Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Hello and welcome. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london, and 8pm in washington where President Trump has fiercely defended his shock decision to pull us troops out of northern syria. Critics fear it opens the way for turkey to attack kurdish fighters there, who are regarded by the turkish government as terrorists. Mister trump has threatened to totally destroy and obliterate turkeys economy if ankara takes advantage of his decision, but said it was time to get out of what he called these ridiculous, endless wars. The bbcs orla guerin reports from the turkey syria border. A pull out at dawn. Us troops, leaving observation posts along the syrian border. Washington says only a small number of troops were moved a short distance. But Kurdish Forces fear they are clearing the way for a turkish invasion. Turkeys president was viewing serbian troops today, an honour guard on a state visit, as concerns grow intern
In other news, englands fracking industry has been much slower than expected to get up and running a report says low Public Acceptance is partly to blame. Turkey and russia have agreed what they say is an Historic Deal aimed at keeping Kurdish Forces away from syrias border with turkey. A generation of young people with special Education Needs are being failed a report by mps suggests bureaucracy and a lack of funding is tearing familes apart and in sport, it was a five star night for the english clubs in the Champions League as harry kane revives tottenhams qualification hopes, Raheem Sterling scores a hat trick as Manchester City beat atalanta. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. Downing street has signalled that borisjohnson will step up his efforts to force a general election, if eu leaders approve an extension to brexit of up to three months. It comes after last nights commons votes where mps first voted in favour of the governments Withdrawal Agreement bill, but the
With the most natural satellites. President trump has been angrily defending his decision to pull american troops out of northern syria, a move that opens the way for an attack by turkey on kurdish fighters, long time American Allies in the fight against the Extremist Group the Islamic State, but regarded by the turks as terrorists. Mr trump has repeated his warning to turkey not to take advantage of the withdrawal, threatening to decimate the turkish economy if they go what he called off limits. The kurds have been leading the Syrian Democratic forces and have been key to defeating the Islamic State extremists in syria. The kurds have reduced areas under is control to virtually nothing, and now hold thousands of is prisoners and their families. President trump and the government in ankara have proposed a 20 mile so called safe zone on the border to help the return of millions of Syrian Refugees currently in turkey. The kurds see the american withdrawal, which has already begun, as a s
Fallers in the fitsy 100 says a lot of work to be done to get a deal. The u. S. Pulls last troops from syria President Trump threatens powerful sanctions against ankara well, our top story this morning and the top story for markets, a very substantial phase one deal is how President Trump described fridays tentative trade agreement between the United States and china. Mow the first part of whats expected to be several phases of negotiations covers areas like agriculture, currency and intellectual property. The president also agreed to suspend raising tariffs to 30 on 250 billion worth of chinese goods. While both sides agree progress has been made, the pact is yet to be officially written and could take weeks to finalize now President Trump praised china following the agreement and said the deal is fair for both sides weve been through a very tough negotiation. Theres never been a negotiation like this. In all fairness, i give china tremendous credit for 25, 30 years theyve done very w
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