At. The end thank you very much for joining us its been a day of extraordinary and fast moving developments as a sense of crisis grips much of the middle east Iraqs Parliament has passed a resolution urging the expulsion of u. S. Troops from the country even as the u. S. Military says old supes have stopped most of their operations against eisel and are now focusing on protecting themselves at the same time the leader of hezbollah i never known has warned that the u. S. Military across the region is not fair target for retaliation after the assassination of an iranian commander cass sense and amani these are live pictures right now from iran where massive crowds have gathered in several cities to welcome home the body of cars and cinema any was assassination by us 3 days ago set in motion the Current Events are we have reporters covering this story from washington beirut and baghdad we begin in iraqi capital where in the last few hours weve seen extraordinary scenes in the Iraqi Parlia
Thousands gather in berlin for a show of solidarity against antisemitism and right wing violence thats after a deadly terror attack on a synagogue in the city of karbala earlier this week. Im calling assman welcome to the program as turkey ramps up its assaults on Kurdish Forces in Northern Syria hundreds of people have escaped from a camp for supporters of socalled Islamic State International Condemnation of turkeys offensive is mounting as well with german chancellor Angela Merkel phoning turkish president wretch of tire air to want to demand an immediate halt up to 200000 people have so far been forced to flee their homes in the area. Syrian rebels backed by turkey advance into russell are in one of several towns in syria close to the Turkish Border in an area thats been under kurdish control and that Turkish Forces and their local allies aim to seize them. Here theyre posing in front of a poster of a gel and he may be in a turkish jail but the leader of the p. K. K. Kurdish separat
Calling out and welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has told turkey to in mediately halt its offensive in Northern Syria merkel made the demand in a phone call with turkish president wretch of thai have everyone on sunday according to a German Government spokesperson it comes a day after germany announced it would stop arms exports to turkey but everyone seems unmoved by efforts to stop his offensive or portable you know a blue cross joins me now in studio and william has more on this now look chancellor merkel is known to be cautious when it comes to getting involved in any sort of International Conflicts what you make of this phone call cautious is to put it mildly i mean i go america has been in power for most 15 years theres almost no examples of her taking a leading or proactive role. Especially when it comes to Foreign Policy especially comes the military policy not only Angela Merkel but germany as a country does not tell other countries what to do given its h