with the turkish military operation against kurdish militants in full swing thousands of civilians. this is an occupation we are a peaceful people we live work. let everyone stand up for us arabs foreigners sin sin. in ecuador after a week of violence and protesters try to power lies the country by calling a general strike and following the islamists to the paris police headquarters francis interior minister produces a list tell tale signs of attentional radicalization among them supporting the low kristoff customer self is hardly clean shaven and britain's former spy says that

private sector internet know more about this than any intelligence agency and pose a major threat to democracy. hello there good morning just gone 11 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international our top story more than 200 military strikes have now been carried out by. steps up its operation pace spring in northeast syria however kurdish military forces regarded as terrorists by ankara claimed to have repelled one attack on a border town in the northern syrian province of rocker thousands of locals fled the area following the launch of the turkish operation kurdish forces claim 5 civilians have been killed in the offensive and accused of deliberately targeting civilian areas. condemned happening.

america and other countries should protect us they are committing sin here our children women is there really no mercy let everyone stand up for us arabs foreigners sin sin clearly this is an occupation we are a peaceful people we live calmly work do our own business it is a crime here look here on the bus real to the people here look at this car do you see you soldiers there there are children in their own way. and it does all come after age of airstrikes on the 2 kurdish controlled border towns of ras al manar and also tell. the kurds have ordered a general mobilization along the border with turkey and the region the international community to step in now the roots of the current escalation do go back some years the kurdish turkish conflict broke out in 2015 both sides have been

u.s. allies in the fight against deisel ankara seized in kurds as a terrorist threat or the sikh autonomy the offensive follows president donald trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from the region in his latest statement he defended the move saying the kurds did not help the us during world war 2. now the kurds are fighting for their land just so you understand they didn't help us in the 2nd world war they didn't help us with no normandy as an example well you going back to world war 2 is a poor way to justify our actions today. of course in world war 2 we were were fighting that's a germany and the us is close close allies with what germany today so so whatever took place back then this is kind of ancient history the reality is that the kurds are are part of syria they're not part of the united states

and the u.s. has a pattern of when they want to take over a country or they want to destabilize the country they look for they look for minority groups that they will work with to destabilize the country and ultimately the goal for the u.s. would be to break up syria. meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state says he has spoken with his to his counterpart and stress they that and white hives have been given the green light to anchor is offensive the ongoing midfield has been criticised by the e.u. and the un i call them took as well. to be free street and to stop. operations already as we are speaking on the way this military action is looked leading to good results the secretary general is very concerned by the recent developments in

northeast syria. any military operation must fully respect the un charter and international humanitarian law the turkish offensive in the northeastern syria is a danger a danger to the safety of the currents it danger because it helps divers who have been fighting for 5 years it needs to stop so france has brought the matter to the security council we are talking about displacement and effectively genocide of innocent kurdish civilians innocent communities within that region so it is absolutely terrifying to know how you know the communities are feeding as they are continually being bombarded by the turkish offensive the kurds have always been on the defensive but now they know they must defend themselves and their families which means that unfortunately they may not be able to police the the camps that hold isis and the isis prisoners and also you know there are reports that actually

within the camps there are some rebellions you know some isis rebellions going on so unfortunately the security threat is there for then raised and you know it is now going to cause a big vacuum and a significant problem in terms of security turkish main policy is that turkey has modeled and political and military obligation to bring these syrian refugees here in turkey since many years back to their country turkey is trying to took control of the area so that y.p. g. forces could not fill this area and prevent that these syrian refugees cannot come back so this areas are not kurdish territory of the territories belong to the syrian state and turkey of large to protect the territorial integrity of. state. and other news ecuador has seen

a nationwide strike in. 7th day of violent protests in its capital with thousands venting their anger against the government strike leaders say will then say when so president menem right now scraps sterrett measures these inflated food and transport prices triggering the worst political unrest in a decade. was for some 450 people have been injured among them police offices the protests have turned ugly with molotov cocktails and stones being thrown at offices they responded to gas correspondent nicholas o'donovan reports from k.-tel. was. was little obesity. rates of return right now and in. the u.s.

there's thousands and thousands of 1st i says let's try and get closer to the front line just the just a few feet away it's the presidential palace it's heaven the god part military and police say it's these protests to try to get there. in minutes ago while i was there in the live shot in our spanish version we got hit by. right there right now fredricka. and that's what we've been seeing all. the protesters there you should know it's ok ferals stones bricks just like the. and police firing back with tear gas with sound bombs it's a situation of extreme tension in the streets. just to give you an idea of. suspended any activity in the city center they say it's not safe for doctors and

for ambulances instead we've got crews all volunteers that are just taking the dozens and dozens of wounded people to bus stops and train them there it's actually pretty sure can and 30 measures that were implemented by the government included scrapping the subsidies for do you know. gasoline and that has triggered these protests the monday we had the students then on tuesday we have been degenerates communities today they will move together they've joined together in the same tens of thousands of people who are taking over the streets of quito president many more i know you're going to see in what is going to hit is a message. certainly riposte his government his ministers and say the measures that deal with the i.m.f. $4200000000.00. struggling with that not the people who say that the

government is going to save a banks and big business instead of the people and that's why with these people here protesting this is a national strike and it's having take x. with smoke it's practically on bearable a tragic day and for those history. as a former ecuadorian central bank official he says the country's president has betrayed his people for western runs. the people are a 2 to protest the mention of the package that they m.f. demand is so unreasonable that some people have also called it economic malpractise in the sense that they knew that this was going to cause such a huge pain in the population but they still went for it when learning what in a ran on a progressive platform in 2017 people voted for him because he wanted social

justice he wanted a continuation of the progressive policies but once he came into power he flip flopped completely he has started to serve the interests of western creditors he has gone to the capital markets in basically issued over $10000000000.00 worth of foreign dead last just last week in the un meetings here receive the gold medal from a lobby group headed by chevron. after last week's attack at the paris police headquarters that left 4 officers dead if issues have since admitted they missed borning signs about the killers radicalization but the french interior minister is ideas on how to recognize such people of course control the city. explains. it's being a rocky week for france's interior minister christopher cason a founder of self blindsided after telling the world the man who murdered 4

colleagues at the paris police h.q. hadn't shown the slightest cause for alarm calls for his resignation followed when it emerged that they had indeed been much to cause concern now it appears he's trying to show he has things under control but they hear it from says national assembly he outlined how the sowing of islam missed radicalization could be spotted so in the words of just another how do you spot a radical by mrs on the signs that must be noted a rigorous religious practice is specially a remedy is a sign that should trigger an alert in the same way does the individual agree to team up with a woman or not does he have a regular and ostentatious practice of ritual prayer and also note a female civil servant wearing a veil in public. well that's an interesting list to start with but perhaps is most illuminating suggestion of how to spot somebody who's been

radicalized is this tidbit. these signs of them become more or more obvious and related to behavioral changes such as having a beard. do you think that he owns a mirror. and that point certainly wasn't lost on one of france's m.p.'s reported the numbers that you mentioned having a beard can be problematic i see that you have a beard yourself for the others in the government to. so as the being did men know for all c's ruling elites are all probably running off to buy raises as we speak we thought we'd ask people in paris what they make of the

interior minister's top tips on how to spot an islamist radical i think having a beer today in france can be a bit. a bit solve a problem because you can you can get. more attention than you desire from the police. i know bearded people who go out in the evening and they're not tragical at all about beards is a fashion for me having a beer does not make your radical. i do not think that a beard is a sign of radicalization it does not make any sense to me and people should not be judged by their appearance so where advice like that i doubt this idiot's guide is going to be on sale any time soon charlotte. paris. britain's former spy chief has identified a major threat to mocker see private internet which he says know more about you and

intelligence agencies we've got the details just off the back. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. you know on the condition of the united states should remove the sanctions and then talks with the possible rights of the united states refused to do so there's a deep and increasing mistrust worked. martin states because of your other friends used to do it so there was a real concern that if you're wrong goes to the negotiation your negotiations with

the united states and them the united states again refuses to move to sanctions like the same they did to north korea everything would be. worse than. again i britain's former chief spy says that private sector internet firms possess more personal data than any state intelligence agency and david o. man also claims they pose a major threat to democracy the big revelation over the last couple of years has been not about government intelligence agencies it's been about the private sector

it's about the internet companies knowing more about me you everyone in the whole than any intelligence agency ever could or should know about us this is truly dangerous i think it's a major threat to democracy and it's uncontrollable he also says that the work of spy agencies is strictly regulated while private sector firms have other priorities and gives the scandal surrounding cambridge analytical as an example. became bridge analytical scandal the way in which our personal data which is freely given in return for having an internet free at the point of use so we can do our searches and so on that information is monetized it is sold in march last year a whistleblower revealed that cambridge analytical political consulting firm had harvested the personal data of up to $87000000.00 facebook users without their consent this misuse for targeted political advertising campaigns in june scandal cambridge analytic folded as a firm and facebook was fined $5000000000.00 facebook boss mark zuckerberg has

apologized several times well chris kit's the founder of the encrypted internet service unseen says that people are being exploited on mine. i'm not convinced there's any difference between this between the social media companies and the intelligence agencies they're basically the same thing so as soon as you put something in electronically then the question is who has control over the data social media companies were funded by intelligence agencies that's what that was the deal the deal was we'll give you this money and technology to build your business and you give us the data so when you when they collect your information it's going right to this right to the security agencies in some fashion and it's also going a lot of other places to advertisers and other people who may or may not protect their data but what they've done is they've basically turned every person into a spy against themselves everyone on earth isn't the system it's a it's basically a threat matrix of what kind of threat do these people represent to whomever and

they can just dial it up and down and they just watch your e-mails if you make some offhanded comment who knows maybe you'll end up on one of those trains like they have in china where they hold off the you know they're in control of the companies themselves i'm not even sure that they're really in control of anything i think that they're taking orders. environmental action group extinction rebellion has blocked roads in central london for a 3rd day as part of a global campaign demanding governments take climate change more seriously while starting in london the movement has spread to dozens of cities around the world as far afield as astray and also south africa and berlin the group took inspiration from their british counterparts by blocking major roads in the city center and aside from the general disruption to businesses and people as they retains the group's actions are also affecting vital emergency services including taking hundreds of police officers away from other g t's and blocking ambulances the

group's actions are being criticised one cancer patient allegedly forced to walk to hospital as it blocked roads leading to the building londoners have reacted to the activists shut down of parts of the capital. who are these self-righteous idiots that seek to determine how will leave our lives extension rebellion have gone too far this time after government by all means but do not affect the vulnerable bloody unbelievable i recently had a family member with cancer so this could close to the core really hope extinction rebellion are really ashamed of themselves was also angry after the group's activists defaced a giant chalk monument in southern england which schoolchildren had helped to restore they often bans white horses a landmark chalk hill figure which was 1st cut back in 112 angry locals branded the activist uncovering the figure with their logo as misguided vandalism the group

stood by its action. i make no apologies about upsetting people we did our utmost not to damage the horse the last thing we wanted to do was to damage it we were very careful of how we walked on it. well later today some of the protesters also planned to bring london city airport close but while the group might be making themselves heard their demands to remain a bit less clear to find more partridge went to meet some of the organizers. extinction rebellion protests continue on its wall team day campaign demanding the government take serious action to halt climate change the group claims its protest is for the benefit of the environment and peaceful in nature and here in the heart of london there is meat on my stomach a jolly festival atmosphere but this is what we've witnessed in the past few days road blocks artistic before one says a giant octopus and defacing historical monuments research shows that people

budding fossil fuels cutting down rain forest and increased bombing is damaging to the environment but is protesting the best way to effect change extinction revalued once posed as a non violent organization but their actions on the was could appear belligerents so today the police will be moving in and boss numbers trying to arrest individuals take the sites away from us but let's remind the police that if they take the saw is that we will become a lot harder to police or dispersed we won't be letting them know what we're doing so it's actually in their interests that keep these sites because they know where we are and what we're doing and once we move out we're going to be a lot more disruptive and a lot harder to police so we are some of the protest this but they are demanding rebellion have 3 demands we want the government to tell the truth about the severity of the climate crisis and the 6 mass extinction we want them to act now to reduce carbon emissions and we want to set up

a sudanese assembly so that people can decide what we do about this scientists tell this witness to something very very quickly. that's just so much out there that tells us we need to act and yes they do. this is action we can see damage happening everywhere in the world and the moment and we just have to make drastic changes we can't say however many years will be this week but to really get people to realize what is happening and make changes now there is no us and them we're not protesting against an enemy as it were protesting against a system that causes all these problems in corporations and we've set up an economy that works on destroying the planet and really that needs to change around and that starts with all government was meant to represent us as people we also asked people on the streets what they thought of the crisis looks very peaceful looks pretty you know existent bit boring when you try to get a bus and all the roads are closed but hey i'll put up with

a bit of discomfort is kind of frustrating you know i waited 10 years to come here and there's all this going on we keep still looking for landmarks and everywhere we go they're covered by all this stuff though maisie there with the x.'s here incredible. i think it's great waste of time i do believe the. irish population the pop culture vibe have. returned i think we have great potential coming out of the museum will will never post anything we propose is of pushing we would prefer the activists on just focused on the central london extinction rebellion also intends to shut down london city airport for 3 days to protest against air travel and the government's 2000000000 pound planned expansion of the site the group says this would involve a whole cost occupation we'll see if the consequences are the same can't partridge azzi like to. be with us this morning will be back with more stories in the

headlines at the top of the. talk about one of the worst cases of predatory baxter's defrauding an m.p. using the tauren sec that i've seen in a couple years you know we have energy issued in many instances of bankers preying on folks but this is this is it this is really happening. why a paradise with all year round turned into a round the experimentation field for agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up

locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments that often in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of collusion is reprehensible while the battle goes on the chemicals continue to poison hawaii and its people so one has to ask the question whether there is a form of environmental research going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power.

hello to welcome to worlds a part of iranian diplomacy has never been particularly spoken or insisted the condemnations of the great satan and thinly veiled threats have long been part of its for not killing but having mad its rival the ministration has changed its tack and barking on the global charm offensive hasn't been successful in getting the maximum pressure policy pursued by the americans well to discuss that i'm now joined by i mean that is that is easy assistant professor for regional studies at shahid to university there is this is good to talk to thank you very much for much for months now you know i had a chance to interview the reigning foreign minister just a few weeks ago and what was very special about that interview very notable i thought their request for it came not from our side as usually happens but from the ukrainian side when i later looked into the frequency of the ministers media

appearances i think he may have given more interviews these here than in all the previous years combined and i think the same goes for president the high means well how do you explain these so. in the iranian public outreach it's not something really new i mean this kind of trying to expand diplomacy it's been employees. of the definitely going to. you know see the of the frequency of the interviews you can see the frequency of tweets and there has been a dramatic and actually. it could be partly explained the intensification . was set aside specially the u.s. and i'm not so it can just go to economic pressure i'm talking about the media. campaign i mean social media in general if such

a car no. see was absent. the general framework of the. you know foreign policy it would be really difficult for your aunt to really you know actually announce its real position and to clarify its main positions on the different issues and also to reach out to do target countries as is wants to expand his toys now speaking about the target audience that i thought that the main target audience for this media appearances over the last couple of months have been the europeans with their. feeble attempts to salvage part of the 2015 nuclear deal i think it's out there that's not going to happen but do you think the authorities in ever since they're really believed that the europeans would go against the americans in such a serious and follow it's a provocative way. actually it wasn't a well it's a belief it's was

a balls hope you know hoping that's in the current you know trends in the international affairs i mean that's kind of the you know rather demise of the you want to troll of the united states on the rise of other main centers of power like china and russia europe would also be willing to you know take a kind of independent role in the international arena so you don't try if we are to. talk about the initiatives very well you're on and also about the recent you know of a vote of. the recent phases of the reduction of iran's commitments on.