we reached. 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 claims 33 of its troops were killed. if more are killed turkey will give migrants a free pass and to europe its officials warn hundreds are already making their way through the country towards the greek border. 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 be donald trump we'll look at whether the road to the white house is paved with votes split a dollar bill.

you're watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow come to the program. we start with this from the latest escalation of confrontation between russian backed syrian and turkish forces in syria. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has spoken in support of the syrian army's right to respond to ceasefire violations and calls for cooperation between all sides within the agreed official framework. we reaffirm our commitment to agreements reached by the presidents of russia and turkey a suggestion is that everyone should already start fulfilling their was a the syrian army have every right to respond to regular violations of cease fire from inside the zune to neutralize terrorists we cannot restrict the syrian army from fulfilling the requirements written in the un resolutions. the syrian army has

been engaged in a very violent fight to defeat the last militant stronghold in syria and the province according to moscow the turkish troops that were killed on thursday were among terrorist fighters involved in a large scale offensive against the syrian army but the russians say they weren't even informed of the presence of turkish troops until they were hit by that airstrike 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 and the russian reconciliation center says that they immediately rushed to the aid of the injured turkish troops after discovering what had happened it's certainly strange they weren't informed in the 1st place since the center maintains regular contact with ankara and the russians say that the data turkey provided suggested that there were no turkish troops there although ankara recently denied this and said that they did

inform russia of their troop locations what are their sort of reaction have we had from turkey well initially the turkish authorities said that less than a dozen troops had been killed in this air strike but that number soon jumped to 33 and our anchor also called for consultation with its nato allies following the attack leading to an emergency meeting of the military alliance and there's even been speculation that article 5 could be a vote now what that means is article 5 would potentially draw turkey turkey. as allies into a war against syria and russia but again as of now that is that's just speculation but we also heard from the country's minister of affairs and he said that syria will be held accountable for what happened to her he 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 stems from disagreements over a ceasefire that came into effect earlier this year on the one hand turkey accuses syria of violating that ceasefire with this offensive against the militant stronghold an adlib and on the other hand syria and russia accuse turkey of not holding up its end of the bargain apparently ankara was supposed to remove terrorist groups from the region while negotiating with the more moderate groups but making a firm dividing line between the 2. possibilities between groups there but the efforts that it's made to that effect have been quite ineffective and more talks are scheduled in march actually between iran and turkey and russia on the issue so we'll have to see if that yields any results of that can solve the crisis currently going on in this syrian province we spoke to attorney and middle east asked expert about the significance of this latest escalation. a few weeks ago we have 6 to accuse army is there now we have around $43.00 and turkish we thought it was there

and started some bombing in a northern syria so it might get dangerous and turkey is trying to get to bring the nato countries to support them they want to action the article 5 of these nato. agreement in order to for the nato countries to support them if there is any war against russia but i doubt there's going to be any doubt but for now the things are dangerous of course russia's of going to say that they informed the turkey government in order to know where their troops are and now that there are some people dead the russians say that of course. they never did on the say yes they inform russian not to or bombard the not to attack this this part so we never know one side is going to say one thing the other side gonna see the other thing and they are going to stick to it and the we never going to get to get to the truth. meanwhile against the background of the military action in ad lib 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 turkish officials have threatened to open the borders if more turkish troops are killed in syria. and new refugees from turkey could potentially contribute to an already tense migrant situation in greece people on a number of countries 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 to hold 3000 earlier this week several rallies against the building of more migrant camps turned violent 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 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 no close to open the hotspot to anywhere the government managed to unite all the people of blessedness against its always see which would great a large warehouse of refuge in migrant prison this is a demand that no new 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 last us island tried to attack police officers with stones and flares and local media reports say on the same day iran 60 people were injured most the police the greek government says there is only one solution. and there is no

alternative to the government's plans to build a closed structures to accommodate refugees and migrants. former army peer notice marius thinks athens needs to redouble its efforts to deal with the migrant influx . the majority of the. migrants in lesbos are not asylum seekers they are. immigrants what we. say is the government should save guard borders of the government has. to go or north with the examination of the asylum. 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 right to board. so i think the

government has to be more active on the issue of the border patients. us democratic party leaders are being urged to group around one candidate to prevent bernie sanders from getting the 2020 nomination party leaders seem unable to unite around a single figure just yet big donors know how to pull their strings as artists ask you tell reports they say money can't buy you friends or happiness but might be true but they could just buy you the white house and make a tone about it 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 byrne a son there's cannot be trump so which horse is schwartz 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 king take joe by. 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 ad for good measure though he did keep in some of bollman the style. 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 counted and had my own backers jumping ship i'd be a bit tighter on the posturings 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 further afield now at some of the candidates like people to judge to his credit he 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 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 views with mayo 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. what 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's dipped into hedge 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 game you need a lot of the green stuff to help you along the way but money is always a big part in american elections especially since 2010 with the u.s. 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 u.s. money yes and the role of money is growing even more but you know i don't think it's a point where a movement like sender's could still prevail. france has been enraged by comments made by the ambassador of its ally in mali the 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. france in which he criticized the actions of french soldiers on the ground in this country for elements there are not desirable some elements of the army because we see it all we see to use all over and we don't know what they're doing on the

streets of demarco at night and it's not good for the image of france. well those remarks have provoked anger here in frogs while an ambassador was hauled in front of the foreign affairs with history to explain those actions meanwhile the french armed forces with us to florence didn't notice that this big hole so also on except of all this was a statement from her ministry rather than channeling and spreading false accusations we expect the message of molly to devote all his energy to implementing the post summits and achieving success for everyone it comes just off the frog's held a big summit just a few weeks ago in the south of france to discuss the future over the sawhill region and operation volcano this is france's and largest overseas operation with all the $5000.00 troops stationed across 5 countries in the sawhill region including mali now president merkel also said at that summit that french soldiers

were paying for the conflict in blood and let's have a look at some of the recent attacks in the sawhill region. it comes amidst other tensions such as protests over the grand against french troops are being stationed to volley protesters saying they don't welcome that also you saying that false is still treating the country as if it's

a colonial entity and it comes of it's the fact that the mali in present. and himself is it may change that his government has been told to to hold this in a way to find a solution to the conflict now we know that mali is sending its board of fez with this decade to paris to try and smooth things over but the reality is this latest diplomatic existence is going to raise more questions about why a french soldier is in the ground possibly offering up their lives to fight for a war that small there are. still to come a hollywood directors let's flip product placement policy thereby possibly spoiling future. details after the break.

most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand the news business you just need the right questions and get the right answers . question. in london julian assange standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u.s. to face espionage charges the stakes could not be higher. even life is on the line freedom of speech is also on trial though you wouldn't know that stream media. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back hollywood movies might become more predictable for those with a keen eye after 9 is out director ron johnson revealed that apple has a very strict policy when it comes to showing their products on the silver screen. goes into more detail in the latest episode of in case you missed it. found guys in movies conn. for example here's a picture of jamie lee curtis in the movie nights out and she's holding an i phone and that means that she is a goody so the evil one is never the one not holding the microphone because a very protective of its image according to the director of the knives out through probably really 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

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i'll be waiting for your call. germany's top court has upheld a ban on judges and trainee lawyers wearing headscarves at work it ruled that the garment violated courtroom neutrality or to speed over house more. germany's constitutional court has decided that when it comes to wearing islamic head scarfs court rooms are a special case a blanket ban on religious symbols similar to what they have in france isn't favored 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 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 headscarf can be worn in the cold building their only hit is when powering out

certain 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 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 a legion obliges him to her it's 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 is it that. we are all people they have their own culture and we have our culture and 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 belonged to the law and the constitution and they need to it is in the constitution and it should be neutral all all we know about to be 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 go to they don't want to see a lot of muslims on of the only jew. who are being the symbols of privilege used to presenting the constitution in the cost this isn't something we are told notable of the main constitution of the country and the make us your country need people will be. the law without any other allegiance to be mixing in this law.

u.s. president donald trump's middle east peace plan hailed 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 expressed grave concerns over at party's middle east correspondent paul slayer has the details. 54 major 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 planet visitor is a formalization of the current reality in the occupied palestinian territory in which 2 people fall even side by side without equal rights such an outcome has characteristics similar to apartheid 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 you were still is not for sale dear friend we heard a little while ago from president trump and prime minister netanyahu talking about would be a cool deal of the century would we describe it as the slap of the century we will say a 1000 times no to this proposal so you now have a situation there 50 european leaders as well as the official european union russia

turkey or 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. if all the stories have unquenched your thirst for news head on over to our website our to dot com for countless articles interviews and all of our shows thanks for tuning in this hour. is another dollar for it do to keep oil company simple number 2 the pretty one when you have no kids of you to home and phone and don't going to.

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