not endorse this attack and has made it clear to turkey that this operation is a bad idea there are no american soldiers in the area the statement went on to say that turkey has committed to protecting civilians and ensuring no humanitarian crisis takes place and we will hold them to this commitments in addition turkey is now responsible for ensuring all isis fighters being held captive remain in prison and that isis does not reconstitutes in any way shape or form let's bring in our white house correspondent kelly haka to just break down month statement for us because if reports are to believe to be believed the suggestion is that trumpet greenlighted this operation. yeah you're picking up on the headline that seems to be trending here in the united states that contradictory statement coming from the white house in the last couple of hours where essentially the president is saying that he does not endorse this attack by turkey has made it clear this operation is

a bad idea that directly contradicts the statement from sunday that was released by the white house 1st announcing this attack was imminent when the white house said that president trump and turkey's leader erda once spoke on the telephone they acknowledged that turkey would soon be moving forward with its long planned operation into syria so there's a problem with those 2 statements they're directly opposing one another and you're right that sunday statement seemed to greenlight this operation by turkey and what this also signals is that the united states seemed to be fully aware of the scale and the scope 2 of the operation we haven't had a statement as late as tuesday from the pentagon where they had continued to press articulating that stablish in a safe zone was the desired course of action in order to maintain stability and yet there was also an acknowledgement that turkey had rebuffed that suggestion so there is a bit of a problem with these 2 statements in fact there is

a lot of criticism now that the u.s. president has essentially abandoned the syrian kurdish fighters who worked alongside the united states u.s. forces in the effort to defeat eisel so much so that there is now a hash tag trending in the united states kurds betrayed by trump and kimberly trump however did threaten to according to him on twitter obliterate the turkish economy if it does anything off limits but did we get a sense or are we getting a sense of what off limits means or what are the red lines for trump. that is particularly unclear because well the u.s. president his latest statement has said that he has secured assurances by turkey that in fact the civilians exciter will be protected he's also as you pointed out said that he would a blitter rate turkey's economy economically if it did anything inhumane but we are

getting the statements coming from the s.d.f. that in fact there is huge panic among the people in the region we're also being told that given this bombardment the syrian kurds asked the united states their allies just about a week ago for air support a no fly zone to protect civilians and the reporting coming out of the pentagon here in the united states is the fact that the u.s. military has been ordered not to help now i should just quickly read one tweet coming from a former member of the trumpet ministration heather nauert who wasn't very till very recently the spokesperson for the u.s. state department she says to our kurdish friends there are many americans who stand with you today and have the greatest respect for her roic work fighting eisel it's not enough but let me say thank you that seems to be the sentiment being repeated by so many americans democrat republican liberal conservative that really the united states is turning their backs on a friend and that is the kurds that assisted the united states in fighting

a very tough battle and now are being abandoned as they face yet another one on their own ok belief thank you for that update let's bring in particle hain she's joining us from the pentagon so how do you the u.s. troops were deployed in the region for years that trump pulled out just a few days ago so what really changed for trying to order the withdrawal. what changed is the president the u.s. president got on the phone with president won and made this announcement on twitter now there's been a lot of reporting that people here at the pentagon didn't see that coming they have put out an official statement saying no they were consulted both the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs that they were consulted but they said that turkey was going to make this move that they were going to move in so they had to pull their soldiers back for their own safety now i think it's important to point out and the president let's say there were only 50 soldiers special forces operators but that has been the deterrent they have been there and the basic the president barack obama if they had said this and they may have said

this in private he his basic stance on this was then move in and see what happens with president trump here in that this invasion was going to happen had 2 choices he could have taken on turkey and said we're not moving the troops and you better hope that no one with the u.s. flight on their uniform gets injured or killed or he could have done what he did which is basically take a step back pulled the troops so the white house saying they didn't greenlight this operation but the thing that was keeping this operation from happening were those u.s. troops the very u.s. troops that the u.s. president pulled out all right thank you. now the head of nato has urged turkey not to jeopardize the fight against eisel on twitter he wrote nato has been informed by turkish authorities about their ongoing operation in northern syria i count on turkey to act with restraint and ensure that the gains we have made in the fight against isis are not jeopardized i will discuss this issue with president sir 2 on friday now russia has been calling for

a dialogue between the syrian government and the kurds foreign minister sergei lavrov is on a 2 day visit to kazakhstan where he's been speaking to the media lavrov also blamed the u.s. for helping grow tensions in the region on shoes they moscow said it was not informed about the u.s. decision to pull out american troops from syria let it come to the matter with you so the americans organized state structures in northeastern syria and shared people's livelihoods and viability and actively promoted the kurdish issue in a way that arab tribes who traditionally lived on these territories used to object to it's now a very dangerous game such a reckless attitude to this highly sensitive subject can set fire to the entire region and we have to avoid it at any cost we are communicating this position to the u.s. i hope they hear us but practically we can't yet see any serious changes or very inconsistent and contradictory policy. reaction from moscow. compared to other capitals it's very quiet here in moscow just after this military

operation has started just a few hours before foreign minister sergei lavrov on his visit in kazakhstan urged the kurds and the syrian government to have a dialogue to bring these parties together russia actually offered also to play a role in this making sure that the kurds would have the backing of the syrian government but just a few hours after that the operation began and since then the only man from the kremlin has been that the president the one from turkey has called the president put in just before the operation began and announced that it was going to happen and president putin has urged the one according to his spokesman that turkey has to be careful and had thorley investigate and look at the situation not to jeopardize any peace movement and damage the peace process that has been going on in syria at

all so basically the russians are now sitting back and watching what's what's happening during this military operation of course turkey russia story is on the inside of syria has been fighting on the side of syria for years and syria of course is very concerned about what the turks are going to do and how if there's going to be an incursion of not so russia is in the middle of these 2 forces but also during a peace agreement and peace talks before in the so-called a stand up process russia has been bringing all these groups together the turkish government is involved also the syrian government is involved is involved so they are close contacts between all these countries and that's why russia is now playing this kind of sit back role awaiting what the turkish troops are actually going to do. well iran's president hassan rouhani has called for restraint on dialogue

between turkey and the kurds iran is a close ally of the syrian government and began unannounced military drills in the northwest of the country bordering turkey that the americans must leave the area the kurds whose country syria should support the syrian army and the syrian government the current trying to do deals behind closed doors not to the benefits of the region we urge our neighbor friend and brotherly nation turkey and the government of turkey to show due care and attention and patience in this issue some residents in northern syria have begun fleeing the military operation bernard smith has more from erbil. it looks like affairs of the kurdistan regional government here in erbil are already being realized as al-jazeera understands at least a couple of 100 cars have been heading seen heading towards the part of iraq border administered by the kurdistan regional government a k r g a syrian kurds escape the assault by turkish forces on positions that they hold the

s.t.'s soon to syrian defense force holds in northeastern syria already there are some 90000 syrian kurds here in 9 refugee camps administered by the k r g they are already full and over the other side of the border we have whole camp which already aid agencies were saying was a disaster is very very tense atmosphere with the risk of an isolated surgeon see from within that camp and there are detention centers administered by the syrian kurds those guards minding those centers guarding those and just have to go and fight for kurdish forces there is a fear of a breakout from the detention centers on from the refugee camp and a fear that those people would had towards the border here earlier we spoke to the taliban brahim he says turkish and focus on dialogue with the syrian government to resolve the situation on the border. the government. is

not so happy in love to the demographic forces are doing and indeed they are in the midst of a syrian government and we know that there are so paris and they want to make their on the 2 device syria about the treatment of this situation i mean to them democrat forces and. other. groups which are in the eastern a pure if you prep is not based to banks events it does by working with the event government to put an end with that and i think turkey can work with via their political means and by cooperation with the rationale was to go was iran and with others who in the situation and this is a process do action then i'm going to assume that is sort of your prep is i'm not to be in damascus agrees to the democratic forces but everybody is angry here their term of the turkish if you're

a shooting and. everything that gets you to europe as well but there are 30 or negative or whether it was by a spike russia has signed to make it candid to the cost of reaction between syrian government and between good this group so that you still have your practice of boy any minute so it's got a sion and they want to reach any time the police got a delusion and at the same time there are the lessons out of britain must consent to make the history of the reconsolidation between syria and between your caves and prevent but you have a gun and to prevent bashar assad and this should be reflected in a billy really goes if if and if you see so if you a sugar the us must fear the one atmosphere of middle east and i think it's time to look at this atrocities in this association it was happening the snooper is better than the rhythms of play by them it would be it was. what into turkish ambitions

but from a russian point of view and from syrian government government sponsored view that there's a better reach recently regime and set them and who are all problems for by what we think it means not by me but that he wants this issue but another issue from the point. that i'm. sitting government i think that's a the syrian government did not do that as a couple of your their concert their syrian democratic votes just as in amy's and some syrian sponsor was. describing them as enemies and there is and some people said we must go to the war with them why because they are killing and upset the displacing arabs from just the rest of the are burning curtis and giving back that. plan was there especially all it were under us and they are. by force

the site let's be together on all scan he's the people's democratic party representative to the united states that's a pro kurdish opposition group in turkey he's joining us from washington d.c. thanks very much for speaking to us on the al-jazeera news hour can i 1st get your official reaction as a party as the a.t.p. party to the developments and the news that turkey has begun its military operation into northeastern syria. well this is absolutely horrific at this stage we were already seeing footage coming in from the region where there has been relentless bombing wrong the whole border civilian neighborhoods have been hit and we're already seeing very graphic videos coming of even children being affected by the bombardment and so i think the reaction right now on the feeling right now of all kurds of the more than 40000000 kurds spread across the region is one of horror that one the turkish government would do such

a thing to the international community will allow for something like this to happen even though the into the turkish government is keen to stress in a tweets in fact that turkey is not fighting the kurds turkey is fighting the p k k n i so and it's saying the save zone will protect our borders and ensure the safe return of refugees. well there are several lies just in that statement in itself firstly there are absolutely no isis fighters who are active along that border that they're attacking right now secondly it is the kurds they're attacking because even in 2017 when the kurdistan regional government held a referendum for kurdish independence in iraq and this is by the k r g who have absolutely nothing to do with the p.k. k. actually have political hostilities with the people and yet the turkish government was very hostile to that decision very hostile to the referendum and even threatened iraqi kurds with starvation if they went ahead with the referendum which

they subsequently did so the rationalizations given by the turkish government hold absolutely no water anymore and said and thirdly actually. the president here the u.s. president is asking turkey with combating isis and taking over the anti isis fight in syria and. actually taking control of the isis prisoners but how can the government be tasked with such a thing a government that allowed this to develop in the 1st place according to american officials turkey was implicit in his development in its 1st years allowing isis to roam freely through its borders with syria. asking the turkish government with rights apologies just for the sake of time let me jump in there what is the s.d.f. do now what are the options for the u.s. d.f. on the ground because as you know it's being perceived that the u.s. president has abandoned his kurdish allies. well throughout history the

kurds have always defended themselves and i think right now the only option left for the s.d.f. is to defend themselves and their families and their territories against this unilateral action by the turkish army and so i think you know there aren't very many options left for the s.d.f. the s.d.f. are already their resources were already very thin they succeeded. in a very efficient battle against isis and defeated isis to defend themselves but they also did this on behalf of humanity with very limited resources and now they you know they have over 70000 both isis fighters and their families in camps that they have to guard again with very much very limited resources and on top of this now they have to face the 2nd biggest me in nato all of the same time so i

think the options left for the syrian democratic forces are very limited right the best thing i think the s.d.f. can hope for right now is that the international community see what's going on and hold the turkish government accountable for any thing that happens to be stabilize the region you know right ok we thank you very much bigger and i'll scan for speaking to us from washington but continue with this and bring in joe macron he's a middle east analyst and fellow at the arab center in washington d.c. he's joining us from washington as well thanks for your time on the news hour you've written that trumps decision to withdraw from syria is just another side effect of his mounting troubles at home and abroad can you explain that. yes it's a sin some point it's a distraction from his from his domestic a crisis and it's the same way how he basically. run away from his own responsibility with or with and how he did was dealing with iran and hold dealing

with those korea he bypass establishment he always repeat the same thing he is a face in stablish but a president who doesn't believe in bureaucracy or doesn't believe that any of his advisors are smarter than him he doesn't believe in empowering his own mysteries around the world nobody takes seriously secretary of state or the pentacles they all thought they would come to trump to deal with him he likes to put this aura around him that he's. the most smart the president the smartest leader of the everybody should come to him he's a you know is better than the others so yes ringback part of what's happening in syria is is his retreat his thrust of the establishment his demeanor at home and his continuing crisis that he doesn't believe he doesn't trust his own government and when it comes to what my previous guest was saying just a moment ago that the international community needs to hold turkey to account when it comes to this military operation that has now begun in northeastern syria is

that a viewpoint that you agree with because certainly in the past we've seen the international community very divided when it comes to the issue of syria. i mean certainly there's nothing called that the national community we live in a very realist would know the cold war so we don't have the. appropriate action to fit the civilians all those things especially in syria now you have a game chess everybody want to fill the u.s. vacuum if they leave turkey wants to have its own piece of pie of of syria you have also russia and iran so this is the whole game now what i don't see you know i think turkey is a bit reluctant to vien they want to see if william 2 to beijing the push back and we don't know what's the agreement with the us what's the limit of this incursion what's the of limit that from spoke about and yes it's not the 1st time the u.s. basically gave up on the kurds in the sim and the iraqi referendum if you remember

was but is only so. so the girls they should should learn their lesson at this point and the should decide of the shift alliances or know will there be something alliances i mean as they did on the word brights how likely is it that we do see this or is it in their alliances because we know that moscow and sergei lavrov have has offered to negotiate what the kurds as well on the syrian government. they did they did last last year there in the bush it did with the in agreement with the syrian regime but the sooner she refused to give them full autonomy so they didn't go as far as the top of the special fold them your other did with us or you did with the russians syria is useful they basically went back so no i think everybody is waiting to signal if the us is really withdrawing just a few meters 50 soldiers or as fully leave it to the us and i think at that point the kurds would be ready to shift alliances to make a deal with you if you but it might be late because they already left the border

areas though they are empty for turkey to enter so i think the un is most awaiting the russian green light before going in since the us basically told them we are out to not doing anything iranians are worried and then the russians will have to have a say and what will happen because of the us is is leaving it to miss all day 'd not make this change and the russia turkey clash might be coming in the coming months is because the sooner she was relaxed that the kurds were next to him they were mostly in neutral partner or neutral player writes now the syrian opposition is coming in their might collapse with the regime and what we have a new whole dynamics that will change the political process and others worry basically iran and russia so we're still lucky what will happen next and yeah we'll have to wait and see we thank you very much for the time being john mack on for speaking to us from washington thank you. elaine on to other news

and to people have been shot dead near a german synagogue and a cab shop in what our forty's are calling an anti sematic attack let's cross over to the mozzie with more from our european broadcast center. that's right during that's how it's been described in the attack coincides with the holiest day of the year on the jewish calendar police say at least one person has been arrested on the suspects could also potentially launch list all took place in the east in german city of halle where early of residents had been asked to stay at home gunfire was also heard in the nearby town of landsberg that's about 15 kilometers away it's not clear if the 2 are necessarily connected and then baba has our report. the video from a mobile phone might be shaky but it conveys just how come the gun manny's as he shoots down the street in a hollow. and watch how people take cover in the distance.

eyewitnesses say one woman a passive boy was shot near a synagogue the spokesperson for the local jewish community says an attacker tried to shoot his way into the synagogue where around 80 people had gathered all your pool the holiest jewish holiday and then threw a grenade into the cemetery next to it germany's foreign minister has tweeted it hits us in the heart that a synagogue was shot on the day of atonement we must all act against anti-semitism in our country. elsewhere in the town one person was reportedly killed when a turkish kabob shop was attacked this site. is in you know. i was standing at the entrance and saw an elderly woman passed by and behind her there was suddenly this man wearing a helmet and military style clothes he was holding a gun and wearing a balaclava and then he tried to throw what looked like a hand grenade but it bounced off the door frame and exploded right in front of

this elderly woman with a very loud bang and then he raised the gun and started shooting out as a police warned people to stay indoors they confirmed they'd arrest it one person we all of them in a sense by we have at least 2 crime scenes one person died as the result of a shooting in the area of vic vava strasser and another one in the area of humboldt strasser we 1st received information that there was one terrorism suspect who was armed and have since been suggestions that there could have been more people involved but that's not confirmed at this point. the suspect was wearing a head camera and the attacks were live streamed on the internet the gunman speaking english and german calls himself a holocaust denier also denouncing feminism and mass immigration he calls himself a loser after the synagogue attack doesn't go to plan before moving on to the restaurants the shooting was also reported in the town of landsberg 20 minutes drive from her germany's tried to fight a resurgence of right wing

a neo nazi extremism in recent years including the firebombing of synagogues the investigation into the heller attacks has now been taken over by federal antiterrorism prosecutors and joins me live now 1st. on the number of. as far as we know the police believe that they have one but they say that they have one person in custody but that 2 suspects actually escaped fled fled or by car we haven't got any updates on in the last hour or so but that might that might prove to be a false alarm because they're saying that people can now go about their business and have and not asking people to stay inside as i was saying in my in my reports the latest from the official side of things is that chancellor angela merkel has actually attended a vigil for the victims at a synagogue in lives so it's obviously something that's been taken very very

seriously by the german or thora he's now the suspect of all of the suspected attacker according to the german press is a 27 year old man the police haven't identified him but the local press is saying that he was from the state of saxony on help where he has located and that as i was mentioning he lifestream somehow what he was doing on. a website called twitch which is which belongs to amazon and is usually a video gaming site they don't know how who actually got the video or lloyd and people who've watched that have said that he's in a mixture of english and german he's he's been talking all the while while he's preparing the attack and it seems to be obviously very well thought out but rather amateurish in the quitman and the way that he went about it and obviously he wasn't able to get into the synagogue where he really could have you know he could have

caused a lot of loss of especially at this time of year authorities have described it as anti-semitic and of course the attack occurred on young kapono the holiest day in the jewish calendar absolutely and that's why so many people we think were in that sin. dog. we're hearing reports that at least 10 u.s. citizens were inside that synagogue now everyone inside was safe and sound because their security was was tight enough but just the thoughts that somebody could have carried out that attack would be horrifying to the jewish community in germany hence the the. attendance by chancellor merkel of the vigil but beyond that this is just a reminder there have been other attacks on synagogues in recent years there have been attacks on symbols of the muslim community as well we haven't heard about any motive from the of 30 but obviously the attacker the suspected attacker seems to have gone on to a turkish restaurant chosen the targets and that chimes with

a lot of a lot of. talk that there has been among far activists not just silently secretly but actually at rallies that we've seen in eastern germany in the recent past thank you very much a team hopes are fading of finding any more survivors from but that capsized in the mediterranean on sunday it was making a dangerous crossing from north africa to europe packed with refugees and migrants at least 15 people are missing homage and jim has more now from the italian island of lampedusa. italy's coast guard still searching for migrants who've been missing since a boat capsized off the coast of lampedusa on sunday that boat we're told originated in tunisia there were about 50 people on board most of them tunisian and west african we're also told that the migrants who were on the boat 22 have been rescued 13 have been found dead we've been told that those 13 were women and there is

a fear of the rest who have been missing that many of them are women and children now the u.n. refugee agency says that what happened proves yet again that urgent action is needed when it comes to the situation in the mediterranean here in lampedusa as we said the search is ongoing the mayor here tells us that the search will continue tomorrow that at that point robots undersea robots will also be deployed to assist in the search we're also told that this evening there will be a memorial service for those who perished in that boat capsized i have will from london and about 20 minutes from now let's get back to terry. and i am thank you very much well the tennessean presidential candidate now being the title we has been released from jail just 4 days before the 2nd round runoff presidential election and we has been behind bars since august accused of money laundering and tax evasion the media mogul came 2nd in the 1st round of today's u.s. presidential elections last month his party heart of tennessee also came 2nd in

monday's parliamentary election has said about joining us from tunis so no one has him so as we're saying how do we is now out tell us about the circumstances that led to his release and where is he now. when he is on his way to the headquarters of the hearts of to his political party which is behind me let me just give you an idea as i mean about what's happening you can see that his supporters have made it to the headquarters and they will told that he should show up along with his wife. any time soon i make a statesman talk to his loyalists and get their greetings the words of welcome to him and this is a huge political moment for. he is free he's going to leave the campaign of his political party in the coming days he wants to convinced in is the ends to vote for him if that happens he becomes in his ears 2nd democratically elected president

i can see the convoy which is now and. the security of the presidential guards and they are all here this is the other way in the car that you can see here and we're expecting him to come out of this car any time now. all right i asked him this it's nice to hear you say in the spirit show you here is this scar you can see enough. so listen. so this is basically the moment for the way you can see him over here that's him as he's coming out of his car right now to greet his supporters to talk to them and i was saying this is a crucial moment for him there in he wants to convince citizens that he is innocent that the chances that were leveled against her will completely wrong politically

motivated and you bornstein is the end to vote for him limit just continue to give you an idea of us what's happening over here so as you can see supporters of the heart of tennessee or the political party that came in 2nd in the parliamentary elections a few days ago for them this is a huge political moment they're waiting for their leaders their leader the real courage to come out of the of the car address them talk to them and reassure them that he is committed to a. in the elections and become tin is the next president but i have to say in the 1st round of the presidential election he came in 2nd after the retired law professor. able to build momentum in the short period of time which is about 4 days from now before the polls that is going to be .