A legal body. Gives the green light. To no platform. Complaints from trans activists. Some members have agreed to fight back and. They would not appear. So they asked me if i would like to. Come. There live from russia around the world this thursday the 5th of march is kevin owen here for half an hour taking Headlines International and this is a big one tonight following 6 hours of high stakes negotiations in moscow thursday the leaders of russia and. He finally agreed on a ceasefire in syrias war torn province to come into effect very soon the 2 International Powers are backing opposing sides of course in the conflict which has brought them perilously close to direct confrontation in recent weeks has got the details. It took a total of 6 hours 3 of them tete a tete between ludmer put unedited to type at 11 thats a lot for top men and then the 2 countries delegations including foreign and defense ministers joined their leaders and the discussion continued it was clear from the beginning it is not going to be an easy chorus station journalists were told there will be no press conference at the end or any Media Contact so to the very last moment we didnt know whether were going to see mr putin and mr added a gun this evening at all but both leaders came out to journalists with the outcome of thursdays crucial talks on syria the key point is that the 2 sides came to an agreement to deescalate the syrian turkish crisis in syrias war torn province and to set this in concrete putin and out of the gun signed a document detailing a cease fire on the ground in a glib that starts from midnight march 6th your jews taught at midnight beginning on the 6th of march a ceasefire will be implemented we will take all necessary steps to ensure at last our goal is to do Everything Possible to prevent the humanitarian situation from deteriorating in the region so the ceasefire is certainly agcy point but there were some other steps agreed upon between russia and turkey the 2 sides decided to establish a socalled safe corridor 12 kilometer wide 6 kilometers north and 6 kilometers south from syria strategic and 4 highway connecting aleppo and lattakia and to start joint patrol of this area to secure it to make it a save zone starting march 15th flight reporting described thursdays talks with the head of the gun in general as a positive move through the forgiveness measurement of this group but we dont always agree without turkish partners in our evaluation of the situation in syria but critical moments having high. Level bilateral relations weve always managed to find Common Ground on controversial issues and have found except through solutions well what is evil if this is serious last remaining terrorist stronghold damascus lost control over it 5 years ago but back in 2018 russia and turkey again put in an air of the gun already committed to help the syrian army clear this vast northern province in syria from teris and all the size seem to have this common goal and moved together 2 words it until her around a month ago the turkish leader gave up this idea and he made a u. Turn calling on russia to leave syria and to leave him face to face with the regime these are hes words the situation on the ground started boiling escalation of violence it became clear is something needs to be done urgently and while ago the turkish president announced a special gather rain on syria in istanbul but not only between russia and turkey but also with france and germany thats what meant putting convinced his turkish counterpart that they do not need mediators and this is why we saw mr as a gun coming here to moscow kremlin and having a discussion with like marketing. There was across the were going to get some more thoughts on it supposed to turn mcadams from Ron Paul Institute told me its in the interests of both moscow and in korea to ensure that this cease fire last no. We should all breathe a sigh of relief because truly russia and turkey were on the brink of direct conflict it was careening out of control i think it was very wise to have called this bilateral meeting to hammer it out because there are the danger of it into war and possibly including nato was very real the whole issue of the of the war torn in the province is not that different in the war torn aleppo province which amazingly settled down. Once it was liberated from the from the control of jihad its of extremists and al qaeda and thats the exact same thing in the province the important thing is that the m 4 in an m 5 highways will be open up thats important to certainly to russia into syria but lets also remember the airborne is having some problems back home theres a huge brawl in the Parliament Just yesterday with 2 with the parties fighting each other the opposition parties are not thrilled that everyone has essentially embedded Turkish Military forces with al qaida to serve as human shields to prevent the syrians from retaking their own territory hes gone way out on a ledge and i think hes finding himself at the end of his political rope perhaps. A little story kind of tied in with this turkey atmospheres also turns to turkeys border me the other side of turkey were an estimated 35000 Asylum Seekers are gathering now since friday to turn to try to get into greece in the e. U. Took a storage is a play one man died on wednesday after greek police apparently opened fire is the allegation on a group of migrants that some of the athens denies reporting for. The next. In the dead of night theyve set up camp these migrants who say they are from syria have succeeded where so many havent crossed the border from turkey into greece. 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 in full and t. Is trying to protect greeces 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 taking detention facilities like this one here behind me the surround 10 miles from the front seat here now you can. See children playing clothes hung out to dry so despite the barbed wire and the high fences for security posts life goes on greece has Just Announced that it will create another center in this area to deal with any new to cross from turkey the plan is to deport them as soon as possible and while e. U. Chiefs have come to greeces 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 dont 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 pixies day these days 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. On 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 the day the right. To request. You know contrie i know the disease a very difficult situation but democracy and the rule of law must apply more than ever in this kind of situation and my opinion is that francesco. About dignity the conditions on the border a not dignified he said. Was the existence of many thousands of my clients who live on a day to day basis stuck in limbo in sentences like weve seen hes calling on the e. U. To sort out its issues and to find. Addition to the crisis so that countries like greece no longer left shouldering the burden of my question. Ski aussie luck you need the greek to push forward the red cross and sharply criticize the you now over its handling of the crisis in greece for suspending asylum applications a decision that says it has no legal basis to do some members of the European Parliament though have said the bloc should end all cooperation with turkey this is again a good lesson for us that European Union doesnt solve our problems it only makes the problems worse we paid 6000000000. 00 euros to the turkish regime and what we get after some of the several years we only get blackmailed again so it does the other gun just wants more money from us and this has to stop in february it is clear that mr hat and store are not a reliable partner sounds so i think that the e. U. Should keep the interim council because i think that your piano sex player sir have lost a lot of money i mean in my view would be an appropriate response for the e. U. To suspend the e. U. Turkish Customs Union with immediate effect. And. We may well be demanding this in the not too distant future. Well on thursday turkey knows it will send a 1000 special Police Officers to the border to prevent the greek side from driving desperate Asylum Seekers we spoke to some of those migrants about the hazardous perilous journey theyre attempting to make to try to get to the e. U. I came from of ghana stun i arrived at the border with groups but its closed and one cant growth that the group Security Forces are dispersing migrants with tear gas. Im 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 to queue is opening its border but is it turns out the border is closed no one is helping us out. U. S. Secretary states bitterly condemned a decision by the International Criminal court to authorize an investigation into possible war crimes in afghanistan might pump aoe said under no circumstances will washington allow american citizens to be held accountable for the hague based organization. Weve come to know this i. C. C. Is a truly political body we have evidence suggesting that there has been there but efforts to provide misinformation to the corporate form parties were we would take all the appropriate actions to ensure that american citizens are not hold before this political body to settle a political vendetta the us secretary of state mike palm pale was commenting on the read a launching of an investigation by the International Criminal court into activities that took place by major powers in afghanistan this investigation is launched as it appears that a peace deal has been signed and that afghanistan could be drawing down in hostilities the prosecutor is out to comments and this to gauge in relation. Crimes committed in the gulf gonna stand at this point the United States has maintained a presence in afghanistan for 18 years and the International Criminal court in its investigation is looking into the activities of cia members the International Criminal court is looking into the possibility of torture cruel treatment outrages upon personal dignity rape and other forms of Sexual Violence as part of policy by members of the cia now its important to note that there have been other allegations against the u. S. In afghanistan u. S. Service members have been accused of bombing and attacking Healthcare Facilities disappearing people and killing civilians according to the latest un report over 100000 civilians have died or been injured in the past decade of fighting in afghanistan however the United States has withdrawn from the International Criminal court the Top Administration withdrew from the court in september of 2018 and it appears that my pompei was doubling down on that this is a truly breathtaking action by an unaccountable Political Institution masquerading as a legal body the i. C. C. Today stumbled into a sorry affirmation of every denunciation made by its harsh critics over the last 3 decades now its also important to note that last year we saw the pardoning of u. S. Service members accused of killing civilians in both iraq and afghanistan by u. S. President donald trump he pardoned them when they face charges for their actions. So as the war in afghanistan seems to be drawing down many are optimistic about the peace deal it appears that the United States is determined to make sure that members of its armed forces are not held accountable for any crimes they may have committed in afghanistan while the United States maine it maintained its presence there for 18 years so how can our american troops lets talk to Daniel Schorr is in International Politics expert and professor at the City University of new york thanks taking the time to be with us today appreciate it so 1st off is there any truth to my point by his claim that the i. C. C. Is an inherently Political Organization its interesting to hear rhetoric critiquing the International Criminal court it sounded like when he called it a broken organization and they were irresponsible i thought he was talking about the u. S. Government who is always try to rush cross the human rights of afghanis in the vietnamese and so many others where the u. S. Has invaded in. So itll be interesting to see what happens here how damaging is it to the i. C. C. You know its a its a body whose job it is to hold war criminals to account be going to big country a very important country like america saying that. Because it. Well the International Criminal court has never gone after the true or criminals. Gone after small time players whether it was in kenya or burundi are in western africa never before that theyre going after it george bush. Or arnold trump the u. S. d is not a signatory to the i. C. C. East so theres no reason to think. My next question is if theyre not a signatory to anyway could american troops have report to book or even if they are accused of atrocities was not made of the most significant so what can physically practically happen. Well its a national law in the United Nations have always been a plaything in the hands of imperialism in the hands of the u. S. And junior partners so although theres the big headline. No precedent where the true war criminals whether it was for what the u. S. Did in nicaragua in the 1980 s. Or in el salvador or whether its with what they did in iraq and later on in afghanistan more than a 100000 troops at its peak station in afghanistan still 13000 u. S. Troops remain in afghanistan weve never seen any of these war criminals punished. Why. Well why because. The u. S. Is the strongest economic political military power in the world d as you know trumps arrogance in the arrogance of power and pale and john bolton really catches the spirit of these imperial if they think that they are untouchable and should really be the people who get away with this kind of thing just because you feel you know untouchable surely thats not right well thats why we find for a non unocal or world a multipolar world where the u. S. Has track record u. S. Foreign policy. Has been guilty of so many crimes across the world we can cite them from grenadas the blockade against cuba in venezuela the threats against russia in china certainly they should be held accountable to why would the u. S. Huge country that it is be unwilling to acknowledge and take responses sponsibility for war crimes are limited and why. Theyre afraid of any sense of accountability they want to point it is whether it was the former yugoslavia or in libya is the war criminals and its a question of disproportionality with the us has never been held accountable so its this huge contradiction and for all the students of human rights in an International Law its really a joke and i think a lot of people know that there are were seeing Pompei Okamoto say what hes saying today now that its a Political Organization except for are you surprised at the strength of feeling that hes publicly shown here or is this kind of thing just going on before but maybe not surprisingly stated. No not at all its not surprising what one would expect theyve never been held accountable theres no reason to think now that they have any fear of being held accountable it would take even more than a Bernie Sanders even more than a political resolution of a genuine revolution in the United States to truly put these war criminals from trial will not a great wrong rating one of the greens war criminals has passed away but there is such a long line of war criminals who should be behind bars for their crimes against syria the covert war against syria years of supporting apartheid israel against the palestinians and the list of human rights violation goes on and on and on was make hitler blush with us Foreign Policy is done over the course of the cold war and now quote unquote post cold war but look at the attack it is with us russia china Venezuela Iran you cant tell the people of the 3rd world that the cold war over it would be very interesting to get you and my pump in a room together for a chat will film out when you know its not its not from new york City University in fesa of International Politics thank you so much appreciated have a good night. Now next free speech advocates they have condemned the decision to d. Platform an Oxford University professor who was shuttled to speak at a womans festival feminist historian selena told told us it came after organizers were put under pressure by trans activists. Some members of a group called feminist fight back and some trans activists had said that they would not appear at the conference if i was there so they asked me if i would like to disinvite myself and just not come and i said no im not willing to do that partly because i was there in a professional capacity as a professor oxford my faculty had given the conference a great deal of support and they just myself and the head of the history faculty to speak there so i said no and i said please let me know as soon as possible what you intend to do about this and would you like my advice and support on how to deal with these police and they declined that and rang me back at 6 pm and said weve got a compromise you can come but youre not allowed to speak youre not allowed to say anything or slip towards toys to the feminist organization womens place u. K. Are thought to be one of the reasons for the complaint against that group was formed in 2017 to fight for womens rights but its been accused of transphobia for opposing the gender recognition act which allows people to change their legal gender or ukase department for education shipped into its condemned towards exclusion from this event universities are required by law to uphold freedom of speech allowing academics students and visiting speakers to challenge ideas and discuss controversial subjects we have made clear that if universities do not uphold free speech the government will. Further Oxford University zax the college has said it was not responsible for the decision of the event organizers it says its investigating what happened selena told again has been at pains to defend herself against allegations of transphobia it was some transactive based who called me transfer big that is completely unfounded i am connected to an organization which advocates for womens rights and in my professional capacity as a historian i research womens history and the evidence that i have found leads me to agree with the law as it stands that women are a sex and should have access to single sex spaces like refuge it is and single sex sport i certainly believe that transgender people should be allowed to state their identity and should be treated with respect and im very delighted to work in an institution that respects the rights of transgender staff and transgender students 23 past 11 might be remarkable lets take 90 seconds or the go around the world news about senator Elizabeth Warren after dismal showing choose or she dropped out of the race for the democratic partys 20 twentieths president ial nomination she failed to place in the top 2 candidates the area of 14 states of tuesday meantime former Vice President joe biden now that has the most delegates ahead of senator Bernie Sanders come in 2nd going into the next stage of those more drawn out primary. Helicopter carrying the Philippines National police chief has crashed injuring him and the 7 others on board it had just taken off partly from the capital manila before striking power cables pilots toes were the worst things for helicopters really tricky and coming down in a residential area its thought the clouds of dust swirling on takeoff and use visibility to near 0 the. Prochoice activists have rallied in front of Us Supreme Court in washington as a hearing opens challenging a Louisiana State law on doctor registrations designed to heavily restrict access to abortions its the 1st major case to be heard by a president trumps appointed justices. Gorsuch brett kavanaugh. Right all mess here a football match turning into this in the church in capital a wednesday evening hundreds rushing the pitch towards the end of the 2nd half between grozny and is in its in petersburg and russian cup even some of the players try to get involved to do their best to break it up but look at that when the game eventually began again but it is a neat progressed to the next one criticism 97 minutes when. Weve all it up at the stars and marveled one time or another wrong way specially this one was dark nights of those stars looking great but enjoy it while you can apparently according to nasa because it thinks were about to lose that Celeste Steele beauty to a swarm of satellites. After. Todays launch of 60 star like. Mark falcon a successful flight. There are so many of them it means astronomers get maybe as much as an hour with bright streaks going across the sensitive photographic detectors. As more satellites are placed into orbit they will become an increasing problem to astronomers on the ground use your smart phone camera to record satellite streaks through the night sky to monitor this problem over time. Has been a great industry. Theyre very excited and were excited to learn more about their satellites through the demonstration. Little bit of solace looking up at the stars a lovely night out that weve got to worry about these days did it was the world coming to as they say well check it out follow stories 20 percent pictures features got loads on the t. V. Work on it run the clock you know you dont miss anything also check out our various social media as well you can have your santa stories its 27 minutes. Near moscow and out with more than 33 minutes time from the all to International News room stuff max is here next to his latest cause report right after the break. And in the a newer one. Doth the euro anyone who on. 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That is not q e of course so you know i do want to say as you can probably tell weve been in mexico weve been in las vegas and were in los angeles out in the suburbs where brady bunch of films and the thing is that i noticed while travelling is how amazingly unprepared most people are basically is one very simple thing you have to remember is dont touch your face dont touch your face it doesnt stop anybody i see it all around me as were traveling season to there and then go to the toilet on the plane open the door and i took a there is everybody on this plane in fact if youre infected so its so simple but most people are also more simple than the simple coronavirus that is spreading and killing people here ive seen people trying to open doors with their checks and thats also very high genic dont do that either you know before it started to spread in the United States we had larry kudlow who is in the