the russian ministry of defense has confirmed that turkish troops were among the militants fired on by syrian government troops in libya province on thursday claims 33 of its troops were killed. also this hour as bernie sanders surges in the polls one democratic billionaire donor tells the party to unite behind anyone else claiming the socialist senator can't beat donald trump we look at whether the road to the white house is paved not with votes but dollar bills. and a court in the german state of has that has upheld a ban on headscarves being worn by judges and training lawyers in courtrooms.

watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 10 am 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 lim province on thursday adding there were no airstrikes from the russian side on february 27th near the settlement of b. whom his soldiers who were embedded with terrorists came on to the syrian army fired at the same time according to the coordinates transmitted by the turkish side to russia there were no turkish troops or units in the area. turkey responded to the attack by carrying out an airstrike on the syrian army in the same region it's claimed $33.00 turkish soldiers were killed in the province the russian military also says it told the syrian military to halt its strikes and organize the safe evacuation of dead and wounded turkish troops are on the 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 and turkey is adamant i mean they hold no punches they are saying is 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 in gauging in consultations with the bloc but now it has to be said that turkey has established

somewhat of a presence in north is 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 the feel in that particular part of that country but has been engaged in dialogue and in and in talks with russia a big round of talks as should yield for the 5th of march so we really have to look

for. 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 go into war 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 now seem a war of words erupt between participants with russia and syria on one side and western states on the other the west accuses moscow and about the cost of hitting civilian target targets and it lip. 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 live and i'm a couple of phone calls are taken as confirmation of such attacks but we've identified such fakes before which were also based on supposedly reliable sources responses to requests are delayed for months even when approval is given under half a permitted to proceed key medical supplies are routinely removed from convoys the syrian government has raised the number of approvals for humanitarian operations to

600 a month 95 percent of these approvals a blanket approvals say to essentially 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 in negotiations with the terrorists by the ignorant to directly supporting those terrorists we discussed 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. u.s. democratic party leaders are being urged to group around one candidate to prevent bernie sanders from getting through 2020 nomination or party leaders seem unable to unite around a single figure just yet big donors know how to pull their strings. 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 bernard sun there's. 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 with king 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 i'm just one guy out 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 past strings by the way biden still pales in comparison to what his buddy bloomberg has spent so far it's estimated the x. 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

at some of the candidates like people too much credit pea 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 the s. a penniless candidate and big money politics well if you believe bunny not quite we're going to contrast our viewers with may go to judge for the 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 while since body 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 the 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 sender's could still prevail. a court in the german

state has or has barium headscarves from being worn by judges and trainee lawyers and courtrooms the ruling says it goes against the new trial be a courtroom a show artist peter oliver has the details. germany's constitutional court has decided that when it comes to wearing islamic head scarfs court rooms are a special case of blanket ban on religious symbols similar to what they have in france is in favor it 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 all those obligation constitute an interference with the completeness freedom of belief and other fundamental rates this is justified the case was brought by a german moroccan legal trainee you argue that the state of pace's rules that she couldn't wear red scarf 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 a court 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 relieved neutral hands the head scarf 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 headscarf can be worn in the court building there only prohibits its carrying out public duties in the court itself i spoke to people on the streets of delhi and us

that they made this decision ok. i think it's absolutely landslide believe in a free country and there is one 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 obliges you to learn 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 this myth that. we are all 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 that's belong to the law and the constitution and they need to have what is in the constitution and it should be neutral all we know about you out of here in a country there's a christiania to remain over that has to be undertaken and they need to respect that and the main of the people a lot of people in this go to they don't want to see a lot of muslims on one of the only jew. who are being this simple for the jews to do presenting the constitution in the cost this isn't something we are told no we had a ball in the main constitution of the country to make us you know what country need people will be to present the law without any other allegiance to be mixing. after the break in hollywood directors let slip apples product placement pulsated thereby possibly spoiling future whodunnit movie is fact and if you must.

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yeah barry. mating call space. mr teddy bad. apple i'll be waiting for your call. the wake island of lots of 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 last post 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 camp 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 lesbos terrorizing us want to work they said and tried to police to the press so tearing struggle to continue one no close to open the hotspot to 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 of borders and the regulation of n.g.o.s our lives have been destroyed. on wednesday violence erupted as protesters rallied near a military camp unless 1st they try to attack police officers or stones and flares and local media reports say on the same day all around 60 people were injured at

least the greek government says there's only one solution. any particular of those there is no alternative to the government's plans to build a closed structures to accommodate refugees and migrants former i mean you know this merriest thinks athens needs to redouble its efforts to deal with the migrant influx the majority of the. migrants were sort of not there siloam secured as they are. economic migrants what the people in ireland say is that the government should save guard more this sort of the government has. to go or north with the examination of the. u.k. shoes and also the government has to start of the issues. new decision from the european court of human rights says that that person.

in the area of sigint then the government has the right to deport them immediately so i think the government has to be more active on the issue of the importation. investigative outlet project veritas has gained a reputation for lending mainstream media in trouble and this time its a.b.c. news is turning one of its veteran reporters has been secretly recorded slamming his bosses and the world of t.v. news in general. ok do you think that all these arctic ice organizations i cannot speak about that that's got a chair on the top. maybe it seems to be as you know it's already recognized israel's barrier in iraq they. could stick with. the voters are where we are already so i think a lot you know notice also have the opportunity because the only way whatever there are is here are. the facts and something's going to get run like it was it might be

it's a difference of us it's basically there are 2 really 1000000000. to this one that's a promise a.b.c. news was quick to respond network said any action that damages its reputation for impartiality harms not just a.b.c. news but also the individuals involved and that work has 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 believed 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 fear ship in its entire history that's also partially thanks to president trump state of the union address fox easily wins the gold for highest primetime rankings with 3 and a half 1000000 viewers tuning in a mess n.b.c. sits in 2nd with 1780000 all c.n.n. completes the pack with a little over a 1000000 viewers so why are we giving you all of these numbers well because if we compare the figures to february of last year it appears c.n.n. has lost viewers to the tune of 3 percent and imus n.b.c. is down 9 percent joe galligan believes the last support has a lot to do with the networks and tie senators bias which is not 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 burning the only leftist candidate who is running what is most popular one then 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 the or the people or the urban elite since they call them the most the upper middle class. types in the cities the main network that's been the nicest 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 who could probably be trumped. at all for this hour news wise but if you're looking for more ahead on our tar web site r.t. dot com for countless articles and interviews and containing it.

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self-proclaimed democrat a socialist bernie sanders is leading the pack of contenders vying for the nomination to take on trump but will the democratic party rally behind someone who embraces the word socialist and what impact will that have and the general election frank luntz one of the most influential pollsters in this country tells us what he's learned from talking with focus groups across the nation all on this edition of. the politicking on larry king he's one of america's most influential posters to the term being the words used in the political arena for decades frank luntz is here for an in-depth one on one. conversation about the 2020 alexion cycle has for spec

given the impact of trump's messaging and whether socialism may be a make or break label for democrats thanks for coming frank i would never say no to you it's obvious there were the opponents of the going to take advantage of the word socialist right why is that a bad word since half this country is so szell's well it didn't used to be that way and in fact more young people had done a find themselves as socialist then capitalist we found that about 56 years ago the word socialism and the idea of socialism as becoming more and more popular over the last 10 years on the obama administration and now with bernie sanders promoting it directly but still if you're over age 50 it's scares you it reminds you of eastern europe it reminds you of venezuela and reminds you of government control which nobody wants the problem the challenge for those on the right his act capitalism is

a dirty work when they hear the word capitalism they think wall street profits. things that aren't good for hardworking men and women and so it's not that socialism is becoming more popular it's that capitalism is becoming less popular because lyndon johnson said the women have to be half socialist half capitalism social security is socialism well the 1st thing is that no one knows whom in johnson is anymore the 2nd is that we can't define these terms ask an 18 year old what socialism is and they really don't know other than free stuff and if they're going to get free health care free chip job training free education and that's socialism and that they like and they see it in other countries they see in other countries and they don't think of venezuela they don't think of north korea they don't think of china and they think socialism they think europe they think norway sweden.