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That a process which has been going on for 12 years trying to disarm iraq from its weapons of mass destruction this report by libyan intelligence the external Security Organization or so shows details of a meeting with the cia. As it plans to invade Saddam Husseins iraq in 2003 the u. S. Needed to prepare Public Opinion for the attack getting libya on govt is key to that strategy. But the iraq war went badly for the western allies. No evidence of dangerous weapons was found and the lack of a postwar strategy plunged the country into calles. Gadhafi then seized the moment in a dramatic bid to ingratiate himself with the west and have sanctions on libya lifted he claimed to have w m ds and offered to surrender them. Desperate to put a positive spin on their mission to destroy weapons in the middle east the u. S. And u. K. Led the way in rehabilitating gadhafi almost overnight. Libya was no longer. Part of the axis of evil. In return a Lucrative Oil and gas deal was signed and it was then that the cia and m i 6 began increasing their rendition of libyan dissidents to the gadhafi regime jubilation a vehicle that out of a 0. For the value of the home. But its now thought the relationship between the head of the e. S. O. And western intelligence went back much earlier than the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of iraq the problem between the 2 states gathered pace after 911. British intelligence held a meeting with mr koussa in the week after 911 and the following November November 2000 a while british and libyan Intelligence Officers held a summit over several days at a hotel or some airport in europe and the german austrian Intelligence Officers also present and there was a growing agreement at that point that the libyans could be quite useful to the west being useful to the west was what gadhafi was aiming for and the west fell for it but at a price. Rendition. This 2012 Human Rights Watch report delivers into enemy hands details the process and several cases including that in our sake and libya. That was an agreement reached that the british and the libyans would start recruiting agents jointly. From the libyan agents who would would help and spy on al qaida. The rehabilitation of gadhafi took place under british Prime Minister tony blair 20 gordon brown to go over from blair in june 2007 the friendly momentum continues. The london based Human Rights Organization reprieve has closely monitored rendition for many years. Lawyer Corey Krieger specialized in cases involving libya. You remember and the deal in the desert in 2004 is that davi says oh well im joining the community of nations everybody was right you know the war on ive looked at iraq and you know i dont want to go that way and all the rest of it so this president has given to him but the reality is of course what happened after that the sanctions were lifted British Petroleum and other companies were able to come in and start doing business to the tune of millions in fact billions of dollars ill just 0 made request to interview tony blair in 24. 00 team but his office said he was not available. The producers also asked to interview former British Foreign minister jack straw who was responsible for British Intelligence 6 at the time of the rendition but his office said he didnt have time. Neither was therefore able to shed light on when dishan cases like that of. Shaikh libby was returned in 2 to libyan custody and. You know we met him 2 weeks before he supposedly kit committed suicide in his cell. And when that happened we raised concerns about the circumstances surrounding his death. We were concerned that it was not actually a suicide libby was allowed a single visit from his family in april 2009 while in libyan detention this video shows him opponent lee comfortable and his family had. No reason to suspect he might soon take his own life. If you should injured injured in the desert and need no. Honey it may. Work until our liquor nicol will enter them but our countrys army had by then the one im sure id like to hear. Then mr darrow this we america and allowed my let him leave her alone bill and we can all the land of the hubble in our. Need tattle it up with what the what that the the man american her father thought of to what. Some were them somewhat of a shift in the how would a number economy silicon with or when we had a more highly morsel at. One of the bat. Was over such and coupled with either that or can you some mrs novella. Hold what are their beliefs and some a signal that. The u. S. Is said to have 100 over abe no sheikh on libya to the libyan external Security Organization in afghanistan. But i think the smell of somebody in the Libyan Government the person with the machine and the muscle about them to keep in may 2009 libby was found dead in his prison cell only 2 days after that gadhafi was 4th son want to seem acting as Libyan National security adviser met u. S. Secretary of state Hillary Clinton in washington d. C. We deeply value the relationship between the United States and libya we have many opportunities to deepen and broaden our cooperation and im very much looking forward to. Building on this relationship so mr minister welcome so much here thank you we dont like you. For that certainly not to be our when he comes to know what was its and what can be can you look at the fascinating sharp contrast of a year. Its difficult and we can. Stated that. Human rights watch asked for an investigation into a suicide but he was berg and no libyan inquiry was held into his death. So the photographs are very disturbing when reportedly committed suicide in may be in prison and we question whether that was really a suicide and the photographs reveal things that make it seem as though you know that might not have legitimately been a suicide. Gadhafi never allowed any form of opposition within libya. A prominent dissident group was the Libyan Islamic fighting group the l i f g who gadhafi accused of having links to al qaida. Very little rock. Give you one hell of. The. Yeah glad that will help me. God that gadhafi is jails had an appalling reputation for mistreatment and torture particularly of Political Prisoners this mobile phone video purports to have been shot in abu salim prison in tripoli. Human rights watch and Amnesty International have both reported hundreds of deaths in abu salim although the figures have never been independently verified or Human Remains Found if western Intelligence Services knowingly colluded in the torture of libyan dissidents in this way they certainly have a case towards. The western agenda was to establish a connection between Saddam Hussein and al qaeda whereas gadhafi wanted to link libyan dissident groups to market. This illiteracy in. The new relationship with gadhafi spread and there are allegations that he illegally funded a Nicolas Sarkozys 2007 french president ial campaign sarkozy has been charged with Illegal Campaign financing he denies the charges and the case is yet to reach the french courts gadaffi was welcomed across europe a far cry from his eightys image as quote the mad dog of the middle east. That was our that was never our business. A living yeah i said mother thought that but at the same time opponents of gadhafi like our door hakim behind and sami al side of the libya Islamic Fighting group l i f g were arrested and rendered by British Intelligence m i 6 to gadhafi external Security Organization we are going to just turn up our. Supply and. Get most a medal. By then. They are a must for the total loss so yeah by then whether. They are fair days are going to say you know balad. I mean if you have to see if you have hair today. Well it myself and im also a little man whom you know. There are limits over that there was a time but if i knew. That and i was a 21 and im any. Of. Fema part about coke 0 was used to kind of what. You had brokered but if you see. About rendition had the lid blown off it when in the wake of the libyan revolution in 2011 correspondence was phoned the pointed to western collusion. In 2011 after tripoli was liberated some human rights activists and some revolutionaries found an incredible cache of documents in what appeared to be the abandoned office of then the head of libyas Security Services and in those documents for the 1st time ever we saw evidence showing that there was a joint plot in 2004 to kidnap. Him and his pregnant wife as well as the libyan man semi or saudi his wife and his 4 children from exile in Southeast Asia and render them in other words kidnap them and send them back to that. To us and we could see diminished. Bubble. Zosia to you i didnt really see and walk out of the morgue for the true little time. Zone jeffie. Going to turn in what you manage to kill or the cia took them separated them and held them for several days at a black site thats a secret prison near the bangkok airport both of them were chained to the wall separately mistreated was beaten hooded all the rest of it and then they were put on a infamous cia rendition plane one of these planes that the cia flew people around the world to be tortured on to have to be. Made in her country a body. If youre. Going to knock it out im not. Out of. The women if you. Well its no. Great arrive in any. Case of Abdel Hakim Bahaji and his wife goes back to 2004 the couple were planning to seek asylum in the u. K. But they were persuaded by the british to travel to london via co. There they were arrested and tortured before being rendered to libyan intelligence headed by Mustafa Hussein a bad. Man and a mom. But i need. Only out of the nuclear to know number of course. And illicitly said libya you can imagine how and when i met that have you know either kind of the command of my. His fellow dissidents sami most of saadi also says he was rendered to the libyans by the british on the grounds that he was somehow connected to the Group Responsible for 911. 00 al qaida. Will offer to my or my. Dad. And i are in. On it and what i hear and lament i mean im. Well im not by anything you know either can i come in and. Work at the im in the lead in a can of. Yellow moon in. The morning or we have enough. Abdel hakim bel high and Sami Al Saadi were released from prison in libya in 20102011 respectively. Convinced of u. K. Involvement in their rendition in 2012 they decided to sue the British Government in the civil court for handing them over to the libyans to be imprisoned and tortured. 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In may 28th a libyan politician and his wife received a full apology from the British Government for having been rendered handed over by m i 6 to the gadhafi regime where they were present and tortured. They were just 2 of hundreds of gadhafi as opponents who were picked up abroad and handed over in a collusion between western intelligence and the libyan beginning at a time when gadhafi was supposed to be an enemy of the west. Bell hodge and fellow dissidents Sami Al Saadi sues the British Government in 2012 they were represented by human rights lawyers in london interviewed here in 2050 where the case was still going on well the key documents that we saw where what appeared to be faxes and correspondence between firstly what appeared to be from m i 6 to the libyan authorities notifying them of the presence of abdul who came by how to his wife fatima at that time in malaysia well the government has sent very blank defenses so far basically saying ignited tonight the events even those events that is supported by the documentation and what they have instead done is try to get the case struck out of course by saying that because the allegations involve the u. S. And other states in libya and malaysia. That it would be the cause here dont have jurisdiction to deal with it that it would be wrong because he possibly criticized the actions of other states at 1st the u. K. Government basically said you cant hear these cases at all here in britain because it will harm our relationship with the United States the americans will be terribly upset about it and so forth about it in fear of the hoist or. Why then. If you have a member atom of us and i want. To freeze and. Where and. When. She mostly has already. Mine i washed. The whole 2 feable are bound by women that were actually normally 7 cards over to my. Mother when i only have. One of the thousands of papers found after the revolution in 2011 was this one marked top secret it refers to libya u. S. Cooperation and to a list of names of socalled traitors which was given to the americans. Can at all food 1000000. 00 an area that it would help. How can i let me can but i think this isnt as you are well for unseeing well its only willingly and its the money for our war. And anybody. Little to put on. Someone bad then. Cut the number of brain your brain and. Up to an intimate 1000000 in and ask about something really really sickly. Based on the card well a bit on the hardest libya obviously. Isnt a 1000000 really really kind of open and. One of. The where they had a yemeni right. Lisa early. In the scheme. She has no holier parted when he finally. Asked for her to see the t. V. I want to lift the levy walk and when i. Was. One of the most significant finds in tripoli was a letter written by so moch al and then head of counterintelligence at m i 6 in march 2004 to the head of the libyan p. S. O. It says quote i congratulate you on the safe arrival of saudi meaning. This was the least we could do for you and for libya to demonstrate the remarkable relationship we have built over the years i am so glad that the british Security Services the cia and the libyan kidnapped children between the ages of 16 felt 12 and send them to get out. And i want to sit and then. There was more and more maybe. What they need. The civil cases. And. Run side by side but also id accepted an offer of compensation by the British Government. Bell hollows however wanted a fool apology from the government the former foreign secretary and former head of counterintelligence at him i 6 the British Government settled that case in december 2012 for 2200000 pounds in the short of the how mean. You. Then. Easy out all the. Way and. So i think that we know really what the truth is here and that the British Government knows that it has a case to answer up to how can bill hoge wont accept such a settlement because he wants an apology hes made it clear that he wants he wants a bit of good will to politicize what was going to have and also what was done to his wife mr bahamas for his part hes offered to drive his case and walk away from his Civil Court Case for just 3 pounds one from some are counted one from jack straw and one from the government and an apology and thats the real problem the British Government is worried about apologizing because they feel that if they do that theres a risk that former Security Service people who were involved in this kidnapping might be prosecuted and might go to jail and one of the even who won and yet to be finance be happy hump what were going to do on. And if you believe this we are going to america all of the. Kabul. If this were mainly. A we learned. What part of to when youre. Really where we are to that im here or in the here. If it is proved that british officials did torture anyone whether in the u. K. Or broad or involved complicit in their torch head they need to account to criminal law in the case im actually pretty confident that the Supreme Court of britain is going to say that of course torture victims have to have their day in court but the reality is the government will always seek to delay its an incredibly embarrassing case what case could be more embarrassing than british Security Services kidnapping pregnant ladies and sending them back to dictators like a daffy it doesnt get any worse for them while the British Government settled with Something Else saudi the Us Government appears so far to have ignored the whole rendition issue even though papers discovered in 2011 point clearly to their involvement according to Human Rights Watch documents show that the cia kidnapped khaled im sorry if im most of our marketing and rendered them to the libyans the men say they were detained and interrogated in afghanistan for over a year. The documents that were free found in the libyan Intelligence Ministry were very troubling they showed a level of cooperation between the United States the United Kingdom and the cia in their rendition of a number unlawful rendition of a number of individuals who were enemies of gadhafi back to libya it shows a deep level of collusion between the u. S. And the u. K. And libya it rendering individuals into gadhafi as hands at a time when we knew that gadhafi was mistreating abusing detainees in custody you saw the team. Just leave. A Little Europe about him about if you will and about as human a shard i want you know iran which i walk arm. And there john was a how much of a deal and i did mean in the middle of nashville and when he moroccan masoud are there are pockets my god then the men in clue gave them a kind of monopoly of us over that they can the men were only about that that im in a muslim. Or by the way the. The the amount of the United States believes and promotes itself as a country that believes in the rule of law and abides by its International Legal obligations but we know for a fact that the u. S. Has not done so in many cases especially with regards to its detention practices. In. The year or say that there. Theres a move for them. To hit back at more. With their behavior with the comes ashore again made it more difficult for the Bush Administration to carry out its program of torture they continued to do so but in a different kind of way. And since. The president Obama Took Office he did ban the use of enhanced interrogation techniques and actually has called the practices that occurred during the cia torture program torture the u. S. Unlawfully rendered numerous individuals into libyan custody where they knew that they were going to be. They were going to be likely tortured and abused but in addition before they even did that they held several of them in cia detention and tortured them brutally themselves so yes its a double standard and a double standard that the u. S. Absolutely has to account for if it ever wants to put this dark chapter in its history behind it and the muslim in america. And the meticulous and. Move them of the who are. Human rights words or one of the most of the with the what was aljazeera to the cia to comment on all of these allegations but they did not reply. Theres evidence that it wasnt just british and american intelligence who colluded with the libyans canada may have also been involved most of a korea a canadian citizen of libyan descent says he was tracked kidnapped and rendered to libyan intelligence he says he was accused of having links with socalled International Terrorism but that this has never been proved. It is melissa to move. Then who worked as hard. Yeah and he would marry mohammed im worried it could have the bus that im around a colony and read then and then i met my you know if you can it. At least im going to need it and i must be good to least i mean you made it a real market in this in order to them to do it on the island in a month on the ceiling. And if you cannot if you do it in court or you follow can you read any else with a mini back of the faint allusion about the maverick was the only. Candidate in correspondence between libyan intelligence and the canadians is a letter from the libyans saying thank you for the information about the arrest of the canadian citizen most of our mohammad korea otherwise known as father of the ally f. G. And the summer of 2002 we greatly value the information we have received on it and what it has about a bullet in the feet it was that. 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Limb or to be a man if it were according to korea the libyans had information on him that they could only have obtained through collusion with canadian or american intelligence this mood again have been at a time when gadhafi was still considered an enemy of the west had in my room a minute mr heel and you coolly she has and how to be a rally for be her. To me she has no how. Can it be a little thought. About how can it of the earth and if see. Duffield he will limit you to him fear of the weather may only you for what they know will be in a method and those that he and i could not as i wish well implement in the city and. All the free. Food and soft of. Gentleman and i and commitments and. You would. With a sheet of thought should work and should be you can. See wolf ill go get this document says that the americans wanted to know whether most of our mohamed korea had any information that might assist the 911 investigation. That mary. Had there was a lot that omara had a little been going gerty you away and clean it up that a cathedral. Where i do remember many of. The. Work was done what. And most of you knew dick and that the man who what when where and when cher were in jail by the unjust but you know lost. And out at her. Look at the look at that well look the weather was a lot i dont know us but i. Asked the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to comment on most of her clothes allegation they replied to say they do not comment publicly on specific cases but they are that our exchanges with foreign agencies are always guided by a political law ministerial direction and a robust suite of internal policies all to ensure that c. S. I. S. Is not complicit directly or indirectly in the mistreatment of any individual and that everything we do to keep canadas safe is consistent with canadian values aljazeera came across another case that of abraham we see another libyan opponent of gadhafi this time in our land. He says he was detained for questioning by the irish authorities before the visit of george w. Bush to arm in june 2004 this led to media stories saying he had links to al qaida. But the. Death of them well that and we dont have much. All. To him and that man ought to pull at that one but not by. A little can it learn the lesson more on what they. Are among wrong or want to doria or the commission on it most of what ork of it he said that he. Can feast officious combat in auto how many or most or all of the diffusion i had thought that in a little time can fit down a 1000000 american. Lundy. Or yeah i mean the level. Of it was of course on 30. Odd boosie is says that none of the charges against him in ireland was ever proved but that he was nevertheless put under house arrest and subject to travel restrictions. On some of the you know they have their ballot. The queen. Of the night out but i thought i thought i love so far at least all i need to have mac thats my but thats the look figure questions. Kind of telling me that and number 2 i think we have a. Link a lot of old but it was said by really human who looked at it. And then message had they were afraid i think im going to have any i think the stuff. Missing a im a buffett adam holy love you can test the unlit help or talk of me out of. South oh i thought of some of the short talk of the new senate the very kind of has said look i dont know if i can help and not the offer can move the senate. Aljazeera asked the irish authorities to comment on mr albritton your statement the Justice Ministry replied to say that they do not comment on individual cases they went on to say that given the international lakeshore of threat from jihad this type of terrorism the authorities here work closely on an ongoing basis with their International Counterparts in identifying and managing threats in this area. To for very injuries a dish crests holes in the 40 years of the hockey. Meanwhile back in the u. K. The. Just as had been turning in the case of the hakim. On the 10th of may 28th there was a dramatic development. The head of the British Government Prime Minister to resign may sent a letter of apology to bell harsh and his wife fatima and in the British Parliament the Senior Lawyer the attorney general made an announcement. On behalf of her majestys government i apologize reservedly we are profoundly sorry for the ordeal that you both suffered and our role in. The house had been waiting 14 years for this moment so his response was direct. You one bit earlier. And i still feel you are to very her. Be there was a t. And no one would have any if it is the fact that theres little. Fighting and their lawyers showed the Prime Ministers letter of apology to the assembled journalists. The u. K. Lost its way when it got mixed up in the rendition of an innocent pregnant woman and then to get off it just didnt but today i think it stood on the right side of history by recognizing its mistakes and by apologizing. Its important to note that although the British Government apologize for rendering the baha g. s to libya former foreign minister jack straw and former head of Counter Intelligence sadam i 6 so mark allen have not admitted personal responsibility or any wrongdoing in the case of bob. And fatima bush. Furthermore in october 20th the former head of libyan intelligence. Publicly denied any complicity in the torture of political detainee. 1900. Massacre at abu salim prison. Aljazeera spoke to Corey Krieger after the British Government apology for me the most important moment when the British Government apologised and bay was the part of the Prime Ministers letter where she essentially says we believe you. Abdelhakim in fact and i had to relive the absolute bottom the worst moments of their lives for 6 and a half years to fight this case and we know how survivors of torture and abuse like theirs are often silenced and disbelieved so for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to say in her apology we believe what you have said we believe that the cia and the libyans tortured you that for me it was the most powerful moment i dont think that the apology does totally close the rendition issue altogether for under the human fatuma it does it ends the chapter it ends the case they are satisfied thats the end of it but this isnt just a historical issue anymore is it so for example we know that gina has somebody who is at the very heart of the american torture and Rendition Program has been promoted to be director of the cia now and we also know that all around the world there are still security agencies with which the u. S. And the u. K. Cooperate every day who torture prisoners so right now as we speak in yemen the United Arab Emirates is running black sites in which detainees are tortured and which rape is used as a technique of torture and these are people within the u. S. And the u. K. Is in coalition and so i think that theres a real moral ethical and legal question for the Security Services in the u. S. And the u. K. About how closely theyre going to fly to Abusive Security agencies and what the line in the sand is really going to be. The Prime Ministers apology may have restored the British Governments reputation showing it was willing to try to write previous roles. But how did not to be for the tenacity of human rights lawyers it may never have been achieved on the same cannot be said of m i 6 and the cia 8 years old from the death of gadhafi its worth remembering that not every opponent of the gadhafi regime and victim of unlawful rendition by western television see agency as a joint the same outcome. Had are there plenty of scattered showers across northern sections of south america colombia across into venezuela and also. Western areas of brazil across into amazonas but not just that the southeast portion or brazil the rain showers few and really for the next couple of days well too bad temperature wise thursday 24 degrees celsius but very warm again into a song. 37 is the high for you on thursday and you brainchild the caribbean and Central America but we also get improvement across much of cuba and also across into haiti the Dominican Republic but as we go through thursday youll see these rain showers actually becoming a little bit heavier further to the south about across into southern mexico the yucatan peninsula but quite heavy really across much of the nicaragua and on through costa rica and also panama then across into United States not bad across the eastern half of the country out towards the west whole souls of weather warnings have been posted by the National Weather service mostly to do the very very cold air and this snow it is sweeping in across and all of them days as a head through wednesday and by thursday well have a long line of snow even to some lower elevations stretching all the way from colorado up through nebraska into minnesota and central areas of canada as well. The weather sponsored by qatar airways. Philippines president rhodri go to turkey says hes cracking down on a communist insurgency but some fear its a Deadly Campaign to silence his critics as the death toll rises one a one east investigates detergents new war on aljazeera. Aljazeera. Where ever you are. When youre from a neighborhood known as a hotbed of radicalism. You have to fight to defy stereotypes. But in the morning all chunks the stories we dont often hear told by the people who live them in almost one line when they. Sound the other boxset this is us. On aljazeera. This is aljazeera. Blogs the whole robin youre watching the aljazeera news our live for wired quarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes more Turkish Forces gather at the border with syria as russia calls for the curbs on Syrian Government told. Also one south africas university is also offering whats being called a hidden 100 crisis. But the curfew imposed ecuadors capital is over but now the government prepares for a new round of demonstrations and im lee harding with sports as wales but theyre playing at the Rugby World Cup quarter finals. Coming up the. Welcome to the program the World Leaders are expressing concern as turkey says its about to make a military push into syria or france says it stands by the Syrian Democratic forces who helped in the fight against eisel russia and iran are calling for restraint and dialogue turkey says the military offensive aims to bring peace and stability to the region president recipe earlier one has discussed the situation with the leaders of iran and russia syria has condemned ankaras plunder sol saying its determined to stop any aggression the syrian kurds have welcomed russias call for dialogue trial structure that has more on turkeys border with syria. The Turkish Military build up and preparations continue here along the turkish Syrian Border we saw dozens of military vehicles coming in this direction last night including tanks and a. P. C. s meanwhile we are also expecting that the f. S. A. You know this is the Free Syrian Army that the turks have backed in syria since officially the beginning of the revolution there will be participating in any kind of military incursion into syria we understand that if a sect if they say fighters were brought over to turkey from on buses last night military analysts expecting they could well be used in any kind of incursion from positions to the west of here meanwhile calls by the s. D. F. To the people in that area across the border to resist the turks and we have seen. Protests in the last couple of days in the town of tele ill be out which is behind me which was taken control of from i so by the s. D. F. In 2015 we have seen small protests happening across the border in the last couple of days meanwhile there are as you can imagine increasing concerns of any of a humanitarian crisis or a humanitarian crisis that could worsen bearing in mind that any kind of incursion by Turkish Forces could well force thousands of people to flee further south out of this border area into syria and there are concerns of by the u. N. That humanitarian aid getting cumana tarion age to those those people could well be an issue the situation remains very tense here the Turkish Defense minister has told local television that he says that military preparations and a deployment for a military operation continue. Now in an opinion piece for the Washington Post a turkish president ial aide has called on the International Community to support and preserve its to bring peace and stability to the region for tina says that turkey has no ambition in northeastern syria except to neutralize a longstanding threat against turkish citizens and to liberate the local population from the yoke of armed thugs regarding the white p. G. Who middleton calls militants he says if they are genuinely interested in fighting Islamic State they can defect without delay or they can listen to their commanders who say that they will fight the Turkish Forces in which case we will have no choice but to stop them out on then goes on to say the us has borne the brunt of the counter Islamic State campaign for too long turkey which has nato 2nd largest army is willing and able to take the lead now and drive it home. Meanwhile russia is calling for dialogue between the Syrian Government on the kurds over the situation in northeastern syria foreign minister Sergey Lavrov is on a 2 day visit to kazakhstan where hes been speaking to the media he said its important to reduce tensions in the region on tuesday moscow said it was not informed about the u. S. Decision to pull out american troops from syria. We have announced our situation regarding what is ongoing in northeast syria and on the Turkish Border with syria our situation is based on sorting out this issue only via dialogue between the former government and the representatives of the Kurdish Community living there we have been in contact with turkey and the other parties participating in a standard to convince them of to start a dialogue for solving this problem in this part of syria lets get more on this story for our White House Correspondent kimberly how to earlier in the day kimberly i spoke to step back in our correspondent in moscow who had actually said it had been very quiet from the russian perspective now were hearing the russians are also hearing gets more from the american president. Yeah u. S. President donald trump as he often does has taken to twitter on an Early Morning hours here in washington this time he speaks seems to be speaking directly to the American Public justifying why he has decided to withdraw u. S. Troops from syria why he believes this is the right course of action in spite of the fact that it is against the advisement of not only top pentagon officials but also in the u. S. State department u. S. President twittery writes the United States has spent 8 trillion dollars fighting and policing in the middle east thousands of our great soldiers have died or been badly wounded millions of people have died on the other side going into the middle east is the worst decision ever made in all caps the president does continue on with that in the history of our country and certainly the president is making the argument in the subsequent tweet that the premise for a huge troop presence in the middle east is more specifically the u. S. Invasion of iraq in 2003 was based on faulty intelligence that there were weapons of mass destruction which of course later that was proven to be completely not the case and this is something that resonates with us voters so it appears the president is speaking directly to the American Public that has long had war fatigue wanted to see u. S. Soldiers come back and well this is not a popular decision with the sort of the u. S. Politicians on capitol hill or those in the state department or the pentagon certainly it is an argument that resonates with many of the people who are not only casting votes in the 2020 u. S. Election but also may have had loved ones who died in many of those conflicts the u. S. Has participated in the last 20 years indeed the complete who is the president trying to speak to or repeat. In the week he threatened to but hes also no inviting president to other turkey to the want to toss a very sort of mixed message. Yeah and what it seems in all of this is that the u. S. President often speaks out of both sides of his mouth and this is another clear example of that trying to please everyone and in many ways pleasing no one what the president had said in his statement that he released on sunday night it was very clear that with this withdrawal the United States was paving the way if you will for the Turkish Military operation that has long been threatened now it does seem that democrats and republicans are trying to do something about this weve seen this twice already most recently back in january where there was a bit of an extension that was put in place after the register disapproval legislatively in the u. S. Senate in particular but it does appear that the u. S. President is specifically targeting in advance of the november 2020 president ial election the u. S. Voter in his message even as there are dire warnings coming from not just aid groups but even the s. D. F. That should this go ahead this military operation that it could have vast humanitarian consequences that would be particularly dire for the thousands that will be caught in the middle of this course well continue to follow events with you from washington d. C. Through that i think is complete now lets move on to a developing story coming out of germany where a manhunt is getting old and residents of an eastern city of being told to stay inside after 2 people were shot dead near a synagogue this is all taking place in the city of. Coincides with your poor the holiest day or of the jewish calendar lets try to get the latest now from dean barber who joins us from our european news center in london what do we know about this shooting for the moment that he was a German Authorities saying. Also German Authorities are being quite cautious because its possible that the attacker or attackers are still at large and could pose a threat to the public theyve warned people in the town of hollow which is which has a population of a quarter of a 1000000 people who want people to stay indoors and now the investigation has been taken over by German Federal antiterrorism prosecutors its being taken extremely seriously there are confusing conflicting reports about where and what happened we know that at least 2 people have been killed thats confirmed by the police at least one location involved shooting outside or near a synagogue in holland the head of the local Jewish Community has said that an attacker trying to storm the synagogue and then threw a hand grenade through or under the gate of a neighboring graveyard or cemetery but also in hala eyewitnesses said that there were shots and possibly a grenade thrown at a turkish kabob shop some way away a completely different location there are video there is video on social media which hasnt been corroborated showing somebody getting out of a car and firing and that person was dressed in military style clothes and a helmet which chimes with eyewitnesses to the the shootings in the howler the police have also said theres been a shooting 15 kilometers away in a place called lunsford but its not clear whether there is any link between that shooting and events in how or indeed and of course one line to see but we dont want to speculate too much here that if you have an attack on a kebab shop an attack on a synagogue potentially there is some sort of ethnic motivation here have there been any signs of that or any ethnic tensions in that region of germany. There certainly have just last month in the Regional Elections the far right a. F. Deal turn a t. V. Party came 2nd in saxon al house the state in which. Sits and they came 2nd in the nearby saxon state as well which of which the capital is dresden which is seen large far right rallies particularly by peggy to which is a well known anti Islam Movement now some members of the a. F. D. Party have been investigated or been put under surveillance for suspected links with far right activist street activists if you like nothing to confirm or suggest who might have carried out attacks on wednesday but certainly there have been ethnic tensions just this some of there have been there have been