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so he's president says it is just a matter of time before his country launches a military operation in the syrian province of idlib something moscow has described as the worst case scenario. then please visit during the sangean jail in call on the u.k. to stop his extradition to the u.s. amid concerns about the health of wiki leaks founder. easy to pick songs of disorientation. he can tell us about but they can't get severe oscillation in ongoing us allies are going to strike president emanuel marker on the call for an end to so-called islamic separatism in some french cities during the campaign to head of next month's local elections but also on the way to the u.s.
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house represents to speak an ounce of palosi warns europe of the security risk but with far away but fails to mention her own reporting response. probably to us probably us anybody having. access to our data. hello there just go midnight here moscow you're watching international turkey's president says it is only a matter of time before he launches a military operation in the syrian province of idlib and claims he's been dissatisfied by talks with russia on the situation. this you miss over to go. to work you has made all kinds of preparations to implement its operational plan and as in every operation we see we can come suddenly one night to put it more clearly operation is now
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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 placed on our country. syrian army is currently on an offensive in italy trying to drive out the militants an islamist moscow says that he has failed to separate the moderate opposition from terrorists in what is the last remaining pocket of militants in the country. with turkish military convoy crossing mysterious border and also a large line of tanks and the calls and supply trucks reportedly moving towards the outskirts of. told neil harvey 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 boss treated in syria's north home to up to 3000000 people including civilians and they are very often used by terrorist as
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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 basically a ad and it's not that mr out of 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 really good question but it depends on who you ask both sides are blaming each other we hear from russia and its position is quite clear remains the same that turkish military operation only syria. 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 ban statement in the similar way. to separate militants
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from terrorists in the timeframe under 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 libya 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 that and force them to leave of these area and it hasn't been done properly it hasn't been achieved never so it's in turkey it's turkish
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responsibility so turkey is failing 1st the russian standpoint how does turkey see the situation while turkey is very clear turkey is accusing mosco and damascus of escalating the situation of. agreements and this is the turkish president just recently. the syrian regime as well as the russian forces in iran backed militants acting with an ad lib continuously attacking civilians committing massacres and causing bloodshed. and we hear that despite numerous talks the turkish and russian sides have been having in the last days including between foreign and defense ministers so it's really interesting why the gun change so dramatically 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
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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 president carter was i respect them we have a very good relationship yes i agree. but we have a very good relationship i see you 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 and the gobi about that is one of the 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. well the u.s. and russia have starkly opposing views and how to tackle the humanitarian crisis in a deliberate and voice from the 2 countries traded accusations that the un security
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council session just a few hours ago. it's like the end of the world breaking point babies freezing to death amid it led push these people are begging the world to listen to their plight and so i ask how much longer will we tolerate these headlines. recall the united nations security council meetings call that often when militants were marching towards damascus with the full backing of some western states playing the card of suffering civilians and a longstanding truce every time your cherished terrorists come under threat candidly it is a marvel to me that our russian colleagues can speak of ceasefires and political solutions in this chamber with a straight face when their own or planes have struck hospitals and the homes of children how can i respond to your accusations of the killing of the civilian population whatever i would say you don't listen and keep talking about targeted
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bombings of schools hospitals and refugee camps and what hard wouldn't that find a response that's a win win technique who will try to decode it whether it's true or not. well the director of the case crisis research institute mark armin does believe it will be the syrian refugees who paid the price if there is a further escalation. could 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 has intervened 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 or force its own and 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
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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 war 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 the inspiring out of control is really the. meanwhile in the syrian city of aleppo the 1st passenger plane in 8 years has touched down at the local airport there this comes just days after it was announced the city had been cleared of militants an airbus a 320 flew in from damascus carrying syrian officials along with journalists civilian flights were halted back in 2012 when militants took over most of the city . last summer strain m.p.'s have called on the u.k. government to stop you've been assigned his extradition to the u.s.
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but after they visited the wiki leaks co-founder who's in australia national in the prison where he's being held the head of an extradition hearing. your belief is that someone who is so bright and overnight so bright. should be rewarded for facing extradition incidentally counsel these few nudge in one town called computer had. very crucial. very concerned of the bahraini people to strike up one of the lawmakers jewish christians and also says this sunday's health is a serious concern. spike in 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 say there's nothing
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that i saw or 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 isolation and ongoing us a lot of good aside technically within belmarsh prison the conditions of the subject to apparently out of us laotian but when you kept by yourself 20 to 22 it was a guy 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 we're told his around the world will tell you condemn the
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u.k.'s handling of the case warning a sound he's 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. government intervene to protect its citizens it is the 4th such letter from doctors in mali mates up belmarsh prison have also shown their support petition for sanj to be transferred from the hospital wing to one dedicated for over 50 meanwhile the organizer of the don't extradite sanj campaign says if he sends the us a songe won't be able to face any jury. we're subway away from judith reaching the goal where he will or will not be at the united states but he certainly shouldn't be extradited to the united states were he to be extradited he would find himself in a court of a very special car in a. year it's the so-called s. we have a large court where the u.s.
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state has never lost an espionage case where the jurors are chosen from a population pool 80 percent of who work for the pentagon the national security council or the cia so he's going to go probably a court in this country where there's no jury 'd to a court in the united states where there's a jury so i think the only chance you house of justice is to be set free before you actually go to. the french president has to end what he calls islamic separatism in some parts of france when you macron paid a visit to the city of malusi ahead of next month or local elections they're trying to be in school reports now from paris. it was a long awaited speech from president outlining how his presidency will rally against a political islam. we can advance in a credible way to fight against
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a political ideology this islam is separatism which is incompatible with freedom and equality incompatible with the indivisibility of the republic and the necessary unity of the nation thirst in the firing line is foreign interference not corn has vowed to end a program that allows countries such as algeria and turkey to send him arms in teachers here to provide services without supervision this scheme in place since the 1970 s. allows those foreigners to provide language and cultural lessons to help children maintain a link with their country of origin around some 8. 1000 children attend these classes every year. i'm not comfortable with the idea of having women in many schools of the republic who can teach without the education system exercising the slightest control and we no longer have control over the programs they teach you cannot teach things that it clearly not compatible either with the laws of the
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republic or with history as we see it. instead mark on wants to have more trained on french soil there would also be an end to the hundreds of additional religious leaders who arrive in france during ramadan mosques will be funded in a transparent way we need to know where the money is coming from who uses it and why he said interesting lead this echoes a policy from his political rival marine le pen during that head to head in 2017 per mandate said this. koos 0 extremist mosques identified by the ministry of interior and prohibit foreign funding of places of worship and. strong words coming from the president or is it just a last ditch attempt to woo voters ahead of difficult local elections in just a few weeks well i think what michael is trying to do is to shore up his position
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with the right wing electorate but also with some of the left of course the question of the. secular state in france is important right across the. relationship with parties on both sides of the spectrum. is important and he needs to make this sort of statement of municipal elections neutering those voters could be a double edged sword france is home to europe's largest muslim community there are said to be around 6000000 here that's about 8 percent of the population and back in 2017 this community overwhelmingly voted for president he's already showing that he's moved away from those centrist ideologies that he once espoused when he outlined a tougher stance on immigration another policy direct from the playbook of the pen so by grasping at ideas that some see as being from the hard right wing is he
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likely to lose voters from the left and from muslims but there are some areas from particularly some local municipalities some towns in areas where this is a concern for french voters and so what is doing the context of it is to try to reassure that where there are law muslim communities migrant muslim communities that the republicans still is asserting the values of the secular republic head of the election whether that will succeed or not remains to be seen in the in u. . not don't look like they're working. for next month's elections are seen as being a referendum on macaroons presidency and on his party on the move could they signal the beginning of the end of march. solar. powered. by wind on a trip to brussels the us has a representative speak. against way nancy pelosi insists the chinese tech giant is
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a major threat to security and should be 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. now reports 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 with the benefit of a few corporations you cannot sell the privacy of the people of your country down the river assess 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 are that she's one of what edward snowden called the gang of 8 key figures
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that are overseeing surveillance in the united states for snowden he did in the disagreement with you he did violate the law in terms. of for leasing those documents we don't know. any. 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. well
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he will be able to continue in france and will not be excluded from flying but we will send such numbers restrictions protect themselves 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 know in the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world u.s. . you can you would guess just in the u.s. given say the alignment of interests that. are the u.s. probably you know well the u.s. is far as i'm concerned. you can have donald 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
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we know we are doing ourselves. are to see new york meanwhile the u.s. state department has once again called on the countries to show them the chinese tech giant huawei to you in favor of fight you couldn't ericsson not here and also some some. reaction from huawei usa can watch the interview in full at r.t. dot com but his. it 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 if 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 wa wait operation shop giant where they monitored all why not work for 5 years and could not find any improper communications and in the present
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program they found that the u.s. government used for example cisco equipment to spire on the world most recently the washington post crypto a.g.d. 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 . the u.s. presidential candidate mike bloomberg says he will sell his media empire if he becomes president in the head of the latest round of democratic debates being held on wednesday in las vegas for the 1st time faces rivals so you've been crying foul over the spending on campaigning. because it is estimated that bloomberg has
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splashed out more than $400000000.00 in television radio and online advertising and that is 10 times more than the current party run at the. donald trump spend around 325000000 on his whole campaign back in 2016 well earlier i discussed this with the legal analysts jennifer the master libertarian presidential candidate bora and also political analyst. 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
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not so problematic that bloomberg is 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 affectively 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
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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. 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
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presidential big debates has changed the debate the rush to the do everything they can to keep their 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 gathered all the 3rd party candidates who oppose it the united states is definitely an oligarchy and i think that most of the people of the united states know this a lot of these people who voted for obama and they are 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. the british environmental activist group extinction rebellion has dug up has dug up the lawn of one of the world's most prestigious universities in cambridge targeted trinity college saying they wanted to highlight the unique invests in fossil fuels a number of activists were arrested by police who had been criticized in the past
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for being too lenient. trinity college has invested 9100000000 pounds in oil and gas companies most of any of the 45 colleges they are complicit in the climate ecological crisis. the college respects the rights of free speech and nonviolent protests but draws the line of criminal damage and with the. mood of. the french. what they want to do very different they should pick up and go over. that it's over .
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