ankara isre on how trying to position itself as peacemaker. >> ankara is stepping up efforts to try toend the dispute between qatar and its neighbors. diplomatic offensive they have the nation isse one of their strongest allies in the region. >> old visit qatar and share our views and inform them about the meetings we help. in the meantime, it's good to hear saudi arabia's recent suggestions. we will discuss with them how we can contribute. >> president erdogan said the diplomatic risk is akin to it gets in his fofour qatar. the gas rich country was importing some 80% of its food from its regional neighbors before june 5. saudi arabia, the united air ramie -- emirates cut ties with the country on the grounds it supports terrorists. something the law and its ally turkey denied. a troop deployment was greenlighted last week by ankara. the show support against the blockade but saudi arabia still insists it does not exist. free, the ports are open, the airports are open. we have denied the use of our airspace, and this is our sovereign right. >> an official list of the gripes that created

last month ankara block german parliamentarians from visiting soldiers stationed at the base. it justifies decision by pointing the finger of blame on berlin, offering political asylum to turkish nationals who took part in last month attempted coup. relations have been tense since and have further deteriorated this year after turkish politicians were banned from campaigning in germany over referendum to expand president erdogan's powers. he accuses chancellor angela merkel of hiding what he considers terror suspects and accuses berlin of ignoring 4500 dossiers sent by ankara on the matter. were: ships and planes scouring the coast of southern burma on wednesday after a military aircraft vanished with 120 soldiers, family members, and crew on board. the plane left at coastal town at around 1:00 p.m. local time, heading north to burma's former capital rangoon when contact was lost. >> the military aircraft went missing around 1:30 p.m. local time as it was flying over the of burma.he southeast on board, over 100 passengers, soldiers, their families, and children, notably over 10

starting with germany pulling its military from turkey is airbase and sending it to jordan after ankara denied german officials a visit to the big house on the other hand you've got turkey angry with germany for granting asylum to turkish citizens who allegedly took part in the failed cool of twenty sixteen and of course girl and also stepped in to stop turkish rallies in germany to support or want to push for broader powers in a referendum back in april germany you have no notion of democracy your practices are no different from the nazi practices of the past my comment that the nazi comparisons in turkey's part must and is valid without our butts and fortunately we see that this comparison is haven't stopped and we are not going to allow it. they would revive gas chambers in concentration camps if they weren't ashamed this is their mentality they are disturbed when we say that this is not semen. well it's no

media has reported recently that the saudis are threatening to support kurdish groups in syria if ankara continues to back. do you think those reports should be taken seriously is that and the evidence of how friendly the relationship is both of them in the first of all this should. not be against kurtz kurtz relatives there are many times that you protect the. kurds in syria yet you can sue or do you. mean the kurdish city and if. so what we are opposing. some kurdish groups affiliated to peak. and expanding the. the control and by force change to the middle of the region so this is not acceptable of course this route create there's ever. feelings the time to come when the reverence the region be. the hotel again so if you don't want to see this that was if you can be to see kurds happy in their camp they involve faith we don't see them as a threat but what we see as a threat is very conscious one of the church group is moving. and crate and now the region within serbia this is against the turf. of syria this what we are now it's not only the syrian kurds that have been in the news a lo

earlier, we spoke to our correspondent in ankara. >> from the reaction it is gotten so far, the marchs condemned by president erdogan and his political ally in parliament, the leader of the ultra-right nationalist movement party. the two of them are clearly unhappy about this march. i do not think that is enough. you know, president erdogan only changes direction when he sees he is losing the support of his own voters. his own voters, unfortunately, are not overly concerned about human rights. -- it is time for our business update. brian quinn joins us. what is top news stories. donald trump's plan to walk the u.s. back from relations with cuba. p expected to announce tighter restrictions on travel between u.s. and cuba and a clamp on a business is linked to the cuban military. due to the extensive reach, they can have an effect across almost all of the country's business sectors for a group of cuban female entry doors have -- sectors. -- a group of cuban female boycotting there first family. >> a group of 55 cuban women sent a letter to ivanka drop and hope she may -- trump and hope

it's the latest step in what has been a degeneration in the diplomatic relations between germany and ankara the failed coup attempt last year in turkey saw tensions rise after germany said it may consider offering asylum to some of those who took part or accused of taking part in that coup attempt there was also a diplomatic for rory over the president to one side wanting to campaign here in germany during the referendum that they held airlie at this year they were denied the rights to do that that fled things up and there's also been bitten name calling from ankara towards len with even president the one going as far as accusing the german government of nazi tactics all of this between two nato allies who are really at the lowest ebb when it comes to their. diplomatic ties. or talking that ties or not the u.k. is unprecedented breck's it talks are set to begin later today a year after the country voted to leave the european union britain's bret's secretary has promised a deal like no other in history whatever that means as he heads into negotiations with brussels and we see reports on what

key to jordan following dividing tensions with ankara let's get the latest now from correspondent pizza all of a piece of ice this thing across the story it seems the woodrell problem solved really isn't it all is there more to this. well this isn't so much a problem solved as it is a solution of kinds it gets rid of the immediate problem which was that german lawmakers have been refused access to the insular airbase by the turkish authorities they weren't allowed to visit their own troops that prompted the lion the german defense minister to put in place the motion to withdraw their troops from there and relocate them to jordan to an airbase there. this is now been fully approved by the german parliament and what we're going to see is throughout june operations will carry on as they were scheduled in july they're going to see a movement of troops into the new base in jordan where they will be operational troops there and by october the new base the move will be fully complete and germany will start operating tornado reconnaissance flights out of that new base it was all put agreed on m

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chris wallace, ankara fox news sunday, chris stirewalt, and dana. can you say today who won the day? >> not definitively. there are moments in this hearing where both sides made their points. what was clear is that republicans were going after why didn't you step up and leave your position if you thought it was obstruction of justice? comey was clear that he was making clear to the president that he was not under investigation, but democrats continued to try to get him to characterize his thoughts about what the president was intending by what he said. at some point, he says why do you kick everybody out of the oval office and just leave me in and make the case that he hopes the investigation against flynn that he can move on from it? the opening statement was surprising, it was strong, he took his clothes off right away. at numerous times, he directly called president trump a liar. that said, the biggest losers, loretta lynch. the former attorney general who clearly told him to call the clinton email investigation a matter and not an investigation.

relations between berlin and ingres -- and ankara --what does this latest above me for already chilly -- rebuff mean for the already chilly relationship between the nato allies. and -- >> i look for to finally having my day in court. >> he agrees to return to his native australia to stand trial. berlin has rejected a request for turkey's president to address his government during a visit to germany next week. presiden eogan wanted to address turkish people living in germany. the german government said no. why not just let erdogan giv this speech, why they turned on his request -- turned down his request? >> they would not have enough policeman to guarantee security around all events. to be honest, the decision was more political than practical. he stressed it was not appropriate given the tensions between turkey and germany. two particular elements, one, the number of people in germany with turkish descent. they do not love the turkish president to talk about the tensions in the country and export this complex to germany-- those conflicts to germany. a few months ago, we already have

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ankara is playing this mediator role in a muslim world conflict. no doubt at least for erdogan who is in desperate need of some good publicity. this is how he wants to be portrayed. donald trump is preparing to meet the president of india. aheadot of anticipation of that meeting. a clash of the giants. they are quite similar. both outsiders. both elected on populist agendas. confrontising to islamist terrorism and stand up to china. they are also immensely proficient on social media. the real question is will this meeting spot a budding romance or will it be a political one night stand. that remains to be seen over the next few days. the question the new indian express is asking is what version of trump will he received? will he get the twitter version or the more presidential version -- presidential version? is curiously low key. even if trump has tweeted his excitement for the meeting they might clash on issues like which ishe visa extremely popular with indian workers coming to the u.s. >> a new foodie movement. as flexible know it arian. that b

they are allied with turkish kurdish militants, whom ankara and the u.s. consider terrorists. >> ( translated ): despite our many warnings, our ally, our friend, the united states has unfortunately entered into a cooperation with a terrorist organization. we will immediately retaliate if there's a threat to our nation, our country and to the safety and lives of our citizens. >> reporter: the u.s.-led coalition also announced today that it had bombed what it said were pro-syrian regime forces in southern syria. the pro-government elements had reportedly entered a restricted zone near what is known to be a u.s. and british special forces base. and we look at the fight that lies ahead in raqqa with: joby warrick, national security reporter for "the washington post," and the author of a pulitzer-prize winning history of the islamic state entitled "black flags: the rise of isis." and, andrew exum, a former army ranger who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for middle east policy from 2015-2016. he's now a contributing editor at "the atlantic." welc

the prime minister travel to ankara on monday to try to resolve the issue of allowing germans to travel there, but it was refused. the parliamentary plan this morning was approved to draw out german military from turkey and move them to jordan. genie: this comes at a critical siege that this new has been launched on the islamic state r raqqa. >> the timing is not great and there are questions about how expensive this will be. soldiers, six tanker jets, whether this is a safe move to move into a jordan, and how much this will disrupt the surveillance missions, which are seen as critical. germany is taking part in important reconnaissance missions near syria and also helping its allied forces there. beis thought that this could up to two months, so these missions can be interrupted for two months. the defense minister said that they would try to make the move as uncomplicated as possible but says it is complicated moving all of these people and personnel. she said she had met with the king of jordan in january and said she felt positive about the move that is ultimately a positive thing f

. >> he also said ankara would retaliate immediately if the u.s.peration in raqqa posed a threat to turkey. >> for more on this story, we are joined by the journalist in istanbul and why our washington correspondent. good evening to both of you. turkey is angered over u.s. support for the syrian kurds. now we have turkish president threatening to retaliate. what could retaliation look like? >> well, as you heard, the issue is a fundamental one. turkey thinks that the kurdish militia leading the assault against raqqa is the syrian branch of a terror group that turkey has been fighting for many decades. they believe the u.s. decision to arm the ypg could have severe impact on turkey's ability to fight their homegrown terrorism. on the other hand, the u.s. views the ypg and pkk as distinct entities, which turkey disagrees with and says that is hypercritical and even a betrayal. turkey have bombarded the ypg in syria before. it has engaged in combat with them through syria. it is likely it may do so again, which could bring turkey into direct conflict

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into the open why did ankara jump into the fray instead of trying to pull the strings from a distance. welcome back the un chief has expressed concern of the situation in the syrian city of raka where the u.s. led coalition is now conducting a major offensive against islamic state he said the civilians trapped in this is he now face threats from every direction the secretary general is particularly concerned about the perilous situation for civilians in iraq who are trapped and face threats from every direction the secretary general made an urgent appeal to all those conducting military operations in syria to do everything in their power to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure according to u.n. estimates that since march in iraq alone at least three hundred civilians have lost their lives as a result of u.s. led coalition as strikes but the coalition itself admits fewer than five hundred deaths over three years of its military campaign is also reported it employs just seven full time investigators to monitor civilian casualties when we went to the streets of new york to find

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were tonight the rights to do that that flared things up and there's also been name calling from ankara towards in which even president the one going as far as accusing the german government of nazi tactics all of this between two nato allies who are really at the lowest ebb when it comes to their diplomatic ties your next world news update for me is in just over half an hour across talks next though on whether there's any way out of the saudi led blockade of qatar and the overall tensions right now on the gulf been injured. social environment. right. chemical discoveries over the last century made every day life easier but at what cost this is cereal is exceptionally sick. no wonder it's confidential. cysts as the years old industrial giants reap the benefit. caused by chemical production. as if these people are. just experimental animals decades later the toxic environment continues to poison lives and we found these astronomically high levels of dioxin levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels ever found in the united states for almost thirty years this very serious

that was the turkish stream but this project was also in jeopardy it was holt's it for a while after ankara shot down a russian fighter jet over syria then when relations war restored in twenty six being the project got was started and now i saw it with my own eyes it is fully underway and it is planned to be completed by the end of twenty nine t. the maximum capacity as expected to be more than thirty billion cubic meters of natural gas annually. well russia may be well known for its icy winters but locals in the southern siberia were still more than a little surprised to see giant hail in the samba five people needed medical treatment to go full sized hail selling in lake. popular holiday resorts while cars and even some houses were left damaged the intensity of the storm was caught on camera by number of locals well bad weather has been wreaking havoc across the region a week that qualcomm's to say the worst outcomes. next it's politicking with larry king. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered peter lavelle with the islamic state perceived to be on the defensive

they were denied the rights to do that that flared things up and there's also been name calling from ankara towards. even president the one going as far as accusing the german government of nazi tactics all of this between two nato allies who are really at the lowest ebb when it comes to their. diplomatic ties. bullets sir talk about people who are given or make sure we're on half a million tickets have been sold so far for the fee for the twenty seven thousand confederations cup in russia matches will take place almost every day now for the next few weeks across four cities because of course one of those played host to its first game on sunday between cameroon in chile before the tournament kicked off foreign media have been raising fears and racism in hooliganism but many reports pushing the idea that russia isn't safe for visiting fans have been scotched it seems cameroon supporters for one rubbish those concerns as they took in the atmosphere in the capital yesterday. no problems. stevie very good people it's not the first time i come in a restaurant i can see only better since for the

denied the rights to do that that flared things up and there's also been bitten name calling from ankara towards in which even president the one going as far as accusing the german government of nazi tactics all of this between two nato allies who are really at the their lowest ebb when it comes to their diplomatic ties. finally this hour the star mis festival a gathering the celebrate space and exploration and astronomy to started in norway and our crew and correspondent peter scott of the. r.t. is here as one of the official information partners of star most you might just see behind me as well a huge three sixty area he was the first of course to film in three hundred sixty degrees in space and there have been dozens of visitors here looking to explore the i.s.a.'s in virtual reality throughout the day on forces calm down now but i'm sure be the same again tomorrow we filmed it with the help of a body. and also there was nothing astronauts. the american. and he gave a talk about. to show that had very real practical applications in training but of course a star most isn't all about th

and close the turkish military base, something ankara is willing to do.azeera, supported by qatar's government, one of the most widely watched arabic channel. qatar, according to the demand curve must shut down the channel and its affiliates including an it english network. it has been subjected to weeks of sanctions. earlier this week, the us expressed its frustrations, saying qatar must set up frustrations, saying qatar must set upa frustrations, saying qatar must set up a reasonable and actionable conditions for listing them. now it has been two weeks since the embargo, we are mystified the gulf state has not released to the public 01’ state has not released to the public or the qataris the details about the claims they are mating towards qatar. the list has been made public but we are waiting for a response from the tha. that includes demands that qatar has already insisted it would never be willing to make. as we heard that, closure of al jazeera is one of the main demand. i spoke to the mark bell shabbat, a young seniorjournalists spoke to the mark

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with germany pulling its military from turkey's insure like air base and sending it to jordan after ankara denied german officials a visit to the base on the other hand you've got turkey angry with germany for granting asylum to turkish citizens who allegedly took part in the failed cool of twenty sixteen an airline didn't mince his words when he met with angela merkel last may and of course girl and also stepped in to stop turkish rallies in germany support or want to push broader powers referendum back in april germany you have no notion of democracy your practices are no different from the nazi practices of the past does my comment that the nazi comparison isn't turkey's part must and is valid without it sir but unfortunately we see that this comparisons haven't stats and we are not going to allow a promise that they would revive gas chambers in concentration camps if they weren't ashamed to this is their mentality they're disturbed when we say that this is not semen now well it's no use. easy task facing back together relations that have completely formed the party one side will have t

was speculated it's now been confirmed as another hurdle to overcome for ties between berlin and ankara messy you know it's very messy indeed at the moment relations between germany and turkey who are well quite intrinsically linked really there's a lot of business goes on between the two there's also an awful lot of turkish people live here or people who descended from turkish people who moved to germany many years ago but the relations that diplomatic relations between berlin and at an all time low and this is symbolized really by the timeline that's been set out by the german defense minister live on the line for the pulling out of troops from the incirlik air base she set forward the plan and what we can see is that well they're going to start pulling them out next month. until the end of june our flight plans as part of the anti eisel coalition are set after that will be transferring our tanker aircraft as quickly as possible to jordan. well the defense ministry said that troops will be ready and ready for deployment in their new home in jordan at the. air base there. but however t

tonight the rights to do that that flared things up and there's also been bitter name calling from ankara towards laden with even president the one going as far as accusing the german government of nazi tactics all of this between two nato allies who are really at the lowest ebb when it comes to their diplomatic ties. this is i'll say up next the dark side of the booming chemical industry and i was leading us to a global water pollution crisis all there and britain and all and though it's talk show renegade and. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. you somehow want to be rich. but you'd like to be close to see what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters. there should. be does should i'm concerned you've been talking to. dealing with a single month or so i'm not at equal distances my son means what he calls a still small. don't be done certainly i'm doing. all this. moving in as i say as it does so does it all. about your sudden passing i've only just lea

. >> speaking about foreign policy, how do you see the relationship between the supreme leader in ankara and the supreme leader in -- there is some emerging rivalry and competition. it seems to be. thank you. >> there has always been competition for centuries between turkey and iran. and they have managed to compartmentalize their relationship.they were on opposing fronts in syria and yet they are signing trade deals and work together. so is a very pragmatic approach. i do not expect that to change. it is dependent on iran and energy. so i do not think that no matter how - obviously they will prevail but i do not think that they will come to a breaking point in turkey. >> that said, and i agree completely that turkey has been very effective even before erdogan in compartmentalizing the relationship. it is a very complex one. but increasingly you hear a much more - town in the rhetoric which is causing i think quite a bit of annoyance shall i say which has been expressed. i think you know a lot will be determined by the position that the trump administration takes. whether it desires to b

i have travelled to ankara obviously president erdogan has been here, so our level of engagement with turkey is at a high level of communication and engagement. and where we have the issues of concern we're talking about those discussing them. clearly they have some issues with how we're executing our military plans in syria to defeat isis. we are concerned about their engagements with russia, the european union is concerned about the relationships. turkey sits in an extremely important place geographically and geopolitically. so it's an important relationship. it is quite complex right now. our objective is not to worse than relationship but find ways to re-engage and strengthen it so we can have some influence over the choices they are making, particularly with respect to freedoms within the country. to continuing their role and their construct as a democracy. >> thank you. i yield back. >> i thank my good friend for yielding. mr. secretary, i would ask you if you would to -- your thought about waivers for the mexico city policy in answer to my friend and colleague dr. barra. i woul

show even the slightest contrition after their security forces assaulted americans, authorities in ankara lodged a complaint against the united states and police officers who sought to keep the peace. the message from turkey is as clear as day. we can do as we please, whether at home to our own citizens or on your own american soil. mr. speaker, i stand here today to affirm that we will not allow turkey to beat innocent protesters on the streets of our nation's capital. we will continue to pursue justice and to make clear that america will always stand up for the right of peaceful and free expression. i thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota, mr. emmer, for five minutes. mr. emmer: mr. speaker, i rise today to speak about the importance of the u.s. international affairs budget for america's economic prosperity. recently more than 220 leaders from america's business community, from fortune 500 companies to local chambers of commerce, wrote to secretary of state rex tillerson about the strenalic inves

it's bad enough to see that sort of oppression on the streets of ankara orris tan bull, but it's becoming -- or istanbul, but it's becoming more and more common as turkey slips toward authoritarianism. but to see that on the streets of washington, d.c., is absolutely unacceptable. specialy at the hands of foreign -- especially at the hands of foreign government officials who were guests in our country. we cannot allow these actions to remain unnoticed and to trample on our constitutional rights. we know that president erdogan was never in danger. he simply decided to treat americans the way he treats his own people. his guards even had the nerve to attack law enforcement officials who were protecting him and his delegation. this behavior cannot stand. and the resolution before us sends a clear, decisive message that congress won't tolerate it. the state department must do whatever it takes to make sure that this does not happen again . and those responsible for this heinous act must be held accountable. charges must be filed and pursued. i am glad to support this measure that puts the hou

he says relations between washington and ankara are as bad as they've ever been. >> charging president erdogan's security team with crimes is going to add another element of tension between the two countries. this tension will no doubt be used by the turkish leadership to advance their own political agenda, which is only going to cause raw feelings here in washington. >> sreenivasan: the u.s. and turkey are already at odds over kurdish forces fighting in syria. and, the turks have demanded the u.s. extradite exiled cleric fethullah gulen for allegedly organizing last summer's failed coup. for the pbs newshour, i'm hari sreenivasan. >> woodruff: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: race matters: how a couple's love 50 years ago changed marriage in the u.s. lost music from the holocaust, rediscovered. and tv great dick cavett gives a brief but spectacular take on his life. but first, how a little-known program designed to attract foreign investment is increasingly under the microscope, for economic reasons and political ones. thousands of investors apply and participate annually, and