he is in syria fighting against kurdish forces kurdish forces that have been armed by the united states now it turns out a number of the forces in the s d f have actually relocated they've essentially gone to a wall from their position elsewhere in the country and gone to northern syria to fight against the turkish military turkey is demanding that kurdish forces be expelled from the anti islamic state fighting force led by the united states in syria however in the past we've heard u.s. leaders quite adamant about their support for the kurds the coalition's more can join with the syrian democratic forces to establish and train the new syrian border security force approximately two hundred 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 i'll do it 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 it's actually amazing for the military operation against those kurdish forces are in 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 science professor says turkey now wants the u.s. to deliver on his promises. we are fed up with these words that's coming from

america by mistake good to be you know i understand security teams of turkey at the big terrorist group there is you know not only diplomatic scientists those from the united states just want to keep its promises to deliver those promises to turkey related to africa. especially in member otherwise i think it doesn't work you know this kind of diplomatic meetings for turkey. u.s. intelligence chiefs are advising citizens to stay away from chinese smartphones that include said t. and huawei off the concerns were raised they're being used by beijing to spy on americans but 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. not of your generation thank you for that all the brands mentioned there are some of the biggest names in mobile communications worldwide said t. is market share puts the company in eighth place globally one way makes the top three and while worry is investing heavily to break the duopoly of market leaders samsung and apple. where holloway has big names advertising its phones like football star lionel messi actress scarlett johansson and henry cavill who played superman in the latest movies. but only last week a conversation between two f.b.i.

officials was leaked in which they pointed out apple's ability to track users tech consultant tung chee is right says the warning from u.s. intelligence chiefs is ironic given the activities of america's own agencies anything's possible interims america we just don't know but given the size of the trade relationship between the two i think they'd have to be very cautious about damaging that seriously electronics one of the or 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. market without making a evidence 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. the un assistance mission in afghanistan has released its annual report saying the country has seen a year high in civilian casualties although losses are lower than the previous year twenty seventeen marks the fourth year of more than ten thousand civilian deaths and injuries the report also says a fifth of these were caused by pro-government forces and international troops. but i must emphasize that two thousand and seventeen was the fourth consecutive year where the mission recorded more than ten thousand civilian casualties pro-government forces which include afghan national security forces international military forces and pro-government armed groups were responsible for twenty percent of civilian casualties. where u.s.

forces have now been in afghanistan for over sixteen years and during that time over two thousand american soldiers have been killed well over two trillion dollars has been spent on operations in the country so far last august president unveiled a new strategy for resolving the conflict calling for a fifty percent increase in u.s. troop strength also an activist david swanson says negotiation rather than force is the way out of the afghan quanta these are civilian deaths that are absolutely unnecessary in a war initiated by the united states at a time when the taliban was willing to negotiate just as it is now appealing to the us public the taliban for all its hideous flaws and crimes is absolutely right to try to reach the us public the question is whether we can find the media outlets including this one that can manage to reach the us public with that proposal and whether the u.s.

public can have any sway over their so-called representatives here in washington that's the big question you know but the white house has made very clear that it does not want to listen the taliban doesn't represent the people of afghanistan and who need to find a solution to the taliban but they will find that solution more quickly when the u.s. stops exacerbating the problem. well meanwhile 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 homeland artie's polly boyko spoke to an afghan interpreter who spacing 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 will depend differently because abdul barry was a front line interpreted 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 wants 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 a target for local taliban forces that was a phone call from my from my father and a letter put in my door so we 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 raided on my family my father and my mom and my dad so on that time when that happened he was completely angry and all the problems happened to me is just because of you creating problems for us with his and his family's lives in danger abdul was forced to flee i did i had enough 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 word help 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. b s's 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 lot abdul's best friend how much managed to win hash much 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 didn't buy one visa for every interpreters who spend time over the telephone isn't it seventy per cent you know going to be almost all it will be able to be you're searching for people. that they were would. call me. but need 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 you googled mark martin the woman the human being. told move a very. few of the challenging part. of the work that no one. should be told me but i have a full. view of the rugby. afoot we should go to people we would trust the rules. and if we. would need a bus tour we were all abdul can do now is wait for his final appeal against deportation to be considered to by the home office. this problem turf either in

afghanistan. or the same cause there was a big third for me the taliban and here i have a very bad depression my depression is getting worse so my life and nothing could happen to me polly boyko r t greater manchester officially the u.k. government says it investigates every claim of intimidation and considers all cases on an individual basis. the white house has blamed russia for a large scale ransomware a tank which targeted a number of countries last june including russia that comes after the danish ministry of defense also says russia was responsible for the attack while the british government has also made the same accusation but foreign office minister lord our man who made the statements couldn't actually confirm it was done to moscow the u.k.'s national cybersecurity center assesses that the russian military was almost certainly responsible for the destructive not patch of cyber attack of

june twenty seventh. well as we heard there the malware behind the attack is called not pressure the first reports of the cyber attack came from ukraine but quickly spread around the world it's believed not pet your hacked at least two thousand organizations including transport systems banks and hospitals russia the u.k. the us germany and france were all affected political commentator adam gary says making russia the scapegoat is all the rage. it's just a trend it's a it was communists were everywhere in the fifty's then it was everyone who's a muslim is somehow a danger now it's russians maybe next month it will be the chinese but since russia and china are our allies maybe they can both be the scapegoats of the failures of western governments to actually do their job for their own citizens so yes it absolutely is a trend in the allegations continue to get more and more absurd there's only one thing in fact that is consistent about these allegations and that's that they don't

lead to any tangible evidence there's an allegation there's a giant question mark and then those anti russian saying sions anti russian statements the persecution of russian individuals but to get from step one to step three that crucial step to evidence is always missing. well the russian embassy in london has reacted to the accusations saying there is no proof moscow is to blame the statement of foreign office minister lord is like many other similar accusations not backed by any evidence it is another example of irresponsible and hostile rhetoric of british officials towards russia. now there are two unusual teams at this year's winter olympics one is the united squad for north and south korea competing together for the first time in twelve years while the other is a limping kathleen's from russia known as a are competing under

a neutral flag q to the disputed don't think scandal outings are some spectators whether they recognize the russian team's 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 ok r after 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 half really really to get a sense for the russian north koreans are doing north korea russia the russians the food there will be here because they do that if you lose the olympics and then something of a limp think athletes of russia why would you chant if you wore an oil our team supporter oh oh oh oh oh we've come from really before on our. own. leg you see some people say a russian animal can make it sound like that there you go russian fair 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. live you know you're trying to go archie and young chang. i'll be back with the latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on or about stories.

off to mars than coalition negotiations germany's two largest parties to provisionally agreed on a compromise that may yet all three. of these difficulties a sign of something major going wrong in german politics of the birthing pangs of the country's fourth brown coalition. if north korea really believes we're about to conduct a preemptive strike on this could be a significant and a serious preemptive strike that may. they may be motivated to make it to try to be just the fights have the first. one on one with the controversial form o'mara kopel county sheriff joe arpaio on this edition of politics.

i'm larry king joe are piled in often controversial former sheriff of maricopa county arizona is back in the public eye running for the u.s. senate seat being vacated by jeff flake a frequent critic of donald trump who by the way gave a full and complete pardon to share of a pile after a contempt of court conviction so there's all pile expect from to campaign from let's find out as joe our biled joins us from phoenix why are you running joe. well you know i still have some life left larry just like you do and i'm not going to surrender one day you'll find out the real story it was a missed the meter contempt of court same as a barking dog so i'll be getting into the biased federal court and the apartment of justice very soon but i want to keep doing what i can to to defend and help the people of arizona and also to support the president's policies agenda

and i'll be doing a one termer these six years and the president and i will probably be leaving at the same time how many years state you know there's just. there's a publicly expressing concern that you bring some baggage and that if you win the nomination of your party the party could be defeated in november how do you react to that well first of all i've been around a long time larry i've had the fortune it's to deal with you over to yours and you've always been a fair guy i always respected you so i like to think that the people of arizona and this country respect is sure of. the insurer twenty four years longest in the history of america county plus you know my history with the federal government all over the world so i have a lot to offer to go to washington not be

a rubber stamp to still since i won't be running again. i'm not going to make a career so i don't have to be raising money the minute you get elected and dealing with lobbyists. i still want to give something back i have a lot of great ideas and that's always going to be ok you've been encouraged by others to drop drop out in favor of kelly ward a tea party favorite. the next sally a member of the congress who and she's the preferred candidate as. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. you think it's going to be rough running against them. you know i don't go against my opponents i always run a positive campaign i always go to the people i don't have people who endorse me all the president's guys run a president the governors always want my endorsement so i'll ask for endorsement people know who i am. compare my fifty

a year resume serving my country. versus my opponents but so i go on my resume what i've done my common sense and what i feel i can bring to our people here in arizona and to the country and to the president do you suspect i know you don't ask for endorsements but do you expect president trump to endorse you as the endorse more in alabama. you know what i was with the president from day one you know in july of two thousand and fifteen i predicted i still i have great. confidence and he's my hero always will be not because of the pardon not asked for that that was a little misdemeanor contempt a core i'm not going to get into all of the right now but you'll know very soon what the backdrop was. so poor him i know he's going through the same thing i'm going through have gone through so i support him i won't be

a rubber stamp for we have any problems are going to backroom with and we'll discuss those problems but do you expect him to endorse you i have no idea. not asking for but you know if he did it be an honor but. as the decision he has to make he's got big problems in washington and fight in the bureaucracy in the swamp and everything else so i don't know what deal making and what's going on with him and other elements like congress senate and so on do you like do you dislike being compared to judge roy moore. i don't even know what that kind of action is well they say you have the same political opinions as judge moore you. don't see any comparison what political thing i just force in the laws i've been around

a long time. in force and what i took an oath of office to do so i haven't been i'm not a one issue guy legal immigration let's get into some issues. the russian investigation do you support any effort by the president to fire robert mon . i can't make that decision right now. he's going through situations that i. going through in directly to facts what's going on in washington his situation so i'll be talking about that very soon so i don't know if he's we should never underestimate the president he's pretty good at what he does and we'll see what decisions he makes i do know and i think everybody else knows he's not bashful vs make decisions he'll do it so this is something i can't

comment i don't know all the details i know a few of the details of that situation do you support a border wall i support a border wall i have because of my what fifty five years fighting the drug traffic in mexico or been all over the world i think we have to keep the drugs. coming in from mexico we have an epidemic so i support the wall not just for illegal immigration but keep the drugs out of our country and i think that's very critical these days would you have voted for the tax cut tax cut is great. great people now are spending more money and so in a perception i'm sure they're going to get the money but the economy is going on is going great stocks and bonds are great so he's done a great job but sometimes it isn't get the credit but he'll continue to do a good job as time goes on do you favor legalization of marijuana.

no i don't i do i wish there was something more we could do with a medical dispensary help our veterans people who are sick i still can't understand why you can't go to a drug store on a prescription and get to this type of drug but. the medical dispensary is i kind of support it if it can help the. sick people but i don't support. using or selling marijuana. across our nation actually it's against the laws against the federal law anyway the president's infrastructure plan. it's a major plan but it would put a lot of burden on i resign the taxpayers do you think of the infrastructure plan. you may build in our bridges and highways you know of course i don't know what i

have to pay it's a load well you know it's very important these highways by ways bridges and so on this is our great country we got to keep it going we give billions away to foreign countries maybe we go out of star use and money to help our own country and it's very important to keep the highways go on in the bridges you name it so i'm for i'm honored per cent on that one it puts people to to work. you favor funding for opioid addiction treatment yeah of course i do course i do out there my fifty fifty five years all over the world fighting the drug traffic we have to do something larry this is destroying our nation but you and i we've lived through this throughout our careers and years about the drug traffic everybody talks about doing something instead we have drug traffic out there after all these years so we have to do something different and i'm sure there's one guy who could do that as

the president of the box he has different opinions and normal bureaucrats you know . how about the dreamers sheriff doc should they have a path to citizenship that's a tough one larry. it's a tough one but i have my own i did and nobody will listen to. what i think well i think we ought to deport them when you could you come across. the dreamers send it back where they came from because you and i go back to president kennedy the peace corps volunteers went up in the mountains i would like to see the dreamers go back to their country and be embassadors for our country pass the word and also learn their own country and then eventually maybe six months or so back across the border give them the green card and won't have to worry about amnesty or

anything else so i think it's a win win situation but nobody wants to talk about it but i will they did come here they didn't wasn't that decision they came with five years old six up as you know i know it's still a violation of the law so let's see what happens i wouldn't bet on the decision larry i wouldn't bet on congress company up with a decision they haven't done it for twenty years every time there's an election they get around making a decision on illegal immigration so i won't bet on this one either so you would have the dreamers go back and be like. piece called for america and mexico yeah we have religious groups to go over there on missions they go over there is they don't get paid or anything and they and it's great to have our young people to go back and active bass waters and mainly to look we find out what country they came from they don't even know where they came from so i think it's

a win win situation if i get into the senate i'm going to keep pushing that because i don't think anything's going to be settled. this time around i may be wrong should john kelly resign i'm not the president not going to get into the bureaucracy of the white house i know most of the people i work with when i was helping on the campaign so i just don't like the president being. you know controlling try to control people to talk to him i've always had an open door policy with me anybody can talk to me so why can't the president talk to some people that he wants to talk to and not being blocked out but you know that's a bureaucracy when she got the power you try to isolate the boss in. that situation occurs and nothing new going on but i don't.