official in moscow so they have long connections and they'll be turning to russia and possibly the asaad regime to get some protection against the turks as the result of course of course russia has its own interest in that place that's now controlled by the kurds that's the. most mostly darroze or province which contains most of the oil and gas deposits in syria ok just to interrupt you there for a second pump. of dollars here and then i would. just interrupt you there pavel russia is reportedly talking about deploying syrian border guards they themselves become a potential target. actually know when there was fighting for free in all of these turkish olive branch operations the outside forces moved some fifo into out free in the third bombed them and pushed them out so turkey is going to go of course and control they are going to apparent we could ends not immediately but after the american we leave there's going to be some kind of quid pro quo i mean russia is interested in the south part thirty is interested in the north there is a russian turkey and iran and of course the asaad regim

open >> they don't care about asaad.y care about t expandingir influence into africa and into the mediterranean. by the tway, ink you're doing the wrong thing when vladimir putin says you're doing the right thing. that's dangerous. >> reporter: and some saor immoral u.s. trps' betrayal is ana carl sin. that's wha many feel they've been told to do. abandoning kurdish forces who fought loyally with them against isis. erdogan said an offensive, he's so far been unable to carry out against the kurds is postponed for the moment. the kurdish leaders are convinced turkey will eventually move against them inpe dtion they've threatened to release more than 3,000 isis detainees they captured with american help. and syria isn't the only front now in chaos. president trump announced plans to cut in half the number of u.s. troops in afghanistan just as negotiations there with the taliban are making progress to end america'sr.ongest >> we have reason to doubt tco idence and judgment of the president of the united states. we oughted to

baa very al asaad, russia. who's losing? and isis is still a presence in iraq and syria where we're leaving from. who else is losing? israel. because they have without us there to help them balance the situation and exert a little bit of pressure on russia and others, the israelis now last night conducted another attack into syria trying to reduce the threat from hezbollah and the iranians to them. who else? jordan. we're their ally. saudi arabia is not a winner. they claim to be helping but i doubt it. the winners are the bad guys in syria. at the end of the day, the vacuum will be filled by the autocrats, but they won't be able to solve the conflict because of the terrorism problem and because their interests are not 100% aligned. >> to those who would say as rand paul did over the weekend on one of sunday shows that there's a case to be made for our soldiers and servicemen and women coming home from some of these wars where we have been there seemingly now for 15, 20 years? >> yes. in both iraq and afghanistan, i would ag

south part turkey is interested in the north there is a russian turkey and iran and of course the asaad regime are going to find some kind of solution of carving it up who gets the oil who gets the control of the border and the kurds will be trying to get another if the americans get them down they'll be trying to get support from damascus and moscow still to come here on al-jazeera at the u.s. treasury moving to steady she is in the markets with the american economy plus. making sweet music together the venezuelans who are right in argentina with little except the musical instruments. hello there is mostly dry for many of us in china at the moment there is a good deal of cloud though across many parts and that will gradually thicken up as we head through into wednesday and then more of us will see some rain so it will be mostly over the new bay province up through and we and into shanghai where we see the wet weather i want to outbreaks could turn out to be a little bit lively to the south of all of that they were it's fine enjoy for us in hong kong but then the cloud starts as you hea

that gives them a degree of legitimacy for for their intervention even they were to get help from the asaad regime some sort of how that would put turkey and syria in the syrian government at loggerheads wouldn't it not what would be the risk of tension confrontation between turkey and syria i don't think there would be that a convert to confrontation but i think this is all part of turkish expanded influence in the region following the affair right and clearly or divan has reached a deal with the tram within the white house and it involves saudi arabia the announcement of withdrawing financial support from the cia and what do you make of saudi arabia statements that in fact that story of a trump statement that saudi arabia is going to put money into syria into rebuilding syria and i don't know it could be just the result of a phone call with someone in saudi arabia but it flies in the face of all the accumulated wisdom from a similar engagement in afghanistan and iraq the original purpose of this force was stabilization it wasn't just to get to defeat isis it was meant to hold the ground h

. >> that's after that surprise trip to all asaad air base in western iraq where the president took picturesand talked policy, defending his controversial decision to withdraw u.s. troops from neighboring syria even though his generals, as he put it, recommended otherwise in the fight against isis. >> they said again recently could we have more time. i said nope, you can't have any more time. you've got enough time. we've knocked them out and silly. >> reporter: despite a draw down in syria and potentially afghanistan, the president says he has no plans to pull troops from iraq. >> if you take isis, and if we see something happening with isis that we don't like, we can hit them so fast and so hard, they won't know what the hell happened. >> there's criticism he waited too long for what's typically a holiday tradition for the commander in chief. >> i've had a busy schedule. >> reporter: president trump's trip kept secret until the last minute for security reasons as he himself acknowledged the safety concerns. >> if you would have seen what he had to go through with the darkened plane and all