Are backed by the United States but viewed by turkey as a terrorist organisation. On sunday, turkish troops crossed the border over the border, from where our correspondent, mark lowen, sent this report. As if syria needed more of this. Artillery fire from turkey, launching a new ground and air offensive. Its called operation olive branch, though its anything but a gesture of peace. From the skies, turkish f 16s struck yesterday, their target, the Syrian Kurdish militia known as the ypg. Turkey sees them as terrorists, linked to the outlawed kurdish militants, the pkk, and it wants them pushed back from the border town of afrin. Turkeys president has his own troops fighting for their hero, and with elections next year, war rallies his conservative supporters. Translation this is a National Struggle, and in this National Struggle we will crush anyone who stands against us but the ypg has powerful friends, they are trained and armed by the us. That has infuriated turkey, which says the a
And london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 5 pm in las vegas where Police Investigating the mass shooting say they have found more weapons at the home of the man thought to have carried out the attack. At least 59 people were killed and more than five hundred were hurt when Stephen Paddock, a retired accountant, opened fire on crowds at a music concert from a room in a nearby hotel. We begin our coverage with the report from james cook in las vegas. In the cold nevada desert, Country Music is warming the throng. The time is 10 08pm. The noise prompts confusion. The crowd, 22,000 strong, hesitates. It takes a moment, a deadly moment, before they realise they are under attack. Gunfire. By now, a second round of bullets is raining down. There is a pause. The gunman is reloading again. He is high above them, in the mandalay bay hotel. Panic follows. It is a scramble to live. There were people hiding underneath my car for cover. And
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Six people there have died from the illness. Its being described as one of the greatest performances in the history of heavyweight boxing, but tyson furys stunning victory over Deontay Wilder in las vegas on saturday has left boxing fans wanting more. The question is who next for the wbc heavy weight champion . Adam wild reports. It was one night in vegas that you fight fans will ever forget. Tyson fury completing his astonishing turnaround to regain once more the world heavyweight title. That is the boxing world continues to reflect, looking back on that extraordinary weekend scene switches to looking forward to and now emerges potentially plenty to look forward to. What next or perhaps more accurately, who next . With terry mac now in possession at the wbc belt, many would relish the prospect of an old british unification fight with anthonyjoshua in london, or perhaps the middle east. We do not have big majorfighterfor a long the middle east. We do not have big major fighter for a lo