inside of turkey. something i never dreamed i would see with respect to the turkish armed forces, the turkish army, just as the habit, i got to be in a stumble -- istanbul, in 1970 and 1980, so i had an understanding of the resilience of the turks. but it also left me with a sense that we are just going to have to live with the fact that the army is never going to be checked a civilian government. well, that happened. and it continues to go on happening, if you will. so what role does the present envision now in the middle east, i will not start going on now i'm just saying, it's not that i forgot it, it's just not something i want to do within these remarks. so what is the look forward? what is the outlook beyond mintage? these are places that we've never heard of in this country. but then we've never heard of and obscure archduke in an even more obscure town called sarajevo in 1914. there are any number of flashpoints as we look ahead on syria, and we will talk about that too. but in the meantime, th

turkey has a lwa ys turkey is about to do. turkey has always stated very honestly and clearly from the start, should not come as a surprise to or anyone else, that we will not allow a terror corridor on our 900, to border with syria, have a. —— ever. so you think the americans are, at the very least, turning a blind eye to the presence of what you would turn terrorists, on your order. no, we don't recognise them as terrorists, the pkk is recognised as a terrorist organisation. we talking about the white pg. are part of the same democratic force that the americans are working with to combat high as anjihadists in that area. we have said if you want to combat daesh, work with us, don't fund an operation. they said we will take the weapons back and give full account of them. they have not done that yet. and you say you are not isolated by the west? we are working with the americans right now, and joint patrols together, does that sound like we are isolated?” joint patrols together, does that sound like we are isolated? i am

how can turkey defend all of this? well, ok, the kavala case is still going on, so it wouldn't be appropriate for me to discuss a legal process that is still going on. but regarding the length of time, i think we shouldn't just focus on one particular case. i think there is problem with the judiciary with regards to the processing of cases, and the reason for that is because the gulen movement infiltrated the judiciary and all other state institutions so thoroughly, but i think they messed up the judiciary up more than any other institution. it's notjust about process. it's also about attitude. no, it is about process. how did you feel when your boss, the president, in terms of that case, described him as a man who was backed by that famous hungarian jew, george soros. well, he is backed by soros, isn't he? i know. but the words, famous hunagarianjew, soros also accused by people viktor 0rban of being behind conspiracies against hungary. you always take what the president says out of context. what's the context then? h

in turkey. and in iraq. as pledged to the system, and indeed, in the case of turkey, it is the system through president erdogan. so, this notion that we should labeled the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization is as dangerous as it is idiotic, quite frankly. who are we going to talk to in iraq, in turkey westmark -- turkey? if you want to talk about an assault of a democratically elected of a nato member, that would be it. as the only organized non-state-controlled political apparatus after the fall of mubarak, we all know how that has gone since. again, i posed these questions for my colleagues to address. again, in particular the role of islamic ideology in both countries, or lack thereof. i just don't know, but we need to talk about it. that has a lot to do, in my view , with the crisis in the gulf, if you will, between saudi arabia, uae, and the state of qatar, which has i don't know how many muslim brothers, but have certainly assisted muslim brother organizations outside to the extre

turkey is a different perspective. but, however, turkey part of, you know, solution, too. the russian involvement. >> yes. the fact that everything we're listening to has been said stopped me from saying it again. yet in particular the touches on it i think a core issue here. it's what is the role of the u.s. not just in this region but globally. the seven or plus decades since the end of world war ii. you know, we, in america, created the post world order. it was basically sidelined bit french and the british. certainly sidelined in this region. and what we got them. you got a two decade truce that's all it was. it has been broadly at peace in a way it never was before. so before we kind of say the senate was right to vote down the lead of nations thing, i wish we could do that again. consider the consequences. if we do not lead, who will? i fear the answer is no one will lead because no one can. it's not that i worry about the chinese taking over the world. it's that the chinese or anyone else is not going to be to even manage conflict. and as we look at what is happenin

and turkey when there's a real problem all between these two countries because turkey and russia have been working together calling the shots really in syria so what happens next is this a shift in alliance this russian diplomat even telling me that president bashar assad is now rumbling about taking the northwestern province of idlib we all have to remember that the russians and the turks reached a cease fire deal in so is it looks to be used as a negotiating card definitely there is behind the scenes backdoor negotiations taking place as all these parties vie for more influence in syria if turkey is handed over the northeast of the country that means it controls fifty percent in one way or the other or has influence fifty percent in syria. live in southern turkey thank you now homelessness in the u.k. has reached a record high with around one hundred seventy thousand families and individuals affected british government figures show almost six hundred homeless people died in the past year alone. ripples from london. remembering a friend who died too young jeweler a mesure rough sleep

who are we going to talk to in --q, in turkey westmark turkey? if you want to talk about an assault of a democratically elected of a nato member, that would be it. as the only organized non-state-controlled political apparatus after the fall of mubarak, we all know how that has gone since. again, i posed these questions for my colleagues to address. again, in particular the role of islamic ideology in both countries, or lack thereof. i just don't know, but we need to talk about it. that has a lot to do, in my view , with the crisis in the gulf, if you will, between saudi arabia, uae, and the state of has i don't know how many muslim brothers, but have certainly assisted muslim brother organizations outside to the extreme displeasure of the saudi's. it is a tangled issue we are wrestling with here. my bottom line is, i suppose, as frustrating as difficult as they are, they're also very important. do we want to lurch forward into the 20th century with our relationships with both of these powers, and they are similar relationships, in tatters, getti

they told turkey that this will undermine the fight against isis and they will not allow turkey to intervene but with this new southern of a draw and decision of trump things are changed and there was like a policy of the u.s. led coalition and also by the syria envoy james jeffrey to stay for a certain period in syria till things called on until there is a solution with the muskets in geneva but if the u.s. just pulls out its troops then the u.s. will lose always leverage and credibility in the region it will help iran it will help russia so i i really disagree with michael that were previously talked here this is completely on the mining the policy of the syria envoy james jeffrey and also of the u.s. led coalition there was no plan to meet leave a draw that should have been a face withdrawal but now it's just sudden withdrawal without a clear plan and actually u.s. soldiers are now afraid was going to happen were on the ground because rules say that the d.s. of will not fight isis i mean it's a very dangerous situation for u.s. soldiers in this chaos to withdraw from syria because that no

you know to escalate the tension as far as turkey's position on assad turkey i mean jill show lou i think was misread when it comes to his position he's he's put his or his position on assad is that if assad is elected in a fair free election and and all of the parts patients are very inclusive and in an ideal case if you selected or struck you will respect the decision. of all the syrians and trick you will not ever see in that however i mean such case is very unrealistic at the moment given the fact that thousands and thousands of people were killed by the assad regime and also millions have been displaced of course at the end of the it is the syrians as a whole without exclusion of any group if they decide it is not turkey's place or anyone's place to criticize their decision ok to me we're with. just one a what will come back we'll come back i want to bring an end to metering of this because he talked a lot about russian i met in dmitri as in moscow so who are talk you talk touched on this a bit earlier but what role does russia play and making sure that this doesn't escalate and beco

turkey and iran the u.s. gets iran containment turkey gets a green light of the euphrates and iran instead of having to deal with american forces in the region which is escalating containment now they have to deal with turkish forces which their presence is just a deterrent but there's a deescalation in the region while the u.s. is still happy that their forces are being contained to the areas that they are in they're not growing. area and growing in strategic strategic geography you said just briefly if you will there is a hope to get a constitution in place so that elections can eventually take place if bashar al assad wins out election will he be accepted by turkey. well this is what the foreign minister chose shoulders said earlier this week he said if the constitutional committee which russia turkey and iran have been working on very hard to reach an agreement if the constitutional committee is accepted free and fair elections are held and in those free and fair elections but charlotte. the elections tur

on the turkey syria border. sudan's doctors have voted to go on an indefinite strike any protests calling for longtime leader omar al bashir to step down the demonstrations are underway in several cities at least ten people have died since protests started last wednesday the reports that police fired tear gas to disperse rallies in in the north or just on the protests were sponsored by the rising cost of food and fuel prices as well as corruption here morgan has more from sudan's capital khartoum it may all seem calm here in the sudanese capital khartoum but the doors of the school behind me tells of a different story itself the story of a country that has been forced to issue a nationwide suspension to schools high schools and universities to try to prevent people from congregating because they're worried that there will be for the protests on top of the five days of protests that it's already witnessing over the past few days people have been going out to the street they've been complaining and protesting agai

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which is not in the national security interest of turkey from the syrian side any any attempt to. independent state or. and and it kind of dependent and it is also threats the syrian and dignity so both sides have the same target now how to bring both sides together in order to realize the start get i think it's business of the russian government because so far. the political distance between the thought of the grass is very far. i think that now the russian mediation after the. united states will out from all northern syria will be sensitive and very important and crucial in. making the a transitional phase in northen syria a very small and safe for all the constituents of the region there's a great point so many how how bout that how significant how much is at stake based on how turkey and syria work this out between themselves. well i think turkey has a few points that it has been arguing from the from this from the very beginning first of all it does not want any terrorist group. stablish ing some sort of defacto autonomy along its border particularly the y.p. g. given the fac

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the anti defense system to turkey another concession to turkey so this was a message from the us than a trio that our alliance still holds now rouhani came to turkey worried in one way or another in secure maybe feeling a bit vulnerable because every time in the past few years you've seen this turkey and the united states trying to mend their relationship what iran tries to do is pull turkey away pull it closer because iran does not have any other regional country it can work with so this is this was the message from this press conference this absent a process but we are still working together we're pushing forward but no mention whatsoever about this u.s. the u.s. the solution to withdraw from northeastern syria thirty five percent of syrian territory. practically up for grabs but many would say that turkey will not take a step to anger its allies russia and iran in in syria so there is there will be behind the scenes negotiations between these three power brokers these three stakeholders really in the syrian conflict yeah interesting you mention that zena because as a result of this

and christine wonderwall come to the program turkey's foreign minister says u.s. president donald trump told to kish president rich of type one that washington is working on extraditing turkey's most wanted men turkey has wrong sort of the extradition off the muslim cleric fit to the man ancora ses was behind the failed military coup in twenty sixteen and has lived in the united states for almost twenty years he denies any involvement in the coup attempt. foreign minister who says trump added a one discussed the matter at the g twenty summit to be executed. this guy and the . other others in this organization eighty four names that we have to cross the united states takes a dive they say when it's over took. him a. while last time you met one it's not us the president from seoul that the one that they have been working rightful more on the story and i'm joined by the correspondents story and jones and istanbul and stefan xians in washington gentlemen hello to you both stephan i want to start with you have there any been reactions to the statements in the u.s. no i

this is deja news live from phailin turkey voices impatience with the u.s. over a longstanding extradition request on carroll wants to put the muslim cleric face you know cool and on trial for office tracing the failed to twenty sixteen coup turkey's foreign minister says it's time for the u.s. to same and hope also coming up. growing discontent in hungary to controversial new goals mobilize thousands of anti-government protesters for the fourth time this week we'll ask our correspondent in budapest has picked a whole bunch government on to far. i'm christine one but welcome to the program turkey's foreign minister says u.s. president donald trump told turkish president which of the one that washington is working on extraditing turkey's most wanted man turkey has a long sought the extradition off the muslim cleric that's one of the man on current ses was behind the failed military coup in twenty sixteen and has lived in the united states for almost twenty years he denies any involvement in the coup attempts. foreign minister. who say discussed the matter at

you know to escalate the tension as far as turkey's position on assad turkey i mean cho-cho lou i think was misread when it comes to his position he's he's put his or his position on assad is that if assad is elected in a fair free election and and all of the parts passion is very inclusive and in an ideal case if you selected or struck it will respect the decision. of all the syrians and trick you will not ever see in that however i mean such case is very unrealistic at the moment given the fact that thousands and thousands of people were killed by the assad regime and also millions have been displaced of course at the end of the day it is syrians as a whole without exclusion of any group if they decide it is not totally safe place or anyone's place to criticize their decision ok to me we're with. just one a what will come back we'll come back i want to bring an end to metering of this because he talked a lot about russian i met in dmitri as in moscow so who taught you talk touched on this a bit earlier but what role does russia play and making sure that this doesn't escalate and becom

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hands over the area to turkey it will not be good for iran so now turkey will be on a collision course with iran the u.s. decision to would.

i'm rebecca races welcome to the program top government officials from russia and turkey have met to discuss their response to the u.s. military pullout in syria the talks also come as turkey has threatened to launch an operation against u.s. backed kurdish forces in the city of mandate the red areas to the east of man be controlled by the kurdish forces which turkey sais as a terrorist organization and has vowed to eliminate moscow and i'm curious say they'll coordinate ground operations in syria despite the fact that they have backing opposite opposing factions in syria's ongoing civil war. a warm reception for turkish officials in moscow but after the hugs and handshakes . the pressing business of shifting alliances in syria washington's surprise military withdrawal has reshuffled the deck following their talks moscow an anchor represented a united front. to consume it today we have reached an understanding on how the russian and turkish military representatives on the ground will continue to coordinate their actions under these new circumstances with an aim and to a battle kate t

this stage every new year's live from berlin turkey voices impatience with the u.s. over a long standing extradition requests on our one support the muslim sheriff is you know cool and on trial for orchestrating the failed trading sixteen crew so he's foreign minister saying it's time for the u.s. to same poulan hoed also coming up. over time deal in poland on climate change puts teeth into the twenty fifteen paris agreement but many attain beings are not satisfied with the results. and christine wonder welcome to the program turkey's foreign minister says u.s. president donald trump told to cash president rich of type i don't wanna bet washington is working on extraditing turkey's most wanted man turkey has wrong sort of the extradition off the muslim cleric fits one of the man ancora ses was behind the failed military coup in twenty sixteen and has lived in the united states for almost twenty years he denies any involvement in the coup attempt. foreign minister . ses trump and a one discussed the matter at the g twenty summit two weeks ago. this guy and the. other

hands over the area to turkey it will not be good for iran so now turkey will be on a collision course with iran. the u.s. decision to withdraw could result in shifting partnerships and a cease fire deal in syria's opposition controlled northwestern province of idlib could be in jeopardy that deal was the result of russian turkish cooperation this opposition from the syrian government turkey wanted to prevent a military action that could destabilize its security and create a massive refugee crisis now russian diplomats tell us it will be hard to constrain syrian president bashar assad from launching an offensive if turkey takes territory in the north east. the bargaining has begun zeneca there al jazeera southern turkey. well a delegation of the s.d.f. the syrian democratic forces that help to us in the fight against isis is in moscow to discuss a possible plan to stop the turkish attack east of the euphrates river the group is the armed wing of the kurdish rebel group known as the y p g y p g controls a strip of territory from iraq to the eastern banks of the euphrates as in reports j

turkey has more to prove that m.b.'s is playing a major role actually give the or gave the order of killing so we can we can take that. from the. speech in meeting so as long as her kid knows that the closest aides including qahtani wasn't taking place directly in this into this murder so turkey doesn't go further actually at this point at this time to directly figuring out the. prince mohammed bin so mun so turkey doesn't want to pretend to be just politically just playing a political revenge but you know why why was holding that information if they do have that direct link and they've been very open about releasing other information in a drip drip method through to local media why they were holding the crucial link so probably turkey. expects more actually more backing from the other countries such as united states from. european union or international institutions such as united nations again since the beginning turkey's repeatedly saying that this trial needs to be held in an international court international instit

doesn't trust russia i know turkey doesn't trust iran i know that if turkey has to choose it will choose me so if turkey is going into northern syria that's technically a fighting force that i did not my fighting force but it's a fighting force that is allied with me moreover when we talk about russian influence in syria and whether it increases let's remember syria needs money to rebuild russia doesn't have the money iran doesn't have the money europe doesn't have the money the only countries that viably have some of the money of the gulf countries these are u.s. allies if the u.s. doesn't want these countries to invest in syria they won't but if the u.s. can use this soft power this investment of gulf money in syria u.s. still has cards it can play to ensure it has significant influence over syria i think the russians far from being happy i think the russians are sitting there thinking ok the u.s. . withdrawn militarily but now we have a new battle we have all of this influence that we've fought hard for but how do we maintain it we can't give us at the reconstruction he once we can't

to actually write for to do lend turkey accuses the u.s. space preacher of orchestrating the twenty sixteen failed coup perpetrator of the attempted coup at the leader of this terrorist organization still in the united states but recently i have seen the credible investigation of the f.b.i. in several states and they have actually seen or not is the darkness of this organization and how they have been while eating the u.s. laws including tax fraud these are for all and also some other illegal activities and how professional they are well last time we met in bonus earners the president trump told everyone that they have been working on that but we need to see concrete steps or let's get more on this story now from rob reynolds who's in washington and rob what have u.s. officials been saying about the extradition of good plan. well there's been no official response to the turkish foreign minister's comments in doha mario but it's worth pointing out that when president trump was asked just a month ago whether the united states would extradite

with isis and 7000 individuals have been extradited from turkey or do from turkey back to syria. alsolive branch operation 4500 pyd terrorists. and we also dealt a very heavy and we will continue our fight. in the north of syria, there may be certain threats against turkey but we shall not allow those. the euphrates as purged the east will be from the occupation of the terrorist organization as soon as possible. we do not want our allies to show double standards on the country. we want them to show sincerity. ladies and gentlemen, for the past four years there has been a and itng yemen crisis greatly requires an urgent solution. and unfortunately, the world has remained silent for too long and likewise, about -- has been silent around the world. and the humanitarian crisis in that country does not only affect the muslim population there but really breaks the hearts of all of humanity. there are children suffering from starvation and there are innocent bodies being taken out from among the rebels -- among the rubble and certain members of the international community have turned a

beach turkey's president has threatened to send troops there if the u.s. doesn't move kurdish fighters out we'll tell you why it matters one hundred ninety six countries have agreed on a way to enforce the historic climate deal reached in paris three years ago but other delegates in poland say it doesn't go far enough break down the good the bad and the unfinished business from cop twenty four. and has just become the first european country to officially recognize a third i'll have more on why it's a victory but not for others and throughout and so finally my handle is. with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live dot com it's been two and a half months now since the murder of saudi journalist. and we're still. no closer to finding out the whereabouts of his remains it is clear turkey is growing impatient about what it sees as saudi arabia stalling over our answers president richard type one wants them to extradite the murder suspects to istanbul where the killing took place now the turkish foreign minister is lashing

when turkey moves towards washington and this is part of washington's policy really trying to pull turkey away from russia and iran so there's going to be a lot of negotiations between rouhani and are gone but of course rouhani arriving with this unexpected declaration from the u.s. president donald trump so in one way or another they would draw all of u.s. forces strengthens iran and the russian position in turkey and what was afraid of a from the start is strengthening turkish influence in syria so syria has become almost like a chess board we are almost in a post-war phase in syria so everyone trying to divide their sphere of influence in this country with a lot of hard bargaining and political jockeying and positioning taking behind the behinds behind the scenes all right senator lott president president i thank you. one of the opposition candidates running for president in the democratic republic of congo says the country should not postpone sunday's election martin taylor was reacting to the electoral commission's announcement that the pole could be delayed because of technical prob

is a nato ally also turkey allowed thousands of jihadist to go to syria it was the reason that turkey didn't fight isis that the u.s. decided to work actually with the curse against isis so i think this is a very serious threat to the stability to just drop the curse and leave them to prop open to a possible so i'm afraid we are it's a time that thank you very much to all our guests always cut you off they have lot in it than welcome but general mark kimmitt and alexey klebnikov and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting a website zero dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside stories for me imran khan and the whole team hit by for now. i. in the darkest of times brave men and women stood up. when oppressed they rose. together they forward for greater justice respect and compassion. they had a dream for a better future. today we are at a turning point. the stakes are high climate change inequality. ha

as it approaches to turkey we know that one of the losers of this. of this report will be the iranians the. besides turkey there is no one contrary in the region which may cooperate with iran so. for them is quite vulnerable the u.s. decision to leave syria was seen as a concession to turkey which has been angered by washington's alliance with the syrian kurdish armed group known as the white peachey turkey's president has threatened a cross border offensive to target y p t fighters inside syria. we know of none of these in the east of the euphrates in front of us they can dig tunnels if they want they can go on the ground if they want when the time and place calm and they will be buried in the ditches that dug no one should doubt this any turkish military move into syria will likely have to be coordinated with.

the social turkey constitution has enshrined such a. in it is correct in correct and if they really want to have a transparent resolution to ongoing saga about murdering. they should be really more co-operative in their nature with turkey but it's clear they're not being cooperative if turkey continues to pursue this road is they're going to have to go to the international community and they what process is involved there. well as you know turkey foreign minister mr show surely has called for if necessary international corporation in overcoming this issue because. it's quite clear that they've murdered him and then they've changed a story several times there's no denying the state government has its hands in murdering because you choose in a blatant way in turkey and that them to be hold to account for what they did and international community need to put pressure on the saudi government to corporate in a fair and transparent way this can be resolved the evidence is quite clear. you heard . from the saudi side many times denial of their

turkey has more to prove that m.b.'s is playing a major role actually give the gave the order of killing so we can we can take that actually from the president once speech in meeting so as long as serkin knows that the closest aides including qahtani wasn't taking place directly in this into this murder so turkey doesn't go further actually at this point at this time to directly figuring out. prince mohammed bin so mun so turkey doesn't want to pretend to be just politically just playing a political rule and but you know why why would they even holding that information if they do have that direct link and they've been very open about releasing other information in a drip drip method through to local media why they were holding the crucial link so probably a charge he. expects more actually more backing from the other countries such as united states from. european union or international. institutions such as united nations again since the beginning turkey's repeatedly saying that this trial needs to be held in an interna

they believe in turkey and they trust turkey. all this happening around low so this happened in africa. this is what happened in this in josh. and from this period on what. these things happened is. as you can see. we will not hesitate to take steps but of course with mr trump the result of our meeting. he said to us this time. if you could juke. you. from this area we said yes we will and we will continue if you. give logistic support to us. and now we can see they started to throw now the market is. to further their diplomatic relations and how we done. how we literally lived three thousand members in jobless and we will continue. to be why did and why p.g. we will neutralize. all of them and we have the capacity and the skills and we have the free syrian army. everyone should know this. so this is. syrian territories. for us it's a responsibility we have to take to secure syrian territory so. million syrian in our country. for them to go back to their country. and the people who live in syria and the brotherhood we have with t

taking some steps that will be in against turkey's interests and it is natural for turkey to react against that thank you so much for your time do appreciate the insight you've been able to give us. i often talk about the latest updates page on jamal khashoggi but there's also this option if you look basically anywhere on the web site for a jamal khashoggi tag or label it will basically take you here where everything is collated in one place not just the latest updates but things like inside story and individual video reports and actually if i can find it right on the bottom there if you haven't watched this already i would really recommend it the episode of up front with me at the house and from march the last interview which casualty did with this network it is. going to say it's incredibly insightful it's quite poignant really given everything of course that has happened since then so that's where you find all the jamal khashoggi related. and do you keep in touch with us if you maybe got a question or comment on that story or an of the other ones coming up on the grid there's the hash t

turkey's foreign minister has accused many european countries of tunning a blind eye to the mud of jamal khashoggi speaking at the doha for a measure that. said the freedom of the press was at stake following the brutal murder of the saudi journalist in istanbul in october un chief antonio good terrorists also said there needs to be a credible investigation saying holder has the latest. it's been almost three months since she was killed inside the saudi consulate in istanbul turkey continues to accuse saudi arabia of trying to cover up the crime because of its lack of transparency in the investigation turkey is also frustrated with what it sees as an action on the part of the west many european countries who are promoting the freedom of media for freedom of the expression are closing their eyes and this country and the politicians you know you see this statement putting some sanctions on the people who are already in prison who will never be visiting those countries calls are now growing louder for an international investigation what we have said since the beginning is it's absolutely es

troops from syria turkey and the u.s. have now agreed to cooperate to ensure that there isn't a power vacuum following the u.s. withdrawal and began joint withdrawals around the city over the last months. this is all part of the man beach agreement reached between the u.s. and turkey in june as part of that deal the us guaranteed that kurdish fighters would withdraw from one beach to east to the east of the euphrates by the end of two thousand and eighteen a new city council would also be established by local arabs from the region who have been displaced due to the nearly four year civil war that the road map was put in place in order to avoid a confrontation between the u.s. and turkey washington has been training and arming kurdish y p g fighters since two thousand and fourteen but turkey consider is the group to be a terrorist organization find out more and speak the scene and qusay glu who is live for us in istanbul tell us a little bit more about the way that ankara sees all of the developments of course the end of t

has done really is tell turkey it's your job now to contain iran so turkey finding itself now having to choose between the united states and its long term relationship with iran and russia in syria i mean that's that's the diplomatic danger but the real military potential danger is following on from this u.s. withdrawal and turkey going off to i still might mr erdogan do what he's done before which is say i'm going after one group of people but then i might just veer off and go off to the why p.g. p k k. well definitely there is potential for new conflict yesterday we saw turkish military send reinforcements to the front lines north of members of the y.p. g. dominated syrian democratic forces they have sent to representatives to moscow now russia of course being the main player in syria trying to reach out to russia to reach some sort of a deal with the syrian government because what the y.p. two would like to do is maintain control of this area and this really is testing the relationship between russia and turkey and we've been speaking to russian diplomats and russia is also hintin

really does not intend to harm turkey saudi relations this. keepin it separately in this case ok so sorry about that point what do you think. earth a guy and goal has been and how would you say that he is managed this so far i think underground cell far has managed the case very well in terms of keeping it in the headlines in keeping the pressure on because the saudis and their friends believe that martin was far as young as you could go way in a few days like him in many issues so the two turkish approach was very successful in terms of being very quick very quiet i mean that is arrogant but meanwhile they were very effective in keeping the mother alive and on the agenda of the international community and the press and as part of the year the forum which this case should be adjudicated it should not be saudi arabia it comes to be turkey because a saudi arabia will never ever copulate and around of those people considering that they are part and parcel of the illness here or of mohammed the settlement with the crown prince and it's impossible

turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. has agreed to a plan to arm kurdish fighters in syria and shift control of the town of man bridge to turkey the u.s. had previously supported the kurdish wife in their fight against isis. that japan's main stock market the nikkei has fallen five percent japanese investors reacted to wall street closing on christmas eve at a record. shareholders of worried by donald trump's criticism of the federal reserve along with the u.s. government shutdown and the trade tensions with china but the president isn't taking any of the blame gabrielle elizondo reports from new york. the closing bell couldn't ring fast enough on monday market selloff continued with the dow losing more than six hundred points and nearly three percent the worst christmas eve drop ever by far it continues to decline that's been going on for more than a month. until monday the worst drop on the day before christmas was one thousand nine hundred eighty five when it dropped half a percentage point markets hate uncertainty bu

turkey is definitely not happy that they're backing the. they've met with france france met with top level as the members just a day or two ago and that didn't fly over well in turkey they you're bringing after all france the e.u. country turkey is trying to on the path to e.u. membership however slow it may be as. the thirty's a nato ally so turkey doesn't understand what this support for the wide. how they should interpret it what what does this mean what is france trying to do why does france not understand turkey's security concerns going forward this is definitely going to strain turkish french relations if france continues to back this organization. yeah i mean if we look at the long term as well. in syria could it be possible that france will keep troops in syria for long will they eventually leave as well like the us have decided. i definitely think they'll eventually leave mccraw and doesn't want to leave right after trump left because if he leaves right after trump left he's going to look like he's going to look like he's playing

it would you would think that that would be the case for turkey as well but it seems that way are they gonna speaking publicly that they have hit some sort of brick wall and that there are still lot of things they just don't know. that us troop one point to bear in mind is that the turkish prosecutor has not concluded the turkish prosecutor's office has not completed its investigation either and another point to bear in mind is that while turkey has been criticized a mentally ill for these scripts so-called drip drip drip strategy or these strategic strategic grips to a local as well as international media. this was this tool this this approach ended up basically getting the saudi government to admit that its operatives allegedly wrote had murdered jamal khashoggi and until until saudi arabia really does try to complain with this i'm not sure if these leaks will in the short to medium term really stop it and i once there is some sort of reckoning over this over the murder of jamal khashoggi . and we will know if not all of the facts of the matter that at least a good a good bit sad who

a military standoff so i think turkey will be cautious and make sure that. if there is an offense on kurds that no russian soldier or russian you know. citizens on the ground would hurt and we already witnessed several months ago half a year ago when russia already deployed its military police units amongst kurds to avoid turkish offensive on them so i think there they will try to avoid or i mean they will avoid this military standoff and i think they will try to find their way as for the checks it must have leverage has leverage on talks it's it's quite arguable whether you know there is influence or control of course they will bargain they will use whatever you know leverage they have but we should not forget that both russia and turkey despite of having disagreements they prefer to compartmentalize their relations and don't mix you know economics and politics security concerns and politics again or economics so this is why i wouldn't. talk here about you know who is having leverage and whom or rather. two parties trying to pursue their interests and try t

for nearly twenty years and turkey has been pushing for his return. the perpetrator of the attempted coup of the leader of this terrorist organization still in the united states but recently i have seen the credible investigation of the f.b.i. in several states and they have actually seen or not is the darkness of this organization and how they have been while dating the us laws including tax fraud visa fraud and also some other illegal activities and how professional they are well last time we met in bonus earners the president trump told at the one that they have been working on that but we need to see concrete steps rob reynolds is live for us say in washington d.c. so rob just talk us through what what could happen here. well the turkey requested the united states extradite for two a look. back in two thousand and sixteen shortly after the failed coup in turkey that so far has gone nowhere and when asked about it a month ago president donald trump said it's not under consideration so that avenue doesn't seem to be open however. slightly different

and turkey because turkey in the assad regime along with russia and iran are the beneficiary beneficiaries of this and president trump has announced that after we've had recent speculation about the girl and the movement and whether there could be an extradition there and also the announcement just hours ago of new patriot missiles being sold to turkey thank you james bay that the united nations in new york a couple of little lines which i've just seen on the news wires here i'll just bring them to you first of all one from the russian foreign ministry which says this decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria creates. suspects for a political settlement that's what the russians believe and then there's a statement from the pentagon as well which says the coalition has liberated the isis held territory but the campaign against isis is not over let's discuss some of this with joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he's with us now from nocona norman oklahoma first of all just the fact that the seems to have come as a bit of a surprise to