he's here. to be reached. the president says it will be just a matter of time before his country launches a military operation in the syrian province of something moscow described as a worst case scenario. state visit julian assange is in jail on the government to stop his extradition to the u.s. warning about the wiki leaks founder steve condition. is exhibiting signs of disorientation. he did tell us about the. severe. and ongoing. and u.s. house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi europe of the security risk. but fails to mention her own reporting u.s. surveillance including e.u.

leaders people in new york and london whether china or the u.s. is the biggest spy threat. to u.s. us anybody having. access to our data. thanks for joining us here on r.t. . because our top story this hour turkey's president says it's only a matter of time until he launches a military operation in the syrian province of idlib. that he's been dissatisfied by talks with russia on the situation. this year miss over the. years made all kinds of preparations to implement its operational plans and as in every operation we see we can come suddenly one night to put it more clearly operation is

now a matter of time we will not leave little to the regime that still does not understand our country's determination in this matter and to those who encourage it we never intend to shoulder the burden that the developments in this region who place on our country. syrian army is currently on an offensive trying to drive armed militants in is this out of the province moscow says turkey has failed to separate the moderate opposition from terrorists this is a busy last rebel bastion standing in syria and home to a number of militants but it shows a turkish military convoy crossing the syrian border large lot of tanks armored vehicles and supply trucks are reportedly moving towards the outskirts of a lip ring for national joined me earlier to explain how this sudden escalation occurred. the situation on the ground remains very dramatic terrorist activity there is very high and you have to remember it's a bar streeton in syria's north home to up to 3000000 people including civilians and they're very often used by terrorist as

a human shield it's clear for everybody that actions are needed urgently to protect these people from the other hand the attacks by turkey backed armed forces based in egypt against the syrian army continue and these also should be stopped and countering that is something what damascus military operation on the ground in a glib basically a ad and it's not that mr i have the gun is not happy with how things develop on the ground no one is in fact happy if no one. is to blame for the situation that's a very good question but it depends on who you ask both sides are are blaming each other we hear from russia and its position is quite clear remains the same that turkish military operation. on the syrian soil that's another state you have to remember that would be the worst case scenario we heard that from president spokesperson earlier on wednesday dmitry peskov and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov also commented on mr gun statement in the similar way.

to separate militants from terrorists in the timeframe on the 2018 agreement at the same time provocations from the. shearling of the syrian armed forces civilian targets and the russian base have continued naturally the syrian forces reaffirming their commitment to the original. including cease fire agreements respond to such an acceptable provocations and we support them in this what mr lover of is talking about is last year so to agreements that turkey and russia came to this is when both sides were equally happy and satisfied and according to these agreements it's turkish responsibility too i repeated again to separate so-called like hardline terrorists and islam is based in and so-called moderate opposition and talk to that and of course them believe me in these area and it hasn't been done properly it hasn't been achieved never it's in turkey it's turkish responsibility so turkey is

failing the russian standpoint how does turkey see the situation while turkey is very clear turkey is accusing most damascus of escalating the situation of. agreements and this is turkish president just recently due to. the syrian regime as well as the russian forces and iran backed militants and continuously attacking civilians committed massacres. and we hear that despite numerous talks that turkish and russian sides have been having in the last days including between foreign and defense minutes. so it's really interesting why the ground changed so dramatically he's raster a good we can remember that somehow ironically klein sided with a dramatic shift in ankara washington relations with sanctions lifted with mr point

police say that america is ready to stand by its nato ally and mr trump openly and directly backing of the guns actions in syria. had a very good job or say shit was president her was i respect him we have a very good relationship yes i agree with that but we have a very good relationship i see the do better with the people but the fact is that he's fighting audit he doesn't want people to be killed by the thousands and hundreds of thousands and he called me about that and one of the reasons but we spoke about it live and we're working together on what you mean what we hear is something new for mr trump for mr they're gone both america and turkey change their wrath rick and it's not helping things on the ground. i'm joined on line. who is the director of the middle east think tank good gnosis good to have

you on our the situation it would appear to be is that you you've got a threatening military imminent military intervention in italy province russia has said that would be a worst case scenario if if that was to happen do you think that russia would support damascus would they go come into direct conflict with turkey. who or don't think of a direct confrontation between the turkish army and the syrian army are going to take place in turkey let's just put it this way cannot afford to down a new or another russian aircraft that happened 3 and a half years ago and turkey has made a u. turn since and we think that both parties russia and turkey have you know. going along way in cooperating to ease the problem in syria and this crisis in syria we believe that the turkish masses in it live there are probably

designed to secure a 4th region there is the freeze shield the only branch and. peace found operations all over syria we think that 2 aims at securing a 4th region in a leap we think that the confrontation if it is going to take place is probably going to take place with devoted because that turkish presence would leave the turkish army on the ground and it would seek or thought or to from the current. faction that has it which is of quite affiliated judgments from we believe that this is going to take place and probably a summit between president they're gonna president putin will defuse the situation and draw new lines and we've heard the vice president also read presidential advisory put on of. saying that there could be turkey

agree there could be a a summit in tehran early march that for the region you talk about turkey wants to claim how does that fit in with what was agreed previously. so what was agreed previously was that in sochi which was. about a year and a half after the estonia process started. what was agreed was to open for example the route between damascus and aleppo for 3 reasons between dymov between people and the tukey commonly known as the in 5 and in 4 routes international routes for trade and that was supposed to happen by the end of 2018 sochi the such agreement was in september 2018 so by the end of that year or 3 months later this would have taken place now a year and

a little bit more than that afterwards this is yet to be achieved and that us remember that this situation in syria because of the economic sanctions isn't really healthy and the syrian citizens are really suffering from basic needs you know the need fuel to fight the cold the need. the electricity and to keep this route out of operation is going to you know worsen the situation so the syrian army basically took on their own hands to open the route rather than wait for turkey endlessly to do it there is also depriving the hardliners the. groups from weaponry to disarm them to separate them from other. what they call moderate opposition or the opposition factions that are participated so far in the stanhope process this is also hasn't happened so what we

hear from the russian and syrian sides is that. it should turkey really want to do to go back to sochi then this in this should happen. but turkey might be concerned that thousands hundreds of thousands are actually of of people might be heading towards its border. and or the my see an opportunity to control another area in syria hence the you know the masses of turkish army deployment inside syria we've just heard on the news that turkey has given a signal to the. affiliated groups to increase their preparedness in order to have an operation inside again what we think is going to happen because turkey cannot afford to go to direct confrontation with the syrian army backed by russia because that would put it immediately with

a confrontation with proper you know with the proper a russian army personnel that there is going to be some sort of a settlement whereby a new troops let us say a new sochi agreement are not created such an agreement but also depended on what turkey does inside it and at the end of that agreement once that kicks in the turkish army is going to be the real power on the ground and that should prepare the way or pave the way to reduce the presence of the extremist elements in northeastern syria i'm all thanks so much fitter my guest our walk half director of the middle east think tank in us. another use some australian employees of called on the u.k. government to stop julian assange his extradition to the u.s. that's after they visited the wiki leaks co-founder who's an australian national in the prison where he's being held ahead of an extradition hearing. he's beyond

belief that someone who has a right to get over on so should should rightfully. should be rewarded for facing extradition and cementing counsel these few nudge and one count of computer i had. very concerned about how you go for the scope. very concerned at the behavior of a few strong government one of the lawmakers you saw there george christensen says the songs use condition is deteriorating fast. spike in this wake with professor nils mels of the un special rapporteur on torture. come to the opinion along with a number of medical experts that julian assange was exhibiting the symptoms of psychological torture visited julian assange. and are going to say there's nothing that are sore that actually. discredited what those doctors and what mills melzer said he is exhibiting signs of disorientation. he did tell us about

being kept in severe isolation and ongoing us a large negative side technically within belmarsh prison the conditions of the subject to apparently. but when you kept by yourself 20 to 22 as a die with that minimal human contact you're effectively oss alloted so all of that has led to i guess at the plated state of health for julian a songe and i don't think it's fair or told to extradite an australian citizen. at of one foreign country into another foreign country to face charges for what for reporting on the facts. well that says doctors around the world also condemned the u.k.'s handling of the case warning of sons is being subjected to psychological torture beyond bugs well mannered medics signed a joint letter urging with to take action they also called only

a stallion government to intervene to protect its citizens it is the 4th such letter from doctors. and then time the guardian newspapers published a feature article on plans to tackle media repression penned by the u.k. government and voile press freedom that's plenty of detail was left out the links to julian assange arguably the most high profile media repression case in the will that the moment clearly proposed the sanction although. if you take part in jailing journalists for their work that includes ministers and prosecutors but nothing was said about the fact that no such actions being prepared over the treatment of the wiki leaks founder article didn't even mention that clooney was actually a songes lawyer in the 2015 swedish extradition proceedings against him and many have been angered by the guardian's omission. congratulations are in order to the guardian's patrick wintour who's managed to write a whole article on global media suppression without mentioning the phrase julian

assange the foreign office will no doubt continue to be delighted the u.k. currently has julian assange is locked up at the behest of the us because he exposed war crimes the guardian publishes an article on press freedom failing to mention this unbelievably and unforgivably no mention of julian assigned. journalist the broadcaster neil clark says that the sars cases shameful for the u.k. government. when to the journalist apparently apparently we not 100 percent sure but apparently didn't see the need to actually brace the raise the case of the most famous persecuted journalist in this interview about the persecution of journalists it's a massive elephant in the room it's quite extraordinary how anybody could write an article about the persecution of journalists without mentioning. a sound for the establishment this whole case now is a big embarrassment. and

a staunch it's either someone who could be attacked or to be ignored he likes to be ignored and when he talking about it in this context press that persecution of journalists is another person is a non-person you know good journalist being persecuted oh let's talk about other countries official enemy countries that that's fine but not what we've actually got the guy just a few miles away down the road from us back at the jail for doing journalism. still has presidential hopeful michael bloomberg is set to take to the stage for the 1st time in a democratic debate but it comes amid criticism from rivals of things using his vast wealth effectively by voters steve tells us after the break. is your media a reflection of reality. in

a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. orem even the shallowness. the nobility. of your kind of good intentions revived. in crescent and maybe even 40 years ago. simply evaporated and not see it in a pleasurable for the.

trip to brussels the u.s. house of representatives speak and has warmed to you allies against while away nancy pelosi insists the chinese tech giant is a major threat to security and should be barred from developing 5 g. networks in europe but pelosi omitted to mention the far more wide scale unproven u.s. global surveillance network details his killable. now that the impeachment debacle is all wrapped up guess who's going to europe in order to promote one of the trumpet ministrations key policies it's the speech ripper herself nancy pelosi the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives is urging european countries to drop plans to use while away as their 5 g. carrier for the benefit of a few corporations you cannot sell the privacy of the people of your country down

the river as i said before it's like having the state police write the chinese state police right in your pocket you see nancy pelosi just cares about your privacy odd that she's one of what edward snowden called the gang of 8 key figures that are overseeing surveillance in the united states this far and snowden he did as you know in the in the in disagreement with you he did violate the law in terms . of releasing those documents we don't know i understand and i understand odd timing as well it's just been revealed that the cia was the secret owner of a swiss company that was offering people encrypt people's privacy was compromised because the cia had a backdoor what the u.s. government speculates that china might be doing they have been caught doing themselves while the e.u. might be more apt to listen to a top democrat then to the donald it seems they still aren't buying nancy's song

and dance her euro 2 were is a flop. while he will be continuing problems with the beaks good wife she always said so in the district of texas i see so we decided to ask people what they think of this supposed danger of china spying on them are they more afraid of china spying on them or the american progress or u.s. and i'm not so much worried about china i'm worried about anybody had having access to our data to be more. ready to spy on you know in the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world us. you can you would guess just the us given say the alignment of interests but. for the us probably you know well the

us as far as i'm concerned. you can't have that i don't know trump along with them it's a common pattern of human behavior sigmund freud called it projection nothing drives us crazy or thinking that someone else might be doing that nobody thing that we know we are doing ourselves a little up and artsy new york. a usa is andy purdy who notes the u.s. has been spying on the whole world for years not least while we so you can watch the full interview at r.t. dot com here's a preview. was interesting the u.s. government says that they declassified the information so we welcome the opportunity to see what the evidence is but we really have to look at this in the broader context of the ongoing geo political dynamic between the u.s. and china the u.s. has some major issues with china and right now the u.s. wants to hurt china so badly that they're going to hurt america in trying to her way and that's really a shame you look back some years ago when i brought snowden revealed information

about the u.s. program prism and about the 5 year campaign of the u.s. government to spy on operation shop giant where they monitored all while why not work for 5 years and could not find any improper communications and in the present program they found that the u.s. government used for example cisco equipment to spire on the world most recently the washington post crypto 8 g. a swiss company that turned out is controlled by the cia so they've been monitoring encrypted communications of all the countries in the world except for china and russia so the fact is it is important to recognize the role of the equipment vendors and the telecom and mobile operators there is a lawful backdoor by the telecom the mobile operators that is triggered by lawful action by governments such as the u.s. government or china government we don't have that access we don't control that data . u.s. presidential candidate michael bloomberg will sell his media and if he becomes president came ahead of the latest round of democratic debates being held on

wednesday in las vegas the will for the 1st time faces rivals who've been crying foul over the 1000000000 spending on the campaign as they see bloomberg especially more than $400000000.00 on t.v. radio and online 10 times more than current policy front runner bernie sanders of the context of trump spends around 325000000 on his entire 26000 campaign likely going to discuss his views on bloomberg campaign with legal analyst and for the libertarian presidential candidate for political analyst occurred to lily. because if i could start with you. says that bloomberg is buying is that a fair comment i do think it's a fair comment even if you look at the rules that the d.n.c. has instituted this is a complete change of what they've done so far this complete you know this late runners coming into their campaign spending $400000000.00 with perhaps he's

spending so much money and so that he can make up for the fact that he doesn't have any real grassroots support but i think it definitely amounts to vote buying it's not so problematic that bloomberg is spending money on his own campaign the bigger problem is the d.n.c. what rules is the democrat national committee democratic national committee making with superdelegates and with everything else because the way the d.n.c. seems to be operating is that you're allowed to run for president play if you have the money or if we at least approve of you it's not against bloomberg it's not it's not his fault that you need to spend this kind of money because that's the way campaigns are the bloomberg campaigns views would be massively unpopular with a lot of the democratic base and a lot of the american people and by fixating on this sort of minor non issue i mean in politics you ought to spend as much of your own money as you want to by trying to get people to fixate on this non issue the bloomberg campaign is effectively distracting america from the positions that bloomberg holds that are at odds with the majority of both the democratic base and the american people this is

a very unpopular person with very unpopular opinions according to the democratic party base and also the general population he's polling you know i haven't seen one poll where he's polling above 5 percent this is really showing the corruption of the d.n.c. what there is nothing illegal about what he's doing but i think really that's part of a larger indictment of the american political system more than anything else as well as the rules of the d.n.c. as has been stated that this is an indictment that was a perfect description of the american political system of course you can look at the republican party a lot of republican candidates had a. a lot of money back in 2016 and yes donald trump spent his own he was not favored to when he was not going to when hillary clinton had tons of funding between hollywood between lots and lots of billionaire billionaires so the american people could still vote but that also raises the question when there are lots of different candidates within one party like we're seeing with the d.n.c. and i think the american people deserve to see who the candidates are and what their actual viewpoints are and how they stand on things democrats and republicans

they control the presidential debates they change the the commission on presidential debates has changed the debate threshold they do everything they can to keep 3rd parties and independents out of the debates and you can see this in the way that they mistreat any candidate that opposes a massive military overage so they've shut out sanders gabbert all the 3rd party candidates who oppose it the united states is definitely an oligarchy and i think that most of the people the united states know this a lot of these people who voted for obama they went and they're voting for trump but both of these people received plenty of money from fossil fuel companies from banking institutions from financial institutions from all these different entities but in a true oligarchy not much has been done about it. ok i'll be back with updates for you in half an hour see that.

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after tense here we're going underground 48 hours off the syrian forces liberate aleppo from al-qaeda linked militants and as the un security council once again turns to the country whose government u.k. pm boris johnson said in the past few days he wants to overthrow coming up on the show has a war against nato out there and isis forces finally been won we go to damascus to ask one of syrian president bashar al assad's top political advisors with a mission and made coronavirus walk away and we did conspiracies the translator for chinese power monthly to deng xiaoping defends the superpower of the 21st century against accusations that china. there is losing its information military and economic war with nato possible going with today's going on the ground 1st after origin talks between russia and nato member turkey in moscow we can go straight to

damascus and join by skype talk to a mature political advisor to the syrian government don't she ron thank you so much for coming on the show why is it taking you so long deliberate in live from al qaeda linked groups there in your country there are so many terrorists who came across did p. and in the last 2 weeks we have been live in a big annual general part of through or at. many villages many places and on still. me has secured and pull that has been since you know 2060 but to kill at least subject to dual misses and that saddam. had that missile which is cool down the tubes shallow which is it better is the to deny this and we are determined to liberate and the test of syria trouble is better is it and

occupiers every brawl cust on the media and nato nation.