breaking news on r.t. international turkey is said to be carrying out acts strikes against syrian targets in a live performance of the turkish president holds an emergency meeting after 33 turkish troops have reportedly killed in northwest syria. now the news a.b.c. news suspends one of its veteran reporters nonstop to hear it he appears in a secretly recorded video slamming his network and outing himself of a socialist. rival to bernie sanders in the race for the democratic us presidential nomination result to the 2016 playbook suggesting he's backed by russia.

and will welcome to you know watching r.t. international with me because aaron now breaking news this hour on our tail turkey is said to be carrying out an asse strike on the syrian army in northeast syria as follows the death of 33 turkish soldiers and if they are province according to turkish officials and joining the studio by our correspondent. what do we know so far well the situation in the northeastern syrian province over the but has been. has been very very heated i have to say and lately turkey has been saying that more than 30 of its troops have been killed and the. they say that the far as originated from the syrian army now again just a disclaimer all that we know so far comes from the turkish side the syrian army is yet to comment but is adamant i mean the old no punches. they are saying of that

it's the syrians who have killed the troops and they're saying that essentially now they are designating all syrian soldiers as enemies. time is running out the murderous regime has attacked civilians and our soldiers on the ground we have and 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 now on top of that turkey is turkey's looking for support from its allies turkey is looking for support from the from nato they're saying that on friday they will be engaging in consultations with the bloc but now it has to be said that turkey has established somewhat of a presence in ne ne in syria and especially in it live they have been supporting various groups which are largely seen as terrorists now for instance russia has

been accusing turkey of supporting terrorist groups and terrorist groups in their advance the syrian army positions in libya so this is what turkey has been doing so far and they have been giving deadlines to the syrian army as well saying that they should leave the province that they essentially should get out of syria that the syrians should get out of syria or at least out of that particular province so it really shows how comfortable the they feel in that particular part of that country you know so really but turkey has been engaged in dialogue and in and in talks with russia a big round of talks it should yield for the 5th of march and so we really have to look forward to that date and to see whether or not anything will come out of those particular round of conversations because. russia has been saying that turkey has

essentially failed one of the key promises turkey being a guarantor one of the grand tours of the peace process and. russia has been saying that essentially turkey was was tasked with creating a clear distinction between radical groups who just want to fight and more moderate ones who are ready to engage in dialogue with the syrian with damascus and so russia has been saying that turkey has failed to do so and essentially the talks the the new round of talks is said to come on the 5th of march that round of talks is said to is said to make it clear whether or not the countries russia and turkey are ready to move forward when it comes to sitting behind a negotiating table right well a lot of back story that looking ahead to the future let's bring in

a guest now igor thanks for coming and let's turn to max abrams that the quincy is from the quincy is the cheat for responsible state craft thank you for joining us on the program that max that how far do you think this escalation between turkey and syria could go well in terms of the really bad things. in other. conflicts do you haven't been directly by the against each other fighting through proxy but now we're seeing more and more especially over the compass a few weeks or so and especially today direct armed conflict between syria and turkey the numbers keep changing in terms of how many turks were killed but it's about i would say 35 is about the number that most media are

reporting and this is not in any way deep end of the conflict if you listen to or heard of one it's very clear that turkey is going to remain very much committed to taking over implement and so for the past several weeks the turks have been increasingly sending in weapons heavy weaponry to the to the so-called rebels and now as we speak the turkish military is actively engaging the ringback syrian is there room for me. and so even though this conflict has been very bloody for for many years now home in a way it's actually more dangerous because we're seeing street on skeet violence and the numbers are frankly on precedent and today more turks were killed then any other day throughout this entire conflict and we haven't actually the fairy

unsigned you had one can expect that they expect the next step to being for the syrian president. well i don't really see any offering up in terms of this conflict just as the army is committed to taking over it with a solid of course our regards rightfully powerhouse part of syria and so not only does he want to take over italy because it's part of his own country but it's the last remaining how composed well of rebel opposition and although this isn't widely reported in the western media the reality is is that historically. in our kind of century so our kind of has been to saudi changed with me nor richer we've lived itself you see one more breath but these guys formerly identified as. including the leadership are what we now call

each ts and so both trends ok so if this country can teaching out terrorists one fuel assad is very much committed to taking over 1st of a further more film what we're talking about this earlier this very important geographically in terms of linking up the mask is with the left with you look on the map it's along the north south highway and that's essentially what they've been fighting for and so i do not see an off ramp and i'd expect to see continued military conflict between these 2 countries. and the u.s. state department has made a statement in support of attack a nascar but obviously before damascus is even given its side of the story why is washington so quick to side with its reaction. well of course turkey is a nato ally and so i'm not at all surprised that the u.s. would say that it sides with turkey this has been the official rhetorical position

and we've seen it more lever and louder over the past several weeks that said i mean the real question will be you know what will be the nature of u.s. involvement if if russia were to. be more implicated in this it appears as if this attack was syrian but if it were russian against the turks what would nato do and do you know what would the united states to militarily when they try to invoke article 5 so those kinds of measures are much more substantial can be caterers of protrude fish so poor 3 ali is that turkey in the u.s. are kind of at the new dear in terms of the relationship the u.s. has not been happy with turkey in syria partly because the turks unable to celtic to rise by allowing foreign fighters to get into the country and furthermore turkey

has been flirting with russia in terms of the yes i aircraft of technology not really makes a lot of people in washington d.c. bristle and so so far i think the u.s. were to oracle support has been quite a bit and it hasn't been backed by any promises of military assistance so what is the slave role if the negotiations out of the peace agreements that were only away said that they all live 6 in out of. the peace agreement the discussion the insert you are. basically on the top student do what they said that they were going to do as your were just mentioned our turkey was supposed to separate or the so-called terrorists from the more moderate rubble. that was supposed to open up the highway also did not do.

so so you know the tops haven't gone very far and that's precisely why we're seeing so much connecticut. next abrams when the currency has to change for responsible stay craft thank you for your time. and moving to other news now investigative outlet project veritas has 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 bosses on the world of t.v. news in general. well these are all right is it going to be like that's. right. yeah it's probably recognized. the game a.b.c. news was quick to respond the network said any action that damages its reputation for impartiality harms 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 project very task believes the real reason for the punishment was the fact the reporter lifted the veil on his own political views. so it seems. like it was it might make a difference it was not there to really believe. there is someone that's a problem it just shows how like you know. the media's attitude toward socialism is just complete attack towards available they don't want anything to do it she just meant health care in corporations so he didn't he's not an actual you know he's 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 our arguments getting. why

b c news is going through some tough times one of its rival spokes news is celebrating the highest severe ship in its entire history and us also partially thanks to president trump state of the union address and focus easily wins the gold for highest primetime ratings with 3 and a half 1000000 viewers tuning in and this n.b.c. sits in 2nd with 1780000 while c.n.n. completes the pack with a low over a 1000000 viewers so why are we giving you all these numbers well if we compare the figures to february last year it appears c.n.n. has a loss of you as to the tune of 3 percent and m.s.n. b.c. is down 9 percent joe gail again believes the loss of support has a lot to do with the networks is sounders bias which is not such well with socialists in the country. the republicans they already saw i miss n.b.c. c.n.n. i miss you and b.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 i was most popular one then the whole left the people the press observed beginning to lose faith and 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 here the people are the urban elites as they call them the most the 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. c. or c.n.n. the main network that's been the nicest to have sanders is fox now 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 bernie 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. when x.

week is super tuesday when u.s. democrats in 14 states choose their preferred candidate for president but with the latest polls showing bernie sanders leading in 9 of those states his rivals are crying foul their lead to success is all part of a cloud that kremlin strategy that of course he looks at whether the russians has been leveled. 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 move through. your health provider to do want somebody who didn't think can be from at least age and 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 is out of bed think it's only a matter of time before they discover the interview agents sanders gave to profit 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 1908 bernie spent his honeymoon in there 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 the no one biden rodent 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 moscow time this thing is going very well for blatter we have to promise you. probably stay up watching us right now how you doing we'll have our rivals already know too much comrade commissar i think it's time to extract our agents. the

british government says it's not in the public interest to release research on gangs that groom victims for sex we have details on that story and more after this short break.

that's also very important. to those who can sense. the nature. in the. churches today decided to show. some friendships i hope that. in the book. welcome back now germany's top court has lifted a ban on commercial euthanasia services but critics now for the right to die will be exploited for profit pays all of it takes a closer look at the ruling and the reaction is treated. 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 society is economize designers 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 aware that this is right for germany it's not a commercial thing dying it it's something that needs care security it needs. yet professionalism i think there are certain things that you cannot put to sale to people like it's not a busy. before i die yes i don't want to commit suicide but i'm suffering i want to in my life you cannot do that to be free to say there was very bad incentives there

if for example as advertising as are targets people who are already having a hard time it could lead to people considering suicide more strongly i don't disagree with their 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 it really it depends on who is in control of the promoting this going to fix for me the progress currently within europe belgium the netherlands looks of book and switzerland all allow assisted dying but with germany said to joy in the concerns are about what is one of the most sensitive of subjects could be set to become a business opportunity teacher all over see. how the u.k. government is withholding were 30 gangs that grew victims for sex it was commissioned after a spate of child exploitation scandals here's how the home office explained this

decision not to release the findings we recognise that this topic in general and any insight and learning matters of strong public interest although it does not necessarily follow that it is in the public interest to disclose any specific information relating to it for 5 years of abuse at the hands of british grooming gangs have accused officials of inaction and empty promises we spoke to one of them . i that my me church when i was 1st he was 24 years old and he was known to. be a very dangerous person. mentally physically and sexually and also into committing crimes as well and that's another part that's lightish that many sell and be subject to so i went to the police when i was 16 and it happened unfortunately but again i went to the police when i think about 27 years old and i didn't feel to parse it again so i contacted a journalist from

a newspaper and i told him everything that happened and i gave the last edition and you know this is a very dense to prove what happened and he published my story in august 2013 and it was actually because of that where the criminal investigation into that starts. and some 19000 suspected victims of child sexual exploitation were reportedly identified by local authorities in 2018 to 2019 that's a huge increase on 5 years earlier the u.k. government has vowed to take action to prevent such crimes from happening and investigation into the problem of grooming gangs was announced by sajid javid when he was british home secretary and 2018 now he pledged he would not let cultural or political sensitivities get in the way of victims of a decision not to publish the probe's findings leaves them with many aren't an answer to questions. i think it's a disgusting decision and it is definitely in the public's interest you have

thousands of children that are being abused exploited i'm going to cry these are sexual acts and we want to know why this is what happened why it's still happening a why these people are being allowed to get away with it there's clearly something in that report that the government don't want us to know about because if they didn't want us there was no we should they just release so the fact that they're making excuses and things like weak excuses well to say it's not a dowry chest so the fact that now a good many say well actually we're not even good at least the standings. you know i think it's a real blow to his victims we requested comments from the u.k. home office and have yet to receive a reply we also got reaction from child protection activist tony bugle she said for the ses the decision will undermine trust in politicians. cole was promised to

15. and again they found them and just making excuses and the only is they have gone back on the word that they gave to victims of these crimes it's a combination of political correctness i think it's a cultural sensitivities i think it's fear of what they believe will stop crises and people in this country don't trust politicians and he will without being able to see what's going on we don't know if we'll be annoyed to again and then that has to stop it and the political correctness of having these days we feel are backlash won't you know what we feel goes being right or to get in touch and let us know your thoughts on this story and everything else by following us on social media we're back at the top of the hour with the latest.

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