a lobbying campaign in the u.s. and canada to pass the trade deal. turkey is offering us earns is that its forces in northern syria have islamic state fighters in the area under their control. defense secretary mark esper says his turkish counterpart provided information during a meeting of nato defense officials. but the secretary says the turks need to do more. we call on turkey to abide by their commitment to address the humanitarian crisis, to protect religious and ethnic minorities, to investigate allegations of war crimes, and maintain control of isis prisoners. the allies remained unified in our efforts to preserve the defeat of isis and we must work together to make sure they are unable to reconstitute. the u.s. envoy on the u.s. conflict has more and more than 100 islamic state militants have escaped from prisons in northern syria. president trump says most have been recaptured. global news 24 hours a day, on-air, and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 j
i m going off it s good to have you with us tonight nato was struggling to find one voice over its member turkey and turkey s offensive in northern syria nato just ended a 2 day summit in brussels acknowledging different views on the issue at least as what secretary general younes stoltenberg said the behavior of yet another member of the united states that behavior not helping things at all the u.s. pulled its troops from syria earlier this month washington l says it will send them back to syria to prevent so-called islamic state from capturing crucial oil fields in the east. it isn t easy keeping up with america s position in syria after president trump emphatically said u.s. troops will coming home his statement seemed in downs as reports came into the white house that sets out options for leaving. u.s. forces in northeast syria the new order seems to be modifying the objective of keeping isis extremists at bay to include the safeguarding of the oil fields the region is in
sunny weather now much as china should be looking to an increasing dry scenario but we ve got more rain developing out in the west and it is moving slowly east was and could be significant doesn t reach hong kong doesn t reach shankar in the next 2 days either way things haven t changed much for a couple of days the rain to the south has a fairly big gap watch of luzon should be fine much of vietnam should be fine but to thailand northern sumatra singapore and all of borneo this is the rain belles at the moment the size of that including java is dry. 1980 to egypt in israel built on that drive away between the neighboring communities the sinai and gaza. i ll just. have some stories. oh division oh i. got sinai and the. on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on the al-jazeera the head of lebanon s christian forces party. has asked his ministers to resign from the government but the mentum is growing and protesters are on the streets for a 4th day bom
and previous overtures from chief executive kerry lamb to suspend the legislation in june and then announce that it was did in july failed to end the rest there are more large rallies planned in the days ahead which is when we ll find out of kerry lamb s decision will have the desired effect or of protesters believe it s come way too late the protest is viewed debil is just another example of mainland china s growing influence on hong kong so its withdrawal could be seen as a rate concession by beijing demonstrators demands have evolved into broader democratic reforms and an independent commission of inquiry into the crisis and the actions of police. rarely organizers say the legislation s withdrawal will be celebrated briefly but it s not enough to end the crisis and by not agreeing to all the demands they believe kerry has proved again she s out of touch with her people caroline herself irrelevant she already proved so many times too many times to all people that she really
alive that the consumer keep spending. the fed has two ways to look at it. the economy is slowing or the economy is hanging in there where it was with job creation little lower, but wages rising and the workweek a little bit longer. that means the expansion keeps going. david: the question is what does it mean for the fed. let s talk about that as we are waiting for jay powell to speak. we will come back to michael mckee. in the meantime, kevin cirilli at the white house. finally, we have a plan from the white house on what to do with fannie mae and freddie mac? kevin: they are calling it a roadmap. steven mnuchin unveiling a plan that would re-privatize fannie mae and freddie mac. it was back during the bush administration that the republican part of that $190 billion bailout from taxpayers issued a conservatorship for fannie mae and freddie mac. as of now, they make up about half of the mortgages in the $11 trillion mortgage market. it is a long shot to get them privatized.