because united states wants good relations with turkey they understand the value of turkey turkey is date it's a big economy big military they want it as an ally but they can't abandon the kurds missa go chon is turkey still interested in regime change in syria at all or has it given that up to fight the kurds and to fight the. to hottest on its border. i think it's inevitable rescind regime change change is all about foreign car right now. i mean the decision makers are out there thinking that you know. should stay and unity of syria right now is extremely important saw and also ankara as i said before the primary in a more primary target these daws you know p.k. k. affiliated y.p.u. forces in the north of syria so unclear is in a sort of dilemma right now to play the enemy of my enemy is my france right a.j. so here who is the enemy. to play with it and. fight against the other enemy so i think at the end of the day what we will see is a sort of initiation of negotiations between ankara and this is inevitable saw ankara needs such support. how can i say to contain this. expansion a

is turkey losing is turkey fighting a losing battle in regards to what mr canady saying because the kurds already have a lot of territory now in northern syria what it what is the kurdish and goal in that region and have they all but achieved it. well first of all back to the earlier point the reason why i personally am not so worried about the iran turkish meeting is because it's not that the kurdish question is unifying them they inherently because of the dynamics in the region and their own policies they will find it very difficult to sustain any agreement agree on the overall strategy in the region and then keep to it because they don't trust each other's motors they are at war through proxies in syria in iraq turkey cannot relax in the front of or in face of all these paramilitaries that are iranian backed and there are other well meaning iraq and there of wellman syria and there's too much at stake for turkey to just give in to that turkish to your question turkish policies in iraq and in turn in syria has failed over the years the the their policy towards the kurds is also not succ

border battle however and other crossings with turkey this is embarrassing for turkey the united states mcgurk the head of the coalition the american head has called this the biggest conglomeration of al-qaeda peoples since nine eleven he said something has to be done about it and he's been pressuring turkey to do something about it i think in that sense turkey needs to step forward as and perhaps try to negotiate with the rebels themselves to withdraw and this be modeled on the operation around to rebels taken a year ago in which turkey stepped into northern syria north of aleppo and pushed out isis and isis withdrew pretty rapidly and f.s.a. free syrian army groups that had been trained and helped by turkey moved into the area so this may be a similar operation with negotiations by turkey on all sides because the free syrian army is very anxious they say we do not want turkey which has helped the so much with their revolution to end up hurting the syrian people he does not want them to work with russia extensively so this is very delicate for turkey mr felder how what is russia's invo

turkey and the us impose mutual. deepening diplomatic disputes. back to watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha also ahead spain's government insists the country will not be divided as pressure grows on the government after huge launch in barcelona against independence. one of the middle east eternal issues water has become a factor in the kurds drive for independence. fifty years after his death. america to remember a revolutionary icon. thank you for joining as the united states and turkey have imposed visa restrictions on each other in an escalating diplomatic dispute over the arrest of a u.s. consulate worker any sample is accused of links to the u.s. based cleric who turkey claims was the mastermind of last year's field goal. report from washington. the u.s. fired off the first volley in the diplomatic dispute on sunday issuing a statement saying it was suspending all nonimmigrant visa services at diplomatic facilities across turkey by the end of the day the turkish embassy responded in kind to the u.s. the visa suspension war st

because united states wants good relations with turkey they understand the value of turkey turkey is date it's a big economy big military they want it as an ally but they can't abandon the kurds misako chon is turkey still interested in regime change in syria at all or has it given that up to fight the kurds and to fight the. to hottest on its border. i think it's inevitable rescind regime change change is all about foreign car right now. i mean decision makers are out there thinking that you know. should stay and unity of syria right now is extremely important saw and also ankara as i said before the primary in a more primary target these daws you know p.k. k. affiliated y.p.u. forces in the north of syria so unclear is in a sort of dilemma right now to play the enemy of my enemy is my france right a.j. so here who is the enemy. to play with. fighting against the other enemy so i think at the end of the day what we will see is a sort of initiation of negotiations between ankara and this is inevitable saw ankara needs such support. how can i say to contain this. expansion and consola

in recent months turkey. reaching out to other countries turkey starvation relations with other countries notably russia and more recently with iran over the kurdish referendum independence we've seen tighter our relations between turkey and iran it seems how important is the us still today to turkey turkey and united states have been nato allies and allies for a long time maybe more than sixty years but ankara has three concerns actually three fears folley one is it feels they have been actually cheated by the united states over all this for to lock your land u.s. base cleric's extradition issue second and actually the most important the u.s. support for the wide p.g. . in northern syria and thirdly in direct support for the kurdish secession referendum in northern iraq turkey believes that united states actually in direct the support that but even though the u.s. can then that referendum in the u.s. didn't want that referendum to go ahead what is turkey believe that the us supported us said that they should

is limiting only those people in turkey coming from turkey so if you're a turk and you're living someplace else in another country you can still come here if you have a valid visa you can come here but the this sanctions or that the limits that turkey is placing on the u.s. is a lot broader even for people who have valid visas so. it remains to be seen what will happen but. within that you know we would expect within the next week maybe something diplomatically can be worked out between the two countries they are nato allies and you know they have this very important air base nato air base in turkey which is important to the u.s. all right dan thank you very much for that stan estabrook joining us live from washington d.c. well alternators chief editor of the turkish language news site washington hati he says the tension is going to make things difficult for turkey. when you start talking about the problems between the two countries and when you cannot stop anywhere there are so many issues this point are very much in uncharted territory as far as we can though there is there is we have no

and turkey started when the u.s. began backing kurdish fighters in their fight is i still in syria now that was under the obama administration turkey considers those forces an extension of the kurdistan workers party or p.k. k. which has waged an insurgency within turkey for over three decades more recently the u.s. grand jury indicted fifteen turkish security officials for a brawl with protesters during president rest of the trip to washington d.c. in may the one described the indictments are scandalous now not even a letter by seventy eight members of the u.s. congress and a personal appeal from the president has convinced president erdogan to release any of the dozens of americans detained in turkey and with kasim hired as a professor of international relations a dear house university is also a board member of the think tank with a focus on turkey's foreign and security policy joins me live now from is still a ball there's been growing tension between the u.s. and turkey as we've just mentioned so how diplomatical

regional government about the steps that are being taken by turkey and iran so far. well of course there are a lot of. reactions that much of what we see were expected. but if they do cause inconvenience as they are causing worries people are worried about escalation into military action although this is increasingly unlikely given the statements made and given the complexity of the dynamics on the ground but that doesn't stop these countries to gradually incrementally impose sanctions that will go into economy into politics and diplomatic diplomacy and international connections and the kurdish government and the political parties do not wish to see that because at the end of the day they have been engaging all sides to to reassure them to say that their independence will not affect these neighboring countries and is actually going to be based on good neighborly relations even with baghdad but of course of course we all know that these countries are have their own reasons to react in the way they did and the matter for now or the near term is that how much the kurds

says it will stop handing out short term visas to visitors from turkey now turkey says it will do the same thing to the u.s. . and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha the millions the parana also ahead the campaign to drive al qaeda linked fighters from it live and syria they promise to fight to the death. finding their voice catalonia silent majority speak out against a break from spain and a close race in liberia to find a successor if africa's first elected female president. of the format a dispute is escalating between the united states and turkey says it want to process any visitor visas for u.s. citizens that softer washington suspended non immigrant visa services at its missions in turkey dynasty book reports. the u.s. fired off the first volley in the diplomatic dispute on sunday issuing a statement saying it was suspending all nonimmigrant visa services at diplomatic facilities across turkey by the end of the day the turkish embassy responded in kind to the u.s. the visa suspension war started just days after turkish authorities arrested a us consulate emp

says it will stop handing out short term visas to visitors from turkey now turkey says it will do the same thing to the u.s. . about this and this is all just a lie from doha also coming up the campaign to drive all qaeda linked fighters from it live in syria they promise to fight to the death. finding their voice catalonia is silent majority speak out against a break from spain. and remembering a memorial is across latin america fifty years after the death of a revolutionary i call. we're going to begin with that rapidly escalating diplomatic dispute between turkey and the u.s. in the past few hours has effectively barred most u.s. citizens from entering the country the moves come shortly after the us. us announced it would stop issuing all but immigrant visas i did the diplomatic missions in turkey both countries cited security concerns around their embassies and consulates and claimed the measures were necessary to cut the numbers of people coming in and out of the buildings for more now we can speak to diane estabrook in washington d.c. dime give us some of the background to this

it's been a long time since anyone considered turkey tolerant and welcoming. >> turkey uses refugees as a threat against europe. it's not good. so i'd rather return to my own country, as soon as that's possible. >> this syrian people-smuggler says only about 20 people a month are still willing to pay up to to be brought illegally to $600 europe. but when the political conflict between europe and turkey flares up, like now, his business picks up, too. >> then the police and coast guard controls are less stringent. and more refugees approach us. we've certainly noticed that. >> mahmut would like to move on to europe. he fears turkey's hostile attitude toward refugees could reach a tipping point. but he knows that, for the time being at least, the farthest he'd get is greece. damien: this spot has become a place of sadness and mourning. last christmas, 12 people were killed when a truck rammed into a christmas market here. the attacker turned out to be in islamist extremists, who came to germany masquerading as that refugee. the attack shock to germany. it also sparked a debate about na

stopped a planned sale of small arms to turkey. turkey further angered the u.s. when it agreed to buy a russian missile defense system equipment that wouldn't work within nato has indicated he would be willing to trade americans imprisoned in turkey for good lawn but given that would be hard to do within the legal system something he really wants the case thrown out against her citizen reza zurab who is awaiting trial in the u.s. for allegedly helping turkey evade sanctions against iran it's less a matter of wanting it back than wanting the case to go away it wanting him not to testify not wanting any of the details about their role in helping iran evade sanctions coming out in the course of a trial it will be yet another chance for the already frosty relationship to cool even more political hay in al-jazeera washington. well with us now in the studio is our turkey based correspondents in and kosovo who we are lucky enough to have in doha with us right now soon and let's talk about the turkish reaction we heard president say that he's upset by this u.s. decision

and a lot of people in turkey as well. so i think though that what bothers me is that i-- we fell for it on some level. i think a lot people weren't looking very carefully. they were so excited about the moderate islamist, this is what we need to solve the world's problems. >> i just want to read a little excerpt and to be able to talk to you about this because i think it goes to the heart it's many books in one. it's not just a book about your experience in turkey. it's very much a book about america today. and you write about how america's policies and you believe that america was inherently good. and i thought america was at the end of some evolutionary spectrum of civilization and everyone else was trying to catch up. in a sense i was learning about countries, learning about america's role in the world and understanding my psychology and prejudices, that made it difficult to acquire knowledge. american exceptionalism did not only defined that among lesser nations, but americans, too, that they were born superior to oth

because united states wants good relations with turkey they understand the value of turkey turkey is date it's a big economy big military that they want to as an ally but they can't abandon the kurds missa go chon is turkey still interested in regime change in syria at all or has it given that up to fight the kurds and to fight the. to hottest on its border. i think it's inevitable rescind regime change change is all about foreign car right now. i mean the decision makers are out there thinking that you know. should stay and unity of syria right now is extremely important saw and also ancora as i said before the primary in a more primary target these daws you know. why peter forces in the north of syria so unclear is in a sort of dilemma right now to play the enemy of my enemy is my france right a.j. so here who is the enemy. to play with it and. fight against the other enemy so i think at the end of the day what we will see is a sort of initiation of negotiations between ankara and this is inevitable saw ankara needs such support. how can i say to contain this. expansion and consola

union is turkey's main trading partner and germany itself is number one for turkey but then turkey but the european union and particularly germany doesn't need turkey's cooperation on the refugees there is this refugee deal that has helped to cut tail large numbers of people entering into the european union that is particularly important to germany beyond that there is corp on antiterrorism now all of these things make turkey a very important player turkey need aware of this and those at the scope for european union in particular germany is limiting the pressure can put on it unless europe and particularly germany is ready to take actions which will send a message to turkey that it doesn't need to be full cooperation on refugees it is prepared to take. five to antiterrorism about this corporation unless it does not then the scope for pressure on turkey is limited ok those are a lot of ifs there dorian you know in spite of the ties being so close and both countries being so important to each other relations have been strained for months how is this now going to affect those already stra

eight human rights activists on trial in turkey for allegedly helping terrorists while they walked out of an istanbul prison thursday freed on bail tonight we're learning that this was made possible by one of the biggest names in german politics who was sent by berlin to cut a deal with turkey's president i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. we're really grateful. for everybody who supported us. legally. diplomatically and is trying to do which is. we have a big new family you know thank you everyone wherever you are very you did it you got us out thank you very much. right to the top second story thing i'm going to stop right here. but. also coming up america's opioid drug addiction claimed fifty nine thousand lives last year to date u.s. president on will trump is declaring the crisis a public health emergency not quite at the level that he promised just two days ago . it's a national emergency we're going to spend a lot of time a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis. we begin the day with a german politician coming out of retirement to help rescue some of the pe

stopped a planned sale of small arms to turkey turkey further angered the u.s. when it agreed to buy a russian missile defense system equipment that wouldn't work with a nato has indicated he would be willing to trade americans imprisoned in turkey for good lawn but given that would be hard to do within the legal system something he really wants the case thrown out against her citizen reza zurab who was awaiting trial in the u.s. for allegedly helping turkey of aid sanctions against iran and it was a matter of wanting it back then wanting the case to go away it wanting him not to testify not wanting any of the details about their role in helping iran evade sanctions coming out in the course of a trial it will be yet another chance for the already frosty relationship to cool even more political hang al-jazeera washington well that is a techie risks best specialist he says these disputes starting to shift the course of the relationship between on crack. economically also in terms of turkey's security infrastructure its membership in nato its reliance on us the nuc

being the cleric that turkey accuses of masterminding last year's failed school and that turkey wants the u.s. extradited exactly this is also one of the main tensions between the two countries right for the last one year the turkey wants him to be extradited united states you have to prove that he is very real guilty so actually the dish judiciary systems of both countries conflict at this point and this if they morning we are learning that today turkish security turkish judiciary actually had an arab detention warrant to do warrants for another u.s. consulate employee so that triggered the embassy to take this. right exactly now we wait we're waiting to hear from president on i understand within the next hour he's going to be speaking from istanbul i believe he's traveling to ukraine he's going to have a press conference he's expected to speak over this issue of course what word are we likely to hear from him what sort of tone can we expect from the turkish president are they interested in did deescalating or is turkey as we've seen in the last few months now perhaps looking to othe

for turkey. germany is their main trading partner, not the u.s. a lot of their debt is actually euro denominated. does matterlar here. the turkish lira is that a record low today against the basket and that is why it is vulnerable. guy: i'm curious about how this week is going to develop. we have a current account data coming out. the cardica story has been going rong direction for a well. we have a survey pointing to a sharp bounce back in the current account story. we are going back quite a long way. that survey turns out to be correct and a current account deficit narrows significantly, as the survey suggests, is today a buying opportunity? mark: i think it might be too early to be too brave. certainly early, turkey has positives. it has a strong growth story and offers high yields. the debate is whether or not those yields are high enough right now. the current account deficit is funded by hot money. in the last few months, local investors continue to purchase fx, and sell the lira. clearly,

new script syria's war back in the spotlight as the free syrian army begins an operation in fact by turkey the battle against a group. made up partly of the old nasir from the president is vowing he wanted to allow a quote terror a corridor all along all syrian border also on the grid the protests against person on the russian president sixty fifth birthday there are opposition demonstrations against his will in major cities across russia the crowds are gathering in st petersburg that is the protests how strong will the response from the state. and then puerto rico the cleanup goes on after hurricane maria but already residents are worried about the long term i've seen it all before the big developers move in after the devastation has been cleared the need to build them out of what was once their home. have come under fire for his response. but some tech giants have to help reconnect people. you with the news grid streaming online through you tube facebook and at al jazeera dot com a major military operation is underway in the syrian province of idlib today one of the last areas in the cou

turkey of using similar tactics with american citizens to taint in turkey strongly denies this they insist that the judiciary is independent but as the as the attention of story continues along with a number of other german citizens the suspicion is that they are pawns in this growing tension between. dorian jones following the story for us at turkey supreme court in istanbul thanks very much for that dora. now for some of the other stories making the news the chinese president xi jinping has been confirmed for a second term as the country's leader he was selected as secretary general of the communist party's ruling council six others were also named to that decision making body but a successor to she was not named that is a clear break with tradition. day funeral ceremony has started for king kong tens of thousands of mourners filing into the historic quarter of thailand's capital to bid farewell to the monarch his body has been lying in state since he died last october to gauge of eighty eight. the u.s. ban on all refugees has ended after one hundred twenty days but nationals from

turkey arrests a second u.s. consulate official and both countries suspend visas services as a diplomatic dispute intensifies. hello i maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up at least twelve or endure refugees drowned ten of them children as another boat capsizes trying to cross from myanmar to bangladesh the red cross dramatically cuts its operations in afghanistan after a series of attacks against its members. and spain's government called in the national police to god kept landes key court as it increases pressure on regional leaders to back down on the independence. diplomatic dispute between washington and ankara is intensifying after reports that taki has issued a detention warrant for a second u.s. consulate worker last week another american consulate employee was arrested in istanbul over allegations of links to last year's failed coup in turkey the turkish lira has dropped sharply since by a country suspended visa services for each other's nationals mamma doe reports. in the la

turkey is also part of the u.s. led coalition against isis but ties with washington are strained over u.s. support to the syrian kaddish fighters the y.p. . they're viewed by turkey as an extension of the outlawed kurdish workers purty be k.k. to the us though the white p.d. is the most effective fighting force against i saw mohamed al jazeera. get such can is a turkey risk specialist he says these disputes threaten to shift the trajectory of the relationship between ankara and washington d.c. economically also in terms of turkey security infrastructure its membership in nato its reliance on u.s. . nuclear umbrella sort of speak all of these factors that entrenchment two countries into this alliance however as we see more and more often these various parts occurring these disagreements these. sentimental crevices and merging between the two countries. through a longer term shift of turkey away from the united states. we will see. probably the country seek to rekindle its ties with various other alternatives we have

turkey is also part of the u.s. led coalition against isis but on close ties with washington us three and over u.s. support to the city in kurdish fighters the y.p. . there viewed by turkey as an extension of the ultimate would kurdish workers pertti be k.k. to the us though the white p.d. is the most effective fighting force against i saw mohamed al jazeera. well speaking on an official visit to ukraine turkish president. expressed disappointment at the latest us news. above all this decision is very upsetting. for the u.s. embassy in ankara to take such a decision and promoted it is upsetting. our foreign ministry colleagues have contacted their u.s. counterparts over the issue. let's go live now to patty culhane u.s. state department correspondent of course in washington d.c. so a clip there from president john saying that he's upset and disappointed but what can we expect in terms of u.s. pressure in the coming days and weeks. well as of right this moment i can't tell you that because this is a federal holiday i

it's not so much a turkey story. these big shift and asset class prices could have wider effects that go across the em space. >> what we have seen so far, we have a lot of idiosyncratic political crisis across emerging markets, including africa and latin america. korea as an issue again, this is coming up. what is usually happening in this case and what we have seen is that it is mainly individual markets some and the risk of contagion's two other markets from this crisis, like in turkey for example, this happened in coup, it didthe not cause any kind of contagion. the same thing with russia and the crisis in brazil. i don't buy into that argument. >> what about for foreign investors when you take a look across the em space of monetary policy error contagion thereby central banks? we do have the fed that has already acknowledged normalization of its balance sheet. interestingly enough, this has been received very strongly by the emerging markets. we have seen september was a very strong month across the emerging-mark

and turkey for many many years turkey has been trying to pressure the united states to extradite google and without success so it seems that they're now upping the ante by detaining this consulate employee there are also about a dozen other u.s. citizens who have been arrested and detained in turkey at this point one is a nasa scientist another is a christian missionary vice president pants and secretary of state to listen have both tried to. tried to intervene on the the behalf of the christian missionary without success so now we've seen this escalation of tensions and this actually comes just a few months after president erda won was here in the u.s. and reaffirmed friendly ties with the united states but now just in the past week or so we've been seeing these tensions escalate again and what's the white have ramifications of this diplomatic dispute well turkey is a strategic ally to the u.s. it's a nato ally and there is a nato base in turkey which the united states uses so as the united states continues with its war against isis it needs to have that presence in turkey and it needs

says it will stop handing out short term visas to visitors from turkey now turkey says it will do the same thing to the u.s. . another boat tragedy involving will hinge or refugees fleeing me and mark two people are dead several others missing. finding their voice catalonia as the silent majority speak out against a break from spain. remembering memorials across latin america fifty years after the death of a revolutionary i call. that we begin this news hour with a rapidly escalating diplomatic dispute between turkey and the u.s. in the last few hours has said it won't process visas for u.s. citizens who want to travel from the u.s. . to turkey the only ones it will hand out will be for people who want to move to turkey permanently it's come shortly after the u.s. made a similar announcement about some u.s. visas for turks a few days ago a u.s. consulate employee was arrested in istanbul they've been charged with having links to businessman for till the golan the government blames golan for last year's failed coup ok for more we can speak to diane estabrook in washington d.c. diane gi

are with us if human rights defenders are created for this kind of thing turkey will rapidly see itself understood seen as a rogue state heading in a desperate heel thirty areon direction. if the us and e.u. were with us they wouldn't protect terrorists it's the toughest justice system and the top to show for it is that are on trial here today. also coming up more than half a century after the assassination of u.s. president john f. kennedy washington is about to release to the public the final batch of secret documents that have been walked away. down this avenue of sadness neighboring president john f. kennedy market hero to lie in state one of the great dome of the capitol. conspiracy theorists historians and hollywood have debated the events that led to the death of camelot will these unclassified documents finally offer a nation and the world closure. but we begin the day inside a turkey where those least likely have become the usual suspects the trial of eleven human rights activists began today in a stamboul now they stand accused of helping terrorists including the cleric fatah

hello turkey's president has described the u.s. decision to suspend most visa services for turkish citizens as up setting the mood was in response to an american consulate employees being arrested in istanbul accused of links to last year's failed coup in turkey turkey immediately suspended its own visa services in the us and is now reported to have issued a warrant to question a second u.s. consulate worker richard tither one expressed his disappointment during a visit to ukraine. above all this decision is very upsetting. for the u.s. embassy in ankara to take such a decision and promoted it is upsetting. our foreign ministry colleagues have contacted their u.s. counterparts over the issue. of turkey's currency and main stock index have both dropped sharply since both countries suspended these services for each other's nationals observers mamadou has more on this diplomatic dispute. in the latest sign of fraying diplomatic relations between two nato allies the us say it was suspending the issuing of visas to turkey nationals twen

stopped issuing nonimmigrant visa and turkey a decision it said was based on security worries turkey retail he added hours later by freezing u.s. passports out of its electronic visa system and while that's tough on travelers the impact of the spat is also being felt on turkey's markets. more than three hundred thousand turks flew to the u.s. last year. almost four hundred sixty thousand americans came to turkey the visa dispute threatens to cut off this important stream of business travelers and tourists. the rao had immediate consequences on the financial markets shares in turkish airlines lost up to eleven percent as the week began. nervous investors sent turkey's main stock market index tumbling almost five percent one point. tension with turkey a series of terror attacks and above all the fallout from last year's coup attempt all this has weighed on the turkish currency the lira has lost half its value over the last three years. and turkey's double digit annual inflation rate makes turkish exports chief but it diminishes turks purchasing power. another danger is turkey's high le

it would be laying siege and they would drive many of these rebels into turkey turkey doesn't want to deal with that they don't want to be driven into turkey and they want to wait to take charge i think of this italy province and keep the arab rebels there inside syria rather than having helium and work out a deal that would be amenable both around those to turkey to the international community in which some order would be maintained over the region without a siege warfare and destruction and bombing the wall to sit and so forgive me for interrupting and we're just running out of time slightly how likely do you think then it is that the kind of deal the you've just been describing is actually feasible and is going to happen well it seems far away on the other hand many of the arab commentators the arab activists believe that turkey is working out a deal they don't believe it this is going to be a real war where a real fight and that turkey is going to move in in many ways like it did in northern syria a year ago and work out a deal with many of the free syrian army units and the quest

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is the news live from berlin germany human rights organizer of pay their story now goes on trial in turkey today he was arrested in istanbul along with others from amnesty international three months ago they're accused of aiding terrorism the case is expected to test already strained relations. and president xi jinping wins another term as head of china's communist party with no clear successor she is now seen as the country's most powerful leader in decades. and as a war of words between president donald trump and members of his own republican party you know you would think he would aspire to to be the president united states and act like a present united states but you know there's just not going to be the case apparently and. to retiring senators let loose on the president and he fires back. paul's world's most widely used we've killer but today the e.u. could size to phase out its use over concerns that it could cause cancer. war. brian thomas a warm welcome to the show. strained relations between germany and turkey will be further tested today as the trial begins for a german human ri

does not extradite him to turkey and that is what turkey wants the u.s. to do so. do you still think that they view each other as reliable partners at all . on both sides the answer is very much you know you know for the united states again going back. over the past decade the frustration was originally that you know we weren't getting the kind of cooperation from turkey that we'd hoped in addressing regional issues in syria in iraq and now increasingly the fear in washington is that rather than no longer being a reliable ally in confronting regional instability as turkey has been in the past turkey has actually become a source of instability in and of itself and that that could get worse so by the same token within turkey right i mean you mentioned the major issues sorry go on go on. you highlighted the very key issues i mean from the turkish point of view it's not just the united states is no longer seen as a reliable ally i think many people within airlines government genuinely think that the united states is a threat genuinely think that the united states was b

pastor who was arrested by turkey also two days ago american ambassador to the u.s. ambassador in ankara i had gathered with turkish journalists and he said that turkey was using those people who have been arrested as hostages to gain leverage in terms of diplomatic negotiation with the united states but i have to remind that recently turkey had some contacts with iran about this kurdish referendum curtis's session decision there is military cooperation between those two countries also just a couple of days ago when is the last mughal with that turkey and he said interesting details so probably it will not be all about those people who have been arrested but also some other diplomatic rose. that turkey has been in touch or it's a developing story that we will continue to cover in the coming hours in the hall thank you. now the self-styled silent majority found their voice in barcelona calling on catalonia to stay out of spain hundreds of thousands of people travel from across the country to make that call for unity exactly a week off the caseloads have voted to break

turkey's president in iran for talks are to the yes vote in the kurdish secession referendum in iraq. it's clear to me that the connections with with terrorist groups a top u.s. general in washington takes aim at pakistan's spy agency. new details are emerging that indicate the last vegas mass shooting was thoroughly planned u.s. police say sixty four year old stephen paddick set up cameras outside his hotel room to watch for approaching offices assault rifles have been found in the room which were modified to produce automatic fire and he got a report. a steven public fires down on a crowd of concert goers on sunday night newly released police body camera footage shows panic and confusion officers scramble to locate the source of the gunfire and get members of the public to safety this is a dramatic snapshot of the moments before panic was located on the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel police gave more details of how events unfolded. the suspect i can tell you that we know now that he fired off and on for somewhere between nine and eleven minutes we know that the suspec

forces crossed into a province from turkey on saturday they're being backed by turkish forces from turkey's border let's get the latest from hashem miles was in gaziantep on the turkey syria border for us hashim what's the latest on this operation has it actually begun. well what we can say for the time being is that the buildup continues all the border in the right highly border crossing called jill because a that's where there's a buildup of reinforcements from the turkish army and also the free syrian army sending more reinforcements some of those factions operating under the umbrella of the free syrian army is inside syria we don't know now what is happening particularly in that buffer zone or no man's land but we do know that the turkish military is carrying out conducting some surveillance missions recall it's also trying to gather more information that would share it with the f.s.a. to pave the way for the major military operation which is likely to start any time soon and take all that ahead of it which is the most powerful rebel opposition groups operating in their lives what is th

using turkey of using similar tactics with american citizens detained in turkey on christianly denies if they insist on the judiciary is independent but as the as that attention of story and it continues along with a number of other german citizens the suspicion is that they are pawns in this growing tension between. dorian jones following the story for us at turkey's supreme court in istanbul thanks very much for that door now for some of the other stories making the news this hour in bangkok the five day funeral ceremonies started working. tens of thousands of mourners have been filing into the historic order of thailand's capital to bid farewell to the monarch whose body has been lying in state since he died last october aged eighty eight. the kurdistan regional government in iraq has offered to an all the results of last month's independence referendum that in order to hold talks with baghdad iraqi forces have driven kurdish fighters from cities in the north outside their autonomous zone an overwhelming majority of iraqi kurds voted for independence but the central government has