no. serious exchanges at the u.n. security council over syria's province where turkey's president wants to launch military operations in a matter of time. also this hour president calling valves to battle islamic separatism in france as he bids to win votes ahead of next month's local elections . and the british national health service announces a policy under which patients found to be homophobic or sexist can be denied non-emergency treatment our guests debate the new rules. we need to be sure that we're not going to add to the situation by people who are very very little bit of a joke. go to. the line.

good morning and welcome to the program this is our to international coming to life from the russian capital with your life news update. russia and the u.s. have traded violent accusations at the u.n. security council turkey with western backing warns it's a matter of time before it intervenes militarily in syria is it live. 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 that will live there the recall the united nations security council meetings cold 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 4 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 a turkish military convoy has already been filmed crossing the syrian border a large line of tanks armored vehicles and supply trucks are reportedly moving towards the outskirts of the syrian army is currently trying to drive militants out of the province our senior correspondent juan garcia breaks down the conflict. turkey is part of the ad lib ceasefire agreement had 3 main responsibilities one

separate the jihad disston the terrorists from the moderate opposition to get them to stop shooting and here to the ceasefire 3 facilitate the opening of an important highway turkey failed with number one bungled number 2 didn't even bother with the 3rd. and. there's only so long you can tolerate being shot at and shelled by wildcard or the dominant islam is traction they need lip the syrian military went into action and returned near enough a 3rd of a blip because they said they had no choice turkey wouldn't or couldn't hold up its end of the bargain. offerings and fail to separate militants from terrorists in

the timeframe under the 2018 agreements at the same time provocations from the lives own shelling of the syrian armed forces civilian targets and the russian air base have continued but if you are edouard and you're watching the syrian military steamroll the rebels you armed and funded for years you'd be worried too worse watching hundreds of thousands of refugees flock to your border that has been an unfortunate side effect of the syrian operation so to stop that exodus at the one who's threatened to do the one thing that could turn those hundreds of thousands into millions of refugees invade syria because human southern. turkey has made all kinds of preparations to implement its operational plan and it will as in every operation we see we can come suddenly one night to put it more clearly operation. it is now a matter of time we will not leave little to the regime that still does not

understand our country's determination in this matter and so those who encourage it we never intend to shoulder the burden that the developments in this region will place on our country. thousands of turkish troops hundreds of tanks and artillery pieces are being pumped into it and entire army diplomacy thankfully is in overdrive but so far hasn't worked the turks have rejected all compromise they've demond asaad give up everything he has retaken the us packing house is important because there was a period a few months ago a very poor relations between washington and ankara and the russians of course for terry trying to take advantage of that turkey over to their side much more is off to a greater country of washington i think is realized the danger of turkey's getting away from a turn off from the western alliance completely so they are now giving him backing but as i said at the beginning it's

a terrible mistake for turkey to think assad is going to fall at the stage there should try and recognize the new realities of the situation and do what they promised to do in such turkey and they zings syria potentially getting in a fight with russia isn't just the worst case scenario it would be a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions but tension attending a regional war global we all understand that and none of us wants to see it happen . well i'd say none of us had a very good job or sation with president carter was i respect him the fact is that he's fighting audit led he doesn't want people to be killed by the thousands and hundreds of thousands quietly fighting everyone's already hot tempers is the united states is showing turkey of support the modeling concessions from asset that pretty much ensured talks will fail see we're in

a strange situation where both closer to the end of the syrian war than we've ever been and we'll also closer to the worst escalation this war has ever seen. the french president has vowed to battle what he calls islamic separatism and france manual mccrone made the claims while campaigning ahead of next month's local elections artists aren't even ski report 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 corn has vowed to end a program that allows countries such as old 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 are clearly not compatible either with the laws of the 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. plus extremist mosques identified by the minister of the interior and prohibit foreign fund enough places of worship and their personnel 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 world. calls 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 fronts 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 where there are law muslim communities muslim communities that

the republicans still searching the values of the secular republic. the election whether that will succeed or not remains to be seen in the opinion polls are not. next month's elections a seen as being a referendum on macaroons presidency his party on the move could signal the beginning of the end of much. auti paris. abuse at your peril that's the warning from the u.k. health service which is tightening its tolerance when it comes to unruly patients doctors can already refuse non-emergency care to aggressive or violent patients but the new rules that come into effect in april are much broader now all types of harassment bullying or discrimination will be covered that include sexist racist or homophobic comments and h.s. says any abuse of staff has to be taken seriously we will not tolerate assaults

physical verbal again just colleagues stuff. hate crimes against just must be investigated with compassion diligence and commitment under the new agreement police are also being hand more power to deal with crimes against medical staff according to a national health survey last year alone a quarter of all staff were subjected to at least one case of harassment as adding pressure to staff already under strain 4 out of 10 now complain of feeling unwell because of stress at work socialist activists leave jasper and under a rock or a columnist for the new york observer debated the issue. the n.h.s. is now saying they won't treat people who are over whites they won't treat people who smoke they won't treat people who have made certain comments they won't treat people who provide that you cannot reasonably expect these people to pay for n.h.s. care that they do not receive so what you must still do is also excuse these people

from paying the elements of tax that would go towards the n.h.s. i think that when you look at the n.h.s. stuff there overwhelming concern is to provide support to help to people in need so they do. prepared to put up with quite a lot i think where it really crosses the line is all severe verbal and physical abuse think that that is a major concern we need so we need to be sure that we're not going to end up in a situation whereby people who've maybe made a little bit of a joke on sable to be treated but on occasion it can go too far and it can cross the line and not lie is quite broad i think but there are there are piece of terminology particularly around and indeed on sexuality that we deemed acceptable say 203040 years ago which is now considered all the excitable and i think it's

extremely important particularly with older people who might be on the word sensitive it's a the fairly treated you never hear people complaining about being called colored and stuff like does particularly from the elderly and again cast off a perfectly sensible enough to say ok did a worry about a deli know about stuff it's not the stuff that is the cause of the majority stress in the buz i mean what's incredibly frustrating about this is that we live in a system in this country where you can drink 10 pints of lager you know enjoy yourself in some form of misadventure shouts abuse and h.s. stuff i'd be treated the you know i would like to see a situation where the cost of the treatments is too. potentially equally i think if people do why then i think that they should be able to make their own private provision. ukraine band a film starring ukraine's president i'll tell you why after this short break.

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'd and also a court has ruled against a norwegian concrete firm seeking damages from its government for a botched attempt to recruit its workers in russia as spies are too smart for national has the details it drains like an unlikely story a government with quite literally a concrete plan for spying now we joined intelligence they used one of the country's successful companies to snoop on russia but when caught red handed the company has been left empty handed with its hugely lucrative contract ripped in pieces.

blamed the now we just saw a taste for that and filed a case against them but lost now is preparing to appeal we're earning it twill affect the country's business and its relations with russia it will for sure have great impact on other norwegian companies plan and activities in russia norway has a very hostile attitude towards its business in russia. it is unclear whether the alleged attempts by the we just intelligence services were successful or not but

the company had been the only one to get the hard to win contracts with russia that surprised many people from earlier bettong tough guys when i was minister of foreign affairs we were in contact with them he struck me then there was actually no one who succeeded in russia except for one they did not come from the russian neighboring region nor did they have any of the natural conditions for success in the more months but they got it it seems that the battle is not yet over not until the courts final decision is set in concrete. authorities have accused 2 of america's top universities harvard and yale a failing to report millions of dollars of funding from states like russia china iran despite the scrutiny of the massachusetts institute of technology it has extended its partnership with the russian research institutes caltech though that cooperation has raised u.s. concerns ever since it was launched. the department is concerned your reporting may

not fully capture all gifts contracts and all restricted unconditional gifts or contracts from all with all foreign sources to the massachusetts institute of technology such as the skolkovo institute of science and technology u.s. laws state colleges must report foreign donations if the institution is not american own or if the gift exceeds a quarter of a $1000000.00 which is far less than the multimillion dollar contract with caltech it is the intent of the f.b.i. for the recipients of the bullets in about skolkovo to use the information to inform the decision making process when selecting foreign investors to protect their interests which results in safeguarding our nation's interests. the collaboration began in 2011 where student exchanges and pooled research more than a 100 projects have already been completed we heard from the president of caltech. transparent. university. the transparent absolutely.

completely international team i'd like to emphasize that mit does not only international didn't last 4 years we published in coarsening. paper. while falzon interim ational reverses so we have broad net or broad net or call for. do all i think there is been somewhat of a. mixture of politics. that that some sense cause more challenges than what they should because most of these relationships are driven more by common interest and common knowledge transfer not by tight some type of espionage of some type of stealing of ideas the challenges the world faces are driven by global people working together collectively decide to

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welcome to the alex salmond show where we return to the subject which provided one of the crunch quotes of today's amazement or to government the plight of unaccompanied child to future he's seeking to join family members in this country in 2017 when the house of lords held an enormous we in the house of commons a spine we balanced the issue of unaccompanied child to fiji's was brought to the center of the bricks to beat large up some self brought to this country the charge refugees from nazi germany seized the opportunity to propose an amendment to the may withdrawal bill which the make government were then forced to accept as i arrived in this country in the summer of 939 as another company child refugee in fact this comes at the time i put safety to some 10000 children i decided to send the key winton who helped to organize kinda transports and checks the fact that i got here told that i almost certainly owe my life to him once in a while the major challenge is to test documented ted this is a new upset e.g.

cup crisis. it's surely one such challenge but within that there is i believe need to do something about unaccompanied child it would use in europe and other children to be able to safety in this country and be given the same welcome and opportunities that i had how things have changed when the house of lords similarly amended the johnson withdrawal bill the government use its newfound house of commons muscle last month so overturn it without any set of many tournaments this week or 2 more to moment for. the other place in the name of the noble lord lord dubs where the government humbly disagrees with the noble lord the moment this moment in no way affects our commitment to seek an agreement with the e.u. prime religious way should cannot deliver the best outcomes for these children as it cannot guarantee that we reach an agreement and that is why this is automatically a matter which must be negotiated with the e.u.

and the government is committed to doing so to seek in the best possible outcome those negotiations give way and of course however while they amend it was removed from the bill they issue itself has not gone away and today we speak to some of the committed campaigners with then i'd with a pilot who intend to bring it back to the political center stage i think the more of us the better and we will definitely i will get every celebrity a every face that i can and this campaign i will do anything to make it happen we need to make it work and i will refugee in the united kingdom can take the children with them but our child refugee can take that out of peter's siblings with them and i think has a great inequity because surely children who are refugees deserve the same rights as adults or refugees and i don't think it's been fully thought through the consequences of not doing that at all and spitters arguments were made up against it which are shown not to be too. with the parliament she prospects looking much

less hopeful for the child refugee campaigners thought so now turning tighter a new pressure from outside parliament one aspect is to focus on the contribution that the descendants of child effigies of the past have made to this country alex speaks to the start of a 1000 t.v. programs debbie arnold whose mother was brought to this country as a toddler on contract transport. there are not welcome back to the show this is lovely to see you alex i feel like i'm part of the furniture well the last time we spoke to you a bit of you brought forth. grabs of more than our television screens but we could spot your posting in the homeless but you've got a very particular interest in taking up the cudgels on behalf of child refugees cudgels you're taking up with the formidable lord dubs of yes love does well my mother was on the kids transport and so was elf dobbs and so i'm i'm trying my best to get the word out and make things now that of course the government has well what

if they don't need the lord said they were going to carry on this amendment and then the went into the commons and they said we were so well what happens now but the government's position which just have from stephen bach to the braces is that ok doesn't have to be in the legislation in order for it to be government policy to help a child left. if you could those above well i mean because beforehand what it was legislation it still wasn't done and so and then they had to go to court to say you know this is not being done so that it and then of course now it's not part of the legislation so i don't really kind of would understand what the government's talking about but there again i don't most of the time so what you're saying is that if the government didn't all its commitment that was the previous government yes exactly government when it was in the legislation how can you trust them what is not in that and what i just left behind wouldn't a government want to help believe that we're talking here about child refugees who don't have any immediate family with them in europe but have family in the u.k.

would a couple really want to not the facility a lot of these people obviously not and i and i don't understand how we my mother came over here on the kids' transport as well i mean they didn't have any relatives over here and they had to be sponsored to come here and that's what you know 10000 kids came over here and then even then the government didn't want to do it but it was. public opinion so now we need public opinion to change but how do we change that if public opinion was so strong i'm sure they'd listen to it but people don't understand the difference between immigrants and refugees and there is a massive difference but what are you saying that we're back because everybody in this country says oh yes look at the conduct transport program that's a sign of the open hearted you know ross city of of this country are you saying that wasn't an unambiguous poll was that it was because they didn't want it don't if there were you know they didn't want to do it but the but the public opinion swayed and they said they had to do after kristallnacht they said that's it we've

got to do something and they did but 1st. your mom she she was with a small child who she was on can you know she was you know came over here at 4 years old and she was put on the train and a lot of people don't know either that they were told that if they cried when they were with the parents took them to the station they were told that if they cried or showed any emotion they wanted to put the kids on the train so you can imagine it was like a silent thing and they were saying goodbye to the children and the children little children 4 years old how could they understand what was happening i mean it's is such a horrible thing but there again they came over to england they saved their lives and i wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for the can transform what i mean to your mom you don't one day when you were old enough to understand that this is how i know she didn't she you know was always part of my life always was what was part of anybody else's life i remember when i was little growing up and seeing you know films about schlitz and my mother used to run to the t.v. set and said oh perhaps i can see my mommy and daddy.