Good morning and welcome to the program this is our 2 International Coming to you live from the russian capital bring you your live news update 1st russia and the u. S. Have traded the violent accusations at the u. N. Security council as turkey with western backing warns its a matter of time before it intervenes militarily in syria is it lip. Its like the end of the world breaking point babies freezing to death amid push these people are begging the world to listen to their plight and so i ask how much longer will we tolerate these headlines that they had to recall the United NationsSecurity Council meetings cold that often when militants were marching towards damascus with the full backing of some western states playing the card of suffering civilians and a longstanding truce every time your cherished terrorists come under threat candidly it is a marvel to me that our russian colleagues can speak of ceasefires and Political Solutions in this chamber with a straight face when their own or planes have struck hospitals and the homes of children how can i respond to your accusations of the killing of the civilian population whatever i would say you dont listen you keep talking about targeted bombings of schools hospitals and refugee camps and what hard wouldnt that find a response thats a win win technique who will try to decode it whether its true or not. A Turkish Military convoy has already been filmed crossing the Syrian Border a large line of tanks Armored Vehicles and supply trucks are reportedly moving towards the outskirts of. The syrian army is currently trying to drive militants out of the province are to Senior Correspondent juan garcia looks at the conflict. Turkey is part of the ceasefire agreement had 3 Main Responsibilities one separate the jihad disston the terrorists from the moderate opposition to get them to stop shooting and here to the ceasefire 3 facilitate the opening of an important highway turkey failed with number one bungled number 2 didnt even bother with the 3rd. Theres only so long you can tolerate being shot at and shelled by by al qaida the dominant islamist faction they need lip the Syrian Military went into action and returned near enough a 3rd of a blip because they said they had no choice turkey wouldnt or couldnt hold up its end of the bargain. Offerings and fail to separate militants from terrorists in the timeframe under the 2018 agreements at the same time provocations from the lives own shelling of the Syrian Armed Forces civilian targets and the Russian Air Base have continued but if you are edouard and youre watching the Syrian Military steamrolled the rebels you armed and funded for years youd be worried too worse watching hundreds of thousands of refugees flock to your border that has been an unfortunate side effect of the syrian operation so to stop that exodus and the one who has threatened to do the one thing that could turn those hundreds of thousands into millions of refugees invade syria because human southern. Turkey has made all kinds of preparations to implement its Operational Plan and it worked as an every operation we see we can come suddenly one night to put it more clearly operation. It is now a matter of time we will not leave little to the regime that still does not understand our countrys determination in this matter and so those who encourage it we never intend to shoulder the burden that the developments in this region placed on our country. Thousands of turkish troops hundreds of tanks and artillery pieces are being pumped into it an entire Army Diplomacy thankfully is in overdrive but so far hasnt worked the turks have rejected all compromise they demond asaad give up everything he has retaken the u. S. Backing has been is important because there was a period a few months ago a very poor relations between washington. And the russians of course for terry trying to take advantage of that turkey over to their side much more is off to a greater country could serve washington i think is realized the danger of turkeys getting away from a table from the west and. Completely so they are now giving him backing but as i said at the beginning its terrible mistake for turkey to think its going to fall at this stage they should try and recognize the new realities of the situation do what they promised to do and so much turkey and they zing syria potentially getting in a fight with russia isnt just the worst Case Scenario it would be a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions but tension attending a regional war global we all understand that and none of us wants to see it happen well id say none of us that a very good conversation with the president heard awad i respect him the fact is that hes fighting on it lets be doesnt want people to be killed by the thousands and hundreds of thousands. My condolences to the families of the soldiers killed in yesterdays attack in libya the ongoing assaults by the assad regime in russia must stop ive sent jim jeffrey to ankara to coordinate steps to respond to this destabilizing attack we stand by our nato ally. The United States stands with its nato ally turkey concerning the crisis in the wood and with support restoring the original lines of the such a ceasefire as. Quietly signing everyones already hot tempers is the United States assuring turkey of support the modeling concessions from asset that pretty much ensured talks will fail she were in a strange situation with both closer to the end of the syrian war than weve ever been and will also closer to the worst escalation this war has ever seen. A suspected shooter who allegedly killed 8 people in the western german town of now has been found dead at his home police discovered another body at the location as well for now authorities think there were no other perpetrators. And awful court has ruled against a norwegian concrete firm seeking damages from its government for a botched attempt to recruit its workers in russia as spies artist mary for national has the details. It drains like an unlikely story a government with quite literally a concrete plan for spying now we join intelligence they used one of the countrys Successful Companies to snoop on russia but when caught red handed the company has been left empty handed with its hugely lucrative contract ripped in pieces. Early on but dont blame the now we join us or it is for that and filed a case against them but lost now is preparing to appeal were entering a twill affect the countrys business and its relations with russia it will for sure have great impact on other Norwegian Companies plan and activities in russia norway has a very hostile attitude towards its business in russia. It is unclear whether the alleged attempts by the Norwegian Intelligence Services were successful or not but the company had been the only one to get the hard to win contracts with russia that surprised many people from. Tough guys when i was minister of Foreign Affairs we were in contact with them he struck me then there was actually no one who succeeded in russia except for one they did not come from the russian neighboring region nor did they have any of the natural conditions for success in the months creation but they got it it seems that the battle is not yet over not until the courts final decision is set in concrete. The french president has vowed to battle what he calls islamic separatism in france. Made the claims while campaigning ahead of next months local elections short a report from paris. It was a long awaited speech from president outlining how his presidency will rally against a political islam. We can advance in a credible way to fight against a political ideology this is separatism which is incompatible with freedom and equality is compatible with the indivisibility of the republic and the necessary unity of the nation 1st in the firing line is foreign interference not corn has vowed to end a program that allows countries such as old jewry and turkey to send moms and teachers here to provide Services Without supervision this scheme in place since the 1970 s. Allows those foreigners to provide language and cultural lessons to help children maintain a link with their country of origin around some 80000 children attend these classes every year so im not comfortable with the idea of having women in many schools of the republic who can teach without the Education System exercising their right as controlling and we no longer have control over the programs they teach you. Cannot teach things that are clearly not compatible with the laws of the republic or with history as we see it. Instead mark on wants to have more trained on french soil that would also be an end to the hundreds of additional religious leaders who arrive in france during ramadan mosques will be funded in a transparent way we need to know where the money is coming from who uses it and why he said interesting leavis echoes a policy from his political rival Marine Le Pen during that head to head in 2017 per mandate said this. Oh extremist mosques identified by the ministry of interior and foreign funding or places of worship and. Strong words coming from the president or is it just a last ditch attempt to woo voters ahead of difficult local elections in just a few weeks. Always found to shore up his position with the right wing electorate also with some of the left of course the question of. The secular state in france is important right across the. Calls relationship with parties on both sides of the spectrum. Is important and he needs to make this sort of statement of municipal elections neutering those voters could be a double edged sword france is home to europes largest Muslim Community there are said to be around 6000000 here thats about 8 percent of the population and back in 2017 this Community Overwhelmingly voted for president hes already showing that hes moved away from those centrist ideologies that he once espoused when it outlined the. Immigration another policy direct from the playbook of the pen so by grasping at ideas that some see as being from the hard right wing is he likely to lose voters from the left and from muslims but there are some areas particularly some local municipalities some towns in areas where this is a concern for french voters and so what is doing the context of it is to try to reassure where there are law muslim communities muslim communities that the republicans still searching the values of the secular republic. The election whether that will succeed or not remains to be seen the opinion. So there were my goals for next months elections seen as being a referendum on macaroons presidency his party on the move could they signal the beginning of the end of mcqueen and some. Paris. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has shaken up the u. S. Democratic partys president ial candidate race with his 1st appearance at a primary debate in Las Vegas Bloomberg is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on campaign ads with rivals accusing him of vote buying and of a rally in neighboring arizona President Trump didnt miss the chance to attack his democratic opponents. Washington democrats had never been more extreme taking cues from crazy 37. 00 have many mike has spent 411000000. 00 as you did i tell you i was going to do its probably not going to get the democratic nomination that i was going to you know i came up with the pocahontas to look too early. 2 but fortunately shes self destructed anyway did you ever see a phony like the Democratic Party is the party of hijacked high crime all things the wonders late term abortion socialism blate corruption and the total destruction of your 2nd amendment. To dig deeper were going to be joined live by Dave Lindorff investigative journalist who do you think was the most successful in tonights debate. I would say that. Both sanders and in warren did really well the disaster was was bloomberg he looked like a deer caught in the headlights to me when he was confronted with his his past record on you know massage inist statements about his employees that his Bloomberg Company and his policy towards black young men being thrown against the wall by police and the stop and frisk campaign and then also on his failure to release his taxes publicly for years which you know thats a big accusation against trump and he does the same thing so on balance he seemed very uneasy and it to pay debate situation which kind of surprised me but you know you sort of known for his quick off the cuff jokes but i didnt hear a single one from him he was pretty uptight was a late comer to this race tonight was definitely seen as a test for bloomberg do you think his Massive Campaign spending is going to pay off as it were. Well you know you spent i was looking at how much you spent 411000000000. 00 of foreigner to every time you look at it its by millions of more dollars and thats in 10 weeks at the rate that it is what you may call his burn rate for advertising hes going to wind up spending as much as General Motors spends in a year to prove to advertise its line of cars that the problem hes going to run into i think pretty soon if he hasnt already hit it is saturation you know if everybody. Is seeing the ad to then at that point spending more money doesnt really help you i was talking to john kerry who sputnik radio and he said his 18 year old kid was working on his i pad or i phone or whatever and he looked up to his dad and he said dad who is Michael Bloomberg because shes got ads on his you know on his kids programs that hes playing with on his i pad i mean hes everywhere but you know at some point after you spend all that money. Its throwing good money after bad without any benefit at this point so were only 2 states and but bernie is technically in the lead well mark has said that his socialist rhetoric is a loser against trump what do you make of that. Well he actually read baited sanders and equated to his democratic socialist positions with communism which he was promptly called out on by sanders and saying that it was a cheap shot i think sandals sanders is used to handling that stuff and its not what you expect to come from a democratic. Opponent but it was a stupid statement and. My sense is that people are sort of used to this with sanders and it rolls off his back you know like water off a duck its not going to work with bloomberg doing it and it probably wont work if sanders is the candidate with trump doing it it might work with his supporters. Who are not the most educated people but its not going to win more broadly in a race i think of be quite an interesting race trump versus sanders many people are drawing parallels between trump and bloomberg theyre both quite reds they come from rich families theyve both been in the past members of the opposite party are trump and not just 2 sides of the same coin. Actually you did not Say Something correct there bloomberg does not come from a rich family trump came from a selfmade rich family and was basically you know given his money bloomberg earned it from really tried as a family background and earned all his money with his Bloomberg Enterprises so he is kind of a selfmade man its so theyre different in a way bloomberg is a real billionaire nobody really thinks that trump is a billionaire. Hes made hes done a lot of false a vacation of his his net worth over the years so and the fact that he doesnt release his tax records may have as much to do with just fear of embarrassment how little money he has as it is here that he will be shown to be shyster and tax cheat. Dave lindorff investigative journalist thank you so much for joining us on the program. Thank you for having me. Abuse at your peril thats the warning from the u. K. Health service which is tightening its tolerance when it comes to unruly patients doctors can already refuse nonemergency care to aggressive or violent patients but the new rules that come into effect in april are much broader now all types of harassment bullying or discrimination it will be covered that include sexist racist or homophobic comments and i just says any abuse of staff has to be taken seriously we will not tolerate the sils physical or verbal against n. H. S. Colleagues stuff all violence is all assault and hate crimes against and they just must be investigated with care compassion diligence and commitment. Under the new agreement police are also being handed more power to deal with crimes against medical staff according to a National Health survey last year alone a quarter of all staff were subjected to at least one case of harassment thats adding pressure to staff already under strain 4 out of 10 now complain of feeling unwell because of stress at work social activists leave jasper and walker a columnist for the new York Observer debated the issue. The n. H. S. Is now saying they wont treat people who are over whites they wont treat people who smoke they wont treat people who have made certain comments they wont treat people who provide that you cannot reasonably expect these people to pay for n. H. S. Care that they do not receive so what you most do is also excuse these people from paying the elements of tax that would go towards the n. H. S. I think that when you look at the n. H. S. Stuff there overwhelming concern is to provide support to help people in need so they do. Prepared to put up with quite a lot i think where it really crosses the line is all severe verbal and physical abuse think that that is a major concern we need so we need to be sure that were not going to end up in a situation whereby people whove maybe made a little bit of a joke on sable to be treated but on occasion it can go too far and it can cross the line and not lie is quite broad i think but there are there are piece of terminology particularly around and indeed on sexuality that we deemed acceptable say 203040 years ago which is now considered all the excitable and i think its extremely important particularly with older people who might be on the work that sensitive and say the fairly treated you never hear people complaining about being cold colored and stuff like does particularly from the elderly and again the care staff a perfectly sensible enough to say ok dad oh worry about a deli know about stuff its not the stuff that is the cause of the majority stress in the produce i mean whats incredibly frustrating about this is that we live in a system in this country where you can drink 10 pints of lager you know yourself in some form of misadventure shouts abuse at h. S. Staff and be treated said you know i would like to see a situation where the cost of the treatments is too. But potentially equally i think if people do i that i think that they should be able to make the road private provision. Authorities have accused to talk to of americas top universities harvard and yale of failing to report millions of dollars of funding from states like russia china and iran despite the scrutiny of the Massachusetts Institute of technology has extended its partnership with the Russian TechnologyResearch Institute school tech though that cooperation has raised u. S. Concerns ever since it was launched the department is concerned your reporting may not fully capture all gifts contracts and all restricted unconditional gifts or contracts from or with all foreign sources to the Massachusetts Institute of technology such as the Skolkovo Institute of science and technology u. S. Law State University is must report foreign donations if the institution is not american own or if the gift exceeds a quarter of a 1000000. 00 which is far less than the multimillion dollar contract with caltech it is the intent of the f. B. I. For the recipients of the bullets in about school to use the information to inform the Decision Making process when selecting Foreign Investors to protect their interests which results in safeguarding our nations interests thats called collaboration began in 2011 with students exchanges and pulled research more than 100 successful projects have already been completed we heard from school taken themselves. We have. Our. Universities is. Absolutely open we are completely international. You know in the. Cold war our relationships. Of science was very cool and this same is the science is International Law the science is absolutely international and all sanctions all sanctions more harmful for the country which e. C. To these sanctions for. 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That that some sense caused more challenges than what they should because most of these relationships are driven more by common interest and Common Knowledge transfer not by tight some type of espionage some type of stealing of ideas the challenges the world faces are driven by Global People working together collectively decide solve common problems and this really is above science and engineering is above the political politics of any one nation or several groups of nations many of the worlds problems could be solved much more quickly if politics were were outside of and not mixed with the scientific aspirations of many countries in general science now is in a new realm in order to solve the problems it needs to be highly global focused and internationally focused and collaborative in nature where it takes expertise from many different disciplines from many different cultures to really solve the grand challenges that exist for the world today. Freedom of speech activists in ukraine are up in arms after can have targeted a film starring the current ukrainian president himself d d. The picture the last of the ok d d. Thats all for this hour but if youre looking for more news head on over to our website r. T. Dot com for articles and reviews and all of our shows thanks for tuning in. I 1st heard about wiki leaks. From the helicopter footage in iraq. I think it down to people or do you mean i mean us military who have never forgiven him for. This guys a traitor a treasonous and and he has broken every law the United States illegally shoots out of a. Story to have. Independent journalist with his computer exposing you is a lot of crimes and to a global audience. The idea of developing an anonymous box and applying it to a Media Organization is what he makes that was the 1st. 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