Turkish counterpart the 1st time since turkeys syria offensive. Dozens are killed as israel launches further ass trikes on gaza more than 200 rockets are fired from gaza in response. And in sport big changes of footballs arabian gulf cup which is to be hosted by katz author initially boycotting the events saudi arabia bahrain and the u. A. E. Say they will now play in dark. Is the 1st televised day of the us impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump with both sides presenting opposing narrative democrats accuse trump of an abuse of power all republicans say its a Smear Campaign 2 senior u. S. Diplomats William Taylor and george kent. Center stage on capitol hill the crossexamination by the house of Representatives Intelligence Committee both men presented evidence condemning the president but House Republican devon is described as fat chick will perform as the chair of the Committee Says the inquiry is simply about whether trump violated the president ial office to abuse of power as i mentioned the questions presented by this impeachment inquiry are whether President Trump sought to exploit that allies vulnerability and invite ukraines interference in our elections whether President Trump sought to condition official acts such as a white house meeting or u. S. Military assistance on ukraines willingness to assist with 2 political investigations that would help his Reelection Campaign and if President Trump did either whether such an abuse of his power is compatible with the office of the presidency the matter is as simple and as terrible as that the democrats are not trying to discover facts theyre trying to invent a narrative and if the facts that they need do not exist then theyll just make it up. What is your question is live from capitol hill in washington d. C. Sort of what emerged from this so this 1st hearing what was the main takeaway. Or we saw a very opposing readings of the same narrative now democrats selected these 1st 2 witnesses strategically we heard from the acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine bill taylor and a top official in ukraine at the u. S. Start to the state Department George Kent and both of them told a compelling story about discovering the existence of what taylor called and in the new regular channel al taylor really is playing the role of a storyteller here and the democrats are trying to have the American Public kind of put themselves in taylor shoes as as he discovered how this irregular channel unfolded and test he testified today that the person behind this channel was trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani who was aided by a select group of trumps aides and taylor said that the goal of this year regular channel was to get a Public Statement from ukraine that it was going to launch investigations into trumps political writers and to get that taylor says that there were 2 things dangled as leverage towards the ukrainians one was a meeting for the newly elected ukrainian president to come to washington and meet with trump at the white house and secondly 400000000. 00 worth of u. S. Security aid that ukraine was expecting fact was counting on in taylors testimony because that was going to continue to fund its defense against russian incursion and ambassador taylor said that this was dangerous that it was wrong to withhold the aid for trumps political benefit because it in danger to u. S. National security its all. Objectives towards ukraine and that the only winners in all of this was russia and was trumps own political ambitions now democrats have the burden of proving that this happened and that it is wrong in their their Witnesses Today testified to those 2 points however republicans pointed to the great weakness that democrats have not yet proven that President Trump himself ordered this to happen so far all the evidence has been against his personal attorney or his chief of staff and republicans made that clear by asking these witnesses who did you get this information from and taylor you know he said he said that he has not met with trump personally that he heard this from other people and it in fact that is what republicans are zeroing in on as the weakness in this argument impeach the president so what do we expect next time and took us through the process and what happens after this 1st televised day of hearings. Sure will today was a marathon but it was just the very beginning on friday is yet another public hearing well be hearing from the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine who was ousted for mysterious reasons and then next week there will be a slate of more witnesses therell be more minor figures but theyre expected to corroborate the key points that weve already learned from these more principal witnesses and then of course there is the Bigger Picture once these public hearings conclude expect house leadership democrats to call for a vote on impeachment all indicators are that they will vote to impeach the president they have the numbers to do so and then that is when the real suspense comes in because of as you know the trial of president would occur in the u. S. Senate which is controlled by republicans and at this point there are no republicans in the senate who have defected from their still very popular president. I do thank you very much indeed. Lets take you straight now to the white house where expecting President Donald Trump and the turkish president recha top at one at to speak theyve been having a meeting there the 1st time the 2 have met since the incursion from turkey into like you or whatever place. I want to begin by welcoming. The 1st lady with us today and the 1st lady of turkey thank you very much for being here the see great honor to have you. We had a wonderful very productive meeting before we start i would like to thank president or one for releasing detainee serkin girl gave who was in detention in different forms of detention and i appreciate that very much that was a very nice tribute and hell be coming back at some point in the not too distant future. So thats thats very good news for the United States and also very good news for turkey. Turkey as everyone knows is a great nato ally and a Strategic Partner of the United States around the world our economic relationship has tremendous potential and continues to expand and to grow directing gauge meant that diplomacy between our nations are essential to ensuring a future of peace and prosperity and promise for our citizens over the course of the day president early on and by had a frank and productive conversation on a range of very important topics among those topics we discussed was the situation in syria last month. Sent Vice President pence secretary of state pompei o is with Us National Security advisor obrien thank you to meet with president early gun in the hopes of ending all of the hostilities the negotiations were very successful and the United States and turkey achieved. A tremendous amount on that day and i think were working toward getting it better and better to complicated situations been going on for hundreds of years today the ceasefire continues to hold and i want to thank the president for his partnership and cooperation as we work to build a more stable and peaceful and prosperous middle east. Weve assurity each other that turkey will continue to uphold what its supposed to uphold im a a big fan of the president to tell you that and i know that the cease fire while complicated is moving forward and moving forward at a very rapid clip theres a lot of people that want to see that work after so many decades and so many centuries you might say the United States and turkey are working extensively and many other Security Issues turkey has the 2nd Largest Armed forces in nato after the United States and there are very strong 2nd i might add and im pleased that turkey has been steadily increasing its defense spending and its very close to the 2 percent of g. D. P. Range and like many of the other countries at this moment there are 8 of the 28. 00 countries that are current in terms of their obligation financially turkey has made a vital contribution to nato is Resolute Support mission in afghanistan and its partnership was important to our destruction of the isis caliphate fact just recently when we took out al baghdadi and take them out we did turkey knew that we were going over certain areas they were very very helpful we appreciate that very much good for both countries we really appreciate it were grateful to president early gun and to the citizens of turkey for their cooperation in the constant struggle against terrorism he fights it like we do. Key to our security collaboration is our trade defense and military Equipment ProgramAmerican Foreign military sales to turkey total many billions of dollars and turkey supplies Component Parts to Many American defense programs they make parts of the frame as an example for the f. 35 turkeys acquisition of sophisticated Russian Military equipment such as the s 400 creates some very serious challenges for us and we are talking about it constantly we talked about it today were talking about in the future hopefully will be able to resolve that situation weve asked our secretary of state and minister of Foreign Affairs and our respective National Security advisers to immediately work on resolving the s. 400 issue weve also recently agreed to work toward a 100000000000. 00. 2 way trade agreement secretary ross is here and i think weve made tremendous progress in that we have a lot of trade with turkey but it could be many times larger and turkey would like to see that and it would also be good for the United States so we intend to bring it up to about 100000000000. 00 that would be 4 times what it is right now our goal is to expand commerce between the United States and turkey reduce our trade deficit and ensure a truly fair and receptacles relationship. We are just for those of you that have any interest we discussed it today also our trade agreement with china is moving along. Very rapidly see what happens but its moving along rapidly china wants to make a deal that i can tell you one of my chief priorities as president has been removing the barriers to american trade and investment and ending the illicit practices that harm our workers we encourage turkey to further open its markets and they are doing that theyre doing that very much toward American Goods and American Services our markets are open turkey is opening up their markets and theyre opening up rapidly mr president as we have seen in recent weeks the u. S. Turkish alliance can be a powerful force for security and stability not only in the middle east but beyond i look forward to working with you and your representatives i want to thank you very much all for being here ive gotten to become very familiar with all of you and i really appreciate you doing a fantastic job for the people of turkey. And i look forward to continuing to find a Common Ground harness common purpose and to advance the vital interests of our people and the abiding friendship between our nations we have a great relationship both personally and with the great country of turkey and we look forward to moving that forward and making it an even bigger and better relationship thank you very much thank you thank you. So much. Mr president my day friends my ministers distinguished ministers secretaries distinguished members of the press id like to. Say. So id like to thank my friend mr trump is to tell the chaos today with mr president. We have had very sincere discussions with mr president with turkish American Relations will continue. If. You. So. We have confirmed. Well against di and our fight against. Be coordinated together of course this is very important and as you know since the death of baghdad there and the process after it. We have stopped many escape escapees from the prisons from the other side to towards our country we have now holding 2000 die members in our prisons. Peace operation in i started the 9th of october this is a very important step for the peace in the region with this operation. As with this operation our country has stopped as a major head on the agenda of p. K. K. Who is trying to build a terror country beyond our borders p k k y p g. Trying hard to harm disagreement and. They are carrying out provocative attacks on civilians within the last 24 hours by the Terror Organizations they have been 19 attacks and the beginning of this month in tel aviv out there has been a bomb in the marketplace and 13 civilians lost their lives. Despite it is we are working hard trying to find a solution for syria and we are cooperating with the United States. Some circus who are sympathizing for Terror Organizations we know that they are uncomfortable with this development and they are trying to spread lies and they are trying to damage our relationship with the United States we can see that they are even distorting historical facts and they are trying to damage our relationship current relationships in the representatives. Committee and you can see that the decisions were taken in the committee were just serving this and it is trying to put a shadow on our relationships i have expressed this to mr and to mr president to. Any event that has happened during 1st world war this is a subject that historians should decide about we are very confident on this matter i want to be very clear turkey as never has ok but from dialogue on this topic and its always open to discussion we have offered a Common CommitteeHistorical Committee for research we have opened all our archives and our security forces. Are holding 1000000 documents on this topic and they can always come and visit and they can always do their research on this topic. Between turkey and United States was trying to eradicate. Permanently our we are working together on this United States. Turkey is the one ally that United States can trust to establish this go. We are the only nato ally that is fighting against the chest to chest and losing. Servicemen. About 7077000 people are banned to enter our country who are found out that they have relationship with. We have. We have 1216 prisoners die of prisoners in turkey at the moment. There are. 187 people that were captured by us some of them are women and children. That has caused. Many many attacks in turkey we have lost 300. 00 of our civilians and we are going to be are going to continue to fight against. Of course its very important that. The members should be accepted by their original countries that we are working on trying to persuade. The countries who are the or original nations of the members and we are working on it with mr mr President Trump. 9 years ago when the conflict started in syria. We are the country who has been most affected we are currently hosting 3000003500000 syrians in our countries all of them are arab summit yes they did and also some of them 350000 of them are kurdish and we are hosting these refugees these people are. Given from our budget we have spent 4040000 1000000000 so far but. He has only centers 3000000000. 00 a year is and it on assented to our charities. Accordingly we are also sending regular aid to syria and the syrian public. This suggestion the call that i have made in n. G. To end say that call wasnt received so as a result of that many civilians lost their lives this cannot continue like this previously with everett as shield and Olive Branch Operation we have cleared 40 square kilometers of area we cleared it from tara. Of course i agree with mr president s declaration of safe zone and i think this is very important that we have to establish that. Previously i as i said a freighters shield and olive branch but 360000 of syrians we have retracked related the syrians back to syria in the cities that we have secured and we have made safe the returning has started. The plans that we have shared with mr trump we have also. Shared it with the United Nations and we are hoping that were going to get support from United Nations and International Community so hopefully we are going to have more people repatriating back to syria so from iraq general bliss this is going to be 20 miles of the dead in that and we can put 1000000 people in there in rocca in their lives we can also put another 1000000 so we can reach 2000000 of syrians repatriating as you know. So has had an attack on turkish turkish constitutional system and it is a Terror Organization. We have lost 200 of us civilians and we have casualties of