no daesh elements, why?erefore i'm not responsible for those daesh terrorists that ypg actually released. but they are fighting you, they say, so they can't, and now... this isjust a narrative. are you saying there are isis fighters on the loose now? this proves you can never rely on terrorist organisations in our fight against another terrorist organisation. zainab, don't you remember how they supported those daesh elements in raqqa to leave raqqa by buses? they put them on buses. i mean, ypg/pkk helped daesh elements to leave raqqa. but now, what's the situation now, though? former us defence secretary mattis said it's a given isis will come back. they're on the loose, is that the case? we will never let daesh come back, because, first and foremost, they are our enemy. nobody can be sure whether those terrorists, including the foreign terrorist fighters, will be able to reach their source countries, but they will reach turkey. so i cannot let them go. i have been fighting... so you will hold them? i have b

daesh, are actually affected. you bring up daesh... yes. daesh, ypg, pkk, they are all terrorist.o—called islamic state, they have 12,000 fighters. they have nothing to do with islam, islam is a religion of peace. i know, so—called, i said. religion of peace. i know, so-called, i said. i am underlying this. there are 12,000 isis fighters held in kurdish —controlled areas inside northern syria and president erdogan said on the 14th of october, "we hope will ensure no isis fighters leave northern syria. " but that's not the case, is it? they have been let loose. you have to actually tell the truth. i'm afraid i have to remind you of this. when we reach these prisons, more than 1000 daesh terrorists were there and there was no daesh elements, why? because ypg, pkk terrorists actually release them, therefore i'm not responsible for those daesh terrorists that ypg actually released. but they are fighting you, they say, and now... this isjust a narrative. this is just they say, and now... this isjust a narrative. this isjust a narrative. are you saying there are isis fighters on the loo

what happens after defeating daesh? they have no answer.in syria? this commentator‘s decision was that president erdogan was doing the right thing and taking the terrorists out of syria. there is a question from the floor on this kurdish situation. your question, please? some experts in the western world use the phrase kurds when they mean pkk or ipgstf. but isn't it the same thing as calling poker around nigerians, or calling isis arabs? 0r is the term being used consciously to make some pressure on turkey? doctor hussein you said that turkey has no problem with kurds for that question there is saying, you are saying everybody is the same. there is this fake verses in the western media outlets not about you but others. they are saying that there is turkey on the one side and there are other kurds on the other side. which is a totally false verse actually because if you look at the situation there are 200,000 syrian kurds. right now living in turkey, and some of them escaped from the peabody. they monopolised political power in northern syr

daesh is another name for the so—called islamic state. president's decision to remove us troops from northern syria goes against official and congressional advice, and will leave the syrian democratic forces exposed to the expected turkish offensive to establish a 30km safe zone in northern syria. these are the same kurdish forces who worked with us to defeat daesh. essentially, they were our boots on the ground. and now it seems we're turning our backs on them. in answer to critics of his decision, donald trump said yesterday, and i quote, that "many people agree with it very strongly." and specifically, he said, "the uk is very thrilled at this decision." will the minister of state make it clear today that that is a lie? and can he explain what, if anything, the foreign secretary said yesterday to mike pompeo that might've given donald trump that impression? there is an old rule of middle east conflicts, mr speaker — that one way or another, the kurds will always get sold out. donald trump may be following that rule in the most brutal o

it has fostered counter daesh ally, the sdf, to resort to asking the bashar al—assad regime for help,r leverage over syria's future. and simultaneously diminishing any influence influence the us can claim to have over the country's future. in the fog of confusion, thousands of hard—line jihadist fighters are now able to escape, regroup to fight another day. the situation in northern syria has gone from bad to worse to utterly catastrophic and horrifying since the trump administration withdrew its troops and gave a green light to turkey to invade. and as we have seen, it is not just turkey's air strikes and artillery barrage that caused the deaths of dozens of innocent civilians, but the barbaric actions of the jihadi death squads, armed and supported by turkey, that are now freely operating inside the area. can i ask the minister whether, as part of the government's welcome review of arms sales to turkey, which i believe is worth {1.1 billion, they will look specifically at whether any of the arms that our country has supplied to turkey have ended up in the hands of the jihadi militan

we're hosting about 4 million syrian refugees and we have prevented them from daesh attacks in turkeyl as in the syrian territories. so this fight will continue. it will not diminish in any way the fight against daesh and we will, of course, as part of the international coalition against daesh continue to coordinate our efforts with the other forces, other countries, the us, europeans, arab countries, russia, iran and others because daesh is the common enemy and we fight against them and we will continue to fight against them. in regards to the daesh or is prisoners held, the root cause of the problem there are the specific problem with this group of people is that the countries of origin do not wa nt to ta ke that the countries of origin do not want to take them back. i think president trump was right when he complained about this. they have been held in different parts of syria and the east of the euphrates for the last two years. such countries such as germany, france, italy, uk and belgium and others do not want to take them back, but they are their own citizens. they should ta ke

we have been giving support to any campaign against daesh. we have not used...t syria in order to wager attacks against the turkish state. turkey has, let's say, invaded their area and... even after the ceasefire? even after this agreement, the war, in your eyes, goes on and you think syrian kurds should still attack? they should be able... they should defend their land against aggression and attacks of the turkish state until the turkish state is ousted out of syria. this is... you're talking about a continuation of the fighting, you're talking about the loss of more kurdish lives potentially? erdogan has not hidden his aim in order to continue this war. should we call on all people to become refugees and go, or should we call on our people to stay in their villages and defend themselves against, let's say, the aggressors, against, let's say, the aggressors, against the invaders? pkk leader zagros hiwa speaking to aleem maqbool. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: wimbledon champion simona halep and elina svitolina in action in the wta finals in shenzhen,

the isis they call them daesh but we call them isis. the isis tigers we have captured will be under very, very strict control of various different groups. we'll be watching. we'll be in charge. they'll be under very, very powerful and strict control and we've gotten everything we could have ever dreamed of and we're also going to be able to bring our people back home. we'll be able to have control of isis, total, we'll be table do whatever we have to do to get the rest of isis, wherever they may be they'll never be ruling us and i want to thank everybody. the other thing i want to thank as a group, i want to thank the kurds because they were incredibly happy with this solution. this is a solution that really, well, it saved their lives, frankly. it saved their lives. we've done a great thing for our partner. if we didn't go this unconventional tough love approach, you could have never gotten it done. they've been trying to do this for many, many years. i want to thank everybody, i want to thank everybody back in washington, we're in tex

my crying fleeing areas held by islamic state, daesh, during the recent fighting. -- fleeing areas heldmic state. twice the number originally feared. with some european countries rushing to repatriate children, given the loss amid the fallout, that shows the uk link very clearly. a lot more than rip —— a lot more than originally thought, 60 children, twice the number that was originally thought. this dilemma about what should happen, they are born to british people. they are caught in the middle of an awful conflict, and they will be the subject of political debate at home about how they should be brought back. turning to the metro, the royal household. this is very striking, the reaction from harry's brother, after he was saying in an itv documentary that he struggles with his mental health, and meghan was talking about the struggle she has had dealing with negative headlines, the reason why he is coming in at this point, because meghan was talking at one point about how one asked her if she is 0k, about how one asked her if she is ok, as if to suggest that nobody in the royal family i

have some pretty good a northeastng areas especially in some that were once under the control daesh not too long ago. the u.s. does have some portion of funding that we have been executing, but we have gotten really good contributions from our coalition partners from some of the arab countries, including usdi arabia, that has helped to do the kind of restoration of services and stabilization activities that we use to. as well as some very good contributions from european countries. the united states does a lot in northeast syria. our military does do a lot through their advising of local partners and through the kind of projects they are able to do. of course, we have humanitarian systems throughout the country. is such a conflict that wee of instability are always going to feel like we are running behind in the funding that is necessary to theres it, but i do think is a pretty good commitment. right now, the kinds of things we do at a diplomatic level will keep the international community focused on the syrian problem so the international community does not just conclude that because o

our fight is against a terrorist network, just as we fought about daesh and isis, we have to fight against other terrorist networks in syria. let me also underline that this safe zone will in no way affect negatively or diminish the fight against isis. we fought against isis and eliminated more than 3,000 of their tear rivets, and we have captured more than 5,000 daesh terrorists in turkey, expedited them or expelled them. we will not let them come back in any shape or form. we are very determined about that, also. you cannot fight one terrorist network with another one. i think we should be very clear about that, too. >> mr. ab heme kalin, thank you very much for your time. >>> up next, a stark contrast with criticisms from republicans in congress about the president's decision on syria but strong support during this impeachment inquiry. we're going to dig into the split in the gop as the president faces the fight of his political life. plus the new fallout for one of the nation's most popular sports leagues. what the nba commissioner is now saying about the controversy that has sparked f

we fought daesh side by side with his soldiers, and now he just pulls out his troops and left us alonet trump hear us. >> reporter: they know they cannot defeat turkey alone. >> woodruff: that report from lindsey hilsum of independent television news. the pentagon announced today that it will send nearly 2,000 additional troops to saudi arabia to help protect against iran. that is in spite of president trump's recent pledge to reduce the u.s. presence in the middle east. the u.s. will also move several dozen fighter jets, and otr air defenses. u.s. defense secretary mark esper announced the deployment. >> iran's attemptso use terror, intimidation and military force to advance its interests are inconsistent with international norms. saudi arabia is a longstanding security partner in the middle east, and has asked for additional support to supplement their own defenses and defend the international rules-based order. >> woodruff: the troops will join more than 10,000 american service members already deployed across the middle east. a super typhoon is barreling towards tokyo, japan, today,

is part of the global coalition all the way and we have made enormous progress in the fight against daesh that the nato presence in countries like afghanistan and iraq is also about fighting terrorism. we strongly believe the best way of fighting terrorism is to train local forces. that's what we are doing in afghanistan and iraq. again, turkey is an important part of that. it is one of the lead nations in afghanistan. we highly appreciate the contributions from turkey to nato's efforts in the fight against terrorism. when it comes to the situation in northern syria and also the ypg, there are different views among nato allies. nato is not present on the ground in northern syria but we are part of the global coalition. we continue to fight terrorism but we are not on the ground in northern syria. secretary general of nato there alongside the turkish foreign minister. they have been meeting in istanbul as international bodies expressed growing concern about the offensive by turkey in northern syria and the offensive against the kurdish forces in that area. highways england have admitted th

international partners to secure stability in the region and ensure the considerable gains made against daeshity and compassion to a deeply troubled and traumatised region. unpalatable as it may be, does the foreign office believe that in order to achieve a repatriation of the children, it will be necessary to restore formal diplomatic relations with the assad regime and will that be on a permanent or temporary basis? we are all trying to work out what we now do in relation to operating in the new reality which sadly has been made a great deal worse by the events of the past few days. sometimes the sheer practicality of difficulties can mask a failure in government to make the decisions and needs to make and i think particularly this is about the mothers of the children. —— decisions it needs to make. it seems to me over a period of time that we have to recognise an international responsibility to take back even those who have been indoctrinated and radicalised in order to protect the children and that we should have the resources to be able to deal with them as well as to protect the childre

this means the kurds, who have been fighting isis, fighting daesh, will mostly flee southwards.ut 2 million people. so we're going to have what is in effect a major act of ethnic cleansing it is not clear from what the white house says how far the turks will go. they say it will be on the border, but they also say the turks will take over a refugee membersl of former isis , particularly women and children. but that is right over on the iraqi border. if the turks go that far, than they are taking over a big chunk of northeast syria. so this is sort of good news for the turks. it is very bad news for kurds who lost 11,000 dead fighting isis. and for isis, it is very good news because it means their main opponent, the syrian kurdish forces, are either going to be fighting the kurds and the turks are going to be running away or are going to be dead. so this is the sort of news i think isis has been waiting for for its opponents to split up. it is pretty extraordinary. the statement that "we defeated isis on the ground." all of the troops on the ground were led by the kururds and som

nearte specific areas daesh presence, they have been silent about it.e wenot the first have had such a phenomenon here. we had attacks in the most last year where we had the beginning of the surge. we had rumors we might start negotiating with the taliban again, now you have this attack on civilians. i don't know how it will affect the peace process. on the other side, you have thee talking about deadliest terra as far as civilian casualties are concerned. this is the harsh reality of afghanistan. every time you have an attack, it will have civilian casualties. anchor: mexico's president has defended the national guard after they released the son of a , this afterug lord a gun battle that killed at least eight people. says s the decision prevented the loss of more lives. we have this report. battles inears gun iercewest mexico -- fe gun battles in north mexico. the son of the notorious drug cartel boss joaquin guzman, el chapo, now serving a life citizens after extradition -- sentence after extradition to the u.s. the gun battles went on for hours as th

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the killing of daesh's leader, turkey will continue to support antiterror efforts at it has done in the pkk, why pg and other terrorists organizations, turkey welcomes development, i'm confident that struggle against terrorism in line with spirit of alliance will bring peace to all humanity. there's irony in who said this tweet. gillian: well, i don't need to remind you of your own interviews, just 2 weeks ago you got a chance to speak to president erdogan's defense advisers and she told you that the united states is a top tier sponsor of terrorism in that region. leland: she went after the -- because u.s. supported the kurds, we supported terrorism, interestingly, though, so many people who blame the turks for the rise of isis, the jihadi highway across the border, not cutting off funds when they could have, they could have cut off supplies, et cetera, et cetera. gillian: questions now around washington this morning about what the turks knew about al-baghdadi whereabouts and when and if they shared the information with the trump administration. leland: pretty bold, if you will, of erdo

>> our operation conducted in northern syriayr and our determination to fight against daesh are not mutuallysive.il wefight decisively if there is need, but ypg is an existential threat to us. we have lost people in the hands of pkk terrorists, 40,000. and we have given our full support to the united states,wi against 9/11out question. when the u.s. conducted operations and afghanistan, we knew it was against al qaeda. senator graham and [indiscernible] a terrorist orgaeszation reted as -- recognized as such. they are referring to it as an ally. judy: they did work alongside the u.s. in the fight against isis. >> that was a mistake in the first place. you cannot conduct a successful fight against a terrorist organization by making use of another terrorist organization. judy: you mentioned senator van hollen, senator graham. the entire foreign services committee in the u.s. senate are saying they are goingd ull speed ahth sanctions against turkey, despite this. >> this is the prejudice we have to overcome. they are rerring to ypg a allies of the u.s. they are not allies. our first and ultimat

today though he brought firepower against kurdish since the defeat of daesh, ors.s, kurdish forces have controlled theeaart of syria of the euphrates, backed bymb a lited of u.s. troops. in august, a three-mile buffer zone was agreed, running along the turkish border, to betr jointly led by turkey and the u.s.pr buident erdogan has always wanted to go further, 20 milesed acside the border, to push the y.p.g. who he considers terrorists allied with a kurdish insurgency in turkey. as shelling began on the border towns of sari kanind explosions rocked raz al eyen, kurdish led forcesarned of humanitarian catastrophe but with no u.s. support, generals called on civians to move to the border to fight >> ( translated ): send a message to the whole world again. we are ready to face any kind of attack. >> reporter: as kurdish forces engage in battle, the worry is no one will be left to guard the prisons filled with more than ten thousands isis fighters. donald trump has long said isis is defeated. and today said the u.s. did not it a bad idea.'s attack, calling their homes

it fundamentally weakens the alliance we have against daesh, with the way it is dealing with the alliese have in the alliance on the ground in syria and we have made a clear announcement that we will not in any way fund or support any efforts of turkey to forcefully syriaer refugees back to to change the demographics of the country and put them there. this we also think is a dangerous and a stabilizing thing, radicalize is people and take away human rights for millions of syrians and create more violence. our concern but turkey is doing now can create more violence and we think we should be stopping it. margaret: you used the word wishy-washy. do you think the u.s. is being wishy-washy and you think there has been clarity in terms of response from this administration about the u.s. position on what turkey can do and what the consequences will be? amb. lambrinidis: we are following closely the development of u.s. policy in the country. all we can do is ourselves make clear to turkey, which is a candidate country to the e.u., so we have a special relationship with turkey, what we think sh

destabilising the region, exacerbating humanitarian suffering, and undermining the progress made against daeshid in a statement. the british pushing back from this happening. the british pushing back from this happening. the kurdish—led syrian democratic forces or sdf has asked the us to help establish a no—fly zone in the area "to stop the attacks on innocent people". no sign of that happening. kino gabriel is from the sdf and joined us from northern syria. of course, since 4pm today, the turkish military started the military operation in order to occupy this part of syria. we have seen air strikes, and we have seen artillery shelling over several thousand villages on the border area, and in some occasions, found inside the area controlled by us. the towns and villages are mostly inhabited by civilians, and the most damage happens so far to civilian property, the towns and villages are mostly inhabited by civilians, and the most damage happens so far to civilian property, and the majority of the casualties, either killed or wounded, were also civilians. we had several civilians killed, includ

the isis, they call them daesh, those fighters we captured will be under very, very strict control of various different groups, but we will be watching, we will be in charge and they'll be under very, very powerful and strict control. and we've gotten everything we could have ever dreamed of, and we're also going to be able to bring our people back home, but we'll be able to have control of isis, total. we'll be able to do whatever we have to do to get the rest of isis, wherever they may be, they're never going to be ruling us. and i want to thank everybody. and the other thing i want to thank as a group, i want to thank the kurds, because they were incredibly happy with this solution. this is a solution that really -- well it saved their lives, frankly. it saved their lives. so we've dawn great thing for our partner. if we didn't go this unconventional tough love approach you could have never gotten it done. they've been trying to do this for many, many years. i want to thank everybody. i want to thank everybody back in washington. we're in texas now and opening up a phenomenal new

the isis, call them daesh, we call them isis, isis fighters we captured they will be under very, verytrict control of various different groups. we will be watching. we'll be in charge. they will be under very, very powerful strict control. we gotten everything we could have ever dreamed of. we'll bring our people back home. but we'll be able to have control of isis total. we'll be able to do whatever we have to do to get the rest of isis, wherever they may be. they're never going to be ruling us. and i want to thank everybody. the other thing i want to thank as a group, i want to thank the kurds because they were incredibly happy with the solution. this is a solution that really, well it saved their lives, frankly. it saved their lives. we've done a great thing for our partner. if we didn't go the unconventional tough love approach, you could have never gotten it done. they have been trying to do this for many, many years. could have never gotten it done. i want to thank everybody back in washington. we're in texas now. we'll be opening up a phenomenal new plant. one of the greatest m

and also fundamentally weakens the alliance we have against daesh with the way it is dealing with someies we have in this alliance on the ground in syria. and we have also made it very clear that we will not in any way fund or support any efforts of turkey to forcefully transfer refugees back to syria to change the demographics of the country to basically put them there. this we also think is very dangerous and destabilizing. you can radicalize people, it can take away human rights for millions of syrians and create more violence. our concern is what turkey is doing now can create more violence and we think we should all be stopping it from doing so. not beingis wishy-washy. do you think the u.s. is and you think there has been enough clarity in terms of response from this administration about the u.s. position on what turkey can do and the consequences? we followhe hollow -- the development of u.s. policy in the country but all we can do at this stage is ourselves make very clear to turkey, which is a -- country to the eu and the world what we as european union thanks ought to happen.

orders of a delegated committee headed by al-baghdadi, the group known variously as isis, isil, and daeshen accused of adultery were stoned to death. thieves had their hands hacked off. men who had defied the militants were beheaded. some of the most notorious atrocities carried out by bag day idea and his followers included the organized rape of women considered to be non-believers including the people who lived in northern iraq. tell us more about why he was the world's most wanted terrorist and am i right in my assumption that there would have been a very wide circle of people who would have potentially wanted to take revenge against him? >> sure. so -- so al-baghdadi first came to our notice in 2014. i would say in the public's notice. when isis blitzkrieged across iraq and syria and took over a territory that was equal in size to great britain. they ruled a population that was between 8 and 12 million people. they earned hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars from taxes and from the other commerce that they ran under their rule. and this is unprecedented for a terrorist organiz

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did not want to simply put an american heavy division down in the middle of the desert and wipe out daesh by itself, which was something that plenty of people were talking about at the time. i think many in the military would have loved to been able to do that because at the substantive level, it would be the easy answer. that would've been a way to defeat isis, destroy it really quickly and easily but it wasn't politically possible. so instead they had to adopt by, with, and through method. they had to go to the iraqis and secondarily to the syrians and say okay, we can't do it for you. you guys are quite the -- going to have to do it yourself. we are come -- going to provide you a great deal of assistance but at the end of the day, it is andg to have to be iraqi syrian combat troops who are going to need to take the fight. we've got to figure out ways to train up more effective iraq and syrian forces, and provide them with combat enablers that will make them successful put them in situations where they can be successful. that's the heart of by, with, and through. as i said, that was a n

these are members of a legitimate organization fighting against daesh.ted states supported them in coban and half of the weapons were seized and two or three days ago in coban poid, ypg was provided with two planes full of weapons in assistance. if we're fighting terrorism, we have to fight against terrorism as allies. let's eradicate all forms of terrorist organizations in that part of the world. we don't want the northern parts of syria to become diverted into belts of terrorism. >> the reason we pulled that out of the archives, rick, is because he's been very consistent about his position. it's the american position under president trump that has changed from saying, no, these are our allies to the president saying they're not angels, they're pretty bad throwing the kurds under the bus. >> the kurds are the largest ethnic minority in the world without their own state. the reason that erdogan considers them terrorists is because the kurds want to have independence. they don't want to be part of turkey. they want to have a state on that border between t

that joint statement also said that turkey and the united states are committed to deisis and daesh activities in northeast syria including coordination on detention facilities. exactly what did the turks commit to in terms of securing isis detention facilities and camps in northeast syria? mr. jeffrey: we began talks with them in january 2018 after the president announced the withdrawal in december and the turks showed some interest and staff work concerning detention facilities in that up to 30 kilometer deep zone. there are very few detention in the areaight now where the turks are, so the question at the moment is pretty moot. sen. shaheen: but they did, in fact, shell two prisons that the syrian democratic forces had to flee from to escape the shelling, is that correct? detainees were able to escape from those two facilities. mr. jeffrey: i will check. i think one was a displaced persons camp for people who are basically associated with isis , so they weren't technically detainees, but we will check that is true, a few people did , escape. sen. shaheen: so how exactly will turkey prevent

sdf generally was not fighting the assad regime but rather was focused on fighting -- -- fighting daesh at time, there were engagements or firefights, but that was not their primary responsibility. in terms of the withdrawal from the zone, there has been for a good number of years no real strong isis presence in that area. according to the russian-turkish agreement, the ypg is also to be withdrawn. i have big questions as to if that will happen, but if it did, i would be worried because there are some isis elements there. are of the isis elements south of that reservoir. the euphrates down to the iraqi border. sdf has most the of its forces and where we still have our own people. as i said, we are executing a deliberate and strong withdrawal, but we are doing this in a way that allows us to consider if we should keep some troops on. >> the cooperation is still ongoing? >> the cooperation is still ongoing as we work our way through what the longer-term situation will be. >> i know you touched on this a bit with previous question is, but hours before the u.s.-brokered cease-fire expired,

that joint statement also said that turkey and the united states are committed to deisis and daesh activities in northeast syria including detention on facilities. what did the turks commit to in terms of securing isis detention facilities and camps in northeast syria. >> we began talks with them in january 2018 after the president announced the withdrawal in december and the turks showed some interest and some staff work concerns detention facilities in that up to 30 kilometer deep zone. there are very few detention facilities in the area where the turks are so at the moment the question is pretty moot. >> but they did, in fact, shell two prisons that the syrian democratic forces had to flee from to escape the shelling, is that correct, and detainees were able to escape from those two facilities. >> i will check. i think there was a displaced persons camp for people who are basically associated with isis so they weren't second nick clee detainees, we will check, but that is true, a few people did escape. >> so how exactly will turkey prevent an isis resurgence and, again, what have they comm

>> the sdf first was not fighting the assad regime, but focused on fighting daesh which is more thana handful. at times engagements and firefights between the two, but it is not their primary responsibility. in terms of the withdraw from the zone, there has been for a good number of years no real strong isis presence in that area. and the area which is according to the russian and turkish agreement the ypg is to withdraw and i have questions if it is going to happen, and if so, i would be concerned because there are isis elements there. where most of the isis elements are south of the reservoir as you are looking at the euphrates to the iraqi border, that is where the sdf has most of the forces, and where we still have our own people. as i said, we are executing a deliberate and strong withdrawal, but we are doing this in a way that allows us to consider should we keep some troops on -- >> and so cooperation is still ongoing? >> the cooperation is still ongoing as we work through of what the longer term situation will be. >> i know that you have touched on this a bit, but hours befor

we have a common enemy, daesh.nagers had been stabbed to death in london. an 18—year—old died south london and a 15—year—old was killed at a shopping centre in centre in stratford in the east of the city where another 15—year—old was also stabbed and injured. let's get more from our correspondent, who is at the scene. tell us what we know. the police were called here yesterday afternoon, just after 3pm committee reports of a stabbing. when i got here they discovered a teenager being surrounded by members of the public, he was trying to stem the flow of blood from his injuries. some of those included his school friends. the teenager had been stabbed a number of times. when the paramedics got here, they could not save him. many schoolchildren would have been around the area yesterday afternoon. behind me is the exact spot. there is a blue tent marking the exact spot where the teenager was pronounced dead at the stratford shopping centre. during that altercation, another 15—year—old was stabbed by believed to be a fri