international in the headlines this hour crisis talks currently underway still in moscow as the leaders of russia and turkey look to dial down the violence in syria . surge in fighting there is not only brought the 2 powers military to the brink of for direct confrontation it's also provoked a brawl in the turkish parliament there's going to be a media conference in the coming hours it will go to it meantime turkey's border dispute with greece is escalating with an estimated $25000.00 asylum seekers massing along the border. made it through a big rounded up and deported coming up we report from the front here and elsewhere tonight this is a truly breathtaking action by an unaccountable to shoot masquerading as

a legal by. the u.s. secretary of state pay launches a blistering attack against the international criminal court gives the green light to an investigation into possible war crimes in afghanistan. free speech advocates in the united kingdom condemned the oxford women's festival decision to no platform a feminist professor following complaints from trans activists. and some members of a fight back and some transects had said that they would not appear at the conference if i was there so they asked me if i would like to invite myself and just not cause. they were going to talk about that it's just today pm here in moscow this thursday the 5th of march my name is kevin oh we're live here at the international world news center. 1st high stakes that underway talks big ones in moscow this thursday

have been continue for hours now as the leaders of russia and turkey try to ease the violence in syria's war stricken province the 2 international powers are backing opposing sides in the conflict which has brought them perilously close to direct confrontation in recent weeks has got the latest. eject type of a gun is here in moscow qur'an lane meeting bloody murder putting a while ago the turkish leader announced a special gathering on syria in istanbul between turkey and russia but also france and germany but one member put in convinced his turkish counterpart that they do not need mediators i had a rare access to the room where the 2 leaders shook their hands and i can tell you both putin i never got looked very focused and concentrated here their expectations of this meeting. we must talk through everything the entire situation that has unfolded to this day so that nothing like this ever happens again and so that this doesn't damage russian turkish relations which we all hold very dearly i know that

the whole world is watching this meeting i believe that today's decisions will alleviate the tensions in italy the relations between russia and turkey are at their highest our task today is to make them even better what is clear already it is not going to be an easy conversation journalists were not allowed to attend there is no press conference expected tensions in beer and that's because tensions maybe even higher on the ground. with russia and turkey blaming each other for is collation on what is the atmosphere in and around syria ahead of at argonne putin's meeting here in moscow here's my report a new wave of refugees flooding towards europe nato losing his patients turkey russia relations plunging to new lows this is all fallout from the crisis serious last rebel held province dominated by terrorists is a province just the largest al qaeda safe haven since 911 tied directly to iman

also here this is a huge problem private seems to be a magnet for terrorist groups all of them are new sense of menace and a threat to the civilians damascus with russia's help us fight in them on the ground it says to. protect civilians turkey one of data strongest arm is alongside militant groups is fighting the syrian military on the syrian territory also it claims to protect civilians. separating hardcore terrorists for a moderate armed groups opposing assad was turkey's responsibility according to 2018 memorandum but it was never done the result of almost 18 months of this agreement was the displacement of all moderate opposition militants by terror

groups higher taria al shaab the islamic party of take a stand and criticized deen officially recognized by the un as terrorists the fortified terrorist areas of the military turkish observation post as per the agreement as it bothered turkey's nato partners nope not at all we support turkey's efforts to reestablish the ceasefire agreed in 2080 and to protect those innocent civilians fleeing the regime's monstrous assault the turkish military and the syrian opposition are 1st of all fighting to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe tremendous a poor attack but that's still not enough for at argonne he once more. up what we did is we opened our borders because you promised as assistance but did nothing and we will not close these doors because the e.u. must keep its word only if european countries want to resolve the issue they must

support turkey's efforts for political and humanitarian solutions in syria for their own strategy seems to be working europe is considering how best to undermine russia's efforts in syria and this is the question now which also needs to be raised regarding syria where pretty much aware of what is doing in syria what's russia is doing is fighting extremists and ad lib it says but as the conflict rages at least there is still room for dialogue. here with tensions running high we asked chris bambery what he thinks the come of this thursday's marathon talks a mosque is going to be and as i say stand by any point been waiting for hours now that a press is going to happen there to come and talk to the media cameras there and what will go to it what happens by the way this is what chris bambery thinks why i think we have to start by working beyond syria and seeing that there is more but me x. russian talking common and there is divides it the division is syria but there's

a lot more that unites them in the current current state of the world particularly in relationship to united states and the west in a sense awards towards europe so that will influence what the events are on know what the primary interest of the one is is to prevent another in for refugees war i think the compromise might be would be to go back to what the previous agreement was to have a ceasefire and a much more truncated area a road that other talk at the border on syrian territory where those people can stay with the talks monitoring that cease fire talking in order one's opinion has been left to shoulder this burden with that economic damage and all the problems that cause so a potential doubling of the refugee population and inside inside it's ok is something he wants to avoid. ahead of the leaders meeting in moscow tempers boiled over in the turkish parliament on wednesday m.p.'s from the ruling a.k.p.

and the main opposition party launched into fear of this fight after a lawmaker condemned edwards military intervention in syria the president hit back verbal describing is critical as dishonorable and treacherous. and the atmosphere is also turns at turkey's border with the e.u. as we've been reporting for last few days or an estimated $25000.00 asylum seekers have gathered since friday attempting to try to cross desperate in the greece in the e.u. turkish authorities have claims one man died there on wednesday after greek police opened fire on a group of migrants an allegation that athens denies reporting from the border next tonight charlie do bensky. in the dead of night they've set up camp these migrants who say they are from syria have succeeded where so many haven't crossed the border from turkey into greece. or holland but even the most basic of conflicts can come at a cost on the $1.00 hand lighting

a fire means want for the children on the other it means being visible to the security forces unfallen t. is trying to protect greece's borders. greece says it stopped thousands from entering into its borders within the last week of those who have made it through many have been arrested and they have been taken to detention facilities like this one here behind me that surround 10 miles from the frontier now you can see children playing clothes hung out to dry so despite the barbed wire and the high fences with security posts life goes on greece has just announced that it will create another center in this area to deal with any new cross from turkey the plan is to deport them as soon as possible and while e.u. chiefs have come to greece's aid saying it is acting as europe shield others are

more critical of the books position this is a moment to which people is questioning guy davidi existence and the very role of the of the european union not this is we don't have to feel to run after the storm much of the people we must help the people to understand how complex is the life oakum pixie's there is the is the war there and and and showed the ability to have the political force to fix that and not calling these people and these disparate people. because calling a greaser shield that means that these people are our weapon for the president and he says the buddha should be opened there is no. act even in the in the policies of the european union that allow the members to suspend. did the right. to request. you know contrary i know that this is a very difficult situation but democracy and the rule of law must apply more than

ever in this kind of situation and my opinion that francesco talked about dignity. the conditions on the border a not dignified he said neither was the existence of many thousands of my clients who live on a day to day basis stuck in limbo in senses like we've seen he's calling on the e.u. to sort out its issues and to find a solution to the crisis so that countries like greece and no longer left shouldering the burden of my question. you can ski aussie for luck you need the greek turkish border more thoughts on this on thursday turkey announced is going to send thousands police officers to the border to prevent the greek side from driving back those desperate asylum seekers we spoke to some of the migrants about the hazardous journey they're attempting to make here. i came from of

ghana stand i arrived at the border with groups but it's closed and one can't grow the group security forces are dispersing migrants with tear gas. i'm from iran and i want to go to europe as you know the economic situation in our country is very bad we tried to cross the border but security forces detained us took all our belongings and venus. we left afghanistan and came to work in turkey we left everything behind when we had turkey was opening its border but as it turns out the border is closed no one is helping us out of. a 2nd some other news now next the u.s. secretary of state's bitterly condemned the decision by the international criminal court to authorize an investigation into possible war crimes in afghanistan might prompt little or no circumstances will washington allow american citizens to be held accountable by the hague based organization. we've come to know this i.c.c. is a truly a political body we have evidence suggesting that there has been there have been

efforts to provide misinformation to the court by foreign parties we're going to take all the appropriate actions to ensure that american citizens are not hold before this political body to settle a political vendetta. of indignation that is going to kill it. is secretary so annoyed by this i.c.c. investigation that well indeed now the united states has just signed a peace deal regarding afghanistan and now we have an inquiry by the international criminal court about the activities of the united states in that country now it has been 18 years that the united states has maintained a military presence in afghanistan and it appears the international criminal court is launching an inquiry into what exactly has gone on take a listen the prosecutor is out tourists to commence in this to gauge in

relation to elect crimes committed in the gulf gonna stunt towson and who are treatment outrageous of personal dignity and. rape and other forms of sexual violence committed to a spotless a policy by a member of the cia. now it is not only intelligence members who are accused of committing crimes in afghanistan it's members of the u.s. armed services who are accused of disappearances killing civilians and attacking health care facilities by human rights watch according to the latest u.n. report over 100000 civilians have died at the hands of the united states we just broken into a caleb maupin there as you can say caleb processor talk of the moment because when across like the central moscow as promised we knew was going to happen now it is russian president. holding talks on the violence consuming series province here we

go. to when you move through the day we have concluded the 3rd meeting this year. and. close contacts allow us to resolve bilateral issues and develop a mutual approach to resolving key international issues today we have discussed a very urgent situation. in the syrian province of. them since the beginning of this year militants acting in this province have acts of etudes with you and they have a doing a lot of damage to the civilians. whether militants have continued that attack on the russian made me mad or base once again the. attempted to.

use missiles and to shelling against it and there have been at least 15 attacks on me mean since the start of this year and each time in real time we informed our to kish counterparts of that in fact the militants were able to restart hostilities unfortunately turkish military troops have also. been killed and in this regard i expressed my condolences to mr erdogan erdogan. and i've expressed my condolences to the entire turkish people. but we don't always agree with everything. regards to our syrian partners but in every critical moment. that. we base our actions on a high level of our below troll ties and we were always able to find. some

mutual understanding and develop and come up with the solutions. and we were able to do the same thing today we have reaffirmed that both of our countries are interested in computing our work within the us on our format it is the ass on our processes and that boosted syrian political process and today's meeting was preceded by. a work by several consultations of different delegations. on the situation in their lives and both our countries believe that we need to preserve the sovereignty and territorial integrity of syria we are convinced that. we cannot stop fighting international terrorism. and following the

results of our meeting we formed you know come up with a document that. will the presented by our foreign ministers the document. speaks of decisions that myself and mr earlier one on have come up with over our. talks i hope that these agreements will how create the foundation to. to. find a way towards discoloration in and syria. and will help prevent a humanitarian crisis and to create conditions to continue the peace process in the syrian arab republic between all the parties involved i'd like to thank mr. i thank you for coming to

moscow and to reaffirming the stages of our relations i like to think of all of our colleagues for this difficult but very constructive work which results very positively thank you. if you do. so. i would like to thank mr putin. the minister and. media ladies in jail. so i like to express my deepest respect for. everyone i like to thank mr putin for my team me for meeting we see that these tensions persist and it's good to have had this meeting.

today we pay special attention to. syria and to the recent developments in the province of idlib as i don't put in the we spend 6 hour worse. toking over this a she. i can say that we had a very frank conversation. and we discussed. every issue. on the agenda as you know relations between turkey and russia go deep into history. we have a 5 hardwoods 100 years of. history that we share between our peoples there are very close relations traditions. what we would like to do is to continue our car parade on the principles of mutual

respect this year we're celebrating the $130.00 verster of establishing diplomatic relations and we invited to vladimir putin to visit on that occasion. as you know in 2018 year september. that then put in i reached an agreement we signed the sochi memorandum. agreeing upon. this situation in a we agreed to alleviate tensions and we. agreed. that there will be no attacks launched in that region. starting. was may. more and more attacks started to appear and that was the reason why we believe the agreement was

violated that was a violation. the responsibility lies with the regime's forces they violated the agreement 4000000 people live in that region and these 4000000 people are not terrorists but they are bar none the less we don't think this is acceptable . people refuse g.'s they are fleeing their homes because of these attacks according to the to the data from the un around 1500000 people are now right on the border with turkey. syria government wants to. wipe out the people in that region and drive refuse to territory. and we will not stand idly by. there is

a lot of tension we installed our observation posts in the province of these. past we were there to control and monitor all the ceasefire. some time ago russia. and turkey. agreed. to send reinforcements in order to stabilize the situation on the ground. so. you know to stop attacks from happening. to prevent the regime from attacking we had to act. proactively we applied every necessary measure to be maintain dialogue with russia. because of the many attacks coming from the regime. we've experienced

a number of. problems. that is why we had to change the status. of our operation today we discussed this issue with our russian colleagues carper aeration between turkey and russia. today is at a very high level this is what are allowed us to reach agreement. we also discuss a situation to the east of euphrates we agreed to work even closer. on syria i believe that relations with russia. will not be damaged by this situation today. at the negotiating table were

discussed in this crisis and we exercised our political will to achieve common ground. we will be implementing cease fire and we will be coordinating a number of steps this night starting from midnight. this very midnight we will be establishing ceasefire. nodded to make this regime last we are ready to make every necessary step. what we need to do is not to further deteriorate the humanitarian crisis. we will do our best to help the people in need in syria. we were all so. everything within our power to help the refugees to come back to

their homes. those people who had to flee because of the attacks. of foreign minister world be getting out of the joint statement that we agreed upon turkey stock. retains the right to respond to any attacks on the part of syria. my dear friend put in i we will maintain dialogue on this see surely there will be dialogue between the. ministry. as for this crisis we will continue working together we will respect serious tutorial integrity and sovereignty. because what we want to do is to settle this issue

will stand by the sochi agreement the only way to solve this problem is to. ensure lasting peace stability. spurs he she need you go share it in process thank you very much and i do hope and i am sure that this meeting of ours will be a major contribution to the process but the lead is in jail to manage that we will be reading out the russian text of the joint statement on the additional protocol to the memorandum on the stabilisation of the situation in the province of with liberty as of september 17th to go to the turkey and russia to guarantee also the ceasefire in syria. relying on the memorandum on these collation zones signed in may the 4th 2017 and the liberties question 0 no one side of september 28th reconfirm their commitment to respecting the tone taken

to and sovereignty of syria. we are determined to fight terrorism and they are ready akkad all terrorist groups. by the un security council and we agree that there should be no proud to civil infrastructure and also we. and there is no . reason to. try to justify such efforts global political process should be launched it should be syrian own syrian led process relying on the help of the un according to the resolution 2254 of. which you will need to highlight the fact that the situation should not be. going down the words the crisis should be prevented we should help the civilians without any preconditions without any discrimination and. we need to prevent people from being

displaced and relocated we need to help people to come back both refugees and internally displaced persons within syria we agreed to do the following to stop all hostilities. along the existing line of contacts starting with midnight march the 6. to create a corridor of security 6 kilometers wide to the self and to the north of the am 4 highway as for the parameters and modalities they are to be coordinated between the . ministries of defense and they will do you know that in 7 days. joint patrols will be launched across along the m 4 highway from the settlement of tumor to the settlement of the hum of additional protocol will be elected right now it's signed today it. has been written and

translated. in russian take a shine english it has been side by mysteries of the fans as well as the. foreign minister of turkey and russia. over the. document it will be reading out the joint statement got into a literal book. in the. most and i got my thinking or you thought it. was in the queue do you think. or do you keep it on so you started live moved or are you. today are up humiliated in a game in the bombs of the believe. in that will long. dead in the you know lyric there is been. a she's made.