to go home they have to recognize that our society is the winner in this you must deal with him and construction reconstruction is go through him and all these rebel groups from outside funded by the gulf countries and turkey and so on must to go home and leave the country alone well mohammad him if i go back to go back you know our 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 as solid is there a reasonable there we have seen through this this civil war that is an invention from the outside the 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 very very different people to come together and fight all foreigners ok so this whole thing that assad must go is ridiculous go ahead mom it. was so far out of the

protests. that to peacefully in two thousand and eleven and we had the six months of nonviolence so there was a political process that means the young syrians who are protesting there is their misery and socio economic grievances and then there was in the direction however once we moved to the oktober to the eleven things when we had violence so far perceive see the. kitchen of the regional politics where you have similar powers trying to money prelate the district. here and i and i'll come back you go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria state with our.

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in syria has said. he she ought to have someone else for the name after the couple fuck around mr hates it for jim and then where for her for it are for him and for. me the money. welcome back to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle we're discussing syria. we can't go back to in leads here i mean we can discuss the origins of all of this i would disagree with our guest in doha it wasn't all peaceful in the beginning they were people that were using force and looking for force regime change which of course those elements have been there for a long time and we know who have been backing them so and also i'd like to point out is that in this horrible horrific civil war when you look at the casualties how

of them of big government troops fighting for their country fighting for their country their right to exist ok the people they were fighting well they were more interested in ethnic cleansing ok so i think we should have a sense of proportion i've seen i mean i'm really still very concerned with this element with turkey here how do we get through this here because it seems to me that one has this kind of a neo ottoman view of the conflict he's digging in in northern syria and he plans to stay it looks like so much for the sovereignty of syria and it's from a country that is a member of nato go ahead. turkish foreign policy is complicated and if you do look to an understatement to see. that. and if you do look at kind of. foreign policy over the last five years it has gone through so many different stages so we really cannot talk about a single turkish policy towards either us or see the over the last

five years certainly in the first phase of the war it was all about and if you chair of syria without him but now it seems that the main main preoccupation is it's all internal security dynamics as you know very well the turkish security establishment and political has been sometimes in violent and sometimes in nonviolent confrontation with we're talking about three four decades of confrontation and now d.c. they see this kind of year period gear which is into framework of history year of gaining more and more power not only is gaining more and more power in syria but it is directly backed up by the united states as far as the turks are concerned this is directly with ising their internal national security so what is happening right

now at the moment between washington and it is nor longer only about the future of syria it is also about some other very important issues and if you do look at what has been happening between washington and over the last year their relationship has calmed of gone to a very very problematic stage i mean only about a week ago american officials warned their own citizens about traveling to turkey and turkey did exactly the same to our so many issues like five to look like a disk on a big problematic case of results out of. as well as if that's creating a lot of impediments for a cord the other relationship between these two nato allies you know jonathan it's really interesting is that you know syria's kind of a backdrop. overlooking the crisis in turkish american relations this is you know these are supposed to be nato allies here you have you have other nato

countries that are quite nervous we have to point out to our viewers that turkey is the second largest military in nato and they see there they say what are their allies infringing upon the sovereignty of another country and we have erred on actually wanting other nato countries to start joining in on his security efforts security problems that he has created for himself the more he gave medals with the syrian situation the kurdish situation in syria the more it hurts him down the road just as we pointed out this is a very domestic issue as well it's not one in syria actually it's also in iraq go ahead jonathan. well no i mean i've seen is absolutely right i thought it's analysis of turkish foreign policy in the contradictions was spot on i mean the problem is that there's no reason why there should be a conflict even in turkey itself yeah there was a peace process for two years one was talking to a larger line on the k.p. k.k. leadership people and they were making progress and then he just threw it out of the window because he wanted to present himself to the turkish domestic electorate

as a strong or thorough tearing man who wasn't giving in because at that point he was trying to win a referendum on a new executive powerful presidency so it was electorally. modified moderated. negotiated and he just couldn't just put it on the floor do you just board but now he's got to continue in syria because he's convinced that the s.d.f. in a corner to northeast syria is somehow beholden to the p.k. k. which is no longer true yeah you know mohamed how much you know we talked to you started out with your first comments about the first year of the presidency or trumpets and here in the middle east i mean how much of american foreign policy is actually driven by some kind of vision that president trump has which i doubt to be honest with you or how is it really coming out of tel aviv in riyadh because it seems that you know trump has really cozy. tel aviv in riyadh in his presidency in

a very simplistic and i think dangerous way but how much is he being pushed by those two countries go ahead mahmoud. what i think there are two shifts of war taken into consideration in the in the position of the administration one trump was always critical of the obama administration policy toward syria he said that he was not effective and he was not kind of put help in the syrians and now we're looking at the situation where basically it is no clear sort all. in the midst of all this chaos shift number two is an overt and exaggerated over on counter terrorism in the international relations of the unite of the united states with the middle east and i think what we saw in the summit was too much investment in this car to the extent that now it has overshadowed the complexity

of the whole city and prices and all the chaos and there's also another problem now i think. to eighteen among the trying to simply follow who to blame which country or the very government is responsible for the escalation in syria and they think the blame goes around starting from the u.s. and some really not powers who thought the money in new power inside syria and in the region and guess what the all of this exaggerated investment income and the lot of them is now bringing in to the realisation that it is still a more complex conflict that what then we're back in two thousand and twelve you know i've seen one of the interesting things is the more countries like saudi arabia and israel blame iran for the region's woes you know that it ran just gets

more and more influential because it doesn't make these geopolitical blunders that these other characters do in the region here i mean iraq was a catastrophe what's happening in yemen is a catastrophe syria is holding its own here and you know always looking to blame iran and iran are by almost doing nothing comes out on top don't you think they should learn something from that go ahead. yes i mean certainly when you do look at what has been happening in the region over the last certainly. fifteen years since the invasion of iraq by the united states a lot of things that has happened in the region somehow has ended up kind of benefiting iranian position within the middle east the invasion of iraq of op rising the rise of isis and so on and of course it is not only about the iranian

policy it is also about kind of miscalculations and wrong policies of the ukrainian was problematic here we're talking about saudi arabia but the situation is changing a little bit now we have a president in the white house who has a very kind of narrow iran centric kind of understanding of the region according to his kind of naive perspective all the problems in the middle east all the instabilities in the middle east all of the sudden can be resolved if he could confront iran and the best way he things that he could confront iran is to kind of undermine this historic deal and now increasingly there is more evidence to suggest that maybe within the next three or four months we're going to see the end of this very important security deal and if that happens it can create some serious new problems for for the region so iran should not take account of its recent

victories in the region for granted because the situation is changing the corridors of power in washington is certainly in favor of saudi arabia is all to the point i'm not even sure if mr trump is acting on behalf of american interests or the interests of israel and saudi arabia their region because if you do look at his policies his effective undermining their you can't interest or even worse than intra. in the region in all. of the foreign policy discourse of both israel and saudi arabia let me go to jonathan i would add on to that promote we just heard from. and also splintering nato and the european union over the air randi oh ok because the united states look at nikki haley you know in that vast hall she's all alone or virtually all alone and all of these issues here and you know i was highly critical of obama's foreign policy the only thing that he did in his foreign

policy that i agreed with was the iran deal i think it made pragmatic sense ok and now we have this reversal here john of the one last minute here i mean. from what we did i mean is it really just all about iran and preparing some kind of conflict with the ram because you know all the pieces on the board kind of point in that direction go ahead. well no that is certainly true and what afshin said was right again i mean israel has always wanted the u.s. to change the regime in tehran they hoped they would do that fifteen years ago they thought iraq was going to me they were pushing for iran and they were. being told we'll move to on iran later after we have done iraq and that is still now the policy of the trump administration of course it's a complete diversion the real problem in the middle east as it has been for fifty years is the israeli palestinian issue but of course it's. in the interest of netanyahu in the right wing in israel to try and minimize the palestinian things or no no iran is much bigger threat and its much bigger issue it's trying to take over

the whole region and so on and unfortunately the u.s. so many people long before the trumpet ministration of fallen for that ploy they certainly are right gentlemen that's all the time we have but it's very fascinating discussion and i'm unfortunately i'm sure will be talking about syria in the future many thanks to my guests in london leads and in doha and thanks to our viewers for watching us here are to see you next time and remember. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to. education. higher education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running

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need to survive on. the u.s. defense secretary outlines a new strategy where countering russia and china takes priority over the fight against terrorism. a scandal worse than watergate so plain republican lawmakers about a top secret memo allegedly exposing senior level lowering foursomes political bias against donald trump. french police fired tear gas at striking prison guards at europe's largest jail as they protest against severe working conditions. and a teenager in just six people including a teacher in an accident i can on a school in eastern siberia the third such incident in less than a week. thank

you for watching the headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge. if you decide to challenge america's experiment in democracy it's going to be your worst day those were the words of u.s. defense secretary james mattis as he unveiled america's new defense strategy which one are primarily focused on that are in russia and china. but we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terror that we're engaged in today but great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of your security first and foremost this america's defense strategy so to speak is so much on the offensive side of the tracks it almost makes you think that someone copy and pasted the old name into the you know into the headline space so it's the first time since the

cold war american military is focusing on this great competition of powers so this can really be seen as sort of a that sort of mentality making a comeback what it also means is the infamous war on terror is taking the backseat it is being put on the back burner so to speak instead washington is focusing on russia china iran and north korea but really the pentagon is singling out moscow and beijing have a listen we face growing threat from revisionist powers as different as china and russia or from each other nations that do seek to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models are showing veto authority over and over nation and economic diplomatic security decision doctrine calls for modernization what what would you expect to see well another word used by the u.s. defense secretary was fundamental this is how he characterized this modernization that he's been talking about and mostly the pentagon is going to be focusing on

space on cyber security and on its nuclear program so in terms of cyber security they're going to be overhauling the whole thing really we don't know the details yet but obviously big big big changes are coming up especially with all of the russia and china craze in terms of the nuclear program they're seeing it as a reaction you know as sort of a reaction to what russia has been doing in this sphere certainly to go out of space and defend its position that this is not going to be cheap what's the money being talked about the secretary of defense. use this opportunity to ask for more money or at least while making a step in the direction saying that budget cuts arguably delivered the worst blows to the pentagon and to the us national and national defense but at the same time you have to remember that it's not only about how much money the pentagon gets but also how it chooses to spend it for example hundreds of billions of dollars have

been splashed out on the new thirty five fighter jet and development hasn't been even passed the most basic stages. the executive director of the ron paul institute daniel mcadams sees the change in u.s. rhetoric as dangerous. there's a big threat that the u.s. is going to shift from so-called soft power to hard power and we're supposedly seeing a decline in diplomacy in the state department and secretary of state television is supposedly taking on less of a role on the ground it's a predictable thing this is essentially a rehash of the old wolfowitz doctrine of nine hundred ninety four there is no new thinking involved the u.s. must remain the sole superpower on earth we must do anything we can move heaven and nerves spent untold amounts of money to prevent any rivals from coming up to challenge us the u.s. is essentially guilty of doing all the things that if you cues as russia and china are doing including attempting to have more influence in the south china sea and in

east asia so it really is a superpower that is unfortunately because of its hyper interventionism on the way on the wane in terms of influence in of course it is a very dangerous thing because according to animal is more likely to attack. a growing number of us republican congressman and demanding the release of a top secret intelligence document they believe it reveals political bias at the highest levels of the f.b.i. and the justice department in how they handle the investigation into alleged ties between donald trump election campaign and russia. i had that same shock feeling i was like wait a minute this actually happened from our justice department and this f.b.i. that's how serious this is that there has been a real attempt to undermine this president and it is come from the scariest of places that is the type of information that we need all americans to see immediately republicans are referring to the top secret memo as

a scandal worse than watergate and reactions have ranged from sickening to draw dropping saying that it raises serious questions about the obama administration now the memo was put together by the house intel committee and since then republicans have been calling for its immediate public release we don't know what it's about but it supposedly contains evidence that justice department officials mostly f.b.i. are guilty of political bias against trump and according to reports u.s. intelligence officials used the trump russia dos year that's filled with unproven claims to improperly obtain a warrant to look into the trump campaign now democrats voted against the release of the memo saying that it's being used to discredit the intelligence community and the trump russia investigation so yes i guess democrats are now defending the intelligence community now representative adam schiff even called it a profoundly misleading set of talking points and republican representative scott perry felt very differently he said is this happening in america or is this the k.g.b. that's how alarming it is and then the document has raised interest outside of

congress also it made a splash on social media with many tweets using the hash tag release the memo and wiki leaks wants it so badly they've announced a million dollar reward for it and some have said that the memo will not be released to the public but regardless this alone reveals partisan bias so we'll just have to see what happens. and t.v. host and political commentator steve malzberg thinks the democrats have a reason for wanting to hide the memo from the public. i think it's going to put a bigger cloud that already exists there has been a lot of talk that some members of the obama administration illegally and without any reason or rhyme went and got five of warrants against the american civilians who were affiliated with trump with absolutely no reason to have those obtain do 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 blah blah blah blah blah from adam schiff in 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. violence has erupted in from say europe's largest prison with guns on strike over dangerous working conditions including attacks on stuff riot police have fired tear gas at the protesting gone to our demanding an increase in the security level while only arabs another prison in corsica two governments were injured in a stabbing by an inmate reportedly being radicalized in sinai well the incident was a non-issue to us by french prison. oh you know this is well that's a serious incident to police in blue prison ridiculous inmate brutal. acts.

well french prisons have recently suffered several similar attacks on the gods a week ago three security staff were injured after an inmate attack there with scissors and a razor blade while on monday at another jail seven guards were attacked by an inmate in that case according to the ministry of justice the perpetrator had again been radicalized in prison inmate violence disobedience and radicalization have triggered a nationwide strike of french prison guards and these guards in turn have clashed with riot police. through their own. was.

that well the striking guards are demanding the author of his do something about the dangerous conditions in french jails r.t. from spoke to representatives of the prison guards who you. should love for to do you know the government representatives are to blame they don't want to discuss the problem or 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 radicalize prisoners. some of them will determine if we are really determined to make ourselves heard and to ensure that our demands are met and we really want work conditions to be changed especially in terms of security. for a teenager has injured six people including a teacher after an accident at a school in eastern siberia.