in a phone call the president of russia and turkey agreed to prioritize a meeting about syria's italy province amid rising tensions between their forces. and after turkish troops are killed in syria has says they will no longer stop refugees crossing into the e.u. our troops are already reported to be making their way to be greek border also if you come as bernie sanders is in the polls one billionaire to the democrats tells the party tea night behind anybody but bernie claiming that the socialist senator can't be donald trump.

hello good evening 9 o'clock here in moscow you're watching international and we start with the rising tensions between russian and backed russian backed syrian forces and turkish troops in series province because it follows reports 33 turkish soldiers were killed in a syrian attack on terrorist positions 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 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 this syrian province don't call to the well meanwhile nato has held a special meeting in brussels the request of to secretary general says that the alliance to stand behind ankara but called on all sides to find a peaceful solution. 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 in the efforts of the un their 1st to find a peaceful solution we call on turkey we call on. russia to fully engage in such you unload the efforts of on a peaceful solution we spoke to the political analyst and director of the crisis research institute mark almond he believes that nato support will remain mostly vocal. i don't know who forces will enter syria in support of those who go the problem to turkey is with nato alliance of principle is an attack on warriors all time all but the turks might be risking trying to 17 attack by one nato states brings in all the others to supported and i think was also reluctant to see move to come into a confrontation with russia so there's quite a lot of powerful voices and no 2 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 what is military conflict continues in the region large groups of refugees continue to head for europe 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 these pictures from our video agency route plea show people in turkey some of them carrying children reportedly making their way to the border with greece and we're staying greece because these new pictures show migrants arriving on the island of less pos by boat all entities have been missing them with blankets and essential supplies but process of being gripping greek islands in recent days with locals there opposing government plans to build new migrant camps are calm and the game believes that turkey is using tensions around migrant controls to blackmail europe for support. simple crimes of peace from 3

turkish government spokespeople to himself. first of all turkey has a hole through a 3 quarter 1000000 refugees that it's paying to look after maybe we were pretty and should do more for them or let them go to europe and she could be what he's now doing in this crisis is saying to the or koreans if you don't back me up i have a weapon i can use to stabilize your societies remember what happened when the moon and the whole refugees arrived in germany in 2015 war spin off in politics and to appear important and so in a way a person 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 course they're not all that hard to have if you try to hold a gun to your head as well as in his other hand a gun to the head. down a bit to prevent bernie sanders from clinching the 2020 us democratic nomination and big hits is from the party are being. night behind just one other candidate and

it seems that big money donors are trying to pull the strings to. expense. 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 on 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 ad for good measure though he did keep in some abominate

. this is an extraordinary man with an extraordinary career in public service you've got to admire him though if i were trailing 12 percent behind the top candidate and had my own backers jumping ship i'd be a bit tighter on the past strings by the way biden still pales in comparison to what his buddy bloomberg has spent so far it's estimated the x. new york mayor has dropped a casual 400000000 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 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 views with mayo to judge 40000000000 as 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 $14000000.00 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 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 senators could still prevail. now a new report in the u.k. has found that minority groups are being overrepresented in the media black and asian another ethnic minorities have twice the presence on t.v. than they actually have on the streets of britain apparently and the same also applies to the l g b t community one of the channel's looked at in report does say it is simply trying to respond to the contemporary world channel 4 that see to say that its main goal is to reflect modern diversity in its output but critics do say to you it's become mainstream to add minority characters everywhere grow bar in characters to revert demographics or won't 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 again you put the issue up for debate with the new york observer columnist andre walker and also human rights activist peter tatchell. this 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 men 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 or 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 or the social change that peter tatchell is talking about all things let's get a gay person good look at 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 happen to be good actors we need to fight discrimination we need to ensure that people who are disabled or gay or black and not discriminate against the idea of just let's just pick this person whoever they are just in order to fill a quota yes no it doesn't so but you know everybody's doing the right. they choose good after you get a piece of pizza i love you to pieces if you're out of date. ok let's bring you some dramatic footage now that we are receiving at the moment from paris where a fire has broken out near the garden train station in the french capital police to say it was started by a group of people who'd been attending

a concert nearby the group also reportedly try to prevent firefighters from getting closer to the blaze these are live pictures we're receiving the station has been evacuated and people have been asked to avoid the area of these pictures now coming straight. meanwhile france has been angered by comments made by the ambassador of its ally he was critical of french antiterrorist squads in the west african country charlie devinsky has more on that story. tensions have risen diplomatically between mali and france following those comments by the passage to france in which he criticized in denotes 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 but mark it would night and it's not good for the image of france. all those remarks have provoked anger here

in front of us that was hauled in front of the foreign affairs with the streets playing those actions meanwhile the french armed forces with this is a large party didn't know that was being false and also i think sceptical this was a statement from her ministry rather than channeling and spreading false accusations we expect the message 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 discussed the future of the sawhill region and operation arcane this is process is the 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 on the ground against french troops are being stationed in bali protesters saying they don't welcome that also 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 moment president himself

is that meeting that his government has open to all sorts to harvest 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 and incident is going to raise more questions about the why of french soldiers in the ground possibly offering up their lives to fight for a war that's not there a. lot of germany's top call. training is wearing headscarves work that the government file a to call room neutrality with more details has petero. 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 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 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 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 a landslide that will leave in a free country and everyone here has the right to freedom of expression and freedom of religion. in this nation are unknown. no i think there is one because it concerns religion if a legion obliges him to her 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

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 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 only need to represent the constitution and it should be neutral all all we know about to be out of here in a country or is it christiania to remain a that is the only one they need to respect that the main of the people or 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 to know yet about the main constitution or the country and they make us more we're going to need people will be resent the law without any other religions to be mixing and it's not. transmittal east peace plan by the us administration this is a deal of the century has come up against further resistance 50 former leaders and ministers from across europe and i penned a joint letter in which they expressed grave concerns for slayer. 54 may 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 peace 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 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 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 what they call the deal of the century which 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 where 50 european leaders as well as the official european union russia took in 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. finally this hour hollywood movies might have just become a bit more predictable after a top director revealed that apple does have a very strict policy when it comes to showing their products on the silver screen explaining more his polly boyko in the latest episode of in case you missed it.

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 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 i phone camera in fact back when by 3 of the 24 was a big deal in the early north seas some very geeky yet as you. pointed out the fact that all the bad guys were on p.c.'s all the good guys used apple macs lie say let's turn that very on its head here's my iphone 8 is a good here is me and i will be back in the all fair. with my

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