there is some background to the origins of the kurdistan workers party or p.k. k. the group has waged a 3 decades long uprising in turkey southeast against the governments originally the p k k wanted an independent kurdish state but that changed to demands for great throws tanami into a key so he considers the group a terrorist organization armed forces are accused of responding to the p.k. k. with violent crackdowns often affecting civilians fighting escalated a 2 year ceasefire ended in 2015 an estimated 40000 people have died in the conflict not a hashimi is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver he joins us now live via skype good to have you with us given that this man has been in prison for 20 years does he have any authority among the kurds can he speak to speak speak for the kurds. well absolutely yes i mean the kurds particularly those who support kurdish independence kurdish rights view a bellow a chill on the same way that many south africans viewed nelson mandela of course the rest of the world and particularly other p

launch a land the founding father of the p.k. k. has released a statement through his lawyers in which he said that he was very confident that he could resolve the conflict between the turkish state and kurdish fighters within a week he said he also said the turkish government needed to do what's necessary or flan is the founding father of the p.k. k. that began as separatists insurgency against the turkish state in 1904 he was jailed in 1909 and is currently being held in a maximum security prison on an island in the sea of marmara he's been denied a lawyer since 2011 but this year is seen as lawyers on several different occasions he also still exerts a tremendous amount of influence over the p.k. k. and its offshoot the y.p. gee what does all of this mean well there is a new context for these comments in the form of hopes of creating a safe zone in northern syria negotiations between turkey and the united states have been intense in recent days plans to create the safe so a tentative largely because of a fundamental difference of

and the p.k. k. and it's the p.k. k. that has been battling turkey since 19 eighty-four that's a very long time so one will can imagine that if the turks do take that step and invade north northern syria why p.g. would follow the lesson of the p.k. k. to gauge and a guerrilla warfare and terrorism that would seek to leave the turkish armed forces and you know the one p.g. says that any incursion would divert forces away from the fight against so-called islamic state if you should we be worried about that to me i thought that this was dead and buried. well i think that most analysts of the region understood that although the islamic state had suffered heavy blows from the united states and its partners on the ground the y p g that it would in all likelihood reconstitute itself in some other way in addition to the fact that you still have large numbers of. fighters who are being held in makeshift prisons by. the wife and g. if those y.p. g. forces were drawn away from fighting the remnants of the islamic state or drawn awa

the founding father of the p.k. k. has released a statement through his lawyers in which he said that he was very confident that he could resolve the conflict between the turkish state and kurdish fighters within a week he said he also said the turkish government needed to do what's necessary or salon is the founding father of the p.k. k. that began a separatist insurgency against the turkish state in 1904 he was jailed in 1909 and is currently being held in a maximum security prison on an island in the sea of marmara he's been denied a lawyer since 2011 but this year is seen as lawyers on several different occasions he also still exerts a tremendous amount of influence over the p.k. k. and its offshoot the y.p. gee what does all of this mean well there is a new context for these comments in the form of hopes of creating a safe zone in northern syria negotiations between turkey and the united states have been intense in recent days plans to create the safe so a tentative largely because of a fundamental difference of o

crimes including being members of the out both kurdistan workers party the park a k spreading the p.k. k. agenda and exporting to misspell team money and resources in order to finance and support the agenda the p.k. k. is listed as a terrorist organization not only by turkey but also by the united states and the e.u. also turkey's interior ministry detained 418 people doing in a parade held in 29 provinces of turkey this morning and those people are accused of being linked to the kurdistan workers party the minister says that those people has links to the out both kurdistan workers party and they have identified that those people have been supporting the p.k. and after after the removal of the mayors from their paws the city governors have been appointed as trustees as the acting mayors according to turkey's constitution and a regulation for election the interior ministry has a right to has the authority to remove local authority members from their polls for a temporary period of time if they have ongoing persecution process or legal proceedings until a final decision is placed iran is w

up to launch a land the founding father of the p.k. k. has released a statement through his lawyers in which he said that he was very confident that he could resolve the conflict between the turkish state and kurdish fighters within a week he said he also said the turkish government needed to do what's necessary or salon is the founding father of the p.k. k. that began as separatists insurgency against the turkish state in 1904 he was jailed in 1909 and is currently being held in a maximum security prison on an island in the sea of marmara he's been denied a lawyer since 2011 but this year is seen as lawyers on several different occasions he also still exerts a tremendous amount.

spreading the p.k. k. agenda and exporting to misspell team money and resources in order to finance and support the agenda the p.k. k. is listed as a terrorist organization not only by turkey but also by the united states and the e.u. also turkey's interior ministry detained 418 people doing in a parisian held in 29 provinces of turkey this morning and those people are accused of being linked to the kurdistan workers party the minister says that those people has links to the out both kurdistan workers party and they have identified that those people have been supporting the k. and after after the removal of the mayors from their paws the city governors have been appointed as trustees as the acting mayors according to turkey's constitution and a regulation for election the interior ministry has a right to has the authority to remove local authority members from their paws for a temporary period of time if they have on going persecution process or legal proceedings until a final decision is placed. and sudan

the founding father of the p.k. k. has released a statement through his lawyers in which he said that he was very confident that he could resolve the conflict between the turkish state and kurdish fighters within a week he said he also said the turkish government needed to do what's necessary or slam is the founding father of the p.k. k. that began a separatist insurgency against the turkish state in 1904 he was jailed in 1909 and is currently being held in a maximum security prison on an island in the sea of marmara he's been denied a lawyer since 2011 but this year is seen as lawyers on several different occasions he also still exerts a tremendous amount of influence over the p.k. k. and its offshoot the y.p. gee what does all of this mean well there is a new context for these comments in the form of hopes of creating a safe zone in northern syria negotiations between turkey and the united states have been intense in recent days plans to create the safe so a tentative largely because of a fundamental difference of op

pitch a case demands and we are not in place to debate or negras shade that kind of autonomy with p.k. k. on the b. hall full of all shorts or towards. the ultimate legacy of the strike speak or agreement was to establish the rights of outside powers and interests to intervene and influence the politics of the middle east. the sense of instability and constant conflict it has engendered seems even more complex to address now than it was a 100 years ago. hello again it's good to be back we're all watching more rain coming out of india into parts of pakistan over the next few days and you can see the clouds right there beginning to make their way towards the west that we did have a problem just several weeks ago with some very heavy flooding across parts of southern pakistan we're going to be watching this again to see what we're going to be expecting in terms of heavy rain across the region and we could be seen some localized flooding as we go towards the end of the week as well so here on wednesday really not looking too bad at $33.00 degrees but the rain is slowly making its way towards

but jailed founder of the kurdish armed group the p.k. k. says he's ready to talk peace with turkey. and from one crisis to another migrants sleeve venezuela only to be caught up in violence in neighboring colombia. india's prime minister strongly defended his decision to take away the autonomy of the disputed kashmir region it controls there is a lockdown in place in india the midst of kashmir to preempt any violent protests against the move the renderer modi says bringing the area under new delhi's control will bring peace and prosperity. got a little bit. to the millions of the public this dream has now come true in jammu kashmir and la dock a new era has begun now all the citizens of the country have their rights and they will practice their rights i'm going to say to the people and my countrymen i congratulate you across the border there's been an angry response pakistan has downgraded its diplomatic ties and suspended trade with india a train service that runs between the 2 countries has been put on hold the united nations expressing a

considers a terrorist organization and and an affiliate of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. so for turkey it is a national security threat then it has carried out cross border operations in syria over the past 2 years but on both occasions the area of operations was under this fear of influence of russia turkey and russia cooperate in syria but east of the euphrates is an area under the control of the united states which is allied with the white p.g. so this this issue really is testing and already frail relationship between nato allies turkey and the united states they've had meetings over the past few months turkey accusing the united states of stalling a new delegate. arriving in agra for further talks on monday but whether or not they can find common ground it's hard to see because deep differences remain over a planned safe zone they're discussing a plant food zone turkey's insisting it's 20 kilometers deep in turkey insists that big it controls the zone which is something the united states has so far not except that there are plenty more on the news hour including a c

crimes including being members of the out both kurdistan workers party the pick a k spreading the p.k. k. or gender and exploiting them in a spell team money and resources in order to finance and support the agenda the p.k. k. is listed as a terrorist organization not only by turkey but also by the united states and the e.u. also turkey is interior ministry detain 418 people doing in a parisian held in 29 provinces of turkey this morning and those people are accused of being linked to the kurdistan workers party the minister says that those people has links to the out both kurdistan workers party and they have identified that those people have been supporting the p.k. and after after the removal of the mayors from their paws the city governors have been appointed as trustees as the acting mayors according to turkey's constitution and a regulation for election the interior ministry has a right to has the authority to remove local authority members from their pause for a temporary period of time if they have ongoing persecution process or legal proceedings until a final decision is placed

by armrests is the firing of 3 kurdish mez elected back in march they were accused of links to the p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist organization $400.00 protesters have been arrested since monday the government crackdown comes amid fears of a cross border military operation in kurdish areas of northern syria. now western media warning russian radiation monitoring stations have gone silent following an explosion earlier this month at the military site in the country's north. into the story. 2 russian radiation money touring stations have resumed operation and this news follows a number of alarming reports that were made earlier by a number of foreign news media claiming that several russian radiation money touring stations went offline allegedly after a nuclear accident that happened in russia north on august 8th now the wall street journal wrote that 4 stations that were designed to detect nuclear radiation all went silent right after the blast the article raised concerns that russia was attempting to conceal avodah ends from the explosion at a missile test site the wall street

released by his lawyers and so on is the founder of the kurdistan workers party which is known as the p.k. k. he has been in prison for 20 years you're watching news still to come urban gardeners enjoying a taste of country life in the city they're facing growing pressure from city planners who want to green zone they're bringing paradise or developments we'll tell you more in just a moment. in kyrgyzstan police in the capital bishkek are on alert tonight supporters of the former president trying to get him released from detention. by yes was taken into custody by security forces following violent clashes with some of his supporters he's wanted in connection with allegations of corruption. this is the residence of kurdistan's former president must pick cotton by of. after they had been beaten back the day before security officials came back on thursday to finish the job. according to media reports item by of surrender to security forces and was later taken to the interior ministry for further questioning. on the day before the ex-president had been meeting supporters as special forces moved

his lawyer says the kurds do not need a separate state and found in the kurdistan workers party the p.k. k. which launched a separatist campaign in 1904 has been in jail for 20 years but not a hashimi is from the university of denver he says and could play a leading role in a potential peace process. the kurds particularly those who support kurdish independence kurdish rights view of chillon the same way that many south africans viewed nelson mandela and of course the rest of the world and particularly other people in turkey view him quite differently but he does have incredible moral and political authority and i would say that there would be no chance of progress in terms of a resolution of hostilities without. playing a leading role but there is a historical precedent here roughly between 20132015 there was a ceasefire between the p.k. k. and the turkish government there was a peace process in place that there was you know it seemed like the longstanding conflict between the turkish government and the kurds was on its way to a resolution and during that period of below chillon played a

unrest since the firing of 3 kurdish mez elected back in march they were accused of links to the p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist organization $400.00 protesters have been arrested since monday the government crackdown comes amid fears of a cross border military operation in kurdish areas of northern syria. running this hour a prominent defender of media freedoms has been slammed for breaching press freedom that after the bodyguard of c.n.n. a pariah and forcibly prevented another journalist from filming a speech. it is a sad day. when. a u.s. president does not stand by the constitution the 1st amendment freedom of press there's been efforts to silence me in the briefing room they have been efforts to discredit me you now have security. and you say the white house should pay for it i'm here because they started they started up. security guards so to be in a hotel lobby after stealing our camera. whatever i say when i thought i was. going. to get all cheer but that they're on my. list ryan's remarks well then interrupted by a visit from the mystery man why later is named joey

kurdish mayors who were elected back in march the interior ministry has accused them of links to the p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist organization $400.00 protesters have been arrested in southeast turkey since monday and the government crackdown comes amid fears of a cross border military operation in kurdish areas of northern syria. well still to come in the program but china and the u.s. are at loggerheads over the sale of fighter jets to taiwan but story and more after this short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic to follow can only really i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. interest rates are gapping in the spread is widening and what i call the interest rate apartheid if you're in the wrong side of the friends of jeffrey epstein you end up in m. bantustan of extortion ery credit card rates if you're a friend of jeffrey epstein then you get the insider rate of negative and you get paid to lend money or to b

considers a terrorist organization and and an affiliate of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. so for turkey it is a national security threat then it has carried out cross border operations in syria over the past 2 years but on both occasions the area of operations was under the sphere of influence of russia turkey and russia cooperate in syria but east of the euphrates is an area under the control of the united states which is allied with the white p.g. so this this issue really is testing and already frail relationship between nato allies turkey and the united states they've had meetings over the past few months turkey accusing the united states of stalling a new delegation is arriving in ankara for further talks on monday but whether or not they can find common ground it's hard to see because deep differences remain over a planned safe zone they're discussing a plan safe zone turkey's and system that's 20 kilometers deep in turkey can insist that they it controls the zone which is something the united states has so far not to accept that. iran's revolutionary guards say the

issue may if he were elected back in march the interior ministry has accused him of links to the p.k. k. which ankara considers a terrorist organization $400.00 protesters have been arrested in southeast texas since monday the government crackdown comes amid face of a cross border minute trip aeration in kurdish areas of northern syria. social media platforms twitter and facebook say they've blocked a number of chinese accounts for trying to undermine the protests in hong kong. we are disclosing a significant state backed informational creation focused on the situation hong kong this disclosure consists of 936 a cancer vegetating from within the people's republic of china over all these accounts were deliberately and specifically attempting to sow political discord in hong kong including undermining the legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement on the ground we removed 7 pages 3 groups and 5 facebook accounts involved in coordinated in authentic behavior as part of a small network that originated in china and focused on hong kong the protest movement in hong kong starte

rest since the firing of 3 kurdish mayors elected back in march they were accused of links to the p.k. k which ankara considers a terrorist organization $400.00 protesters have been arrested since monday the government crackdown comes amid fears of a cross border military operation in kurdish areas of northern syria. that's a global news wrap up for now but i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest thanks for tuning in. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go on to be press this is what i'm up for 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters and the. question. why paradise with some around turned into a round the experimentation field but i agree cultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would that the chemical compa

cities and arrested more than $400.00 people over alleged ties to the kurdish militant group the p.k. k. local government offices were cordoned off as police carried out the raids. turning out of hong kong where people have once again filled the streets on the 11th streets weekend of mass for democracy demonstrations despite heavy rain for hundreds of thousands turned to call for more democracy in the territory as we hear from good obvious shanachie as a bill unlike some of the previous protests this fundament peaceful the. calm dignified resilient these are the scenes organizers had called. if you expected it's not quite like this. protest is a bull ages braving the poor and rain to march the crowds swelling in every direction bringing parts of the city to its height to a standstill this see the protesters marching through the streets feel like it never going to add a lot of these protesters with the face take rubber bullets over the last few weeks this direction right sadly no it's going to face. these demonstrators had a point to prove many had felt weeks of clashes and shocking scen

cities and arrested more than $400.00 people over alleged ties to the kurdish militant group the p.k. k. government offices were cordoned off as police breeds more than 40 mans from turkey's opposition h d p party are already in detention. of ghana stands for as an usher of gandhi has pledged to eliminate the islamic state group in his country over the weekend a suicide bombing at a wedding killed at least 63 people gunnies comments come as the u.s. negotiates with the taliban to end nearly 18 has a fighter. a rescue ship carrying more than 100 refugees has rejected an offer to go to spain as absolutely under list to open arms vesa is more off the italian island of lampedusa risk you say spending days traveling to a spanish forces on workable as the refugees on board vic wire urgent assistance. the people of hong kong once again filled the streets on the 11th straight weekend of mass for democracy protests organizers say 1700000 people that's nearly a quarter of hong kong still keep population turned out despite heavy rain for their calling for more feed him for the terror unlike some o

separately detained over $400.00 people on monday for suspected links to the outlawed kurdish group the p.k. k. . salvadoran woman at the center of a controversial abortion trial has been acquitted of all charges evil and how to land as was charged with murder after giving birth to a stillborn baby the case draw international criticism of the country's strict anti abortion laws. for. a celebration after being cleared of all charges evelyn hernandez has become the face of a card to decriminalize abortion and el salvador she faced up to 40 years in prison in a retrial after giving birth to a stillborn baby prosecutors accuse her of aggravated homicide the 21 year old said she was raped and didn't know she was pregnant. there is always the. today there was justice i want to thank all the countries and international organizations are supportive of me i also want to thank my mother who stood by me i know it was difficult for her to see me being accused of something i didn't do her case has been fought in court for years evelyn was 1st sentenced to prison in 2017 but was released 2 years later while

separately detained over 400 people on monday for suspected links to the outlawed kurdish group the p.k. k. . 9000 people have fled several villages on the spanish holiday island. where wildfires are burning fires started last week and have been difficult to contain so has more. shock and disbelief in gran canaria these villages were forced out of their homes as large wildfires burn out of control across the spanish island they started spreading across mountainous areas on saturday as high temperatures strong winds and low humidity fuel the flames this headline reads the unstoppable catastrophe that oh they told me i had to move accommodation and to get out immediately because the fire and especially the smoke was descending it was so so hot. i think the risk youth team saved me because i did exactly what they told me on the one hand it's good news because they contain the fire in the town on the other hand it's bad news because of the disaster that is happening. one of the biggest deployments of firefighters in recent spanish history is under way a crew of 1000 is working around the clock

considers a terrorist organization and and an affiliate of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. so for turkey it is the national security threat that it has carried out cross border operations in syria over the past 2 years but on both occasions the area of operations was under this fear of influence of russia turkey and russia cooperate in syria but is the euphrates is an area under the control of the united states which is allied with the white p.g. so this this issue really is testing and already frail relationship between nato allies turkey and the united states they've had meetings over the past few months turkey accusing the united states of stalling a new delegation is arriving in ankara for further talks on monday. but whether or not they can find common ground it's hard to see because deep differences remain over a planned safe zone they're discussing a planned safe zone turkey's and system that's 20 kilometers deep in turkey can insist that they it controls the zone which is something the united states has so far not except that. it was revolutionary guard says they'v

armed wing y p g do not deny the fact that they take inspiration from of the imprisoned leader of the p.k. k. a belligerent and as we know in the west and since 2014 of the p y d as part of the syrian democratic forces s d f have expanded in the their the area under their control in the northeast and serious part of the operations as part of the operations against isis this is a genuine security threat for turkey but it also is a very important problem in u.s. turkish relations because the p y d's main sponsor main international backer is the us government since 2014 starting with 1st airstrikes and then u.s. special operations operatives being inserted into north east in syria the united states has become. the main sponsor of the p.y.t. and the s.d.f. . it's it's basically sophie's choice you know on the one hand you have your nato ally and on the other hand you have your main and muslim affective local actor against isis since you mentioned the u.s. influence and link to the y.p. dnd why p.g. just is a whole debate just about the buffer zone of the details of the buffer zones how deep shou

considers a terrorist organization and and an affiliate of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. so for turkey it is a national security threat then it has carried out cross border operations in syria over the past 2 years but on both occasions the area of operations was under this fear of influence of russia turkey and russia cooperate in syria but east of the euphrates is an area under the control of the united states which is allied with the white p.g. so this this issue really is testing and already frail relationship between nato allies turkey and the united states they've had meetings over the past few months turkey accusing the united states of stalling a new delegation is arriving in ankara for further talks on monday but whether or not they can find common ground it's hard to see because deep differences remain over a planned safe zone they're discussing a plan safe zone turkey's insisting it's 20 kilometers deep in turkey can insist that they it controls the zone which is something the united states has so far not except that. iran's revolutionary guards say they've se

separately detained over 400 people on monday for suspected links to the outlawed kurdish group the p.k. k. . a former catholic cardinal in australia is expected bankim course in the coming hours to find out whether he has successfully appealed against his jail term for child sexual abuse george pell was sentenced to 6 years in prison in march for abusing 2 choir boys when he was archbishop of melbourne 20 years ago victoria gave him the reports. cardinal george pell is the most senior member of the catholic church to be found guilty of child sex offenses after the 12 members of a jury in melbourne believe the word of a victim over that of the former archbishop but that the 78 year old said the jury's verdict was unreasonable and argued the defense was blocked from showing a video in their closing argument louise milligan who has written a book about the cardinal knows one of his victims this is pain and ignore mostly difficult process for all of the people he made complaints to come forward and to to go through you know being cross-examined at trial about something that happened when they