headlines this president says it is just a matter of time before his country launches a military operation in the syrian province of idlib something that moscow has described as the worst case scenario. president calls for an end to so-called islamic separatism in some french sissy's ahead of next month's local elections and the u.s. has really sensitive speakin on super low stevens europe of the security risk of working with our way to mention her own reported role in mass u.s. surveillance including e.u. leaders we ask people who is the biggest threat when it comes to spy probably the us probably us anybody having. access to our data.

flow they're welcome you're watching r.t. international. 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 with talks with russia on the situation. this human soul going to go. to cuba has 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 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 to place on our country the syrian army is currently on the offensive in a deliberate trying to drive out armed militants and islamists or sco says to his fail to separate moderate opposition from terrorists their immortal is the last

remaining pockets of militants in the country which is to show to a turkish military convoy crossing the syrian border and also a large line of tanks armored vehicles and supply trucks reportedly moving towards the outskirts of a blip. told neil harvey had this sudden escalation of. the situation on the ground remains very dramatic terrorist activity there is very high and you have to remember it's a boss to region 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 eagerly 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 ayers 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 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 what 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 agreements 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 grima nts 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 to leave 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 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 minister is so it's really interesting why the ground change 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 president carter was i respect him we have a very good relationship yes i agree. but we have a very good relationship i see do better with the people but the fact is that he's

fighting or did lead he doesn't want people to be killed by the thousands and hundreds of thousands let it go be about that one of the reasons but we spoke about it live and we're working together watching walking with what we hear is something new for mr trump for mr they're gone both america and turkey changed their breath rick and it's not helping things on the ground well the u.s. and russia do have starkly opposing views on how to tackle the humanitarian crisis in italy and voice from the 2 countries traded accusations at the u.n. security 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 called 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 were 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 you keep talking about targeted 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 or the director of the case crisis research institute mark almond does believe it will be syrian refugees who do pay the price if there is a further escalation. to draw russia and turkey into a war because the russian force is on the side of the syrians in combat in 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 air force its own anti-aircraft 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 artillery 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 roll them just warm so. 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's going to bite then the risk

of things spiralling out of control is really the. meanwhile the syrian city of aleppo in the syrian city of aleppo the 1st passion to plane in 8 years has touched down at the local airport this does come 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 . the french president has vowed to end what he calls islamic separatism in some parts of france and i know mccrone paid a visit to the city of malusi head of next month's local elections shot of the bin ski 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 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 1st in the firing line is foreign interference not corn has vowed to end a program that allows countries such as all jiri and turkey to send in moms and 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 80000 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 republic or with history as we see it. instead mark owen wants to have more trained on

french soil that 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 the this is a policy from his political rival marine le pen during that head to head in 20170 mandate said this. koos 0 extremist mosques identified by the ministry of interior and prohibits 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 with the right wing electorate but also with some of the left of course the

question of the law. of the secular state in france is important right across the board and 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 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 what it is is to try to reassure all that where there are law muslim communities migrant muslim communities that the republicans still there which 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. . next month's elections are seen as being a referendum on president see his party on the move could they signal the beginning of the end of my. solar. power. my while on a trip to brussels the u.s. house of representatives speaker has warned e.u. allies against. pelosi insists 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 failed to mention america's own far reaching global surveillance network of more 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 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 are that she is one of what edward snowden called the gang of 8 key figures that are overseeing surveillance in the united states for snowden he did meet in

disagreeing with you he did violate the law in terms of. releasing those documents we don't know. the. 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. in the cells 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 are euro 2 were is a flop. while he will be able to continue in france and will not be excluded from flying we will

sense a certain number of restrictions to protect themselves and 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 but for the u.s. probably you know well the u.s. is far as i'm concerned. you can't have 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 naughty thing that we know we are doing ourselves up and r.t. new york meanwhile the u.s.

state department has a once again to called on e.u. countries to shun the chinese tech giant in favor of 5 g. equipment by ericsson nokia and also some sun he's been bus got reaction from where usa you can watch and you pull out a website that has a pretty. 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 you look back some years ago when i read 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 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 . the u.s. presidential candidate michael bloomberg has said that 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 will for the 1st time rivals he's been crying foul over the believe spending on campaign ads well it is estimated that

bloomberg a splash that more than $400000000.00 on television radio and also online advertising and that is 10 times more than current party from run of bernie sanders spending paris and around 325000000 on his own campaign back in 2016 earlier i discussed the issue with legal analysts jennifer to master the terry and presidential candidate in bora and also political ticker. 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 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 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

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 presidential big debates has changed the debate the rush 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 the united states know this a lot of these people who voted for obama 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. british environmental activist group extinction rebellion has dug up the lawn of one of the world's most prestigious universities in cambridge targeted trinity college to highlight much it invests in fossil fuels a number of activists were arrested by police who had been criticised in the past for being too lenient.

the. 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 and ecological crisis. the colonies respects the rights of free speech and nonviolent protest but draws the line of criminal damage and these lies in with the police. very laudable return trees and treasure. throwing can be. saved on what they wanted to do 3 to 4 if they should pack up and go over. to that's over half of the trip.

is just fine it is absolutely the same somewhat so are they doing as a nation pay for their not getting anybody on their side of this they just annoy people. and that is the news for now we're back again at the top the. nobility of. their kind of good intentions revived. in christian and maybe even 40 years ago. simply evaporated to see the pleasure also 5.

i 1st heard about wiki leaks. the helicopter footage in iraq. i think it down to the people demanding an end to u.s. military who have never forgiven him for it this guy's a traitor a treasonous and and he has broken every law the united states illegally shoot son of a. story to have. independent journalists with his computer exposing see who is what crimes and to a global audience. the idea of developing an anonymous box and applying it to a media organization that is what he makes that was the 1st. i didn't the toy interests that he would be for a short while world friend in room one of the world's most powerful news organization standard founder julian assange. and there was

a great deal of jealous in the mainstream towards him particularly why won't he be more like all that you seem. sneering feces on the walls. smile. we have giuliani in solitary confinement in the prison for terrorists away perhaps i've seen a person the person. i don't want to see him die in prison. and i think that's what he's facing. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe.

isolation full community. are you going the right way or are you being that. direct. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a mate in the shallows. we're still in an era of resource colonialism again this is a big risk and the one big thing that could really inhibit the kind of electric vehicle revolution that a lot of us want to see is if we can't resource the battery components in a sustainable ethical way then it's not going to be a successful revolution. in

the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks to take on the population of tens of thousands forced to flee their homes come up with strike and put 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 at the take more than a 100 innocent civilians women. as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and its occurrence which the pollution was involved in some of those cases they killers which is. to be named. i think. to do very very top i think. the washington. politicians you. the go ahead.

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a low and welcome the crosstalk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle the atlantic alliance the bedrock of the post world war 2 global security order is slowly but surely unraveling more and more often washington and brussels diverged on important foreign policy issues today europe has a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. crosstalk in the atlantic alliance i'm joined by my guest mark allman in oxford he's the director of the crisis research institute in london we have jonathan steele he's an international affairs commentator also in london we have a real he is founder of a consulting and a foreign affairs analyst all right gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mark let me go to you 1st here and let me just read you 2 quotes here for.