. ♪ >> turkey under u.s. sanctions. a defined president says the action is an attack on his country's rights. how will this play out? this is inside story. ♪ >> welcome to the program. it has been battered with u.s. sanctions over the deployment of russian defense weapons. turkey has said it is evaluating appropriate action for what it considers a hostile attack. on, has insisted it will not rollback its missile system. turkey's military agency has had authorizations banned by the u.s. the organization's top officials will face asset freezes and visa restrictions. the delayed move comes as president-elect joe biden prepared to take office and it is expected to increase tensions between washington. the turkish president says sanctions going to stop his country from building up its defenses. >> from our nato ally the united states, we expect support in our battle against tourist -- against terrorist organizations, not sanctions. we are never a country that chases after conflict with its neighbors. we are fighting for th

turkey. i do not think so because even though my friend does not know the real name of the turkish defense industry prison for this is not a particular month agency this is a stiff place that all projects are to be coordinated but the turkish procurement agency is separated in many different branches on their ministry it off the national defense forces isn't a strine of sanctions of course you have an f. back to do. agency but this is not at procurement agencies probably that will be ongoing projects which will not be affected such as in the case off the f. 16 programs but for the new cases if you assess the wants to buy some for exam procure some issues from the united states it is all name probably dos projects will be affected but i do not think that it will create too much problem for the turkish defense in dust in the next coming years especially in terms of logistics up live but for the large slot forms in order like turkish fighter jet programs will be affected but laws on all the long

turkey. is punished. missile defense systems from russia. president says the action is an attack on his country's winds so how will this play out between these nato allies this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. it's been flattened with u.s. sanctions over the deployment of russian as 400 defense weapons turkey has set its evaluating reciprocal action against what is considered as a hostile attack has also insisted it won't turn back its but chase of the missile system. turkey's military procurement agency has had its export licenses and authorizations banned by the u.s. the organizations top officials will also face asset freezes and visa restrictions the long delayed move comes as president elect joe biden prepares to take office and it's expected to increase tensions between washington and unka turkish president has said this sanctions won't stop his country from building up its defenses. they're not all from our nato ally the united states we expect support in our battle again

turkey under u.s. sanctions is punished overseas but chace of missile defense systems from russia and defiant president says the action is an attack on his country's winds so how will this play out between these nato allies this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. it's been flattened with the u.s. sanctions over the deployment of russian f. $400.00 defense weapons turkey has said it's evaluating reciprocal action against what is considered as a hostile attack on color has also insisted it won't turn back its butt chase of the missile system turkey's military procurement agency has had its export licenses and authorizations banned by the u.s. the organizations top officials will also face asset freezes and visa restrictions the long delayed move comes as president elect joe biden prepares to take office and it's expected to increase tensions between washington and uncut a turkish president has said these sanctions won't stop his country from building up its defenses. they're not all from our

case we have a very outspoken you touched on this earlier very outspoken are the one of turkey really pushing mccrone and france quite hard this kind of language do you think it is useful coming from turkey well i'm. not a specialist in thirty's politics but. i think that this also on the. political domestic needs. and beef up his credentials. internally in turkey and also with the wider muslim community in reach he wants to be considered or he ends up being considered. a leader a leader at least among a good part of the muslim or. service serves. whether this this is he is considered a leader or this kind of reaction is what will. introduce all 'd. fronts i'm not sure that that would be the case i think that. as my 2 colleagues here a agree with the fact that this. these moves respond these moves by more correspond to the message french needs and it's not the. of of the discourse of real stop france from acting the way it wants to. philip if this lorries if this bill is problematic and there are issues with it is there a better way of dealing with this what is the what is the alterna

this kind of language, do you think it is useful coming from turkey? >> i'm not a specialist in turkish politics, but i think this serves erdogan's political domestic needs, and it helps him beef up his credentials in turkey and with the wider muslim community where he wants to be considered a leader among the muslim world. he is considered a leader. as my two colleagues here, i agree with the fact that these moves by micron are responding to domestic french needs, and it's not the discourse that will stop france from acting the way it wants to act. imran: if this bill is problematic, is there a better way of dealing with this? >> to be fair, the alternative would be no bill at all. i think leaguer -- legal experts and judges should come forward in france and debate. if you want to criminalize online hate speech, we've got that. the answer would be no law. i think france needs appeasement. we should be addressing the whole nation. it's forming an insidious climate where you tend to designate enemies with in. that was language coined in the u.k. by mayo

case we have a very outspoken you touched on this earlier very outspoken are the one of turkey really pushing mccrone and france quite hard this kind of language do you think it is useful coming from turkey well i'm. not a specialist in thirty's politics but. i think that this and also on the. political domestic needs. and beef up his credentials. internally in turkey and also with the wider muslim community in rich he wants to be considered or he ends up being considered. a leader a leader at least among a good part of the muslim or so as it serves. whether this this is he is considered a leader of this kind of reaction is what will. introduce all 'd. fronts i'm not sure that that would be the case i think that. as my 2 colleagues here a agree with the fact that this. these moves respond these moves by mccoy respond to the message french needs and it's not the. of of the discourse of will stop france from acting the way it wants to act. felipe if this lorries if this bill is problematic and there are issues with it is there a better way of dealing with this what is the what is the al

case we have a very outspoken you touched on this earlier very outspoken are the one of turkey really pushing mccrone and france quite hard this kind of language do you think it is useful coming from turkey well. not specialists in thirty's politics but. i think that this also answers. political domestic needs. and beef up his credentials. internally in turkey and also with the wider muslim community in rich he wants to be considered or he ends up being considered. a leader a leader at least among a good part of the muslim or so as it serves. whether this this is he is considered a leader of this kind of reaction is what will. introduce all. fronts i'm not sure that that will be the case i think that. as my 2 colleagues here a agree with the fact that this. these moves respond these moves by more correspond to the message french needs and it's not the. of of the discourse of real stop france from acting the way it wants to act. phillipe if this lauri's if this bill is problematic and there are issues with it is there a better way of dealing with this what is the what is the alternativ

case we have a very outspoken you touched on this earlier very outspoken are the one of turkey really pushing mccrone and france quite hard this kind of language do you think it is useful coming from turkey well. not specialists in thirty's politics but. i think that this are also on the. political domestic needs on the taps and beef up his credentials. internally in turkey and also with the wider muslim community in rich he wants to be considered or he ends up being considered. a leader a leader at least among a good part of the muslim or so service serves. whether this this is he is considered a leader of this kind of reaction is what will be. introduced all 'd. fronts i'm not sure that will be the case i think that. as my 2 colleagues here a agree with the fact that this. these moves respond these moves by more correspond to the message french needs and it's not the. of of the discourse of real stop france from acting the way it wants to act. phillipe if this lauri's if this bill is problematic and there are issues with it is there a better way of dealing with this what is the what

turkey has warned east libyan forces of quote grave consequences to one of its cargo ships was intercepted in the mediterranean it was stopped by forces loyal to warlord honey for hafta the turkish foreign minister is demanding that the vessel be allowed to continue its journey to western libya turkey is the main backer of the internationally recognized government of national cooled china has condemned new u.s. sanctions against officials involved in the crackdown in a home calm at least 8 more opposition activists have been arrested they're accused of taking part in a band protest rally in july several former politicians are among those arrested a nationwide strike by farmers is under way in india transport workers and teachers unions supporting the strike against new farm laws tens of thousands of farmers have been camped outside india's capital new delhi for almost 2 weeks now they've been blocking major highways in protest against the war zone porteous is the headlines when you see here on of 0 after today's edition of inside story next. rolling out a coronavirus vaccine the u.k. is th

turkey is tightening coronavirus ricings after a record number of depths for the eighth consecutive day. 2 people have died over the last 48 hours. full lockdowns will be impose and would curfews on reek days. hospitals are stretch. ed to capacity. iran's top nuclear scientist has been laid to flest teheran. he was assassinated on friday. iran's leaders are blaming israel for the killing. france's government has droomed controversial draft law that would restrict the accomplishing of images of police. the bill has spark -- sparked large protests. news continues here on al jazeera right after "inside story," which is coming up next. ♪ >> boko haram terrorizes northern nigeria. on saturday the group killed more than 100 civilians in the northeast. one of the most violence attacks in years. what's been done to fight boko haram and can it be defeated? this is "inside story." ♪ >> hello. welcome to the program. nigeria's government has repeatedly said it has defeated boko haram, yet after more than 10 years of fighting the armed group, violence is on the rise in the northeast. boko haram

agreements with turkey libya and morocco cut off all the popular routes to you. all those other headlines i will have a full news hour for you here on al-jazeera after inside story stay with us. iran takes more steps away from the 2015 deal with world powers and polls all growing louder for a new agreement so how will the incoming u.s. president deal with a challenge this is it's a story. teller welcomes a program on iran come on u.s. president elect joe biden has promised to reverse that donald trump's decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal it will be one of his biggest challenges when he takes office in 6 weeks time iran is already taking more action to reduce its commitments parliament has paused to bill to stop unannounced inspections and boost a uranium enrichment has the backing of the powerful guardian and supreme national security council's present house and rouhani objects to the proposal but he is under pressure to sign it into law on iran's arch rival saudi arabia says it must be consulted if the u.s. revives the nuclear agreement known as the j

law enforcement operation by the prime minister is turning into a conflict possibly killing thousands turkey's defense minister has arrived in libya despite threats by eastern warlords after a car from is to increase cooperation with the internationally recognized government in tripoli on friday ankara voted to extend the deployment of troops or for another 18 months or will be for half the banks arrival eastern government responded with a threat to target local turkish rather forces. countries across europe are receiving their 1st shipments of corona virus vaccine inoculation stance in some places on sunday beginning with people an elderly homes. a huge number of americans have boarded flights to be with family for christmas despite warnings that travel will only worsen already alarming coronavirus deaths and infection rates more than 7000000 people cast through u.s. airports over the past week bringing families together from states with varying degrees of infections likely to increase in cases similar rush during november's thanksgiving holidays being blamed for fueling the current spike the

turkey's defense minister says that libyan warlord holy farfar and his supporters will be viewed as legitimate targets if they target turkish forces in the country on saturday go to see our car arrived in tripoli promising to increase cooperation with the internationally recognized government there after our present to strike turkish forces after they pledged to extend their deployment for 18 months at least 11 people have been killed after 3 avalanches in the mountains north of iran's capital rescue workers are searching for 7 people reported missing since friday another 7 climbers have been taken to hospital with frostbite the avalanches than are hard out of barts child were triggered by heavy snow. the headlines and use continues here on al-jazeera right off the inside story . the country has thought a massive and poor today to the vaccination campaign against cove with 19 it's disquieting as a moment of hope but as a new calling of out it's very into spreading quickly well the initiative effective this is the inside story. hello and welcome to the program. the european union has begun one

world to get them to jump on the bandwagon and to come up with common standards and share our ambitions turkey is criticizing european union plans to expand sanctions targeting its activity in the eastern mediterranean the measures are aimed at turkish individuals and companies involved in gas drilling in areas that are creamed by greece and cyprus to accuse describing the move as biased and unlawful while e.u. countries say that they hope it will send a strong message hizbollah fugitive convicted in the assassination of lebanon's former prime minister rafik hariri has been given 5 life terms saw him was sentenced in absentia a special tribunal in the netherlands. ethiopia's government says that it's returning eritrean refugees to camps in the old and to gray region they fled to the capital at a suburb during fighting integrate between local forces and federal government soldiers the u.n. says there returned to grace or soon is absolutely unacceptable but ethiopia says they will be safe a bill to legalize abortion in argentina has cleared a major hurdle after it was approved in the lower house

when it comes to countries like turkey and the leader there, erdogan, when it comes to north korea, which i read in your principles that you give the trump administration some credit for diplomatic progress there. i am just sort of interested in how you manage those lines, saying i have not seen diplomatic progress with north korea, i have seen appeasement of a lot of bad behavior, so how do you square those lines in a way that you keep your coalition together, but you also made progress in getting this viewpoint as you to it into the biden team? >> right, and i think the way we have been able to do that was because kind of the underlying framework or theme that has run at the core of whether it was the principles that you mentioned or even the personnel book that we organized and sent to the transition team has been ensuring that we support principles that call for the u.s. to end our endless wars and support a fundamental shift in u.s. foreign policy, and that means supporting more restraint and ensuring that, again, that we are prioritizing domestic needs and meeting the concerns of ou

when it comes to countries like turkey and the leader there, erdogan, when it comes to north korea, which i read in your principles that you give the trump administration some credit for diplomatic progress there. i am just sort of interested in how you manage those lines, saying i have not seen diplomatic progress with north korea, i have seen appeasement of a lot of bad behavior, so how do you sque those lines in a way that you keep your coalition together, but you also made progress in getting this viewpoint as you to it into the biden team? >> right, and i think the way we have been able to do that was because kind of the underlying framework or theme that has run at the core of whether it was the principles that you mentioned or even the personnel book that we organized and sent to the transition team has been ensuring that we support principles that call for the u.s. to end our endless wars and support a fundamental shift in u.s. foreign policy, and that means supporting more restraint and ensuring that, again, that we are prioritizing domestic needs and meeting the concerns of our

turkey's tightening grow virus restrictions are a record number of deaths for the 8th consecutive day 188 people have died in the last 24. full lock downs will be imposed over the weekend, and curfews will be imposed on weekdays. the turkish medical association says hospitals are stretched to capacity. iran's top nuclear scientist has been laid to rest in tehran and factories are there was assassinated on friday. iran's leaders are blaming israel for the killing. france's government has dropped a controversial draft law that would restrict the publishing of images of police. the bill has sparked large protests, fueled by anger, over a video of police beating a black man in paris. news continues here on al-jazeera right after inside story, which is coming up next. boko haram, terrorizes northern nigeria. on saturday, the group killed more than 100 civilians in the northeast. it's one of the most violent attacks in years. what's been done to find boko haram and can it be defeated? this is inside story. hello, welcome to the program and burn it's. nigeria's government has repeatedly said

may have contributed to 2 crashes testimonies from 50 whistleblowers were taken and also so far in turkey has killed at least 9 people the blaze started when an oxygen machine exploded in intensive care units but that's up to date stay with us then on al-jazeera inside stories next. the u.s. government is under unprecedented cyber attack top department say they've been hacked russia denies it's behind the campaign but what does it mean for america's national security and how will washington respond this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. u.s. government agencies are rushing to tighten their computer security after they've been hit by a hacking operation described as the worst in american history more than 40 organizations have been targeted including the u.s. in our g. defense state and homeland security department's software giant microsoft also confirmed it's been affected by the ongoing cyber attack the hacking operation was uncovered last week but investigators believe it's been going on for months u.s. officials suspect it's carried out by russian hackers and warned o