in the news of the northern syrian city of bombarded by turkish military intensified its operation against kurdish fighters in the region. the developing story. to probe the gratian protests breaks out a number of. present mccraw proposes new. russian figure skaters excel at the winter olympics in south korea breaking world records in just fifteen minutes.

of this latest live update from. the afternoon and the syria big time in the headlines again two real hot spots will start with this the northern city for it that's come under heavy shelling from the turkish army. in the region to try to dislodge the kurdish fighters which it says and seize the terrorists. but. that bombardment came after a pro syrian government militia arrived enough for him to join the fight against the turkish military for his part turkey's president say shelling forced that group of fighters to retreat ten kilometers but other conflicting reports suggested for the pro syrian government forces have actually taken up positions now in africa.

currently sitting here pictures of the arrival porter to be on tuesday night our senior correspondent we're galatea of next takes a closer look at this folding very complicated volatile 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 it was determined by the haze t.s.

militia that about ten pickup trucks were coming towards africa they were then forced to turn back following the shelling this case has been closed for now. warned that this would happen no one may help the white b.g. said as for the kurds themselves he's promised to put them in a choke hold in days i need to keep the preparation on the ground takes time in the coming days we were laid siege to the city of afrin he. so 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 bloody pulp one might ask where is america the head of the us led anti isis coalition in the store why are you still here why are these weapons still arriving america is in the process of creating a terrorist army on our 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 this statement a us declaration that it would build an army of kurds to patrol the turkish border that sent into a fit 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 because. 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.

something that middle east analyst joshua landis agrees with he says the kurds have fallen victim to america's power play in that region. the u.s. has been supplying a lot of weaponry to the kurds east of the euphrates when the united states first entered syria and turkey and the united states came up to an agreement that everything western afraid east was turkey everything east of the euphrates the united states mendacious 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 each and now it's obviously telling a white sheet do not attack turkey with use 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 k.k.

and so the united states is sitting on the kurds and in essence is telling them why peachy you have to sacrifice your brothers and often enough to preserve us out east of the euphrates. meantime the situation in another syrian hotspots developing to violence in the eastern ghouta area close to the syrian capital damascus is on the rise and it's provoked an outcry from the united nations to the organizations calling for an end to hostilities after what's going on there following reports that government airstrikes on the rebel enclave there have killed at least one hundred in just the last recent days eastern goods was one of the few remaining opposition strongholds the syrian government says it strikes on the militants are in retaliation though for shelling attacks that have killed civilians in the capital the area may recall was among the deescalation zones that was stablished by the warring parties last year we crossed that story of course as more comes out from that area keep you up to date on the developments there over the coming hours

and days. 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 of the decades it was in force jacqueline vega as more of 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 when i remember at home my parents told me that i was operated on and now i cannot have babies my father this force to sign documents by my teacher and welfare offices there are many more 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 that your ration to 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 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 show the question is who's responsible for all of this to me it's the government's fault thanks a key to 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 sort. 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 plan of disables little when i requested the disclosure of these documents regarding my sister surgery they told me the files which are 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 victim 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 what 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 tensing counter at the united nations security council to the u.s. envoy the palestinian leader to tell you about mahmoud abbas to live in a vitriolic address on tuesday aimed squarely at washington for recognizing jerusalem as the israeli capital and he goes on then to claim because of that america's not committed to the peace process. 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 gradually but we are ready to begin negotiations immediately in order to achieve peace and security for all in our region and the world. there are

dramatic flourish after finishing that speech he left a bus stood up walked out of the meeting not waiting for a response from the u.s. envoy in the early. even now he has left the room i will address the balance of the narrow marks to him. president us 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 tough negotiator side erica i will not shut up nikki haley was reacting there to comments from the palestinians chief peace negotiator as you heard he told it to be quiet and not criticize the palestinian leadership the editor of the palestine chronicle told us he does think that america is now becoming a third wheel in the big 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 palestine and israel they have lost their right to do so when they decided to flee and biased unfair and cruel is really position the us has never been an honest broker mahmoud abbas trying to send a message to the palestinian people that after decades of pursuing this through. 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 . now bill rodgers in the headlines again that prominent bahraini human rights activists he's been sentenced this time to five years in prison for criticizing the gulf monarchies role in the war in yemen on twitter he's already of course serving a two year sentence for previously having spoken out against the regime it's often

been on this channel over the years no roger rose to prominence was not position leader during the mass pro-democracy protests back in twenty eleven he's also the president. which makes him of focus i guess of the bahrain center for human rights between twenty twelve and twenty fourteen he's numerously been imprisoned for organizing unauthorized demonstrations in the two years he's currently serving right now and it down as a punishment for disseminating rumors and false news end quote currently in connection with a number of t.v. interviews he gave in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen now to remind you the part of history here the bahraini uprising started of course during the arab spring that big wave of protests across the middle east in twenty eleven the main demands of the opposition then were more rights for the shia population and the cation of the king of bahrain however police responded with what's been described as a brutal crackdown one senior advisor at the bahrain center for human rights no told us the latest verdict against neighbor roger is completely unjust while the

son turns the clearer mark curry to justice a slap to the rule of law human rights values and standards and principles. after harvey more than twenty court hearings authorities believe to prison substantial evidence to charge an a b. . he focused on warning of thoughts on the destructive result of war in yemen he called the part of the resort to dialogue to peace rather to turn to war and destruction. being charged today for express think it's views all pooly so rights groups are trying to draw attention now to this case again human rights watch asked bahrain's allies to push for now bills immediate release while amnesty international's been calling on the king of bahrain

to free now be alone this launched a twitter campaign as well. coming up parisians are taking to the streets to protest against the french president's change in immigration policy there was a rally earlier on we're going to live to paris to get the latest on where that's gone in just a minute. is the day of reckoning coming will the liberal corporate media ever own up to their dismal and even dishonest coverage of what is called russia gate there is growing evidence the media are at the very center of this fake scandal. played for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the

passion from the families it's the age of the super money. rona's and spending to the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy. breaks a chance for. the base to. get his mention before the break a pro immigration rallies been held in paris earlier following president mccraw as initiative to tell you and loads on refugees people they say he stepped back from his promise to help migrants get off the streets and out of the woods let's talk to the defense because she was there for that rally. to go is gather is over now.

yes it is. they were many hundreds of people who turned out for that rally it seemed that this new immigration law that was presenting its differences cabinet this morning could be one of the biggest hurdles the president. has faced in his presidency so far here in france well what's in the new proposed law let's take a look at some of the measures now they include doubling the time that detention that migrants could be held in detention through food five to ninety days jailing for up to one year migrants. cross into france and also shortening the time that they have to apply for asylum and that has angered many people many people were on strike and took part in a rally on wednesday morning to let president know how unhappy they are about this new proposed law which they say would reduce the rights of migrants and this

silence his hate in france when they say the french state should be doing more to help them. but u.v.-a alone while the balcony flies not good it has not been passed yet but people won't like it because it wants to hold this attention with asylum seekers so you shouldn't work here i think it's a lot selfish it's a lot of people don't like and a lot of foreigners don't like no one likes. to sit. in the law isn't balance because a strength to facilitate the integration of fresh fiji's complete. people who are trying to prepare their documents to become more and more difficult to be treated equally as you if you do so in france of course national security is the importance and we're not saying anything against that and of course certain profiles of asylum seekers could potentially represent

a risk in france but it's very small minority a very very small proportion and i think. french law already has many ways of tackling these issues and i don't think that. reducing the rights of asylum seekers as a whole. is. is a better way of of protecting national security by undermining fundamental rights of all the other asylum seekers. while many people within my own party larkham a republican also unhappy with this bill saying that they cannot support this in its current form however there are many people on the opposite side of the spectrum who say that this bill doesn't go far north and they actually support it including the republicans here in france now one of the things that this law aims to deal with is those migrants who use fake i.d.'s and that's that's caused

a lot of concern for many people here because some people who've carried out terror attacks have used numerous fake aliases and fake i.d.'s to be able to avoid detection including those who were behind the paris attack in two thousand and fifteen the brussels attack over the border in belgium in two thousand and sixteen and also more recently last see in marsay where the perpetrator of that attack in which two people were killed had used several fake i.d.'s to avoid detection by the police now some are also concerned although more wider scale in europe that some people who apply for asylum are actually looking to carry out terror attacks such as the perpetrators behind the brussels put behind the market christmas market attack just a few years ago the attack in stockholm in sweden and also in turkey in finland so some people say this law doesn't even go far enough what we do know is that this is

due to be debated by the parliamentarians here in france in april and it is not going to have a smooth right there's a shot of. paris. was happening. those winter olympics last few days of it to go and two world records were broken in the space of just fifteen minutes earlier by russian athletes and those are winter games in south korea the first was set by figure skating. in the woman short program her score was then topped by a teammate alina's a get over with the details from shaun chang his. the younger russian figure skater had been hot on the heels of her older teammate for a very long time and there you have it even gagnon vedova could all the enjoy her world record for a few minutes because then i mean as they did even better and scored an extra point

as to what it takes to set these kind of world records both figure skaters include some of the most sophisticated elements in the sport and we see them at the end of the program all these difficult jumps when the athletes are more worn out it's a higher risk but if everything goes smooth it automatically adds skyrocketing points i guess something precious for us journalists to take note of was the reaction of following her and michael a performance she said it was not my best but it was ok and apparently that ok was enough for a world record well indeed we heard from experts in the sport that is either of us program was more difficult so i guess she definitely deserve it when it comes to the other competitors it seems that now they can only hope for bronze they are way

too far behind so it looks like the female figure skating competition at these olympics and for young chang is turning into a head to head class between two russian teenage girls eighteen year old give getting me and fifteen year old eileen is that they got one coach they are from one country but of course they only have one gold medal to compete for at piano chang twenty thing trying to report and it will continue to follow the twists and turns of the next couple of days to the finish is that. this latest live update from the studio with me kevin though in more for me in thirty minutes on the programs continue for you right after this break.

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times you were going on the ground fifty three years to the day of the assassination of anti-imperialist human rights activist malcolm x. coming up in the show us actors resign dawson and sarah silverman joining jeremy corbyn alice walker and angela davis in calling for israel to release palestinian teenager i had to tell me we speak to professor norman finkelstein about the collusion of human rights organizations as more planes from israel by britain again bomb gaza from the headlines the bank that likes to leave its clients hanging and i spy colbert in westminster but did he spied for a country in the eastern block check it out all the simple coming up in today's going underground but first not even elite mainstream media paid much attention to israel's prime minister in the past few days he brandished a bit of alleged iranian drone at the munich security conference attended by u.k.

minority government be to theresa may and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov so given we have yet to interview anyone from the israeli government or the israeli embassy in london on this show has been even netanyahu. here's a piece of a very very rope. or what's left after we shot it there. are a lot of years you can see for so some commentators expressed doubt about politicians bringing props for their speeches arac declared eighty five hundred liters of anthrax but aside from colin powells u.n. security council. justifications for mass killing in iraq it was iranians foreign minister speaking in munich who is keen for the world to note that netanyahu is part of stations about iran come at a tricky time for him israeli police are recommending that prime minister benjamin netanyahu be indicted on two corruption cases the recommendations follow

a months long investigation into allegations of bribery well in the latest book by our next guest israeli prime minister netanyahu who denies all allegations comes under fire for more than just bribery joining me now and it's yet more bombing of palestine by the british and israeli government is president obama finkelstein his latest book is called gaza an inquest into its martyrdom thanks so much and over the coming back on the show israel back militarily by the u.k. is again bombing gaza a sad time when as for the book when i wrote the book i didn't expect that it would be timely i wrote it as a historic document because palestine and gaza in particular were falling off the news much to my surprise because the situation in gaza has reached the breaking point since two thousand and twelve the u.n. reports have been saying it typically write will gaza be livable in twenty twenty

then the next reports i think it's going to be sooner than twenty twenty and now in the past month not just u.n. reports but israel has been saying gaza is on the brink of collapse we're reaching the point of no return and so there's a lot of desperation israelis fear that disease is break out so they're going to spread to israel and so we're. turning point a crisis point not sure what you would want to call it would be essential fact is this. seventy percent of the people of gaza are refugees more than half are children they're trapped. there's no way out and the u.n. reports and even israel is saying the situation there is on livable now you use your own semantical imagination how would you describe a situation where people are caved into conditions which are

literally on liveable what word would you use i'm not going to use that word use your own imagination and that's the united nations relief and works agency put it it said gaza is unique in the world in this one regard wherever there is a natural catastrophe say there is drought or a human make a task if they say war in syria the people always have the option to flee there is always the option to flee gaza is the one case the one instance in the world today where there are verging on an on livable situation that's not poetry that's a physical biological fact livable ninety five percent of the water in gaza is unfit for.