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And thereby worsen the fire emergency. needs are members including turkey and the united states are meeting in belgium as they try to catch up with events in northern syria turkey acting without its allies has formed a pact would russia to create a safe zone along its border with syria not long after the united states also a member of nato pulled its troops out of the region nato was on the sidelines is now struggling to speak with one voice german minister for defense on a great clown cotton ball had suggested an internationally policed safe zone a suggestion ignored by honey to ally turkey. is at the new nato headquarters in brussels and keeping track of developments there so terry nato ministers are holding talks on syria this as we keep hearing about flip flops on u.s. policy in syria what can you tell us what s the latest developments from there. ....
Cease-fire, as permanent as one can be in that part of the world. democrats and some republicans raising questions about the announcement from yesterday. it s too early to me to be congratulated. but we ve done a good job. we ve saved a lot of lives. it is one of the worst decisions in decades. it puts americans here in the homeland in danger. this is a fluid situation. i have no doubt we will be tested in the days to come. bill: so that from yesterday. this from today. lucas tomlinson watching the action at the pentagon. u.s. officials tell me the cease-fire is largely holding and to help keep the peace the pentagon is weighing a decision to add tanks to eastern syria to help secure the oil fields that president trump wants secured. that means adding more troops. in brussels his defense secretary called out his nato ally. turkey put us all in a terrible situation. i think the incursion was unwarranted and i think president erdogan was fixated ....
And filled the vacuum left by the u.s. they are the ones sending more troops to northern syria. it is the russians who have become the power brokers on the ground. the only ones able to talk to the syrian regime and iranians, turks and kurds. as if to prove that point today kurdish military commander who recently praised president trump for his help in achieving the cease-fire was talking via skype to the russian defense minister telling him i would like to appreciate specifically president putin s efforts in protecting our people and stopping the military operations. u.s. defense secretary esper lashing out at turkey for starting all of this. i ve been very candid about this. turkey put us all in a terrible situation. i think the incursion was unwarranted. turkish jihadi proxies are still carrying out attacks and ....
Northern syria. the u.s. lifting sanctions on turkey as the turkish and russian troops move into that area. fox news contributor dan hoffman former c.i.a. station chief. good morning to you. you ve served all over the world. what is your take on what we learned from yesterday so far? well, we ve learned a lot from the congress and their sentiment. totally understandable they want to sanction turkey for ethnic displacement of the kurds and the work they re doing with russia, syria and iran. we also heard from ambassador special envoy for syria jim jeffrey whom i know was ambassador to iraq. he expressed some concern about some isis prisoners escaping. and the lack of leverage frankly that we have now in the region after having removed our troops. he did say that even if our troops had remained they would not have blocked that turkish incursion. bill: i m looking at the wicked brew. how do you solve this? ....
Area where they have the oil and we are going to be protecting it and we ll be deciding what we re going to do with it in the future. sandra: as president trump announces a permanent cease-fire in northern syria turkey and russia reaching an agreement to dispatch their troops along the border. filling the void left by the u.s. troop withdrawal. benjamin hall is reporting live from northern syria for us this morning. benjamin. hi, sandra. just in the last few hours we ve been hearing reports of cease-fire violations a few hours to the west of us. hearing reports that turkish jihadi militias are carrying out drone strikes, fighting with guns, machine guns as well as mortar attacks. the fact is that people here on the ground do not trust the turks. they feel the cease-fire isn t going to last and we re hearing they re looking for more protection. the place they re looking and turning now is russia. it is russia who have come in ....