drive the groups which it views as terrorist out of the area it comes after washington announced it will establish a new border force in the region which will include kurdish y p g fighters. now let's take a look at how power is distributed in the border regions if we look at the yellow on the map in those two places there they are held by various kurdish militia and on the left is the affray in region the latest flashpoint in syria where turkey is carrying out its military operation is receiving backing from syrian rebel groups in the areas shown in green over here turkish tanks have already reportedly

penetrated as far as the as district in the east of offering turkey then intends to turn its attention to the kurdish controlled city of mann bridge which you can see there on the right now the syrian kurds have already asked the u.s. led coalition for support america has acknowledged the difficulties posed by two of its allies in the syrian civil war being a card conflict with each other but the u.s. defense secretary said turkey had told washington about the operation in takes a look now at the hostilities. unbelievable is this real a nato member telling daddy you know i mean for me to come in behave yourself or all point a gun at you am i exaggerating a bit mr aired on didn't say that these exact words but turkey's got a prime minister who pretty much did anyone who gives logistical support to the white b.g. is turkey's target for the record the white b.g. equals the kurdish army and for all these years who's been giving the kurds all

kinds of support right. over the weekend the kurds were extended in all of branch that's what ankara calls its military op the kurds say they repelled an attack on sunday but where does that wipe e.g. get its guns. tapered on couldn't care less why washington's been helping the kurds to destroy eisel for this man the kurdish militias are no better than terrorists that explains his latest messages to america because the us is in the process of creating a terror army on our border so what we have to do is nip this terror army in the bud america do not encroach on our borders do not provoke us or we will run out of patience does anyone from the u.s. government have anything to say we urge turkey to exercise restraint and ensure that its military operations remain limited in scope and duration and scrupulous to avoid civilian casualties some very restrained council there to be restrained think

about it mr aired on rants that america u.s. officials don't hit back turkey rolls up the tanks flies out the more play sends soldiers over the border washington basically keeps stuff after all this isn't about kim who's sly the squeak makes donald trump for one war so perhaps the turks and the kurds have succeeded in one thing together were juicing america to baffled silence. shortly after u.s. military officials announced their intention of creating a thirty thousand strong border force washington backtracked the u.s. secretary of state says the u.s. had no such plan and that the situation and we miss portrayed however russia's foreign minister has disputed that claim. the contradictions followed the recent u.s. announcement of creating an armed force along the syrian turkish borders in fact

america continues its actions to stop this control over parts of serious territory . in the lead so in the u.s. scares the kurds away from the dialogue with damascus washington is encouraging separate assessments among the kurds the russian center for reconciliation of opposing sides in syria says over a thousand women and children have fled african in the last twenty four hours moscow meanwhile is urging all parties in the area to exercise restraint there's been plenty of reaction coming from europe too on the conflict in northern syria germany's foreign minister has said any military confrontation carries potentially an forseeable risk while france's call for an emergency un security council session it will be held later on monday. we heard from a former turkish foreign minister about the situation he believes that despite all the warnings from turkey the u.s. has been a major catalyst in the conflict. if you notice this was not going to our church

church wouldn't they were out to look wanting to wear it to. try to draw the attention. that you could you should not follow the train and provide a mission to the terrorist group which is linked to be. the injuries terrorism kills organization but. using civil excuses continue to lie and this is were really no smoking good. rallies against the military operation have been held in europe and turkey demonstrators were met by a heavy police presence but reports say authorities used force to disperse the crowds at least twelve people have been detained there are keeping a watch on the situation along the turkish syrian border so stay with us.

the u.s. government is shut for a third day as lawmakers struggle to agree on the country's budget the story animal after the break. what holds if you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express. something wanted. to write. this is what. you know more people are. interested always in the law.

welcome back to the program money doesn't talk when it comes to the u.s. congress which remains in stalemate for a day as lawmakers fail to agree on the u.s. budget and while republicans and democrats struggle to compromise the american public feel the pinch of a government shutdown samir khan is in washington and joins us live now with details what are the consequences of the shutdown well the

senate will be voting at noon that's in a couple of hours to reopen the government that's been shut down for three days now but what does a government shutdown mean exactly. america knows this is the trump shutdown my favorite still sure shutdown so let's get that nice little ring to it doesn't it senate democrats shut down this government a big fat failure yes. thanks.

unfortunately we cannot see your call today because congressional democrats are holding government funding hostage to an unrelated immigration debate each of the third direction the government shutdown. now the government shut down friday at midnight over the deferred action for childhood arrivals program which allows illegal immigrants who were brought to the u.s. as children to stay in the country now there's already been an international response a chinese news organization gave its analysis of the shutdown saying that it's indicative of quote non-cooperation and a slap in the face for donald trump saying that it questions the viability of

washington's political system so we'll just have to see in a couple of hours whether or not the senate will come to an agreement and we'll find out just how cooperative or non-cooperative washington's political system really is ok some. reporting from washington thanks for the overview on the situation and we're going to continue the discussion we're joined by professor of business innovation at northumbria university in the u.k. you joining us here on the program. let's look at what the offical represents to what extent do you think the china chinese government's view of the u.s. political system is reflected in the article. this particular article really is the buy you see. kind of sitting there with most of the media's view in china though i don't assume to the chinese

government that we are explicitly provide the negative will come to words a situation but i think the people in china or most of the people in china with a you with their viewpoint presented to you in this article because the chinese government and most of the people as he. always believes are. totally of all democratic system so that people under the government the congo work together and that they are very confident at all so that's why that article appears because this is a those prove that. you certain extent of the. chinese government has a view is a correct yeah it is interesting isn't it you that the language used in the article is actually quite provocative isn't it. why do you think that it's been that blatant open about the views that you've just said reflects the chinese government

. yeah so because other you know china and the u.s. is the competitor us economically or sometimes politically so they are reprise and there is they were both represented a group of all different value of countries so basically china believes are. china are scared of the system kind of needed to a better result while. some western countries may not be giving that so clearly the chinese government a simple as a government for the focus provide a service to its people rather than netter the politics to affect. society and to affect economic development so that's why.

quite whole. proactive. as economical rivals as you put it do you think that it presents a fair characterization of the u.s. political system. i think um. every political system can be effective in certain purity of a country use or development either may be effectively in a certain purity for example us system quite whole cleaver or still very competitive. past or you are nowadays however you recently years there are more in the more we can use tore up and there will be more and more with less to come up in near future so. china and some

other countries exploiting a total of approach to the. democratic system so i think. government and its people are very confident that if we if we look at the outcome that we look at and i'll shut down for a third day as the lawmakers decide what to do about the us budget isn't this just. an inefficiency or inefficient you know just a way of resolving the disputes because it is a debacle democratic system is it just not a consequence of having a system like that. the democratic does not to have a certain form of format democratic or means the people should govern the country together the government and the people come supervise the government there

is no different form it currently the western countries use it and they use a fight between different parties to enable the people to supervise the government and there is this approach is has been for for decades however this may not continue effect level you future as a we can see more and the more conflict to come out from the us political system so one of the poll or so we can see more. effect come out always is the us system ok professor of business and innovation at northumbria university thanks very much for coming on to the program giving us your opinions. america's national security agency has the power to identify people by the sound of their voice they're thought to be using technology much more advanced than

a lot of apple or alison that's according to a report based on documents leaked by the agency's former contractor edward snowden checking to get pics of the story. on the top of my voice there isn't much and my identity can tell i'm female and people act like they're going through but i'm american and. the n.s.a. however could do a lot more easily using my voice to identify who i am what language i'm speaking my gender and my dialect according to classified documents from the snowden archive the n.s.a. has been developing technology to identify a speaker using just their voice for years when sigint transcribers worked the same targets for a long time they sometimes can identify a certain individual in recorded conversations just by the sound of his voice and by his unique way of speaking this process was traditionally known as voice identification now rapidly improving technology is available that can do the same job mathematically the technology works by analyzing your voice is unique features

to create an individual voice print and once the n.s.a. has that a single speaker can be almost instantaneously pinpointed even among massive databases now in two thousand and sixteen alone the n.s.a. corded more than one hundred fifty one million records of americans phone calls and that was after their bulk collection abilities were limited by congress so there's no telling how many voice prints they could have at their disposal and theoretically a person could be instantly located and tracked down as long as a microphone is somewhere nearby and as edward snowden pointed out there's almost no escaping mikes these days i don't think anybody would dog the police. chase terrorists paedophiles who don't sleep well so i just told he says i thought we told you that if we do everything. a piece of data value precludes being collected and scanned by software thank you luke steve and they could stop the people involved in very legitimate things like demonstration straw

eeks even people who vote for the wrong way government is considered another fear is that speaker recognition could end up discouraging people from speaking out it has the potential to unmask anonymous sources or tracking journalists or whistleblowers and according to the intercept this technology isn't only in american hands either it looks like interpol the european union and china have their own version as well among others so you can run but you definitely cannot hide i'll be back at the top of the hour with more top stories so stay with us. for the four page memo detailing extensive fights of course to be used change the course of what is known as russia gate also does the trumpet ministration syria

policy make any sense and who is the real bully trump let me. i'm going underground just twenty four hours before the global political elite mix with actors and musicians in this risking resort to davos for the annual world economic forum coming up in the show with sales to the world's most repressive regimes increasing by nearly half furred after the break vote we speak to british conservative m.p. and member of the u.k. committee for arms export control pauline lay firm about billions of pounds of taxpayer money subsidizing the selling of killing machines and. the like we speak to the father of sixteen year old palestinian school go ahead

i'll tell me in jail for our actions after you came back to israeli soldiers gunned down her relatives protesting illegal occupation in palestine while the grandson of a signatory to israel's independence israeli special forces veteran make up a lead tells us what al-timimi means to the struggle and why don't trump plans to withhold un aid money could ignite the entire middle east political going over today's going underground but first while the great and the good of neoliberalism like canada's justin trudeau and france's emmanuel might grow as well as arch critics like u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonnell prepared to at ten the world economic forum in switzerland britain's entire nuclear program today is scheduled to be in trouble because of strike action while firefighters strike at sellafield site of the worst ever nuclear incident in british history is important is clear just how many people could be killed by an uncontrolled fire there and what's at stake at sellafield on the irish sea in the northwest of england so are those big enough to hold six

double decker buses filled to the brim with some of the most dangerous radioactive waste in the world and there's a lot. there are twenty. seriously i was like this in the sense was building housing to. move radioactivity released. it took fifty years before the state mandated b.b.c. could reveal the truth about how successive british governments covered up the circumstances surrounding a fired windscale sellafield was called before its p.r. name change the firing one hundred fifty seven could according to the b.b.c. have irrevocably altered the u.k. u.s. special relationship let alone killed a lot of people prime minister harold macmillan and president eisenhower to sign an agreement that would change britain's relationship with america forever. just days before the fire had broken out at windscale the country's fast you can

react. on. britain was on the brink of an unprecedented disaster but can drive as it continues today about sellafield as well as an ongoing terrorism threat this was in just the past few months army bomb disposal experts are being called to sellafield to detonate potentially flammable chemicals discovered in britain's largest nuclear sites well it's outside the mark the birth of britain's weapons of mass destruction program now located on the river clyde in scotland britain is of course x. boarding weapons all around the world some believe the brics it may lead to a spiraling of u.k. weapons dealing so we caught up with a member of britain's arms export control panel outside parliament story in people in letham is also on the u.k. international development select committee thanks so much regularly on going underground after a long year in the green outside parliament so what do you say to people who are warning the british public that post bricks it is dealing is going to twenty eight percent two point nine billion pounds with their licenses agreed to june twenty

sixth seen any connections you are having to do deals with with the ever oppressive more talk or. because we need the deals because we're leaving europe no there's nothing to say we have to do a deal we give licenses to allow companies to export and they're very stringent they regulate it so there's no reason at all why this got anything to do with bricks it will post. referendum or any votes in parliament it's nothing to do with it is about people wanting to sell arms and then it's about the licenses that we agree but of course i mean you're repeating what theresa may says repeatedly in parliament which is question about licensing to saudi arabia currently involved in one of the worst humanitarian crises. well yes we do after all is the strict regime if we're training pilots to be because what we do is we see what they are

wanting and then we issue the licenses and we look very carefully about what they're going to be used for so although you say it's a very repressive regime it is changing you know if you don't think saudi arabia is a repressive regime it has been i think it's changing because they are now allowing women to draw if they are changing the role of women in society they want women to get into parliament it is moving forward to a democratic society which it never has been so it has been repressive are great but i think they're also useful would people in public squares amputates people's lives but you cannot change. we will help change saudi arabia no i don't think that will make any difference to saudi arabians have to change saudi arabia we can't change it we can't interfere in the democratic changes which are coming as it wasn't only arms acts will commit. and you don't think that we are

enabling saudi violence in the middle east you know. i've only been to one meeting save on that was to elect. i haven't exactly very safe. because i only joined just before christmas when we had a vote to elect the chairman so we have yet there was a meeting this week or last week which i wasn't able to attend but the next few meetings will be quite critical and we will be looking at our policies in the country as to what we're going to do so then we can look quite seriously about who is what and why but you've seen the pictures from i mean you had andrew mitchell former vice chair of visit. we've had units for talking about tens of millions of people and. british bombs being dropped is a british planes being warplanes dropping the bombs and these are british trained

pilots ordering the bombs that are blowing up and killing or wounding thousands of civilians there are many i mean many thousands of people do being killed and that's completely wrong but you have to look at the morning to picture of forces going on out there and i really didn't think. they were going to able to drop in which case what you're saying the logical conclusion of that is let's stop all arms trading and let's not have no weapons of any so anywhere in the world will know i'm talking about here but the logical conclusion of that is we shouldn't be selling any arms to anybody and we shouldn't even be having arms ourselves conclusion of what you're saying but it seems that a huge proportion and the biggest deals with saudi arabia. well they may be the biggest deals they're not with the united states in a special relationship they are with or talkers well undemocratic countries of course the united states has its own manufacture so we don't need to sell to them

but where we have the traditional relationship we have been selling arms to all sorts of different countries and saudi arabia is one of the. it's only worth around point two seven percent of our g.d.p. anyway selling killing machines joe non-democratic only george is a populations that touches a large chunk really if we take that out completely there will be many many people unemployed they'll be an awful lot of people with no jobs there will be claiming benefits can't justify the killing or want to know any. of the children and i'm not trying i'm not justifying that what i'm saying is that what we need to do is look very carefully before we allow any licenses now been involved with that act yet but we will be so you are going to be and then i will scrutinize the decision making and i will make my views know if i feel that it's wrong i will say said but

what if you are threatened by these countries because tony blair from asli said security cooperation was threatened saudi arabia was basically saying if you don't sell us these killing machines we won't warn you if you have got there are that's a very long time ago tony blair has not been there for many many years and regimes are changing and even saudi arabia is changing to become more democratic but it is bombing him it is bombing him in at the moment but we have to look at everything in the round and i haven't and nobody on the committee. because we've only just been reformed after the election last year it's taken a long time to do it so we will be looking very seriously at the decisions that are being made what about the fact that if a country can't afford the weapons with the taxpayers to subsidize so there's up to fifty percent loans to that country said that they can buy or what we do we give loans to all sorts of things and only international development we give loans and

we give ground so i don't think the problem should be subsidising much needed infrastructure or whatever in britain it's a. subsidising foreign countries we've got the biggest infrastructure in terms of roads and rail program going on that's ever been so it's not that we're not doing that we are spending millions and millions and millions on a road infrastructure and it's continuing more than we've ever had before and rail infrastructure is going through the roof another crisis of our from yemen is of course me and maher has been lots of even mainstream media coverage of the ring crisis how do you see the importance of it i think it's very important i think it's absolutely devastating to see so many people having to flee their country and particularly where the men are being slaughtered and the women are being raped on route and i think that is well i. just don't understand why people can be so

awful to people other people that have lived in their country for so many generations and they're having to flee that country to go to bangladesh and live in pretty squalid conditions i mean that's inhuman and of course britain supported the me and ma military regime against sanctions before she was given this new. position yes she could. in my view she should respect out against it if it means she loses her job i think she should have done but i went to five years five six years ago i met her and she was already. determined ringers were not part of the area they were nothing to do with that they were not. people they couldn't have the status of being they would be stateless and she.