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Obviously being free leader of the world is a very difficult job and involves many competing forces and difficult decisions. this is a decision clearly that was made without a great amount of forethought and we are seeing the results of that now. we want to show you some images that we have been seeing coming out of northern syria tonight. the images are stark and disturbing and some of them are tough to watch. several videos, including this one, appear to show at least one man on a roadside whose lifeless body is being fired upon repeatedly. the man's hands appear to be tied. cnn cannot indep...

Propose new sanctions and said there will be new sanctions on turkey and plans to send the vice president to the region. thursday will mark the 1,000th day of the trump presidency. obviously being free leader of the world is a very difficult job and involves many competing forces and difficult decisions. this is a decision clearly that was made without a great amount of forethought and we are seeing the results of that now. we want to show you some images that we have been seeing coming out of northern syria tonight. the images are stark and disturbing and some of them are tough to watch. seve...

Northern syria. what more have we learned about the credibility of these atrocities? who might be behind them? >> well, first of all, the u.s. state department says these reports are extremely troubling. i saw some video and stills yesterday which came from credible sources. one shows the execution of kurdish fighters on a roadside by a turkish-led militia. the other one, a female kurdish politician was taken from her car, not only shot, but stoned to death. now, what we would have to say is one of those atrocities was carried out by a militia that is an islamist militia. remember that it's no...

Who we have now essentially sold down the river. and there's a long history of the united states portraying the kurds unfortunately. it goes back to henry kissinger. but every other time we've done it we've had a good geopolitical reason to do it. in this case it's opposite of good foreign policy. there is nothing that's being achieved here except a greater threat to the united states and europe and the destruction of our allies and our good name around the world as somebody who can't be relied on, geoff. >> richard engel has more from the region. take a look at his report. >> reporter: the u....

Live there. people are saying this is a kind of a cleansing of the kurds who have been living there and holding this place and helping the united states defeat isis. one other point, the town we were looking at, andrea, that town actually had u.s. forces there, a very small number, at an observation point. those u.s. forces, it was tiny, a handful, they pulled out and of course a few days later we've seen turkey move in. so we've seen a really practical example of the way that america and president trump reducing its forces has enabled turkey to move into this area of syria. >> keir simmons, p...