Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Alongside the humanitarian fallout from turkeys invasion of northern syria, there are grave security concerns. Not least, what will happen to the thousands of so called Islamic State militants imprisoned by Syrian Kurdish forces . My guests today, john letts and sally lane, are the parents of one such prisoner british born, jack letts. He left the uk in 2014 to live in the so called is caliphate. Since then hes had his british citizenship revoked and his parents have been convicted under uk anti terror laws for sending him money. What will become, what should become of jack letts . Sally lane and john letts, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you, stephen. You are in a very difficult situation right now, because your sonjack, is, as far as we know imprisoned, held by Kurdish Forces in northern syria. Those forces, currently under attack from the turkish army. What is the latest information you have about what is happening to your son . Well, w
Up in a cage fight by 7 feet with an old friend that. International line from our studio here with me in india today welcome to the program. The leaders of russia turkey and iran have wrapped up their 5th summit over the situation in syria and how to help the war ravaged countrys future our correspondent maria has been following the talks in the turkish capital. It has been a very busy day and now the feast on the trilateral summit on syria is over here and karen before that the leaders of turkey iran and russia had a tete a tetes and definitely they had a lot to discuss and this time the talks focused on 3 major things 1st and number one was the situation in syria is no than province of the the it is a very huge area it is believed to be home right now from 2. 00 to 3000000. 00 people so it is also conceded to be the last remaining stronghold of Anti Government forces in syria including. Moderate socalled opposition and also al qaida like islam is very dangerous terrorists are very ha
news at very welcome. this is all the international with the latest news update is a pleasure to have a company. now turkey has reportedly blocks the official process of accepting finland and sweden into nato. comes to style is off the nordic countries 100 in the applications at the headquarters of the military block anchorage. says this again, seeing the 2 countries join the alliance unless they stopped supporting rebel groups including cuts and handle, the suspects that turkey calls terrorists, swedish on finish. officials were reportedly planning to visit ankara for talks, but took his presence and it says they shouldn t bother trying to woo him. to get him is done. our only expectation from nato allies is for them to 1st understand our sensitivity respect and finally support it. so what is our sensitivity is protecting our borders from terror attacks. you won t give us back terrorists, but you ask us for nato membership. nato is an entity for security and organization for
Latest policy will be found unconstitutional. Well get an update from the center for constitutional rights. Then to america severing Opioid Epidemic and how congress undermine efforts to restrict the flow of pain pills that led to tens of thousands of deaths. We will look at the secretive family making billions from the Opioid Crisis. That is the Sackler Family, owners of the comedy that invented oxycontin. We will speak with christopher glazek, the reporter who broke the story. Then to guantanamo where detainees onunger strike have accused officials of a sudden change in practice that could result in them starving to death as doctors stop forcefeeding them and are no longer monitoring their medical condition. We will go to london to speak with Clive Stafford smith of reprieve, which represents eit guantanamo prisosoners. If someone is going to die from starvation, should you go against their will and force feed them or not . When the british did that to the ira, we let them die. Amy a
To tens of thousands of deaths. We will look at the secretive family making billions from the Opioid Crisis. That is the Sackler Family, owners of the comedy that invented oxycontin. We will speak with christopher glazek, the reporter who broke the story. Then to guantanamo where detainees on Hunger Strike have accused officials of a sudden change in practice that could result in them starving to death as doctors stop forcefeeding them and are no longer monitoring their medical condition. We will go to london to speak with Clive Stafford smith of reprieve, which represents eight guantanamo prisoners. If someone is going to die from starvation, should you go against their will and force feed them or not . When the british did that to the ira, we let them die. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A federal judge in maryland has blocked parts of President Trumps most recent travel ban, dealing a second bl