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international news center kevin i'm with you just turned six pm here in moscow first in the northern syrian city of for and has come under heavy shelling from the turkish army. in that region to try to dislodge the kurdish fighters which it sees as terrorists. the lot of us. came off for a pro syrian government militia arrived to join the fight against the turkish military. force the group of fighters to retreat ten kilometers but other reports suggest the government forces about to take up positions and. i i i i. these pictures before the show their arrival

in the area on tuesday night our senior correspondent laura garza takes a closer look at the unfolding and complicated situation where. this was a demonstration hundreds of pro assad militia fighters with tanks armor brazenly riding into africa with smiles cheers and cameras. the turks well see for yourself and korea's response was explosive loaded and delivered in artillery shells either. today towards evening he was determined by the page he has 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 for now everyone warned that this

would happen no one may help the why b.g. said as for the kurds themselves seize promised to put them in a choke hold in days i need to kill the preparation on the ground takes time in the coming days we were laid siege to the city of afrin 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 juking 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 why are these weapons still arriving america is in the process of creating a terrorist army and i. do not encourage and i do not focus 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 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. year strategy depends on creating chaos in the middle east interests in this world and it is sad washington set the fire that is now consuming its own anti isis coalition and burning africa into the ground the us rule has been reduced to diligently expressing its concern worry but not regret some of the middle east analyst joshua landis concurs with he says the kurds have

fallen victim to america's power play in the 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 if it church in the united states came up to an agreement that everything west you priest was turbans everything east of the euphrates the united states many beers 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 erdogan says is going to happen if you're connected with it and so the united states is sitting on the kurds in essence is telling the white peach if you have to sacrifice your brothers and me to preserve

us out east. meanwhile to particular areas of folks in syria the second one another hot spot developing now violence in eastern guta that's near a close to the syrian capital damascus it's on the rise there the problems it's provoked an outcry in fact so much so from the united nations the organization is calling for an end to hostilities there right now following reports that government there strikes on the rebel on klav they've killed at least one hundred people in recent days eastern ghouta is one of the few remaining opposition strongholds the syrian government says this is all happening in strikes on the militants there in retaliation for shelling attacks have killed civilians in the capital the area was among the deescalation zones that were established by the warring parties last year but still problems there big ones we're across that story of course we'll keep developing the updates for the coming hours and days there as we get more in the. next pope continuing a recent look at discoveries from japan's official archives which shed light on the

grim government run the eugenics program of its day which left thousands of people infertile over the decades it was in force jacqueline booga has more on 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 despite forced to sign documents by my teacher and welfare reform says that there are many more victims 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 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 took 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 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 is 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 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 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 were 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 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. next a dramatic encounter at the united nations security council between the u.s. envoy and the palestinian leader mahmoud abbas to limit of vitriol like address on tuesday aimed squarely at washington for recognizing jerusalem as the israeli capital and claiming america has not committed to the peace process. one of. us of ministration 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 then we were ready to begin negotiations immediately in order to achieve peace and security for all in our region and the world. well after finishing a speech this was a drama hotted up a bust probably stood up and walked out of the meeting not waiting for a response from the u.s. envoy licky 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 side erekat i will not shut up nikki haley was reacting there the comments from the palestinian chief peace negotiator as you heard he told her to be quiet and not criticize the palestinian leadership the editor of the palestine call a call told us that he thinks america is indeed now becoming a third wheel in the long running peace process so u.s. 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 a position the u.s. has never been honest broker 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 of this 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. in jail again a prominent bahraini human rights activist noble rajah has been sentenced to five years in prison for criticizing the gulf monarchies role in the war in yemen on twitter he's already serving a two year sentence for previously having spoken out against the regime you may recall roger rove who rose to prominence says the the opposition leader during the mass pro-democracy protests back in twenty eleven has often been on this channel

talking in his times when he's out of prison which doesn't mean much he's also the president of the bahrain center for human rights between twenty twelve and fourteen he was imprisoned for organizing unauthorized demonstrations now here we go again this more the two years he's currently serving there were handed down for quote publishing and disseminating rumors and false news end quote apparently all in connection with a number of t.v. interviews he gave in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen now to remind you the bahraini uprising itself the bigger picture here started during the arab spring that massive wave of protests across the middle east in twenty eleven the main demands of the opposition back then were more rights for the shia population and the abdication of the king of bahrain however police then responded with what's been described by many many accounts as a brutal crackdown a senior adviser at the bahrain center for human rights told us that the latest verdict against his completely unjust while the son turns the mockery

to justice a slap to the rule of law human rights values and standards and principles. after hardly more than twenty court hearings authorities to prison substantial evidence to charge an a b. of mcbeal did was he focused on warning of the destructive result of war in yemen he called upon to resort to dialogue to peace rather to don't. war on destruction it's being charged today for express think it's used all poorly so rights groups are continuing to try to draw attention to this long running case human rights watch asked bahrain's allies to push for now beals immediate release international's got involved too again it's been calling on the king of bahrain to free now bill and launched a twitter campaign now talking of which twitter shuts down hundreds of accounts of

people with conservative views in the us assuming they're automated accounts for russia that's not gone down well live report i'm up after this break. i. hey everybody i'm stephen bob. taft hollywood guy you know suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v. to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru well it's a little bit different. because. there was no doubt with all the drama happening in our country i'm sure the brood have fun meet everyday americans. and

hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american people which. again so seems some people on twitter in the u.s. is saying their accounts blogs their list of followers deleted to it is allegedly branded some people with conservative views as bots. how soon will twitter look out to try and apparently thousands have a council receive the same massachusetts same moment to provide found and then

attacks if they're if you keisha. twits i'm looking out to the last seat down as the father was simply because i'm conservative voice explains and move the cursor. wonder how many votes i mean flung worse donald trump last night so just to mess up or maybe more to the meets the eye let's find out smear columns on the line for my washington hi what's going on here than samir a. well it looks like twitter has been blocking right wing voices or they're mysteriously losing followers and it's all part of what they call a great twitter purge now the hash tag twitter lockdown has been a trending on social media and they say that twitter is intentionally targeting people on the right but twitter is yet to give a statement i know some people online think that it could be a purge of so-called russian bought accounts as this all comes amid the search of the russian troll farm that's being blamed for sowing discord in the u.s. and swaying the election and to clarify that's thirteen people well according to

muller that is but what's really whole areas is that there are now claims that real people were locked out of their accounts and we're looking into into this but it's not really that surprising in fact when twitter launched its first wave of purges we found an american woman whose account was suspended because a twitter employee thought she was a russian bot. and on twitter since two thousand and ten basically when i realized it was permanent i was a little sharp they were actually cues in me being a russian operative if you're being with. this. that i was somehow working for russia part of the russian box that we're. sending out negative information during the election so judging by the circumstances it seems that all of the angry words are justified in this case but twitter has been helping the u.s. government catch these magical russian bots who somehow managed to sway elections for some time now and they've detected a massive number of them and their criteria well it's sort of a specific let's go back to the project veritas investigation. you know what

i. like. the problem is the. outdoors is a do it for you. now the question is if twitter will also start restricting a left wing voices who are critical of the u.s. government that of course are remains to be seen when will it end all right smear thanks for the update appreciate it but a happy news came out from south korea earlier on this check that i was a little picks on going for next couple of days still to world records were broken in the space just fifteen minutes earlier by russian athletes down there in south korea the first was said by a figure skating. would be short program was then topped by a team made a living as a get of the details from patrik. 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 smoothly it automatically adds skyrocketing points i guess something precious for us journalists to take note of was the reaction of you gave the 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 jiang chang is turning into a had to head class between two russian teenage girls eighteen year old of getting to be a duo 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 and chang twenty thing. well it's a problem a gracious rally was held in paris following president mccrone initiative to tighten laws on refugees people there say that he step back they think from his

promise to help migrants get off the streets and out of the woods quote show dubin ski has moved in from the french capital next. well this is seen as being one of the biggest tests of the manual mark one has faced so far in his presidency with around two hundred people coming out on wednesday morning to voice their concerns about this new immigration law well what's in the new immigration law well first of all they want to double the time of detention that's how long my kids can be held from forty five to ninety days they also want to put in jail for up to a year those migrants who cross into france illegally and they want to shorten the time that people have to apply for asylum well people who protested outside the consulate attack today said they were incredibly unhappy and they expressed why. this wise not good it has not been passed here but people won't like it because it wants to hold this attention with asylum seekers so used to work i think it's

a lot selfish it's a lot of people don't like the foreigners don't like no one likes. this law is unbalanced because a strength to facilitate the integration of french fiji's complete. their documents to become more and more difficult to be treated equally as you if you do so in france but many people also support this law some say it doesn't even go far enough and they say they support it because they have concerns over some of the elements that this new hope to deal with including that of fake i.d.'s because fake i.d.'s have been used by some perpetrators of terrorist attacks over the last few years in france now they will face up to five years and a fine if they found with fake i.d.'s now fake i.d.'s we used with those who carried out the paris attacks in two thousand and fifteen then just a year later brussels the attack there just over the border in belgium and also

last year in march say in two thousand and seventeen. and on a europe wide level there's also concern that some people who apply for asylum actually want to carry out terrorist attacks such as those who carried out the attacks at the christmas market also in stockholm in sweden and in finland what is clear is that this bill which is due to be debated by parliamentarians here france in april is not going to have a smooth flight. r.t. paris. but on the brink of the story next of a russian boy a little guy who was left stranded in iraqi territory previously held by islamic state and has been brought back to russia now to be reunited with his relatives there but a safety story is his parents are believed to have traveled in the first place to iraq to join the terror group but here in russia his grandparents are waiting for him or did a caution over was at the moscow airport when he arrived. this

is a three year old boy who is coming back home from the orphanage in baghdad is happy he is finally going to see his family again here at the moscow airport the child looked tired and lost he was trying to hide yes face from all the cameras and didn't respond to any questions or when he was called by his name he doesn't know what happened to his mother nor does he remember his father is too small to understand what happened to his parents that small boys traumatized is missing one little finger on his left hand and the injury that he sustained during a shallowing attack has spent over five months in an orphanage while all his documents were prepared for him to be able to leave iraq zaid has a little brother who's only one year old but his status still unknown moscow is not

his final destination his next step is travel to the city of grozny where his grandparents are waiting for him. here to emotionally move or. was. that this was your of their interests what's just. what they're great look this is this really this. very group. you fruit this.

you know back over from again maybe a bit of a brighter future. it's coming up to twenty seven minutes past six o'clock in the evening moscow time folks watching his legs like bullets and with me kevin i would hear all th kids more from me and footy and we're great programs lined up for you right after this break if you can stay with us to. know that. certain i want to do things that show the phrase really really be very clear. the way your. management. they they are and they have.

given you need to feel that. something yes i'm them what do you how much. do you. mean that with a measure that's often more negative. seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out these days become educated and gain from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

oh and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered peter lavelle 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 there is growing evidence the media are at the very center of this fake scandal. crosstalk in the fake news media i'm joined by my guest charles or tell in new york

he is a private investor and writer as well as the host of the podcast show sunday with charles also in new york we have don de bar he's an anti-war activist and host of a daily radio program and in london we have garri he is the director of eurasia future all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want let me go to adam first in london and adam if i didn't know better watching the cable network news i would have thought that it is a. series of very bad series that should have been cancelled probably after it's pilot but no it's goes on and on and on and has no reflection to reality let's take for example the indictment of thirteen russians i looked at the c.n.n. and embassy let me see i didn't have any indication whatsoever they actually read the indictment and all they do is go on and on and on and we have matthew chance from c.n.n. in same st petersburg russia going through the trash the guy.