Free of kurdish militias. From akcakale on the turkish side of the border, our middle east correspondent martin patience sent this report. Despite the growing international pressure, turkeys not backing down. At the border, the build up continues, as turkey claims its taken control of a key syrian town. This pro turkish fighter says theyve just entered ras al ain. Almost immediately, there is incoming fighterfrom kurdish fighters. Allahu akbar. Tens of thousands of civilians from the town have already fled. Some are now sheltering in the school. But how do you explain it to a child . There was shelling, says this man, i had to flee my house in the middle of the night. We didnt know where to go. We walked about six miles, and im sick, and i dont have any medicine. But turkeys president says his fight is not against the kurdish people. Translation the west and the us all together say to us, you are killing the kurds. The kurds are our brothers and sisters, ourfight is not against the kur
Translation my stomach was in knots. But now im feeling better. Im very happy that eliud has broken this record. There have been violent clashes in North Eastern syria, as Turkish Military continue their offensive against kurdish forces. Never mind, ill find someone like you. Coming up was this song from the biggest album of the 21st century . Coming up in half an hour the best of this weeks exclusive interviews from the Victoria Derbyshire programme. One of the biggest storms to hitjapan in decades typhoon hagibis is causing damage and disruption with heavy rain and high winds. Damage and disruption the eye of typhoon hagibis made landfall shortly before seven oclock local time. It is now moving up the eastern coast, with wind speeds of up to 140 miles per hour. One man was killed when his car overturned, several more people are missing after a landslide destroyed two homes. At least 60 people have been injured. Rivers are overflowing in tokyo, where hundreds of thousands of people ar
And coming up, was this song from the biggest album of the 21st century . Hello, and welcome. Turkish forces have continued to strike targets in North Eastern syria on the fourth day of their offensive against kurdish militias. Pressure is building in the United States to stop turkey continuing its military operation. Kurdish Authorities Say more than 190,000 people have been displaced as result of the turkish incursion, triggered by president trumps decision to withdraw us troops. Turkey says it wants to create a 20 mile deep buffer zone across the syrian border, what it calls a safe zone, free of kurdish militias. From akcakale on the turkish side of the border, our middle east correspondent martin patience sent this report. Despite the growing international pressure, turkeys not backing down. At the border, the build up continues. As turkey claims its taking control of a key syrian town. This pro turkish fighter says theyve just entered ras al ayn. Almost immediately, theres incomin
Coming up the latest gossip about brexit from westminster and brussels in brexitcast. Thats in half an hour on bbc news. The kenyan Long Distance runner, Eliud Kipchoge has made history in vienna this morning, becoming the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours. The 34 year old covered the 26. 2 miles course in one hour 59 minutes and a0 seconds. But that time will not be recognised as the official marathon world record because it was not in open competition. Another reason for it not being recgonised, is the team of rotating pacemakers that he used, who were guided by a laser in the road, which kept them within the two hour time limit. Ade adedoyin reports. 15 seconds. Eliud kipchoge came to vienna with his sights set on one thing. Running the quickest marathon ever. And from the word go, he was on track and well ahead of pace. The Detailed Planning was paying off. Special shoes propelled him further forward with each pace. They calculated the optimum course and weather, t
Low i Maryanne Demasi in london youre watching aljazeera also coming up next. Police fire into the air to Disperse Protesters in la good issue was anger maltz over saturdays massive truck bombing that left more than three hundred dead. Chinas president xi jinping lays out his vision for the future on day one of an Historic Communist Party congress. And donald trump is embroiled in a new scandal over comments he allegedly made to the window of a foreign u. S. Soldier will be live at the white house. The head of Kenyas Electoral Commission is warning next weeks Election Rerun may not be free and fair. Admits theres been a little interference in its operations a commission has already resigned saying it would be impossible to hold a credible rerun of august disputed vote me to mila has more from nairobi. It looks as if things are falling apart at Kenyas Electoral Commission headquarters rather than a combo one of seven commissioners has resigned alleging political interference she says th