hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing their homes in northern syria as turkish forces continue their advance across the border. there've been fierce clashes with kurdish fighters as turkey bombards towns with air strikes and artillery but the kurds are firing back — with turkish towns targetted. borisjohnson and his irish counterpart leo veradkar hold crunch talks — and say there is a "pathway" to a brexit deal. and two rugby world cup matches due to take place on saturday are cancelled as a powerful typhoon heads forjapan — we have the latest.

there's heavy fighting in northern syria between kurds and the turkish military that attacked yesterday. map the turks are focused on a central part of the turks are focused on a central part of the syria turkey border. martin patience is nearby. from what we've seen in the past hour or so, turkish shelling into syria behind me, the town is one of the main focuses of this turkish military operation. you are right in saying that there has been a response and we have had shells come into the town just behind me on the turkish side of the border, which struck panic with people injured. the kurds have vowed to stand and fight with against what they see as turkish aggressors.

but what we're seeing behind me is columns of smoke and this, we believe, is being replicated right along this border. 70 km away, for example, is the town where we also hear that there are turkish shelling and turkish jets circling overhead, checking to see if this operation will continue. president erdogan speaking a short time ago saying that 100 kurdish fighters have been cured in his operation so far. fighters have been killed in his operation so far. now we cannot verify that number, but it shows just how intense some of the clashes are proving to be. and this moment from when martin was on air illustrates how dangerous the situation is. our suggestions is that is will suggest to make stage some kind of our suggestions is that is will stage some kind of prison break or some of them... that shelling was coming into turkey from syria — with kurdish forces the most likely source.

martin and his crew are ok i should say. the town of ack—chaka—lay was hit though. orla guerin was there. running for their lives others rushing towards the scene, trying to find shelter. there was a least one person injured and another was taken away from this building across the road and that is the office of the local governor and we could see on the ground the evidence of an artillery strike. so this was incoming fire from the other side of the border. there was a second strike further down the street we see the smoke rising and the authorities have pushed us back now. they are afraid of more incoming

fire and for the first time this offensive that turkey is carrying out across the border in syria, that has now started to feel very real on the side of the border. turkey says it wants to establish what it calls a ‘safe zone‘ to the south of the border. in that area are a number of kurdish—controlled camps which house people who've been displaced by the syrian civil war — marked with squares. the kurds are also running a number of prisons which hold roughly 12,000 suspected islamic state fighters. some are reportedly close to the turkish border. and the kurdish—led force the sdf says it may need to abandon the prisons to respond to the turkish offensive. the us is to some degree live to the risk. today it revealed it's moved these two men, allegedly part of an is cell which murdered nearly 30 western hostages in syria.

that may be — but that alone won't temper the anger being expressed in washington — and across western europe that the us has walked away from the kurds. and that turkey risks escalating the conflict and creating a humanitarian emergency. turkey's president has responded to the criticism. translation: hey, european union, get a hold of yourself. look. i am telling you again. if you describe our operation is an invasion again, as an invasion again, we will take the easy road. we will open the doors and send you 3.6 million refugees. here's ozge ozdemir from bbc turkish, on why the syrian refugees are a political issue in turkey.

they have been blaming syrian refugees or unemployment, they are saying that they took our jobs from oui’ saying that they took our jobs from our hands and they're also saying that syrian are benefiting from some benefits in the education system. which the turkish citizens cannot begin the benefit of. there's this tension in turkey that has been going on for long. and when mr erdogan justifies this attack to the turkish public, does he emphasise the refugees or does he emphasise the refugees or does he emphasise the security threat that he thinks kurds pose? mostly a security threat because in turkey, there is an important ideology and the opposition party, the remaining opposition party, the remaining opposition parties have been supporting this operation and so, erdogan has been focusing on the security concern. whatever arguments turkey makes, the criticism

keeps coming in the us. liz cheney, a senior republican in the house of representatives and daughter of former vice president, dick cheney. she has said president trump's decision is having sickeningly predictable consequences. she's accusing the us of ‘abandoning' a key ally that had ‘helped protect the us homeland'. mr trump has again defended himself. there's one justification — just in case you missed this yesterday, here's another from the president on his decision to leave the kurds exposed. the kurds are fighting for their land. just so you understand. they are fighting for their land and somebody rode in a very and somebody wrote in a very powerful article today, they didn't help us in the second world war, they did not help us with normandy with normandy as an example, they mentioned names of different battles. but they were there to help

us with their land. another critic is senior republican senator lindsay graham. ‘very sad to see great ally — the kurds — being assaulted by turkish military using american—designed equipment. expect congress to act soon against turkey‘s invasion.‘ senator graham has co—athored a bill with a democratic senator, that would impose puntivie sanctions on turkey and key figures in the erdogan government. president trump has not confirmed that he would sign the bill. here he is earlier. i would do far more than sanctions. i think lindsay would like to stay there for the next 200 years in a be ata there for the next 200 years in a be at a couple of hundred thousand people every place. but i disagree with lindsay on that, but i will tell you that i do agree on sanctions but actually think much tougher than sanctions, if he does not do it as making his humane away

as possible. here‘s gary 0‘donoghue on what president trump means with these threats to the turkish economy. president trump said he is in the view of obliterating the turkish economy and what he was referring to was a case of an american pastor that was kept in turkey and put a lot of pressure on turkey and claimed he had a huge economic effect on them, but that is essentially what he is referring to. however, that sort of cross party legislation, resolution that is going to come before the senate and the next few weeks is likely to get pretty broad support and that will call for the sections on turkey. where the democrats on this? because after the last 25 years on many occasions, they have criticised republican presidents for sending us

into the middle east and here‘s a present keeping them out. the democrats, interesting letters today, right across the political spectrum within the party, read from the x veterans and people on the right of the party. saying that this was the wrong decision by the president, criticising that heavily. democrats would argue, certainly in the senate as well that this was a poor decision. they have not particularly been arguing to increase the presence in syria, but certainly to maintain and help maintain that safety zone. that would be largely. there‘s a great sing in american politics that republicans want a huge military and send it nowhere and democrats want a

small military and send it everywhere. uk prime minister borisjohnson and the irish prime minister leo varadkar have met — they say there‘s hope. here‘s part of their statement on brexit. first, here‘s leo varadkar. i had very good meeting today with the prime minster and our teams together. very positive and very promising. iam now together. very positive and very promising. i am now perhaps in the event that ireland and britain wa nted event that ireland and britain wanted to be in agreement, that is in the interest of ireland in the united kingdom and the european union as a whole. i do see a pathway towards an agreement in the coming weeks. back to those two key phrases from the british and irish statement. first "customs and consent". that‘s split that into two.

borisjohnson‘s brexit proposal would see the uk leaving the eu‘s customs union. that of course includes northern ireland. so you would different customs areas on either side of the irish border. and normally that means checks on goods crossing the border crossings — you‘ll hear that referred to as a hard border. but all sides say they don‘t want that to happen for fears violence that ended in a peace deal in the 90s could return — borisjohnson his plan says he‘ll achieve this with small numbers of checks away from the border. the eu isn‘t convinced. next "consent". that‘s about the northern ireland assembly giving the right to approve northern ireland‘s post—brexit status. under boris johnson‘s plan, the assembly would have an effective veto on whether the arrangement he‘s proposing happens — and if it continues. ireland and the eu as a whole have rejected that. helen catt in westminster.

not a great deal of detail on what was discussed today but what kind of areas might the uk and ireland be willing to give ground on? the language has been a lot more optimistic today, but the detail of what leo varadkar optimistic today, but the detail of what leo va radkar and optimistic today, but the detail of what leo varadkar and borisjohnson talked about in that meeting earlier has been kept tightly under wraps. they‘re not entirely sure what may have been discussed in terms of being able to give ground on either side. we do know they did focus on those two challenges as you just outlined on customs and consent. and on those issues, the two sides of been quite a long way apart. it is with being cautious around the idea that whatever is being discussed may lead to some sort of major breaks and break through. what it does though is he keeps the show on the road. it keeps both sides talking ahead of the crucial eu summit next

week, starting on the 17th of 0ctober. he keeps the stalks going and tomorrow we know that the brexit secretary will meet with the eu negotiator to talk through the details. but they‘re looking at a possible pathway and had a flesh that out when there really is not much time left. the uk‘s due to leave the eu three weeks from today. we‘ll have to see that unfolds. leave the eu three weeks from today. we'll have to see that unfolds. how are the mathematics shaping up on the front? they are a little shaky. borisjohnson thinks he can get a majority. he sees we can build a majority. he sees we can build a majority from for this deal and that is because, while the opposition in the labour party are still saying that one of them for the steel. there are other key groups who have come out and will either endorse or make positive noises about it who did not back theresa may‘s deal. so

the du p from northern ireland have endorsed this deal. some of boris johnson‘s on conservative party, the ha rd johnson‘s on conservative party, the hard brexiteers they wanted a more distant relationship from the eu, they have been making positive noises about this. the problem of borisjohnson is that noises about this. the problem of boris johnson is that actually noises about this. the problem of borisjohnson is that actually if he does make changes or any significant changes in what he has spelled out to parliament, the support of some of those groups might fall away if you need to pick up the support of some others to be able to get the building blocks of the parliamentary arithmetic to get a pass, so it‘s quite a tricky balancing act. the ease some of begins in brussels next week. stay with us on 0utside source — still to come. the england—france rugby world cup match due to take place injapan on saturday is called off as a typhoon is set to cause havoc. climate change activists protested

at london city airport today — as the extinction rebellion protests continue. 0ne protester climbed on top of a plane. here‘s richard galpin. there has been a whole series of protests, through the day, including people gluing themselves to the pavement, people climbing up onto the roofs of the terminal building, but i think, probably the most significant protests we have seen, have been one person boarding a flight, a climate change activist, and then, essentially, talking to other passengers on board about climate change, and eventually being taken away by the police. but, of course, that delayed that flight, significantly. it was a flight to dublin. and perhaps even more extraordinarily, we have had a former paralympian cyclist, a man called james brown, who — as far as we understand — it is partially sighted, climbing onto the top of the fuselage of a ba plane, which was bound for amsterdam.

this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is? turkish forces continue their advance across the syrian border — there have been fierce clashes with kurdish fighters — as turkey bombarded border towns. story another big development in the us. another big development in the us. two men who helped president trump‘s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, in his efforts to investigate joe biden‘s affarirs in ukraine have been arrested for campaign finance violations. the charges include funnelling russian money into president trump‘s campaign. prosecutors really have had to rush in quickly to arrest these two men and make public indictment against them because they were heading out

of the united states on a one—way ticket and law enforcement was concerned that they would not be able to eventually detain the two men. they are appearing in court as we speak. prosecutors say this goes to the heart of the investigation of the us elections. there‘s been so much concern about foreign meddling in the electoral process and here‘s a case for prosecutors say these two men used foreign money from russia, from ukraine to directly influence politics and campaigns in this country. it also makes this even more intriguing is their relationship to rudy giuliani donald trump‘s personal attorney. in house democrats have subpoena these two men and one of them refused to testify. lawmakers will want to question these men on their assistance to basically get ukrainians to investigate a joe biden and his family and what else they could possibly tell them to

help their impeachment inquiry. so this is another added development to the political crisis enveloping washington and also threatening president trump. thank you very much indeed. germany‘s interior minister says the threat of anti—semitism and right—wing terrorism is very high. that‘s a direct response to wednesday‘s attack on a synagogue in halle. two people died. the suspect‘s appeared in the federal court ofjustice as you can see from these pictures he was transpored by police helicopter under armed guard. we know he‘s 27 — and he faces two counts of murder and 9 counts of attempted murder. here‘s germany‘s justice minister on the motive. this was a terrorist attack by a right—wing lone perpetrator. we assume he had anti—semitic and extremist causes for the attack and directed these against the jewish

community at the synagogue and he did not manage to get into the synagogue only because of lucky circumstances. if you can call it like that in these circumstances. the gunman livestreamed the attack on the gaming platform twitch. the video was quickly removed but still thousands saw it. we hear the gunman making anti—semitic and misogynistic comments. he then drove to the synagogue — and started shooting at its door. but he failed to get in. he then shot dead a woman in a nearby street and killed a man inside a kebab shop — also nearby. this image shows him during the attack. and we now know he had four kilos of explosives in his car. well, there were around 60 worshippers inside the synagogue. this is one of them. today, i feel a lot today, ifeel a lot more sombre because people were killed. but, yesterday was more about being

really thankful for a miracle that we can get through, and that a bigger tragedy did not happen. the bbc‘sjenny hill is in halle. 24 2a hours since an armed extreme and tried to commit a massacre. —— extremist. the flimsy door over there, it seems incredible that it should have protected the people inside. there is grief here, there is also anger and there are more and more demands. better protection for germany‘s jewish community. in washington, the us treasury secretary has been holding talks with china‘s vice premier. they‘re trying to end the trade war. what is the negotiating table? where may they be some common ground?

president trump and the leading chinese envoy are going to be meeting tomorrow. were there when we talking about, we are not that sure yet but we see some partial agreement and the chinese may make some preliminary concessions for more agricultural products but as a result we are not sure where the talks are going to go. is this trade war applying pressure on both economies? it certainly is. the effort today from the chinese news agency that the chinese site is ready to make an agreement, at least to prevent a further escalation. the big picture here is that they have a play tariffs to billions of dollars worth of imports and if the talks do not go well tomorrow, the us is actually planned an increase in ta riffs actually planned an increase in tariffs to chinese imports in just five days‘ time. so a lot is riding

on this they started today and we will all be watching to see how that negotiation between president trump and their envoy goes. the chairman of nissan europe has warned that a no—deal brexit would blow apart the firm‘s entire european business model. and make it unsustainable. a no—deal brexit means no trade arrangements in place between the uk and the eu when brexit happens — and uk car makers would face a 10% tariff to export their vehicles to the european union. we do not know still what a no deal means. there are many alternatives and there is a lot of uncertainty. ifa no and there is a lot of uncertainty. if a no deal will be associated with the application of 10% and roles, that will create an enormous problem for the other european activities.

a powerful typhoon is heading forjapan — and tokyo is in its path. these are the latest projections. typhoon haggy—bees is expected to make landfall on saturday. and japan knows what to expect. this is what happened last year, when typhoonjebi hit. this is the storm‘s path. and while people‘s health and homes are the priority — it‘s also a big deal for the rugby world cup. for the first time in the tournament‘s history, games have been cancelled. england / france is gone. so is italy/ new zealand. they‘re now considered scoreless draws — because we‘re at the end of the group stage, that means italy is out. italy‘s captain sergio parisse said: typhoons are most common in august and september — but the season officially runs

from july to october. this is the tournament director alan gilpin. it‘s rare for a typhoon of this magnitude to cause this impact this late in the typhoon season. we had robust plans, the plans that were the plans that we‘re implementing now is in accordance with their plans in case of it a different set of contingencies in the knockout phase and while it is regrettable, we believe the right decision was made for everyone for everyone‘s safety to be top priority. you can see yokohama there — that‘s where japan and scotland are due to play on sunday. it‘s a vital game — the result will determine who goes through the quarter finals. if the game is called off, scotland are very likely to be out. this is it‘s view.

ireland‘s match with samoa in fukuoka is expected to go ahead. it‘s some way from the storm‘s path — and many are asking why can‘t scotland japan be played there — or moved to 0h—eeta. we await answers. 0n the centre there on the violent typhoon that is making its way towards japan. it is already has implications for sporting events in this part of the world and looks set to follow a very similar track for another typhoon which struck a month ago. in terms of its strength, it is ago. in terms of its strength, it is a violent typhoon which is the equivalent of a category five hurricane, so it is very powerful, very dangerous and it is large. expected to affect a very similar area which is still recovering and so area which is still recovering and so this could do even more destruction. the winds really are

quite incredible, gusting winds up to 150 miles an hour expected to bring two to 400 mm of rain and the swells coastal flooding. around eight or nine metres high, so close that coastal flooding as well and a lot of rain to boot. we are keeping a very close eye on this at the moment. let is had to america now what we‘ve got extreme temperature with really cold air coming down from the canadian arctic with the hang back of summer warmth to meet. we are seeing quite a large low— pressure we are seeing quite a large low— pressure area we are seeing quite a large low—pressure area and these weather fronts or brings in extreme weather such as severe thunderstorms yielding damaging winds, hail and such as severe thunderstorms yielding damaging winds, hailand in the cold air on the backside of that low—pressure, you‘ve got the significance no risk for the side winds and other winds that are fuelling the wildfires for south, making the risk still critical

because they are strong gusting winds and a very dry and indeed coming off the deserts. that, but significant snow of the serial dip in temperature both temperatures recovering is the weather front moves through it we see some sunshine coming back. those risks for their strong and gusty, we still have a taste of summer. across southern parts of europe, the risk of some heavy storms and autumn has certainly opened its floodgates further north. strong winds are further north. strong winds are further pushing in, slow—moving, extensive fronts as you can see they will bring excessive amounts of rain what has already been a wet start 0ctoberfor some areas what has already been a wet start october for some areas and that is really what we‘re keeping an eye on in the united kingdom but the weather front close by during the next couple of days and into the weekend. but the sentiment that high—pressure holding on for the south and will continue, so it does look quite wet for some areas across

the united kingdom as we head into the united kingdom as we head into the weekend. so again, more detail on that on the website, but it does look windy with a lot more rain. now, outside sources finishing earlier today because is time for brexitcast brexitcast is nothing if not a family show. is at? and this week we hear from a listener. and harris and her son. the brexit cast baby. he is sitting in his high chair i think listening to brexit castles of should we have a look? what is about. he's got a

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