jointly with the syrian democratic forces to establish and train the new syrian border security force approximately two hundred thirty individuals training in the b.s.f. sanogo close with the goal of a final four sons of approximate thirty thousand now the turkish government considers these kurdish forces operating in syria to be terrorists and feels quite threatened by them and has been a long outspoken in demanding that the united states and its support for these forces this is what we've heard from the turkish president. why you still here why do these weapons still arrive america is in the process of creating a terror army on aboud do not encroach on our borders do not provoke us we will run out of patience tillerson has arrived in turkey and he'll be going to an embassy a u.s. embassy in turkey that is on a street that's actually made for the military operation against those kurdish forces armed by the united states operation olive branch and it's sending

a pretty clear message to washington that they do not approve of this policy of arming kurdish forces the united states is caught in a strange place between two allies it's aligned with the kurdish forces and it's also aligned with the turkish government a member of nato that considers those kurdish forces to be terrorists political sciences professor jingoist tomorrow spoke to us from istanbul he says that turkey wants the u.s. to deliver on its promises. we are fed up with these words that's coming from america and this is a good to be you know understanding security teams of turkey at the big terrorist group turkey is you know not waiting any diplomatic santas those from united states just want to keep this promises to deliver those promises to turkey related to africa and especially in man bitch otherwise i think it doesn't

work you know this kind of diplomatic meetings for turkey. and let's get some live reaction a political analyst sure one july joins us on the program to discuss the secretary of state's two are of the middle east and his final stop now in turkey you're welcome sean how would you describe the diplomatic approach by the u.s. in the run up to the meeting in turkey washington is no knowledge in that has concerns over its security. that's true i think. that was a few masses used there's common ground between turkey and the united states and. you know for about a sort of pattern. for the mess we have in syria there are very little common ground between us and the but when you sort of look at the data for example turkey and united states on one any more iranian influence in the. area for example they think one. of them in special u.s. equipment to go into p.k.

and these various other issues that the two sides agree on however when it comes to the main question will with the u.s. keep supporting the the effort in the village want p.g. i think there's huge differences and i think he's trying its hardest to convince us to stop amin because troops however when you just just tell him that the u.s. just to explain a lot more the u.s. was supporting the kurdish forces no i washington is saying that no weapons are going to them your take on the. i think i've seen that most rescue if you look at the budget which was pasta inc this week you can see allocation of the whole billion u.s. dollars the border force as was discussed in the. in the the g. forces the air force is known to see when the crossing forces in syria so i think

what the state department is forceful p.k. because they differentiate between one p.g. and the same yes there are links. that support in syria and the operation in syria has nothing to do with the case you should be concerned but. in a different way therefore the differences remain and i don't see any breakthrough in the meeting also. said masses and now if you listen this. is trying to. get those bridges to come off i think we've gone too far apart and i think where are we here for the long run on this dispute between those two what it means for one for the region if the americans eventually did choose a side to support in the conflict because they have lived to be very much on the fence up to no. i think the americans have not choice but choose the because

as i mentioned earlier the the us they don't want us to take those areas back and they don't want neither the iranian influence to creep into those areas we saw early in the week with the israeli plane down by the iranians in syria and again we have the russian angle the russian influence in syria so. the u.s. made it very clear that russian to the syrian regime that any increase in in those areas and it's the end of the u.s. will retaliate and we know although it has been kept very secret now it is nearly two thousand u.s. troops in syria which begin before was around five hundred and this is almost like a secret war going on in the united states is very much involved and i doubt because there's no other players they can support apart from the kurds in those areas if they try the other. groups believe it or not or to be jihadi. i don't bury

extremist group and that it worked out very well and always great to get your take political analysts show one to our thanks for joining us this hour. u.s. intelligence chiefs are advising citizens to stay away from chinese smartphones that include zed t e n y a way after concerns were raised about the countries in which their phones are produced provides the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information and it provides the capacity to conduct undetected espionage raise your hand if you would recommend that private american citizens use one way or z.t. products or services. none of your generation can thank you for that. yeah the browns just mentioned are some of the biggest names in mobile communications worldwide is a market share puts the company an eighth place globally while while away makes the

top three chinese brummies investing massively to break the julep of the all of market leaders some sun. well. stars advertising its phones like football icon the you know messy actress scarlett johansson henry cavill who of course played superman in the latest movies. but it's not only chinese phone manufacturers suspected of spying on their owners last week a conversation between two f.b.i. officials were leaked in which they expressed concern about apple's ability to provide prove this see or read that conversation was from two years ago another time when the f.b.i. was at loggerheads with bill a lot was over the tech giant not providing software to access the devices of

alleged terrorist suspects we heard from tech consultant told she's right to say the warning from u.s. intelligence is ironic considering the activities of america's own agencies. anything's possible in trump's america we just don't know but given the size of the trading relationship between the two i think they'd have to be very cautious about damaging that seriously electronics one of the of the biggest markets go back and forth intellectual property and this huge contractual tire speed chinese manufacturer is an american network provider so it would be incredibly difficult to translate these sort of statements into legal restrictions it's certainly ironic that they're putting so much effort into you blocking the entry of these companies into the u.s. markets without making a bit in available because as we know the one place where there is great evidence of spying activity happening here is largely driven by the u.s. government we know that actually ironically they try to insert software into huawei devices to spy on people that way so it's a difficult situation maybe they have evidence they don't want to share for security reasons but right now the one party you have evidence is spying on people

is the people who are complaining about huawei. there are two unusual teens or this year's winter olympics one is the united squad from north and south korea compete in gather for the first time in a dozen years it's widely seen as a positive move in the relations are warming between them the other team is a limb pick out at least for russia or we are competing under a neutral flag due to a disputed doping scandal it to try and go are some spectators whether they recognize team rushes rebranding. it will take a long while for russian athletes journalists like myself that i can tell you first sure to forget the acronym oh a r after peeling chang twenty eight thing well just before the winter games a group of russian designers thought they could take advantage of the international olympic committee's language sanctioned.

i put one of those on myself and decided to walk around near the olympic park a little bit. what kind of team did people with this kind of sweatshirt support i'm sure. it's a limb take it half really really can't see the russian north koreans are doing north korea russia the russians the food there will be here because they don't if you lose the olympics and then something of a limp think athletes of russia what would you chant if you wore annoying our team supporter oh oh oh oh oh oh oh we've come from really full on. bush. own lower.

leg some people say a russian animal can make it sound like that bear the russian bear siberian tiger i fear was. fear will make it sound when it's hungry. for gold medals well judging by the first few days of the winter olympics the russian fans have chosen to stick to the more traditional chants and symbols. you know you're trying to go archie young chang. the british government is again being accused of turning its back on interpreters who help the military in afghanistan many have received death threats from the taliban say they can't remain

in their home and. spoke to an afghan interpreter who is facing his final bid for asylum in the u.k. . they only give me the notice for deportation they told me that you have to leave the country so they're going to send me where i would do differently because abdul barry was a front line in ten percent with british forces in afghanistan from two thousand and eight to two thousand and ten. i know that if i join the british forces so close for me but i have to do that because our country was. the situation in our country was very bad so i have to help the international forces to protect other countries so they came to my country to protect us so why should i not hopeless but working with u.k. troops made abdul it's hard for local taliban forces that was a phone call from my from my father and a letter put in my door so you know that your son is working for the infidels so tell him to leave the job that they were still be slatted the threats soon turned

to violence when the taliban grated on my family my father and my mom and my dad so on that time when that happened he was completely angry all the problems happened to me just because of you creating problems for us with his and his family's lives in danger abdul was forced to flee and of time to go and see this for protection or something like that only twice was for me one choice to leave the country he came to britain illegally through cali and applied for asylum on the very first day since then the home office has rejected his initial application and his appeal the government says it's safe to return to kabul where he says his life is in danger that was. ours and justice. because when i heard i helped the british forces in

a very risky time but at the moment i'm at risk so i need help but this still ignoring me. as an asylum seeker can't work and this is the modest accommodation that the government provides for him he also gets thirty five pounds a week in living expenses and he has the constant threat of deportation looming over. him there are around a thousand afghan interpreters that worked with british forces around four hundred of them have been given u.k. visas which means abdul is one of around six hundred who haven't qualified the system has been described as unfair and a lot of a low sherry that abdul's best friend that managed to win applied for his visa while still in afghanistan and after a two year wait he was brought over to the u.k. under the government's official afghan interpreter scheme do you feel guilty sometimes that you got the visa and abdul didn't buy one visa for everything to

those who spend time over the taleban is under seventy per cent you know going to be almost all it will be able to be you searching for people. that they were would . call me. but not before so. if you want to get back in afghanistan abdul was a professional boxer he can't compete in the u.k. because he doesn't have a work permit but he can still train since i came here he can do nothing to staying at home going out sometimes they keep him busy with my turnings your gold market woman if you're human being. told you very. few of the challenging part. of the work you'll love. you'll be told me but i have

a full. view of the world the door. for which you would go to people with the rules. you. would need above you are all abdul can do now is wait for his final appeal against deportation to be considered to by the home office. yes the problem turf either in afghanistan. or the same cause there was a big third for me the taliban and i have a very bad depression my depression is getting worse so my life and nothing could happen to me. i see greater manchester. just to know to fishley the u.k. government investigates every claim of intimidation and considers all cases on an individual basis. the french president is on course to take another campaign pledge off the list and manual promising to bring back compulsory

military service and his party has been busy trying to whip up support. we call it the national service because it's the place where the youth of our country and the nation meet one another where they get to know the military service on the one hand and civil and gauge meant on the other it's where one gives his time to the nation and to society. but what about the age range it will cover all age ranges to both boys and girls will take part in the service will be obligatory polls three years ago suggested that eighty percent of people were in favor of the move but that's to windell to a little more than half charlotte dubin ski is in part this and she asked people what they think. but you play as are you ready to serve your country yes i have even tried to get in the army.

think there are many ways to help your country and not on the in the army it's not all about taking a weapon in your hand. army training is definitely way stricter than the school curriculum but this experience gave me a new perspective on things. group. as well i think military service is something good this creates unity around the country but serve and should be optional. at the moment the total seems quite crazy person they say it would be obligatory then they say not. do you know the french national anthem at all. while french military experts told us he doesn't expect them. to work out. burn

mccall is no paying you know one of it is a secret he did during come pain talking about three all six months is a concentration and couldn't work because to teach the basic no ages to the basic skills to a soldier it needs many mom three months is it's impossible to make something useful for a. modern army like the french army where there is a many high technical systems not sorry stories like this thursday night here from moscow by the way by the minute updates can be found on our twitter page and i'm back in thirty minutes more global news from r.t. h.q. .

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cornett welcome to well it's a part of the marathon call issue negotiations germany's ruling parties have agreed on a compromise that may just be scuppered by social democrats rank and file constituents is this top go for in forming a new government a sign of dracula or birthing tanks or something extraordinary happening in german politics while to discuss that i'm now joined by her didn't call a veteran german politician and former prime minister of saxony mr bindon cough it's an honor talking to you thank you very much for your time the makeup of the future german government is still very much up in the air even though a provisional deal has been agreed upon i wonder what does your intuition tell you do you think the asp e d voters a likely to endorse this deal. finally the voters specially the rotors

on the part of the social democratic party. who. decided to ask all the members. agree to the negotiated to. negotiate to corporations between the social democrats and the grocer democrats. i think that it will work people who are waiting finally rating restlessly said that the government should be formed as fast as possible now if these deal stands joe many will get the same all that political arrangement the same grand coalition that got friend joe many sense two thousand and thirteen even though the very difficulty of forming this government stems from the fact that german of politics has changed and the election results do demonstrate that do you think it's a good idea in principle to have the same all political arrangement when the

politics has changed so much no it's not it's not a good idea. it because it came along because it seemed very difficult to form a government because we didn't have a two party system it would very much easily work one way or the other but we have an open system where everybody who has more than five five percent of the electorate on its side can be will be a member of or will be represented in the parliament now we had small parties really have large larger parties but one of the facts is that the cd you see is sure talk about the christian democrats and the social democrats had lost in the that asked election and that was really

a trend of the two parties for instance in ny and in the seventy's or eighty's where the main major party and one additional party the freedom of right now we have a mixture of parties and to form a government if neither. her of the parties has it dominated. is dominating and saw as if you have to have two or three partners work together and that's difficult and why is that so difficult for the christian democrats are still the main one of the dominant parties to enlist the support of the smaller players well the social democrats very uncertain as to. continue their come the combination with christian democrats even though the democrat christian democrats did not have

a majority or needed two of the parties at least for a majority. were inviting the social democrats support to support it but in this participation doing the last couple of legislative periods the social democrats lost and fluence. and that's one of the reasons i did want to rejoin with the christian democrats i got it from your article is that there is a lot of disagreement in germany about the extent of the social bird and the state has to take upon itself and for example you had a very interesting idea that one of the reasons why the support for the a of do you was so strong they alternative for germany was the kind of resentment towards the state assuming more social obligations including towards the migrants the migrant question to the immigration question the immigration question and the

review she question have raised considerable resistance in the within the population because there's a very uncertain condition as to how to integrate this influx. of a great number of people. emanating coming from areas in this world which have a very different. way of life different attitudes different religions said or a cetera and i'm not necessarily or are not at all from or were from european origin so the population will have to adapt to different composition of the population and that makes it very difficult to

know a great number of people in a very short period of time to enter germany is this is one of the basic issues. issues that the fifty as you mentioned it's has been built into a party has taken an issue with that one thing that up sad and frightened to many about the latest german elections was the success of the alternative for germany or the a of d. which pollan meant for the first time and people who dislike the a.v. usually referred to it as xena folbigg or even fascist but you make an interesting point and one of your articles that one of the factors driving the support for the a of d. was this sense of resentment about the expanding social obligations including towards many thousands of migrants do you think the critics and the detractors of the appreciate these social grievance enough. that there are

very different issues one of the issues is that germany has an older population so the words the younger generation is much smaller than for instance they are under generation when i had my family and my children. so there is. aging german population and the aging german population will need. young people from abroad from other countries if it wants to maintain its present industrial and konami strength. so there would be a great. nor an important reason to have foreign young people into germany on the other hand the older population has great info and has great

difficulty to adept to a substantial change of their calm decision of the german population as we have different levels of inflicting. interest or. or influx of difficult adjustments now i heard you say in the one of your interviews that one of chancellor merkel's motivations and lasting migrants in such large numbers was precisely to address germany's long term demographic problem just as you said the shortage in the labor force as well as the increase in the elderly population but and that may seem like a viable policy option but do you think the german people have were even asked why they they want to pursue that truth and did they have to be asked whether they want

to follow that policy option well they've they're being asked in the context of elections and since we have elections both in the state and on the nation level as on the state level of sixteen states. and they are not all the same time we have a very. very interesting and operative. way to find out what the population think but the the real problem that we have is that the refugees were not coming into germany. to the small of german younger population they were fleeing from from wars and the issue was a moral one not an economic one when.