global headlines this hour pro syrian government militia fighters and to the kurdish populated on plate in the north and the shelled by turkish forces. palestinian leader received a round of applause at the u.n. security council as he calls for the u.s. to show commitment to the israel palestine peace process for leaving the room even washington's envoy addressing an empty chair. my parents told me that i was operated on and that i could not have babies my father was forced to sign documents by my teacher and. his some of the stories of the thousands who suffered under japan's forced sterilization program after world war two was made public.

and also the americas at yale university launches a new course examining what it means to be whites in the u.s. and how so-called whiteness impacts on modern life. in moscow welcome to the program this wednesday the twenty first of february it's eight am here in the russian capital let's bring you up to date on what's been happening in syria first pro-government fighters that have entered the kurdish enclave of afrin to attempt to repel an incursion by the turkish military. i. this was filmed just outside the city of afrin the fighters could be seen waving the syrian flag and chanting the syrian people but they then came under fire. from the turkish military president says the

shelling forced the pro syrian government fighters to retreat ten kilometers however a commander in the pro assad military alliance claims that the militia is now inside afrin what i guess do you have takes a closer look at the situation this was a demonstration hundreds of pro assad militia fighters with tanks armor brazenly riding into africa with smiles cheers and cameras. that. the turks well see for yourself and korea's response was explosive loaded and delivered in artillery shells. today towards evening he was determined by the hague ts militia that's about ten pickup trucks were coming towards africa they were then forced to turn back

following the shelling these cases being closed and now everyone warned that this would happen no one may help the y p g said as for the kurds themselves she's promised to put them in a choke hold in days i need secure the preparation on the ground takes time in the coming days we will lay siege to the city of our friend here you have two major anti isis coalition partners terrorist and aggressor as they call each other turkey and the y.p. ji partner in all but name duking it out beating each other to a bloody pulp one might ask where is america the head of the us led anti isis coalition. why are you still here why are these weapons still arriving america is in the process of creating a terrorist army and. do not encroach on our borders do not provoke us we will run out of patience let's not. forget how it all began with the statement a u.s.

declaration that it would build an army of kurds to patrol the turkish border that sent into a fit of rage and it was that statement that was used to justify this new war washington backtracked it's now laying low but the damage was done the coalition imploded and it's up to others to stop this. we do not believe that the us. the us strategy depends on creating chaos in the middle east to pursue its interests in this region it is sad washington set the fire that is now consuming its own anti isis coalition and burning africa into the ground the us role has been reduced to diligently expressing its concern worry but not regret. meanwhile in london

a flash mobs been held to show solidarity with the kurds in african protesters fell to the ground and lay still as though dead in protest against turkey's invasion of northern syria the demonstrators also made calls for the u.k. to stop selling arms to turkey middle east analyst joshua landis told us he believes american support for the kurds led to this latest escalation of the conflict. the us has been supplying a lot of weaponry to the kurds east of the euphrates when the united states first entered syria it it turkey and the united states came up to an agreement that everything west euphrates was turkomans everything east of the euphrates the united states men beige is a sore point but that's still to be decided on but that's the way it's been and the united states that's been giving a lot of weapons to the white egypt now it's obviously telling a white sheet do not attack turkey with those weapons because the moment you do

that you will justify everything that aired a war that says is going to happen that you're connected with it and so the united states is sitting on the kurds in essence is telling the y.p. to you have to sacrifice your brothers and i mean to preserve us out east of these friends. next we continue our look at recent discoveries from japan's official archives which shed light on the grim government run you get next program which left thousands of people infertile over the decades that it was in force. has the story. records of only a fraction of the people subjected to sterilization have been revealed but this may finally help the victims to get justice after decades of suffering and some are already taking action has a hard time going through the middle school that's when i was diagnosed with a mental disability my teacher took me for a medical check and then i was taken to hospital that's all i remember at the time

my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have babies my father does forced to sign documents by my teacher and welfare offices but there are many movies him the government should make apologies and pay compensation to them it's believe there are up to twenty five thousand victims all under the eugenics protection law in force for almost forty years as late as the mid ninety's the procedures were in order to quote preserve the purity of the japanese race people with mental disabilities or hereditary diseases or target but mr agnosis of such conditions was common causing even more unnecessary suffering we managed to speak to the relative of one such victim when i got married my mother in law told me that my sister has been sterilized after i made an information disclosure request i found out she was only fifteen when the ration took place genetic mental disease was the only listed reason for her sterilization however as it's not true when she was a one year old she became mentally handicapped because of the anesthesia three different

doctors gave her so she didn't have a genetic condition and over sixteen thousand cases the procedure was even carried out without consent and shockingly victims were as young as nine years old appeals to admit the practice had taken place were dismissed for years with victims being told that the evidence was simply gone the only question is who's responsible for all of this to me is the government's fault thanks a key to the program as well as the national legislature which adopted the law needs to take responsibility and make apologies a soonest possible doctors well sort of. sponsible but in a way that we used by the government. i think that the now defunct eugenic protection law existed for the sole purpose to reject a ban of disabled. when i requested the disclosure of the documents regarding my sister surgery they told me the files which are said to have been strictly processed had been thrown away the evidence of the mutilation of my sister's body

was simply trashed in the case of another victim mrs zucker the documents were thrown into the fire when i heard about it i was beside myself with their anger. hotlines have been set up to bring together victims for what's likely to be an extremely long and traumatic battle for justice but while victims one compensation they say money isn't the main reason their goal is to create awareness to ensure that horrors like this never take place again. right an update from the winter olympics in south korea in the last few minutes russian figure skating is going to medvedev has set a new world record in the short program if actually broken our own record that you said earlier in these games now later today more sports the olympics athletes from russia hockey team is up against norway in the quarterfinal let's go live there now in a patrol is our man at the games either really or been dominated by drama this year's olympics of course what's the outlook for this match. call in the

high end is finally the time for the quarterfinals of the ice hockey tournament at the young chang winter olympics and as you said in just a couple of hours the o.e.r. team will be taken on norway and everyone knows that without the an h l ors the russians are the strongest on paper but just remember how the team lost their first game to slovakia surprise surprise and as we all know being the absolute favorites always means extra pressure and a chance to underestimate your opponent and just listen to what the russian hockey legend tretiak had to say about that. this is the easiest components him you think the game we will be easy. will fight tooth and nail the game will be

really interesting. well this brings us to the tricky torrent system because if the only our team wins in this particular jazz match they will meet in a certain scenario team usa once again in the semifinal just like in the group stage that was when the russians won four to nothing but the stress and the tension during that game we saw several fistfights the american coach refusing to shake the hand of the russian counterpart and many other things i was there at the game and i could feel it among the fans there weren't really any scuffles there but definitely some looks that weren't quite pleasant i can tell you for sure and all of that was in the media the american journalists some of them through and vladimir putin and just take a look at the wording by an article in the washington post it said out of miracles

u.s. men's hockey team whipped by russians four zero and some of the words they use there were a night of cold war present day geopolitical angsty and night of feisty post whistle scraps so we may see all of that again in the semifinal but for that oh ok our need to win against norway and then team usa will have to defeat the czech republic. ok we'll keep an eye on that for now though. the russian athlete who tested positive for doping has insisted that he would never have done so intentionally on tuesday russian sports officials confirm that both of alexander crucial needs samples contain traces of melburnians the amount detected suggests that only one dose was consumed the drugs believed to help improve recovery times after intense exercise and has been banned since twenty

sixteen all of these previous tests of come up negative the last one was taken at the end of january last week the athlete won bronze in the mixed doubles curling alongside his wife the first ever medal for russia in the discipline the president of the russian curling federation thinks the athletes may have been spiked what don't know so what more just be truth is that alexander didn't intentionally take the bun substance we've asked investigators to find out how it could have ended up in his body without his knowing to put it bluntly he could have been spiked the experts concluded that it was a single dose taken in the past several weeks or even days now who in his right mind would take a bun substance knowing that he's one of the top competitors in facing increased gruesomely i've known alexander for many years and it's been a long road for him and honest and all of that just to take his habit so foolishly i'm sure it wasn't lighter. we also heard from the press secretary for the russian olympic committee he thinks that given how closely russian athletes are being

monitored in pyongyang taking a banned substance makes absolutely no sense. first of all we have to sort out exactly what happened a thorough investigation should be conducted on the matter because this instant raises a lot of concerns which one hardly ever sees doping in curling it's not needed there every athlete doctor or sports official will tell you that secondly banned substances words all can about doing which was found in alexander's blood doctors are found that the man discovered means the muldoon was taken once that has no impact on performance there was absolutely no sense in knowingly taken this substance moreover those two killers have passed over. in the past two years alone even when they were preparing for the olympics and they've never ever had any doping violations considering how close the russian athletes have been watched at this lympics taking a banned substance two weeks before the event is just sports so was side. there's

been a tense encounter of the united nations security council between the u.s. envoy and the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas delivered a vitriolic address on tuesday i'm squarely at washington for recognizing jerusalem as the israeli capital and claiming america is not committed to the peace process. or. the u.s. administration took an unlawful decision which was rejected by the international community to take the issue of jerusalem off the table and to recognize the city as israel's capital almost gradually but we are ready to begin negotiations immediately in order to achieve peace and security for all in our region and the world. well after finishing that speech i stood up a more out of the meeting not waiting for a response from the u.s. envoy nikki haley. even though he has left the room i will address the balance of mara marks to him. president must i sit here today offering the

outstretched hand of the united states to the palestinian people but i will decline the advice i was recently given by your top negotiator save erika that i will not shut up the editor of the palestine chronicle says recent development show that america is now becoming a third wheel in the israeli palestinian peace process the us has lost its top artists have beaten any kind of international mechanism that would attempt to bring peace and reconciliation between stein and israel they have lost their right to do so when they decided to flee and biased unfair and cruel is really position us has never been on this program mahmoud abbas trying to send a message to the palestinian people that after decades of pursuing this fruitless

and futile peace process and nothing has been achieved as a result his message to the palestinian people that i'm still here and i'm still fighting and i'm still challenging the american diktats and american foreign policy . with islamic state all but wiped out in syria and iraq dozens of children of the groups fighters have been left stranded but for some of them there is hope that their relatives will be found now thanks to a campaign by r.t. ten youngsters have been able to return home the latest as a young boy called saeed was left to survive as an orphan in the iraqi capital.

by the star that is just. how i was and this was one of the. what's worse she has. this business. here is i. think you know it was. not long to go either later on wednesday after months of legal procedures i will

finally be able to see his relatives once again he's going to travel to moscow and then he'll take another flight to his home town he will be at the airport his arrival as he's welcomed home and finally reunited with his family. in the us the prestigious yale university is launching a new program aimed at deconstructing whiteness in american society but not everyone's happy about it as samir khan now explains. racial tensions in the u.s. go back centuries from colonization and genocide to slavery and racial segregation the country's troubled past continues to fuel and tag an ism between the races and people of color have a waged war on what they see as a system that favors white supremacy but what's been happening in the us seems to have turned the tables reinforcing the conversation on so-called reverse racism for example yale university has introduced a course in countering whiteness through plays poems and memoirs and to quote the program constructing whiteness counter narratives in any creative form and it's not

just yale many universities in the u.s. are making quote white awareness programs available but critics are fighting back or using that white awareness programs are just as racist as black or honest ones in another extremely divisive case some women of color felt isolated and unsafe in their communities so they organized a healing retreat and coast rica and then banned white people from attending to white people is to let us have our space let us have our room and go hang out with other white people broke a you know you've done enough damage well of course screams of hypocrisy and reverse racism ensued and then there's this picture depicting black women beheading white women the artist explained it's a quote unquote sort of a play on the kill whitey thing critics are outraged alleging well you guessed it reverse racism they say imagine what would happen if a white person was shown chopping off a black woman's head however when it comes to all of these claims reverse racism

may not exactly stand up to scrutiny when looking at the history of the country's racial dynamics but whether or not these cases qualify as hypocrisy or reverse racism the question remains will any of this actually qual racial tensions in the u.s. or will this only result in further polarization. samir khan artie's washington d.c. you tube and blogger anthony bryan logan believes such university programs will be treated differently if there were white people running them. if it was a white woman holding a black woman say they have to paint her way the painter would be called everything he'd be caught and you'll not see a basic premises because the default reaction to anybody white doing something against somebody black or even painting a picture is to say that white person is a racist because the default thought process is that why people are racist anyway and there's some say that if you're not white you can not be races which is really ridiculous there's been a lot of things floating around about white supremacy as of late that these things

become normalized is seen as a rational thing to say in public so people again they get to feel guilty and when i tell everybody hey i'm not a racist look at me i'm fightin the gays the white man are fighting to get by supremacy you get some white people they say to even a white and say how do you hate whites your way it doesn't make any sense was like do you hate your parents do you hate your grandparents is really a crazy thing. next an inspiring story from russia's far east for you that of a woman who has dwarfism who despite all the challenges that she's faced along the way still manages to keep a positive outlook on life. when i was a kid other children bullied me punched me took away my food there was one old lady at school or a janitor she always had a piece of bread and butter for me but the very moment i started eating other

children beat me and that woman was the only one protecting me she even accompany me home. just. ask. the big one well i got pregnant and had bad texaco did were given by didn't tell anyone at first but started to feel so bad and so went to hospital that the doctors said i have to have an abortion i agreed i just didn't know that some sicko. i treated them yes no one told me dr leak that i. think this. is ok. i'm not the ben used to dealing news you couldn't see it's good i'm stunned. doctors also told me she has problems with her ice. this is what it. was

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