i. think. in a phone call the presidents of russia and turkey agree to prioritize a meeting about series italy province amid rising tensions between their forces. and the after turkish troops are killed in syria a turkish official has now said that they will no longer stop refugees from crossing into the large groups already reported to be making their way to the greek border and also to come as bernie sanders surges in the polls one billionaire donor to the democrats tells the party to unite behind anybody but bernie claiming the socialist senator can't be donald trump.

hello there welcome just going to clock in the evening here in moscow you with r.t. international now we'll start with the rising tensions between russian backed syrian forces and turkey's troops in series province because the presidents of russia and turkey have had a phone call in which they discussed holding a high level meeting about the escalation earlier russia's foreign minister spoke out in support of the syrian army's right to respond to ceasefire violations and called 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 the resume to neutralize terrorists we cannot restrict the syrian army from fulfilling requirements written 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 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 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. don't call it a that well meanwhile nato has held a special meeting in brussels the request of to secretary-general says though that the alliance stands behind ankara. allies are constantly looking into what more they can do to provide further support for turkey they 2 allies are engaged in trying to move forward in the efforts of the un their 1st of 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 we spoke to the political analyst and director of the crisis research institute calm and he believes that nato support though will remain cool. i don't know who else will enter syria in support of those who go the problem to turkey is what nato alliance is principle it is an attack on wallace will try. all but the turks might be risking trying to sort of getting attacked by one nato states 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 the syrian army's offensive stopped but i'm not sure they want to go beyond words and perhaps symbolic gestures as the military conflict continues in the region arch groups of

refugees continue to head for europe. on friday there were reports of a turkish official saying the country would no longer stop refugees including syrians from crossing into the these pictures from our video agency ruptly do show people into some carrying children reportedly making their way to the border with greets and staying in greece these new pictures pictures to show migrants arriving on the island of lesbos. volunteers have been meeting them with blankets and essential supplies the prices have been gripping greek islands in recent days with local locals there opposing government plans to build new migrant camps mark arm and again police easing tensions around controls to blackmail europe to support. several crimes in recent months through turkish government spokespeople who are himself to serve. turkey has through the hole through the 3 quarter 1000000

refugees that it's paying to go after maybe we will prevail should be more affordable go to your could be what he's now doing the risk crisis is saying to you if you don't back i have a weapon i can use your societies remember what happened when the little whore refugees arrived in germany in 2003. politics on which to appear important. to understand your friends will support me but if you do and i think blackmail we will open the floodgates to perhaps 2 or 3000000 refugees trying to enter the european union. to. prove he's trying to hold a gun to your head as well as with his other hand the governor of the head of the. us democratic party leaders are being urged to throw their support behind one candidate to prevent bernie sanders from getting the 2020 nomination and it seems that big money donors are trying to pull the strings as saskia 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 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 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 counted 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 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'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 when it is this phase 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 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 at a point where a movement like sender's could still prevail. now

a new report in the u.k. has found that minority groups are being overrepresented in the media black asian and ethnic minorities have twice the presence on t.v. that may actually have on the streets of britain and the same does also apply to you to the l g b t community but one of the channels looked at in the report does say it is simply trying to respond to the contemporary world channel 4 c.e.o. claims its main goal is to reflect modern diversity in its output but critics say it's become mainstream to add minority characters everywhere grobe characters to refer to demographics or world provide gander you know what else is overrepresented on t.v. they hate for white people that it's even worse there are 4 characters here well to have to be nonwhite and one must be gary the country isn't 50 percent nonwhite and a quarter gaily. we put the she were to debate with the new york observer columnist

andre walker and also human rights activist peter tatchell. highlights the ludicrous idea of having quotas for everything i genuinely believe that in television like in all the rest of life you should have the best people for the job but you know what if you can have quotas that when white middle class heterosexual mad are under represented then you've got to throw somebody else out but we don't have a quota system in british t.v. there are attempts and have been successful attempts according to these statistics to redress the marginalization exclusion and collect past decades and i think that's a great thing to celebrate because it does show that we are a more accepting understanding inclusive society this is about normalizing the fact that we live in a diverse society this is not about diversity it ought not to be about diversity what it should be about is the best person for the job television is bad to tell humans so you pick the best guy for the job or the best woman for the job who acts in the best way all the social change that peter tatchell is talking about all

things let's get a gay person does that get your black person has a black it's just a load of 19 seventies rock i'm certain that all those black and gay actors are chosen not because of their race sexuality because they have to be good actors we need to fight discrimination we need to ensure that people who are disabled or gay or black a lot discriminates against the idea of just let's just pick the person whoever they are just in order to fill a quota yes you know it doesn't nobody you know everybody's doing the right. they choose good actors peter you get a piece of pizza i love you to pieces if you're out of date. in other news tonight france has been angered by comments made by the ambassador of its ally mali he was critical of french anti-terrorist squad in the west african country challenged when skin has more on the story. tensions have risen diplomatically between mali and france following those comments by the mole in a passage to france in which he criticised 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 in front of all 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 know most of 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 and operation volcano this is france's 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 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 being stationed in bali protesters saying they don't welcome that also 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 president himself is that meeting that his government has nothing to mix with the hardest in a way to find a solution to the conflict now we know that mali is sending its foreign affairs minister here 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's not their own child and then asked to come for you this hour it has been revealed by hollywood director that apple insists its products in films are only used by the good guys and not a bad movie you know just off. the

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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 comprehensible. non existing theory about money. come back now hollywood movies might become more predictable for the keen eyed after top director ron johnson revealed apple does have a very strict policy when it comes to showing its products on the silver screen all these pretty boys goes into more detail mag and the latest episode of in case you missed it. found guys in movies con 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 one no holding the microphone because a very protective of its image according to the director of nights out probably really revealing that in an interview i don't know if i should say this but 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 ne very geeky yet as you. pointed out the fact that all the bad guys were on p. thieves all the good guys and. i say let's turn that very on its head here's my iphone it is good here is me and i will be back in the all fair. with my i for whom barry yeah barry yeah.

yeah pirate. mating call space. so i inara mr teddy bad. i'll be waiting for your cold. coming up to 20 past 8 here in moscow now germany's top court has upheld a ban on judges and training lawyers wearing head scarves that were ruled that the garment file ated coring neutrality with more on the story has paid to all of. 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 is in favor it in germany but when it comes to wearing islamic headscarf in court that's

a different matter the court has rejected the constitutional complete against the ban on wearing a headscarf 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 the rocket legal training you argue that the state of pace's rules that she couldn't wear red scarf while carrying out certain official duties was unconstitutional 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 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 of the streets of believe in us that they made this decision ok i'm proud i think it's absolutely landslide that live in a free country and everyone here has the right to freedom of expression and freedom of religion. as this nation are not you know i think that it's one because it concerns religion if a legion of obliges him to sign it then you have to do it no matter where you go that's why i don't think it's right that it's forbidden this myth that. we are old people and they have their own culture and we have our culture those people have to

adapt to where they are i have nothing against it those people who come to germany they have to adapt but i have nothing against the headscarf germany 16 states have differing rules when it comes to religious symbols in this case the cole ruled that the trainee lawyer couldn't wear a headscarf as it went against the neutrality that a court room must show however it has led to questions over that 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 vote a law on the constitution and they need to have it is in the constitution and it should be neutral all all we know about to be out of here in a country there's a christiania to remain as it has to be undertaken and they need to respect that and the main of the people a lot of people in this going to they don't want to see a lot of muslims on of the only germans who are being the symbols of privileges to

resent things the constitution in the cost this isn't something we are told no we had a bar of the main constitution or the country on the make us more we're going to need people will be tortured to present the law without any other allegiance to be mixing in this law. i don't want trump's middle east peace plan build by the u.s. administration is the deal of the century is proving to be not all it's cracked up to be 50 formally the ministers from across europe have penned a joint letter in which they do express grave concerns reports. 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 rigid 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 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 you were still

a 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 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 is european leaders as well as the official european union russia 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 or the state reports now that i have things in the faucet i will back again in about half an. hour. the russian state television propaganda machine propaganda outlet

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