so when you want to be president and she. want. you to go right for us this is what before 3 of the more people that are interested always in the water . there should. iran joins the chorus of condemnation of turkey readies for a military offensive against kurdish forces in northeastern syria reports suggest ankara has already targeted s.t.'s positions in the region also ahead. it's revealed that senior u.k. doctors were aware that blood donates to the u.s. and given to british patients in the 1970 s. and eighty's could have been infected with hiv hepatitis we hear from the son of one transfusion victim. the department our through the only to mean hearings of this inquiry said it's been our best lack of come into it worse to cover up yet

they still will not accept their legal liability. american basketball faces a backlash from one of its biggest audiences sound sources of cash there's anger in china over a tweet in support of protestors in hong kong for us. to see that. ecuador reels from violent clashes over cuts to fuel subsidies and r.t.e. spanish channel correspondent is caught in the middle of protests. and very welcome to you watching on c. international with me thank you erin now a developing story. iran now warning turkey against

a military operation in northeastern syria calling for an korea to respect serious thought for entity to run joins a chorus of concerned voices which also includes european officials turkey has reportedly already conducted and artillery strikes in northeastern syria according to local media it comes hours after washington announced it was pulling its troops out of the area anker has also been deploying military hardware along its border with syria on monday video emerged apparently showing american military vehicles leaving 2 of its outposts until recently washington had around 115 military personnel stationed there kurds in the region are furious with some leaders saying they will curse the u.s. as traitors here's just a taste of what they think about trump's decision will serve as a human shield of nursery at war not allowing their aggression against this region when we defeated terrorists you called yourselves our allies and what are we seeing

the coalition is letting us down we're hearing constant threats coming from turkey and complete silence on the part of the world where you've been displaced and suffered a lot but. have until recently been drilling to save his own. intimidations and part of an acceptable as a way to keep keep separating us we sounded out a human rights lawyer and middle east expert for their thoughts on washington's withdrawal from northern syria. we have to remember that in the 1990 s. turkey with the substantial u.s. military support by the way really carried out a genocide against a perv kurdish population killing about 3000000 kurds so we know about turkey's tip of the towards the kurdish people and one has to be very concerned. replay of that in northern syria and sure turkey is trying everything you can not

to have that happen because obviously if it incurred the military went to the united states that would be devastating for them but you know mistakes happen and that is the risk of what's happening here so the u.s. is a horribly unreliable for the kurds it has no friends only interests and the u.s. which is size all the time opposes it in support so. we see this over and over i think the turkish adventure in syria is going to create another bloody conflict in the middle east or did the middle east is blowing up is on the verge kanal and i think david going to vote is going to erupt very soon the u.s. they have betrayed the kurds and this term but the question is now how can we limit the damage. and the war the bloody war that is going to cost

thousands of lives. and regards who we're on the side as well as on the 3rd crash site. it was a long time past finally defended his decision to withdraw u.s. troops from northern syria claiming america is in no way abandoned that's going to cut he also issued a stark warning to took a saying it would face the very were prize the us if it commits abuses during the operation we've been in syria for many years you know syria was supposed to be a short term hit just a very short term hit we were supposed to be in and out that was many many years ago and we only have 50 people in that area that's a small sector and i don't want those 50 people hurt or killed or anything i don't want anything bad to happen our people and i told that to president and i said don't. any of any of our people get hurt if turkey does anything out of what they

should be doing we will hit them so hard in the economy. well so he's responded to trump's threat saying it won't bow to u.s. economic pressure and at home donald trump found himself in hot water with both democrats and republicans launching scathing attacks on him over his latest decision on syria is kind of more reports. standing in between the turkish an s.d.f. fighters was not a fight to win or a benefit for the united states why because they're both friends and allies of the usa so if you support one side you're inevitably betraying the other it's a perfect no win scenario and for his decision to abandon the kurds donald trump is already taking a hit so the kurds still nobody else would defy if we abandon him good luck getting any help america in the future will radical islam al-qaeda and i says the kurds will know a lot about this because they have nobody to count on cause we abandon them so this is the people improve on minutes when prices the president's decision to withdraw

all u.s. forces from northern syria is a deeply disturbing development that betrays allies who have been instrumental you know a mission to eradicate isis we must always have the backs of all and if we expect them to have our back the currents were instrumental in our successful fight against isis in syria leaving them to die is a big mistake losing the reputation as a reliable partner is the main concern after all nobody wants to partner up with a backstabber so we decided to ask new yorkers if they think that donald trump is taking the right moves should the usa have pulled out of syria so suddenly i do not support anything donald trump supports he'll flip he'll flip flop just like you know honestly i don't think we should be there. somebody is going to suffer we stay there they suffer we leave they suffer so no we have reason to stab them in the back with help them as much as we possibly can and that some point they have to be

able to stand on her own 2 feet a serious. it's too soon. probably i just think there's a lot of hypocrisy. senior doctors in the u.k. were aware that donated blood from the united states in the 1970 s. and eighty's could have been infected with hiv or hepatitis it was revealed when the minutes of meetings of high level doctors back then were obtained by several british media outlets now we talked to the founder of a victim support group who shared his family's story. my father was born with hemophilia which is a manageable bleeding disorder and he like thousands of others was given this factor 8 medication he himself was infected with both hepatitis a and hiv when i was 4 years old in 1903 he died of those infections and so that's kind of been the thing that's me into

beginning to campaign on this issue and to research into it well i 1st asked for these documents from the darby emberton n.h.s. trust many many months ago and initially the trust refused to provide me with the document in question so i had to go to the information commissioner's office who stepped in and the i.c.a.o. did promise them to eventually release the document to me however the 1st time the trust gave me the document i know is that 2 pages were missing from it so then had to go back to the i.c.a.o. saying you know they've they've missed out 2 pages here and i did eventually get those 2 missing pages and i was told by the trust that that was due to an admin error if we choose to believe that's true and it was on those 2 pages that were

originally missing that this revelation was in that. in 2017 jason evans initiated a public inquiry into the case he claims key files are still missing the latest u.k. government statistics say 30000 people were infected with hiv and hepatitis through donated blood from the u.s. in the seventy's and eighty's it led to hundreds of early deaths and the exact figure is still not clear. the british government describes the scandal as a tragedy that should never have happened the health department also says it's committed to being open and transparent with the inquiry but jason evans doubts that there will be any realistic stance from the government. i don't think the government the department of how to really move this forward at all in recent times the bizarre situation we're in now is of course victims and families say this is a scandal or lawyers say it's a scandal civil servants i've spoken to say it's

a scandal we've got 2 former health ministers to say it's a cover up but the important point here is the department of how the opening hearings of this inquiry said there's been our best lack of candor and at worst a cover up yet they still will not accept their legal liability despite saying that so we're in a situation where they kind of make the right noises but the action just isn't there to back what they're saying and i think it's time for that to change families and victims have been seeking justice for decades r.t. has a feature length report on the case you can watch bad blood online at r.t. dot com. has been building since the government moved to scrap feel subsidies which has resulted in price hikes for goods. was. the latest wave of

protests stone throwing demonstrators clashed with police who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets were being around. $500.00 arrests as the latest trouble began president already has declared the 2 month states of emergency the plane is ecuador's former leader and the head of latin american labor venezuela his country's problems. the tyrant who has activated along with career destabilization. there the corrupt who have held the food stamps of just disclose and known to make them they're the ones behind this attempted coup de tarpley the former ecuadorian president rafael correa has refuted the accusation against him saying the rhino has no one to blame but himself. it's a difficult time for my home and this shows the politics of merino in his government he's already been in power for 2 and a half years and he still blames career for everything economic crisis for security for his political fault and to say that these mass protests of my fault is just

crazy. knowing there isn't any merino is not interested in democracy for him the most important thing is to control power control the ecuadorian public so he create projects that can damage the majority but be beneficial for his goals. as a result of the upheaval the ecuadorian government has announced that it's temporarily relocating from the capital to the city of guayaquil over 400 kilometers away a correspondent from r.t. spanish channel has seen 1st hand how quickly some of the protests have escalated. the air is still heavy here we have tear gas and smoke this is the aftermath of what is just happen here massive clashes between protesters and the ecuadorian police the protesters mainly students they started peacefully in the early hours of the morning but around midday and in a split 2nd they turned violent. there

was healing. our team was affected by sound bombs and tear gas and flying rocks were a constant threat after 3 hours of violent clashes between protesters and police the streets of quito looked more like who. was brought bottles in tear gas cottages scattered everywhere so these definitely been violent and heavy protests but people we spoke to were telling us this is just the beginning they waiting for the biggest protests to happen on wednesday that's when indigenous leaders from all around the country they're going to come here to the capital and they're going to protest next to the presidential palace. or to discuss the situation further we're joined now by i'm a london mr he's a senior lecturer at the u.k.'s lancaster university and an expert on conflicts management great to have you with us how would you assess president already his claim that rafael correia and nicholas mature are largely to blame for the upheaval

in ecuador. who have to go beyond the blame game of the moment and ask as to why this is happening is happening because there is a presser from the international monetary fund isn't to walk towards better in the economy or the quote go they couldn't have been used in subsidies from the 1970s would the left wing politics that has been going on for a long time and so want to help them all. lynn in what i know has parted company with this particular left wing policies and politics and there is a reason why we have seen the protests so they could have been used to a large amount of subsidies that does not come in that way and the real difficulties as well the poor through prices have gone up by quanta and the vision prices have gone up by almost half. to compound the problem therefore while production is in equilibrium 3 of them have been solved and that args will to the

problem so we have to look at the larger picture so i.m.f. is asking for us to do to make this and the current government of lenin what it is forced to follow that particular dick track so there is no way that it can come out of the barracks that it has. $1400000000.00 us dollars that if we toss to get among the $4000000000.00 in full details to follow the guidelines prescribed by so linspire this is like between a rock and a hard place. one that could all swing to the right in alignment with the u.s. mean for it economically in the coming years do you think. it is unlikely what we are going to witness is the protests are going to get have a nasty year but having said that that round is that lenin more in the heart of the moment is he has the defense minister on his side and he has got all the 3 heads of

the armed forces on his side so we are on likely to see any kind of who are against moreno that draws people hoping for secondly the entire congress is also in support of him as well so if we go beyond the. scenario particular detroit. then to intervene or something else is going to happen so that's. so the government is home in force use them and will hound one more protests in the coming days on his part here so danny and eventually. i came afraid we're experiencing some technical difficulties there with i guess but for now that i'm a lender i measure he's a senior lecturer at the u.k.'s lancaster university. but i want to major that us people teams are paying the price not responded to weighed in on twitter over the hong kong protests will tell you why among other stories after this short break.

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thank you for. as r.t. international welcome back hong kong's leader says it's too early to say whether the anti mosque law is not effective carolan added that it takes time for new legislation to get the desired results it was imposed during a long weekend of violence in the city that stretched into monday night. put.

her. the. meantime a tweet from the manager of a u.s. basketball team has sparked uproar in china he expressed his support for the anti-government protests in hong kong the head of the national basketball association defended the tweet on the houston rockets is not as freedom to express political opinions but as a costly move as is seen major chinese sponsors cut ties with the team and the n.b.a. chinese state broadcaster c.c.t.v. has pulled n.b.a. games from the shed jewels this week by just sports where brands in china olso suspending cooperation with the team they originally tweet has been deleted but not forgotten his donald quarter explains. activism is in nowadays and american big business is always trying to stay on top of the latest trend. that something.

was and sexual harassment but she says because it is. so when the manager of the houston rockets basketball team posted stand with hong kong on twitter it was nothing out of the ordinary right or wrong his bosses clearly didn't support his political viewpoint because the end. they threw him right under the bus we recognize that the views expressed by houston rockets general manager general mori have deeply offended many of our friends and fans in china which is regrettable it wasn't long before more he himself had a change of heart i've had lots of junior since that tweet to his consider the

perspectives i have always appreciated the significant support of our chinese friends and sponsors i would hope that those who are upset will know the defending will miss understanding them was not my intention so why the 180 all of a sudden it could have something to do with a 1500000000 dollar contract signed not long ago by the n.b.a. and a major chinese tech company it's called 10 cent and it broadcasts basketball games in the hundreds of millions of chinese homes last year more people watch the n.b.a. in china than there are even people living in the united states with such a huge consumer base china has only landed morry in hot water one of nike shoe designers recently made a post supporting hong kong protesters on instagram the company received intense backlash in china where they eventually pulled the designer shoes off the market but marriott made

a similar mistake when it listed taiwan tibet and hong kong as separate countries on its website beijing shut that site down and the marry up issued an apology starting trouble with china and its elephant sized market might have become a dangerous business practice in the u.s. but the n.b.a. is brave enough to snub an invitation from the white house with trump entrenched in it i don't want to go. i mean those kind of. the nucleus of believe that the fruit is difference not just me going to the way i was there was this would be a pretty sure conversation but. i guess it is the organization is the team i guess we know who is leading in this trade war. 8 people have been injured in central germany after a stolen truck slammed into cars the traffic lights in a small town one person remains in a critical condition after the incident on monday the truck's owner claims a man in his thirty's with short dark hair and

a full beard forced him out of the vehicle before speeding away soon after it was slammed into cars waiting at a stop lights near a railway station in the town of limburg crushing them together local police have asked people not to speculate on a motive for the crash but media there are reporting that a suspect has been arrested and is of syrian origin but also reports that frankfurt's attorney general is looking at the incident as an act of terror. afghan and u.s. forces have reportedly killed a top taliban commander in an ass strike in the east of afghanistan it follows donald trump's withdrawal from peace talks with the militant group last week and a series of terror attacks that have rocks the country in recent days at least 10 people were killed and 27 wounded when a bomb struck a minibus carrying army recruits in jalalabad on monday it's not clear who was behind the attack with both the taliban and islamic state active in the area last month a u.s. drone strike targeting islamic state in the province killed at least 30 civilians.

but what do they do this we're not with islam i can tell you that when someone we don't anybody and i can accept their body parts are in the spirit. you don't use them on the 2nd night us little things he wants to do to get involved with these my family members agree to them my brother's wife and my cousins but because of that. love that is what my father went to harvest pine nuts but drawn skill to my little brothers. crying for him all the time. but on the front end of my coworkers were killed and i was left injured there were over 200 people own worst critic controverted money i still need to tell him off for not least one

extent militants but the bomb goes. into the mine a good way to go but i'm not one of the americans here in afghanistan who think they should leave loaded they are liars still they see they can see small things from the year while the so why couldn't they detail armed militants from the mortars that they're going to just want our government to bring us a peace we don't need and announced. he would on t.v. love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories so do get in touch by following us on social media and we're back at the top of the hour with the latest c.n.n. .

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greetings and sell you. despite what the constitution declares the freedom of the press has had a topsy turvy sometimes even brutal history of abuse here in the united states of america while most of the time attacks on u.s. journalism has been through very indirect or opaque means like the influence of the lure of the almighty ratings dollar the or the herd click mentality of beltway ivy league journalists or even newsroom employees putting their climb up the corporate ladder before their journalistic integrity but every so often throughout our long history there is a very direct abuse of the press by members of the government. institutions they are paid to report a lot like the exchange that took place recently when defense one news editor ben watson tried to make his way through customs to washington dulles international airport the hill reports that watson was harassed and accused by a u.s.

customs and border protection agent of writing propaganda when you attempted to reenter the united states this week apparently is watson was going through customs after informing the officer of his occupation the officer held onto his passport repeatedly asked him over and over and over again so you write propaganda right this started of course a volley of well no i'm a journalist so you write propaganda write well no i'm a journalist so you write propaganda write until watson finally relented and said yes whereupon he was given back as a passport and allowed to leave the airport finally as watson told the washington post with his tone and he's looking me in the eye very much realize this is not a joke i've honestly never had a human attempt to provoke me like this before in my life this behavior is totally normal now i guess that my friends is a good question and one that can only be answered by watching the whole.