shepard: while we wait for the president to turn his sights at some point to the ongoing invasion of syria by turkish forces, let s turn to our correspondent trey yates. he s in our middle east newsroom. it sounds from the associated press reporting that the ground invasion has just begun. that s exactly right. minutes ago the turkish ground invasion into syria got underway and earlier today, the air strike did pound of northern syria and that had kurdish forces they are calling on the united states to try to implement a no-fly zone. they were unsuccessful in those calls, but they did target kurdish weapons and structures. forces responded by targeting a turkish military base. the action deemed operation p spring is already hitting targets 30 miles into syria. the operation was announced this morning by eight erdogan and the defense minister indicated the
operation was completed, and we are now seeing kurdish forces with 11,000 people killed during those operations and the trump administration saying, good luck. shepard: trey yates live in our middle east newsroom. more on the kurds and their allies and isis, they don t have their own country. probably the largest group in the world that doesn t. and as an old kurdish proverb says, we have no friends but the mountains. those mountains they refer to our straddling the borders of turkey, iraq, syria, iran and armenia company area between europe and central asia. there are between 25 and 40 million kurds come making thethey are a fourth ethnic gro. toward the end of world war i after defeating the ottoman empire in the western allies made a provision for the kurdish state but three years later, the treaty of lausanne reset the turkish boundaries and did not
trey yates talking tracking the story from jerusalem. continuing threats to break more terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement giving europe just four days to come up with a solution to iran s economic problems. iranian president rouhani said his country will break the 3.67% uranium enrichment deal in the year iranian deal. they are sticking to the original deadline of july 7th. many participants in the agreement to renegotiate. as for how much the threshold will be surpassed the uranium president says they will increase to whatever level is deemed essential. the high richmond level the close iran gets to being able to create a nuclear weapon. reporter: all the steps we are taking, to previous turns. why are you so worried. we have told you if you carry out your part of the deal we will return to the first point. leadership in tehran says the
earlier this year. iran s supreme leader says his country should give up hope of europe saving the deal. trey yates is live in our middle east newsroom. trey? iran s war of words continues as the supreme leader ayatollah h you a nuclear deal if it keeps serving interest. today the ayatollah said iran judd give up hope europe could save the deal quickly unraveled following president trump s decision to exit the deal he will earlier this year. as iran is refusing to negotiate calling them indecent and in light of the ayatollah s commence this commet europe there is hope in the international community deal fall apart paving the way for iran to restart nuclear program. earlier this week hewny said he would like to see european partners in the deal work faster to develop a way to get united states
back in 1992. another member, congresswoman brethrecongressbre service. she said aretha franklin loved the sorority s ideals and her life was an inspiration. pope francis talking about the abuse in the church. he made his first vatican appearance and a some shell report accusing him of covering up accusations of sexual misconduct against an excardinal. the pope mentioned church officials lack of response to abuse in ireland, but he did not mention the abuse accusations in the united states at all. our chief religion correspondent lauren green has the news now. lauren? help, shep, as you know, the weapons general audiences are supposed to be a spiritual event pilgrims all over the world can seat pope in person sometimes for the first and only times in their lives. well today s audience had a dark cloud over it. as you mentioned it was the pope s first public appearance since the controversial letter was released by a former vatican