the u.s. president wrapping up his historic trip to kenya. a live report from nairobi straight ahead as barack obama says good-bye to the african nation close to his heart. also a car bomb in turkey leaves two dead this attack on the back of turkish war planes attacking targets in syria and iraq. up in flames extraordinary images of a massive fire of a luxury hotel ton the las vegas strip. i'm george howell this is cnn "newsroom." ♪ ♪

>> we take you directly to nairobi kenya. the president of the united states addressing an audience there. let's listen in. >> as president i try to keep my promises and i said i was going to come and i'm here. [ cheers and applause ] >> and everybody -- go ahead and have a seat. i'm going to be talking for a while. relax. i want to thank my sister ama for a wonderful introduction. i'm so glad that she could be with us here today, and it was as she said it was alma who first guided me through kenya almost 30 years ago, so president kenyatta i want to thank you again for the hospitality that you've shown me for our work together on this visit and for being here today. it's a great honor.

i am proud to be the first american president to come to kenya. [ cheers and applause ] >> and of course i'm the first kenyan american to be president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> that goes without saying. >> we love you! >> i love you back. i do. [ cheers and applause ] >> but as alma was saying the first time i came to kenya, things were a little different. when i arrived at kenyatta airport, the airline had lost my bags. [ laughter ] >> that doesn't happen on air force one. [ laughter ] >> they always have my luggage on air force one. as she said alma pick me up in

an old volkswagen beetle and i think the entire stay i was here it broke down four or five times. we would be on the highway. we would have to call the jokali. he will bring his tools and we would be sitting there waiting. i slept on a cot in her apartment, instead of eating at fancy banquets with the president, we were trinking tea and eating mugali, sakuma and weeki. there wasn't a lot of luxury. sometimes the lights would go out. they still do is what someone said. [ cheers and applause ] >> but you know there was something more important than luxury on that first trip.

and that was a sense of being recognized being seen. i was a young man and i was just a few years out of university cht i had worked as a community organizer in low income neighborhoods in chicago. i was about to go to law school and when i came here you know in many ways i was a werner. i was an american. unfamiliar with my father and his birthplace. really disconnected from half of my heritage. and at that airport, as i was trying to find my luggage, there was a woman there who worked for the airlines and she was helping fill out the forms and she saw my name and she looked up and she asked if i was related to my father who she had known. and that was the first time that my name meant something.

[ cheers and applause ] >> and that was it was recognized and over the course of several weeks, i met my brothers and aunts and uncles. i traveled to the village from my family was from. i saw the graves of my father and my grandfather, and i learned things about their lives that i could have never learned through books, and in many ways their lives offered snap shots of kenya's history, but they also told us something about the future. my grandfather, for example, he was a cook for the british, and as i subsequent through some of his -- as i went through some of his belongings i went up country, i found the pass book that he had to carry as a domestic servant. it listed his age and height and

his tribe. it listed the number of teeth he had missing. and he was referred to as a boy, even though he was a grown man in that pass book. and he was in the king's african rifles during the second world war, and was taken to the far reaches of the british empire, to burma. he was released. he forged a home for himself and his family here and the respect of his village, lived a life of dignity, although he had a well-earned reputation for being so strict that everybody was scared of him, and he became estranged from part of his family. so that was his history. then my father came of age as

kenyans were pursuing independence and he was proud to be a part of that liberation generation and next to my grandfather's papers i found letters that he had written to 30 american universities asking for a chance to pursue his dream and get a scholarship. and ultimately one university gave him that chance. the university of hawaii. and he would go on to get an education and then return home. and here at first he found success as an economist and worked with the government but ultimately he found disappointment in part because he couldn't reconcile the ideas that he had for his young country with the hard realities that had confronted him. and i think sometimes about what these stories tell us what the history and the past tell us about the future and they show

us the enormous barriers to progress that so many kenyans face ds just one or two generations ago. this is a young country. we were talking last night at dinner. the president's father was the first president. we're only a generation removed, and the daily limitations and sometimes humiliations of colonialism, that's recent history, the corruption and tribalism and cronyism that confronts young nations is recent history. what this tells us is an arc of progress from foreign rule to independence and so isolation and education and engagement with the wider world. it speaks of incredible progress. so we have to know the history of kenya just as we americans

have to know our american history. all people have to understand where they come from but we all also have to remember why these lessons are important. we know our history so that we can learn from it. we learn our history because we understand the sacrifices that were made before so that when we make sacrifices we understand we're doing it on behalf of future generations. there's a proverb says we have not inherited this land from our forbearers we borrowed it from our children. we study the past to guide us and spire us to do better. when it comes to the people of kenya, plarm the youth, i believe there is no limit to what you can achieve. a young ambitious kenyan today should not have to do what my grandfather did and serve a

foreign master. you don't need to do what my father did and leave your home in order to get a good education and access to opportunity. because of kenya's progress because of your potential, you can build your future right here right now. [ cheers and applause ] >> now, like any country, kenya is far from perfect, but it has come so far in just my lifetime. after a bitter struggle kenyans claimed their independence just a few years after i was born and after decades of one-party rule kenya embrace the a multiparty system in the 1990s just as i was beginning my own political career in the united states. tragically just under a decade ago, kenya was nearly torn apart by violence during the same time

i was running my first campaign for president. i remember hearing the reports of thousands of people being killed or driven from their home. from a distance the kenya that i knew a kenya that was able to reach beyond ethnic and tribal lines, that it might split across those lines of tribe and ethnicity, but look what happened. the people of kenya chose not to be defined by the hatreds of the past. you chose a better history. the voices of ordinary people and political leaders and civil society did not eliminate all these divisions, but you addressed the divisions and differences peacefully and a new constitution was input in place declaring every person has inherent dignity and the right to have that dignity respected and protected. a competitive election went forward. not without problems but

without the violence that so many had feared. in other words, kenyans chose to stay together. you chose the path of arambay and in part because of this political stability kenya's economy is also emerging and the entrepreneurial spirit that people rely on in the streets can see in new businesses across the country from the city square to the smallest villages and changing the way people use money. new investment is making kenya a hub for regional trade. when i came here as a u.s. senator, i pointed out that south korea's economy was the same as kenyas when i was born and then was 40 times larger than kenya's. think about that. started at the same place. south korea had gone here and

cane i can't was -- kenya was here but today that gap has been cut in half just in the last decade which means kenya is making progress and meanwhile kenya continues to carve out a distinct place in the community of nations. as a source of peacekeepers for places torn apart by conflict a host for refugees driven from their homes, a leader for conservation following the footprints of oggawi mati. kenya is one of the places on this continent that truly observes freedom of the press and their fearless journalists and courageous civil society members. and we see the legacy every time a kenyan wins one of our marathons. and maybe the first lady of kenya is going to win one soon.

[ applause ] >> i told the president he has to start running with his wife. [ laughter ] >> we want him to stay fit. so there's much to be proud of. much progress to lift up. it's a good news story. but we also know the progress is not complete. there are still problems that shadow ordinary kenyans every day. challenges that can deny you your livelihood and sometimes deny you lives. as in america, and so many countries around the globe, economic growth has not always been broadly shared. sometimes people at the top do very well but ordinary people still struggle. today, a young child in yanza province is four times more likely to die than a child in

central province. even though they are equal in dignity in the eyes of god, that's a gap that has to be closed. a girl in riff valley is far less likely to attend secondary school than a girl in nairobi. that's a gap that has to be closed. [ applause ] >> across the country, one study shows corruption costs kenyans $ -- 250,000 jobs every year because every schilling that's paid as a bribe could be put in the pocket of somebody who is actually doing an honest day's work. [ cheers and applause ] >> and despite the hard earned political progress that i spoke of those political gains still have to be protected. new laws and restrictions could

close off the space where civil society gives individual citizens a voice and holds leaders accountable. old tribal divisions and ethnic divisions can still be stirred up. i want to be very clear here a politics that's based solely on tribe and ethnicity is a politics that's doomed to tear a country apart. it is a failure. a failure of imagination. [ applause ] >> of course here in kenya, we also know the specter of terrorism has touched too many years and we remember the americans and kenyans who died side by side in the attack on our embassy in the 90s. we remember the innocent kenyan who were taken from us at the west gate mall. we weep for the 150 people slaughtered at gariza. we honor the memory of so many

other innocent kenyans whose lives have been lost in this struggle. so kenya is at a cross roads. a moment filled with peril but also enormous promise and with the rest of my time here today, i would like to talk about how you can sees the moment how you can make sure we leave behind a world that's better. a world that we borrowed from our children. when i first came to subsaharan africa as president, i made clear that the future of africa is up to africans. [ applause ] >> for too long i think that many looked to the outside for salvation and focused on somebody else being at fault for the problems of the economy and

as my sister said ultimately we are each responsible for our own destiny and i'm here as president of a country that sees kenya as an important partner. i'm here as a friend who wants kenya to succeed. and the pillars of that success are clear. strong democratic governance development that provides opportunity for all people and not just some a sense of national identity that rejects conflict for a future of peace and reconciliation and today we can see that future for kenya on the horizon but tough choices are going to have to be made in order to arrive at that destination. in the united states i sawls say -- always say that what makes america exceptional is not the fact that we're perfect. it's the fact that we struggle to improve.

we're self-critical. we work to live up to our highest values and ideals knowing that we're not always going to achieve them perfectly but we keep on trying. to perfect our union, and what's true for america is also true for kenya. you can't be complacent and accept the world just as it is. you have to imagine what the world might be and then push and work toward that future. progress requires that you honestly confront the dark corners of our own past. extend rights and opportunities to more of our citizens. see the differences and diversity in this country as a strength just as we in america try to see the diversity of our country as a strength and not a weakness. so you can choose the path to progress progress but it requires making

some important choices. first and foremost it means continuing down the path of a strong more inclusive, more accountable and transparent democracy. [ applause ] >> you know democracy begins with a peacefully elected government. it begins with elections, but it doesn't stop with elections, so your constitution offers a road map to governance that's more responsive to the people through protections against unchecked power, more power in the hands of local communities. for this system to succeed, there also has to be space for citizens to exercise their rights and we saw the strength of kenyan civil society in the last election when groups collected reports of incitement so violence could be stopped before it spun out of control, and the ability -- the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change that's the oxygen upon which democracy

depends. democracy is sometimes messy and for leaders sometimes it's frustrating. democracy means that somebody is always complaining about something. nobody is ever happy in a democracy about their government. if you make one person happy, somebody else is unhappy. sometimes somebody who you made happy later on now they are not happy. they say what have you done for me lately? but that's -- that's the nature of democracy. that's why it works is because it's constantly challenging leaders to up their game and to do better and such civic participation and freedom is also essential for rooting out the cancer of corruption. i want to be clear. corruption is not unique to

kenya. i mean -- i want everybody to understand that there's no country that's completely free of corruption. certainly, here in the african continent, there are many countries that deal with this problem and i want to assure you i speak about it wherever i go not just here in kenya. so i don't want everybody to get too sensitive. but the fact is too often here in kenya as is true in other places corruption is tolerated because that's how things have always been done. people just think that that is sort of the normal state of affairs, and there was a time in the united states where that was true too. my hometown of chicago was infamous for al capone and the

mob and organized crime corrupting law enforcement, but what happened was that over time people got fed up and leaders stood up and they said we're not going to play that game anymore. and you change the culture and you change habits. [ applause ] >> here in kenya, it's time to change habits and zies civil -- decisively break that habit. it's an anchor that weighs you down and prevent you from achieving what you could. if you need to pay a bribe and hire somebody's brother who is not very good and doesn't come to work in order to start a business well, that's going to create less jobs for everybody. if electricity is going to one

neighborhood because they are well-connected and not another neighborhood that's going to limit development of the country as a whole. [ cheers and applause ] >> if someone in public office is taking a cut that they don't deserve, that's taking away from those who are paying their fair share. so this is not just about changing one law, although it's important to have laws on the books that are actually being enforced. it's important that not only low-level corruption is punished but folks at the top, if they are taking from the people that has to be addressed as well, but it's not something that is just fixed bylaws or that any one person can fix. it requires a commitment by the entire nation leaders and

citizens to change habits and to change culture. tough laws tough laws need to be on the books and the good news is your government is taking some important steps in the right direction. people who break the law and violate the public trust need to be prosecuted. ngos have to be allowed to operate who shine a spotlight on what needs to change and ordinary people have to stand up and say enough is enough. it's time for a better future. [ applause ] >> and as you take these steps, i promise that america will continue to be your partner in supporting investments in strong democratic institutions. [ applause ] >> now, we're also going to work with you to pursue the second pillar of progress and that is development that extends economic opportunity and dignity for all of kenya's people. you know america partners with kenya in areas where you are making enormous progress and we

focus on what kenyans is do for themselves in building capacity. entrepreneurship where kenya is becoming an engine for innovation on access to power where kenya is developing clean energy that can reach more people on the important issue of climate change where kenya's recent goal to reduce its emissions has put it in the position of being a leader on the continent. on food security where kenyan crops are producing more to meet the demands of your people and a global market and on health where kenya struck huge blows against hiv aids and other diseases while building up the capacity to provide better care in your communities. america is also partnering you on an issue that's fundamental to kenya's future. we are investing in youth. we are investing in the young people of kenya and the young people of this continent. robert f. kennedy once said it

is a revolutionary world that we live in and it is the young people who must take the lead. the young people must take the lead. so through our young african leaders initiative we are empowering and connecting young people connecting young people from across the continent who are filled with energy and optimism and idealism and are going to take africa to new heights and these young people they are not weighed down by the old ways. they are creating a new path. and these are the elements for success in this 21st century. to continue down this path of progress it will be vital for kenya to recognize that no country can achieve its full potential until -- unless it draws on the talents of all its people and that must include the half of kenyans, maybe a little

more than half who are women and girls. [ applause ] >> now i'm going to spend a little time on this just for a second. every country and every culture has traditions that are unique and help make that country what it is but just because something is a part of your past doesn't make it right. it doesn't mean that it defines your future. look at the us in the united states recently we've been having a debate about the confederate flag. some of you may be familiar with this. this was a symbol for those states who fought against the union to preserve slavery. now, as a piece -- as an historical artifact it's important, but some have argued

it's just a symbol of heritage that should fly in public spaces. the fact is it was a flag that through over an army that fought to preserve a system of slavery and subju investigation. we should understand our history and recognize it sends a bad message to those who were liberated from slavery and oppression. and in part because of unspeakable tragedy that took place recently where a young man who was a fan of the confederate flag and racial superiority shot helpless people in a church more and more americans of all races are realizing now that that flag should come down. just because something is a tradition doesn't make it right. well so around the world, there

is a tradition of repressing women and treating them differently and not giving them the same opportunities, and husbands beating their wives, and children not being sent to school. those are traditions treating women and girls as second class citizens those are bad traditions. they need to change. [ cheers and applause ] >> they are holding you back. treating women as second class citizens is a bad tradition. it holds you back. [ cheers and applause ] >> there's no excuse for sexual assault or domestic violence. there's no reason that young girls should suffer genital

mutilation. there's no place in civilized society for the early or forced marriage of children. these traditions may date back centuries. they have no place in the 21st century. [ cheers and applause ] >> these are issues of right and wrong in any culture. but they are also issues of success and failure, any nation that fails to educate its girls or employ its women and allowing them to maximize their potential is doomed to fall behind in the global economy. [ cheers and applause ] >> we're in a sports center. imagine if you have a team and you don't let half of the team play. that's stupid. [ applause ] >> that makes no sense.

and the evidence shows that communities that give their daughters the same opportunities as their sons they are more peaceful they are more prosperous they develop faster they are more likely to succeed. that's true in america. that's true here in kenya. it doesn't matter. and that's why one of the most successful development policies you can pursue is giving girls an education and removing the obstacles that stand between them and their dreams and by the way if you educate girls they grow up to be moms and they -- because they are educated are more likely to produce educated children. [ cheers and applause ] >> so kenya will not succeed if it treats women and girls as

second class citizens. i want to be very clear about that. now this leads me to the third pillar of progress and that's choosing a future of peace and reconciliation. there are real threats out there. president kenyatta and i spent a lot of time discussing the serious threat from al shabaab that kenya faces. the united states faces similar threats of terrorism. we are grateful for the sacrifices made i by kenyans on the front lines. we're proud of the efforts that we're making to strengthen kenya's capabilities through our new security governance initiative. we're going to stand shoulder to shoulder with you in this fight against terrorism for as long as it takes. [ applause ] >> but as i mentioned yesterday, it is important to remember that

violent extremists want us to turn against one another. that's what terrorists typically try to exploit. they know that they are a small minority they know that they can't win conventionally so what they try to do is target societies where they can exploit divisions. that's what happens in iraq. that's what happens around the world. that's what happened in northern ireland. terrorists who try to okay. hos, they must be force, they also must be met with a forceful commitment to up hold the law and respect human rights and treat everybody who is peaceful and law-abiding fairly and equally. extremists who prey on distrust must be defeated by communities

who stand together and stand for something different, and the most important thing example here is the united states and kenya both have muslim minorities but those minorities make enormous contributions to our countries. these are our brothers. they are our sisters. and so in both our countries, we have to reject calls that allow us to be divided. that's true for any diverse society and kenya is rich with diversity with many tribes and languages and religious groups and time and agains just as we have seen the drgses of -- dangers of religious and ethnic violence we see that kenya is stronger when kenya stands united with a sense of national identity. that was the case on december 12th 1963 when cities and villages across this country celebrated the birth of a nation. it was true in 2010 when kenya

replaced the anarchy of ethnic violence with the order of a new constitution. so we can all appreciate our own oits our blood line our backgrounds, that tapestry is makes us who we are. the history of africa which is both the cradle and the crucible shows us when he we define ourselves narrow in opposition to somebody just because of a different race or tribe or religion and we define who is a good working hard person or honest or not or peaceful or violate, when we start making decisions based on what people do we take a different path. this is why martin luger king called on people to be judged

not by the color of their skin but the content of their character. and in the same way people should not be judged by their last name or their religious faith, but by the content of their character and how they behave. are they good citizens? are they good people? in the united states we embrace the motto e.pluribus unum out of me one. in kenya, we are in this together. whatever the challenge, you will be stronger if you face it not as christians or muslims, any other tribe, but as kenyans and ultimately that unity is the source of strength that will empower you to seize this moment of progress. that's what will help root out corruption and strengthen democratic institutions and help you combat inequality that's what will help you extend

opportunity and educate youth and facedown threats and embrace recommend sill yags. so i want to say particularly to the wung people here today, kenya is on the move africa is on the move. you are poised to play a bigger role in this world as the shadows of the past are replaced by the light that you offer, an increasingly interconnected world and in the light of this new day, we have to learn to see ourselves and one another. we have to see that we are connected. our fates with bound together. because in the end we're all part of one tribe, the human tribe. and no matter who we are or where we come from or what we look like or who we love or what god we worship, we're connected. our fates are bound up with one another.

kenya holds within it all that diversity and with diversity sometimes comes difficulty but i look to kenya's future filled with hope and i'm hopeful because of you, the people of kenya, especially the young people. there are some amazing examples of what's going on right now with young people. i'm hopeful because of a young man named richard ruto dorisea, he helped build yes, you can. it became one of the most prominent civil society organizations in kenya with over 1 million members and after the violence of 2007 2008 yes, youth can, stood up to incitement helped bring opportunity to places scarred by conflict that's the kind of young leadership that we need. i'm hopeful because of a young

woman named josephine kolaya. so josephine founded omburu girls rescue she's helped rescue a thousands of girls from yuj marriage. a member of the tribe herself, she's personally planned rescue missions to help girls as young as six years old and she explains the longer a girl is in school everything for her, for her income her family for this country, everything changes. she gives me hope. i'm hopeful because of a young woman named jamila abadd. she founded m-farm which is a mobile platform. it makes it easy for farmers to get information to let them

match their crops to what the markets demand and studies show it can help farmers double their sales. here's what she said i love kenya because you feel you are home anywhere you go. home anywhere you go. that's the kenya that welcomed me nearly 30 years ago as a young man. you helped make me feel at home and standing here today as president of the united states when i think about all those young people and young people in attendance here you still make me feel at home. i'm confident that your future is going to be written across this country and across this continent by young people like you. young men and women who don't have to struggle under a colonial power, who don't have to look overseas to realize your dreams. yes, you can realize your dreams right here right now. [ applause ] >> we have not inherited this

land from our forebears. we have borrowed it from our children. now is the time to do the hard work of living up to that inheritance of building a kenya where the inherent dignity of every person is respected and athere's no dream that that a child cannot achieve. thank you. ♪ ♪ >> live pictures from nairobi, kenya, the president of the united states speaking there at safari-con arena, stadium that seats thousands. it seems to be a packed crowd there, speaking about several different topics there in kenya. the president mentioning first of all that he says he's proud to be the first american president to come to kenya. also proud to be the first kenyan american to be president of the united states. also we heard several things in

his speech about progress. the president recalling his time 30 years ago visiting that country, remembering the challenges there, and then talking about the opportunities that he sees for youth today, for people in kenya today. he talked about progress. he also talked about the challenges. challenges of ending corruption. challenges also to make sure that women are treated fairly. to end domestic violence sexual assault and to make sure that children are being -- are able to get an education. a reporter michelle kazinski has been following the president during his historic africa trip. let's turn to her now. what were the highlights from what you heard? >> there were a lot of them right? this was about a 40 45 minute speech so president obama seemed to really want to cover everything. all of those big subjects that he's been trying to highlight and all the steps along the way during this trip.

the theme seemed to be kenya at a cross roads. as he put it it's a time of peril, but also great opportunity, and time for people to hear not to be complacent but to really seize that opportunity and shape the future. he kept referring to youth as really the drivers of this. saying that they don't have a foreign owe presser anymore. they don't have the need to go seek an education or an opportunity overseas. that their future is right here right now. so president obama wanted to highlight the good things about kenya right now, how much it's moving forward, but he also wanted to hit on the challenges and he really didn't mince words about that. at some points he was almost shouting talking about the need for inclusion of all members of society, including women, saying you know there are bad traditions in the past that you really need to get away from and just becauseo pressing women might have been a part of tradition, doesn't mean it's

right, that that's holding you back like an anchor. he also did touch on homosexuality, which is such a touchy subject yesterday, especially that that back and forth yesterday with the president of kenya. when he talked about inclusiveness, he talked about that regardless of who you worship or who you live -- love. really a theme. also mentioned the fight against terror saying the u.s. will stand shoulder to shoulder with kenya on that as long as it takes, george. >> michelle the president also talking about partnering with kenya specifically when it comes to youth, mentioning the youth african leaders institute, and also talking about partnering with that country when it comes to the fight against terrorism as you mentioned with the militant group al that about bob -- al shabaab, but also a group that caused attacks.

>> when the president later today progresses on to ethiopia so when we saw that press conference yesterday, that really talked about deepening the cooperation in that area and president obama also mentioned certain areas that need some work intelligence-sharing is one, increased training and trying to work harder to prevent these attacks attacks, not just react to them. we also heard strong words from kenya, this is really an existential fight they have on their hands. both sides know this is a big challenge but that's one the u.s. really wants to get in and work on, because fighting terror in one area tends to end up fighting terror in an entire region and that tends to extend globally as well and as you mentioned even to the united states george. >> our white house correspondent

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>> you are watching cnn "newsroom," these are pictures from an earlier event. the president of the united states speaking to a packed crowd in kenya. thousands of people who came together to hear the u.s. president in his time there, his visit to this country, kenya, the first u.s. president to visit kenya, and we expect the next stop will be ethiopia as the president continues his tour

of africa. >> in southern turkey security officers answering an emergency call are ambushed by a car bomb attack and it left two soldiers dead and four people wounded. turkey launched attacks against pkk rebels and isis targets in syria. on twitter, it was said there is no connection between the turkish attacks on militants and an agreement with u.s. so given this change in position by turkey as they call it a matter of national security does that country expect retaliation? >> that is a very real concern here especially given the country's history when it comes to its battle with the pkk, the kurdistan workers party, but also now the growing threat that

isis might potentially try to strike back. it was just this past monday that we saw a suicide bomber attacking a group of socialists fairly young activists in the southern city killing at least 32 people that attack blamed by turkey on isis. we have a very difficult and complex situation that has really unfolded since that terrorist attack took place. turkey launching a very widespread anti terrorism operation over the last few days rounding up at least 600 individuals affiliated according to turkish authorities with both isis and the pkk. turkey also launching those air strikes against isis targets in syria and against the pkk in northern iraq and those strikes against the pkk caused the organization to come out and effectively declare the cease-fire dead and now 24 hours

later you have this attack this ambush on turkish soldiers that left two dead and another four wounded. so yes, a lot of concerns. the violence could potentially escalate here george. >> you gave a long list there. let's recap. talking about the stepped up attacks in syria and also against the pkk, against isis as well. talking about the arrests. you'll remember the arrests of these terror suspects the country says and also now the united states being able to use an air base in turkey. turkey changing its position. is this a game changer? >> we're going to have to wait and see exactly how these dynamics do play out moving forward. it most certainly is. it seems at this stage a game shifter if not potentially a game changer. the u.s. has for quite some time now been trying to pressure turkish authorities for access

to the air base. we do now understand approximate according to both u.s. and turkish officials that some sort of graeme has been reached. the specifics of it at this stage are however unclear. there is a shift when it comes to turkey's direct involvement in any sort of air campaign when it comes to targeting isis in syria although it is important to point out that those turkish fighter jets did not cross into syrian airspace and also this breaking of the cease-fire could potentially be very damaging to the country and especially to the country's security. so there's a lot of uncertainty lying ahead and what is already a very dynamic and volatile region. >> cnn's arwa live in istanbul, turkey and for thank you for your the u.s. president barack

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