turkey's top diplomat excuses at the us of failing to keep the promises as turkish forces advance against american backed kurdish militias in northern syria. donald trump meets with the prime ministers of the u.k. and israel on his first day at the world economic forum in davos. and the russian olympic committee slams at the i.o.c. for excluding some of the country's top medal hopes from the upcoming winter games in south korea. or whether watching from kids country in detroit rock city or from the elite areas of davos this is arch international and wishing that doesn't happen with us. all

right turkey's foreign minister has hit out at 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 backed kurdish militias in northern syria which on describes as terrorists. the piece here says it took moments that the u.s. hasn't kept any promises mr trump told president everyone 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 but trump an air on 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 he urged taking to deescalate limit his military actions and avoid civilian casualties. the one time statement about the content of the phone call between trump and i was one 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 towns 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 i'm. 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 brushed 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 us is helping the situation any further so we're just going to have to wait and see what happens political scientist. tom marr believes there is a lack of trust in us turkey relations the united states you know getting to understand what it means works or for talks related to the syrian issue now they're 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 their other one 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 loosen issues u.s. president has met with the u.k. prime minister at the world economic forum in the swiss resort of davos jacqueline wagner is 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 was thinking that if you were really. like he. 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 a few very flattered that he has chosen this as a forum. for 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 on 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 at the core of europe because we will never have any friends success 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. 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 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 we'll see what else comes out of it economist keith boy field gave 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 dive ostroff

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 bestride the world stage and so i think because the mr of the president of china was the great favorite star at davos last year i think mr trump wants to be the star this year i think that there 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 to. russia's sports minister is demanding justice for some of the country's top athlete who have been excluded from the upcoming winter olympics. 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 hope for such as six time olympic champion a short trip 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 about 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 does and it's important to carry on you should fight to protect your name right to the end while 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 kong 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 there is no direct proof of guilt. you tested human numerous occasions and you 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 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. the i.o.c. recently released information on why some russian athletes have been excluded from the upcoming winter games because or seventeen points focusing on alleged violations the panel says it reviewed information based on a moscow laboratory database and allegations presented in the mclaren report on alleged tampering with samples sports lawyer vallone says the i.o.c. is not following basic legal principles make law report was was based in the beginning especially on anonymous sources no documents not provide that icing the zs not fair now they are 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 at leats will have a very short period of time of 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 twitter says it has found no real evidence of russian meddling in the bronx at referendum that story much more still to come this is r.t. international. hello. hello.

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welcome back this is international now twitter says has found no substantial evidence of russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen brags that referendum those comments were made in a response to the parliamentary inquiry reports. well the main thing is that the government isn't happy with that statement from twitter that this all started last year when questions were raised about whether or not russia had perhaps meddled in the 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 speech 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 ever the less the government decided to launch a big inquiry into it late last year and they are asked all 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 i would ask that provides to the committee at least for accounts linked to the internet research agency and any of the russian accounts we are currently undertaking investigations into these questions. the information you have now shared with us is completely inadequate we found that one percent of the accounts

in the dataset were registered in russia but the failure to obtain straight answers to these questions is simply increasing concerns about these issues so low and behold the situation we have now is that twitter has come back to the government with that very on incriminating fact of those one percent of those thirty five thousand threat about 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 political activist and a social justice campaigner george barda gave us his views on the story 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 either this seems to be something of a red herring to 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

were probably leave you know so i think this is really part of a wider political pattern where this kind of divide and rule. story line blaming russia for its going on is a way of distracting from domestic political realities. in pakistan a doctor who is 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 but his lawyers and systems charges are fabricated and he's been my guardian commentary. you can argue dr shaquille 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 a 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. yes i do i think i would get him out in two minutes i would tell them and i'm sure they'd let him out it didn't fly it's 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 laden v i caught 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 political analyst rana believes pakistan is punishing dr afridi for helping the cia. i think there's a question of this of an interview of you know had it is not the question that i want to read them or do you hear the americans in india look at the in a somber love and a pakistani establishment see it that it wasn't that all on focus on intelligence and ability because that man was not schools to provide any assistance to the american cia in look at in the summit in london i don't think pakistan would come of would of a country applying to be a dick and release it but the reason being is quite simple because china has

invested fifty six billion dollars in this in this one of the prime projects so focused on is no longer financially dependent on americans as it used to be done years ago or years ago we have no longer dependent on american aid we don't need it i think i really doubt that focus on would ever listen to the americans whether it comes to a good strategic interest you know a saudi arabian it beauty pageant has seen of the competitors going the extra mile to make sure that they take victory but some people have got the hump over contestant's cheating. yes thank you brianna thank you thank you ed. the so ed

makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes it's like oh look at how big that head it's it has big lips a big nose. to our were ever there cheating everyone i find should be applied to any. and there it is watching our two international i will be back at the top of the hour with more news stay with us. because. we're told a secret society existed within the f.b.i. with the sole intent to undermine canada and then later president donald trump also

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when chapman bellies leave the street and driffield neighbors neighbors meet as many days are we having late and for the getting to tightly gate where we set. the nappy getting food and a happy welcome to the show and the opening lines of robert burton's epic poem and scott's shanter a tale of witches and warlocks ghosts of girlies some reflections of life from the afterlife thrown in for good measure this is burton's night and today all score sun friends of scotland worldwide are celebrating the work of caledonia us bob robert

burton's scottish nationalist under internationals the poet of the common man whose vastness of love songs have been an inspiration for people as diverse as abraham lincoln to bob dylan there are more statues to robert burns and to any other non-religious figure with the sole exception is the queen victoria and christopher columbus this one here in victoria embankment gardens in london is absolutely splendid but if you're watching down under this one in victoria still year or new york this one in central park meanwhile back home and the resists impressive monument and that's where thomas shanta barely survived his encounter with the devil's legions today's show by popular demand features buns aplenty but will also be speculating on one of the house of lords is about to deliver a blow to the government's plans to exit from europe so first while europe side is fixed on mighty things the fate of empires and the fall of kings of state machines

produces plan and even children lists the rights of man amid this mighty fuss just let me mention the rights of women merit some attention so over to. ryan joseph brian singer songwriter and a composer yes yes welcome to the alex thanks so much thanks for having me and love to see you know we are having a great special of course the brave i'm special and he's your name sick of course it will come once that i mean i want to know if you're related but give us a bit of your background first right hey a musician from glasgow as you said yeah my dad is artists that are buns. he's also a musician the so i can enjoy it listen to him plea and. then. just you know over enjoy playing guitar without talking to play four chords when i was five and my family everyone can sing so yeah i just grew up. basically sort of

a music and musical family and of course we've all been involved in your your latest project which is burns on brains i have to ask you the question line are you released to the bar to say oh i want to sleep would love to see yes and i do see yes a lot but no you know obviously face to face but i know it's they sometimes the space i'm going in the business or something you know you get people telling you their grandfather was scottish or something or they're more scores than you so the ask barnes or you believe that and it's nice something to school that's a good things about brains that of course that is celebrated internationally and the us love love binds and love to find any kind of course his ancestry i mean this twenty million scots living in in the usa so i'm sure if you were getting over a stick with it if you lived to put it would be a massive hit so first of all you've got an album out called absence of just being doing really well as doing. this a slow burner but. was really busy last year so i didn't actually get to. see as and that's nearly a year now of course you must perform

a prisoner is that season than a lot of us involved in and doing that that applies in the tooth and more to me and the songs as well but you have to have taken that to another level but just night last night she released online your five years chosen five friends thought that says five and what are the and how did you choose them so that if one kiss draws a month a month rather. which i called is there for one is poverty and they of course. and they already have its traditional music so you've stuck there that maybe keeping it on your own take on it is that there's maybe a rhythmic change or maybe a sleep arrangement chains but the millet is the core building itself is still there now you like the songs of course yourself and that respect when performing barns you must take the length and understand the thinking behind the amazing rate and. the brains what would you do you know as a young man from who composes yourself what's your take on.