that was. their phone call the presidents of russia and turkey agreed to prioritize a meeting about syria is it live profits amid rising tensions between their forces . and after turkish troops are killed in syria turkey should fishel says they will no longer stop refugees from crossing into the e.u. it's reported large groups are already making their way to the greek border. 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 it cannot beat donald trump.

a very warm welcome to you you're watching our senior international with me now we start with the rising tensions between russian backed syrian forces and turkish troops in syria days one that most hawkish soldier has been killed by shelling in profits that follows reports 33 turkish soldiers were killed during an offensive by syrian forces the presidents of russia and turkey have held 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 the syrian army have every right to respond to regular violations of cease fire from inside their lives alone. neutralize terrorists cannot restrict the syrian army from

fulfilling reclaim was written in the unit as illusion 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 accountable for what happened to her he is determined to continue to it fulfills its objectives in accordance with its legal rights the murderous regime and those who encouraged it will account for their betrayal in the most severe way a lot of this chaos stems from disagreements over a seat. fire 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 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. meanwhile nato has how to special meeting in brussels at the request of turkey if secretary general says the airline stands behind the un corrupt it called on all sides to find a peaceful solution imo so 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 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 about this with the taser political analyst and director of the crisis research institute sympathies nato support will remain vocal . i don't think nato forces will enter syria in support of those turks who gone the problem for turkey is the nato alliance is principle is an attack on one is an attack on all but the turks might be risking trying to say that an attack by one nato states brings in all the others to support it and i think was also reluctant to see new to 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 military conflicts continues in the region large groups of refugees continue to head for europe early on friday there were reports of a turkish officials saying the country would no longer stop refugees including syrians from crossing into the e.u. these pictures from our video agency ruptly show people in turkey some carrying children reported reportedly making their way to the border with greece now in greece these new pictures show migrants arriving on the island of les paul's by boat volunteers have been meeting them with blankets and essential supplies the protests of grips greek islands in recent days with locals opposing government plans to build new migrants counts their mark on monday again believes turkey is using tensions around e.u. migrant controls to blackmail europe for support. several crimes in recent months 3 turkish government spokespeople who are himself or so 1st of all turkey has through

the hole through 3 quarter 1000000 refugees that it's painful cost or maybe european should be more for the whole let's go to your and she could be what he's now doing in this crisis he's saying to the old koreans if you don't back i have a weapon i can use to stabilize your society is remember what happened when i lived in the heart refugees arrived in germany in 2015 was a spin off excellent job in politics in the west to appear important and so in a way a person who understand your friends are supporting me but if you don't i can blackmail you with opening. floodgates to perhaps 2 or 3000000 refugees trying to enter the european union that makes of course when i was. trying to hold a gun to your head as well as in his other hand a gun to the head of a. big cases in the us democrat party are being urged to unite behind anybody but bernie sanders a wealthy donor has made the people leaving the sanders could not speech donald trump in the next presidential election i ask you teleports. 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 ad for good measure though he did keep in some of bollman style. this is an extraordinary man with an extraordinary career in public

service you've got to admire him though if i were trailing 12 percent behind the top counted and had my own backers jumping ship i'd be a bit tighter on the 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 judge to its credit p. sense the 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 what 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 has made an apparent let's peek inside his coffin he might go about divvying up the cash once he gets his hands on those government funds but until then it seems he's more about treating himself he 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 us 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. french police have arrested

54 people in paris after a fire broke out near the girls a long train station. authorities say was started by a group of people who'd been attending the concert of a congolese artist here by described the group sanction as totally unacceptable the assembled crowd reportedly tried to prevent firefighters from getting closer to the blaze firefighters managed to extinguish the fire quickly although a number of vehicles were destroyed the station has been about back to a to along with the metro people have been asked to avoid the area. well you report in the u.k. has found that minority groups are being over represented in the media. but asian and other ethnic minorities have twice the presence on t.v. than they actually have on the streets of burson the same also applies to the

l.g.b. community though one of the channels looked at in the report says it's simply trying to reflect reality channel 4 see only claims its main goal is to reflect modern diversity in its output but critics say it's called too far. characters to reflect demographics or. you don't what else is represented on t.v. for white people that it's even worse there are 4 characters here well 2 have to be nonwhite and one must be gary the country isn't 50 percent nonwhite and a quarter again. we put the issue of the debate with new york observer columnist andre walker and human rights activist peter tatchell. this highlights the ludicrous idea of having quotas for everything i genuinely believe that in television like 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 the white middle class

heterosexual man represents it 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 clicked the 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 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 of this let's get a gay person could look at your black person has a black it's just a load of 970 s. rock i'm certain that all those black and gay actors are chosen not because of their race or sexuality but 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

cannot discriminate against but the idea of just let's just pick the person whoever they are just in order to fill a quota is that all doesn't so pretty and everybody's doing the right data pretty good after you get a piece of pizza i love you to pieces if you're out of date molly's ambassador has caused a stir in paris not to criticizing french anti terror operations in the west african country we have details on that story and plenty more coming up after this very short break stay with us. in london julian assange is standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u.s. to face espionage charges the stakes could not be higher saunters libya even life is on the line freedom of speech is also on trial so you wouldn't know that mainstream media. for

your rockies now they live should we have had a much better 17 years could we could have had a much more prosperous iraq a stable iraq yes as their. mistakes happen absolutely could americans have made things better by far they could have done they should have made it better but that does not take away from the flag they have stood up to around the dictator who was blood thirsty and participated in the murder and killing of hundreds of thousands of iraqis and millions of more of the around then the invasion of kuwait and so on . welcome back to the u.s.

state of montana now where a total of 4 city council officials have now asked the prosecutor's office to drop charges against whistleblower brandon bryant who is famous for lifting the lid on civilian killings and u.s. overseas drone operations now the air force veteran have been charged with threatening city officials in a you tube video and is currently in detention over the past few months he's attended multiple city council meetings criticizing the way tax money is being used brandon's mother though claims his incarceration is politically motivated she's launched a campaign in the hope of raising $100000.00 for his bail my son was the u.s. air force whistleblower who broke the code of silence on the drone program now he's in jail in the carriage of the facility he has no criminal record and yet he is the held a $100000.00 bail under detention he is isolated from this family. and his friends in from his medically mandated emotional support animal. brandon bryan served

as a u.s. air force drone operator from 2006 to until 2011 having left the military he began exposing cases of what he alleged to be civilian deaths resulting from american drone strikes brian claims commanders often prioritize the elimination of a target over accuracy resulting in innocent people being killed in the process his revelations won him a german whistleblower award in 2050 and also intensified debate over the use of a german air base by american drones here's how brandon described his experience 2050. actually talked with a lady whose husband. was killed he has been in brother was killed in a drone strike or talked to or face to face and she asked me why her husband and brother had to die and they weren't bad guys and i just looked at her and i

said i don't know. that's not really the best thing that i can tell someone who is asking questions about why someone that they cared about was killed and they need to know the answers and they're really true hard to answer to say is that i'm sorry that. the mistake happened and i'm doing everything that i can prevent further mistakes from happening well authorities say bryant was arrested on a felony charge after he had allegedly exhibited threatening behavior during a city council meeting on top of that he threatened to eliminate its members in a you tube video however a former f.b.i. agent on whistleblower rally believes bryant's current predicament is connected to his post revelations. this does seem to be more retaliation for his having spoken out about the drone operations and the fact that they were killing innocent

civilians more so than what he's now done typically with the whistleblower they look back in your personnel file 1st to see if there's anything bad that they can use to discredit the messenger and if they can't find anything bad bad in someone's background or personnel file then they wait for the whistleblower to you know make a small error or mistake and the draw was a blow or are in a fragile emotional state already as you can see with all the veterans they suffer from p.t.s.d. and we know from many other cases of retaliating and persecuting was of lors that that seems to be that the standard ammo the government is in perpetual war and so the war goes on for ever that means that even if you speak out even years ago and if especially if you continue to speak out about the wrongful actions and the war crimes it's going to continue this is not to negate the fact that brandon certainly

he erred if he made any threatening remarks or comments he certainly should be corrected and he should receive more treatment but i don't think he should be punished the way he's being punished. promises made on good by comments made by the ambassador of its ally mali he was critical of french antiterrorist squads and the west african country can recall. 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're 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 with the story to explain those actions meanwhile the french armed forces with the stuff the floors didn't notice 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 ambassador of mali to devote all his energy to implementing the post summit and achieving success for everyone it comes just off to france held a big summit just a few weeks ago in the south of france to discuss the future of the so ho region and operation volcano this is france is the 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 that 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're not welcomed and 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 opened talks 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 ends that is going to raise more questions about why are french soldiers in the ground possibly offering up their lives to fight for a war that's not their own. germany's top court has upheld a ban on judges and trainee lawyers wearing headscarves that was a rule that the clothing violated the neutrality of the courtroom with more details his piece all over. germany's constitutional court has decided that when it comes to wearing islamic headscarves court rooms are a special case a blanket ban on religious symbols similar so what they have in france is in favor of germany but when it comes to wearing islamic headscarf and court that's a different matter the court has rejected the constitutional complete against the

ban on wearing a headscarf or certain official activities all those obligation constitutes an interference with the completeness freedom of belief and other fundamental rights this is justified the case was brought by a german moroccan legal trainee who argue that the state of cases rules that she couldn't wear headscarf while carrying out certain official duties was constitutional the ruling by the constitutional court has raised a few eyebrows all. 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 head scarves can be worn in the court building there are only prohibited when carrying out certain public duties in the court itself i spoke to people on the streets of berlin and us that they made this decision ok. i think it's absolutely not pride believe in a free country and there is one here has the right to freedom of expression and freedom of religion. there's interest in this in our no no i think that it's wrong because it concerns religion if you lead an obliges you to learn 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. 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 a 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 so this is something that's belonged to vote along the constitution and they need to have what is in the constitution and should be neutral all we know about to get out of here and that country has a christiania t. they may know that because the only take on they need to respect that and the main of the people a lot of people in this country they don't want to see a lot of muslims on of their allegiance who are going the symbols of for the jews to presenting the constitution in the cost this isn't something we ought to have no

head of all of the main constitution or the country on the make us more of a country to meet people will be presented a little without any other religions to be mixing in this law. thanks for joining us here on aussie international we're back with the latest headlines and that's the minute. the republicans have a reputation as knowing hell of a 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 it in comprehensible. non existent theory about money.

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