jeremy bowen, bbc news.an is a resident fellow at the american enterprise institute and she has testified before congress on terror groups. she's in washington. you heard jeremy bowen referring to this not being the. what do you think it means for so—called islamic state 7 think it means for so—called islamic state? it remains to be seen but we can be sure that islamic state will appoint a new leader, it will recover and reset. we need to look globally at the branches to see whether they remain part of islamic state. there is a risk that the global network falls apart, the same way when a summer global network falls apart, the same way when a summer bin laden was killed. al-qaeda could seize the opportunity to research on the global stage and take the mantle back from islamic state. going back to the leadership, what about those people that were around abu bakr al—baghdadi, in the top tier? people that were around abu bakr al-baghdadi, in the top tier? the us has been actively targeting that top tier and the

here‘s our middle east editor, jeremy bowen.ny people have been killed. the use of deadly force as well as tear gas and other methods can only increase the anger of the mainly young people have gone onto the streets to protest. the un in iraq has demanded an end to what it calls a senseless loss of life. decades of war have inflicted terrible damage on iraq and its people. unemployment is high and even those with jobs are struggling. it‘s mainly young men on the streets. a quarter of the population lives on less than us$2 a day. this man says he has a masters degree but the government wouldn‘t even hire him as a street sweeper. all these young people, he said, are treated unfairly. the prime minister has so far offered little more than vague promises and an appeal for calm. he said he was speaking so the deterioration in the security situation would not lead to the destruction of the state. perhaps it‘s surprising that it‘s taken so long for demonstrators to go onto the streets. iraq has the world‘s fourth biggest oil reserves.

jeremy bowen is in ankara with the latest. jeremy: the meeting did t start well. dark stairs, called hand-checks. stares, cold handshakes.k e united states and turkey are supposed to be allies. it didn't look like that. after hours of talks, vice president mike pence emerged with the secretary of state with a hint of a smile. vice pre pence: today the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease-fire in syria. jeremy: but the war in syria has a way of wrecking cease-fires. it still choose up chews up life and spits it out. a generation of syriansmoas grown up a casualties and death. if this agreement holds, it is only limited in scope. the turks w whol pause the operation for 120 hours insisted they were not intimidated by trump's threats. they say the deal delivers what they want. "this is not a ceae -fire," said reign minister. "we are taking a break so the terrorists can leave the security zone. the americans will destroy their heavy weapons." sothing l00e 300,0 civilians, mostly kurds, hav b been displacthe fighting. their leader has said that his side will

jeremy bowen, bbc news.ry, dominic raab, has urged the united states to reconsider its decision to let a diplomat‘s wife leave the uk after she was involved in a fatal car crash. british police say the american woman, who has been named as anne sacoolas, is being treated as a suspect in their investigation into the death of a 19—year—old motorcyclist harry dunn in august. they say they'd been prepared to arrest and formally interview her. the woman claimed diplomatic immunity and left the country. harry's mother, charlotte, appealed to the american woman to return to the uk so the accident can be investigated. not out to get her put behind bars, if that's what the justice instant ends up doing, then we can't stop that but we're not out to do that, we are out to try and some peace for ourselves. our reporter simonjones is here. the fact that this woman has been named, how significant. there has been a bit of a mystery. you know the name of the motorcyclist, harry dunn, but we did not know the name of the dipl

in a moment, we'll be talking to our middle east editor, jeremy bowen, who's in the turkish capital, to our north america editor, jon sopel, in washington. what do we know now about the kind of pressure, if any, that president trump has been putting on the turkish government? well, i think he has been applying pressure, but he has been applying pressure, but he has also been undercutting the position of mike pence for this visit to ankara tomorrow by saying, we don't have a dog in the fight, this is between turkey and syria, nothing to do with us. how is america going to call for an immediate ceasefire if that is their position? but a letter has been released which was sent last week to president erdogan in which he says, don't be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people. i don't want to be responsible for destroying the turkish economy. the letter ends, don't be a tough guy, don't be a fool. i will call you later. so he obviously put some pressure on, but to no avail. there has also been a meeting taking place at the white house this evening with senior democrats and republi

jeremy bowen, thank you.d friends have attended the funeral of pc andrew harper in oxford today. the 28 —year—old officer who'd been married for just four weeks was killed while responding to a reported burglary in august. three teenagers have been charged with murder. our correspondentjon kay reports. just weeks after his wedding day, the funeral of pc andrew harper. hundreds of his colleagues lined the route. a city silent. to remember the 28—year—old officer killed in the 28—year—old officer killed in the line of duty. inside the oxford christ church cathedral his widow led the tributes. they met at school and married just 28 days before he was killed. she told the congregation, we often talked about how lucky we we re we often talked about how lucky we were to have found and kept each other, to childhood sweethearts, loving one another more and more with each passing day. she placed his ceremonial police had upon his coffin, pc harper was killed while responding to reports of a burglary in august. she sai

jeremy bowen, our middle east editor, thank you.ng the united states does not endorse the turkish attack and that he'd made clear to turkey it was a bad idea. 0ur north america editor, jon sopel, is at the white house. when donald trump says it's a bad idea, does he actually mean it? well, that's the central question he has to answer. if he thinks it was such a bad idea, why on sunday night did he agree in a phone call with president heard again and then put out a later that the long—awaited dash group a phone call with president erdogan that the assault would start soon and american troops wouldn't be in the way? all the time the troops were on the ground, there was not a chance president erdogan would have launched this offensive with the risk that american blood might be spilt, so the reach —— very few soldiers were keeping the peace, and has enraged many republicans as well as democrats. i've scoured social media to find supportive comments for what donald trump has done, and it's difficult to find any. the talk is of betrayal,

here's our middle east editor, jeremy bowen. it's mainly young men on the streets. why so many have been killed. deadly force can only increase the anger of the demonstrators. the clashes have prompted the un in iraq to demand an end to what it calls a senseless loss of life. security forces have been deployed by the prime minister who has also appealed for calm. if the security situation worsens, he warns the risk is the destruction of the state. these protests haven't come out of nowhere. their roots lie in the terrible damage inflicted on iraq and its people by decades of war and the failure of politicians to unite and rebuild a fragile country. a big force driving them to demonstrate is unemployment. even those with jobs are struggling. almost a quarter of the population lives on less than us$2 per day according to the world bank. this man says he has a masters degree but the government wouldn't even hire him, he says, as a street sweeper. all these young people, he complained, are treated unfairly. frustration feeds their anger. iraq has the world's fourth bigg

jeremy bowen is still with us.list free market economy on top of a very illiberal hard—line government structure in many of these countries. in those countries where the economy is not completely crippled by war, and there are quite a few countries in that category, there have been those sorts of attempts. in egypt under mubarak, there was a fair amount of privatisation, but the people who benefited were his cronies, so the people were not happy about that. there is an issue as well about the way people respond to the way that they are governed on the way that they are governed on the way that the systems that we have satisfy people. here in europe there is a rise of populism at the expense of liberal democracy, not all that long ago people thought we might even have had a practically perfect system here. clearly we haven't when people are so dissatisfied. system here. clearly we haven't when people are so dissatisfiedm system here. clearly we haven't when people are so dissatisfied. it is about trickle down here,

jeremy bowen, bbc news, ankara.ire in the region. the deal looks good for the americans and for the turks. for the kurds, not so sure. some groups say they have heard nothing about it so far. that means uncertainty and confusion and that is dangerous. let's see if they get through those first 120 hours before we start making conclusions about where this will go. knife crime in england and wales has risen sharply in a year and has reached a record high. recorded knife crime over the twelve months tojune was up 7%. but the number of people who died because of knife crime has actually fallen. our home editor mark easton has been looking at efforts to try and tackle the problem. # hello, baby, and how are you? might the softness of a baby be an antidote to the sharpness of a knife? roots of empathy is one of 22 projects to win government funding to see if they might reduce youth violence. do you think he's feeling happy, roxanne? for one hour a week across a school year, children will bond with a baby, watch it grow, bu

laura: our middle east editor jeremy bowen is near the iraqi border with syria and he joined agus brief tim you have covered the middle east for years. how cocoequential has this past syria's war?een in shaping jeremy: it has been re consequential. seven days, the whape ofy, over e war map of syria has changed, changed enormously. and it start with the decision by president trump to announce abruptly that he was going to pull u.s. troops oh of syria, whs taken as a green light by the turks to do what they had been planning to do for some years. so it is ironic now that mr. sanctions -- in fact doing it,ng impoanctions oiothe turks for what they have done. laura: anda:here you are, what is the reaction to the fact that the kurds areni t to syrian government forces to protect them at this moment? jeremy: i have been speaking to syrian kurds who were involved in their struggle, and they have said they basically didn't have a choice, that their numbeone enemy, they said, of all kurds are the turks, and wn they we coming in, and they are a powerful nato army, they need some help. they look u

laura: jeremy bowen, thanks for joining us. s jeremy just mentioned, tonight president trump says he will be issuing an executive order authorizinsanctions on turkish officials for the offensive into syria. for more, i spoke to a fellow at the center for a new american security. e president is announcin these sanctions, also that he is going to put more tariffs on turkish steel. is this going to have any effect on president erdogan? >> it seems like that will not t is any effect on w unfolding on the ground. he has not issued a clear line his statement only said they would be coming soon. i think he is hoping that the threat of the sanctions will perhaps curtail turkey's actions, but i don't think president erdogan is making the calculus. laura: the u.s. defense made up and is also saying that it doesn't seem that -- it does seem that i.s. under seven relee. isn't this what critics have warn would happen? >> exactly. administration's actions over the last few days have added up to too little, too l the chaos on the ground could

jeremy bowen, bbc news. let's take a look at some of the day's other news. a state—wide emergency as wildfires sweep through the area. the governor's office has described the situation as "unprecedented". in the north of the state, authorities have ordered nearly 200,000 people to leave their homes. rhodri davies reports. the race is on a northern california to keep wildfires hemmed in and to get residents out. 180,000 of them have already evacuated and more may follow. although i've heard some people express concerns that we are evacuating too many people, i think those concerns are not valid at this point. as we see from this report we just received, our evacuation of healdsburg and windsor yesterday was well warranted, there is significant danger to anybody who's still in healdsburg—windsor area. authorities are evacuating a huge area of sonoma county, including santa rosa city, where about 175,000 people live. thousands of firefighters there have contained about 10% of the kincade fire but it's already burned through 40,000 acres of a region famous for i

jeremy bowen, bbc news. mike pregent is a senior fellow from the hudson institute.fellow from the hudson institute. he was a former advisor to general petraeus and an intelligence analyst for many years. he's in alexandria virginia. many people trying to take credit for the intelligence of this, in washington and the kurdish led fds. what is your take? the president said it is. he thanked the iraqi intelligence services, iraqi and also the ypg syrian kurds in syria. he thanked turkey also for not shooting down us air planes. as a former intelligence officer, what is your opinion of how it unfolded from the white house because, during that very long press conference, quite a few nuggets of details came out which surely will be interesting to a lot of people. ideally, what you wa nt to a lot of people. ideally, what you want to have happen after a raid like this is for the intelligence community to be able to exploit the information captured. it becomes harder to do when the world knows a leader like abu bakr al—baghdadi is dead. the leaders within isis may find out h

here's our middle east editor, jeremy bowen. and flame of battle lasted around four hours, witnesses in the village told the bbc. in the morning, boys on their way to school kept out the rubble. they are from a new generation jihadists might try to recruit. nothing was left of the house with al—baghdadi and his family had been staying. the heli went back and fired. soldiers were on two sites. we could not stay longer than two minutes on the roof. we went down and hid inside. in 2014, al—baghdadi declared the establishment of a caliphate. his brutal version of an islamic entity. he spoke in mosul in a mosque his men destroyed as their caliphate fell three years later. followers of i has carried out attacks that killed dozens or even hundreds at a time. earlier this year more than 250 were killed in bombings in sri lanka. in the situation room under the white house in washington, president trump and his closest advisers watched video feeds of the attack. he said al—baghdadi killed himself by detonating an explosives belt, also kil

jeremy bowen there.ut it was his decision to withdraw american troops taht turkey took as the green light for its offensive. there's been plenty of criticism of that move. here's our north america editorjon sopel. if he thinks it is such a bad idea, why on sunday night did he agree in a phone call with president erdogan and then put out a statement later saying that the long—awaited assault would start soon and american troop would not be in the way. there are only 50 soldiers, but all the time those troops were there on the ground, there was not a chance that president erdogan would have launched this offensive with the risk that american blood might be spilt. and so a very few soldiers were keeping the peace and that is what has enraged so many republicans as well as democrats in washington. i have scoured social media to find supportive comments for what donald trump has done and it is very difficult to find any. the talk is of betrayal, the talk is of what about our comrades in arms who fought with u

jeremy bowen, bbc news, ankara.ne of our main stories this hour — one of donald trump's top officials has acknowledged that military aid was withheld from ukraine earlier this year in an effort to put pressure on the government there. let's go to our north america correspondent peter bowes. peter, took us through exactly what the president ‘s chief of staff were saying. this was at a news conference and really came out of the blue. he was talking to journalists at the white house and he appeared to acknowledge that there was a quid pro quo scenario in relation to ukraine, their withholding of funds, of military aid, in return for an investigation. notan aid, in return for an investigation. not an investigation into the former vice presidentjoe biden but an investigation into the packing of the democratic national committee server the democratic national committee server that has also been the subject of an investigation. but the key point being the impossible withholding of funds returned that investigation. i was i

jeremy bowen, bbc news.o dr karin von hippel, director—general of rusi, the independent think tank on international defence and security, alongside christine wormuth, director of the international security and defence policy center at us think—tank rand. i started by asking dr karin what impact al—baghdadi's death would have on the islamic state group. i think it is an important milestone but certainly not the end of the organisation. they would have been planning for his succession for some time andi planning for his succession for some time and i think once the fighting really started in late 2014, they probably were numerous number two people that were killed along the way as well so they probably would have planned for these contingencies so have planned for these contingencies soi have planned for these contingencies so i think they will go underground for a while before they declare the new leader and this will make it more difficult but it is not the end of the organisation, at all, they have affiliat

here's our middle east editor, jeremy bowen. it's mainly young men on the streets.ve answered their protests with live bullets. use of deadly force as well as tear gas and other methods can only increase the younger of mainly young people have gone onto the streets to protest. the un in a rock demanded an end to what it calls a senseless loss of life. decades of war have inflict terrible damage on a wright and its people. unemployment is high and its people. unemployment is high and even those with jobs are struggling. a quarter of the population lives on less than $2 us a day. this man says he has a masters degree but the government wouldn't even hire him as a street sweeper. all these young people, he said, are treated unfairly. the prime minister has so far offered little more than vague promises and an appeal for calm. he said little more than vague promises and an appealfor calm. he said he little more than vague promises and an appeal for calm. he said he was speaking so the deterioration in the security situation would not lead to the destruction of the state

jeremy bowen, bbc news, ankara.ton, dc and to the kurdish affairs analyst mutlu civiroglu. good to talk to you and thank you for your time. i know you go to the region a lighter you were there last month. we have been reporting that a senior kurdish commander has accepted this pause in the fighting. what does that mean on the ground? the commander—in—chief participated ina the commander—in—chief participated in a live tv show this evening and declared they will abide by the ceasefire. he indicated that the ceasefire. he indicated that the ceasefire between, between the two active zone, but he did not mention accepting the withdrawal which was one of the main components of the agreement. so yes to a ceasefire and then they said they would do their best to make this successful. but he said they will not accept any democratic changes to the region. they want the people of the region to be able to return to their homes. and turkey effectively wants to occu py and turkey effectively wants to occupy that is owned by the b

jeremy bowen, bbc news, ankara. let's get some of the day's other news. a seat on the united nations human rights council, despite widespread criticism of its human rights record. nicolas maduro‘s government called it an "important achievement". at least 50 countries no longer recognise him as venezuela's legitimate leader. protests have continued for a fourth day in barcelona after senior separatist leaders were given lengthy prison sentences for their part in the 2017 independence movement. trade unions have called for a general strike on friday. streets across lebanon have been filled by protestors demonstrating against the government's management of an economic crisis. they've been the biggest protests in yea rs. in the last few hours police in the capital beirut have used tear gas against the crowds. people across the us have been paying tribute to the veteran congressman and civil rights leader elijah cummings, who has died aged 68. he represented maryland and chaired the powerful congressional oversight committee — he was a key leader in the invest

jeremy bowen, bbc news, ankara. alexander bick is a fellow with the woodrow wilson centre. also, of course, director for syria at the national security council from 2014 to 2016 in the 0bama administration. you know the region and the power politics very well. we're being that this agreement is a success it certainly buys some time to visit look like success to you? it is a pleasure to be with you. i think what strikes me most about this deal is, in effect, the us has endorsed the annexation by a neighbouring state of the substantial piece of syrian territory. stay a few days ago, the state department was at pains to emphasise the united states would not condone taking jackson's but this was something that the united states would not accept. i think we have turned a corner there and ina think we have turned a corner there and in a way that is fairly disturbing. the preservation of territorial integrity is a cornerstone of the international system of the united states —— that the states has purported to defend. it isa the states has purported to defend. it is a dangerous ste

jeremy bowen, bbc news.s a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. she has given congressional testimony on terror groups. i asked her what the death of al baghdadi means for so—called islamic state. it really remains to be seen what it means for islamic state but we can be sure that the islamic state will appoint a new leader, that it will recover from this and reset. we need to look globally at the branches to see whether they actually remain part of the islamic state. so there's a risk that the global network falls apart, the same way there was that risk when the us killed 0sama bin laden. and there is also the chance that al-qaeda seizes the opportunity to resurge on the global stage and take that mantle back from the islamic state. first of all, going back to the leadership, what about those people that were around al—baghdadi, in the top tier, if you like? the us has been actively targeting that top tier and the reports came out today that the us killed the islamic stateste‘s spokesperson,

here's our middle east editor, jeremy bowen. it is mainly young men on the streets.bullets. that is why so many have been killed. deadly force can only increase the anger of the demonstrators. the un in iraq has demanded an end to what it calls a senseless loss of life. the prime minister warns there is a risk of destruction of the state of the security situation worsens. the protests have not come out of nowhere. the roots lie in the terrible damage inflicted on iraq and its people by decades of war, and its people by decades of war, and the failure of politicians to unite and rebuild a fragile country. a big force driving them to demonstrators unemployment. those with jobs demonstrators unemployment. those withjobs are demonstrators unemployment. those with jobs are struggling. a quarter of the population lives on less than two us dollars a day. this man says he has a masters degree, but the government would not even hire him as a street sweeper. all of these young people, he said, are treated unfairly. iraq has the world's fourth biggest oil reserves. it should be

studio: jeremy bowen, thanks forjoining us. and has reached a record high. recorded knife crime over the twelve months tojune was up 7% but the number of people who died because of knife crime has actually fallen. our home editor mark easton has been looking at efforts to try and tackle the problem. # hello, baby, and how are you? might the softness of a baby be an antidote to the sharpness of a knife? roots of empathy is one of 22 projects to win government funding to see if they might reduce youth violence. do you think he's feeling happy, roxanne? for one hour a week across a school year, children will bond with a baby, watch it grow, build an attachment. already used in 11 countries, there's evidence this approach can develop empathy, making children less vulnerable to the knife—crime epidemic. in kent, police are using a more traditional response to knife crime and so—called county lines drugs gangs, arming all of their front—line officers with tasers. but the chief constable says force alone cannot solve the problem. we a

jeremy bowen, bbc news. almost at a time for the programme. let's turn to our main story. eu leaders. here is a little what he had to say a short while ago. we have been at this now for three and a half years. it has not always been an easy experience for the uk. it has been that long, it has been painful, it has been divisive. and now is the moment for us asa divisive. and now is the moment for us as a country to come together, now is the moment for our parliamentarians to come together and get this thing done. as i say, to begin building a new and progressive partnership with our eu friends and with whom of course we share so many priorities. that was borisjohnson. he also said he was very confident mps will vote for it when it comes to that vote on saturday. at the numbers at the moment look a little against them. plenty more coverage on bbc news, stay with us on that. thank you for watching. positive spin on things today. let's see if the european parliamentarians are putting such a positive spin on things with me is philip, who sits on the brexit steering committee. l

threaten security in the region and revive the so—called islamic state group. 0ur middle east editor, jeremy bowen16. for the turks, the move into north—eastern syria is a continuation of that fight. kurdish separatists in turkey, the pkk, have strong connections with syrian kurds. and the turkish state regards all the armed groups as terrorists. but it is much more complicated than that because of the fight against bigger of is la nark because of the fight against bigger of is lanark state. while the us, britain and others bombed the self—styled caliphate as i is called the territory it seized, most of the house—to—house combat was done by the same syrian kurdish fighters that turkey is now targeting as terrorists. since the caliphate was destroyed and recaptured, kurdish fighters, women serving alongside men, have been a key part of the battle against the remnants of is thejob is not over. caliphate is gone but the ideology and sleeper cells remain. now kurds of the syrian democratic forces say they cannot continue fighting is if they have to fight turkey and ies is potentially being handed a bi