and russia has been critical throughout in this has not. absolutely and this is a major concern that you've touched on that has hit close to home literally in the u.s. congress not just by opposition democrats but also by members of the president's own republican party one of the biggest supporters of u.s. president donald trump mitch mcconnell the top republican in the senate very concerned about this putting forward legislation to try and undo the u.s. withdrawal citing not only the concern there would be new influence now in the region by russia and also iran concerns for the united states but donald trump pushing back on that saying that this is not a fight that the u.s. needs to be in it's time for other players in the region to step up that this is already something where the u.s. has stayed much longer than was ever intended turkey syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out long time we were supposed to be the

and russia iran as well. as atlanta. have already agreed in uncle summit last month on the establishment of the constitutional committee in order to have a new constitution for syria and live that way for but as the elections in 2021 if the russians actually manage to do that i think they will be have. most probably did they have succeeded actually in achieving most of their objectives in syria but in order to do that the actions believe that the 1st step should be that america must must be out of syria that is really important for russia because they cannot actually control the whole syrian issue without actually the americans are out for the iranians they are very concerned about the american presence in the east of the if it is because it cuts. the land corridor between you know iraq syria and to lebanon for turkey and the presence of the united states in the region is also threatening because america is supporting the syrian democratic forces and supporting what the turks believe. separatists. scheme of the syria dem

conflict anymore it will not have any leverage and the syrian conflict and some actually also see that russia is winning in this case because america is actually pulling out so that something of the gun is actually dealing with 2 different americas this is actually what makes his position very very difficult and this is what mixed actually the thrust also with the united states is very low now as we are recording this program on friday afternoon and there are already news coming in that at least in one like this suppose that cease fire has been breached and that there are there are direct military confrontation between the turkish military and some of the kurdish groups speech leads me to my next question as part of the deal struck last thursday the kurdish military units they why b.g. have to withdraw to at least 80 kilometers from the turkish border i think americans really in the position to even promise a lot alone deliver on that given that the kurds have already struck a deal with the syrian government this is a very good question my binion why because right now the cuz actually they do

and russia. that's what he's been trying to do. >> i would not think it would be an exaggeration that relations between the white house and congress on foreign policy issues is also an estate of some agitation these days. weather it's ukraine or the turkey syria crisis. i wonder if you could fresh out for us a little bit different parts of that conversation and weather veto both in the house and the senate for majority. >> in this complicated dynamics and crisis in u.s. turkish relations, there's more than two actors, with much of russia and syrian regime, thinkers deserve a little more attention is a party to this current crisis in u.s. turkish relations. are you looking at the carnage future looking at within turkey and the activities of the syrian kurds as well is iraqi kurds. someone or if you want to address how the carnage question has always been part of the u.s. turkish relationship and weather what is the carnage side of the story these days. >> for the guards, clearly this is the major

and turkey announced that they are establishing a safe zone along the syria turkish border russia with more control more power in syria than ever also made possible by u.s. president truong. russian military police in northern syria a consequence of a pact negotiated in sochi between russian president vladimir putin and turkish president richard type 31 dividing up control of the turkey syria border. u.s. president donald trump is taking the credit for peace. was an outcome created by us the united states and nobody else no other nation very simple turkey syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out a reference to u.s. troops being pulled out of northern syria. the reality now is that russian forces are moving into the same kurdish territory that the u.s. has abandoned meanwhile there has been a sation of fighting. and i think what we have seen over the last days is encouraging because it shows that it's possible to move towards a political settlement a political

they were great fighters and we had a terrific alliance with russia wants nothing to do with isis russia is tough they can july says just as well to rely on russia and iran to protect us against.

a tragedy for both and the common fight against isis and the traditional adversaries like iran and russia. this would be bad for u.s. interests, but it would be terrible for turkey and i look forward to discussing with members on both sides and the administration how the u.s. can stand with our partners and provide strong principled and consistent global leadership.

turkey is not moving toward russia. it is making all kinds of deals with the soviets and so that relationship between russia and turkey that really this is about a new narrative from erdogan. he wants to see turkey as the leader i'm not sure of what but look at his pronouncements and you saw me last week in the new york times talking about the nuclear option. he has been wanting to reform the un security council. of course he thinks turkey should be a permanent member of the security council. so you can see very ambitious and this is very much in line with the ideation of foreign policy. sometimes it is very aggressive. it's also very pragmatic. he knows how much toic push and when to stop pushing to make the deals and that you can be stopped. but the most significant aspect off his foreign policy is to make himself the most important leader or even to upstage in the process he has completely personalized and he needs a message of that mobilizes people. in that critical part of the message has to recognize liberales dem

and russia. that's what he's been trying to do. >> i would not think it would be an exaggeration that relations between the white house and congress on foreign policy issues is also an estate of some agitation these days. weather it's ukraine or the turkey syria crisis. i wonder if you could fresh out for us a little bit different parts of that conversation and weather legislative activities will impose sanctions on turkey if if it's likely to produce a particular outcome. how do you see those in the debates but include turkey but not exclusively turkey playing out is a political struggle between the white house and congress. >> to do that, i have to move away from turkey for a quick second. again when i referenced earlier is there are separate authorities between the executive and legislative. what we have been seeing since president trump his election since he has come into office is the senate in particular the congress across the board. in fact entered in a own happening even more in the hous

they will loose faith in our democracy if russia controls our elections or china or iran. what do we vote for? so, the alleged defense by the president is clearly serious enough to warrant an investigation by congress so that is exactly what the house of representatives is doing in its impeachment inquiry that we can do two things you must do them. we in the senate can do both. the democrats have been committed to doing theeo peoples business. they cost hundreds of bills dealing with health care infrastructure and gun violence and climate change and much more it's turned into a legislative graveyard although more people die from gun violence committed by people who shouldn'ts. have guns. no vote as russia threatens us if also failed to offer proposals to address any of these pressing issues in many cases the policies and executive actions have made things worse. as they come back into session senate democrats will force the colleagues to votehr during this work. how on the three measures that are important to millions of americans. these votes will look for under the proce

anyone who wants to protect syria and assisting the kurds is good with me, russia, china, or

and that direction implicit thought here is that direction is russia so in the 1960s but so as russia and maybe other shall we say adversaries of the united states and maybe china, but i would argue this is not the case. that is that turkey is not moving towardsrussia . turkey is making all kinds of deals with russia, we see very much into the relationship between russia and turkey , but fundamentally as implied, this is really about erdogan. erdogan is tryingto create a new turkey , he is but mostly of course he's in it for himself so what's really happening is he wants a third way. he wants to see turkey as a leader. i'm not sure exactly what. but look at all his, some of his pronouncements, the policy options. he told me last week in the new york times that he's not talking about the nuclear option but turkey should have a nuclear weapons data, he's been wanting to the un security council, he had initiated transplants for that and of course he is a permanent number greater than 500 members so you see, a very ambitious, but this is very much in line with the italian leaders foreign-

saying that anyone who wants to assist syria in protecting the kurds is good with me, whether it is russia, china or napoleon bonaparte.

so africa has come to russia to get russia to come to africa more often that pretty much explains what we're seeing and saatchi on wednesday and thursday the 1st event of its kind all the african leaders have been invited to the black sea resort and almost all of them made it so we are going to see nearly 50 leaders and here global economic powerhouses such as of course the u.s. china and the you which as some say you have a reputation of really being eager to get a slice of the african high after all 30 percent of the world's natural reserves is a serious incentive while in the past they have organized similar events but now it's russia's turn but the russian officials of the most senior of them who we are going to see at the form of course have said that moscow's approach is completely different i do have to point out that president vladimir putin just before the summit began in one of the interviews even blamed the western countries for putting on a new face yet still trying to exploit the african countries mercilessly to their own benefit although according to mr putin that's not a

they're unhappy at this move, russia and china, because they like seeing us bogged down and spending big dollars to do so. when i took over our military was depleted. stronger than ever before. the endless wars are ending. we'll be focused on the big picture knowing we can always

under the deal reached between russia and turkey russian troops have been patrolling more areas in the northeast sending hundreds of more troops to police the new territory it's taken on behalf of the assad government russia's defense ministry says it will be establishing 15 security posts along the border which will be run by syrian government forces as the clock ticks down on the 60 hiatus between turkey and russia what controls have warned kurdish fighters to be drug within 30 kilometers inside syrian territory moscow says the draw has already begun and as battle lines become drawn and redrawn millions of syrians hold their breath as arabs and kurds they are waiting for peace to come to these areas so they can return home some of the al-jazeera a chocolate on the turkey syria border. as you heard the turkish president's warning the u.s. about its relationship with a kurdish commander criticizing washington for treating him like a legitimate political figure now there's widespread political support in the us for general barney to visit and discuss the situation in syria but turkey se

but to syria where they ceasefire brokered by turkey and russia has. officially expired with russia's foreign minister declaring that kurdish forces have withdrawn from the border area earlier than planned to he says it will verify the withdrawal with joint patrols with russian troops but there have already being reports of clashes between syrian government and forces the syrian observatory for human rights says it has seen artillery eyed machine gun fire south of the border town of russell i mean kurdish forces agreed to retreat from the area under the deal struck by russia until the last week but they didn't because when the duty han is in istanbul i asked her what happens not of the ceasefire has officially ended well the cease fire that you have been talking about has been a very shaky one there have been occasional skirmishes they have continued in the past days and both sides have blamed each other for violations now turkey and russia struck that deal to allow kurdish militia in northeast as syria which ankara consider as terrorists to withdraw s

yet the lot of us are the result of that so russia has always had close relations with the cards and of course is one of the main players and they conflict in syria so let's go to moscow where we join d.w. correspondent and money show and welcome back emily what is moscow's line on this. well as you say phil russia has always had historically close ties with the kurds that stretches all the way back to the soviet union that they did lose a lot of trust from the kurds last year when they kind of gave approval for turkish air strikes against the african region which is was turkey kurdish controlled excuse me now what we've seen from the kremlin has been rather neutral a statement was published on the kremlin website which said that there had been a telephone call between president and on and president putin seemingly just before the operation was launched and that putin had warned his turkish counterpart to be careful and to take care that the kind of peace process in the regulation of the syrian conflict doesn't isn't brought off track by this offer a show on the russian line is very

it will provide islamic states with an opportunity to regenerate and control areas such as russia and terrorism or again a couple commentators for. turkish president recha tayyip erdogan gave the kurds a stark warning that suited their is a phrase that we always say we can come any night without warning. and our determination remains because it is absolutely out of the question for us to further tolerate the threats from these terrorist groups. the international community has raised serious concerns when you would arm for c.t.'s in the north east with not only exacerbate civilian suffering can be to massive displacement but when or so re scsi very undermining current political efforts we treat as you know support there are 6000000 displaced people inside syria there is more than 5 and a half 1000000 refugees in the neighboring countries and it's a conflict that has gone on for far too long and therefore if you prefer that takes place at the moment has to take into account to ensure that we don't see any further displacement. on the ground in syria kurds are waiting for the next blow t

to find a solution for syria so there is this close relationship between turkey and russia that russia done doesn't want to jeopardize but on the other hand of course syria will ask for help as well if this incursion is going to be much more serious than maybe russia is thinking at the moment so that's something that we have to see and wait how this will develop but of course syria and russia is watching it all very very carefully indeed they are and of course it will come back to you for more reaction as we get it from moscow if you're joining us here on al-jazeera english what you are seeing are pictures of towns and areas very close to the turkey syria border turkish television is also promoting images out of the areas of taliban and they are back here where we have seen military and craft fighter jets taking off to those clear skies and heading towards northern syria where the turkish president has announced within the last hour that a military operation has begun against those that it deems are terrorists primarily we believe that of the sea that those that are being targeted are

it is incredible for me to hear the president's first words to recognize vladimir putin and russia. outsource the national security of united states with vladimir putin is not an option. and failing to tell the leaders on both sides of the aisle of such an operation is while you are complementing russia it speaks volumes about what the administration thinking is and on a related note it is despicable, despicable to question the loyalty and the patriotism of lieutenant colone colonel, and iraq war visit veteran, purple heart recipient, simply because of his heritage. when i think of the national security and think of the lieutenant colonel and we should be praising him not defiling him is a one - - as the president has done. >> thank you very much. i'm glad to be here with my colleagues the death aku bakr al-baghdadi is good imposes a disruption for isis but it is not a mission accomplished moment because we all know that they have not been illuminated and there will be a resurgence of isis with those 11000 isis fighters that were detained by the kurds. and watching the present make

regardless what russia tries to broker in the fight against. as i t mentioned earlier, they d invaded twice before, so they have an additional level of control in the far northwest. i mention this because they've asked the regime for support not only to defend the northeast, but to take the war to turkey in the north west as well. i don't expect they want that escalation in the northwest and they seek to contain the scope and scale of the fighting but the regime does have the ability to make its own decisions and to so i am watching for that escalation. >> i don't think the sanctions will be enough because it would take time for them to kick in and have the effect that he thinks he can finish the military operationss on the ground before the worst of those actually hit him i and his key power base. ho

so it will provide islamic states with an opportunity to regenerate and control areas such as russia and there as there were again the. majority tech is president tricep tired everyone gave the tax a stock warning if. there is a phrase that we always say. we can come any night without warning and our determination remains because it is absolutely out of the question for us to further tolerate the threats from these terrorist groups. decision has and him widespread criticism even within his republican party occurred when nobody else would defy the police abandon the good lord getting ready to help america in the future will radical islam al-qaeda and isis hours later trump appeared to try to placate her takes by issuing a stand morning to ankara right now we're at a position where if turkey does anything out of what they should be doing we will hit them so hard in the economy mixed messages that the top and meanwhile on the ground in syria the kids are waiting for the next by to fall in a region that seen its share of misery and violence already. i'm joined now by mark peeler me he's

amna, what does this deal mean fo russia? >> it means russia has much more ofse a pe and influence in that space. t end?: to w >> one, part of a larger geopoliticalphere. they're more aligned to turkeyk now. we saw this previously with tensions between turkey and the u.s. in a deal for the air missile defense system that they bought from the russians. the u.s. dn't like it. there have been tensions for a while between the u.s. and rkey, which is aato ally. turkish had with forces on the ground. that was always a tenuousec alliancese the stronger alliance was always with turkey. it w w never a questionf when the u.s. was going to leave. we flew the u.s. would have to leave at some point. the big questionas how they'd and by all accounts, the day after that call by president trump and president erdogan, it was total chaosas to -- as toto how that decision was reached. robert: why did many advisors pull back on the support of turkey? >> anytimeouhink about the foreign policy, you have to think about it in the america firstme fnd

progress of the deal announced by russia and turkey on tuesday. as binge of it has more from the turkey syria border. this area that president trump calls long blood stained sand is about the 800 kilometer long border between syria and turkey more than half a 1000000 people have been killed in the last 8 years and the situation on the ground remains precarious on we've been hearing about 2 incidents which involved bombings and explosions in the kurdish help. and the russians are warns that warned the kurds to make use of these 150 hours to vacate these areas 30 kilometers deep inside syrian territory or face the turkish advance as the turks have agreed with the russians that they will be coming in 10 kilometers deep into syrian territory all this is happening while the syrian government is also taking an active role for the 1st time in 8 years along this border area syrian government with the russians is going to be moving in to try and vacate areas from commission lee and make sure that these areas according to its agreement with the turks are cl

president donald trump is describing the agreement the truce that we're seeing between russia and turkey as a major breakthrough made possible by his policy in syria is that true well that was a very typical of donald trump move essentially what we've been seeing here today is something we've seen before many many times presidents come to clear victory on a crisis that he created in the 1st place and let's just remember how this all unfolded there was a phone call between president wretch of type every one of turkey and president trump and as a result of that phone call president trump decided to pull out the u.s. troops of syria that created a power vacuum in syria and essentially and eventually leading to a deal splitting up syria between russia and turkey and they the outcome of that is that russia became stronger asop became stronger putin became stronger. go on of course as well and even i since my research in the future and the u.s. gave up their last influence in syria so talking about ice is also said that isis will be under control in fact and we had the u.s. top envoy for syria

as a big boost it's a big boost for russia it's a big boost for us what he needs that money america's policy was to beggar us to make him as poor as possible thinking that they could carry out regime change if they impoverished damascus by bike by grabbing most of the oil resources agriculture and of course to.

we just heard about russia's possible. involvement of the enemy putin speaking to arab media all foreign powers should leave syria and eventually russia would like to do exactly the same thing it's not an open ended commitment. i think this would be the ideal solution but also russia pushing for the renewable the 1998 agreement between turkey and syria the question is how is this possible if the gun i'm sorry let's call a spade a spade are going to try to kill us the they have our friends they've baseband together syrian and turkish cabinet you know just even to kill during meetings you know in the beginning of the state all the states are called monsters. you know i just can't imagine after everything that happened they can return to business as usual but the main problem when you have this is usual to move but you know how you open hostilities i'll take that any day of the week we have looked at but also you know there was a very good article in the american conservative about the u.s. has too many allies yes by daniel a

again even though that's been tried for years basically we're looking at a situation where russia is in cahoots with turkey on this and more so than the other side we would likely see. the kurds the. push 1st into the regimes hands before russia's hands but what we ought to do is to get the deputy secretary general of nato the military staffs all reaching out to their counterparts in turkey and basically we've got leaders on all sides urging want to trump they have incentives actually to get a resolution to get a ceasefire here you've got senates or republicans in the senate here who basically trump needs for his impeachment defense and early one what does he need he basically needs a whole stack of things that start with not having another secure in secure situation on his borders or a way that the syrian refugees might actually stay or increase in number and still they've got problems and it lived an unsteady relations with the russians the iranians and the regime and while all of that is happening people that have already been displaced are being displaced again we're talking over

it wouldn't be the 1st time that a banana species has disappeared from the russia says. we might lose it as well and then we would find another species of banana but there will be a hard problem is that the highly highly. without bananas i am lost yes. different person is careful and biased just one day and luckily the rest of us can still too whether we draw on the pill or not. the 60 vote is well bred days so it's fitting that we have our series baking bread view our europe correspondent gaoled matters is endeavoring to make bread from every e.u. member country today cyprus a divided island which is an e.u. member although the northern turkish part is well not in the e.u. however what does unite the 2 parts of the island is their bread and get your good even while the cyprus european commission with his bank. the e.u. is still looking for a magic formula to make this border fence disappear. cyprus has been split since $974.00 but its inhabitants on both sides share the same threat in the greek south which is part of the e.u. it's called lurie back to la stand by for ou

the mountains of least only grow. 6 hours of talks between the presidents of russia and turkey result in a new plan for northern syria one that forces the removal of kurdish y p g forces from a border buffer zone. also this hour a report by the international chemical weapons watchdog on last year's alleged chemical attack in syria is more and by irregularities that's the conclusion of an independent expert panel that's been scrutinizing the o.p.c. w.c. findings. plus fears rise that the mistakes of the $2800.00 into a crisis will be repeated as a congress accuse us ratings agencies of going easy on big firms that are heavily in debt. and the 1st ever russia africa summit is now underway in the resort city of sochi with a host of leaders and attendants. here watching our to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. more than 6 hours of talks between the turkish and russian leaders have resulted in a breakthrough on the situation in northern syria the cease fire there was extended by 6 days with kurdish forces expected to leave

of course it kalash ng with russia's operations russia's president presents and sometimes we're having problems our aim is is to have an agreement with russia. an agreement that is acceptable for everybody or one condition wherever regime exists we want to make sure that p.k. k. and y p g is not that is cleared unfortunately this didn't happen in men also . the presence of why p.d.p. k.k. is continuing and where and where of this the same situation also applies to i know rob and commissioner this is possible that is going to happen we cannot accept this a sensually and y p g. called. it is for us it's not uncomfortable it's not an acceptable that regime controls the areas that are cleared by the p.k. ok this is ok for us. if in member for example if there is a tactic or terror organizations in this area if you clear it from the pl k.k. and terror organizations and it will be but we can't say that it's was it is given to. residents and. but if if their organization is cleared for members. and if their organizations are cleared from bani arnel are up we have no problem. as long as terror

from berlin tonight the us president declaring victory taking credit for the deal between turkey and russia over northern syria the us president lifting sanctions on turkey after announcing them just a week ago he says turkey has told him it has permanently ended its offensive against kurds in northern syria is that true also coming up a gruesome find it near london police discover 39 bodies inside a truck they move to that vehicle to be secure locations of that they can begin identifying the dead and the protesters in chile unswayed by promises of economic reforms designed to end days of deadly demonstrations more rallies and the general strikes are planned for wednesday plus basketball fans in the united states protesting in support of a free hong kong superstar le bron james is singled out for criticism and the n.b.a. season opener in los angeles. i'm bring coffee it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with the u.s. president donald trump today he announced that he is lifting sanctions that he imposed on turkey just 9 days ago saying. he has received confirmation from turkish pre

competition as a result of the top brass of russia's anti-doping agency tells someone else did it . i'm told me a lot of both thanks for joining us. u.s. president all trump is declaring his latest moves in syria a victory on wednesday the president announced that he would lift sanctions on turkey just 9 days after he imposed them in response to turkish forces entering northeastern syria the new direction from trump came hours after russia and turkey and now as they were establishing a safe zone along the syria turkey border marking the arrival of russia as the new power in the region u.s. president donald trump is taking the credit for peace in syria this was an outcome created by us the united states and nobody else no other nation very simple turkey syria and all forms of the kurds have been fighting for centuries we have done them a great service and we've done a great job for all of them and now we're getting out a reference to u.s. troops being pulled out of northern syria the reality now is that russian forces are moving into the same kurdish territory that the u.s. has aband

syria and russia but remember they've been fighting again. them for the last few years so that's almost as bad an option as a learning themselves with turkey so they're in a very very difficult position and one 4th of the international community just seems to be abandoning them at the moment. what about refugees and i saw i saw fight is obviously not the same thing but often hard to distinguish one from the other and turkey's effectively threatening to unleash countless numbers of refugees towards the european union if they take action against. the e.u. kind of hamstrung in this situation. i think it is a little homes from the e.u. countries who've got foreign fighters there have got no authority and no ability whatsoever to go in and remove people who are their nationals or who cling to be their nationals and then there's lots of others that are mixed up within the refugees and all the rest of it it's a very very difficult situation with the international community hasn't started on him properly discussed and worked out how to deal with it t

russia and the murderous assad regime is flowing in to fill a vacuum. he's given isis, formerly al qaeda, a new lease on life by forcing the kurds to leave from continuing to fight isis and hold the 10,000 isis prisoners they have and fleeing north to try to protect their sons, their daughters, their families. instead of fighting for remnants of the so-called caliphate that isis had set up. and leaving guarding 10,000 isis terrorists and supporters, some of whom have already escaped and the throw of global confidence of american leadership into complete freefall. i'll say something self-serving. this is something i know a lot about. i spent a lot of time in that area. i know all of these leaders. i've been engaged because that was my job as chairman of the foreign relations committee and doing major national security in intelligence matters for president obama. all of the consequences i've mentioned, every single one can be laid at the feet of donald trump. you know, he greenlighted turkish invasion. now he's left asking turkey to stop it. but the damag

more than more than he cares about russia what about iran. so this is something that is really important that. when you talk about the process i totally agree that the americans seem to have already lost i think. that the. important factor in this conflict the moment the moment they will not be able to have. that. be to the process of the as. well mr campbell and we have to take a very short break now but we'll be back in just a few moments stay tuned. for sure. we'll be near the crate with him. reaching out. for him anywhere near. 67 years you know they've been locked up in case. you see no protection from the weather the heat. the rain the snow. they have no protection. for you. it's. the u.s. crude. this large scale factor. are things. even a good businesses are involved. there has been a shocking amount of the organized opposition to adverts to increase the standards of care for dogs bred in commercial breeding facilities most of that opposition is coming from huge agricultural groups and industries that have nothing to do with jobs don't

ally if we would fall further into moscow's orbit to recognize the grave consequences of withdrawal russia iran and the aside regime and the escape of more than 100 isys affiliated fighters in the region. we specifically urge the president to end the drawdown that appears to be under way with the re- engagement of our partners in this region the diplomatic efforts to underlying the civil wars in syria and afghanistan on terms that address the conditions that allow al qaeda to thrive. we cannot repeat this mistake so there is some appetite on both sides of the aisle. i myself played a critical role in sanction regimes in the past but developed a reflex as a first and last resort to implement foreign policy they may play an important role in the process but i'm open to the senate considering that we need to be extremely careful before we put those same tools against our allies against the worst imrogue states do we know what impact the sanctions will have inside turkey? will it weaken president erdogan or rally to his cause to know the impact sanctions will have a new west companies are on t

general assembly perhaps russia is prepared to tolerate turkey taking a corridor of land along syria's northeast border while it and the assad forces continue the bombardment of it live in the northwest with the hope it will eventually lead to the kurds coming under the control of the syrian government jamesburg al-jazeera at the united nations. lots more to come here including rebel . opposition m.p. is once again prevented from performing. and this inspirational 97 year old nobel prize winner has helped shape lives for the better.

the deal between the kurds and moscow's ally are sad gives russia access to northern syria previously under u.s. way. as washington's influence wanes russian president vladimir putin was striding the regional stage after a visit to saudi arabia he was received by abu dhabi's crown prince mohammed bin ziad on choose day. the us of imposed sanctions while the european union imposed a limited funds and bargo on cherokee german chancellor angela merkel on monday called for an end to fighting. it up there from another also i have already said from my side that we believe that with all of justified security interests this offensive should be ended because it just visibly causing a lot of human suffering going and it's also bringing a lot of uncertainty with the fight against i.s.u. wins. but for now the offensive continues and so does the human suffering as civilians a court between the fronts like these young victims of turkish shelling in a hospital in russia lying just as. those. can and getting out the u.n. says that 160000 people who have already fled the fighting. all right we're join

defense minister says that he does discuss the progress of the deal announced by russia and turkey on cheese day. the south korean prime minister and his japanese counterparts have met in tokyo at a time of heightened tension not john and they have agreed that strained relations need to be mended it's the highest level meeting since tokyo introduced export controls on materials that are crucial to the south korean tech industry and that was in response to souls demands for compensation from japan for wartime forced labor. bolivia's opposition leader is calling for mass protests to continue unless a runoff is held carlos messer says he has evidence of electoral fraud in sunday's presidential vote president evo morales has denounced the opposition demonstrations as a crew and anti-government protests in chile have become some of the biggest and most violent in nearly 30 years at least 18 people have been killed in the past 2 weeks . a police investigation is underway in the united kingdom after the bodies of that $109.00 people were found in a container truck in a town east of london th

that there was one to find the peace solution in syria they need to talk to russia and. if the west wants peace in syria that if you look i. know the idea that i haven't heard much about that i want to switch gears just real quickly here i don't want to go into them around called american domestic politics but you know it much to my mind donald trump will be impeached he will not be removed but he will be impeached by the democratic congress to decide if american foreign policy well again they should call the show on predictability because it's very difficult to many variables and there well do you want to call him well i think well no although that i think probably 3 major areas one will be did they think they're going to isolate the u.s. within i notice this but they're also going to isolate the united states and iran. fears i think from trump we're going to see possibly more brazen foreign policy because he would have he would really need in order to win the election under pietschmann he would need some big win and want to win means does it mean striking a trade deal

so is russia's influence in syria set to increase further and how should the west respond to russia's new partnership there with nato member turkey those are some of the questions being discussed by nato defense ministers during a 2nd day of talks brussels. moscow is the new puppet master in syria precious defense minister talks with the head of a kurdish militia there and it's clear who's giving the orders. that's the reality facing nato defense ministers they're scrambling to catch up with the political reality of post was syria and more to the point the west's role there. there are different views. as is stated in the meeting also views which are publicly know it was a strong support for the political should the solution on a strong. support for stronger international gages german defense minister and they could come cut on by a proposed an international force to police to secure is own but only had a few details. for a moment it looked like u.s. defense secretary marc esper might support her idea that because it's something that we've been calling on our european partners to do fo

russia's ambassador to the united states has said russia can cope without the strategic arms reduction treaty this comments came as he addressed students in monterey california he also described the u.s. withdrawal from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty as a disaster for the international strategic stability nuclear arms control has been in the spotlight since washington withdrew from the on of treaty in august is still unclear whether it will stick with the new start treaty. and you. can see that she gives us. those statistics that we. see you reach usually just so she will believe the little you did before i could be very difficult to get the result you if you are. in the business you should put somebody before the. show will this just looks like something good but the wall. will be. fulfills its obligations that if you do this it's up to china to do so with it used to be interested in easy solutions. it seems to me that we end up trying to force the solution but in the city i would like to go for you know what you want this in the. nation but the way you used to do it if

russia i mean enormous situation russia with no blows i mean that that kish military operation in the north east of syria but that the russians doing right now actually doubt trying to be more flexible with the russian opposition why because i think the russians want on the one hand to bunch the kurds for allying themselves would there not be stays on the other hand to push them back to embrace the c.d.n. the syrian regime so i think that the russians are about very unhappy with the with their with the operation and my opinion and reasons about your pardon but the russians as well as the iranians and turkey in the past have all agreed to the importance of unity when it comes to syrian territory. yeah that that's upset you're absolutely right i mean tookie is also saying that this operation in order to prevent the breakup of syria because turkey believes that the kurdish the y d z they call it actually the syrian big k.k. is having and is having an ambition to have a separate state in the north east of syria and that and that it what the key is trying to prevent right now but this mili

well what you just heard means that russia 1 is now sorry africa is now russia's guest in order to make sure that russia becomes africa's guest more often maybe in some cases permanently as the russian africa economic forum and summit that's what it's officially called are well underway i have told you that the invitations were. sent out to all the african leaders and nearly all of them made it here and that is more than 40 leaders taking part here i can tell you that the economic and geopolitical giants such as the us the e.u. and china have to thrown such events in the past but someone saying that they do have a reputation of being very eager to get this slice of africa natural resources and other benefits that they can get out of it in fact more than 30 percent of reserves of the earth's natural resources that's really something that sounds quite tempting but now it is russia's turn although the officials that i have a hard from keep saying that russia is approach is completely different moscow is far behind western countries and china when it comes to their ambitions for africa and

in a retreat f from turkey russia and the murder is the sod regime to fly in to fill the vacuum. he gives isis formally al qaeda a new lease on life by forcing the kurds to leave to hold those prisoners that they have to flee north to protect their families instead of fighting and now their 10000 isis supporters and some of them have already escaped. the global confidence in american leadership is a complete free-for-all. i will say something very self-serving and this is something i know a lot a about. i know all the leaders. because that was my job as the chairman of the committee to do national security intelligence matters under president obama. every single one to be laid at the feet of donald trump. and now he's asking turkey to stophe it. that the damage is done. you don't get do overs when it comes to national security. so the dynamics of syria are complicated. but this goes back decades. and then was actually keeping northern iraq relatively stable. on what was left of isis. jen how demoralizing that is for the troops, or troops as russia pours in the mercenaries taking