it was. 8 people were killed and at least 5 injured in to drive by shootings in the german city of and now. turkey's president says this just a matter of time before his country in the region the military operation in the syrian province of it live in something most you can't describe don't be worst case scenario. president emanuel micron pause for an end to so-called islamic separatism in some french cities that have next month's local elections. u.s. house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi boards europe of the security risk of working with huawei but fails to mention her own purported role in last us to valence including about e.u. leaders we ask people who is the biggest threat when it comes to spying. for the us

both of us anybody having. access to our data. is very welcome to you watching r.t. international with me if you're airing there's always some breaking news from germany were 8 people have been killed in 2 drive by shootings in the town of how mild to the east of frank 1st 5 others are critically injured according to police shots were fired from a car too she should bars one in the center of the town and one on the outskirts a long low number of gunmen fled the scene and a manhunt is on going there's a heavy police presence in both areas with helicopter patrols so far there's no information on the possible motive but we will keep you updated as the information comes in. turkey's president says it's only

a matter of time before we don't use a military operation in the syrian province of lib and claims he's been dissatisfied by talks with russia on the situation there. too he has made all kinds of preparations to implement its operational plan. 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 place on our country the syrian army is currently on the offensive in trying to drive out armed militants on this list moskos those turkey has failed to separate the moderate opposition from terrorists and what is the last remaining pockets of militants in the country footage shows the turkish military convoy crossing the syrian border and a large line of tanks armored vehicles and supply trucks are reportedly moving towards

the outskirts of it live where we are for national told me of 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 bar street in syria's north home to up to 3000000 people including civilians and they are 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 bag armed forces based in egypt against syrian army continue and this also should be stopped and countering that is something what damascus military operation on the ground in basically a 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 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 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 sergey lavrov also commented on mr gun statement in the similar way. to separate militants from terrorists in the timeframe on the 2018 agreements the same time provocations from the. shilling of the syrian armed forces civilian targets and the russians have continued not really the syrian armed forces reaffirming their commitment to the original liberal 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 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 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 the turkish president just recently. the syrian regime as well as the russian forces and iran backed militants acting with an adlib 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 between foreign and defense minister is so it's really interesting why the gun changed so dramatically raster a good twit can remember that it somehow ironically klein sided 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 i had a very good job or say shit with president carter was i respect him we have a very good relationship yes i agree with that 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 and he called me about that ad the reason but we spoke about

it live and we're working together watching walking with so here is something new for mr trump for mr they're gone both america and turkey change their raft the rick and it's not helping things on the ground the u.s. sounds russia have stocky opposing views on how to tackle the humanitarian crisis in it lip and voice when the 2 countries traded occupations of the u.n. security council session a few hours ago. it's like the end of the world breaking point babies freezing to death amid italy 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 out often when militants were marching towards damascus with the full backing of some western states playing the card of suffering civilians and a long standing 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 when when technique who will try to decode it whether it's true or not. let's go live now to eric's executive director just a foreign policy welcome to the program it's great to have you with us now the u.n. has scaled down its aid missions to syria since the start of the year cutting the number of border crossings back in january i do think that was the right decision. and this is another example of the really unfortunate put it put it is ation of humanitarian aid and it's deeply unfortunate the u.s.

and russia and syria can't work together to promote to deliver humanitarian aid of course there are a huge number of civilians their women and children on the other hand a lot of fighters have been relocated there after local ceasefires across syria so i think the russian serious part their concern that extensive a prolonged the ability of many of these fighters to hold out which would cause substantial losses to syrian forces and on the other hand you know of course some civilians are caught in the crossfire there without help so it's unfortunate they weren't able to find a better agreement than the politicized. the russian ambassador to the u.n. vasoline a benzo he he voiced his concerns about the aid situation let's just take a listen to remind ourselves of what he said. if you don't know the law. it's a good day for the syrian side to give its own serb out the alternative routes

meaning the route both from iraq and from syria that's the new day to the 29th of january today is the 19th of february there's no convoy from either iraq or damascus and u.n. colleagues have kept silent for 3 weeks already what is the urgency go on or is this plan no longer in the spotlight no one's interested in the needs of al-hassan anymore. you see anybody of that is saying there's a lack of urgency from western powers on delivering aid mostly if you are not you know this is the sign of a similar war on words when when when russia and china oppose the u.s. is planned for humanitarian deliveries of course humanitarian aid groups that are supportive of the u.s. effort there and the u.s. government might harshly criticize russia and russia and the syrian side are noting that all of a sudden there's maybe less urgency it and then they would have thought so this is just a continued war of words based on the unfortunate put ization of of aid in the civil

war and the u.s. officially supports taking the plunge military offensive in northeast syria why is this washington's interest why is it in washington's interest. well as i think everyone knows of us as a longstanding effort to promote regime change in syria including by backing armed groups. after losing territory across the country i believe is one of the final places that's outside of syrian government control and forces within the trumpet ministration are not keen to see that final foothold lost in the turkish government is aligned in that view many of the militias are backed by them of course. and so even as president trump and previously expressed opposition to continuing this funding and backing the civil war seems that other forces within his administration or longstanding anti syria forces have everyone out the president added on us that

he's determined to make it up as a kill zone and most of all the cost do you think you'll succeed in that and ever. i think we'll have to see how much syria and russia are willing to to combat those efforts i think it's a really dangerous situation and i think we have to hope that that cooler heads can prevail and a negotiated solution can result because it's unclear who will have the greater will i think the turkish forces are very strong but. syrian forces have taken some you know massive losses over the course of civil war so i think we'll have to wait and see how that has a great or will i think i think that's a direct address phone policy thank you for your time. well meanwhile in the syrian city of aleppo the 1st passenger plane in 8 years has touched down at the local airport 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

. the french president has vowed to end what he calls islamic separatism in some parts of france and minor mccrum paid a visit to the east of the country ahead of next month's local elections bensky reports from paris. it was a long awaited speech from president outlining how his presidency will rally against 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 corn has vowed to end a program that allows countries such as all jiri and turkey to send 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 on wants to have more sprained 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 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. always 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. 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 tough 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 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. . there were calls 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 much. charlotte di vinci auti paris. so to believe now mike bloomberg is vastly outspending his rivals in the race for the democratic nomination love story and more coming up after the break. you know beneath the station. kind of good intentions if i could go to a christening maybe even 40 years ago. simpy vettori to.

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back while on a trip to brussels the u.s. house of representatives speaker has warned the e.u. allies against twal way now see palosi 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 felt to mention america's own far reaching global surveillance network with an expense 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 you know on the inmate in disagreeing 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 able to continue in france and will not be excluded from flying but we will send such numbers destructions protect themselves and 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 spar in union the chinese it could come from anywhere in the world probably us. again you would i guess just the us given the alignment of interests from over the us are you probably you know what the us as far as i'm concerned. can go to hell 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 we know we are doing ourselves up and are seeing new york. us presidential candidate michael bloomberg will sell his media empire if he becomes president now to make him head of the latest round of democratic debates being held on wednesday in las vegas bloomberg will for the 1st time face his rivals who have been crying foul over the billionaire spending on campaign advertisements summated bloomberg a splashdown more than $400000000.00 on television radio and online advertising 10 times more than current party front runner bernie sanders what donald trump spent around 325000000 on his whole 2016 campaign earlier andrew farmer discussed the issue with legal analyst jennifer demands the libertarian presidential candidates are in very raw and political analyst dakota 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 super delegates 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 rush they 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 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 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. which is an environmental activist group extinction rebellion has dug up the lawn of one of the world's most prestigious universities in cambridge it targeted at trinity college saying they wanted to highlight how the union vests in fossil fuels number of activists were arrested by police who had been criticized in the past for being sunni and. trinity college has invested point 1000000000 pounds in oil and gas companies the 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 protest but draws a lot of criminal damage and with the. mood of. what they want to do very different they should crack up and go. it's over. absolute but with someone so are they doing the same people they're not bashing anybody on the side of this they just annoy people.

with the latest headlines and see that. 10 year period of the. money has gone directly into the pockets of the few all the doors of the world in the silo. under $2500000000.00 properties when they when the infrastructure for that starts to crack and the liquidity starts to see the balance you get inflation for real for stuff like food and we're seeing this happen now where people are noticing that the cost of every day living is starting to spike.

this is a pretty you know the mood but it's certainly as much as you. can do to the do much for the group with a little minute to do more of the. whining good sort of produce you know one of the you sins that you know that you know it may seem strange. to be the. gratings and salyut ation all right let's kick things off in the world of silicon valley hawk watchers where billionaire facebook c.e.o.

your friend and mine mark zuckerberg traveled to germany recently to attend the munich security conference because if there is one thing you think of when you hear the name soccer berg it security right i guess speaking at the conference these are bergen solve commented from up on high about the regulation of content on social media telling the audience quote we don't want private companies making so many decision balancing social equities without democratic processes i do think that there should be regulation in the west. on harmful content there's a question about which framework you use ah yes yes as the standard silicon valley punt on 3rd down approach rather than make a hard decision hey let's let the government make it for us that way we can be the babyface no matter what the outcome but what poor results didn't realize is that one of the new regulations both democrats and republicans and the us government is

contemplating isn't going to just let facebook off the hook for policing for.