there are eight hundred europeans who fought for so-called islamic state in syria u.s. president donald trump says his soldiers will let the extremists go free if europe doesn't take them back tonight the u.s. and europe at all odds over what to do with the men and women who gave up their roots and their identities can they should they be able to go home again i bring golf in berlin this is the day.

european pledge to work together to deal with state fighters captured in syria u.s. president has threatened to allow eight hundred europeans to infiltrate the continent unless their home states put them on trial. five years since the deadly protests on the square that toppled the country's government we ask how much is the country change since.

live from berlin european states pledged to work together to deal with state fighters captured in syria u.s. president has threatened to allow around eight hundred european just have to infiltrate the continent unless their home states put them on trial. also giving up ukraine marks five years since the deadly protests on the square that toppled the country's government we ask how much is the country change since then. hello i'm terry martin welcome to the program there's new friction in transatlantic relations over the fate of european nationals captured fighting for so-called islamic state in syria germany says it will work with france and britain in response to u.s. demands to repatriate some eight hundred european extremists that's after a tweet from president trump threatening to release captured fighters unless europe takes them back and puts them on trial. i asked jihadists of the march in syria these images are from the fall of the fourteenth i asked has since been defeated here and across nearly the entire country many fighters sadat and more have been taken prisoner the kurds say

european states pledged to work together to deal with their islamic state captured in syria u.s. president has threatened to allow around eight hundred europeans to infiltrate the continent unless their home states put them on trial also coming up ukraine marks five years since the deadly protests on the square the top of the country's government we ask how much has the country changed since then. the.

berlin european states pledged to work together to deal with their islamic state fighters captured in syria u.s. president has threatened to allow eight hundred europeans captured in syria infiltrate the continent's unless their own states put them on trial coming up. nuclear waste in a perilous condition in germany it's a race against time to move the barrels. where they're stored slowly. and you.

countries pledging to coordinate their work to deal with their islamic state fighters were captured in syria u.s. president threatening to allow eight hundred european geodes to infiltrate europe unless their home countries take them back and put them on trial also coming up ukraine marks five years since those deadly protests on the mind that toppled the country's government tonight we ask how much has the country changed since that fateful month. i'm burned off it's good to have you with us tonight there is once again new friction in the transit relationship this time it's over the fate of european nationals who were captured fighting for so-called islamic state in syria tonight germany you saying that it will work with france and britain in responding to demands from the united states to repatriate eight hundred european extremists but it's easier said than done britain says that the jihad is should be tried in the countries where they committed their alleged crimes u.s. president don trump is threatening to release those captured fighters unless europe takes them back and puts them on trial

speaking at a summit of the global coalition set up to battle the group in iraq and syria he also insisted that the u.s. will play a leading role in the fight against us so despite the planned withdrawal of troops from syria just a few weeks ago in cairo i reiterated america's commitment to stamping out isis and other terrorist groups that's my message again here today in washington america will continue to lead in giving those who would destroy us no quarter we ask each of your countries to stand with us and through our efforts and god's help the day will come when the permit the defeat of isis is a reality run and jordan has latest from the state department in washington d.c. roasted compare explain how the plan of drawdown of troops in syria works with their intention to keep fighting us on. well what the secretary said during his opening remarks earlier on wednesday is that the planned u.s. troop withdrawal from syria is simply a tactic it is not the u.s. strategy for continuing its fight against eisel or against isis as the trumpet ministration calls it of course this is something which has raised

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so-called islamic state in syria u.s. president says his soldiers will let the extremists go free if europe doesn't take them back tonight the u.s. and europe at all odds over what to do with the men and women who gave up their roots and their identity can they should they be able to go home again i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. from what i have seen europe is clearly concerned about foreign fighters returning they will be questioned investigated and potentially prosecuted. these people are suspected of terrorism. their foreign terrorist finances. if you have that that must be consequences. i think all the major a in favor another should be enough to allow them to come back to europe that if we want to find a solution then we have to talk and not send tweets back and forth. also coming up tonight remembering them i don and ukraine a movement a country and a people still dealing with what happened exactly five years ago and now i didn't immediately understand what was happening suddenly there was an explosion and

eight hundred european nationals who were captured fighting for so-called islamic state in syria or now that the u.s. is leaving syria president trump is the. at ning to relieve those captured fighters unless europe takes them back and puts them on trial it's an old tomato for germany france and the u.k. take back your extremists or those extremists may come back to haunt you. i asked jihadists of the march in syria these images are from the far off raw intervention fourteen i asked has since been defeated here and across nearly the entire country many fighters sadat and more have been taken prisoner the kurds say hundreds of foreign i is fighters remain in kurdish prisons their wives and children live in comes to northern syria europe hasn't yet come up with a clear response over the future of foreign fighters and their families germany says it is now in close contact with its european partners in particular france and britain. because this naturally saw its of course it is true that all german citizens have the right to return to germany including those suspected of having fought for islamic state

u.s. invasion of iraq for example or the israeli invasion of lebanon on what syria is concerned about is the increased u.s. encourage meant of our so-called allies in israel and saudi arabia in the united arab emirates our increased encourage them and of these so-called allies to be much more aggressive in their military action in their foreign policy and that they may provoke in a sense an accidental war by because by using this u.s. green light for their more aggressive activities so i think that's what this reef is getting at it's not your traditional conventional war that he's afraid of it's they're encouraging meant they're goading their use or proxies in you know whether it's in syria or even pakistan well the u.s. special envoy for syria has reassured allies that the withdrawal of american troops from the country will not be abrupt speaking from the munich security conference james jeffrey insists it will be a step by step process and run can report from gaza near the tekkie syria border very soon was designed to reassure european allies the u.s. special envoy for syria said this on t

u.s. troops back from syria and that's really the key question here is the fate of those u.s. boots on the ground in syria donald trump has made it fairly clear that he wants to bring them back but that has had consequences he's gone against advice from his own generals in fact his secretary of defense at the time jim artist resigned over that and other global policy issues his own generals are still saying it's not a good idea let's not take any rash action here and then within the last couple of weeks his own party the republican party served him up a pretty harsh rebuke when they disagreed with his wish to bring those two thousand troops back from syria so what we've had since december since all tom made that surprise announcement that he was going to withdraw those troops is the president swinging backwards and forwards saying he may bring them back immediately he may bring the back in the next few months we can get back there if we need to or we just going to keep them there for now so it's a very confusing situation the overall sense is that as commander in chief he does

meantime, in syria, u.s.acked forces say they launched their final push against isis in a village in eastern syria with the barreder near iraq. military officials have said that isis losing territory doesn't mean they're no longer a threat. analysts estimate hundreds of fighters could be hiding out and they say isis could make a serious come back in six months if the u.s. doesn't keep up the military pressure. benjamin hall reporting live. >> hi, shepard. after 4 1/2 years of brutal war and devastation, it comes down to this. the final battle. we were there last week and now the final push to try to wipe them out is underway. there has been fierce fighting today with the militants surrounded and under assault and pushing back. the remaining fighters are using suicide car bombs and booby traps and thought there's about 600 isis fighters left in an area of about 1 1/2 square miles. over the past few weeks, about 20,000 civilians have escaped from the town. many assume to be the wives and children of isis fighte

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u.s. military intelligence believes the territorial battle against eisel across syria and iraq has been won but the fight small groups of fighters and sympathizers across this region will go on. mosul. u.s. china talks are under way in washington a chinese vice premier leader who is holding trade talks with u.s. treasury secretary steven minutiae in the u.s. president has threatened to raise tariffs on a range of chinese imports worth two hundred billion dollars if a deal is not reached by march the first she had written c. is live for us now in washington with more on this so she had how are those talks going. but chinese on u.s. sources are suggesting that a lot of progress has been made in beijing last week and now in washington the big news in the last few hours was leaks that discussions are based around six different memoranda of understanding and one in particular caught a lot of people that was apparently a proposal by the chinese to buy six thirty billion dollars more u.s. agricultural imports each year that would go some way to reducing the trade deficit between us and china which

agree russia and iran told turkey that the syrian government should we gain control of north east syria once u.s. troops leave at the end he planned to set up a safe zone in syria along its borders would need the consent of president bashar assad's government the turkish government's concerns should be taken into consideration we believe cooperation with the legal government of syria and deployment of syrian soldiers alongside international borders is going to be more sustainable iran continues to be willing a long side russian friends to play its role in order to ensure friendship between syria and turkey turkey's president or the guard once a close friend of the syrian president has been a staunch supporter of the opposition so the uprising began in two thousand and eleven. recently acknowledged that there have been low level contacts between turkey's and syria's intelligence agencies government wants. it considers the group a. threat to its national security. security concerns but they want. which means. and provide. russia and iran also have another demand they want turkey to clear a demilit

u.s. troops remaining remains to be seen if the u.k. and france remain in syria as well david does russia is an associate professor at the near east south asia center for security studies and previously sabs at the pentagon he says keeping a small number of u.s. troops in syria is a political gesture. it's not a large number of forces so it's too small to be militarily significant so when you look at it has to be political politically significant and i think there's two possible messages one to the turks is that yes we are serious about protecting your interests as you see it and so we're willing to keep our forces here in order to restrain the kurdish elements of the syrian democratic forces from align themselves with the p k k attack in turkey and i think the second message will be to the y.p. g. forces which is that you're not going to be abandoned we will have a presence on the ground here to restrain the turks from attacking you so in extent and in practice it looks as though these guys will almost be. there as hostages to both sides to keep them on their be

syria. the decision to stay came after secretary of state pompeo and acting defense secretary shanahan heard bitter complaints from allies that the u.sabandoning syria before a lasting defeat of isis had been achieved. no other countries were willing to keep their troops in syria if the u.s. was pulling out. pentagon officials say 400 american troops alone are not enough to prevent a resurgence of isis. so this plan depends on other countries contributing troops as well. aie chairman of the joint chiefs says he is confident they will. jeff. >> glor: david martin, thank you very much. we do have some new information tonight about when special iaunsel robert mueller will turn ller his report on russian interference in the presidential campaign. paula reid is at the white house with more on this. so, paula, there was some talk that it might be turned over iday. that's not going to happen. then there was talk about next hek. what's the latest you're hearing on timing? >> reporter: well, jeff, today, the justice department issued a rare statement and confirmed that they do not expect to receive a final report from the special counsel for

he's a former syria advisor to samantha power who served as u.s. ambassador to the u.n. under president barack obama while let's talk first about the syria conference in sochi what does this meeting signify in terms of russia turkey iran and how they hope to resolve the war even with competing strategic interests. thank you for having you know what it signifies for us and force most is that these three countries are the actual stakeholders with the most to gain and lose especially in light of the announcement of the turn it is rationed that they're going to be withdrawing their troops and they have been the ones most invested since at least twenty fifteen when russia entered the conflict so signify it's how much importance they place on this issue and on their desire to work something out among each other and also it signifies in my opinion really the difficult position turkey finds itself in they really have no avenue but to engage with the russians and the turks and the iranian government in the hope that they can convince them to clear out the i.d. or to allow them to

presence in syria. the u.s. state of north dakota are seeking to restrict access to public records related to police and government operations that's offer a number of more enforcement abuses were exposed. and investigations there are members of protests out in standing rock in response to the dakota access shale oil pipeline it seems like old news but two cases are actually pending in federal court still and at this point we've got many people who can remember how horrified they were when they saw the government's response to peaceful protesters. well critical legal information about what actually happened during those protests may soon be unavailable to the public a billion animists lee passed by the north dakota state senate would forbid the publishing of information and records related to quote critical infrastructure that term might sound vague but pipelines are actually included and now they say that this new law is necessary because of cyber security but it's going to be a big relief to police and other l

u.s. troops out of northern syria is not a change in the u.s. the strategy in fighting eisel is here a little more of what he had to say the drawdown of troops is essentially a tactical change it is not a change in the mission it does not change the structure design or authorities on which the campaign has been based. it simply represents a new stage in an old fight the drawdown will be well coordinated and a policy approach to syria remain unchanged. but come all as you pointed out this is a rather rust sticking position for the secretary of state to be putting forward because there is also this recognition that there are still elements of eisel or isis as the trumpet ministration calls this organization still around in northern syria and in parts of northern and western iraq and he has argued that it is up to the u.s. and to other countries to make certain that the security apparatus is there in order to prevent these groups from trying to retake territory retake control of local communities and try to expand their influence and to wreak havoc

u.s. troops would be withdrawn from syria. the u.s. and iran treated with verbal blows as a munich security conference draws to an end iran's foreign minister condemns american policy on iran accusing washington of ignoring his country's right to self-determination he made the comment after u.s. vice president mike pence demanded that europe take a tougher stance against tehran. and german president and minor follows in the footsteps of one of the country's most famous explorers to raise awareness of plastic pollution in the galapagos islands. welcome to the program on exposure. u.s. president donald trump called on european states to take back their citizens if they are among captured fighters from the so-called islamic state in a tweet that mentioned britain france germany and other countries trump threatened to release imprisoned combatants if their home countries refused to allow them back in december he alarmed western partners by saying he was withdrawing american troops from syria because he considered the islamic state to have

u.s. troops remaining remains to be seen if the u.k. and france remain in syria as well david says roche is an associate professor at the near east south asia center for security studies and previously cept at the pentagon he says keeping the small number of u.s. troops in syria is a political gesture. it's not a large number of forces so it's too small to be militarily significant so when you look at it as to be political politically significant and i think there's two possible messages one to the turks is that yes we are serious about protecting your interests as you see it and so we're willing to keep our forces here in order to restrain their courage show moments of the syrian democratic forces from align themselves with the p.k. k. attack in turkey and i think the second message will be to the y.p. g. forces which is that you're not going to be abandoned we will have a presence on the ground here to restrain the turks from attacking you do so in extent and in practice it looks as though these guys will almost be. there as hostages to both sides to keep them

u.s. forces from syria. he warns that despite what the president claims, the fight against isis is not over. >>> cnn gets answers. an exclusive report that first aired here in "the situation room" just 24 hours ago has senators demanding action and seeking answers about american guns, armored vehicles and missiles falling into the hands of enemies, including iran. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> the breaking news tonight, new details emerging on the president's state of the union address that he will give in just a few hours. it was postponed by the last government shutdown. it's being delivered with another one looming. sources tell cnn the president hopes to hit the reset button with a bipartisan appeal for unity. his standoff with democrats over funding over his border wall certainly continues. >>> breaking, cnn has learned federal prosecutors are seeking interviews with trump org

rouhani joined the leaders of russia and turkey to discuss how the war in syria to be brought to a close yet welcome the planned u.s. withdrawal from syria they also agreed to lead to clamp down on al qaeda linked militants in the syrian problem so in libya while russia and iran backers syrian president bashar al assad turkey is supporting the forces fighting against him. the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria will be a blow for kurdish forces which are closely allied with the us of a fair an all out offensive from turkey once and us is out of the way turkey regards the kurdish militia in syria as terrorists we have this report from the kurdish city of karbala on the border with turkey. layla visits this grave and every thursday to pray and honor the memory of her only son rody he died fighting the so-called islamic state in twenty thirteen as did thousands more kurds leila hopes her sons commitment to freedom wasn't in vain it's a hope that unites many mothers who have lost their sons in this region. home and i'll never forget them it is truly a tremendous loss that we're keeping our composure by remembering our

the knock of the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon. to u.s. officials ten p.c. news the president reluctantly agreed to keep troops in syria. are there until the ice is territorial caliphate is. moved this conference and we have any further developments on what the u.s. had decided to do you know what no one can still say for sure what was going on with this pullout the conference didn't help another important participant of the event was u.s. secretary of state mike and we thought that he could have shed some light on the american plans in this case instead he made a rather vague comments he reassured his coalition partners that america will quote unquote continue to wage alongside them and also he said that the u.s. army was only in the middle of some sort of tactical change besides that the problem is you was generals have said the mission is not over and that they need to keep going let's not forget that iran is still being quite active in syria so this could be the reason why washington is hesitant apart from anything else well just before

u.s. vice president mike pence calls on european allies to send resources and personnel to syria as washington readies to pull out all russia's foreign minister says the idea will only exacerbate the syrian clients. and moscow under mask has agreed to open to humanitarian corridor or spoke refugees stuck in a tent camp in the us controlled syrian territory. a very warm welcome to you watching r.t. international with nikki airing our top story there's been an rest of the latest yellow vest protests in paris where hundreds gathered for the fourteenth consecutive we can divide action against president look songs government's police used tear gas and some protesters have been detained. of course. you might just be able to see in the distance that we've got protesters who are throwing what appeared to be rocks towards if you just turn the camera around towards this line of security forces over here this is being a pretty much a cat and game cats and mouse game going on between the two with the police responding then with tear gas you might just see a couple more of those rocks landing towards the p

. >>> in syria, u.s.dy for a final surge into the last town held by isis. even if isis is wiped out, there's a question of what happens to hundreds of isis fighters and their families including a fomecollege student. holly williams reports. >> reporter: hoda 123 musana was 20 years old when she left her home in hoover, alabama, in 2014 to become the bride of an isis fighter in syria. now a mother and a widow, she's living in a refugee camp. >> i know i've ruined my future and my son's future and i deeply regret it. >> reporter: while studying business at the university of alabama, she told her family she was going on a school trip and instead flew to the middle east. in a letter to her family seen by cbs news, she wrote, "i was a naive, angry, and arrogant young woman. but seeing bloodshed up close changed me." musana is one of a small number of u.s. citizens who have joined isis. but america's syrian allies are thought to be holding around 800 foreign isis fighters along with their wives d dren. in same

presence in syria had. u.s. senators found itself in broader controversy after she took to twitter to complain about the influence of pro israel lobbying in the united states parties don't quarter has the story. in american politics multi-million dollar lobbies reign supreme and there's almost always a good reason to criticize them big pharma is a usual target i don't think americans have the same big warm fuzzy feeling for big pharma pharma pharma has a lot of lobbies a lot a lot reus a lot of power sometimes it's the gun lobby the national rifle association the n.r.a. the n.r.a. they do have great power i agree with it they have great power over you people. they have less power over me and of course plenty of others but there's one rule everyone apparently needs to follow don't criticize israel democratic senator ilhan all maher learned the hard way with a five letter tweet it's all about the benjamins baby benjamins as in hundred dollar bills it's pretty clear she was referencing the israel lobby but almost e

the final push to force i saw out of syria u.s. spots forces prepare for a ground battle. israel says it will implement a controversial new law that will cost palestinians millions of dollars and signs that the u.s. may be moving towards another government shutdown. the united states is seeking to foresee issue of a deliver. three to venezuela using a u.n. security council resolution there's deadlock over a consignment of aid that remain stuck at the border with colombia there's any maturer has accused the u.s. of using aid as a political tool to destabilize his government meanwhile venezuela's opposition leader who has been taking part in a religious ceremony in caracas this sunday declared himself interim leader venezuela last month and dozens of countries around the world have since indoor same he says a look at using volunteers to open new aids routes into venezuela in defiance of the government let's get the latest from theresa bowles in caracas for a series of tell us first the status of the aid at the colombia venezuela border right now and will it go far enough to h

u.s. troops would be withdrawn from syria. since been defeated here and across nearly the entire country many fighters are dead and more have been taken prisoner. recently the u.s. backed kurdish led syrian democratic forces or s.d.f. besieged the city of backcross the last remaining stronghold the kurds say hundreds of foreign i guess fighters remain in kurdish prisons their wives and children live in camps in northern syria the s.d.f. have long complained that european states are refusing to take back their own citizens u.s. president donald trump has echoed those concerns and has even threatened to release the jihad ists he tweeted the united states is asking britain france germany and other european allies to take back over eight hundred isis fighters that we captured in syria and put them on trial the caliphate is ready to fall the alternative is not a good one and that we will be forced to release them this i-s. fighter from germany is being held in a detention center in syria like others he'd like to return home but berl

. >> in syria u.s.ked forces are getting ready for a final surge into the last town held by i.s.i.s. >> in 2014, this is the height of i.s.i.s.' 30,000 square miles they controlled across syria and iraq. today the self-declared caliphate is down to a few miles in i.s.i.s.'s last stand. it's only a matter of time before the u.s. has won and the caliphate is defeated physically. >> trevor: wow, i.s.i.s. has gone from controlling half to hav --half of the middle east to occupying only two square r. a month from now they will be squeezed into a new york city sized apartment. one guy will be like, i can't believe we're paying $3,000 month for this? for this? this is terrorism! ( cheers and applause ) what are we doing here? and who is this person stomping around upstairs? ( laughter ) it sounds like half horse, half man learning ballet! ( laughter ) so remember, there are thousands of people who left western countries. this is something a lot of people don't remember about i.s.i.s. a lot of people left weste

. >> glor: in syria, u.s.ready for a final surge into the last town held by isis. even if isis is wiped out, there is the question of what happens to hundreds of isis fighters and their families, including a former american college student. here's holly williams. >> reporter: hoda muthana was 20-years-old when she left her home in hoover, alabama, in 2014, to become the bride of an isis fighter in syria. now a mother and a widow, she's living in a refugee camp. >> reporter: while studying business at the university of alabama, muthana told her family she was going on a school trip and instead flew to the middle east. in a letter to her family seen by cbs news, she wrote, "i was a naive, angry, and arrogant young woman. but seeing bloodshed up close changed me." muthana is one of a small number of u.s. citizens who have joined isis, but america's syrian allies are thought to be holding around 800 foreign isis fighters along with their wives and children. in the same camp is shamima begum, who ran away from her

troops from syria u.s. military leaders and allies have voiced concerns that the pullout trigger a resurgence of i guess. investigators have a confident identified body found the wreckage of the plane carrying football in million osama and pilots david if it's in the wreckage was found near the island of guns in the english channel following the plane's disappearance on the twenty first of january bad weather has hampered attempts to pull the plane's debris ashore. you're watching the news coming up ahead. it's almost international film festival the billion dollar kicks off this evening a vision feast the lovers patient enough to get tickets. but for the future of ever since pristine jet is on shaky ground yet again australia's quantas discounted an order for eight three eighteen models other airlines are reportedly planning to do the same the super jumbo jet was once billed as a great day for caris a dramatically increased passenger numbers and look costs boss at or was half a billion dollars each few buyi

u.s. backed fighters say they're driving ifo from its last pockets of territory in syria . venezuelans stream across the colombian border while foreign aid remains stuck in a standoff between president maduro and the u.s. . he condemns china's mass detention of wages and camps calling it an embarrassment for humanity. elizabeth warren launches had twenty twenty presidential campaign as a crowded democratic field devised for the chance to challenge donald trump. the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces say they've begun their final battle to push out of its last remaining terror. three the kurdish led fighters say the offensive is focused on the syrian village of bad is an eastern duras or province u.s. airstrikes have helped them to surround the last of isis fighters defending their so-called caliphate in recent weeks and more than twenty thousand civilians have left the area including the families of ice will fight is. this battle will be sealed in the next coming days. most of the terrorist impact of the foreign in the last two months most two hundred and so i was in were

leaders of iran russia and turkey need to decide how to tackle an end to the war in syria u.s. troops pull out. taking its business elsewhere and out why amazon no longer wants a bite out of the big apple. now the u.s. congress has passed a bipartisan bill to avoid another government shutdown but it does not include money for donald trump's border war with mexico the white house says trump will declare a national emergency to secure that funding well john hendren is live for us in washington d.c. and so john this would set a very serious president doesn't it. that's right sammy democrats are in a fighting mood the president tried and tried to get five point seven billion dollars for his border while he had promised that as a campaign promise in two thousand and sixteen and it's something he repeated over and over saying we're going to build a bar a wall on the southern border with mexico and mexico is going to pay for it well for a long time he's given up on the idea of mexico at least directly paying for that wall but he's kept up on that theme and his supporters about one thir

syria border. it was designed to reassure european allies the u.s. pecial envoy to syria said this on the planned withdrawal of troops from syria first of all this is not going to be an abrupt or rapid withdrawal it's going to be an author step by step. and each point we are going to look at our underlying goals that i just laid out ensure that we have means capability and partners that can carry them out for us this still no plan at least one that is public on the details of the withdrawal however there did seem to be differences with turkey on what to do about the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces led by the kurdish group y p g. at the same conference in munich the turkish defense minister reiterated his country's view that the y.p. g. is a terrorist group the main body main issue of. security so the to get rid of. terrorists. regardless of who. they are whoever they are the syrian democratic forces will be concerned the us has plans and some of the groups that the u.s. may abandon them once the fight against isis last enclave in booze in southea

u.s. troops will remain in syria after the rest of the american forces withdraw donald trump announced the pullout in december a surprising allies in the west and on the ground u.s. troops have been training supplying and advising the kaddish dominated syrian democratic forces in the fight against i sell his own joe joins me now live from washington d.c. this all happened on a phone call between trump and the attackers president. yeah that's right it happened between a phone call between the two on and trump on thursday and after the phone call the white house released information that they are going to in their words keep a small group of peacekeepers soldiers two hundred u.s. soldiers were remain in syria for a period of time those are the words from the white house now the question is what exactly do they mean by peacekeepers these u.s. troops and what's the period of time they're talking about is a one month six months one year is it open ended so there's still a lot of questions to be answered here they also said the white house that the phone call with their two on was meant that the

european states pledging to coordinate their work to deal with their islamic state fighters captured in syria u.s. president donald trump is threatening to allow eight hundred european jihad is to infiltrate the continent unless their home countries take them back and put them on trial will they do they're also going to go nuclear waste here in germany it's a race against time to move the barrels as those salt mines where they're stored slowly collapses.

the final push to force out eisel from syria u.s. backed forces prepare for a ground battle. african leaders begin their summit in ethiopia with an agenda focusing on refugees unconscionably white house it seems. israel says it will implement a controversial law that would cost palestinians millions of dollars. the u.s. and russia have come up with counter proposals to end the political crisis in venezuela the u.s. is calling for fresh elections while maduro is still president and in a draft resolution at the u.n. says security council it's also seeking to mandate the delivery of aid russia's plan though that's expressing concern any outside intervention that would force the toppling of maturer and put in power a no day has been set for any security council meeting meanwhile thousands of venezuelans continue to cross over into colombia any way they can some routes are open and those who could afford it go to buy goods that they can't find it. meanwhile aid from the united states has become part of the crisis president maduro says it's a ploy by washington just stage a coup an

troops from syria u.s. military leaders and allies have voiced concern that the pullout trigger a resurgence of i s two investigators have recovered an unidentified body from the wreckage of the plane carrying the footballer in million of sila and pilot david bits and the wreckage was found near the island of guernsey in the english channel following the plane's disappearance on january twenty first bad weather has hampered attempts to pull the plane's debris ashore. while to bank critic david mock boss has been nominated by u.s. president donald trump to lead that very institution he's criticized the appointment could spur unease among other members of the international lender one of its biggest borrowers china is in broad in a trade dispute with the us. jim news antitrust watchdog is cracking down on facebook moving to restrict the social media giants of ability to collect data in the country authorities say it cannot gather information real time to party sites without use a consent more evidence that fac

a final push to force i still out of syria u.s. backed forces prepare for a ground battle. and israel says it will implement a controversial new law all costing palestinians millions of dollars and it's six of the best in the english premier league for manchester city lee and we'll explain in sports. a british newspaper is reporting that a politically connected communications company pitched a plan to strip cats are of the twenty twenty two wild caught an investigation by the god. in the campaign quips in watch a man behind the idea was lynton crosby australian political strategist who has run several election campaigns for the u.k. conservative posse his c.c.f. partners company proposed a contract worth more than seven million dollars to launch a coordinated media campaign to discredit cattle and its well crosby's lawyers deny any contract signed all actioned david miller is the founder of span watch a british group that investigates the lobbying and communications industries in london what they wanted to do was. deal edition my qatari states continue with the kind of prop

and france they announced that they would also pull out of syria if the u.s. did that as well but now with these two hundred u.s. troops remaining remains to be seen if the u.k. and france remain in syria as well there are concerns all week long delay in nigeria's presidential election and fears of ethnic violence voter turnout people will cast their ballots on saturday last weekend that was postponed just five hours before the polls were due to open reports for. the stars of nigeria's film and dance world in a video promoting a peaceful election. commission. there are concerns about the country's ability to hold a successful presidential poll this weekend after last saturday's surprise delay and some fear a return of ethnic violence triggered in the past by disputed results with the background that we already have. misgivings and so on. about security agencies about the government itself and so on and so forth but it's a high risk that results will be disputed. the results in some places and of the high risk. in a crowded field of candidates to stand out pres