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stain on the soul of america. >> russia is not achieving its strategic objectives. >> russia tried to deny any enlargement of nato. >> the social democratic party has concluded that sweden should join nato. ♪ live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with isa suarez. welcome to the show, everyone, it is monday, may 16th. we begin with the consequences of russia's war on ukraine. finland and sweden have announced they intend to join nato, reverse ago neutral stance held by the two nations for decades and really paving the way for major expansion of nato's military alliance direct...

Or talking points easy specially as he was talking about turkey invading northern syria and attacking the kurds, where we have been seeing casualties for days. let's start there, shall we. first off, we just have to be clear that the sdf, the largely kurdish forces who had been working with u.s. forces in the area to manage the isis situation and keep it at bay, basically almost a maintenance operation, they had taken tremendous casualties over time in this fight. this is at least formerly a u.s. ally who's been very helpful to the u.s. what the president said was they are not angels. take a l...

Secure them on this side of the border. they are very concerned that they are continuously going to end up being caught in this cro crossfire. they, however, in this particular town at least, those who were mourning here told us that they didn't want to flee because this was their land. thee these were their homes. they were also saying given the ties that they have to the kurdish population on the other side of the border, that they were pained by all of this. when someone on that side dies, they said they felt pain. when someone on this side dies, they said they felt pain, as well, george. >...

There's a major shift in u.s. foreign policy this morning. a withdraw, the trump administration has begun pulling u.s. troops from syria's border with turkey. that's where the u.s. has been fighting isis for years. >> the white house announced the withdraw last night. turkey's target, kurdish fighters, u.s. allies who worked side by side with our troops to defeat isis in the region and i should note that turkey views as terrorists. you can imagine how this will play out. pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins us with more. you're learning u.s. commanders knew or thought this was coming? >>...

Washington. we will send you now to brussels and andrea mitchell at the nato head quarter. >> before heading here tomorrow, secretary of state tillerson, he is in turkey, a nato ally, but in the talks today he failed to resolve big differences with turkey's president erdogan. turkey is dead set against the u.s. plan to rely heavily on kurdish forces that turkey views as terrorists. the trump white house is not committed to replacing bah shshl assad. >> we discussed options available to us, they are difficult options. they are different option that have to be made. the conversations, very frank...