Backed border force turkeys president called on the nato military alliance for support accusing the us of violating its interests he says his military operation is likely to center on afrin aljazeera sin and cos the older reports from the turkey syria border. That is one of many kurds whose grandparents left Northern Syria years ago but he still has family in africa which is close by on the syrian side of the border to maine and his relatives there are growing increasingly worried as turkey prepares for a military operation against u. S. Backed kurdish why previous fighters. The military has im no friend of the y. P. G. They recruit young boys and girls thats why my brother in laws fled after in a move to istanbul four years ago the weapons provided to those fighters by the us scares me my village is the closest to afrin we dont feel at peace while our people are there. The wife is in control of the land just beyond us war the us reckons its fighters are key to wiping out i saw in syri
The u. N. Agency at appomattox editor james bays has more from the u. N. In new york we dont have a great deal of detail from the us about exactly why its doing this it doesnt like the way its run it says there needs to be or the need to undertake a fundamental reexamination of andro both in the way it operates in the way it is funded they also say why should the u. S. Be paying all this money being the key funder of on russia why are other nations not paying more theyre calling for burden sharing clearly there is a political aspect to all of this i think from the trumpet ministration and theres likely to be a political effect of all of this because remember this comes hard on the heels of the u. S. Saying that jerusalem is israels capital in their view these are two measures taken together which are really going to anger the palestinians. U. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson says the world should step up pressure on north korea until it abandons its Nuclear Program he says the fact
Threatened to end syrias afrin district after the u. S. Said it would help Kurdish Forces set up a thirty thousand strong force but Rex Tillerson says the issue has been mis portrayed so he thought to clarify the issue in a meeting with his farmers and vancouver on tuesday. If european has freed an Opposition Leader as part of an amnesty of prisoners jailed of antigovernment protests and twenty fifteen rather good dina was released with more than four hundred others in a move towards political reconciliation by the state has more. Morality dina is a hero to his supporters and thousands of excited well wishers guard of honor to restore his convoy to nine miles from the Detention Center on the outskirts of paris ababa to his home in the nearby town of braille. The leader of the aroma Federalist Party had been arrested after returning from a visit to brussels a year ago was accused of collusion with outlawed groups a charge she always tonight is a very very violent today while it is there
So hell, tell us, was there anything in this memo we werent expecting . For the most part the memo centers around what republicans are calling evidence of andtical bias in the fbi doj against President Trump and in favor of democrats. It is highly disputed and controversial. It is distorted information selectively chosen it mostly involves and centers around the five applications for carter page, if former Trump Campaign advisor with russian ties. The argument that devon nunez, the republican chairman of the House Committee and author of this memo is making is that the steel dossier is controversial and made allegations that ended up being true, such as the over arching allegation of russia tried to meddle in the election in 2016. It also included salacious claims against President Trump that has not been validated and what is being argued is that the use of that still dossier as a basis for five applications to surveilled carter page was improper and abuse of power. That justcounter b
Current is performing well are a risk on currencies, dollaryen lower by 4 10 of a percent and the question is why . We will tackle that. And yields in the u. S. On the tenterhooks, pretty much going nowhere. 50 a barrel for crude oil. David and it is the big one, we will get the cpi numbers and they will give us a read on inflation. And then retail sales figures for january. 11 30 a. M. President trump meeting with members from both sides of the isle to talk about the infrastructure plan. Alix and a first take on the top three stories of the morning. Yen making a move in banks trading on volatility. And cpi. David i want to take a look at the cpi story. I want to pull up this chart that shows where we are. It is 8692, there we go. It is up. Gina, we have a projection on core and headline cpi, how the markets prepared for the said this point, because they are really on tenterhooks . Strategist a rate tell me yesterday that it was feeling like barrel friday in the middle the month. Frida