troops pull out how about opening up any other regional actors like iran and tukey something opponents to counter. now polls have opened in parliamentary elections in bangladesh security is tight after weeks of violence and arrests of opposition supporters during the campaign prime minister. is expected to return for a fourth she's been criticized for the crackdown on the opposition as charles stratford reports from dhaka the unrest is playing on voters' minds. muhammad. has been the manager of this restaurant in the pan with this she capital dhaka for three years it sells cheap breakfasts to rickshaw drivers and passes by but after weeks of violence in the build up to national elections on sunday mohamed is afraid. of everything and yes i am scared of what might happen that the violence will affect my livelihood we may be forced to close out business prime minister sheikh hasina is a won the league which is seeking a third consecutive five year term in power has denied accusations of intimidating opposition candidates and journalists the leader of the main opposition bangladesh nation

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opt outs like tukey something. the u.s. president says major progress has been made towards ending his government's trade war with china donald trump and she confirmed they've spoken over the phone about result being that differences she have returns he has more from washington d.c. very optimistic and positive indications from both donald trump and chinese media first that was donald trump's tweet which said just had a long and very good call with president xi of china a deal is moving along very well if made it will be very comprehensive covering all subject areas and points of dispute big progress being made exclamation mark and chinese media confirming about phone call took place chinese media said president xi said he hopes to push forward a sign a u.s. relationship that is coordinated co-operative and stable and he said that he hopes that the teams presumably the trade negotiating teams could meet each meet each other halfway and reach an agreement that is mutually beneficial as soon as possible and we have had indica

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just like tukey something assad's opponents are him to counter. and some news from yemen where security officials say hoofy rebels have handed over control of the vital port of a data to the government's navy and coast guard the transfer was carried out under the supervision of the united nations it's all part of a peace deal we did in sweden earlier this month who fees in saudi backed forces have also agreed to open up humanitarian aid corridor or starting with the road from the data to the capital sun. that's the news selby all. in the history of conflict between east and west. the mightiest battle between cristiana to slam. a holy war in the name of religion. for the first time. the story of the crusades. from an arab perspective. love. love. love. by the early twelfth century. european crusades had successfully captured not only the holy city of jerusalem. but huge swathes of the most of. the ancient one loves that lead. to suddenly what in the can you look at its authenticity. the muslim world a mighty power for the last four centuries was sh

the us troops pull out how about threatens open an up many for other regional opt outs like iran and tukey something assad's opponents can't counter mohamed at all just. now in bangladesh voting is underway in parliamentary elections curacy is tight ass for a campaign marked by weeks of violence and arrests of opposition supporters prime minister sheikh hasina is expected to return for a fourth term as she's been criticized for the crackdown on the opposition on chance transfer that is live for us in dhaka so charles i understand the polls have just opened what's the mood like there. where outside a polling station in an area called middle school or here in the capital dhaka. today is calm so far it's important to recognize that all the banners that you can see behind me all the political posters and banners there are either full the ruling party the awami league all affiliated groups and parties which certainly try to speak certain people here who say that they come to try and cast their votes show opposition candidates they are saying that the atmosphere is one of great tension and are v

twenty five of their fifty three goals from set pieces many of them winners in tukey contested games if that is now to be clearly needs a lot of reworking. and the goals from open play to this goal was high it is a man with a long term come sets which presumably include strategies for scoring then again he does have to reckon with injuries to mark. brill mbogo and franco desensitise. and so we come to plan c. the young dons now get their shots and cedric jewish it's even managed a school. that sets a bit of side. perhaps the youngsters are quite ready to step into the breach. despite having quality on the pitch we weren't winning the follow up challenge of us of players relatively small strikers out there and steven scrips kristin's could skip i chilled songs that sure but no one commitment on saturday. a ball into the box was cleared out but only as far as daniel caligiuri it crept in a huff only from outside the books. not exactly a dizzying footy seven cost move but the full counts caligiuri has been one of shock as more dependable performance schooling last week against bill and

between divides the tukey forces and their proxies as well as the qods and they say this city of mumbai is under their protection so these other things that would need to be ironed out between russia and turkey we developed know whether these. after all going to go forward now with the invitation of the city and forces and them entering the fray but what we know is that they have been columns up on holmes of tongues moving across the board on tuckey wedding itself all of these cell phones mohamed thank you alexey klebnikov is a middle east expert at the russian international affairs council he says moscow and ankara they're looking to strike a deal on northern syria. i think that the bow of both sides russia in turkey they want to avoid any major light scale escalation on the ground so this is why both ministers foreign minister and defense minister came to discuss and try to reach a acceptable compromise. for all parties not only moscow and ancora but also for kurds for for damascus because the equation now is getting more and more complicated if we again if we take into account that a

well of course russia is the strongest ally bashar loss of government of the moment and tukey also has a lot of concern about the huge territory under the control of kurds sitting right next to each border war for nuking to fill the void left by the u.s. troops pull out and that's why they say they're going to coordinate their military activities in north. and north and syria of course they are going to build to russia will have to accommodate tuckey's. about the continued to hold on these ten to twenty i just spoke about that is under the control of the cards who read considers to be terrorist but russia welcomed the invitation of the same cut of the syrian government forces to the city of mumbai and to protect them against the planned city of turkish offensive on the city so there's a bit of doubling up there but again they have both said that they will coordinate their activities and of course the talk of the guarding the territorial integrity of syria about the meeting today in most call diplomats say speaks of a situation where the syrian government forces my top of because of all

come and do what they say is their sole varian duty to protect the people of mumbai each against a tukey often see if they've already seen what's happened in that three audio and in the. case talkies must've. power supported by rebels numbering up to fifteen thousand of them and these parts of syria of course they knew they would not be a march for the firepower that they will be facing and they felt they say it was easier to negotiate with the government of syria than face an offensive from tech you of course this is the fullest big concession they have made for bashar lots of forces since they have a huge swathe of syria of course this is a huge boost for much of us that we've been seeing. in the past few weeks all right mohammed thank you for that let's cross over now to. joins us live from istanbul since i'm so how is turkey been reacting to news that the syrian army has raised its flag over man beach is it come as a surprise. well actually it's not a big surprise for turkey because turkey the first reaction from turkey came from president add on a written statement came from turkey

government forces is some sort of a toxic by the why would you fight us twelve void confrontation with the tukey forces who are of course not all the bells nor march to and we don't know whether now is going to top the fence of on the city we're waiting for word from the foreign ministry a reaction of sorts to sent pending the breaking news we're hearing out of number but what we know is that a myth to more of the family in between a russian officials and the foreign minister of turkey as well as his defense counterpart on the head of intelligence here in turkey will prove crucial to what happens from here on in what shape it will take whether there will be an offensive all sorts but already tuckey's media local media oddity reporting that russia has. while come the move by the syrian government forces to. mum beach. a positive move or somehow. on the turkey syria border mohammed thank you well let's bring in somebody nada he's director of the institute for strategic studies joins us live now from beirut something out of the syrian army in the outskirts of man beach we're not sure if they're act