Now on bbc news, hardtalk, with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Donald trump doesnt seem to do regret, but maybe even he will come to rue his abrupt decision to pull us troops out of Northern Syria. His move prompted a Turkish Military invasion of territory held by syrias kurds. The kurds are now looking to president assad for military help. The region, once a playground for so called Islamic State, has been plunged back into chaos. My guest is alan semo, representative of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union party in london. What are his peoples options now . Alan semo, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, great pleasure to be here. You represent the Democratic Union party of syrian kurds. Should you and your people have seen Donald Trumps dramatic decision to withdraw us forces from your region coming . No, we havent seen it. But should you have seen it coming . Because donald trump, if one looks at the record, as long ago as last december declared that the us had w
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk, with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Donald trump doesnt seem to do regret, but maybe even he will come to rue his abrupt decision to pull us troops out of Northern Syria. His move prompted a Turkish Military invasion of territory held by syrias kurds. The kurds are now looking to president assad for military help. The region, once a playground for so called Islamic State, has been plunged back into chaos. My guest is alan semo, representative of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union party in london. What are his peoples options now . Alan semo, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. A pleasure to be here. You represent the Democratic Union party of syrian kurds. Should you and your people have seen Donald Trumps dramatic decision to withdraw us forces from your region coming . No, we havent seen it. But should you have seen it coming . Because donald trump, if one looks at the record, as long ago as last december, declared that the us had
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Donald trump doesnt seem to do regret, but maybe even he will come to rue his abrupt decision to pull us troops out of Northern Syria. His move prompted a Turkish Military invasion of territory held by syrias kurds. The kurds are now looking to president assad for military help. The region, once a playground for so called Islamic State, has been plunged back into chaos. My guest is alan semo, representative of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union party in london. What are his peoples options now . Alan semo, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, great pleasure to be here. You represent the Democratic Union party of syrian kurds. Should you and your people have seen Donald Trumps dramatic decision to withdraw us forces from your region coming . No, we havent seen it. But should you have seen it coming . Because donald trump, if one looks at the record, as long ago as last december declared that the us had won its war with Islam
The outskirts of damascus its been on the heavy bombardment by the government and its allies including russia at least five hundred people have been killed there in the past week. As director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the institute and a professor at the university of york and he says the u. N. Security councils resolution allows for further conflict. It is almost common and that when you have this kind of positions which does not give you a specific start date or time that all parties on the ground will try and gain as much as possible theyre trying to gain more ground as they push forward because they anticipate that at some stage the resolution will come into interaction but so far i think this phase of the coming few hours will see all parties trying to perform we should also remember that back in september two thousand and sixteen. Some of those fighters were in the liberal and before that they were in hands and in homes now all of them have been displ
Mcdonald this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a controversial north korean general indicates at the closing of the Winter Olympics that his country is willing to talk to the u. S. She jingping upset to extend his presidency beyond twenty twenty three after the communist party in china opposes constitutional changes. Church leaders protesting against tax found shot the site where christ was said to have been buried it occupied East Jerusalem. A warm welcome to the pope at least twenty seven people have been killed in Syria Russian Air strikes in east and on sunday in the last hour theres been reports of attacks on two villages in the rebel held area of syria using polling gas and miss silas carrying napalm all of this has taken place despite a u. N. Security council adopting a resolution demanding a cease fire osama bin debate has a report from gezi in neighboring turkey. Hours into the u. N. Security councils thirty day ceasefire declaration bombs kept dropping on eastern