right this is australia aligning itself with the u.s. putting enormous pressure and seeing that, they made this pact with the u.s. remember, the u.s. and china not just an economic power here and to have australia on their side is part of this security umbrella is part of that and they didn t keep their friend informed of a shift that they were making. we watch all of this unfold here. what s going to happen monday and tuesday when the president is in scotland dealing on this climate summit, there is so much at stake right now globally and internationally, right? there is. the president had hoped to be
that s biden s problem. on the one hand he needs the europeans to be firmly behind the united states but the europeans are not that firm at the moment. they ve used the trump years as an excuse to some degree to say, look, the americans are not reliable but the fact is that these energy connections pre-date trump and will continue long after all the people who posed for those pictures on the beach have passed from the scene. the straddling that you mentioned, the difficulties actually on the side of the europeans. biden can take a firm position. putin can take a firm position. it s the europeans who are in a complicated situation. they need the american security umbrella through nato. they need the american economy and the access to the american economy but at the same time they do need russian gas. certainly the germans do, and
dorian thank you well as we heard the united states said all of this in motion on sunday with president donald trump shocked announcement that u.s. troops are pulling out of northern syria and leaving the kurds to fend for themselves the move was slammed by both democrats and republicans the president kept pushing back until today the white house releasing this statement on the turkish offensive the united states does not endorse this attack and has made it clear to turkey that this operation is a bad idea turkey has committed to protecting civilians protecting religious minorities including christians and ensuring no humanitarian crisis takes place and we will hold the to this commitment. well the assurances of the trump white house don t mean much tonight to the kurds in northern syria the security umbrella provided by u.s.
far as 3040 kilometers deep into this territory a sustained bombardment and this is a bunch of the much the way of typical turkish tactics from 2 previous operations of heavy bombardment the pace the way for the operation which is going expected to be a far more attracted a mole difficult leg of the operation given the fact that some of this fight is expected to be in heavily densely populated towns and this will raise a specter of of high and growing numbers of civilian casualties which we already appear to have a code already in dorian with the u.s. security umbrella what are the kurds are they bracing for they say that they plan to fight against the turks but against the turkish military i mean they don t stand the biggest chance are we talking about an imminent slaughter or bloodbath taking place here. well they have also seen initial statement that they would stand and fight but now we re not hearing that so much in not clear what the the syrian kurds
vulnerable odd they say let s hack. i think to the scope and the magnitude of this one has been significantly different so the decision has gotten worse we ve had us in times issuing reports in in august basically last month inching to that it will it will have an effect on how secure saudi arabia feels under the u.s. security umbrella or whether it has to develop its own security arrangement in the region which may sound cynical would actually be a good outcome of incident like this so that in fact there is a regional arrangement for security something that i think is vest really needed in that region. that s not nice and this ad man has got to buy thank you pleasure. now to some of the other stories making news around the world to nazir is holding its 2nd free presidential election the vote was brought forward from