American troops out of the region meanwhile Turkish Forces and couldnt fighters continue to battle in the border town of russell and considered a Strategic Point for both saying the hardware has more now on the fighting from the turkey syria border. The Kurdish Syrian Democratic forces are holding out. Using tunnels and trenches to mount their defense its been just over a week since the turkey led military operation began. The battle here is key if that operation is to succeed fighting has been fierce. The fighters are mainly from the syria have kurdish y p g group that make up the bulk of the s. The f. Forces turkey considers it a terrorist organization. This border town is where turkey wants to create what it calls a safe zone that will stretch 30 kilometers into syrian territory the United States which not only about the s d f and pulled its troops out of northeast syria is demanding a cease fire it has already imposed sanctions on turkey as a form of pressure but president treasure
Joining us live there from belfast this plenty more ahead on the news hour including foreign fighters will have more on what came out of talks between iraqi and french delegations the aftermath of more violence in Mexico Police are among dozens dead as fears grow for this security. Added support a short call by englands rugby coach ahead of the world cup quarterfinals live today to. A high level u. S. Delegation has arrived in ankara hoping to convince the turkish president to hold his military campaign in northeastern syria u. S. Vice president mike pence and u. S. Secretary of state. Have been holding talks with turkish president richard typer to one name while Turkish Forces and kurdish fighters continue to battle border town of ras alain considered a Strategic Point for both. Stratford is in jail and close to the scene of fighting near turkeys border with syria but 1st were going to sin and cos the ogre whos standing by near the president ial palace in ankara where the u. S. Nation
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Firms they try to hide its improve the citys image said no. Voting has just wrapped up in israel 2nd election in 6 months israelis have been deciding whether to keep the countrys longest serving Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Office Despite corruption allegations against him that yahoo and his new could party are facing a strong challenge from the ex military chief benny gantz and his centrist blue and White Alliance the Prime Minister suffered one of the biggest defeats of his political career when he failed to form a coalition after the 1st date in a full. Or we have correspondents at the headquarters of both Netanyahu Likud party and the blue and white party of benny gantz so lets take you 1st of all to the Likud Party Headquarters in tel aviv and aljazeera as harry force says harry will actually stay away seeing the results of the 1st exit polls none more so than netanyahu himself because theres a lot at stake for him. Absolutely and thats been on display in technicolor throu
Lived on the drama takes the golden lion award for best movie at the Venice Film Festival to find out more about the title role performance that has all the critics very excited. Im on you tube as mckinnon a very warm welcome to the show. Its a potential blow to ending u. S. Engagement in afghanistan President Donald Trump says he has counseled peace talks with taliban leaders at camp david that was supposed to be taking place today in a tweet trump for President Trump said that he had scrapped a secret meeting after the taliban claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in kabul the u. S. And the taliban have been meeting since last year in the hopes of ending the afghanistan conflict. The body of an american soldier returns home sergeant at least body to ortiz was the 16th u. S. Service member killed in afghanistan this year one of a dozen people who died when a taliban car bomb exploded on thursday near the u. S. Embassy in kabul. Died inspired President Trump to tweet an unexpected