Give me generative no. Better roussel physician leader calls for more rallies as the government steps up pressure by jailing activists and summoning others for questioning. Government workers protesting iraqs kurdish region angry over pay cuts and payment delays. A spark could lead to a disaster thats the warning from germanys foreign minister who is on a mission to help ease tensions between turkey and greece in the Eastern Mediterranean masses jews who arrive in turkey within the hour having held talks in athens is appealing to the sides to hold direct talks over a growing dispute over Gas Exploration in contested waters 2 countries are holding rival military exercises in the mediterranean on tuesday turkey has been operating a Research Vessel accompanied by warships to survey the seabed for gas and oil deposits greece claims the area with the ship is overlaps its own Continental Shelf athens says its ready for a dialogue but it will defend its sovereign rights. This shows the exclus
Experiment. And remembering victims of the holocaust one stumbling stone at its heart we take a look at a german artist memorial project known as the shelter shack dedicated to preserving the memory of individuals killed by the nazis. And heaven are free glad you could join us in australia a new heat wave is igniting more bushfires increasing the toll that the blazes off taking across the country now 100000. 00 people have been urged to flee 5 melbourne suburbs as flames are encroaching on the victoria state capital a volunteer firefighter has been killed battling a separate far in the countryside tent victim of the blazes now the high level farleigh it has led to the cancellation of hundreds of. Displays for the new year. If theres one thing thats considered a given at the end the feature here its the images from across the world are flashy new years celebrations and there is pride in being the ones to kick off the yearly affair. And you know new save the world looks at city if every
Speech would dazzle us on closer inspection, mr speaker, it is nothing more than fools gold. Our other headlines at 8pm today. A plea from the parents of 19 year old harry dunn, killed in a crash involving a us citizen on a trip to america they say she must return to the uk and face justice. She killed our son, she didnt need to kill him, she didnt need to have the accident. You cannot walk away from that and just leave, and expect nothing to happen. In syria, Government Forces are on the move to the border with turkey, raising grave fears of a dangerous new confrontation. And im Rebecca Jones at londons historic guildhall, where later this evening we will be revealing who has one the booker prize award for fiction, awarded to the best novel of the year. Good evening. The queen has set out the governments future policies on issues such as crime, health and the environment, and of course , brexit. But given that the Prime Minister has no majority in parliament, many of the bills may not
After Spains Supreme Court jails nine separatists over cataolnias failed bid for independence. And englands euro 2020 qualifier with bulgaria in sofia was temporarily halted twice in the first half, with fans warned about racist behaviour. The escalating consequences of Donald Trumps decision to pull us troops out of Northern Syria are profound and multi faceted. First, after years of fighting each other, kurdish fighters and the Syrian Military are now on the same side. Syrias army is helping the kurds resist the turkish offensive which began when america in effect gave it the green light. Syrian Government Forces have arrived in key kurdish held towns in the north including ain issa and manbij. For now, they are not being deployed to tal ab yad and ras al ain, where turkeys attacks have focused. Even so, this new alliance is remarkable, and it has changed the state of play in syria. Orla guerin is there. Well in less than a week, president erdogan has created a dangerous new reality
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk, with stephen sackur. 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. A 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