in this case, the statement says here that ypg believed that fighting with ypg was helping to create empathy with the kurdish cause. they feel wanting to fight with the ypg is a way of buying parts in the battle that many of us watch on the news. this is a reminder of the serious risks. kurdish forces will describe people who die in this way as martyrs. here in britain, we see people going out voluntarily to take part in the conflict in a difficult part of the world. this is a reminder of the risks that they take. as we've been hearing, theresa may says she will consider a major review into working practices. a report's calling for greater rights for self—employed people on zero hours contracts — including benefits such as holiday and sick pay. here is the author. we have had various reaction. some say this is the basis for reform. 0thers, various reaction. some say this is the basis for reform. others, the ypg, say it is a missed opportunity. i think this is an attempt —— the gmb. we are good at generating jobs. we have higher implements than ever before. pretty low unemployment. we

of the syrian democratic forces, but we know who provides most of the fighting power, which is the ypg. the kurdish military. after isis is finished, united states and turkey are going to be sitting with this new agreement on jordan and vail as silent partners are going to be sitting on a considerable amount of syria territory that have been well defended against anybody who is trying to push into it. working with local forces. that will be the big question. i would reich to say this is where the united states is going to be, i don't know where turkey is. but there will have to be some kind of coordination. all i can say is nobody knows yet where the united states quite is on this. because this is a hard, difficult problem. we've tackled iran before. we were successful. in the iraq/iran war of pushing it back when swept into iraq in 1983. we were successful, in the tank war, we weren't successful in beirut in a political military campaign in 2011 to stay on in iraq so our own success with iran is mixed. this will be the key geopolitical issue we will have with with turkey. it will affe

with the fighters of the ypg. these are the fighters of the u.s. coalition working with. they are the foot soldiers. we're moving up to their forward base. >> reporter: two strangers bonded in a battle of the ages against the death cult that is isis. what began as a popular uprising against the assad regime in syria rapidly descended into a bloody civil war, allowing isis to move in. they named raqqa the capital of their caliphate. a darkness descended here, unleashing a frenzy of barbarism that shocked the world. but finally, last month america's allies breached the city walls, giving this volunteer army hope that the fall of isis is now within their reach. our journey to raqqa began hundreds of miles away. >> we've just left iraqi territory. we're going over the river. and syria's on the other side. personally, this is kind of a big movement. i haven't been able to get back into syria since 2014. that was partly because of the threat from isis. but now their territory's being diminished. the fight is being taken to them. and finally we're able to go back and report on w

it will be affected by the gulen situation and the why pc -- ypg question. what do we do in iraq and syria with the iranian threat in total disorganization of the region? thank you. i will lead you to fix that mess. >> thank you. i will ask questions after the panel, but i have a simple question. for most ordinary people in somehow [indiscernible] in july the 15th field coup -- failed coup. what should the u.s. have done everly -- done differently? what could've been done better? turkeye is a belief in powersas a very great versus the rest worldview, inserts and the schools, it is what i have experienced there. my worldview is not all that different from that, but it particularly sees that great powers do not like competition. turkey's competition, so therefore ever since woodrow wilson advocated an independent kurdistan, and never heard an american other than those who served in turkey who knows that fact, and i have never heard a turk does not know that fact. there is a general feeling of suspicion that united states is always trying to clip turkey's wings

positions were supporting the kurdish militia, the ypg in syria.urkey sees the ypg as an , theiate of the pkk turkish kurdish insurgents group. and turkey has long called on washington to withdraw its support for the syrian kurdish militia. but there's a difference between calling on america to withdraw support and actually advertising the details of that support. >> germany is making it clear it is unhappy with turkey, too. and it's totally overhauling its relations with ankara. the german foreign minister touching on many areas in his declarations this thursday. among them, warning that there are risks to anyone wanting to travel to turkey from germany. is comes after turkey arrested a german human rights activist two weeks ago. take a listen. most absurd things are possible in traveling to turkey for years where you have acquaintances and friends who have been visiting for years turkish citizens possibly being suspected by turkish secret services of being close to that -- movement. all of a sudden you are a terrorist supporter. a hotel who belon

and rely on the people on the ground some of whom fight with each other out and qatari mac, turks and ypg but want to slip this all up. i'm optimistic. in terms of the kurdistan regional government, turkey for very good reasons, like the united states is a post independent but we do not want to break up iraq. iraq is even more important it like it is a reserved can two-thirds of saudi arabia answer yes. so the turkish position not just from its domestic standpoint but from its regional standpoint, even if economic future a as a trading partner, a transit to iraq. iraq is united country is really important for turkey. so the turkish position is understandable and is correct. one caveat. it we all screwup in much of a rock falls under the control of iran, the way lebanon has, on the margins of this might be revisited not just by turkey by washington. i don't think there will ever be an acknowledgment of an independent sovereign state of kurdistan bu but i think there might be different arrangements if that very negative situation arose it but turkey and america have a joint interest in sayi

for example, pkk or ypg and pyd on mutually relationship in terms of undermining turkey's national securityarchitecture, especially since 2015. so therefore we need to really carefully look at the security dynamics in the middle east and domestic challenges of turkey. so therefore the relationship between regional geopolitics and the regional politics are important to explain turkish foreign-policy and secular policy. the third one that is also important to understand how domestic political actors, actors are reacting with the crisis come emanating from syrian civil war, iraq, turkey struggles against daesh compass the domestic political conscience is really important to see how turkish foreign-policy and secular foreign-policy will look like in the near future. when we look at the regional geopolitics. of course since the emergency of the need for so to speak social movements in the middle east after the arab uprising, i think we have been experiencing radical challenge. there are many dimensions of these radical challenges but i can summarize by looking at four different dimensions of rad

. -- ypg mostly why pj kurdish group militia groups. minorities.e ypg.trolled by why pj it statarted witith kobani. they were trying to p protect their areas. what about the fact, as we beeeen talking about the fact that u.s.-led coalitition has ld to this extraordinary loss of life among civilians in raqqa, can you talk about what people when the u.s.ted strikes began, the us-led strikes began and whether there was any hope that t it would be successful? started astrike couple of years ago. the airstrikes were more careful ththan right now. it is like a conflict. like we have to expect people are getting killed. randomly killing, random airstrikes. takee were it would nott that long, that they would be more careful, target isis gathering, not killing people everywhere that even people trying to get water. amy: s syrian defenense force. i ins, pepeople had expereriene other territories controlled -- they been committing this recruitmentt or they started to in vivillages in the countryside in raqqa. people were afraid to be forced to join the army. commit

. -- ypg. >> my reason for joining the ypg was to help the kurdish struggle in syria and elsewhere andy best to help to create a more secure world. >> it is still unclear how he died but the kurdish spiders said happened last week on the outskirts -- kurdish fighters said it happened last week on the outskirts of the city of morocco, and he was also in the wall street movement in new york. >>> we are learning more about the wall street -- man killed in hayward and sheriff's investigators fall in love and the family friend say they are waiting for justice. >> i did not get to tell him i loved him and how proud of him i was and i'm living my worst nightmare. i'm trying to stay strong and hope this does not happen to anyone else. >> reporter: robert romero said his son was at the threshold of adult hood, a fun-loving skateboarder that called the tennyson park his happy place. he played the drums at the oakland coliseum and attending the oakland a's games with his father and at the age of 19 he had just moved into his own apartment and running a legal medical marijuana business and he says

. >> my reasons for joining the ypg was to help the curdish people., also to do my best to be able to get a more secure world. >> grot was originally from new york and attended uc santa cruz. >>> a group of high school girls from afghanistan will be allowed to come to the taos compete in a student robotics competition after all. the white house confirmed that decision has now been reversed after president trump intervened. that means the girls would be allowed to attend the international competition in washington, d.c. >>> stunning images of a space phenomenon. >> and a south bay dlicious is closing up shop after nearly 70 years in business. coming one why the owner says he has no choice. >> tracking the warm-up in the bay area forecast, talking about it mainly for the weekend. we have the 5 day forecast ready to go. >>> a reward has doubled for information leading to the killer of a rom innocent bay area attorney who was shot and killed outside of his home in el cerrito. family friends and of james gileland have announced a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction

in this case, the statement says here that luke rutter believed that fighting with the trump —— ypg.ting to fight with the trump jr is a way of fighting in the battle that we watch in the news —— ypg, fighting with them. they will be described as maters by the kurdish forces. people have gone to ta ke kurdish forces. people have gone to take part in this conflict in this very difficult part of the world and that this is another reminder of the risks they take. a large number of bikers — on a halloween ride out — who brought leeds city centre to a standstill have been sentenced. the incident saw a large number of bikers tear through streets and pedestrian areas in the city. police received 160 calls from the public, with some likening the scenes to the film mad max. 12 bikers were sent to prison for 12 months, it was halloween last year. at 5:15, so the rush hours just about to start. 100 bikers gathered in the city center at one of the main route in and out of the city they were encouraged to be there by a man called david. david armitage. 26 or old who had organized this gathering o

25-year-old david taylor was killed on july 16th in raqqa, according to the unit he joined known as ypg. taylor is one of three americans killed this month fighting with kurdish forces. >>> there are disturbing new details on an alleged terror plot in oakland, california. federal officials say a 22-year-old who was arrested last year conspired to kill 10,000 people across the bay area. he's accused of plotting to blow up gay clubs in san francisco, plant bombs at the university of brkly, set fire to the berkeley hills and sell cocaine laced with rat poison. he also planned to join islamic state fighters abroad. the lawyer for the young man said he does not support isis. and claims he, quote, took no actions to harm anyone. >>> katie ledecky took her third straight win in the 1,500 event and nabbing her 12th win overall to pass missy franklin as the all-time winningest female swimmer in world championship history. she won her semi-final about 45 minutes after that race. >> you said she's 20 years old? >> we've never seen any female swim are quite like her. >>> now to some weather. in chi

. >> my reasons for joining the ypg was to help the kurdish people. >> that's a youtube videos robert grodt posted by the kurdish people's defense unit mp in it he explains why he was inspired to joint the effort to fight isis in syria. the 28-year-old born in mountain view and his mom says she got a call from the state department telling her that her son had died. >> we just have to take his energy and make a difference. in his honor, just something to make a difference. >> grodt was five months into a six-hadn't deployment he leaves behind a wife and child. >>> she allegedly denied someone an airbnb based on race. she is a frist native she was turned away minutes from reaching her destination in big bear. nbc's ian cull has more. >> she first talked with our sister station in l.a. about the cabin she lined up on airbnb for a winter weekend in big bear heading there from law school with friends and her fiance. >> on our way there i tested the host to confirm that she did have us down four four meem. >> but she says at that point the host denied four efts guests at her cabin that's wh

he joined a kurdish militia known as ypg. he explains his reasons for making such a dangerous decision. >> my reasons for joining was to help the kurdish people in their struggle for freedom in syria and elsewhere and do my best to be able to fight isis and create a more free world. >> he believed we all have the capacity to change the world. you just have to do it. >> friends and family say he was always fighting for change. in santa cruz he worked for two years on a campaign for equal rights and also fought during occupy wall street. >> it was so important for him to create a better world for his daughter. >> just his knowledge and everything that he had to share with the world was incredible. he always had some plan, some idea, something in the world that he's got to take care of. so we'll greatly miss that. >> now, robert was killed alongside another american and a british volunteer. his family is now trying to bring his remains back home. >>> the pentagon says u.s. forces have killed the held of isis k, the terrorist gro

making such a dangerous decision.robert grodt / file / no name font needed:"my reasons for joining the ypgas to help the kurdish people in their struggle for autonomy within syria and elsewhere. also to do my best to fight and help create a more secure world."spike murphy, grodt's former work supervisor:"he believed that we all had the capacity to change the world. you just have to do it." friends and family say grodt was always fighting for change. in santa cruz, he worked for two years on a campaign for equal rights.he fought against world economic inequality during occupy wall street. spike murphy, grodt's former work supervisor:"it was so important to him to create a better world for his daughter and it was not surprising for me at all that he would lose his life in the service of other people."stephanie eason, grodt's sister:"just his knowledge and everything he had to share with the world was incredible."tammy grodt, grodt's mother:"he's always got some plan, he's always got some idea, something in the world he's got to take care of. we'll greatly miss that." (justine) senate majorit

. -- ypg. >> i wanted to help people with their struggle in autonomy and i wanted to do my best to fight to help to create a more secure world. >> it is still unclear how he died but the kurdish spiders said happened last week -- fighters outside the city and he did volunteer work in santa cruz and at one point was involved with the occupy wall street movement and new york. >>> the u.s. has reached the trump administration limit of 50,000 refugees for the year and some additional refugees will still be allowed to come into the country. the state department says the u.s. reached its limit yesterday and more refugees may come into the country if they can prove a close and bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the u.s. the bona fide relationship includes a parent, child or spouse. grandparents, grandchildren, aunts and uncles do not qualify. >>> the trump administration latest proposal to toughen the airport security is setting off a right to privacy battle. the white house ones u.s. citizens porting international flights to submit to a face scan and the department of homeland s

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turkey has warnings about pkk, pyd, ypg and daesh. it has warnings towards a global world.ertainly each country come within its own internal structures and make decisions. however, it she pointed out that this not just turkey's matter. when we look at the fact that leader speaks turkish at that the city that got bombed on jult mean that this problem just belongs to turkey. this is a problem of radicalization. even if it doesn't have actions of other countries, this organization can be an example for other terror organizations. this is like a sector, and these organizations are related to each other. we should not forget this. we look at the time before jul july 15, the fact that pkk was -- and that just shortly before the members were exchanging intelligence with pkk action, actions, was revealed in our investigations and recorded in the reports. therefore, the world public opinion should come up with policies to counter the terrorist organizations and radicalization over principles, not of the persons and countries. in conclusion, terror organizations are becoming institut

they are not happy with what we have done with the ypg, but they get it. they don't like it, but they get it. and so i think turkey is one of those that it's got itsgood sides, it's got its bad sides. it has been made clear to themat the highest level that you can't come to our country andact like that. at the highest level. they know that that's not something we will tolerate. they know that it was very much frowned upon. they have given excuses as to why it happens and they know we are not taking any of their excuses. >> thank you, mr. chairman. obviously for the indian americans this is probably a first and obviously proud for the community. you know, madam ambassador, when we think about the u.n.security council it's been a consistent policy from the pastadministration also i think with the current administration todo necessary reforms and modernize the u.n. security council.can we get -- obviously the politics at the u.n. aren't going to be easy, but in the statement released earlier this week thepresident reaffirmed his commitment to add india as a p