diplomat and now a visiting scholar at carnegie europe in luxembourg european interior ministers are making a fresh effort to break an impasse over migration they want more countries to sign on to a plan to more evenly distributed refugees throughout the bloc europe is currently seeing a rise in migrant rivals across the mediterranean and previous efforts to resettle them have led to deep divisions.

i'm joined now by mark peel a need he's a veteran diplomat and now a business scholar at the carnegie europe think tank he's also served as ambassador to both syria and turkey mr putin we thank you very much for joining us today on t.w. news why does the turkish president want to move his troops into northern syria and what does he intend to do there. well essentially what he intends to do is and engineering that he's removing as many currents as they count from strict along the border you say such economic terms and then have higher ups and took manstein in power in these villages it's this is not you this is something he has been saying for a long time it's also the long time worry about kurdistan him merging on the border in iraq in syria and in turkey of course but what we're seeing today oh and since a couple of days east basically 2 very strong leaders and on and tram we're strong narratives and we have to remember that both of them are in great trouble politically at home so essentially that they're trying to divert attention we've had a lot of words we've seen a lot of images off on

diplomat and now a business scholar at carnegie europe well here in germany 9 people have been injured one seriously after a stolen truck rammed into cars police are investigating the incident as a possible terrorist attack the crash happened in the city of limbaugh the driver drove the truck into a line of cars pushing the vehicles into each other police have detained the driver of the vehicle who was also injured it wasn't immediately clear whether the crash was accidental or deliberate. are political correspondent and young is covering this story for us and joins us now simon what more can you tell us about this. yes terry as you say the police so far have been relatively tight lipped about motives they say it's much too early to speculate about that at this stage it's unclear why this is happening and. they say they're investigating in all directions they collected evidence from the scene of this crash where these people were injured. media reports though have emerged this morning with some details about the man the d.p.i. news agency says that he's as a a syrian who's was born in

ambassador to syria and indeed to turkey he's now a visiting scholar at the carnegie europe think tank welcome to day w. if turkey moves against the kurds in northern syria what chance will they stand. well it all depends how far they want to go as you know in the speech at the u.n. general assembly a couple of weeks ago president that one study wanted to save 30 kilometers that that's a lot and that was not the the discussion was the u.s. forces there were rather talking of 5 kilometers so there was a lot of impatience building there now it was for the mystic political reasons both in the u.s. and in turkey because of the personalities involved with the 2 presidents who like strong words and strong narratives he says flared up it doesn't make the situation any easier for for turkey. if they go only a few kilometers deep. without having air cover because this is not more difficult was the u.s. being present there there will probably try to establish a sort of no man's land and start with that gone into other provinces in africa and it had all of the aleppo province which is ethnic engi

joining me now via skype from istanbul is sin then again he is a visiting professor at carnegie europe thanks very much for being with us so how close is the relationship then between presidents trump and one or the relationship is indeed quite close because president traum has been in regular dialogue with the turkish president are gone and as we see in this case he took on board are the ones arguments and decided to give the go ahead to the turkish across the border military operation and his stance is markedly different than what we heard from the others pillars of the u.s. administration and primarily pentagon. and we when we look at the turkish economy and president trump personally does does he have a conflict of interest because of the trump towers in istanbul he doesn't own the towers but does license his name. yes obviously that's the definition of conflict of interest and given that he has this business venture in turkey. even though as you rightly said he doesn't all the property nonetheless gets a license fee based on extending his franchise so in that sense yes there seems

diplomat and now a business scholar at carnegie europe. in luxemburg european interior ministers are making a fresh effort to break an impasse over migration they want more countries to saw it on to a plane to more evenly distributed refugees throughout the block europe is currently seeing a rise in migrant arrivals across the mediterranean and previous efforts to resettle them have led to deep divisions within the bloc. it was a moment that changed the debate around migration to europe 31 year old can hold out had forced her rescue ship carrying 40 migrants into the harbor of italy's lampedusa island she was arrested for defying italy's ban on private rescue ships entering its ports as it stands when an aid organization rescues migrants in the central mediterranean e.u. countries are forced to scramble to allocate the arrivals among themselves both italy and malta which lie close to the north african coast say it's unfair that they have to accept so many of those who come to europe's shores at the end of september interior ministers from

well joining me now via skype from istanbul is sin then again he is a visiting professor at carnegie europe thanks very much for being with us so how close is the relationship then between presidents trump and one or the relationship is indeed quite close because president traum has been in regular dialogue with the turkish president are gone and as we see in this case he took on board president are gone the arguments and decided to give the go ahead to the turkish across the border military operation and his stance is markedly different than what we heard from the others pillars of the u.s. administration and primarily pentagon. and we when we look at the turkish economy and president trump personally does does he have a conflict of interest because of the trump towers in istanbul he doesn't own the towers but does license his name. yes obviously that's the definition of conflict of interest and given that he has this business venture in turkey. even though as you rightly said he doesn't all the property nonetheless gets a license fee based on extending his franchise so in that sense yes t

eric bradford direct the europe program at carnegie. >> thank you so much. congratulations on the book and thanks for having me here. i was asked to talk about the u.k. future relations with the eu, nato, and united dates. -- united states. i would like to highlight a couple of points, moving the conversation beyond defense talking about broader impact for security and foreign policy. to me, a starting point is to recognize that breaks it marks -- brexit marks the biggest u.k. foreign policy shift the cold war. it will have major implications for the eu, nato, and united states. british foreign policy has really been based on three overlaying pillars. the first one, being a part of europe. second, maintaining a close special relationship with the united dates and third comic being an active player on the multistate -- world stage, supporting multilateralism. because of brexit, trump, rising great power competition in the international system, those three pillars are in flux. oft does this mean in terms the relationship between the u.k. and the eu post brexit

eric bradford who was a fellow with me for many years, is now two doors down at the carnegie endowment working on europe will offer further perspective. we're very delighted to have ambassador mulhall with us, ambassador of ireland to the united states. he has a great perspective on this because he also was ambassador of the u.k., and so he can convey some of the reality also from his time there. welcome back, mr. ambassador. we're so delighted that you could join us again here at sais. so without further ado, let me turn to cornelia who's going to tell us a bit about the context, and then we'll go from there. >> hello, everybody, and welcome to this book launch on brexit, european security and trans-atlantic relations. thank you very much, professor, for this very nice introduction. so as we mentioned, this is the book we are launching today, and i would like to say a few things. i wanted to check my time. so the book is an academic project, is a collective project with different contributors from various universities in europe. and in relation to the general is sis of this book, so -- the genesis of t

carnegie museum in pittsburgh pennsylvania. the 1st and most important thing is that all the things we're finding here 13 different types of animals from earth. in europe but they are many of them are found in states or north america which goes to prove biologically that the 2 continents are together that europe and north america were one continuous land continent. the science was under the care of the. freedon stein which stopped the excavation in 2010 the reason given was that there are more important priorities but a group of researchers in berlin have said they want to continue digging in the. also because the site with its combination of tracks and track makers is unique and the skeletons are exceptionally well preserved. researchers at the carnegie museum of natural history in pittsburgh have been working on extracting and cleaning the skeletons for years. amy henry see is a collection manager for the section of road. liberate paleontology she is also a fossil prepared and participated in bro marker quarry excavations the discoveries at the bro marker were important for me as a fossil prepared or because they are the best fossils i prepared in my

western europe and the creatingand much more an individual or a subject that is going to rally and american consensus for u.s. involvement, continued involvement in the korean war. >> i am from the carnegieendowment for peace. thank you for your information. an inside about not just political decisions but also the human beings and interrogators. -- in 1953n was made , the south korean president decided to release many anti-communist pows from korea. it's not about repatriation but political decisions. it would become the fundamental for relations between the two countries. what do you think about his decision? i have an entire chapter dedicated to that question. it's a very important question. be soose who might not familiar with all of this, because the south korean military was under the aegis of the u.s. and united nations was no southe korean delegate at the table. really use the pow issue articulate certain of u.s. limits in terms ambitions vis-a-vis what was happening in the korean conflict. it's also an important thing you bring up. -- so, itcides to basically happens at midnight, right? it's midnight and the south korean military all over the peninsula at different camps cut .pe