greek police clash with migrants at the border with turkey after and growing gives the green light to asylum seekers hoping to reach the e.u. in an apparent bit to pressure nato and to supporting its offensive in syria is it live. plus it's been a long week for julian assange and his supporters with the 1st phase of his u.s. extradition case now complete during the hearings a songe was kept in a glass cage and denied the opportunity to interact with his lawyers we heard from one of them. couldn't take part in the core process this is inconceivable how can a person be in court without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. and paying to die germany's constitutional

court of appeals a 5 year old ban on assisted suicide services sparking fears of an exploitative trade and. good afternoon and welcome to the weekly here on r t international where we bring you the top stories from the past week there are fears of a new migrant crisis with almost 50000 people crossing into europe in one day that's after turkey opened its borders and effectively tore up an agreement with brussels under which it took charge of millions of asylum seekers in return for financial aid on the other side of the border police greeted newcomers with tear gas. but.

that all follows a flare up in tensions in syria's last remaining terrorist stronghold of province turkey threatened to launch a full scale military operation there after dozens of its troops were killed in a syrian airstrike that was targeting jihad this is have all but ruined turkey's deescalation agreement with russia our notion that takes up the story. it's maybe a serious last remaining terrorist stronghold but a live seems to be killing the last remaining hope for peace or even a dialogue there. turkey which once committed to working with russia to clear terrorists from the area is making a u. turn yesterday i asked him what is your goal if you want to set up a base you can set up

a base draw your troops back from where we are leave us face to face with the regime the comments came after 33 turkish soldiers were reportedly killed in a syrian airstrike on adlib according to the russian military the troops died while operating alongside terrorists and turkey failed to inform us that they were there . the syrian army has every right to due to regular violations of the cease fire from inside the eclipse zone to neutralize terrorists so we cannot restrict the syrian army from fulfilling requirements written in the un resolution and a cry for help and car a cold and emergency meeting with nato they made speculation that alliance could be dragged into war nothing was offered more than words of support i don't think nato forces will enter syria in support of those who've gone the problem for turkey is the nato alliance principle is an attack on the lawn as an attack on all but the

turks might be risking trying to say able to attack by one nato states brings in all the others to support it and i think there's a lot of reluctance to see new to come into direct 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 so it seems. gun deployed another tactic trying to force europe's hand. what we did is we opened up orders because you promised us assistance but you did nothing and we will not close those doors because the e.u. must keep its word just hours later crowds of migrants rushed to the frontier buy food by bus by train even risking their lives at sea.

and not all of them are from syria i'm from afghanistan we are going to greece for a better life just as government did right by opening the borders i have been in turkey since i was 3 i'm originally from afghanistan i want to go to greece because i want to move to europe living conditions are better there but there wasn't exactly the warmest of welcomes on all for on the other side of the border agree even used tear gas in a bid to make the new comers abandoned their dreams of a better life the numbers most were strengthening forces on landed at sea additional police and army forces are being transferred the government is determined to do whatever is necessary to safeguard our daughter's. so new wave of the refugee crisis in europe relations with russia again plunge into new lows nato losing its patients well maybe even more turbulence than ever before in just a matter of weeks elegans managed to undo the progress of the last 2 years taken the world in a direction that's the exact opposite of the peace the turkish president still

promises to restore it's a serious escalation from the. 3rd who chose to intervene militarily directly because they were doing so by proxy but really an organized. terrorist group. that. well look the reason goes that oceans and this it is the. presence. is not sanctioned by. the. region or. 'd city in. the 1st phase of julian the songes u.s. extradition case wrapped up this week the decision on whether the journalist will be handed over to the u.s.

or not will be reached in may when further hearings are to be held the prosecution argued that a songe knowingly put hundreds of lives at risk when he published troves of classified u.s. military files without redacting names and other sensitive information washington claims that following those leaks in 2010 sources disappeared in iraq afghanistan and iran that we can expand or is also accused of encouraging the whistleblower and army intelligence analyst chelsea manning to hack the pentagon's computer network songes defense team has sought however to counter those allegations but just seeing their case with previously undisclosed information they claim the publisher actually warned then secretary of state hillary clinton about the leaks so as to ensure the safety of those individuals whose names appeared in the documents they've also stressed that assad his activities are protected by the principle of press freedom and his lawyers have also strongly rejected the asportation that he encouraged manning to hack the pentagon furthermore they say extradition would

undermine the client's health during the hearing a sound was held in a glass cage he was also prevented from talking to us lawyers we heard from one of them. well look i'm. a songe was in a grave condition before court but during the extradition proceedings it got even worse he was being held in a see through room without any access to his lawyers while he was being delivered to this room he was handcuffed 11 times he underwent a full body search twice and went through 5 different rooms before he finally entered the court moreover a songe couldn't take part in the court process he was deprived of any kind of interaction with his lawyers but he tried to reach out to be by passing a piece of paper through a gap in the glass box he was being held in and he was told off by the guard because of that i mean this is inconceivable how can a person be in court without being able to interact or communicate with his lawyers who are representing his interests. throughout the week to innocent just supporters

have been protesting outside the court in london claiming the case is a test of fundamental journalistic freedom was also calling on the u.k. and the u.s. not to shoot the messenger as it were fast is how it looks now at how they recruit expounder has found himself closer than ever to extradition. hero or enemy number one you decide either way today in the song has become a name and a face recognised all over the wild but not for the death penalty so if i'm not for the death i don't want to do it illegally shoot the son of a and it's not a crime it's in the public interest this is what some say in america is not democracy or told it's a total sham till his son is engaged in terrorism he should be treated as an enemy combatant 6. he likes walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service you know you say what worries everybody here today

because they don't believe. stream narrative the 48 year old to straight and put a target on his back when he leaked a trick. of classified u.s. documents leong bad views of powell at the very highest levels with the u.s. justice department hot on his heels and saw him sort of side him in london's ecuadorian embassy the 7 nong that he is before suddenly and unceremoniously being dragged out by british police. are. a stab in the back and perhaps coincidence that aquittal is bank account had just been credited with a 4200000000 dollar learn from the i.m.f. where the u.s. has huge sway so from the 4 walls of the embassy to the 4 walls of a jail cell as someone who was taken to london's belmarsh prison and handed an

exceptional sentence in britain but of violations seldom need to prison sentences they are generally subject only to fines. by contrast was sentenced in summary proceedings to 50 weeks in a maximum security prison clearly a disproportionate penalty that had only a single purpose holding a son should be long enough for the us to prepare the espionage case against him betrayed by ecuador feeling let down by the legal system a saw and now claimed his fundamental human rights were under attack he was put in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day the un and rights groups were in disbelief and some feared for more than just his freedom we have real concerns on the evidence currently available that mr a staunch could die in prison the medical situation is there by urgent there is no time to lose against this backdrop is it surprising there's suspicion swallowing around the extradition trial especially given the u.s. u.k.

treaty clearly states no citizen can be extradited the political purposes which many claim that the says washington says this case is strictly about national security it seems queen elizabeth the 2nd didn't get the memo. i must tell you however that as a constitutional sovereign her majesty acts on the advice of him ministers and remain stupidly nonpolitical at all times this is therefore not a matter in which the queen would intervene if the u.k. kowtows to its allies request might be dealt not just a life sentence without parole but even the death penalty if washington to side step out on thought the charges in the future that if it finds a willing jury which apparently won't be a problem a songe will receive a trial by jury in alexandria virginia the notorious espionage court where the u.s. tries all national security cases the choice of location is not by coincidence the

cases are always tried in front of the same judge behind closed doors and on the strength of classified evidence nobody has ever been acquitted then a case like that that is a prearranged affair a show trial is to be used to make an example of june in a songe the point is to intimidate of the journalists global outcry human rights the law the right to a fat trial turns out there all week adversaries in the face of a government who will fight tooth and nail to keep a lid on its dirty secrets. julian assange is a friend of mine and that's not the julian assange sees sitting in the courtroom this man is mentally and physically shrunken and how could it be otherwise after a whole decade of this cruel and unusual punishment who will volunteer to be the next julian our son who will receive the evidence which checks out as being true of

high crimes and misdemeanors by the us government or any government for that matter including our own. then report it to the public. there will be there would have to be either foolhardy or extremely brave because if they did so they run a very high risk of ending up in a bullet proof box in woolwich crown for facing extradition and the rest of your life in prison in the united states trust me that won't have a chilling effect on free journalism in the world it will have a killing effect. still had towns in northeastern france accuse the belgian neighbors of the clean dumping trash across the border details on that story and more in the 2nd half of the weakling.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school does this i'm show business i'll see you then. the point is should we actually be charging for education because this is when we charge for things is because it's a benefit to the person who is buying it and that's the audiology to education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that education is a benefit to society in general i wouldn't want to live in a society without doctors or engineers all saw it as what happened without economists. saying it of being a profit benefit ignoring the public means that we're ignoring that the skill basis we need for a sophisticated society and putting the burden of that school biases on the individuals and what we've turned it into is just now the china institution of

higher education become a form of a version of a real estate scam that is not the basis for a functional saudi. welcome back germany has lifted a ban on the commercial sale of euthanasia but critics warn that the right to die will not be exploited for profit artist peter all over takes a closer look. almost 5 years after it was banned the highest court in germany has ruled that blocking assisted suicide is unconstitutional and making its ruling on wednesday the constitutional court in college sure said everyone has a right to live and a right to die article 217 of the german criminal code outlawed euthanasia as well as the advertising of the services what this ruling from the constitutional court means is that that's being overturned and not only could companies offer euthanasia

but that advertising for the deaf could also stop being seeing the thinking behind wednesday's court ruling is that this will allow those in extreme paying and suffering from terminal illnesses to end their lives on their terms however senior voices within palliative care are warning that this could perhaps only to the normalization and indeed the commodification of suicide in society now the facilitation of suicide for the sick and tired of life is turning into a normal service anyone who allows you to nature will sooner or later make it compulsory to die especially in this society is economize designers knowledge of experience across all other countries shows that supply creates demand immediately following the ruling politicians are asking what situations this will be allowed in also what the commercial implications will be for companies wanting to get involved

in the euthanasia business i want clear rules about when medical assistance in particular is allowed and when commercial aphoristic are excluded it is perfectly normal for people who have a terminal diagnosis to feel suicide in fact some of the studies show that i have 80 percent go through a period of depression with some sort of sidle thoughts and so what we should be doing is trying to find ways to assist those people in getting through that period and actually. being their lives rather than promoting assisted suicide needs an ac of services so we would be extremely worried about any commercialization all round of the process or indeed promotion that would lead to many from rip off people feeling that their lives are not worth living and actually ending them prematurely highest people here in berlin what their thoughts 'd are on the ruling of whether this is right for germany it's not a commercial thing dying it it's something that needs care security see it needs.

yes professionalism i think there are certain things that you cannot put a seal to people like it's not a business you pay for yes i know want to commit suicide but i'm suffering i want to end my life you cannot do that to pay for it seems to me there was very bad incentives there if for example as advertising as i do targets people who are already having a hard time it could lead to people considering suicide more strongly i don't disagree with their physician assisted suicide just because like there are certain aspects that are beneficial for it but in terms of the advertising i could go either way like a really it depends on who is in control of that promoting this kind of finger for me is that a progress currently within a year of belgium the netherlands looks a book and switzerland all allow assisted dying but with germany said to joy in the concerns are about that what is one of the most sensitive of subjects could be said

to become a business opportunity peter all of the in. residence in northeastern france are crying foul over fly tipping they can use their neighbors and belgium illegally dumping trash across the border. picks up the story if not the trash. this may look like part of a landfill site but it's not all of this waste has been dumped here illegally we're just a few miles from the border with belgium and luxembourg and the french town of all core mu 9 is one of many struggling to cope with what you can see mountains and to mountains of garbage that have appeared since october in nearby it's a similar story trash both household and commercial has been dumped under the cover of darkness city. at 1st we thought it was regular waste but it turns out people

are illegally dumping their washing machines. they are throwing everything away. yes but here we see it's far more serious we estimate around 200 tons of waste it's enormous as far as the pollution we don't know what's inside it could be tons of who knows what type of products. chemicals. we don't know we see cleaning products plastics but more could be hidden it didn't take long before calls track down where the waste was coming from what if we did i was looking through the trench piles and piles of it it all had signs of being from the same place we searched and found out it was from on terms. some of it if there is an invoice to it is it and. i'm very clear it says. so of their own. when the company was contacted it didn't need any knowledge of illegal waste

dumping but the local resident jessica told me that since that statement the fly tipping has continued it's been described as dumping on an industrial scale and you can see why back in the local fisherman's association is also concerned. on the water source or close to this pollution so there can be a problem because it could affect our pond this is the 21st century there are designated places to put waste like this on it's an acceptable and people are doing this and regularly in the mayor's office says the cost of cleaning this up is beyond its means no need of yourself on a financial level for us this is impossible to solve we have a small community of $1000.00 people it would cost the equivalent of the whole annual budget to get rid of this. a criminal investigation into this

problem with cross border dumping has we know you print and customs agents have stepped up their patrols now in 2017 they reported that 7 metric tons of waste like this was illegally trafficked into france in 2018 that shot up to 130000000 metric . tons there although there are no figures yet available for $29000.00 it is clear that this issue is escalating the communities here are fed up of being a dumping ground for of the people's waste they want more regulation and are calling on the e.u. to step in to solve a problem that some believe europe's open borders are helping to facilitate charlotte didn't ski for r.t. in. 4 years after they lost the white house to trump the democrats are still haunted by the specter of russian collusion only now they're pointing the

finger at one of their own bernie sanders artist on the court looks at whether he and the russians have been rumbled. good news comrades our agent bernie sanders is doing better than we expected in the primaries are planned to have 2 agents fight over the presidency operation hammer and sickle is a go but we have one problem some in the democratic party establishment are becoming savvy to our strategy vladimir putin thinks donald trump should be president of the united states and that's why russia is helping bernie sanders get elected so he'll lose to trump it doesn't help that just last week western media published information about our top secret operation exposing the connection between agents tromp and sanders with our center in moscow as you learned tonight and today and yesterday the day before is going to have we're going to war help coming from learn to be a prudent move. for health provider to do want somebody who didn't think can be

from at least age and trump was able to follow orders admit nothing deny everything and make counter accusations it was highly exaggerated. and frankly i think it's disgraceful and i think it was a leak from the intelligence committee our house version and i think that they leaked it i think probably shipley good agent sanders on the other hand really dropped the ball he panicked and that is the ugliest thing they're doing is they are trying to cause chaos the trying to cause a truth in america it's an ugly business and all of us have got to say sorry you're not going to do this in the selection and again is present in the united states. you will not interfere in our elections the order was to deny sanders deny but he broke under pressure blowing the cover of our moscow back to bernie bros i design these people they are not part of our movement all of us remember 2016 and what we

meant what we remember is efforts by russians and others to try to interfere in our election and divide us up. i'm not saying that's happening but it would not shock me the center has good reason to believe agent sanders has been compromised we're losing control over his actions and he's praising our strategic allies too openly you know when fidel castro came into office you know what he did he had a massive literacy program it's not a bad think it's only a matter of time before they discover the interview agent sanders gave to profit i mean r t what effect do you think you can have on your voters it was so close here in iowa well i just hope that people take a hard look at the real issues impacting their lives to make matters worse we may have a mole in our midst how else could the footage have been leaked remember when the comrades recruited sanders at the new year's party of 1980 bernie spent his honeymoon in there in soviet russia i mean i think you're going to go back and forth about who's more in the tank with russia it's a really hard one between barney and rob we have made too many tactical blunders as

it is and western pundits are already undergoing a campaign to discredit our agent obviously we know the russians are continuing to try to choose our next president like they chose our last president the russians don't want me to be the nominee who spent a lot of money on bots on facebook and they've been taken down say biden is a bad guy the no one biden rodent rule in politics pick your opponent and putin and trump are picking their opponent the happiest person right now it's about one in 15 moscow time this thing is going very well for blatter we have to promise you. probably stay up watching us right now how you doing but i have our rivals already know too much comrade commissar i think it's time to extract our agents one of bernie sanders opponents in the race for the democratic nomination joe biden has won the primary and south carolina it's his 1st victory but attracting votes might not be his biggest problem.

my name's joe biden number governor drive a candidate for the united states senate look we over here like ridge the help out is not fulfilled by give me a look though ok. things i promised stuff. is jenny passed getting moved to getting control of the powers climate accord i'm not gonna came back after meeting with dumb child predators. and . my son one of. my deceased son was attorney general united states and for that he was a federal prosecutor one of the largest offices in the country in philadelphia.

it is important that iowa nevada is spoken. to clear. that's our recap of just some of the stories that helped shape the world these last 7 days and that's all for me as well if you're not my colleagues neil harvey will be here at the top the hour with the weekly as always thanks for tuning in.

point iraqis now 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. by far they could have done they should have made it better but that does not take away from the flag i was stood up to around the dictator who was blood thirsty and participated in the murder and killing of hundreds of thousands of iraqis are millions of more of the around then the invasion of kuwait and saudi.