the jailed head of the outboard kurdistan workers party in neighboring turkey britain's prime minister is in brussels trying to restart stalled breaks it talks to resume is calling for urgency on resolving the rights of e.u. citizens in the u.k. after it leaves the bloc. there's the headlines over the city can hear now to zero risking it all vietnam is next i have more news for you after that thanks for watching back now.

the jailed head of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party in neighboring turkey and all female force has vowed to continue fighting until all women afraid for myself will. yes we met then that with solid intentions and a will that hasn't been broken we have achieved our goal which was to pound the strongholds of terrorism in the city we have restored on a to use the women by liberating dozens of slaves who were taken from single and we've also freed a similar number of children a saudi government minister has visited rocca reportedly to discuss his country's role in reconstruction efforts there subban who is the minister of state for arab affairs went to some of the territory captured by kurdish led rebels activist voters show him with brett mcgurk the u.s. president's special envoy against eisel a pakistani court has formally charged the ousted prime minister nawaz sharif his daughter and son in law with corruption opening a trial that could see the former leader jailed for twenty sixteen panama papers revealed the family had used offshore companies to buy expensive properties in london

the jailed head of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party in neighboring turkey. britain's prime minister is in brussels trying to restart stalled grex it talks to resume is calling for urgency on resolving the rights of e.u. citizens in the u.k. after it leaves the bloc. there's the headlines over the city can hear now to zero risking it all vietnam is next i have more news for you after that thanks for watching back in after. oh about. the be. a about. the above. there are two staples to vietnamese life rice and bamboo for its many uses. thank you. ha ha ha ha ha. now we're going out not on the out like that before we never got you know. i am going to make one more. look in your pride and i'm going to get new laws what good are you going to. help that isn't that right you want to be done. right so make up your seventy dollars that's not looking here no i mean here we make up someone else's the money that we didn't get it means you know when you're going to be going to one fine particle living but we didn't mean that i'm going to. write. the province of tongue wh

that was under the obama administration turkey considers those forces an extension of the kurdistan workers party or p.k. k. which has waged an insurgency within turkey for over three decades more recently the u.s. grand jury indicted fifteen turkish security officials for a brawl with protesters during president rest of the trip to washington d.c. in may the one described the indictments are scandalous now not even a letter by seventy eight members of the u.s. congress and a personal appeal from the president has convinced president erdogan to release any of the dozens of americans detained in turkey and with kasim hired as a professor of international relations a dear house university is also a board member of the think tank with a focus on turkey's foreign and security policy joins me live now from is still a ball there's been growing tension between the u.s. and turkey as we've just mentioned so how diplomatically uncomfortable is this current detention of a turkish national working for the american embassy consular facilities in istanbul . well it is the uncomfortable but as you have been ve

the gentle leader of the old lot of kurdistan the workers' party and they bring turkey. there's growing concern of all that be able to stop the violence against a range of muslims u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says the u.s. holds will be a balls military leadership accountable for what is happening in rocky state. britain's prime minister has called for urgency on resolving the rights of e.u. citizens living in the u.k. after it leaves the block trees a bay made the comments in brussels ahead of a key e.u. summit back to because she is on the big slowly and european union leaders want britain to pay a higher devolves bill that it wants this council is about taking a strong it's also about looking to how we can track all the challenges that we all share across europe that means a fool's continued cooperation cooperation which must be at the heart of the strong future partnership that we want to build together of course would also be looking at the concrete progress that's been made in our exit negotiations and looking at setting out on vicious plans for the weeks

that was under the obama administration turkey considers those forces an extension of the kurdistan workers party p.k. k. which wage an insurgency within turkey for over three decades more recently a u.s. grand jury indicted fifteen turkish security officials over a brawl with protesters during president wants trip to washington in may describe the indictments as scandalous now not even a letter by seventy eight members of the u.s. congress any personal appeal from president trump has convinced her to want to release any of the dozen americans locked up in turkey simcoe see who is our correspondent based in turkey we're lucky enough to have her here in doha for more on this story sin and relations have deteriorated on a number of issues recently between the u.s. and turkey this latest incident how serious is it in the overall deterioration of the relationship well fully actually let me first start by saying that this is the first kind of new events and i'm talking about the suspensions of. services for turkish citizens this is the first ever in turkish american violator of relations history and u

iraq's central government accused the codes of deploying fighters from the turkish —based kurdistan workers‘ partyinging their men. tensions between baghdad and pakistani have been high since the kurdish region held a referendum on independence last month. let‘s take a look at some of the other stories making the news. us—backed militias have launched what they describe as a "final assault" on the remaining militants from so—called islamic state in the syrian city of raqqa. some is fighters have withdrawn under a local deal, freeing three thousand civilians they‘d held as human shields. but as many as 300 extremists remain in control of one area of the city centre. president nicolas maduro has claimed victory, having won a landslide 17 out of 23 states in venezuela‘s regional elections according to results by the national elections council. the opposition democratic union roundtable coalition took five of the states. the results of the far north state a yet to be confirmed. officials in portugal and spain say at least eight people have been killed by wildfires. thousands of firefighters and soldie

the city a dedicated their progress against arsenal two of the jailed head of the outboard kurdistan workers party in neighboring turkey britain's prime minister is in brussels trying to restart stalled breaks it talks to resume a is calling for urgency on resolving the rights of e.u. citizens in the u.k. after it leaves the bloc there's the headlines tuesday with al-jazeera inside story is next i'll have the news after you straight after that thanks for watching. spain's has it's going to take away catalonia is autonomy as the regional leader ignores a deadline to abandon secession plans what's next for the catalan separatists and how will madrid impose its writ this is inside story. a low there on james it's a showdown with implications for not just spain but for separatist aspirations across europe even as the european union faces marathon negotiations over brics it madrid would be imposing direct rule on the autonomous region for the first time since spain returned to democracy in the late one nine hundred seventy s. a special cabinet meeting is jew on saturday to trigger the process suspendin

living in germany prosecutors' accused of spreading propaganda for the outlawed p k k the kurdistan workers party in a speech he made last year doing daraa. said pro-government journalists were colluding with the state by supporting military operations in kurdish areas in southern turkey the story of a possible extradition came one day after doing daryn the newspaper he worked for were shortlisted for this year's nobel peace prize in india at least a half dozen journalists say they are at risk after being subjected to death threats delivered to them on the whatsapp messaging service deeksha sharma a reporter for the current news website says she received multiple messages threatening her with rape and murder after she had written an article in which she urged you tube to take down a rap video that had gone viral one that normalizes raped five others journalists at the hindu newspaper and the t.v. and first post all say they received similar messages from unidentified senders one threat written in hindi referred specifically to a journalist murdered last month after she wrote extensively on the ri

live mainly in the south east their independence movement has been active for decades the kurdistan workers' party or p k k is a kurdish rebel group which has fought for autonomy from turkey since the line nine hundred eighty s. well now it's bringing our guest joining us in arabic judit noir inc journalist and founder of the independent media center in kurdistan and is thought on ball on kanada turkey based political analyst and also in ed really the la vena former minister in the kurdistan regional government welcome to you all can i let me start with you the first visit by turkish military chief of staff to head on since mine teen age seventy nine just how worried is to be right now about the kurds and what's happening in the region. yeah i mean turkey percy observed her around them as a security threat but i don't think that any turkish military intervention into the iraqi kurdistan is likely the main reason why turkey perceives this referendum as a security threat is main needed to its own kurdish problem as you all know that turkey has been struggling against a kurdish in storage and seed fo

the border in syria turkey considers them what it cost terrorists and an extension of the kurdistan workers' party p k.k. which is wage an insurgency within turkey's borders for over three decades and more recently a us grand jury indicted fifteen turkish security officials involved in a street fight with protesters. who were protesting against president bush up type two on during his visit to washington in may describe the indictments as scandalous well for more on this let's speak to brian who's economists and a lecturer at least eighteen universities via skype from me some will thank you very much for being with us on al-jazeera so relations between the u.s. center ikey have been tense over a number of issues lately how serious an incident is this latest one do you think this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. still you do not say that the united states and turkey are not allies anymore but the the recent at the time of the way obama administration dealt with the turkish government was completely unacceptable from the turkish perspective and the way they disregarded all the concern

has links with the kurdistan workers party or p k k an armed group in truckee which i care considers to be a terrorist organization some analysts believe that despite the y.p. g.'s success in expelling eisel from iraq the group will not be able to achieve its goal of autonomy we can see that the kurds and the y p g definitely are overstretched they could buy an area that they constitute a minority twenty five to thirty percent compared to seventy percent now that i saw has been pushed out from the many will declare this the end of the armed groups but others disagree we are witnessing the fall of the. but that doesn't mean. will be destroyed isis will remain. cells in syria and lebanon i saw is not an ordinary group its methods are both horrifying and unconventional it doesn't have a membership process for example anybody who wants to kill or maim can do so and then attribute those attacks to the group and that's what makes defeating ice all seem so impossible now whilst expanding its members from iraq is significant the region need to deal with the root cause is the push young men t

recip type one has condemned the group for displaying a giant poster of the leader of the kurdistan workers party which turkey considers to be a terrorist organization a dollar or two and is currently in jail in turkey. in syria they're collaborating with a terrorist organization like the y. p.g. to defeat another terrorist organization this kind of logic is unacceptable there waving the poster of the terrorist leader in rocca how is the united states going to explain this to spain now and the prime minister there is accusing separatists in catalonia of violating the basic principles of the european union in their bid for secession my own a royal will announce measures on saturday to impose direct rule on catalonia andrew symonds has more now from barcelona. what you really sense here in barcelona right now is a fear of the unknown and that's shared by both sides in this crisis politicians and public alike people on friday were going out to protest in a very different way going to banks and withdrawing one hundred five fifty five euro as a protest of protest against two of five banks which have a

north is an area controlled by kurdish forces turkey considers the y p g an extension of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which is a terrorist group well tell her course is a professor of political science at sahara university in istanbul and he believes the turkish military will try to stay out of ad lib. i think turkish will tortillas. will try to support their local actors including to free syrian army and the turkish military will be coordinating to their efforts in the first place in the second phase of operation so if they are faced with some resistance if some of the rebel groups are trying to attack down they will get more in world but this will and the other thing is that there may be some tensions in the areas that are. controlled in the afan area so if there are some tensions in that area as well if the rebels are. escaping to other places i think turkish military will be in want but i think in the earlier period the turkish military will try to stay less you more. let's move on to other news now and thousands are rallying across spain as the crisis over his future continues they vill

live mainly in the south east their independence movement has been active for decades the kurdistan workers' party or p k k is a kurdish rebel group which is fought for autonomy from turkey since the line nine hundred eighty s. when our let's bring in our guest joining us in arabic do that neuer inc journalist and founder of the independent media center in kurdistan and as dan ball on kanada turkey based political analyst and also in ed really. bein former minister in the kurdistan regional government welcome to you all can i let me start with you the first visit by turkish military chief of staff to head on since mine teen seventy nine just how worried is to be right now about the kurds and what's happening in the region. yeah i mean turkey percy observed her around them as a security threat but i don't think that any turkish military intervention into the iraqi kurdistan is likely the main reason why turkey perceives this referendum as a security threat is main needed to its own kurdish problem as you all know that turkey has been struggling against a kurdish in storage and seed for more than th

resit their burdwan has criticized them for displaying a giant poster of the leader of the kurdistan workers party of dillard children who is currently in jail in turkey. here are you. in syria they're collaborating with a terrorist organization like the white b.g. to defeat another terrorist organization this kind of logic is unacceptable there waving the poster of the terrorist leader in iraq or how is the united states going to explain this. joint forces things that urban africa's region aimed at tackling the threat from fighters un security council member nations wanted to be based in mali the un has warned the sahal is descending into all out violence troops from booking a fast so charred mali mauritania and li share will be involved. hundred schools in the north and central region are closed because of security threats that means out of the fifty thousand children are out of school so that's an important sign that this election is held hostage to the conflict and some don't. we have some breaking news coming out of afghanistan at least fifteen people are being killed an explosion at a mosque

an extension of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it says is a terrorist group. well everybody is a professor of international relations at university he says turkey supporting the ad lib campaign is mainly for domestic security concerns we have to look at this operation that turkey is mounting more as a domestic politics issue and also one that has to do with the united states turkey united states have now fallen quite a part of each other because of american support for the white b.g. for the syrian kurds in their struggle against the islamic state and the turks have been trying to to stop that to block tried to convince americans not to do it but they have this by by aligning itself with iran and russia i think what the turks are trying to do is to send a message through to washington but i'm afraid washington is not in a mood to listen to that to that message secondly mr i don't has been threatening to go into syria for a long time has been threatening to go into iraq following the referendum in northern iraq so he's been in the turkish press has been full of

resit typo one has condemned the group for displaying a giant poster of the leader of the kurdistan workers party which turkey considers a terrorist organization dinner or two and is currently in jail in turkey. in syria they're collaborating with a terrorist organization like the y. p.g. to defeat another terrorist organization this kind of logic is unacceptable. suicide bombers have targeted two mosques in afghanistan killing at least sixty people police say one bomber detonated explosives inside a shia mosque in the capital to go through a separate bombing at a mosque in july and. killed at least thirty the latest in a series of attacks across afghanistan in the last week. forty three soldiers were killed on thursday after the taliban stormed a military camp in the my one district to suicide car bombs before a gun battle fighters also attacked a police headquarters in the southeastern province of gaza on thursday the second attack on it this week and the group was responsible for an ambush in the northern belt province which killed six police officers on wednesday after it unleashed a wave of

that was under the obama administration turkey considers those forces an extension of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which is waged insurgency within turkey for over three decades more recently a u.s. grand jury indicted fifteen turkish security officials for fighting with protesters during president russia type but a once trip to washington may do on describe the indictments a scandalous thousands of americans have been detained in turkey over alleged links or land a muslim a u.s. base muslim cleric who ankara accuses of being behind last year's failed coup also even a personal appeal from president trump is convinced to want to release them let's go live now to us state and defense department correspondent patty cohen of course she's in washington d.c. so clearly these tensions have been building up for some time what do these latest tit for tat tit for tat measures mean for and current washington. well i think the biggest impact is going to be on countries both countries citizens they won't be able to necessarily travel between the countries tourism is going to take a hit obviously that'

the jailed leader of turkey's main kurdish rebel group the kurdistan workers party . and. it's a terrorist organization next to a post is a picture of. a prominent command in the old female kurdish militia. that with solid intentions and a will that hasn't been broken we have achieved our goal which was to pound the strongholds of terrorism in the city we have restored on a to use eighty women by liberating dozens of slides who were taken from single and we've also afraid a similar number of children. name roundabout is where isis fighters paraded in two thousand and fourteen when they took over iraq. it was also what opponents were murdered with isis gone these kurds operating on the same spot to a sense of a growing influence their territorial gains stretch from the most east all the way to near the y.p. g.'s show of force in iraq is likely to further stoke regional tension turkey considers the kurds rising role is to. as a threat to its national security and turkish leaders accuse the y.p. jewel being an extension of the. force may be used against kurdish factions to st

that was under the obama administration turkey considers those forces an extension of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which is waged insurgency within turkey for over three decades well recently a u.s. grand jury indicted fifteen turkish security officials for fighting with protesters during president russia trip to washington in may of two on described the indictments as scandalous dozens of americans have been detained in turkey over alleged links with the tool of glenn a u.s. based muslim cleric who anchor accuses of being behind last year's failed coup and also even a personal appeal from president trump as convinced him to release them let's go live now to our u.s. state and defense correspondent patty call hey and patty is we were saying there quite a bit a falling out between washington and curry here what can we expect in terms of u.s. pressure in the coming days and weeks. well it doesn't look like this is going to end anytime soon really has been as you mentioned it happening for years and a lot of this goes back to that cleric as you mentioned for too long. the obama administratio

that was under the obama administration turkey considers those forces an extension of the kurdistan workers party p.k. which wage an interagency within turkey for over three decades more recently a u.s. grand jury indicted fifteen turkish security officials over a brawl with protesters during president wants trip to washington in may i do undescribed the indictment says scandalous now not even a letter by seventy eight members of the u.s. congress and a personal appeal from president trump has convinced to want to release any of the dozen americans locked up in turkey for more on this let's bring in our turkey based correspondent look who's here in doha with a sin and we were expecting a press conference this morning from president i don't want we were expecting to hear from him on this issue what was the reaction from the turkish government going to be to this latest dispute going forward well actually in to this morning's press conference was supposed to be just right before his flight to ukraine he has enough fishel visit to ukraine and he's on the way right now and ritually he always delivers

the kurdistan workers' party that is the terrorist organization here in turkey so from the one hand they want to push these athletes away from these provinces so in case they couldn't agree i mean russia iran and turkey. after they are a sham withdrawal from the city then the people in case of any escalation will leave this city and move to afrin allow for all al-bab that has been liberated with the effort to see and process that lead on a well geo political level i guess this isn't just turkey involved here this is iran as well this is potentially russia there was talk russia would even be supporting this from the russia of course a supporter of the syrian government how does all of that time together. it is very ironic a couple of days ago both russia and iran were the enemies of turkey qatar and saudi arabia now the whole process have changed and they reshuffle the whole alliances in the region now turkey russia and iran as regional powers they do believe that the noninterventionist policy of the rock obama left them no choice but to be themselves involved mainly turkey then the no po

and the jailed leader of turkey's main kurdish rebel group the kurdistan workers' party. and.it's a terrorist organization next to a post is a picture of a prominent command in the old female kurdish militia. with solid intentions and a will that hasn't been broken we have achieved our goal which was to pound the strongholds of terrorism in the city we have restored on a to use eighty women by liberating dozens of slaves who were taken from single and we've also freed a similar number of children. name roundabout is where isis fighters paraded in two thousand and fourteen when they took over iraq. it was also what opponents were murdered with isis gone these kurds operating on the same spot to a sense of a growing influence their territorial gains stretch from in the north east all the way to near the y.p. g.'s show force in iraq is likely to further stoke regional tension turkey considers the kurds rising role in syria as a threat to its national security and turkish leaders accuse the y.p. geo of being an extension of the p.k. k. on war force may be used against kurdish fact

an extension of the kurdistan workers' party. which it says is a terrorist group only bucky is professor of international relations at lehigh university he says turkey support in the operation is mainly for domestic security concerns. we have to look at this operation that turkey is mounting more as as a domestic politics issue and also one that has to do with the united states turkey united states have now fallen quite a part of each other because of american support for the white b.g. for the syrian kurds in their struggle against the islamic state and the turks have been trying to to stop that to block tried to convince americans not to do it but they have this by by aligning itself with you know i and russia i think what the turks are trying to do is to send a message through to washington but i'm afraid washington is not in a mood to listen to that to that message secondly mr i don't has been threatening to go into syria for a long time has been threatening to go into iraq following the referendum in northern iraq so he's be

has links with the kurdistan workers party or p k k an armed group in turkey which i care considers to be a terrorist organization some editor analysts believe that despite the y.p. g.'s success in expelling eisel from iraq the group will not be able to achieve its goal of autonomy see that the kurds and the y p g definitely are overstretched they could buy an area that they constitute a minority of twenty five to thirty percent compared to seventy percent now that i saw has been pushed out from the many will declare the end of the armed groups but others disagree we are witnessing. the. but that doesn't mean i will be destroying. remain. cells in syria and lebanon i saw is not an ordinary group its methods are both horrifying and unconventional it doesn't have a membership process for example anybody who wants to kill or maim can do so and then attribute those attacks to the group and that's what makes defeating i saw seem so impossible now whilst expanding its members from iraq is significant the reason need to deal with the root causes that push young men to join such a group. well

that was under the obama administration turkey considers those forces an extension of the kurdistan workers party or the p.k. k. which has waged an insurgency within turkey for over three decades more recently us a grand jury indicted fifteen turkish security officials for a brawl with protesters during president earlier ones trip to washington d.c. in may two under scribed indictment scandalous now not even a letter by seventy eight members of the u.s. congress signed a personal appeal from president trump has convinced president other one to release any of the dozen or so americans detained currently in turkey edgar said skinner's a turkey specialist at the risk consultancy group i.h.s. market joins me now from london good to have you with us on al-jazeera but let's just begin with the fact that this issue of detaining a severe turkish national who happens to work in the american embassy is actually part of a much larger broader issue about the way turkey and the u.s. seem to be on different sides of the fence when it comes to issues of syria relationships with iran or even neighboring countrie

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a typo to one has condemned the group for displaying a giant poster of the leader of the kurdistan workers party which turkey considers a terrorist organization of dinner or is currently in jail in turkey. in syria they're collaborating with a terrorist organization like the white b.g. to defeat another terrorist organization this kind of logic is unacceptable there waving the poster of the terrorist leader in iraq ah how is the united states going to explain this. and well let's talk about the position the kurds now find themselves in and around the region i'm joined now by tell of the result kusa research at the university of texas strategy and security institute and joins us via skype from exeter welcome to the program and it's a very confused position very confused situation what do you make of where we're at right now. well of course we have to divide obviously between the various kurdish groups i mean the kurds in iraq and the setbacks that they have suffered recently are entirely different and separate from the kurds who are in syria and in iraq are in fact they actually sometimes in oppo

an extension of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it deems to be a terrorist organization tell a cozy is a professor of political science at the see here university in istanbul he specializes in turkish foreign policy and defense strategy joining us on skype from yellow over welcome to the news. what are they trying to achieve here i think this is this operation as part of a green month that's reach out it's so the main the main concern is to stabilize the area to create the contradictions song and deal with. rebels who are against the consequences thoughts reached us then also a turkey is taking responsibility inside the area the police. creating this they will duty and response to that. in something else. and. how long do you think until the turkish authorities are prepared to actually cross the border. i think turkey should tertius. will try to support their local actors including to free syrian army and the turkish military will be coordinating to their efforts in the first place in the second phase of operation so if they are faced with some resistance if some of the rebel

that was under the obama administration turkey considers those forces an extension of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which is waged insurgency within turkey for over three decades more recently a u.s. grand jury indicted fifteen turkish security officials for fighting with protesters during president rush uptight trip to washington in may of two undescribed the indictments a scandalous dozens of americans have been detained in turkey over alleged links with the two look good len a u.s. based muslim cleric who in ankara accuses of being behind last year's failed coup not even a personal appeal from president trump is convinced to want to release them well i get all we can now speak to howard eisenstadt an associate professor of history specializing in the turkish republic at st lawrence university joins me live via skype from canton new york thank you very much for speaking to us if we could first of all look at what's been happening in the last twenty four hours how serious an escalation of these mutual visa bans. it's big and in part because it's public there's been a series of steps by bo

the city resit has condemned the group for displaying a giant poster of the leader of the kurdistan workers party which turkey considers a terrorist organization of delegates one is currently in jail in turkey. in syria they're collaborating with a terrorist organization like the white b.g. to defeat another terrorist organization this kind of logic is unacceptable there waving the poster of the terrorist leader in iraq how is the united states going to explain this. now that suicide bombers have targeted two mosques in afghanistan killing at least sixty people and he say that one bomber detonated explosives inside a share most to kabul clue thirty three people a separate bombing at a mosque in the province killed in these thirteen the latest in a series of attacks across afghanistan in the last week jennifer glass has more now from the afghan capital of kabul. the attacker made his way into the in mom's amman mosque in the middle of friday prayers he placed himself in the middle of those per growers now that of course is a shia mosque in western kabul and then he detonated his bomb killing score

that's the kurdistan workers' party which it deems to be a terrorist group met and called this a security analyst formerly turkish military officer and a columnist for the al monitor news website he joins us live here on the news from istanbul. what do you think the planners are planning on with this operation. let me start with to a fact first one i mean this is another surprising really terrible meaning that we have been waiting for expecting piers more for almost an amount and the second one this is not then as unilateral military and more of this sort of negotiated outcome . after our start process and right now what we see is the. inclusion of a military operation of turkish commando. including around three hundred soldiers and turkish tank battalion so what we are talking about is around five hundred to six hundred turkeys thought yours and they are heading to this particular town thirty. cities and they're also going to special forces elements they have been there for almost two weeks and doing their reconnaissance and let me say this this is another sort of soap. i think military

an extension of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it says is a terrorist group henry barclay is a professor of international relations at lehigh university in pennsylvania he's joining us now from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for your time if i understand it correctly it's or. already has to contend with fighting the syrian government forces being bombarded by russian airstrikes and it's having to deal with other smaller opposition groups as well how much of a response how much opposition do you think it's going to give to the f.s.a. and ultimately as part of phase two of them was mentioning the turkish troops. i mean. we actually don't know how many farms f.s.a. troops the turks are sending into in the province but we have to remember that the al qaeda trained forces of sham. are actually very very wily and have a lot of battle experience and it is quite possible that they will inflict fairly large casualties on the f.s.a. and if that were to happen the big crisis the big question for turkey will be does turkey send its own troops across the border because at t

dedicated their progress against arsenal to do the actual on the jailed head of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party in neighboring turkey the all female forces vowed to continue fighting until all women are freed from rule. yes. that with solid intentions and a will that hasn't been broken we have achieved our goal which was to pound the strongholds of terrorism in the city we have restored on a to use eighty women by liberating dozens of slaves who were taken from single and we've also freed a similar number of children a saudi government minister has headed straight to rocker reportedly to discuss his country's role in reconstruction efforts there. and who's the minister of state for arab affairs as did some of the churchy captured by kurdish led rebels activist photos show him with brett mcgurk the u.s. president's special envoy against eisel action has vera has more from gaziantep near turkey's border with syria there's been no official explanation of the visit by mr. this argument for gulf two. area but however we do understand that at this particular moment then there will be a need to rebuil

the head of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party in neighboring turkey. is also going pressure or be about to stop the violence against the hinge of aslan's the us secretary of state rex tillerson says the us holds we have asked military leadership accountable for what is happening in the iraqi state. well let's get more on the un human rights chief is threatening to seek the security council's intervention if the perpetrators of the richenda crisis are not punished desired her rather i'll just say spoke with al-jazeera like her. the attacks by the american salvation army was met by a very methodical and well planned well organized response that did not seem to us to be anything remotely like counterinsurgency but a wholesale displacement of people from northern iraq to cox bazaar and bangladesh and so it had all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing now what monitors had made clear as well is that it's not just the enforced removal of people it's also the destruction of their homes to prevent them from brittany i mean the confirmation of this will come in tw