welcome back in france now riot police have moved in on europe's largest prison firing tear gas and other inmates but guards an arrest flared while the prison staff were taking part in a weeklong nationwide strike of what they say are dangerous working conditions including escalating attacks on the guards elsewhere in the country the justice minister attempting to solve the crisis received a hostile welcome from prison workers.

but also all employees of the prison are in a state of shock people were angry because it's been a week since we created a national movement following the aggression right now we're waiting for the measures that our bosses and the penitentiary administration will take with respect to the management of inmates. a number of attacks on guards have been recorded in french prisons of late the latest incident was on friday when two guards were injured in a stabbing attack by an inmate who had reportedly been radicalized while in another jail on monday seven security staff were attacked by an inmate according to officials the perpetrator had also been radicalized and a week ago another three guards were injured when a prisoner assaulted them with scissors and a razor blade or following the incidents the prison guards a union issued a list of demands aimed at improving their working conditions they're asking a. to create more than

a thousand new jobs in french presence as well as to fully isolate radicalised the inmate they're also calling for more security forces to protect workers assist mentions the growing discontent has led to a nationwide strike and violent clashes with police. said law for to the government our representatives are to blame they don't want to discuss the problem how 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 and we really want work conditions to be changed especially in terms of security that every move. north and south korea will perform as one team at the upcoming winter olympics has just been confirmed by the president of the international olympic committee for the olympic winter games going to china two thousand and eighteen hopefully opening the door to a brighter future on the korean peninsula and in writing the world to choice in in a celebration of hope. the north and the south will march together at the opening ceremony under the name korea and using the unification flag athletes from the two countries will also compete as a single team in the women's ice hockey and the korean folksong iran will be played as the un from all in all twenty two north korean athletes will take part in the olympics competing in three different sports all of this was agreed break through

talks between the north and the south and has now been officially confirmed by the i.o.c. . it's elisa launched a web site targeting fake news the move comes ahead of much of general election if someone wants to report a fake all they have to do is click a special link online. a service will allow users to identify fake news online as heinous been set up to analyze the authenticity of anything flagged up by using special software the italian interior minister is heaped praise on the system but some experts are this almost skeptical. it's an entirely transparent and legitimate public service tool aimed at protecting citizens from unfounded news there is not even the slightest

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because she thinks that it's important to make sure that people of disability are not treated as a separate class but are treated like everyone else so that is i think at the core of what we're discussing here today. never mind and breaking news this hour two thousand guy taking the launch to ass strikes on kurdish positions in syria as part of a major military operation it's also seen a ground invasion and cross border selling the campaign which unquote deems anti terror has been named operation all of branch here's what president said are its main objectives. yeah for an operation has the factory been started on the ground this will be followed by. the promises. so nobody has a right to say. we're showing you now some of the first pictures from the ground in syria you can see free syrian army forces moving towards the syrian turkish border

is a convoy of vehicles carrying finances some of them waving flags turkish military convoy was also seen today making its way to the border. joining me now in the studio is our correspondent jacqueline vega to bring us up to speed on all the latest details actually what do we know so far about the course of this major operation well as you mentioned earlier we do have these airstrikes in conjunction with a ground operation that is happening in that region and those are pro turkey syrian opposition rebels who have entered the afrin region and that's currently controlled by the white p.g. which is of course kurdish forces and this attack has already been threatened by anyone for about a week now saying that because the y.p. g. has an alliance with the p k k who turkey considers to be terrorists that this has been coming for a while now and he also promised aired on also promised that this is only the

beginning of what's going to happen that his forces will continue on to man now man bridge is a nearby city that the turks have been calling on the kurdish forces to back off of for a while now and so everyone is saying that that's the next stage that we'll be seeing here and what may have been a factor in bringing this conflict to a head really is the fact that last week the u.s. coalition in syria announced that they would be working with syrian democratic forces to establish a new syrian border forces train and implement that in the area and the u.s. back is of course also aligned with the. game connected to p.k. k. which is. were all this problem is coming from and that announcement infuriated air to one who likened the attempt to the u.s. creating a terror army on turkey's border now after that the us did try and backtrack a little bit with her something that the announcement was misconstrued misconstrued that it's not a terror army and that they will not actually be training kurdish forces on

turkey's border now at this point we do have we have the announcement coming from president on that this has started and russia's foreign ministry said that moscow is closely following the situation citing concerns over what's happening and calling for restraint on all sides for everyone to just calm down and back down and they've also said that they are taking undertaking security measures to ensure the safety of their personnel in the area now at this point what we have heard is that tillerson has reportedly spoken to his terse turkish counterpart about the operation so at this point we're going to wait and see what comes of that and what does comes next like a thank you the startling vague open is up to speed on the latest information. at the war on terror is russia and china the now america's biggest threat that's what the u.s. defense secretary james mattis spouts out as he unveiled the country's new defense priorities gaseous picks up the story trump's new defense doctrine can probably

be summed up in just three words bring it on and to those who would threaten america's experiment in democracy they must know if you challenge it will be your longest and your worst day the war on terror is now secondary the priority is the new great game of global proportions great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of u.s. national security. the logic here is that technological and hard power gap between the us and the competition is narrowing and washington simply can't let that happen because not expect success by tomorrow's conflicts with yesterday's weapons or equipment. investments in space and cyber space nuclear deterrent forces missile defense advanced autonomy systems and resilient and agile logistic will provide our high quality troops what they need to win.

i . that is a new arms race or race is a nuclear arms race at me races side by race space to what has that ever made the world a safer place sure we can have competition and all of that internationally but we should be working more cooperatively with each other because last time i heard the cold war was over what i'm really concerned about is that we're going to be seen. a drain and i drain resources to something really really really don't need already they're talking about a hypersonic fighter who needs it that really requires billions upon billions of

dollars of research and development and again it's really aimed at keeping the defense industry in business it's been said that budget cuts have done more damage to the u.s. military than anything else they say is an attempt to undo that damage but these are ambitious plans remember the f. thirty five or the columbia class submarines lethal weapons at least when it comes to destroying budgets but then that's what friends of fool you know it winston churchill it once said the only thing harder than fighting without allies is fighting without them the growing economic strength of today's democracies and partners dictates they must now step up and do more. making everyone else pays this much is part of the plan and all the fancy toys europeans especially haven't been all that enthusiastic about spending fortunes in defense understandably but then

there's a new domain to fight in the cyber world this is a wild west right now as you know people in their bedrooms can be doing things that are causing your bank account dire problems at this point an urgent challenge and the u.s. is going to overhaul and boost its cyber forces giving them greater capability to deal with the random guys in their bedrooms i think we've got some serious challenges ahead we don't have the resources for the kind of spending that we want to do and i think we need to be. concerned about how do we find our resources are going to be allocated and we need to be meeting immediate threats and that's terrorism. and the cleanup operations underway in germany after the country and other parts of europe were battered by storm frederick violent cross winds meant the skills of pilots were tested to the max and the videos emerged online of what can only be described as something of an extreme landing and as you can see the

plane takes a permalink from the wind lurching from side to find and looking at times like it might even flip over the pilot battles against the elements every step of the way before finally touching down on the runway a safe flight although perhaps not all that enjoyable for those on board. and my colleague neil harvey will be back at the top of the out of the latest on our breaking news story and all of the headlines from around the world station for that. new economic resign folding in the realm of education the rate. has been supplanted by the right to access to education its high education is becoming just another product that can be born and sold so there's not just about education anymore it's

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news here on are to turkey starts a full scale military operation against kurdish positions in syria's african region launching as strikes a ground invasion and cross border shelling. the war on terror is no longer america's top defense priority instead of the united states will be focusing on a global power play with russia and china which are its main adversaries on the world stage that's according to defense secretary james mattis. does donald trump and this is second year in office the government is set to be shut down over a funding bill we take a look back at the highs and the lows of the president's tenure so far.

less are joining us this hour you're watching r t international our top story this hour two hours ago turkey lost as strikes on kurdish positions in syria it's part of a major military operation it's also seen a ground invasion and cross border shelling a campaign which ankara deems anti terror has been named operation olive branch let's go live to our correspondent paul this lear who's been following events paula can you tell us what is happening now in our friend and do we know any details of this operation. well we've now heard from the turkish prime minister who has said that turkish aircraft have bombed took kurdish targets in the afternoon region of northern syria now we're also hearing from the turkish media that the turkish military is being

supported by turkish ally and syrian opposition rebel fighters and according to reports receiving on the ground there has been a convoy of buses moving to the area it is understood that the rebel fighters are on those buses and also trucks with machine guns now turkish media is reporting that the operation has officially started and been declared as you mentioned operation olive branch we also understand that there are at least eight it's sixteen aircraft that are involved in this military operation that is currently under way now all of this comes as the army says that it is involved in a legitimate what it calls self defense operation that it is responding to fire that it was on the receiving end that was coming from the ass and region in northern syria which is controlled by the kurdish rebels known as the white g those all could syrian rebels now they are aligned with the p.k. k. that turkey considers a terrorist organization so as such the turkish government considers by extension

the y p g terrorists as well now we have seen some of the strikes happening on fine day and it does follow days where we were hearing from the turkish president ever one threats that he was going to start an operation in the african region that was going to be a ground offensive and as you mentioned this has started in the last few hours now we understand that it as i mentioned earlier it has the army plus it has the rebels and there have a very clear trog of ousting the y.p. from this area this is what adeline has to say. after an operation has a factory been started on the ground this will be followed by. the promises of not so nobody has a right to say anything. now ma'am bridge is an area that is predominantly arab at the same time it is on the

west of the euphrates and it is an area that the turkish government and army have had the eyes on for quite some time urging the kurdish fighters there to pull back . and pull why use to syria what it's just difficult. while the whole concern is the concern that the fighting from syria will flow over into turkey particularly what turkey considers be extremists and the terrorist elements now since last week as i mentioned to him has been threatening that it will take action against these kurdish fighters on its border and particularly after the united states and nouns that it was establishing together with the syrian democratic forces what it called a border protection force this has alarmed those in and they of course consider instilling democratic force which in turn is aligned with the viking journey as hugely problematic the trumpet ministration has been trying since then to back pedal and we heard from the u.s.

secretary of state to listen that the whole issue was misunderstood but be that as it may we have a situation now where turkey has launched a ground offensive and let me also mention that there has been protests on the ground in aspen where people have taken to the streets condemning the turkish president and these strikes and we've seen the same kind of sentiments being echoed in london in front of the turkish embassy there where protesters also accuse the turkish government of terrorism and of aligning itself with islamic state. ok many thanks our correspondent paula slavering is right up to date and just to add a little bit of information is just coming in from the russian foreign ministry that russian a rainy and voice the u.s. charge the all been summoned to the turkish foreign ministry to be briefed on this new turkish operation in syria and over. more on this story now from r.t. correspondent jacqueline vuckovic in the studio we heard a bit about how this is a quite quickly it's probably still quite

a few countries off guard though with the international reaction being well we have heard that rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state has already contacted his turkish counterpart to ask about this operation but we haven't gotten the outfall of what was discussed there but meanwhile russia has said that the u.s. provocations are really the main reason behind the crisis in syria coming to a head here they've also called for restraint on both sides saying that this sort of action is not what should be happening there and also that they are going to take all measures necessary to ensure the safety of their troops in afrin the russian. ministry has also come out saying that they are going to appeal to the u.n. to demand the termination of this operation by turkey in the region so at this point everyone sort of reacting very quickly as we've just had on confirming that this operation is taking place both on the air and on the ground so we'll have to see where it goes going to have a tight antagonized a few countries let's get some reaction now from beirut based of wood winning

journalist martin j. joins us on the line if you can hear me ok martin the turkish ground operation against the kurds quite clearly in full swing and could we be on the verge of a new fully fledged war in the region. unfortunately yes i have to agree with you i think that's the real worry now is that is that this new chapter which unfolds places the various players into a situation where a new war could effectively roll out between turkey and its various affiliates the f.s.a. and probably some extremist groups as well against the us government and its allies i mean you know the turks are sort of box themselves into a corner yes they have been lied to by the americans. taking back the arms of the kurds i think you have to be living in cloud cuckoo land if you believe that was going to happen just a couple of days ago mr erdogan pleaded to mr putin through the press that he wanted the government forces to stop bombing his own forces in italy breaching

which is just adjacent to that so the whole situation is becoming incredibly tense and i think the of the problem is really edward he's he's he's starting to behave like a super regional superpower in the region and i think he's suffering from delusions of adequacy you know i think he's got himself into a situation where you can no longer continue playing this double role of having a geopolitical foot in washington all of the same time having the same the other foot in putin's camp in russia he's made a very big effort since august two thousand and sixteen to improve relations dramatically with russia he needs turkey needs russia for its future for its trade for its development for its tourism but i think is a real danger now where that relationship may well come off the rails because it seems increasingly unlikely that the russians or iran or the syrian government are going to continue to let him carry on doing what he's doing in the region they've

they've indicated that they want to hold coastal strip to themselves so you know all eyes now i think are on mr putin. martin j. this is jacqueline here in the studio as well i wanted to ask you washington has in the past called syrian kurds its partners and allies but now in the face of this turkish offensive we haven't really heard anything from them the s.d.f. has said that they're going to back up the turkish forces but nothing from america what do you make of america's actions or lack there of i guess. well i think america always put when there whenever these sorts of to ation some develop merica tends to play a wait and see game but i think um i think with the recent news of the border guards. and that was something else which paul alluded to which has alarmed mr adelman and chris were you know this new situation now with america has supposedly supported thirty thousand border guards many of whom will be on the iraq border presumably vetting or if you like allowing

a stream is ice or guys come across the border back into turkey that's you know it's really the huge issue i think at the moment so america you know i think we want him to think immediately it's quite rich from rex tillerson now to ask for statements now about what's going on but i think america is has not really played a very dynamic role we'll have to see in the future in a couple of days whether they will actually make a move and try and control the situation but i'm not expecting dynamism from from the trunk camp who you know we were going to be frank trumps foreign policies is really a blank sheet of paper. martin as i understand it the trip of ministration originally said it was going to establish a security force in the north of syria the kurdish held region backtracked on the idea. there are those who will say that this is what is antigun ice turkey and then created the situation in the first place is that is that the case do you think or is this one being opportunistic.