Home just 25 years old. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london and 3am in syria, where the civil war could be entering a new and dangerous phase. Syrian Government Forces are on the move to help kurdish fighters under attack from turkey. It comes after us troops were withdrawn and the kurds have now turned to syrias president assad for help. The bbcs International Correspondent 0rla guerin reports from akcakale on the turkey syria border. Rolling in to a heroes welcome troops of the assad regime, handed a victory without firing a shot, arriving today in the strategic town of ain issa. Look whos back. The kurds say they had to do a deal with the regime after washington left them alone to face a turkish invasion. The choice, they say, was compromise or genocide. Further along a key highway, the town of tal tamer also back in assads hands, loyalists resurfacing. Ive kept this picture hidden for
Life, studios in singapore and london. Viva from. This is bbc news. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 2am in Northern Syria where the United States is to withdraw all its remaining troops, as turkeys offensive against the kurds intensifies. The us defence secretary said kurdish fighters would now be backed by syria and russia and america could not be caught between two opposing armies. The us withdrawal comes as Syrian Government troops are said to be heading towards the Turkish Border where turkey is trying to create a so called safe zone. Meanwhile hundreds of people some said to be the families of Islamic State Group Fighters have escaped from a camp that was guarded by the kurds. Aleem maqbool sent this report from inside Northern Syria. The anguish that only comes from loss. This brother and sister mourn theirfather, who was killed in the shelling by turkey of their residential neighbourhood. The kurds here have already suffered so much, and every day of turkeys offensi
And sun, sea but few signs of tourists. Sri lanka struggles to shrug off the impact of the Easter Sunday attacks. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7 in the evening in washington, where theres been a dramatic escalation in the war of words between President Trump and his Democratic Party opponents, on the question of impeachment. The president has given a series of irate News Conferences. In one, he accused the leading democrat adam shiff whos chairman of the House Intelligence Committee of being a low life whod committed treason. In another, he said democrat president ial hopefuljoe biden and his son were stone cold crooked. More now from my colleague in washington laura trevelyan. It should have been a routine visit from the president of finland but with President Trump in the centre ofan with President Trump in the centre of an unfolding impeachment drama, there was nothing routine about to
Others, she is an snp mp, were basically trying to do an action to force borisjohnson to basically trying to do an action to force Boris Johnson to abide by the benn act, which is supposed to block 110 benn act, which is supposed to block no deal. The Court Documents submitted by the government said if there is no deal by october 19, the Prime Minister will request an extension stop now, that seemed to fly in the face of everything he set up fly in the face of everything he set up until now. We thought it was a massive u turn. Then downing street, as the express says here, came out and said, no, we are still going to leave on october 31. And both of those things are obviously contradictory. You cant on the one hand so you are going to abide by the law, which is the benn act, while also saying deal or no deal, we will definitely leave on october 31, because the benn act is designed to stop that from happening. So something has to give. But the incredible hulk has a solution, and that mi
Hello, and welcome to bbc news. We start with some breaking news, and that is that the white house has been ordered to hand over documents relating to the impeachment investigation of President Trump. A statement from the heads of the democrats led Enquiry Committee said they sent a letter to acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney demanding evidence relating to allegations that trump pressured ukraine for political favours, and they accused him of defiance, obstruction and cover up. We can speak to the bbcs Chris Buckler in washington. This is moving quite quickly. We spokejust washington. This is moving quite quickly. We spoke just one hour ago and there was lots to pick through then. Now, talk us through what has happened . I said then the talk was about impeachment here in washington as the sun went down. Now the sun has gone down and we have a development from the democrats. These are the chairman of three congressional committees, and they have all written together demand