this hour's headlines stories on r.t. turkey's top diplomat the u.s. saying washington doesn't keep its promises there is no trust between the countries it comes as. its military offensive against the american kurdish militias in northern syria. meets british israeli prime ministers on his first day at the world economic forum in davos the u.s. leader is expected to promote his america first the. luxury resort. plus a diminished one hundred sixty nine russian get the green light for the upcoming winter games in a move slammed by russia's olympic committee. every

year churning in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to our team international you know neal our top story turkey's foreign minister has hit the u.s. saying he doesn't believe washington is a trustworthy partner it comes as tensions escalate between the two nato allies over turkey's offensive against the american backed kurdish militias in the north of syria which unquote describes as terrorist groups at the. moment says the u.s. hasn't. missed a true told president on the phone that no more weapons will be given to the. we're going to see guns put into action well tensions between the u.s. and turkey have been escalating ever since the u.s. announced its collaboration with kurdish forces in northern syria trump an air.

have attempted to ease tensions but somehow that seems to have gone wrong as well the turkish foreign minister had a few things to say about all of this he first commented on the general state of affairs a between the u.s. and turkey saying that the u.s. did not keep a quote single promise to turkey regarding the kurds and that there is no trust between the countries but he also said that the u.s. has distorted a recent phone conversation between the two leaders president trump relayed concerns the escalating violence in africa syria risks undercutting i shared goals in syria to deescalate limited military actions and avoid civilian casualties. one time statement about the content of the phone call between trump and algebra was probably drafted before the conversation took place because it did not reflect the truth well turkey claims trump didn't express any concerns about escalating violence saying that it was just an exchange of viewpoints but the call comes after on current downstate would be extending its operation in syria to another kurdish

held city well the operation has been underway for over a week now with casualties on both sides but neither side seems to be willing to wave a white flag. should be noted however that washington and ancora have never been on the same page over the kurdish issue there's always been contention but they just brush it aside as if it didn't exist so this is been brewing for years and it's now finally blowing up in their faces about regardless it doesn't seem the u.s. is helping the situation any further so we're just going to have to wait and see what happens. ok let's get some reaction to this bring in professor of political

sciences art monterey university in istanbul again tomorrow you're very welcome just first of all this phone call it's making some people scratch their heads there seems to be different content coming from whoever you listen to what do you think of the rift the differences between what's come out of that. this is some kind of you know public election relations diplomacy and you know in a diplomatic way sometimes you know words you speak something you want to inform but you never reveal or the things that you support on form and then you give some different people for public lucian's because of to do to do my stick you know politics and other issues i think this is the difference between the two countries because of that especially americans you know as the many times promises to turkey in many things and they never delivered his promises and despite their i don't know

playing some games about we couldn't figure out in turkey which side do you see the u.s. coming down on in this conflict between the turks which other nato allies on the kurdish militias which are backing up in syria. i think is you know now up to now up to reduce operations operation in syria i think. you notice that this doesn't believe turkish votes especially prime minister or our presidents or so and they be told that this this was just a blog but the end. could understand what's the meaning of turkish words are related to kurdish issue and pick a key issue and syria and this is really a serious problem in turkey not just for the government also for all all people all

or position parties i think. the united states you know getting to understand what it means the words of turks related to the syrian issue now there are serious and i think to try to de-escalate the. issue between turkey and united states this is the you know the form call just came you know after awhile after. many days i don't know but never. president i. spoke to him and he had to call to turkey it means that they try to do something now because their analyzes the sphere y.p.u. or their allies in syria now in in a very difficult position sure tomorrow dean of political science is that marble university in istanbul thank you that's. president trump is in the swiss

resorts of doubles for the world konami forum he's already spoken to the u.k. prime minister trees and may as well as his israeli counterpart binyamin netanyahu at the moment he's attending a meeting reception being held in his honor at the summit for us in switzerland jachin book. after their meeting both donald trump entry some may talked about how wonderful their conversation was how much they appreciated meeting one another and what a wonderful relationship the two countries have with one another donald trump went on to say that he really respects theresa may and that contrary to what some may believe they do have a wonderful relationship they probably. had a very great relationship tables. don't necessarily believe that but i can tell you i wish that if you were. like you. love you for that idea that the two countries still have a special relationship comes just weeks after donald trump canceled his visit to

the u.k. open the new u.s. embassy there the president said that he canceled the visit simply because he thought that the deal that was brokered to sell the old embassy was a bad one but many did see that as a bit of a dent in that special relationship donald trump is here at the davos world economic forum with his america first montra most likely going to dominate his speech tomorrow and his meeting with world leaders throughout the next two days now transportation secretary said yesterday that if anyone doesn't like that message they're more than welcome to not listen america first is a continuation of the american affirmation of american exceptionalism so i don't think well i think this you know all these questions are why the president is coming and again i think almost a few very flattered that he has chosen this as a forum. and so those that don't want to listen to him you can they can lead you know this is part of what discourse and discussion is all about so we'll have to

wait and see if anyone takes her up on that suggestion and does leave during his speech tomorrow now meanwhile we've heard already from mccraw and and merkel and they both had sort of europe first message that they were putting out which maybe isn't as nationalist as america. first but it's not globalist either which is a bit strange in the setting of this forum let's take a listen it isn't gentleman mime my first mis each he said france is back france is back at the core of europe because we will never have any forensics is without the europeans if between our twenty seven member states were not able to send a clear and united message to major powers such as china india and the united states if foreign policy is made on the national level then we will feel not. and today during teresa mayes speech at the conference she also had similar sentiments talking about how the u.k. would be one of the best places to open

a company or to work on ai a lot of we would be the best country to open new businesses to start new things in the safest country to be on the internet so a lot of that sort of idea of european leaders looking at their own countries in europe as a whole as a leading force but of course we still have the rest of today and one more day tomorrow of davos and with the what else comes out of it. russia's olympic committee has condemned the list of its cleats allowed to compete in the winter olympics it's a russia's most prominent sportsmen and women have been excluded the total number of those allowed to go to south korea next month has been reduced from an initial five hundred person squad to one hundred and sixty nine athletes are sports minister is the mounting justice for the competitors. we will stand for the interest of all our athletes reassure their clue we haven't had any claims in terms of. the list doesn't include russia's most prominent athletes it's actually could

be disappointing move but actually there is no surprise we heard about russia's leading athletes not invited to the games in pyongyang this february several days ago and now the country's olympic committee just confirmed it among those who did not receive the official invitation there were expecting that our top ranking athletes the country's major hopeful such as six time olympic champion in short track skating victor on a cross-country skier city to go for two thousand and fourteen olympic gold medalist. ship all in he is his reaction to this news i was shocked by the news i thought of leaving everything behind and returning home it was my dream to compete in the olympics and i was working towards the goal through hundreds and thousands of difficulties through sweat and blood throughout my sporting career i have never given any one reason to doubt that i'm clean i've even avoided taking ordinary determines that's why it's more difficult for me to accept what's happened

i was devastated by grief after receiving this terrible news later on i realise that you should never give up life doesn't end and it's important to carry on you should fight to protect your name right to the end pull this decision leaves many questions and here's why early in december the international olympic committee to bend russia from participating in the upcoming winter olympic games in turn following the investigation that lasted several months over. doping allegations dozens of fasteners were banned disqualified from the games but the biggest concern now is that among those who were not invited are those whose names never mentioned during this investigation their names never emerged in connection with doping allegations. so it is unclear what's behind their ban the association of international olympic winter sports federation has asked the i.o.c. to explain what is behind this decision one of their representatives has said that

they are sure that their raw clean athletes among those not invited to the games. it is very there is no direct proof of guilt be you tested human numerous occasions and never tested positive for a banned substance earlier the head of the international olympic committee has said that the committee wants to invite so-called clean athletes from russia to participate in the winter games in pyongyang chan in such a way to encourage the country's new young generation but the thing is that there are those among those not invited to the games who are in fact representing this very new generation of russia's sportsmen young generation and it's hard to understand how they could be encouraged by this decision and another concern which is already also very big is that this news comes just two weeks before the

games actually start which means there are few chances that this sportsman could actually fight for their rights to participate with the i.o.c. recently released information on why some russian athletes are being excluded from the upcoming winter games they cover seventeen points focusing on alleged violations the panel says had reviewed information based on the moscow laboratory base allegations presented in the maclaurin report on alleged tampering with samples sports lawyer vallone the i.o.c. is not following basic legal principles. mclaurin report was was based in the beginning especially on anonymous sources no documents not provide that icing the zs not fair now they're trying to back it up with intelligence you see it already did prove that the report as it was used to discredit all athletes was not a proper report in the beginning timing is

a little bit problematic because as you know the athletes will have a very short period of time of trying to appeal or correct these decisions which are taken with view to exclude everybody who has the slightest doubt on his record and that edge is not acceptable. a student in moscow has shared online the gruesome details of her murdering and raping his flatmate before committing suicide the incident has left the russian public stunned were people describing the man as a promising student from a good family our correspondent went to the house where they lived and spoke to their neighbors you may find some parts of this following report the story. this is the area where art and its yacht rented their flat together the fetter of moscow very close to in the universities where they study they seem to have everything to

enjoy their lives in the capital the students were once in a relationship but after breaking up they continued to share a flat in the building right there it turned out to be unbearable for art theo to leave that's the right entrance they lived on the ground floor and one social media post describe everything he did behind these walls on one horrifying winter night it was late had been drinking when to tiana and her to room he started punching her the details of what was happening there in the next few hours are far too grisly to go into in this report but it included stabbing rape and necrophilia. after what everyone i guess would call a psychotic frenzy are to hang himself this is the entrance to their flat

with a police notice but this shouldn't be the most challenging investigation for the authorities the couple's whole lives were out there on their social media accounts for everyone to see and art films very long suicide note that he posted on his account was a full description of what happened that night where he explained his motivation. this is a very small section of the building with very few apartments and none of the. labors here agreed to talk to us i was mad for this little show. but once a curate

a guard outside agreed to share of some details lucille with his mother this group of. those that were little that this works for your little sister summer this is still. children look at the people in the report. for this because. jealousy had rage have often led to climbs of passion we've seen it in movies read about it in books but seldom before have we experienced it so vividly thanks to the killer of the victim's obsession with social media. while tragedies playing out on social media have become all too frequent it's prompted a growing call for tougher scrutiny into just high tech companies are moderating online content that's trying to live not on the program to neil wallis who is a media commentator who believes overregulation is not something to aspire to neal

you're very welcome to the program and we just heard actually i'm not sure if we've got the clip that we can play it we may be time in a moment but we heard the head of tech giant sales force advocating for social media regulation similar to that of the tobacco industry is that a fair comparison to this. i thought it was a fairly ludicrous comparison when i read it to be honest it's not exactly the same is it you know whether somebody chooses to consume something. a product whether it's beer was a cigarettes is not resign is the big quitting of social media in our lives i mean most people if they do smoke or do take a drink don't delve into their chosen addiction if you like thirty forty fifty times a day and most people on social media use it and check it that often so it

seemed yet another one of those let's regulate everything and find out an excuse to do so have no sense to me. ok in fact let's say i actually take a look at what was said because we had there cloud computing titan marc benioff give his take on regulation and it has prompted a lot of reaction let's just play that piece of sign and get your take to it afterwards for sure technology has addictive qualities that we have to address and that product designers are working to make those products more addictive and we need to bring that back to the save the regulator the cigarette industry yes so that was the actual piece about advocating that it should be done the same way as the cigarette industry it's going to get a lot of fire those comments isn't it. yes and he deserves to have quite a lot of stick and i mean the recently no comparison is the thing about social media is that it is me using it teaches me using it to talk to you to talk to my

family to talk to my friends to give my views on the world i'm on twitter i've got a mere six thousand followers nothing like you. are a fulminate on twitter i talk about what i think about what i don't do if i ever did smoke a cigarette and then stand there trying to pass it around to other people the the sort of condition of the addiction is very different ok nonetheless though we do have a situation where abuse online is that chronic levels people are taking their own lives because of bullying etc women in particular subject to attacks for giving their opinions something is wrong here does it not need a closer look. and all of the things you have said are absolutely right many many terrible things have happened on social media and do on

a daily basis the problem is who decides if because this isn't. there in moscow this isn't the government of russia deciding what's right for russia it isn't the government of the u.k. where i am deciding what's right in the u.k. it's not the american congress deciding what facebook is basically for instance they decide facebook i'm afraid this is a truly global phenomenon and you simply can't make one size fits all and what worries me greatly is there is some talk of sort of voluntary regulation. of some jumped up techies in silicon valley during up some sort of oh sure a p c hip cool regulation that bears no relevance to what i think or what you think or what mrs mcginty thinks they're in dublin because the saying

about social media one of the strengths of social media is the ability to give offense it means that you are able to be to really talk your mind the problem is what i think is talking my mind is you taking offense and being deeply offended is somebody else saying hey that's hate crime it's someone saying he shouldn't be allowed to have that view and who decides the great problem with regulation where we can get an area of the world it is is who decides no it's easy with cigarettes because something inside a cigarette causes cancer in kills me it causes grave. problems but they are finite and disagreeable and easy to define do you worry that the phenomenon of fake news that it's going to spill over into this on you're going to have

regulators saying basically you can read this but you can't read that and the dangers of where that therefore lies die in the line. that that is precisely my concern and that's precisely the concern that anybody who cares about free speech should because i suspect for instance in china where they have a version of twit to call we bow they do not allowed virtually any political debate whatsoever they decide the government decide forty's fête news does donald trump personally i can't stand donald trump but i absolutely want him to complete continue to have the right to offend me but those donald trump how of the definition of faith news already simply what he decides he doesn't like here in the u.k. we have. we have political leaders who completely do you know. very

well documented previous political positions as quote fake news who regulate who decides where these telling the truth ben leaman trees slightly adjusting the truth or simply downright lying. do you not easy yet who do you think though should regulate it if private companies are perhaps over stating their remit are not able to keep a check on abuse on trolls on bullying online where should the regulation come in should there not be a perhaps from the state hof and half or something happening here because you get to a level where you don't know who is policing what. so in a way that's better because if you know the no no regulation at least you also know that therefore ergo someone has semi approved it so if you have hall for

a how do you know what some regulator has just decided is acceptable and the saudis unacceptable you can't really have the halfway house you can't be harsh pregnant you can't half have a baby and in a way it's as long as you know as long as you all readers your viewers your listeners all know that actually you know what this is a free for all and you've got to use your own brain and verify it from other sources to decide whether. they're nuts has a basis to go forward when you have someone saying actually we think you shouldn't say that we for this reason this week of this month and it is not politically acceptable in this country or world to take your ideas for you in six months time it could be very different media commentator neil wallace thanks for coming on the

program and sharing your thoughts on what's sure to be a bigger issue in the coming months as well neal thank you. all right just finally this hour to something a little different a saudi arabian beauty pageant has seen the competitors going the extra mile to make sure they take victory but some people have got the hump over contestants cheating. thank you for such. it makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes it's like oh look at how big that head hits it has big lips a big nose. they

are cheating everyone a fine should be applied. oh it would give you the right hump wouldn't it is all very new to you in thirty minutes.

on the welcome to walter park donald trump has just marched his first year in office by overseeing jet and now the u.s. government shutdown and while the partisan wrangle over the budget has temporarily been resolved underlying it is not just a million but a trillion dollar question of whether the united states will ever be able to bring its finances in order to discuss that i'm now joined by laurence kotlikoff a professor of economics at boston university and a write in candidate in the two thousand and sixteen presidential elections but as a consequence good to talk to thank you very much great to be here with you now you were scathingly critical of mr trump both before and after his election so i think it's safe to assume that you never expected him to be an outstandingly good

president but a year and can you say fully say that he turned out to be an outstandingly bad one . you know i would say yes i think that in terms of how he's presenting the u.s. to the rest of the world it's been a miserable miserable display of authoritarianism reeses. and a lack of real focus and understanding of what the country needs now. you can see this in the health care area we had really a débâcle with the specter of the republicans proposing things that the country really doesn't want the country really once. universal health care not fifty million people uninsured and the republicans seem to not want that but the people do so that's just one example of many things that have gone wrong this year having read many of your articles i assume that you have general.