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With the most natural satellites. President trump has been angrily defending his decision to pull american troops out of northern syria, a move that opens the way for an attack by turkey on kurdish fighters, long time American Allies in the fight against the Extremist Group the Islamic State, but regarded by the turks as terrorists. Mr trump has repeated his warning to turkey not to take advantage of the withdrawal, threatening to decimate the turkish economy if they go what he called off limits...

President trump has been angrily defending his decision to pull american troops out of Northern Syria, a move that opens the way for an attack by turkey on kurdish fighters, long time American Allies in the fight against the Extremist Group the Islamic State, but regarded by the turks as terrorists. Mr trump has repeated his warning to turkey not to take advantage of the withdrawal, threatening to decimate the turkish economy if they go what he called off limits. The kurds have been leading the ...

Farber talksdavid about his book taken hostage which chronicles their ordeal and examined the u. S. Governments First Encounter with radical islam. I think the 19791980 hostage crisis between the United States really set the tone. It was really a significant juncture point in how people thought about political islam, the nation of iran, and how they think about us. There were two movements and iran, both of which involve the United States. There was an insurgency within iran, so the union was tr...

President trump has been angrily defending his decision to pull american troops out of Northern Syria a move that opens the way for an attack by turkey on kurdish fighters, long time American Allies in the fight against the Extremist Group the Islamic State, but regarded by the turks as terrorists. Mr trump has repeated his warning to turkey not to take advantage of the withdrawal, threatening to decimate the turkish economy if they go what he called off limits. The kurds have been leading the S...

Call the airwaves but thank you so much for joining us today and a very special welcome to our guests, assistant secretary and peaceful Deputy Assistant secretary for the Global Public affairs bureau. We are honored to have them here today. Special welcome to our commissioners the Advisory Commission for Public Diplomacy and vice chairman and commissioner. Today as you know under the auspices of the Advisory Commission we have called a Public Meeting to look at the question of the newly formed g...

Lets consider some major events. It was during his presidency that the socalled great sioux uprising, what we call the dakota war, occurred. It was drenched in blood as impoverished and hungry dakota waged war on settlers and faced the wrath of whites, who hunted down suspected culprits tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, 303 men. Lincoln commuted the sentence of most of these individuals but in the end, 38 were hung in what remains americas largest max mass execution. It was during the li...

Today, but there is more rain on the way later, and in fact for all of us at some stage this week we are going to see some rain, some of us quite often, wet and windy, and the reason why, no pressure packed just to the north of the British Isles this week. If you look at these white lines, the isobars are close together, so you know it is going to be windy, there are weather fronts coming around the area of low pressure, showers moving on through, but sunshine occasionally too, some good weather...

At westminster, but theres fierce have gone through their dialogue criticism of its findings. That day on a sentence by sentence coming up on afternoon live basis. After analysing it, they have all the sport ben croucher. Said that they did absolutely nothing wrong. They have not broken good afternoon. There is a new man their broadcast code. But what ofcom tasked with leading the english are unhappy about is the complaints cricket team. Chris silverwood has procedure that the bbc had after been...

Exactly here. We will keep you updated on that. Elsewhere, it looks like the further north you are, it is sunshine and showers again. And just to give you a flavour of what happens for part two of the weekend into the start of next week, there is one area of low pressure moving, and another one is poised to come backin and another one is poised to come back in from the atlantic. What does that mean . It means it is staying u nsettled. That mean . It means it is staying unsettled. So, for the wee...

Now on bbc news its hardtalk, with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The number of forest fires burning in the amazon rainforest may have dropped since the global alarm was raised in august, but brazils government is still feeling intense political heat. My guest today is brazilian environment minister Ricardo Salles who is in europe trying to convince sceptics that president bolsonaros government is not prioritising economic exploitation at the expense of environmental pro...