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The streets of portland. we saw the mayor turn his back on the citizens of portland for his political ambitions. i don't know who is worse, that mayor or oakland or philadelphia or new york. there are a whole bunch of them and never accepted this president and will put -- out of the public safety of their citizens. ireland the portland mayor because he will hear about this, ice employees are taxpayers and citizens, he has a duty to protect them. >> portland's mayor ted wheeler responding to reports he ordered police to ignore 911 calls from ice agents calling them, quote, inaccurate and inflam...

Turkey's biggest opposition party the fifty four year old is an outspoken defender of the text republic as envisioned by most of like a mulatto and. he's a charismatic speaker and a harsh critic of add one. is turkey's first presidential candidate to run from behind bars despite international protest he's been in custody for a year on the health on terrorism related charges. represents the pro kurdish h d p a party despised by the turkish government many of those backing the forty five year old attorney all young voters. only three challenges. one to limit the powers of the presidency and see ...

A funds to turkey that could put some pressure on turkey particularly as turkey is the european european union is turkey's main trading partner and germany itself is number one thought but then turkey but the european union and particularly germany doesn't need to cooperation on the refugees there is this refugee deal that has helped to curtail large numbers of people entering into the european union that is particularly important to germany beyond that there is corporation on antiterrorism now all of these things make turkey a very important player turkey need aware of this and those that the...

Sanctions upon turkey. turkey and russia tight trading partners. how is this upping the tensions with the two countries? >> reporter: this has the real possibility of being devastating for turkey's economy. russia is turkey's second largest economy. they get 60% of their gas from russia. and people here are worried that tap could be turned off. especially in the winter. they also have a multibillion dollar nuclear power plant they are working with. to put the squeeze on turkey between turkey and moscow is very much heated. turkey is more conciliatory. they are saying they are right. becky ande...

Complicit in providing and sudan. if we are not looking farther down the chain. world's attention should be on iran. if you choke off their weapons. if you have a rocket you can't is -- >> there is no solution without iran in compliance within reason. there is nothing on the horizon. what is troubling even the loss of lives is the bigger picture. just recent history we have in effect lost egypt i think we're still sending a billion and a half every year. they say they denounce israel. turkey used to be our strongest ally in the area.