kurds has also drawn in troops of syrian president bashar al assad they have now entered the town of kabbani and also in control of the key town of man bitch much of the fighting so far has been centered around the border city of russell. clouds of dark smoke cover the syrian city of rattle i billowing into the sky on the turkish border for more than a week now fighting is still raging between turkey's military and the kurdish why p.j. militia criticism of turkey is growing around the world president earlier one is standing firm insisting he won't be swayed by threats and sanctions. i am also looking very strong our operation will end when we control a border zone stretching 30 to 35 kilometers into syria no power can stop us until we achieve this goal is the rooms heard of one's words are directed at the west he's due to hold talks with the u.s. vice president and u.s. secretary of state on thursday mike pence and mike pompei i want to secure a cease fire in northern syria but turkey's government says it won't agree to a cease fire with the kurdish militia. the president has said repeatedly

and of course when i see kabbani i remember my childhood my life there all my memories are over there. 5 years ago militants of the so-called islamic state laid siege to kill bonny forcing ameena and part of her family to flee to search in turkey. from here she watches as their homelands fate once again hangs in the balance the kurdish fighters who are driven out to jihadists and 2015 after months of these fighting are now on the back foot in northeast syria in the wake of turkey's military offensive in there are growing concerns that i as militants could regroup. and. we've heard that many i.a.'s fighters managed to escape and that scares us we're still afraid of the islamists and the fighting we have family over there and we're worried about them. we talk to many syrian refugees here in the border area and they all told us more or less the same thing how grateful they all on the one hand that turkey has taken them in and also skeptical they are on the other hand that the so-called safe zone president wants to establish and syria will really be safe. a villa has sons family fled to t

battling in the strategic border town of rostock and syrian troops have entered the border town of kabbani as turkey tries to establish its so-called safe zone in northern syria hong kong's leader kerry has been shouted down for a 2nd consecutive day in the city's legislature a short time ago opposition members protested in the chamber and call for her to step down at least 10 people were dragged out by security. politicians that condemned the recent protests against the chief executive. always think that the whole can citizens would not misstep anyone to use while and in any way also we all also know that while this cannot solve any problem still as a legislative council i don't think that any electrical members use any kind of one and including. old physical law and in the term to express their will al-jazeera has more from hong kong. for the 2nd day running chief executive of hong kong carrie lim drowned out in the legislative council chambers by pro-democracy members of that body thursday was supposed to be a 90 minute question and answer session based on her policy address that she ga

troops meanwhile reports suggest syrian and russian forces have entered kabbani but kurdish and u.s. troops 1st defeat of the so-called islamic state militants 4 years ago.

kurds has also drawn in troops of syrian president bashar al assad they have now entered the town of kabbani and also in control of the key town of man bitch much of the fighting so far has been sensitive around the border city . the turkish military has been carrying out its offensive for over a week its targets are kurdish militias in. a town on the syrian border. bombs are exploding in the city center the military has released images of soldiers . from the turkish border city of children but not even with a clear military disadvantage the kurdish militia has been able to keep the turkish offensive in check both the u.s. and e.u. countries have repeatedly called on turkish president. to halt the attacks. turkey's offensive has forced tens of thousands to flee the region. many have gone to iraq but everyone has rejected international demands for a ceasefire. he's holding fast to his plan to free up a protection zone in northern syria. because. we can end this operation once we are in control of a 35 kilometer deep area of land reaching from the city of man bridge to iraq. no one can stop us

and syrian troops have entered the border town of kabbani as turkey tries to establish its so-calledafe zone in northern syria hong-kong nieto carry law has been shouted down for a 2nd consecutive day in the city's legislature a short time ago opposition members protested in the chamber and called for her to step down at least one person was drowned out by security was trying to answer questions regarding her annual policy address the president of spain's kotzen own your region has called for an immediate stop to violence that's rocked basilio now for a 3rd night the protests were sponsored by the jailing of 9 separatist leaders on monday over their role in catalonia failed independence spades 2 years ago. the clock is ticking for a breath sit deal between the e.u. and the u.k. in the coming hours we should learn if the 2 sides were able to reach a tentative agreement ahead of a summit in.

and syrian troops have entered the border town of kabbani as turkey tries to establish its so-called safe zone in ne in syria. hong kong's leader kerry has been shouted down for a 2nd consecutive day in the city is that just nature a short time ago opposition members protested in the chamber and called for her to step down at least 10 people were drawn down by security. have condemned the recent protests against the chief executive. but always think that all the whole citizens would not step anyone to use. in any way and also we all also know that while it is cannot solve any problem still as a legislative council i don't think that any members use any kind of one and including will hold physical weiland in the term to express their will. the president of spain's cuts no new region has called for an immediate halt to violence that's rocked bassano now for a 3rd night the protests were spotted by the jailing of 9 separatist leaders on monday over their role in catalonia failed independence 2 years ago but kin torah says the riots are harming the image of the separatist movement in the

under moscow's control russian military police made their way into the north syrian border town of kabbani on wednesday. u.s. troops had withdrawn from the region earlier abandoning their kurdish allies and making way for their nato partner turkey to lead a military incursion into the area. a move that faced harsh international criticism nato however has been reluctant to criticize the so efforts of their allies in brussels general secretary voiced concern and called for international effort there war has been there for years we have seen hundreds of thousands of people being killed at all so it is so there's a need for progress for for a political negotiated solution now russia which is not a member of nato has become turkey's closest ally in an attempt to implement a military solution as part of a deal struck between the leaders of turkey and russia they seek to create a buffer zone in the formerly kurdish held border region and german tornado fighter jets could be part of a greater international effort to stabilize the area this is according to a recent plan by a german defense minister

forces leave the country's northeast meanwhile syrian government troops have entered the town of kabbani where the u.s. and kurdish fighters defeated i saw 4 years ago. as battles rage inside syria the u.s. vice president is heading to turkey to ask president bush to declare a truce syrian government's ally russia has also offered to mediate. the u.k. and the e.u. are close to agreeing a last minute breck's a deal because changes have been holding talks in brussels although any agreement still needs to be approved by e.u. nader's and the u.k.'s parliament. only chance joins us now from westminster every where all with these negotiations tonight. well we've had another day of negotiations pos brussels and here in the u.k. and we are still waiting for a legal tech still waiting for a concrete outline of what this deal might look like yes there have been positive noises coming from the european union positive noises coming from downing street. even some of the more hard line breaks it and payson saw the conservative party that that group known as the g does seem to be mostly on board with w

meanwhile syrian troops have entered the border town of kabbani as to who tries to establish its so-called safe zone in syria. the un security council has released a joint statement expressing concern over the escape of isis fighters and the worsening humanitarian situation but they stopped short of making direct reference to the turkish offensive all corn for an all out cease fire. in other news the president of spain's catalonia region came forward to has called for an immediate halt to violence that's rocked barcelona for a 3rd night the protests were sparked by the jailing of mine separatist leaders on monday over their role then cut in on us failed independence 2 years ago torah says the riots are harming the image of the separatist movement fredricka. i call for calm and serenity the independence movement is not violent we've always condemned violence we can't allow the instance that the taking place in the streets of our country is normal and it's good to protest against an unfair and utterly abhorrence sentence there's no reason or justification though to burn cars or to carry out

battling in the strategic border town of rostock and syrian troops have entered the border town of kabbani as turkey tries to establish its so-called safe zone in northeastern syria hong kong's leader kerry has been shouted down for a 2nd consecutive day in the city's legislature a short time ago opposition members protested in the chamber and called for her to step down at least 10 people were dragged out by security. and a last minute breaks in negotiations that are continuing with leaders hoping a deal can be approved at any leader summit on thursday french president demanding michael says he wants to believe an agreement has been finalized all right and has our report from london. the summit is shrouded in cloud but we are almost there the words of prime minister boris johnson at a closed door meeting of his party m.p.'s on wednesday afternoon according to those in the room it was a short bouncy speech short in duration but also short on details and that's because even at this 11th hour intensive negotiations are ongoing i said last week that i thought there was a pathway to possible a

clashes there were sporadic clashes sorry overnight and now we have the syrian army in the town of kabbani which again is to the west north of. a very important town directly on the border the syrian army in that area too. it's going to be very interesting seeing how things develop today with respect to these kind of diplomatic efforts this high level delegation coming in from the u.s. thus far no no given from president early on he saying that he is determined to continue this operation an operation which he actually says was planned 40 years ago saying that the kurdish groups that are fighting on the other side of the border are aligned with another kurdish group that has been fighting turkey for decades he says that the only way that things will be stopped was.

turkey who are there are sick russian forces who are there who actually started patrolling the city of kabbani so it is a hodgepodge of well tipple forces with various interests and desires along that border area which are operating there so it is going to be essential that this 150 days is used by those kurdish fighters and we have seen a warning again by russia today that use those days to leave these areas because if you don't then the turks are going to come back and take those areas by force. a summer thank you a summer binge about joining us there from the turkey syria border what it's like you know out of the u.k. where emergency services found 39 bodies in a container truck in southeast england the discovery was made on an industrial estate in gray's essex which is east of london early on wednesday morning police have arrested a 25 year old man from northern ireland on suspicion of murder prime minister bars johnson says he is a poor old by the incident it is hard to put ourselves in the shoes of those emergency services day as a runner or gentleman opposite said as they were asked to

socialist said turkey have given no commitments on what will happen to kabbani but tense that there has been no turkish military action against the town which has been under control of the y. peachy for some years. syrian democratic forces led by the kurdish group wife said they would abide by the cease fire if but would not go through out the spy to agreement within turkey and the u.s. it is still unclear exactly how things will unfold on the ground as the u.s. pulls out from syria russia continues to fill the vacuum and the syrian government finds the brokered deal fake and with the white gaijin with the syrian government and russia there may be many new questions i had seen them because so little al-jazeera. now in spain thousands of protesters are marching towards barcelona from all over the catalonia region as part of their campaign for independence unions of call for a general strike on friday in the jailing of 9 countermand separatist leaders their sentences for their roles and the news failed push for independence 2 years ago sponsored day protests and so on and you're going to

at the moment from kabbani there is a 100000 kurds coming to our country and they are our guests in our country they live in our country. let's talk about this 1st they are here in our country why don't we talk about this. united states they want to see this year in union one see they say so what are we going to explain to. the polish of course of. our own words out of course there is a group in our parliament who are. backing the terror and i wish that we will show them one way or another. and. your question. is with. about 3000000 syrian. we are going to give all the help them to live in their own lives we have spent $40000000.00 so far we have showed our humanitarian stand to the world we have proved. so which country had. come on that they can come out and they are jealous of us. again i says he can say that we had we gave the same struggle we fought as much as turkey but we have. some other european countries and some arab countries that are criticizing us how many syrians did they give refuge to. i am expecting answers to these questions in. the areas that are under control of. te

troops meanwhile reports suggest syrian and russian forces have entered kabbani but kurdish and u.s. troops 1st the face of the so-called islamic state militants 4 years ago.

trial strafford al jazeera in the turkish syrian border now syrian forces have entered the town of kabbani where u.s. and kurdish troops defeated liason 4 years ago well their presence is now a major obstacle for turkey as it tries to create a so-called safe zone in the area they now have or has more from near the turkey syrian border. the turkish army and their local syrian allies are continuing their offensive in northeast syria but they are facing stiff resistance the kurdish led syrian democratic forces are putting up a fight so the operation has still not achieved the 2 objectives and that is 1st to push the syrian kurdish fighters away from the border the objective is to push them 35 kilometers south and the 2nd objective is to create a safe zone so that the millions of syrian refugees can return home but it's not just this is not the only obstacle that the turkish led forces are facing the fact that the syrian army has returned to the northern corner of syria is posing posing a threat because the turkish army cannot advance in a number of areas the russians which backed the syrian a

against the turkish army in more reports coming in the syrian army is preparing to deploy the towns of kabbani and beach in the north of the country controlled by the kurds. in the meantime donald trump's tweeted that washington could slap powerful sanctions on ankara over its northern syria offensive. joined now by flipping from pritish former senior military intelligence and security officer a good evening. we went there donald trump threatening to slap powerful sanctions on turkey what's his motivation for that. well i think he's trying to cover his tracks he seems to be doing u.s. policy by twitter which is nothing unusual for donald trump. he didn't seem to realize that his unknowns with a week ago was the final trigger that turkey needed for what would have been a very long planned operation this isn't something that's been put together overnight but the rhetoric that was coming out of president trump and other white house would have been the final. go no go criteria for president erdogan. and let's not forget turkey us both members of the same military club there are no consequences if

of the country and that the troops are busy preparing themselves but that we expect them to enter kabbani within the coming hours now all of this comes as on sunday the u.s. secretary of defense mark lamented over possibilities and reports that we were hearing then which have materialized that the syrians and that could would sign an agreement washington has announced that is removing about a 1000 troops from northern syria out of concern that they will get caught in the crossfire and the american president donald trump has tweeted that nko will face tough and powerful sanctions as a result of this we heard any more information any reaction to those reports of multiple prison breakouts by isis militants. well we constantly receiving these reports suggesting that there are hundreds obviously mixtape fighters who have broken out of several detention camps that were previously controlled by the kurds across northern syria and this comes after the could start with retreating from their positions ever since wednesday when the ankara government began this offensive we have been hearing from the

in these are teaching border town of meanwhile and syrian troops have entered the border town of kabbani s. turkey tries to establish its so-called safe zone in ne in syria hong kong's leader carrier has been childhood down for a 2nd consecutive day in the city's legislature a short time ago opposition members protested in the chamber and call for her to step down at least 10 people were dragged out by security trying to answer questions regarding her annual policy address the president of spain's catalonia region has called for an immediate halt to violence that's enough for a 3rd night the protests were sparked by the jailing of 9 separatist leaders on monday over their role in cost 9 years failed independence day 2 years ago the caucus taking for a break sit deal between the e.u. and the u.k. in the coming hours we could learn if the 2 sides were able to reach a tentative agreement ahead of a summit in brussels on thursday the u.k. government has spread should leave the e.u. by october 31st. a former senior advisor to u.s. secretary of state my point bail is the latest person to testi

when i see kabbani i remember my childhood my life there all my memories are over there. 5 years ago militants of the so-called islamic state see each trickle bonnie forcing ameena and part of a family to feed to search in turkey. from here she watches as are homeless fate once again hangs in the balance the kurdish fighters who are driven out to geodes and 2015 after months of these fighting are now on the back foot in northeast syria in the wake of turkey's military offensive and there are growing concerns that i as militants could regroup. and. we've heard that many i.a.'s fighters managed to escape and that scares us we're still afraid of the islamists and the fighting we have family over there and we're worried about them. we talked to many syrian refugees who are in the border area and they all told us more or less the same thing how grateful they all on the one hand that turkey has taken them in and all skeptical they are on the other hand that the so-called safe zone president reza type add on wants to establish in syria will really be safe. of the law has sons family fled to

statement on its troops coming under fire from turkish forces saying this us troops in the vicinity of kabbani came under artillery fire from turkish positions at approximately 9 pm local on oct 11th the explosion occurred within a few 100 meters of a location outside the security mechanisms own in an area known by the turks to have u.s. forces present all u.s. troops are accounted for with no injuries which arise as a defense expert at the strat that's a geo political consultancy joins us via skype from arlington in the u.s. state of virginia richard thank you so much so basically the pentagon is saying all u.s. troops are fine but wasn't a scenario like this entirely predictable. oh yes and we've had several incidents in the course of this syrian war in which there have been friendly fire there have been twice at least russian planes have been shot down one by the syrian air force itself and one by the turkish air force so i would be the not surprised that there are going to be more incidents like this as long as this campaign content so. there is been talk that the u.s. could could try to i

for general was doing kabbani to visit and discuss the situation in syria but turkey sees him as the head of a terrorist organization and a fugitive reza diaper the one says he would seek the general's extradition. now at levels the president has offered to meet protestors to help save the country from collapse after more than a week of massive anti-government protests we've also suggested a reshuffle was possible but added that the government should not be toppled from the streets as in a hotel reports on how people responded in beirut day 8 in the almost paralysis of daily life continues protesters are still on the streets of the lebanese capital beirut and other cities across the country the country is at this standstill as the protest movement enters its 2nd week schools universities and banks remain closed they are keeping up the pressure on the government to resign the president michel aoun who the protesters also want removed from office addressed the nation for the 1st time since the crisis began he presented his solution by promising to fight corruption and invited the prote

meanwhile assad's troops have entered the city of kabbani on the syrian turkish border into a kurdish and u.s. troops 1st defeated so-called islamic state militants 4 years ago are residents of fearful of a turkish military attack but it may not come to that negotiations between damascus moscow and ankara a said to be in full swing over the fate of the kurds and others who live in northern syria. let's talk about this more now with sara paygo russia expert with the german council on foreign relations thanks so much for coming in this morning nice to see you again. we have the sudden withdrawal of u.s. troops opening the way for what we're seeing right now in northern syria was russia as surprised by this move as the u.s. congress was basically yes we have to assume that there's some kind of information well before the u.s. withdrawal but in general i don't think expected to withdraw because it's a huge strategic advantage to think who to expect to do that and to to give them that ok now on the ground we're seeing the syrian military and the turkish military facing off in a number of f

but 350000 of them all of the 350000 of them are kurdish and these came from kabbani predominantly and 4000000 at the moment came from syria. pay attention to this almost all of them who are arabic. unfortunately. i don't even want to use the expression but the arab league it's not suitable for the arab league arab league i. how many syrians the jacks that are afraid i want to ask you. are you kicked out syria from arab league and now now you are insulting turkey. you're trying to take over syria. this is what we're experiencing this cheo says environment all the powers took advantage of this chaos and invented this machine called a diet. in arab league today. regarding the refugees have they ever gave a penny for the help of refugees. the european union 3 point. 3000000000 a year is they sent to the red crescent but they promised 6000000000 euros but. even if this money comes or not. we spent 40. $40000000000.00 we spent over $40000000000.00. the places that are that there are acts. and these are the places that all our people in our region live these this savage group has nothing to

statement on its forces coming on the turkish artillery fire saying us troops in the vicinity have kabbani came under fire from turkish positions at approximately 9 pm local on october 11th the explosion occurred within a few 100 meters of a location outside the security mechanisms own and in an area known by the turks to have u.s. forces present all u.s. troops are accounted for with no injuries richard wants a defense expert that we can strike that said geo political consultancy he says washington will hold true to its threat of sanctions if turkey continues to push forward into northern syria. what the pentagon is doing is a howling that herc through various channels where the u.s. forces that are the also were seen warnings in the sanctions there's that were discussed earlier today that the treasury department the pentagon has reaffirmed and that u.s. forces have the right of self-defense so i think there are the both the you know the departments at the level of the treasury the defense department state former arps are continuing to try and work out an arrangement by which will minimiz

friday near tell of bad the pentagon also said its troops came under turkish artillery fire near kabbani another border town although nobody was hurt i was there spin a backlash to donald trump's decision to step aside in northern syria attitudes towards america's supposed ally it seemed less settled is more against the explains the kurds a hero's shout that people who couldn't point out on the map where the kurds live brave say the people who never have never would fight alongside them how old how could trump betray them say the people who couldn't care less about kurds it's just fashionable these days playing the card using them to get attention or for pathetic little political games where is the honesty where is the truth. well let's try c.n.n. in this case you're looking at not only betraying the kurds and betraying some of our other allies in the gulf region what the president has done to the kurds the betrayal of the kurds to be butchered by the turks. but the ground forces that destroyed the caliphate with american air power we've abandoned them there breaks my heart the message i

wonder in tight in on the top stories on our jazeera syrian government troops have entered the town of kabbani where the u.s. and kurdish fighters defeated us all 4 years ago the government forces have been allowed in after cutting a deal with syrian kurds who are battling a turkish military offensive the u.s. vice president is scheduled to travel to ankara to push for a truce back in washington u.s. president donald trump has been playing down the crisis and syria doesn't want turkey to take its land i can understand that but what does that have to do with the united states of america if they're fighting over syria's land are we supposed to fight a nato member in order that syria who is not our friend keeps their land i don't think so but syria does have a relationship with the kurds the thing that's common is that everybody hates isis now the p.k. k. which is a part of the kurds as you know is probably worse a terrorist more of a terrorist threat in many ways than isis so it's a very semi complicated not too complicated if you're smart but it's a semi complicated problem and i think it's a p

in tehran under the top stories on our jazeera syrian government troops have entered the town of kabbani where the u.s. and kurdish fighters defeated us all 4 years ago the government forces have been allowed in after cutting a deal with syrian kurds who are battling a turkish military offensive the u.s. vice president is scheduled to travel to ankara to push for a truce back in washington u.s. president donald trump has been playing down the crisis in syria it doesn't want turkey to take its land i can understand that but what does that have to do with the united states of america if they're fighting over seriously and are we supposed to fight a nato member in.

the city of miami beach which both sides now lay claim to and also this kurdish controlled town of kabbani on turkey's bowlder president has said that his forces will long with the syrian rebels will be seizing that town the same time we understand syrian regime forces are rushing to that town to secure it so potential looming confrontations here and at the same through all of it is moscow moscow is backing the syrian regime at the same time it has good relations with turkey it will need to find some balancing act to avoid this potential clash with 2 important allies and max just walk us through how the e.u. is reacting now that we have this word of. kurdish forces essentially reaching this agreement with damascus. you know some foreign ministers here have acknowledged that the you basically is watching helplessly because it does have economic clout but it doesn't have the military muscle really to change things as they stand right now in northern syria but of course the e.u. itself has 2 major concerns when it comes to the region the 1st one i touched upon in my 1st answer it's more migra

patrols in northeast and serious part of a new dune but turkey that arrived in the border town of kabbani under the dail agreed by president of the one to 10 why fiji fighters have 150 hours to withdraw at least 30 kilometers deep into syrian territory moscow has warned the kurdish fighters face to face by turkey if they don't comply let's take a closer look at the so-called safe zone that on wants to create it will want along an area around 30 kilometers inside syria along the turkish border and russian and turkish joint patrols up to 10 kilometers deep on both sides of an area that runs between into the abuja and a child's traffic has this update from along the turkey syria border the 6 day countdown for kurdish forces to withdraw to 30 kilometers away from the border has begun as that agreement between turkey and russia we're also getting reports that russian forces have begun moving towards the town of bombay shimko barney as per that agreement f.s.a. fighters free syrian army fighters that have been fighting alongside the turks in this operation say that as the air forces began destr

agencies are reporting a convoy has crossed the euphrates river and is heading to the border town of kabbani under the deal agreed by president edwin and putin y p g fighters have 150 hours to withdraw at least 30 kilometers deeper into syrian territory. now u.s. defense secretary marcus for has arrived in baghdad to discuss the presence of u.s. troops in iraq as the says all u.s. troops leaving syria will go to western iraq and will continue to fight eisel the iraqi military says the u.s. doesn't have permission to stay there the soldiers withdrew from northern syria just before the turkish operation against kurdish fighters began now protesters in lebanon are out on the streets for the 7th day they're blocking roads across the country but the army is trying to reopen main roads they have made a number of arrests and u.k. government sources barres johnson will try to call a general election if he's forced to accept a long breaks that delay ministers rejected the prime minister's proposed timetable for ratifying his record deal on tuesday johnson must now wait for the european union to appro

s kading along the border towards the town of kabbani we understand that that is going to be a major flashpoint as this military campaign goes forward no word as yet with respect to ground forces or ground troops being used we know that the turkish military are going to be enlisting the help of f.s.a. fighters free syrian army fighters of course the turkish government supported the f.s.a. in syria since the revolution started there and those f.s.a. fighters came across the border in the last 24 hours or so we understand they will be used in a ground invasion but in a ground incursion but no confirmation as to whether that has started yet the situation is very tense here as you can well imagine even amongst the civilians that live on this border area no word yet from the s.d.f. with respect to civilian casualties no word yet about any kind of military response from them but certainly it seems as if the warnings from the turkish government. about this campaign they're very very keen to to to stick to their word . this military operation very much on the way. well a kurdish led syrian d

meanwhile syrian troops have entered the border town of kabbani as turkey tries to establish its so-called safe saw in syria and other news the president of spain's catalonia region came thought or has called for an immediate halt to violence that rocked barcelona for a 3rd night the protests follow the jailing of 9 separatist leaders on monday but thought this is the riots the harming the image of the separatist movement. fredricka. i call for calm and serenity the independence movement is not violent we've always condemned violence we can't allow the instance that are taking place in the streets of our country is normal and it's good to protest against an unfair and utterly apparent sentence there's no reason or justification though to ban cars or to carry out any other active than lism protests should be peaceful and civil rights france and germany have reached an agreement on arms export rules for their joint military programs they remain at odds of a saudi arabia germany has agreed not to block french exports to 3rd countries so long as the equipment is made with less than 20 percent