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through some of the headlines stories we've covered here over the past 7 days 1st an update on syria for you though with tensions running high in the water. the leaders of turkey russia france and germany will discuss ways to resolve the crisis next month that announcement comes amid an ongoing exchange of offensives between syrian government forces and turkish backed militants. groups recently flooded the region with troops and equipment in response to a syrian offensive in the last terrorist stronghold in the region the russian and turkish president spoke on the phone on friday in an attempt to uphold previously agreed deescalation deals. to reach a cease fire before the escalation turns more bloody. a flash point to the syrian conflict is also seeing lawmakers in the united states push for

a diplomatic response against syria and russia with an estimated 900000 people displaced by the violence at the same time though american military officials acknowledge the complexity of the situation in their lives admitting that the province has become a haven for extremist factions it seems to be a magnet for terrorist groups especially because it is an ungoverned space in many ways the reverence of groups there all of them are a nuisance a menace in a threat to hundreds of thousands of civilians who are just trying to make it through the winter you go to one of takes a closer look at how this latest chapter of the conflict in a little bit is drawing in competing international powers. it's coming to shove in syria turkey and the us russia israel and multiple militant factions all skirmishing in the country and previous motives for warring are fading into oblivion. it's time for assad to get out of the way.

we have won a good study says we've beaten them and we beat them badly all that is a thing of the past now as new goals vividly take shape the latest fighting in ad lib is a mere accessory to the geo political connotation is global and regional superpowers sparring with each other for dominance ideological and moral borders are blurred with turkey a nato country teaming up with terrorists to push syrians out of their own

province. the operation is imminent in particular we will not leave it to the regime which is not yet understood our country's determination on this issue and those who are encouraging it for a few minutes and making it live a safe place for both and the people of the region at all costs as militants shamelessly boasting turkey provided a.p.c.'s coming on mosques covered by turkish artillery fire russia's air force joins the party together with syrians repairing the onslaught as. moscow officially asks ankara to hold its fire and so it does to prevent militants from moving deeper into syria into su $22.00 of the russian force at the request of the syrian command have carried out as strikes against the terror groups this allowed the syrian troops to successful the ripple all attacks but turkey is not alone in this fight while jihadi groups are doing the

bloody bidding on the ground washington cheers from over the atlantic that a very good job or say shit with president her was the fact is that he's fighting on it led he doesn't want people to be killed by the thousands and hundreds of thousands the united states will continue to coordinate with turkey on diplomatic approach is to restore a cease fire to the it lip deescalation zone in a cheap a pullback of assad regime forces to the $2800.00 so she ceasefire lines the us has its own stake in the syria war and it hasn't signed on very particular and well predictable prizes from geo political dominance to well oiled we did leave so just because we're keeping the oil we may have to fight for the oil that's ok i like the oil yet a nother act in this conflict israeli jets routinely hit targets on syrian soil

it's clear what israel wants to to weaken iran's influence yet another power playing its hand and this massive and messy political gamble unfortunately for the people of syria since 2011 their country has been used as a chessboard on which the syrians appear as pawns and it's somebody else's geo strategic chess board in particular the united states and its allies basically tore syria apart partly designed to topple the. secular but legitimate government in syria the sovereign government the government recognized by the united nations partly to topple that government and partly to claim different parts of syria for themselves syria has an important place in geo strategic we in geographically in the resource rich region of the middle east it also has. so yes what we've seen the

tragedy of syria the tragedy of the so-called civil war it's actually a proxy war by international players using the syrian country the syrian battlefield as a proxy battlefield. who was granted asylum in france is now under investigation because they were demanding that the type of lenski be sent back to russia after he found himself at the center of a political scandal but then he was arrested for posting footage that brought down president mccraw prefer the pick to be the next mayor of paris for my show to do now reports. your dad pub lenski is a political refugee here in france but it seems even he is too hot to handle with these latest allegations even members of my own party and are calling for him to be sent back to russia if you get this guy out he's a political refugee he behaves like the 1st thing to do would be to put him on a plane streets of russia and he will see with mr putin if you can do this kind of

crap this comes after the latest scandal involving pawlenty skee this follows the dissemination of videos and photos on the internet last week of benjamin a key ally of the president back on his former spokesperson now linsky and his partner were taken by the police and they were questioned in regards to those videos questioned into invasion of privacy and broadcasting videos of a sexual nature without the permission of the person who is in those videos the interior minister here in france has said he should face the full weight of the law if he did you feel casting certain videos without the consent of the author or subject to criminal sanctions in our country resulting in a substantial fine and 2 years imprisonment and these offenses must obviously be prosecuted it is a matter of respect for democratic rules and this is not the 1st time that pawlenty ski has been headline news here in france he was recently accused of brandishing

a weapon a knife or to a new year's eve party and of injuring 2 of the party goers at that event further back he was also found guilty of setting light to the doors of the bank of france in the basti area in fact he is currently serving a suspended sentence for that criminal act in france and that comes after a series of stunts that he pulled in russia of a similar. nature. russia

it's sometimes difficult to be and. yes especially for one makes a political declaration out of his art that's the case of so that probably in fact we already know and he's just you know arrested for setting the door of the former k.g.b. building on fire. so it's not clear where the pov linsky will be sent back to russia chucked out of france or whether he will face the music here on those possible criminal charges what we do know is that his political asylum here has become an embarrassment to the french authorities and the radical artist and activist told the sputnik france news agency that his case shines a light on freedom of expression in the country. it is a really monstrous situation because i thought that france was a country that upholds freedom of expression its not freedom of expression you

cannot say or do anything against big life and he received. tens of thousands have been taking a stand against racism in germany throughout the week following wednesday's terror attack in hand now in which 9 were killed from the town where the tragedy happened to hamburg in the north over 600 kilometers away people could be seen carrying banners against racism and extremism the attack on 2 she has been described by police as racially motivated.

in the wake of the shootings the establishment in berlin was quick to point the finger at anti migrant rivals it's all the alternative for germany party in particular accused of having extremist tendencies the day they rejected the claims and said the shooter was mentally ill however that didn't stop the ruling christian democratic union from calling to cut all ties with their rival. the 1000000 theater i insured if you look at their texas profile it seems like he had racist xenophobia as well as far right motives and this trenton's mean my believe therefore the c.d.u. should always be clear not only for the c.d.u. but for all parties in germany that they can be no corporation with a party which tolerates far right extremists and let's call a spade a spade not since i'm on its ranks so we are resolved to have no cooperation with the f.d.a. in any shape or form it's important to keep the spine was the tentative for germany

it's more or less the parliamentary wing of a right wing movement and if the right wing terrorists if they want or not they are the ones who give the key. to terrorists and every collaboration by other parties with the what. but give this party more credibility in the eyes of the followers so we have a level in the public debate that is more of a charmed rational political debate and when i hear yesterday night about that shooting i instinctively knew that our opponents would blame us for being responsible for it it is completely ridiculous and i can only ask everyone to read that money festa of this crazy terrorist and then compare it to what we're doing and then it's all views that it's nonsense it's just fake news and of course we fight against it fake news. that your health is being raised over what's become one

of the west's because dumping grounds for electronic waste the african country of ghana everything from all mobile phones to computers are sent for incineration that releasing highly toxic chemicals which are known to cause deadly diseases including cancer. done if i would. do anything. noble from these live such as you said today to be so i've come from the margins before the card see it was 17 was put through the small one in my head my head. that he did end up in deep they've.

just been running from the european union. for that of a leader a. few 100 of them. for like 20 quid. combi trying generation no transfer i can say to my child and my boss it. i read it 3 did before you my pledge will be proven standard these are in the cards

and making our proud the cream of the city you know not for. we have contacted gun as a bar in the ministry as well as the president's office for the comment we'll let you know when they reply. by this. big deal except the reject. so when you want to present. it to going to be close that's what before 3 of the more people get. interested

in the water. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. period dramatic. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. i get more of the week's headline news on to ukraine where the president reacted with anger to the fall from friendly welcome received on thursday by returning

evacuees from china riots broke out over fears the quarantine passengers might spread the deadly coronavirus protests to set up roadblocks clashed with police and pelted the vehicle carrying the patients to a hospital but it means alinsky said his nation of fallen back into the middle ages the clashes left 9 police officers and one civilian injured. you know we always say that ukraine is europe to be honest at some moments we look like medieval europe unfortunately let's not forget that we are all human beings. and the flight from the chinese city of how and where tens of thousands of people have been infected landed in the ukrainian city of arc of on thursday and before that roadblocks were set up another britons of the country following rumors that more quarantine facilities were being set up on the courthouse the story. say some new people moved into the neighborhood they came from the epicenter of the deadly

coronavirus pandemic perhaps you'd be worried or angry but it be hard to match the anger brewing in ukraine to just that situation. oh. for the past several days ukraine has seen violent clashes across the country scores of policemen have been injured by locals throwing bricks riot police have been called in to disperse angry mobs and it's all because the ukrainian authorities tried to do a good deed for the international community they accepted with open arms a number of their countrymen and foreigners trying to flee by plane assuring the public the passengers were 100 percent coronavirus clean an important detail when

ukraine itself has yet to see a case of the disease a quarantine zone was even set up at a health center in poltava just to be sure but the protesters did all they could to stop that plane from landing and when that failed they started blocking roads until riot police removed them by force. you. know. the buses made it to their destination in the end but there unwelcome reception wasn't exactly what kiev expected but the losers of their own think this is one of the greatest disappointments in my you know i'm disappointed in the moral conduct of this this is a disgrace for the whole world you see i'm truly ashamed. ukraine's protesters

don't seem to be up for a game of russian roulette with the coronavirus. us democrats have speaker has been turning the screws on brussels warning europe to ditch while by technologies nancy pelosi insists the chinese telecoms giant is a major security threats and should be barred from developing 5 g. networks in the u. which could be then used for spying but you fail to mention what makes america's own far reaching global surveillance network a better alternative it's kind of open explains now that the impeachment debacle is all wrapped up guess who's going to europe in order to promote one of the trumpet ministrations key policies it's the speech ripper herself nancy pelosi the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives is urging european countries to drop plans to use while away as their 5 g. carrier 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 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 that are overseeing surveillance in the united states for snowden he did meet with you he did violate the law in terms. of those documents we don't know. any and 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. well

we will be able to continue in. good. we will since such numbers destruction in texas are. 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. 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 the u.s. given the alignment of interests from over the u.s. probably you know well the u.s. as far as i'm concerned. 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 nobody thing that we know we are doing ourselves. are to see new york. or between the u.k. and greece over classical sculptures to see nothing's fail for decades to secure the return of relics it says was stolen however it could be about to change all that with the e.u. reportedly backing greece's claim to the so called elegant marbles brussels could push britain to return them the collection was originally part of the parthenon in the greek capital but they're currently on display in the british museum in london and greece claims they were stolen by lord alkan in the 19th century while the u.k. insists it acquired them legally and it isn't budging. the case position on the parthenon sculptures remains unchanged they are the legal responsibility of the british museum that is not up for discussion as part of our trade negotiations cultural historian wendy earle and

a political and social commentator mo and sa discussed the links between democracy and the importance of history. you can't go around the world nicking stuff and then just saying we're going to keep hold of it because it's really valuable and we want people to come and see it it just is awash now adays in a i hate you saying it but in a relatively woken like in society people are asking for their stuff back and it's very hard to construct a case when we go around the world stealing stuff and don't get back i think history itself is a very complicated place to go histories are complex we do very well in britain threat education system and so our western media missed telling and misstating it we we don't half pick and choose what and how we tell history i mean we can say that the item and this is the worst of it and stewardship of the time to me we should be trying to we should be trying to have a discussion about this rather than you trying to interrupt me and the point i know it's a case not only do i know he believes there is a history what we can do with these mothers now is continue to learn about history continue to understand their histories and continues develop our knowledge by

returning them back willy nilly to places that demand them we're not caring for the objects themselves we're not looking at these as. pieces of our heritage of global heritage every single argument you make for keeping them away can be used for returning them i'm sure the greek people you know the home of democracy some great thinkers you might consider will be able to figure out how to display this to the public we shouldn't be just using them as as kind of political footballs all taking the moral taking taking the moral high ground taking the moral high ground we live in a world that is constantly changing and we need to i think recognise that you know that these are bigger than them over this moment in history my concern is that by not coming under the auspices of the european court of justice we're not going to be held accountable how on earth is the british government ever going to be held accountable for the sins that it commits as

a state at home and overseas if we don't have a higher court to answer. so i think britain is is perfectly poised to be able to do exactly what it wants and i think in terms of brecht's it that discussion about it is a discussion about democracy it's about sovereignty there's no point in kind of really hashing old historical arguments when we are when i think we're in a completely new place where people in britain are thinking about how do we have a future where we're free of a bureaucracy outside of britain that we're not that is not accountable to us and how can we can tie on a far lighter and run a losing argument. well ok that's your opinion though. a concentrated look like climate change activists gratitude has been slammed online but the swiss makers have defended it as nothing more than dressing a programmable.

declare war on environmental scientists and show the world this is on the brink. do you want to appears grad at the carnival for anything done still how dare you remakes all the natives are not quite climate neutral ground to break with braids. more and more companies are trying to capitalize on grettir tundra and it is tasteless because we actually have to deal with the climate crisis. that carnival fans can enjoy themselves at the expense of an autistic person many people perceive gresson not as a person it is a figurehead as a result the market believes the search wrong doing is the gist of us but it definitely is. with you i think people are overreacting the carnival always has elements imitation satire

the carnival i think you should keep your sense of humor. for more stories on programs for now though that's it from this edition of the way thanks for watching. in the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of northern ireland that was coordinated loyalists attacks particularly catholic population tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes and what was striking to put these attacks was a p.r. you see the police actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing them they were active participants in the burning of full streets in belfast at that craig more than

a 100 innocent civilians were murdered as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and its occurrence which the inclusion was involved in some of those cases that killers would later be named goodwin and getting i think it went to the very very top i think it the focus for all the water where all the taste since you thought was going on and gave the go ahead.