Accuses iran of Nuclear Extortion as tehran takes more steps to reduce its commitment to the 2015 nuclear deal. And mexicos president is under pressure to step up the war on drug cartels after a gunman killed 19 americans in an ambush. A top ally of donald trump has altered his testimony in the impeachment inquiry Gordon Sandler now admits the u. S. President offered a quid pro quo with ukraine to investigate a political rival in newly released transcripts the u. S. Envoy to the European Union acknowledges that American Military aid to ukraine was contingent on kiev investigating joe biden trump is accused of pressing ukrainian president zelinsky in july to launch a probe into biden and his son hunter over corruption allegations or transcripts of volcker the former special envoy to create have also been made public investigators have summoned strums acts in chief of staff Mick Mulvaney but hes unlikely to attend since the white house has told its officials not to comply castro has more
He withheld military aid to ukraine for personal political gain alan fisher has more on this now from washington. Both these men were arrested at Dulles International airport on the outskirts of washington in fact its in the state of virginia that happened late on wednesday both were on a flight out of the country although you shouldnt read too much into that they are facing a number of charges its a 21 p. G. Indictment they are accused of making false statements of falsifying records and trying to evade contribution limits by hiding the source of those contributions they made a contribution to the donald trump super pac america 1st they also made a number of contributions to Kevin Mccarthy whos a senior Republican Leadership figure on capitol hill and they made those contributions asking him to work towards the removal of the u. S. Ambassador to the ukraine though she was eventually moved from her position by donald trump back in may this year now they have a connection with Rudy Giul
President has made abundantly clear the u. S. Has not in any way indorse the decision that the government of turkey to mount a military incursion into northeast syria. President trump has emphasized to the government of turkey that they bear full responsibility for protecting the kurdish population and religious minorities including christians and ensuring that no humanitarian crisis takes place the ambassadors of e. U. Countries who sit on the Security Council we also came up with a joint statement we are deeply concerned by the Turkish Military operation in syria we call upon turkey to see is the unilateral military action as we do not believe it will address truckies underlying security concerns im told behind the scenes there be no discussions about those words with germany and france wanting to take a tougher line with turkey than the u. K. Statements from the German Government and from the french government has said that they condemn what is going on the Turkish Operation in the
Chief says that private sector internet know more about this than any Intelligence Agency in the world and posed a major threat to democracy. Good morning welcome just going to 8 oclock here in moscow you watching r. T. International now more than 200 military strikes have now been carried out by key is it steps up its operation page spring in northeast syria however Kurdish Military forces regarded as terrorists by ankara claimed to have repelled one attack on a border town in the north northern syrian province of thousands of locals fled the area following the launch of the Turkish Operation Kurdish Forces claim 5 civilians have been killed in the offensive and accuse ankara of deliberately targeting civilian areas. Condemned whats happening. America and other countries should protect us they are committing sin here our Children Women is there really no mercy let everyone stand up for us arabs foreigners sin sin. This is an occupation we are a peaceful people we live calmly work to o
Of oxford business group. This group. Website is in turkey. Terror organisations this website is in turkey. Terror organisations are targeted. This is peace spring. Interesting to see how the turkish media is interpreting this. Absolutely, and as we heard earlierfrom your this. Absolutely, and as we heard earlier from your correspondence, there is a lot more behind the scenes in in terms of the timing, president hearder ones position has been compromised significantly. Erdogan. There is all sorts of stuff going on in turkey. Step back further and we have to look at the kurdish angle here. They waged a Terror Campaign within turkey, they do not have a territorial area particularly in the wars in the middle east, both in iraq and subsequently in this area have led to the kurds having some territorial area they have expanded. It is a lot more complicated than it is made out. But what it does do is give erdogan this ability to talk about peace spring, a safety corridor, all of this. If you