are afraid that asaad will sell them out to the turks and as sad as ad probably wants both gone. militias have denied reports that they've reached a deal with ourselves forces those say they are in talks with damascus i was photojournalist danny makki who says surprisingly enough both turkey and the kurds are now looking to us for decisive action well it is ironic because both the.

are afraid that assad will sell them out to the turks and asaad asaad probably wants both gone we spoke to journalist amy mackey who says surprisingly enough both turkey and the kurds are now looking to assad for decisive action. well it is ironic because both the and the turks of a different time stated their absolute condemnation of the syrian government and their own willingness to deal with with president assad or the government at any particular moment in time now now both of these groups are now looking at the massacres as some sort of peacemaker in this conflict because the first factories desperation both sides cannot find an ultimate solution to this conflict which is emerge i mean the turks are losing troops and tanks on a day to day basis because of the. allies by any stretch of the imagination but they view that deal with assad would be better than making a deal on very weak terms with the turks the second factor is the lack of the definitive role of the united states of america which is essentially think it's two main allies in syria or next to syria fighting each other now

are afraid that asaad will sell them out to the turks and asaad assad probably wants both gone. we spoke to her saying by cheap professor of international relations that anchor is middle east technical university who says that if the turks enter the city of afrin itself it will take the confrontation to a new level then turkey and after and then it will be difficult because the city war will start and it is another type of military confrontation for what turkish president say is that turkey's ultimate cleanup area from dubai p.g. whether he will reach it others question but at the same time the dialogue between turkey and the search region is very much. russia off that turkey regime. direct told at the moment turkey is rejecting this but from the syrian side this is not rejection maybe the russians arbitrary two sides. both samples of a medal winning curler from russia have tested positive for the prohibited drug melburnian that's according to russian olympic officials alexander crucial it has already stated that he's never used banned substances he said to try and get reports f

that asaad will sell them out to the turks and asaad asaad probably wants both gone. militias have denied reports that they've reached a deal with ourselves forces those say they are in talks with damascus and we spoke to journalist danny makki who says surprisingly enough both turkey and the kurds are now looking to us for decisive action. well it is ironic because both the kurds and the turks of a different time stated their absolute condemnation of the syrian government and their unwillingness to deal with with president assad or the government at any particular moment in time now now both of these groups are now looking at the massacres as some sort of peacemaker in this conflict because the first factory's desperation both sides cannot find an ultimate solution to this conflict which is a murder i mean the turks are losing troops and tanks on a day to day basis because in the south and no allies by any stretch of the imagination but they view that deal with the third would be better than making a deal on a very weak terms with the turks the second factor is the l

are afraid that assad will sell them out to the turks and asaad assad probably wants both gone. we spoke to journalist danny mackey who says surprisingly enough both sides are now looking to our side for decisive action well it is ironic because both the kurds and the turks have a different time stated their absolute condemnation of the syrian government and their unwillingness to deal with with president assad or the government at any particular moment in time now now both of these groups are now looking at the massacres as some sort of peacemaker in this conflict because the first factory's desperation both sides cannot find an ultimate solution to this conflict which is a murder i mean the turks are losing troops and tanks on a day to day basis because in the south and no allies by any stretch of the imagination but they view that as a deal with a third would be better than making a deal on very weak terms with the turks the second factor is the lack of the definitive role of the united states of america which is essentially thing it's two main allies either in syria or next

are afraid that assad will sell them out to the turks and asaad assad probably wants both gone. speak now to the sane bank she's professor of international relations at anchor is middle east technical university good evening to you we've heard it from president saying syrian forces entering our friend quote will pay a high price for this does this mean you conflict a new front in northern syria. i think it can be a conflict it can be a confrontation unless iran and. russia intervene in the conflict and they try to moderate between turkey and the bashar assad regime but that's in the report indicated no doubt the white p.g. is very much afraid that turkey is entering into afghan and the turkish troops stay there whereas south wants to keep of course he's contrie under his control often it's still syrian territory and the kurds now looking both to turkish and to measure assad and they have a strong choice whatever choice they make they have to pay a very high price but definitely they would not choose turkish side they would probably cooperate with bashar assad because in the long

are afraid that will sell them out to the turks and asaad assad probably won't both go on. over to japan now where recently discovered secret government documents have shed light on the practice of forced sterilization which affected thousands of people with mental or physical health issues the procedure was carried out under the now scrapped eugenics protection law it was adopted after the end of world war two and was in force up until nine hundred ninety six it permitted sterilization to quote preserve the purity of the japanese race according to some estimates up to twenty five thousand people were subjected to the procedure the newly revealed archive records pertain to fewer than three thousand victims some of whom are now taking legal action r.t. had a chance to speak with one of them. has a hard time getting through the middle school. one of the teachers took me mr cassatt and his house that i was constantly pieced by his wife i never got enough never got paint and never had the chance to see the official papers to back my diagnosis either she hated me. my teacher too

it's simple if asaad took over african and african syrian territory he could this arm or sideline the y.p. ji ankara's enemy would be neutered and there'd be no more need to throw away turkish lives the kurds in turn would survive and afrin won't be turned into another crater it's the least bad solution so far the only solution to stopping this now. kutluk your question but it is a very good step it's good news for us may god help them and everyone who supports but honey collette analysis we are all very happy about this decision we want this crisis to end so people can return to their homes we are waiting for the pro-government forces to help us it's early days the details are still being worked out the issue is no one trusts anyone the turks are afraid asaad will ally with the y.p. ji the white b.g. are afraid that assad will sell them out to the turks and asaad assad probably wants both gone we spoke to journalist danny makki who thinks that both sides have been expecting our side to step in. well it is ironic because both the kurds and the turks of a different time stated their ab

are afraid that assad will sell them out to the turks and asaad asaad probably won't both go on. to discuss this further i'm joined live by security and political analyst omar now could everyone's announcement be a reaction to the reports that assad sending forces to the afghan region. yes i think i think this is too asian at this collating and as usual one must recall that innocent civilians are trapped in the in the middle as your report just showed so we should first remind that but i think that this situation now is precarious because the syrian government forces will have to move to our three and there is no other choice aphelion is part of syria so therefore if they let the african down and they do not actually interfere that shows that they. lenient with their vision of the territory and that is not the position of the syrian government in fact this turkish escalation brings the city as together it creates more unity among the city and it makes them realize that in the end they will have to be under the authority of the government the legitimate government in syria and tha

are afraid that assad will sell them out to the turks and asaad assad probably wants both gone. discuss this further i'm joined live by security and political analysts on. now could everyone's announcement be a reaction to the reports that assad sending forces to the afghan region yes i think the.

the nothing and nobody can stop us turkish soldiers simple if asaad took over african and african is syrian territory he could this some or sideline the y.p. ji ankara's enemy would be neutered and there'd be no more need to throw away turkish lives.

fighters from strikes these same people jihad ists who say they're fighting to free the country from asaad then turn their guns on protesters when they day complain about the jihad ists themselves. this infamous incident being one of them a crowd of demonstrators fired upon by rebel fighters john kerry himself once called the rebels holding east ghouta a subgroup of isis and al qaeda remember what the u.s. led coalition deeds to isis in mosul. one of bail. addled an entire city thousands of civilians dead yet they say there was no choice the terrorists were sponsible by using human shields a sad fact of war two billion casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation do you agree that some of the the high level of i think ridiculous standard that we had previously is now created this. behavior by ice is that they now realize if they take human shield they're going to avoid being struck and that actually this is adding to the problem congressman i do believe they understand our sensitivity to civilian casualties and they're exploiting that and i do agree that as we move into these ur

fighters from strikes these same people jihad ists who say they're fighting to free the country from asaad then turn their guns on protesters when they day complain about the jihad ists themselves. this infamous incident being one of them a crowd of demonstrators fired upon by rebel fighters john kerry himself once called the rebels holding east ghouta a subgroup of isis and al qaeda remember what the u.s. . led coalition deeds to isis in mosul. one of the janitors of yeah. they leveled an entire city thousands of civilians dead yet they say there was no choice the terrorists were sponsible by using human shields a sad fact of war for some reason this time around they seem to be avoiding any mention of who it is that controls east ghouta all but the same job when these limits blindly shelled damascus every day and slaughter more and more civilians well that's war when the syrian army responds suddenly it's an atrocity remarkable isn't it how the rules change entirely depending on who's calling the shots. well to discuss the latest in syria i'm happy to say that we're joined live on the pro

pentagon and in the white house so i think that's really the answer the question the overthrow of asaad was always the product of prone the reason why the americans were in syria the army in treating these groups intervening with air strikes and so on they were diverted from that by diet know with the possibility of a defeated diet inside syria that policy that reassert itself this is coming at the end of a long war the united states has taken about twenty eight percent of syrian territory and over fifty percent of its oil this is led british in order to roll back the one and get rid of my side by side just i get it he wants that oil for himself there was a race only a few months ago to get those fields and he's proving undoubtedly under the pretext of biting isis the united states didn't think it was so the united states is trying to lay down the law here and not let anybody pro and as we know it turks threatened and mend it could take on the americans over there so the united states i think is very patients. and turkey will begin to push america out to try to push america out of north

pro asaad forces come to the aid of syrian kurds in affray in bringing them into likely conflict with turkey. some of them julie went on this is live from london also coming up taking it lying down protests to take their message to the white house as pressure mounts on lawmakers over the florida school shooting. oxfam issues its first direct apology to the haiti government after an internal report reveals new detail about the prostitution scandal that's rocked the ngo. and me sunda threat the passage of time overtakes the philippines favorite minibuses. we begin the program in syria where developments near the border with turkey have the potential to further complicate the battle ground turkey says its troops will fight forces loyal to the syrian president if they enter the northern or grave of a free to defend kurdish find to syria's state news agency says the syrian forces would enter a free within hours to join what it called the resistance to turkish aggression. steph decker has more. syrian state television and now says that forces loyal to president bashar al assad will be deplo

russian turkish axis is assad and i think in the package oh you said is the kurds watching those well asaad is saying is coming to help the codes it was certainly the case that the government forces were fighting in the same say as the kurds against so-called islamic state but our side has no love of the codes he'd like to to control of the region saw that our layman opens up the possibility he could turn in the codes as well so what we're seeing here is a huge chunk of change road in alliances which must be discomforting the americans who find themselves in a very awkward situation now in our eyes of the codes as they still are but no facing possible trouble with turkey we have the trouble relationship that russia and of course around so what we're seeing here is a change of alignment in the middle east and america looking like it's being a bit more sidelined that certainly is used to be in the past. what can president assad gain from intervening in a friend our friend do you think or. well i think he must be looking at the possibility that he can bring regain control of the territory here

unprovoked attack on the headquarters of its ally the syrian democratic forces but russia which backs asaad says the strikes are part of an effort by washington to control key economic assets in the region ah pentagon correspondent jane has more. i said at a briefing with secretary of defense jim mad as he was off camera but on the record he called what happened in syria a quote perplexing situation and he said because for years the euphrates river has been a kind of do not cross line that if the u.s. or u.s. backed forces or russian or russian backed forces were going to cross it they'd talk about it before and he said that didn't happen this time you said u.s. forces were embedded along with the s.d.f. and they saw tanks and artillery start rolling in. and say that one shell got within five hundred meters of the s.d.f. headquarters says that is when they picked up the phone they called their russian counterparts and he says he doesn't think the group that moved in is actually controlled by russia he called this a great success story because in his words two great powers did not fight each

asaad was trying to expand syria's economy and to normalize the country's international relations with the at the thought of he and his wife had been educated overseas and they were tired of being treated as out costs by the international community as. france demanded that syria recognize lebanon sovereignty assad agreed and a few weeks later he was welcomed in paris and invited to attend a summit of european north african and middle eastern states. sarkozy sought asan support for his plan to create a mediterranean alliance to be led by france and. assad was treated like an honored guest during his visit he attended the annual busty de military parade on the sean sleezy. and he joined other heads of state on the reviewing stand. but sarkozy's efforts to build a mediterranean alliance stalled and assad was still dragging his feet on implementing economic and political reforms at home. his trip to france ended without a single major agreement still needed sarkozy to help him achieve his immediate goal to convince washington to lift the sanctions it had imposed on syria. bashar assad said

reasons why this is a very very hot topic one of those is that this assaults launched by the various pro asaad militias and the russian mercenaries as well looks to have been a complete disaster and the overwhelming u.s. firepower has resulted in the deaths of a group or a large number of fighters and people the other thing is that this is basically threatens to blow the lid on a very murky parts of russian's foreign policy russia has been using. private military companies mercenaries into the conflicts that it's currently involved in the ukraine and in syria this is largely being kept out of the public eye and i were certainly away from the headlines when it comes to what the russian public citizens know about so if it turns out that yes indeed hundreds of russian citizens did die in this attack then that is it's a big deal potentially for the kremlin. these groups and these companies are basically being used as a sort of way of outsourcing military dirty work mckee paying it off the books in terms of money who's paying for it but also off the books in terms of casualties and this basically m

asked saadi asaad deal freedom freedom the students are at least able to voice their protest without interference the security forces are nowhere to be seen. and. protests are somehow a part of daily life after all there are many grievances that need addressing not least an important public sector of health care. once again delhi is under a blanket of small the problem is particularly bad at the cold time of year people cough and complain of headache and say their eyes are burning. baby's body because of what it is. i mean bits and pieces that are never people out yet but if they. are four or five days now things have been unbearable this filth is dangerous and toxic. at times the fine particle levels exceed a thousand that's forty times higher than the threshold value set by the world health organization the tiny particles get into the bloodstream and the lungs increasing the risk of cancer and stroke the main culprits are diesel vehicles and the countless fires in the streets and all major public holidays like the valley the festival of lights fireworks add to the problem experts a

believe the attacks are probably use to a major offensive in the area which has been under siege by asaad government forces since twenty thirteen turkey says it will fight forces loyal to syria's president if the enter are fleeing as part of an agreement with the kurdish why p.g. turkey launched an offensive last month to push kurds out of the area the white house says u.s. president donald trump is open to supporting improved background checks on gun purchases in the wake of last week's school shooting in florida activists staged a protest outside the white house the mounting action to stop future mass shootings seventeen students and staff members were killed by a teenager with an assault rifle in the city of parkland times when speaking to members of congress about a bipartisan bill aimed at improving checks on those wanting to buy a weapon rescuers in mozambique say they fear they'll find more dead bodies on the rubbish dump that's collapsed with seventeen people confirmed dead already parts of a three story high pile of garbage in the capital maputo came down on houses during a heavy

and differs with it on syria's future asaad has said he wants to take back control of the whole country while the kurds want in the totemist region in northern syria will mark said rooms is an assistant professor of political science at northeastern university he's joining us now on skype from boston thank you very much indeed for your time i want to ask you about this conflict of interest apart from anything else that seems to have risen here the kurds want their own autonomous region in syria another asking the government to protect them from turkey what's the motivation behind this agreement and why now. well i mean. the kurds and the syrian government are not you know i don't know everything all of us leave the kurds want to make it in a while to me at least who where is the syrian government has said consistently third it wants to reclaim every inch of territory lost foam in the civil war that said there is strategic convergence and there really has been going back several years now the syrian government young the kurds fought against islamic state for example and more importantly

so asaad forces come to be a deaf syrian kurds in a frame risk of an armed conflict with. all of them to meet all of this is sound sincere ally from up also.

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