by the syrian arab army and its allies why because they don't want them to advance furthermore to the areas where they are keep i was the oil rich obviously oil rich areas and there is storage as well they want to keep away from as the so-called s.d.f. which we don't have real information about except the fact that they were isis members that evaporated and then there was something different for you so we have all the kurds that we are talking about here so it's really interesting and it's really it's really amazing how they suddenly evaporate you know they're just terrible if that out that's what happens here ok bellamy let me go to you here i mean this is the united states i mean it's interesting the area of northern syria there that's really serious all is ok and denying syria the ability to rebuild is not a fact you know telling the entire world that they will be sanctioned if you give money to the government in damascus to rebuild another round of sanctions against

rebuilding a country that the united states has a great deal of responsibility for destroying in the first place go ahead in london well i believe united states realized they were defeated in syria been a project in syria was completely defeated russia got hands. i mean could be that the building of syria again so at least building needs money and syria needs the oil guys which is. where the oil fields are situated so it seems that america would like to prevent syria prevent the russian from actually putting their hands on the old reserves as a reserve so i don't think they will succeed here i have a lot of. information saying that the next stage could be actually a war against american forces in syria and also in iraq so if this happened. happened after about american occupation of iraq in two thousand and

three i think this would be the phosphate thing to united states i believe but i sure wouldn't affect any five it's second feiss and actually that heavy price which they paid in syria says that two thousand and fifty and they love it they pay that money let me tell you they would include them anyway when they let me jump in we're going to go to a short break and i'd like to point out to everyone since the pentagon the can do anything it wants because it has more money than god right now it is no longer a political issue in the united states that's a tragedy we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on what's next for syria's state. seemed wrong. but i will say just don't hold. me. to

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measuring stick with a constant neck to. welcome back to cross talk where all things are 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 sphere of influence has put it that way. the interesting thing is that you see the turks are 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 include. nato and so will so i'm i think we're seeing a real drift here i don't think turkey would give up nato they would want something for it ok a lot of people are saying they're going to walk away from one of the rebels will 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 into iran well trump actually promised the turkish president that the u.s. will stop funding the the wife e.g. which is the p k k affiliate a terrorist organization that's killed many turks and then almost immediately afterwards the military in the united states started to make noise 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 are her. bomb syrian government positions and they are those 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 of their close friend . petraeus these people. they are revisionist alice are crook of congress conflicts forum the head of conflicts form wrote a very interesting article recently showing how. these people are mad at us as well that these people are our revisionist vietnam revisionists and they believe that if the united states army had in the not armed forces had been given the authority to 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 but 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 and well it's a northern syria it's very i think a nobody but it's very it's very interesting 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 in 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 to morrow 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 air space 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 has a law 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 in beirut. yes i definitely agree with that specially after the blow that was taken by the israeli occupation air force on saturday when when the f. sixteen jet was downed by the syrian arab army over occupied syrian land and 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 serving the strong was sent from israel into syrian territory and was also attacked by the syrian missile system i'm sorry the aircraft system and the fled they went back into palestinian occupied territories so now even a drone a survivor the strong one is not being able to go 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 time the southern part of lebanon the southern border with occupied 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 of rate of. its continue with syria here i mean when we hear again from the trumpet ministration assad must go here i mean what does that mean is that the justification for the united states to say 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 to leave everyone including their sometimes on our friends in iraq go ahead in london. peter i agree with you there phonetically that 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 where to find that 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 sorry. relies a around and syria so i think the american will face

a huge trouble that are russia as last year now is strong there and russia has the upper hand in syria turkey is standing against america saying that your staff does in the back you will see you not five times more vietnam experience and syria and in the region so 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. that. tacky 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 in this field but what i think also that the two to 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 and of course it was echoed like a stenographer 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 it would be in conjunction with israel attacking around go ahead. well the israeli is like to use iran as a scapegoat to justify their aggression on neighboring countries and also 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 and the 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 by using communism apartheid

south africa a person with those policies against neighboring countries and the guns of 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 are there if there is a war and the government in lebanon unlike before is the supports the resistance in

southern lebanon so i don't think it is cool at all a winnable war and the one thing we can do we're or i wouldn't run out of much more devastating 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 dark you see in x. time and remember. if you agree or really believes we're about to conduct a preemptive strike it's going to be a significant and a serious preemptive strike that may. they may be motivated to make it to try to visas. twenty fourteen. a bloody revolution to achieve the demonstrations going to be relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always

spontaneous or is it just no war here i mean your list with video and the bill is that i new school in the middle of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four g. and. those who took. invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. palestine is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos a member of the commission to do loving you i can hear you this is in my capacity is going out local study hall maybe you know john tells. me the only palestinians who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterpart i don't think there's some of those who are under the oak vision not only can do this

. and know it is unfair advantage to have this lady of the muscle that you have i'm going to compete in the gaza machine to do more. but result. on a visit to ankara america's top diplomat attempts to improve worsening relationships with the key nato ally turkey that's the tensions grow in syria and the potential clashes between turkish and american troops. feeling the experience is being embraced by competitors from around the world at the winter games in south korea with blindfolds helping each other. resist specific russian athletes he offered me help or technical help the fact that he was willing. to reach out and help me in such desperate time shows that sport can bridge cultures it can bridge politics.

and a new report into alleged russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election claims popular american media outlets were in directly involved in meddling themselves. watching r.t. international live from our moscow studio with me and if you are welcome to the program the u.s. secretary of state is in turkey in an effort to mend ties with ankara rex tillerson has already met with the presidents and erdogan as well as the country's foreign minister the nato allies have been at odds over washington support for kurdish militias in syria and angry that the u.s. backed groups which turkey calls terrorists practice and trying to ease tensions by claiming the support is limited however this does not seem to be enough for ankara

. always been clear with turkey that the weapons provided to the very forces would be limited missions. provided only. to achieve dilatory objectives all we demand that this relationship and by that i mean we want them to and all the support given to the syrian army of the p.k. k. the white b.g. let's take a closer look now at the two groups just referred to by the defense minister the p.k. k. is the kurdistan workers' party a group fighting turkish authorities for more than thirty years both ankara and washington consider them a terrorist organization on the other hand american turkey have different opinions on the syria based kurdish militia called the people's protection units all the white p.g. regards it as a branch of the p.k. k. and therefore terrorists but the us led coalition sees the wipe e.g. as allies in the fight against islamic state in syria in january the pentagon and

it was creating a kurdish led security force right on turkey's doorstep in northern syria in response ankara launched a military campaign against kurdish militia they're threatening a direct clash with american forces well we're going to discuss this a little bit further get our correspondent artie's caleb moore pin we've been following the story caleb has to assume his visit to the turkish capital produced any specific results as of yet. well it's too soon to tell now at the moment there has been agreement to normalize relations between the two countries and the principle disagreement between the two countries being the united states' support for the kurdish forces in syria that seems to be the primary disagreement now turkey says that any support for these groups which it considers to be terrorists is completely unacceptable washington says that at this

point it's only limited support that's necessary in the fight against i still so this key disagreement doesn't seem to be anywhere near being resolved there is talk of forming working groups to discuss this issue but another point of disagreement did come up during the meetings and that is the purchase of s four hundred missiles by turkey from russia turkey purchases these missiles from russia and then under a new sanctions bill the united states turkey would face sanctions for making these purchases and now the officials from the united states tillerson they were very clear that the target of this new sanctions bill was not washington's allies like turkey but rather russia however in remarks from tillerson he did indicate that turkey should reconsider purchasing military hardware from russia this is what tillerson said. to them as a solution was not your fruits of allies but it is directed at russia for

its center for elections so we've been advising countries around the world as to what the impact of their relationship and purchases that there might be consider with russia maybe reconsider those that have decided to not proceed with. now the challenge of the meeting is certainly optimistic with both sides seeming to want there to be a reconciliation and a term of understanding between washington and ankara wanting to resolve differences however the principle point of disagreement specifically the u.s. support for kurdish forces that issue doesn't seem to be anywhere near being resolved ok artist giving us an update on that story thanks the u.s. is relying on kurds while trying to violate the sovereignty of syria and separate a piece of its territory that's the view of russia's foreign minister in a recent interview. u.s. special forces and other units are on the ground in syria illegally without any

invitation from damascus actually from the legitimate government or any u.n. security council mandate. it's understood that the u.s. probably has some kind of strategy which i think means in syria forever with its own forces they want to do the same in iraq and afghanistan contrary to all their previous promises they already sparking a situation where a huge part of syrian territory would be separated from the rest of the country violating the sovereignty of the syrian arab republic they are creating quite a local ruling bodies all the time trying to give them some kind of autonomous composition relying on. what. is now weeks as the winter olympics in south korea officially began and while there have been some touching stories to help and support sporting a controversy and then also making the headlines it has more to tell.

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 the ugly things started happening but you shouldn't get the impression that the olympic games are doomed because in many sports there is such family 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

russians here had to do this u. turn you don't come back to pick it up that would have been a disaster for him and the race but thanks to the american coach it didn't happen and we talked to the men 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 athletes a pole 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 most of the entire russian women's team came up to our hotel in head to 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 when it comes to pole winning. coal rivals russia and the u.s. helping each other out in force it works both ways and here with me i got the silver medalist in luge chris 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 it is said chris hi again congratulations and what's that story was the russian athlete i guess helping you out yeah thank you very much who is 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 like technical help with with my pod with with fiberglass with with aerodynamics and although it didn't work because a 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 in 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 see 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 lympics this will all be behind us and we'll get right back to you know clean competition and a lot of fun. staying with slides related sponsor russia's team of athletes of out of the silver to that tally and it was a medal that.