Reporting fromashington, i am nada tawfik. The human suffering behind an international crisis. The first funerals a a held for those killed following turkeys incursion into ninthern syria. The former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine provides blistering testimony to congress, saying the president wanted her fired. Meanwhile, president rump says phe one of a deal with china has been reached. The details are thim, but the latest tariffs wont be imposed. Oh, man. Nada and wildfires sweep through Southern California. At l lst one person has been killed, and thousands forced to evacuate. Nada fothose watcng on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. The united natio says 1000 100,000 people have fled homes due to increased fighting in syria. Syrians and dozens of kurdish fighters have lostheir lives in the violence. Turkey wants to create a safe zone running 300 miles across the syrian border. Their aim is to deat kurdish fighters turkey regards as terrorists, and then to settle millions of Syrian Refugees there. Three people were killed yesterday in a turkish town hava been buried. Our International Correspondent orla guerin has more. Orla here is turks response to International Calls for an end to its offensive. Its forces continuing to pound northeastern syria, creating a new landscape of the displaced 100,000 people and counting in just three days. But turkey is paying a price. Full state honors today for two civilians killed to the border, seen here as martyrs in operation peace springs. One coin is childsize, for as baby boy called mohammed, just nine months old, a victim of rocket fire by Syrian Kurdish forces, their first retaliation for turkeys massive assault on them. And here, mohammeds family joined together in boundless grief. In the cruelest of ironies, they are rian refugees themselves. She cant hold back her tears. The muftftcalled on god to give strength to turkeys soldiers and bring a quick victory with few casualties. Then a final journey to the border town. At the local mosque, friday prayers came a time of mourning for muhammed, whose family fled syria six years ago. His mother gave birth to six girls before having a boy. Shsaid she waited 17 years for her only son. Now he is gone, and two of her daughters are in intensive care. Her husband battling his grief, s anger directed at kurdish separatists in turkey and kuish militia in syria. I call on gododo bring them failure, to block their path, and not to forgive them. Prers are being said here now for baby muhammed. When his family came to turkey, they were hoping against hope to find safy. Instead, they were caught up in another round of warfare. Muhammad was killed inside his home. As he was mourned here, other children were being mourned in syria, including a 1yearo boy killed by a turkish rocket attack yesterday. Muhammad was taken away for burial, a life cut short that leaves a broken family. Back across the border in syria, a car bomb. Islamistate said it carried out the attack, which killed at least three civilians. This is what many have feared and the kurds have predicted, i. S. Taking advantage of the chaos caused by turkeys invasion. Tonight we found more convoys ading for the border for an operation that has been widely condemned abroad but is strongly supported at home. Orla guerin, bbc news, on the turkeysyria border. Nada has the situation on the ground gets more and more complicated, there are reports that u. S. Special forces were caught up in the turkish shelling at one point. Apparently it was of mistake and no injuries were reported. Wesley clark is a retired fourstar general who served as supreme aled commander in europe, and he joined in a short time ago from little rock, arkansas. President erdogan said he would not stop this offensive no matter what anyone said. At the same time you have the pentagon hitting back on the accusation that the president greenliged this offensive. Fe what have you made of the administrations action so far . Gen. Clark i think it was clear that this is an action of turkey has long contemplated, and it mustveeen discussed months and months ago because nine months ago he announced that u. S. Troops would be leaving the area. This is why former defense d secretary jim mattis, the retired fourstar who was previously centcom commander,nd why he retired and put it his resignation papers in and left his position as secretary of defense, because he did not approve of this. Some troops were withdrawn, but basically the United States held about 1000 troops and maintain the border between turkey and the ypg. What has happened is that the president announced suddenly that he was going to pull these troops back. Maybe he didnt greenlight the offensive, but the fact that the u. S. Troops were pulled out of the way opened the opportunityty for president erdogan to move thoffensive forward without direct conflict with the u. S. Troops who were in the way. And so that is the issue. Ththe were our allies. They fought for us. We armed them, we asked them they have taken 10,000 killed on their side fighting isis. There is another 10,00isis people in jail or in prison and confinement camps that they have been guarding. All of this is now out the window. We dont know how this is goi to settle out. Nada the president has threatened sanctions. He also said he would be willing to mediate. Do you think that is enough . Gen. Clark well, we will find out if it is enough if the offensive stops, if the isis prisoners are maintained under control, and there is no harm to innocent civilians. The innocent civilians dont trust it, because they are definitely getting out of the way of what they see as the turkish aseeult that is coming. Nada you mentioned earlier the threat that isis posed. We heard from Kurdish Forces on the ground that a few isis prisoners have already escaped from prison. How likely is it that the group could come back togetherand can we trust turkey to contain them . Gen. Clark well, the group still has a functional commandandcontrol. There is still a structure, so these are the fighters, and if they get out there, the group will be alive and well. They p psed through turkey to form isi there were rumors that president erdogan himself had some role in approving some of the early isis targets like the assault on mosul. We dont have any definitive oof at least i dont at the unclassified level. Turkeys relatiship with isis has always been ambiguous. We are not quite sure what will happen if they come back alive. Everybody in this region has sharp elbows for everyone onse turkey, iran, iraq, syria. There are multiple motives. They all have contacts, common interests, opposing interests. It is a very difficult miation process if we get into it. Nada if we do see that threat again, could that spur International Action . How willing will european allies be to step into the u. S. s former role in syria . Gen. Clark it will be difficult to bring u. S. Allies in to assume our role if we pull out. We have a special relationship as americans with the kurds. We have spial assets that european allies simply dont have. If we are willing to keep o air and reconnaissance and commandandcontrol in place and we have great special forces units amongst nato allies, they could do a lot. Some of them are already in ththe. But can they pick up the whole burden if we leave . I dont think so. I dont think they will be willing to do so. Nada you were former commander nato forces and the nato secretarygeneral was in turkey today for talks. How mplicated is the relationship with turkey . Gen. Clark it has gotten increasingly complicated because president erdogan has territorial ambitions. How great these ambitions are remains to be seen. Some people said he would like to restore the ottoman empire. I dont think that is in the cas right now. But he would like to take back terrain that he believes has historically been part of turkey, up to 30, 40, 50 miles deep in some parts of northern syria. He would also like to dispose of the particular threat that the rds pose even though something polike 25 of the turkish population is kurdish. He views the ypk as associated with the pkk, which is a terrorist organization the turks have been fighting with for a long time. It will be difficult to sort this out before turkey accolishes its mil mary objectives on the ground. Once it does, then the inevitable call for retribution will come, the terrorist activities will start, and we wont see an end to this anytime soon. Nada general wesley clark, thanks so much for joining us. Gen. Clark thank you. Nada turning nowo u. S. Politics, because here in washington, the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine has testified that she was removed from her position on the orders of President Trump. Speaking behind closed doors to congressio dl investigators, marie yovanovih said there had been a Concerted Campaign against her based on what she called unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives. Her testimony comes as immigrants continued their efforts to learn more about the President Trump administrations ties to ukraine. To help us through this i was joined earlier with the bbcs anthononzurcher. Thanks for being here. This was really scathing testimony. What do you think she revealed about the way President Trump has conducted Foreign Policy . Anthony we have seen her opening remarks. We dont know what the investigators asked in her responses, and that will be interesting to get to. In her opening remarks she talked about how the trump T Administration is using private influence and personal gain over diplomatic judgment in conducting Foreign Policy, and she d with a stern caution, that foreign governments will learfrom the way the Trump Administration is using these unfounded allegations, and foreign governments could use fiction and innuendo to manipulate the u. S. Democratic system. I think shes not only talking about her own personal experiences, but painting a broader, darker picture about what could be ahead. Nada how much of an impact do you think hetestimony will have on the pace of the impeachment inquiry . Anthony there are a couple of things the democrats will take out. She is still a state Department Employee and the state Department Said she shouldnt testify. They issued a subpoena and she showed up anyway and without state department lawyers. This may be encouraging to democrats when they are looking ahead next week to other Government Employees andeople with connections to the administration who have been subpoenaed or requested to come in, including gordon sondland, u. S. Ambassador to the European Union who did not testify on monday because of the state department order. Now they are seeing that some of these people may come in, and whwhher they produce documents or not is an open question. But at least they will Start Talking to congressional investigators. Nada will more testimony by those Officials Force the white house to cooperate with congress, ngs President Trump going to hold firm . Anthony the letr to nancy pelosi was pretty stark, the reasons they dont want to cooperate with the probe, and while donald trump has backed away a little bit, saying if they provide more access to the republicans, the minorin congress from let them issued their own subpoennd called their own witnesses, they might cooperate. But pretty c carly are some eaks in the stonewall that the Administration Setting up. Democrats will get whatever they can from these witnesses. They feel like theres enough evidence already out in the open to make their case and reach some conclusion at the end of this process. Nada thank you to anthony as always for breaking that all down for us. A few hours after the drama on capitol hill, President Trump announced a substantial deal with china over trade. Speaking at the oval office, he described it as phase one of a broader agreement. To start, the tariffs planned for later this month on chinese products will not go into effect. I spoke to our Business Reporter vivian nunez from new york. Do you have anof wt is in this agreement . Vivian well, i think partial is the word of the day, or phase one. President trump says it will take three to five weeks to sign that phase one of the deal, but then it will be phase twtw gotiations and possibly even phase three. Couple of Key Takeaways is tha there will be a pretty big purchase of u. S. Agricultural goods. China has reportedly agreed to buy between 30 billion and 50 billion of u. S. Farm products. Other takeaway is, as you mentioned, the tariffs that were set to increase on tuesday will be suspended. We were expecting tariffs of 25 on 250 billion worth of chinese imports to increase to 30 on tuesday. That now wont we going ahead. Nada so, vivian, can global economies breathe a sigh of relief . Does this mean the definitive end of tariff wars . Vivienne i dont think they can be sighing just yet. Markets were optimistic during the day. Dow jones was up 500 points at but at the end of the day as the scant details started coming through, the market were supported and there was a bit of a selloff. This was the minimum of what could have been achieved. We are not seeing an escalation of the trade war, but not much progress, either. There are a lot of areas where there needs to be agreement. Mr. Trump said there had been agreement on things like intellectual property and currency manipulation, big concerns washington has about china, but we did not get detail on that. Nada all right, vivienne, thank you very much for that. Now for other news. Japan is bracing for its heaviest rain and when was in years as a tycoon edges closer. The typhoon with winds hitting 180 kilometers an hour is expected to make landfall on saturday. Shops, factories, and Train Networks are sure that. Jailed u. S. Rapper takashi69 has reportedly signed a record deal from behind closed doors. He has been facing us in the 40 years in prison on racketeering and firearms charges, but has testified against fellow gang members and ordered a reduced sentence. Yoare watching bbc world news america. Still to come on tonights program, how one mans efforts are helping those with catastrophic injuries by getting out and about. His story just ahead. Nada u. K. Authorities have arsted a 41 numeral man 41yearold man on suspicion of terror offenses. Police say five people were injured when a man with a large knife started lunging and attacking people. 3 of them were stabbed, but none of the injuries were lifethreatening. Officers were able to detain the suspect. They believe he was acting along with others. Reporter late morning in the main shopping area of central manchester, the center is being evacuated. Inside, please are seen running towards the danger. Some customers are locked in the shops, including one man who was joined by a woman who the attacker has just lashed out at. Going around and staffing other peop. It was not until police finally came in that they confirmed it was a real life real knife. Reporter five people were inred by the attacker as the shop goes into lockdown. It was scary. Hen the crowd comes toward you, it is quite frightening. Reporter from a tram caught up in the gridlock outside, a passenger films a man arrested by one officer is another one stands over him with his taser drawn. We do notnow the motivation for this terrible attack. It appears random, extremely brutal and frightening for anyone who witnessed it. We arrested the man, male in his 40s come on suspicion of terrorism because of the nature and circumstances of the attac reporter once again there was a large crime scene in the city, but police are investigating a link to terrorism. Two years after the arena bombing this is an alarming site. Then he, bbc news, manchester. Nada in Southern California, a sudden rash of wildfires has killed one person and forced tens of thousands tevacuate. Hundreds of structures have been threatened or destroyed as firefighters battle to control the blazes. Reporter winds are fanning the embers, buildings have been destroyed. To the north of americas secondlargest city, a major blaze is burning out of control. 1000 firemen are battling to control the saddleridge fire, but is a losing battle fueled by seasonal santa ana winds, with blazes moving at 800 acres an hour. At a wildlife center, these horses got loose but were corralled. Other animals had to be led to safety. But of the 100,000 residents already evacuated, many were forced to leave their pets behind. You can see the flames north of our stable. When we leave the stable to ride, we go out the back and there is a ridge right there and we call it rattlesnake ridge. I could see the flames over that ridge, and i said we got to go. Reporter they were not thinking of this when they named california the golden state. It is ironic that many in the path of the flames had been making do without electricity as the Power Companies cut supply in order to prevent a repeat of last year, when 40 power lines faulty power lines sparked deadly infernos amongst the dry brush. The fires have caused traffic chaos, cutting off freeways linking Southern California with the rest of the state. As the furious battle is waged from the skieski above, this, Malevolent Force of nature shows little sign of abating, unless the winds die down over the weekend, officials fear the maybe yet to come. Nada now to a story of on mans determinion in the face of adversity. Josh was just 18 years old when an accident on the beach left him paralyzed. He went on to graduate from high honors from law school and is now a trial attorney. He runs a Nonprofit Group which helps injured people make the difficult transition into living with paralysis. The bbc went to meet him. When i was 18 years old i was on a Family Vacation at the beach. I was in waisthigh water. I turned my back to the ocean, a wave picked me up and threw me and dro