was. it was your. turkey clashes with syria at the un security council over the turkish troops presence inside the conflict ravaged country after turkey's days 33 of its soldiers were killed in syria it live performance. and there may be escalation turkish officials say they will no longer stop syrian refugees from crossing into the e.u. it's reported large groups are already making their way toward the greek border. also ahead as bernie sanders surges in the polls one billionaire doda to democrats tells the party to unite behind anybody'd bugs bunny claiming the socialist senator cannot beat donald trump.

to. the very well markets you're watching r t international with me making aaron our top story this hour the u.n. security council has held an emergency meeting after reports 33 turkish soldiers were killed during an offensive by syrian forces syria's representative to the u.n. said the turkish military presence in its lip is preventing damascus from fighting terrorists on its own territory turkey's un envoy in return stated that ankara intends to maintain its military posture there. we will not abandon. and we're going to you or reinforcements. are all the my country is combating terrorism in its own territory and we are committed to using all the tools to defend our people and the unity of syria. in response to the ongoing violation of the ceasefire within the zone the syrian army has every right to subdue the terrorists the assad

regime russia and iran must have to their offensive before more innocent civilians are killed and displaced emergency meeting followed 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 signed 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 for feeling there was the syrian army have every right to respond to regular violations of cease fire from inside the observer on 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 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 now a lot of this chaos stems from disagreements over a cease fire that came into effect earlier this year on the one hand turkey accuses syria of violating that cease fire with this stuff. and serve against the militant stronghold in ad lib 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 we discussed the issue with middle east analyst. told us what goals he thinks turkey has in mind in syria the turkish agenda in syria is very clear and specially. the turkish agenda was creating groups that are ideologically close to turkish government and can be used for turkey to create a safe haven for disease loveless groups in northwestern syria turkish military

presence in in the same region has to be carefully. regulated to. turkish government to. radical islamist groups in the same region. so i don't think that turkish military will have any means to further complicate the situation i mean while nato has had a special meeting in brussels at the request of turkey if secretary general says the alliance stands behind the un corrupt but called on all sides to find a peaceful solution. 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 u.s. led efforts to find a peaceful solution and 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 mark almost he's the political analyst and director of the crisis research institute and believes nato support will remain vocal. i don't think nato forces will enter syria in support of those turks who gone are the problem for turkey it's the nato alliance 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 is 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 official saying the country would no longer stop refugees including

syrians from crossing in say europe these pictures from our video agency ruptly show people in turkey some carrying children reportedly making their way to the border with greece meanwhile 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 but protests of groups greek islands in recent days with locals opposing government funds to build new. small calm and again believes turkey is using tensions around either you migrant controls to blackmail europe or support separate farms in recent months told his government spokespeople are there to himself. first of all turkey has 3 and a half 33 quarter 1000000 refugees that it's a pain to go after maybe the european should do more for them all but go to your and she could be what he's now doing in this crisis is saying to the europeans 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 spinoff excellent job in politics and to appear important and so in a way a person i don't understand your friends are support me but if you don't i can blackmail you with opening the floodgates. perhaps 2 or 3000000 refugees trying to enter the european union. course when all the awkward i'd have it through to try to hold a gun to your head as well as with his other hand a gun to the head. of. big hitters in the us democrat party are being urged to unite behind anybody but it's bernie sanders a wealthy donor has made the plea believing that saunders could not beat donald trump in the next presidential election saskia tale of reports. 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 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 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 $14000000.00 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 case 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 centers could still prevail. french police have arrested 54 people in paris after a fire broke out near the gate at the neon train station. origins say it was started by a group of people who had been attending the concert of

a congolese artist nearby they described a group sanction as totally unacceptable 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 was as was a vacuum waited along with the metro and people have been asked to avoid the area. county report in the u.k. has found that minority groups are being over represented in the media black and asian and other ethnic minorities have twice the presence on t.v. then they actually have on the streets of britain the same also applies to the l.g.b. community now one of the channels that looks hard in the report says it's simply trying to reflect reality channel 4 c.e.o. claims its main goal is to reflect modern diversity and its output but critics say it's gone too far grobe our endeavors characters to reflect demographics or provide

. you don't know what else is overrepresented on t.v. 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 non whites and a quarter again we put the issue up for 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 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 on to represent states then you've got to throw somebody else out or 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 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 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 all the social change that peter tatchell is talking about all of this let's get a gay person because the guy you're black person has a black it's just a load of 970 s. i'm certain that all those black and gay actors are chosen not because of their race 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 this person whoever they are just in order to fill a quota is that all doesn't so but you know everybody's doing the right you know it's a pretty good after you get a piece of pizza i love you to pieces if you're out of date. and it's common arguments that it's just a report that's precipitated before a lot of believing in president even though ron is like

a fish in evidence for its claims about story and more after this very short break .

that's also important not. to do the trick and then see. the nature and say the least that's all there is in the. structure is to break this decided to show. some sentients hope that. in the book. welcome back where searches that america's mit university have found a report into irregularities during the bolivian election didn't provide sufficient evidence the allegations of election fraud sparks months protests which led to president evo morales quit saying the report was made by the organization of american states looked at the bolivian general election results of november when there was a breaking vote saying and it appeared morales was significantly in front of his

rival the report found irregularities and therefore claims the election results were not accurate as one of the mit was says jack williams explained what made them doubt the findings. we wanted to specifically look at the portion where they claim that there is significant difference in the results following the interruption and then also in the last 5 percent of results of the of the unofficial vote count. during this process me and my colleagues were unable to find the evidence that the oas had created here results are out there and you know having an effect on the world without any methodological or even like even just the code that they used to produce the results that they created we find it extremely difficult to naturally find the breaks that they found and then used for their results so following the release of the oas reports some media outlets spoke of election for also like it

was a proven fun and audit indicated there was a clear manipulation in the country's elections last month accusations of irregularities in last month's presidential election was raised of americans if you put out a report saying that. they felt that. the holes you actually. williams again believes the media and opposition used the oas reports to their own interests the statistical claim was the one that was able to be tied to the results and to claim that the results that were being presented were illegitimate that'll the opposition party and then the media is also used to justify those people knew that there was problems with the oh yes research but maybe didn't have the technical expertise steward center for economic and policy research had released a report prior but it had much traction among especially the media so i think they really wanted someone to evaluate this and take it seriously. it

was the u.s. state of montana where a total of 4 city council officials have now asked the prosecutor's office to drop charges against whistleblower brandon bryant who is spain most for lifting the lid on civilian killings in the us overseas drone operations the air force veteran had been charged with threatening city officials in a you tube video and is currently in detention over the past few months he's attended multiples to city council meetings criticizing the way tax money is being used violence mother though claims his incarceration is politically motivated she's loans to 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. facility he has no criminal record and yet held on $100000.00. under detention he's isolated from this family.

brian served as a u.s. air force drone operation from 2006 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 then often prioritize the elimination of a target of accuracy resulting in innocent people being killed in the process is revelations 100 german whistleblower awarded 2215 and also intensified debate over the use of a german air base by american drones here's how brandon described his experience to us less than 2050. actually talked with the way the whose husband. was killed he was 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. i thought she said bryant was arrested on a felony charge after hit allegedly exhibited threatening behavior during city council meetings and on top of that he threatens to eliminate its members in a you tube video however a former f.b.i. agent and a whistleblower believes bryant's current predicament is connected to these past 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 was a blower to make a small error or mistake and i guess 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 am oh 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. by starting us here on c.n.n. international web at the top of the hour with the latest headlines. and the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s. and the world. next keyser and stacy her but to get into the burning questions of this election cycle one topic every week will tax student debt trade wars corporate money universal basic income and more catch up with what's front running this sunday exclusively on how to.

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it has been the worst week for the stock market since 2008 this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss i've been sworn and i'm christiane washington coming up find trillion dollars have been wiped off the stock market this week well break down global markets where they stand by the way and where they're headed but what is happening with the crowd a virus if the disease coming under control or is this just the beginning and we take a look at bio hacking the quest for a better longer more efficient life you will not believe what some silicon valley leaders are doing to trick their bodies into running at tom top performance so much to get to on this very busy day let's get started. and we begin with another bloody day for wall street down another 1000 points and yes we have now seen the worst week for markets since the 2008 financial crisis wiping out as chrissy just said 5

trillion dollars from global markets i'm going to say it again wiping out 5 trillion dollars 'd in one week we're going to break down global markets and the horrific week they just had in just a minute but 1st let's get you caught up on the very latest with the corona virus which of course is blamed as the catalyst for all of this so here's the latest numbers more than 83000 people in at least 53 countries have been infected and of those more than 2800 have died outside of china the largest number of deaths is in iran at 34 where that country has seen a huge jump in infections to ron had already canceled friday prayers at the capitals of 23 of around 31 provinces u.s. secretary of state might bump aoe says that the u.s. has offered to assist iran with medical response over in south korea they have the highest number of infections outside of china at 2337 and while china seems to have gotten some control over the spread of the corona virus it is italy that appears to

be a central point for spreading the disease as. italy now reports 650 cases and 17 deaths switzerland has canceled its giant geneva car show mexico has confirmed its 1st case of corona virus 2 min in mexico city and want to see a lower those 2 had recently traveled to italy and reported the contract of the virus there mexico is now the 2nd latin american country to register the virus and the largest city on the african continent lagos' which has a population of over 20000000 people has also reported its 1st case from an italian patient the w.h.o. continues to warn that this virus will likely soon be in every country throughout the world listen the continued increase in the number of cases and the number of affected countries over the last few days clearly of concern. just have been monitoring this development squint universally and we have no.