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

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

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 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

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 center for the use of unmanned aerial 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, considers it necessary. so if you remember, after the peace 2 was signed, the decision was made to establish. so cold mornings were in center with the turkish and russian soldiers, and what important is now on for size it one more time that the turkish officers, th

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

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

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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.

along with turkey a muslim nations including pakistan and bangladesh have called for a boycott of french products arab and major rallies in those countries and also in yemen with the french flag set alight as after the french government shut down muslim aid groups and a major mosque accused of inciting extremism as measures have been a ramp up since the beheading of a teacher and paris he showed his students caricature of the prophet muhammad and they followed a serious effort terrorist incidents in france. we are at war against terrorism terrorism can always strike there is no 0 risk and the state is doing its utmost to protect the french people. the french demand justice who want these people to be deported to their country or like we are in a country that has witnessed atrocities great teachers being beheaded priests having less throats slit people are beheaded in a church that's not france and even if we take in all possible security measures peter's been able to come in with a knife to do is deadly deed 0 risk does not exist york out there are i think 40000 churches in. you know we

nato country and that he was clearly referring to the support that is there by john is getting from turkey now by the way something very important for me to say is that nicole possibly not was the 1st official the 1st leader of a country to announce the cease fire and this is the tone this is the rhetoric that he was using let's just listen to a part of the statement that he 1st made. i signed a statement with the presence of russia and as a vision to end the karabakh war starting at 1 am today the text of the statement is unspeakably painful for me personally and for our people i have made this decision as a result of an in-depth analysis of the military situation and assessment of the people who know it best who is based on the belief that this is the best possible solution to the current situation i will tell you about this all in detail in the coming days this is not a victory but there will be no defeat until you admit that you lost we will never recognize ourselves as the losing side and this should be the beginning of an era of national unity and revival now there's another element

at the moment was just on the point turkey's foreign minister has hailed the deal as a quote secret success for the brotherly nation of azerbaijan do statements like that risk further angering armenia and maybe just think igniting something that maybe just maybe right now is coming down. well actually i prefer that statement to the one by under god because it's sacred and hopefully they will want to stick to it their want to understand that whatever the wrongs of the previous conflict at the end of the soviet union by which as vigil lost a lot of its own ethnic areas and its own self-determination will pretty much trampled on by the self-determination. its armenian neighbor that wrong if it was such and it really was in my opinion has now been righted so if this deal is sacred if this cease fire holds in perpetuity there at least will see a stability return the people who paid the price of course now will have been the armenians with the last half the territory which was their ethnic area previously and it's unlikely they'll really want to go into that area again after this so it's

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clampdown on radical islam following a wave of terrorist attacks and it sparked a war of words with turkey. if i spect he said i understand and respect that people might be shocked by the caricature was but i will never accept that someone can justify physical violence because of them i will always defend my country's freedom to speak to right think and draw the. so you see the countries that teach the world about human rights and democracy. and the xenophobia a fight needs to be put up against and to move them sentiment today just as a battle was waged against and to some it is more in the wake of the holocaust. along with turkey and muslim nations including pakistan and bangladesh have called for a boycott of french acts or been major allies and those countries also in yemen with the french flags set alight as comes after the french government shut down muslim aid groups and a major mosque on a series of stabbings and shootings. we are at war against terrorism terrorism can always strike there is no 0 risk and the state is doing its utmost to protect the french people passing the french

turkey is a key player in the region and not just in this region, but overall turkey is a partner. and of course, the sole or a nation of a serviceman has the right to choose its foreign oil. at the moment. hartness, just as armenia has the right to do so, and i think goods are you so it's not the idea is that it will go to any initiative within them. and only beauty which you can use and take into account any factors that affect the situation in the region. usually the success or the protracted negotiations started that they need to do of, of president, together with the president of a source of a john and prime minister of armenia has been recorded. music awards is based on all new the was knights used statement and the birds are activists of whole sides. and as you know, the russian monitoring center will be created here that will observe the implementation of the cease fire because we're now and this will be another factor that will allow us to maintain stability and security forces. and of course, protect the cease fire and russian peacekeepers will play the a major role in th

present and one of turkey has congratulated azerbaijan on taking the town of how pivotal has his role been in the conflict has been decisive particularly the provision of all turkish military equipment especially drones the so-called suicide drones which are having a devastating effect on the armenian forces they control as they can. over the battlefield making it almost impossible for the armenians to use heavy equipment because if the weather is good these drones are taking about 30 rock and these obvious military supply from to he has been quite decisive staying with out the 2 sides are not exactly evenly matched azerbaijan's military budget is about 3 times larger than armenia's and as you were saying it gets substantial support from turkey is there anything armenia can do to redress that balance. point not really apart from sort of massive mobilization of its own resources but this isn't easily done and it does have a definite technical disadvantage you can't get supplies easily also from outside for instance from russia because they have to come by a very long roundabout route b

along with turkey muslim nations including pakistan and bangladesh have called for a boycott of french products there have been major rallies in those countries and also in yemen with the french flags set alight this comes after the french government shut down muslim aid groups and a major mosque following a series of stabbings and shootings. that. we are at war against terrorism terrorism can always strike there is no 0 risk and the state is doing its utmost to protect the french people. the french demand justice who want these people to be deported to their country. we are in a country that has witnessed atrocities great teachers being beheaded priests having less throats slit people are beheaded in a church that's not france and even if we take in all possible security measures have been able to come in with a knife will do is deadly deed 0 risk does not exist. there are i think 40000 churches in france we could put a 1000000 and a half soldiers there but that would not change the problem we can take someone who wants to kill someone else many countries especially in the middle east

can we don't find a way to to to live or deal with with the virus while still ahead on the program turkey has accused of xenophobia with its crackdown on hardline as well about that and a bit more after this break. american media greed nearly in lockstep ovoid each practice journalism again ideology trumps common sense reality and after the election how many voters will say not my president. the world is driven by shaped by from person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. joins me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back now gunmen have stormed the largest university in afghanistan killing 19 people mostly students on injuring 22 more a group of militants entered kabul university on monday while a book was taking place attended by the iranian ambassador they opened fire with assault rifles in the lead to a 5 hour gun battle with security forces in which all 3 attackers were killed so far no group has claimed responsibility on the taleban has denied its involvement. finall

an idea to balance us epogen, especially since turkey is supporting azerbaijan, and this was the exchange in of a poet game, a big change and its means or so what is a few? sure. erm. i mean, yeah, we'd be more dependent under russia are to defend its territory because re re, no t. . so we observe the emergence of a new world much more jumper to car than ford uni. put our word is disappearing and a region are powerless in every part of the world on or saw the case in co causes our emerging ok or is it just took his russian rivalry? and i mean, yes, in between, just briefly on the issue you brought up about russian troops around 2000 of them have been sent to the car about conflicts own will not be enough to prevent further bloodshed i think so because. ringback there are the, your russia is the only country which can impose a truce in cocos us. and russia kept to both good relations of armenia and azerbaijan, and varies also reapproved or of turkey or voltaire kyi is not for money pot of the troops. so i think this, this is a good deed are to maintain the truce, but of course it's a very