erda one for his part has threatened europe saying that he'll send 3 and a half 1000000 migrants on into europe if is offensive is called an invasion and it's a threat many experts believe must be taken seriously. mr atta one has shown he's capable of anything he's lock people up so i would take a stretch seriously it's imperative that we shut an economic muscle through our economic might. if sending weapons exports to turkey and also possible sanctions will be discussed by e.u. foreign ministers later today in luxembourg. measures all we're going to take is clear that we will do something as germany and france have already done. we will surely keep a few further options on the table depending on how turkey behaves in the near future. and their comments. according to the experts time is running out in a conflict that has serious implications for europe. where stakeholders with considerable interest but despite that i'd say our lack of power is too obvious not just from a military standpoint but also diplomatically. and in berlin kurdish demonstrators are pointing out that they believe th

president erda want to halt the operation against kurdish led syrian forces. this is the interview news a live from the lead off next we have the business news with ben physical and i'm brian thomas for the entire news team thanks so much for being. a moment of truth on break that the pound is on a show as our officials as the u.k. and he use travel to secure a last minute to punch a deal. fish farmers look on with concern a messy breaks it could mean trouble for the u.k.'s top food export salmon. i've been physical and let's do business someone press the pause button global shares are on hold a volatile pound is hovering after rising more than 5 percent in the past 5 sessions there are hopes the united kingdom and the european union can strike a deal at an e.u. leaders summit over the next couple days but there's still talk of an extension an election and a disorderly gags it that last one could come at a cost especially for the brits a study by the bettles month think tank shows a no deal brags it would cut national income by up to $57000000000.00 euros a ye

syria that's according to turkey's defense ministry it's the most significant gain since president erda once offensive into the region began on wednesday so. has forced some 100000 people to flee the area meanwhile both france and germany say they will not export arms to turkey that could be used in the syria operation and you foreign ministers planned to meet on monday to discuss the situation. day 4 of the offensive so fierce fighting at the syrian turkish border bombardment by. growing troops continue to make their way towards syria. alarm in the turkish border town of like to cali at least 3 grenades from the syrian side exploded in people's homes. by kurdish militia y p g it appeared to be no casualties the grenade came in here he says the fridge was destroyed and the grenade went straight to the other wall. in northern syria tens of thousands of people have left their homes international criticism of turkey is growing daily on friday the u.s. defense department said that turkish forces had fired on american troops in the syrian border region and kind of denies this washington has

thanks for joining us turkey's a military offensive in syria has shown just how resolutely president erda want is attacking his opponents and he is also cracking down on opposition members in his own country recently turkish security forces clashed with purvis demonstrators in istanbul. well security forces are also allegedly using covert methods against their perceived enemies they are shrouded in secrecy and the families of those affected are left in the dark so may you husband mustafa is accused of belonging to the gülen movement which was blamed for the failed coup against the government 3 years ago one day he disappeared without a trace it took months before so may i received a sign of life. this husband disappeared without a trace 8 months ago after months of anxious searching she was suddenly informed that he's in police custody in the turkish capital ankara she was allowed to visit him briefly and was very shocked when she saw him. plate once he'd lost a lot of weight at least 20 kilos yes he face was pale and his hands were ice cold . i guess he wasn't given enough food and was k

the strong relationship between president erda juan and turkey. in the united states of america. the today the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. the turkish side will pause operation peace spring in order to allow for the withdrawal of why p.g. forces from the safe zone. for $120.00 all military operations under operation piece spring will be pause in operation peace spring will be halted entirely on completion of the withdrawal. our ministration has already been in contact. with syrian defense forces and we have already begun to facilitate their safe withdrawal from the nearly 20 mile wide safe zone area south of the turkish border in syria. let me say this also includes an agreement by turkey to engage in no military action against the community. and in addition. the united states and turkey have both mutually committed. to a peaceful resolution and future for the safe zone working on an international basis to ensure that peace and security defines this border region of syria in addition to the settlement today with the ceasefire turkey in the unite

where turkey is in nato at the moment you know i just spoke just spoke with someone from president erda one's a key party you know and i asked him was this decision. do you recognise the armenian genocide was it you know an effort to rebuke mr ever won a nato ally i mean is is turkey in the doghouse with nato at the moment. the thing about nato is that it operates on consensus and nothing can be done if one ally is opposed to any measure so there's never a question that nato as a whole could move against one of its members because that simply can't happen when you need unanimity and if you'll recall a president trump walked back his displeasure with turkey and with president air to one in this phone call where he announced that everything had been worked out and there was going to be a permanent cease fire in northern syria and that very much curbs the criticism that his defense secretary marc esper had when he came here to brussels he'd been very very angry with turkey and calling for investigation of possible work crimes and and sanctions against turkey and by the time he got to bruss

many have gone to iraq but erda one has rejected international demands for a ceasefire. he's holding fast to his plan to free up a protection zone in northern syria. then. we can end this operation once we are in control of a 35 kilometer deep area of land reaching from listen to iraq. no one can stop us before we have reached our goal. is a little. u.s. president mike pence and secretary of state are set to meet with. to discuss a cease fire. ok to go through this i'm joined now by w. correspondents alexander phenomenon she's in washington d.c. and dorian jones is in is fanboy good evening to both of you are going to let me start with you the turkish president saying turkey will never declare a cease fire and negotiate with kurdish fighters so what are pompei of the secretary of state and pence the vice president what are they hoping to achieve with this trip. well the white house officials told us that fires president pants and secretary of state pompei a wouldn't be having to turkey if the white house wasn't confident that they can achieve their goal and their goal is

also made it clear when he talked to general muslim of the kurdish forces when he talked president erda one that we anticipate and expect that kurdish forces. and turkish forces will safeguard and ensure the ongoing detention of of isis forces those that have been captured. general muslim told me told the president today. that in his words we keep isis under control he made that commitment to the president. and and president want also knows where president trump stands but make no mistake about it. the president is very concerned about instability the region is very concerned about the loss of innocent civilian lives is very concerned about religious minorities and that's why today at the president's direction the united states has imposed punishing sanctions on turkey and made it very clear that that will only be the beginning unless turkey is willing to embrace a cease fire come to the negotiating table and end the violence i do not think that you are literally trapped but we're listening there to mike pence the u.s. vice president speaking about the sanctions that the president trump

the kurds are accusing washington of abandoning the heroes against isis and then forgotten against erda was also coming up environmental activists returning to the streets to draw attention to the climate crisis extinction rebellion is taking action in cities around the world paralyzing traffic and occupying building and the nobel prize for medicine goes to a trio of scientists for their groundbreaking work on oxygen levels in silt their research has changed the way humans are able to find cancer and other disease. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with the pull out and with the arrival turkey is getting ready to launch a long planned offensive against kurdish fighters in northern syria it comes after the united states reportedly started withdrawing troops from the area today clearing the way for that turkish incursion u.s. troop. worst station close to the border with turkey where they supported kurdish forces in the fight against the so-called islamic state turkey however regards the kurdish militias as terrorists on sunday kurdish groups in the region held

thanks for joining us turkey's a military offensive in syria has shown just how resolutely president erda one is attacking his opponents and he is also.

possibly helping the resurgence of the islamic state but after president trump yesterday announced that erda one had agreed to a cease fire and that everything on the ground was going to work out an even crazier to one i noticed a clear difference in defense secretary espers rhetoric he was much he was much less critical this morning of turkey at the same time he said he hoped that this nato ally started acting more like an ally and less like a friend of russia but you know we have to mention that he's not the only one who has been critical right terry because we also have a manual saying turkey's incursion raises a lot of questions not only about turkey's policy but also about how nato actually works generally speaking what does this tell us about tensions in the military alliance right now and how can that likely be addressed well anytime you have animosity between 2 allies you're going to have problems spreading throughout the alliance and in this case turkey and the us have the largest militaries of any allies so it makes people especially uncomfortable but the problem with nato is that

genocide or do you think lawmakers were trying to use this to rebuke president trump and president erda was . for many years turkey exercise a veto here in washington d.c. preventing members of congress from voting their conscience on the armenian genocide members of congress essentially overrode that veto and let members vote up or down and 405 of them voted yes only 11 voted no and that's basically what happened the patient's right out with turkey to said we're not going to force your gag rule here in washington and we're going to let legislators vote their conscience. the thing is this right in turkey it's illegal to talk about the armenian genocide and that's it's a terrible law but that's turkey's law they have no right to export that here to washington and especially a market that's going to outsource our policy to you we're going to have our own policy which is a healthy thing when you say that the patients has run out but you know i know that this the lobbying by armenians in the united states is that this is been going on for at least 2 decades and now all of a sudden we're get

the strong relationship between president erda won and turkey. and the united states of america. the today the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. that was the u.s. vice president there mike pence we have coverage tonight from turkey and the united states correspondents dorian jones and pablo fully alias on the story for us from istanbul and in washington gentlemen good evening dorian let me start with you what kind of agreement is this and where the kurds consulted before this announcement was made do we know. well the call is the agreement is that there will be temporary ceasefire of 120 hours we will allow the syrian kurdish militia to withdraw to 30 kilometers away from the. border if that is completed then turkey will end it operation permanently but there are very little details about whether the kurds were directly a part of these negotiations vice president pence said that they were in talks before these meetings in uncorrupt and said that they were welcoming such an agreement and were already starting to pull out but i think crucially we have h

european component in all of this is a well if european union opposing turkey moves on syria president erda want to target he has threatened to scrap the agreement between his country and the european union which is designed to control the flow of migrants who are trying to get to europe how serious is his wrecked well we have to realize in the last couple of months there has been an upsurge in the refugees crossing the greece from turkey people already overwhelmed the overstretched filleted of all the greeks in leave the island and this is seen as a warning by turkey that he had opened the gates again recording 2015 over a nearly a 1000000 people from turkey went to greece and on into europe this is the biggest fear of the european leaders to turkey once again can use this as a way of applying leverage on all the rest of europe and that encourage you with the biggest card they happened they've made it clear they are ready to use it. rather going jones on the story tonight in stamboul dorian thank you. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world in britai

one is a gentleman who just needed some tough love to reach an agreement trump is promising to host erda one at the white house next month can't really help it al jazeera dallas texas now the u.s. has imposed 7 and a half $1000000000.00 of an tariffs on european goods french wine and scottish whiskeys are among the targets the announcement comes off of the world trade organization vote that airline make the air boss was receiving end legal subsidies which hurt its american wava boeing roslyn jordan reports. at the state dinner for president emmanuel mccall last year the white house served american one made from french grapes a year later the white house has imposed a 25 percent tariff on french wine made from crunch great i've always liked american ones better than french ones. even though i don't drink wine. the tariff has nothing to do with any agricultural tensions between france and the u.s. the dispute was over the e.u. subsidies for air bus which the world trade organization recently said had harmed u.s. based boeing's bottom line to make things right the w t o says the u.s. can im

announcing this attack was imminent when the white house said that president trump and turkey's leader erda once spoke on the telephone they acknowledged that turkey would soon be moving forward with its long planned operation into syria so there's a problem with those 2 statements they're directly opposing one another and you're right that sunday statement seemed to greenlight this operation by turkey and what this also signals is that the united states seemed to be fully aware of the scale and the scope 2 of the operation we haven't had a statement as late as tuesday from the pentagon where they had continued to press articulating that stablish in a safe zone was the desired course of action in order to maintain stability and yet there was also an acknowledgement that turkey had rebuffed that suggestion so there is a bit of a problem with these 2 statements in fact there is a lot of criticism now that the u.s. president has essentially abandoned the syrian kurdish fighters who worked alongside the united states u.s. forces in the effort to defeat eisel so much so that there is now a hash

president to rethink that november 13th visit to the white house by president erda one so this is certainly something that the president left open as a possibility. kimberly just a there we're going to have a listen now to a little of what u.s. president donald trump said particularly about lifting sanctions imposed on to turkey but also a warning that ankara must honor its obligations in this cease fire early this morning the government of turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in syria and making the cease fire permanent and it will indeed be permanent however you would also define the word permanent in that part of the world as somewhat questionable we all understand that but i do believe it will be permanent i've therefore instructed the secretary of the treasury to lift all sanctions imposed on october 14th in response to turkey's original offensive moves against the kurds in syria's northeast border region can really help is still with us from washington d.c. just listing they believe you're going to president trump saying he will lift

one is a gentleman who just needed some tough love to reach an agreement trump is promising to host erda one at the white house next month kimberley health at al-jazeera dallas texas at least 30 people have died and dozens more injured following an explosion in eastern afghanistan a mortar round he's a mosque in hostile minya district in non-god for evans's worshipers gathered for friday prayer is the roof of the mosque collapsed following that blast inspiring thousands of protesters are marching towards bus alone from all over the catalonia region as part of their campaign for independence unions have called for a general strike on friday or the jailing of 9 catalog separatist leaders the sentences for their roles in catalonia is filed push for independence 2 years ago has sparked days of violent protests. government demonstrations are underway in lebanon for the 2nd successive day protesters set fires after trying to storm government headquarters in beirut they're angry a new tax proposals which they say by tarter forward because they're already struggling to meet basic needs the prime

whether there is a larger sort of sop ottoman aggrandizement agenda on the part of of turkey president erda want has made allusions to both. this this could be a land grab and it could last for a long time it we just don't know yet if it's if it's if the diplomats can do something it means that turkey will eventually withdraw back to its national borders and the syrian government will again control its national borders just as it had done in the past with the i do not agreement of 1997 where turkey and syria worked out a very clear. agreement over how far the turks could pursue not pursuit why peachey elements and so forth but we'll see whether this is a move to broaden syria's borders and expand them or whether this is something that diplomacy can once again bring back to internationally recognized borders gentlemen we will leave it there thank you too i guess they would use if joshua landis and runge drinan thank you to you too for watching the program you can see the show again any time by going to the website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's f