White house to talk us through what more trump is saying about the delegation hes sending to turkey and what their mission is going to be. Well he was sending mixed messages as the Vice President secretary of state get ready to head over to turkey just to set the scene for you right now at the white house the president giving the Opening Statements as he is meeting with the president of italy if they start taking questions on this which i imagine most of the questions will be on this and the impeachment inquiry of course well try to bring that to you but this is not the 1st time the president s going to speak today he does not like being criticized hes made that pretty clear since he made the decision to pull troops out of syria the backlash against him from members of his own Political Party has been fierce its from democrats its republicans across the political spectrum people saying that the president gave the green light to turkey so he will is on the defensive about this hes taking to twitter and today when he was supposed to do just was a pool spray basically which is when the cameras come into the oval office they shake hands he decided he wanted to take questions really is up to him whether or not he can ignore the questions or he answers them and he went on to make incredibly controversial comments which are no make it that much harder for his republican backers in the congress to defend him so this he said it was strategically brilliant to pull u. S. Soldiers out of Northern Syria he said because now the soldiers are safe all the reporting of the pentagon is that is not true that these extractions are happening in very dangerous conditions he went on to say that the kurds are much safer now talked about what good fighters they are take a step back the kurds are much safer now the kurds are be under a bargeman assault and obviously theyre dying in the fields of syria in the cities of city and in syria he went on to say this isnt our problem this is between turkey and syria the question is what does that say to turkey as the Vice President of the United States about to get on air force to head over there and ask him for a cease fire the president said in the message from the oval office that he doesnt really care that its somebody elses. And then he went on to say and i think just to put it in context all of his usual allies of the hill have been framing this as the kurds are u. S. Allies that they did the dying in the fight against the Islamic State of iraq and that we need to be loyal to our no one will partner with the United States ever again so thats how washington has framed this the president feeling defensive about that came out and said the kurds are not angels so obviously the president wants this controversy to go away he said to his Vice President to try to make that happen but with the words that he spoke in the oval office he casts doubt on whether the Vice President will be even remotely successful and he made sure that this controversy. Were negotiating and were trying to get turkey to do the right thing because wed like to stop wars regardless whether americans are in or whether theyre not in we want to see war stop thats a very important thing on a humanitarian basis we want to see that happens. So we want to see war stop but its not our problem so you can imagine the people sitting in ankara right now or think you know what does the president say because by 7 the Vice President you think you said in the message this means something to him this isnt just the secretary of state this doesnt really happen in america you see the Vice President go and this sort of a mission but that at the same time hes saying this is between syria and turkey would like them to stop it its not our problem it was brilliant for me to pull out of the area pull our troops out of the area so the president sending very very mixed messages watching the press conference the president italy is giving his opening remarks and of course we do expect that they will take questions usually 2 from each side ok for the time being thank you but cross over to our diplomatic editor james mates from the United Nations so as youre hearing very mixed messages from the white house is that a clear message thats coming out of the Security Council james. I think it is a clearer message coming out of the Security Council but clearly whats been going on here in a closed door meeting of the Security Council was happening exactly the same time that President Trump was making those rather confused comments out of the oval office and what you do have here with the Security Council is for the 1st time the signing up to a somewhat limited statement of concern about the Current Situation but they were announcing that just as exactly the same time as President Trump one of the Security Council members on the up to the statement said the situation was strategically brilliant so it undercut a statement from the Security Council and a statement then followed from President Trumps own ambassador. To the United States calls on turkey to halt its offensive and declare a cease fire immediately to this in and at the president s direction Vice President pants is now leading a delegation including secretary of state mike pump a 0 United StatesNational Security adviser Robert Obryant and ambassador James Jeffrey to press for an immediate cease fire and discuss the conditions for a negotiated settlement. Turkeys military offensive into northeast syria is undermining the campaign to defeat isis endangering innocent civilians and threatening Peace Security and stability in the region. And she had absolutely nothing to add for the 3rd time face in the press here didnt take any questions even though i asked her about that strategically brilliant line coming from President Trump she walked off again and said absolutely nothing we did follow up with other ambassadors about that strategically brilliant line the Russian Ambassador said he wasnt a tall sure what President Trump was talking about but then i can privately tell you afterward several european diplomats came to me and said perhaps President Trump was talking about the russians because in the view of these european diplomats the russians have certainly had a strategically brilliant time of the last week or so all right james mays thank you not to say to her whos in on the turkey syria border to tell us whats happening on the grounds in. Well turkish led forces are continuing their military campaign to one push the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces away from the border to that will allow the creation of a safe zone so that millions of refugees can return but they havent been able to complete the operation as of yet theyre facing resistance the kurdish led with the backbone of this organization is is the Syrian Kurdish armed group the y. P. G. Which turkey considers a terrorist organization theyre putting up a fight they are resisting the advance there you theyre mounting a defense using tunnels using trenches which it makes very very it makes it very very difficult for the turkish army and their local syrian allies to take in wrestling is a border town and it is supposed to be part of that safe zone so the s. D. F. Continues to fight back it is now partnering with the syrian army which has moved to the north of syria they have taken up positions along an international highway a crucial supply route which is supposed to be the southern perimeter of the safe zone so it making it more and more difficult for turkey to actually create that zone on the ground and then of course you have russia which backs the Syrian Government they have deployed their military police along a number of front lines one of those front lines is north of the city of members also a target of the Turkish Military operation weve heard the turkish president say we want to clear the area from terrorists in his words from members to the iraqi border so facing resistance on the ground but definitely turkey also facing diplomatic pressure oks enough with the with an update from the thank you so as we mentioned the turkish president remains defiant to demands for an immediate ceasefire heres a simple so clue in istanbul. Its been more than a week since turkey has launched its military operation in north assyria. A campaign against the Syrian Kurdish group the wipe e. G. Turkish stays the y. P. G. Is the Syrian Branch of the Kurdistan Workers Party or p k k that turkey the e. U. And the us have listed as a terrorist organization and the sofa ration is to stop what turkey calls a terror Corey Dornier its border the us and the arab league have called on turkey to halt their operation of request has rejected present treasurer taper don has laid out his own conditions on how to end the separation wouldnt take give you news. Our proposal is that right now tonight all the terrorists lay down their arms their equipment and everything destroy all the traps and get out of a safe zone that we have designated the i. P. G. Is an important element of the Syrian Democratic forces the s. D. F. Which helped the u. S. Push eisel out of florida parts of syria but one class offensive against them has prompted the Syrian Government to move back into some parts of the northeast under an agreement with a. S. D. F. The syrian army has not been here in years and the american delegation including Vice President mike pence and the secretary of state mike compare are expected in turkey by thursday President Trump has decided to send the highest level delegation you could possibly send for diplomatic purposes other than himself right i mean the Vice President and the secretary of state and im sure they are convinced of their own persuasiveness with a full force of the u. S. Government behind them but i i think that president out of one theres no chance hes going to implement a cease fire or allow any mediation until he feels turkey has achieved the goals that he defined want to washington has put sanctions on turkey and is threatening to impose more if the syrian operation doesnt end when it comes to syria alliances shift quickly on the ground and on the negotiating table the mainly kurdish s. T. s feels abandoned by the u. S. And has now turned to the searing government that once called it a traitor but one thing is clear for turkey kurdish fighters grew up in Northern Syria poses a serious threat to its existence seen em to solo aljazeera stumble to other news and last minute breaks in negotiations are continuing after leaders in the u. K. And the e. U. Failed to reach a resolution in marathon late night talks theyre attempting to reach an agreement that can be rubber stamped at a summit on thursday and there appears to be a breakthrough is that you are president donald tusk has just said that the basic foundations of the deal are ready and well know either way by Late Wednesday. Technical level discussions. Continued late into the night last night and are ongoing as we speak no docs who have been constructive but there still remains a number of. Issues to resolve meanwhile the french president called on the german chancellor Angela Merkel are meeting in the Southern France city of toulouse issues ranging from brought to syria are expected to be on the agenda ahead of thursdays e. U. Summit in brussels merkel visited the headquarters of air bus to highlight european cooperation well get a check on the weather up next and then hundreds of schools facing closer how a Building Collapse a spark fear a poor construction standards in kenya also ahead. On poll recently sweden where the indigenous sami people say by way of life is under threat not just from Climate Change but from the Government Solutions to stop it. Hello the thunderstorms are over the lebanon and elsewhere a couple days ago are still visible in this massive cloud here most of the activity i think is going to be of a turkey but you certainly couldnt rule out something happening now a bit further research maybe through jordan where some parts of iraq in the clouds gone 1st for the south and Society Temperature wise what it was quite warm is not really cool down very much beirut still at 28 for example although in baghdad 36 is quite a cooling trend were everywhere below 14th dreiser actually around the sun is out what there is is probably largely irrelevant it might spark a shower today no more than that rather friday night and the clouds gathering once more in the Eastern Mediterranean beirut looking cloud the 20. We take you live to the white house and listen to the u. S. President donald trump speak on turkey in northeast syria. Didnt surprise me because hes wanted to do that for a long time hes been building up troops on the border with syria for a long time as you know. Our soldiers are mostly gone from the area we only had 2628. 00 but under 50 think its probably 28. 00 but under 50 soldiers and which is a very tiny force and it didnt surprise me at all this is theyve been warring for many years its a natural for us but its sort of natural for them they fight and they fight long and they fight hard and theyve been fighting syria for a long time and on the border thats the border with syria and i say why are we protecting syrias land assads not a friend of ours why are we protecting their land and syria also has a relationship with the kurds who by the way are no angels ok who is an angel there arent too many around but syria has a relationship with the kurds so theyll come in for their border and theyll fight they may bring partners in they could bring russia and i say welcome to it russia went into afghanistan when it was the soviet union and it became russia became a much smaller country because of afghanistan you can overextend you could do a lot of things but frankly if russias going to help in protecting the kurds thats a good thing not a bad thing but. It would be led by syria and syria doesnt want turkey to take its land i can understand that but what does that have to do with the United States of america if theyre fighting over syrias land are we supposed to fight a nato member in order that syria who is not our friend keeps their land i dont think so but syria does have a relationship with the kurds the thing thats common is that everybody hates isis now the p. K. K. Which is. Part of the kurds as you know is probably worse a terrorist more of a terrorist threat in many ways than isis so its a very semi complicated not too complicated if youre smart but its a semi complicated problem and i think its a problem that we have very nicely under control we have 2 countries wanting their land we have one country that wants land perhaps that doesnt belong to them because they want to have a. 22 mile strip of they call it freedom they call it a lot of things they want to get terrorists you have another country it says you can have our land and they can have to work that out now with that being said. By president mike pence is going there will be leaving either late tonight or tomorrow and its going to be yesterday but they have to have certain security done its very important man in our country and hell be leaving with secretary of state pump a a we already have representatives there negotiating with turkey we put massive sanctions on turkey and we have additional sanctions on turkey. And when i ran i ran on a basis were going to bring our great soldiers back home where they belong we dont have to fight these endless wars will bring it back home thats what i want to own and some people whether it you call it the military Industrial Complex or or beyond that theyd like me to stay one of the problems i have and one of for instance with the witch hunt you have people the woman to stay that woman to fight forever. They do very well fighting thats what they want to do fight a lot of Companies Want to fight because they make their weapons based on fighting not based on peace and they take care of a lot of people i want to bring our soldiers back home. Were not a police force were a fighting force with the greatest fighting force ever i spent 2 and a half trillion dollars over the last almost 3 years rebuilding our military when i took it over was a mess it was an absolute mess it was totally depleted you know that a lot of people know that honest people all know that when i was thinking about having to do something one of our generals came in to see me and he said sir we dont have ammunition i said thats a terrible thing you just said he said we dont have ammunition now we have more ammunition that weve ever had we have one missiles we have more rockets on nuclear has been totally updated and in some cases new. Hopefully to god we never have to use it but we have the most powerful nuclear base by far in the world. And we have things that we never had before we have a great modern military but that doesnt mean were going to waste it it doesnt mean were going to deplete it like we did before with these crazy endless wars so turkey and syria will hopefully work it out between themselves hopefully isis will be guarded i told spoke with as you know. A wonderful man yesterday general from. The kurds you all know who im talking about some of you have seen the letter that i. Put out 2. Or one gave it to him president or one and some of you have seen it with the general i said listen dont open those doors and let him out just to create more havoc so that we come in because as we just opened lets create some havoc and some political exposure for the president the United States we were the ones that contact we were the ones that got isis were the ones that took care of it specifically me because im the one that gave the order because when i came in under president obama isis was a disaster all over that area i was the one that got them we were the ones that captured them and i will say this that russia iran. Syria and to maybe a slightly lesser extent turkey they all hate isis as much as we do and its their part of the world with 7000 miles away i campaigned on bringing our soldiers back home and thats what im doing that includes other places too many other places statutorily it takes a period of time diplomatically it takes a period of. But you know were in many countries many many countries i mean barras to tell you how many i know the exact number but im embarrassed to say it because its so foolish when countries were protecting countries that dont even like us they take advantage of us they dont pay nothing. You probably saw some of you wrote and covered the fact that were sending some additional troops to saudi arabia thats true and i appreciate the fact that i negotiated for a short period of time a matter of minutes with saudi arabia and theyve agreed to pay for the full cost of all of that deployment and more much more the very rich country they should be paying and so should many other countries be paying if they want this kind of protection same thing with nato were at 4 percent and other countries are at one percent and certainly a european country benefits much more than we do with nato i mean its there for a reason and perhaps we benefit but not nearly as much as the European Countries some people say we dont benefit at all we put ourselves in harms way but we do that for europe but then they treat us badly entre not fair so i would say that were in a great position were doing what i say we have 2 countries that are going to argue over their border hopefully theyll work it out were going to try and work it out i think our Vice President is a very capable man will do well tomorrow hes going to meet with president or anyone per president i once said he would meet with anybody and he took that back just a little while ago and he said no i will. And i think theyll have a successful meeting if they dont the sanctions and tariffs and other things that were doing we will do and are doing to turkey will be devastating to turkeys economy i got passed a brunson all nobody else could do it the Previous Administration tried very hard they were unable to do it i did it very quickly. And lets see what happens but i think well be successful but weve got to get out of the endless wars we have to bring our troops back home i go to walter reed and i give out purple hearts just did it on friday i see the the incredible soldiers coming home to dover coming home in a coffin on areas that we have nothing to do with we have nothing to do with and its heartbreaking i signed letters all the time to parents whose son was shot in different places in the middle east mostly its very heartbreaking to see very heartbreaking so ive said it and its through strength that through it its much harder to do what im doing i could be. Like all of these others so just leave them there leave them there and i cant do much easier for me which probably politically better for me just to say well leave a lot of people there will fight. They dont even know what theyre fighting for its much more difficult politically its not politically expedient its just the opposite and i have people even on my side they want to fight i say why are we fighting i dont know they dont even know. So you have syria and you have turkey theyre going to argue it out maybe theyre going to fight it out but our men are going to get killed and just one other thing theyve been fighting for hundreds of years its been going on for hundreds of years so its a long answer but i think ive got much of it out thank you very much please question. President trump standing right beside the italian president and theyre holding a press conference but he was asked about the turkish offensive in northeast syria raised a few points one of which he said was saying that the offensive in fact did not surprise him but lets unpack all of this and get to more of what president had to say and bring in practical hanes shes joining us from the white house and patty you know it seems that he said let turkey and syria work it out yet at the same time he is sending out his Vice President and the secretary of state to turkey to negotiate a cease fire so what do you make of that in particular and what you just have to say. What i make of this is that this is a president thats feeling defensive and he mentioned that towards the end of that rather long answer that even his supporters are mad at him about this and he says why are we fighting and they cant get an answer the president seems genuinely surprised by the pushback hes getting from members of his own party this is a president that has. Gotten out of certain degree of immunity for all of his concert all of his controversial statements from his own party thats not the case here and he is being hammered once again for these statements because now hes allies in congress are saying what is the point of sending the Vice President when youve just sent the message out of your own turkey that you simply dont care that its not your concern so i think its we should fact check a little bit the president right now he talked about ending the wars bringing the troops home he also said were talking about 28. 00 he said that he defeated i saw an obama had done nothing president obama did nothing to defeat the defeat of the Islamic State of iraq began under barack obama he created the coalition along with the kurds to fight against myself in syria and iraq so the president trying to claim credit for that but really the overall message here is this is a president who told turkey he was going to take those troops out and then turkey invaded the president says he knew that that was what was going to happen but in the white house comes out and says that thats not a green light this is turkey was going to do it we have to keep our troops safe for years u. S. Troops have been there in that small number thats mall number was enough to keep turkey from going into syria so the president tried to say that he has no responsibility for this his allies are not buying that they see this as him giving the green light theyre painting this as him turning the allies the kurds and now hes pushing back and he said earlier today that the kurds are not angels and then he went on to say that the kurds are much safer now so the price. Whole lot of basically theres a whole lot of different messages coming from. Contradictory statements ok. Thank you for. The life of the u. S. President. Holding press conference with. Counterpart in washington d. C. Now kenya is closing hundreds of informal schools that will affect 1000. 00 students who will be transferred to Public Schools that are already overcrowded the move was prompted by a Building Collapse last month that killed 8 children catherine sore reports from nairobi. Janet morse your car has just buried her 14 year old daughter. Was in a school Building Collapse last month in nairobi killing 8 children. Namely bike i died that day is no life without her she tells us. Harriet had just been transferred to the school and was preparing for her final Primary School exams. I did not think it was that serious when i got to information reached the get i did see the School Building it was flattened i went straight to our class it was just so glad i was so confused. Since then the kenyan government has ordered the shutdown of about 300. 00 community and private schools mainly in low income areas thousands of children will be affected so this is the one and several schools in nairobi have already been closed like st catherine primary. Which was once used as a pass selling traditional ill call. The owner tells us he sent all 200 Children Home and government inspectors say the building is not safe and also consider that. With. But. So what is happening contra millions of children attend community or private schools in poor neighborhoods because theyre cheaper Public Schools are free but theyre too few crowded and far apart this school has just over 100 pupils some one classrooms on the 1st. But government officials have said all children should be on the ground floor until inspectors come by to approve the structure teachers say the school is mostly run by money from nonprofit organizations and some payment of school fees by poor parents they also accuse some government officials of corruption for allowing substandard schools to operate of course it is the government because we have a school like of this one yeah they always come to our school to do their. Big check what is going on in different schools where the structure of our. Lives are there whether they have the. Observing world these rules and under when they come and believe and what do they leave the structure of funding if theyre focused on jane whats your cause pain is far from over she says she trusted teachers and the government weve had built his life now she wants Justice Catherine sorry aljazeera nairobi. Hello again the headlines on aljazeera this hour u. S. President donald trump are sending mixed messages on the Turkey Military offensive in syria hes dispatching it into turkey to demand a cease fire it includes his Vice President and top diplomats but speaking not long ago he said he hopes turkey and syria can work it out between themselves he added that he hopes to convince turkeys president so hold the offensive. Were negotiating and were trying to get turkey to do the right thing because wed like to stop wars regardless whether americans are in or whether theyre not in we want to see war stop thats a very important thing on a humanitarian basis we want to see that happen but turkish president has vowed to keep fighting in syria until all his countries goals have been met. His shrugging off International Pressure to stop his campaign his Spokesman SaysInternational Condemnation will not stop the operation in syria. Latina to this step that turkey has taken maybe has surprised people but the turkish army state and people are not surprised recently operations Euphrates Shield an olive branch we cleared our border from terrorists but this operation were going to clear the east of euphrates from the terror organizations we are determined about this all the criticism we are receiving threats and condemnations its not going to make us turn back from our very rightful case and strategy in other news last minute breaks at negotiations are continuing after leaders from the u. K. And the e. U. Failed to reach a resolution in marathon late night talks they were attempting to reach an agreement that can be rubber stamped at a summit on thursday and there appears to be a breakthrough as the e. U. Council president donald tusk has just said that the basic foundations of the deal already and well know either way by Late Wednesday hong kongs chief executive kerry is calling for tolerance and open mindedness after opposition politicians shouted down her annual policy speech after 2 jailed failed excuse me attempts eventually delivered her speech through a video link haitis president has vowed to fight corruption in his 1st press Conference Since protests calling for his resignation began last month demonstrators are still demanding. Leave office haitians are angry about corruption inflation and. Those are the headlines on aljazeera inside story is coming up next to stay with us. Hong kongs leader faces more coals to step down as politicians and you will policy address. Hold on to his job and what needs to be done to end for months of unrest this is inside story. Welcome to the program. Calls chief executive is struggling to maintain public order there have been full months of antigovernment protests that have turned