turkey has been recognized as a candidate for full e.u. membership since 9095, but a quarter of a century later, the talks have stalled. concerns were raised following the 2016 coup in turkey and the crackdown that followed with human rights issues among the chief sticking points back then france's president might call on didn't mince his words. he said it was time to end the poker. see, pretending that there was any prospect of advancement in membership talks that are so far as the relationship with the european union is concerned. it is clear that recent developments in choices do not allow any progression of the process and which we are engaged. since then, relations have deteriorated, france and turkey have been at loggerheads over syria, libya, and as a nato allies. more recently there have been new just speeches including over turkey, drilling in the eastern, mediterranean, in search of natural gas. the waters are claimed by 2 members of the greece and cyprus, that's in tangled in a quarrel with this warning shot from the top diploma

what was turkey's role? i think that's a good question for you, since you're an expert on turkey. you know, turkey has been consistently supporting the military operations in the area and a forceful resolution to the nagorno-karabakh conflict. we had a very different position on that is usually continues to be like that. however, that didn't preclude us from closely cooperating on all levels with them, including the level of president's. i think you are aware that putin and heard again, maintain continuous dialogue, even they, russia and turkey have that differences. this relationship between the 2 leaders meet allows us to combine our efforts when necessary to facilitate the resolution of various regional problems. and you know, it's really not that clear to an ordinary person. for example, right now we're talking about imposing sanctions on say, one of angle merkel's deputies as a response. well, our people believe that our relations with germany are great in years with turkey, we've seen an endless string of confrontations. so let's take that time. our ambassador was killed or

against turkey with france leading the charge. france is united and europe is united and the next european council. europe will have to take decisions that will allow it to strengthen the power balance with turkey to better defend its interests and european values. even cautious germany has warned turkey that it needs to think carefully about its next move. all of this could come to a head as leaders meet next month when the real possibility over sanctions against being given the green light, a move that could truly signal the end of the road for turkey,, joining the bloc. so what do you will ski r.t., paris, u.k. prime minister boris johnson has promised the country will not be in lockdown over the christmas holidays. this means that families will be able to spend time together over the festive period. however, the announcement has dismayed some who think to say it's unfair that minorities had to give up their religious holidays. earlier in the pandemic. restrictions in england were made on december. and it will last be read this

against turkey with france leading the charge. france is united and europe is united at the next european council. europe will have to take decisions that will allow it to strengthen the power balance with turkey to better defend its interests and european values. even cautious germany has warned turkey that it needs to think carefully about its next move. all of this could come to a head as leaders meet next month when the real possibility over sanctions against being given the green light, a move that could truly signal the end of the road for turkey, joining the bloc. so what do you want? ski auti? paris ok, thanks for joining us this morning. r.t. international. don't forget we have more news coverage for you. plenty more stories to check out. hotel web site. r.t. dot com. is your media a reflection of reality? in a world transformed what will make you feel safe from isolation for community are you going the wrong way or are you being led somewhere direct? what is truly wants is faith in the world corrupted. you need to descen

we will do this with turkey together. bearing in mind that we have very good experience with cooperation in the middle east, including in syria in the libyan zone. and on the border between syria and turkey. we organize, joint patrols together, blood report, and also mention the role of the collective security treaty organization that some critics accused of not doing enough to protect their mania. he said that the fighting was never on the armenian territory nagorno-karabakh. he's not part of their media. and this is why all is member state of the organization. it wasn't attacked. and this is why there was not any reason for the sea to step in . and he also said that the border kind of before now will remain disputed territory disputed areas. so its status quo will remain, but in the future when the wounds are not living anymore. the countries that are by john and the media may return to discussion and may resolve this issue. speaking about that peace deal signed by russia, armenia, and azerbaijan. last monday, vladimir

against turkey with france leading the charge. france is united and europe is united, and the next european council europe will have to take decisions that will allow it to strengthen the power balance with turkey to better defend its interests and european values. even cautious germany has warned turkey that it needs to fink cafe about its next move. all of this could come to a head as leaders meet next month when the real possibility over sanctions against being given the green light, a move that could truly signal the end of the road for turkey, joining the bloc. so what do you want? ski auti? paris for you rather, stay, don't forget to check out more news stories by heading to our website. go to r.t. dot com. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy. let it be an arms race. dramatic to follow, the only strategy will be to sit in the same wrong roll call to shape our answer and in the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. to look for common ground. a member of the board with the sleev

what was turkey's role? i think that's a good question for you, since you're an expert on turkey. you know, turkey has been consistently supporting the military operations in the area, a forceful resolution to the nagorno-karabakh conflict. we had a very different position on that is you who continues to be like that. however, that didn't preclude us from closely cooperating on all levels with them, including the level of presidents. i think you are aware that putin and yet again, maintain continuous dialogue, even though russia and turkey have that differences. this relationship between the 2 leaders meet allows us to combine our efforts when necessary to facilitate the resolution of various regional problems. and you know, it's really not that clear to an ordinary person. for example, right now we're talking about imposing sanctions on say, one of angle merkel's deputies as a response. well, our people believe that our relations with germany are great news. with turkey, we've seen an endless string of confrontations take their time. our ambassador was killed or the middle. and n

against turkey with france leading the charge. france is united and europe is united and the next european council. europe will have to take decisions that will allow it to strengthen the power balance with turkey to better defend its interests and european values. even cautious germany has warned turkey that it needs to think carefully about its next move. all of this could come to a head as leaders meet next month with a real possibility of sanctions against being given the green light, a move that could truly signal the end of the road for turkey, joining the bloc. so what do you mean? ski auti, paris. and that brings up with all the news for this hour, back again in about 30 minutes. elwood forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the 1st law show your identification for should be very careful about artificial intelligence at the point. obesity is too great trusts the shia militants linked to take on v

but what they did not count on was the intervention of turkey. the so-called, big brother of serbia, john both are predominantly muslim countries. the turks have been flexing their muscles all over the sub region. they've been coming into conflict with the french, with regard to the eastern mediterranean and in conflict with their old time and tackiness. speaking of greece, they have been flexing their muscles in libya, where they have helped to turn the situation around there. and there are many in charge that the turks imported religious zealots from the battlefields of syria. we hope to turn the tide against our many and forces. so it does not surprise me that there were many in masses or in the streets, but they may have to adjust themselves to this new reality that they're now facing . while prime minister has actually defended the truce saying armenia would have lost far more land if they had continued fighting, and thousands of armenians would have actually died. is this a realistic assessment? oh, i think so, because the armenians do not

well, i mean, turkey obviously is a nato ally. so perhaps 1 may detect some level of bias in our media on the side of azerbaijan. have you detected that and what did you actually see as regards who are committing the most crimes? i suppose, i mean there was the, is a war i think it's more that there's a limit to myself and this. and so i went that yes, it's very limited. understanding of what is actually going on, and it's also important to say that i was only on the armenian side. so i got one side of the story and, and i, but i did talk to a lot of soldiers who come back from the front. i talk to their families, talk to widows or talk soup. and the story was very consistent. it's a civilian army. so in a way i hadn't really appreciated that it's an extraordinary year, 90 place. i had an amazing, very moving profound conversation with a doctor who'd worked in one of the hospital surgeon who works in a hospital. he arafat. and he said on the 27th of september that they fight the, the bombing started. his son was a conscripts in a

there's a run on small turkeys, turkeys that are 10 to 14 pounds are in high demand right now. even if you're one of the few privileged enough to have a smaller turkey on your table this year, don't get too excited. this thanksgiving is supposed to be especially dangerous. with more people staying home for thanksgiving, more americans will be cooking at home for the 1st time. and some of them are stressed and with more amateur cooks hitting the kitchen this year. one firefighter's says it could be a recipe for disaster and case. that's not enough for you to stress about new york's governor. andrew cuomo capped the amount of people you can have to dinner at 10. i don't think you can get away with an extra straggler too. big brother cuomo was watching while cuomo didn't seem to have any problem sacrificing other people's thanksgiving day when he urged families not to gather for the celebration. he himself invited his mother and 2 daughters home for the holiday. that wasn't long before he withdrew the invitation. but many people still aren't happy about that. cuomo is the worst go

we look over our shoulder at north korea, iran, turkey. i've got a couple of minutes left. well, let's take a quick look at 2 major asian countries, holland, if we might, japan 1st of all is a very under appreciated ally. it's a critical ally of the united states when it comes to economics in the g. 7 in promoting democratic systems against a techno authoritarian state that is now china in promoting technological progress and advancements in compliance with the world trade organization as opposed to china's deceptive into intellectual property theft. and also working with it to provide security framework in asia, australia, japan, india, and the u.s. to help check china's very belligerent activities and india in the same way as the world's largest democracy, holland. and it is potentially going to be giving a number of the global supply chains that will be leaving china in the years to come. and it also is a great, great partner of the united states in terms of security and in terms of balancing china's activities in the indo-pacific region. and if we have it, i mean it, i'

it's vital for both russia and turkey. that the situation in our region is stable, predictable, and peaceful and good on both. they've been. it's because, well that's not very clear. russia and turkey have a lot of mutual interests in terms of trade and economic cooperation, as well as investment cooperation. it serves both moscow's and ankara's interests to work together in 2 years from moscow. what was still you just said it yourself, that turkey was in favor of a military scenario in the south caucasus? 3 years ago. yes. and the turkish president said that he had now you say they want peace, world peace, how could they be an advocate of world peace? then in this case, turkey believes mistakenly, an air of u.s. peace can be established through the use of force. in this respect, we disagree, but only a conflict that had president putin in the south a better than i had any direct contact while the ceasefire was being negotiated with him. so what kind of contact was it? there were of course contacts regarding the situation

, the united states and turkey. i'm not like minded at all. sure about not needing allies and turkey is one of the most last or geopolitical player in north africa. and i have no idea whether live will be invited now, but my point is, or rather might rest here is trying to do you envisage the united states dealing with its sights, different cult partners, lights right here it was. human rights record is beyond the pale, but who has big leagues that washington really needs. and that ultimately, and that's those. now what the demo kristie and human rights record is all about. if you can are raspberries bally's, you know, all suppose it our lives. what's, what should your balance will there are 1000000 arts and you wouldn't know i wouldn't talk about it in terms of principles. it has nothing to do with the use of democracy when you have difficulties was turkey. but the relationship the server? no, it's not actually not allies used, but like a friendly like minded in the way certain that the relationship with turkey, if

syria to support the as a right out there on the side you've got a potential conflict here between turkey and nato power and russia and nobody wanted to see this evolve into a military confrontation between russia and turkey so putin understanding this and seeing the reality on the ground probably came up with the best deal that the armenians were going to get but their meanings are very unhappy with us. as you say those generally have good relations with armenia and azerbaijan but as we speak almost 2000 russian troops are heading to cutback to service peacekeepers peter how significant is that do you think i think is very significant on the one hand they get the armenian troops out of that region. and allows russia to play an even bigger role turkey and iran are also going to be involved and the country that all 3 of those countries border this region so it's still a very tense situation. where everybody is hoping that this cease fire will hold and the russian peacekeeping troops will be able to do so they've brokered 3 previous cease fires none of which help part of what the situation

you can assess turkey's actions in any way, but it is difficult to accuse turkey of violating international law. why provoke the armenian side with the presence of the soldiers on the border? it seems to me that president, one perfectly understood it and has understood it. we didn't have any problems. we agreed to turkey at the request of azerbaijan will take part in monitoring the ceasefire. but we will do this with turkey together. bearing in mind that we have very good experience with cooperation in the middle east, including in syria in the libyan zone. and on the border between syria and turkey. we organize joint patrols together. and also mentioned the role of collective security treaty organization that some critics accused of not doing enough to protect their mania. he said that the fighting was never on the armenian territory nagorno-karabakh. he is not part of our media. and this is why all the army is member state of this organization. it wasn't attacked, and this is why there was no any reason for the sea to step in. and he also said that the board and about for now will remain

, the united states and turkey. i'm not like minded at all. sure of that. not anything, alexandra. he's one of the most in france or geopolitical layer in north africa. and i have no idea whether he invited now, but my point is that rather might recent years, trying to you visit the united states dealing with psychs deprancol partners lights right here. it was. human rights record is beyond the pale, but who has big leagues that washington really needs. and that ultimately, and that's those, they're out what the demo kristie and human rights rhetoric is all about. if you can are raspberries bally's, you know, all supposedly our lives. what's, what should be your ballot bowl? there are 1000000 arts and you wouldn't know i wouldn't talk about it in terms of principles. it has nothing to do with others of democracy. when you have difficulties those turkey, the relationship, the server, know they interact not allies used but like a friendly like minded in the way certain that the relationship with turkey, if very diffic

at all tonight by turkey. and of course not recognize, i think it's very profound this not recognized by the united states or britain because quite simply because they don't want to offend that even though so much more information is coming out. and so here you have a battle going on in a nickel, no care about, except that it's legal status, it's very complex studies. it's mainly armenian in terms of people who live there and i to talking to them as they will be driven out of their homes. and out of there and out of religious places. i mean, it was like a, you were there. it was like to a funeral actually. well, i mean, turkey obviously is a nato ally. so perhaps 1 may detect some level of bias in our media on the side of azerbaijan. have you detected that, and what did you actually see as regards who are committing the most crimes? i suppose, i mean there was the, is a war i think it's more that there's a limit to myself and this. and so i went that yes, it's very limited understanding of what is actually goi

we will do this with turkey together. bearing in mind that we have very good experience with cooperation in the middle east, including in syria in the libyan zone. and on the border between syria and turkey. we organize joint patrols together. this kind of cooperation is not required here, but we agreed that we will create a joint several vehicles. together. we will control the situation along the border with the help of these aircraft. together, we will receive information together, analyze it, and draw conclusions from what is actually happening with the center will be located, is another question. it would be obvious to locate in the sovereign territory of azerbaijan and azerbaijan has the right to make a decision independently, and considers it necessary to getting a live report and also mention the role of the collective security treaty organization that some critics accused overseas treaty organization, some critics accused of not doing enough to protect their media enough to protect their media. he said that the fi

what was turkey's role? i think that's a good question for you, since you're an expert on turkey, you know, turkey has been consistently supporting the military operations in our area, a forceful resolution to the nagorno-karabakh conflict. we had a very different position on that is you who continues to be like that. however, that didn't preclude us from closely cooperating on all levels with them, including the level of presidents. i think you are aware that putin and lead again, maintain continuous dialogue, even they, russia and turkey have their differences. this relationship between the 2 leaders meet allows us to combine our efforts when necessary to facilitate the resolution of various regional problems. and the little, you know, it's really not a clear term.