nothing like. the headlines this hour he's president says it's just a matter of time before his country launches a military operation in a syrian province of idlib something moscow has described as a worst case scenario also this hour straight days visiting a son in jail in court on the u.k. government to stop his extradition to the u.s. and it concerns about the health of the wiki leaks founder and he is exhibiting saw and sort of disorientation. he did tell us about being kept in severe oscillation and ongoing loss a lot of struggle a psych in the u.s. house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi warns europe has the security risk of working with huawei but fails to mention her own reports of growing mass u.s.

surveillance including on the need to be asked the york and london by the china or the us is the biggest spy. and probably the us probably us anybody having. access to our data. there you're watching r t international where it's just gone 8 o'clock in the thing in moscow now turkey's president says it's only a matter of time until he launches a military operation in the syrian province of a glib and claims he's been dissatisfied by talks with russia on the situation that . this human soul going to go. to cuba has made all kinds of preparations to implement its operational plan and as a narrowing 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 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 of this region please on our country syrian army are currently on an offensive in italy trying to drive militant islamists from the province moscow says that turkey has failed to separate the moderate opposition from terrorists there as it is the last rebel bastion standing in syria and home to a number of militants but it shows the military convoy crossing the syrian border a large line of tanks armored vehicles and supply trucks reportedly moving towards the outskirts of a dilip. join neil harvey earlier to explain 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 street and 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 this also should be stopped and countering that is something what damascus military operation on the ground in 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 we. manes the same the turkish military operation on the syrian soil it'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 sergei lavrov also commented on mr van statement in the similar way.

to separate militants from terrorists in the timeframe on the 2018 agreement at the same time provocations from the zone shearling of the syrian armed forces civilian targets and the russian base have continued naturally the syrian armed forces reaffirming their commitment to the original grievance 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 them and force them believe me in these area and it hasn't been done properly it hasn't been achieved never so it's in turkey

it's turkish responsibility so turkey is failing 1st the russian standpoint how does turkey see the situation while turkey is very clear turkey is accusing most and damascus of escalating the situation of. agreements and this is turkish president just recently. the syrian regime as well as the russian forces in iran backed militants acting within continuously attacking civilians committing massacres and causing bloodshed. and we hear that despite numerous talks that turkish and russian sides have been having in the last days. included in between foreign and defense ministers so it's really interesting why the gun changed so dramatically he's raster a good twit can remember that it somehow ironically coincide with

a dramatic shift in ankara washington relations with sanctions lifted with mr paul as the police say that america is ready to stand by its nato ally and mr trump openly and directly backing at the guns actions in syria had a very good job or say shit with the president heard a while i respect him we have a very good relationship yes i agree he's a tough guy but we have a very good relationship i see do better with the people but the fact is that he's fighting audit led he doesn't want people to be killed by the thousands and hundreds of thousands let it go be about that and other reasons but we spoke about it live and we're working together on what you mean so here is something new for mr trump for mr they're gone both america and turkey changed their wrath rick and it's not helping things on the ground while the director of the u.k.'s crisis research institute mark almond believes that it will be syrian refugees who pay the price

for any confrontation. could to draw russia and turkey into a war because the russian force is on the side of the syrians in combating the local rebels and turkey if you can intervene would clearly be taking the side of the rebels and in order to do that it would have to provide protection for its forces from the air it would have to use its own air force its own interprete missiles which would put at risk russian airplanes we will be back if you like to the crisis situation of 2015 when the turks shot down a russian aircraft. so it's potentially very dangerous situation even if we don't go that far that's the worst case even if we just get to a case where the turkish forces increase or a true bombardment of the syrians the situation on the ground which is often discussed as a humanitarian crisis will get worse for the refugees because i'll be trapped between 2 lines of fire rather than just one so it very very messy situation and i think president of the worms rather capricious personality is really the unknown

factor is he just barking or would he bite and if he is going to bite then the risk of things spiralling out of control is really the. last some a strain m.p.'s have called on the u.k. government to stop even assigned use extradition to the u.s. that after they visited that wiki leaks founder he's in the stray national in the prison where he's being held the head of an extradition hearing. beyond belief that someone so bright and overnight so probably. should be rewarded by facing extradition and sitting down so to speak in one county i would act. very closely at the height of. arrogance and at the behavior of government one of the lawmakers george christiansen says that assigned his condition is deteriorating fast. i've spoken

this wake with professor mills mels of the un special rapporteur on torture. come to the opinion the along with a number of medical experts that julian assange was exhibiting the symptoms of psychological torture visited julian assange. and are going to side there's nothing that are sore that actually. discredited what those doctors and what mills melzer said he is exhibiting saw ends of disorientation. he did tell us about being kept in severe or solution and ongoing loss a large negative side technically within belmarsh prison the conditions of the subject to apparently. but when you kept by yourself 20 to 22 it was a guy with that minimal human contact you're effectively ocelot it so all of that has led to a 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 doctors around the world have also condemned the u.k.'s handling of the case warning that the son is being subjected to psychological torture in jail more than $100.00 medics signed a joint letter urging authorities to take action they also called on the australian government to intervene to protect its citizens it is the 4th such letter from as well made that belmarsh persian prison have also shown nest of a petition for a songe to be transferred from the hospital wing to one dedicated to the $0.15 according to you that we can fix editor in chief the organizer of the don't extradite a songe campaign john reese who will say visited the cheeriness says that if

extradited to songe won't be able to face any jewry. we are some way away from judith reaching the goal where we will or will not be asked to the united states but he certainly shouldn't be extradited to the united states are worthy to be extradited he would fire do so of. a court of a very special car in a. year it's the socal s. we have caught where the us state has never lost an espionage case where the jurors are chosen for a population pool 80 percent of whom work for the pentagon the national security council or the cia so he's going to go a quarter of this country where there's no jury 'd to a court in the united states where there's a better europe so i think the only chose the house of justice is to be step free before it exploded. the us presidential candidate michael bloomberg will sell

his media empire if he becomes president the announcement came ahead of the latest round of democratic debates being held on wednesday in last vegas bloomberg will for the 1st time face his rivals who've been crying foul over the billionaire spending on campaign advertisement this estimated that bloomberg has crashed that more than $400000000.00 on television radio and online and courtesans and that is 10 times more than current party front runner bernie sanders on trump spent around $325000000.00 on his whole 2016 campaign well earlier i discussed the issue with the legal analyst jennifer to master the military and presidential candidate arvin war and also political analyst dakota lately. dakota if i could start with you sound is there says that bloomberg is buying votes 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 the campaign spending 400000000 dollars 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 of spending money on his own campaign the bigger problem is the d.n.c. what rules is the democratic 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 he's 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 the 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 lot of money back in 2016 and yes donald trump spent his own he was not favored to win he was not going to win 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 big 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 javert 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. still ahead here this hour u.s.

has begun here nancy pelosi travels to brussels to raise the stakes against china we'll tell you how and why she said just up and running. when else should seem wrong. but. just don't. let me. get to shape out these days because educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be

president. some want to be. right to be close to what before. you get. interested in the why. they should. be with r.t. now while on the trip to brussels the us has a representative speaker has warned the allies against huawei. the chinese tech giant is a major threat to security and should be barred from developing 5 g. networks in europe which could be used for spying but she did fail to mention america's own far reaching global surveillance network is it explains. 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 is far and snowden he did as you know on the in the in disagreement with you he did violate the law in terms. of releasing those documents we don't know i understand. 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 on with the week's good like she believes it's so easy street it takes us to 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 probably us and i'm not so much worried about. china i'm worried about

anybody having access to our data to be more. ready to spy on you didn't the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world to us. and can you would guess just the us given say the alignment of interests from over the us probably you know well the us is far as i'm concerned. you can go to hell i don't know trump along with it's a common pattern of human behavior sigmund freud called it for objection nothing drives us crazy or thinking that someone else might be doing that naughty thing that we know we are doing ourselves a little up and artsy new york meanwhile the u.s. state department has once again cooled on e.u. countries to shun the chinese tech giant in favor of 5 g. equipment by ericsson nokia and samsung he's being bussed to hallway

usas and the purdy in the us has been doing its fair share of spying fees not based on you can watch the full interview at all. but his attack. was interesting the u.s. government says that the 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 why not work for 5 years and could not find any improper communications and in the prism program they found that the u.s. government used for example cisco equipment to spy around 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 . now the u.k. environmental activist group extinction rebellion has dug up the lawn of one of the world's most prestigious universities in cambridge claiming it invests in fossil fuels a number of activists have been arrested following criticism of the failure of police to act a similar protests in the past. trinity

college has invested 9100000000 pounds in oil and gas companies the most of any of the 45 oxbridge colleges they are complicit in the climate ecological crisis. the college respects the rights of free speech and nonviolent protest but draws a lot of criminal damage and with the. mood of. what they want to do they should crack up and go. nuts over.

someone so are they doing the same for they're not getting anybody on their side of this they just annoying people. in shops looking so far the saving hair on our table back again as usual at the top of the hour with more stories. the atlantic alliance the bedrock of the post world war 2 global security order is slowly but surely unraveling more and more often washington in brussels by virtue of important foreign policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion.

in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through cups of mills an island that was coordinated loyalists attacks. population of tens of are forced to flee their homes. but these attacks was a p.r. you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast. more than 100 innocent civilians with. if you can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent to which the solution was involved in some of those cases the killers would lead to be named. i think. very very top i think if. there was.

you on the go ahead. greetings and sal you take a shit. if the 1st casualty of war is the truth then the civilians caught in the crossfire are most often the 2nd 3rd and 4th casualties of war currently the united states finds itself involved in multiple battlefields across the. world ranging from major conflicts like the wars in afghanistan iraq and syria to an unknown number of small regional conflicts and special forces missions that the taxpaying u.s. public will never be away made aware of until long after the fact or something horribly goes tragically wrong and currently tragically wrong often means the loss of civilian life who were unlucky enough to get caught in the crossfire of america's

peacekeeping but how effective is the united states military when it comes to tracking assessing and investigating reports of civilian harm and casualties by its forces that is the question at the heart of a new report by the center for civilians and conflict and the columbia law school human rights institute after conducting an in-depth after conducting in-depth interviews in analyzing over 200 investigative reports on the alleged civilian casualty incidents in afghanistan iraq and syria between the years of 2002 and 2015 the investigators discovered that quote the us military has shown it can investigate civilian harm but significant in inconsistent season when and how investigations are conducted has contributed to shortcomings including a failure to investigate incidents when a close look is warranted and missed opportunities to learn from incidents and make

future corrections this includes the fact that according to journalist nick turse the standard practice is troubling because while u.s. investigators regularly interview military witnesses they almost totally ignore civilians victims survivors family members and bystanders because you know hey well how would i would civilians know anything about civilian casualties in a war zone. i mean it's almost my friends it's almost like they would rather pretend that civilian casualties don't exist when the u.s. pulls the trigger which is impossible if you are truly watching the hawks. on a city street. or so you would see. this. great . systemic deception. which.

is the case whenever you see like you know reports come back from the u.s. government is opposed to like on the ground watch dogs would be always be this huge discrepancy but boy this is really. absolutely i think that this is one of lot of people already thought when it comes to our military and the amount of information that we just don't know and in many cases purposely so as it appears here the big thing that bothers me i think is that we know what the rules of war are and proportionality as well as discrimination discrimination and this is actually a good thing meaning that you are only attacking those who are responsible for the previous attack on you so you're only attacking combatants you are not purposely going after or not purposely going after those who are civilians and i think that

you know not being able to measure civilian casualties are not actually going in to investigate the civilian casualties is a huge problem one because it totally. a nation but also if we're going to continue carrying around this democracy everywhere all the time banner as a leader it's going to be extremely problematic for people to follow along and actually live us in that when we're literally going in places not only creating braves but also literally maiming and. killing a lot of people women children all of these individuals who have absolutely nothing to do with the wars that we are actually taking part well in them to me it's also one of those self-perpetuating pigs like if you don't properly investigate and hold accountable for one civilians are killed in a manner that is is you know flip it for the lack of a better word words kind of like well so what they're the mission took priority so some civilians were killed that just creates another generation of people who don't like you and when you're out there fighting supposedly a war on terror well that's a great recruitment tool.