and serious incidents and the patrolling like we've certain is going to be joined with the russian troops on the turkish border troops. ok we're going to go very short break and we'll get back to our top story discussions over the events on the syrian border. ok let's not go with our bravest get straight to it after facing repeated accusations that he betrayed the kurds in syria the u.s. president seems to be shifting to a strategy where he's all more comfortable ground business president trump as announced that he's thinking of leaving some troops in syria although it's not for the benefit of america's former allies. i don't want to go there it's very dangerous here in our universe out of those troops would have been well. i don't think it. was the security or a region where we've been asked by israel and jordan to only

a small number of troops is a totally different section of syria so we have a small group. and we've secured a few of the there's no reason for. those trumpets himself to stop and this was in the middle east the us leader said he was against america going into iraq but since they were there it was worth keeping the oil on a sponsor all the means linking the us invasions to oil refineries us military officials claim there's a formal serious strategy behind it. we have troops in towns in south in northeast syria that are located next to the oil fields the troops in those towns are not in the present phase of withdrawal the purpose of those forces a purpose of those forces working with the s.d.f. is to deny access to those oil fields by isis and others who may benefit from their revenues it could be earned. international economist octomom to solemn a police washington's not in the position to decide the future and even the present

situation of syria's oil. the united states should not be in see it in the 1st place and they are occupying hsien oil fields at a time when the us out of preventing other countries from supplicating oil to syria the united states is acting like a judge and jury un it comes to the only fee is owed see if there is not eason for our benefit to stay there and the o. is not a betty has to so that it can divide it between the codes and between its own benefit the oil belongs to see it he added its people and it is high time for the united states to be killed behave in a better way and leave see it in its own. a face to face meeting which stretched on

for some 6 hours between the presidents of russia to keep in the black sea resort of sochi has resulted in a new plan for syria let's cross live to our correspondent philip to try to get to get more. on this. has been a long stretch for this day covering this thing 6 out of the meeting would emerge from the talks. neil good evening you're absolutely right there were many extraordinary things about this press conference but 1st of all i just want to point out a massive delay the talks were only supposed to last for a couple of hours but then we were led into this room where the press conference was supposed to happen and we had to wait for a very long time and we could feel that probably an important agreement a breakthrough agreement was on the table and we were hoping to get the details on it and then we did because 1st the presidents came out they had many things to

say but then the foreign ministers took over they came over to a separate microphone and spoke about the new agreement between turkey and russia on the settlement near this area where crisis situation has been ongoing for several weeks north eastern syria and then also we heard separately from the russian minister of defense and also the russian foreign minister but i'll come back to that later the main conclusion of this choose day is that russia pretty much cold were from the u.s. as the number one negotiator with turkey that went to war earlier this month with the kurds in northern syria as we remember at some point. there was an agreement between turkey and the us that was hammered out by the us why is president

mike pence very one and the result of that was a 120 hour cease fire that was about. that is actually about to expire but now. to me the russian president vladimir putin and what we have as a result of that perhaps i can put it this way a new 150 hour cease fire that will kick off at noon tomorrow but it seems the 2 sides have come to quite a few. compromising elements we understand that right now turkey russia pretty much agreed to the buffer zone in that area along the turkey syria border and this area will be patrolled together by the forces.

by the russian military and by the turkish military as well although it's unclear how that message will be passed through the kurdish forces it's also unclear whether they were part of these negotiations and whether the russian or the turkish side were somehow in touch with them or with washington as well but in any case we do understand that this trust between the leaders of turkey and russia and they are absolutely. totally looking forward to trying to make this plan work now just for you to understand what the main priorities are this is something that was brought up many times by the presidents in the forest part of the press conference i'd like to give you this part of a lot of our putin speech when he talked about as i said the priorities of anchor. in that region. we're used to it's important to prevent terrorist forces from

exploiting the actions of turkey's military that's including i still fighters are held in kurdish prisons now and are trying to escape syria should be free of any own little foreign presence the long term stability of syria can only be achieved by observing the sovereignty and unity of the country that's a principled position and we discussed it with the turkish side it's important because they agree with this approach you can also feel how much turkey's president tire paraguayan while cumber what was agreed on on tuesday he spoke about the future of this agreement where the often isn't just take a listen. but you know do. recruiting new project into practice i hope it will work well congress and people as friends of the syrian people and the neighbors will read it to dog best to achieve these instability in the country . once again like i said just

a little earlier after the president's left the defense minister and the foreign minister of russia they came out and we were able to ask them a few questions but they didn't tell the elements of the dream and in fact there are 10 sections of it and again the most important part of it is that russia agreed to the so-called 30 kilometer buffer zone along the border. along the turkish syrian border plus the government forces will also. find themselves in positions along that border which is important as well and the russian military police along with the turkish military will patrol these areas in future to make sure that the remains are fulfilled but i asked

russian officials whether. they passed on that message to the americans and. the u.s. now will last its role as a key power broker when it comes to the settlement in northeast syria and that the russian minister of defense said that there was only one and a half hours left for the americans to fulfill all their obligations that the promises that they gave. so perhaps it was. somehow. a message to them or maybe just a hint that in this particular situation when time is running out they will simply not be able to. that although 'd we did hear from the kurdish forces and that was a message passed on to turkey by washington that they were keeping their promise and that they did retreat from that buffer zone that. turkey really wanted

free of kurdish fighters so definitely a complicated situation and a complicated agreement but. trying to get through it in the hours to come so new york i'll come back to talk to you very soon yeah good job is to look to get through appreciate you keeping us updated between kids in the black sea resort of sochi. ok let's get some analysis on this now what's been agreed today by the presidents of. russia. is an attorney at law in paris he specializes in middle eastern relations joins me on the line now you can even see. with having heard what's being discussed we got some tangible things consider this a successful meeting of the 2 leaders. of course it's a success for their meeting after leaders and and more importantly for.

because russia russia is not filling up the gap left by the united states saw the united states retreating on their fortunate and russia is coming in russian. influence in syria with you already had they have the bases and the they keep saying as i. said today that they don't want any foreign forces. after the syrian government inside syria and russia has. an agreement from the syrian government so it's a big success for a lot if within i'm not 44. because yeah yes and 3 and the americans even support. the point there we heard both leaders talking about respecting the territorial integrity of syria they talked about their decision to have joint border patrol so we'll have russian troops turkish troops

our correspondent suggesting there could be some syrian government forces in there is what does this mean an end to all the uncertainty of who controls what territory now. i think not because it's it's even a little bit more complicated because you have the syrians you have the syrians you have the russian and the have the turkish army along along this 20 kilometer or 30 border and inside this you don't have all these. security reasons it's it's going to be a little mess of it there so we don't know what's going to happen but president. keeping the pressure on the european he doesn't want the european to act in any way shape or form because he in the last week he said if if you want to intervene if you do they don't like i have to 3600000 refugees and then open the doors and then

going to send all these people and mind them a lot of terrorists to europe's top of saw. there how are they going to coordinate the assault on the terrorists as you said isis prisoners could be getting loose the kurds are obviously there as well and extremely concerned for their own safety how on earth do you coordinate who's the enemy and who isn't. that's there that's the biggest problem because. the kurdish people that you're to share army was fight fighting along the american army and the american army they just left and they abandoned their brothers in arms so it's. they don't know what to do all these terrorists are going to be they can do whatever they want because nobody's controlling them and the funny thing here is that president is calling to cure dish so we don't know if it's the ideas that are the kurdish that they get the

kurdish the army's. europe and the american as there as illegitimate force combating the terrorists but this same group it's considered a terrorist group by the government saw or so it's it's going to be a big problem because i have to expand again crossed thanks for joining us here in r.t. this encourage my guest attorney at law who specializes in middle eastern events. thank you. to facebook now it is going to flag state run media accounts on its platform as part of a bid to protect the presidential election from foreign interference to social networks also planning to combat in authentic behavior and to make political ads more transparent they're going to be busy artie's against on of explains. it all comes from the best of intentions it seems sweep away trolls and other unholy

creatures from under the facebook bridge except will team phase will really be able to tell right from wrong in the us we have the benefit of a free press and because of that we think it's especially important to call the media coming from any country around the world is acting as an organ of the government of the free press mark zuckerberg is clearly implying that the free american media on the one hand and government funded propaganda produces on the other what he forgets though is that the us has a whole governmental body with the millions of dollars in its coffers tasked with exactly that funding the major voice of america radio free europe of the middle east broadcasting networks are just some of the outlets right there in the pocket of the u.s. agency for global media or as it was formerly and more well known of the. facebook intentionally or not doesn't seem too eager to look at them this way and

controversy doesn't end there these social network has never shied away from censoring what gets into your feed and what doesn't and it can really boast a sharpshooter's track record with this tell me this have you ever had busch you know the soup if not you should because it's great it's delicious and if yes you might be a victim of russian deception at least according to facebook it recently banned a page with some 40000 subscribers that was posting recipes of the russian institution i don't know what's more authentic than a russian posting about how to make beef stroganoff and yet facebook deems itself worthy of calling out in authentic behavior over the last 3 years we worked identify new and emerging threats and remove gordon. ated inauthentic behavior across our apps is part of our effort to counter foreign influence complaints this

morning we removed 4 separate networks of accounts pages and groups and facebook and instagram for engaging in coordinating and authentic behavior 3 of them originated in the around and one in russian so one facebook makes a statement like this we want to help people better understand the sources of news content they see on facebook so they can make informed decisions about what they're reading it seems that the network itself needs some help understanding what's going on on its pages it could be said of facebook is not independent either because again facebook arguably is the dream by a particular agenda and when you look at the least of experts that facebook call being in order to help determine the new policy. they are pretty much made out of the use certain groups that are very well known for a very particular point of view mostly. liberal extreme

liberal and so on and what the focus seem to be on is whether the organization can demonstrate to facebook independent editorial control that's a very difficult question i think or the very difficult thing to do something. not only has called early elections have to set back in its bid to become any human but despite the country apparently meeting the conditions laid down for its submission and she talks along with 5 other balkan states were blocked by france present among your micron that said the e.u. needed to reform before expanding or that decision was criticised by other leaders and the outgoing european commission said it was quote historic era scioto explains . power us the city of love unless you're more for us i don't know which has just been dumped by president mike kroll the balkan countries being dealt a bit of a blow off the e.u.

said no twits joining its club and like any wrong it's sure the e.u. is going to look back with regrets surely a great injustice was inflicted on us in brussels the european union did not deliver on its promise i'm disappointed and angry but what makes this projection all the more painful is that northwestern has been gunning to be brought into the news fold for a long time and has made several significant sacrifices to that end date at all and it's worth mentioning by the e.u. itself for example just over 10 years ago it officially recognized kosovo off to the last declaration of independence from sabia precisely because it's the position of both nato and the e.u. but perhaps the biggest compromise it made was when it changed its very identity to brussels e.u. member state greece has an ancient region called macedonia and was

a bit miffed that just across the border another country was using the very same name taking the high road muster don't you decide to lay the historical dispute to bed. itself with the e.u. by adding north before it simple but brussels was playing hard to get over all the muck or was off to 7 hours of wrangling behind closed doors the french president vetoed opening talks on the issue the only one of $28.00 members to do so and he used the classic it's not you it's me phrase before we decide to enlarge the e.u. we need to reform ourselves the fool is potentially significant prime ministers i was calling for a snap election ready but more crucially given its violent i'm troubled part. 1st there are now concerns whether this decision will jeopardize peace in the region this is not a moment of glory for the e.u. to refuse acknowledgement of proven progress will have negative consequences

including the risk of destabilisation of the western balkans with full impact on the e.u. but that like any decent gentle his just not quite ready to close the door on his love interest well ladies and gentlemen i introduce mr donald. i would like to send a message. your load to give up. i fully understand your frustration. because. we haven't so also not lost joining the e.u. is still in the future of north macedonia but while brussels works on itself maybe the balkan countries should ask the question what anything to do would be good enough for those bureaucrats in brussels. r.t. paris. an urgent question on british children trapped in syria has been raised

today in the u.k. parliament. some are international allies are already used the 5 day ceasefire to fulfill their duties and repatriate their own children if we do nothing will be abandoning our moral obligations and risking those vulnerable children who are growing up in a war torn area maybe turning into terrorists themselves does the u.k. take responsibility for british children and what do we can answer that in terms of the principle let me be clear we are doing what we can given the difficult circumstances on the ground of course within the rule of law for vulnerable children in north east syria this is a piece it is rapidly developing rapidly changing and of course we keep all things under review every see. the day we delay in actually bringing these children home is a day extra of trauma that we are going to have to address at great expense in the

united kingdom i understand really 3 of the children are all foods out of the 60 who are british families so what numbers are we talking about precisely we don't want just 3 children taken out of the 6 and taken out of their lives. well that is the break came after u.k. charity had demanded the government rescue young children born to i saw fighters of british origin it also words the authorities to make use of the current ceasefire in northeast syria between turkey and the kurds we have an opportunity in the next few days urgently to repatriate them to bring them back home these are children in 85 percent of them across these camps are under 12 and. more than nearly half toddlers so they are not they are innocent children they are not responsible for the crimes that their parents have committed and we need to separate. so if the children says that 60 u.k. children are currently trapped in the region the figures twice what was previously

reported many of them are thought to be under 5 years old but the u.k. foreign secretary said that britain will only help those who are orphans in relation to minors unaccompanied minors or orphans i can tell you that assuming that they would represent no security threats we would be willing to see them return home if that can be done in a safe way given the situation on the ground and i had a chance to discuss this issue with the secretary general of the european muslim league and the former head of the u.k.'s counter-terrorism office. one of course as children they are completely innocent and almost certainly they don't at this moment pose any threat i think the difficulty comes with those that are with their parents who have made the deliberate choice to go to these places and are potentially really very dangerous themselves i disagree britain's position. citizenship i think that is totally rabbits the actions written cup dictate

not. like and i think now citizenship should be restored we haven't brilliant legal system if those parents have committed to friends let's put them through as a colt's i do think as was mentioned before we've got some brilliant legal system that's going to protect the public well it just won't do that there is not going to be enough evidence to deal with the with the parents there's not going to be enough evidence because the people that have witnessed atrocities are going to be dead in iraq and syria so let's be honest we're we're going to we're going to know very little about some of these people actually whether they are kids from british parents is another part of this we have to be careful because it's ok same we should bring these people back book actually would you like them living next door to you know you probably wouldn't do and i think we need to make sure that we've got the systems in place and the lock up those people for as long as we possibly

can that are a danger to us but the children of course should be treated differently and should be given every. chance to to get themselves back into civilized society if one is more complicated maybe one parent is still alive or both parents still either of the so-called i sold child what do you do did you bring these children back and say you deserve a better life or do you just leave them to their fate no you can't lisa millar well also. you know especially in that area because they would be in danger of being radicalized let's bring them home cook them through counseling gives them the backup in the care that they need let's be quite clear here that if these people do come back the vast majority if not all of them will not go through the court system they will be released into society some of them will be very very dangerous and in fact some of these children we call in them children depending on your

a you know what you consider a child their age range but some of them will be very dangerous that this is bringing back problems i do have concerns but i also realize that house response abilities and we had no problems on the rest of the world we don't know how secure those holding facilities are and you know we britain let's take responsibility and it is not doing that at the moment as real dangers wherever these people end up because they are radicalized most of the youngsters will have been through some kind of radicalization piece they are going to be very dangerous and it's all very well us bringing them back but someone's got to live next door to them and someone may well end up dying as a result of one of these people coming back. and said to canada now where prime minister just into durned his liberal party have managed to secure reelection or beat at the cost of the parliamentary majority means that there's going to have to

look for support from other parties in order to govern. tutors liberals actually lost the popular vote to their main rivals the conservatives by more than one percent since canada so-called 1st past the post electoral system doesn't take that into account their 3rd able to secure more seats in parliament than any of the party back in 2015 to doa vowed to reform the system of though he never actually delivered on that promise. we need to know that when we pass out cast a ballot it counts that when we vote it matters. so i'm proposing we make every vote count we are committed to ensuring that the 2015 election will be the last federal election using 1st past the post i was on how the 1st past the post system works in canada the country is divided into 338 electoral regions known as ridings each having one

seem to parliament to win a region a candidate needs to get more votes than the other contenders the national governments and form by the party which enjoys a simple majority of seats the critics say the system distorts the will of voters journalist benedict believes that those 2015 promise was nothing more than an election ploy he's been acting as a left leaning government or left the party but he has not been sacked though he wanted to get the votes from. people who would normally vote for the n.d.p. . the national democratic party which is kind of more to the left. for congressmen party he won't go so long in this future you know we're going to have. a war that was just in the what all right out. there with more real substance

and trudeau's way of women who are sort of almost. all left orders but. the. ok it's a busy evening of global news thanks to staying with safer keeping up to date with it i'll be back with more on top stories in half now. greetings from sally taishan the controversy criticism and political spin that

still swirling around us president donald trump's decision to pull u.s. forces from.