the russian ministry of defense has confirmed that turkish troops were among the militants fired on by syrian government troops in the province on thursday claims 33 of its troops were killed. if more are killed turkey will give migrants a free pass and to europe its officials warn that hundreds are already making their way through the country towards the greek border. and other news 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 be donald trump we look at whether the road to the white house is paved not with votes but dollar bills.

a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our in moscow and joining us this hour 1st the russian ministry of defense has confirmed that turkish troops were among the militants fired on by syrian government troops and it live on thursday moscow also insists there were no air strikes from the russian side 33 turkish soldiers were killed in the province it responded by hitting syrian army positions from the air now discuss all the escalations live we're joined in the studio by artie's a quarter so take us through what exactly has been happening there's a lot going on here jacki well the syrian army right now it's been involved in a major offensive for months now to defeat the last militant stronghold in the province of syria and now according to moscow the turkish troops that were hit by that air strike on thursday were among the terrorists who were involved in a large scale offensive. against the syrian arab army there but the russians say

that they were unaware of the presence of turkish troops there until they were actually hit by the strike. on february 27th near the settlement of b. whom turkish 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. now the russian reconciliation center also immediately rushed to the aid of the injured turkish troops according to them after they discovered what happened they are in regular contact with the turkish government so it's strange that that they say that the data turkey submitted to the center suggested that there were no turkish soldiers there but we actually just got an update that said that the turkish ministry of defense they say that actually they did inform russia of the locations of their troops and have we heard anything else from the turkish side and well initially the turkish authorities said that less than

a dozen turkish soldiers were confirmed killed there but that was quickly changed to 33 troops and are also called for consultation of its nato allies following the attack leading to an emergency meeting of the military alliance now that's been that's led to a lot of speculation that article 5 could be invoked which would potentially draw turkey turkey's allies into a war with syria and russia but of course that that's still speculation as of now as for the turkish president we haven't heard anything from him but we have heard from turkey's ministry of e.u. affairs who said that syria will be held to account for what happened. turkey is determined to continue to it fulfills 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 now a lot of this chaos is stemming from disagreements over a cease fire that came into effect early this year on the one hand turkey accuses

syria of breaking the cease fire by launching its offensive against militants in a loop and on the other hand russia and syria turkey of not holding up its end of the bargain in the cease fire was supposed to remove terrorist groups from the iliad province and try to in negotiate with the more moderate militants to divide them based on their approach to them so the but the effort so far made. an anchor as part have been pretty ineffective whatever they may be now more talks on the crisis are scheduled for march between turkey iran and russia so we'll have to see if they'll come to some sort of headway or solution to the disagreements that are happening right now. in court i think you for breaking down this rather complicated situation for us. now for further analysis we're going to cross live to political analyst andrea walczak how serious is this latest escalation do you think. it is extremely. serious it is very dangerous and there are some issues which are not the

. reason of this is because it is supporting all sorts of groups inside of. one of them of course it's h.t.s. which is affiliated with al qaeda but that there are even more serious issues when i was last time in the fringes of. working group the syrian commanders and also talking to that if you g.'s coming from i found out today that. actually is supporting great amount of. good fight there was from chinese province of promo. showing these people are very dangerous they already destroyed many villages inside and send thousands of refugees to

syria and turkey historically actually. supporting so gold. mine or did this in china they do it on the behalf of nato and the particular united states they want these people to get the hard to understand. and then they return to china and actually. b.-r. i belted out initiatives in north north east northwest china itself so this very complicated and oh this is precisely what is not being what is not being discussed his great interests in the region and they are illegally occupying they are illegally occupying part of the city or so all these questions all these statements that they have rights to be syria is a nonsense out of the ground of was

a good friend of president assad. many years ago then he changed his mind and he began acting as a. nato president of the nato country and i think on behalf of the rest particularly of the of the united states and that this when everything when their own good it is going wrong until now. something that seems to be at the art of this escalation is the confusion over the turkish troops in that area russia says it had received information from turkey saying none of its troops were there but now we have turkey saying that they have informed russia why do you think there is this discrepancy. there will if this acting under this administration encourage this acting on the spur of the moment it is changing policy it's changing also how it is common they go on the situation so it's very on their own sparrow and and nothing is being planned i mean the russia the strength of pressure is

diplomacy a part of supporting the legitimate government did the mask. shows also putting great emphasis on the block to see an attempt to deescalate the resolve the situation in a peaceful in a peaceful way while turkish. provoking. syria is provoking russia and it is actually dragging the region and devoted the dangerous situation you know i was not only in the area not only in syria several times but also worked in turkey on the border of syria and sacrificing use of the people the border is the depopulated last 23 years he's basically darling he said victimizing use of people the for that area is based on the great story and cultural and family ties that both syria and turkey had for ages and he is sacrificing go millions of

his own people in the killing earlier in health. just for his going to be all of the moniker of foreign policy under voltec political analyst thank you for your time and your comments. thank you so much meanwhile against the background of the military action and syrian refugees are moving towards the european border these pictures obtained by our roughly video agency show people some carrying children reportedly making their way to greece as we mentioned earlier turkish officials have threatened to open the borders if more turkish troops are killed in syria. and with the number of newcomers possibly set to rise people on the greek islands are holding protests against their government's latest plans to create new refugee camps there on thursday the island of last post was paralyzed by a general strike people joined a march chanting slogans against the current situation existing camp on lesbos

currently holds around 20000 migrants although it was only designed for 3000 earlier this week several rallies against the building of more migrant camps turned violent and the government sent extra police there the move only made islanders more angry. to find continues nothing is struggling to prevent the construction of any close to 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 to rise you know this one to work they said and tried to police to the press so strong go to continue one close to the hotspot to anywhere the government managed to unite all the people of blessedness against that spoil the sea which would great a large warehouse of refuge in migrant prison this we didn't know when you camp is constructed on the islands the immediate removal of the existing camps the closure

of the morea camp received guarding the 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 on the island and tried to attack police officers with stones and players at local media reports say on the same. de france 60 people were injured mostly police the greek government says there's only one solution. anybody there is no alternative to the government's plans to build a closed structures to accommodate refugees and migrants for any period notice merriest things athens needs to redouble its efforts to deal with the migrant influx the majority of. migrants in lives will not asylum seekers they are. economic migrants what the people in ireland say is that the government should save guard. the

government has. to go or north with the examination of the siloam cations and also the government has to start the issues with a new decision from the european court of human rights and it says that any 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 importations. u.s. president donald trump's middle east peace plan held in the media as the deal of the century is proving to be not quite all that 50 former leaders and ministers from across europe have issued a joint letter and which they express grave concerns over it across live now to our middle east correspondent paul fleer for more on this all it tells more about what

these grave concerns are. well as you say 50 former european foreign ministers and leaders have expressed outrage over this so-called deal of the century they say that it is a kin to apartheid and of urge for action to oppose it. to prosperity is not a road map to a viable 2 state solution nor to any other legitimate solution to the conflict the blood and visitors of formalization of the current reality in the occupied palestinian territory in which 2 peoples all living side by side with equal rights such an outcome has characteristics similar to a bar fight a term we don't use lightly. now the peace plan includes jerusalem as israel's undivided capital palestine is to be demilitarized and its capital is to be in the outskirts of jerusalem palestine is also to comprise of the west bank and the gaza strip and these 2 areas will be connected through roads and tunnels and

$50000000000.00 of investment is to be made to palestine both the american president donald trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu have welcomed the deal. my vision presents a win win opportunity for both. a realistic 2 state solution that resolves the risk of palestinian statehood to israel's security it's a great plan for israel. it's a great plan for peace. now the palestinian president mahmoud abbas was quick to slam the deal on the same day that it was announced he said that your wrist 11 is not. foresail. dear friends we heard a little while ago from president trump and prime minister netanyahu talking about what they cool the deal of the century which we described as the slap of the century we will say as 1000 times no to this proposal. so you now have

a situation that is european leaders as well as the official european union russia tookie and all 22 countries of the arab league are against this deal now the palestinians have been given for years to come to agree with it but it certainly seems in the long run that this is going to prove to be a fruitless effort for washington. arches middle east correspondent paula slayer thank you for bringing us that report. still to come a hollywood director is let slip apple's product placement there by a possibly spawning future whodunit movie is that story after this short break.

the republicans have a reputation as knowing a little 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. model based on a comprehensible. non existent theory about money.

welcome back us democratic party leaders are being urged to group around one candidate to prevent bernie sanders from getting the 2020 nomination a party leaders seem unable to unite around a single figure just yet big donors know how to pull their strings are to sofitel reports. they say money can't buy you friends or happiness but might be true but they could just buy you the white house mega dona 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 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 in just one out for good measure though he did keep in some a bomb and. 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 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 what some of the candidates like to judge to its credit p. 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's this a penniless candidate and big money politics well if you believe bunny not quite we're going to contrast our viewers 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's made an apparent 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 when it is this 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 senators could still prevail. france has been enraged by comments made by the ambassador of its ally mali comments were critical of french anti-terrorist squads in the west african country. reports. tensions have risen diplomatically between mali and france following those comments by the mali and to france in which he criticized and denotes the actions of french soldiers on the ground in his country. there are no desirable some elements of the army because we see it all we see to all over and we don't know what they are doing on the streets of but marco at night and it's not good for the image of france. all those

remarks have provoked anger here and frog slowly ambassador was hauled in front of the foreign affairs ministry to explain those actions meanwhile the french armed forces with the stuff of large didn't notice them this being false and also i think sceptical this was a statement from her ministry rather than channeling and spreading false accusations we expect the ambassador of mali to devote all his energy to implementing the post summit and achieving success for everyone it comes just after france held 'd a big summit just a few weeks ago in the south of france to discuss the future of the soho region an operation volcano this is france is the largest overseas operation with all the $5000.00 troops stationed across 5 countries in the sawhill region including mali now president marco also said at that summit the french soldiers were paying for the conflict in blood let's have

a look at some of the recent attacks in this our whole region. it comes amidst of the tensions that just protests on the ground against french troops being stationed to volley protesters saying they don't welcome also saying that for all the system treating the country as if it's a colonial entity and it comes of it's the fact that the moment president himself

is that meeting that his government has to to harvest in a way to find a solution to the conflict now we know that mali is said the sport affairs minister here to paris to try and smooth things over but the reality is this latest diplomatic ends that is going to raise more questions about why you french soldiers are stationed in the country if the country citizens doesn't want it back if it's government aides talking to the hardest and of course if the comments by them oddly enough are in 52 of how it feels many will say why a french soldier is in the ground possibly offering up their lives to fight for a war that's not their own. hollywood movies might become a bit more predictable for those with a keen eye after 9 director ryan johnson revealed that apple has a very strict policy when it comes to showing their products on the silver screen.

polly boy goes into more detail in the latest episode of in case you missed it. found guys in movies con. for example has 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 i'm 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 it. was pointed out the fact that all the bad guys were on p.c.'s all the good guys used to ask

people mags why say let's turn that very on its head here's my iphone 8 is a good here is me and i will be back in the all fair. with my i for yes barry yeah barry yeah. yeah but are you. making cost base. so i inara mr teddy bear. i'll be waiting for your call. that's a breakdown of the day's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always had to our website are 2 dot com thanks for tuning in this hour.

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