No one seems to own them so that's abandoned that's abandoned that house is abandoned since the meltdown 20072008 I haven't had a new house built in our commitment these stories and we reviewed last night's Democratic debate coming up during that news 1st. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Lakshmi saying President Donald Trump is digging in his heels on the decision he made to pull u.s. Forces back from northern Syria there by exposing Kurdish forces to a bloody military offensive by Turkey the Syrian Kurds had fought alongside American troops against ISIS for years until Trump's order came down when asked about that today during a joint news conference with Italy's visiting leader Trent did not delve into the atrocities Turkish backed militia allegedly committed against Kurdish civilians he said American lives the worse say we've removed all of our as we said 50 soldiers but much less than 50 soldiers. There now in a very very safe location heading into an even safer location and we will help negotiate we have tremendously powerful sanctions on the humanitarian situation has members of the u.n. Security Council worried N.P.R.'s Michele Kelemen reports on consultations under way over decision the President Trump describes as quote strategically brilliant President Trump says u.s. Soldiers are out of there and safe and the Turks and the Kurds need to work things out his ambassador to the u.n. Kelly craft is delivering a tougher message outside the Security Council the United States calls on Turkey to halt its offensive and declare a cease fire immediately vice president Mike Pence and Secretary of State might pay or heading to Turkey to follow up the u.n. Security Council president says diplomats there are worried about the humanitarian situation and the risk of terror suspects breaking free craft says the Turkish offensive is undermining the campaign to defeat ISIS Michele Kelemen n.p.r. News the State Department vice president Mike Pence has a turkey tonight in the wake of the black clash from Republicans and Democrats in Congress over President Trump's Cision to call back American forces in northern Syria former Republican Congressman Pete Sessions has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in New York and. P.R.'s Ryan Lucas reports the action is related to an investigation into 2 recently indicted associates of Rudy Giuliani the grand jury subpoena is seeking records and other information related to sessions interactions with Giuliani as well as to associates left Parness and eager Froman Parness and Freeman were indicted last week for alleged campaign finance violations prosecutors allege that Freeman in part us donated thousands of dollars to sessions reelection campaign and then asked him for help getting the then u.s. Ambassador to Ukraine removed from her post sessions later wrote a letter to the State Department expressing concerns about the ambassador Maria von a bitch if out of it was removed this spring from the job under pressure from Giuliani and others Sessions who lost his 28000 reelection bid is fully cooperating with the subpoena Ryan Lucas n.p.r. 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Some 10000000 kids a year globally were dying before their 5th birthdays but vaccines better food and disease control have cut that number in half that's a huge amount of progress particularly in lower income countries but Simon hay an epidemiologist at the University of Washington says the remaining numbers deserve a closer look countries like Colombia Guatemala Libya Panama Peru and Vietnam have all monies that the national level but he says that when you look at different regions within these countries disparities in wealth education health care I mean there are still pockets where child mortality is quite high his lead author of a new paper in Nature he and his colleagues estimate that over half the deaths are preventable paying long n.p.r. News u.s. Stocks are lower with the Dow down 24 points 227000 I'm Lakshmi saying n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. 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You are I'm Tanya mostly I'm Robin Young It's here and now so Elizabeth Warren may need some ice packs today she took a lot of verbal punches in last night's Democratic debate No one laid a glove on Joe Biden when it came to Ukraine and Bernie Sanders had a heart attack hard to tell 12 Democratic candidates met for 3 hours in the all important swing state of Ohio Health care was hot immigration hardly mentioned except for who the on Castro's line about Donald Trump letting ISIS prisoners escape in Syria while caging immigrant children on the u.s. Border let's bring in N.P.R.'s Political Correspondent one Khalid and Asma Elizabeth Warren she rose in the polls to match Joe Biden and one result tag she was it last night. That that's right I mean she came under scrutiny I would say from so many sides specifically than I began or ever say after sort of a little bit of question around impeachment we moved very quickly to health care and Elizabeth Warren has often said when she's pushed on health care questions that she's with Bernie saying that she supportive of Bertie Sanders Medicare for all plan but some of the candidates said that they sort of wanted more from her they felt like she was being evasive that she's not offering that much clarity on this and most specifically they say she has not explicitly acknowledged that taxes would likely increase if we were to adopt a Medicare for all plan she essentially feels like that's a disingenuous question that total health care costs would go down so she doesn't want to go there you know she says the money will go to pay for other things but here's Senator closure of Minnesota at least Bernie's being honest here and saying how he's going to pay for this and that taxes are going to go up and I'm sorry Elizabeth but you have not said that and I think we owe it to the American people to tell them where we're going to send the invoice so she Elizabeth Warren was taking most of those verbal you know hits How did she handle that in your mind. You know that's a really interesting question I think that she definitely seemed flustered at times by the salt of attacks in and part because they weren't just from one direction we had we had the mayor of South Bend Indiana Pete booted judge also multiple times push Elizabeth Warren and say you've got a plan for everything how is it that you have not articulated a plan for health care more specifically how you intend to pay for this all and these are lines of attacks in some ways I would say she should have been prepared for many of the candidates have been previewing these criticisms for weeks ahead of the debate but look this is the turf that that she has to play on at this point to me it was also an acknowledgment across the board from candidates that they now see Elizabeth Warren as a very clear threat as the potential front runner because we did not see so many direct jabs at the former Vice President Joe Biden as we saw directed at Elizabeth Warren Well let's skip to Joe Biden this debate came after weeks of President Trump and Rudy Giuliani telling falsehoods about Joe Biden claiming he had a Ukrainian prosecutor fired because the prosecutor was investigating a company Biden son was on the board of in fact Biden and others one of the prosecutor to investigate more but Biden's son Hunter also said this week it was wrong for him to be on that board the optics are terrible Anderson Cooper did ask one question of Biden but did you get the sense Biden if the candidate could handle this topic on the stage with Donald Trump. Gosh that's a really tough question to answer I think Robin in part because I was fascinated by the brevity of this entire moment in the debate last night you're right that Anderson Cooper asked one question to Joe Biden about this Joe Biden very quickly said you know essentially I did nothing wrong my son did nothing wrong and he wants the conversation to be focused on Donald Trump what I was fascinated by was the degree to which the moderators did not pose any of these questions to any of the other candidates so we don't know. Sensually how Donald Trump would handle this in a debate because how Joe Biden would handle this in a debate because he wasn't piled on on this issue there was just one single question from a moderator and then they quickly changed gears shifted the couple in fact Cory Booker came back later and said he thought it was an insult that it was even asked because it was based on a falsehood but Republicans are saying Anderson Cooper should have pushed harder so that sits there Bernie Sanders seemed to be very vigorous despite having had a heart attack couple weeks ago but just you mentioned the impeachment question candidates gave a range of responses where did they seem to be in agreement there's really unanimous agreement that they all feel this impeachment inquiry should be moving forward in the house they feel like it's necessary I mean there's gradations when they're asked about this whether or not they feel like this process needs to sort of play out through the appropriate mechanisms in Congress or whether they're sort of like Elizabeth Warren who has been very vocally calling for impeachment for months ever since the Miller report came out right quick lightning round who might we not see in the near future. Actually last night I mean so to that question Robin a number of candidates actually are still in this race who are not on the stage last night I think for example Montana Governor Steve bullett there's a whole bunch of them who are not actually on stage come November the donor threshold as well as the polling requirement that candidates will need to make it on to stage become higher their stricter requirements and so as a result that's why we saw someone like in a mea culpa Shar from Minnesota punching up at times because she has not yet qualified for that November debate that being said I don't anticipate all the candidates who won't make that debate to necessarily drop out some of them have you know been building up operations in Iowa New Hampshire we'll see n.p.r. Political correspondent Asma Khalid thank you so much you're welcome Turkish president. Says he will never declare a cease fire in northeast Syria defying international pressure and threats of sanctions from the u.s. . Turkey invaded Kurdish controlled northern Syria earlier this month following President Trump's decision to withdraw all u.s. Troops when asked about the Turkish operation today in a press conference and the Oval Office President Trump said they have a problem at the border it is not our border let's bring in n.p.r. Correspondent Daniel Estrin he's in the city of dough hook in northern Iraq and Daniel on Sunday Kurdish forces partnered with the Syrian army to combat Turkey's invasion how has that alliance shifted things on the ground it's created a vacuum because u.s. Troops are moving out and Syrian troops are moving in and there's a lot of panic among international aid organizations especially one aid worker told us that almost all aid groups are pulling out their international staff out of northeast Syria it's become too dangerous to be there with all the fighting and also too risky because the Syrian regime is said to be taking control events really of the entire border area and if they do take control of these aid groups have been operating in the region without regime permission and so they've been literally burning their documents to destroy evidence of who have been there for their own security and they're also worried about their local aid staff getting in trouble and then aside from the Syrian regime troops moving in Russia is playing a major role here Russia has been an ally of the Syrian regime it's been fighting along the regime for many years the Russians are the ones who actually brokered the deal between the Kurdish forces and the Syrian regime there's even one video on Twitter apparently a Russian reporter embedded with Russian troops in Syria showing himself standing at abandoned u.s. Base in Syria has even presses a button to operate a checkpoint barrier and you see a dog kind of wandering around it's a remarkable visual and symbolizes the shift in power the u.s. Out and Russia playing a bigger role. Vice President Mike Pence. Is leading a delegation to Turkey this week but it really sounds like he's going to get a cold reception as we said won't agree to a ceasefire until the Kurdish militia which we should also point out he views as a terrorist group leaves northern Syria what are you hearing about the prospects for a cease fire if at all no sign of a cease fire yet a u.s. Official told me that Turkish led forces are still carrying out their offensive and in fact yesterday an official said that Turkish backed forces came very close to a base where u.s. Forces were and put those u.s. Forces directly at risk of violating an agreement with the u.s. Not to get close enough to threaten u.s. Troops on the ground so still a lot of tension here and the ones who have been fighting on the ground are actually not Turkish completely themselves their militias who are Syrian Arabs some of them had been driven out of this area and they have a motivation to keep fighting because they want to come home. You mentioned the international aid groups on the ground and how risky it is for them you've been reporting on this impact of the fighting and the impact that it's had on people who live there tell us about some of the people you've met over the last few days well it's been really hard braking meeting people fleeing their homes as we were driving into Syria we saw pickup trucks on the side of the road packed with mattresses and we pulled over and we met a family of more than 20 people led by a 70 year old man the patriarch and he said that they were fleeing heavy fighting in their town and they were on the run for the last 3 days they were sleeping in the desert and he said his sons were not with him they were stuck in a town with heavy fighting where the roads were cut off and he said they are surrounded in their town and then he broke down crying and and he wiped away his tears with a scarf on his head and it's just horrible to see a grandfather cry and we met another grandfather at the. Very end of our trip who was also crying he was kissing his 4 year old grandson Goodbye his grandson was crossing the border into Iraq fleeing the violence with his mother and the grandfather said he didn't know when he'd see his grandson again. So many stories like that at the border there and a very chaotic scene I can imagine yes and as we were leaving Syria crossing the border we met many reporters who were I have to say teary eyed and they were reflecting on the fact that this could be a closing window on Syria if the Syrian regime comes and takes over this this border crossing and it really feels like a momentous point in history. That's n.p.r. Correspondent Daniel Estrin speaking to us from northern Iraq near the border with Turkey and Syria Daniel thank you so much You're welcome. And you're listening to hear and. 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