ankara wants bashar al-assad eliminated. that is - that has been their position and it's been a reason that they have not been willing to collaborate with washington in a fight against i.s.i.l. the turks feel that it is very isolated what they want to do and they don't want to touch what is going on in syria. which is a larger problem. >> complicated issue as ever. cofounder, foreign policy interrupted. thank you for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> three soldiers have been stabbed outside a jewish community center in a french city. a man attacked a soldier as he understood guard, and two others that stopped him running away. the suspect was identified and they do not believe he was related to amedy coulibaly. french intelligence officers had been monitoring him. he was believed expelled from turkey last week. france has been on a high alert since 17 were killed in the paris attacks in january >>> israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu called on tuesday for the scrapping of a u.n. commission looking into whether

the governor of ankara says it was all done. controlled the border. nor was the syrian government in damascus involved. >> the turkish government has no appetite. it might have needed to pull the troops out of the shrine to avoid the risk of the i.s.i.l. attack. it comes as turkey and the u.n. agree to train free syrian army fighters here. the first time turkey agreed to take an overt role in the battle against i.s.i.l. >>> in iraq u.s.-led coalition air strikes kill 60 i.s.i.l. fighters in mosul. i.s.i.l. has had control since june, when it made large gains. kurdish forces backed by the u.s. air strikes are planning an offensive to retake mosul, iraq's largest city. >> to yes ep -- yemen, where it is getting more complicated. abd-rabbu mansour hadi fled after being held by rebels for weeks. he gave a declaration from a port city of aden. >> reporter: the yemeni president escaped to aden and drew a harsh response from opponents. >> translation: we are talking about a president who is not legitimate. he counts on the outsiders. this is one that refuses

the government in ankara said it was all done without cooperation with the syrian kurds who control the border. nor was the syrian government in damascus involved. the turkish government has no appetite to involve its military in the war in syria. it might have needed to pull its troops out in the shrine to avoid the risk that isil attack them, so forcing turkey's hand. it comes as turkey and the u.s. agreed agree to train free syrian army fighters here, the first time turkey has agreed to take such an o vert role in the battle against isil. bernard smith, al jazeera, istanbul. >> a former brigadier general for the turkish army abdul somisdork said despite the inaction in the syrian city of kobane, this time it was justified to enter the country. >> the two situations, kobane and this one is completely different. and the kobane was, was an incident. beyond turkish national interests, beyond turkey national borders. this operation was executed to, in a sense, to fasttrack turkish military from a very serious threat. in turkey thicker to conduct this operation and actually there is a soun

the government in ankara said it was done without coordination of the syrian kurds who patrol the border nor was the syrian government in damascus involved. the turkish government has no appetite to involve its military in the war in syria so it might have needed to pull troops out from the shrine to avoid the risk that isil attack them so forcing turkey's hand. it comes as turkey and the u.s. agree to train free syrian army fighters here, the first time turkey has agreed to take such an o vert role in the battle against isil. bernard smith, al jazeera, istanbul istanbul. >>> now from haldan suments, who says turkey was justified in acting. >>reporter: >> the two situations, kolbani and this one, it's completely different. the cokolbani was an incident beyond turning turkish national interests, beyond usuallyingish boarders but this operation was executed to, in a sense, to bag backtrack turk -- to protect turkish military from a serious threat. turkey had to conduct this operation and actually there is a sound international basis which is 1921 ankara agreement in this respect. so any in

ankara has been criticized for being lax on i.s.i.l. troops crossing the border into syria our guest is the professor of international relations at the university. and joins us via skype from washington. thank you for being with us. if you could start off by explaining the point of this military operation. was there more to just retrieving the remains of suleyman and escorting the soldiers out of syria. >> the turk your soldiers were hostages sounded by i.s.i.s. so essentially with them becoming more erratic, at times i think the turks decided they could no longer afford to take the risk of keeping the soldiers out there in - deep inside syrian territory away from the turkish border. they'll be looking, they should have done this a long time ago, and in many ways i think the time has come here. >> let me stop you there. i find the timing interesting here now. as you say, turkey acted to prevent i.s.i.l. fighters from desecrating the tomb. syria's president called it an act of aggression. we know that turkey has been pushing for bashar a

ankara trained fighters from the free syrian army on its soil. turkey is not part of the u.s. military coalition against isil but in september the turkish parliament authorized action against isil. earlier this week turkey announced it will help train moderate syrian fighters to fight both isil and the assad regime. it has been criticized for being lax on isil recruits crossing into syria. now from the former brigadier general in the turkish army. he says turkey was justified in acting. >> the two situations, kolbani and this one, it's completely different. the kolbani was an incident. beyond turkish national interests, beyond turkish national borders, but this operation was executed to, in a sense, to fasttrack turkish military from a very serious threat. i mean turkey had to conduct this operation and actually there is a sound international law basis which is 1921 ankara agreement in this respect. any intervention on the turkish side in kolbani case was illegal from international law perspective. but the recent operation to extract the turk irwin military from this tomb was

across istanbul and ankara to turkey -- look at ankara in recent days.iday anounce because of the amount of snow that came from machine into tuesday. now tapering off as we head into the later portion of the week. notice the models suggest this storm system not going anywhere any time soon. in fact it will be blustery right there from damascus toward jerusalem. they could still pick up 75 to 85 millerimeters possible. how about jerusalem -- look at the scenes coming out of the region. visibilities reduced, stanstorm kicked up across the area. not unusual. you see the sahara desert typically the culprit for sandstorm. this particular event being a more easterly known. the sand displaced over the region of the looet. while -- out of the middle east. and we've had sandstorms go the way of florida. it is possible for the upper level winds carrying the sand grains. quickly leave with scenes out of seoul, south korea. this is near the international airport not far from seoul. a bridge connecting the airport all the way to the city itself, a 100-plus-car pileup

in the fight against islamic state group turkey and the united states have signed an agreement in ankara. they will launch, train, and equip rebels from the free syrian army. training is expected to begin in turkey. qatar and saudi arabia have also pledged -- offered to host the program. >> [inaudible] i agree with you this is a start. there's a lot of work ahead of us but i'm pleased that we have taken this step. >> the u.s. military plans to send hundreds of troops, including special forces, to oversee the program. the rebels will be strictly that is, given basic military skills -- strictly vetted and given basic military skills. it comes after months of the u.s. and turkey unable to agree on issues, how to distinguish the moderate from the more extreme rebels and how to arm them for combat. turkey is keen to go even further. >> the rebels will fight against islamic state and other terrorist organizations on the ground as well as those loyal to the syrian regime. >> u.s. congress voted onto jake -- on tuesday a budget of half $1 billion -- of half a billion dollars for the program. the

by talk about the operation was over the government in ankara said it was done without the syrian kurds who control the border, nor was the syrian government in damascus involved. >> the turkish government has no appetite to involve its military in the war in syria so it might have needed to pull troops out from the shrine to avoid the risk that isil attack them, so forcing turkey's hand. it comes as turkey and the u.s. agree to train free syrian army fighters here, the first time turkey has agreed to take such an overt role in the battle against isil. al jazeera istanbul. >> a view now from a former brigadier general in the turkish army. he said turkey was justified in acting. >> the two situations, kobane acknowledge one, it's completely different. the kobane was an incident beyond turkish national interests, beyond turkish national borders but this operation was executed to i have not a sense to attract turkish military from a very serious threat. turkey had to conduct this operation, and actually, there is a sound international law basis which is 1921ankara agreement in this respect

it's actually really wreaking havoc across people in ankara and istanbul.have some pictures coming out from istanbul today. a snow storm from istanbul paralyzed much of the city on wednesday. hundreds of flights were canceled and traffic around the city was halted due to slick conditions. according to local officials icy roads led to over 800 traffic accidents since tuesday. most commuters in the city walk to work in the 60 centimeters of snowfall that fell throughout the city. the busy boss frus straight the only navigable waterway to russia in winter was shut down due to low visibilities. it affected travelers to russia aalso. we're looking at snow clouds in athens. that's another rare sight when it's a prolonged event. you can see the snow still developing across turkey finally tapering off into the next 24 hours but another round of snowfall into the weekend. on top of the 60 centimeters you saw from that picture it's going to be another additional amount of white stuff piling up. out to north africa the low pressure system is still being very active an

turkey had to conduct this operation, and there is a sound international law basis which is 1921 ankara agreement in this respect. any intervention on the turkey side in kobane case was illegal from international low perspective. the recent operation to extract the military from the tom was completely legal. which the syrians are denouncing and saying is illegal. >> of course. >> thank you for taking the time to speak to us. former brigadier general in the turkish military thanks for your time. >> ukranian forces and pro-russian separatists agreed to pull back heavy weapons from the front line on sunday. both sides have a 2-week period to withdraw their arms part of a wider ceasefire agreement signed last week. those suffering at the heart of the violence in debaltseve say promises have been broken. paul brennan is there, reporting on the psychological scars that civilians are enduring. >> the scene is the time battle on the edge of debaltseve is scattered with the debris of war. there are burnt-out military vehicles and a tank and evidence of a close-quarters combat. it's four days sin

. >> translation: the decision was taken in ankara. it was a parliamentary motion. we have not sought permission from anyone for this mission. >> let's go to bernard smith. tell us how all this happened? >> this happened overnight, saturday into sunday. it was involved with turkey going a few kilometres into the syrian streets to the shrine. it's a football pitch. it's on the turkey side syria has kept control of the area since the borders of modern syria were drawn in 19 it 1. tuckey says in the last few months particularly the last few weeks, anything in that area between i.s.i.l. and the kurds, it's a more dangerous area. they decided that now it needed to evacuate the 40 troops that had been currently stationed, and been there for about eight months. turkey decided now is time to evacuate. a lot will be wondering why, and what's the potential blow back for this. >> well i mean turkey militarily has no interest at all in getting involved in syria. it made that fairly clear in the fight against i.s.i.l. it is about to engage in training syrian army fighters to tak

ankara has trained fighters from the free syrian army on its soil. turkey is not part of the u.s. led coalition against isil but in september its parliament authorized action against isil. turkey announced it will help to train moderate requireian fighters to fight isil and the bashar al assad regime. let's go to chase winter, a political affairs analyst on turkey joining us live from washington d.c. syria calls the turkish operation an act of flagrant aggression. it says that there will be consequences. is syria in a position to respond? what form might that response take? >> well, i think it's important to point out this isn't the first time turkey has gone into either pull out troops or reinforce troops. in this area of control the syrian government doesn't have much control in the area, and along the border to the village in the north near the syrian border, that's largely controlled by the ypg the syrian kurds. i don't think that the syrian kurds themselves are going to try to create any problems with turkey. >> do you suspected chase, that turkey's motives and objectives ext

somebody gets off the plane in istanbul or in ankara and they're snatched, deported back to their westernntry of origin and locked up. this is how to evade all that. >> let's go through some of this stuff, because it tells you how far the airport is from where you need to go. buy a ticket to spain or greece so that their destination doesn't seem suspicious. how troubling is this for you? >> it's quite troubling, because it's practical information for potential recruits. it's interesting that it notes spain, because boumeddiene the companion of coulibaly, who carried out the attack in france, she went through madrid. so they're looking for ways to mask their tracks to get into syria underdetected. >> and a lot of it is getting around turkish security. there's one thing i want to point out that you pointed out to me. on your visa application form on one of the pages it says that what you shouldn't do there's a box that says commit jihad in syria. this manual tells you, don't check that box. >> wise choice. we went to the website and looked at the application, that box isn't there anymore. s

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i was just in iraq last week in both baghdad andish isherbil with our kurdish friends and ankara withur turkish friends. the shia militias are everywhere in iraq as people know. general sulayman who was head of the force for iran has now become a celebrity in iraq. and i have to say it feels very strange to be there knowing much of the activity we have under way while it is necessary is really to iran's benefit. and i know there is a lot of concerns that after this activity is completed, if we're successful with isis, which i know we will be, and in essence the next issue is going to be dealing with security of our forces there with the shia militias. i was happy to see that turkey has gone ahead and signed an agreement, to train and equip agreement, that's something you made happen and thank you for that. at the same time, i know there is a lot of concerns now about how we deal with assad's vero bombs as we train and equip these individuals, how do we protect them from the barrel bonds which cause them to diminish in greater numbers than they can be trained. i'm sure you'll talk abou

we know someone is getting on a plane out of laguardia or dollars judgment dollars to fly over to ankarathe we need to make sure that we recognize who they are and they're being tracked them in the right visas and then turkey needs to know what they're doing over there. this is one of these difficult things because we're trying to also protect our own freedom of travel and all that sort of business. we got to know why are you going there. are you part of an ngo part of a private organization that is going to provide some humanitarian assistance, or are you going over there for some other ill-gotten gain? >> let me ask this. we've seen what's happened in yemen, collapsing before our eyes, our u.s. marines our embassy staff the embassy now is abandoned. we can see the chaos that is going on there. wethese iranian influence there in that particular region. it was not long ago this is one of our foreign policy successes and how we dealt with terrorism, that we were support of the government there that our characters and efforts were successful. a couple questions. what went wrong? and is thi

right now because be we know somebody is getting on a plane out of laguardia or dulles to fly over to ankara then we need to make sure we recognize who they are and they're being tracked, they have the right visas. and then, you know, turkey needs to know what they're doing over there. and this is one of those definitely things because we're trying -- difficult things because we're trying to protect our own freedom to travel. we've got to know why are you going there? are you part of a private organization that's going to provide humanitarian assistance or for some other ill-galten gain? .. >> from my perspective, the last decade plus of war, if i had to give you one lesson learned that lesson learned would be that we failed, that we continue to fail to understand the threats that we face. and that failure is leading to a mismatch in strategy and resources that we are applying against these threats. and, therefore that failure is leading to these types of things that we are seeing in a yemen, and in other parts of the greater arab world. and i think the second, third fourth order affects of

i was just in iraq last week, in both baghdad andish isherbil with our kurdish friends and ankara with turkish friends. the shia militias are everywhere in iraq as people know. general sulayman who was head of the force for iran has now become a celebrity in iraq. and i have to say it feels very strange to be there knowing much of the activity we have under way while it is necessary is really to iran's benefit. and i know there is a lot of concerns that after this activity is completed if we're successful with isis which i know we will be and in essence the next issue is going to be dealing with security of our forces there with the shia militias. i was happy to see that turkey has gone ahead and signed an agreement, to train and equip agreement, that's something you made happen and thank you for that. at the same time i know there is a lot of concerns now about how we deal with assad's vero bombs as we train and equip these individuals, how do we protect them from the barrel bonds which cause them to diminish in greater numbers than they can be trained. i'm sure you'll talk about that

one of the things that we were taken aback was in reaching out to the embassy in ankara the person thatacted, basically said go back to washington, d.c. and do it from there. i thought that seemed very odd, that you have somebody that at least made an attempt to find some leads on an individual in the refugee camp that was not the greatest place to be in. and to get that kind of response from the embassy. so that was a little bit odd. >> well congressman gosar, thank you for going above and beyond what we usually imagine as the duties of a representative to the people in their district and thank you for sharing what you know with us on "new day." >> let's keep the family in your thoughts and prayers. >> absolutely. >>> emotional testimony from the widow of chris kyle as the so-called "american sniper" murder trial gets under way in texas. taya kyle was the state's first witness against 27-year-old eddie ray routh, the man accused of murdering the former navy s.e.a.l. and his friend. on the stand she tearfully recounted the last conversation she had on the phone with her husband before h

right now because if we know somebody is getting on a plane out of laguardia or dulles to fly over to ankara, that we need to make sure that we recognize who they are and they are being tried the right pieces. and then turkey needs to know what they are doing over there. this is what most difficult things because we're also trying to protect their own freedom to travel and all that sort of business. we've got to know why are you going there. are you part of an ngo, private organization that will provide human to assistance, or are you going over there for some other ill-gotten gain? >> let me ask this. we've seen what's happened in yemen, collapsing before our eyes, the u.s. marines our embassy staff, the embassy now has abandoned, we see the chaos going on. we see iranian influence there in that particular region. it was not long ago this was one of our foreign policy successes in how we dealt with terrorism, that we were in support of a government there, that our counterterrorism efforts were successful. a couple questions. what went wrong? and is this a indication of broader weakness or f