the military is really an extension of controlling our world energy and oil. grease warns of a threat to its national security as turkey allows thousands of desperate asylum seekers to amass along the country's shared border athens is accusing anchor of exploiting refugees in pursuit of its political goals. with the ink barely dry on the u.s. taliban peace deal to end the long running war the afghan president throws a spiral 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 detention of the sputnik news agency staff in turkey.

from moscow thanks for joining us on our to international this hour welcome to the program. or tensions continue to rise on the border between greece and turkey were a buildup of moderates 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 florida extra soldiers and is vowing to increase the deterrent as violent clashes broke out between police and migrant. 'd ok. i.

always go to the greek kodori have been arrested and detained. and in my mind this is me go way over entering one country. let's see if they use ready to respond to what's happening at it's out of borders live to our europe correspondent all of us peter thanks for coming i'm sure this is obviously being keenly watched how all decision makers planning to respond to a potential new wave of refugees this is like deja vu 2015 almost. well in this german state of bavaria they've reacted angry to angrily i beg your pardon to the news that he was going to open their borders and allow migrants to try and move into the european union in bavaria they're accusing the turkish side

of trying to squeeze more money out of the european union and a saying that that's a demand that's a blackmail even europe shouldn't give in to we need to create political solution it is clear that we must not allow ourselves to be blackmailed by turkey. well that's a sentiment that's being echoed by the greek government greece has suspended all asylum applications for one month anybody who does get into the country and applies for asylum they're not going to be able to do that at the moment greece says turkey is using these migrants as a pawn in a game to try in exert more diplomatic power now turkey's decision to open these borders is linked to an increase in military action in northern syria on turkey's southern border that border which as with syria and chris says that it

just can't handle the numbers of refugees and migrants that it's taken into the country at the moment and that's why they've said that they go to open up the borders now turkey's actions actually goes against the 2016 deal it struck with the european union whereby to he would accept millions and housed millions of refugees in exchange for financial aid from the european union but the french president emanuel has said that his country is willing to step in and try and help. full solidarity with greece and bulgaria france is ready to contribute to european efforts to give them rapid assistance and protect the borders we must act together to avoid a humanitarian and migration crisis. where european council president charles michel is expected to visit the affected area in greece alongside the greek prime minister tries to get a handle on what europe's response is going to be to

a situation that is starting to resemble that which we saw 2015 all over again. all right peter thanks for that update artie's you're of course one apiece all over their life from violence. so we can get some more reaction now from studier school of law and a v.p. for greece's series a party for more on this escalating issue thanks for joining us the last kids have in the program today what do you think turkey hopes to achieve hopes to gain by opening its borders with the e.u. . so well a miserable gotos black male in europe. if you want to boss. greece in europe and if you want. him sort of the mate to shop or human question hughes of the burns who is campaigning in syria the whole issue of you know what of course risk there are going to take you know that i'm just over the fact that the european are you know does not want to research very

much afraid of the refugees and the immigrants there is a political problem because of the extreme right in europe nobody wants to degrade who's jewish and mr erdogan is be given the cues for the problem and he's taking advantage of it turkey's already hosting more than 3000000 refugees it's got another 900000 potentially trying to cross into. into turkey from a lab rather i mean shouldn't edwin's partners be doing more here doesn't ankara have a right to feel aggrieved and concerned about what's going on. of course of course to europe or should they get money for should be that you know and not just you couldn't be to instruct your wrist to mr and the land to day care for the refugees but do you now the problem right now the momentum used the restart of the gun to the stadium to use kind of fame syria and that's why he wants more support to from

nato and the european union refused blackmail him using this dutch way i mean he suddenly after the use of forces were both in syria you know decided to drop of the borders as i said to do refugees to europe but you know refugees are human beings they're not you know lake water where none exist or operate in and it glows in the divine it's you know it's more than that and he's not using. here his usual or is as that but of course again she was taken over by answers of the you know sort of who are her stand of the european union there seems to be 2 separate questions he doesn't have a the question of financial assistance from the e.u. and help from the e.u. and support for its offensive to live offensive which one do you think is the pro to hear from us that i don't. no i mean do you measure and don't usually see i've

been a. regular of the money he was promised you there is no problem. if you want someone you know goes you didn't usually the. human being should use leg it was your good work. probably the other thing is that you want to believe the goal or order for syria she has nothing to lose it usually says no question this you get into your words you know do you know. the european union what's course there are 2 should by the. way they did issues and . go it's blown with with both of them ok thanks so much for coming on that a study escalade a series an m.e.p. thanks for joining us in the program thank you. our long

anticipated peace deal between the u.s. and the taliban to end the almost 2 decade long war in afghanistan has hit a hurdle while the afghan president has slammed the proposed release of 5000 taliban prisoners the militant group has said it will not take part in into afghan talks until prisoners are released however u.s. secretary of state mark from peo insists everything is still under control. so act so there have been expected it's actually happened there have been prisoner releases from both sides before we've managed to figure our path forward i want to 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 that the pentagon will pull out that remaining contingent within 14 months the pain of course on taliban corp the question remains though will the agreement hold saskia taylor takes up a 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

bloody costly but a new dawn is on the horizon and it's being hailed as a victory we will keep going to the furthest. if you ok work there's already today even if. they need force to get it because i'm sure. that her reading comprehension is 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 ending a war my times many thought it wouldn't happen the deal has come off to 18 months of polling 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 clause 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 dumond's that the

taliban officially recognize gone his government about going to government was not even invited to the negotiations and when they were participated not only participated. not as a government representatives brokaw's 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. battles have been waged by afghan troops or very simply. means that. 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 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 school bus them boom and kim jong un isn't quite ready to step away from his new killer 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 pose for a photo then crown jewel south victor leave others to figure out the logistics tried and tested. 4 employees of russia's sporting news agency 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 sports league employees in the capital we spoke to the head of the sport nick turkey's office max endured enough and organizations head of foreign broadcasting to i'll carry off. you know. 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 group of police officers arrived at our istanbul office as well as to the editor in chief of sputnik turkey as i understand it article on the turkish province of what i served as the basis for the searches and. it's the 1st time our journalists have been involved in such a situation of course we've had hard times in turkey once when turkish police

captured a group of i saw militants in 2015 they had a kind of killing list which included turks and foreigners and also our colleague who was working at the syrian turkish border at the time we've also faced challenges after russian military jet was shot down by turkey and syrian air space we also asked the authorities in istanbul to provide us with protection but we've never seen things like this we've never seen a well planned group target the homes of our journalist with racist slurs threats and harassment so we expect all necessary measures to be taken but if they're not we'll have good reason to stick concern for our safety. all the staff the tension came off the sputnik published an article describing how turkey was given a piece of syrian territory 18 years ago when it was still a french colony the russian foreign ministry and a spokesperson for the european security organization the west see were quick to condemn these actions. the attack on the employees of the turkish bureau of news

agency and their detention is a gross violation of the rights of journalists this represents a significant encouragement 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 2016 following critical comments by vladimir putin about the turkish leadership you support nick website was blocked by the internet regulator the general secretary of the european federation of journalists although he suspects the new staff are being used as collateral in a bigger political route. to key is well known. for attacking arresting journalists but in this case. i'm concerned but by the fact that there was no reason at all no objective reason i mean to detain and arrest these journalists i think it's

a clear case of intimidation and maybe it's not the last one the journalists union . strongly condemned these actions against journalists working for russian media in into a case or from the journalistic community i would see that we have an enormous in and then you know on this case it's a clear case of arrest meant 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 states i believe that these journalists are being for the tension between 2 key and russia in syria and particularly in need leap province. that's and i think there is a kind of instrument allays asian off the police legal actions not for journalistic reasons but for political reasons. after the break we'll look at how

a 3rd of poland has declared itself to be an l d b t free zone and what that means for the country's relationship with the e.u. . lead.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you then. could tell you back with us there's been a backlash against sexual minority rights in poland where a 3rd of municipalities have the cloud themselves l d b t free zones. takes a look at how the move clashes with what he used cornerstone ethos 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. 6 for the do you. feel. that.

now in poland nearly 100 minutes a pull on local governments have proclaimed himself to be free from l g b t ideology covering an area that some say. it's up to a 3rd of the country it follows a campaign by poland's ruling 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 toys francis committed to combat things human rights violations based on sexual orientation we cannot accept that the ties that unite us through an oath

of winning should be tainted with the position taken by. but in poland there is real concern about the promotion of l g b t ideology of 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 indication travel around the world know languages and they're good and interest and very soon as you did your children grow up in a family of a fire their 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 the international lesbian gay bisexual trans and intersex 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 29000 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 bug area and variance were also the least supportive of legal gender recognition or 3rd option gender markers some have described this disconnect between east and west you state 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 aftermath of breaks it perhaps the real problems it faces a far more in cranes in the cultural differences of its member states. r.t. in paris. police in the philippines say a day long hostage situation at a shopping center near the capital manila has come to an end as security guards had been holding around 30 employees at gunpoint after apparently trying to rally former colleagues to take action against the managers the district mayor told reporters one person has been shot and is a hospital all of the hostages have now been released. and other headlines israelis are voting for an unprecedented 3rd time in less than a year the parliamentary elections are another test for prime minister benjamin

netanyahu as he battles corruption charges opinion polls predict another stalemate with his main rival the centrist benny gantz. star france's biggest tourist attraction the louvre have forced the world's most visited museum to close over fears of spreading the coronavirus the country is dealing with around $100.00 cases and has confirmed 2 deaths in while in iran a member of the supreme leader's advisory council has died from the virus. or not feel physical pain might sound like a gift from many books one russian teenager it's anything but the she was born with extremely rare disorder that means she's unable to feel pain or gauge temperatures it's left 13 year old from druggists completely reliant on her mother. in the u.s. lynch asylum a member when she was little and her t.'s were about to come ali to my son came up

to me and said tom she's bleeding of the cup that was strange to me because i couldn't figure out where it was coming from the professional as it turned out she had beaten her tongue into it was like a snake after a while her tongue split into only she was a. good. look up time i was there when the diagnostic scheme i was shocked my life completely changed from that moment pain is our protection only getting burnt or break something when we fall 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. this is a. very ancient women especially the witness the digital voice that has been using the ideas that are what.

you are 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 with what elissa wall political. up next that goes on the ground follows the ongoing extradition case of julian a song for u.k. view was running gating to explore the ideology behind new liberalism and it's causing with his for yahoo states we're back in 30 minutes with the latest.

why do we go to war because we view the key to economic growth as oil and energy we go to war is vice president cheney said for the oil that's why they invaded iraq for the oil that's why trump says the one thing we want to syria we really don't want to go to war with russia we want to just control the oil. and the gas lines and the pipelines through afghanistan so the military is really an extension of controlling a world of energy and oil. time after time called parisian to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important it's accelerating transitions to sustainable transport sustainability amana

a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely hama's. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away and this is something else just as he wants any minute i need much. since i moved to do nieminen einstein theme that he understood.

i'm not sure if that's where we're going on the ground as the u.k. e.u. trade talks begin today to determine a post brics it future while they do nation media continues to look away from the case of arbitrarily detained julia songe which may determine the end of free speech in britain coming up on the show deputy leader of the left party in the german bundestag 7 document calls on maybe leadership candidate gets accused of persecution of jews to see for himself in court what the u.n. calls torture and arbitrary detention of the founder of wiki leaks plus forget the coronavirus will breaks it all doubts on multinational chemical companies catalyze mass insect extinction all this more coming up in today's going underground but 1st what was it actually like to sit in a london court last week watching an alleged travesty of justice as arbitrarily detained and tortured wiki leaks founder julian assange fought for his freedom one international observer was the deputy leader of the left party in the german bundestag 7 dag dillon who along with 32 other m.p.'s from.