headlining pro syrian government militia fighters into the kurdish populated. in the country's north and the shelled by turkish forces risking an escalation of the conflict in the region. calls for the palestinian leader u.n. security council as he calls us to show commitment to the israel palestine peace process before walking out of the room leaving washington addressing. russia's biggest break within fifteen minutes of the winter olympics in south korea we've got a live update this hour. on

wednesday. this is your news update from international first what's been happening in syria where pro-government fighters have entered the kurdish enclave of afrin help repel an incursion by the turkish military the development risks exacerbating the conflict in the region. this was just outside the city of afrin the fighters can 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 military alliance claims the militia is now inside africa our senior correspondent takes a closer look at the situation. this was a demonstration hundreds of militia fighters with tanks brazenly riding into af. and with smiles cheers and cameras.

with. 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 t.s. militia that about ten pickup trucks were coming towards africa they were then forced to turn back following the shelling these cases being closed for now everyone warned that this would happen no one may help the y p g said as for the kurds themselves seize promised to put them in a choke hold in mere days only secure the preparation of the ground takes time in the coming days we will lay siege to the city of us here you have two major anti

isis coalition partners terrorist and aggressor as they call each other turkey in the y.p. ji partner in all but name duking it out beating each other to bloody pulp one might ask where is america the head of the us led anti isis coalition why are you still here a month why are these weapons still arriving america is in the process of creating a terrorist army border 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 us 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 u.s. . the u.s. strategy depends on creating new 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. my guest you have there meanwhile in london a flash mobs been held to show solidarity with the kurds in african protesters fell to the ground and lay still though dead and protest against turkey's invasion of northern syria demonstrators also made calls for the u.k. to stop selling weapons to turkey but it's not only britain to blame for exacerbating the conflict according to middle east analyst joshua landis he says america's support for the kurds is causing the situation in the region to

deteriorate. the u.s. has been supplying a lot of weaponry to the kurds east of the euphrates when the united states first entered syria it church in the united states came up to an agreement that everything west euphrates was turkmens everything east of the euphrates the united states many beaches a sore point but that's still to be decided on but that's the way it's been and the united states has been giving a lot of weapons to white egypt now it's obviously telling a lie cheat do not attack turkey would lose weapons because the moment you do that you will justify everything in the air to a war that says it's going to happen that you're connected with it and so the united states is sitting on the kurds and in essence is telling them why peaches you have to sacrifice your brothers and i mean to preserve us out east of the

euphrates. next we continue our look at recent discoveries from japan's official archives which shed light on the grim government run eugenics program which left thousands of people infertile over the decades that it was in force jacqueline who has their 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 home my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have babies my father discourse to sign documents by my teacher and welfare offices but there are many victims the government should make apologies and pay compensation to them it's believe they're 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 were targeted but misdiagnosis 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 they've been rationed to a place genetic mental disease was the only listed reason for her sterilization however it is 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 in over sixteen thousand cases the procedure was even carried out without consent and shockingly victims were as young as nine years old a pill 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 it's the government's fault thanks akita the program as well as the national legislature which a doctor the law needs to take responsibility and make apologies a soonest possible doctors will service. constable 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 she was stunned when i requested the disclosure of the documents regarding my sister surgery they told me the files were just said to have been strictly process had been thrown away the evidence of the mutilation of my sister's body was simply trashed in the case of another big to mrs zucker the documents were thrown into the fire when i heard about it i was beside myself with a. hotlines have been set up to bring together victims for what's likely to be an extremely long and traumatic battle for justice but all 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. there's been a tense encounter the united nations security council between the u.s. envoy and the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas delivered a victory over could dress on tuesday aimed squarely at washington for recognizing jerusalem as the israeli capital and claiming america is not committed to the peace process but. one of. the us 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 are doing but we're ready to begin negotiations immediately in order to achieve peace and security for all in our region and the world. and here's what happened next after finishing his speech abba stood up and walked out of the meeting not waiting for any response from us and bored to have

a real even though he has left the room i will dress the balance of moral marks to him. the president asked 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 so erekat i will not shut up while the editor of the palestine chronicle isn't convinced he says development show that america is now becoming a third wheel in the israeli palestinian peace process. so u.s. has lost its right to participate in 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 the u.s.

has never been an honest broker mahmoud abbas trying to send a message to the palestinian people that after decades of pursuing this frivolous 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 belonging to the group fighters have been left stranded but some of them there is hope that their relatives will be found thanks to a campaign by his channel ten youngsters already being able to return home the latest of a young boy called who was orphaned and left to survive in the iraqi capital r.t. will be at the airport when he arrives back in russia.

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america's prestigious yale university is launching a new study program aimed at deconstructing what it means to be white in modern day american society but not everyone's happy about it as american that explains. racial tensions in the u.s. go back centuries from call and i said 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 the 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 us 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 night sit 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 play on the kill whitey thing critics are outraged alleging well you guessed it first 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 us or will this only result in further polarization. our t. washington d.c. . and reaction to all that social commentator anthony bryan logan believes the red double standards of play and us society if it was a white woman holding a black woman say if the painter were way the painter would be called everything he'd be caught in your nazi 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 dead white 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 i'm fighting to get by supremacies you get some white people day 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 you know without a russian figure skaters are raising the bar of the winter olympics outdoing each other in the process will take a look at their successes in the past couple of hours and more of what's in store at the games it's after the break. that's.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. more some more want to be. that are going to be for us to see what the four three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters in the. first six.

welcome back to world records in the space of just fifteen minutes for russian athletes of the winter olympics in south korea the first was set by figure skater. you have gania vetiver that was in the women's short program but it was very short lived her score topped minutes later by her own teammate i mean it's a good of a let's go live to pyongyang now it's easier for frank it is at the olympics for great news of course but you can't help but feel for poor you have got to you can you. calling high yes getting him in video could only enjoy her world record of eighty one point sixty one points for just a few minutes as you were saying because then another russian alina's a gift of a did even better and scored eighty two point nine t. two and i asked her what it takes to set these kind of world records i can tell you that both includes the most sophisticated jumps and aliments in their programs

and it sets a higher risk but if everything goes smooth as it did in the cases of both these two athletes then scores automatically skyrocket and with this looks like the olympic women's figure skating tournament is really turning into a had to had clash between these two russian teenagers gagne amid very of only eighteen years old but. even younger she has just turned fifteen and the rest of the tom petters i guess they only have to compete for bronze they're way too far behind but the two russians they got one coach they are from one country but obviously there is only one gold medal for them to win and chang. for serve as well he's also in the spotlight of the games this time around as well

tell us why it's generating so much interest. yes call and i can tell you that in just half an hour's time the o.a.r. team will be taken on norway but they have always been in the spotlight both the men's team and the female team and you know with these a little break so far the story's been that at least when it comes to figure skating. they get all of the due respect and appreciation but when it comes to the cocky team they seem to be getting bad press no matter if they lose or when for example when the russian female hockey team were having a real nightmare in the group stage usa today called them bogus and there were so many nasty things that were said in one piece it almost seemed as if the author of that piece had something personal against the russian team but when the meds team

who again as i was saying will take on norway and just half an hour's time when they beat team usa in the group stage four to nothing they were blamed of all kinds of things for all kinds of things sorry including fist fights or using the strongest line up in the last few minutes of the game and it went as far as to the actual coach of the u.s. team not agreeing to shake the hand of his russian counterpart after the game so there is always a lot of tension around the hockey tournament right now it is really being felt here in pyongyang we spoke to some of the russian hockey veterans who are saying that they feel like they're back in the nine hundred eighty s. when the political tensions were of course sky high they are very close to that right now but we won't see any of the competition specifically between the o r team

and team usa anymore because the americans have just lost to the czech republic and they're right now out of the tournament ok but even so a lot of pretty much pressure for those guys as you say that going starting about half an hour from now for now though. thanks for the. russian olympic curler who's tested positive for a banned substance has insisted that he would never have taken it intentionally on tuesday russian sports officials confirm the both of alexander samples contained traces of melburnians the amount detected suggests that only one dose was consumed the drugs believed to help improve recovery times after intense exercise it's been banned since twenty sixteen all of crucial needs previous tests have come up negative the last sample 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 a russian in the discipline however it's now possible that they'll be disqualified the president of the country's curling federation thinks crucial netsky may have

been spiked brought down there 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 it so foolishly i'm sure it wasn't right or a scientist who developed melburnian told us he doesn't think russell netsky would have knowingly used the drug given the scrutiny of russian athletes are facing right now he also indicated that a single dose would be unlikely to have an effect on an athlete's performance we also heard from the russian olympic committee's press secretary he also stressed that it made no sense for me to take a banned substance. season opening is not needed that every

athlete doctor or sports officials will tell you that moreover those two curlers have passed over the last in the past two years alone with even when they were preparing for their lympics. about how they need to have been violations considering how close the russian athletes have been watched this lympics of taking a banned substance two weeks before the event is just sports it was side. next an inspiring story from russia's far east for you that of a woman with dwarfism who despite all the challenges that she faces still manages to keep a positive outlook on life. if you get asked. when i was a kid other children bulletin a bunch to me took away my food there was one old lady at school and janitor she always had a piece of bread and butter. but the very moment i started eating other children

and that woman was the only one. she even accompanied me home. and this. was the beginning alone i got pregnant and had battled psychosis i didn't tell anyone at first but started to feel so bad so once in hospital the doctors said i have to have an abortion i agreed but i just didn't know that some sicko says can be treated to me as no one told me. that. and that then you see dealing knew she couldn't see couldn't stand. doctors also told me she has problems with her ah yes. this is what it is this is a. gag that's seeing this cut it off my husband has been diagnosed was

disseminated sclerosis i can't live without him he means everything to me whereas a single hole he's my arms and legs and nines. and that's the news for now if you're online later check us out on facebook and twitter get news alerts twenty four seven meantime i'll be back here in half an hour with your next global update from altie international. feel in the trailer to nearly a bottle sorry i shouted six lawyers here in the. area . an estimated eighteen fastens under

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when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. greetings and salutation. you know up to thirty eight years on this planet hawk watchers there is there is one thing i know to be true and that is that your past sins and matter how deeply you bury them or insulate yourself against them they will always find their way back into the light you see nothing stays buried especially in the shallow graves left behind in the wake of the military industrial

complex there are deep state enablers and news media cheerleaders nothing stays buried take for example the continuing seventeen year debacle that is the united states adventures in afghanistan going on since nine eleven this week while most everyone has been distracted by indictments for internet trolling and payoffs to porn star mistresses the international criminal court has revealed that they have received a jaw dropping one point seventeen million statements from afghans who claim to be victims of war crimes one point seven million claims. and that's only been in the first three months since the i.c.c. began collecting material for a possible afghanistan war crimes case according to abdul prodrome of the human rights in the eradication of violence organization the claims against the claims include accusations against not only the taliban and isis but also the afghan security forces local government affiliated warlords the united states led

coalition and foreign and domestic spy agencies but drum told the media that quote it is shocking there are so many it shows how the justice system in afghanistan is not bringing justice for the victims and their families one point seventeen million potential war crimes begs the important question about how the longest war in the united states his state's history what actual good has come from it what real what real victory can even be gained when whole communities of innocent people have suffered horribly in the process there is no victory in war just pain masquerading as patriotism and i would start watching the hawks. with the.