it is hard, there is no signal that recep tayyip erdogan has any intention of stopping until he reachescurrent situation? the president and his defenders with a previous presidents have not had a great success and many american voters wa nt great success and many american voters want american troops out of foreign wars? there is a remarkable unanimity across washington whether you thought the troops should have been there or gone, that this is about the most catastrophic way to remove them that one could have imagined, that having led notjust the kurds but european allies that we we re the kurds but european allies that we were there pursuing a negotiated outcome which would have allowed safety at least four civilians and two retain control of isis prisoners who the kurds were holding. it is ha rd to who the kurds were holding. it is hard to find anyone who says that the execution if not the policy are real catastrophic failure already in its first week. what is your overall view of the picture. with this presidency, the bizarre becomes everyday but international policy and diplomacy ha

turkeys president recep tayyip erdogan refuted reports of violations.els to move out of the safe sound in the u.s. to oversee the process. -- and warnings that they will resume the offensive if the kurds don't abide by the terms of the deal. >> the issue of the safe sound can be solved if the u.s. can realize our promises, but if they are not realized, the operation will continue more rapidly than before. 15 million of turkey citizens are kurdish. people,rget the kurdish but the ypg, say the turkey, because risk is ignited as a terrorist group. turkeyld tusk is urging to immediately withdraw its forces from syria. >> the so-called cease-fire is it is a we expected, capitulation of the kurds. i think that we have to be very consistent here, and we have to call for turkey to put an end to its military action immediately and to withdraw its forces and respect international human attorney long. the turkish president once work the effigies -- war refugees to go home. if syrianot a problem forces control the area. the aim is to secure this a seven. >> that is

turkish president recep tayyip erdogan says turkey and russia have reached a deal. which sysyrian kurdish fighters will move thirty kilometers away from the border in the north east syria within a hundred and fifty channels. she's from mississippi laughter of says the cork implies the end. turkey's incursion. canada's trudeau is re elected body of have to try to go up in in the minority liberal ministration i'm sure she is conservatives ng the popular vote butut that didn't convert into actual seats. leading democrat. john the same as the possible can make . thank you very much for being with us big developments but no discernible progress we talking breaks it two votes took place in london the first. so mps paaaas bars j johnson's withdrawal agreed and b build that on its first reading. this action first of boris johnson is up one is prime minister but thenen came the slap in the face inevitably number two. the bills second reading went against johnson. respondents than forced to announce the brakes process is now on hold. you have to decide on a delay period. my d

turkey will be devastating if a meeting between vice president mike pence and turkish president recep tayyip erdogans not successful. but successful for who? erdogan has rejected calls for a cease-fire in northern syria, where his incursion against the former u.s. allies, syrian kurds, has now drawn in troops of syrian president bashar al-assad. meanwhile, syrian troops have entered kobani, the city where kurdish and u.s. troops first defeated islamic state militants four years ago. reporter: 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 firing at the city from the turkish border city. even with a clear military disadvantage, the kurdish mililitia has beenen able to kep the turkish offensive in check. both the u.s. and eu countries have repeatedly called on turkish president erdogan to halt the attacks. turkey's offensive has forced tens of thousands to flee the region. many have gone to iraq. but erdogan has rejected intern

we begin with the arab news who report turkish president recep tayyip erdogan has said a deal has beenuled "safe zone" in north—east syria. once kurdish forces have left, ankara and moscow will then run joint patrols around the area. the guardian says borisjohnson's plan to fast—track his brexit deal through parliament in time for the 31 october deadline has been blocked by mps. the prime minister said he would now speak to eu leaders and urge them not to agree to a prolonged brexit extension. the times leads with a latest breakthrough in the fight against alzheimer's disease. doctors have welcomed the development of a new drug which apparently is able to slow the condition if it is caught in its earliest stages calling it a "turning point" in the battle against the debilitating condition. bbc sport carries the sad news belgian paralympian marieke vervoort has ended her own life through euthanasia in belgium at the age of a0. marieke vervoort, who won gold and silver at the london 2012 paralympics, and two further medals at rio 2016, had an incurable degenerative muscle disease. and fi

trump spoke with president recep tayyip erdogan of turkey by telephone.key will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation in northern syria. the united states armed forces will not support or be involved in that operation, and the united states forces, having defeated the isis territorial 'caliphate,' will no longer be in the immediate area." the announcement marks a major shift in u.s. policy. in january, president trump threatened to "devastate turkey economically" if it attacked kurdish forces in syria. b back to allowowut turkey's assault or leave syria entirely. meanwhile, in other news from the region, mass anti-government protests are continuing in iraq. the death toll has now topped 109 as police and soldiers continue to open fire on thousands of demonstrators who are defying government-imposed curfews. to talk about all of these issues, we are joined by patrick cockburn, middle east correspondent for the independent. patrick, welcome back to democracy now! let's start with a surprise announcement after the phone conversation between

turkish president recep tayyip erdogan says turkey and russia have reached a deal.hich sysyrian kurdish fighters will move thirty kilometers away from the border in the north east syria within a hundred and fifty channels. she's from mississippi laughter of says the cork implies

president recep tayyip erdogan cracked down on the military and all aspects of society. he rallied supporters and arrested hundreds of thousands he accused of terrorism. the brunsons were also both arrested. in turkey they spent every day together. but when noreen was released, andrew was isolated and shuttled between prisons for two years. noreen visited the prison every day and kept a vigil. >> turkish tv kept brunson in the news, accusing him of being a c.i.a. agent and supporting an exiled cleric living in pennsylvania who turkey blames for the coup attempt. turkey wanted to trade goulan for brunson. >> release pastor andrew brunson now or be prepared to face the consequences. >> reporter: the trump administration refused and imposed sanctions, and congress maintained bipartisan pressure. north carolina republican senator thom tillis. >> the charges that we've seen to me are specious, and i think we've got to continue to support the family. >> schifrin: new hampshire democratic senator jeanne shaheen pushed erdogan for brunson's release. on october 12, 2018, he was r

welcome back we begin with the latest on the talks held in ankara between the turkish president recep tayyip erdogan a high level delegation from washington which consisted of the us vice president mike pence. and sector state mike pompeii a well the us president donald trump announced on twitter just a short while ago. the delegations efforts to persuade turkey to hold its offensive against the kurds in northern syria had succeeded. trump called and i quote great news and he thanke

the result of a deal between russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart, recep tayyip erdogan. >> we have seen a significant reduction in violence. we agree we must build on this to make progress in order for us to find a political solution to the conflict in syria. we fully support you in-lead efforts to reach a resolution. >> hundreds have died and thousands this place since turkey launched its attack on the kurds on october 9. this town is under turkish control of -- after fierce fighting. a cease-fire has been declared to allow turk -- to allow kurdish troops to pull back. erdogan has not ruled out further military strikes. >> now our soldiers and syria national army are patrolling the area of operation inch by inch and destroying the traps. if any of these terrorists come across us there, it is our national right to crush them, as it is already marked in written documents. >> the president also said he would send syrian refugees in turkey to europe. >> they panic when i say we will open the gates. don't panic. when the time comes, the gate can be opened. >> it is a threat

defending the turkish operation which has come under a great deal of international criticism recep tayyip erdogan saying earlier that no power can stop the turkish offensive in syria until it reaches its goals let's bring in our correspondent now in istanbul sin and who's been listening in sin him so the turkish foreign minister here briefing members of parliament i understand and we heard a very defiant tone earlier from president to one clearly turkey is intent on pushing ahead with this operation. yes exactly fully turkish officials have been stating the sosa beginning of the operation that they're determined to establish a safe zone for amendments to the iraqi border that stretches. 420 kilometers to turkey's southern border so prisons are gone. also repeated that you will not want in turkish military will not stop and he asked of the parties who wants to come to talk to turkish officials not to old for turkey to stop this military operation basically foreign minister social little child will also said the similar things. that turkey will never let any what they call a terrorist state by its

turkey's resident recep tayyip erdogan said the military offensive was to create a safe zone to house the 3.6 million syrian refugees inside turkey. , ——turkey‘s president. but he also wants to clear the area of turkish militias. the key is, some of those were key allies of the united states and britain who helped to defeat the jihadists of so—called islamic state. but turkey tends to regard any armed occurred as a terrorist. that area is needed for our safety and security, for the syrian refugees to go back to so they can go back to their normal lives and there is no vacuum to be filled by any terrorist network and also to make sure that syria is not divided territorially. over recent days, turkey has been building up its forces after wanting to do precisely this for years. turkey believes it has a green light from president trump, plucked from a hailstorm of contradictory presidential tweets. one threatened he would destroy turkey's economy if they now go too far. the united states has been pulling back some of its troops that could be in turkey's path. some of the kurdish forces tu

hesitate to defend themselves and that the americans have quote stop them in the back present recep tayyip erdogan says turkey could no longer ignore the threat posed by fighters across the border in northern syria. the withdrawal of u.s. troops from the area has begun following my full conversation last night with president trump as you know we had made a decision and i've always said that we may arrive one night unannounced and this decisiveness continues because we can no longer accept the threats caused to our country by these terrorist groups al jazeera. has the latest now from istanbul. turkey claims that the syrian kurdish farter group is the syria branch of the out both kurdistan workers party the p.k. k. which is deemed as a terrorist organization not only by turkey but by the us and the e.u. as well and turkey is saying is that the syrian democratic forces driving forces the y.p. g. forces that's why any autonomous area in northwestern syria is a potential risk for territorial integrity of syria along with turkey iran and iraq turkey wants to avoid any kurdish entity in that area that's

vice president says trump spoke to take president recep tayyip erdogan on monday and called for an immediate cease fire mike ben says he'll be heading to the region to discuss techies campaign. let me say the president could not have been more firm with president he would want to that. the united states of america simply not going to tolerate. turkey's invasion of syria any further and we're calling on syria to stand down to end the violence and come to the negotiating table and that's the reason the president's sending me to the region to make his intention very clear and we're going to be looking we're going to be looking for turkey to take strong action in that regard. well let's recap the latest military developments on the ground turkey says it's a sabotaging a safe zone along its southern border the 1st phase which stretches 120 kilometers wide and more than 30 kilometers deep into syrian territory turkish forces are battling for control of. the situation there is fluid with both sides repeatedly claiming they have control of the town so now in addition to take issue of making their pr

turkish president recep tayyip erdogan met with the us vice president mike pence earlier in ankara.es of america had agreed to a cease—fire in syria. it will be a pause in military operations for 120 hours while the united states facilitates the withdrawal of ypg from the affected areas in the safe zone and once that is completed, turkey has agreed to a permanent cease—fire and united states of america will work with turkey. this temporary cease—fire has come 11 days into the offensive — which began with turkey bombing and then moving its troops into north eastern syria. and then troops became involved too. the cease—fire could see kurdish forces withdrawing beneath this line — the perimeter of what turkey is calling a "safe zone" it intends to create, which would reach some 30km into syria. turkey has only agreed to stop fighting for 120 hours. but president donald trump nevertheless was quick to take the credit. this is an amazing outcome. this is an outcome regardless of how the press would like to tamp it down, this was something that they have been trying to get for ten years.

to meet with the turkish president recep tayyip erdogan with the goal of trying to secure a ceasefire deal overall civil jasper mortimer is in akron joins us now. i'm just what can you tell us abouot the situation in qabbani and how the news that. syrian troops have entered this town is significant. well thehe latet from thehe syrian observatory from human rights s which is a monitotoring group based in london. is that ththe syrian kurdh militiaia have allowed.. both goverernment forces and russian i into kobani so thisis brings thehe russianans up to oe turkisis walled u up for thehe t time sincece the s syrian civilr begannight yeaears a ago. now dorms p psident thehe other one said todayay he didn't mindd if the syrian governmenent army tok over man beat. which is aboutut thirty kilometers south of the turkish border because at least then man beats won't be under the control of terrorists which is his tererm foror the syrian kurdisish militia and i a assume that he will take mee or less the same l line with kababbani u know thahat the- syrian government takes it well then. in the s

yes the announcement came late on sunday night telephone call with the tech is president recep tayyip erdogan. at donald trump it would appear overruling his top advisers. and there are many fee is that this could really leave the cuts extremely vulnerable in the- case of an invasion by turkish forces because it would leave them. at unaided by the us i'm this is one of the many at trump tweets that we have seen on the subject it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous. endless wars many of them tribal. i'll bring all soldiers home we will fight for it is to our benefit. and only fights to win so very much the idea that. america fast means the allies read i matter anymore. i am now four hours later on the heap of criticism lake city that he issued this tweet. if turkey does and the thing that only in my great aunt much wisdom consider to be off limits. i will totally destroy into bliss right the economy of turkey i've done before. i'm alarming tweet number of reasons that one. and it certainly seems to be a reaction to the fact that he is getting criticized. even by those who would ordin

on thursday, turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan agreed to suspend his military operation againstria for five days. but those forces have accused ankara of breaching the ceasefire. they say turkish air and artillery attacks are still being carried out against border towns. well, in washington, the majority leader of the us senate says president trump's decision to withdraw troops from syria was a ‘grave mistake‘. in a rare criticism of president trump, mitch mcconnell has warned that that there are significant dangers in america abandoning its allies. here's the bbc‘s north america correspondent peter bowes. well, this is clearly something he feels strongly about and there is a lot of people analysing why he's written the article and gone so public about it. one theory is that he's actually signalling to republicans, look, it is ok to criticise the president on this issue, such is the strength of feeling. a lot of republicans haven't spoken out up until now, but maybe they will in the future. and just to summarise, what he is saying in this article is that he is really focusing on

i think there is almost no way that recep tayyip erdogan would have gone forward with this incursionpoken with consistency and strength that he and others opposed it. now i worry, let's remember the syrian democratic forces sustained 11,000 casualties in helping the us and the europeans to defeat the isis caliphate, they have been detaining thousands of isis detainees. based on my service in the army recall that breaking faith, breaking faith with partners who fought and died fighting the shed enemy. it will make people more relu cta nt to shed enemy. it will make people more reluctant to work with us in the future which is the exact opposite of what president trump wanted and result in more trips going abroad. they were withdrawn from this particular area not the country itself and he is saying in that senseit itself and he is saying in that sense it feels like there was a possibility that is there a possibility that is there a possibility they could re—establish themselves in this region or are we are step too far? it is a good question and an important distinction. withdrawing fro

timing might be connected with president trump's troubles at home which had been it's also a recep tayyip erdogan has long wanted to create what he calls a "safe zone"— a place to deposit the hundreds of thousands of refugees his country has been hosting — and by the way, to push syria's kurds away from his border. to president erdogan, kurds, almost without exception, are trouble — potential allies for turkey's own restive minority. this weekend president trump are saying he would be more than happy to negotiate a ceasefire between turkey and the syrian kurds, that is a case of trying to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted. the overnight news was, the idea was the kurds and north—eastern syria had been instrumental in pushing isis back, 10,000 lives lost and many more casualties. embedded with them when 50 to 100 american observers, special forces and what did last week which initiated the whole sequence week which initiated the whole sequence of chaos as he had a long phone call with erdogan who has been trying to get in there for more than a yearand in trying to get in there for mo

president recep tayyip erdogan said the operation was to create a "safe zone" cleared of kurdish militiasse syrian refugees. chris buckler has the latest all of this area. whatever it takes. ankara says it won't allow this strip of land, corridor of terabit the fear of many in international community is that this new conflict could further destabilise the middle east and withdrawing troops from here, the american government stands accused of abandoning its allies, the kurdish forces, who fought alongside them against the islamic state group. the us has given turkey a green light. let'sjust false. the united states didn't give turkey a green light. will continue to be in a position to do what we need to do to keep the american people as safe as with possibly can but it's not only in syria, it emanates from barack, there are a dozen other countries with the threat from radical islamic terrorism continues to exist. several towns and villages have already been badly damaged and some people have chosen to flee their homes, not that many of them thought they had much choice. there has been wide

2018 when he announced he would withdraw from afghanistan, it also came after phone call with recep tayyip erdogan report on the serious study group. you suggested the us is done caring about syria? it is abundantly clear that across the political spectrum, foreign policy analysts and officials have been unable to formulate an effective strategy for syria. we are therefore a few discreet reasons. 0ne therefore a few discreet reasons. one to keep pressure on the islamic state and, two, to prevent iran creating a land bridge and to get some leverage over russia who are essentially the kingmakers in syria. beyond that, no—one in washington really has a good idea about what us interests beyond that are at stake in syria and those people would prefer in syria and those people would p refer to in syria and those people would prefer to actually not care about it at all. if we are not clear exactly what this says, where does this lead the sdf who have been absolutely crucial in the battle against the so—called islamic state? crucial in the battle against the so-called islamic state? one could imagine that

peace and will sort out the syrian crisis in a radical way this operation lead by president recep tayyip erdogan is one of the steps and one of the procedures among other steps taken by president for the sake of syria and for keeping the unity of syria as well as the situation stands at the moment turkish forces have launched attacks on the syrian border town of russell i mean turkey out turkish artillery fire has also targeted the town of tal where u.s. troops recently evacuated now that is territory that is held by the s.d.f. kurdish led forces troops are stationed in the turkish border town of a collie they have not yet crossed over into syria turkey already has a presence elsewhere in syria though holding a number of observation points in the northwest of the country an area that is also controlled by rebel forces now into one has said that the wider aim of the offensive is to establish a safe zone inside the s.d.f. territory where there are 2000000 refugees currently hosted in turkey and where they could be settled charles strafford has the latest from the turkey syria border . an artillery

ons sations of turkish violations, denied by president recep tayyip erdogan, who warned that if the u.s. failed in its promise to remove kurdish forces within five days, his military would resume the offenses, more intensely than before. the cease-fire came too late for these kurdish children, victims of an alleged chemical weapons attack. a chemical weapons expert we heoke to said the horrific burns suggest the use of white bosphorous, which is banned by the international community when used against civilians. the u.s. defense secretary said today that no u.s. troops are taking part in enforcing the so- salled safe zone and will continue to withdraw as planned from northeast syria. there's been no indication of a pullout of kurdish forces, and their commanders tell cbs news they will continue to defend coeir territory. president trump was already claiming the cease-fire as a win. >> we've had tremendous success, i think, over the last couple of days. blittle bit unconventional, a itttle bit of hard love. but the kurds are very happy about it. president erdogan and turkey is satisfied w

in a letter written before the offensive, mr trump urged recep tayyip erdogan to work out a good dealwould look on you favourably if you get this right... the president is under intense pressure from his critics, leading democrats walked out of a meeting with mr trump at the white house after they say he had a meltdown. i think that vote, the size of the vote, more than two to one of the republicans voted to oppose what the president did, probably got to the president because he was shaken up by it and thatis because he was shaken up by it and that is why we could not continue in the meeting because he wasjust that is why we could not continue in the meeting because he was just not relating to the reality of it. with president trump distancing america from the conflict between and syria, vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike pompeo are heading into it, en route to ankara, to try to broker a ceasefire. of course, while the politics rages on in washington dc, the fighting and dying in syria goes on. syrian government troops, backed by russian forces, have advanced into p

invasion of northern syria he announced this choose that he's invited t turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan to the white house next month. will be serious harm to the kurdish that forces that have been america's ally in fighting the islamic state for nearly four years erdogan however sees these codes as terrorists. and a threat along turkey's southern border thirty one seemingly intent on launching an incursion into that swathe of north syria trump on monday move between fifty and a hundred us forces. out of the area to other locations in the country. impeachment inquiry. turkish soldiers lost to the syrian border as ankara says it has finalized preparations for a minute sheepish into north east syria they sent to us president donald trump told remaining us forces out of the region a move which leaves kurdish led forces vulnerable to turkish attack. across northern syria several protests took place against both washington's move and techies threats. and can easily winded us bank fighters demonstrated ououtside you and offices b but eveven we thehe people of northn syria coal on the internat

turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan has vowed to crush the kurdish forces if they did not withdrawposed under the deal. translation: if it works, it works. if it doesn't, and those 120 hours expire, we will continue from where we left off and keep crushing the heads of those terrorists. our correspondent barbara plett usher is in southern turkey, and has been following the events. most of the reported activity concerns this syrian town which has been the main focus of the turkish offensive. kurdish forces say the attacks continue, mostly on the ground, from militias allied with the turks. they say that 13 fighters and five civilians have been killed since the ceasefire began, but we have not been able to independently verify that. they also say that there are many injured, but they are not able to evacuate them, because the town is under siege and they have been in constant communication with the americans about this and are demanding that the americans pressure turkey to give civilians and the injured safe passage out of the town. sources within the town also say that the turks ar

turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan has vowed to crush the kurdish forces if they did not withdrawd for readmitting a professor who is accused of sexually harrassing students. peter hutchinson was banned from contacting students after nearly a dozen made complaints about inappropriate incidents in 2014 and 2015. now the university is saying he was removed mistakenly. one ex student said that the decision to allow him to teach again — was a slap in the face. jeremy bamber, who's spent 33 years in jail for killing his family, believes he's uncovered evidence that could prove his innocence. he was jailed in the 1980s for shooting his adopted parents, his sister and her two sons at a farmhouse in essex. bamber‘s legal team believe the recently uncovered information proves he was not at the scene when the murders took place. time for a look at the weather with louise lear. good evening. many of us have been playing the weather lottery together. some of us have seen blue skies and sunshine with a few isolated showers like this weather watcher picture sent in from london but for others, i

despite the clashes turkish president recep tayyip erdogan said on tuesday the offensive was progressing as planned so by you too bye. yeah because we have liberated approximately a one thousand squarare kilomemetr areaea from terrorist occupatio. god willing in a short while will secure the entire area from man beach to our border with iraq. i mean is. the u. s. is decision to pull out of serialized week was widely seen as a major turning pointnt givig turkey free reign to launch its offensive against the kurds but with russia now stepping in as the region's new power broker and the prospect of a dirirect conflict with the syrian army the situation seems to have changed for ankara. they givive you morere of an ininternational view points of what's going on now regarding the- turkey a serious situation the french from its is only the dream was called in for a meeeeting. the internatioional coalition againt the islamic state group including the united states and turkey to discuss the situation. in northeastern syria he says he wants to meet also with the kurds. us officials say the vice p

welcome back we begin with the latest on the talks held in ankara between the turkish president recep tayyip erdogan and a high level delegation from washington which consisted of the us vice president mike pence. and sector state mike pompeii a well the us president donald trump announced on twitter just a short while ago. the delegations efforts to persuade turkey to hold its offensive against the kurds in northern syria had succeeded. trump called and i quote great news and he thanked president i'd want since said that millions of lives will notot be savedd but until now the turkish president. and ignored international pressure to hold the offensive which monitors say already claimed the lives of dozens of civilians in which a displaced more than three hundred thousand people. over that part turkish officials say they had my quote. got exactly what they wanted out of the meeting. well speaking a short while ago president trump call thisis a great day for turkey ad a great day for the cuts. this is an amazing outcome this is an outcome. regardless of how the press would like to. dampen downwn this

turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan has vowed to crush the kurdish forces if they did not withdrawr the deal. translation: if it works, it works. if it doesn't, the minute those 120 hours expire, we will continue from where we left off and keep crushing the heads of those terrorists. catalan separatist leaders have called on the spanish government to start independence talks after days of violence on the streets of barcelona. more protests are taking place now — the sixth day of demonstrations following the jailing of some separatist leaders by spain's supreme court. thousands of people have been gathering this area for the last couple of hours. they are gathering in the street that had done to the spanish national police headquarters. that is the focus of many of the progress we have seen throughout the week. there is a heavy police presence here guarding it. this is not the only place in barcelona where we have seen demonstrations tonight stop there are other areas of the city that people are gathering, also in other parts of catalonia tonight. there are demonstrations as well. i

turkey's resident recep tayyip erdogan said the military offensive was to create a safe zone to how someees inside turkey —— tu rkey‘s syrian refugees inside turkey —— turkey's president. but he also wa nts to turkey's president. but he also wants to clear the area of turkish militias. the key is, some of those we re militias. the key is, some of those were key allies of the united states and britain who helped to defeat that you had lists of so—called islamic state. but turkey tends to regard any armed occurred as a terrorist. that area is needed for our safety and security, for the syrian refugees to go back to so they can go back to their normal lives and there is no vacuum to be filled by any terrorist network and also to make sure that syria is not divided territorially. over recent days, turkey has been building up its forces after wanting to do precisely this for years. turkey believes it has a green light from president trump, plucked from a hailstorm of contradictory presidential tweets. one threat and he would destroy turkey's economy if they now go too far. —— one threatened.

turkey's president, recep tayyip erdogan, claims more than 100 kurdish fighters in syria, who he regardsterrorists, have been killed. turkey is trying to seize land to create a "safe zone" in syria just inside the border, to settle some of the millions of syrian refugees who have fled the eight year war. our international correspondent, 0rla guerin is on the turkish syrian border in akcakale, which has been fired on by the kurds today. the turkish president erdogan has been defending his country's invasion of syria as international concern gi’ows. invasion of syria as international concern grows. the french president emmanuel macron has warned the offensive risks giving the islamic state group a chance to regroup. the nato secretary general will be here in istanbul tomorrow for meetings. as turkey pushed deeper into syrian kurdish territory today, there were losses on both sides of the border and a warning my report contains distressing images. riding into battle to the tune of war songs from the ottoman era. a hero's sendoff for fighters who are pa rt hero's sendoff for fighters who are

this is the- turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan that are already fees owed you humanitarian alert cicivilians have begun fleeing towns in northeast here that are being targeted by. t turkish extracts. turkrkish jets contine to pound northern syria with air strikes and artillery bombardment tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing. president trump born signed her to safeguard civilians as it needs to take out kurdish point is it considers terrorists. but a balm wants five does not discriminate between a soldier and a civilian and p plenty of them not to have found themselves in the firing line adam. inside in the morning we were hit with six or seven shells and now there are p peope you c cannot leaveve because thy don't have. the means of transportation some people are content than others do. at least nine civilians have been killed in northeast in syria. according to the syrian democratic forces. local media reports say at this hosting qamishli. eleven year old boy towing and his sister lost a leg. roads out to syria have been pacacked in at one point te border i into a raucous

turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan has rejected the possibility of a cease fire in northeastern syria despite sanctions by the u.s. a high level u.s. delegation is on its way to ankara to try and end the conflicts the u.s. justice department meanwhile has filed criminal charges against a major turkish bank federal prosecutors accuse her bank of taking on any more $1000000000.00 scheme that helped iran avoid u.s. sanctions court documents say iran access to international markets using proceeds from its oil and gas sales on tuesday the u.s. unarmed sanctions against 30 in response to the turkish offensive in ne in syria in the united states the democrats who want to replace donald trump as president have presented a united front calling for him to be impeached they wrapped up their 4th debate in ohio a battleground state that spock's the winner of the presidential vote for decades but several counties warned that forcing chom from office could not be the democrats' only message to go she ages from the u.k. and european union have held talks through the night as they seek to work o

the country's president, recep tayyip erdogan, for the moment anyway, appears to be in no mood to compromisee, thank you very much indeed. let's take you back to manchester now, as we were saying, five people stabbed at the arndale shopping centre there in manchester, which was evacuated. one man, we gather, has been arrested. we can get the latest from our correspondent peter marshall, who is at the scene. what more can you tell us? well, as you can see, still intense police and ambulance activity outside the arndale centre, which remains closed off. police we re which remains closed off. police were called shortly after 11.152 attentive reports of one, possibly two men randomly attacking people within a starbucks cafe within the main concourse of the arndale centre. ambulance service confirmed that five people have been injured, it is not clear exactly how serious those injuries are at this stage. we know that the police have arrested a man in his 40s, he is being held and questioned on suspicion of serious assault. we know also that greater manchester police have said that counter—terrori

turkish president recep tayyip erdogan has proposed a so-called "safe zone" on the border, clearing outkurds and resettling it with syrian refugees from elsewhere in the country; more than 3 million syrians have fled to turkey since the syrian civil war began in 2011. >> ( translated ): if this safe zone, the secure zone, can be declared, we can resettle confidently somewhere between 1 million to 2 million refugees. we can afford that opportunity. >> nawaz: last year, turkish forces attacked, and still occupy, parts of northeast syria including the kurdish city of afrin. in august, erdogan renewed his threats to destroy the kurds:s o >> ( translated ): turkey has the right to eliminate all threats against its national security. god willing, we will carry the process started with afrin and jaraus to the next stage very soon. >> nawaz: the u.s. has long found itself between the pitched adversaries. in the past, president trump boasted of his ability to convince nato ally turkey to hold off on further attacks on his partner in the fight against isis. mr. trump in late june, at the g-20 mee

turkish president recep tayyip erdogan is meeting with russian president vladimir putin in sochi, russia, today as the five-day ceasefire between turkey's military and syrian kurdish groups expires at noon eastern time. restart thet to offensive and crushed the heads of syrian kurdish forces if they don't withdraw from the turkey-syria border. the turkish invasion into kurdish-controlled areas of northern syria began after president trump spoke to erdogan on the telephone october 6 and then announced he was abruptly withdrawing u.s. troops from the region, clearing the way for the offensive. convoys of these u.s. troops have been departing northern syria for western iraq, where the pentagon says they will be re-stationed. but the iraqi government says the u.s. does not have permission to station those troops in iraq. meanwhile, president trump now says some u.s. troops will remain in nonorthern syriaia in order to prorotect oil fieields. "the new york times" a also reports despite president trump's vow to end endless wars, about 200,000 u.s. troops are deployed overseas and that there ar

two weeks ago i spoke about this conflict with the turkish president recep tayyip erdogan. the allegations that turkey was helping some countries including syria avoid u.s. sanctions through financial invasion. >> let me tell you something, these are the allegations voiced by terrorist organization that are behind the failed coup july 2016. >> so that's not true? >> no. these allegations are more than wrong. these are produced propaganda by the organization and our banks have full compliance with the regulations of the banking transactions i've always been conducted within the frame of international recognized principles. a financing sector has always been transparent and built upon these principles. we have a great track record and our sector is very honest and strong. our goal, it's been suggested that turkey has been supported. can anyone point to another country other than turkey who did what we did in that city? we have killed more than 3500 terrorists. i wonder if they can show any other country that fought them vigorously as turkey did. >> bret: a few days ago you ho

in ankara, turkish president recep tayyip erdogan defended e operation, dubbed "pea spring." he insisted the onslaught is about protecting terri >>ust like all the other operations carried out by turkey, the aim of the peace spring is to contribute to syria's territorial and political integrity. >> nawaz: turkey says the territory should ilude a 20- mile buffer zoneng syrian kurds, who itisiews as terr. turkey today hit a number of kurdish-held bder towns. the assault on the u.s. kurdish allies came after the u.s. withdrew its forces from the area monday. on sunday, president trump spokh with erdogan ophone about e rianmoval, giving turkey a ureeds pgrlayed gha key role in the u.s. led anti-isisit con that took back "islamic state."y the so-called after coming under fire for the troop withdrawal, president trump threatened economic action agnst turkey, a nato ally, over the attack. in a tweet this morning, he in washington this afternoon, president trump weighed in: >> we are going to posdo something very very tough wi regard to sanctions and other financial things. >> nawaz:

in ankara, turkish president recep tayyip erdogan defended the operation, dubbed "peace spring." abprtierryauisgh jsl t like all the other operations carried out by turkey, the aim of the peace spri cs ngibliontitotol utintrt. >> nawaz: turkey says the territory should ilude a 20- mile buffer zone along the syrian border to progainst syrian kurds, who it views as terrorists. turkey today hit a numbeldof kurdish-heorder towns.on the assaulhe u.s. kurdish allies came after the u.s. withdrew its forces from the area monday. with erdogan on the phone aboute the removal, giving turkey a grees.light to attack the kurd the syrian kurds played key role in the u.s. led anti-isis coalition that took back territory held by the so-cald "islamic state." after coming under fire for the troop withdrawal, president trump threatened econoc actionns agturkey, a nato ally, over the aac weetmo aasngtothisfter tinon, president trump tweighed : we are going to possibly do something very very tough withrd regao sanctions and other financial things.>> nawaz: the o announced today it had in its custody t

of the united states did two weeks ago and he green lit a call with the turkish strongman recep tayyip erdogan, paved the way for ethnic cleansing and horrific human rights abuses against the kurds. risking isis reconstituting itself. it goes against years of blood and toil by both kurdish fighters and american fighters fighting side by side, and that all happened after one phone call. where donald trump completely and totally capitulated to erdogan's interest. to the shock, surprise and horror of essentially the entire united states government. from the state department to the department of defense to the troops on the ground who had to retreat so fast they left their mess halls intact. and then we had to bomb our own base in syria to stop it from falling into enemy hands. the president has tried to save face on this. he said a million different wild and contradictory things about his rash and inexplicable decision. and the white house released a rambling and childish letter that the president wrote, definitely was the president who wrote it. definitely the president wrote it. not ghost writt

meanwhile, turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan said some turkish fighters are in a so-called safeonebolong the er. he warned them to withdraw or face a new kurt -- turkish assault. facebook says that has removed dozens of pages and accountsf that were part a russian disinformation campaign in africa. the company says they were linked to a russian oligarch accused of interfering in the 2016 u.s. presidential electn. in washington,r fbi directo christopher wray told a congressional hearing that russia means to metal again in next year's election. >> some of the things the russians have tried in other countries, we expect them to try to do here as well. which puts the premium on the point i was making before about our working with on the foreign influence side, working with social media companies to get them to keep upping their game as part of the defense. judy: in its announcement, facebook said it took down nearly 200 accounts with more than one million followefr across eightan nations. twitter announced today it will ban all political advertising on its service starting november

in the russian resort of sochi, turkish president recep tayyip erdogan sat down with his host, russian president vladimir putin. after a six-hour meeting, erdogan said turkey, russia, and the syrian regime together would evict kurdish fighters known as the y.p.g. >> ( translated ): y.p.g. terrorists and their arms will be taken farther than 30 k.m. from the border. their fortifications and positions will be destroyed. turkish and russian joint patrol will begin. >> schifrin: that is not what the u.s. expected. last week, u.s. and turkey negotiated a buffer zone, 18 miles deep and 75 miles wide, where turkish forces, in blue, entered, and kurdish forces retreated. and this is the area turkey and russia agreed to: the syrian- turkish border all the way to iraq, and the strategically- important towns of manbij and tal rifat in the west-- an expanse of more than 300 miles across. and after six da, the turks and russians promise joint patrols, indefinitely, within six miles of the border. russian forces have backed and saved syrian president bashar al-assad's regime. today, russian presiden