i. the phone call the presidents of russia and turkey agree to prioritizing a meeting on the ongoing situation in syria is. an escalation in conflict that. killed in syria a turkish official says that they'll no longer stop refugees from crossing into the . reportedly already making their way to the border with. surges in the polls one democratic billionaire donor tells the party to unite behind anyone else. whether the road to the white house is paved with dollar bills.

good evening and welcome this is our international. where we start with the latest escalation of confrontation between russian backed syrian forces and turkish troops in syria's province the presidents of russia and turkey have had a phone conversation we say discuss holding a high level meeting to intensify talks on the situation earlier russia's foreign minister 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. 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 zone to neutralize terrorists we cannot restrict the syrian army

from fulfilling requirements region in the universe solution 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 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 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 to account. well 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 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 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 that can solve the crisis currently going on in the syrian province. meanwhile nato is holding a special meeting in brussels on the situation at the request of turkey with secretary-general u.n. stoltenberg saying the alliance sends in solidarity with ankara allies are constantly looking into what more they can do to provide further support for turkey

they too allies are engaged in trying to move forward in the efforts of the u.s. led efforts to find a peaceful solution we call on turkey we call on. russia to fully engage in such a un led efforts to find a peaceful solution. he was military conflict continues in the region large groups of refugees continue to head for europe these are pictures from a video agency roughly showing people in turkey some of them carrying children reportedly making their way to the greek border and earlier on friday there were reports of a turkish official saying that the country would no longer stop refugees including syrians from crossing into the. ok mark almond is the director of the crisis research in oxford joins me live on the line now good afternoon to you mark. in terms of nato stoltenberg says turkey has nato support do you think that will actually materialize into nato forces on the ground.

i don't think major forces will enter syria in support of those turks who've gone the problem to accuse the nato alliance principle is a tack on one as an entire home all the turks might be risking trying to save an attack by one. brings in all the others to support it and i think was also reluctant to see neutral come into a confrontation with russia so there's quite a lot of powerful voices in nato who support the turks desire to see who's syrian army's offensive stopped but i'm not sure they want to go beyond words and perhaps just use the relationship since of fluctuates of recall correctly when turkey was buying russian movie hardware. the rest of nato was very happy with turkey now those things are fully behind them where exactly does turkey stand within the alliance. well i think part of the problem is that president assad who

on those very hot and very cold so he was if we think back 5 years very hostile to russia and russia's role in syria then he became a partner in trying to find ways of alleviating fighting and bringing at least some cease fires to syria i mean the last few months he's full amount with russia but only back in october he fell out with the west big time when he attacked the kurds in northern syria so i think part of the problem for turkey is that the president's policies seem are predictable not only to the syria and russia but also to his allies and this means for people in brussels i think are reluctant to nail that colors to the turkish martin case president cranks them into something for the want to get into. it's been reported to the earlier today a turkish official said the country was no longer got going to stop refugees from entering the the european union it sounds like a weaponized thing of. refugees could that ever have been anticipated and why on earth would turkey do that. well in fact several times in recent months the turkish

government spokesman president around himself has said 1st of all turkey has 3 and a half $3.00 and $3.00 quarter 1000000 refugees that it's painful to go after maybe the european should do more for them or let them go to europe and secondly what he's now doing in this crisis is saying to the europeans if you don't back me up i have a weapon i can use to destabilize your societies remember what happened when a 1000000 and a half refugees arrived in germany in 2015 and all the spin off affects on joe in politics and west european politics and so in a way president not only saying your friends are support me but if you don't i can blackmail you with opening the floodgates to perhaps 2 or 3000000 refugees trying to enter the european union so that makes him of course then on the other or could i have if you prove he's trying to hold a gun to your head as well as in his other hand a gun to the head of the syrians. does that tell us then fundamentally through that threat that what turkey wants is not. stability in syria by threatening to release of

a flood of migrants of course. just after whatever suits turkey best. yeah i mean what what turkish government fears is that if for instance the rebels were to be completely defeated by assad to that would also be a defeat for president one since he has been very vocal in demanding assad's fall but also it would be destabilizing for turkey because the likelihood is a lot of people from egypt will try to escape into turkey both civilian refugees but also some of the armed factions who could be very dangerous inside turkey as well as they have been fighting against assad so it's a very awkward position for turkey. thanks always appreciate your analysis mark mark almost get my guest director of the crisis research institute based in oxford in the u.k. . thank you. now new refugees from turkey could potentially contribute to an already tense migron situation over in greece the days of protests there across several of the islands against the government's plans to create new camps on thursday the island of lesbos

was paralyzed by a general strike existing camp calmly holds around 20000 migrants it was only designed to handle 3000 large march so people voicing their anger through chance of banners and earlier this week several rallies against the building of more camps turned violent act police were sent to control the situation but it only seemed to raise tensions. with the fight continues nothing is over with 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 boss terrorizing us won't work they sent riot police to oppress our parents struggle we continue we want no clothes to open hotspot in less pass or anywhere the government managed to unite all the people of blessedness against its policy which would great a large warehouse of refuge in migrant prisoners. would 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 of borders and the regulation of n.g.o.s our lives have been destroyed. on wednesday violence erupted when protesters rallied near a military camp on those boats they tried to attack police officers with stones and flares local media reported on the same day around 60 people were injured most of them would place the greek government says there's only one solution. and there is no alternative to the government's. plans to build a closed structures to accommodate refugees and migrants. from an e.p.a. notice my ass feels that athens needs to redouble its efforts to deal with the migrant unplugs. the majority of. migrants in lesbos are not asylum seekers they are. economic immigrants what we in ireland say is that the government should save guard the borders and also the

government has. to go or north with the examination of the asylum applications and also the government has to start the issues with a new decision from the european court of human rights and it says that that any person that entered. 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 patients. you know us democratic party leaders are being urged to group or out one candidates to prevent bernie sanders from getting the 2020 nomination seems big money donors are trying to pull the strings askew taylor has more. 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 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 on just one ad 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 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 at some of the candidates like. 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 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 dollars 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 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 at a point where a movement like senators could still prevail. burns has been in

rage by comments made by the ambassador of mali who was critical of french anti terrorist squads in the west african country details his scholer dubious scheme. tensions have risen diplomatically between mali and france following those comments by the. france in which he criticised and denounce the actions of french soldiers on the ground in his country. 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 are 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 know most of those big holes in the old so 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 to post some ads and achieving success for everyone it comes just off the frogs 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 and 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 france is still treating the country as if it's a colonial entity and it comes of it's the fact that the mali in. and himself this is may change but his government has opened so the strongest in a way to find a solution to the conflict now we know that you said the sport of says made 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. so to come a hollywood directors let slip closer placement policy the book possibly spoiling future that may be so explain all if you know. 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 bold. non existant theory about money. seems wrong. but old rules just don't hold. any belief yet to shape

out just they become active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. movies might become more predictable for the keen on death to direct to run. as a very strict policy when it comes to showing the projects on the screen all these people who goes into more detail in the latest episode. found guys in movies con.

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 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 season 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 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 all fair. with my eye for. barry yeah barry yeah. yeah but are you. making cost base. so mr teddy bear. i'll be waiting for your call. germany's top court has upheld a ban on judges and training of lawyers wearing headscarves work in the garment violated courtroom you trial or to who 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 but i think you ban all 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 the 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 religiously 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 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 not pride believe in a free country and everyone here has the right to freedom of expression and freedom of religion. in this nation are not who. no i think that it's wrong because it concerns really. obliges you to vary 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 headscarves 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 it we're out of here in the country was a christiania to remain a that was 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 of privileges to do presenting the constitution in the court this isn't something we are told know yet about the main constitution of the country and they make us more we're going to need people will be what you are presenting the law without any other religions to be mixing in this law. tom's middle east peace plan built by the us administration is the deal of the century is proving to be not all it's cracked up to be 50 former leaders ministers from across europe of poland a joint letter in which they expressed grave concerns for the slayer explodes $54.00 may european foreign ministers and leaders have expressed outrage over this so-called deal of the century they say. that is a kin to apartheid and of urge for action to oppose it to prosperity is not a roadmap 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 a pathway to 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 for sale dear friend we heard a little while ago from president trump and prime minister netanyahu talking about what they call the deal of the century which we described as the slap of the century we will say 1000 times no to this proposal so you now have a situation there 50 is 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. state without international salaams up stories that even start.

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 race in truth to stand out of those business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer. questions.