he's here. to be reached. in a phone call the presidents of russia and turkey agree to prioritizing a meeting on the ongoing situation in syria's province assert that forces see an escalation in conflict that. turkish troops are killed in syria turkish official says that they will no longer stop refugees from crossing into the european union large groups are reportedly already making their way to the border with greece. has been found as surges in the polls one democratic billionaire i've done a tells the party to unite behind anyone else claim the socialist senator can be donald trump in the call whether the road to the white house is paved not with votes but dollar bills.

hello and good afternoon thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. we start the latest escalation of confrontation between russian backed syrian forces and turkish troops in syria's province presidents of russia and turkey had a phone conversation in which they discussed holding a high level meeting to intensify talks on the situation earlier russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov spoke out in support of the syrian army's right to respond to cease fire violations and call for cooperation between all sides within the agreed framework. which. we reaffirm our commitment to agreements reached by the presidents of russia and turkey a suggestion is that everyone should already start fulfilling there was a syrian army have every right to respond to regular violations of cease fire from inside their leader observe to neutralize terror. wrists cannot restrict the syrian

army from fulfilling requirements written in the unit as aleutian in fighting terrorism. 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 the 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 the banker also called for a 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's 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 turkey is determined to continue till 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 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 cease fire with this offensive against the militant stronghold in it live 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 back and solve the crisis currently going on in this syrian province. and well nato is holding a special meeting in brussels on the situation at the request of the 60 general again stoltenberg saying the stands in solidarity with ankara. allies are constantly looking into what more they can do to provide further support for turkey

nato allies are engaged in trying to move forward the efforts of the u.n. led efforts to find a peaceful solution we call on turkey we call on. russia to fully engage in such a u.s. led offensive on the peaceful solution we spoke to attorney and middle east expert about the significance of this escalation. we have a few weeks ago we have 6 turkish army is there now we have iran for $33.00 and turkish we tried it it was there and for 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 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 is going to be any doubt but for now the things

are dangerous of course russia than the said that they informed that turkey government in order to know where their troops are and know that there are some people dead russia that of course turkey never gonna say yes they inform russian not to a bombard the not to attack this this part so we never not once a day going to see one thing the other said gonna see they are different and they are going to stick to it and we never going to get to get to know the truth. in mars melissa conflict continues in the region large groups of refugees continue to head for europe these pictures from our video agency show people in turkey some carrying children reportedly making their way to the border with greece earlier friday there were reports of a turkish official saying the country would no longer stop refugees from crossing into the e.u. . you've introduced in turkey could potentially contribute to an already tense situation in greece the days of protests across several greek islands against the

government's plans to create new migrant camps on thursday the arms of those boss was paralyzed by a general strike existing camp their company holds around 20000 migrants of it was only designed for 3000 large march saw people. chants and banners and earlier this week several rallies against the building of more camps and violent extra police were sent to told the situation but this only served to reduce tensions. the fight continues nothing is over we're 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 won't work they sent riot police to oppress all parents struggle we continue we want no clothes to open hotspot any less bustle anywhere the government managed to unite all the people of les mis against its policy which would great a large warehouse of refuge in migrant prison this. no new camp is constructed on

the islands the immediate removal of the existing camps the closure of the morea camp the save guarding the borders and the regulation of n.g.o.s our lives have been destroyed. one state violence erupts at this protest as a military camp for saddam and trying to attack police with stones and local media say on the same day around 60 people were injured mostly police the government says that there's only one solution. in particular there is no alternative to the government's plans to build a closed structures to accommodate refugees and migrants for ip notice feels that athens needs to redouble its efforts to deal with the influx. the majority of the. migrants in lives were not asylum seekers they were. immigrants what the. islands say is the government should save guard

borders of the government has. to go or north with the examination of the siloam. 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. democratic party leaders are being urged to group around one candidate to prevent bernie sanders from getting this 2020 nomination seems the big money donors are trying to pull the strings asking taylor explains. 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 bernie sanders 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 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 ad for good measure though he did keep in some a bow 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 counted and had my own backers jumping ship i'd be a bit tighter on the past strings are 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 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 farther afield now at some of the candidates like people to judge to his 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 you know i'm the only candidate on those debate 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 and so forth well since bonnie's made to the parents let's peek inside his coffin he might be all about divvying up the cash once he gets his hands on those governor. funds but until then it seems he's more about treating himself he's 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 state 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 of 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 sanders could still prevail. frances

bean enraged by comments made by the ambassador of his ally molly who was critical of french anti terror squads in the west african country to shell or do peacekeeping force tensions have risen diplomatically between mali and france following those comments by the mali an ambassador to france in which he criticized the actions of french soldiers on the ground in his country folk who cover certain elements there are not 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 the marco 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 this to forge didn't know most of 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 ambassador of mali to devote all his energy to implementing the post summits and achieving success for everyone it comes just off the frog's held 'd 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 francis largest overseas operation with all the $5000.00 troops stationed across 5 countries in the sawhill region including mali now president marcos also said at that summit the 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 on the ground against french troops are being stationed in bali protesters saying they don't welcomed at all so 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 moment. it himself is it may change but his government has been told to to halt this in a way to find a solution to the conflict now we know that you said the sport of fez made this decade to paris to try and smooth things over but the reality is this a late just 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 the right. still to come a hollywood director let slip a private placement policy that possibly spoiling future whodunnit movies sometimes with the tension of. 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 down lose this is just the dance the right questions and demand the right answer. question. the republicans have

a reputation as knowing 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 comprehensive bald. non existant theory about money. movies might become more predictable for the q you 9 have to start to run some movie has a very strict policy when it comes to showed their products on the silver screen. goes into more detail in the latest episode of mr. bob guys in movies can

i phone 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 the one holding the microphone because i'm very protective of its image according to the director of the knives out 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 a mystery movie bad guys cannot have i phones on 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 apple macs and i say let's turn that very on its head here's my iphone 8 is good here is me

and i will be back in the off air. with my iphone. barry yeah barry yeah. yeah but are you. making cost base. so. bad. after all i'll be waiting for your call. germany's top court as upheld a ban on judges and trainee lawyers wearing headscarves ruled that the garment violated courtroom neutrality with details his piece of all of. germany's constitutional court has decided that when it comes to wearing islamic headscarves courtrooms 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 or certain official activities over those obligations 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 courtroom 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 berlin and asked if they made this decision ok. i think it's absolutely a landslide believe in a free country and everybody here has the right to freedom of expression and freedom of religion. is in this nation are unknown. well i think there is one because it concerns religion if a leader and why just him to her it doesn't 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 court 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 needs to represent the constitution and it should be neutral all all we know about you out of here in a country or is it christiane it you 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 their allegiance who are being the symbols or privileges to presenting the constitution in the court this isn't something we are told not yet about the main constitution or the country and they make us more we're going to need people will be or to present the law without any other religions to be mixing in this law. the middle east peace plan built by the us administration is the deal of the century is proving to being not all it's cracked up to be 50 formally there's a ministers from right across europe append a joint letter in which they express concerns for the slayer. 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 plan and visitors of 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 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 risks 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 for sale dear friends we heard a little while ago from president trump and prime minister netanyahu talking about with a cool deal of the century would we describe it as the slap of the century we will say 1000 times no to this proposal so you now have a situation there 50 european leaders as well as the official european union russia and 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. yeah that was the case for you in half and i was stunned to see that.

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say a lot never change the spots which is so much true about humans so who is really in charge of my life me or my brain and our will one of the say well i talk about this with dick swap professor of neurobiology at the university of amsterdam. as for fog it's really good to have you on our program so we have lots to discuss you say that any basic trait of a person iron such a sexual identity predisposition to something is actually decided in mother's womb when you are 4 your brain is formed within the will a lot of other neuroscientists will argue with you because they're saying what we are is our genes plus the up bringing but in your case you are saying it's not nature versus nurture it's just nature no i have never said ok and i think that the distinction between nature and science because from the very beginning it's an

interaction between the 2. so it's nature into action this nurture but the not show that he starts at the moment of conception so it's the end violence in the home it's also very important it's not only. that you can influence. the nature. and that means that the whole idea in the bone. structure of the brain this decided to some extent. some functions are programmed for the rest of your life in the ball when you say to some extent as to what extent like if we have a percentage what is the sense on the function so if you look through sexual orientation and gender identity 100 percent is determined in the hall who really yeah. the language on the language is determined 400 percent.