Now on bbc news, hardtalk, with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Donald trump doesnt seem to do regret, but maybe even he will come to rue his abrupt decision to pull us troops out of Northern Syria. His move prompted a Turkish Military invasion of territory held by syrias kurds. The kurds are now looking to president assad for military help. The region, once a playground for so called Islamic State, has been plunged back into chaos. My guest is alan semo, representative of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union party in london. What are his peoples options now . Alan semo, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, great pleasure to be here. You represent the Democratic Union party of syrian kurds. Should you and your people have seen Donald Trumps dramatic decision to withdraw us forces from your region coming . No, we havent seen it. But should you have seen it coming . Because donald trump, if one looks at the record, as long ago as last december declared that the us had w
To the eu will not be appearing before a kangaroo court. Also on the programme the uk foreign secretary has told his us counterpart mike pompeo, he is deeply concerned that the United States is giving support to a turkish incursion into northern syria. And all rise for the doll that honours her honour. Mattel announces that judge barbie is in mass production. Hello and welcome, im Christian Fraser in london, Michelle Fleury is in washington. With just 23 days to go until the brexit deadline there is no deal in place, and a vanishingly slim prospect of the two sides sitting down to find one. By all accounts, meaningful negotiations have come to a standstill. And in their place, a war of words between brussels and downing street over who is to blame. Expect to hear much more of that in the weeks running up to the deadline. Today borisjohnson spoke to Angela Merkel. And soon after a number ten source briefed journalists that the german chancellor had told the Prime Minister a deal based o
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk, with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Donald trump doesnt seem to do regret, but maybe even he will come to rue his abrupt decision to pull us troops out of Northern Syria. His move prompted a Turkish Military invasion of territory held by syrias kurds. The kurds are now looking to president assad for military help. The region, once a playground for so called Islamic State, has been plunged back into chaos. My guest is alan semo, representative of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union party in london. What are his peoples options now . Alan semo, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. A pleasure to be here. You represent the Democratic Union party of syrian kurds. Should you and your people have seen Donald Trumps dramatic decision to withdraw us forces from your region coming . No, we havent seen it. But should you have seen it coming . Because donald trump, if one looks at the record, as long ago as last december, declared that the us had
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Donald trump doesnt seem to do regret, but maybe even he will come to rue his abrupt decision to pull us troops out of Northern Syria. His move prompted a Turkish Military invasion of territory held by syrias kurds. The kurds are now looking to president assad for military help. The region, once a playground for so called Islamic State, has been plunged back into chaos. My guest is alan semo, representative of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union party in london. What are his peoples options now . Alan semo, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, great pleasure to be here. You represent the Democratic Union party of syrian kurds. Should you and your people have seen Donald Trumps dramatic decision to withdraw us forces from your region coming . No, we havent seen it. But should you have seen it coming . Because donald trump, if one looks at the record, as long ago as last december declared that the us had won its war with Islam
The outskirts of damascus its been on the heavy bombardment by the government and its allies including russia at least five hundred people have been killed there in the past week. As director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the institute and a professor at the university of york and he says the u. N. Security councils resolution allows for further conflict. It is almost common and that when you have this kind of positions which does not give you a specific start date or time that all parties on the ground will try and gain as much as possible theyre trying to gain more ground as they push forward because they anticipate that at some stage the resolution will come into interaction but so far i think this phase of the coming few hours will see all parties trying to perform we should also remember that back in september two thousand and sixteen. Some of those fighters were in the liberal and before that they were in hands and in homes now all of them have been displ