this nuclear posture review on friday outlining its nuclear strategy apart from strengthening its nuclear capability the doctrine takes a seemingly tougher stance on china russia and north korea claiming these states represent a unique and complex threat the review also points out that the united states would not hesitate to respond to a non-nuclear attack using nuclear weapons but also emphasize that u.s. diplomats would continue to speak from a position of strength. all right justice for their let's cross live to paul heroes mayor of massachusetts thanks for being with us here on r t international. so let's get right down to it how do you evaluate the newly released review is this a throwback to cold war era tactics or is there something much more to it. well the vast majority of the nuclear issue is word for for the rope from the obama

administration however the underlying tone of it is a throwback to. the you know the cold war what president trump declared in his state of the union address was that we need to ramp up our nuclear capability and make us so strong that nobody would be even willing to engage in or even trying to gauge what the united states because we have a strong nuclear arsenal that actually is really dangerous thinking and it's almost like into amateur hour so the u.s. strategy says nuclear weapons may be used in case of a non nuclear attack but other nuclear powers for example china pledge no first use of nuclear weapons while russia's doctrine says they can only be used for if attacked by weapons of mass destruction so why does washington insist on maintaining the right to use nuclear offensively. well a moment ago i said this is amateur hour and i believe that's the case i don't think the president appreciates all of the strategy that has brought the united

states russia and china to the point of having not used nuclear weapons against each other you know over the last seventy years. this is an administration that doesn't have much experience of international affairs and president trump has no background in public service or the military at all. the notion that we're going to use nuclear weapons as a first strike you know in response to other you know conventional weapons is pretty unprecedented i mean that's the sort of thing that is sending the wrong message to countries like you know north korea or it's also sending a wrong message to countries like pakistan and india who oftentimes might look to the united states for leadership you know on how to act with you know nuclear arsenal so the overall theme even though it is mostly word for word from the obama doctrine is you know it's basically amateur hour with the trump administration so

the policy outlines american speaking of a from a position of strength what's the meaning behind that. well it's the sort of thing where it's very simplistic and it's on the surface and is very simplistic in its application if you want to go ahead and you know you know maintain that you're stronger than everybody else and therefore that you know they should not mess with us that's the sort of thing that you deal with you know if you dealing with a bully that's not the american way that's not the way that we've been operating over much of you know the past seventy years with our you know nuclear weapons. what president trump in you know is trying to do is say if anybody else wants to dare challenge us they should remember that we have a strong nuclear arsenal. and again that's not the way to conduct international diplomacy. basically we're looking at

a president who really hasn't you know been listening to the generals around him and who really hasn't been listening to the state department he operates largely in a silo with not much experience in these matters at all. now trying themself has actually stated that he wants to get down to zero new weapons around the world but some u.s. senators have written an open letter to president trump ahead of the doctrines released blaming him for undermining attempts at nuclear disarmament do you agree with us. i do agree with us a lot of what trump says is contrary to a lot of his behaviors and his actions you know we see this in domestic policy we see this with respect to the way he talks about minorities the way he talks about women but then you know what he says and principles very different than what we see in practice and i don't think that it's any different when we're talking about. you know his position on nuclear weapons you know he talks

a really tough talk you know he calls north korea's president kim jong un rocket man little rocket man and this is not the sort of language and behavior that we would expect from a seasoned diplomat or you know a statesman like the president the united states so his positions what he says and you know in principle practice are basically two different things. all right very interesting to hear thoughts paula mayor of massachusetts thanks for being with us here on r t international. i switch gears now the world anti-doping agency says it is concerned by the decision of sports top a court to overturn the lifetime olympic bans given to dozens of russian athletes accused of taking prohibited substances. why don't i understand 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 sports decided to lift all sanctions imposed on twenty eight russian athletes and reinstate the olympic medals some have won eleven others will miss the upcoming winter olympics in south korea but their lifetime bans were overturned in sanctions partially lifted however the decision has disappointed some athletes from other countries who are hoping to move into medal positions retrospectively from the sochi two thousand and fourteen games. but anything else this is a very very very dark day for the impeached and this is a very very very dark the for clean sport you there is such a thing many. people are saying they can't prove they were dirty in the same breath you can't prove that they were innocent or you say they are not guilty or you say they are guilty and they have fruit that there is not enough proof for

a doping offense hence they are not guilty and these are very important also because it makes to make a lot of reports to become not in bases which is enough to convict athletes and every seeing that was up to now was based on the mclaren report and if this is now not that basis enough to convict at let's then i do not understand why also all the russian at plates could have been banned collectively without having any any proof of the opening. but the mood was of course very different for the russian athletes themselves some of whom we spoke to sheer relief was the overriding emotion for those who thought their dreams and careers were finished. loyal 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 seems started congratulating each other such a relief when not guilty and the whole public will know that a lot of people thought we day it's only those close to us knew it's not true. i've been training with my pusher 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 some my mojo is for me and for those who can't out of their whole situation has only me me angrier and even more determined to win.

twenty eight sports minds of russia a front not being guilty and to know the i was he states that 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 will see when banning the sportsman so this is actually a little bit odd to me and when we see all we have not seen the reasons for the decision right now mclaren report didn't find any individual violations of the hoping rule of individual sports men's. i did number of corrupt cops are on trial in the us city of baltimore we have that story much more after a short break. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the sixty's pulled. off the only

show i go out of my way to find you know a lot of the really packed a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of marty americans do the same we are apparently better than the blues. and see people you never heard of love redacted the night. president of the world bank very. seriously you sent us an email. so all this getting away from us dollars wall reserve currency a one world. policy linking up russia and china is out of the dollar every loss of trade oil away from the dollar countries are desperate to get out of the us dollar so the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says so here's the treasury secretary really trying to make it look like oh it's our balls or for a lower dollar don't really matter what he says the dollar is going lower as we've been saying for a number of years because the u.s. dollar is a currency that other countries recognize as funding the wars and the weapons and

the poverty that they're trying to escape. from welcome back this is our t. international not least five migrants are in hospital after being shot during a massive fight at a food bank in the french report of cali another twenty two have been injured trojans gives more. this is one of the many food distribution points in cali just take a look behind me and you'll see a group of migrants who've come here to receive food to receive clothing and other items and it's one of these distribution points that the clashes broke out on thursday hundreds of migrants armed with iron bars with sticks of. what was on offer now we understand that more than twenty people were injured in that violence which over numerous parts of cali including five who were

injured from the shooting and four of those teenagers said to be critically injured this is the latest round of violence in cali and the french interior minister has described it as reaching new levels. i came to carry because what happened here is extremely serious we have reached a degree of violence not known until today the government will propose a bill in the coming weeks to try and help asylum an immigration problems that will violence between groups of migrants is nothing new in cali but this is the worst city has been in many months and people here in cali say they're just fed up of the situation. i think we need a structure put in place to protect us there's a lot of delinquency here vehicles get damaged every day we have issues young girls can't go out alone at night it's a catastrophe for the french and especially for the people of cali the violence is

really damaging residents of cali have lived in fear for several years now. living together migrant is complicated those coming here now are bit different from to refugees who were coming here initially they're more violent and aggressive we're bridgeland come and the people are still being shot it's still dangerous and it's true that people who live near these areas are constantly been disturbed it may. makes the city look bad. so that being it is starting to get scary firearms were not in the united states here this is still a country where weapons are banned. callaway is probably best known for the jungle ruling camp with thousands of people living in squalid conditions it was dismantled back in two thousand and sixteen but still my quince come to cali a feeling that one day they will be able to cross the channel to get to the u.k.

the latest incident comes just weeks after the french president proposed a draft bill that would tighten current migration policy the legislation would make it easier to deport undocumented newcomers who do not a qualifier for asylum it would also increase the length of time authorities can detain illegal migrants for from forty five days to ninety france received a record of one hundred thousand applications for asylum last year. major police corruption scandal is unfolding in the us a city of baltimore with astonishing claims of wrongdoing continuing to emerge six former lead officers responsible for reducing gun crimes have already pleaded guilty to running a criminal racket and four of them are now testifying against two other ex colleagues who have denied 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. now the gun trace task force was made up of plainclothes officers and was supposed to be tackling the city's spiraling murder rate it was however dissolved in march last year and the officers arrested the unit's detectives have faced a slew of charges including that they stole from and extorted residents as well as committing fraud and falsifying evidence in criminal cases now some reports from baltimore on how the units 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 detectives 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 with a comma you see this goes all this is a very well known in history for door without a door 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 ex for help because you're afraid that

you know this particular of so it might just do some so you might pencil it's common when we see them come we go to opposite direction if we can and if we can't we deal with the circumstances has been corruption for a long time you know just because this is one as in a way as though they decide to come forward or you know they got caught for what they done is stuff that particular as it had but at the same time as not going to stop the direction of law 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 a ospital 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 texas did 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 our t.v. reporting from baltimore you're watching our three. plenty. plenty.

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hello and welcome to crossfire for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle turkey's decision to invade northern syria has foreign policy implications far beyond the middle east what our anchor is objectives in syria and the region doesn't facilitate or hinder a final peace subtle meant to syria's proxy civil war and what is turkey's future in nato. cross talking turkey and syria i'm joined by my guest sami ramadani in london he's a contributor on iraq and the middle east for the guardian as well as a senior lecturer in sociology in oxford we have dan glazebrook he is an independent political analyst and author of divide in ruin the west's imperial strategy in the age of crisis and missed them. we cross to change he is dean of

political science is a marmora university or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want they always appreciate it i take it sinister let me go to you first here it is very simply what is turkey's aims what its strategic goals in syria over since the incursion into northern syria can you give us you know two or three major points what turkey wants to achieve. actually to the s.b.a. for your points are very clear the first. ones to get rid of this. we can see a branch office here this is a we call it a y p or p y d this is the first and the most crucial statistic point for turkey secondly after cleaning this area to put some syrian emigrants you know we have three and a half million syrian emigrants in turkey to put down some of them to. create some

kind of buffer zone between turkey and syria or iraq. we can say is safe so on in syria and also i think this is my prediction that. there will be. how can i say it's off to political table leg. or sochi or astana or whatever you call it he it wants to be there on the table really good you know card so that's why you know three reasons more strategic. in our atmosphere ok but i have to i have to point out that you didn't say the word kurds once ok and that's really what it's all about here you know sammy i'll be really honestly i can understand turkey's position ok i do understand and i don't necessarily agree with it. but i will tell

you something sammy i understand the position of all the major players when it comes to syria except for one country the united states i don't understand what it is doing in syria i mean what we're all told is that you know these sacred cows nato must be preserved but u.s. policy is driving a huge wedge between the two countries that have the largest military in nato i mean who's making this policy in the u.s. . for the united states in syria most of the proxy forces that they create a lie upon have been either defeated or on their way of being defeated in syria what. changed or increased their presence in syria is this dramatic development of gaining the y p g practically really unfortunately i'm very sadly for of from my point of view that the y p g the kurdish group has decided to make an alliance with the united states big.

big general they could you know. yeah the kurds always wrong side i mean historically they do this and they have done it again. dan let me it's very sad very sad dan let me go to you. what i mean what is the possibility that we're going to see turkish and u.s. forces go head to head because the u.s. seems to it seems to me it's a policy of spite it is a spoiler made one see it lost the war assad still there and it wants to spite the russians in the iranians but that's really childish thinking when you think about it go ahead dan there's a spoiler but i don't agree that this collision course necessarily on the on the cards between ankara and washington i mean from washington's point of view the thing is they want their goal is to just weaken and preferably destroy it. any

independent force in the global south first that does the big strategy right and so that includes the syrian state grand frankly that includes a potentially independent strong kurdish force and it includes turkey so if they see the turks and the y p g tearing themselves apart that's that fits ok into into the us game plan and if they're doing in the syria inside syria all the better so i don't see this is so odds with washington they're going to be ok they made this announcement they wanted a border force and it's put the spoiler on on that but there's many ways to destroy a country is not many ways to build up a good many ways to do to destroy so i guess what you're saying there is a method there's a method to their madness go ahead jump in understand go ahead go ahead. because i would like to add something about american policy we are in turkey as you know government and people are mostly get. try to create. the kurdish zone between turkey and syria and iraq in order to you know.

in order to use this policy to educate turks persians and arabs and also it is good for israel to be created is satellite not independent dependent united states creators on just perfect for america and most of people in turkey most of. us and all you know columnists date think that. you know yeah america has something like that as a project. to create if we all could use or so ok so the united states. i mean it began that the us is exporting democracy in lino in liberalism i'm sorry it's a nice it's a fairy tale but it's not just for the border force go ahead dan go ahead they might have wanted to they might have wanted to create a little basically syria and kosovo why p.g.

areas in syria lead to a partition and it was actually not so much the announcement the border force but the announcement of the two thousand us troops the announcement by tillerson that the two thousand u.s. troops were basing going to stay there effectively permanently i mean the wish list of what you wanted to achieve was made it a fact of permanent they're not going to have any of those things anytime soon so that was what really told the turks look they're basically going to stay us power and on the ground presence is going to establish basically an independent state within a state and of course they could find that as i say ok so that partition was one possible way to destroy the syrian state but the kurds and turks destroy it and destroying each other is another way to achieve frankly similar goals of the destruction of syria and we can have the herds go ahead sammy jump in it's part of the program just just one other issue i think which needs mentioning is that ted kids of unfortunately. takes quite

a bit of the blame for the disk. action in syria for the support i'm backing for terrorist groups inside syria. its only conflict has been with the with within syria and recent times as with the kurds of syria they got frightened because the united states backing started backing the y.p. . but truly turkey should also shoulder quite a lot of the response ability for that may have. unfolded in both city and in iraq by the way where they still have some forces inside iraq as well and their policy towards the kurdish people over many decades has been really bad that must be mentioned that the kurdish people have suffered enormously from successive ted. tens of thousands of kurds have died inside turkey and this so-called cleansing

inside syria turkey is in effect committing aggression against a sovereign state the syrian state which has object to the fish only to the entity of terror groups so there are a dime if you cations here and that is the other point i wanted to raise is out there is some genuine friction between turkey and the united states since the coup attempt law right here which seems to have how. you have support to overthrow ok on it's going to in istanbul jump in yes. yeah actually you know it's in turkey you know something like forty years we have coach problems about this this is not really really kurdish problems turkey. was again it's not the kurdish people and kurdish people it leaves you know in very good spandex according to if you compare with other countries such as syria iraq and iran. about. gary last you know alternative school.