen through this this civil war that is an invention from the outside cohesion of the damascus government it is there ok it's not based on a personality cult of a personality the outs these outside forces that brought the people of syria a bit very different people to come together and fight all foreigners ok so this whole thing that assad must go is.