so the military is really an extension of controlling the world energy and oil. build. the turkish border as a national security threat. using. with the early draw in the us telling. the long running war the president works over a. violation of human rights the russian foreign ministry reacts furiously to the attention of the news agencies and turkey.

247 news the. international from the team myself you know neal hello and a warm welcome to the program tensions continue to rise on the border between greece turkey where a buildup of migrants is being described. as a threat to its national security turkey opened its border with the e.u. on saturday meeting tens of thousands to head their point extra soldiers going to increase the deterrent violent clashes between police unlikely. 7 i.

always go to the group voted tory who rose to the. un in my mind this is me go way over and during one country. now let's get into the detail of this turkey's decision is linked to the increase of its military presence in syria on its southern border it violates a deal reached with the e.u. in 2016 on which unkrich took charge of millions of asylum seekers in return for financial aid to turkey accused europe of not fulfilling its promises it also say said come off cope with the amount of people fleeing syria's war. it has already blocked more than $10000.00 migrants from illegally crossing its border the

greek government also claims turkey is using the migrant crisis to put pressure on the europe over this syrian conflict migrants stuck up the border have been describing the hopelessness of their situation. navy there just one of them turkey has opened its doors but greek soldiers are blocking the refugees they won't let them cross there are kids there everyone is waiting in the cold at the border on the ground. to do. the borders open ok by greece and i mean i have an open there yes it's unclear what will happen next i want to stand on a limb when we arrived at the border the police bombarded us and killed several children the border is shot and that is causing a lot of problems then police are using tear gas against us several children were killed we have critical conditions in the shelters yes the greeks aren't helping us

they were teasing us instead of the middle east analyst amar what cuffe believes the refugee problem will not end until syria regains control of its territories. earlier than once what the turkish authorities want is some cover for their operations in need leap they want europe to become a stakeholder forth their operations say apparently that they want to make sure that no more refugees would cross the border between syria and turkey and that in a sense just defies for them farming the likes of jobbers mr. against the syrian army proper hence consolidating the problem rather than solving the problem because the only way this problem is going to be solved by syria restoring its you know territorial integrity in people going back to their homes as long as there is fighting and there will always be fighting as long as there is a bit of syrian land outside syrian government control as long as there is fighting there will always be refugees he's just blackmailing europe in order to effect some

cease fire in italy and prolong this suffering for we don't know god knows how many years. in other story we're closely following today along until pated peace deal between the u.s. and the taliban to end the almost 2 decade long war in afghanistan as he heard the afghan president has slammed their proposed release of 5000 taliban prisoners or every u.s. secretary of state might bump a once this all is under control there have been prisoner releases from both sides before we've managed to figure our path forward will know who these people are we are working to build out a sort of confidence measures that will do for america what president has committed so under the current terms the u.s. pledges to cut its troops level to $8600.00 by the middle of this year it also states that the pentagon will pull out of the 2 remaining contingent within 14

months depending on taleban cooperation but the question remains will the agreement hold saskia taylor takes up the story for us. 18 here is $1.00 trillion dollars over $150000.00 dead for raf gonna start in the us the road to peace has been long bloody costly but a new dawn is on the horizon and it's being hailed as a victory we will be. there for. you ok work there's already today even if they. force you to get it because i'm sure. that her reading comprehension is for the cheese this is for peace i need you but i'm going with the deal signed by washington and the taliban has promised to bring to a close what seemed and on ending a war my times many thought it wouldn't happen the deal has come off to 18 months

of pulling and tugging of head shakes and walking away but in doha the paper was finally signed and it seemed to be one of those rest situations where in parties involved were happy well almost all because apparently someone forgot to ask the afghan government what its take was fun spoiler a lot it's got a few concerns the in could barely dry it on the deal when the afghan president vetoed a key cause the release of 5000 taliban militants as part of a prisoner swap now there is no commitment to release 5000 prisoners i have shared this with dr colleagues this is the right and the decision of the people of afghanistan they have requested it it could be included in the agenda of the interim afghan talks but it cannot be a prerequisite for talks. now this is not a side note to the deal it is in fact to the condition on which intra afghan peace

talks will start a veto the full threatens to bring this entire thing grinding to a halt. president gone his reaction there shows how washington has missed the point here that signing the piece of paper is ironically the easiest pot and the promising prisoners would join yours is as unhelpful as dropping demands that the taliban officially recognize gandhi's government granted government was not even invited to the negotiations when they were participating but only participated. not as a government representatives because ordinary afghans and that in itself is a very significant indication of how the situation was developed president gunner said this we have been fighting. for about 80 to 90 percent of the battles have been waged by afghan troops or very simply. means

that paul obama or anybody else up to deal with the government so this is maybe one of the hurdles. but let's not forget the u.s. is an old hound pretending to be the peacemakers even when it's cause the mess in the fast place and with an election just around the coup want to trump probably wouldn't be against adding to his eye make great things happen rhetoric sure has middle east deal of the centrals will bust the boom and kim jong un isn't quite ready to step away from his nuclear rockets but trump got his photos and it seems he's already eyeing up his next money shots be meeting personally with taliban leaders in the not too distant future. and we'll be. very much hoping that they will be doing what they say they're going to be doing they will be killing terrorists when in doubt sign a deal poses for a photo then crowd you'll self victor leave others to figure out the logistics

tried and tested. well there's just. universe mission creep in africa the true extent of the pentagon military on the continent is revealed in previously secret documents that follows the deaths of 3 americans on the base in january we'll look into that later in the program. for employees of russia's sputnik news agency in turkey being released after questioning the editor in chief and 3 others were detained in and this stumble on saturday that follows nationalists trying to break into the homes of 3 sputnik employees in no we spoke to maxime turner who is head of the sputnik turkey office in istanbul. a group of about 20 people came directly to each of our employees at their residential addresses they shouted threats and accusations against them after our

colleagues went to the police station to report the incident we could not then reach them for many hours however according to the police their phones had not been taken from them right now we want to know how this crowd of nationalists found out the addresses of all of our employees their names and surnames understory did not and that today a group of police officers arrived at our istanbul office as well as to the editor in chief of sputnik turkey now the police are making copies of our employees hard drives as i understand it our school on the turkish province of what i served as the basis for the searches given the recent events i want to say that we will now take measures to maximize the security of our employees working in our office well just this story he was talking about the stuff the tension came after sputnik published an article describing how turkey was given a piece of syrian territory 80 years ago when it was still a french colony the russian foreign ministry spokesperson for the european security

organization the o.s.c. were quick to condemn turkey's actions. the attack on the employees of the turkish bureau news agency and their detention is a gross violation of their rights of journalists this represents a significant encroachments on freedom of expression and media freedom of the kountry it is paramount that the authorities ensure the safety of foreign correspondents at all times including during conflicts russian media outlets have come under pressure in turkey before in 2016 following critical comments by vladimir putin about the turkish leadership the sputnik website was blocked by turkey's internet regulator not a political commentator amir or in speaking to this program says turkey takes a hard line on all media outlets in that country. well turkey's not a model country regarding the treatment of its own journalists thousands have been thrown in jail. others dozens remain in exile because they

know that they too will be imprisoned if they do go back so the fact that they also do it to foreign media is not surprising the reason vienna convention regarding the attitude towards diplomats and most countries respect. and boys and better goes about for journalists it's not so clear and reporters are usually working a democracy of there are a host governments and if the media cannot operate just because their country of origin is now. with the other country that's very wary some and perhaps turkey has something to hide. there is a potlatch against sexual minority rights in poland where a 3rd of municipalities have declared themselves l g b

t free zones charlotta been ski looks at how the clashes with the wider use cornerstone of shared european values. in its simplest terms the idea of the e.u. is one of many countries working together under one umbrella towards a common landscape yet you don't have to scratch far below the surface to find divisions what seems to be becoming more clearly etched is the divide between the west and the east in the latest round of disconnect between the values of the east and west the focus has turned to l g b t rights anti l g b t sentiment has been on the rise in poland.

now in poland nearly $100.00 miscible local governments have proclaimed himself to be free from l g b t ideology covering an area that some say is up to a 3rd of the country it follows a come pain by poland's ruling norton justice party which declared this type of ideology was an invasive foreign influence that undermines traditional values the european commission has been quick to react we cannot allow the distribution of algae b.t.i. free zones take us or the adoption of. resolutions and not feel responsible for the next phase where physical attacks that take place even if they are then carried out by other people one french town was so incensed by the backward nature of anti l g

b t rights after 25 years of being twinned with the polish town it's taken drastic action and suspended ties francis' committed to calm things human rights violations based on sexual orientation. we cannot accept the ties that unite our 2 suiters through an oath of twinning should be tainted we condemned the position taken by. but in poland there is real concern about the promotion of l g b t ideology the shore themselves too much these people the people have been round all the time and they didn't boast about it i did a child can grew up in a normal gay family have 2 fathers or 2 mothers have a good to do creation travel around the world know languages and big good and interest and very soon you get one of their children grow up in a family have a fire then a mother i know this from my own experience one recent poll found the biggest

threat concerning young polish men was the l g b t movement and gender ideology and it's not just an issue in poland at a recent festival in croatia residents were filmed cheering the burning of an effigy of a gay couple. the annual review by the european of the international lesbian gay bisexual trans and into sex association also accuse several other countries of growing official hate speech by government officials countries singled out included bowl garia the czech republic hungary and slovakia in hungary for example it said there was a decrease in the social acceptance of homosexuality. the eurobarometer 2019 found that hungary was one of a handful of e.u.

countries where the social acceptance of l.g.b. people has decreased since 2015 following bold garia on gary ins were also the least supportive of legal gender recognition or 3rd option gender markers some have to score i this disconnect between east and west in each state as being it came to still having an eye in curtin and while the e.u. is currently facing off with an internal battle over its budget in the often mouth of breaks it perhaps the real problems it faces a far more in cranes in the cultural differences of its member states. ati in paris this is our to international on the way we meet the russian teenager whose condition mean she cannot feel pain but it's far from a blessing for her and her family as the girl's mother explains to us after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. theory dramatic probably the only move really. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. you know we talk a lot on this show many years about economy and currencies and what makes a currency usually what makes a currency a scarcity for example gold is a currency it's money because it's scarce that's the primary reason people use it as money keynesian economics or socialism is usually unworkable because the people who are organizing it think that well you can just print all the money you need you need a program print more money there's socialism for banks on wall street as was pointed

out recently one of the big presidential debates bank gets in trouble just print more money well what's the ultimate scarce commodity what is the ultimate scarce commodity think about it what is the ultimate scarce commodity. 20 minutes into the program welcome back let's start in the philippines where polisi are talking a hostage situation of a shopping mall just outside the capital and officials say it's a sock security guard is holding around 30 employees after reportedly trying to rally former colleagues to take action against shopping center monitors. of customers stuff for the exits after gunshots were heard. the region told reporters that one person has been shelved and is now in hospital the shopping malls being

sealed off currently in the government we believe right now is in fact talking to nicole. is demanding to speak to former colleagues and reporters more than a story when we can book a set of showing the full extent of u.s. military bases in africa last year have appeared online it follows a deadly attack on a nerve field in kenya in january in which 3 americans died raise concerns over washington's wider mission on the continent the documents were obtained by the investigative news website the intercept show the locations of $29.00 u.s. military bases the formerly secrete data and also this close as they were about its all of american military operations enough this is how the pentagon the scribes its self proclaimed light footprint there we will grow more efficient to contribute to higher defense priorities and refocus resources to global power competition we

cannot take pressure off major terrorist groups like isis and al qaeda today after com does that using a light and relatively low cost footprint by supporting africa and international partners who are leading these efforts but the effectiveness of the u.s. effort to contribution to african security is being questioned last year it was a record high level of islamist activity currently there are roughly 2 dozen militant groups operating in 14 countries on the spot the rise in violence washington believes it's a positive influence enough for tomorrow's security demands leadership today we're trying to make sure that we are efficient with our resources and we're not duplicating efforts and whatever it is doing on the african continent is complimentary. so the bottom line is the united states is not walking away from africa we're committed and we remain engaged in the military claims that this is

a light footprint but you know it's hard for an elephant to leave a light footprint and certainly the pentagon is a giant elephant and its presence in any country instructive is a base of and if it comes at the same time that there is concern concentrated economic dislocation then the whole thing the stabilizes the entire country and that's what it's meant to do it's meant to assert u.s. military power not economic growth and development as a matter of fact economic growth is there's an effort to destroy that and to push countries backward into almost a colonial position of the past and that is really what u.s. presence is an attempt to do to restore to old colonial of nations. a major german university is under pressure from the government to drop or old huff

a 1000000 euro it receives in funding from china critics claim the cash could buy a favor for beijing uncompromised the research conducted there are sure europe correspondent peter over. when is funding for education anything but it's a good thing or when the money comes from the chinese government's apparently one of germany's premier institute's of high you learning has come under fire for accepting donations from the chinese government 1000000000 'd authorities of the free university of berlin to reconsider a half a 1000000 you wrote donation to set up a chinese teacher training program they say it could stop academics being critical of china the university themselves though say it has no influence whatsoever so far the free university has in no way been restricted in its actions all comments regarding chinese government policy or academic freedom in china as

a result of the funding from hand see no skepticism is nothing new there is an ever growing list of high profile cases where western nations that become uncomfortable of a perceived creeping chinese influence. i think every college should be aware of what these institutes are used for and and that they are in fact consistently been used as a way to quash academic freedom on campus at the behest of the foreign government and i would encourage every college american to close and there's no need for these programs. to free university of brussels will not extend its contract with the confucius institute a continuation of the cooperation is not in line with its principles of free research.

with the chinese government frequently criticized in the west should universities be accepting them money at all is there a risk with university. departments flush with beijing's books they could turn a blind eye to more complex parts of chinese history or should universities accept donations from foreign governments. sure if it's for the good of the students for in-state. beef to put their money they can also decide on the politics because they began they said to stop giving money is a very quickly a phone call can that their mind the research program or what's going on if there is no funding then there might be nothing being done so with funding even with some challenges maybe there can be some progress there might be the possibility of. their findings have an effect on how things are taught our perspectives that are

stopped i'm all for having an international perspective creating links and seeking the best funding opportunities so that german students have the opportunity to study in china and vice versa. the vast majority of undergraduate courses offered by the free university of berlin as the name suggests are free to students however the running of the university itself isn't that begs the question should universities accept donations from foreign governments particularly those governments that western powers deem to have the ferias intentions peter all over r.t. . history that's got a lot of people talking to not feel physical pain might sound like a gift but for one russian teenager it is anything but she was born with an extremely rare disorder that means she's unable to feel pain or gauge temperatures it's left the 18 year old from dagestan completely reliant on her mother. 'd

'd and usually just solace we were just always i remember when she was little and her teeth. well to come out my son came up to me and said mom she's bleeding it was strange to me because i couldn't figure out where it was coming from as it turned out she had beaten her tongue into it was like a snake's after a while her tongue split in 3. 'd because all certainly when the diagnosis came i was shocked my life completely changed from that moment pain is our protection when we get burnt when we break something when we fall our brain gets a signal that there is

a problem that our body needs protection my girl does not receive that signals and she's defenseless. only on that i'm just and i still am not giving up i want to improve her quality of

life i'm not always going to be there for her and i don't want her to use a wheelchair but at least walk with a cane. a lot as the start of the week is shipping up we will bring you all the latest developments in 30 minutes but we'll settle it more great programs get going in the woods.