turkish president erdogan has vowed to stop the formation of what he describes as a terrorist state nexto its border, saying they are targeting a turkish kurdish militant group called the pkk. the pkk have been fighting for autonomy in south—east turkey in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people since the 1980s. i am here to find out how climate change is affecting this region, and how the conflict with turkey is impacting the people living here. man: hello. yahya ahmed has one of the toughest jobs in the city. he is a kurd and co—director of hasaka's water board. the water board tries to make sure that institutions like schools and hospitals and those most in need have water. head of laboratory osman gaddo has been testing water here for 20 years to make sure it is safe to drink. in recent years the city's population have relied upon groundwater from wells. some residents have brought in water samples from their wells for him to test. not so long ago these problems did not exist. this is the khabour river, filmed in the 1990s flowing through hasa ka. the rivers only flow

president erdogan said were seeking to prevent a terror corridor across their southern border and toarea. turkish forces seized what they called a safe zone inside north—east syria which meant that alouk wells are now in territory controlled by turkey today, there is no water coming from alouk to hasaka. this man and his wife are a two—salary household and they say buying water costs half their monthly income. the demands at the water board never stop. fatima is the co—director. fatima is heading to nashwa, to one of these streets that gets free water from an ngo. the women here are angry and frustrated because the water provided by the ngo seems to have stopped. this is just one street and there are many others in the same situation. i could not spend long in nashwa. it is still considered dangerous. it is one of the places where kurdish fighters defended the city from the so—called islamic state, street by street. the human cost was high and everyone here was affected. waves of conflict have brought hundreds of thousands of idps here to hasaka. this camp alone contains around 30,00

also putting to turkish media on a call with erdogan. so these are authoritarians who understand that business is kind of what makes the world go round. and in order to get your political power in place, in order to consolidate your regime, you need to bring the businessmen to heel. trump likes guys like musk. right? he is powerful. he is megalomaniacal and eccentric. he has enormous control of the flow of information. and it is a bit of a banality to point out putin is a former kgb officer. in the soviet, they had a category of something they referred to as the confidential contact. this wasn't somebody to be recruited as an agent but somebody to be cultivated as a source. you keep in constant communication with them. why? because they come from areas with privileged information. politics, journalism. big business. they tell you things that are a benefit to moscow, in exchange, what do you do? you keep them on the hook by flattering their ego. make them feel important. there is a big peace treaty. putin, musk is cream cheese in the hand

he was also reportedly, according to turkish media, on a call with erdogan. so these are authoritarians that understand business is what makes the world go around and to get your political power in place, in order to consolidate your regime, you need to bring the businessmen. trump likes guys like musk, right? he's powerful, a little bit eccentric. he now owns the most influential social media app, which gives him enormous control of the flow of information. >> and helped trump enormously in his bid for president. >> it's a bit of a banality to point out that put season a former kgbk officer. they referred to the confidential contact. this wasn't somebody to be recruited as an agent, but it was somebody to be cultivated as a source. you keep in constant sxhuncation with them, why? because they come from areas with privileged information. politics, journalism, big business. they tell you things that are a benefit to moscow. in exchange, what do you do? keep them on the hook by flattering their ego, making them feel like secret sharers to information. there's a

the shift is being from a patriotic american to an american who is supporting putin, assad, erdogan,nd our adversaries. these are judgment jobs. these will be a small number of people advising the president in critically important times. if she has shown such terrible judgment if she has sided with putin days after the invasion of the ukraine, if she is saying all these kinds of crazy things, senator romney said that she was spreading treasonous lies about u.s. activities , bio weapons factories in ukraine. if these are the kinds of people who are surrounding president trump we are really in trouble. and the question now is, will the senate do its job? because if president trump is able to force through all of these nominations, some of whom are really great, impressive people. i mentioned john radcliffe, arco rubio i think is a solid choice. if tulsi gabbard and these others are forced through the message will be delivered this is a republican party that is just kneeling before assad. superman reference . >> all roads lead to donald trump . the common denominator between the two of

she has been a booster come in many ways, for putin, asad, erdogan, people who are not at all friendlywith the united states? if you are a part of a foreign government, and allied government, are you really going to want to share your most important intelligence with the united states government, recognizing that there are people who are at central notes in our government who are so sympathetic to our adversaries? it is really concerning. this is not -- i guess the good news is that this is not the worst of the trump nominations , but this is pretty bad. these are serious jobs and they need serious people doing them. we have very many, very serious people in the republican party, those are the people we need. >> i don't understand -- let me take that back. i do understand if your number one concern is having someone who doubles down on what you already believe is wrong with the intelligence community. tulsi gabbard might be a perfect choice. but, if you have been president, as trump has, and you understand the seriousness of what comes through on that president will daily brief, this i

he has already been on calls with president zelenskyy of ukraine, with president erdogan from turkey. should we worry that musk's business interests will play a role in foreign policy? - having somebody who's not a member of the government on calls with foreign leaders does make me uncomfortable, especially when that person's a major international business figure because of the prospect for corruption, for using insider information about american policy decisions for business purposes is, you know, it's a seedy form of corruption we should try and prevent in our government. - does the challenge of individuals having access to high level conversations without security clearances give you pause? - very much so! - explain why. - the reason we have the federal bureau of investigation do background checks on people who are coming into government jobs where they will have access to sensitive and classified information is to make sure that they are not using it in ways invidious to the government, either for espionage or for corruption, or for undercutting the policy that the government's at

back in april, ismail haniya, before his killing, had a meeting there with recep tayyip erdogan, the also a place where they would have the diplomatic channels which have been used so far unsuccessfully, to bring about some sort of peace deal and a hostage deal for the conflict in gaza. the metropolitan police are to be investigated over its handling of abuse allegations against the former harrods owner, mohammed al fayed. the force has referred itself to the independent office for police conduct after two women raised concerns about how officers handled their cases in 2008 and 2013. here's our correspondent daniel de simone. mohammed al fayed is a growing scandal for scotland yard. a bbc documentary in september heard testimony from former harrods employees, who said the billionaire sexually assaulted or raped them. he had no doubt in his mind that he was... his advances were unwelcome and nonconsensual. i kicked and kicked and kicked and kicked and screamed and again i got him off. i wasjust terrified. i believed he was- attempting to rape me. since the film, the met police has bee

back in april, ismail haniya, before his killing, had a meeting there with recep tayyip erdogan, then seen as somebody who could offer them notjust somewhere that they could base themselves, but also a place where they would have the diplomatic channels which have been used so far unsuccessfully, to bring about some sort of peace deal and a hostage deal for the conflict in gaza. it's one thing to put a squeeze on hamas in terms of where they're allowed to operate, but it's another thing to exclude them entirely. and that's not what's being suggested, is it? no, that is not what is being suggested. this would be them being told they were no longer welcome to be based in in qatar. now that's where they've had a political office since 2012 that was set up, reportedly at the request of the then 0bama administration, in order to facilitate these kind of negotiations. it's not being said that they wouldn't be welcome to take part in any talks, because of course then that would render the talks null and void. there would be negotiating with no one at all, essentially. and so no, it's not be

musk was present while trump fielded calls from at least one other foreign leader, turkish president erdogan. it comes as democrats reflect on what went wrong. tonight, former house speaker nancy pelosi telling "the new york times" that if president biden had dropped out sooner, quote, "there may have been other candidates in the race. the anticipation was that if the president were to step aside, there would be an open primary." believes a competitive primary could have helped the vice president. "i think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward, but we didn't know that, that didn't happen." minnesota governor tim walz returning home, telling his supporters, it's time for americans to put the bitterness of the election in the past. >> i think sometimes we can be quick to judge people who don't agree with us, to assume that they act out of cruelty or fear or self-interest. i think we ought to swallow, and this is me in this as i'm speaking about myself, swallow a little bit of pride and look a little harder to find common ground with our neighbors who didn't vote like

back in april, ismail haniya, before his killing, had a meeting there with recep tayyip erdogan, theo a place where they would have the diplomatic channels which have been used so far unsuccessfully, to bring about some sort of peace deal and a hostage deal for the conflict in gaza. now it's time for a look at today's sport. hello from the bbc sport centre. hello. we start with some breaking cycling news — it was rumoured for a while, but britain's sir mark cavendish has confirmed he will retire from the sport at sunday's singapore criterium. he's regarded as the greatest male sprinter at sunday's singapore criterium. he's regarded as the greatest male sprinter to compete on the road. earlier this year he won a record—breaking 35th stage at the tour de france at the age of 39, having won his first as a 23 year old back in 2008. he was the second british man to win the world road cycling championship, and has worn the leader's jersey at all three grand tours — as well as winning the madison world title twice on the track and taking olympic silver in the omnium at the rio games in 2016

she's been a booster for autocrats such as syria's bashar al-assad, turkey's recep tayyip erdogan, andsia's vladimir putin. and look, i'm not saying she's a russian asset. but when i think of her being director of national intelligence, i do have a strong desire to drink vodka. we have this clip? here's gabbard in 2022, claiming russia's invasion of ukraine could have been prevented if ukraine just agreed to stay out of nato. >> presidents putin, zelenskyy, and biden, it's tie to put geopolitics aside and embrace the spirit of aloha. >> stephen: yes. reminds me of neville chamberlain's famous words after ceding part of czechoslovakia to hitler. "mahalo, adolf! shaka brah!" let's see what else. moving on to food, which, and this is true, rfk jr. will soon be in charge of we just learned that lunchables has been removed from the national school lunch program. the effects of this will be immediate and massive. first off, they'll have to change their name to "ables." there's two types. the two types of lunchables that kids will no longer be getting at school are extra cheesy pizza and turk

have been able to take aleppo, but the rebels are not great rebels, these are jihadists backed by erdogan. what happens now, assad, we believe is going up asking putin, i need more help, and as you know, putin is stretched thin and hezbollah can't do much. and not clear irgc, the iranian revolutionary guard corps can. and it reminds something kissinger once said, wouldn't it be nice-- something like this, wouldn't it be nice if both sides could lose? both sides could lose here with little assistance from a clever united states. griff: it's quite something when someone like you can put in context how it's intertwined between hezbollah and saving assad, and putin behind the car t curtain and had a lot to pack in and watch. thank you for being here this weekend. >> a pleasure. alicia: riot police clashed with demonstrators outside of the department in georgia, all over suspension in the european union. following the disputed victory in the parliamentary elections. griff: in the first law of its kind world-wide, a democratic can't bans social media for anyone under 16 years old. could that ha

we know that in south america, turkish president erdogan is expected to put forward some kind of truceposal that we believe would largely leave russian forces with the territory they currently hold. it might shift it to a demilitarized zone, but it would take some of the territory away from ukraine. there is mounting pressure on ukraine to bring about some kind of a conclusion to this conflict. it is not clear whether vladimir putin will go along with that. but with donald trump taking office in nine weeks, there is a sense that the game is changing very quickly. tom: bill faries, thank you very much for the latest. coming up, china's xi jinping tells president biden he is ready to work with donald trump to improve the relationship between the world's biggest economies. but a warning as well over decoupling and his red lines. we get the latest next. stay with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: welcome back. world leaders are gathering in rio de janeiro this week for the g20 summit. they are expected to show unity on climate action and global trade rules, two areas threatened by u.s. preside

according to our sources, musk also there while trump took another call from turkish president erdoganacter, special guy, a super genius. >> reporter: musk pumped $175 million in trump's election bid. he proposed running a department of government efficiency. the fophone call with zelenskyy raising questions about this scope of his role in trump's white house. he receives billions of dollars in government contracts. this while harris' former running mate tim walz publicly addressed the results for the first time, urging the country to come together. >> 1 spn.5 million of our fello minnes minnesotans voted for the other side in this election. while there might not be a place in our state for the extreme elements of our agenda, there should be a place in our politics for everyone to be heard. >> reporter: democrats picking up the pieces and pointing fingers at each other. former speaker of the house nancy pelosi telling "the new york times" she thinks the party would have benefitted from president biden dropping out earlier and holding a primary, saying there might have been other candid

with foreign leaders from mar a lago, including ukrainian president zelensky and turkish president erdoganoint, musk, speaking to zelensky himself, who thanked the tech billionaire for his starlink system, which ukraine has relied on for communications during its war with russia. we have a new star. >> a star is born. >> elon musk has proposed a new department of government efficiency, saying he can slash $2 trillion of waste from the federal budget. we have liftoff. but since his company, spacex, currently receives billions of dollars in federal government contracts, a role in the administration could create conflicts of interest. meanwhile, just days after harris's devastating loss, democrats now starting to assess what went wrong. former speaker of the house nancy pelosi telling the new york times she thinks the party would have benefited from president biden dropping out earlier, saying there may have been other candidates in the race. the anticipation was that if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary. adding that a competitive primary may have helped th

there was a perfect example that some years ago when president of turkey erdogan and was stepping out of his car at his embassy and there were protesters in the park across the street and his security guards ran into the park, beat up these protesters voa was the only one that had tv cameras. there. so that video ran that night on single tv network. and one time when there was a bombing in bangkok, i asked to do a package on cbs evening news as a voa correspondent. i don't know if that's ever happened before, and i got permission from. you know, my bosses to do that. so but we're not really, as i said, as as an external broadcasting service, it sometimes can a little difficult, but i would say 95% of the time people will talk to us. but just like any other reporter, you've got to develop your own contacts and. what if i'm interviewing someone? you know, i'm trying to get an interview with somebody out in iowa, for example in an email, i would explain to them what voa is now. and one more question from a reader audience member here. they wrote a few ago there was some discussion the de

people he expresses admiration for, vladimir putin, ered, erdogan of turkey. he admires their strength. he admires their ability in their systems to be able to act without checks or balance, their ability to get things done without a pesky political system that might get in the way. and it's, i think, very revealing about his attitude. this is why john kelly the former chief of staff says he would like to be a dictator because, in fact, he expresses consternation about the idea that anybody in a political system could stand against him. remember, his whole career as a businessman was running an organization that was a family organization that basically answered to him. there were no shareholders. there was no board. he didn't answer to anybody else. he never spent a day in government or the military before becoming president so. he never worked in a system in which somebody else had some role in deciding policy, in deciding the way, you know, direction of his business, much less the direction of the country. he doesn't believe in that. i think he's demonstrate

for various points during this week, president aragon, of turkey, said that he was at dinner when erdogan is. to trump he was in a family photo that tiffany trump posted on x. he has been talking about transition the number of people, he is going to have opinions on who should be in what jobs. i do think that he will be influential. does that mean he will influence everything thing? no. he will certainly leave his imprint, even if you never formally joins the government. >> can we just talk about the scene playing out at mar-a-lago right now? we would both just down there in florida and came back today. can you set the scene for people as far as -- you know, it is moving very quickly from what we are gleaning from people seems to be the case. >> a couple of things. number one, there was a huge push by a number of people to make sure that at least chief of staff role was announced quickly, because the risk for the transition process could not really begin until that happens. susie wiles, who most people around trump, a broad group of people, wanted to have another job , was given it yester

with foreign leaders from mar a lago, including ukrainian president zelensky and turkish president erdogannsky himself, who thanked the tech billionaire for his starlink system, which ukraine has relied on for communications during its war with russia. musk has proposed a new department of government efficiency, saying he can slash $2 trillion of waste from the federal budget. we have lived on. but since his company, spacex, currently receives billions of dollars in federal government contracts, a role in the administration could create conflicts of interest. chuck sivertsen, abc news, new york. >> south korean president yoon suk yeol held an emergency meeting this morning. yoon called for launching finance, trade and industry consultations as the u.s. now prepares for a second trump presidency. the u.s. is one of south korea's top trading partners, meaning its economy could take a big hit if trump follows through with his tariffs plan. the country's exports could drop nearly $45 billion over the course of several years. now, experts say a new trump administration may offer more than just

candidate interview meeting and has even sat in on calls with foreign leaders including president erdogan of turkey and president zelenskyy of ukraine. >> and if you're wondering how those conversations went, cnn has obtained leaked audio. >> hello. >> what's that >> the young. the young people have no idea why that's so funny. >> trump made one pick right out of the gate that made people think he might be taking this seriously rfk jr. donald trump wants marco rubio to be secretary of state. yes, marco rubio, this marco rubio, marco rubio, another corrupt all talk no action politician. >> i'm donald trump and i approve this message. >> where's the lie how do you all think marco rubio. >> excuse me little marco rubio will doing the job. >> i like marco. he he likes wars a little more than i do, but i think he's going to do just fine. and he, you know he'll he'll he'll step up for the job, no pun intended. >> well, let me ask you a question. what is he? good at? like you would know better than me. what does he do? well he understands china. >> he understands what that mean. china is is a wo

phone calls with world leaders with zelenskyy, the president of ukraine and the leader of turkey, erdoganwhat that tells you is that donald trump trusts him in a way that he may not trust other people. he is putting him front and center in some of the foreign policy frgz cans and some of the most important foreign policy conversations of our time and people should pay a lot of attention to the elon musk beat. that that will be a beat in and of itself because his influence will be huge, it seems. >> we'll have much more to discuss about elon musk as we proceed toward that january inauguration. eugene daniels and former congressman carlos car bello, guys, thank you very much. >>> house republican leadership speaking on capitol hill and we are monitoring what the gop is planning as it looks like they will get full control. >>> plus what a former top i.c.e. official says about the obstacles if he tries to carry out mass deportations as promised. >>> a tram set on fire overnight in amsterdam. where violence is gripping that dutch capital. >>> a calamity in the making. the move from mother natu

with foreign leaders from mar, a lago, including ukrainian president zelensky and turkish president erdogan. at one point, musk, speaking to zelensky himself, who thanked the tech billionaire for his starlink system, which ukraine has relied for on communications during its war with russia. musk has proposed a new department of government efficiency, saying he can slash $2 trillion of waste from the federal budget. we have looked on, but since his company, spacex, currently receives billions of dollars in federal government contracts, a role in the administration could create conflicts of interest. chuck sivertsen, abc news, new york. >> south korean president yoon suk yeol held an emergency meeting this morning. yoon called for launching finance, trade and industry consultations as the u.s. prepares for a second trump presidency. the u.s. is one of south korea's top trading partners, meaning its economy could take a big hit if trump allows his tariffs plan to go through. the country's exports could drop nearly $45 billion over the next several years. now, experts say a new trump administra

also, he was there as well when the president-elect spoke with the turkish president erdogan. again, this all underscores how much influence and significance someone like elon musk could play in this next administration, jon. >> jonathan: all right. the tireless rachel scott, live in west palm beach. thank you, rachel. >>> i'm joined now in the studio by former trump primary opponent turned trump supporter, vivek ramaswamy. thank you for being here. >> it's great to be here. >> jonathan: you were there. i saw you on election night. you were there in the aftermath and you spent time with the president-elect donald trump. what's your sense? how is he approaching this transition? >> i think he cares about uniting the country. i think that is donald trump's number one focus, and i do think we have to get back to a place after this election, after that decisive victory, which i do think was a gift to the country, get back to a place where ordinary americans who might have voted differently amongst their family members or their colleagues or their neighbors to get together at the di

he may look the other way if president erdogan did make a move. now, the prospects of some that happening are higher than it were several years ago because unlike then, russia has bigger fish to fry and they do not have the ability to be as active in syria to try to deter the turks from injury and seizing territory that belongs to bashar al-assad. that is one of those things that would be an coprincipal, at least inconceivable, under president biden or under president bush but could happen under a president a. i do think we will see a desire to withdraw forces. as farah noted, the people on the ground get a vote. people and we can get a vote. and president biden had a clear, he clearly wanted to shift priority to east asia, the covid, to russia, to global health, entirely reasonable positions and you want to try to keep the situation in the middle east contained. it kind of worked for two and half years and that it completely blew up in our faces. that is the challenge of there. he is going to want to move in the direction of becoming disengaged b

president erdogan of turkey. the list goes on. there are 80 countries. i think one of the challenges that you really see here for president-elect trump is that the world has really changed. there is a different middle east. what we have seen from the kingdom of saudi arabia just in the past few months is that it has shifted more towards insisting that there has to be a two-state solution. there has to be a palestinian state before it would agree to normalization with israel or to a treaty alliance with the united states, which is that mega deal that people have been talking about through the biden administration. also kind of a child of the abraham accords, if you like, what was birthed with the first trump administration. that's one example of the way that things have really changed since 2016. just another example to think about is that during the first trump presidency, there was, of course, that war in yemen between the houthis, saudi arabia, and the emeratis. that isn't happening anymore. speaking to trump, mohammed bin salman had a call yesterday.

erdogan has done this. xi jinping has done this. obviously we know vladimir putin has done this.erence at the top that as donald trump fields some of these congratulatory phone calls from world leaders -- which by the way is appropriate to have those phone calls. we still have to adhere to the principle that we only have one president at a time. we are in a presidential transition. president joe biden is the president of the united states. and donald trump and his team should not be conducting foreign policy in this transition period. it's highly confusing to our adversaries. i think it sends a signal of undercutting what we're trying to do in the world. and i think the trump team should wait, they should field the congratulatory phone calls, say thank you very much, i look forward to working with you. things are going to be good between us and i look forward to talking to you after january 20th. or some pleasantries. but we should not be having the incoming administration conducting foreign policy. that actually keeps me up at night. >> and that occurrence was what led to mike f

you have president erdogan from turkey saying my friend, and so the question is looking ahead, you can'tgeopolitics, and then that's one aspect. and then one iranian diplomat that says u.s. elections do not concern us and i think they will find this does concern iran, and the commander renewing threats within an hour of the results, and that points to israel and that points to that history, and events will move quickly. president trump and president biden will have to respond to threats, and no congratulations from china yet, just a statement from the minister of foreign affairs there saying we will continue to approach and manage u.s./china relations there, and we are told by one chinese diplomat that they were actually watching avidly through the night. i think the sign there is china has not decided how to respond. through the night, president macron, i am told, was watching between sweeping and he was one of the european leaders to signal and announce their congratulations. it's interesting to hear many european leaders not talking about my friend but instead talking about the deep r