It film, the irishman. Is about power, love and betrayal, it is about power, love and betrayal, and ultimately the price you betrayal, and ultimately the price yu pay betrayal, and ultimately the price you pay for the life you leave. Lead. The United States is to withdraw all its remaining troops up to 1,000 soldiers from Northern Syria, as turkeys offensive against the kurds intensifies. The us defence secretary said kurdish fighters would now be backed by syria and russia, and america could not be caught between two opposing armies. Tonight, Syrian Government troops are said to be heading towards the border after agreeing a deal with the kurds. The Turkish Operation is aimed at creating a so called safe zone in that area. The un says more than 100,000 people have been fleeing, and families of is fighters are said to be among those whove escaped from a camp that was guarded by the kurds. Aleem maqbool reports from inside Northern Syria. The anguish that only comes from loss. This brot
Hello and welcome to world news today. The syrian army has begun moving troops to the north of the country to, as syrian state media puts it, confront turkish aggression. The Turkish Military is currently carrying out an operation to create what it calls a safe zone in syrian territory along their common border. Thats led to fighting against the kurdish led Opposition Forces currently in control of the area. This map gives you an idea of where the advances have been taking place. Turkey now claims to have driven the kurds out of two key towns ras al ain and tal abyad. This video, showing Turkish Forces in tal abyad, appears to support that claim. Most civilians have fled the area the un says more than 130,000 people have been displaced by the Turkish Military operation. And theres been another, potentially serious consequence. On sunday, the kurds said that nearly 800 family members of fighters from the Islamic State group have escaped from a detention camp, in the confusion following
Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. My colleague mariko oi is in singapore. Bring us up to date on what the cost of crude is doing. There was a huge spike when oil began trading on the global markets. That is right, we saw brent crude prices jumping global markets. That is right, we saw brent crude pricesjumping by almost 20 when they opened and still currently we are seeing the jump still currently we are seeing the jump of10 12 . Still currently we are seeing the jump of 10 12 . A double digitjump that we have really not seen before. The easing of the jump was somewhat because of the us President Donald Trump moving to ease the jump
To mark battle of britain day. Oil prices have soared at the opening of the markets in asia following saturdays drone attacks on two Key Facilities in saudi arabia. The cost of brent crude rose by the most on record, after half the kingdoms output was taken out that accounts for roughly 5 of the worlds oil supply. Iran has dismissed us allegations that it was behind the strikes and accused washington of being deceitful. Our Asia Business correspondent Karishma Vaswani is in singapore. What the attack says about the vulnerability what are oil prices doing in asia right now . They have come off some of those big is that we saw in the early minutes of asian trade, when traders out here reactive, as many had expected them to, by pushing up the price of crude oil by some 19 in the onset of asian trade. They have come off those prices now. We are seeing them stabilise at about a 10 bump in the price of oil. That is pretty significant and i think underlines the fact that people here are very
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