breaking news this hour turkey is said to be carrying out and strikes against syrian targets in its live province and the turkish president $31.00 holds an emergency meeting after $29.00 turkish troops are reportedly killed in northwest syria. a.b.c. news the founder of one of its veteran reporters after he appeared on a secretly recorded video slamming his network and outing himself as a socialist. rival to bernie sanders in the race for the democratic us presidential nomination result into the 2016 playbook just think he's backed by russia.

one welcome to you you're watching r t international with me. and i bringing you breaking news on r.t. international this hour turkey is that to be carrying out an ass strike on the syrian army in northeast syria now it follows the death of $29.00 turkish soldiers in italy a province us according to turkish officials now we have a ghost on in the studio with us to bring us more details on this agle what do we know so far so far. it has been very volatile couple weeks when it comes to the syrian province of idlib and this is the latest this collation that we have seen in the province. just a disclaimer all the information that we have it comes from the turkish side so the syrian side hasn't said anything yet so far we're still hearing from the damascus and the response from damascus but basically the turkish side is saying that 29 turkish soldiers have been killed by syrian troops. the syrian problems of it lip

and so they have they have no retaliatory strikes at the syrian troops in the syrian province now this is the latest escalation again we still we are yet to hear from this syrian troops from the syrian side but i have to say that it has been going on for quite a long time because the turkish troops they have established their presence in the turkish province in the syrian province of idlib and they have been supporting the quite some radical of the russian side has said that they have been supporting terrorists and in fact when it comes to the. the advance of the rebels the advance of the turkish supported troops now here's a statement by the turkish by the by the turkish military by the turkish side something that we have previously literally hours before this incident has happened just now i have

a listen. time is running out the murderous regime has attacked civilians and our soldiers on the ground we have end will continue to respond if these attacks continue we are moving forward with our plans to stop the regime from killing and displacing more people. well it's an interesting situation because it really plays into what he has been saying all along essentially the turkish president earlier one he has been giving ultimatums are ultimatums to the turkish troops to leave to leave the province of idlib which is a syrian province and they have been really they have been behaving like their hosts like their own this part of the syrian of the syrian territory so they have been giving this ultimatums these deadlines and saying that look this is the syrian army has to go and this really plays in hand with what they have been

saying so this latest escalation. is just a continuation of what has been going on in that part of the syrian province and it is really concerning because the syrian forces they have been supported by the russian forces by the russians by the russian air force and so one so when you have 3 nations one of which is a nato ally and turkey has already said that it is considering the the syrian forces the syrian troops as a as an enemy and that they will be they will be conducting consultations with their nato allies when you have a nato country and russia and syria 2 other completely independent and sovereign nations and when they position themselves as adverse reason this is very concerning so the this latest escalation is nothing but bad news ahead of the 5 of march talks

between russia and turkey thanks for coming and of course the concern now is how far could this escalation go let's find out from i guess we can discuss this with independent political analysts alessandra bruno now thank you for joining us on the program now as i was saying you know how the flock of this escalation between take in syria really go. direct confrontation between russia and turkey which is one of the biggest fears because russia and turkey in the middle of all this mess in syria are still talking about a joint pipeline. a gas pipeline and turkey has purchased as $400.00 missiles and despite major pressure to cancel that purchase. no sign of doing so. for the

the attack against the turkish troops was combated by the syrian air force so even if backed by russia over. turkey and russia still have some room for discussion the question is will be as i've heard in the studio. brun and president putin meet on the 5th of march. perhaps. one of the things that one might cancel this meeting but that will lead one do now. will be reaction be further bombing of the syrian positions and perhaps even beyond the region. and beyond seems determined to hold this region for themselves the excuse is this security. and the and perhaps pressure in a sense has few little room for maneuver because of the other agreements.

however i think this one strategy here goes beyond syria it's a mediterranean or we might even call it or the near ottoman strategy to say i think has something to do with with the pressure he's putting in libya. and he. backing these iraqi government muslim brotherhood. similar. to. some international islamist coalition called. plan will try to secure. russian or even european. guarantees that they will not back have to give in the end ask lation that was in the past few hours sorry to interrupt the woman except back to the next step for the syrian president's us side to be. well i think the.

president is doing what any normal president would be doing in his situation was just try to take back territory now we're going back 100 years this area of course was part of the ottoman empire and the borders were drawn arbitrarily by britain and france on the side speaker agreement and as i've suggested many times. the end result was the biggest the big issue was the syrian civil war which let's call it a civil it's not really a civil war is the root drawing out of the drafting of the psych speaker agreement . drawn is determined. to. gradually take back once. they're out of control including this adventure in libya so i don't think i think. it's really certainly does not have

the firepower to come back against turkey but it's going to be attrition until someone gets. some very. i'm not sure a strategic. strategic met which is. in this case turkey and. i think power throughout the may to rain and more interests recognized at the border not in land according to reports turkey held a phone call with nato secretary general earlier at the predictable kind of reaction we're going to see from nato countries. well the reaction from nato rule is predictable already a few. days ago. in another strike the maser expressed. and the united states expressed sort of a barrier to turkey as a fellow. member so. the support turkey

when it comes to it live and syria. and of course let's not forget that. turkey has an incredible weapon there its control which is the migrant it can simply release 3500000 refugees and let them go to europe and now with its control. over its influence in western libya. through the. control of 2 sides not just the balcon route but the mediterranean. in the sense. to support turkey when it comes to italy had turkey and has claimed the syrian authorities are committing crimes against humanity what you think is going on. well this is red turkey has claimed since the

very beginning there were in syria. since 2011 in fact one was the 1st to send troops to intervene and to allow fighters to come through his burgers to. have turkey serve as a funnel and for weapons which came from libya and then went to syria to the rebels so. it's very coherent it's being run of the main. in the it's not the primary disturber in syria since since the start. even though the mystery is drawn and assad had pretty good relations until march of 2011 so then of course problems with. the euphrates and the tigris the. contrary of the river and the water supply. syria. in the north. which are pretty rich and.

the serves as a further magnet for intervention and then there's the kurdish issue and then there are internal issues we have to see really going further what is driving and the one personally to. these. games that he's playing. because the turkish economy is suffering but in the last couple of months it's improved so it's a very complex situation that really. stepping up to run the man and seeing what is pushing what is driving him right now i think our bring our independent political analyst thank you feel time. thank you. i'm eating to other stories now investigative lead project right after us gained a reputation for landing mainstream media in hot water and this time its a.b.c. news one of its veteran reporters has been secretly recorded slamming his both is

on the world of t.v. news in general. i always thought it was it was going to be like that's. right maybe it's. wrong. a.b.c. news was quick to respond to the networks that any action that damages its reputation for impartiality holmes not just a b c news but also the individuals involved the network has suspended the correspondent for an unknown period of time and said he'll be kept away from political coverage upon his return however the project very fast believes the real reason for the punishment was the fact the reporter lifted the veil on his own political views do you think that substance was great. because it might make a difference it was not there to really believe. that this is wrong that's a bummer it just shows how like you know. the media is added to toward

socialism is just a complete attack towards a very evil they don't want anything to do with it he just meant health care are bringing in corporations so he didn't he's not an actual you know he's not a marxist you know like me you believe he was just saying we need some reforms and that that apparently is too radical or at least the label socialist but i mean you know the liberal label i think is the problem what they're really afraid of because they know how popular it's getting. while a.b.c. news is going through some tough times one of its rivals fox news is celebrating the highest viewership in a sense higher history and it's also partially thanks to president trump's state of the union address and fox easily wins the gold for highest primetime ratings with 3 and a half 1000000 viewers tuning tuning in and as the b.c. sits in 2nd place with 1780000 while c.n.n. completes the pack with a little over a 1000000 viewers so why are we giving you all these numbers well because if we

compare the figures to february last year it appears c.n.n. has lost a view with to the tune of 3 percent and imus in b.c. is down 9 percent joe gal again believes the loss of support has a lot to do with the networks on sundays bias which is not sat well with socialists in the country. the republicans they already saw i miss n.b.c. c.n.n. i miss you and d.c. as the liberal media didn't even know that's all of us liberal technically. but then you have when they start attacking the leftist candidate bernie the only leftist candidate who's running was most popular one in the whole left the people the press observed beginning to lose faith in the media as well so the only people who are really for m.s.n. b.c. are like the upper class a bush was the are the people are the urban elite since they call them the most upper middle class. types in the cities because you know i don't hear anyone in everyday life saying anything good about imus n.b.c. or and b.b.c.

or c.n.n. the main network that's been the nicest to have sanders is fox and that's probably because fox thinks that bernie is the easiest to beat which is ironic because it's the complete opposite he's the one probably be trump and you saw chris matthews apologizing for calling her attributing bernie's victory in nevada to the nazi victory over france $940.00 you're seeing some of them taking some steps back and doing that because they're just losing popularity drastically. well next week is super tuesday that's when us democrats in 14 states chose their preferred candidate for president but with the latest poll showing bernie sanders leading in 9 of those states his rivals are crying foul their lead to 6 that is all part of a clear that kremlin strategy then of course i looked at whether the russians had been rumbled. good news comrades our agent bernie sanders is doing better than we expected in the primaries are planned to have 2 agents fight over the presidency

operation hammer and sickle is a go but we have one problem some in the democratic party establishment are becoming savvy to our strategy vladimir putin thinks donald trump should be president of the united states and that's why russia is helping bernie sanders get elected so he'll lose to trump it doesn't help that just last week western media published information about our top secret operation exposing the connection between agents trump and sanders with our center in moscow as you learned tonight and today yesterday the day before is going to have we're going to war help coming from learn to be prudent. for health provider to do want somebody who didn't think could be from at least agent trump was able to follow orders i admit nothing deny everything and make counter accusations it was highly exaggerated. and frankly

i think it's disgraceful and i think it was a leak from the intelligence committee our house version and i think that they leaked it i think probably shipley good agent sanders on the other hand really dropped the ball he panicked and that is the ugliest thing they're doing is they are trying to cause chaos the trying to cause a truth in america it's an ugly business and all of us have got to say sorry you're not going to do this in the selection and again is present in the united states. you will not interfere in our elections the order was to deny sanders deny but he broke under pressure blowing the cover of our moscow back to bernie bros i design these people they are not part of our movement all of us remember 2016 and what we meant what we remember is efforts by russians and others to try to interfere in our election and divide us up. i'm not saying that's happening but it would not shock me the center has good reason to believe agent sanders has been compromised we're

losing control over his actions and he's praising our strategic allies too openly you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had a massive literacy program it's not a bad thing it's only a matter of time before they discover the interview agent sanders gave to prov i mean r t what effect do you think you can have on your voters it was so close here in iowa well i just hope that people take a hard look at the real issues impacting their lives to make matters worse we may have a mole in our midst how else could the footage have been leaked remember when the comrades recruited sanders at the new year's party of 1980 bernie spent his honeymoon and then in soviet russia i mean i think you're going to go back and forth about who's more in the tank with russia it's a really hard one between barney and rob we have made too many tactical blunders as it is and western pundits are already undergoing a campaign to discredit our agent obviously we know the russians are continuing to try to choose our next president like they chose our last president the russians

don't want me to be the nominee who spent a lot of money on bots on facebook and they've been taken down say biden is a bad guy that no one biden rule in politics pick your opponent and putin and trump are picking their opponent the happiest person right now it's about one in 15 walk out on this thing is going very well for blood we have to promise you. probably stay up watching us right now are you doing our rivals already know too much comrade commissar i think it's time to extract our agents. seventies topcoat would have lifted a ban on commercial euthanasia services but critics now fear the right to die will be exploited for profits all of it takes a closer look at the ruling and the reaction is trickett. almost 5 years after it was banned the highest court in germany has ruled that blocking assisted suicide is unconstitutional and making its ruling on wednesday the constitutional court in

college shura said everyone has a right to live and a right to die article 217 of the german criminal code outlawed euthanasia as well as the advertising of the services what this ruling from the constitutional court means is that that's being overturned and not only could companies offer euthanasia but that advertising for the day could also stop being seeing the thinking behind wednesday's court ruling is that this will allow those in extreme paying and suffering from terminal illnesses to end their lives on their terms however senior voices within palliative care are warning that this could perhaps only to the normalization and indeed the commodification of suicide in society now the facilitation of suicide for the sick and tired of life is turning into a normal service anyone who allows you to nature will sooner or later make it compulsory to die especially in the societies economized design has knowledge of

experience across all other countries shows that supply creates demand immediately following the ruling politicians are asking what situations this will be allowed in also what the commercial implications will be for companies wanting to get involved in the euthanasia business i want clear rules about when medical assistance in particular is allowed and when commercial offerings are excluded i asked people here in berlin what their thoughts are on the ruling the way that this is right for germany it's not a commercial thing dying it it's something that needs care security it needs. yes professionalism i think there are certain things that you cannot put to sale to people like it's not a business you. before this i don't want to commit suicide but i'm suffering i want to end my life you cannot do that to pay for it seems to me there was very bad incentives there if for example that advertising was actually targets people who already have a hard time it could lead to people considering suicide more strongly i don't

disagree with the physician assisted suicide just because like there are certain aspects that are beneficial for it but in terms of the advertising i could go either way like a really it depends on who is in control of that promoting this kind of finger for me is that a progress currently within a year of belgium the netherlands looks a book and switzerland all allow assisted dying but with germany said to joy in the . that what is one of the most sensitive of subjects could be set to become a business opportunity piece for all of the. now it is of course a story that's generated a lot of opinion so we put the issue up for debate. we would be extremely worried about any commercialization or run of the process or into a promotion that would lead to many fine reports people feeling that their lives were not worth living and actually ending them prematurely you're posing. as

a business issue or a business model but you don't as he is only on the request of the person i was going to die and they've dispersed and he's not asking for it there should be any euthanasia but we're talking about a very different thing here court decision was about commercial assisted suicide this isn't a louse commercial provide us to provide suicide assistance like make gods of suicides is sort of the objects to do talking about mcdonalds giving suicide to assistance some people do not want to wait with their dying till they're finally suffering too much and they want to keep the addicted t. by deceit ruling from the constitutional court it is possible for pet persons to ask a professional to give a proper medically assisted suicide and i think death is a great gain. but it is perfectly normal for people who have

a terminal diagnosis to feel suicidal but we should be doing is trying to find ways to assist those people in getting through that period and actually living their lives rather than promoting assisted suicide and. you talk about suicide in the media then many people that would not otherwise commit suicide do in fact commit suicide and this is why every report in the media of suicide always shows people where they can go where they can find help and the media try to minimize reports of suicide and so if we see commercial advertising we will see many people seeing that as an easy way out. thanks for joining us here on c.n.n. international we're back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines.

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