Youre watching R T International coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 1 pm welcome to the program we start with the Russian Ministry of defense confirming that turkish troops were among the militants fired on by Syrian Government troops and it lit province on thursday also insists there were no air strikes from the russian side ankara says 33 turkish soldiers were killed and it live responded by hitting Syrian Army Positions from the air not to discuss this further were joined in the studio by my colleague hala corner once again talk us through and break down what exactly has been happening in syria well jacki for the past several months the syrian army has been gauged in a very violent fight to defeat the last militant stronghold in syria and the province according to moscow the turkish troops that were killed on thursday were among terrorist fighters involved in a large scale offensive against the syrian army but the russians say. They werent even informed of the presence of turkish troops until they were hit by that airstrike. On february 27th near the settlement of b. Whom turkish soldiers who were embedded with terrorists came on to the Syrian Army Fired at the same time according to the coordinates transmitted by the turkish side to russia there were no turkish troops or units in the area and the Russian Reconciliation Center says that they immediately rushed to the aid of the injured turkish troops after discovering what had happened its certainly strange they werent informed in the 1st place since the center maintains regular contact with ankara and the russians say that the data turkey provided suggested that there were no turkish troops there although ankara recently denied this and said that they did inform russia of their troop locations what are the sort of reaction have we had from turkey well initially the turkish authorities said that less than a dozen troops had been killed in this air strike but that number soon jumped to 33 and our anchor also called for a consultation with its nato allies following the attack leading to an emergency meeting of the military alliance and theres even been speculation that article 5 could be a vote now what that means is article 5 would potentially draw turkey turkeys allies into a war against syria and russia but again as of now that is thats just speculation but we also heard from the countrys minister of affairs and he said that syria will be held accountable for what happened. Turkey is determined to continue to it fulfills its objectives in accordance with its legal rights the murderous regime and those who encouraged it will account for their betrayal in the most severe way now a lot of this chaos stems from disagreements over a cease fire that came into effect earlier this year on the one hand turkey accuses syria of violating that cease fire with this offensive against the militant stronghold an adlib and on the other hand syria. Russia accused turkey of not holding up its end of the bargain apparently ankara was supposed to remove terrorist groups from the region while negotiating with the more moderate groups but making a firm dividing line between the 2. Possibilities between groups there but the efforts that its made to that effect have been quite ineffective and more talks are scheduled in march actually between iran and turkey and russia on the issue so well have to see if that yields any results of that can solve the crisis currently going on in this year in province and we are just now hearing from the Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov speaking about wanting to come to an agreement with turkey when it comes to whats happening and live and they also called for uniting prevent any further escalation in that area still be following that closely artiest on a quarter of the q. So much for bringing us the latest on that. And were not actually going to cross live to attorney and middle east expert for more analysis how serious is this latest escalation do you think. Thank you for having me yes its getting very serious because now we have a few weeks ago we have 6 to me is that now we have iran for 23. Weve had it there today and started some bombing in Northern Syria so it might get dangerous and turkey is trying to get to bring the nato countries to support them as youre a journalist said they want to do one other action the article 5 of these they talk. Agreement in order. For the nato countries to support them if there is any war against russia but i doubt theres going to be any doubt but for now the things are dangerous. We also right now have lavrov calling for a deescalation of everything thats happening in syria for everyone to come together to prevent any further escalation do you think those calls will be heard. I think there will be heard because turkish knows that this this. Its their deescalation zone and turkey was supposed to de mello militarize the terrorists they couldnt do that and that was russia few weeks ago they said we can not let this group of terrorist act in idlib words syria can sit there and do nothing and with the support of syria and russia the syrian army bombarded this this part and they want to take control of it and put in laws that america is a very proud with the Election Year and the coronavirus thats going to touch the u. S. Soon saw the going to take advantage of that by idly i think at the heart of this confusion seems to be the fact that according to the russian government turkey did not notify russia that it would have any military personnel in the area but now turkey is defense minister is claiming that mascot was informed that their troops would be there what do you make of this discrepancy. You know we never know because its so its going to say one thing of course russia or than the say that they informed the turkey government in order to know where their troops are and now that there are some people dead the russians say that of course. They never did on the say yes they inform russian not to or bombard the not to attack this this part so we never know one side its going to say one thing the other side going to see the other free and they are going to stick to it and that we never going to get to get to the truth. At this point turkish officials have vowed consequences if more of its soldiers die in syria in particular letting Syrian Refugees reach europe what do you think that sort of threat is aimed at and what response is ankara hoping for. Thats the. Few months ago if you remember one turkey attack the. Kurdish military in syria they said they got open the door not to the prison and they get the gun open the door to all there if you just invading europe they want the europe to support them or should they said they want the nato allies in the nato argument to support them because if he lets the doors open youre going to have millions of refugees coming in europe and a western European Countries can quickly cannot handle that on the other hand the nato said. That if you are attacked russia if you work in you are we as nato allies we never going to support you so thats a threat for in order to get to bring their dinner. With them to negotiate with russia to have the strongest pulls it was positioned facing a bloody move between attorney and middle east expert who are shallow thank you so much for joining us on the program today. Thank you meanwhile against the background of the military action in the envelope Syrian Refugees are moving toward the European Border these pictures obtained by our roughly video agency show people some carrying children reportedly making their way to greece as we mentioned earlier turkish officials have threatened to open the borders of more turkish troops are killed in syria. And new refugees from turkey could potentially contribute to an already tense migrant situation in greece people on a number of the countrys islands are holding protests against their governments latest plans to create new refugee camps there on thursday the island of lesbos was paralyzed by a general strike people joined a march chanting slogans against the Current Situation the existing camp currently holds around 20000 migrants although it was only designed for 3000 and earlier this week several rallies against the building of more camps turned violent and the government from extra police there but the move only made islanders more angry. The fight continues nothing is struggling to prevent the construction of any close to open prison last night was a big win for the people of lesbos who repelled the landing of the governments repression forces on the island of lesbos to rise you know this one to work they said and tried to police to the press so strong go to continue one no close to the hot spot. Where the government managed to unite all the people of les mis against its always see which would great a large warehouse of refuge in migrant prison this we demand that no new camp is constructed on the islands the immediate removal of the existing camps the closure of the morea camp receive guarding of borders and the regulation of n. G. O. S our lives have been destroyed. On wednesday violence erupted as protesters rallied near a military camp on the island they tried to attack Police Officers with stones and flares local media reports say on the same day around 60 people were injured mostly. The greek government says there is only one solution. But there is no alternative to the governments plans to build a closed structures to accommodate refugees and migrants former i may pay notice merriest things athens needs to redouble its efforts to deal with the migrant influx. The majority of the. Migrants. Gives the. Immigrants what we call in. Is the government should save guard. And going for the government. To go or north with the examination of the siloam. And also the government has to start the issues. From the European Court of human rights says that. In the area of sigint then government has the right to board. So i think the government has to be more active on the issue of the board rooms. In the Us DemocraticParty Leaders are being urged to group around one candidate to prevent Bernie Sanders from getting the 2020 nomination but while Party Leaders seem unable to unite around a single figure just yet big donors know how to pull their strings as r. T. Saskia taylor reports they say money cant buy you friends or happiness but might be true but they could just buy you the white house macedoine a bandage forts has been digging deep in his pockets to help the democrat course but its not entirely a no Strings Attached situation we should know who is the best person to be dull trump and with all due respect byrne a son theres cannot be trump so which horses shorts betting on well hes not fussy but either of his friends from the Billionaires Club will do who just like him arent shy on splashing the cash and since were already here together lets look at just how much cash king take joe biden now hes discovered that he cant just rely on his instagram a bromance with obama to. Take him all the way so decided instead to drop a 6 figure sum in just one out for good measure though he did keep in some a bow minister. This is an extraordinary man with an extraordinary career in Public Service youve got to admire him though if i were trailing 12 percent behind the top counted and had my own backers jumping ship id be a bit tighter on the past strings by the way biden still pales in comparison to what his buddy bloomberg has spent so far its estimated the x. New york mayor has dropped a casual 400000000 his campaign but hey its only no point 6 percent of his 64000000000. 00 fortune so no biggie also at least hes having some fun with it not even the aspiring u. S. President is above a cheeky trolling campaign and it seems to be paying off because hes risen from the very bottom of the polls to somewhere near the top of course lets not forget he is an old hand when it comes to knowing just what money can get you all of the new democrats that came in put nancy pelosi in charge and gave the congress the ability to control this president i got them hoops well lets look farther afield now at some of the candidates like back to judge to his credit he sensed that people might not be found of this whole exclusive club of the rich so decided to play the role of the average joe just the man on the street you know im the only candidate on those debates stages in this race the major candidates whos not a millionaire or billionaire whats this a penniless candidate and big Money Politics well if you believe bunny not quite were going to contrast our views with mayo to judge for the billionaires who are contributing to his campaign the heads of the c. E. O. s of the large pharmaceutical industries the Insurance Companies and so forth well since bonnies made to the parents lets peek inside his coffee he might be all about. Divvying up the cash once he gets his hands on those Government Funds but until then it seems hes more about treating himself he has dipped into his funds and brought out around 14000000. 00 for just a few t. V. Ads so it seems that no matter what side of the political spectrum youre on you know that to win in this case you need a lot of the green stuff to help you along the way but money is always played a big part in american elections especially since 2010 with the Us Supreme Court ruled in a case called Citizens United that you could spend as much money as you wanted on candidates because corporations spending money on politics is free speech spending money is free speech corporations are people thats what this Supreme Court decided thats a travesty and thats really undermined american democracy even more and made it more of a money game then ever before thats a big problem in the us money yes and the role of money is growing even more but you know i dont think its a point where a Movement Like sanders could still prevail. France has been enraged by comments made by the ambassador of its mali comments were critical of french antiterrorist squads in the west african country are to charlotte devinsky reports tensions have risen diplomatically between mali and france following those comments by the. France in which he criticized the actions of french soldiers on the ground in his country folk who cover certain elements there are not desirable some elements of the army because we see it all we see to all over and we dont know what they are doing on the streets have been marco at night and its not good for the image of france. Well those remarks have provoked anger here and frogs of all ambassador was hauled in front of the Foreign Affairs with history to explain those actions meanwhile the French Armed Forces with us to florence probably didnt notice that this big hole so also on except of all this was a statement from her ministry rather than channeling and spreading false accusations we expect the ambassador of mali to devote all his energy to implementing to post some meds and achieving success for everyone it comes just off the frogs held d a big summit just a few weeks ago in the south of france to discuss the future of the soho region and operation volcano this is francis and Largest Overseas operation with all the 5000. 00 troops stationed across 5 countries in the sawhill region including mali now president marcos also said at that summit the french soldiers were paying for the conflict in blood and lets have a look at some of the recent attacks in the sawhill region. It comes amidst other tensions that just before a test sold the brand against french troops are being stationed to volley protesters saying they dont welcome also saying that false is still treating the country as if its a colonial entity and it comes of its the fact that the mali in present. It himself is it may change his government has been told to john this in a way to find a solution to the conflict now we know that molly is sending its board of says to me the state need to paris to try and smooth things over but the reality is this latest diplomatic incident is going to raise more questions about the of why for the show is on station in the country if the countrys citizens doesnt want to bet. Still to come a hollywood directors let slip apples products placement policy thereby possibly spoiling future whodunnit movie is details after the break. The republicans have a reputation as knowing more about money than the democrats but the democrats are always very confusing and so Bernie Sanders is just out of a tradition hes talking about socialism which again is a its a its a model based on it in comprehensible. Non existant theory about money. Most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest greed in truth to stand the News Business you just be danced the right questions and demand the right answer. Questions. Welcome back hollywood movies might become more predictable for those with a keen eye after nines out director ron johnson revealed that apple has a very strict policy when it comes to showing the products on the silver screen. Goes into more detail in the latest episode of in case you missed it. 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