turkey's top diplomatic uses the u.s. failing to keep promises to turkish forces that violence against american kurdish militias in northern syria. donald trump meets the prime ministers of the u.k. and israel on his first day at the world economic forum in davos. the russian olympic committee slams the i.o.c. for excluding some of the country's top medal hopes from the upcoming winter games inside. around the clock across the world this is our two international from the team and

myself you know neal welcome to the program our top story turkey's foreign minister has hit on the u.s. saying he does not believe washington is a trustworthy partner tensions are escalating between the two nato allies over turkey's offensive against american kurdish militias in northern syria which entre described as terrorists at the. moment says the u.s. hasn't kept any promises mr trump told president on the phone that no more weapons will be given to the why should we want 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 arrow and 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 close a. single promised 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 nouns that would be extending its operation and 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 a political scientist ganga's to more believes there is a lack of trust in us turkey relations. the united states you know getting to understand what it means words or for troops of relief you have syrian issue now there are serious and i think to try to de-escalate the.

issue between turkey and united states the most important problem between that states and turkey is that is that there is not you know nobody you know trusts the other and this is the main problem for tricky especially turkish people and turkish government never rely on never trust in. the united states especially in with those issues. america's president has met with the u.k. prime minister at the world economic forum in the swiss resort of davos at the event for us. 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 but we. don't necessarily believe that but i can tell you i wish that if you were really. like you. would 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 lesson it isn't gentleman mime my first message he said france is back france is back it's the call of europe because we will never have any forensics is without

a european success is between our twenty seven member states we're 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 stuntman's talking about how the u.k. would be one of the best places to open a company or to work on a 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 we're more data more of davos and we'll see what else comes out of it well economists keep boy feel give us his views on what the u.s. president will be hoping to achieve at the davos for. what do i expect from mr

trump's visit to double stall for a lot of security and police and army also you've got to bear in mind that mr trump has a stable genius as he puts it and he likes to be astride the world stage and so i think because of the president of china. was the great favorite star of davos last year i think mr trump wants to be the star this year i think that will be a lot of politicians wanting to speak to the gallery mr trump will be wanting to play to his political base over in the state so he wants will want to be seen to be talking tough and in a similar fashion mr mack wrong mrs merkel who's still trying to form a government in germany will also be wanting to be seen to be supporting their national self interest so i suspect we're going to be seeing quite a few fireworks. russia's sports minister is the monday justice for some of

the country's top athletes who have been excluded from the upcoming winter olympics in south korea. we will stand for the interests of all our athletes reassure their clue we haven't had any claims in terms of doping 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. until she pulled in he has 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 realize 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 in there ever

mention 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 route clean athletes among those not invited to the games . it is very sad if there is no direct proof of guilt the i.b.u. tested human numerous occasions and never tested positive for a banned substance earlier the head of the international in pick 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 will the i.o.c. recently published its reasons for excluding many russian athletes from the games they cover seventeen points focusing on alleged violations the power all season reviewed information based on the moscow laboratory database and allegations presented in the mclaren report on alleged tampering with samples sports lawyer lucy envelope sees 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 to provide

that these is not fair now they're trying to back it up with intelligence you see it's already the proof that the report was used to discredit all athletes was not a proper report in the beginning time is a little bit problematic because as you know. the absolutes will have a very short period of time over. trying to appeal or correct these decisions which are taken. view to exclude everybody who has the slightest doubt on his record and that is not acceptable. ok moving on twitter say it has found no substantial evidence of russian interference in the break that referendum those comments were made in response to a parliamentary inquiry in the u.k.

let's cross live now to london and polly boy who's been there following this story polly hello to you tell us more about the investigation indeed the statement from twitter. well the main thing is that the government isn't happy with that statement from twitter the statement from twisted said that just one percent of those thirty five thousand twitter bots that they had identified as sort of pushing for braggs it during the e.u. referendum campaign just one percent of those were registered in russia and this all started last year when questions were raised about whether or not russia had perhaps meddled in the e.u. referendum here that led of course to that decision for britain to leave the e.u. to resume a used a big foreign policy foreign policy speech late last year the mansion house beat to come down very hard on russia and although there was no proof this idea this theory

that russia had meddled in the referendum somehow took hold and became very popular take. so there were no facts and there was no evidence nevertheless the government decided to launch a big inquiry into it late last year and they all asked the big social media platforms twitter facebook to provide evidence and the evidence that they initially provided the government said it wasn't happy with they said there wasn't enough there for them to work with there was nothing really particularly incriminating and they accuse twitter last year of stonewalling the inquiry so they provided a new deadline they said you've got until early january to provide more evidence so lo and behold the situation we have now is that twitter has come back to the government with that very on incriminating facts of those one percent of those

thirty five thousand twitter votes being registered in russia and the inquiry isn't happy about it they have said that this is all reason for them to be more concerned about russian interference rather than less. thanks very much probably live from london with the details of that story well let's not get credit here indeed from political activist and social justice come paired george barda ever get his thoughts by george twitter says it does quote not sufficiently strong evidence of russian interference in the breaks it campaign via social media has this whole story been overblown. i think it has i mean i'm really not sure how much of the story there is i think the real story that's being distracted from it's much more about us billionaire cern his links to a company s.c.l. and company owned by a c.e.o. which is the parent corporation called cambridge analytic her that was very heavily

in implicated in terms of manipulating the online sphere around the breaks it vote and they're very you know there's very incriminating evidence there. the guardian newspaper did journalists especially kero. did a big investigation into that this seems to be something of a red herring to a large extent i mean not only were only one percent of these these twitter accounts linked to russia but some of them were pro remain and some of them will probably leave because i think this is really part of a wider political pattern in the west generally in the u.s. and the u.k. of a kind of trying to resuscitate a new kind of cold war narrative where this kind of divide and rule. story line blaming russia for what's going on is is a way of distracting from domestic political realities and what's interesting about it is that the left and the right have different different motivations for this the right is trying to distract from trump. and the very dodgy links there are there

yet with these billionaires embrace it and the left is trying to distract from from its own failings in terms of the near liberal period i mean the allegations george as you know usually were closely followed by state involvement when this was talked about dying through the months twitter has now said that one percent of prove breaks it bought a concert registered in russia even if that is true does not prove any link to the russian government here. i mean i have to say i'm not i'm not an expert in terms of you know the methodology is followed and what constitutes sort of definable links but my understanding is that this. is called the internet research agency that is supposedly linked to the russian government. those links are tenuous and not only. twitter come back and said it's only one percent of these accounts but there was an oxford university study as well that suggests that there isn't much of

a link. so i think this really is a it's turned out to be a red herring in that this inquiry was into you know russia's potential involvement and really it's diverting from the serious power players that were involved and personally my view of this is and the reason i think it's important is that focusing on russia. it allows allows the powers that be. a sort of convenient way out of looking at the very questionable links between robert must of this billionaire and breaks it and then all the other billionaires in the real news in other words the. distinction between news and fake news when you start looking at billionaires like mercer and trump and they look at billionaires like rupert murdoch who are in the sun and then. you realize that there's no line between news and fake news and twitter has been under huge pressure as you know in the u.k. to investigate that alleged russian meddling in your opinion do you think the government has acted appropriately or does this set

a dangerous precedent. i mean. it see it seems that this is just resuscitating previous presidents where if there's any suggestion the russian involvement then that becomes the focus rather than the question of russia or russian involvement and being seen as part of wider analyses in terms of different power players trying to influence political outcomes and of course it's true to say that you know russia i'm sure the russian state does its does all sorts of things to try and influence global political outcomes just as the us state does and the british state i mean the british there is a very long history of trying to influence political realities elsewhere as well they say this is a reality of global politics but i think the attempt to focus on russia specifically is a means of what psychologists call transference i getting people to look over there rather than look at the some some of the more comfortable domestic political realities and how news is influenced by rich and powerful people and is not broadly

democratic social justice campaigner and political activist george barda george thanks for coming in the program this hour thank you. a pakistani doctor who was the key to finding osama bin laden looks set to spend the rest of his life in jail pakistan's authorities accused him of helping militants arrested him soon after the u.s. operation in may twentieth levon two american presidents have promised to get him released but it's now been seven years right because the of picks up the story. you can argue dr shakil afridi helped catch the century's most wanted man the man who did this. during the. sama bin laden you can also argue

he was a traitor and a fraud it all depends on where you are from the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden the leader of al qaeda tonight we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome gratitude though has its limits dr afridi set up a fake vaccination program in the area bin laden was hiding in in order to collect his family's d.n.a. and give the cia proof he was there clever shortly after bin laden was eliminated dr afridi was arrested by pakistani intelligence and sentenced to thirty three years. in. two thousand and eleven of being money to the militants that. he was assisting in medical term that he was making some.

news the hospital i met him in. in june and he said that i am innocent and the charges they are totally illegal dr afridi was first accused of aiding local militants and then of murdering a patient though how fair those charges is debatable a bomber tried and failed to get him out donald trump well trump is trump. you're out yes i do i think i would get him out in two minutes i would tell them that i'm out and i'm sure they'd let him out it didn't fly it even upset the pakistanis a little being threatened with blackmail it's been almost two years since trump made his both stand nothing the man who helped catch some of bin v i call of terrorism is rotting away in jail we

believe dr afridi has been unjustly imprisoned and have clearly communicated our position to pakistan on dr afridi's case both in public and in private and the us well they bring it up once in a while that's what gratitude is worth nowadays we spoke with political analyst john had run out what the future holds for afridi as u.s. pakistan relations continue to solver. i think there's a question of this of an interview of some snow here it is not the question that i want to read the marquis had the americans in a look at in a somber love been a bug a sun establishment seed that it wasn't that all own caucus on intelligence and the military because that man was not schools to provide any assistance to the american cia in look at the us army london i don't think pakistan would get a hold of a country applying to be

a dick enrollees and the reason being is quite simple because china has invested a fifty six billion dollars in this in this one of the prime projects so baucus on is not alone good financially dependent on americans as it used to be done ten years ago or five years ago you have no longer the ferryman on american aid we don't need it i think i believe that but the son would never listen to the americans whether it comes to a defense to take an interest. a student in moscow has shared online the gruesome details of him murdering and raping his flatmate before committing suicide or correspond to any patrol who went to the heist where they lived and spoke to their neighbors you may find parts of the following report the serving. this is the area where our entity out 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 who 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 r.t.o. to leave that's the right entrance they lived on the ground floor and one social media post are to describe everything he did behind these walls on one horrifying winter night it was late had been drinking when 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 and this report but it included stabbing rape and necrophilia. after what everyone i guess would call a psychotic frenzy art show hanged 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 them. bruce here agreed to talk to us i was late for this. but one security guard outside agreed to share some details. of this not just with

the. world that this works. for the summer this is so that children would look at the people in the beautiful. for this because. jealousy had rage often led to climbs of passion we've seen in the 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. psychologist and author gina loudon told us the case highlights some of the problems with social media social media sadly is going to attract the most anti-social in a culture and it's also going to attract those who feel the most isolated and alone the one they and social media has given people who might otherwise be isolated for

whatever reason an outlet it's given them a place where they can express themselves where maybe even people can listen to them but the bad part of that is that sometimes that same aloneness in isolation the fact that all of your friends really exists in a computer can become a pretty harsh reality to those same people who are already perhaps mentally fragile some of these incidents are are closely related between terror and murder suicides and things like the incident that occurred in moscow but again the good news is that the world can kind of watch a glance at their social media and you see something strange you can report it may very well prevent something tragic. having to israel where the country sports minister house calls controversy by posting a video online showing her standing next to fans from the bay to our jerusalem club speech on to extremist slogans marie rego is seen smiling on the bracing the hardline supporters as they yell may your village be burned out there are of the

opponents. it. was. the. quote. where questions have been raised as to why the sports minister did not edit the clip and instead posted it online complete with the offensive taunts here's what she had to say about the incident except it was shot a lot because then i was story to hear a racist chance from the stands and i don't like to see how a fan from saturn in pitched a beater fan it's about time that everyone demonstrated a sports month like spirit i have formed a unit to combat racism and sport and i need to make sure that he brings the appropriate results. its is not the first time regs actions have.