the pkk is a kurdish nationalist group. it doesn't make sense.his morning's arrests have been condemned by the opposition. referring to the dictatorships of the party. and saddam hussein. >> let's talk about what is happening. last week they were arrested. they were then protests. >> today they were formally charged with member -- with being members of a terrorist organization. mayors, i of those have interviewed her. rec fest with her and i listened to one of her speeches. i simply cannot believe she is a militant. she is a peaceloving kurdish politician she is the type of kurdish politician the government should welcome. small's -- small daily demonstrations, and according support of the two mayors. the municipal workers have gone on strike. garbage collection has ground to a halt. reports to theo central government has tried to organize some government garbage collection. the government has cut off the internet. it has also fired 4000 pictures for the alleged terrorist links. the english classes in their school who didn't know english -- now t

basically accused of supporting the pkk, making speeches in support of the pkk theallowing them to use office of municipal facilities, and they are accused of incitement to violence. the latest we've just heard is that they will be detained for five days. if you could just allow me to make a personal note here, i've had a press breakfast with her, i've had a long interview with her with one other journalists and i have listened to her speech of a kurdish new year celebration in march. she does not strike me as being a militant. she strikes me as being somebody who is trying to improve things and who is leading the kurds in a peaceful direction. in every spec, she's the kind of kurdish leader who the government should want to have. laura: hundreds of thousands protesting in venezuela, demanding the president step down. he recently overruled the referendum to remove him from power and has been staging a rally of his own. he has also just won an endorsement from the army. venezuela's opposition taking to the streets once again. as the standoff deepens with the country's authorities. the d

and on behalf of the pkk, the turkish kurd during the group. but the prosecutor's office says the detainees were suspected of crimes even if he is not a member of those groups. in other words, the prosecutor was admitting that there was no "cumhuriyet"ween and those groups. "cumhuriyet"n that is with the pkk is absurd. are aarchsts islamigroup. in our selar newspaper. the pkk is a kurdish nationalist group. cumhuriyet" is a turkish nationalist paper. the states of emergency passed after the july coup is being used to intimidate the entire opposition in turkey, to wipe out medium freedom that choice about media freedom. annette: it is halloween, but not everybody is dressing up as a witch or a zombie. according to manufacturers in china and japan, donald trump and hillary clinton masks are doing biz business that are doing big business right now. annette: a reminder of what is making news this hour -- the lebanese parliament has just elected former army commander michel aoun as president, ending a 29-month presidential vacuum. the political furo

. >> the syrian kurds are linked to the pkk, and the pkk is a kurdish organization that's been waging a war against turkish state since 1980s. >> smith: the pkk, or kurdistan workers' party, is a militant kurdish separatist organization listed by the u.s. state department as a terrorist group. their syrian affiliate, known as the ypg, was leading the fight against isis in kobani. turkey wanted nothing to do with them. >> turkey has sat on the bordr watching kurds get slaughtered by isis, doing nothing about it. >> turkey perceived greater threat from the kurdish groups that were defending kobani. and because of that, they wanted the kurdish insurgency in northern syria to be extinguished via isis. >> smith: the u.s., on the other hand, chose to side with the kurds. >> we were desperate for allies. so, you know, this is the backdrop that makes it so complicated for the pentagon. they desperately need an ally. they know they cannot win without it. and we choose the partner that is the enemy of turkey, which is our nato ally. >>the fighting is absolutely fes i don't think i've seen or he

the paper also urged authorities to open peace negotiations with the outlawed 'pkk' kurdistan workersy. >> for weeks and months we've seen terrible images coming from the country's southeast: photos of women and children. a child's corpse couldn't be buried -- they stored it in a refrigerator. i wasn't the only one dismayed by these images. a group of academics discussed what we could do to help us come to terms with the guilt we were feeling. that's why we signed the letter. reporter: koÇak says that's the real reason he's being dismissed from the university. he also suspects that the government is gradually trying to bring academics and teachers into line. just weeks after the attempted coup, thousands of people took to the streets of istanbul to protest. they're against the gulen organization and the attempt to overthrow the government. but they also say the government's purge goes too far. koÇak knows he can't prevent being dismissed from his public post. on stage, he seems timid at first, but he then speaks freely about his experience. >> they handed us documentation from their i

headquarters where he was taken two months ago for allegedly supporting the militant kurdish group, the pkk. he was pressed to give names. the turkish government regularly refutes torture allegations, but after the failed coup in july, suspected plotters were shown on television. turkey has extended its state of emergency. now, suspects can be detained without charges for 30 days. human rights activists say torture is being sanctioned. >> the reality is because of the lack of access to detainees, the lack of credible medical reports, we cannot definitively say how widespread it is and we are concerned it may be more widespread. we doubt is limited to individual cases. reporter: this photo of a teacher shows him in happier days. for the last three months, he has been in custody for allegedly supporting the opposition movement. his wife said he had been hospitalized during interrogations. >> his room was left unguarded for a moment. i dashed in and asked what happened question mark he said i had to have my small intestine removed because they'd eat meat terribly. reporter: just a few years ag

they are accused of links to the group the pkk and fethullah gulen. rebuilding towns and villages after the latest earthquake will take years. zimbabwe is to start printing what it calls bomb notes. there will be worth one u.s. dollar but people fear it will lead to a return to hyperinflation. have a lotimbabweans to protest about -- economic crisis, massive unemployment. and the government solution isn't popular. mediaoman is a social activist. her current hashtag is #howtheyrobbedus. do not want the bond note because it is just a piece of paper. not a currency. you are not going to be able to use it anyway. it will plunge them into poverty. reporter: it all comes down to history. in 2008, hyperinflation meant huge amounts of zimbabwean dollars bought little. shelves were empty and the money issued in the morning was worth little by the afternoon. the 100 trillion zimbabwean dollar note was consigned to history. bond notes are being introduced. but amid a nosediving economy, people are afraid it will bring hyperinflation back. >> it cuts off the whol

seen a series of bombings that it says were carried out by islamic state militants or the band kurdish pkk. police say a grenade and gun attack were launched on a residential block in mental attempt, the latest in a series of attacks targeting christians in a mainly muslim region. bill clinton has been in ohio trying to drum up support for his wife's campaign. among the key voting blocs there are african-americans in cities like cleveland. if they turn out in huge numbers, that could benefit the clinton camp. but many are not pleased with the country's direction. the bbc reports from cleveland's east side. >> no jobs over here no more. everything gone. gone. all these was jobs that our parents and stuff had, you know, back in the day. nothing now. reporter: this is the neighborhood were chris grew up. in the last decade or so, he has seen one factory after another go down and poverty and crime go up. nobody lives on these streets anymore. >> this is where all the guys hung out, all the girls hung out. reporter: here most of his friends sold drugs. there was nothing else to do. he was in pr

syria and the turks have concerns about some groups of kurds and they make no distinction between the pkk and why do americans see things differently? i think one thing everybody agrees, including the turks, is that the and they have been so northern driving daesh out of their bits of iraq, they have the confidence of the turkish leadership, and that's been very encouraging. >> mosul is very much on the agenda at the moment. and some people are, the public seem to be very concerned about how we protect the civilians in mosul. once the liberation of mosul is under way and i'm not quite clear how that is going to happen. >> i think that is, going to be a huge question for all of us in the course of the months ahead. mosul must be lib grated from daesh. it is a city of least 1.5 million people and very largely sunni. they are not going to want to be deliberated, to put it mildly, by shia militias. it is going to be a very, very difficult and delicate operation. but the needle has to be grasped and it requires a great deal of thought and it also requires us collectively to think about mosul p

syria and the turks have concerns about some groups of kurds and they make no difference between the pkk and why do americans see things differently? i think one thing everybody agrees, including the turks, is that the and they have been taking their bits out of iraq and they have the confidence out of the leadership and that's been encouraging. >> mosul is very much on the agenda at the moment. and some people are, the public seem to be very concerned about how we protect the civilians in mosul. once the liberation of mosul is under way and i'm not quite clear how that is going to happen. >> i think that is, going to be a huge question for all of us in the course of the months ahead. mosul must be from die esh. it is a city of least 1.5 million people and very largely sunni. they are not going to want to be deliberated, to put it mildly, by shia militias. it is going to be a very, very difficult and delicate operation. but the needle has to be grasped and it requires a great deal of thought and it also requires us collectively to think about mosul post liberation. how is it going to be

have concerns about some groups of kurds and they make no distinction between the white pg and the pkk, for instance, and whereas the americans see things differently. i think one thing everybody agrees, including the turks, is that the -- i think the peshmerga, the iraqi kurds who have been so important in driving daesh out of their bits of iraq, they have the confidence of the turkish leadership and that's been very encouraging. >> mosul of course is very much on the agenda at the moment and people are -- the public seem to be very concerned about how we protect the civilians in mosul once the liberation of mosul is under way. and i'm not quite clear how that is going to happen. >> well, i think that is going to be a huge question for all of us in the course of the months ahead. mosul must be liberated from daesh, the question is how to do it in such a way as to minimize civilian loss of life. it's a city of at least 1.5 million people, very largely sunni, they are not going to want to be liberated to put it mildly by shia militias, it is going to be a very, very difficult and delica

syria and the turks have concerns about some groups of kurds and they make no distinction between the pkk and why do americans see things differently? i think one thing everybody agrees, including the turks, is that the peshmerga, the iraqi kurds who have been so important in driving daesh out of their bits of iraq, they have the confidence of the turkish leadership and that's been very encouraging. >> mosul is very much on the agenda at the moment. and some people are, the public seem to be very concerned about how we protect the civilians in mosul. once the liberation of mosul is under way and i'm not quite clear how that is going to happen. >> i think that is, going to be a huge question for all of us in the course of the months ahead. mosul must be liberated from daesh. it is a city of least 1.5 million people and very largely sunni. they are not going to want to be deliberated, to put it mildly, by shia militias. it is going to be a very, very difficult and delicate operation. but the needle has to be grasped and it requires a great deal of thought and it also requires us collectivel