let's go live and bring in cnn's arwa damon. arwa, what are you seeing there? >> reporter: yeah.t seems as if erdogan might not meet with that u.s. delegation, not entirely clear at this point, but those meetings might just take place between the u.s. delegation's turkish counterpart and not necessarily the president himself. worth briefly noting, though, the consequences of what we're seeing inside syria and what we have been seeing for the last eight plus years that war has ranked on inside that country is a consequence of multiple u.s. administration failures, failures that still continue because as we will note with what's happening right now, the kurds having been betrayed by their american allies had to return to their regime in damascus and its russian backers for protection, and that significantly altered the dynamic inside syria. the u.s. is hoping to negotiate some sort of a cease-fire, but what leverage dus america actually have at this stage given that it's in the possess of fully withdrawing its troops from the north. it's becoming slightly dicey in some instances. t

arwa damon reporting along the turkish-syrian border. we will continue to stay in touch with you, arwa, as you continue to bring more reports of what's happening there. >>> back here in the united states, the u.s. president is now defending his personal attorney, a day after he appeared to distance himself from rudy giuliani. the "new york times" reporting this julian ya's dealings with ukraine are under criminal investigation and may have violated federal lobbying laws. our jeremy diamond reports from the white house. >> reporter: even as president donald trump is mounting his own defense in house democrats rapidly advancing impeachment inquiry, the president now also tasked with defending his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, who has come under fire for his role in the ukraine scandal. now the "new york times" reporting federal investigators are probing whether or not rudy giuliani may have violated federal foreign lobbying laws. the president taking to twitter defending his personal attorney saying so now they are after the legendary c

arwa damon is along the syria/turkey border. arwa, you know the turkish defense ministry says they have taken control of their first major city in its incursion into northern syria. as this kurdish city falls, what are you hearing from kurds, from people on the ground about what's unfolding here? >> reporter: well, ever since this offensive began, and that town that turkey is saying it controls is actually just in the distance there. we can see it from our vantage point here in turkey. but this entire offensive from its first day forced hundreds of thousands of civilians living on the syrian side of the border deeper into syrian territory because they are terrified as the turkish forces advance and the bombardment continues. they don't know where to go and don't know if they'll be able to come back home. now, from turkey's perspective, the syrian kurdish fighting force on the other side of this border, the ypg, is a terrorist organization and that is because it is an offshoot of the separatist group the pkk that has been battlin

arwa damon following things. arwa, what are you learning? what are you seeing?reporter: well, that key victory that turkey is talking about is actually happening right there in the town. from our vantage point, we can't tell exactly who is in control, but over the last few hours that we've been here, we've been hearing some artillery. we've also been hearing small short, it would seem, bursts of gunfire at this stage, but this entire operation is not just confined to a small stretch of the border. turkey's intentions are very clear. the president showed them in a map that he presented during his speech at the u.n. general assembly, and that depicted a fairly ambitious undertaking to push some 18 miles into syria and expand that east to west for hundreds of miles. turkey wanting to clear out what it calls a terrorist organization, the ypg. that is the same kurdish fighting force that has been a key ally to the united states that the u.s. at this stage is not standing by. there have been a lot of concerns being voiced about what this operation could do to stabilit

arwa damon thank you for being there. all keep this in mind, this all started one week ago after the president had that phone call with the turkish president and abruptly announced the u.s. troops would not get anyway of any turkish offensive. david singer writes today that trump followed his gut on syria, calamity came fast. calamity, chaos, can you put this in perspective for us? what has happened in one week's time that you say historians will be debating for years? >> brooke, they had an uneasy piece that was working out there. the united states had minimal troops on the ground. erdogan called president trump on a sunday when he knew there weren't many around. the pentagon and the state department were in favor of keeping those troops there and keeping an img pedestripediment turks to go into this territory. the turks made an imhe tuous decision to go in. if you go in, i'm getting my people out of the way, for everything he can hear, he did not threaten economic sanctions which were threatened last friday by the admin

arwa damon joins us live from the turkish border. these new alliances are striking. whael what's the situation on the ground today? >> pretty chaotic, john, to say the least. there are numerous reports that the syrian regime's forces are beginning to move north and take over key towns and border areas. as the turks themselves are saying, no matter what, they are going to continue to press forward. they have approached a number of strategic locations as well. although i have to say the town behind us that is a keyboarder town inside syria has been, relatively speaking, quieter today than it was in the past. there are a couple key things that are going on right now that relate to what unfolded in the last 24 hours. the fact that the kurds have turned to the regime has come as a surprise to some because they never completely severed the ties and they maintained the ties that were growing stronger to moscow. turkey also has ties to the russians, john. >> arwa damon for us on the border there. katherine lucie of the "wall street journal," paul kane of the wall street post

. >> let's go now to cnn senior international correspondent arwa damon. near the turkey/syria border. arwa, turkey and syria are each accusing the other of violating this so-called cease-fire. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: well, look. we're getting various reporting of some violations taking place, the accusations as you're mentioning there from both sides, but at this stage, none of these violations would seem severe enough to cause this cease-fire as the americans call it or pause as the turks refer to it to entirely collapse at this stage. what we are hearing, though, is increasing concern being voiced by various humanitarian organizations over the lack of access to areas where pitched battles were taking place and a growing concern potentially for the civilian populations that remain in these areas as well as the inability to reach the wounded. there are a couple of issues that are worth bringing up, though, at this stage. first of all, that statement you heard from president trump, the kurds are not happy with what took place. the kurds insi

arwa damon is live in baghdad this hour. e protesters determined to keep up the pressure come bullets or death here. >> reporter: they are, george. it is growing increasing ly difficult. the iraqi forces have fanned on it throughout the capital and completely encircled the main roundabout where they would gather. other roads are entirely blocked off. access is very restricted. so what the demonstrators are now attempting to do, as we saw when we went out last night is gather in smaller groups and then try to get a significant number of people if they can and marching towards some of these main demonstration areas. numerous demonstrators are telling how they have been fired upon. a number of them told us their friends were killed. one young man who we spoke to actually filmed a number of people getting shot. two of whom he said did die from their injuries. and when we talk about injuries, many were speaking to also were talking about how they are not seeing ambulances, rescue teams on the ground to assist them. many are concer

no one was injured, but cnn national correspondent arwa damon is following the latest from the syrianlearning, arwa? >> reporter: well, the battle is certainly ongoing as turkey is pushing through, trying to undertake what really is a very large operation. now, if we look at the map that president ard want showed at the united nations, the scope of this operation doesn't just extend to one portion of turkey's border with northern syria. you can see the plumes of smoke from rounds that fell just a short while ago, but this operation is meant to push some 18 miles into syria and extend across hundreds of miles of territory that turkey shares with northern syria, namely with the area of parts of syria currently occupied by the kurdish fighting force, the ypg, which turkey views as being one in the same as the kurdish separatist group that it's been battling for decades, the pkk. where you see the smoke rises, that town in the distance and in front of it the turkish border gives you an idea how close these areas are. there are rounds that have been falling on the turkish side, onto the ci

our cnn correspondent arwa damon is on the border. , you tell us what's happening, because even president trump who seems to diminish whatever kind of skirmish was going on there just as a little mortar fire or sniper shooting, even he acknowledged that it was happening and that he had discussed it with erdogan. >> reporter: right, and then following that discussion, it seems as if, as you are stating there, it was dismissed. look, we've been on this hilltop actually overlooking the area that is being talked about, and we've been here the last seven to eight hours. ever since weav've been here, there hasn't been much going on, especially if you compare it to the days prior. however, citizens that live on the turkish side did tell us that even hours after that agreement was reached, the pause, as it's being called by the turks, they did hear heavy gunfire, they did hear explosions and they continued to hear that during the morning hours. but right now as we are speaking, it does appear to be calm. there is a clock on this, though. turki

arwa damon for us in baghdad. nk you for your reporting, arwa. >>> in the united states kingdom prince harry and his wife the duchess of sussex are again taking on the british tabloids. >> just stays that meghan markle filed suit over a letter that was published. she he's now suing two newspapers accusing them of tapping into his phone. cnn's anna stewart has more. >> reporter: since meghan the duchess launched legal proceedings for alleging publishing a private message of her father. buckingham palace said it regards the illegal messages. the parent company of the sun have confirmed they've received a claim. the publisher said it's aware of the legal proceedings but they haven't yet received official notification. both papers decline to comment on the allegations at this time. the big question is when did this alleged voice mail interception take place? did it take place to the hacking scandal of 2005 and 2006, that was the hacking of royal and celebrity phones. and engulfed those newspapers and now the defunct ne

military presence inside syria without having to even fire a single shot, alex. >> arwa damon, thankp's decision to remove those u.s. troops out of the conflict zone in northern syria drew immediate shock and really condemnation from officials and lawmakers who say that it amounts to leaving a key and loyal u.s. ally completely alone against a long time and host hostile adversary. while he was campaigning, president trump was relentlessly critical of president obama's decision to scale down troops in the middle east. in fact, he directly blamed that decision for the rise of isis. candidate trump used that as one of his main attack lines against his rival, former secretary of state hillary clinton. >> isis formed in this vacuum created by barack obama and secretary clinton. believe me, you were the ones that took out the troops. not only that, they named the day. >> i mean, her and obama whether you like it or not, the way they got out of iraq. the vacuum they've left, that's why isis formed in the first place. they started from that little area and now they're in 32 different nations

cnn's arwa damon has more from the turkish/syrian border. >> reporter: the situation inside syria is growing even more chaotic and deadly as turkey presses forward with this operation. as we heard president erdogan say earlier, nothing is going to stop turkey from carrying out its goals. the situation, while it's unclear exactly who is in control of what at this stage, behind us is the syrian border town of ras al ain where battles seem to be sporadically erupting between turkey, the syrian arab force it allied itself with on the ground and the kurdish fighting force, the ypg. as this is pushing forward, there are also growing concerns about the safety for the civilian population as well as what turkey's long-term objectives may be. many quite surprised by some of the moves that have unfolded, moves by turkey that extend well beyond, it would seem, its initial goals. turkey and its arab allies captured a key part of the highway known as the m-4. what this has done is effectively cut off crucial kurdish cities and towns from one another and also cut off u.s. military bases from one an

our senior international correspondent arwa damon is "on the story". the protesters promising to keep the pressure up, come bullets or death. >> reporter: hi, george. and it's not just al arabiya offices that were attacked by these unknown masked men. there were attacks on a number of other local smaller iraqi news channels. the curfew has been lifted. at night, an entirely different story. we were out last night. the security forces are everywhere. they are blocking a lot of main roads. they set up a ring of security that demonstrators would want to reach to on a main road. that is forcing them to group in smaller numbers and in different areas. they are burning tires and they are absolutely enraged. the more the violence continues the more determined they say they are becoming -- a number of number of them said friends have been killed in these demonstrations. one young man told us, from his perspective, their demands are quite simple. they want an end to corruption. they want to have job opportunities. they want to have basic services improved. a lo

arwa damon explains, but that may not be enough. >> reporter: they remain under an internet blackoutay the government has been handling these demonstrations. the death toll is rising as is the number of those wounded up in the thousands. the protesters' demands are ones that many in this population have been making for years now, an end to corruption, improvement of basic services, and employment opportunities, especially for the youth. people here with a university degree struggle to find adequate jobs. demonstrators have been attempting to take to the streets, quite often being met with lethal force. now, to try to appease the demonstrators, the government is acknowledging their grievances saying they will be establishing an independent committee to address these do demands. parliament is also needing focusing on these issues, but at the same time there are key political parties who are asking for more. a radical cleric known for his anti-american perspective, he's calling on his par la men tair block to suspend par it isation demanding that the government resign and early election

arwa damon join us from the turkey/syria border. tell us what you're seeing here.e on the ground. the president has touted this as a major victory. a cease-fire. has the fire ceased? >> well, depends on what kind of fires you're talking about there. in terms of what we're hearing from this specific point, which is inside turkey overlooking in the distance the syrian town of ras al ain. this is one of the areas that is contested at this point and it is in that area where the kurds are saying that strike you were just referring to took place. it has been fairly quiet throughout the course of the day that we have been here. but we were talking to some residents who live in the turkish town on the turkish side of the border and they say that even after the cease-fire, they were still hearing the sounds of gunfire and explosions and even some this morning as well. despite that, though, turkey is saying that it is still abiding by this agreement and the president himself is denying any sort of major reports of violence that are stoaid to hav taken place this morning. thi

arwa damon is following things at the turkish border. what are you following this morning?y made their intentions quite clear starting with the map ed want showed at the u.n. assembly showing turkey pushing 18 miles into syria and extended hundreds of miles along the border that would encome as thearea where u.s. forces are located. of course, all along this area right now behind us where the smoke is rising, that is syrian territory. and as this tension has gone forward, thousands of syrians on the syrian side, syrian kurds, most have had to flee the fighting. on the turkish side, there has, as to be expected, a reaction, and we've had some artillery strikes happening almost mostly in civilian areas here, and because of the way the population is split and what the demographics here are, a fair number of those strikes have, in fact, killed kurdish civilians inside turkish territory, people who live here. we went to a fun rule for six of them early this morning, which was quite devastating, especially when it comes to the fact that they're not just burying their loved ones,

i want to bring in arwa damon at the border between syria and turkey. what is the state of incursion now? is there any stopping turkey? >> reporter: no, it doesn't seem like there is, doesn't matter what turkey is threatened with. turkey decided it has been patient long enough, it is going to go it alone. from turkish an kurdish fightin ypg poses a threat. they're an off chute of the separatist group battling the turkish state for decades. turkey believes it needs to push into syria, establish this safe zone as it is calling it across hundreds of miles of border between northern syria and turkey to protect its own population here. for turkey, it is about national security. then there's added advantage from turkish perspective that goes like this. the syrian refugees upwards of 2 million of them that live in turkey can be resettled home in syria into a safe zone. problem is, they're not from the safe zone. as this operation is going forward, you have had civilians displaced, upwards of 100,000 at this stage. they're mostly kurdish, and they're going to b

i want to turn our arwa damon on the border of syria and turkey as we speak. e news coming from the white house. the united states not activating sanctions against turkey but authorizing key figures in the administration to enact those sanctions if -- it's unclear at this point what the line is. the president hasn't been specific what line turkey had to cross for him to get involve ared in this. how is all of this, this mess the united states created, being received on the ground? >> reporter: well, a couple of things, i think, are worth pointing out and looking back and on previous statements that had been made and turkey's reaction to them has been. first of all, turkey is not backing down no matter what it's being threatened with. trump has already said that he would destroy turkey economically if turkey crossed an undetermined red line. we don't know exactly what that is in this offensive against the kurds. the kurds in northern syria. and turkey, in response to criticism it has been getting from europe has in turned to unn refugees on to europe basically m

arwa damon on the border. thanks very much. >>> turkey's president has wanted to target kurdish forces in syria for a long time. why did president trump choose now to move u.s. troops out of the way for the turkish operation to happen? all comes within the odd context of president trump doing what president erdogan wants, even at the expense of american interests. cnn's jake tapper reports. >> reporter: despite president trump's vague threat to turkey thursday. >> we're going to possibly do something very, very tough with respect to sanctions and other financial things. >> reporter: his order to withdraw u.s. service members from northern part of syria on the eve of turkey's assault on america's long time kurdish allies is in fact just the latest in a number of decisions where the trump administration has seemed to bend over backwards to give turkey's president erdogan what he wants. >> it is not a good pattern. it is a pattern of appeasement. >> reporter: the trump administration ties to turkey began even bef

with us now, senior international correspondent arwa damon at the turkey/syria border.n. barbara, what's happening now, and what is the situation that pompeo and pence are coming to try to move erdogan's hand in? >> well, in theory, they're here to negotiate or coming here to negotiate some sort of a cease-fire, but erdogan's already given his answer to that, and it is absolutely not. turkey is not going to negotiate with terrorists because, remember, they consider the ypg, that kurdish fighting force that was america's ally on the ground in syria, to be a terrorist organization. and there are still at least in some parts of northern syria pretty intense pitched battles still ongoing like in the town which is a syrian border town. you can see that thick plume of black smoke and throughout the course of the day. and we've been here since morning. we've heard gun battles. we've heard explosions. in other parts of the country, though, remember once the kurds realize they couldn't rely on the americans, they then turn to damascus and the russians for help. so bashar al assa

let's go to cnn's arwa damon. she is on the syrian-turkish border. we were planning on speaking to you anyway what you are seeing on the ground there. i will see what the impact will be when they hear the words from the commander-in-chief of the united states saying that it's not our problem if turk question goes into syria after all this time. >> reporter: you know, i think, kate, the kurds have been so bitterly gutted and broken by everything that has transpired that hearing that is going to be another knife into their back, but it's one that right now they probably already have grown to expect and that is exactly why we very quickly saw the kurds turn to the regime. they went to damascus and they basically had to plead with damascus and with the russians to move regime forces into northern syria, anyaer that the regime was not entirely controlling. although, there was an interesting relationship that was still ongoing between the kurds, between the kurdish administration and northern syria and damascus. those ties were never fully severed. but the

arwa damon is at the turkish/syria border where funerals took place for six civilians killed in the attackseporter: we are in a border town at the cemetery where, earlier this morning, there were funerals for six of the eight people that were killed in mortar strikes that took place in this town. the mourners, friends, family, loved ones of those who died in those attacks quickly buried them and then moved on. there are a couple of men, as you can see there, who just arrived a short while ago, saying their final farewells. the reason why the main crowd moved on from here, george, is because as they were telling us, they were worried that they could create a potential target because so many of them were gathered here. and because civilians, as you were saying, have been caught in the crossfire. this town is right across -- you can see in the distance -- a syrian city. the population here is predominantly kurdish. many people who live here, they do also have relatives on the other side. they were telling us that, first of all, they felt as if turkey should have done more to try to secure them

arwa damon is on the ground in turkey. what's the latest, arwa? >> reporter: good morning. president erdogan being quite blunt about it saying he will not any gauche yalt with terrorists. meanwhile the u.s. delegation headed by vice president pence expected here over the next few days to meet with what it would have initially seemed the president. but now we're hearing that he may not attend that meeting, instead have the u.s. delegation meet with their turkish counterparts, and erdogan has recently accepted an invitation from russian president putin and that shows who holds the cards here. it's certainly not the united states, especially after they effectively sidelined themselves by withdrawing or announcing that they would be withdrawing forces from northern syria. that is what effectively led to this significant change in dynamics in this battlefield, seeing bashar al assad's regime forces in parts of the country they have not been in years as the u.s. forces are trying to move out of the country. we are hearing that they have found themselves on a couple of occasions i

arwa damon, appreciate your reporting. we'll stay in touch over the next few days. kes a key point. these kurdish syrian forces 72 hours ago were a key u.s. ally. 72 hours ago were alongside u.s. forces in this fight. the president of the united states decided to pull the u.s. troops out and essentially give a green light to clear the battlefield for turkey to go in. this is one of the areas where you do see rare but very vocal and damning republican rebukes of the president. this is lindsey graham a bit earlier today. if media reports are accurate and turkey have entered northern syria, a disaster is in the making. this move ensures the reemergence of isis. two key points he's making, that you're turning your back on people who fought and host their lives for you in the fight there. number two, as arwa made the point, if the kurds abandon those isis prisons because the turks are coming, what do you do? >> this is the one area where the gop is really willing to break with trump because there's such a fundamental pragmatic idealogical split here. you cannot fight all

. >> we saw those women, those children in arwa damon's own reporting just last month. a bleak picture and this all happened because of a decision one week ago. i encourage everyone to read ben's piece. ben wedeman, thank you very much. >>> my next guest knows a lot about the kurds, a documentary filmmaker. he struck a deal and became a combat medic with kurdish fighters. he's with me now. thank you so much for coming on. just first of all, what's the back story. tell me more about how you became a combat medic for kurdish forces in syria, and what that experience was like. >> thank you, brooke. i appreciate you giving us the microphone first of all, as a veteran. thank you very much. my background, being in the navy and in the united states military veteran, we get a basic medical training. as a fireman in the navy, i got more advanced trarng. when i got to the northern part of syria, and there were no combat medics, there is a young man from kentucky and another guy from new zealand. we all banneded together. >> and so you become this medic, but i've also seen parts o

arwa damon is live for us in baghdad with more. what's happening, arwa? >> reporter: good morning. up to 38. among them, 35 demonstrators in these protests that we've been seeing over the last few days. so far relatively speaking, at least in the capital, the situation appears to be calm. that is because the government has imposed a curfew. people are not allowed to go out into the streets. despite this in some neighborhoods this is what demonstrators have had to resort to. they are attempting to go out in smaller groups. earlier in the day today, there was some brief sporadic gunfire that was heard, but we do expect potentially people to attempt to take to the streets once again given that they have just about ended right now. and it seems at least from the people that we have been talking to that the prime minister's promise to address the protesters' concerns is not necessarily going to be enough. the iraqi population has heard these promises from various different governments before. and they are simply put, fed up with this status quo. this is what they have been asking for fo

let's start with arwa damon. what are you seeing, arwa?r: well, that area in question that you're talking about is actually the syrian border town of ras-al-rain which is behind us. it is quiet right now. but earlier this morning there were reports of gunfire being heard. and the kurds are accusing the turks of hitting a hospital inside the town. as well as saying that turkey is basically violating this cease-fire. now, what we have heard contradicting that is that there were just a few sort of violations that took place opposed to the whole thing crumbling at this stage. but look. this was a very hastily to a certain degree hammered out deal. even though it did take hours and hours of negotiations. and i say hastily in the sense that a lot of what needs to be clearly defined is not defined in this agreement. look, turkey has agreed to a pause for five days that from turkey's perspective is meant to allow the syrian kurdish fighting force, the ypg to withdraw from the extent of this border zone, this safe zone that turkey wants to create.

arwa damon joins us live from the turkish/syrian border. u're seeing, arwa. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, those were some pretty dramatic developments that unfolded. sparked initially by, of course, the trump administration deciding to pull u.s. forces back from the areas that turkey intended to control. but then deciding to fully withdraw from northern syria altogether because turkey and its arab proxies on the ground took hold of a chunk of a highway known as the m-4. what that did was effectively divide kurdish strongholds from one another and impact u.s. forces' mobility. i don't know if you can hear, but there's still a couple of explosions happening in the distance just behind us. and the turks and the kurdish forces have been trading artillery and gunshots for the better part of the past few days since this operation began. the u.s. troop withdrawal then caused the kurds to turn to damascus saying if the allies weren't going to protect it, they'd have to do something to protect themselves and there are various reports that. the for

>>as arwa damon reports casualties are mounting on both sides of the border. >>the wheels of all consuming sorrow echo throughout the grave site in nusaybin in the early morning. a woman cries out for her dead son. he was too young he was too young to die. others unwilling to let go of those a lot was taken away too soon. 2 senselessly. barry here is 50 year-old hussein took it. a father of 5 killed when a barrage of rounds fell in front of the grocery store. he owns in all 8 people civilians were killed. 6 of them carry care and the small cemetery up against the syrian border in the shadow of the syrian city of qamishli. they were members of turkey's ethnic kurdish minority, a minority with a four-man to pass a painful and the uncertain. a can of the question that. the turks fire and the other side for tell when that happened who does a hit it hits us was effect on tells us we just collect are and buried he said goodbye to his cousin who was a father of 4 and this is one of his kids. >>a 4 year-old but he has a newborn as well. he describes his cousin as a ha

arwa damon has spent years covering the war on isis. a arwa, are the fears justified?the turkish led operation into syria, kurdish authorities had already been expressing their concern over their capabilities to continue to be able to secure the prisons where isis detainees are being held as well as the various refugee camps where most of the inhabitants are the wives and widows and children of isis. and inside these camps it is the women who are ensuring that the isis ideology does not die. the camps have been described as something of an isis academy. add to that the fact that the kurds who make up the bulk of the fighting force against isis in this area, those key american allies who have now been betrayed, they say, by the u.s., they suspended their operations against isis and now have turned their entire focus onto the front lines with turkey and with the syrian arab forces on the ground that turkey is backing. all of this has meant that there is a vacuum that has been created. priorities have been shifted and as we know, only too well, erin, isis is an entity tha

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we go live now to arrest are a d -- arwa damon. e border where funerals just finished for six people killed in the attacks. arwa. >> reporter: hi george. we are in the border town at the cemetery where earlier this morning there were as you mentioned funerals for six of the eight people that were killed in mortar strikes that took place inside this town. the mourners, the friends, family, loved ones of those who died in those attacks, quickly buried them and moved on. there are a couple men as you can see there who just arrived a short while ago he saying their final farewells. now, the reason why the main crowd moved on from here, george, is because as they were telling us, they were worried that they could create a potential target because so many of them were gathered here and because civilians as you were saying there have been caught in the cross fire. now, this town is right across -- you can see in the distance, the syrian city where the population here is pre-dominantly kurdish. and many people who live here, they do also ha

just quickly before we go, let's talk about isis because arwa damon was mentioning in her report thatf the isis resurgence because i was the sdf-run prisons that were holding isis prisoners and now with this turkish offensive, hundreds of the prisoners have escaped because kurds have been forced to abandon their posts. this is a huge win for isis. >> huge win for isis. this is just the beginning. one of the main things president trump gets wrong about syria, and he gets a lot of stuff wrong, is this idea we can lead the fight against the assad regime and isis and russia. that's not true. what we've seen is the assad regime actually worked with isis and also helped isis. in order to create a situation in which the world only thinks we have a choice between a dictator a and a terrorist and we ignore the idea of having international leadership to protect millions of civilians there. the bottom line and i think mitch mcconnell covered this well, the international fight requires america to be involved to succeed. there's no other country who will be able to build these kinds of coalitions

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our senior international correspondent arwa damon is near the border for us.ister says there is not a cease fire, just a pause. >> yes. and there is a pause in hostilities, at least that is what we are hearing from various reports on the ground. turkey say iing this cannot be called a cease fire because cease fires are negotiated between two legitimate entities and turkey does not consider the ypg to be an entity, a legitimate entity. they consider them to be a terrorist organization but the bottom line is that at the very least, tonight as of now, assuming this holds, significant loss of life is no longer going to be occurring within these battle lines. but at the end of the day, this is something that many who have been observing what's been happening in northern syria are now saying this could have been negotiated months ago because this is exactly what turkey had been pleading with the u.s. to do prior to this operation. to get the kurdish fighting force to push back from the turkey syria border, wolf. >> some are saying, arwa, that this deal gives turkey

. >> john, as you correctly point ourkts wh out, what we saw from arwa damon and from you, this has all and maybe because of a decision the president made. >> 100%. >>> thanks to our international viewers for watching. for you "cnn newsroom" is next. to u.s. viewers, democrats in washington investigate the ukrainian controversy while candidates hit the debate stage. "new day" continues right now. >>> p >>> fiona hill telling them about her concerns about rudy giuliani's shadow policy. >> the democrats should provide republicans and the president exactly what they would insist if the roles were reversed. >> a dozen democrats face high stakes in the biggest primary debate stage ever. >> biden seems to have plateaued if not taken a bit of a dip. >> bernie sanders will be important to watch. at some point, he and elizabeth warren have to get into it a little bit. >> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> good morning. welcome to your "new day." tuesday, october 15th. 8:00 in the east. breaking overnight, major new developments in the impeachment investigation. a former w

let's go live to turkey's border with syria and bring in cnn's arwa damon. morning. >> reporter: good morning. and the turkish president is quite adamant as he said after we heard about vice president pence and the delegation's trip to ankara that he would not sit down and negotiate with terrorists. look, from turkey's perspective this would be as if somebody asked the united states to have a cease-fire with isis and sit down and have a conversation biggest abu bakr al baghdadi. turkey is adamant it's going to be pushing forward with this. i don't know if you can hear what's happening behind me, but that in the distance is a border town, and of the last five days that we've been up here, i have to say those are the most intense battle sounds that we have been hearing. so at the very least in this one particular -- the clashes are ongoing between the turks and their allies and the kurdish fighting force inside which, remember, since it was abandoned by the u.s. had to turn to the regime in damascus for help. and now we have a situation where bashar al assad's