Sanctions unless he agrees to a cease fire. So far rejected any attempts to broker a truce says and says his country isnt worried about further sanctions the operation began over a week ago after the u. S. Withdrew support for kurdish allies in Northern Syria those fighters are regarded as terrorists by turkey. Well check in with Charles Stratford shortly about the fighting thats happening on the ground hes joining us near the turkish Syrian Border 1st though across over to politico who is monitoring diplomatic developments from washington d. C. And you know just about 24 hours ago when you and i were speaking on the air we heard from pretty much say let them do whatever they want over there let them deal with it by themselves how difficult does that make the job of the Vice President and the secretary of state who are there to on a mandate really to negotiate with on a cease fire. It was head scratching really because it seems that the president s public statements are making pences a
Just to give a bit of context this meeting was supposed to be shorter than this about 2 hours ago we are expecting to hear from the Vice President apparently thats not going to happen at least not at the palace where they were meeting with perhaps theyll talk to the press when they stop we really dont know but they will talk for about 4 and a half hours they had a one on one meeting they came out they took they let people have pictures none of them look very happy everyone had a bit of a grimace notably there was no American Flag there which would have been seen as a courtesy to the Vice President turkey letting it be known that they dont see him as a head of state which would have been the protocol to have an American Flag there then they go into this extended bilateral it goes way longer than people are d expecting it the turkish side started offer to bring in food for the media that was waiting and then all of a sudden the Vice President s people came and told the journalists get yo
No, i dont, were going to get out and what we dont want is more pointless delay unimaginable destruction the Health Minister of the bahamas says he fears the number of People Killed by Hurricane Dorian will be staggering. And coming up in sport rain delays the start to day three of the fourth ashes test. Australia are in control, but can england fight back . Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The former president of zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has died, at the age of 95. Mugabe was at the centre of his countrys struggle for independence from britain and became its first Prime Minister in 1980, before becoming president seven years later. His reputation as a hero of the Independence Movement was soon overshadowed by the brutality of his rule. In the early 1980s, thousands of people were massacred and tortured in matabeleland, and the suppression of human rights became a defining feature of his time in power. But for many africans, he remains an icon of liberation from white rule.