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broadcasting live. 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 entre describes as terrorists at the moment said 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 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. 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 down state 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 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 scientists to change tom our believes in their lack of trust in us tricky 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 took a people on turkey's government never rely on never trust in. the united states s.p. shaleen mickleson issues u.s. president has met with the u.k. prime minister at the world economic forum in the swiss resort of davos jacqueline volga 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. don't necessarily believe that but i can tell you i wish 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. and so both 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 at the call of europe because we will never have any friends success is without a european success if 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 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 we're more data more 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 davos dolphin 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 midst 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 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 the 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. twitter says it has found no substantial evidence of

russian interference in the two thousand and sixteen briggs and referendum those comments were made in response to a parliamentary inquiry artie's political as more. well the government's rather disgruntled with the fact that twitter has provided for them as part of this inquiry into fake news and alleged russian meddling the crux of what twitter has said is that just one percent of these some thirteen thousand accounts that have been identified as being pro brags that during the e.u. referendum campaign just one percent of those were registered in russia now all this started late last year when questions were raised about russia perhaps having interfered in the e.u. referendum and the reason they actually used a big foreign policy speech the mansion house speech to highlight russian meddling russian interference and came down pretty hard on the kremlin it is seeking to

weaponize information deploying state run media organizations to plant fake stories and photo shopped images in an attempt to sow discord in the west and undermine our institutions so i have a very simple message for russia we know what you are doing and you will not succeed the problem was that there was no proof to back up this sort of snowballing supposition of russian interference take a listen to what the foreign secretary boris johnson had to say about. the. solutions that the new zealand w.c. . is another of your give them all going. here young. brother i. think i'm good. to visit so you. can see i mean. the story of how russia secured the brakes it is one of the biggest

scams i've seen so far in this whole saga russia gate it really represents to export russia gate to other countries. during the run up to the break that's what we heard nothing about russian influence but once russia gave exploded in washington opponents of breaks it seized on the concept of russian meddling so with no facts and no evidence but a great deal of media interest it's got to be said and public interest at the same time the government made the decision late last year to launch an official inquiry into fake news into russian meddling and official committee that was charged with it they asked all the big social media platforms to provide information and twitter and facebook they came but back with information originally but what they came back with the government wasn't happy with they accuse them of stonewalling the inquiry in even threatened them with sanctions if they didn't cooperate fully take

a look at the correspondence between twitter and the inquiry into fake news i would ask the twitter provides to the community at least for accounts linked to the internet research agency and any of the russian linked account we are currently undertaking investigations into these questions the information you have now is completely inadequate from the one percent of the accounts in the dataset we're just didn't russia the failure to obtain street and says through these questions is simply increasing concerns about these issues. the situation we're in now is that lo and behold so it's a has provided more information they've given this this very own incriminating fact of this one percent of the accounts being registered in moscow and the chair of the committee leading the inquiry damian collins he says that all this leads him to have more concerns about russian meddling rather than less political activist and

social justice campaigner george barda told us of the meddling allegations are just a diversionary tactic. 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 a large extent i mean not only were only one percent of these these twitter accounts linked to russia but some of them were probably remain as some of them were probably 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 what's going on is is a way of distracting from domestic political realities. in 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 but his lawyers insist

those charges are fabricated artie's what identity of his commentary. 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 of 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 you you think. 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 boast and nothing of the man who helped catch asama bin v i call of terrorism is rotting away in jail we believe dr afridi has been unjustly imprisoned and have clearly communicated opposition 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 the southern of your father saw snow here it is not the question that one rather more americans in in look at the us our beloved and august august i wish that it wasn't that all our focus on intelligence and the military because that man was not supposed to provide any assistance to go back and see i mean look at being us our beloved and i don't think pakistan would get whatever country or point of view of the camera listen the reason being is quite simple because. china hasn't rested 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 five years ago you have more longer the very remote american aid we don't need it i think i believe that part of our overall listen to the americans whether it comes to a desk to take an interest. russia's sports minister is demanding justice for some

of the country's top athletes who have been excluded from the upcoming winter olympics. and will stand for the interests of all our athletes real sure they're clean we haven't had any claims in terms of doping but 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 victory on a cross-country ski a city gate to go for two thousand and fourteen olympic gold medalist be affluent until she pulled in he has his reaction to this news i was shocked by the news i

thought of her leaving. everything behind him 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've 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 does 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 fast lives were 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 sea 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 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 olympic committee has said that the committee wants to invite so-called clean athletes from russia to participate in the winter games 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 they cover seventeen points focusing on alleged violations of the panel says it reviewed information based on a moscow laboratory database and allegations presented in the mclaren report on alleged tampering samples sports lawyer lucian vallone says 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 is not acceptable. to german judges has caused outrage at a trial in bavaria for removing a crucifix from his courtroom for a muslim asylum seeker the afghan man is suspected of threatening to kill a fellow countryman for converting to christianity our europe correspondent peter

oliver has been following this trial for us. this judge in the bavarian alps has found himself in the eye of a storm that's after he ordered that a crucifix be removed from his courtroom during the trial of an afghan asylum up look and accused of trying to kill another afghan convert to christianity it's a move that's caused florrie in the strongly catholic state as well as in german tabloid media the judge says he made the move in order to show religious tolerance how can i educate the defendant to move away from his beliefs he thinks jihad exists between christians and islamists and so i did not think it wise to condemn him under the cross i do not care if there is a cross or not when the judge addressed this issue in court i just don't really understand the problem bosses in the bavarian ministry of justice say this should never have been an issue in the first place. the presence of crosses in courtrooms

does not prevent the state from up holding religious and ideological neutrality. religious rights for christi and converts in germany is a hot issue particularly in places like mice but the toll on the border with austria is where many refugees and migrants either arrived or at least passed through in twenty fifteen and the move by judge schmidt has prompted a ferocious backlash on social media deep over and people this is a slap in the face of all christians do you still want to trample on your christian will lose the right judges who have mutual loss for words such an irony in the trial of afghan islamists judge class you're against me it takes christopher s. from the war of the courtroom the sophisticated islamization in this country continues judge klaus you're going schmidt are you insane such a disgrace this story comes as the trial of a different failed asylum applicant from afghanistan is underway in

a nearby town in southern germany in that case a thirty eight year old woman was brutally stabbed to death in front of her small children the prosecution say that the motive behind the killing was that she had converted to christianity that trial is expected to continue for several more days peter all over berlin. all right the israeli sports minister has caused controversy by posting a video online showing her standing next to fans from beit hard jerusalem football club as they chant extremist slogans miri regehr is seen as smiling and embracing the hardline supporters as they yell may your village be burned at their arab israeli apartments keith. was.

the questions have been raised as to why the sports minister did not edit the clip and instead posted it complete with the offensive taunts here's what she had to say about the incident. sawfish more lucky than i was sorry to hear reese's chance from the stands and i don't like to see how fan from sakhalin 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 know tend to make sure that he brings the appropriate results. it's not the first time ray gives actions have provoked outrage back in two thousand and twelve she compared african migrants in israel to cancer she went on to apologize but only to cancer patients political analyst i mean believes that people with such extreme views should not be serving in the government but for the minister to be surrounded by friends who are chanting

these vile slogans and. at least. appearing to see if she does not hear what is being said around her and. is not opposed to it this drew strong criticism from the media and others in israel if he didn't understand what was being chanted around her obviously she is hardly fit for office and if you did purpose in order to curry favor with her supporters even worse. the saudi arabian it 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.

cut. 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. for me i'll be back at the top of the hour with a look at your headlines watching our two international.

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e-mail. the white house promises an immigration framework next week will it help or ham down or further inflame the outrage immigration activist term we feel we'll talk about that on this edition. of the politicking on larry king on wednesday white house spokeswoman sarah huckabee sanders said the trumpet administration will be releasing a framework for changes in u.s. immigration policy next week this after democratic lawmakers agreed to end the three day government shutdown based on a commitment from the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to engage in immigration debate a move that outraged activists and dr recipients one such activist joins us now.