how serious is a problem is rocked by violent tensions between russia and tukey they're accusing each other of breaking the deescalation agreement. formentera minister matteo salvini is to face trial but not the missing refugees to this in the last year but despite him being elected on the migration not. insisting on a how can i greet takes on and the claims that feuding hatred unfallen between rows of refugees we meet locals from one island on the frontline of the migrant crisis. you all know. they're behind this bad situation in our village. we know they do

this for money. i'm just curious if the cradle virus outbreak pete people of asian descent find themselves on the receiving end of racism followed by the. bring me the latest news every hour of the day this is all to international thanks for joining us. now tensions group a tween russia and turkey on wednesday president threatened to launch attacks against syrian government forces in the wall street it in the province. also accused moscow of targeting civilians in the rebel held region which provoked a furious denial from moscow senior correspondent. rebels and the islamists are facing catastrophe in the span of a little over a month they've lost a 3rd of their territory so you're going to stand why turkey which said which paid

armed and trained those rebels as outraged at the gun is beside himself he needs to vent strike out. the syrian regime as well as russian forces and iran backed militants icing with it and live it continuously attacking civilians committing massacres a kurd in syria might find strange of the guns concerned for civilian casualties but russia took those accusations seriously pointing out rebels had launched ceaseless drone attacks on the russian base violated the cease fire again and again and again al-qaeda linked jihad its control 90 percent of it live and who turkey despite promising to do so hadn't been able to separate from moderate rebels the statements made by turkish representatives about alleged russian military attacks

on civilians in the edward discolorations zone are false the real reason for the crisis and ad lib unfortunately is the turkish colleagues have failed to fulfill their obligations to separate the moderate opposition militants from the terrorists in these areas but the gun appears death ended mute to his own faults instead of explanation he's flooding it live with troops with tanks with artillery vowing lesion for anyone who dares shoot at them. we determined to drive back syrian regime forces from our observation post by the end of february we will do whatever is necessary both on the ground and in the air without any hesitation and without any delay and egging it all on is washington apparently they've forgiven ever the gun for his little crusade against syrian kurds and have lifted their sanctions on turkish officials involved in attacking kurds they went further

saying they stand with their god as he invades a sovereign state my condolences to the families of the soldiers killed in yesterday's attack in the ongoing assaults by the assad regime and russia must stop i've sent jim jefferies to ankara to coordinate steps to respond to this destabilizing attack we stand by our nato ally there are now 4 nuclear powers engaged in syria 5 if you count israel and they're fighting on different sides the danger of escalation is colossal that happened today when an american convoy drove into a village where they weren't welcome. but this is our car village the americans came in and faced resistance from the villages people who threw stones at them so the americans answered with bullets. a young man was killed and 2 were injured a 14 year old youngster killed to add insult to injury the pentagon in

a statement referred to the villages as a pro asaad militia and accuse the villages of occupying the village they live in also the american soldier who apparently scratched himself is fired no need to worry he literally separately tweeted about that so there you go an ugly day in our glee war and as things stand liable to get a whole lot uglier still. italy's santa has voted to send firebrand former interior minister my test salvini to trial over charges of holding my current c. he was actually elected to power on his necke party's anti migration platform our europe correspondent peter all of that brings us the details. well the italian senate has voted to revoke. his ministerial immunity from prosecution that will see him stand trial later this year charges of having illegally detained migrant

sort of boat last year after they tried to cross the mediterranean into italy if he's convicted there he could face up to 15 years in jail well this particular incident relates back to what happened in july of 2019 when the italian coast guard vehicle the italian coast guard vessel the betty picked up around 140 people who were crossing the mediterranean from libya to ward italy some of those on board needed immediate medical attention that left 116 on board the coast guard vessel they were kept there for days at the express orders of mr salvini salvini said that they would remain on board the ship until. the e.u. nations came into and said that they would take the people on board now what prosecutors are saying is that material salvini acted unilaterally that he

willfully refused and ignored requests from. the italian prime minister to allow this coast guard ship into an italian port. had long said that he was fighting against immigration of fighting against migration into italy that he wanted to sure up italy's borders he felt that italy was being used as a soft touch by the rest of the e.u. when it came to issues of migration and immigration. he did say that he would face his day in court as he put it like a man saying that what he did he did a silly and suggesting that he would have done it again if he got the chance. i feel is my duty to the country the italian people and to my children i want to be proud of what it is to hold my head high our constitution says that protecting our

homeland is a sacred duty for italian citizens as a minister as a man as an italian fighting people traffic is defending our borders and security defending the pride and dignity of my country protecting italians from all the illegal migrants in the country is not a right but a duty for me. along with greece italy has been at the front line of europe's migration crisis the 1st port of call for many desperate people making that incredibly dangerous crossing over the mediterranean. oh it's not over for salvini when it comes to the removal of his ministerial immunity later this month he'll face another vote relating to another incident from

last year this time in august where he refused to allow the migrant vessel open arms to dock at an italian port but we are hearing from giuseppe conti that the italian prime minister is that the time he describes as being obsessed with stopping migrants from arriving in italy so much definitely seeing the inside of a courtroom on charges relating to detaining migrants all one count it may well be 2 counts by the end of this month. by crease the might crisis has become a battleground between authorities and n.g.o.s operating as organizations have been accused of inciting hatred and violence between locals and refugees. there is a galaxy of dodgy n.g.o.s operating alongside a network of doctors lawyers and other people making a mint out of the human misery of these people they are leeches and these practices

must end all of this contributes to illegal migration but island of less boss has been a constant scene of protest since camps where a stoppage to handle the market in flux large rallies have often turned violent just last week in fact police were called into action to disperse crowds that we've asked local residents who agree with the government's stance that n.g.o.s off fuelling the situation. but acumen. we all know what n.g.o.s are about they're behind this bad situation in our village we can understand the migrants we cannot leave just watching them killing our animals and setting fire to the fields in the village destroying the olive trees that we've had here for years and years. now you know very early but yes the ngos are behind this bad situation we know they do this for money of course they are not only for saying it. well here's just a little recap about that biggest makeshift camp in question on the island of last

fall so it was originally built to host a maximum of you can see 3000 migrants the number of people currently being kept is 6 times higher with little or no access to health care the u.n. has called for action stressing the camp should be moving some of the residents out of the meanwhile the bigger picture which is the refugee crisis all across greece a country that's been on the front line 3 years well situations deepening last year it was estimated that 74000 migrants reached greek shores now more than half of them remain in makeshift camps scattered across various locations and greece doesn't see an end in sight with the country expecting up to $100000.00 more suydam seekers in the coming year we heard from regional and local officials in an area heavily affected by the crisis they shut that concerns with us about some of the humanitarian activity going on. we have about 450 n.g.o.s act in and

around the country many of them are very active on the islands where they may get some problem exists and some of them are doing a very good job with the help of the our government people but also some of them are really very obscure and ceo's we don't know where they coming from how they deal with the money where they receive money from how they spend the money so we have been asking the government to act strictly and to right to control all the secretary to solve this and this government has by staying in the parliament a few days ago i couldn't do it's there will be a strict control of the indios a part of corn my personal opinion is that everybody knows we have n.g.o.s that help with the situation and others that help the migrants to protest there are also religious n.g.o.s who are helping by giving food to poor and vulnerable people i don't have evidence to prove that they are behind any negative actions but i am sure that there is more here than meets the eye. he has all several n.g.o.s to

comment on the situation there we will of course let you know that was on. the world health organization is out in the media not to overhype the dangers surrounding ukraine a virus at the same time though chinese communities reporting on a phobia will take a look at that story on much more in just 90. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. too great to be press this is like them before 3 of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters and.

now at 2020 we have the global potential pandemic here and people's fear is compound of by the fact that nothing in the global economy is anchored to anything of so. and so you have this remark paranoia by disorientation in a world bereft of any kind of solid anchor and it's only going to get more chaotic . and. the world health organization is in the media not to cause hysteria surrounding the

current affairs outbreak it's off to reports a mudslide to medical expert from home call warning that needed to thaw itself the whole walls population could be at risk of contracting that. some because so many instances of only war transmission from people we know travel history to china could be the spark that becomes a big. but flawed no. it's only a spark. remains containment the corona virus which has now been named 19 has a mortality rate so far 2 percent we can of course compare that to the saw as epidemic back in 2003 which killed 10 percent of those who courted animal recent comparison be to the health emergency in africa an ebola virus which was also much more deadly than the current corona virus all that said though against the backdrop

of panic and exaggerated reports is saying people of asian descent are increasingly becoming the target of racist abuse or across the globe but not over of course the coronavirus faces so we asked people in london's chinatown if they've noticed a change in attitude. terrible loss we feel. sadness and sorrow but i don't think people should be targeted or paid on the basis of. thinking we put in people into captivity in a box and think it's a dangerous way of thinking this is chinatown in the center of london it's going to be one of the most popular destinations by locals and tourists alike but today as you can see it's very quiet and the reason for that well after talking to locals and people on the streets they say it's plain and simple xenophobia the elders chinese community creep in chinatown has been handling the backlash against the coronavirus and the fear factor is clear. i mean.

what about your personal experiences i think it was last thursday i was to train to work as normal guess what happened is also beside me and i thought 1st was the. mother because we were standing normally. sit. because i'm trying these and people think oh i mean he be a potential carrier. what kind of reaction have you had from own members of your community a lot of people just absurd to suppose for young children because i. didn't hear a lot of complaining from the parents the children got picked up the. children just don't understand that students here hear from their own parents when the cool school when i see chinese student or young young children this is so but the mere you because you might have a virus education for important the laws of important people understand that.

the. transport the global problem here so other one thing the people with the thing that just because you're trying to or your piece of chinese your prudence who carries. the way that we've documented the things that go on in the eastern world has always it's always been told like that anyway it's always been around a think the moment that something like this happens like there's a virus it just allows people to say the things that they're actually have been fed for a very long time are probably out that they harbor they have these feelings anyway and it just gives people a platform to say what they want because this fear yeah i feel like it's just a very boring hard time right now for the chinese people i feel like using the disease. way to be seen for this is just terrible. if it was summer from the usa i don't think people treat people americans coming over the same way as they are treating the chinese people and chinese students in

central crazy i mean you can see that we hear the 1st 2 chinese today. people in the pool so you can see that. you could be and human being can be can be kariya we have seen this before and now the coronavirus has instigated another wave of racism despite there being only a small number of cases confirmed in the u.k. and there's no doubt that the effect on the british chinese community has had huge implications. r.t. . let's turn to our top story from moment because tensions grew between russian tuckey on wednesday off to turkey's president threaten to launch attacks against syrian government forces in the war stricken province where chap tapered account also accused moscow of targeting civilians in the rebel held region which has

provoked a furious from moscow while to discuss this whole father let's cross to geo political analyst jang sock niche phosphors want to get your reaction to present grounds addressing parliament who definitely didn't mince his words but do you think we can see. maybe predict attack operation against syrian government forces and let. all the turkish president out of the one of them announced that the turkish government would wait for another $15.00 to $16.00 days until the end of the month to do any operations against against any party in the region it was a clear message that the turkish government is expecting russia to mediate and doesn't want to to to to to launch any attacks without our using the chances for mediation true true moscow. the turkish army has been deploying forces in and around signaling that it will respond to to continue the attacks on its

forces then and its allies have groups but in the meantime among all these. doric president also vowed that the that the turkish government will wait and see until the end of february signaling that ancora is awaiting for moscow to mediate i also we know that russian talk you've both accused child of file 18 the deescalation agreements what's your take on that do you think they have been both ends of the bargain. while the agreement has been holding with many controversies but it has been holding since 2018 it's very hard to detect which saw i had implemented its duties as indicated in the in the agreement but russian forces have been a significant mediating factor in northwestern syria to prevent clashes between the

syrian regime and turkey the demilitarized zone has said in the agreement may not have been achieved for many reasons 1st of all because of the continued presence of groups that are allegedly linked to al qaida and its affiliates but no significant clashes other than skirmishes happen in northwestern live it shows that the that the russian supervision of the agreement has been successful one point i would like to underline here the turkish role in nordin northwestern syria depends on the superpowers namely the us and russia the turkish military presence cannot achieve any military victories without close cooperation with russian or u.s. forces in northwestern syria into offering it live in aleppo regions the turkish operations were truly coordinated with moscow and in northeastern syria

where since october we have seen turkish incursions were all coordinated with the with the us government so it is very clear and easy to say in northwestern syria turkey will go frame from unilateral actions at least for the time being and will trying to mediate in coordinated its military actions with moscow that has been dispute provider of the of the current agreement why do i want to pick up on something that you just said that you mentioned of course the presence of the u.s. now articles be given one could say quite wrap public support by the u.s. you know that the u.s. envoy to syria visited taki and they seem to have found some common ground here but how is that actually being received on the syrian ground because we saw an incident in northwestern syria today which would suggest that there's quite a lot of pristina t. towards american forces. well 1st of all the u.s. government's reaction in my opinion has been only lip service because it will it

falls outside the u.s. influence let's assume that turkey and the u.s. reinitiate their copper ration in syria as happened in the in their early twenty's in their early years of to syrian conflict the u.s. has no influence in those regions to facilitate any military maneuvers so whatever the u.s. official position might be in this sphere will remain as a lip service trying to repair the relations between washington and ankara in the wake of the reproach one with being on core and moscow. as you may also mention in north eastern syria there was an incident in arab village in fact after the u.s. decision to withdraw from north eastern syria the u.s. is not the most popular among the local community of course but this applies more to the arab society of north eastern sea that are predominantly aligned with the

syrian government rather than the kurdish groups that are still in in a close cooperation with the us government but as i say that the syrian situation has been divided into influences zones by by the u.s. and russia falls on the russian influence and not the u.s. military influence copper ration with the us. practically makes no sense for any 3rd party including turkey now we know of course that it has been a stronghold of opposition since the civil war broke out back in 2011 taking it back would be a huge a major strategic victory for the syrian government what do you think the chances of that happening are. well i think it is in it is in progress just departed did this size of to sochi agreement have to reach a consensus on what to do with the rebel factions that are armed to the thieves in

northwestern syria and under turkish supervision and what to do with the local population that might flow into into into turkey as refugees other than that it is quite obvious that for one the syrian government is determined to retake it live for its symbolic importance for in the ng the syrian uprising since 2111 and the 2nd that obvious fact is that this will happen under russian supervision and mediation so the russian supervision and the mediation is the key factor here that both 3rd key end the syrian government are likely to. resort to in the in the coming weeks in the long run i personally think that this decision that this is the this is the fate of the northwestern sectors of syria that will fall under the syrian rule but that there would be true true cooperation

and coordination among the parties that scientists which a grim and and not true secure mischa's between turkey and syria well many thanks for taking the time on your insight coming on to this program that was. a political on this thanks. and finally venezuela's self-proclaimed president received an unfair money as welcome in caracas on tuesday after turning from a 3 week international tour was met by angry crowds out the country's biggest at port who held a busa heaven accused him of exacerbating the economic crisis that to see it all going down was eric holder tag. no letter or facility it wasn't easy for positionally to one guy do it to return to venezuela he passed border control at the international airport without any problem but he was confronted by airline workers from the company which was sanctioned after why dost trip to the us. we are 2000 people and we are defending our families. he just goes crazy and we're here to

defend ourselves there were members of liberty as well and socialist party present and other movements to debunk why don't proclaim himself the interim president of venezuela they shouted that he'd sold out the homeland and called him traitor. i. know moment the situation became more tense when quite all supporters came to the airport to meet their leader. i. know it was said that venezuelan president nicolas maduro would visit the airport but he instead made a statement from the palace address and transport workers look there at that got promise to transport workers i confirm all my commitments do not waste time let's not be distracted by stupidities and traitors of the country. that's all from me

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