The impeachment inquiry into donald trump the u. S. Top diplomat in ukraine testifies behind closed doors in sport its a huge night for round madrid in the Champions League the 14 time when its currently bottom of their group. To fight the right. Lets get going to accuse president wretch up type are the ones in the russian for city of sochi for talks with lot of me a putin mr repeated his threat to restart his military operation against kurdish fighters in northeastern syria the leaders are expected to discuss the turkish cease fire that was brokered by the u. S. Which is due to expire in a matter of hours the Kurdish Syrian Democratic forces the pulled out of some areas along the border but not everywhere as agreed under the terms of the truce before heading to sochi is what mr had to say. Vladimir putin and i will discuss all the steps to be taken in order to maintain the territorial integrity of syria and to cleanse the northern parts of syria from terrorists and terrorist organizat
Side is perhaps them trying to use these things to their advantage trying as andrew said earlier to take advantage of perhaps a pivot in Public Opinion about what these protesters are doing inside the ledges and Legislative Council building. Really taking their time and really going to come down perhaps a very strongly afterwards on these protesters on the people involved there certainly beijing is not going to want to look weak in the face of whats happening there theyre going to want to really show a strong arm and theyre going to really say that look these are protesters for sauron we didnt we didnt provoke this and theyre definitely going to want to send a strong message there. For the moment thanks very much. Now lets talk more about this now with steve tsang via skype from london he is the director of the China Institute of the school of oriental and African Studies at the university of london thanks very much for being with us so 1st of all what do you make of the scenes that ha