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welcome back to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing what's next for syria. ok let me go back to mohammed into and i mean i started out by talking about this conference that's scheduled for istanbul that will have a turkey russia and iran mohamed it's really interesting what's going on with turkey here because again they're butting heads with the us in northern syria and i'm not giving any and justification for the illegal invasion of syria by turkey but the interesting gambit that is being played out here is the two most important countries in nato are at odds with each other in a third country that has nothing to do with nato nato spear of influence is put it that way. the interesting thing is that you see the turks are really looking at

different options right now ok i'm not convinced they're the most reliable partner but a lot of people feel that way including nato and so we'll see i think we're seeing a real drift here i don't think turkey would give up nato they would want something forward ok a lot of people are saying they're going to walk away and i know they'll leverage their way one way or another but that's really the changing shifting sands of what's going on because of this proxy war in syria go ahead and. well trump actually promised the turkish president that the u.s. will stop. the the wife which is carefully at a terrorist organization that's killed many turks. and then almost immediately afterwards the military in the united states started to make noises that we will continue to support the democratic forces which basically is

a front for the y p t and the p.k. k. and so it's one wonders who's in charge example united states in this sort of reminds one of what happened in two thousand and sixteen when the u.s. administration and the u.s. secretary of state at that time he made an agreement with the russians and then almost immediately afterwards as you order adulatory or bomb syrian government positions in beirut who are killing almost one hundred syrian soldiers and and immediately afterwards isis attacked their positions and took those positions as if they were. as if they knew what was about to happen so the united states is i think it's unclear who's in charge but we do know that trump has given the huge amount of authority to the military and the people in charge right now in the united states the sort of joint mcmaster calley and there are there are close friend. petraeus these people. they are

revisionists alice a crook of congress conflicts forum the head of conflicts form wrote a very interesting article recently showing how these people maddest as well that these people are revisionists vietnam revisionists and they believe that if the united states army had been the not armed forces had been given the authority to you know destroy north vietnam that they would have won the war and if it wasn't for the politicians and the military command the united states could have won so these are the sort of people with that sort of mentality and i think that that may partially be part of the reason why they're taking such a hard stand well it's a northern syria it's very i think a nobody but america it's very interesting there yes. it's very interesting though that if harry truman would have given macarthur that kind of authority we would have had the third world war. it's the general's report out of the politician but

if the politician is a wall and i think that's the case right now this is what we get when you go tomorrow in beirut let's go a little bit closer to home to you there's a lot of open chatter right now with israel's heightened involvement i mean it's you know what is it over the even the last year it is the legally. violated syria's airspace and looks like now the syrians are not accepting that and they're making it very clear but there's a lot of talk chatter that israel is eyeing another war against hezbollah again fighting a war against lebanon and it seems this all kind of goes into it because that is the paradigm. in iran that's their narrative right here interestingly enough you have the united states based in syria as well i mean all the puzzle pieces seem to be coming together go ahead and beirut. yes i definitely agree with that specially after the blow that was taken by the israeli occupation air force on saturday when the jet when the f.

sixteen jet was downed by the syrian arab army over a syrian land i mean they were hoping for some kind of award to start whether in the southern part of syria or with lebanon for that matter but after that head they are now thinking a thousand times before they do so even at dawn on thursday this week surveyed and strong was sent from israel into syrian territory and was also attacked by the syrian missile system i'm sorry at the end of the system and they fled they went back into palestinian occupied territory so now even a drone a service drone is not being able to go and attack the sovereignty of syria for that matter now when we talk about a possible war between hezbollah and the israeli entity i don't think that the front would be this this time. part of lebanon the southern border with occupy palestine i think that the syrian golan heights would be the great place that we should all put our eyes into because first of all that's an occupied territory second of all it has been for the past six years at least where the resistance the

armed forces of the resistance whether hezbollah or other allies have been putting their efforts in there to try and start some sort of a new front with the israeli entity because that's the front that israel is most a very tough. so it's continue with syria here i mean when we hear again from the trumpet ministration assad must go here i mean what is that what does that mean is that the justification for the united states to say in syria because it's that we started out the program in why does the united states want to stay in syria and not make peace in leave like everybody wants them to leave everyone including their sometimes on our friends in iraq go ahead in london . peter i agree with you there from italy that an american military presence in syria and iraq actually is not legitimate one now that syrians and the iraqi are calling for the americans to pull out their troops

because they don't want them anymore simply because they were there to fight the islamic state there is no more islamic state as they pretended or as they were talking about now the situation is completely different about two weeks ago the israeli media was talking about some sort of agreement between the united states and israel to destabilize iran and syria and it seems that that downing of the israeli f. sixteen s on this on the syrian out of a city in that attack actually it means that it is a clear message from russia to the united states to israel that we are not going to hit you or go ahead with this plans to destabilize so it's nice to have allies iran and syria so i think the american will face a huge trouble that our russia as an election now is strong there and russia has the upper hand in syria turkey is standing against america saying that you stopped

us in the back you will see you not five times more vietnam experience and syria and in the region so it's the syria now actually threatening that any israeli warplanes violated their airspace will be shut down so i believe it is it is tension but that the three major power superpower in the region iraq turkey sorry see it on that and that i share they are actually waiting for the american to do something stupid and i believe when hezbollah got about a hundred and fifty thousand missiles and we don't know how many. thousands or one hundred thousand. and that on arsenal or in the theater i believe that there is huge now and we have to wait for ideas to unfold confidence and it will be. what i think also that the two the two tripping points the tipping points that i'm worried

about is israel attacking lebanon again i mean if you listen to israeli military officials active duty and retired it's full on the airwaves of course it's never reported in western media never report it never hear about that mohammad let me go i'll go to you i mean if you look at the israeli criticism and justification for its violation of syrian airspace the los recent spat it's all because iran has bases supplies there they are if it was if syria doesn't even exist ok but of course it doesn't exist in the minds of really foreign policy makers it doesn't at all there are no sovereign countries around israel there's places where you could go metal but that's what when i looked at the response it of course it was echoed like a stone auger for in washington d.c. they said exactly the same thing as the israelis but it's really directed against iran and. adel said something

a few minutes ago waiting for the americans to do something stupid well the stupid thing would be in conjunction with israel attacking around go ahead. well the israelis like to use iran as a scapegoat to justify their aggression on neighboring countries and also subjugate the palestinian people is very similar to what it's for apartheid regime in south africa used to do when they were demonized they end the now and mandela and they were communists and in the west they passed laws against them too in the united states they in theory was a terrorist organization and so was president mandela when he was president the law wasn't changed so when he would go to the united nations general assembly he'd have to get special permission the present. south africa to enter the country because he was the head of. a terrorist organization so that's so by using communism apartheid south africa a person with those policies against neighboring countries and against the the african majority the black majority and israeli regime the apartheid regime just

the same but i think there is a big difference now today than before first of all israel israel does not have the mabel superiority that it had before its its trade is vulnerable to missiles from in the mediterranean its air superiority is questionable and i personally think that there are there are more advanced surface to air missiles out there that are being kept under lock and key in on the ground israelis have lost the war to hezbollah before and this time around you have syria two you have gaza and you have many people the people from the popular mobilization force in iraq who would come to the aid of syria and hezbollah there if there is a war and the government in lebanon unlike before is that is supports the resistance in southern lebanon so i don't think it is go at all a winnable war below and the one thing we can do and we're or i wouldn't rule it out to be much more devastating run out of time but with what we've discussed in

this program is certainly in the shifting sands in the region many thanks to my guests in london beirut and in iran and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie c.n.n. in remember something. in twenty four you know bloody revolution. the demonstrations going to be relatively peaceful political. protest to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know we hear a pretty meaningless book video a clue in the new bill is that idea splendid of the former ukrainian president

recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in this shit over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other calls that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. nation so most illusional me spokesmen. just music was there in the room with us which is this mission on the top of the new course is a. little bit slow up with just some us trying. to put down for us to gather some.

serious. stein is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos remember wolf it was dismissive to do it looking like you know that this isn't my cup of tea is going up up the study hall maybe a bit you know john i just hope they should the only palestinians who gets the most hopeful. those things. under the vision. and the design of the.

headlines on r.t. international the u.s. secretary of state it meets turkey's president as america begins to adjust its rhetoric regarding the conflict between ankara and the kurds in syria. the olympic spirit is being embraced by competitors from around the world at the winter games in south korea with rivals even helping each other out. proud to be able to help another nation. it always feels good when we get help from them as well. as french president. move out of the presidential palace which has been their home for decades.

right now turning midday here in moscow on this friday this is r.t. international a very warm welcome to you. the u.s. secretary of state is in turkey in an effort to mend ties with ankara rex tillerson has held talks last in more than three hours with president know one of the nato allies have been at odds over kurdish forces in syria in fact in the run up to the meeting the turkish defense minister made clear what i want from the united states . we demand that this relationship and by that i mean we want them to and all the support given to the syrian arm of the p.k. k. the y.p. . so let's take a closer look at the two groups just referred to by the turkish defense minister the p.k. k. is the kurdistan workers' party. he a group that's been fighting turkish authorities for more than thirty years and calls them a terror organization now the y p g on the other hand is a mostly kurdish militia based in syria and regards them as a branch of the p.k. k.

however the us led coalition sees the y.p. as allies now in january the pentagon announced it would be creating a kurdish led security force right on turkey's doorstep in northern syria in response and korea launched a military campaign against kurdish militias and korea has long been complaining about the us being serious kurds however washington insists that his weapons supplies are limited. we have never given heavy arms to the y p g so there's none to take but we need to arm and train and equip their pressure and help the kurdish government. and strong starch allies we should be using we should be doing the kurdish region to be the biggest. really proving to be the most reused long standing. of supporting the kurds or the peshmerga who are on the

front lines fighting because 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 didn't mandating that the united states and its support for these forces why does the u.s. continue to send weapons in syria even now to i suppose being clear why do these weapons still arrive at because you must be plotting against america is in the process of creating a terror army on i'll do it what we have to do is nip this terror army in the bud american 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 named for the military operation against those kurdish forces armed by the united states operation olive branch that'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. one expert told us that turkey is losing patience with washington and needs more than just words from its ally. actually there i don't know what united states want but in turkey the government and the people of turkey believe that it actually is of you are fed up with these words that's coming from america and this ain't good to be you know i understand the security teams of turkey at the same kurdish forces now is turkey is expecting there are some you know not promises to do something related to syria and if you are now this is not the way to any diplomatic source from the united states just want to keep his promises to deliver those

promises to turkey otherwise i think it doesn't work you know this kind of diplomatic meetings for turkey. one week since the winter olympics in south korea officially began and most have been embracing the olympic spirit but some fans have been resorting to making online threats to reports from pyongyang. unfortunately with these winter olympics the story has been that every other day yung chang treats the media with some sort of scandal so far perhaps one of the most disgusting ones for me was when a canadian short track speed skater was receiving death threats from the locals after she finished fourth first but then a south korean athlete was disqualified and then her position was upgraded to start place and that's when be ugly things started happening but you shouldn't get the

impression that the olympic games are doomed because in many sports there is such a spirit it's the kind of family spirit that goes first after nationality rivalry politics etc there was one good example when george cross country skiing competition a russian skier lost a part of his equipment and then an american coach rushed to help him out if the russian skier had to do this u. turn you don't come back to pick it up that would have been a disaster for the race but thanks to the american coach it didn't happen and we talked to the man in the cross country ski family is is exactly that it's a family we often benefit from russian or no region coach is giving our fleets of coal in a race and we'll do the same i would say it's very friendly when you walk by a russian athlete or coach will always say congratulations or if we've had a good race they will say congratulations to us three years ago and the entire

russian women's team came up to our hotel and had tea and cookies with our own her continue and not many people spoke the same language we know a few words of russian a couple of them they knew some more english than we knew russian but we had a great time and that it was one of those moments in my career that i remember well i guess what it comes to paul weyrich. call rivals russia and the us when it comes to helping each other out in sports it works both ways that here with me i got the silver medalist in luge british master who definitely knows what i'm talking about and he's ready to tell us about a story that happened to him a few months ago as far as a distant chris hi again congratulations and what's that story with the russian athlete i guess helping you out yeah i thank you very much it was a couple weeks ago where i was having

a very difficult last season people were starting to reach out and help me and there was a specific russian athlete he offered me help technical help with with my pod with with fiberglass with with aerodynamics and although it didn't work because i'm much larger than he is the fact that he was willing to reach out and help me in such like a desperate time shows that sport can bridge you know cultures it can bridge politics that we can connect on the human level through sports and that's that's really what embodies the olympics here is that so many countries are coming together connecting through sport and it really shows the power of the human spirit absolutely this is a small little step it takes a lot of people to get one of these and i can't think simulate enough for thinking about me and just trying to help me out and it's a time of need i am very close friends with with so many different russian athletes and yes there's been a lot of scandals and i'm really i can't wait for the day that we can move past this and we can just be right back to sport clean sport it's so easy to talk about

negative things but it's really difficult to highlight these positive situations you know who knows maybe one two a lympics this will all be behind us and we'll get right back to you know clean competition and a lot of fun. and four olympics athletes from russia it's another day and another medal the team has just won another bronze. spitz. and his race. last hour bronze is the seventh medal for the olympic athletes from russia team. now the winter olympics are not the only major sporting event you might want to follow this year with the football world cup now just months away r.t. host stan collymore looks into the history of one legendary football club that despite its enormous influence on the game never actually hit the big time. which could spoil all white kicks. which gave place to

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