well nato secretary general here in stoltenberg says it is too early to judge the consequences of the deal struck between russia and nato member turkey over northern syria speaking ahead of a nato defense ministers summit in brussels stoltenberg said he was encouraged that a cease fire between turkey and the syrian kurds ahead of the agreement was a 1st step towards a political settlement. and our correspondent teri schultz is covering that summit for us in brussels hi terry so yes stoltenberg says it is too early to pass judgment but what how is nato viewing the situation at this point in northern syria . very very cautiously soumik this situation puts nato in such an awkward position not only were many allies uncomfortable when the us pulled its limited military personnel out of northern syria because that was seen as the only barrier to turkey going and then of course they spoke out against turkey's military incursion they urged turkey not to do this they urged turkey to make it very limited of course many of these same governments most of these same governments across town at e.u.

fascination summit in brussels secretary-general yan stoltenberg welcomed the arrangement the result of a deal between russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart to red chip. we have seen significant reduction in violence we agree with must build on this should make it progress in our 1st to find the political solution to the conflict in syria. we fully support you and other forts to reach a political solution. hundreds have died and peasants have been displaced since turkey launched its attack on the kurds on october 9th. desires at street some destruction this is a town of ross a line under turkish control after fierce fighting a cease fire has been declared to allow kurdish troops to pull back but fighting still faired up on thursday. germany's defense minister wants to prevent further conflict with an international enforce security zone in northern syria she believes the idea is gaining traction. in the discussion has begun it will be a long process and a difficult path but the 1st steps the 1st talks were encouraging. but after the u.s. withdrawal russia and tu

stoltenberg have responded positively to the german suggestion that if there is a safe zone set up in northern syria that perhaps there would be an international monitoring mission of that area led by germany so the u.s. could then support this proposal for an international security zone but wouldn't take part in it. that's right i asked u.s. ambassador kay bailey hutchison if the u.s. would participate in this and she said she doesn't see that happening but she saw it as a very good thing that europe is taking the lead on this that germany's specifically has proposed this and she said that will be discussed around the table and that it would be views viewed as a very positive development if there should be a safe zone set up in northern syria to defuse teri schultz reporting for us thank you terry. let's get a look now at some other stories making news around the world european council president donald tusk says he will recommend the e.u. grant the u.k. another extension to leave the bloc british prime minister boris johnson says he wants no further breaks that delay but after parlia

he urged turkey to act with restraint in saying that its actions should be proportionate however stoltenberg there are birds did confirm to reporters that turkey which is a member of nato has legitimate security concerns and that its planned offensive is in response to sue the legitimate security concerns that are presented to turkey now on thursday there is going to be a un security council meeting in regards to the situation with the turkish offensive in northeastern syria. reporting live from new york thank you. we also discussed this to operation and its potential repercussions for the region with several analysts. talking about displacement and effectively genocide of innocents kurdish civilians innocent communities within that region so it is absolutely terrifying to know how you know the communities are feeding as they are continually being bombarded by the turkish offensive the kurds have always been on the defensive but now they know they must the fend themselves and their families which means that unfortunately they may not be able to police the the camps that hold isis and the isi

secretary of state my pump aoe standing alongside the head of nato stoltenberg secretary of state is in brussels as you can see this follows his trip to turkey with the u.s. vice president where the 2 men helped secure a tentative cease fire in northeast syria and cessation of the turkish military operation currently taking place or that was taking place in the north east of syria so pump a is holding a press conference with the. let's bring in the who's joining us from brussels and listening to the secretary of state nadeem he seemed to say that he was there because he wanted to inform nato about what the u.s. had accomplished when it came to the cease fire in northeast syria. that's right he started off by identifying what he called a common enemy between the united states and its fellow nato member turkey and that enemy he identified was as he called it or i so and just very in the question and answer session he was asked again about reports that some european nations are getting ready to try to use this 5 day ceasefire to perhaps evacuate some of their own citizens who are believ

he urged turkey to act with restraint in saying that its actions should be proportionate however stoltenberg there are bird did confirm to reporters that turkey which is a member of nato has legitimate security concerns and that its planned offensive is in response to sue legitimate security concerns that are presented to turkey now on thursday there is going to be a un security council meeting in regards to the situation with the turkish offensive in northeastern syria. that's going on now to investigative journalist on syria some of the movement rick. thanks for joining us as always the millions of. burial lots of refugee camps comes with prisoners from as well how should the concerns should we be put into operation in the region. well i think we should be very concerned it's clearly a violation of international law and it's not many times you get russia germany the u.k. the usa and saudi arabia all agreeing and yet they are all saying that. they're all condemning this this move now the u.s. said that he thought it was a bad idea but it's true they withdrew the the u.s. troops that were on

fascination summit in brussels secretary-general yan stoltenberg welcomed the arrangement the result of a deal between russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart to red chip tie up at a lot i'm encouraged by the fact that it also had a sphere have seen a significant reduction in violence in fighting and we have to build on that to work for a political solution all the crisis. in syria hundreds have died and peasants have been displaced since turkey launched its attack on the kurds on october 9th. desires at streets and destruction this is a town of rahsaan under turkish control and after fierce fighting a cease fire has been declared to allow kurdish troops to pull back but fighting still ferret up on thursday. on has not ruled out further military strikes. sure you know a soul just and syrian national army up are trolling the area of operation inch by inch and they are destroying the traps if any of these terrorists come across us there is a natural right to crush them as it is already marked and written documents. are yours the president also said he would send sy

secretary stoltenberg. patrick: in terms of gray zone warfare, do you say there is still a lot of work to do to be where we need to be in terms of being a credible and current force on that sort of behavior? >> never in my 34 years in the army have i said i was ready. when i was a lieutenant, i told an officer that i was ready. he said when you can do that operation at night with all of your equipment on, then you are ready. this is somewhat of a new field especially when you talk about land forces. there is room for growth. but what is exciting is we are on the right trajectory of across the aligns. patrick: let me ask you about this because this is an issue that challenges the traditional line between military forces. you also have communicators and policy folks and gray zone warfare has advantages that go over those distinctions. do you feel nato forces and democratic forces in the west are prepared for the next phase of it in europe? lauren: we have been spending a lot of time on this. there has been a

fascination some as in brussels secretary general yan stoltenberg welcomed the arrangement the result of a deal between russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart chip. we have seen significant reduction in violence we agree with must build on this should make good progress in our efforts to find the political solution to the conflict in syria. we fully support you another force to reach a political solution. hundreds have died and peasants have been displaced since turkey launched its attack on the kurds on october 9th. decisive street some destruction this is a town of rahsaan and to turkish control after fierce fighting a cease fire has been declared to allow kurdish troops to pull back but fighting still fed up on thursday. has not ruled for their military strikes sharing a cell just and syrian national army up or trolling the area of operation inch by inch and they are destroying the traps if any of these terrorists come across us there is no natural right to crush them as it is already marked in written documents. the president also said he would send syrian re

to launch an incursion against the kurds has created more problems so there is relief for me and stoltenberg the violence in northeast syria does seem to be decreasing he said that these were frank discussions which is usually diplo speak for arguments many nato members don't like turkey's incursion into northeast syria one bit although nato does acknowledge that ankara has security concerns the line from stoltenberg is that nato is a broad alliance of many different countries it's had internal problems in the past and that this is nothing that nato can handle. in other developments the u.s. is planning to send additional assets into syria to reinforce its military position now the pentagon is saying that it wants to prevent syrian oil falling into the hands of i sell or what it's described as other destabilizing actors in the region u.s. senator lindsey graham says the politicians have been briefed so here's some news we had a situation room briefing by general milley about developments in syria. there were 8 or 10 senators there's a plan coming together from the. joint chiefs that i think

in brussels acknowledging different views on the issue at least as what secretary general younes stoltenberg said the behavior of yet another member of the united states that behavior not helping things at all the u.s. pulled its troops from syria earlier this month washington l says it will send them back to syria to prevent so-called islamic state from capturing crucial oil fields in the east. it isn't easy keeping up with america's position in syria after president trump emphatically said u.s. troops will coming home his statement seemed in downs as reports came into the white house that sets out options for leaving. u.s. forces in northeast syria the new order seems to be modifying the objective of keeping isis extremists at bay to include the safeguarding of the oil fields the region is in a state of flux to trump declared he was withdrawing u.s. troops creating a vacuum on tuesday russia and turkey struck a deal on a 30 kilometer deep safe zone to enable the withdrawal of could its units from the area the oil fields which are of interest to the u.s. and in the east of the region at a n

fascination summit in brussels secretary-general yan stoltenberg welcomed the arrangement the result of a deal between russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart chip tayyip adult i'm encouraged by the fact that it also had a sphere have seen a significant reduction in violence in fighting and we have to build on that to work for a political solution all the crisis. in syria hundreds have died and peasants have been displaced since turkey launched its attack on the kurds on october 9th. deserted streets some destruction this is a town of rahsaan under turkish control after fierce fighting a cease fire has been declared to allow kurdish troops to pull back but fighting still ferret up on thursday. air to one has not ruled out further military strikes sharing to us you know our soldiers and syrian national army up are trolling the area of operation inch by inch and they are destroying the traps if any of these terrorists come across us there is no natural right to crush them as it is already marked in written documents wheels alucard are used the president also said h

like i said a lot of criticism towards president trump on wednesday nato secretary general again stoltenberg said it was too early to judge the consequences of the deal struck between russia and the which is a nato member over northern syria now did trump mention nato at all and do you have any message for his european allies well we've heard president trump saying time and time again that the european union and prince several members of the e.u. need to do more now he said that they should take back at any of the isis fighters from their countries the fighters who were captured by u.s. forces and essentially put them on trial and jailed them in their home countries he said that europe has done very little and now it's their time to act so he sent out a very very clear message something that we've gotten used to hearing in recent weeks and months ok pablo foley and yes in washington thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world in the u.s. a group of republican lawmakers have disrupted an impeachment hearing into president donald trump around $24.00 republicans ent

stoltenberg says it is too early to judge the consequences of that agreement. the body of congressman elijah cummings's lying in repose at morgan state university in baltimore. a group of mourners led by his willow followed olvera's, who wield the casket inside. the historically black college congressional' district and served on the border regions for 19 years. emmanuel macron is set to force an emergency european union summit. the french president insists any delays to the october 31 brexit deadline last no longer than 15 days. the european commissioner president is said to favor pushing the deadline back by three months to help avoid a no deal brexit. global news 24 hours a day, on-air, and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. shery: live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i'm shery ahn. welcome to "bloomberg markets." here are the top story that we are following around the world. mark zuckerberg is struggling to convince congress that the company's pla

stoltenberg saying we have serious concerns about this offensive.emember president erdogan threatened europe, if it called this anything other than an operation, than he might open the gates and let 3.5 million refugees pour into europe. the european council president donald tusk said today, basically, how dare you blackmail us, how dare you weaponize refugees like that, that's not what we will accept. so the war of words is certainly heating up. president trump suggesting there might be some kind of mediation by the u.s. at the minute the war of words heating up and on the ground very hot indeed. >> bill neely, thanks. >>> i want to bring in mike gig lee i don't who has written extensively about isis in syria and the refugee crisis. good to have you with us. let's talk about the emotional plea in "the washington post" written by parents of two american journalists, james foley and stephen sought lot who were taken and killed. they say the syrian democratic forces have been guarding the 10,000 isis fighters and 70,000 family members in nearby camps,

which were silicate at mass killing arguably in afghanistan julian stoltenberg which was silicate at mass killing arguably in afghanistan under nato why are you welcoming all this outside what's under nato why are you welcoming all this outside what some afghans may call it interference in your country we are member. some afghans may call it interference in your country we have never. will come and outsides. just will come and outsides. just point blank called. off path. is that point blank called or off path. is that. divorce fighting began in afghanistan. divorce fighting began in afghanistan al qaeda has established had established its bases in afghanistan has established had established its bases in afghanistan it wasn't just a threat to the to the to the united states but it wasn't just a threat to the to the to the united states but it was 1st and probably most it was a threat to the people of afghanistan and it was 1st and probably most it was a threat to the people of afghanistan in. 20 years back russian federation who were supporting that exists. 20 years back russian feder

with all the could with with the international community not so you know this is my question is to stoltenberg an american congress there is going to be some sanctions. for turkey and what are you live a precaution that nature is taking and what are your polities policies about this. i think it's wrong if i start to speculate about people that tickle situations what i can say is that turkey is an important and strong nato ally and it is important for our collective defense for our different missions in operations including in the fight against terrorism and and for us it is important to have turkey as a strong and committed ally because we are all safer when we stand together and we have to remember that the progress for instance you're made in the fight against harsh has been very much supported very much the pendent on the contributions of turkey. turkish forces turkish infrastructure turkish bases has been critical in the progress we have made together in fighting terrorism especially the 4th against . so what i have what is also affected by the fact that this is my 2nd visit to turkey this

brent: i don't think i heard stoltenberg address the russians who have already dismissed this german proposal. did he lead them out intentionally, do you think? terry: i tried to get him to do that. i asked a question specifically about if turkey had expressed its willingness to accept this german proposal and if it would lead the way in convincing russia also to accept an international presence, and he really did not respond to me in the press conference on the topic of russia. it is surprising to hear the nato secretary-general and other governments basically accept the results of this turkey-russian deal because it's going to mean russian forces are just a few miles from naito's border. truly, they are not comfortable with it, but it does not seem like anyone is getting details out of turkey on exactly what that deal means. brent: in turkey, -- and turkey remains strategically important to nato. i guess that is part of the problem here, but it appears to be forging closer ties with russia, so what do you think this means to nato and its unity moving forward? >> it is a problem for

on the go up because now we've just heard of about 4 wheels think about those you walk with jens stoltenberg of them i said can you tell us what exactly is the state of the ocean. around the world. become now confident that ocean. ocean of plastic. why you take a seat cruise of the national empowerment for example a fisherman you will catch tons of plastic and very little fish the fish gets in bed because the i'm just saying plastics and they harvest a month full of plastics what is the situation like that margie i mean we don't do the cleanup plus you know the pollute less should pay they should encourage people to come out for beach cleanups there are also domestic waste in the oceans there are several things the biodiversity is depletes in the monger budget fission is deeply tied and the ocean is not so good do you think the government can do anything to make some countries are bombed rustics yes our governments can help by. gets in the salience groups of people to create the awareness of the damaging effects of single use plastics for example cops you know plastic cards strolls plastic b

acknowledging there are different issues -- different views on the issues as secretary-general jens stoltenbergut it. the behavior of another member, the united states is not helping things. having pulled its troops from the region earlier this month, washington says it will send them back to syria to prevent islamic state from capturing crucial oil fields in the east of the country. reporter: it isn't easy keeping up with america's position in syria, after president trump emphatically said u.s. troops were coming home, his statement seemed in doubt as reports came in the white house had set out options believing u.s. forces in northeast area. the new order seemed to be modifying the objective of keeping isis extremists at bay. to include the safeguarding of the oil fields. the region is in a state of flux after trump declared he was withdrawing u.s. troops, creating a vacuum. on tuesday, russia and turkey struck a deal on a 30 kilometer deep safe sound to enable the withdrawal of armed kurdish units from the area. the oil fields which are of interest to the u.s. are in the east of the region.

in an interview to mark 30 years since the end of the cold war, jens stoltenberg said russia is tryingmoscow correspondent steve rosenberg has a special series of reports on how russia views the events of 1989 — the year the berlin wall fell and the soviet empire began to crumble. in his first one, steve looks at the stand—off between russia and nato. the warships are russian. the place is crimea. ukrainian territory annexed by moscow. it's a military show of strength. the russian annexation here was a watershed moment. the end of the cold war had brought hope of partnership between moscow and the west. that's gone. what we see is a pattern of behaviour where russia is responsible for aggressive actions against neighbours. that reflects that the main problem of russia is that the main problem of russia is that they still believe in the idea of spheres of influence. in response to moscow's annexation of crimea, nato has stepped up military exercises and bolstered its forces close to russia's western borders to boost security for the baltic states. nato jets are regularly scrambled here

cause untold humanitarian suffering and empower terrorist groups throughout nato secretary-general stoltenberg has said that turkey's response should be proportionate to the threats that it faces our ally turkey is at the forefront of the crisis in the house look at the concerns it has suffered the horrendous terrorist attacks on thursday there is expected to be a un security council meeting regarding the situation with the turkish offensive against her kurdish forces in northeastern syria tensions remain high in the region as the united states has withdrawn its forces and turkey has swung into action. we discussed the turkish operation and its potential repercussions for the region with a number of analysts. the kurds have been a natural ally for the united state and for the united stated for the world community in the un. looks to me that the donald trump does not understand his security team his national security team in his own administration he does not understand the complexity of the issues the kurdish issues the kurdish people exist in that region and many folks disagreed with him from

been the softest than most friendly towards turkey saw for but here we heard the secretary general stoltenberg repeating the same thing he said i have repeated my concerns over this military operation despite turkey's. turkey turkey security concerns are legitimate and he mentioned that the imminent concern is that those captured as the fighters who are being kept in prison under the control of their staff and the y.p. just shouldn't be allowed to escape and he said also they had they had as nato they had concerns that there will be more this step this devil is ation in the region and it would it would it would have an impact in escalation of tension and more suffering so that's why he suggested that turkey security concerns were legitimate but he expected turkey to act with restraint in order to avoid any of those concerns and he also mentioned that the international coalitions fight against. the law was successful or because it was mostly supported and dependent on the turkish contribution by its turkish military force by the turkish military forces and the by the turkish bases i also asked

called for a dialogue between the syrian government and the kurds and nato secretary general yen stoltenberg has called on techie to act with restraint and ensure any actions taken are proportionate and measured the un chief says there is no military solution to the conflict in syria the secretary general is very concerned by the recent developments in northeast syria any military operation must fully respect the un charter and international humanitarian law civilians and civilian infrastructure should be protected in accordance with international law the secretary general believes that there is no military solution to the syrian conflict he reiterated that only an inclusive and credible political process pursuant to security council resolution $2254.00 can bring a long term solution to the conflict in syria. let's go live now to stratford who's in a column techies border with syria and the sentiment from the international community is very much one of restraint but we're speaking about. strikes have already taken place on positions and. what more can you tell us about that charles. suddenly

cause untold humanitarian suffering and empower terrorist groups throughout nato secretary-general stoltenberg has said that turkey's response should involve restraint and that it should be proportionate to the threats that it faces our ally turkey is at the forefront of the crisis on the house a legitimate security concerns it has suffered a horrendous terrorist attacks and it hosts millions so soon for g.'s it is important to avoid actions that may further destabilization the region escalate tensions and cause war human suffering now on thursday there is expected to be a un security council meeting regarding the situation with the turkish offensive against kurdish kurdish forces in northeastern syria tensions remain high in the region as the united states has withdrawn its forces and turkey has swung into action. for the president of the code of assembly all of syria's. thanks for joining us so great to have in the program today donald trump saying take a look back at history saying the kurds didn't help the u.s. in the world war 2 on the beaches of normandy or suppose he's about to shoot he

brussels they will only gather for the 1st time tomorrow we did hear from secretary general younes stoltenberg today before the announcement from the white house and so he didn't have a chance to react yet but i think that nato leaders the counterparts of president trump and the counterparts of mark as for the defense secretary will have a lot of questions tomorrow when the meeting gets underway it seems very abrupt and oversimplified to think that all of a sudden turkey is going to pull out of out of syria to think that the kurds are satisfied with this resolution and i just don't see how anything could happen that quickly i think there will be a lot of questions tomorrow for defense secretary mark esper and as has been mentioned he is coming to brussels having said that he believes that turkey may be responsible for war crimes on the ground and that's something i asked at nato today and the u.s. ambassador said yeah we're going to be definitely looking into this and so it doesn't seem to me that things will be wrapped up quite so neatly you know that's interesting point there you make i want

say that putin wants to drive turkey out of nato even though as you mentioned secretary general stoltenberg was a bit cautious with this assessment at this point. we have to mind our viewers it has been a nato critic from the start so he does not really seem to care a lot or give a lot of thought into that part of the developments here in the middle east so that the the message to the european partners of the united states is just the same as to the kurds he said we are out essentially this is america's for america 1st policy at its best that we witnessing here and he also mentioned that most of the euphoria nicer fighters in syria do if in fact come from europe so what he's trying to say here is basically that now all the other powers involved 3 on the ground have to take care and make sure that ices won't regain ground with regards to europe that europe of course has to take care and for its own protection to be correspondent oversell in washington corresponded dorian jones in istanbul to both of you thank you. in the u.k. investigators are trying to piece together a tragedy inside a truc

fascination summit in brussels secretary-general yan stoltenberg welcomed the arrangement the result of a deal between russian president vladimir putin and his turkish counterpart to red chip type adult i'm encouraged by the fact that it also based we have seen a significant reduction in violence in fighting and we have to build on that to work for a political solution of the crisis. in syria hundreds have died and peasants have been displaced since turkey launched its attack on the kurds on october 9th. deserted streets and destruction this is a town of ross a line under turkish control after fierce fighting a cease fire has been declared to allow kurdish troops to pull back but fighting still ferret up on thursday. has not ruled out further military strikes shimmed us now our soldiers and syrian national army up are trolling the area of operation inch by inch and they are destroying the traps if any of these terrorists come across us there is no natural right to crush them as it is already marked in written documents we overlook either yours the president also said he would send sy

wants him that bad but somebody has to watch over him and here is nato a general secretary chance stoltenberg. i count on turkey to act with restraints. and sure that any action it may take in northern syria is proportionate message. we must not jeopardize the gains we have made together against over common enemy isis jim is the one wary of losing is made those status no i don't think so i there's been talk here over the years oh we should throw turkey out of nato there's actually no mechanism for throwing a country out of nato and i don't think he would be smart to pull out of nato where he still has considerable leverage as as a member you need unanimity in the organization to do much of anything which makes the basically means he has veto power look the europeans are complaining about this it's interesting in the security council european countries want to condemn turkey for this action and the russians or the americans actually teamed up to block that resolution i think for president trump this is a way to get us out of there the idea that somehow isis is going to make a comeback i think

the nato sectional version stoltenberg and the us secretary of defense mark as the gave a joint media address today. this is a meeting of defense ministers got underway in brussels. well turkey on the situation in north syria all issues topping the agenda. and of particular concern is the possibility of setbacks in the fight against the islamic state group in the region. this is curtis let fighters have been key in the battle against the jihadists have been targeted by turkey. right across the northeast in syria. what a ceasefire which is agreed on by moscow in ankara. is reported to be holding possibles clovis custody is on the border between turkey and syria. he has this update. despite the russia tacky agreements on diplomatic efforts behind the scenes on the ground in northeastern syria. violence is on going accorording to kurdrdih forces in northeastern syria tacky is conducting still military operations. wallet sacchi on the other hand has said that that it's men came on the fire. in the town of rats online five turkish soldiers injured when they were attacked by a kurdish drone