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6 hours of american troops from the presidents of russia and turkey result in a new plan for northern syria that will get underway on wednesday. reject the deal timetable for doing him to debate over the withdrawal bill while he awaits the e.u.'s decision over a deadline deal. with facebook launches a crusade against foreign interference in the 2020 us election with a new package of counter measures including flagging state run media accounts.
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joining us this is this is r.t. international. a face to face meeting which stretched on for 6 hours between the presidents of russia and turkey in the black sea resort of sochi has resulted in a new plan for syria both leaders seem optimistic about. you know. with a new project into practice i hope it will work well for congress and all people as friends of the syrian people and the neighbors will read it to dog best to achieve these instability in the country syria should be free of any own little fool foreign presence the long term stability of syria can only be achieved by observing the silver and unity of the country right now vladimir putin and top are to want to have shaken their hands and the 10 paragraph agreement is there there are many elements to it 1st of all it ensures that all the involved saw ides respects the territorial integrity of syria but more importantly if we look into it the
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agreement means that russia agreed to turkey's desired 30 kilometer buffer zone along the border and means that the kurdish militias now have 150 hours to leave that area parts of the zone will later be patrolled by russia's military police and the turkish military plus another paragraph rules that control over the turkish syrian border on the syrian side should be returned to the syrian government forces and by the way vladimir putin has already been on the phone with the syrian president bashar al assad and we know already that damascus is pleased with the outcome of today's talks between putin aired on it's also very important that if everything goes according to plan the turkish offensive will be put on hold for another 150 hours as i've said so clearly
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a breakthrough after a talks that lasted well longer than originally expected by the turkish president and the russian leader vladimir putin one of. the main questions right now is where all this leaves the us and this is exactly what i asked of the russian minister of defense and the russian foreign minister who continued talking to the journalists after the leaders left and to that surrogate lavrov reminded us that russia believes that the american troops and their involvement in syria was illegal in the 1st place and search of the top russian army official reminded us of the expiring deadline of the so-called previous ceasefire brokered between washington and ankara and expressed some real skepticism about the americans fulfilling their promises
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the united states has very little time left to fulfill their obligations very soon the time bar expires which was meant to see moving heavy equipment away combat units and so on the singer russian officials went on to bring up a few other issues that are still out there regardless of the greenman for example the fate of eisel terrorists that were released as a result of this vacuum when the turkish army didn't and terror just yet but the kurdish militias had already retreated according to stargaze scheuer who hundreds of eisel fighters have run free at this point there's also the refugee issue and many others but again judging by what we heard throughout choose day after these extended talks between the leaders of russia and turkey the level of trust and the friendship between the leaders their relationship that they've established in the last few years allows them to deal with pretty much any
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difficulties in that area given that right now they are clearly the number one players when it comes to dealing with the situation in northeast syria. i spoke with political analyst use of erin he thinks that this new deal between russia and turkey sets in stone the conditions and her greed early it with the united states it's a very important deal and while both sides to get everything that they wanted they've got enough where they can leave the table and say we're happy and these were against now when we look from a turkish perspective turkish was able to mend the diplomatic gains it made at the table with the united states by having them reflected onto the field by dealing with the russians because of well in reality the u.s. presence is waiting in the last real power brokers in syria or turkey and russia so
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any deal with the americans to have a meaningful consequence on the field needs to be reaffirmed by the russian president and that's exactly what the turkish president did today he had this deal and we see that he did the trick is that dealing directly with the regime through russia you see that the regime is happy with this deal that the opposition is happy with this deal he's happy with this deal and the russians are happy with this deal so it's a win win for everybody from my point of view. trump has authorized $4500000.00 in direct aid for the controversial syrian defense group the white let's move adds to the confusion over who the trumpet ministration support its recent withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria has left the country's opposition seemingly at loggerheads over the course of the conflict in syria the s.c.d. has rescued more than $115000.00 people including many ethnic and religious
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minorities the u.s. encourages our allies and partners to join us in our support for the cd and in our efforts to protect civilians religious and ethnic minorities and other innocent victims of the syrian conflict. the deck or a to volunteer organizations become famous for pulling civilians from the rubble of the syrian conflict but issues over time have undermined its credibility for example were filmed to waving jihadi flags they've been spotted at executions and called staging the rescue of a citizen also the white helmets of operated soley in areas controlled by anti government militants such as the al qaeda affiliate on those for a front of this month the white helmets accused the u.s. allies the kurds of targeting civilians in aleppo in turn the kurdish led s.d.f. is repeatedly said the white helmets are not welcome in territories controlled by them along with u.s. troops the s.d.f. oppose president assad's forces in northeastern syria prior to trump this isn't to
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withdraw from the country. dave lindorff is an investigative journalist on the founding editor of the online use web site this can't be happening dot com dave what do you think of the u.s. and its continued support of the white helmets to some their heroes to others they're pretty controversial. they're very controversial yet least 2 respected western journalists robert fisk of the independent in britain and robert scheer in the u.s. . have exposed them pretty credibly as having been behind faked chemical attacks as having faked their actually caring for people during those attacks been shown you know people have a dentist by the as i think your story mentioned these weight on the guys actually in. jerry's store going to see
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a sions like on this or on the scene with those groups so i think it's a bogus organization not a genuine you know sort of like red crescent or blue or red cross are going to say shit and and so it's kind of embarrassing to us to be supporting such an organization after it's also screwing the current. it's just another example of the total chaotic. actions of our government in syria this organization in of the white helmets some in a lacking in funding i think it that they've gone at something close to a couple of $100000000.00 over the last few years what's the interest of someone like united states of throwing a few more 1000000 in that direction. well part of it you know part of it is just the incredible p.r. . that goes on around them i mean they had
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a film about them that going to say nominated documentary in 2018. i don't know whether they've won there or not but you know it had the sympathy of hollywood left. and you know people by this even though the reports show how. corrupted an organization that actually is. aspires there are you know. what's driving us policy help them i think to the extent that they are opposing assad the u.s. still wants to have their kind of backing and then the new survey. so that's what's going on as especially with u.s. troops pulling out if you look at how the u.s. support it seems that kind of change with with time that america's back in the free syrian army the white helmets also the kids' footprint from time to time what's the
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kind of the methods the reasoning behind that do you think. well they were using the kurds because they've used the kurds all over the place they used them in iraq to oppose the shia. and and sunni for initially the sunni insurrection and later the shia government and they've used the used them as a you know poster child for going after saddam hussein by you know complaining that he gasses his own people even though the gas supplied by the us. that the kurds have played you know basically a fool's game of relying on the u.s. over and over and keep getting burned by the u.s. think urged them to rise up after the 1st gulf war and then let them get crushed by saddam hussein's army. along with the shia in the south around buzzer of some you know the kurds you would think we eventually learned their lesson that relying on
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the u.s. is not in a to do you're you're killing for you is not a great strategy long term and so now there's they're learning the lesson again. and speaking to us dave lindorff is the founding editor of the online nice thought this can't be happening dot com thanks that ok i think you. ok let's head to the u.k. now british amping is once again dealt a blow to boris johnson's hopes of getting his brags that deal for potter meant they've rejected the government's timetable to approve the withdrawal bill jury and today's debate parliament slammed the p.m.'s idea of picking through the withdrawal agreement in just 3 days. we warned on saturday that if the house passes the government's deal it would be a disaster for our country ok now as we look through the details of the bill we see just how right we were page after page of what amounts to nothing less than
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a charter for deregulation and a race to the bottom of the bill was published last night it takes time to have the thick of scrutiny of this sort of prime minister doesn't care about process about parliament or a vote the rule of law when peace approves the withdrawal agreement itself boris johnson's not ready can to continue discussion without his timetable artie's shadi edward stache he explains. where is it being left no one really can answer that question but what i can tell you is that today there has been 2 crucial votes on breaks at the 1st one on the withdrawal agreement bill boris johnson's plans that actually went through with the majority of the it's the 2nd one that's potentially controversial with the brics it plans because that was all about the timetable to implement to get the largest legislation through parliament in time just 3 days was what the timetable had in place 1st johnson losing about one then and he said in
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fact he would decide to take a polls on the bracks it process and stat putting the ball back in the court. and i would say we would all be legislation let me let me be clear let me be clear our policy remains that we should ignore delivery or we should leave it. to the 31st. that is what i would say to the e.u. i'm going to report back to the hague well it failed to go through for numerous reasons the key one being because it simply did not give m.p.'s enough time to properly scrutinize and sift through the pages law 1 by law and they were handed the document very late last night and it was a 110 pages long to get all the legislation around it through in just 3 days time seems to be like a monumental task for many m.p.'s and that simply is the reason why it was voted
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down and speaking directly also that defeat jeremy called in the leader of the opposition took to the floor and what he suggested is giving boris johnson olive branch saying actually let's pave a sensible way forward and look out reasonable extension early as the forest johnson said if it fell to go in his favor well he have pulled the whole bill entirely and that's something that he said in fact he'd go for a general election instead. probably. a lot of brits to have. a gets it's when decides to delay everything until january and possibly longer in new circumstances cry most of the book will have to be pulled and we will have to go forward much as a writer we don't like you will have to go to a general election well much comparison has been made with boris johnson and his predecessor to reason may if we call some minds back to her in her premiership she was working with a majority of plus 10 and still felt like i have been through parliament 3 times
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cut a long story short then if we look at boris johnson he is working with a majority of minus $45.00 but today he managed to get support for his deal but the fact is his timetable didn't go through and that meant that boris johnson threatened a general election over his failed attempts which actually looks like he's taking a leaf out of trees and maze books the government should cool a general election to be held on the 8th of june they have a simple challenge to the opposition parties who have criticised the government's vision for brics it you have challenge your objectives you have threatened to block the legislation we put before parliament. this is your moment to show you beat it so this defeat on the program motion essentially 1st of all right back into the european union's court and earlier today the european commission president john produce a he said that has wasted enough time and energy and now is the time to simply move
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forward in order for it but according to donald tusk all eyes are on forest johnson in parliament as to see what they would then do next you should be ready for you. but while watching closely because. there's a search to try him in this little shot so they just load you do exhibit our dishes so it looks like m.p.'s ploughs the european union we're all running out of patience with breck set and boris johnson's plans if we take a look at the timeline it's been 3 and a half years since that 2016 praxair referendum but as for today yes boris johnson got backing for his deal but he didn't get backing for the timeline essentially it pressed bars johnson between a rock and a hard place for moreland american livingston thinks it will be a long time before the government reaches any final agreement over briggs it with parliament florists has lost more votes in just 3 months as
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a prime minister than any other prime minister now history was going to be many amendments to this legislation which is a very large bill $110.00 pages covering the environment workers' rights trade deals and so on and most probably even a amendment to say that once this act of parliament is passed only becomes law if a referendum means the british people support it so we're not going to be out at the end of this month because this is going to go on for several weeks perhaps even towards the end of the year and no one can foretell where we're going to end up you the government and the opposition need to agree how long this act of parliament to appreciate it how many amendments could be put down but if porridge doesn't it please just could be prince warfare going on we can't do we. facebook says it has a plan to protect next year's us presidential election from foreign interference or
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bringing that story after the break. you know world's big partisan movie lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to.
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have to go right to be cross this is what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the lawyers in the. city. facebook is going to flag state run media accounts on his platform a spot of a bid to put texas next year's presidential election from foreign interference social networks also planning see combat in authentic behavior and make political ads more transparent it is dumb if a small. 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
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will really be able to tell right from wrong in the u.s. 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
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censoring what gets into your feed and what doesn't and it can really boast sharpshooter's track record with this tell me this have you ever had bush 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. inauthentic behavior across all apps as part of our effort to counter foreign influence complaints this morning we removed 4 separate networks of accounts pages and groups and facebook and
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instagram for engaging in coordinated an authentic behavior 3 of them originated in the round 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 dring by a particular agenda and when you look at the least of expert facebook call dean in order to help determine the new policy they've 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 so forth what the focus seem to be on is whether the
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organization can demonstrate to facebook independent editorial control that's a very difficult question i think or the very difficult thing to do to stop. the city of pass a learner is still in the grip of mass protests dependence protests which have been running for 7 days straight now and while it's been relatively peaceful compared with recent times there still seems no end in sight to the demonstrations it has been a cochon of reports. people are taking it to the streets again in the city of barcelona and this time they're pouring washing up liquid right in one of the main fountains of the 30 and it's old literally blowing up cool like a bubble well that's the impression from the past week of havea unrest in barcelona let's just remember the scenes we saw in the streets of the city just a few days ago rubbish bins spur and shop windows smashed people shouting we will
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not get off the streets protesters demanded as the international community pay attention to the situation and catch the line but at the beginning of this week the european parliamentary jacketed to debate on the escalation in the spanish region basically leaving the catalans on their own the spanish prime minister of visited the region on monday but to support local police forces and not to start think oh she ations where the regions are sore it is so it seems pro independence catalans are again on their own now it's old reminiscent of the situation back in $2617.00 during catalonia has failed attempt to gain independence back then south and also took it to the streets while the situation now looks pretty much the same people's anger spiraled out of control after my dream supreme court jailed and 9
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separatist leaders with sentences ranging from 9 to 13 years and what exactly do we have now well a week of protest and seemingly back to where we were just a few weeks ago are all these talks and dreams of an independence just bubbles burst saying. this is also international updates coming your way an awful lot. there are no official statistics in india concerning children who have been lost or separated from their parents some are to estimate that everything 8 minutes in the country the child goes missing a. lot of. money
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that finally got. the national team and rights commission stated that $44000.00 minors go missing every year while the police quoted. the united nations children's fund has described the situation as genocide and various sources suggest that in india there are several 1000000 missing women and children. it seems the brig's that psagot will never end the electorate voted to leave the european union but the political class and media are resisting the people's voice mean anything anymore what is the legacy of breaks it on institutions confidence and it leads the democratic process.
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