i. thank the headlines it's a turkish offensive against the kurds in syria gains momentum in the usa one sure whether the kurdish forces are allies or not. also clashes take acid fire violent unrest in a global steroids 10 consecutive day with indigenous protests is in the government's it's all and a german. network n.b.c. crying from 3 to its surprise when the displays a hobby winds things alleged sexual abuse is also names hillary clinton among those standing in the way.

good morning welcome just gonna. be watching r.t. international now the turkish military operation against the kurds in northern syria has been widely condemned especially by those who see president donald trump's decision to pull u.s. troops from the region as a trial of allies but stateside attitudes to the kurdish forces to sing a little confused. explain. the kurds the heroes shout the people who couldn't point out in the map where the kurds live brave say the people who never have any never would fight alongside them how. could trump betray them say the people who couldn't care less about. it's just fashionable these days playing the card using them to get attention for

pathetic little political games where is the honesty where is the truth. well let's try c.n.n. in this case you're looking at not only betraying the kurds and betraying some of our other allies in the gulf region what the president has done to the kurds the betrayal of the kurds to be butchered by the turks. are the ground forces that destroyed the caliphate with american air power we've abandoned them there breaks my heart the message is clear c.n.n. stand by the or well rather some cnn's other cnn's want those terrible kurdish terrorists stamped out as soon as possible this year not to go to c.n.n. town right now on the frontier of the border point you saw it was one of the 1st targets that the p.k. k. terrorist organization as you can see at that point there was

a huge explosion that area is in the hands of the p.k. k. terrorist organization and we c.n.n. price of the boundary were approximately 70 meters away and the areas that you see around us all of them are in the hands of the p.k. k. terrorist organization absolutely remarkable c.n.n. turk license is the name on the condition that they adhere to c.n.n. strict journalism standards so how how did the same journalistic standards and with one c.n.n. almost worshipping kurds and the other c.n.n. all but cheering the deaths come on picking an easy targets what sane person trust journalists these days scratch the journalists what about celebrities with their newfound admiration for. surely this in syria i want you to ask can there is blood on anyone's hand starting with has

a president trying to is letting this happen because these people are being slaughtered after standing with our troops in the middle east for. extremely long time fighting against terrorists powerful words from the daughter of the late john mccain like father like daughter but i've been so mad this morning and so upset about this news that we are abandoning our kurdish allies in the middle august these are allies of ours that american soldiers are still continuing to fight alongside all we did was arm them and they thought for america and to everyone in the white house and every republican who was mad that president obama pulled out of iraq you unpatriotic cowards that feckless unpatriotic callid is also your daddy meghan or if you not see in this photo there is your father and next to him is syrian rebel commander general salim idriss who

your daddy did his best to train who is now eradicating those same kurds we are ready for an operation to the east of the euphrates these lines are currently under control of the s.t.g. which includes p.t.k. ringleaders these terrorists okee part of our homes but c'mon meghan mccain isn't john mccain she may have reason to fame entirely for being his daughter that doesn't mean she have different opinions again last example justify this contradicting yourself we destroyed i says with the help of the kurds we can't abandon the kurds now we can't turn it over to turkey to think that will work is really. really mr graham seems like there's 2 possibilities either the senator really supports the kurds with his heart or he's just another

spineless hypocrite using the kurds to score cheap political points in case you're on the fence enjoyed. this it's a recording of a righteous senator speaking to pranksters who pretended to be the turkish minister of defense your y.p. g. kurdish problem is a real problem i told president trump a bomb a made a huge mistake and relying on the why p.g. kurds everything i worried about is come true and now we've got to make sure that turkey is protected from the spirit in syria sympathetic to the wipe e.g. problem and so as to press the court frankly it honestly seems like principles and integrity going extinct i feel sorry for you abandoned by your allies facing invasion death and on top of all of that every 2 faced hypocrite has cooled out from under the rocks to use your hurt

your pain. more aggressive there will turkey's incursion into syria was launched on wednesday right after donald trump announced he was withdrawing u.s. troops from the area that a border towns of ras al nanon tell at yad have been the main targets now despite the official u.s. exit an american border patrol was reportedly seen on friday near tell at yad the pentagon also says its troops came under turkish artillery fire on a bank in another border town although nobody was hurt. in other news there have been more violent clashes next door's capital which has been in the grip of anti staring protests raver week spearheading the rallies are indigenous ecuadorians who continue to converge on keto one of their demands is that the country's president overturns fuel subsidy cuts implemented as part of a loan deal with the international monetary fund something limor a no refuses to do. i.

was i. i yes but another day of protests and violence here on the streets of quito as riot police clashed with protesters specially with members of the indigenous communities that came here to tito group all around the country. hundreds of indigenous people came from all across the country to join the large group that has been camping in the city center for days this new group came from the amazonian region is shoes show and was well organized and ready to clash with police forces and that's what they did 1st in old town quito and then they surrounded the national assembly and again dozens of injured on both sides

president lenin moraine. hasn't moved an inch and remains firm on implementing his economic measures marino did proposed direct talks with indigenous leaders but for now these are standing their ground and say they will be no talks as long as the president doesn't provoke his economic plan so many here it's time for the president to step down they are here killing people it is unjust lenin marriner should resign we mourn the people who are not with us the president can't govern like this as a practically turned into a dictator or shooting people indiscriminately it can go on like this international organizations are calling for both sides to scale down the violence and start a serious dialogue but for now these calls haven't been heard now ecuadorians hold their breath hoping for a dialogue peaceful solution to the country's worst crisis in decades nicolas

o'donovan r.t. . now in a new book former n.b.c. news employee ronan farrow details the difficulties he faced trying to get the network to run a sexual abuse expose a e.q. says n.b.c. trying to kill his 2017 investigation into the now disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein and claims to you that even hillary clinton got in the way of mopping his more. harvey weinstein the man who triggered the me too movement. who. even the former 1st lady couldn't stay away because women stick together i was shocked and appalled i was just sick i was shocked i was appalled the issue really is how terrible

his behavior was and finally women have come forward to speak out about it this almost became a story that could have been because the investigation into weinstein and the rape allegations was almost killed by a channel that considers itself to be a beacon of women's rights there has been no clear example this year of journalism's ability to change the world training films do almost nothing to stop the harassment when it comes to women and sexual harassment in a topic you know i care a lot about it appears need to movement has finally hit wall street ronan farrow a pulitzer winning journalist says that n.b.c. wanted to end these investigations they ordered a hard stop to reporting they told me and a producer working on this that we should not take a single call they told us to cancel interviews the question for years has been why why because the network got a call from a certain harvey yes the same harvey harvey weinstein who threatened to expose matt lauer's nefarious activities if the story saw the light of day well it did anyway

and farrow went to the new yorker and even wrote a book catch and kill weinstein made it known to the network that he was a well behaved and capable of revealing it and it looks like hillary clinton didn't want pharaoh's investigation to be published either her of all people hillary clinton had scheduled an interview all of us at the head of the weinstein reporting and her folks got in touch and said we're working on a big story sounded very concerned and tried to cancel that interview over the weinstein over the instant stuff errol claims that clinton's publicist approached him and pressured him to drop the story and what he says was weinstein's behest clinton's press people tried to distance themselves from the scandal. i genuinely respect roman's work but have no idea what weinstein was saying to people to save himself what i do know is simple i've already rejected the wind sinco proposed dog about the election before talking to if i used to be misrepresented franks it

wouldn't be the 1st time and be seen denied any wrongdoing and b c news signed the harvey weinstein's story to ruin and we completely supported it over many months with resources but financial and editorial of the 7 months without one victim witness on the record he simply didn't have a story that my standard for broadcast no that's of any major news organization now for n.b.c. to say that ronan farrow didn't have a story has got to be embarrassing at this point not only did he expose the rich and powerful but he got a pulitzer prize for doing it makes you wonder if news outlets just their principles when the powerful start pressing i think his words can entirely be trusted i think what we're seeing right now is just the advancement of fake news in america you know it's like the president said just last week it's no longer fake news it's now corrupt news and n.b.c. has jumped right on that train you would think that these liberals would be all about this being that they preach social justice and feminism and women's rights

but the reality is that these people have deep pockets i think that hillary clinton is only about women's rights when it's convenient for her so when you have somebody like weinstein who is able to contribute to the democratic party and able to you know have the media has pockets because of the amount of money he has the agenda for these democrats goes out the window we've been shown this time and time again that money talks over policy so they can pretend that the policy is something that they want it here too but the reality is when their friends have money and their friends can finance their campaigns and finance their agendas they play dirty and i think hillary clinton's about as dirty as they caught. she's right down there with harvey weinstein. still ahead few a muslim soldier in germany has been sacked for refusing to shake the hands of women so which is what have the details on that plus of the stories too just.

we've got a crumbling infrastructure roads bridges tunnels are not working we've got students that are and massively in debt and probably will never add to the productivity of society all because of this. propaganda that doesn't matter we just know it to ourselves. to put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go to the press this is what before 3 of the more people. interested in the water.

question. join me every 1st week on the alex song i'm sure i'll be speaking to get a little bit politics. i'm sure. i'll see you. again welcome back and i don't claim saudi arabia has agreed to pay for the deployment of additional u.s. troops to the region follows last month's attack on the country's oil facilities. we are sending troops and other things to the middle east to help saudi arabia but are you ready saudi arabia at my request has agreed to pay for everything we're doing with the additional troops dispatched by the white house

will bring the total deployment of u.s. forces to the kingdom to $3000.00 since mid september the us will also increase the number of patriot missile systems and provide riyad to with the fat defense system washington says it's all to counter the threat from iran after last month's attack on saudi oil facilities refineries meanwhile and raining or tanker has reportedly been hit twice in attacks off the coast of saudi arabia a fire erupted following the incident along the along with an oil spill the blaze has since been put out and the leak contained to iran condemned what happened the investigations conducted by the national iranian tanker company indicate the iranian tanker has sustained damage to after being targeted twice and how far away intervals from a police near its shipping route in the east of the red sea over responsibility for the act including the extensive environmental pollution in the region fall on those behind this dangerous adventurism movie attorney and former pentagon official mark

maloof spoke to us and they both think too that the u.s. only has its own interests at heart. from my point of view we're not sure who did it but i think it's a joint action the americans are probably the 8 of these really are the english we're not sure but we can we can almost be sure that it's not something you know love and this is it and then you can response to it it and to destroy it that has been set down from the wanted it will decide. company so it just it just it is god's will and this is just me is he on the electoral college to say now i see a lot of people but i'm try to protect the peace i question the use of fads and patriots against stuff drones you need a low they're very difficult to pick up stuff drones which was the basis for the attacks that occurred. a month ago or so into saudi arabia and you need

a low low frequency radar system so i i question the the type of equipment that's going and certainly they need. i was surprised that the saudis hadn't put. defense systems around their oil installations in the 1st place but be that as a may it's meant to show u.s. support for the saudis that equipment went in at the saudi request and of course they're paying for it so that means more coins in the u.s. coffers so i think that it's meant to be very defensive in nature. so in germany a court has ruled against the appeal of a muslim soldier who was fired for refusing to shake hands with his female colleagues. the plaintiff's position on the refusal to shake hands with women contradicts constitutionally ordered gender equality and represents disregard for the free democratic order there are serious doubts that the soldier who refuses to

shake hands with women serving with him will be able to perform his duties and be ready to stand up for protection of his fellow female soldiers but after 4 years as an army contractor the soldier was dismissed last year he refused to shake hands with women due to his religious beliefs $3000.00 muslims currently serve in the buns bundeswehr that 7 times less than the number of female soldiers in germany's armed forces we discuss the issue with women's rights activists pilot deanna and also war correspondent yvonne ridley. if this soldiers you know they're not willing to respect the law and the rules of the country in which they're leaving i think it's better if they leave it's better if they go and do another job unfortunately muslim soldiers have not been treated equally in the german military which is quite shocking when this pointed out germany is a democracy as for this soldier i don't believe he should have been sacked

obviously battlefield conditions are quite different to the social. conditions we have to put women's rights and of course human rights on the top of everything on top of traditions on top of relations if not to we could be trapped we can allow you know not a single religious you know traditions way of thinkin to overrule the rules of the common law and what about the female perspective since you are saying that you you promote women's rights i promote women's rights i'm a muslim woman i would not go and shake a man's hand. if i thought it was inappropriate we can balance women's rights and at the same time respect someone's religion totally we have to respect

a c.v. will you know what rights of these women or doesn't feel comfortable in shaking hands of man fine but here we are talking about a sword here and we're talking about other soldiers serving with him and risking their life with him and we're talking about this we men are risking their lives with these you know and not to fear respect not feeling you know comfortable feeling that he's some kind of extremists who doesn't believe they're not only might have to do is clearly that it wasn't a stand his religious point of view. but then i also know it's a very. not really very practical judy i mean you can save someone if you can even touch the hand how can you save someone in the battlefield without touching hair how only now healthy and without any silly now you're being no no no no i'm just i'm just me and you are family living in the west does not mean that people have to abandon their faith it's normal that traditions have to change with society but

there's nothing bad with that or that's what i'm saying it's just enormous organic . baby had here earlier now the international monetary fund has weighed into the debate over climate change it's advising nations to increase carbon taxes although it does add that it will be the public who ultimately will foot the bill. to limit global warming to 2 degrees or less the level deemed safe by science large emitting countries need to take action for example they should introduce a carbon tax set to rise quickly to $75.00 a ton in 2030 this would mean household electric bills would go up by 43 percent cumulatively over the next decade on average more in countries that still rely heavily on coal in a tricity generation and less elsewhere where the i.m.f. proposal the fighting climate change with tax hikes has received

a mixed reception we asked people in germany france and the u.k. if they were willing to pay more. i think it's very unfair to a system which is built on fossil fuels which is built to exploit the planet which is in war which was introduced systematically and then to basically made individuals in a new liberal logic pay for it and now say oh you have to decrease your consumption in this and you know you have to force yourself to i don't know travel less or whatever while in the 1st instance created system in my opinion. we actually already paid too much taxes for things actually i would say even nonsense often we depend on the ring come for those better off so i can see where the prices should go up because if you do that there has to be support for the people at the bottom contre food it feel like that's a good way of approaching climate change aspect of things yeah i think so because

we're going to i'm on a video security in my opinion the risk is that wealthy people would pay just more money for the bells while people would an average salary would be put in a difficult situation for me it's not a practical solution of course it's not a fact that everyone can pay everyone can go for it for me it's a bit difficult because i live alone but in fact as long as major countries who do nothing at national or international level i believe not as much would change at individual level unfortunately. some world news in brief to ease brace for the worst typhoon sorry take care was priced to the worst typhoon in more than half a century evacuations are underway while trains and flights have been suspended. ports has built a special one and a half into hybrid tim to protect its facilities from flooding and the lebanese capital hundreds have been testing against to me feel peroration against kurdish forces in northern syria demonstrators gathered that side the u.n.

building they were waving kurdish flags and denouncing the case present. and hundreds of people from human chain around munich cynical to say as a sign of solidarity with the jewish people that is after the deadly and semitic attack in the german city we should left 2 people dead on wednesday a shooter tried to enter the local synagogue while jewish people were celebrating young poor the holiest day in their calendar. so that's when you say fast today we're back again though with more on the headlines for you in half an. hour. the war in syria seems to be winding down with some syrians returning to their homeland but going back to a normal life now seems like a pipe dream after almost

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