dorian: president erdogan dismissed it out of hand. they say it was basically wrong.hat has been echoed by the court which rejected the european court's ruling, even though the european court is a higher judicial body than any in turkey. they have no powers to enforce their decision. turkey feels it can act with impunity. phil: thank you. now to syria, where displaced people in the country's northwest face increasingly desperate conditions. with ongoing fighting, the coronavirus, and winter but heavy rains and bitterly cold temperatures, tens of thousands of people fled to idlib province a year ago in search of safety, away from the assad regime's attacks. hundreds of makeshift camps were built close to the border with turkey, but they lack winter supplies. the winter weather is making things worse. they have not found safety. a dw correspondent visited a family in one of the camps. reporter: standing among charred ruins, a reminder of a horrible night four weeks ago when they lost their 10-year-old daughter. in the bitter cold, his 10 neighbors were trying to light a

president erdogan taking a swipe at lgbt youth in a virtual congress of his party on monday.te free gift, but the youth who have a glorious history of our nation. you are the youth who are typing on the keyboards of computers, not the lgbt you. you are not the youth who analyses, but totally opposite, you are the ones who repair broken hearts.— you are the ones who repair broken hearts. these comments likely only _ broken hearts. these comments likely only to _ broken hearts. these comments likely only to add _ broken hearts. these comments likely only to add fuel _ broken hearts. these comments likely only to add fuel to - broken hearts. these comments likely only to add fuel to the - likely only to add fuel to the fire. protests have been ongoing since the president's appointment of a director to the university who demonstrators believe has close links to his conservative ak party. tanya dendrinos, bbc news. a world health organization team sent to china to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has been continuing their mission, visiting two centres for diseas

mobilizations have been ongoing for over a month after president tayyip erdogan appointed one of his allies to head a major university in istanbul. the turkish interior minister referred to the four arrested students as "lgbt freaks", while erdogan accused the lgbtq movement of "vandalism." seven men who were formerly incarcerated at guantanamo are urging president biden to shut down the military prison. the men were released during the bush and obama presidencies. in an open letter published last week, the men write quote "many of us were abducted from our homes, in front of our families, and sold for bounties to the us -- u.s. by nations that cared little for the rule of law. some of us had children who were born in our absence and grew up without fathers. others experienced the pain of learning that our close relatives died back home waiting in vain for news of our return. waiting in vain for justice. that is what you must contend with and change." the pentagon has suspended plans for coronavirus vaccines to the 40 remaining at guantanamo. they were originally scheduled to receive

brent: how do you read erdogan invoking leadership when he's talking to washington and not saying anything about the fact that turkey has been buying military equipment from russia? guest: this underscores the latest very angry exchange that there are so many points of tension between ankara and washington. while they do describe themselves as allies, they are seen as very much in quotation marks. there's a nomination process that has called turkey and ally -- but the feelings are mutual -- ankara has been critical of washington's extensive supporting the syrian kurdish militia which they claim is linked to the pkk, but washington says they are an important ally fighting islamic state. this is a major point of tension. ankara believes washington is supporting a terrorist organization, washington says that's not the case. the anger and fury reveals how much tension still exists between the two countries. brent: the latest tonight from istanbul. thank you. here are some of the other stories making headlines around the world. in nigeria, the next director general of the world trade organizati

erdogan reported told the iranian leader that a window of opportunity exists on nuclear talks to getn the islamic republic lifted. todd: trey, it's a situation to watch. we appreciate you doing that for us. jillian: republican congressman mike turner says there were several issues with the iran nuclear deal but the bigger issue is the biden administration's willingness to work with a u.s. adversary. >> as we know, the iran nuclear deal was terminally flawed. it has an expiration of major provisions, allowed missile development and allowed them to continue their mal actions within the middle east. by this administration going back to this agreement, iran is our adversary, the same thing with china. with the administration turning back to china, where the add administration knew it was our greatest vulnerability for jobs, our economy and to our otheral a lies, this administration is turning its eye from our allies into those who are adverse sharelies. jillian: it's unclear when the u.s. and iran could resume talks. florida governor ron de santis declaring flags will fly at half staff t

erdogan. in all of those cases there were direct communications man to man. in the case of saudi arabia, the biden administration has already said the only communication will be between the president and the king cutting out mohamed bin salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia. there's yet to be a call between biden and the turkish president. clearly he's trying to reset the policies and the structure of the relationship with middle eastern leaders but not perhaps back to the rather chaotic period of the obama administration where there was a sense of the americans withdrawing interest and influence in the middle east nor to the chaotic activist structures and policies that we saw under donald trump, rosemary. >> many thanks to sam kiley joining us live from jerusalem. >>> protestors are out on the streets of myanmar despite growing fears of a violent crackdown. police have significantly hardened their stance and reportedly fired on protesting railway workers in mandolay. in a move at shutting down the demonstrations, myanmar's military is encouraging protest

of 13 turkish soldiers in iraq and their bodies were found in a cave in northern iraq recep tayyip erdogan the president described the u.s. statement condemning the killing as a joke and he called on the u.s. to either stand with turkey or against it. us jetting was in because. if we are together with you in nato and if we are to continue our unity in the world and in nato the new x. and sealy towards us then you will stand with us not with the terrorists welcome to hell it is live for us in washington d.c. but 1st let's cross over to sit in pursuit of live in istanbul for us and sit in really the turkish government have been delivering constructive and soft messages towards the new u.s. administration but today's events have taken you might say a complete 180 turn. well this apparently it seems so actually presents are dawnstar statements came off to a statement that was released from united states condemning the killing as you have said the review this statement from washington it says the u.s. the floors the death of turkish citizens in the kurdish region of iraq we stand with our nato

you can see what we did in syria when we had 2,500, 3,000 troops there keeping erdogan at bay.appens if we desert afghanistan now? >> well, joe, you and i are old enough to remember vietnam and remember what it looked like when we just jumped out of there, cut the funding and we had helicopters coming off the roofs of our embassies. it took us two decades to come back from that. we don't have to take that route again. just let's do the numbers. when i commanded this nation as the nato supreme commander, we had 150,000 troops there. today we're down to 2,500 american troops. we have already pulled the troops out of afghanistan, by and large. by the way, there are 9,000 european and allied troops to our 2,500. that's pretty good leverage. that force is providing intelligence, logistics, special forces, training. it is an excellence use of resources. we haven't had a single combat death in afghanistan in a year. is it dangerous? will there be more combat deaths? are the taliban intractable foes? yes to all of that. but the advances we made in humans' rights, women's rights, all th

i'm happy to see the change, and i want to welcome the recent declaration of president erdogan. but both the u.s. and europe experienced an incredible aggress ift during two years in differ"e=j÷ theaters. and i think a clarification of the solidarity and the well behavior, good behavior in such a framework is absolutely critical. all this stuff is possible because europe is well and more organized and precisely because we developed this concept of sovereignty and strategy. >> so, i know that we'll unpack some of these issues with our guests. i'll turn to our first guest, dr. esther bremer, executive director and ceo, and former secretary of state. i know she wants to talk to you about -- >> we are heirs to the enlightenment and the great revolutions of the 18th century, yet on january 6th, a violent mob marched down those beautifully straight avenues that design for our capitol city. they invaded congress and threatened our elected leaders. in 2018, protesters marched in paris. zen phobia and violence are no longer just at the edge of politics. what is the state of liberal democ

and i want to welcome the recent declaration of president erdogan. but both the u.s.e european experience incredible aggressiveness and i think the good behavior in such a framework is absurdly critical. all of this stuff are possible because europe is well and more organized and pricely because we develop this concept of sovereignty and strategy. >> so i know that we'll unpack some of these issues with our guests. i'll turn to our first guest dr. esther brimmer. she's a board director at the atlantic council and was a former assistant secretary of state for international organizations and i know she wants to talk about it. >> our two countries are republics. we are heirs to the enlightenment yet on january 6th, a violent mob marched down those beautifully straight avenues that was designed for our capital city. they invaded congress and threatened our elected leaders. in 2018, protestors marched in paris and some damaged buildings. xenophobia and violence are no longer just at the -- >> i'm not sure i will be in a situation to provide a complete and comprehensive ans

when i saw one phone call from erdogan to trump that allowed us to abandon one of the bravest and best allies, some of the best fighters to help us win the fight against isis, the kurds, i went on state tv as an officeholder and still as a member of the air national guard at that point, and said this is just despicable. we do not treat our allies that way. so from that point to overturning an election, it became clear to me that the party of ronald reagan and george bush and the people i had so much respect for was gone. . >> and, senator, that's what's so stunning. my first vote for president was for ronald reagan. and a small government conservative ever since. i grew up in a family of cold war years who understood the importance of nato. understood the importance of alliances. understood of the united states fighting every war itself, teaming up with allies and the kurds. if you look at what the kurds did and sacrificed for us, to see us abandon the kurds and then to see the republican party turn syria over to vladimir putin. first time the soviets, i still call them soviets. sorry.

stimulus plan as republicans say taxpayers need to look at what's in the package, strategies president erdogan's start with you because the wall street journal laid this out nicely more than half of what did the $1.9 trillion bill is really going to fund the progressive agenda if you will and it's clouded in covid relief and some people are really angry about that. >> it is really hard to sell this to the people, you have the center of this bill should be to rescue americans and small businesses and the average joe from the beat down they have financially and psychologically through covid you start layering and doubling the minimum wage that's the wrong time in the wrong message. unfortunately it's unpopular for anyone to oppose it because the way that it spun your against this bill and against helping the american people and that drives me crazy but markets expected to get done and what they got going on right now they had to strip out the minimum wage but this may go through. jackie: it's one of the situations if you don't vote for this year against helping people and giving them covid relie

it reminds me of how he refused to hold erdogan responsible for some of the more dramatic things he didhe president and jared kushner had a cozy relationship. they believed that relationship was behoofing them political. that was what was important. khashoggi was not important. >> it's so solemn to hear carol put it that way. i want to pick up on a point carol made, ben. the reporting from the post, elsewhere, "new york times" makes clear that the jared kushner/mbs relationship was akin to a preteen's text conduct. they burned up the air waving, in near constant contact. i've talked to officials, there's no indication that there was ever an effort to deal with saudi arabia in a strategic standpoint as an american government, that it was all personal, and that it was largely run there jared kushner. this was one of, i think, relationships that pushed rex tillerson off the island, because it was one of the relationships that jared took hold of. i'm also reminded that kushner never vetted out. there was flags from the cia that were never cleared. the president just overruled kelly and mcga

i think it is going to be very difficult forjoe biden to engage with president erdogan on his wholesale secretary of state to speak to the military forces in myanmar about human rights abuses, when we see at home a nation that cannot govern or entertain the laws of itself. is govern or entertain the laws of itself. , . .., , govern or entertain the laws of itself. , . .. , ., govern or entertain the laws of itself. , . ., , , itself. is it a case that republican senators basically _ itself. is it a case that republican senators basically voted - itself. is it a case that republican senators basically voted in - itself. is it a case that republican senators basically voted in self i senators basically voted in self interest? those of them who will be coming up for real action in the next couple of years, were fearful of alienating the republican base, many of whom still support donald trump by voting to impeach him so they made sure they were saving their own skins? that they made sure they were saving their own skins?— they made sure they were saving their own skins? that is absolutely