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Moments in fact the belgium ambassador to the u. N. Belgium is currently one of the countries of the Security Council in fact the e. U. Countries on the Security Council of france the u. K. Germany belgium and poland has said that those e. U. Members what they call the e. U. 5 will be requesting a Security Council meeting on the Current Situation in Northern Syria now from what i understand from other diplomats who have been in touch with by text and whatsapp no actual formal request has yet been made to the presidency of the Security Council thats currently held by south africa i believe thats because there are discussions going on among the e. U. Members and possibly other Security Council members on what format this meeting should take and exactly when it will take place with some discussion it could take place in a matter of hours i also being told it might be more likely to take place here on thursday im also told that certainly some e. U. Nations favor the idea of doing this as a meeting tacked on to their business that they already had here on thursday as any other business now going to give you my analysis of that when they do things in any other business and they did it in the last 24 hours on north korea its normally when Security Council members want to be seen to be doing something but that any other business is actually a closed meeting so they dont actually want to see the world to actually see them doing it and thats because they know its going to be very unlikely that theyre going to get anything out of it in terms of concrete action or even the Security Council the 15 members of the Security Council to agree on any joint language any words any statement on whats going on and its pretty clear on the situation in syria that really there is little agreement theres likely to be some Security Council members particularly the u. S. That may well. Not really like the idea of a Security Council meeting and certainly wouldnt want a Public Meeting given the confusion weve seen in the last 48 hours that has taken place in washington d. C. There are question marks to i think about other of the key Security Council members russia for example has expressed its concern in the past about the situation in Northern Syria but remember russia has a pretty good dialogue even though its not agreed throughout the war on syria with turkey but it has a pretty good dialogue and platform involving turkey iran and russia so and i think the other reason that im hearing from diplomats that they might not want to know from meeting is because events are moving so fast i think its worth reminding you though they say theyre moving fast and clearly the developments in washington regarding the u. S. Administrations attitude to this is certainly changed since the beginning of the week but worth telling you that 15 days ago president was among the World Leaders here in new york for the u. N. General assembly he held up a map showing the safe zone he said that he was going to go into syria to create he laid out quite clearly what his plan was and james just about 24 hours ago we did see the german and the french ambassador is calling for restraint is there a sense where you are that they have been caught off guard with this operation. I think that they had feared that this time because remember turkeys been talking about this sort of operation for a return time they feared it was going to actually take place they called for restraint and clearly that doesnt seem to have had an effect certainly the 1st phase of the operation seems to be underway we have had reaction from those 2 countries not in terms of them here at the u. N. Coming to speak to us on camera but releasing statements weve heard from the french that they very firmly condemn the turkish offensive and on twitter the german. Foreign minister marse has put out a tweet saying we strongly condemn turkish offensive in northeastern syria turkey risk further disturbed destabilization of the region and isis resurgence we call on turkey to end the offensive and pursue its security interests peacefully and clearly theres concern of those 2 nato countries and other nato countries of the situation where you have a nato member very powerful nato member turkey involved in military action against forces that have been very close partner of another nato nation the most powerful of all the United States and i think we have a deep concern as well as a concern about those s. T. s forces and civilians in the area is about i saw resurgence of i saw and of course all those prisoners that were held in this very area yet as you were saying a moment ago james opinion when it comes particularly to syria in the in this Security Council is often divided thats solely on syria its been very divided so what should we be looking out for to morrow if the Security Council meeting goes ahead are we expected to see more of the same divisions. Well i think what youre going to see the only unity that will see if theyve managed to come up with a joint statement at the meeting that we hear is now planned it will be on the humanitarian aspect of this on on the civilians that live in the area because certainly the 3 nations of the Security Council of the 15 that deal with syria humanitarian issues and take the lead on that which are belgium germany germany and kuwait i think will be pushing again for some statement on that so look to that i think Going Forward remember the other concern about the situation from from the Security Council side is the one bit where they have been able to agree on very rare that they find agreement and actually put out a statement 24 hours ago which is on this new Constitutional Committee which when you look at military action taking place right now involving turkey and the kurds and you look at the ongoing bombardment of it it may seem like a small thing but it will bring people together different groups together to try from the opposition on the government side to try and draw up a new constitution to syria and if you follow the plan from 2015 resolution 2254. 00 which in fact the Security Council in their statement said they still do follow and that is supposed to lead to free and Fair Elections in syria supervised by the u. N. Remember you havent had free elect free and Fair Elections in syria since the assad family took office some 50 years ago would be a very Important Development but also worth 3 running you one more thing which is that Constitutional Committee already the one group that had no members of it what the political bloc which are linked with the s. D. F. They were not invited all right james mates thank you for that update from the u. S. Now russia has been calling for a dialogue between the Syrian Government and the kurds over this situation in northeast syria the foreign minister Sergey Lavrov is on a 2 day visit to kazakhstan where hes been speaking to the media lavrov also blamed the u. S. For helping grow tensions in the region on tuesday moscow said it was not informed about the u. S. Decision to pull out american troops from syria. The americans organized cause a state structures in northeastern syria ensured peoples livelihoods and viability and actively promoted the kurdish issue in a way that arab tribes who traditionally lived on these territories used to object to its now a very dangerous game such a reckless attitude to this highly sensitive subject can set fire to the entire region and we have to avoid if at any cost we are communicating this position to the u. S. I hope to hear us but practically we cant yet see any serious changes a very inconsistent and contradictory policy lets not bring in stuff and shes joining us from moscow so as were saying step russia had called for a dialogue between the kurds and the Syrian Government with these new developments by turkey has there been more russian reaction. Well i have to say compared to other crappy capitals its been very quiet here in moscow since the military military operation began no official comments or response have come from any government sources night of condemning or endorsing whats going on and being done by the turkish government the only thing that was confirmed by the president ial spokesman earlier was that no one had called put in before di a military operation began and has announced it to him and put and has sat and urged to want to make sure that the Peace Process thats going on in syria right now is not being damaged so basically put in and russia is now playing a sort of wait and see game and it was also interesting to hear from the Vice President the turkish Vice President earlier on urging and saying that this was all meant to create this kind of unity in syria and also to make sure that the Syrian Refugees could go back home this is exactly the rhetoric that we have been hearing from moscow for a very long time thats exactly what russia wants it wants to have this unity in syria and also the refugees to go back home that want syria to go back to the situation from before the war so basically putin of course is being a very close ally to erdogan and hes waiting and seeing whats going to happen and its also reasonably reasonable to believe that actually put in is very much aware of the plans that turkey has course also probably being discussed in this phone call but also in earlier meetings so theres no condemnation nothing here from moscow at the moment so what youre saying is the feeling or not to sort of get into the realm of speculation here but but the russians would have been aware that the operation was going ahead when it went ahead. Well at least he was told by early one personally that it was going to happen so that with this phone call took place a few hours ago but knowing that early one and put in have his very close relationship and also are involved in this so called us than a Peace Process involving iran and syria as well about the future of syria its very likely to assume that putin knows what the plans are or at least has got some assurances from the one about this military operation which would explain why russia has been so quiet as it is right now of course russia has been backing the Syrian Government during this war and syria is definitely not happy with any possible incursions from the turkish side so looking at the situation the silence on the on the side of russia and the silence on the side of syria its reasonable to assume that there has been some assurances which we of course dont know exactly what they are at this stage ok stuff i sent with an update from moscow stop thank you now president Hassan Rouhani has called for restraint and dialogue between turkey and the kurds and iran a close ally of the Syrian Government began unannounced military drills in the northwest of the country border in turkey. As the americans must leave the area whose country syria should support the syrian army and the Syrian Government the current trying to do deals behind closed doors not to the benefits of the region we urge our neighbor friend and brotherly nation turkey and the government of turkey to show due care and attention and patience in this issue lets bring in Bernard Smith whos joining us from erbil in iraqs kurdistan region and of course the concern there will be the influx of refugees bernard whats the situation. During those concerns might already be being realized i am hearing reports that there are sightings of convoys of cars heading towards the iraqi border towards the part of iraqi border minister by the Kurdistan Regional government those convoys coming from syria from kurdish controlled parts of syria so clearly is an indication that already people have been are frightened enough of the assaults coming from the Turkish Military from the attacks coming from the Turkish Military that they are now heading towards the border and this was always a great fear of the good of the Regional Government here because of the ministration here there are some 900000 syrians already living in camps at ministered in the kurdistan kurdish government parts of iraq about 9 camps there already full its going to be very difficult for them to absorb further influx of refugees and also there is the concern of the type of people trying to cross the border we know that there are camps Detention Centers administered by the syrian Kurds Holding eisel fighters and theres a camp called ill hold it that has about 70000 mainly women and children most of them wives and widows of i saw fighters and half of them thought to be still sympathetic to eisele long been. About the stability of that company even before. This latest. Turkey started targeting sites in northeastern syria theres only about 400. 00 kurdish guards around that camp if they are called up to defend Syrian Kurdish positions the fear has been that there could be some sort of break up from those camps and they could have this way yes so what are the biggest concerns bernard you raise an important point and thats the point about i saw members as well as their families that are in these camps so what are the biggest concerns when it comes to these prisons and the camps holding these people. Well the Syrian Kurdish already said that while they will continue to guard those camps they have said that if theyre forced to theyll have to call their fighters to fight along what would become front lines with the turks to defend positions against the turkish advance of the 3rd as being that there could be a break out from these camps and places while its quite clear when you get reports on whats happening inside these camps that i still of course is not being defeated in this part of the world there is still a threat from i saw many in the pentagon recognize that others in the u. S. Administration recognize that eyes was not been defeated that it is a threat and in this aid agencies already before this before the action of the last sort of 5 or 6 hours or so aid agencies were already saying it was getting creasing a difficult for them to be able to operate in al gore and they might even not be able to operate there anymore because of the risk from the i selected inside that compound were about to happen and already stream a dire situation in that could become more explosive and there could be also about threats of a rush of people towards the border here with iraq in the curtis kurdish controlled border with iraq all right thank you. Now a few hours before the operation began donald trump again took to social media defending the withdrawal of u. S. Troops from the region he said the United States has spent 8 trillion dollars fighting and policing in the middle east thousands of our great soldiers have died or been badly wounded millions of people have died on the other side going into the middle east as the worst decision ever made in the history of our country we went to war under a false and now disproven premise weapons of mass destruction there were none now we are slowly and carefully bringing our great soldiers and military home our focus is on the big picture the usa is greater than ever before lets bring in our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett so as were saying i can believe the president has been tweeting but let me ask you this is there a sense that this operation bites ricky could not have gone on without the knowledge of the United States. I i you know that thats asking me to speculate but it seems highly probable that the United States did have knowledge because we look back to the statement from the white house on sunday evening and it was expressly stated that the u. S. Would be essentially moving its troops to the side to pave the way for a Turkish Military operation so since sunday evening washington time thats exactly what people have been holding their breath for now we should point out in the midst of all of this that this goes counter to what the pentagon has been telling the u. S. President as recently as tuesday the pentagon had been working to establish a safe zone in Northern Syria according to a statement from the pentagon that this was believed to be the best path forward to maintaining stability but it appeared even then that from this pentagon statement that we read on tuesday that it was acknowledged that the turkey had in some way coordinator at least advise the United States because the statement goes on to say unfortunately turkey has chosen to act unilaterally so. The United States does seem to have had some knowledge of this there does seem to be an awareness but certainly this is not something that state Department Officials pentagon officials are in support of or even members of the president s own Republican Party senator Lindsey Graham has been tweeting about this ever since news broke of this military operation if media reports are accurate and turkey has entered Northern Syria a disaster in the making pray for kurdish allies who have been shamelessly abandoned by the trumpet ministration this move ensures the riyadh merchants of eisel so so its quite clear that there is no happiness from many members of the president s own Republican Party who have often been the president s biggest supporters. There is certainly was an awareness that this could happen and displeasure now that it has really or just earlier this week trump threatened turkey he said he would obliterates turkish economy but at the same time hes also invited to the white house. Yeah and this is certainly something that has frustrated many here in the United States in fact there is one prominent democratic lawmaker representative rowe kahana who has said that the u. S. Congress should in some form or fashion take action with respect to this in a number of different ways potentially suspending aid to turkey cutting off military assistance arms sales and even there has been talk for some time now about whether or not turkey is still a valuable nato partner now certainly the u. S. President has made that. Has underscored that he believes that turkey is still a valuable partner as you point out inviting the turkish leader to the white house next month underscoring the partnership when it comes to the f. 35. 00 and underscoring that this is a nato ally but there are many who support u. S. President donald trump who dont share his view and characterization of the relationship comes to mind the former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations nikki haley when she was tweeting this week she is the hash tag turkey is not our friend so there is a feeling that turkey may not have the same interests as the United States and despite Donald Trumps declarations to the contrary there isnt a great deal of confidence theres fact quite a bit of concern that this is going to devolve into a dire humanitarian situation and given the fact that the the syrian kurds have been working and supporting the United States for many many years even longer than the almost 5 years of trying to defeat eisel this just looks like another abandonment by the United States and that is as one republican senator put go is morally repugnant and is going to leave a stain on the United States in the eyes of the International Community our rights can really thank you very much for that update. Were earlier we spoke to thought of the brahim he says turkey should focus on dialogue with the Syrian Government to resolve the situation on the border. See the government. Is not so happy in love to the unDemocratic Forces are doing and indeed they are in the midst of a Syrian Government and we know that there are 2 separate systems and they want to make their own on the and to divide syria about the treatment of this situation i mean to them Democratic Forces and. Other. Groups which are in the eastern a pure if you prep is not made to buy into going lance it does by working with the event government to put an end with that and i think turkey can want to be a one with get a means and by cooperation with the rationale was to go was iran and with others who in the situation and this is a process do action then im going to do a show that is certain of your prison not by being damascus agrees to the demographic force but everybody is angry here if term of the turkish q. B. Shooting and the turkish aggravation that gets to the europe as well but there are 30 or negative or whether it was by a spike. Well lets now bring him along on hes the director of policy analysis at the arab center for research and policy studies at the Dog Institute for graduate studies is joining us right here in the house thanks very much for speaking to us on the aljazeera news hour lets just start out with what with what the Vice President of turkey had to say just about 30 minutes ago and one of the things he was outlining last weekend bursa is that he said this is a 1st step off other steps we know that this operation started and that as a lion so does it sound to you like this is going to continue and how deep will turkey go into the syrian territory yeah it might be a lengthy the process in which turkey will be actually moving slowly and kicking down one by one of the Kurdish Forces in the north of syria. Actually the positions of the could these forces in the north east of syria we all know actually that turkey has from the very beginning. Requested that they are like into with 50 to 40 kilometers deep into syrian territories but the americans have always actually opposed this. This proposal by turkey and they were saying that with they were willing actually direct cept Something Like between 5 and 7 cuma to deep into syrian territory and only on the step of that it actually. Goes between jobless meaning 140 kilometers long along the borders between syria and turkey turkey on the other hand is thinking that this operation should go actually the along the borders and the east of the euphrates from jobless on the Euphrates River took amish to be in the far north east so we still need to know actually what sort of agreements the americans have reached considering this this operation. And when it comes to the International Reaction were now hearing that the nato chief has urged restraint from turkey in the syria operation and weve also heard that countries from the e. U. Have called for a Security Council meeting tomorrow but when you look at who hasnt said anything thats russia clearly an ally of syria and the syrian president how do you explain russias silence well actually 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 thats upset youre 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 military operation of course i mean turkey iran and russia have their disagreement on so many issues because the ideal situation for russia and iran is for the United States to do it theyre all from east for from the not its of syria and the Syrian Regime and he covered the territories instead but that i can its not going to is about its not going to work like that its the americans that they are there that americans they are allowing the turks to go inside syria the russians they cant do much about it but they are trying to take advantage actually in order to change the dynamic of the alliance in the region by getting that goodish forces back to the Syrian Regime and back actually under the russian and bella and brick of this alliance between the kurds and the americans that is what the russians are trying to do right now and also the russians are trying to keep to keep close to them because turkey is very important for the russian ashley scheme considering the political situation in syria dont forget that after all russia iran and and turkey are but knows and doesnt that a process and thats then a process process has succeeded in the recent weeks in establishing the Constitutional Committee which suppose actually to start convening about late this month in order to Start Talking about that often of the city and theres illusion as a 1st step towards but to go solution in syria so that russia is out but i have to keep the key close to them that americans also are trying to keep tookie close to them and the one who was and so what and then so what could have been sort of the parama. Or is this agreement that you mentioned between turkey and the americans when it comes to this operation well i think that the americans they allow the turks actually to go inside syria because as i said earlier out of the he has been has been trying actually to put to use pressure on the americans in order to do i mean to or to accept the sort of. Intervention in the north of syria in order to eliminate. The forces but of course i mean turkey is busy entering it as as an opposition to any minute also i said to the king has decided that they will take that he does ship of this operation against isis and that was and then that and that was the approach actually they use in order to convince president problem that you dont have actually to deal with the eyes and anymore youre going to have to deal with the Kurdish Forces in syria any more you dont have to keep your forces in syria anymore we will take over the responsibility we will fight i said but on the same time we will actually fight the y. B. She and the separatist. Ambition and the northeast of syria that is that is that right now how we see things in between russia between between the United States and turkey and the s. D. F. Has also appealed to the United States speaking of the americans for a no fly zone its saying to protect it from circus attacks in the northeast of syria do you know whats the likelihood of that actually happening thats not going to happen in my b. M. Because turkey is a nato ally so we dont expect that americans actually to establish a no fly zone in order to protect them from from from from a nato but not president from b s that day he said look it is a very a boughten 3 not for the United States and the but he embarked on nato nato but not also for the for the west so my hunch is that the us president decided actually to sell out the curves and this in this equation because when he is actually when he had to choose between 50 and the cause he decided. Clearly to go with with tookie and that is that is that is that in politics at the end of the day and that is present trouble for solenoids that the words of the game and how things this is how we use politics very much like like hes using the market as a businessman and on the issue of i saw fighters that you were mentioning a moment ago a real concern. By people over in the pentagon and also around trump who say this kids we can see a resurgence of ice on the area but are we any clearer on what what turkey actually plans to do with the i saw members and how it will deal with that well i think that was the agreement as we understand from between president and president of the gun they made that agreement over the order of a phone call and we know now that both actually defense secretary of defense of the United States and the chief of stuff they both actually were present during that phone call which means actually that the president. Has their support to his agreement with president of the gun president of ghana seem to have pledged that he will be actually fighting arson in this sort of they not he said instead of that and i think that was his mistake from the very beginning had agreed actually to fight eisel since 20142015 when but i didnt obama at that time actually offered to have. To choose to and that the Syrian Opposition factions at the time but took a decided not to do that because turkey was more if you abide by that time with go to dish. Question with with the challenge of. Factions in the north east of syria now to the key decided that we will go against arsenal we would take this responsibility so that americans dont need actually to stay in syria and pay the cost of staying in the north east of syria but the that that thats going to be on the expense of the kurds in my opinion all right im wrong about and well leave it there for now we thank you very much for speaking to us. Hello again a manhunt is underway in eastern germany after at least one gunman killed 2 people and injured others near a Synagogue Police in the city of how they say one suspect is being questioned german media say a grenade was thrown and multiple shots fired gunfire was also heard in the nearby town of landsberg these shootings coincide with the young kid poor the holiest day of the year in judaism. Well donald trump is being warned hell be a be held to account despite the white house refusing to cooperate with what it calls the illegitimate inquiry into his impeachment democrats have warned the u. S. President that any stonewalling will be viewed as an obstruction of justice u. S. Ambassador to the European Union was barred from giving evidence to the inquiry and just a short time ago the u. S. President tweeted saying the whistleblowers facts have been so incorrect about my no pressure conversation with the ukrainian president and now the conflict of interest and involvement with the democrat candidates that he or she should be exposing question properly this is no whistleblower the whistleblowers lawyer is a big democrats whistleblower has ties to one of my democrat opponents mike hanna has more. Essentially President Trump has declared open warfare on the impeachment investigation and on the members of congress who are intent on carrying out in a fiery 8 page letter to the speaker of the House White House counsel insists that this procedure is unconstitutional that there is no due process involved that it is essentially illegal because the house has not voted on an impeachment procedure the speaker of the house nancy pelosi has responded in kind insisting there is no need to take any vote insisting that the president is continuing to obstruct justice and saying that he is a comfortable and that he is not above the law so certainly the use of the ongoing solvers in this battle between 2 branches of government to equal branches of government the congress and the executive and this very serious indeed no real sign of how this ongoing battle can be resolved the democrats in congress continue to insist that while the president continues to obstruct justice in their eyes these are just more factors that can be built into the articles of impeachment that they are certain they say will be forthcoming as a president is held accountable well jeff houser is the executive director of the revolving door project at the center for economic and policy research he says despite the white houses intimidating behavior more whistleblowers will likely come forward its contested right now to see how many were supposed to be willing to come forward its clear that there is an effort by the white house to discourage whistle blowing and its clear that to the extent to which the name of any was more commute come public that individual should expect torrent of abuse and that is. Awful you cannot really have a Lawful Society in which people who are bringing forth evidence of abuses by superior officials feel threatened but that is whats going on and so i dont know how many whistleblowers going to be willing to come forward despite the directives from the trumpet ministration but i suspect some more will their ready is evidence of that but its not entirely clear and i do think it is something that congress can do is to impeach on this basis it is an obstruction of the clear Constitutional Rights and responsibilities of congress to investigate the executive Branch Congress is interested its the only organ of the government that has the clear right to remove a high official including the president and if its ability to do that is being imputed by the president if their ability to investigate potential misconduct by the president and his team is being impeded by the president that is clearly in and of itself impeachable behavior hopes have faded for migrants missing after an overloaded boat capsized near the italian island of lampedusa 13 women some of them pregnant drowned on monday rescuers were able to save 22 people following their latest sinking in the Mediterranean Sea 7 you nation said they were willing to accept Asylum Seekers as part of a new plan to reduce the number of deaths how much of june has more from lampedusa. Italys coast guard still searching for migrants whove been missing since a boat capsized off the coast of lampedusa on sunday that boat were told originated in tunisia there were about 50 people on board most of them tunisian and west african were also told that of the migrants who were on the boat 22 have been rescued 13 have been found dead weve been told that those 13 were women and there is a fear that of the rest who have been missing that many of them are women and children now the u. N. Refugee agency says that what happened proves yet again that urgent action is needed when it comes to the situation in the mediterranean here in lampedusa as we said the search is ongoing the mayor here tells us that the search will continue tomorrow that at that point robots undersea robots will also be deployed to assist in the search were also told that this evening there will be a Memorial Service for those who perished in that boat capsized an american scientists who who identified one of the key materials in rechargeable batteries has become the oldest Nobel Laureates in history so 97 year old john be good enough discovered lithium cobalt oxide as a useful material back in 1979 hell be sharing the prize with britains m stanley women who developed an early patents for the batteries and japans akira your shino whose work made them safer more efficient and less expensive well helen payne is the deputy chief executive of the Royal Society of chemistry and she says without the lithium battery lots of other technologies wouldnt be possible. I think the lithium battery is such a phenomenal thing for us in Todays Society but obviously as we move into an era where we need to look at more fossil fuel Free Technology the increase in mobile technology the increase in Wireless Technology the lithium batteries are all around us and i think its because of the widespread use and also looking forward to electric cars and all the other things that were going to need to use the trees for in the future i think is such a fantastic time for these 3 phenomenal scientists we recognize every time you pick up your mobile phone every time you want to make a phone call or in a cage with any form of Wireless Technology in a fight Anything Technology driven when you are using some form of lithium ion battery and therefore its all around us in the public inside he has become very reliant on this type of technology so that we can make other advances in terms of medicine but also more widely in communications. Well back to our top story now in the Turkish Military operation into northeastern syria where its launching airstrikes supported by artillery fire president. Made the announcement on twitter saying turkey and its syrian rebel allies have launched the offensive early on says it aims to eliminate a quote terror corridor along turkeys southern border the kurdish led syrian Democratic Forces say turkish warplanes have struck its region in the north east the s. D. F. Says its parts huge panic among people World Leaders had been urging turkey for restraint and dialogue bring him up again hes the director of policy analysis the arab center for research and policy studies at the Doha Institute for graduate studies is joining us from marwan again let me ask you about the way this operation started it was reported witnesses rather were reporting that it started with explosions in the town of. What do you make of the way it commenced and i think we are going to see more of this in the coming days and weeks because i believe that i mean the opposition will of course i mean create the sort of backlash from the kodesh forces they will be trying actually to do what i mean to do all sorts of things in order to. Prevent turkey from from from advancing on the other hand you are going to see also from the from those who are supporting the. Opposition all soul. The sort of the action that will drive to a key even farther into into the area so that this is not this something got going to see more of it in the coming days and weeks and of course we know that the y. P. Gene the s. D. F. Have really irked turkey for many decades now but how do you assess the way that the s. D. F. May fight back. It depends very much of course on on the depth and scope of the Turkish Military operation because. We are not all supported that turkey will be will be will be supported by the Syrian Opposition factions that are loyal to turkey and some of them actually didnt order very well. So the kurdish Kurdish Forces we expect that they might be with putting some resistance but without aerial cover its going to be very difficult for them to stop the advance of the on meet the turkish army is a 2nd largest army within nato. And they also have state of the Art Technology and most of that most of it actually is a provided by the United States so i think that because the states has also been the one to arm and finance the s. D. F. After all they were very instrumental in fighting eisel in that area absolutely and that is a reason why but isnt obama has been very much criticized actually by both republicans and democrats for abandoning the Kurdish Forces on syria because they believe actually that this gives the wrong message actually today u. S. Allies not to the United States is not loyal to its. Allies as russia and iran has proven to be considering the c. N. D. Gene but at the end of the day this is a politics is the art of possible and i think a president to trump he decided at the end of the day that he chose to keep it other than actually staying loyal and faithful. To the Kurdish Forces but the Kurdish Forces also have sensed the sort of this this is this abandonment by they not this is for for for many months now because we all know actually president time to Start Talking about withdrawing from syria since average 2018 more than 16 months ago. He couldnt do it and the 1st time he tried again and lost somebody he couldnt do it because of resistance from within his administration and also from u. S. Allies there will be a lot of allies in. 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Turkish warplanes launch airstrikes in Northern Syria and fire artillery as president s are due on declarers the state of operation in spring. Watching all the syria life from a headquarters in doha into a complicated also ahead russia calls for a dialogue and slams the u. S. For playing a dangerous game with the kurds. Peloso one story is dominating right now turkey beginning its military operation into northeastern syria with airstrikes supported by artillery fire president. Made the announcement on twitter saying turkey and its syrian rebel allies have launched the offensive early on says it aims to eliminate a quote terror accord or a long turkeys southern border the kurdish led syrian Democratic Forces say turkish warplanes have struck its region in the north east the s. D. F. Says it supports huge panic among people World Leaders have been urging turkey for restraints and dialogue with the turkish Vice President says the offensive will be a source of peace for the syrian people. We need peace and stability to be in syria we need to sort out the Syrian Crisis and we will hand these territories to their real owners and we came to take part in all meetings and summits that aim at sorting out the Syrian Crisis this operation will be a source of peace and will bring peace and well sort out the Syrian Crisis in a radical way this operation led by president raised up Tayyip Erdogan as one of the steps and one of the procedures among other. Steps taken by president to one for the sake of syria and for keeping the unity of syria so lets look at exactly where this is all happening now Turkish Forces are launching attacks against the town a foot off the line troops have also gathered near the Turkish Border town of charlie its thought theyll cross into the town of tal to which u. S. Troops recently evacuated that town those in territory held by the s. D. F. Kurdish led forces turkey are ready has a presence in Syria Holding a number of observation points those however are northwestern syria an area mainly controlled by turkish and rebel forces lets bring in said in kosovo hes joining us from istanbul what more are we hearing from officials about this operation. Theyre in this operation on for the today at 4 pm local time which is 13 g. M. T. Time someone according to. Sources underground Turkish Military started shelling and bombing in the areas of wrestling on and tell of be at. The tactical aim to start with arista ion and tell about is to divide a long corridor or a look along solid base of. Idea or a y p g entity according to the it Turkish Military experts they say that they want to target started from these 2 points in order to divided them in order to make it easier for delenn forces to enter when when they do enter for no it is limited only by the airstrikes and the shellings the land forces havent havent gone inside yet but all the preparations are ready we are hearing also some turkish towns by the border have been have been shelled by the pew idea areas and schools in border towns like messiah bin and j. Lamp and are are closed for the following few days this is what the officials have announced but the turkish officials have been trying to highlight that they will do their best to avoid any who many tarrying casualties but on the other side we are hearing from the syrian Democratic Forces side 2 civilians have been killed and 2 who have been avoided and they have halted the counter eisel operations in the region so in a way its also a war of propaganda between the towards the 2 sides theyre in because there is a there is an ongoing war between turkey and the output will Kurdistan Workers Party the p. K. K. For decades turkey deems their organization as a as a terrorist organization like the us and the e. U. Did and is says that the white b. G. Is the syria branch of this organization and during this decade long fight with the p. K. K. Almost 40000 lives were lost from both sides from the turkish and according to citizens of the country so thats why Charities Say is this military operation to establish a safe zone is legitimate because thats a fight against the p. K. K. Not the kurds and turkey says they have no problems with the kurds and they will do their best to avoid a humanitarian casualties or any harm or ended the placement but of course as i say that currently the operation is limited by the airstrikes and the shellings of the operation unfolds will be it will depend after the lead forces enter syria as well but i have to remind presence add on that President Donald Trump are to have a meeting in wash in washington on november 13th and this is going to be a binding meeting the spieth there is there seems to be a green light by the u. S. For the Turkish Operation or rights and thank you for that update from istanbul lets bring in our diplomatic editor joins us now from the United Nations and we are hearing that the Security Council will be meeting on thursday to discuss the situation. Yes the u. N. Security Council Meeting has been discussed for some hours now the idea of having this meeting i can tell you at this stage its the formal request has gone in for the meeting that will happen on thursday and i think its pretty certain it will take place although it hasnt actually been scheduled yet the meeting cold by the e. U. Members of the Security Council thats the u. K. France germany poland and belgium some of those nations have been talking about the situation and whats happened in recent hours of the french saying they are very firmly concerned and the the foreign minister of germany has put out a tweet saying we strongly condemn turkish offensive in northeastern syria turkey risk further destabilization of the region and isis resurgence we call on turkey to end the offensive and pursue its security interests peacefully the current president of the Security Council in south africa this is what their ambassador had to say they can sell isnt it in this situation you know that in syria this did you call it does to exercise maximum what is the main entrance short the protection of civilians particularly if youre also be emphasised that there is no been to solution to their confidence syria a new leg to call on all parties to hedge and listen obligations and therefore even mentation a resolution 22514215 well james itll be interesting to actually see what happens from the Security Council because it has pretty much always been divided when it came to the issue of syria. Well there are going to schedule this meeting as i understand it looks like under any other business a be the end of their meeting on colombia on probably late thursday morning now i will tell you in my analysis any other business is when the Security Council wants to be seen to be doing something and diplomats want the world to see that theyre having a meeting but they dont want them to actually see the meeting because this will be a closed session meeting and thats because they know that really there is going to be very little chance of them coming out with any concrete action there may well be a statement talking about the humanitarian situation and their worries about civilians but beyond there very little agreement from the Security Council there is concern certainly about the prisoners being held by eisel who are being held in this territory and also people are looking forward to the Constitutional Committee on syria thats taking place at the end of the month on the 30th of october as a possible way forward worth reminding you that the one group thats not been invited to that Constitutional Committee are the political bloc which are linked with the kurds and the s. D. F. Theyve not been invited to take part writer james rays thank you. Just a few hours before the operation began donald trump again took to social media defending the withdrawal of u. S. Troops from the region he said the United States has spent 8 trillion dollars fighting and policing in the middle east thousands of our great soldiers have died or been badly wounded millions of people have died on the other side going into the middle east is the worst decision ever made in the history of our country we went to war under a false and now disproven premise weapons of mass destruction there were none now we are slowly and carefully bringing our great soldiers and military home our focus is on the big picture the usa is greater than ever before lets bring in our White House Correspondent Kimberly Houk it so any if fishel reaction since the beginning of the Turkish Military operation. The Term Administration has been largely silent but there is reporting coming out of the pentagon that in fact under bombardment the syrian kurds reportedly asks the United States for air support and for a no fly zone to protect civilians keep in mind these are the syrian kurds that were allied with the United States in the the effort to defeat eisel it is being reported that the u. S. Military has been ordered not to help but despite that request from their allies just a week ago so there is a lot of displeasure right now in washington on both the republican side of the aisle as well as the democratic side of the aisle with regard to this in fact senator Lindsey Graham tweeting i urge President Trump to change course well there is still time by going back to the save zone concept that was working and we can tell you as recently as less than 24 hours ago that the pentagon did release a statement saying that that is what they had been working with turkey to to do in pushing turkey to do that is to establish a safe zone in Northern Syria the United States position being this is the best path forward for maintaining stability but acknowledging the reality in fact probably giving us almost advance notice very precious words unfortunately turkey has chosen to act unilaterally this coming just late tuesday from the pentagon and this is really disappointing members of congress again on both sides of the aisle look at another tweet from senator Lindsey Graham he says he will lead the effort in congress to make everyone pay a heavy price heir to one turkeys leader of course who has been invited by the white house by President Trump to to come visit washington next month now what are some of the things in terms of that heavy price that many of these members of congress are promising well we do know from one democratic member of congress kahana hes. Hes suggesting that there needs to be some action legislation in the form of suspending aid to turkey potentially cutting off arms cells and military support and even discussion that questioning sort of turkeys role in nato whether or not it should be allowed to continue to be a part of nato because that is one of the big arguments that is often made is that there needs to be steadfast support for turkey from the