i i. think. greece describes a massive buildup of migrants at the turkish border as a national security threat and accuses turkey of using refugees as pawns in its offensive in syria. would be barely dry on the u.s. peace deal to end the long running war the afghan president throws a spanner in the works over a key part of the agreement. and a gross violation of human rights the russian foreign ministry reacts furiously to the sports news agency staff in turkey.

live from moscow welcome to our international. with us. tensions continue to rise on the border between greece and turkey where a buildup of migrants is being described by athens as a threat to its national security turkey opened its border with the e.u. on saturday leading tens of thousands to head their greece as the board extra soldiers to increase the tyrant as violent clashes broke out between police and migrants. ok. 7 i.

got the greek 30 dorie have been arrested. and in my mind this isn't me go away of entering one country. or turkey's decision is linked to the increase of its military presence in the syria on its southern border this violates a deal reached with the e.u. in 2016 that which angered took charge of millions of asylum seekers for financial aid is accusing europe of not fulfilling its promise it also says it caught cope with the amount of people fleeing syria's civil war and greece says it's already blocked more than $10000.00 migrants from illegally crossing its border and the greek government also claims turkey is using the migrant crisis to put pressure on europe over the syrian conflict margaret stuck at the border have been describing the hopelessness of the situation in a lot of that 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 greece and i mean i have an open then it's unclear what will happen next i want to stand on a limb when we arrived at the border the police bombarded us the border is shut and that is causing a lot of problems. police are using tear gas against us we have critical conditions in the shelters. the greeks aren't helping us they were teasing us and stabbed. well established our walk off believes the refugee problem won't end until syria regains control of all its territories one 3rd of the un wants to turkish authorities want is some cover for their operations immediately 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 justifies for them farming the likes of jobbers mr. against the syrian army program 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 egypt and prolong this suffering for we don't know god knows how many years. along the dissipated peace deal between the u.s. and the taliban to end the almost 2 decade long war in afghanistan as hit a hurdle the afghan president islam the proposed release of $5000.00 taliban prisoners over u.s. secretary of state what pompei would say it's always under control. so are so their

ability that it actually happened there have been prisoner releases from both sides before we've managed to figure our path forward under the current terms the u.s. pledges to cut its troops by around a 3rd to $8600.00 by the middle of this year it also states the pentagon will pull out that remaining contingent within 14 months the pending on taliban corp the question remains though will the agreement hold saskia taylor takes up the story. 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 know he's going to go for. it you know you're right or there's already been then. they need force to get it because i'm sure. that the government in khartoum says he's are we achieve this

is for peace i need you but i'm going to. the deal signed by washington and the taliban has promised to bring to a close what seemed and on the ending a war 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 because 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 so 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 hope so. 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 which on yours is as unhelpful as dropping demands that the taliban officially recognize gandhi's government about a gun a government was not even invited to the negotiations and when they participated not only principle. 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 basically. means that will fall upon or anybody else have to deal with the afghan 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 another action 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 central us them 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 will 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 sell thick to leave others to figure out the logistics tried and tested. but there's a sort of u.s. mission creep in africa as well as the true extent of the pentagon's military footprint on the continent is revealed in previously secret documents all of the deaths of 3 americans at a base in kenya in january we'll look into that a bit later in the program. for employees of russia's sporting a community as you see in turkey have been released after questioning the editor in chief and 3 others were detained in ankara and istanbul on saturday follows nationalists trying to break into the homes of 3 sport make employees an anchor we spoke to mark head of the sputnik turkey office in istanbul. so

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 and 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 end there 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 article 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 the staff the tension came after sputnik publish an article describing how turkey was given

a piece of syrian territory 80 years ago when it was that a french colony the russian foreign ministry and a spokesperson for the european security organization the a c. work quick to condemn turkey's actions the attack on the employees of the turkish bureau of news agency and their detention is a gross violation of their rights of journalists this represents a significant encroachments on freedom of expression in media freedom of the country 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 previously in 2016 following critical comments by vladimir putin about the turkish leadership the sport that website was blocked by turkey's internet regulator the general secretary of the european federation of journalists told us he says he suspects new staff are being used as collateral in a bigger political realm. tooky is well known. for attacking arresting

journalists but in this case. but by the fact that there was no reason at all no objective reason i mean to. arrest these journalists i think it's a clear case of intimidation and maybe it's not the last one journalists union. strongly condemned these actions against journalists working for russian media in the saw from the journalistic community i would see that we have an enormous. you know on this case it's a clear case of arrest him and intimidation we strongly condemn it i don't see any reason for that kind of escalation and i fear as well and it's going to sion between both believe that these journalists are being for the tension between key and russia in syria and particularly in provence.

that's and i think there is a kind of instrument allays asian of the police legal actions not for journalistic reasons but for political reasons. there's been a backlash against sexual minority rights in poland where a 3rd of municipality use of the player themselves l d b t free zones charlotte even if you look at how the move clashes with the 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 our courtman 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 of local governments have a claim 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 campaign by poland's ruling no and 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 v.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. p.t. right after 25 years of being twinned with the polish town it's taken drastic action and suspended toys francis committed to combat things human rights violations based on sexual orientation we cannot accept that the ties that unite our 2 suiters through an oath of winning 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 inches above 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 as you would for their children grow up in a family of 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 but a recent festival in croatia residents were filmed cheering the burning of an effigy of a couple. of the annual review by the european 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 that 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 both garia on gary and were also the least supportive of legal gender recognition or 3rd option gender markers some have disquiet this disconnect between eastern and western e.u. states as being a king 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 off the brakes it perhaps the real problems it faces a far more in crane's in the cultural differences of its member states. in paris. hilton we meet the russian teenager whose recommendation means she cannot

feel pain is far from a blessing for. the girls mother explained stuff some are stories after the break. you know we talk a lot on the show many years about economy and currencies and what makes a currency usually what makes a currency is 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 a socialist 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 won a big presidential debates in a 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. joint. every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. hello good to have you back a set of maps showing the full extent of u.s. military bases in africa last year has appeared online this follows a deadly attack on an airfield in kenya back in january in which 3 americans died and raised concerns of washington's wide admission on the continent the documents were tain by the us investigative news website the intercept and show the locations

of $29.00 u.s. military bases before money secret data also discloses they were out of american military operations in africa this is how the pentagon describes its self-proclaimed light footprint on the continent 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 africa 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 contribute to african security's being called into question last year there was a record high level of is the most activity currently there are roughly 2 dozen militant groups operating in 14 different countries and despite the rise in violence washington believes it's a positive influence in africa. tomorrow security demands leadership today we're

trying to make sure that we are efficient with our resources and we're not depleting 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 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 back or into almost a colonial position of the past and that is really us not trying presence is an attempt to do to restore to old colonial of nations. the major german universities on the pressure from the government to drop around half a 1000000 euros it receives in funding from china critics acclaim in the cash could buy favor for beijing to compromise the research conducted the is our europe correspondent because all over with a bit of. 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 authorities of the free university of 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 and is there a risk with you know. 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 a state. to put that money they can also decide on the politics because they began this aid 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 start. 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 of a r.t. . police in the philippines are tackling a hostage situation at

a shopping mall just outside the capital manila sacked security guards holding around 30 employees at gunpoint after apparently trying to rally former colleagues to take action against more managers in the street and told reporters that one person has been shot and is in hospital in a shopping mall has been sealed off by security forces. israelis are voting for an unprecedented 3rd time in less than one year the parliamentary elections are another test for prime minister benjamin netanyahu as he. corruption accusations opinion polls predict another stalemate with his main rival the centrists benny gantz. and staff of france's biggest tourist attraction the louvre have forced the world's most visited museum to close over the fear of spreading the coronavirus the country is dealing with there are $100.00 cases and has seen 2 deaths in a while in iran a member of the supreme leader's advisory council has died from the virus.

now do not feel physical pain might sound like a gift but for one russian teenager it's 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. just inches high remember when she was little and her t's were about to come ali's my son came up to me and said mom she's bleeding and was strange to me because i couldn't figure out where it was coming from shore as it turned out she had beaten her tongue into it was like a snake after a while her tongue split into. look up time i was there when the diagnostic scheme i was shocked my life completely changed from that moment pain is our protection it was only getting burnt blue

break something when we form our brain gets a signal that there is a problem that our body needs protection my girl does not receive that signal and she's defenseless. and very agile and in a pressure the witness this digital voice it isn't getting near the ideas that i. 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 you know as a rule but at least wall political. up next thought is the commander shuttle follows the search for the resting place of one of the podiums most trusted generals if you're watching us in the u.k. cross-talk tells the put into escalating tensions on the turkish syrian border we'll have the latest headlines for you in 30 minutes see that. same wrong we're all just don't all. get to shape our. outlook. and it. equals betrayal.

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