turkey's military operation against kurdish militants in syria and its 2nd day with thousands of civilians fleeing their homes. this is an old you are you should we are useful people we leave comicbook to our own business let everyone stand up for us arabs foreigners sin sin. also this hour germany's interior minister says the deadly shootings in the city of call of that left 2 dead were driven by anti-semitism. in africa or after a week of violence anti austerity protesters trying to paralyze the country by calling a nationwide general strike. and britain's former spy chief says private sector internet firms know more about us than any intelligence agency and pose

a major threat to democracy. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h 2 in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. turkey's military operation p spring against the kurds in north east syria is into its 2nd day kurdish forces accused of shelling a prison in which i still terrorists are being held bringing it in attempt to help them escape thousands of locals fled the area following the launch of the turkish operation kurdish forces claim 5 civilians have been killed in the offensive already and accused of deliberately targeting civilian areas saying locals have condemned what's happening. in america and other countries should protect us they're committing sin here our children women is there really no mercy let

everyone stand up for us arabs foreigners sin sin but rather clearly this is an occupation we are a peaceful people we live calmly work to our own business it is a crime here look on the bus real to the people who look at this calm do you see you some. their children their own way. it all comes after a 1st phase of airstrikes on to kurdish controlled border towns across all i know and. the kurds have ordered a general mobilization along the border with turkey and are urging the international community to stop it now the roots of the current escalation go back some years now the kurdish turkish conflict broke out in 2015 both sides have been u.s. allies in the fight against eisel sees the kurds as a terrorist threat while the current seek autonomy the offensive follows president donald trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from the region and its latest statement he defended the move saying the kurds did not help the us during world war 2. now the courage of fighting for the

land just so you understand they didn't help us in the 2nd world war they didn't help us with normandy as an example well going back to world war 2 is a poor way to justify our actions to a. course in world war 2 we were were fighting that sea germany and the u.s. is close close allies with with germany today so so what whatever took place back then is 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 mike pompei o says he's spoken with his turkish counterpart and stressed that the white house hadn't given the green light to on presidents of the ongoing military operation has been criticized by the e.u. and the u.n. . i call on turk as well on other actors to act with restraint and to stop operations already as we are speaking on the way this military action is not leading to good result 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 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 in turkish main parties is that turkey

has model the political and military obligation to bring these syrian refugees here in turkey since many years back to their culture turkey is trying to control the area so that why p.g. . forces could not fill this area and prevent that these 2000000 refugees cannot come back so that this area not kurdish territory is the territories belong to the syrian state turkey of large to protect the territorial integrity of. state. germany is reeling after the deadly shootings in the city of hama which left 2 people dead the jewels are being held outside a local synagogue the scene of one of the attacks across live now to evangelise in berlin for us a suspect is being held in connection with this atrocity what else do we know. well

we know so far from the authorities that a 27 year old male named stephon be housed been detained by police and has been believed to be the main suspect of the attack according to german federal prosecutors the authorities also confirm that he had a right wing extremist but however though the fact that this happened on the holiest day of judaism is somewhat worrying jews right now are outraged and there is no police to be seen near the synagogue the time of the incident and just a reminder here that it was the holiest day on the jewish calendar which means that the attendance would have been high as expected. what i cannot understand a tool is why the synagogue had no police protection on the most important jewish day of celebration had the. likelihood of being prevented from committing a 2nd attack. vigil that happened last night at the main synagogue in berlin german chancellor angela merkel was the was there and was confronted by

people about security measures she simply responded saying that not enough was done to protect the people there. 2 people lost their lives this was an attack on jews and jews in germany we will do everything possible to ensure the you can live in safety it's clear that we're not doing enough we must do. the attack though cause more outrage as the perpetrator live streamed the incident on. a platform that is usually most commonly used to stream video of video games it is shown on the video that the weapon that the perpetrator did use was not a manufacture one but more like a homemade one in his vehicle he also had a homemade weapons as well as a camera and a laptop showing the disturbing degree of planning that went behind these attacks also in the video they can. store it shows that the perpetrator did act alone

this spite the initial reports of police saying that the remarkable attackers now today 2 vigils and a demonstration will be held in solidarity in how germany. the german interior minister says he'll hole for will be attending to pay tribute to the victims as well there is a police conference expected today with hope to shed more light in the tragedy yesterday artie's the vangelis helps us bring us the latest thank you. ecuador has seen a nationwide strike and a 7th day of violent protests and its capital with thousands venting their anger against the government strike leaders say it will not and the president let them run out scraps austerity measures these have inflated food and transport prices struggling the worst political unrest in a decade. oh.

some $450.00 people have been injured among them police officers the protests have turned ugly with molotov cocktails and stones thrown at police officers responded with tear gas our correspondent nicholas donovan reports from the unrest in quito. right now and in the trails there is thousands and thousands of birds i says let's try and get closer to the front line just a just a few feet away it's the presidential palace it's heaven the god part military and police since these protests once again. there's 2 minutes ago while i was there in the last shot in our spanish version we got hit by. the way

there right from the right. and that's what we've been seeing. the protesters are using the actual quote sales 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. a place 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 going to people to. stop them treating them there it's actually pretty shocking and here fluency measures that were implemented by the government included scrapping the subsidies for diesel. gasoline and that has triggered these protests on monday we had the students then on tuesday

we had been bijan as communities today they will move together they've joined together in the same kinds of thousands of people who are taking over the streets of quito president clinton moreno well he's going to see what he's going to hit is a message. absolute riposte so his government those ministers and say the measures that deal with the i.m.f. $4200000000.00. that struggling with that not the people who say that the government is going to say banks big business instead of the people and that's why with these people here protesting this is a national strike and. take absolute smoke it's practically on bearable a tragic day in x. we're told history. a former ecuadorian central bank official says the country's president has betrayed his people for western loans. the people are right to

protest the mention of the package that the m.f. demands 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 lending more than 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 and basically issued over $10000000000.00 worth of foreign dead last just last week in the un meetings here to receive the gold medal from a lobby group headed by chevron. still to come britain's former spy chief has

identified a major threat to democracy private internet firms which he says you know more about us than intelligence agencies things that after the break. leave. the nice guys or more of my guy q financial survival this is. a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these are structured simply not accountable and we're just adding more looks to the. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get informed as we get.

welcome back creighton's former chief spies says private sector internet firms possess more personal data than any state intelligence agency and david allman 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 points out the work of spy agencies is strictly regulated while private sector firms have other priorities given the scandal surrounding cambridge analytical as an example. the cambridge 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 a searches and so on that information is monetized it is so. in march 2900 a whistleblower revealed that cambridge analytical a political consulting firm had harvard's harvested the personal data of up to 87000000 facebook users without their consent this was used for a targeted political ad campaigns and the ensuing scandal cambridge analytical folded as

a firm and facebook was fined $5000000000.00 facebook boss mark zuckerberg has apologized several times. chris kits the founder of encrypted internet service and sons says people are being exploited online 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 that data what they've done is they've basically turned every person into a spy against themselves everyone on earth is in 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 years 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. after last week's attack at the paris police headquarters that left 4 officers dead officials have sense admitted they missed warning signs about the killers radicalization at the french interior minister's ideas on how to recognize such people have caused controversy as charlatans he explains. it's being a rocky week for france's interior minister christopher kasten 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 his national assembly he outlined how the sewing islam missed radicalization could be spotted so in the words of just another how do you spot a radical by mrs senior in the sun that must be noted a rigorous religious practice especially at ramadan 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 notes of female civil servants 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 on numbers that you mentioned having a beard can be problematic i see that you have a beard but in yourself come to think of it having a beer could be a bit of a problem for the others in the government to. so as the being did men know for all seasons ruling elites it will 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 solve a problem because you can you can get. more attention than you desire from the police service well i know people who go out in the evening and they are not radical at all about sequester is a fashion for me having a beer does not make you right because. i do not think that a beard is a sign of radicalization does not make any sense to me and people should not be judged by their parents so we have advice like that i doubt this idiot's guide is going to be on sale any time soon. paris. environmental action group extinction rebellion has blocked roads in central london for a 4th day as part of a global campaign demanding government take climate change more seriously all starting in london the movement has spread to dozens of cities around the world and

berlin the group took inspiration from their british counterparts by blocking major roads in the city center aside from the general disruption to business and people's daily routines the group's actions are affecting by all emergency services as well including taking hundreds of police officers away from other duties and blocking ambulances some of the protesters have begun attempts to bring london city airport to a close this morning with 12 already arrested by police but while the group might be making themselves heard their actual demands remain less clear to find out more partridge went to meet some of the organizers. the extinction rebellion protests continue on a small team day campaign demanding the government take serious action just hold 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 beatle heist like a jolly festival atmosphere but this is what we've witnessed in the past few days roadblocks artistic performances

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 affect change extinction many of 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 site 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 who are dispersed and 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 do it once we move out we're going to be a lot more disruptive and a lot of discipline 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 the people can decide what we do about this scientists tell us please do something very very quickly. this is so much out there that tells us we need to act and yes they just. you know we can see damage happening everywhere in the in the world and the moment and we just have to make drastic changes we can't say be everything 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 we focus against a system that causes all the v's 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 price asked so looks very peaceful looks pretty nonexistent to me but 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 i saw this coming and we keep still looking for landmarks and everywhere we go they're covered by all this stuff maisie there with the exit here incredible. i see goose creek waste of time i do believe the. generation can the point kind of reviving. nobody would return to i mean we have a great catastrophe coming out of the news you know i'm told will never post anything we propose is of pushing the moon probe for include the activists on just focused on 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 pound expansion of the site the group says this would involve a whole coast occupation we'll see if the consequences of the say. azzi

to. that are global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always had to our website are 2 dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there. you long only come to show was that some of the united states should remove the sanctions and then talks would be possible lots of united states refused to do so there is a deep and increasing mistrust to argue with martin states because over there all the funds are used to do it so there was

a real concern that if you're on goes through the negotiation new negotiations with the united states and then the united states again refuses to move to sign shows like the same they do in north korea everything would be. worse than it seems to be. why a paradise with so much around turned into a round the experimentation field but 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 race that's going on in hawaii whether these companies feel they can get away with this because the people have less political power. readings in salutation. the federal bureau of investigations is reeling with the barest mint this week oct watchers no i'm not i'm not talking about the news that mr higher loyalty i'm so former f.b.i. director james comey has been awarded his own brand new mini series based on his book about his firing as f.b.i. director by donald trump in the midst of russert gate starring jeff daniels no not talking about that now this news is far more embarrassing and in any normal functioning society would produce massive reforms and firings it appears that our

good friends at the f.b.i. were found to be in appropriately using and abusing the data collected under the tories section 7 o 2 the foreign intelligence surveillance act ars technica reports that the united states foreign intelligence surveillance court actually ruled back in october of 2018 that the f.b.i. misused surveillance data to look into american residence including other f.b.i. employees and other family members making large scale queries that did not distinguish between u.s. persons and foreign intelligence targets and that the f.b.i. has actions were a major violation of the 4th amendment to our constitution that protects the decisions from on reasonable search and seizure these revelations even caught the eye of n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden who tweeted wow the f.b.i. is running and warrantless internet surveillance program so flag really unconstitutional that even the secret rubber stamp court that approved 99.967 percent of surveillance requests over 33 years felt they couldn't turn

a blind eye. my friends when your surveillance scandal runs so deep that you can get a wow from edward snowden then you know you've reached a pretty obscene new low which is why we must always be watching the hawks. like you that i got. with that we. would prefer to deal with this. because. while the women watching the robot turn out of the islands. well as a.