not the kurdish people and kurdish people live in very good standards according to if you compare with other countries such as syria iraq and iran but the that that be careful garrulous you know all terrorist groups jerkish. one of the big problems and they. they are the main cause to kill kurdish people even this. this is a kurdish they claim that this kurdish independence group they killed a lot of kurds in turkey and also turks as well you know. turkey is a state it has no problem with kurdish citizens in turkey they live peacefully and more democratically down in syria iraq and iran if we come to syria initiate issue in the beginning turkey would united states and european allies in order to support

you know freedom against by shouting assad regime but after after two thousand and . thirteen ok. left turkey ok let me jump in you go to the end before we go to the break here i mean but it is same time you know outside powers that's why it's a proxy civil war because this is from the outside ok i mean bringing democracy to syria is the last thing this is all been about ok it's been arming jihad is to overthrow a legitimate government ok go ahead dan before we go to the break. with what you say and i just want to comment on what sami was saying there is friction between between the u.s. and turkey and i don't say that predates the coup attempt actually in fact really it goes back to the downing of the russian plane i would read that scene obviously correctly as a low point in russian turkey's relations but i see that really isn't. last dance

let me jump in here to try and find a john way to put that we're going to go to a short break say are you going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on turkey and syria stay with r.t. . this is says holland kentucky. places you could walk very fine using. a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal mines the fed. live to these people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever

happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's how it's happened. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand out of business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answer. questions. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies. this is a simple song on events like company gets from elsewhere they can find private

companies to take over their utilities anybody tell us that. allowed for mr garcia got a book going to be. just because. of it or you. locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right of access to water it's about water but it's of school for much more than war it's about the hurt and the redistribution of. purpose. downwards we want to. welcome across like we're all things considered i'm peter reminder we're discussing turkey and syria. ok let me go back to dan in oxford i hate going to hard breaks like that but it happens ok so i'm going to go let you finish your point here with the press proviso

here i'm really glad we went to this point in talking about u.s. turkey relations because in the foreign policy blob's fear in washington the great swamp of america i mean there's plenty of people that are writing off turkey completely saying even we don't need them in nato i mean there and this is in the national security council this is in. the state department defense department i mean there is a raging debate going on in the intelligence community as well is how important they want because this is what it gets down to the it's who's calling who's bluff and i'd hate that ok because everybody's got arms ok what is going on in turkey u.s. relations this is what's really key here dan please keep going. yes so after the downing of the russian jet turkey was hoping that this would force somehow the u.s. to actually come good on what they had seen as the us promises to make to make this regime change happen turkey huge cost to itself had allowed itself to be this way

ahead of this western imperial regime change policy in syria and it seemed to be doing so with very little actual help from from from the west in doing so so we really wanted to force the us to put the cards on the table that help wasn't forthcoming so at that point i thought ok they're not serious let we're going to have to basically do something else cut some kind of deal or think again and it's interesting and no coincidence i think the month before the coup attempt was when there's the famous phone call between putin and irwin and they and one began to make noises about perhaps assad has some sort of longer future than we first thought and relations began to improve that was when the coup attempt happened so the u.s. is very worried it is bluffing that it can do without turkey a nato is very worried about losing and losing turkey turkey is very angry at us or have been used and abused for is regime change project. but i think turkey is perhaps walking into fall into a trap here walked into a trap because the same time as i don't think the u.s.

is particularly that troubled by what's happening in syria right now if one is happy to see turkish to turkey we can because it was an operation all of branch i think operation birch tree would be a better name because turkey is really beating itself here is weakening itself at the same time as weakening. the kurds and it's really once again helping to facilitate u.s. strategy at no benefit to us you know it's sammy you know i talk about that because you know i keep reading the foreign policy blah blah you know that turkey has to choose between moscow and washington i don't i don't buy that at all as a matter of fact because nato has no useful value whatsoever to. riki is coming into its own now it may be walking into a trap but it's coming into its own as a regional player dealing with other countries and we we have this consolation when we have baghdad damascus beirut. all of them are on the same page it doesn't

happen very often and turkey is getting into the parlay here i mean this is this is something that i think is really interesting not i but i worry about turkey because i really did like you know the no problems foreign policy well it has a lot of problems right now but it's this kind of a major paradigm shift sami in the region with what's going on with turkey. it's possible i think it all depends on whether the united states is going to dig its heels and. other areas where there are u.s. troops patrolling the streets alongside the i.p.g. forces now this is where the main conflict is between turkey and the united states i do not think turkey will retreat on that question and the united states is. in a sense in a lose lose situation i slightly different from there that the united states is

losing in iraq it is losing in syria and they are in their fix because they either send more troops which they are out of loath to do but because they would like to rely on proxy forces often out of their day back those in afghanistan and iraq they started using proxy forces whether in libya syria iraq and so on and in syria they found a golden opportunity with about forty thousand. fighters whom the general of the special forces of the united states general raymond thomas raymond. thomas he himself called them a proxy force yeah but if ted is going to go all out to prevent the emergence of such a kurdish enclave backed by the united states then you are looking seriously contradiction between the united states and territory and i think ultimately it's

the united states which will retreat on that one otherwise they will lose their yeah but they tend to take everybody down with them before they leave let me go to you i mean how important is all of this to the turkish president because he's invested a lot in syria and he's gotten very little in return i mean dan is spot on. he was egged on by the u.s. and the u.s. basically folded and he what is the political repercussions for the president everyone if he doesn't get what he wants go ahead actually years and now you know after a year we have very important elections in turkey a presidency and this is the first time in two thousand and nineteen and then the before that i think to turkey to try to finish or wrap up the syrian issue with some games you know in the beginning we started with the united states and the european allies and then they left us. with russia and iran in the region now

after two thousand and fifteen turkey started a new city on his own sometimes with the help of russia and iran in syria any sherry we have basically three you know iraq hates schildt and then lip and then this olive branch operations these are really important operations in for turkey and i think the turkish people is support think is kind of operations then after that the turn will come to member i think this is the man beach is the most crucial area between turkey and united states because an american. army is there if turkey goes further to membership maybe it might be a problem for turkey this is i think most crucial think up to now but

for us all a branch operation i think no problem with united states you know it's best not to interfere this operation but if turkey goes further to a man bitch it will be problematic for the region and maybe a turkey and that's that will be had to had. area. up to. resident. support in turkey you know that's why i keep saying who is bluffing whom here again also the again the the one can surmise an indian if you look at the long. bad blood between iran and the united states is one of the reasons why the united states wants to keep a footprint there it really is quite amazing they are doing the bidding of riyadh in tel aviv all the time because there is now absolutely no strategic interest of the united states or the anyone in the european union about syria and i think that

it all up in a in a it's always misguided the more they listen to riyadh in detail of the the opposite happens iran's influence continues to expand when are they going to learn go ahead dan here that's true iran has in some ways benefited from the disasters wreaked on the middle east by the us in the last few decades but i would completely disagree that europe and the u.s. have no interest in containing iran or destroying syria the us certainly does and the west in general and especially britain and the usa do are very concerned as i said. to destroy any independent or potentially independent force in the global south of. israel and saudi arabia the. bulldogs if you like of western power in the middle east the watchdogs keeping that area basically under the domination of the united states and britain so. i don't i don't buy into this

idea of saying oh the us are doing the bidding of tel aviv in. the part of the same the same program of maintaining middle east under western domination maintaining the global oil production and the levels that they want to or the price they want to. being sold in the currency that they won and the dollar and so on i don't see these ok. but ok but for this and i can let me go to sammy i think you have bring a very interesting point stan. and i don't necessarily disagree with them. but sammy you know going back to what i said earlier if we could just start and end it and it's not arbitrary two thousand and three and go all the way up to the present every single strategic initiative the united states and its allies have initiated in the middle east have failed and there's been only blowback ok i mean this ridiculous policy that tillerson announced that anyone the sends aid to syria will

face sanctions i mean that that is you know what they want to do is they just want to keep and i'm now i'm good i would agree with dan here is this to keep every single player weak and broken ok and and that's going to backfire is well ok because the region is going to stay not necessarily outside players they don't they don't always state they usually leave go ahead sami i think the main reason for they had a fairly right to point to their failure is that there is enormous opposition to their presence in the region if we talk about the middle east and all the way to libya and so on there is popular opposition to their presence and there is this fundamental contradiction between the united states aims of trying to control the region for its own interests and the interests of the peoples of the region and there is no way this contradiction can be resolved unless the united states

withdraws from the area admits defeat and gets out this is unlikely to happen so therefore we have this continuous conflict of us imperialism trying to dominate to region and the peoples of the region insisting on their independence and they are mad against iran because iran regardless of what you what we think of its political system is a very. and then come through from us policies on this very hate and i get it down there anyhow today on that dinner to question some folks have been examining that and that's iran's greatest sin its sovereignty gentlemen we've run out of time many thanks to my guests in london oxford and in this stamboul and thanks to our viewers for watching us here to see you next time and remember.

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hundred thirty. dollars and on the way. to the. extortion faffed on drug peddling we report on the huge police corruption scandal unfolding in the us city of baltimore where an elite unit lost with taking guns off the streets. wrote. also this hour the world and the agency says it's seriously concerned with the decision by sports top court to overturn the olympic bans imposed on twenty eight russian athletes. and five migrants are shot dozens more injured in a mass brawl at a food bank in the french port city of cali.

welcome to our to international live from moscow with me daniel walk ins just gone six pm now in the russian capital thanks for joining us this hour. now a huge police corruption scandal is unfolding in the u.s. city of baltimore with astonishing claims of wrongdoing continuing to emerge six former elite officers responsible for reducing gun crime have already pleaded guilty to running a criminal racket all of them and out as the fight against two other ex colleagues they've in turn denied any involvement they came at me like a gang or something i remember one of the officers saying i looked like someone who needed to be robbed everybody's life is destroyed because of this my kids are afraid to go in the house and the so called gun trace task force was made up of plainclothes officers and was supposed to be tackling the city's increasing murder rates it was however dissolved in march last year the officers were arrested they use the tech to face those slew of charges including they were that they thieves

from an even extorted residence as well as committing fraud and falsifying evidence in criminal cases are too severe a car reports now from baltimore on how exactly the unit's crimes were exposed. well it all started with an investigation into drug trafficking in new jersey then as the case unraveled federal authorities found out that the baltimore police department was also involved mostly its elite gun traced task force unit months of recordings recovered from a device planted in a police cruiser reveal that officers were involved in drug trafficking robbery falsifying reports and planting fake evidence in one case a high speed car chase resulted in a crash which the officers tried to cover up one of the indicted acts attacked is involved actually broke down in tears in court it was a really bad accident none of us stopped to render aid to see if anyone was hurt we were foolish although i was doing so much wrong it got to a certain point where too much was too much altogether six officers have already

pleaded guilty and two are still being tried but there are indications there's more to the story than just one rogue police unit court records show that the city paid over half a million dollars to settle claims of misconduct and falsifying reports involving the very same officers and dating back as far as twenty fourteen so why did they all forty's choose to sweep it all under the rug. you see this those offices of very well known industries for door what are they doing and this isn't the first incident where it came up it's been it's probably been plenty of complaints you can't go an extra help because you're afraid that this particular of so it might just do some so you might pencil it's common when we see them coming we go to opposite direction if we can and if we can we deal with this circumstance this has been corruption for a long time you know just because this is one as in a way as though they decide to you know come forward or you know they got caught

for what they done is stuff that particular incident but at the same time as not going to stop interruption has to be done to stop the corruption from these criminals are cops and the cops are criminals then there's the unsolved murder of detective shawn souter that took place in. november last year souter wasn't part of the country's taskforce but worked with some of the officers were now under indictment and the day before he was set to testify in the corruption probe he was shot in the head with his own weapon while on duty and another unfortunate twist which some might find suspicious a patrol car transporting the dying officer to an asp it all got into an accident there's no suspect in the murder so far and no eyewitnesses except one unnamed partner and when the police commissioner tried to redirect the investigation to the f.b.i. the agency refused saying that the case had nothing to do with the corruption probe i'm growing increasingly uncomfortable that my home aside the directives do not know all of the facts known to the f.b.i. or the u.s. attorney's office that good if revealed to us assist in furthering this murder

investigation in the wake of the scandal baltimore police have launched an overhaul including a new commissioner vowing to rein in city violence but investigators still seem to have a very complicated plot to unravel samir khan r.t. reporting from baltimore. the world anti-doping agency says it's concerned with the court of arbitration for sport the surgeon to uphold the appeals of russian olympic athletes wider understands that this decision will cause dismay and frustration among athletes the agency supports the i.o.c. intention to analyze these decisions very carefully and consider all options including an appeal to the swiss federal tribe you know. on thursday the court of arbitration for sport ruled to lift all sanctions and reinstate the olympic medals for twenty eight russian athletes eleven others will miss the upcoming winter olympics in south korea but their lifetime bans have been overturned and sanctions

partially lifted however the decision has disappointed some of the leaks from other countries they were hoping to move into metal positions retrospect heavily from a saw three twenty fourteen games. but anything else this is a very very very dark day for the limpets and this is a very very very dark day for green sport you there is such a thing if. people are saying they can't prove they were dirty in the same breath you can prove that they were innocent or you say they are not guilty or you say they are guilty and they have ruled that there is not enough proof for a doping offense hence they are not guilty and this is very important also because it makes the mclaren report to become not in bases which is enough to convict athletes and everything that was done up to

now was based on the mclaren report and if this is now not basis enough to convict at leats then i do not understand why also all the russian at plates could have been banned collectively without having any any proof of the hoping of the mood was of course very different for the russian athletes sheer relief came over those who thought their dreams and careers had been dashed. boy i'm assuming you know i found out about the decision during my training c.i.s. decided to overturn my disqualification my ban i had only positive thoughts in my head about that i've been ready to ski for a long long time keeping up my training but i had a question right away what about the olympics are we able to dispute this and get an invitation but first thing you know i was waiting for the results of a pill when i came back from practice it's amazing yes then my skeleton team

started congratulating each other such a relief when not guilty and the whole public will know that a lot of people thought we date but only those close to us knew it's not true. i've been training with my push for the whole season and now because of what's happened i've been paired with someone else we'll have to adapt our techniques and make adjustments for way differences and work a lot in our start. give you my motive is for me and for those who can prove their host intuition has only me me angrier and even more determined to win. twenty eight sportsman's of russia are found not guilty and now the i was the states that does not mean that they will participate in the olympics the upcoming winter games that means that practically we have a court decision that will not be enforced and i see a new population here as there was a violation by the i.o.c.

when banning the sportsman so this is actually a little bit odd to me and when we see we have not seen the reasons for the decision right now the mclaren report didn't find any individual violations of. rules of individual sportsman. over to the u.s. now in a public clash between the white house and the f.b.i. has seen the u.s. president accuse the bureau of lacking investigative process this comes as donald trump looks set to release a classified memo alleging the f.b.i. abuse that surveillance powers look more picks up on the story the pending release of a classified government memo is shaking up washington d.c. if indeed the obama administration used the department of justice and the f.b.i. to spy on trump during the campaign this could be quite a scandal it would discredit the d.o.j. and the f.b.i. as nonpartizan a law enforcers and destroy the democrats now the democratic leadership doesn't

want to be destroyed so here's a few of their last ditch efforts to keep their boat afloat. now adam schiff from the democratic side of the house intelligence committee says that he's preparing a kalar memo he says the republicans edited the document to fit their political agenda he says he's preparing a memo of his own that will expose the misleading character of the documents. that the f.b.i. says that they haven't been given sufficient time to review the document and they have grave concerns about the facts that have been removed from the memo as expressed during our initial review we have grave concerns about material emissions a fact that fundamental that impact the most accuracy. democrats say the document was altered before the president saw it they say that

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