as well as the country's foreign minister the nato allies have been at odds over washington support for kurdish militias in syria and is angry the u.s. banks groups that turkey calls terrorists to listen trying to ease tensions by claiming the support is limited however this does not seem to be enough to appease ankara. always been clear with turkey that the weapons provided to the democratic forces would be limited mission specific provided only if a little beige is to achieve military objectives only 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. the white b.g. well let's take a closer look at the two groups the defense minister was referring to there 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 however america and turkey have different views on the

syrian based kurdish militia called the people's protection units or the white petri anchor regarded as a branch of the p.k. k. and therefore terrorists but the us led coalition sees the white p.g. as allies in the fight against islamic state in syria. well in january the pentagon announced it was creating a kurdish led security force on turkey's doorstep in northern syria and in response ankara launched a military campaign against kurdish militias they're threatening a direct clash with american forces went to listen arrived in the turkish capital he was met by a large number of protests against his visit earlier we spoke to the president of the kurdistan national assembly in syria of us he believes the differences between the u.s. and turkey will be hard to resolve. so u.s. knows clearly that turkey has a lot of support for islamist groups in the only way to stop that is using the

kurds working with the kurds therefore you will see the differences are they will continue in turkey if they want to resolve this issue not by attacking the kurds of syria and killing children and women and this is something that i think the u.s. administration knows turkey is to crush the kurds not to stop isis or element of that nature so therefore they will this issue will remain. on friday moscow was shocked by the sudden death of a three year old girl in a local kindergarten the cause of her death is still unclear artist and hawkins has the story. what exactly happened at kindergarten twenty one twenty here behind me is still under investigation at this stage what we do know is that there are two main versions of events being looked into some local moscow media were quick to report that the children were taken out for a walk and upon their return to the kindergarten it was discovered that one of them

three year old zahra a desire was found to be missing the workers here at the nursery the nanny's start to find only to discover her unconscious in the snow and by the time the paramedics arrived it was too late to save the child in these freezing conditions it's understandable how that could have happened and now the kindergarten have denied this version of events outright they say that the group of twenty five children was taken out for a walk they were under constant supervision by workers this nursery. one of the girls are desirable was taken ill she was provided with first aid at the scene by the nursery workers an ambulance was called but tragically it was too late to save the little girl's life now we've seen what we presume to be plain clothes the tech there is coming to us from the nursery looking into these versions we've also spoken to some parents have been picking up their children as the nurseries closed many of whom have said that they are in shock and would never have believed that such an incident could have occurred when everyone here is very kind i think what

happened is just a fatal incident nothing that you know they look after children very well my child is always happy this is more difficult every day i see ness is looking after children take them everywhere together how could this disaster happen according to them they've had no complaints of the professionalism and over the level of service provided at the nursery and they're just as in shock presumably as the local community. and the u.n. bank government in libya has reported they formed a team to assess infrastructure damage in the city of sirte the war ravaged portress where i asked terrorists shot some of the most gruesome videos it was liberated more than a year ago but local still fear for their lives as the threats are jihadist returning to the area looms large. ah. and that's i think.

just because. there's a big. loser everywhere the ground the food in the in the complex and it should be shown that it is full of completely out of. mashed into the ground . and it's impressive even though it's been destroyed. as you can see here is that the state flag has been drawn on the side of this chair. and the limits of the area is completely destroyed and there is no local or international assistance for the population there are fears that ice will return to the share your again and be entrenched in after the one year war.

people were displaced from this area even after the return the can find their homes because of the must struction there is no house left intact especially because of the four planes and almost everyone knows that i still wasn't sonus any moment to say subcircuits and it's been the center of a stronghold in the city surrounded by mountains and valleys and noise so it's always been that. while the president of the red cross says not enough international attention is being paid to libya despite the country's devastating crises. i've been in libya for the last three days and what you can see is that certain parts of the country are of course choir there today maybe one or two years ago in storage and in other parts of libya fighting is continuing in therefore needs are enormous because of the disruption of

basic social services health water sanitation and others impact on civilian population is important is heavy libya is one of those countries with the largest percentage of displaced populations and therefore the humanitarian needs are important more needs to be done to support the different or thought it is in libya more of course has to be done also to find the political solution within libya so there is for me an unquestioned necessity to put libya much more in the center also of international attention comparable to the attention the international community has on other crisis in the middle east. a palestinian school teacher has been left scarred after he was attacked by an israeli army dog in front of his wife and young children. are now was assaulted in the west bank during a raid by the israeli defense forces they were searching for the killer of an

israeli man who bore the same surname as giraffe. think of that on the sort of the day i woke up when i heard explosions i looked at my house door and it had been destroyed by an i.d.f. bomb and after that there were several other explosions that destroyed the windows and damaged the house i went immediately to my children's room and we gathered me my children and my wife in the main bedroom but after that there was another explosion that destroyed the bedroom door i saw a dog it started to attack me and bite my shoulder and then it started to bite my leg and i was screaming that this terrifying experience affected my children psychologically my little son started bedwetting and i can see fear and terror in my children who suffered psychological trauma. when we asked the i.d.f. a comment on this case they responded by saying gerard stretton civilians in jewish majority areas of the west bank they also told us the raid was conducted in

accordance with standard procedure and gerard was immediately given medical treatment however he says the israeli ministry isn't telling the truth about his treatment that's just an illness afterward i was bleeding for more than two and a half hours and they took me to the hospital note that i only got treatment at the hospital itself not from the i.d.f. everything the i.d.f. says is just to justify its crimes and justify this particular crime is. also ingenuous max blumenthal says this incident is the result of a deliberate tactic by the i.d.f. . this you know is being cast by the israeli military and government as kind of an isolated incident but as any of us who follow the situation in the west bank know this is far from isolated it's part of a clear policy of using dogs as kind of advance team during home raids of palestinians there is also a high profile case in twenty fifteen of

a sixteen year old from the southern town of beit omar also a town that's under pressure from some jewish settlers where he his home was raided by an israeli dog unit as a sixteen year old named him he was badly mauled by a dog you know these dogs apply two thousand pounds of pressure per square inch and israeli soldiers were taunting him on video there's actually video of this incident and now he. and the palestinian human rights group are suing not israel but actually the dutch company for winz canine which supplied those dogs and has supplied what it calls biting dogs to the israeli military for violating u.n. conventions on companies operating in conflict zones so this is a very significant lawsuit and it speaks to a wider policy of what the israeli dissident journalist gideon levy calls lynching

by dog. now a week of competition has been completed at the winter olympics in south korea touching stories of mutual help and support have hit the headlines as well as sporting controversy. looks back at a weak one. 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 men in the cross country ski family is this exactly that it's a family we often benefit from russian or no region coach is giving our fleets 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 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 this was one of those moments in my career that i remember well i guess when it comes to pole winning. all 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 a descent 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 for 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 and 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 samuel 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. when we were all russia's team have added another silver in the skeletons of their tally but it was a medal that might never have been the key to three google of had considered boycotting the games in support of his fellow countrymen that were banned over don't even claims when triguboff had to prepare all his equipment himself as the reduced team has led to a lack of coaches at the competition even did the same for his teammate when other results from here on chang on friday twenty three year old natalia only took bronze in speed skating and cross country skiing dinny spirits are also claimed a bronze in his event makes a total of eight medals for the olympic athletes from russia team. well more news on features go to our website totty dot com i'll be back at the top of the hour with bad lines.

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book. welcome to sophie and sophie shevardnadze as the new powers rise in the world a new multi-polar global balance is shaping up but is stable enough to prevent a great power conflict in a nuclear age i'll ask former here secretary of defense william perry. without the cold war era as two centers of power the world has become leaderless and chaotic

and his threat of nuclear war grows higher accidental tension is building between missions vying for power can lose to four and improve in the global order from collapsing nuclear weapons continue to service deterrent will lead to opening people catastrophe. dr william perry it's really great to have you on our program one more time thank you sir always good to be here lots to talk about dr perry so nato expansion to the east actually started during your tenure as defense secretary and you have sad that it was a mistake and it is probably the root cause of the current u.s. russia confrontation no nato officials and so absorbing europe was and is the number. don't rush l.v. asli sees it as a threat it's always been very open and honest about saying it at the threat was nato getting closer to russia's borders do you think there could be

a direct conflict is it on the cards i think it's very unlikely i think both of our countries recognize that could lead to very serious problems and so i think we will see restraint on both the united states and russia so that we don't even have conflict the danger is not the door leaders will plan a conflict but the fact that our troops are so close together it might be an accident we might blunder into some kind of a contact so that's the danger of the situation not that the intent on either side but sometimes events get out of control of the leaders so i do think there's a limit to nato expansion. why in your opinion does need to need members like macedonia or montenegro does the alliance operate by the principle the more the better no i don't think so factor you can argue that you dilute the effectiveness of the organization if you get too many countries in it so

i think we're probably either didn't end very nearly in the end they do expansion and i think definitely nato has abandoned the idea of expanding into ukraine so that is not a realistic idea of ukraine becoming a member and i think that's not in the cards. i want to talk to you a bit about pentagon's new strategy includes coming up with a low yields nuclear weapon for sake of to terence as they put it while low yield serve as a nuclear war unable or instead because it's psychologically easier to actually drop a low yield while the people who favor the low yield power to a nuclear weapon both in the united states and then russia argue that it makes its . it actually prevents i largely nuclear war from the start of a imagine is the need to intermediate stage i don't agree with that i don't agree with either the russians or the americans who favor tactical nuclear weapons i

think a nuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon and there ought to be a red line and the non use of nuclear weapons to me the while i have strived for eventually getting rid of nuclear weapons as long as they are used i like to see them limited to t.g. . and not consider the tactic used i do not favor weapons that make new nuclear weapons easier to use i want to make them harder to use i want to make them impossible to use now u.s. defense department is planning for a possible war was the china and russia i mean those are just military planners preparing for eventualities or do you really think that us military wants to fight well i have concerns with that with the doctrine is being evolved today but i do not believe it involves. initiating a war with either china or russia their rationale which can be questioned but their

rationale is that in case either china or russia precipitate a war for the with the united states we should be prepared for it so i see it is as a defensive russian now but i think what would be focused on instead it what can we do to prevent that kind of a war from ever happening to do with the course as much with diplomacy and political actions as it has to do with military actions. dr berry last time we spoke you've said a lot of complimentary things about the u.s. defense secretary chu mattis yeah you know the man personally. he's blamed russia for actually trying to stick a wedge between america and its allies and promise to speak to moscow from a position of force i mean the times are really tense right now no need to emphasize on that how wise is it to be so confrontational at these times and also do you think he's maybe trying to be tough at home where he really things that he can actually get something out of russia by pressure. i don't interpret.

as his actions should be meant to be being putting pressure on under russia for concessions i don't see that at all but i think he believes that maybe not correctly but i think he believes that having is stronger defense posture will make it less likely that we'll ever have it ever have any confrontation with russia or china or any other country. my own view is that much more of the plans on diplomacy and political agreements and i think the office space the opportunity for for diplomacy and political agreements between the united states or russia is very large today but is not being exploited by either country we have many areas of disagreement ukraine for example. crimea for example and i understand why it's difficult to have diplomacy to deal with those areas where you fundamentally disagree but there also are many issues which we have in

common. neither in nine states in russia. want to nuclear war now the united states or russia one nuclear terrorism neither the united states or russia want a nuclear proliferation so we have areas where we have strong and important areas where we have important agreements we ought to be working together in those areas just to solidify our views of which we agree and the come to agreements there so that's a that's a potential this open force that we're not now it's exploiting so i fault both the russian government and the american government for not taking advantage of those opportunities and moving in so that we work together through the effect of creative diplomacy to make progress in those areas but then there are certain steps that the defense. department takes i would like you to interpret them for me because maybe i'm not understanding i think according to the defense strategy the great power

competition with russia and china is outlined as number one concern for the united states not terrorism anymore and i think that's a judgment that they make and they stated i don't agree with that but it is i understand where they're coming from what do you understand where they're coming from yes they have convinced themselves that. the actions taken by china and russia and turning to building up their own nuclear forces are seen as a threat to the united states. that's a judgment they make which i don't share but it's i don't understand why they are. what they're seeing and why they why they think they need to respond that way but is it not is not a difference in interpretation of facts it's a difference in how you respond to those facts how you interpret the facts i don't see russia as posing a threat to the united states which is threatening war with the united states i don't see china as threatening war the united states and so i start off with a different fundamental assumptions about what these facts mean yeah because

russians are having a hard time interpret men over the past four years ever since the crisis with russia and the united states began. us has lost ground troops to terrorists in iraq and syria and afghanistan have lost the lives of civilians on the american soil yet not one single russian bullet was shot at an american soldier and for some reason threat for the pentagon comes from moscow i mean what russians don't really get it why. well. i don't share that view i don't believe that is a fact coming from russia today i believe we have to be vigilant about what might happen in the future in russia or china but i don't see a threat today and then there's the head of the british army cern nicholas carter and he says that cyber war with russia is a bigger threat to britain their security to british security than terrorism the terror attacks happened on monthly basis in britain last year i mean what is it all

ok under control now no terrorist threat anymore cyber attack is more dangerous a cyber attack is a real problem for all of our countries for russia and united states and for britain but the cyber attacks can come from terrorism rose from other countries. one of the unique. aspect of the cyber threats is that they can come from an individual it can come from a small group and they can come from a nation is not limited like nuclear weapons to a large country that has the industrial capacity to build a nuclear weapons but i think what makes people nervous is a lot of. talk about war war war and conflict is so much in the air right now general carter one more time want to fire a saying that they may have no choice about conflict with russia i mean is great britain and thus medo really going to have a war with russia is just fear mongering we have today i believe.

positive friendly relationship with russia some people are imagining what could happen in the future. we ought to be focusing our attention instead of how do we preserve that part of the day how do we build on the parts of a relationship there's no reason why the american people and the russian people should be hostile to each other the history of friendship its history of working together during the period i was secretary of defense we actually worked together we had to pass working together in bosnia we had american and russian soldiers going together on foot patrols in bosnia and it worked very well we also worked together with the with the russian nuclear establishment in dismantling nuclear weapons during that period of time we dismantled eight thousand nuclear weapons four thousand of the united states and four thousand in the former soviet union so we work together to the benefit it can be done should be done and i would like to

get back to instead of worrying about what could happen ten years from now what could happen if russia gets tossed out of the united states we should focus instead on how do we continue to build on that positive and cooperative relationship but i wonder why it's not happening this is what you're saying is wonderful and i wish you were secretary of defense or head of nato today because times have changed and so unfortunate i always see right now is ramping up its defense expenses in response to a threat from china and russia when russia's military budget is seventeen times smaller than american military budget america's spending more money on its military than the next eight countries taken together while white how can it still feel insecure. i am very concerned with this increasingly hostile relationship building up to trying it between the united states and there's my own view is that the cause.