a sudden flare up in the syrian conflict turkey reportedly carries out attacks against government targets in libya province after ankara claims $33.00 turkish troops were killed in northwest syria. plus one of the u.s. democrats biggest donors demands that senior figures coalesce around a single candidate to stop front runner bernie sanders from getting the nomination and running for the white house on a socialist take it. and a court in the german state of past has upheld a ban on a headscarf being worn by judges and trainee lawyers and courtrooms.

you're watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. the russian ministry of defense has confirmed that turkish troops were among the militants fired on by syrian government troops and it looked province on thursday adding though that there were no airstrikes from the russian side 33 turkish soldiers were reportedly killed live with ankara saying it will go to nato to consult on the situation as also about more attacks on government forces in northwest syria don of looks at the sudden escalation. situation in the northeastern syrian province of idlib has been hated so far and lately turkey has been saying that more than 30 of its troops have been killed they say that the fire has 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 turkey is adamant i mean they hold no punches they are saying

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 turkey is determined to continue to it for phil's its objectives in accordance with its legal rights the murderous regime and those who encouraged it will account for their betrayal in the most severe way turkey is looking for support from its allies turkey is looking for support from the from nato they're saying that on friday they will be gauging in consultations with the bloc but now it has to be said that turkey has established somewhat of a presence in north this northeastern syria and especially in they have been supporting various groups which are largely seen as a terrorist now for instance russia has been accusing turkey of supporting

terrorist groups and terrorist groups in their advance at the syrian army positions in. 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 feel in that particular part of that country but turkey has been engaged in dialogue and in. and in talks with russia a big round of talks is should yield for the 5th of march 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 gern tools 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 2 looks the the new round of talks is set to come on the 5th of march that round of talks is 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 meanwhile a u.n. security council meeting on the situation in syria has seen a war of words erupt between participants with russia and syria on one side and western states on the other there were sticky is moscow and damascus of hitting

civilian targets in libya. the white helmets reported that russian warplanes hit a children's and women's hospital as for reports of schools and hospitals being bombed there's no u.n. presence in it and i'm a couple of phone calls are taken as confirmation of such attacks but we've identified such breaks before which were also based on supposedly reliable sources responses to requests are delayed for months even when approval is given and a half admitted to proceed to medical supplies are routinely removed from congolese the syrian government has raised the number of approvals for humanitarian operations to $600.00 a month or 95 percent of these approvals a blanket approval sensually the syrian government doesn't restrict the number of humanitarian missions working in the country we must concentrate all of our efforts on immediately establishing a durable and verifiable ceasefire those calling for

a cease fire negotiations with the terrorists by the ignorant to directly supporting those. we discuss the situation in syria with legal analyst jennifer to master. turkey really does have a responsibility now specifically some the since the united states with drew that's giving turkey the power to to lay their own groundwork and to lay their own rules and foundations with russia with syria to try to come to the table and negotiate a peace process for this and so if turkey is unable to do that if the turkish government is unable to negotiate any sort of peace process is unable to work with all the sides involved in this for for the peace of the civilians whether that's to label insurgency groups to label extremists then we are going to be looking at a bigger problem and i think both countries specifically russia is giving turkey that opportunity to do that both countries turkey and russia do not want to have a situation where they have to come against each other namely turkey because they know that would that would be very very harmful for the people of turkey that would

it would be highly outweighed by russian forces that russia is trying to sort of maintain this mediator position in the area but turkey does have a very critical role to play right now and that is to maintain a balance that allows peace for the people in the region and can ensure peace on the turkish borders for the turkish civilians i think at some point. democratic party leaders are being urged to group around one candidate to prevent bernie sanders from getting the 20 twentieth's mation mega donor bernard schwartz who's been giving millions to the democrats for years reach out to nancy pelosi and chuck schumer ahead of super tuesday next week that's a number a dozen states pick their preferred presidential run are all party leaders seem unable to unite around a single figure just yet big donors know how to pull the strings. reports. they say money can't buy you friends or happiness but might be true but they could

just buy you the white house methadone a bernard schwartz has been digging deep in his pockets to help the democrat course but it's not entirely a no strings attached situation we should know who is the best person to be dull trump and with all due respect bernie sanders. so which horses shorts betting on well he's not fussy but either of his friends from the billionaires club will do who just like him aren't shy on splashing the cash and since we're already here together let's look at just how much cash we're talking take joe biden now he's discovered that he can't just rely on his instagram a bromance with obama to take him all the way so decided instead to drop a 6 figure sum on just one bad for good measure though he did keep in some a bar minister. this is an extraordinary man with an extraordinary career in public service you've got to admire him though if i were trailing 12 percent behind the top candidate and had my own backers jumping ship i'd be

a bit tighter on the power strings by the way biden still pales in comparison to what his buddy bloomberg has spent so far it's estimated the ex new york mayor has dropped a casual 400000000 on his campaign but hey it's only no point 6 percent of his $64000000000.00 fortune so no biggie also at least he's having some fun with it not even the aspiring u.s. president is above a cheeky trolling campaign and it seems to be paying off because he's risen from the very bottom of the polls to somewhere near the top of course let's not forget he is an old hand when it comes to knowing just what money can get you all of the new democrats that came in put nancy pelosi in charge and gave the congress the ability to control this president i got them hoops well let's look for. field now it's some of the candidates like people too much credit the sense that people might

not be found of this whole exclusive club of the rich so decided to play the role of the average joe just the man on the street and i'm the only candidate on those debates stages in this race the major candidates who's not a millionaire or a billionaire what a penniless candidate and big money politics what if you believe bunny not quite we're going to contrast our views with mayo to judge 40 billionaires who are contributing to his campaign the heads of the c.e.o.'s of the large pharmaceutical industries the insurance companies and so forth well since bonnie is made to the parents let's peek inside his coffin he might go about divvying up the cash once he gets his hands on those government funds but until then it seems he's more about treating himself he has dipped into his funds and brought out around $14000000.00 for just a few t.v. ads so it seems that no matter what side of the political spectrum you're on you

know that to win in this case you need a lot of the green stuff to help you along your way but money is always played a big part in american elections especially since 2010 with the us supreme court ruled in a case called citizens united that you could spend as much money as you wanted on candidates because corporations spending money on politics is free speech spending money is free speech corporations are people that's what this supreme court decided that's a travesty and that's really undermined american democracy even more and made it more a money game then ever before that's a big problem in the us money yes and the role of money is growing even more but i don't think it's at a point where a movement like senators could still prevail. investigative outlet project veritas has gained a reputation for lending mainstream media in trouble and this time its a.b.c.

news has turned one of its veteran reporters has been secretly recorded slamming his bosses and the world of t.v. news and general. ok do you think that all these are all right is it going to be talking about that that's. right maybe it seems to be. wrong or we recognize. the feel like we've been through several voters where we are no worse than i thought you know i was also had the opportunity was the only way whatever there was here. the acceptance was. like it was it might make a difference it was not there to really believe and i think that if there's one thing that's a problem. 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 'd involved the network has

a suspended the correspondent for an unknown period of time and said he'll be kept away from political coverage upon his return we spoke to joe gale from democratic socialist of america who says the broadcaster socialist comments may have contributed to his suspension. it just shows how like you know. the media's attitude toward socialism is just complete attack towards if they will they don't want anything to do with it he just meant health care 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 label label i think is the problem but they're really afraid of because they know how popular it's getting. and while a.b.c. news goes through some tough times one of its rivals fox news is celebrating the highest viewership in its entire history that's also partially things to present

trump state of the union address now fox easily wins the gold for highest primetime ratings with 3 and a half 1000000 viewers tuning in a mess n.b.c. comes in 2nd with 1780000 well c.n.n. completes the pack with just over a 1000000 viewers so why are we giving you all of those numbers well because if we compare those figures to the ones of february in last year it appears c.n.n. has actually lost to be orders to the tune of 3 percent and the mess that we see is down 9 percent joe gail again believes the loss of support has a lot to do with the networks and tenders bias which is not set well with major audiences 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 i was most popular one then the whole left the

people the press of us are 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 and the bushes the are the people of the urban elite since they call them the most upper middle class. types in the city it's the main network that's been the nicest 2 or sanders is fox 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 who could probably be trump. still to come a hollywood director is let's flip apple's products pick placement policy or buy possibly spoiling future whodunnit movies back and came up with. the source of. this not only. to who can influence.

the nature and their good stead o. they're given the all. star tours to break this decided to some extent and some functions are hoping for this to the. end of all. the republicans have a reputation as knowing hell of a more about money than the democrats but the democrats are always very confusing and so bernie sanders is just out of a tradition he's talking about socialism which again is a it's a it's a model based on a in comprehensible. non existent theory about money. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

welcome back to the program a court in the german state has has banned head scarves from being worn by judges and trainee lawyers and courtrooms the ruling says it goes against the new trial the courtroom by show artie's peed all over has the details germany's constitutional court has decided that when it comes to wearing islamic head scarfs court rooms already special case a blanket ban on religious symbols similar so what they have in france isn't favorite in germany but when it comes to wearing islamic headscarf in court that's a different matter the court has rejected the constitutional complete against the ban on wearing a headscarf for certain official activities although this obligation constitutes an interference with the completeness freedom of belief and other fundamental rights this is justified the case was brought by german the rocket legal trainee you argue that the state of cases rules that she couldn't wear headscarf while carrying out

certain official duties was constitutional the ruling by the constitutional court has raised a few eyebrows on social media with people asking the question why a crucifix is allowed in the call room but a headscarf is not. on the one hand the state may prohibit women lawyers in training from wearing the headscarf in court in order to maintain ideological and really just neutrality on the other hand germany a courtroom must be really just leave neutral hands the headscarf ban also germany . headscarf ban because the court should be neutral at the same time crucifix on the wall because it is known not to be a religious symbol has scarf bans target the group that is most discriminated against in germany in making the ruling the constitutional court pointed out that head scarves can be worn in the court building their only play hits its way out

certain public duties in the court itself i spoke to people on the streets of believe in us that they made this decision ok. i think it's absolutely not pride believe in a free country and everyone here has the right to freedom of expression and freedom of religion. there's interest in this in our no no i think that it's wrong because it concerns religion if you lead an obliges you to hurry it then you have to do it no matter where you go that's why i don't think it's right that it's forbidden. that. we are old people they have their own culture and we have our culture those people have to adapt to where they are i have nothing against it those people who come to germany they have to adapt but i have nothing against the headscarf germany 16 states have differing rules when it comes to religious symbols in this case the cole ruled that the trainee lawyer couldn't wear a headscarf as it went against the neutrality that

a court room must show however it has led to questions over there being one rule for christians and another for muslims this is not a job this is something we need to do so this is something it's belong to the law and the constitution only need to read what is in the constitution and it should be neutral all all we know about you out of here in a country was it christiane even may know that it's the only and they need to respect that and the main of the people a lot of people in this country they don't want to see a lot of muslims on of the only jew. who are. jews to presenting the constitution in the court this isn't something we are told notable of the main constitution or the country on the may question we're going to need people will be who to present the law without any other allegiance to be mixing in this law. the greek island of lust for us has been paralyzed by

a general strike was called as part of local opposition to the government's latest plans to create new refugee camps there people joined a march chanting slogans against the current situation existing camp on lesbos currently hold around $20000.00 migrants although it was only designed for $3000.00 earlier this week several rallies against the building of more migrant camps turned violent and the government sent extra police there but the move only made islanders more angry. the fight continues nothing is struggling to prevent the construction of any closed or open prison last night was a big win for the people of lesbos who repelled the landing of the government's repression forces on the island of lesbos terrorizing us want to work they said and tried to police through the press so strong go to continue one no closed open hotspots and anywhere the government managed to unite all the people of blessedness against its policy which would great

a large warehouse of refuge in migrant prison this we demand that no new campus constructed on the island the immediate removal of the existing camps the closure of the morea camp receive guarding the borders and the regulation of n.g.o.s our lives have been destroyed. on wednesday a balance or opted as protesters rallied near a military camp on the island attacked police officers with stones and flares and local media reports on the same day around 60 people were injured mostly police the greek government says there is only one solution. there is no alternative to the government's plans to build a closed structures to accommodate refugees and migrants. former army pay and professor of institutions at the university of crete noticed marius things athens needs to redouble its efforts to deal with the migrant influx the majority of the. migrants were sort of not there siloam secure as they are. immigrants

what the people in ireland say is that the government should save guard the borders of the government has. to go or north with the examination of the. u.k. shoes and also the government has to start the issues. from the european court of human rights says that that person. in the area of sigint then the government has the rights to deport them immediately so i think the government has to be more active on the issue of the patients. hollywood movies might become more predictable for those with a keen eye after 9 days out director ryan johnson revealed that apple has a very strict policy when it comes to showing their products on the silver screen

artist polly boy goes into more detail in the latest episode of in case you missed it. the guys in movies conn. for example here's a picture of jamie lee curtis in the movie. and she's holding an i phone and that means that she is a goody so the evil one is never going to want not holding the microphone because a very protective of its image according to the director of the knives out who probably were revealing that in an interview i don't know if i should say this and i probably shouldn't but and this is very pivotal if you're ever watching a mystery movie bad guys cannot i phone camera in fact back when by 3 of the 24 was a big deal in the early north seas some very geeky yet as you. pointed out the fact that all the bad guys were on p.c.'s all the good guys used to pull

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a nuclear bomb but would not the effects be the same as a nuclear bomb if obviously it does reach meltdown and there is an explosion. the chemicals that are going to be released or similar actually the chemicals released from other radioactive chemicals released from a nuclear bomb disappear quicker then the radiation is released in a nuclear power plant all we're looking at an apocalypse this is true and noble on steroids do you think it's definitely going to happen or do you think crisis could be averted no i don't think crisis can be averted. her containment building of the d.b. spacy nuclear reactor could keep that power plant shut down the all group.