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European leaders are still saying theyll decide on his proposals at the end of the week. And thats not borisjohnsons only thing on the agenda. The american businesswoman hes accused of improperly helping while he was mayor of london has given her first tv interview. Well bring you some of what she had to say. And climate activists have taken to the streets of cities around the world demanding urgent action to stop global warming. Well report from london, amsterdam, sydney, paris and berlin. Donald trumps decision to pull american troops out of Northern Syria is proving politically incendiary. The move will allow turkey to launch an operation against kurdish led forces. The same kurdish led forces that America Armed in their successful fight against the Islamic State group. These pictures show american armoured vehicles pulling away from kurdish controlled areas. Turkey considers the kurdish fighters terrorists because of their close relations with the Kurdistan Workers Party which has carried out attacks in turkey in its fight for kurdish autonomy. The pull out of american troops followed a phone call between President Trump and the turkish president recep tayip erdogan. And now mr erdogan says a Turkish Military operation may start any time. Translation there is always a phrase we say, we can come any night without warning. And our determination remains because it is absolutely out of the question for us to further tolerate the threats from these terrorist groups. The kurdish led force is called the sdf, or Syrian Democratic forces. Its been working with the us for years. A spokesman said. Evidently, those assurances havent held. The republican senator Lindsey Graham has tweeted. That is one man who normally supports President Trump. Here is another supporter of the president. He nominated her as Us Ambassador to the un, she is now the former ambassador and says. Note that hashtag. Turkeyisnot0urfriend. For more on this republican reaction, heres Gary Odonoghue in washington. Its interesting, i dont think he could have expected the strength of a tweet like that. Leave them to die is a pretty emotive and strong statement to make but, yes, youre right, he will have expected a backlash and he will characterise that in terms of the washington establishment versus what he wants to do for the American People and his promise in terms of the campaign, and that is to bring american troops back home. Now, he threatened to do this before in syria, last december. Thats what cost him his secretary of defence james mattis at the time, and then he seemed to hesitate and now hes doing it again and well see if he follows through but, bear in mind, there are other areas, like afghanistan, where hejust hasnt brought back the numbers of troops that he promised he would, so hes under pressure with his base on this one. Dont go anywhere, gary, the president has been tweeting about this, he says. Then followed a tweet which must rank as one of the most remarkable that donald trump has sent, and that of course is a crowded field. He says. Well, leaving aside the unmatched wisdom for a moment, we must have missed the last time the americans obliterated turkeys economy, because i cant think of it and, gary, this tweet raises a number of questions which are quite hard to answer. I mean, look, it would be funny if it wasnt so serious. I mean someone said to me, is the president being ironic . I dont think the president does irony. I think he might actually believe that and, yes, you are right, in a sense, the turkish economy is in a bit of a state at the moment but thats not because of what the us have been doing or anything like that. I dont know if hes confusing turkey and iran at the moment, in which he would have some claim to having devastated the economy. The interesting thing i think here is the sense in which the president is saying we are going to leave this to everyone else to sort out. Yeah, its a warning to turkey but this is no longer our business. Europe, he said, iraq, iran, turkey, russia. And i think that sort of abdication, if you like, of any kind of role there at a time when things are incredibly volatile, thats the thing thats really upsetting people from all sides here in washington. It seems to have come from pretty much nowhere. It doesnt look like even the main envoy to syria, jim jeffries, it doesnt seem even he knew this was coming. The state department werent in favour of this, the pentagon had no idea this was coming. I mean, it is an extraordinary step, it really is Foreign Policy on the hoof. And the president has been re tweeting people as well as tweeting himself and some of those retweets criticise president obama for ever forming this alliance with the kurds, saying we should have been siding with the turks anyway, they are our nato allies. Has he got people in washington who share that analysis . Well, youve got to cast your mind back. Really, the kurds were one of the only really viable forces in terms of who you could team up with to create a fighting force to counter Islamic State in syria and iraq at the time. They were well organised, they are well organised, they are well disciplined, they are well trained and, if you remember, the us tried on a number of occasions to set up its own kind of free. Not free syrian army, but Syrian Democratic force based on sort of syrians from outside the country. It never worked. They never got to train enough of them, a lot of them disappeared. It was a complete failure and thats why they fell back on the alliance with the kurds, who, from the kurdish point of view, followed through on their promises, etc. Now the president is effectively saying, look, ourjobs done, youre on your own and that is why you are hearing the rhetoric from the kurds about stabbing in the back and the fear here will be that there will be a massive conflict between the turks and the Kurdish Forces in north east syria there. We will return to this story in about 20 minutes or so. We have been focused on that a lot today but we are of course also focused on brexit. Eu leaders are declining borisjohnsons requests for face to face brexit talks. Last week, the Prime Minister released new proposals. Largely around what to do around the irish border. Emmanuel macron says those proposals need to change and these changes must be offered by friday. Heres the Prime Minister. Our proposal is very fair, very reasonable. What it does is it respects the good friday agreement, the peace process, in Northern Ireland. It makes sure theres no border there is no hard border, there is no checks at all at the border between Northern Ireland and ireland. It also goes further in allowing Northern Ireland and ireland to remain in alignment both for agri foods, for cattle this and so on, forfood, but also for industrial goods as well. Now, thats a big step forward, big advance, big compromise by the uk government and what we are saying to our friends is its a very generous, fair and reasonable offer weve made. What wed like to hear from you now is what your thoughts are and if you have issues with any of the proposals weve come up with, then lets get into the detail and discuss them. No face to face meetings but borisjohnsons had phone calls with the leaders of poland, sweden and denmark. We also heard this from the Eu Commission today. I think we all agree that we need a workable solution now and not something based on untried and revokable arrangements, that would be left to a negotiation during the transition period, as we have also recalled the uks proposals presented last week do not meet, at present, the objectives of the protocol on ireland and Northern Ireland. All of this with 2a days until the brexit deadline. And if you think thats tight as i was saying, the deadline is much closer than that. On 17th october, an eu summit begins. If a deals not done by then, were looking at either a no deal or another extension more on that in a bit. Bear in mind, borisjohnson has long said he believed a deal would only get done with the deadline looming and by delivering his proposals with just over two weeks until the summit, hes putting that theory to the test. Heres the bbcs adam fleming on how were seeing two quite different visions of how to get a deal done. The eu all along has never wanted to submits to become negotiating sessions where borisjohnson, the Prime Minister, comes into the room and starts twisting arms and haggling with the 27 leaders around the table. That would just be far too disorganised as far as the eu is concerned. They want is to be a control process that is done between two negotiating teams in private working on a legal text. The idea of 28 leaders in a room in the middle of the night with a draft brexit treaty and some highlighter pens and strikes fear into the heart of the eu officials. They do not want that to happen. Here we have the latest proposals from the uk. They are online if you want to read them. Theyre grappling with what has been the brexit conundrum for the past three years. How can the uk leave the European Unions Single Market and Customs Union, while not affecting the status of the irish border something that is crucial to maintaining the good friday agreement peace deal that dates back to the 19905 . Under borisjohnsons new proposals, Northern Ireland would stay in the eu Single Market for all goods and would so stick with the eus rules and regulations. But Northern Ireland would come out of the eus Customs Union, allowing the uk to cut its own trade deals. To do that, were told by the Prime Minister this will mean a very small number of decentralised physical checks away from the border. In theory, this protects the border, and means the uks ability to cut its own trade deal isnt contingent on a new trade deal with the eu. Nick gutteridge is a reporter in brussels. Here he is on the eus main objections. Well, it has quite a few of them, as you just outlined, but essentially, there are two really main points of contention. The first one, as youve gone through, is customs. The regulatory, the Single Market side, they are happy with that. The uk, as you say, is proposing alignment on Single Market rules, thats fine. But on the customs, the uk is saying that Northern Ireland must come out of the Customs Union and its putting forward these alternative arrangements which, as you say, do include some decentralised checks. The nub of this is what it rubs up against. Actually, its what theresa may agreed to way back in 2017, where both sides agreed that, you know, in ireland, there should be no related checks or controls, what the eu sees as the all ireland economy, and the main eu objection is, a, they are not really sure on these alternative arrangements that the uks coming up with will work. For instance, they say there is nothing really yet on how you avoid collecting vat at the border. And secondly, it involves some checks on the island of ireland and their position is you cant have that because thats enormously disruptive to the trade on the island itself. Johnsons proposals say the consent of Northern Irelands politicians would have to be sought every four years for this arrangement you will hear people calling at the stormont vote or the stormont block. That is if these arrangements arent superseded by a new trade deal. That in effect means the unionist dup party in Northern Ireland has a veto over the arrangement. Meaning whatever the uk and the eu decides it wants to do in the future, this arrangement could be scuppered whether they like it or not. Thats why we heard the eu criticising the fact its revokable to use their word. Heres nick again on the changes the uk could make to satisfy the eu. Well, on the consent mechanism, there is vote every four years, the uk has already signalled it is willing to look at that again. But as you say, real problems for the eu there. First of all, their opinion is that makes the backstop incredibly unstable. You know, every four years, it could potentially all fall apart if the dup vetoed it and, remember, when we were talking about a time limit, what the eu said all the time was this is an insurance policy, it cant have a time limit so policy, it cant have a time limit so you cant put a vote every four yea rs so you cant put a vote every four years either. The other problem with thatis years either. The other problem with that is that the uk is actually proposing that both sides make a legal commitment not to put any infrastructure at the border, whatever happens, and the eu is saying we cant do that because if the dup vetoes, you know, this new border arrangement, how do we protect our Single Market . In terms of what the uk can do that is politically possible for Boris Johnson back home, it is pretty hard to see at the moment. I mean, you know, diplomats here say that gaps really quite wide on the customs staff. There is a pretty fundamental difference, they dont really see how you can do this outside the Customs Union whilst also respecting their red lines. Consent, possibly there. You know, if the uk softens its position a bit more towards consulting stormont very extensively, rather than giving it an outright veto, i suspect the eu probably would go for something along those lines. And throughout this vital week at this time, we will be taking on all of the details of the brexit story and you can get lots of background through the bbc news website. In a few minutes,. Talks to resolve a damaging strike at the us car giant gm have broken down. Samira hussain will explain the history for us from new york. Police forces across england and wales are battling rising levels of knife crime. Figures today show offences involving knives are rising sharply outside london, but with the capital still the most dangerous area. Simeon moore is a former gang member from birmingham, who now works with young people to try and divert them away from crime. There is a culture where the gangster is celebrated. Weve got a culture in the uk and in fact around the world where the gangster is celebrated, the gangster is made to look cool and i think the gangster lifestyle is used so much in entertainment, and it is all entertainment, and it is all entertainment until you are faced with the realities and then everyone wa nts to with the realities and then Everyone Wants to know why it is going on. I think we really need to start looking at the way of thinking that young people are growing up and why are they growing with this way of thinking . How come this gangster lifestyle is made to look cool . This is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story. President trump is facing a backlash over his decision to pull out of Northern Syria and abandon americas kurdish allies. Some of the other main stories. In iraq, the death toll in clashes between protestors and Security Forces is now at least 110. The demonstrations have been going for close to a week and are against corruption and a lack ofjobs. That is from bbc arabic. Italian coastguards have recovered the bodies of 13 women who drowned after a crowded migrant vote capsized in bad weather near the island of lampedusa. 22 of the estimated 50 people on board have been rescued but its feared that more are dead. That is from Bbc World Service english radio. The nobel prize for medicine has been shared by a british scientist and two americans for their research on how human cells react to the availability of oxygen. Their work is paving the way for new therapies for diseases such as cancer. Away from brexit, heres Something Else on borisjohnsons plate. The american businesswoman at the centre of a story about whether he behaved within conduct guidelines when mayor of london has given herfirst televised interview since the story broke. The Prime Minister is being investigated for an alleged conflict of interest over his friendship withjennifer arcuri from when he was mayor. You can see him sitting here at an innotek summit a few years back innotech. The sunday times alleges one of her companies received £11,500 in sponsorship money from a mayoral organisation when mrjohnson was mayor thats over 14,000. And also a £15,000 government grant for foreign entrepreneurs in britain. Miss arcuri also joined him on trade missions in 2014 and 2015. The question is whether her firm got the cash in any part because of their friendship. Mrjohnson has declined to comment on the nature of that friendship though he very much denies doing anything wrong. Jennifer arcuri gave an interview to Itvs Good Morning Britain today. Heres some of it. No, couldnt be further from the truth. The reason why they liked me is because i had a big mouth, a huge network and so much work. Like, the biggest work ethic you could ever imagine. I mean, we were up, we were producing. You never asked boris to. This is why we were partners. You never asked boris to help you, though, with any sponsorship money . Categorically no, absolutely not. I would never put him in that position. So when you put in pitches for these grants, did you go and talk to Boris Johnson as your friend or, you know, as someone you had done successful business events with for advice on how to. You think i would waste his time talking. No borisjohnson was asked again today if hed done anything wrong. Now and ive said, i think, everything i think im going to say on that matter. But you have been summoned before the gla, to appear before the gla and you have until tomorrow to say if you will do it, will you do it . Ive said everything im going to say on that. The reporter mentioned the gla. Thats the Greater London authority which is led by the current mayor of london sadiq khan. Its not yet asked Boris Johnson to appear, but it could do. For now, it wants to see a timeline of all contact with her and its 14 day deadline for that timeline ends on tuesday. Another allegation by the sunday times is that miss arcuri said she had been in an intimate relationship with borisjohnson. Had been in an intimate relationship with Boris Johnson. She had been in an intimate relationship with borisjohnson. She was repeatedly asked about that today and that was her answer. Did you ever have any intimate relationship with Boris Johnson . Yes or no . Because the press have made me this objectified ex model pole dancer, i really am not going to answer that question. So you wont deny it . Im sorry. Im not going to be putting myself in a position for you to weaponise my answer. So neither Boris Johnson orjennifer arcuri have given definitive answers to that question. Butjennifer arcuri is quite clear there was a friendship. And that Boris Johnson visited her home. That alone may be significant. Heres norman smith. It matters because if you are mayor and a friend or relative receives grants or help, then you are meant to declare it. Now, borisjohnson hasnt done so, saying he doesnt have anything to declare and what we dont know is whether borisjohnson himself directly intervened to help miss arcuri get those grants, but there are now four separate investigations trying to join up the dots between borisjohnson the mayor and Boris Johnson the friend ofjennifer arcuri. Talks to resolve a damaging strike at the us car giant, gm, have broken down. Negotiations between General Motors and the United Auto Workers union stalled on sunday, with disagreement over pay and job security. So far, it is estimated gm has lost over 1 billion since the dispute. Samir hosein, give us a little more detail, please. These workers want to see Better Benefits and their health care protected and wage increases and one of the big arguments being made by these workers that is certainly gaining momentum is, look, gm, when it went through its bankruptcy during the financial crisis, it had to make big cuts that had a big impact on actual workers. Now that gm is doing better and has essentially recovered from that big, from the financial crisis, now they are saying, well, we are owed better treatment. Now, these workers have been without a contract since 2015 and as you rightly pointed out, it looked like things were going well for them in terms of negotiations but that really stalled over the weekend, so now we are seeing there isa weekend, so now we are seeing there is a lot of question about how long this particular strike will go on. Samira, thank you, a little tight on time so we will leave it there. The Global Consumer giant unilever which makes products like persil, dove and marmite is pledging to halve its use of new plastics by the year 2025 and collect or re use more plastic than it sells. The companys chief executive has been laying out the plans. The challenge is to make sure that plastic stays in the economy and out of the environment, so we want to create this circular approach where plastic is retained in the economic cycle, the circular economy, and doesnt leach out into the environment and the oceans. We would welcome, and indeed are stimulating, the creation of an infrastructure of recycling companies that are able to take refuse and turn it into high quality material that can be used. We think this commitment we are making is creating an economic incentive for that chain to fall into line, and we work very closely with the recycling companies and with governments at municipal and national level. Inafew in a few minutes, we will come back and talk about donald trump is my decision to pull american troops out of Northern Syria. That would allow turkey, in time, to moving and on kurdish fighters. If those kurdish fighters are pushed out of the territory they currently control, turkey wa nts territory they currently control, turkey wants to create a safe zone, in part so that many of the refugees in turkey from syria can go across the border. We will talk about how that might work. Hello. We are looking at some dramatic changes in the weather across parts of north america in the next few days. We have one frontal system in the east that is going to cause some issues. This weather front slow moving, producing some quite large volumes of rain through the ohio valley and into the north east monday into tuesday, may be up to three inches of rain, 75 millimetres. But it is this low towards the north west that looks rather more innocuous but has already started to bring some wintry weather into British Columbia and alberta that will make the big difference across the north west of the us. The low itself will start to sink across the rockies and towards the plains and look what follows on behind, that icy blue plunge going all the way down into the centre of the us. The temperatures were some are literally going to fall like a stone and as that low arrives, some of the first significant snowfall of this winter season. Some heavy, thundery showers possible ahead of the centre of the low itself but ta ke the centre of the low itself but take a look at the temperatures on wednesday into thursday. 25 celsius to high in denver, with sunshine, mid week 3 with snow showers by thursday and you can see the big changes reflected elsewhere, too. Lets head towards the pacific where we are watching this area of low pressure. 0bviously we are watching this area of low pressure. Obviously not just we are watching this area of low pressure. 0bviously notjust an area of low pressure, a typhoon that is continuing to intensify and it is this is its track forecast for the week. Changes are running to run but at the moment, we are favouring southern japan as the area that iphone will hit as we get to the end of the week at the weekend and as a violent typhoon, so we are anticipating some very stormy conditions across the southern half ofjapan, conditions across the southern half of japan, with the conditions across the southern half ofjapan, with the prospect conditions across the southern half of japan, with the prospect of damaging winds and an inundation of rainfor damaging winds and an inundation of rain for some and the risk of localised flooding. We will keep you up to date as we get a surer footing with that track. Heading closer to home, to europe, low pressure in the north west will keep showery throughout the coming days. This front down to the centre of europe will bring some quite heavy rain and eventually even some snow into the alps. It finally starts to look a little quieter and clearer through the centre of the med as we lose the thunderstorms from italy. However, by tuesday, we see some rain heading across into turkey. Still chilly in parts of still sitting with some unseasonable warmth across iberia, temperatures remaining above average for the next few days. Moscow and helsinki, temperatures creeping up a little as the days go by, it looks like the rain will keep coming down but athens has plenty of sunshine in the outlook. The north west of europe, the low is always close by, looking very showery as we cast our eyes towards the uk for the next few days. More coming up. Hello, im ros atkins, this is 0utside source. President trump has gone against the advice of senior officials and started pulling us troops out of Northern Syria. With us forces moving out, turkey plans to move in and take on the kurds. Theyve been us allies until now and are calling it a stab in the back. The us also says it wants turkey to take over responsibility for the thousands of Islamic State Group Fighters captured by the kurds. We will talk to bbc turkish about how that might work. Borisjohnson says it is time for the uk and the eu to thrash out their differences over brexit. This is a very generous offer we have made but we now want to hear what your thoughts are. But european leaders are still saying theyll decide on his proposals at the end of the week. And the bbcs been researching how Death Threats spread in pro and anti Brexit Facebook groups. Well speak to one of the reporters behind the story. Lets return to our top story. President trump is facing a backlash over his decision to withdraw us troops from areas of Northern Syria controlled by Kurdish Forces a move that would leave the road open for turkey to launch its long threatened attack on kurdish fighters. Among those criticising the move have been senior members of President Trumps own party. Senate republican leader Mitch Mcconnell said. Lets look further at what turkey intends to do in syria. This president erdogan wants a safe zone along the border between turkey and syria. The area marked in green is territory held by Kurdish Forces seize that territory and the safe zone becomes possible. President erdogan last month at the Un General Assembly showed a map outlining the proposed safe zone. Even if that happens though, there are many practical challenges not least who will over see the thousands of suspected Islamic State fighters currently held in kurdish controlled camps. Martin patience has more on that issue. If they are forced to fight turkish soldiers in that part of the country, they wont be able to focus on the Islamic State group and do not forget it is kurdish fighters who have imprisoned thousands of Islamic State prisoners and there are some suggestions that the kurds simply wont have the capabilities to hold those prisoners, they will be set free, we know the one thing that is thrives on and that is chaos. President erdogan also hopes this new safe zone can be home to some of the 3 million Syrian Refugees in turkey. Heres ece goksedef from bbc turkish on how that might work. There was a plan to resettle the refugees, 3. 6 million refugees in turkey, to the safe zone, but it needs a Housing Project and it needs 30 kilometres of safe zone, but now it might change because we dont know the details of the safe zone or the military operation which turkey is now planning, so we will know the details after the us withdrawal ends and it seems like there might be only 5 6 kilometres of syrian turkey border so it might only take a hundred Syrian Refugees and this also requires a settlement project which will cost millions of dollars to turkey. Who pays for the houses . Turkey . President erdogan says that but he also calls for help from the European Countries and the us. What about the Islamic State prisoners that the kurdish are holding . President erdogan is willing to take them on . I spoke to turkish officials and security officials, and they said turkey will take the responsibility for isis fighters only in the area where turkey do the operations, just a limited area in Northern Syria, and the isis fighters and their families are also limited to that area, turkey will definitely take the responsibility for those fighters. They are planning to keep those fighters in prisons are not to send them back to their countries of origin. They also have families, thousands of families, women and children, in isis camps and they are planning to ta ke isis camps and they are planning to take them into the new system they will create in the safe zone after the operation, the military operation. In washington this is very controversial amongst democrats and republicans, has the announcement been controversial in turkish politics . Actually, Donald Trumpjust turkish politics . Actually, donald trump just tweeted about destroying the turkish economy if turkey goes across the limits so it is confusing for the turkish public and politicians as well because he says in the morning that us forces will withdraw from the region and they will not be involved in any Turkish Operation in the region which is a promise for turkey that they can do, they can go as far as. Sorry, but ina they can go as far as. Sorry, but in a couple of hours, he tweets again about devastating the turkish economy if turkey goes off limits but we dont know those limits, we dont know what is the line of the safe zone and how they allow turkey to do the military operation, so it is confusing for turkey but we had the same situation in december. Trump said we are leaving Northern Syria to turkey to fight against isis but in a month trump said they will destroy the turkish economy if turkey destroys the kurds so this is confusing for turkish politicians and the turkish public. Notjust confusing for the turkish public, it is very confusing keeping up with Donald Trumps Foreign Policy. Now to another important story. Its the first day of two weeks of protests by the Climate Activist Group Extinction Rebellion. The group started in the uk last year, but its now global. Here, they have three core demands. First the government has to declare a Climate Emergency, secondly, a legal commitment to reducing Carbon Emissions to net zero by 2025 and third, they want a Citizens Assembly to be formed to oversee the changes. As youll see from these pictures. In sydney, 30 people were charged after blocking a main road and staging a sit in. People were also protesting in melbourne and brisbane. This is amsterdam. Again, theres a heavy Police Presence across all the protests. Demonstrators put up a tent outside the national museum. More than 100 people have been arrested. Next, paris activists have been blocking a bridge and sections of the city centre. And then this is london more than 250 people were arrested. Hundreds filled Trafalgar Square and blocked lambeth and westminster bridges. Bear in mind, protests earlier in the year in london closed down various parts of the city and there were more than a thousand arrests then. In the uk, the group tweeted this warning in the last couple of hours. They are asking for people to come down and give them support. Other people are asking if these tactics are reasonable. There have also been protests in berlin with one of the busiestjunctions shutdown. Normally at this time of day this is one of berlins busiest if not the busiestjunction in the city but today you are not going to drive a car through here, hundreds of protesters have set up camp and there are protesters have set up camp and there a re protests protesters have set up camp and there are protests going on in other parts of the city. They say they are going to stay all week and block thisjunction, they going to stay all week and block this junction, they have come prepared, they have sleeping bags and ground mats, and they say they wa nt to and ground mats, and they say they want to stay here because they want to change government policy. I think this is such an important issue they are prepared many of them to be arrested. A lot of this going on across the city and we are expecting to see more scenes like this as the week progresses. Heres nada tawfik, in Washington Square park, in new york. All date has been a scene of orderly chaos, i would say, the Extinction Rebellion protesters hitting a lot of the iconic spots of new york city, the charging bull down in wall street, 30 people were arrested, between there and the stock exchange, and then they went to Lower Manhattan and blocked traffic on broadway avenue. 50 people arrested. Police have been trying to contain the protesters, and mark out the roots and surround them so it doesnt get too out of control marked out the route. This is supposed to be a week of activities trying to get people to sign up to their cause. What do they want to happen in america . The protesters i spoke to said they are demanding that action is taken and that really fits the crisis we are facing when it comes to climate change. Even though in new york city leaders have declared a Climate Emergency and have been keen to move away into renewables, they are not acting fast enough, and what they want to see is leaders listening to Community Members about what needs to happen and all along the protest route they have been members of this Group Handing out flyers to the community. Some new yorkers have been annoyed, one woman saying, what stupidity, others annoyed by the trafficjams, but they are young kids and others really interested in their message, so really interested in their message, so they are successful in spreading their message through these actions. I have a feeling we might be turning back to those protests over the next few weeks. Stay with us on 0utside source still to come. With the brexit deadline coming up theres more and more talk of a delay to the uks departure. Well look at how that could happen members of the royal family are backing a new campaign aimed at helping people spot the early signs of mental illness. Princes william and harry and their wives catherine and megan have narrated a short film, which will be broadcast on tv tonight. Katharine da costa reports. 27 year old cher struggled with depression and anxiety after suffering a miscarriage two years ago. Shes found exercise helps to boost her mood and now shares her worries with friends and family, but at the time she says she felt utterly lost. I kind of opened up, and for me that was a big thing. Because its really hard to open up about mental health, but once you do open up, you feel like part of you is relieved, basically. Chers not alone. A survey by yougov found eight in ten people have experienced early signs of stress, anxiety or trouble sleeping in the last 12 months. Over a quarter of people waited at least six months before getting help, while three quarters of those wish theyd done so sooner. Everyone knows that feeling when life gets on top of us. The dukes and duchesses of cambridge and sussex havejoined a host of celebrities to launch every mind matters, an online toolkit providing simple steps to tackle anxiety, low mood and problems sleeping. But some feel more investment is needed to support those with severe mental illnesses, where only a third of patients receive the treatment they need. For some people, whatever you do, youre still going to suffer, and the more severe forms of mental illness, theyre not really amenable to these sorts of approaches, so you need expert help, and thats why we need psychiatrists to treat people, to encourage people to go into psychiatry, because there are gaps in our workforce. The government recognises more work is needed to meet a rising demand on services. Its hoped this new campaign will help stop early symptoms from escalating and reduce pressure on the health service. Katharine da costa, bbc news. Were in this together. This is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is. President trump is facing a backlash over his decision to pull out of Northern Syria and allow turkey to intervene. Back to brexit. Plenty of predictions like this today. It isa it is a discussion the eu has had before. Brexit was originally supposed to happen on march 31st. It was then extended a few weeks. And then extended to october 31. Another extension can only happen if the uk requests it and the eu agrees and request part of the equation something has to give. Mps recently passed a law that requires the Prime Minister to ask for an extension if there is no deal by 19 october but borisjohnson says he wont ask for an extension in any circumstances. But he also says, more generally, his government will respect the rule of law. No ones sure how he can square that circle. Well, Opposition Mps met today they are united in a desire to stop no deal whatever the Prime Minister tries. They are far from united on what to do beyond that. This is the Scottish National party. I would say to colleagues, the majority we would have no deal has to come into effect by using the time we have here to call for a motion of no confidence that removes the Prime Ministerfrom office, that puts in a Caretaker Administration with the simple goal of getting the extension and delivering an election, it is not about electing the government, it is an administration which delivers on the mandate that all of us want to see. We are playing with fire because we are talking about leaving in place a Prime Minister who may be able to drive us off the cliff edge. So the snp is willing to back laboursJeremy Corbyn as the leader of a caretaker government. But its not simple. Not everyone is lining up behind that idea. Those 20 former conservative mps who Boris Johnson kicked out of the party they wont backJeremy Corbyn for Prime Minister, even for a few days. Nor will former labour mps who left the party because of his leadership. Nor will the liberal democrats. Iam i am absolutely prepared to go forward with the government of National Unity and i think that we need to have that as an insurance option and frankly that could be anybody that commands the confidence of the house of commons and who will actually obey the rule of law by sending that request for an extension to article 50. At the weekend, the labour party through John Mcdonnell said they would never back anybody other than Jeremy Corbyn and if they stick to that position seriously it would end up being the case that the biggest block to stopping a no deal brexit will beJeremy Corbyn himself. Block to stopping a no deal brexit will be Jeremy Corbyn himself. The liberal democrats have gained another mp while we have been on air. Heidi allen has now gone to the liberal democrats. The mp for south cambridgeshire left the conservatives in february in protest over its brexit policy and other issues. She firstjoined the change uk group, but then quit that injune. That means lib dems now have 19 seats in the commons. Jonathan blake is in westminster. This is not a big surprise . Not an earth shattering news, she was a lwa ys earth shattering news, she was always seen as a likely contender to join the ever expanding ranks of the liberal democrats in the house of commons, since she left the conservative party and was with change uk, one of the founding members, of that, but she left the party injune and has been without a political home ever since. She has been considered one of those in the house of commons most likely to join the liberal democrats and take their number as she does this evening up to 19 and in a statement put out by the party, heidi allen saysjoining the party, heidi allen saysjoining the liberal democrats is the best way to serve her constituents and the country, she has accused the conservatives and labour of shifting to the extremes. She says the liberal democrats under the leadership ofjo swinson is the only way to rebuild the uk and heal the rifts in society and stop a damaging brexit. Jo swinson the leader of the liberal democrats describing heidi allen as an ally in the fight to stop brexit and someone who will bring energy and passion to her party. What about the short term vision they have got . A week and a half until the European Union summit. Mps wait to see if Boris Johnson can get a deal . They wont all be sitting back, for certain, and there are suggestions some of the former conservative mps who were expeued the former conservative mps who were expelled from the party for voting against the government recently are willing to give the Prime Minister a bit of time and space to see if he can reach a deal with the eu but indications in brussels over the last day are not good. In terms of moving towards that outcome at any pace, which is frankly needed at this stage in the negotiations. 0pposition parties have been meeting today as you explained and have failed to reach any conclusion on what they will do next because although they remain united in their intention of removing borisjohnson from government and delaying brexit to avoid leaving the eu without a deal, they cant agree on their next move so there is a blame game going on between labour the liberal democrats and other parties as to who is standing in the way of their next move and could end up facilitating the uk coming out of the eu without a deal but we are told they will meet tomorrow so maybe there will be some progress there. There has been few signs of it today, for sure. Jonathan, thanks for joining it today, for sure. Jonathan, thanks forjoining us. We might have a few blame games in the next few weeks. You may have heard about mps in the uk being criticised for aggressive and angry tones in recent debates but on facebook arguably its worse. A bbc investigation has found that the most popular and influential private facebook groups both pro and anti brexit are filled with violent language and even Death Threats aimed at specific mps. Its comments like this. They all need a rope around their necks. Why dont you leave today boris go and die in the ditch you dream of. These are groups with thousands and tens of thousands of members. Heres marianna spring, from bbc minute. The groups we looked at were brexit related groups and they were essentially billing themselves as groups that are really supporting brexit or the opposite, remain, and often the questions they will ask are things like, did you vote to leave the eu, which Political Party do you campaign for, do you think there should be a no deal brexit, do you think we should revoke article 50 . Questions like that. Facebook often cause these groups, private groups, rather than closed groups, but actually they have got over 3000 members and in some cases as many as 29,000, so these are not small groups, they definitely will have an influence and impact on the people in them. The comments you have found, were very hard to find or write there . Right there when you look . Not hard to find of these groups are active and there are a lot of posts and a lot of people, frequently engaging with content, but it did not take long to search key terms like traitors, treason, and find posts in the pro brexit groups, often posts related to hanging, and also using in the pro remain groups, Boris Johnson hanging, and also using in the pro remain groups, borisjohnson is dead in the ditch, using that ultimatum he has given for brexit, is any of this against the law . This is against facebook policy guidelines and they said they are looking into the posts we have shown them and they do not condone hate speech which is not allowed on their platforms and they will be looking into it. They say they use Artificial Intelligence to locate and remove these posts but they also rely heavily on members of these groups to report content and ultimately if you are part of a group where you are agreeing with the content which is being posted you are not going to report it. More on that investigation is on the bbc news website right now. Back to our lead story. President trump has been speaking about his administrations decision to withdraw us troops from areas of Northern Syria controlled by Kurdish Forces leaving the road open for turkey to launch its long threatened attack on kurdish fighters. This is hugely important. Turkey considers the kurdish fighters terrorists. The move has been criticised by kurds and by some members of the president s own party as the betrayal of an ally. The president has been speaking in the last few minutes. There is a lot of pressure on turkey, they have been fighting with the pkk for many years, their natural enemies, we read a couple reports that when president obama started this whole thing, he created a natural war with turkey and their long time enemy pkk, and they are still there and they are still hating each other beyond anybodys belief, but ive told turkey that if they do anything outside of what we would think is humane, to use the word a second time, we talk about hong kong, they could suffer at the raft of an extremely decimated economy raft of an extremely decimated economy they could suffer the wrath. We have looked at the situation in syria, Extinction Rebellion, and brexit, and i suspect we will look at these again tomorrow. Goodbye. We have seen two types of autumn weather, low pressure driven with wind and rain and also quite present with mist and fog and no prizes for what we have at the moment, exhibit a, low pressure, close to the uk, tight isobars and brisk winds. Some sunshine in between. Exhibit b, the jet stream driving the weather system is way, taking aim at us throughout this week, so it is very changeable but temperatures close to average and enough wind to produce any fog and frosty weather overnight and its quite a bit of sunshine as tuesday begins in fight, so not a wash out all the time but showers push further east. Hail and thunder possible. Squally winds as well, but for some of us the proportion of the day that is where it is quite small, may be just a few showers moving through, but they may have quite an impact, you could get very wet in them. Temperatures, some areas approaching 17 18. As we go into wednesday, low pressure is still close to scotland and it is in northern scotland that we will have the most frequent showers but there are disturbances further south at times, so it is notjust the heavy showers which keep on coming but there will be showers or the way south and east across the uk but it is not raining all the time. There will be sunshine either side of these bands of showers moving through. Wednesday might feel a bit cooler, especially in the wind. Wednesday into thursday, still these showers keep on pushing into north west scotland and it looks like a very wet week. We may also see a disturbance moving further south across the uk, it may be a longer spell of downpours, and they might start to pick up the wind as well. It might look a little different compared to this and temperatures mostly in the mid teens, day and night, temperatures not changing very much in the foreseeable. The pattern looks a bit different as we go into friday, a bulge in the isobars and briefly pressure builds but then another area of low pressure takes over and that could bring a more prolonged speu that could bring a more prolonged spell of quite heavy rain especially to the north west of the uk, still something to play for in the position of this as we look to friday, with gales in places around that and a trailing weather front to the south which looks like it will hang on into the weekend. This is how it shapes up going into saturday, the weather front could be slow moving across parts of england and wales, and not looking at showers but cloud and outbreaks of rain, and some uncertainty about the position of this so far out so it may not be sitting exactly here but we will keep you updated on this. Elsewhere, further north, it is sunshine and showers again. To give you a flavour of what happens for the second part of the weekend into next week, one area of low pressure moves away, it looks like another one is poised to come back in from the atlantic. That means it is staying unsettled. For the weekend and it looks into next week as well, wet at times, but not all the time, blustery conditions and occasional sunshine. If we are going to move from this type of autumn weather, we will let you know as soon as there is any sign of it. Tonight at ten, a special report on the steep rise in knife crime in england and wales and the struggle to contain it. We have access to one of europes busiest trauma units, in east london, and we talk to the families of those affected. They have just got to open him up and see where the knifes gone, see what its hit and take it from there, really. Theres a lot of things that could go wrong. Emergency services say theyre over stretched and Doctors Express alarm at the growing number of young victims. Whats going on out there . I hope that itsjust a blip, i worry that theres a change in attitude towards knife injury. Well have an extended report on a problem thats increased rapidly in recent years