you should have your babies with you to be pretty very excited about it but doris just shows you that there. was a trade unionist at veolia when he started publicly condemning his own company's practices that cost him his job and led to a long legal battle that resulted in his dismissal and then rehiring by veolia. only going to give us a bit more dramatic video review do daily mail food to see did you know man few last year extraordinary something to me only all very demo at the field. if. it includes. uncle does the law i feel so badly like top.

of it all very. very good chance of a more us surely he fell a reduced us relieved who are. in. great pain announcer programs say listen to techies presidential spokesman abraham collin he's talking to journalists and after his meeting with u.s. national security advisor john bolton said take a listen. mr bolton the u.s. national security adviser and other senior officials from the unite us attended the meeting we discussed the process and how it will it continue. the decision of course we are happy with the decision of mr trump to withdraw

troops from syria however how it is going to be done what will be left behind to morgan happen to the. heavy arms left behind and. various other matters needs to be clarified we've discussed these matters in detail and in the days to come including today military officials and intelligence officials will continue their discussions we continue our relationship with the united states as within the framework of allies being allies and we'll continue to do. our best. i'd like to remind you number of things first of all turkey's position in relation to the territorial integrity of syria has not changed since day one.

yes the. another important principle. is that they syrian land must be cleared of all terrorists including. border. yeah they got the so what kind of terrorist they are and the people who live in syria are the guns of who they are what what their origin is must be protected and safe from terrorist persecution and attacks there is no question of. turkey is stopping turkey's fight or posing turkey's fight against terrorists and terrorist organizations. turkey has been an important. member of the international coalition fighting terror in syria and has and has done

its duty a significant d.t. in a very significant way a piece of idea why p.j. terrorist organizations in addition to eisele are present in syria. therefore thought the opposition and the local elements. presence in syria are considerable as a result of what has been taking place in syria. large numbers of people. have returned to troublous region afrin also there is another area where people have felt safe enough to return. it is now opposition to turkey has always done its duty to protect innocent people in syria including the

kurds and turkey will continue to act in this in this fashion on the other hand p.k. k. and its syrian army people idea why peachey. being is in the same sentence as under the umbrella of kurds is not acceptable and we have response reacted to this way of. the the use of the word kurtz and president also has responded to this. therefore just to reiterate the p k k or its syrian army why p.d.p. why she cannot be the representatives of the kurdish brothers and sisters and. and this will be this position turkey has always. worked hard to protect innocent people during its operations military operations as

well while targeting terrorists in syria. like to retreat that determined fight against terror and terrorist organizations and terrorists in syria will continue this will include p k k p y d y p g. it is important that we must not allow the terror terrorists to find near areas of opportunity is by changes in the in is other changes in. syria. however the issue of providing support to people idea why p.g. by the united states in syria is continuing. it continues as a to be a problem. but we have stated and not like to state here again that our position is clear in into these organizations the terrorist organizations these terrorist organizations who. carry out

harassment and persecution of people including the kurdish people in the areas where they are present it is therefore. the. any operations any military and other operations by turkey aims to provide peace and security for innocent people is civilian people in syria including kurdish innocent civilian kurdish people in syria we've discussed. other matters. and the troll of troops from turkey from syria and they also. supportive of this we'll see how it reflects in the in the actual. site on land.

as you know. turkey's initiatives has prevented humanitarian crisis in its lip and a secure safe and secure position was. achieved in lip inhalation to the political process we will continue. specially in relation to the formation of a constitutional committee and we'll continue to work with friends and allies. and we'll remain in close contact. like to. retreat this. was the first of such meetings and we will continue these meetings in the nation to the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria and how it's going to happen. sideways and. process

and speed etc the pace of it etc ready to take your questions presently to type out one. has has he turned down an application by mr bolton to see him because. there were reports that mr bolton was going to have a meeting with president supply padrón during his visit to turkey. and it is said that mr bolton has left. sooner than planned because mr here is a table to. meet the president and. the americans given any information as to the slowing down of the trouble of troops from syria. our president had not given. made a promised to mr bolton to receive him we.

never confirmed anything of the kind. mr mr president has also said. mr bolton's contrapuntal is known. mr bolton has had meetings with his counterparts and in other officials also but we should not consider. interpret this as a reaction. i talked to him about the. concerns by giving him examples from iraq syria and other regional areas and i gave him a folder containing our position. this is not just a matter of. speech. it's becoming.

serious concern and a mistake a serious mistake from time to time amongst our u.s. counterparts so it was necessary. to make this point again. and it was done and our president has touched upon this it is known that we've opened both to the curch kurdish iraqi kurds when there were problems in the northern iraq. when kabbani kurds were in difficulty we went to their help when refugees headed towards turkey we did not discriminate amongst them on the city etc therefore to say that turkey will go in syria and kill kurds. and massacre kurds is if this is a p k k propaganda and the unit u.s.

administration should not fall for such propaganda in turkey to kurds. live in operate freely we have kurdish. lawmakers in our parliament ministers and others. and these are all blatant facts. facts but they need to be reminded of these facts and we have done some. united states administration. declared. intention to be true all troops from syria which stems from a telephone conversation between our president and president trump as you know at a time subsequent to that telephone conversation we were given a period of sixty to one hundred days now there is

a toll call four hundred twenty days which is about four months which is not significant extension to the originally. stated timetable it is important. especially important united states is going to end its association with it why p.j. elements in syria and in what in what fashion as etc these are important matters that needs to be discussed and resolved in photographs of your meeting with mr bolton you are seen to be handing a red folder to mr bolton what is the contents you talk about handing out folder to mr bolton yourself just now but did it contain did it contain any photographs etc or is that going to be any telephone conversation between our president and the

president of united states yes it is true i gave. a couple of folders to mr bolton one of them was. contained. in a memo containing how turkey embraces kurdish. citizens kurdish brothers in turkey syria iran iraq etc the second one. in relation to. something else which was. not covered by the media. there were a number of areas in syria under control of the y p g. which. reports have been a persecution of the locals by the y.p. g.

terrorists and the way that they they prevent them going to school. and other other. acceptable treatment of people so they second folder contained information facts in relation to the treatment of innocent civilians by the y.p. terrorists in those areas. one of the reasons why a number of steps cannot be taken in syria is because of the persecution commit is currently being committed by by p.g. in syria they've they've done so. against easy these are arny's and others and and also against kurds there are reports how children have been kidnapped by k.k. and why p.g. and how they were armed and forced to go. to fight

this is. a humanitarian. crime against humanity it's totally unacceptable and the second for the contain information about that allows them to see what's the real face of why peachey is it is it is possible that president president of the united states might have telephone conversations in the days to come soon. you have reacted to john bolton. putting. people at the terrorists to get their weight in the same in the same basket as innocent civilians kurdish people what was the reaction to your reaction. by the

secretary of state mike compare. saying. that apparently allegedly. the. president. gave assurances to mr trump in relation to what will happen after the trouble of u.s. troops we have discussed these matters are reaction to the rhetoric . in relation to the y.p. g p y d n d citizen kurds issue and we expect that they have understood our position. this is not just a matter of rhetoric or the way of speech ever your speech but it's becoming a position a stance needs to be addressed. secondly in your answer your second

question there is no question of any assurances being probably given to the united states or the president of the united states. or giving any assurance in relation to terrorist organizations and is. in an acceptable in intolerable turkey cannot be expected to give assurances against a terrorist organization. so you spoke about arms given being given to by p.g.p. or id by the united states have you received any assurances undertakings from the you know yes administration in nation to the fate of those weapons we have discussed this matter indeed in detail but it'll be the military delegations military officials who will go into the detail of this matter obviously our expectation is for the weaponry. to be taken back to be collected back from the

people idea why p.g. leaving those weapons in the region is not. only for ourselves but for the region as well it is it is for the region so it is important that all their friends are cleared off and military forces also cleared off so that the land is handed over to civilian administrations. i asked. yes counterparts pacifically about this numbers have been given sixteen eighteen twenty told sixteen but continue and so we'll see the outcome of it the statements by mr bolton in israel

are known as mr bolton made any statements contradicting what he said while he was in israel or qualifying them in any way inhalation to the u.s. bases in syria have there been any discussions in a nation to the bases being left to turkey for take you take it to take over those bases once u.s. leaves the area the u.s. bases. is another matter. and though you've been listening to turkey's presidential spokesman even him cull interviews journalists and after his meeting with the u.s. national security advisor john bolton said they would be continuing talks with the u.s. as they are both allies and there would be ongoing court nation on the withdrawal of u.s. troops but the syrian land must be cleared of all terrorists on the border regardless

of who they are that does of course include syrian kurdish fighters supported the us troops as well as ice on my back with more news hair on al-jazeera that's after counting the cost so do stay with us if you can. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week new year but same old fears about a slowdown in china shake global financial markets find out what's going on with the world's number two economy. also this week what brazil's president wants to do to transform latin america's biggest economy. and taxing times for technology

giants a new law came into effect in france that apple has issued a rare revenue warning. to china u.s. trade war is on countdown of the world is watching remember both sides agreed to a ninety day truce on december first well that expires at the end of next month and billions of dollars of penalties are still in place for many economists what happens next will prove to be the key factor deciding the outlook for asia's economy in twenty nineteen as the new year gets underway alarm bells are already sounding about a slowdown in the world's second biggest economy and exporting nation china's c.s.i. three hundred index lost around a quarter of its value in twenty eighteen manufacturing orders fell in december the fear is that the impact of a trade war is likely to be felt this year and it could mean weaker growth in

countries dependent upon trade with china it's making global investors jumpy about what's in store for the new year as rob reynolds reports now from washington d.c. . stock markets swinging wildly. a bruising global trade war and slowing growth worldwide so what's in store for twenty nineteen veteran forecaster locke's mana chewton studies leading economic indicators he says slow downs are part of capitalism upswings and downswings accelerations and d. celebrations are inevitable that's part and parcel of a market oriented economy. but that cyclical slowdown is worsened by policy decisions particularly the trumpet ministrations tariffs on foreign steel aluminum and in a ray of goods made in china trump also rattled investors with unprecedented criticism of the federal reserve the nominally independent u.s.

central bank it's really been a one two punch cycle slow down first then the trade sanctions trade war rhetoric whatever you want to call it and the question right now is are we ready or what is the next punch going to be in are we are we ready for it. in december general motors said it would close five plants and lay off thousands of workers in part due to soaring steel costs companies large and small are scaling back plans for twenty nineteen. los angeles businessman tommy yep sells toys made in china had they initial thought to start store to next year but that may be back to the drawing board germany sweden italy switzerland russia and other developed countries have all had negative growth for at least one quarter and china is clearly in a significant slowdown. as for the u.s.

the u.s. is not in imminent risk of a recession but we're continuing to slow in the law. longer we slow the sharper the slowdown the closer we get to recession risk. consumer spending is still strong u.s. shoppers want more than eight hundred fifty billion dollars worth of goods in the twenty eighteen holiday season it's always possible to remain optimistic and hope that policymakers make wise decisions and that the global economy doesn't tip into recession on the other hand the optimist who jumped off the higher state building you know what he said on the way down so far so good. so buckle up twenty nine thousand could be one bumpy ride joining us now from hong kong is jim mccafferty jims the head of equity research asia in japan at

nomura holdings jim good to have you with us on counting the cost so what's going on with the world's number two economy does the future still belong to china well i think what we're seeing is that g.d.p. growth forecasts are coming in for china the world's second biggest economy and a lot of the metrics coming through over the last couple of days are signaling that the health of the economy really deteriorated to during the fourth quarter not having settled on its china's economy is still growing it's still the second biggest economy globally and it's growing at let's say more than five more than six percent a year which relative to big columns in the world is still a huge pace of growth but nonetheless the growth of the economy is slowing down from global investors they find that quite hard to digest just how important is china's growth for the wider asia region and indeed its equity markets. ok so i guess in the context of asia pacific right now japan is by far and away the single

biggest market is to forty percent of egypt pacific that will change over the coming years as china's economy and china's stock market is really weighted by those in the providers and what we expect to see happening is that by twenty twenty three china will eclipse japan as the single biggest equity market in the region and that means that investors over here and elsewhere around the world who've traditionally seen asia pacific is divided into two categories japan as a developed markets and asia x. japan china being the biggest of those markets be morphed into one single asset class and that means in years to come we may look at asia pacific as china one single markets and then asia x. china as a separate market jim what does all of that mean to people like you and me and anyone watching what it means is that china as an economy is the second biggest in the world in this fifteen one five percent of the global economic output but in

terms of stock markets it's only three percent of the overall stock market representations of what it means is that china's stock market needs to catch up with its economy and companies will become more sophisticated in that with the deal with investors foreigners who previously really stayed away from that stayed on the sidelines of the china market they have to come in given the scale of these companies which are not just domestic companies but becoming increasingly international over the last few years so i would expect that the big global investors who encourage retail investors to buy these global funds which are primarily u.s. and european plans they're going to start taking a much more seriously you sound pretty bullish particularly on on china if you don't mind my saying so are you being perhaps a little overconfident here given that the geopolitical situation that the trade spat between the u.s. and china that rumbles on i think from the perspective of trade and we've been doing a bit of. work on this then i'm thinking that trump and she both care about the

value of the stock market from thomas perspective all of his bolters all of the guys who got him into power they care about their four to one ks they care about their pension plans and weakness in the u.s. equity market we've seen in the last quarter doesn't like trump's policy with regard to trade at the same time from cheese perspective although he's got absolute control is very useful for him to have social cohesion for what china market point of view this is not a market that storm by a sophisticated institutional investors it's all my retail investors so if the chinese authorities and if the u.s. authorities are able to send signals that actually stimulate the stock market as well as it was recommit that will be welcome i think a very happy new year to you jim many thanks indeed for being with us on counting the cost you to the head of apple has partly blamed the u.s. president's trade war with china for missing out on billions of dollars worth of business tim cook warned of lower than expected earnings for the first quarter of this year also citing weaker demand from china heidi joe castro reports.

this is a i phone when a confident tim cook and announced the launch of apple's i'm still a ten in september the fanfare couldn't mask the risk his company was taking. would he not consumers across the globe be willing to pay the one thousand dollar price tag of the latest and greatest i phone and now the answer is likely not apple revised its revenue forecast for the first quarter lowering it by up to nine billion dollars and cook says it's due to weak i phone sales in china it's clear that the economy began to slow there for the second half and what i believe to be the case is the trade tensions between the united states and china put additional pressure on their cars the u.s. is charging a ten percent tariff on two hundred billion dollars of chinese imports and china has responded in kind to sixty billion dollars of products shipped from the us

within two months the u.s. tariff on china will escalate to twenty five percent if the two countries don't come to an agreement i respect china and i respect pres. but they've been killing us some. seven billion dollars trade deficit slowest. five hundred. apples losses have pulled down global markets which may further harm china's weaken economy which only means more losses for u.s. companies that do business there chinese consumers have responded by turning inward choosing cheaper domestic brands over u.s. luxury goods from apple. don't want namely because the quality of phones from china is local brands have become better and better their market shares are rising. the homegrown huawei dominates the smartphone market in china its chief financial officer was arrested in canada last month accused of violating u.s.

sanctions in her business dealings that stirred anger among chinese consumers giving them still more reason to support one way and boycott apple we still have a possible sixty day window for them to come to some sort of temporary agreement i think if anything the trade war is bringing tensions that we already saw between the u.s. and china economically to the four trade talks between the u.s. and china are set to resume in beijing this week. still to come on counting the cost a place in the sun why no new europeans are snapping up property in greece. but first tech giants in france now have to pay more tax the so-called gaffa tax named after google apple facebook and amazon is to ensure global digital firms pay their fair share the measure is expected to raise around five hundred seventeen million dollars for france and twenty nine t. in the french government have been pushing for an e.u. wide levy but failed to get the required support earlier we spoke to technologists

and coda are all balkan who says that it won't financially hurt tech giant companies like facebook to pay more taxes if facebook was to pay the entirety of the tax that france wants to sue to levy. that would take about four days of earnings right now so we're not really talking about anything that's going to make a huge dent but this is a power play so really it again remains to be seen where the actual power lies here and i think it's in our interests as individuals and citizens that our democratically elected governments can keep these multinational tech companies and check economists are warning that bad debts and low savings are threatening the survival of nigeria's commercial banks many people refuse to put their money in accounts saying that banks can't be trusted on that idriss reports. they yearn to get him bungle farms and sells onions to some nigeria's neighbors at the peak of

the season he makes about thirty thousand dollars a week despite this income he stopped taking his money to the bank at a bank he all the wall i'm not satisfied with the services i receive a used to have an account that i was disappointed several times so i put my earnings back into the business and invest in real estate. and millions of other nigerians either not putting their money into savings account or have never even set foot in a bank. economist blame a number of factors including low income and poverty but even some of the rich and looking elsewhere to take their money if you look at the investment of fortune it is that i will open especially our save nigeria and that will lead to associate head was it best to mend such ventures it become less until for them. in the country or lead to this to our side but importantly. the sabin's

culture must be institutionalized by the government itself with many banks going out of business during the last decade economists say better supervision and enforcement is needed to attract the savings and investment the banking system. or any pay mentioned institutions to roll in to destress in terms of the high profile obvious torts are said been taken we have been combative in twelve long it indicates that the surveillance system provided by central mungo nigeria and as your lender for the insurance corporation is adequate or low all that it and what it can i was on the of that of the greater authorities banks are becoming leaner with fewer branches and staff and accusations and mergers are also becoming the new . bank used to be here someone else is renting the building now after decades of doing business the bank shut down because it didn't have enough customers many

people are one and want to be number one. is a distrust of the banking system. small businessmen like the young want more from the banks access not only to loans but better returns on their savings too if that's not provided the banks may find a number of customers contributing to savings accounts goodling father brazil's new president jaya boss an arrow was sworn in as the new year got underway he's already given powers to the agriculture ministry to manage the amazon rain forest john holdren reports from brasilia. so now he's president not open begin making good on his election promises he'll face some big challenges . crime is number one more than sixty thousand brazilians were killed in two thousand and seventeen alone noddle solution giving more people access to guns and

police more license to kill you're going to hear to do it is that it is hands this have to have ways to defend themselves will honor and respect those who sacrifice their lives for safety. but brazilian officers already killed thousands most of them young black it's being questioned if an even harder line will work. less controversial but just as challenging his boss a noddles saying to curb corruption he's brought in sergio morrow the man in charge of latin america's biggest bribery investigation this is justice minister but it may be tougher than he thinks nice fly take it's course it's much more easier terms of how like the narrative that in terms of practice. the government has besides the fact felt a strong we offered a president to fight against corruption been assessed establish a lot of spoil the whole. gulf are not if i jam like this i don't think

so and then there's the economy twelve million brazilians are unemployed consonantal says that free market economics and small government will fix that you did you lose a government one spend more income seen anybody but if people really want to balance the books you have to make cuts to brazil's generous pension system it takes up more than half of the federal budget that would be deeply unpopular how far president also not to get some responding to all of those challenges is going to be decided here in brasilia where his party has only about him but the seats in the houses of congress so he's going to have to negotiate with. those that backed him and that includes ex generals evangelicals i grew business leaders and the financial sector if you want to get anything done and everyone will want to say these groups they are really willing to fight each other so i'd see that the challenge is how to put these groups together and how to align

expectations so that these groups become part of a government and not fragments. president bill so now to run a successful campaign on the air isn't abuses of brazil's left of center governments now it's the time the man from the right to see if he can do better. joining us now from london richard siegel richard a senior emerging markets analyst with manulife asset management good to have you with the set once again richard so what are the challenges facing both sonata as he takes office their focus is clearly going to be on the school consolidation from a number of fronts economic liberalization but also a streamlining of the economy and the public sector workforce it's important to realize how enormous the challenges are though and therefore we'll be looking for

this new government to be making step by step progress with only a few steps backwards rather than a big bang approach which would have the risk of failing but this is a man by his own admission who knows very little about the markets and how the financial world works has he got the wherewithal to do what brazil needs. thus far it's been quite encouraging to read one after another the appointments he's made to steer the economy first academics in the position of finance minister but also a long standing financial markets professional to run the sucker bank the risk here is that where there are setbacks these individuals might resign or be forced out in their form would be back to the drawing board but thus far the president both cigar zero as indicated that he will adopt

a hands off approach towards letting the experts run the economy in the financial markets and so therefore there is reason to be encouraged but with many latin countries the initial placements and then welcomed but they haven't lasted long enough so once again we have to hold our breath and hope for the best he says he's going to stamp out brazil's endemic corruption it's bureaucracy. what's he going to take to get foreign direct investments what is it going to take to get those of us looking into brazil from the outside to put our money into the country a lot has actually been done in the past several years the car wash scandal help to root out a lot of the larger scale corruption so i would say that the more important challenges as we look into two thousand and nineteen into two thousand and twenty are to focus on the bureaucracy rather than the corruption because of the scandals

of the past couple of years those politicians who might be inclined. to go back to the old ways will be afraid afraid of being taped or be afraid of being. finding themselves on the front pages for the wrong reasons so that's less of a worry however pre-sales public sector bureaucracy is bloated across the board left to right up and down i think there what we need is an effort to reduce the size of the public sector workforce it's going to let it take a long time but it has been delayed for many years and they have to start some richard really good still too many thanks indeed for being with us and counting the cost thank you and finally this week a record thirty three million visits is a heading to greece every year and that driving up previously depressed house prices normally europeans are on the bias if they spend enough they get

a visa to stay on zeros jones the ripple us reports from athens. has just sold this one bedroom apartment to a chinese investor it has a panoramic view of athens but until last year the owners would have been lucky to get half the price it fetched two hundred eighty thousand dollars that's the minimum investment required for a greek golden visa which allows non europeans to live in europe it's the cheapest such visa in the european union and it's brought a flood of new money into a depressed real estate market. the main priority for people who buy these properties it's secure the golden visa and freedom to travel in europe they see it as a cheap investment in a property they intend to rent out. half of all golden visas in greece go to chinese nationals chinese companies have set up shop here to renovate and manage their properties foreign money is a bonanza for estate agents like who've seen their business jump by more than fifty

percent in a year and tourism is part of that bonanza short term rentals are booming in central athens and boutique hotels are springing up during the past decade house construction and house sales have fallen by ninety percent that has wiped three billion dollars off the tax revenues that were raised when property changes hands so government introduced the highest taxes in the european union on property ownership anyone with real estate must pay to keep it and failure to do so means the government may seize it and their bank accounts. greeks are being forced to sell the property they spent generations building to meet tax obligations the head of the hellenic property federation which represents owners met greece's creditors when the property tax was introduced foreseen and us. credit is said that this was a tax greeks must learn to pay because their real estate holdings a large compared to those of other europeans i don't think credit is understood

that this tax cut is a case called values the greeks worked hard to build their property they often had to go overseas and nobody handed them this property. the selling spree is also encouraged by banks which are foreclosing on twelve and a half billion dollars' worth of property that backs non-performing loans and they've severely cut credit for new mortgages so even though average property prices have fallen by forty percent in the past decade few greeks are in any position to take advantage of opportunities and that is our show for this week if you'd like to comment on anything that you've seen please do get in touch with us you can tweet me i'm at a finnigan on twitter please use the hash tag a j c t c when you do or you could drop us a line counting the cost of al-jazeera dot that is our e-mail address as always there's more for you online at al-jazeera dot com slash c.t.c. that takes you straight to our page and they will find individual reports links

even entire episodes for you to catch up on but that's it for this edition of counting the cost i'm adrian finnegan from the whole team here in doha thanks for being with us the news on al-jazeera is next. from brisk listen. to the trunk or to those of southeast asia. hello there is a not so let me throwing it down in some parts of south america recently year ago i has seen well over one hundred sixty millimeters of rain there and that system is still giving us some heavy downpours at the moment your self has been dry for the

past few hours we can see that area of bright white cloud has been bringing us rain not too far away this time it's been paraguayan where we've seen the heaviest of the downpours many places they're reporting over fifty millimeters of rain that system is going to stick around as we head through the next few days as well so yet more heavy rain for thin paraguayan through brazil and into the northern parts of argentina on tuesday then that pushes its way southwards into your require once more as we head into wednesday so yet more very heavy rain causing disruption in this part of the world before the towards the north and generally the weather here is very quiet we are seeing a few showers just what their way on to the coast of mexico there and then those will be stretching a bit further southwards as well as we head through wednesday one or two of them could turn out to be rather shop for the north and there's plenty of what weather pushing into the eastern paul's of canada and the u.s. behind it it's surprisingly mild denver should be around six or seven at this time of year but we're up at ten that snow will continue in the east imposible of the

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this is the news hour live from coming up in the next sixty minutes president criticizes what he sees as contracting messages coming from the trunk administration over its plan to withdraw troops from syria. north korea's leader heads back to beijing ahead of a possible second summit with donald trump. nationwide protests in nigeria as demonstrators demand a rise in the minimum wage. and on people standing with all your sports egypt has been chosen as the host for both u.s. africa cup of nations all over reaction to the decision in the next hour. the turkish president has lashed out at what he says are mixed messages coming from the trumpet ministration about his plans to pull troops from syria or egypt has also rejects as a condition that turkey agrees not to target washington's kurdish. he says his

country will not compromise on fights as it regards as terrorists well he said i don't bolton has made a serious mistake and whoever thinks like this is also made a mistake it is not possible for us to make compromises on this point those who are part of the terror corridor in syria who receive unnecessary lassen there is no difference between the p.k. k. the y p g the p.y.t. and ice all at the same time we are determined to take steps against terrorist organizations such as the p.y.t. and the y.p. along with ice all we will mobilize to neutralize these terrorist organizations in syrian land very soon. around there was reacting to comments made by donald trump's national security advisor john bolton who's in turkey bolton spokesman has said the talks in unquote were productive both bolton and trumps top diplomats might pompei on a mission to reassure allies over the u.s. president's decision on syria pompei is beginning his middle east tour in jordan

and will visit at least eight capsules including cairo riyadh q eight city and doha or shortly where we're going inside syria and we'll be speaking to. the northern town of that stephanie dhaka meanwhile is wondering why pompei is movements in amman first though let's cross to turkey's capsule where we have. so jamal the u.s. says talks in turkey on the u.s. withdrawal were productive but of course one is not on the same page and come up very strongly against bolton. well i mean the earlier ones not on the same page but it seems that bolton isn't on the same page as trump and there's. a lack of synchronization between everybody who is meant to be discussing the future of american military presence in syria as well as the greater future of syria what's interesting here or is that prior to this meeting it is a much anticipated meeting it was announced it was going to be this joint press

conference between bolton and britain callin the senior advisor to president around eleven thought without doing press conference was cancelled in fact it was instead they opted for an individual want to that was held by the turkish side i asked the advisor to the president why that was he said it was actually a bolton's request because he had to or he said that he had to get back to washington to deal with the border security issue and the standoff taking place in d.c. not maybe the most convincing of reasons considering what's at stake here of american military presence inside syria and what to do moving forward what's the problem here laura essentially at the core of it is the kurdish militia groups the why p.g. and the u.s. is strategy for that area in the fight against darvish or i saw islamic states or whatever it's called the americans were not heavily on the y.p. g. funding them giving them arms and so forth in order for them to be their boots on the ground so to speak the turks however say that they are also

a terrorist organization just because they're fighting dollars doesn't mean that that necessarily makes them legitimate they are an affiliate of the p.k. k. that is the kurdistan workers' party that has blown up buses killed police officers and attacked turkish civilians for decades and therefore they want to go out inside those areas to route out not only diet i saw but also to rout out why p.g. the americans off the trumpet initially said this was going to be a swift withdrawal we're going to hand over things to turkey some people within the military in the security establishment have said well hold on this would be abandoning our allies and have framed it in the sense. this would give the green light for turkey to attack the kurds there so he says it wouldn't be attacking civilians it would only be attacking the armed groups until now or they haven't agreed on a specific way forward they haven't but we've got turkey or at least saying that they have completed scrapper ations for military operations in syria what does that mean why i mean for some time now the turkish

military says it's been ready i mean bear in mind there has been engaging in that for the best part of a couple of years at least and therefore in terms of the military presence in that region it has been significant not least in terms of the operations euphrates shield in the beginning or the beginning stages of. of the second phase of that's. taken place that seen them actually have a lot of success in terms of routing out ice or for example when you think of jobless and barb and other areas on the border. i actually asked whether the turks were willing to go it alone if the americans still don't agree on what to do or if they continue to wait any longer because the clock is ticking for turkey not least because of the security element to it but also because turkey is going to elections in the next couple of months and therefore there needs to be some sort of movement he didn't give me a straight or a direct answer to this he said we're going to continue our fight against terrorist

organizations we're going to continue to try and ensure the sovereignty of syria that it doesn't kind of disseminate into different states looks within it. whether that means they will go it alone we're not quite sure but it's important to note here they are nato has two biggest members the united states and turkey they should theoretically be singing off the same hymn sheet and date ok for the moment thanks very much want to announce his end northern syria and northern syria of course is where u.s. troops are stationed and turkish troops this site describe for us the military lay of the land there. whole laura we're surrounded by the turkish military and the u.s. military bases here actually that's where we stand is a very important point because it's also the separation between the free syrian army quantrill de urrea and the syrian democratic forces as if controlled area

behind me is the u.s. military basic course to me is the turkish military base and it is just fifty meters separating two checkpoints the f.s.a. checkpoint and a few i did checkpoint from each other and the civilians are actually using this road for their trips and in the morning we have entered the syria from gaza and have car commerce border crossing we have seen a lot of people trying to cling on to live sustain and normal life a relatively normal life of course every but the weather conditions are bad because the winter is harsh years so people are actually really is really really sick of forcing. to stand up and there is none there's uncertainty in the politics then this uncertainty makes people a little bit worried about their future as well and the area where we are standing is just a few hundred meters away from the city of that which is mainly controlled by this

the f. as it is in the outskirts of the members each town but speaking to people here they are actually worried about what is going to happen next after the u.s. pullout and some of them are actually for instance mainly the f.s.a. forces we have been speaking to they say that the few i do i.p.g. fighters are killing our families out there but also we are speaking to some arabs who are living in members but traveling to the other side they say we are fine the wife is jan peter why they are a lot of they are pressing us but we have a house there so we are going there but people actually do not want to go through the checkpoints and. more and more i mean they want the war to be ended they don't want and the checkpoints they want to united syria they really want back their country but of course they did not they do they are not sure what the united states is going to decide on the for the future of their lands and they say we don't

believe that u.s. will is certainly pull out we know that the u.s. is going to stay on top of they get what they really want from us and this friction it might be the key word here actually in terms of the civilians vision about their future ok so many thanks for joining us there from us in northern syria let's cross over now to jordan's capital where we can join our correspondent stephanie deca who's got the u.s. sectors that might be on a parallel equally challenging trip as john bolton's was on his agenda there in jordan. well have been discussing similar issues we are actually expecting a press conference in the foreign ministry he has arrived in that building behind me within the next ten or fifteen minutes from what we understand so will be interesting to see whether. makes reference to the troubles that are brewing in turkey because the message that might compel it's been giving any gave this also on

the plane traveling here to reporters is that we are pulling out of syria period when you listen to john bolton he says well we will not leave unless the turks give us assurances that they will launch harm our allies kurdish allies meaning the s.d.f. slash y p g so it remains complicated there remain many question marks other things i'll be discussing of course bilateral relations jordan and the u.s. have a longstanding strong relationship with each other so we're going to have to wait and see whether he references but i think this is part of a two pronged offensive laura having two senior officials in the region all talking about why the u.s. is doing what is doing giving assurances to their allies that they remain a steadfast partner in the region then of course each country will have their own issues that they will be raising with the united states. what does it mean for jordan that this is being chosen as his first stop on this massive torben at least eight capitals in eight days.

well the first time i came here in his role as secretary of state which was april he toured the region he visited three countries of it is saudi arabia israel and jordan so certainly it is a country that's important to them also just geo strategic borders israel it borders iraq it borders syria it borders saudi arabia it borders the west bank and it is an ally when it comes to security it's been very much involved in the fight against isis been involved together with the united states in training syrian fighters that are on the ground inside syria so the two countries have had a longstanding relationship at the end of the day there are however somewhat of a tension i think because of what the trumpet ministrations policy now of cutting funds to under all that is the u.n. agency that deals with palestinian refugees it's something jordan has been hugely reliant on because it has two million palestinians living here you're talking about school.