the more road we give them the sooner we're all. 6 hours of talks between the presidents of russia and turkey result in a new plan for northern syria one that forces the removal of kurdish y.p. g. forces from a border buffer zone meanwhile the u.s. defense secretary arrives in iraq to discuss baghdad's objections to american troops relocating there from syria he's just come from saudi arabia which has been a far more welcoming even agreeing to pick up the cost of the u.s. military there. plus fears rise that the mistakes of the 2008 financial crisis will be repeated as economists accuse u.s. rating agencies of going easy on big firms that are heavily in debt. and the 1st ever russia africa summit is now underway in the resort city of sochi with

a host of leaders in the tent. you're watching are to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. more than 6 hours of talks between the turkish and russian leaders have resulted in a breakthrough on the situation in northern syria the ceasefire there was extended by 6 days with kurdish forces expected to leave the area within that time frame both leaders hailed the deal. syria should be free from unlawful foreign presence the long term stability of syria can only be achieved by observing the sovereignty and unity in this country mr putin and i concluded the historic agreement to fight terrorism and sure is serious to restore integrity and political unity and return refugees these talks were very tough and you have to remember the turkey initiated

the meeting with putin after they launched an offensive against the kurdish forces that and crises as terrorists at the turkish syrian border the operation known as peace and gird actually many or maybe even too many including damascus moscow washington mr the gun came to me in sochi showing he lost his patients and he's ready to continue the military operation in syria's north and basically he was threatening at the same time asking a lot including i guess a total control of a so-called safe zone along the turkish border east of the youth rate is 30 kilometers deep into syria russia is the masses of major l. i could not allow this to happen and russia's logic always has been that only those legally in syria meaning syrians of course and russia invited officially by damascus have the authority to stay in syria so under this logic turkey is not legally in syria but at the same time it's really dangerous to ignore that negotiate and you always have to remember that the resteal the province also in

syria is north home to from 2 to 3000000 people not controlled by the syrian government where. turkey bag forces all over including some jihad and islam is are in charge and that situation that crisis and that there is should be resolved and cannot be resolved without turkish. cisterns what exactly just going through the main points that they have agreed on all here they signed a memorandum with 10 points number one and most important is that both turkey and russia agreed to respect political unity and territorial integrity of syria which is very important i mentioned there are areas in syria's north not controlled by the syrian government and you cannot talk about successful ending of the crisis unless damascus is full control of all syrian territories is restored then next turkey led military operation against the kurds of the i mentioned is basically now over because the sides agreed to in fact eliminate the reason of these operation the current should leave the so-called saves on the turkish border and take their

weapons with them and for that purpose the syrian border guards and russian military police will enter the syrian part of the turkish syrian border and they will monitor the withdrawal and once it is confirmed and we already now we're hearing reports that the kurds have left but once it is officially confirmed they will be joined russia turkey patrols along the border and that is also a very good thing because the controls 1st of all be shared between turkey and russia and turkey is not the country i mean judging by their relations and their actions that you can 100 percent trust and 2nd that territory will be secured and also both russia and turkey confirmed their commitment regarding safe return of refugees to syria and fighting terrorists on the syrian territory talking generally you look at the good news generally for syria as a whole in its quest for a long term peace all year because i think this is one of the major achievements of

this meeting is that the military operation in syria is north is now over it's too early to talk about peace brought to that part of the country but it is definitely a step toward that direction and maybe in some near future we indeed may see refugees coming by. including internally displaced people. within syria coming back to these territories that's a very good thing another thing is that with america now out of the picture we can see that there are less part is left on the ground to negotiate these and this is it. goes along with russia's position that only those who are legally in syria can actually negotiate over how it's going to end although we still hear hear from americans that this is there to have been thanks to the strong leadership of president donald trump we have an opportunity for a permanent cease fire we may well give the international community an opportunity

to establish a safe zone between turkey and the kurdish population in syria that will ensure peace and security for all the peoples of this war torn region we heard from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov saying that the americans are americans they have their own position that by the way tend to change very often. especially regarding the syrian crisis but what matter is is there a stab at the rock after is and the reason why we'll from russia turkey and syria to end this crisis and to bring peace long awaited peace to syria. russia's defense ministry has confirmed its military police are now heading to the turkish syrian border we now go live to new mexico from turkey willing to take a party now how will this deal between russia and turkey impact the wider syrian crisis. well 1st of all we're really happy to see russia and united states understanding does a legitimate right to turkey defend its borders and didn't need to create

a safe so but we are also sure that even though these 2 agreements are very important steps for syrian stability we know that in order to we will never going to have a fully syrian stability in the region as long as we have assad who has killed and displaced people civilians millions of civilians in syria. joint anti terror after it's are part of this deal between russia and turkey but how is that going to work given that russia and turkey disagree sometimes over who should be labeled as terrorists. well we have been very clear from the very beginning of to stop aeration we have 2 objectives 1st we want to. secure our borders 2nd you want to create a safe zone and in order to deal with this humanitarian crisis actually we have to cooperate for that reason from the very 1st day of this. from the very 1st day of

this crisis turkey was very actually certain that we might just president putin we reminded president michel and then. stumble turkey was the only country who was on the table when it was. in. peace talks. do you think it's possible that the russia turkey alliance in syria could create headaches for angra inside nato. well very certain we have 2 objectives and in order to cheer do we now have a deal which actually gives the object sos which gives us what we have always wanted tough securing our borders the borders of nato and also creating a safe zone and we have deal with. these 2 objects in

a peaceful way so we're in the house but to have it so you don't think there's going to be any other problems with a fellow nato members over this deal with russia. we believe that russia and the united states they both understood the urgency and the legitimate right of trickett to defend their supporters. from turkey's ruling a k party thank you for your time and your comments. meanwhile washington is moving its troops out of syria and across the border into iraq the u.s. secretary of defense mark esper is currently on a visit to baghdad he's discussed objections raised by iraq to the deployment iraq's defense minister says the troops will stay in the country for a maximum of 4 weeks on monday i convoy of around a 100 u.s. vehicles were seen crossing into the country meanwhile washington is also moving troops to saudi arabia are often explains why that deployment could prove profitable. amid widespread criticism of his recent moves regarding syria donald

trump sticks to repeating a pretty strong commitment when it comes to foreign policy it's time to bring our soldiers back home now one would think that back home means back in the united states but if you think that you would be wrong now there's an old saying that your home is where your heart is and u.s. troops have been in iraq since 2003 so they've had plenty of time to get furthermore 2000 troops are being redeployed to the kingdom of saudi arabia we are sending troops and other things to the middle east. saudi arabia but are you ready saudi arabia at my request has agreed to pay us for everything we're doing now the troops in saudi arabia i'm not coming for free the kingdom is coughing up the cash to cover the expense so perhaps donald trump meant back home unless someone pays us but is a rocket going to pay for its troops iraq is a lot poorer than saudi arabia but perhaps having your country invaded and having

your infrastructure destroyed gives you a discount in 2019 the us military budget amounts to roughly $693000000000.00 us dollars so perhaps having countries pay for the presence of u.s. troops is a way to balance the books right now the us and. terry currently has a presence in over $160.00 different countries if all these countries started paying perhaps the american taxpayers could start making money rather than losing money on the u.s. military budget perhaps the deal maker in the white house has an exciting new business model that is already in the works well it's not clear to the truth who are. going to be coming home. to the american public who is told by a president. in the troops out of syria to bring them home presumably the united states but what it's doing he's redeploying

given the current structure of the united states government given the current system that it's given its imperial interests i don't think it's possible for u.s. troops to be pulled out from either syria or the middle east you know. a grim development in the u.k. where 39 bodies have been found inside a truck that had entered the country on sunday having traveled over from bulgaria k. partridge custody to. their investigation is now underway after those $39.00 bodies were discovered in the back of a lorry in craze in essex in the south east of england having a ride from bulgaria in what appears to be but is not yet confirmed as an act of people smuggling as we know a 25 year old man from northern ireland a lorry driver has been arrested on suspicion of murder prime minister barak's johnson has given this response this is an arm imaginable tragedy and truly heartbreaking i know that the thoughts and prayers of all members are with those

who lost their lives or their loved ones. i'm receiving regular updates and the home office will work closely with essex police as we establish exactly what has happened look at the events themselves what actually happened oh 1 40 in the morning so in the early hours of the morning the ambulance service actually alerted the police to the situation and it was the police that confirmed that $39.00 people have died of those $38.00 of thought to be adults and there's one teenager now we don't yet know what caused these people to die and we don't yet know that their identity is the police are saying their identification is the top priority but they anticipate it being a lengthy process as these people are not sought to be from bulgaria from where the lorry came from as log area is in the e.u. and therefore these people would have had free movement to have come to the u.k. let's also look at the location of where the bodies were found the watergate industrial park apparently is very large and has lots of multinational companies

based there it's also not far from the m 25 which is the motorway that services london but also the route that the lorry took as well when i arrived from bulgaria but it came into the u.k. through the welsh port of holly head which is some horses have said is a very odd orthodox route to take as it takes a long about way it would add an extra days journey to be able coming into the u.k. that way rather than coming through the more also dogs which were to go from cali into dover but apparently security and checks have been tightened there so perhaps this might explain why. that route was taken and also it harks back to to a different time 2008 june 2008 when 58 chinese immigrants were found dead in the back of a lorry the following year a dutch lorry driver was jailed for them manslaughter in the meantime this is still an ongoing investigation and police are appealing for more information particularly about the route taken by that lorry and also the time that was taken what they were doing in between arriving in holyhead and also what's happened before this

discovery today that this tragic incident. economists have criticized the u.s. credit rating agencies for again going easy on the heavily indebted companies and one example a firm's growing debt was seemingly ignored for 4 years in a row it's created fears the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis have not been learned dollar quarter has more. 10 trillion dollars that's almost half of the entire u.s. economy is worth it's not a small number but it is the total debt of all u.s. companies combined except for banks and rating agencies should be sounding the alarm right about now the basic function of the rating agency which is an independent corporation is to assess the credit worthiness of the government that borrows money or of the corporation that borrows money in other words the idea is if the company issues their privilege of on good borrows

money and gives to the lender of bond it is typically expected that the lender wants to know how safe it is to land just like your cooperation or indeed to a local government or a state government or even a government take newell's brands for example it's a mega manufacturing us company that's been in deep debt for years but in august the 3 major agencies passed the company with flying colors on their investment report moody's recognizes newell's moderately high leverage with pro forma debt. around $4.00 times however the rating agency expects leverage to steadily approach 4 times in the year ahead through a combination of debt repayment with internally generated cash and proceeds from divestitures and english that means the company has a lot of debt but promise to fix it so it's ok which they also did in 2018 and

2017 and 2016 and 2015 but hey there's nothing to see here definitely no debt problem does this remind you of something 2008 perhaps is going to be one of the water should be punished more through 3 it was a manic monday in the financial markets. the dow tumbled more than $500.00. point scepter 2 pillars of the street tumbled over the weekend lehman brothers a 150 year old firm filed for bankruptcy just one week before the bankruptcy both moody's and s. and p. gave lehman brothers the highest possible investment grade days later the u.s. economy collapsed with lehman brothers bankruptcy being one of the main catalysts back then there was no mercy for the rating agencies the major rating agencies have done a terrible job of capturing financial crises talking about you moody's standard and

poor's fitch come on what planet are you guys living on this conflict of interest has cost american investor investors and pensioners billions of billions of dollars 11 years after that and it's business as usual again the grass is still growing the sun is still shining and the rating agencies are still inflating the reputation of big business if you have the receiver of the evaluation paying for the evaluation the notion that that evaluation is it and it is reliable is simply stupid and yet you has continued for many many to work that way and even in the crash of 2008 even though there was some there about changing this relationship both corporations and the rating agencies were effectively able to evade any change at all. the

president of chile apologizes after 15 are killed and riots triggered by public transport hikes details after the break. it seems to break that psagot will never end the electorate voted to leave the european union but the political class and media are resistant does the people's voice mean anything anymore what is the legacy of breaks it on institutions confidence and leads and the democratic process. the world is driven by shaped by one person.

of the day or thinks. we dare to ask. the 1st ever russia africa summit is being held today $43.00 leaders are taking part with the aim of boosting cooperation. the list of deliveries is expanding with the share of processed agricultural products increasing grosser is one of the top 10 largest food supplies on the

african markets we are exporting more agricultural products there than weapons. if the trend has been following the summit forest joins us live in some big projects are being discussed there aren't they. jacqueline hi again so this week africa is russia's guest to get russia to be africa's guest more often or even permanent in some cases the rush hour for an economic forum and summit that's what they're officially cord called are well underway and we know that before the summit all the african leaders got an invitation almost all of them made a 2 sought she so now nearly 50 heads of state from africa are here getting together and also most of them will get an opportunity to talk face to face with

vladimir putin we know that such economic and global powerhouse is such as the u.s. europe and china of course previously through similar events now it is russia's start although some people would say that in many cases the countries that i mentioned western countries plus the u.s. china sometimes they're way too eager to get that slice of the african pawing after all 30 percent of the global natural resources that's something that does sound quite tempting although top russian officials have been saying that russia's approach is completely different russia isn't bishan when it comes to africa call are far behind and when it comes to the spectrum of the things moscow has to offer when it comes to. business and different kinds of projects really does meet the natural demands of the african nations and the desire needs to come from both ways

when i met the russian ministry of the russian minister of economic development in the form quarters here's how he explained that concept in detail. you know because i'm so it was when you when you put them are not imposing our services we're not trying to pressure you we're rather working on bilateral projects which would help improve the quality of life in africa you said you're not going to push your products but the offering government it's why it's not pushes compared to foreign competition some good in china. at that it's a complex approach to the promotion of goods and services in relation to a specific country but each country wants to get a specific product at the end which requires financial and construction parts so a variety of different projects that should be packed into one so of course big infrastructure projects come with financing now just before the summit a lot of my approach had a much tougher things to say about the western countries he was very frank about

his opinion he was mostly talking about former colonial powers according to the russian leader they tried to put on a new face but then yet still continue to exploit african countries although like i said according to the russian leader russia the russian plan is completely different to what a moscow is looking forward to is partnership on an equal footing based on trust and friendship but of course besides business opportunities this country is also geo political player that has some geopolitical interests in the region and that explains the number of high profile meetings the ones that i met. between the russian leader and the other african leaders the most notable summits are the one between the president of egypt and vladimir putin and also the leader of south

africa and mr putin are to betray gusting across that russia africa summit for us thank you. the chilean president has apologized and announced new social reforms after 15 people were killed in deadly protests they were triggered by a hike in public transport fares more than 5000 people have been arrested amid the tensions a chile is just one of a number of latin american countries currently facing serious rest. of.

the country's gripped by protests have governments with very different political leanings and chile and peru people are angry with the decisions of right wing leaders in ecuador bolivia and venezuela it's left wing policies that are provoking fury and former u.n. officer told us overall inequality is the root cause. i mean you can have 34 garments you can have. this should corruption and you're going to have garments we all transparency is the word has bar is it just fine but again that model would look so inequality and. proper fear distribution of rarity and resource. filth and that's the structure you if you're going to be heard in fact come to. you i'll see you look at

america. we. trusted today you have to believe so that's who people are. and that is so show you so show people. that's a global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always head to our web site r.t. dot com for the details on all those stories and many more. there are no official statistics in india concerning children who have been lost or separated from their parents something to estimates that every 30 minutes in the

country a child goes missing. i'm. looking at i think. the national human rights commission stated that $46000.00 minors go missing every year while the police quoted. the united nations children's fund as described. situation as genocide and various sources suggested in india there are several 1000000 missing women and children.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle it seems that brags that psagot will never end the electorate voted to leave the european union but the political class and media are resistant that's the people's voice mean anything anymore what is the legacy of bridges that institutions confidence and elites and the democratic process. cross talking brags that i'm joined by my guest we jasper in london he's a former deputy mayor of london also in london we have alexander macarius he's a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com and in

belfast we cross to david vance he is a political commentator as well as editor of news media dot net all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it alexander let go to you 1st i mean if i weren't mistaken this could be a reality political reality show watching brags that i've been watching the house of commons you know and you know what there are some really eloquent people in there though most of time i don't have an any idea what they're talking about here the p. . people voted but we're still not there and things are still in flux here what is what is the overall impact that it is had on political and social life in the u.k. i mean it's going on 3 years now go ahead alex. well well i think the 1st thing to say is that if you look to walking about large a country the country remains extremely calm but politically it has created intense division and of.