Home just 25 years old. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 3am in syria, where the civil war could be entering a new and dangerous phase. Syrian Government Forces are on the move to help kurdish fighters under attack from turkey. It comes after us troops were withdrawn and the kurds have now turned to syrias president assad for help. The bbcs International Correspondent 0rla guerin reports from akcakale on the turkey syria border. Rolling in to a heroes welcome troops of the assad regime, handed a victory without firing a shot, arriving today in the strategic town of ain issa. Look whos back. The kurds say they had to do a deal with the regime after washington left them alone to face a turkish invasion. The choice, they say, was compromise or genocide. Further along a key highway, the town of tal tamer also back in assads hands, loyalists resurfacing. Ive kept this picture hidden for
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Donald trump doesnt seem to do regret, but maybe even he will come to rue his abrupt decision to pull us troops out of Northern Syria. His move prompted a Turkish Military invasion of territory held by syrias kurds. The kurds are now looking to president assad for military help. The region, once a playground for so called Islamic State, has been plunged back into chaos. My guest is alan semo, representative of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union party in london. What are his peoples options now . Alan semo, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, great pleasure to be here. You represent the Democratic Union party of syrian kurds. Should you and your people have seen Donald Trumps dramatic decision to withdraw us forces from your region coming . No, we havent seen it. But should you have seen it coming . Because donald trump, if one looks at the record, as long ago as last december declared that the us had won its war with Islam
We could hear them, we could feel ban snacking on public transport them and, instantly, to help tackle childhood obesity, there were scenes of panic in the streets, of people says englands outgoing running for their lives. Chief medical officer. Tonight, Kurdish Forces say some of the Islamic State fighters held and englands Rugby World Cup match against france is cancelled, in syria will be moved to other due to an approaching typhoon. Prisons, amid fears they might escape. Scotland waits to hear well be live from the border. If its sunday match, also tonight against japan, will go ahead. A pathway to a brexit deal is still possible say borisjohnson and his irish counterpart leo veradkar after crunch talks. Its 5pm, and our main story is that borisjohnson and the irish Prime Minister, leo varadkar, have said they can see a pathway to a possible deal, on brexit. They released a joint statement, after holding talks on how to avoid a hard border in ireland, saying it was in everybodys in
Sportsday but first lets have a look at what else is coming up on a Record Number of 10 and 11 the news channel this evening and at year olds are severely overweight in england experts call for radical action to tackle childhood obesity. 7pm we have beyond 100 a typhoon heading to tokyo forces organisers to cancel englands Rugby World Cup match against france tomorrow for the first time in its history. And americas simone biles makes history the first woman to win five all round world gymnastics titles. Coming up on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news well look ahead to this evenings euro qualifiers, with three of the home nations in action. Northern ireland are in rotterdam for their match against the netherlands. Good evening, and welcome to the bbc news at six. Around 60,000 people are reported to have fled their homes on the second day of a major air and ground assault by Turkish Forces. Theres been heavy fighting in the central border region. Some civilians have been killed an
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