pressure ok part of it because any further you cannot fight one terrorist organization with another turkey has outraged many of its allies and partners with its military operations in syria and the whole catalogue of human rights violations against its own people my guest this week here at the foreign policy forum in berlin is turkey's presidential spokesman ibrahim kalin how does he justify his country's highly controversial policies. and they're brought. in cali welcome to comfort zone thank you let's start with mr jones trip to washington a couple of weeks ago. he went to change minds to change influential minds in the united states to talk about the justification for your military action in syria but he appears to have failed to change those minds comprehensively why did that happen do you think but for us to visit went well actually we have a good relationship with a trumpet ministrations some people that the congress will be with trump rather than movement a straight well if you want to make that distinction that's for domestic american politics. to comment about but obviously some p

pressure ok god of the week is any further you cannot fight one terrorist organization with another turkey has outraged many of its allies and partners with its military operations in syria and the whole catalogue of human rights violations against its own people my guest this week here at the foreign policy forum in berlin is turkey's presidential spokesman in bring him clearly and how does he justify his country's highly controversial policies. and the broad. view for him kalyan welcome to comfort zone thank you let's start with mr adie once trip to washington a couple of weeks ago. he went to change minds to change influential minds in the united states to talk about the justification for your military action in syria but he appears to have failed to change those minds comprehensively what about happen do you think but for us to visit went well actually we have a good relationship with a trumpet ministrations some people that the congress will be with trump rather than the ministration well if you want to make that distinction that's for domestic american politics. to comment about but

agreed with turkey in 2016 that turkey would attempt to stop syrian refugees from transiting turkey in an effort to reach greece and thereby to enter the e.u. and agreed in return that that it would pay turkey 6000000000 euros for that now turkey has long been complaining that it has not received the payments that were promised although it has upheld its and of the deal and in fact refugee flows did fall drastically after that agreement was signed now the president added one is warning and he did so at the press conference that as many as 400000 people in refugee in syria are once again on the road trying to flee the conflict area in heading for the turkish border and as we heard there from the chancellor she was very sympathetic to his request that the e.u. do more for these people they are living in tents they are their needs are being met by turkey and turkey itself has taken in 3600000 syrian refugees on its own territory as well so in fact what we heard from the chancellor wasn't specific reference to these refugees hart who are now being housed in tents within syria but being tak

this is why libya is as important to turkey as syria and this is why we see that for turkey it's not about several it's not about the government of national accord it's not about rescuing the libyan government even though that is what it wants to do at this moment in time it doesn't it it's a we're ready to accept any government in libya that is formed by the people or comes out of negotiations as long as half that is not the dominant force as long as the u.a.e. is not the prime influence as long as egypt is not the prime influence as long as france which has for many years prevented this development of turkish relations with the e.u. as long as france is not the primary power and we see from this agreement that's been signed between greece egypt and cyprus that turkish fear is are not unfounded they have reason to fear how can a country such as turkey be excluded from an agreement in the mediterranean sea the fact that it has been excluded excluded shows that there is a targeted campaign from egypt from israel and from greece to isolate turkey to prevent it from having access to the

efforts are made not to isolate turkey turkey is a player there's no question about that in these the mediterranean and again it's understandable that they feel a little bit isolated in this story so i think they're there to another challenge for the new leadership here in brussels is to try to find a way forward on easing the tensions in the relationship with turkey and the e.u. does need to tread carefully at the end of the day turkey is an absolutely key partner not least on migration then of course it is still a candidate for membership in the much longer run even if with the other one of ministration that is not so easy. at the moment but ways need to be fined found to keep turkey on board but right now the challenge is to get behind the un process in libya to provide a longer term stable settlement in that country and to do that i think is a top of the agenda for the e.u. gabriel michel from everything that i'm hearing here there is a certain amount of common sense and pragmatism to keeping turkey on side does israel believe that that sim porson so or is it a priority right. i t

so turkey the turkish syrian border has been close so turkey started building a wall at the syrian border in 2015 and the bore of a sport the wall was complete i think in 2017 so basically turkey already is use that over the last almost 3 and a half 1000000 syrian refugees in addition 260-0001 syrian refugees so it has reached its official capacity to hosts 50 g.'s so. i think it no longer wants. any morsy refugees and of course europe is also europe's interest also a line that turkey has interests in not having or if you're just swartz europe so that's kind of why their interests line in keeping refugees not crossing the border from syria to turkey so that's 5 germany's willing to provide more humanitarian assistance to turkey to keep effigies from it live in syria so that additional humanitarian assistance builds on the deal that was done between turkey and the e.u. in 2016 that attracts something like 6000000 euros in grants pretty much since it was signed president has been complaining that the money is not coming through and it's not enough in the u.k. the e.u. turns around and says

turkey doesn't want defeat or at least turkey's not going there to combat at least not initially i expect a very immediate deployment of $200.00 marines there to serve as a stopgap at least raise the cost of hop stars of pensive tripoli knowing that there is a turkish presence knowing that if any of them are harmed there would be a much greater retaliation from making the pop star and his felony think twice before bombing bombing tripoli president add one has tried to reach out to his nato allies especially his e.u. allies multiple times this is basically a last resort right now when diplomacy doesn't work unfortunately there comes a time where you have to flex your hard power and there is an important saying what happens on the military field the diplomatic table we're seeing turkey become more and more now the major player in not only libya in the north africa and the east and the middle east turkey is showing that it's not going to shy away and president add one is willing to use his military muscle to get the results he wants at the diplomatic table as well. and the other story we're

people all over the great concern the further you cannot fight one terrorist organization with another turkey has outraged many of its allies and partners with its military operations in syria and the whole catalogue of human rights violations against its own people my guest this week here at the foreign policy forum in berlin is turkey's presidential spokesman. how does he justify his country's highly controversial policies. and abroad. britain callin welcome to comfort zone thank you let's start with mr adie once trip to washington a couple of weeks ago. he went to change minds to change influential minds in the united states to talk about the justification for your military action in syria but he appears to have failed to change those minds comprehensively whether bad happened you think but for us to visit went well actually we have a good relationship with a trumpet ministrations some people that the congress will be with trump rather than move ministration well if you want to make that distinction that's for domestic american politics to comment about but obviously some people in the con

turkey is stuck in the eastern mediterranean. you have made serious mistakes -- tow you want to send libya and this is your last desperate attempt. >> libya requested this diploma from turkey. it has historical and cultural bonds to turkey and we could not be silent following this call. this is not the first request and it has been done before. parliamentarians cautioned against turkey running into what they called a quagmire that the civil war in libya is. they say the country has yet to recover from military intervention. there are voices of dissent. the ruling party and its affiliates. the turkish government has a moral responsibility to aid the u.n.-recognized government in libya against forces allied with haftar. but there are turkish interests at stake, too. the agreement is to position turkey to explore for oil and gas off the coast of cyprus. in competition with cyprus and israel. a pipeline to transport natural gas to europe by other mediterranean nations. has beenhand strengthened by the military cooperation deal and th

turkey is a sound nato ally. unfortunately not actually i think that took his role as being very destabilizing and very negative in recent years we saw all that and the strong statement amply displayed recently with it with this campaign and in syria turkey should be expelled no i don't think turkey should be expelled i think turkey is too important a nato ally for it to be expelled and of course took he has played a very important role in recent nato operations especially in afghanistan but i think the direction that took he's taking at this time is an extremely dangerous poff and turkey has to decide whether it wants to remain and could really to the western alliance or whether want to take a different different polls but i'm very concerned about the direction the tookie is is taking and took he really needs to make a very very clear choice in the coming years but i have to say i think that. popularity domestically is declining which is a good thing and i think a lot of took a very uneasy with the direction tha

violations against its own people my guest this week here at the foreign policy forum in berlin is turkey's presidential spokesman ibrahim kalin how does he justify his country's highly controversial policies. and a broad. brimmed cali welcome to conflict zone thank you let's start with mr adie once trip to washington a couple of weeks ago. he went to change minds to change influential minds in the united states to talk about the justification for your military action in syria but he appears to have failed to change those minds comprehensively what about happen do you think but for us to visit went well actually we have a good relationship with the trumpet ministrations some people that the congress will be with trump rather than the ministration well if you want to make that distinction that's for domestic american politics to comment about but obviously some people in the congress have a different view the ones he hoped to influence how to differ yeah and our president made a very clear to. actually for why we went in there because our goal has been to clear our border with syria from mor

pressure ok part of the take is any further you cannot fight one terrorist organization with another one turkey has outraged many of its allies and partners with its military operations in syria and the whole catalogue of human rights violations against its own people my guest this week here at the foreign policy forum in berlin is turkey's presidential spokesman in bring him clearly how does he justify his country's highly controversial policies. and the brought. him coming welcome to comfort zone thank you let's start with mr herder once trip to washington a couple of weeks ago. he went to change minds to change influential minds in the united states to talk about the justification for your military action in syria but he appears to have failed to change those minds comprehensively what about happen do you think but for us the visit went well actually we have a good relationship with the trumpet ministrations some people that the congress will be with trump rather than the ministration well if you want to make that distinction that's for domestic american politics to comment about but obvious

so turkey the turkish syrian border has been close so turkey started building a wall at the syrian border in 2015 and the bore of us the wall was complete i think in 2017 so basically turkey already is you sacked over the last almost 3 and a half 1000000 syrian refugees in addition 260-0001 syrian refugees so it has reached its official capacity to host refugees so for that matter. i think it no longer wants. anymore see refugees and of course europe is also ups interest also a line that turkey's interest in not having or if you just swartz europe so that's kind of why they are interests align in keeping it if it is not crossing the border from syria to turkey so that's 5 germany's willing to provide more humanitarian assistance to turkey to keep it for just from it live in syria so that additional humanitarian assistance builds on the deal that was done between turkey and the e.u. in 2060 trucks something like 6000000 euros is it grounds pretty much since it was signed resident has been complaining about the money is not coming through and it's not enough for the e.u. turned around and s

i think russia and turkey have some sway i think couper the government in tripoli turkey are no really the only backers but it's also important to see that egypt and behind them so do rebel are also major in this supporting the other site and i don't know how much control. how much attention there will be to a deal brokered between russia and toki given the antagonism exists particularly with so. there's another complicating factor in here it's been you know saudi money gyptian military cooperation which is be fueling that war and the takeover of much of the country so far and of course we have mentioned a that it intends to send its troops to the region to think that that might make all sides think again about the conflict if you think it will actually fuel hostilities. i hope that i took a look at this because really i think that when a bit of a hiding to nothing here unless they're seriously talking or committing major forces to try and bail at the government in tripoli which no seems to be on its last legs so i think they may be looking at this and realizing they're potentially bei

and turkey edges closer to sending troops to war torn libya lawmakers are due to vote on a proposal for military intervention that could end up escalating the conflict in that country. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us australia has ordered mass evacuations of coastal communities as bush fires rage across the southeast navy ships and aircraft are delivering food right now in water as well to thousands who fled the town of molecules and took refuge on the local beaches the worst summer wildfires on record have left at least 18 people dead. and now the devastating $24.00 alice and this is what's left of the coastal town of. with cooler conditions on wednesday firefighters and residents took a moment to count the costs a once popular holiday distillation now looks like a war zone. all of my position. is just simply nothing. military ships and aircraft have been deployed to provide humanitarian assistance bringing in much needed food and medical supplies at least 18 people have been killed in the fire so far and almost 1300 homes destroyed. a few residents stayed behind determined

turkey's parliament prepares to vote on troop deployment to libya in tripoli his fight against the warlord khalifa haftar. i'm having a good scene and this is al jazeera live from doha and also coming up greece israel and cyprus are expected to sign up quite plain agreement that's at olds with turkey and libya's bruns in the same area. taiwan's top military officer is among 8 people killed in a helicopter crash. and a dramatic rescue industry ilia the navy helps thousands stranded by fires in one coastal town. while we begin in turkey were parliament is expected to vote in the coming hours on a government motion to deploy troops to libya supports the u.n. recognized administration in tripoli that's been fighting against the warlord holly for have to are his forces launched an offensive to capture the capital last april night turkey says its troops will protect its rights in the mediterranean and its interests in libya and tripoli have recently signed deals on military cooperation and maritime bones of rees but opposition parties in turkey are against the government leaf they say on christm

turkey as a sound nato ally. unfortunately not actually i think that took his role as being very destabilizing and very negative in recent years we saw all that and the strong statement amply displayed recently with it with this campaign and in syria turkey should be expelled no i don't think turkey should be expelled i think turkey is too important a nato ally for it to be expelled and of course took he has played a very important role in recent nato operations especially in afghanistan but i think the direction the tookie is taking at this time is an extremely dangerous poff and turkey has to decide whether it wants to remain and could really to the western alliance or whether want to take a different different polls but i'm very concerned about the direction that tookie is is taking and took he really needs to make a very very clear choice in the coming years but i have to say i think that. popularity domestically is declining which is a good thing and i think a lot of took a very uneasy with the direction tha

is not good on the conflict in turkey which on the top conflicts rather in syria which turkey old saw a negotiated a cease fire with the russians to one said that this ceasefire in the province to last a rebel held stronghold in syria must be conducted in a way to prevent war migrants from coming into turkey and he said that turkey is determined to stop the syrian government from violating this cease fire if necessary let's bring in. correspondent who's on the line from ankara turkey so. 2 conflicts of course where the turks have been heavily involved in mediating a cease fire both in libya and turkey let's start with libya because this is where they've been some developments in the last few hours with this meeting in moscow ending without a breakthrough between the warring sides and the turks very disappointed in the outcome of those talks in moscow. indeed just before. the press the party members of parliament the foreign minister who was one of the big figures in. this is a pretty little still in moscow told reporters he entered the building due to feel there was no point in having

hold talks on russia turkey relations and the escalation of the situation in the middle east. i comes as the latest on to say launch the tux to a natural gas pipeline later today the project will supply the turkish on the e.u. markets with russian gas let's go live to our correspondent in trying to his in the turkish city of istanbul now area as from another major russian natural gas projects can you tell us more about it. guys good afternoon well just how well things are going with the turkish stream pipeline project that's the one in the waters of the black sea i guess it is fair to say that the this is some real sound compensation after the storm the path of the pipelines northern brother let's put it this way the north string to i can tell you that following the american round of sanctions the latest ones that the imposed project have to be caused but the americans i can tell you they were keen to derail the turkish train pipeline project as well but the commitment on a personal level from the governments of both leaders of russia and turkey vladimir putin and tyburn to la

turkey is in syria illegally because the black check you see from america turkey goes in syria iraq illegally because of the blank check in the same now we have and now we have and now we have a libya coming up yes what's what we're up against says in public pizza is very different what he says in crimea in public he has to come across as this strong leader he's telling the turkish people no one will tell me what to do in private circles he same fans very different to the americans if another candidate wants to make good on his pledge that turkey is independent and would do as it pleases then leave nato tell the americans to pack up their military bases and tell the americans to look we've joined then you can a warrant but of course he's not going to do that the turkish state is unbelievably circumvent the other way you're sleeping with where you're saying our case is that the the the western alliance needs turkey more than turkey needs the western alliance is that what you're saying that's the kind of leverage they have. it's turkey survivals insert he's power that it exerts today

more involved in this conflict so what does turkey want from the us. well turkey is trying to prevent general hacked are from taking over the entire country because they have a good relationship with the government based in tripoli they had just recently signed a maritime agreement so that they could carve out the drilling rights and then it's rainy and they're feeling more isolated economically because of some trade deals that have taken place with other countries in the mediterranean and there also has been benefit they also been benefiting from construction contracts that they have been given by the tripoli government which have been really financially lucrative and they also fear that have tar is targeting ethnic shirks and ethnic turks and the 3rd biggest group in libya after arabs and burgers and there were cases of turkish ethnic libyan turks being arrested and being targeted because after had even bombed the town of misrata which has a heavy ethnic turkish element to it so beyond the fact that turkey does want to have a creator sphere of influe

agreed with turkey in 2016 that turkey would attempt to stop syrian refugees from transiting turkey in an effort to reach greece and thereby to enter the e.u. and agreed in return that that it would pay turkey 6000000000 euros for that now turkey has long been complaining that it has not received the payments that were promised although it has upheld its and of the deal and in fact refugee flows did fall drastically after that agreement was signed now the president added one is warning and he did so at the press conference that as many as 400000 people in refuge in syria are once again on the road trying to flee the conflict area in live heading for the turkish border and as we heard there from the chancellor she was very sympathetic to his request that the e.u. do more for these people they are living in tents they are their needs are being met by turkey and turkey itself has taken in 3600000 syrian refugees on its own territory as well so in fact what we heard from the chancellor was in specific reference to these refugees hard who are now being housed in tents within syria but being

pro egypt anti turkey forces libya will join that maritime choko to what turkey wants to achieve therefore it wants to make sure that the government of national accord the united nations the government recognized by the united nations continues to have a seat in the government take is frustrated that the e.u. has watched the u.s. is watching russia is supporting after front supporting after egypt supporting after the u.a.e. supporting after saudi arabia supporting have that everybody is backing forces aside from the international recognized government turkey saying look guys this is the internet she recognized government this is a government came about by negotiations this is the government that we should be supporting that we should be protecting and given that nobody else is going to go into protected i'm going to go in to protect it it's not necessarily because of libya's interest but it's primarily because tech is worried about this so-called falling and given that nobody's going to do anything about it turkey feels that it's the party that should do it and sami it's an interesting poi

a used 2016 refugee deal with turkey will most likely be up for discussion so under that agreement turkey must stop migrants from crossing into a new territory in exchange for billions of euros to help look after the refugees it hosts. are one has warned he can't uphold his end of the deal if fighting in syria as it looked province causes more people to flee. medical though is likely to edge out a want to stick with the pact. finally germany will probably seek answers over the issue of german nationals detained in turkish prisons all banned from leaving the country so much joel turkish nationals and have suffered under the government's crackdown on dissent following the failed military code 3 and a half years ago. let's go right to data views yulia hunchy is covering the german chancellor's visit to istanbul for us hi yulia what is topping the agenda there. well both chancellor merkel and prison edwin will soon be talking to as journalists and after that i will for sure be able to tell you more what is an important issue for prison edwin is the libya crisis is a turkey got militarily invo

where turkey's foreign minister met. with the country's leaders let's listen in to this press conference following. with the foreign minister. briefing. the prime minister on the developments unfolding of the past 2 weeks also on the economic and social. conditions in iraq and the prospects following the vote by the parliament in favor of the withdrawal of the us troops from iraq. in. the turkish foreign minister has presented his views. to his character parts he also met with the president in 2. separate sessions one with in presence of both the delegations and the 2nd was in camera where they discussed by lateral relations and other issues of interest including the developments taking place in the region and the dire need for stability not only in iraq but in the region also here in the foreign ministry we have conducted extensive discussions with the turkish foreign minister these discussions were centered on bilateral relations and the means to boost relations to the end of both our countries in addition to other reg

turkey could send troops to libya washington has form when it comes to the u.s. relationship with libya does that complicate the hinterland and kind of make things more complex than perhaps they would be. it does because trump was telling airto on any foreign intervention in libya complicates the matter that's coming from the president united states and let's remember 2011 it was a nato and you had led effort that removed moammar qaddafi from power in libya that most people believe led to the situation that we're seeing in libya right now the country completely divided so it was president barack obama at the time the red lighted or green lighted i should say that effort to overthrow qaddafi and he was asked after he left the presidency obama was what was one here biggest regrets of his presidency and his answer was clear he said it was not planning for what came after qaddafi in libya so it's clear that the u.s. has a lot of scars when it comes to their intervention in libya and i think you seeing that now in washington with the trumpet ministration really not kn

the bargain summit and just to define a word than turkey's long game we see turkey playing an increased military role in northern syria we see it in libya as well we see it buying russian military systems rather the nature of military systems is this part of a coherent turkish strategy. if so what it is. i wouldn't call it i will rephrase the question and i would rather think of it more in terms of turkey's changing foreign policy in parallel to turkey changing power configurations within the turkish states so it's kind of like a deflection off. different kind of configuration of different activist within the state especially within the military following the coup attempt in 2016 so that's means the following since the coup attempt in 2016 turkish nation security has adopted the more if you will agnes it and want more kind of like pushing an approach so that's i think both the military incursions in order and syria and now the engagement in libya as well as in is some mediterranean that the guests are feeling in cyprus all i think reflections off this changing national security approach

well turkey's parliament has passed legislation authorizing a one year deployment of troops to libya turkey supports libya's internationally recognized government in tripoli the motion gives anchorage the green light to send turkish soldiers to the libyan capital it says that the deployment is necessary to defend the government there against forces loyal to the powerful warlord khalifa haftar turkey says that if the government is toppled it would bring further instability to the region. correspondent daryn jones is on the story for us from istanbul good to see dorian how broad was the support in parliament for turkey's military deployment in libya. well the government only had the support of its coalition partner national action party while all the opposition parties voted against although the government is secure the motion of a comes to majority of well over a 100 but in that the but in the debate in parliament it was a pretty feisty debate with the opposition accusing the government of risking what they say was muslim blood for an unnecessary operation they said diplomacy should h

turkey is in syria illegally because the black check it sees america turkey goes in syria iraq illegally because of the blank check if the say now we have and now we have and now we have a libya coming up yes what's what we're up against says impossibly pates is very different what he says in crimea in public he has to come across as this strong leader he's telling the turkish people no one will tell me what to do in private circles he same fans very different to the americans if another candidate wants to make good on his pledge that turkey is independent and would do as it pleases then leave nato tell the americans to pack up their military bases and tell the americans to look we've joined then you can a warrant but of course he's not going to do that the turkish state is unbelievably circumvent the other way you're sleeping with where you're saying our case is that the the the western alliance needs turkey more than turkey needs the western alliance is that what you're saying that's the kind of leverage they have. it's turkey survivals insert he's power at it exerts today in eastern m

'd i think russia and turkey have some sway i think couper the government in tripoli turkey or no really the only backers but it's also important to see that egypt and behind them so do rebel are also major players in this supporting the other side and i don't know how much control. how much attention there will be to a deal brokered between russia and tolkien given the antagonism exists particularly with so. there's another complicating factor in here is the u.n. backed government is no essentially only high in all in a coastal strip of the country has very little control it has the capital yesterday but very little else is just lost the major city of sirte so i don't see the other side. appearing to be the age of victory backing off necessarily here but on the other hand we desperately need peace and the people of libya deserve peace so let's hope that this deal can be pulled off to give the long suffering people of libya piece. that brings you up to date we're back with more in about half an hour's time don't forget they plenty of stories too to look at on our web site at r.t. dot com

turkey is in syria illegally because the black check you see from america turkey goes in syria iraq illegally because of the blank check in the same now we have and now we have and now we have a libya coming up it's what's what we're up against says in public pizza is very different to what he says in crimea in public he has to come across as this strong leader he's telling the turkish people no one will tell me what to do in private circles he same friends very different to the americans if another candidate wants to make good on his pledge that turkey is independent and would do as it pleases then leave nato tell the americans to pack up their military bases and tell the americans to loot so we join then you can or warrants but of course he's not going to do that the turkish state is unbelievably circumvent the other way your solution with where you're saying our case is that the the the western alliance needs turkey more than turkey needs the western alliance is that what you're saying that's the kind of leverage they have. it's turkey survivals insert he's power that it exerts t

all in full line which is the 2nd major fault line for turkey and turkey has suffered a lot from the earthquakes for now it seems the earthquake the impacts of the earthquake have scattered in different districts different cities. the number of that that is not so high so far but of course depending on the situation depending on how the buildings are damaged the numbers can increase we are going to continue following up the story for you as as a situation will be clear of course at sunrise for the moment as you know secular with the latest from istanbul thank you. it watching al-jazeera and more still to come on the program including as turkey announces more troops for libya to support the un recognized government german chancellor angela merkel urges opposition forces to join the cease fire and on her last day in davos a great upturn bird demand for action on climate warning deniers are damaging the world. we've got some very heavy rain in the forecast for northern parts of australia as we go on through the next couple of days will see that wet weather gradually pushing across the c

violations against its own people my guest this week here at the foreign policy forum in berlin is turkey's presidential spokesman. how does he justify his country's highly controversial policies i've spoken and abroad. in cali welcome to comfort zone thank you let's start with mr arthur once trip to washington a couple of weeks ago. he went to change minds to change influential minds in the united states to talk about the justification for your military action in syria but he appears to have failed to change those minds comprehensively why did that happen do you think but for us to visit went well actually we have a good relationship with the trumpet ministration some people that the congress will be with trump rather than move ministration well if you want to make that distinction that's for domestic american politics to comment about but obviously some people in the congress have a different view the ones he hoped to influence had a different yeah and our president made a very clear case act. so the for why we went in there because our goal has been to clear our border with syria from mo

turkey is in syria illegally because the blank check you see from america turkey goes in syria iraq illegally because of the blank check if the say now we have and now we have and now we have a libya coming up. yes what's what will it again says in public is very difference what he says in crimea in public he has to come across as this strong leader he's telling the turkish people no one will tell me what to do in private circles he same fans very different to the americans if erdogan wants to make good on his pledge that turkey is independent and would do as it pleases then leave nato tell the americans to pack up their military bases and tell the americans to look so we've joined then you can or warrants ringback but of course he's not going to do that the turkish state is unbelievably circumvent the other way you're sleeping with where you're saying our case is that the the the western alliance needs turkey more than turkey needs the western alliance is that what you're saying that's the kind of leverage they have. certainly survivals at cirque he has power at it exerts today eas

turkey's parliament has voted in favor of sending troops into libya to help the country's u.n. recognized government tripoli has been trying to repel the wall or to leave a half to us forces he perceives the capital since april. in australia for weeks on stays with merchants he has now begun in new south wales as more devastating bushfires forecast for the weekend tens of thousands of people have been ordered to leave parts of the southeast at least 8 people have died just this week 28 others are known to still missing. ok let's go back to what's going on right now pretty much towers are in real time near the international airport in baghdad osama bin joins us some of developments coming in thick and fast what do we know. absolutely in the last few minutes we've heard from sources in the public normalisation forces did not. think that there is no credible student reports of the killing or not yet i'm on this or possum to lend money to figures that rumors were flying on social media who might have been among those ready killed to commit the crime b culpable as they can for the t

kyra has in the past warned that if turkey did carry out any military deployment it too could follow up and back military of support of hostile forces and that's been the big concern across the region that if turkey does get involved in libya militarily steps up the supply mental forces this could be told why the escalation of the conflict and that is sending alarm bells ringing not only in the region but also in europe which it fears could lead to a further exodus of refugees and even washington does appear to be concerned we understand that president trump has after the vote spoke with president libya was a top of the agenda of those talks all right our correspondent there. reporting from istanbul as a tech is part of process legislation authorizing a one year deployment off troops maybe a thank you daryn. no woman and her 2 adult daughters have turned themselves into both origins in western germany following a father that devastated as to killing dozens of animals but they say that the women admitted to ordering paper sky lanterns on the internet partly on aware that they are ille

counterparts turkey and russia's support of posing sides of the conflict in libya. has more from moscow. these negotiations are as they are being called will take place during the course of the day and also highly for a half hour is considered to be part of these meetings it's not clear exactly how the meetings are going to be held if it separately or all together at one stage but the aim is certainly to have a signature under a cease fire agreement which was brokered by the russian and turkish president last week in istanbul. there's been a 2nd day of protests in iran after the government admitted its military mistakenly shot down a ukrainian airliner last week killing 176 people demonstrators have been defying a heavy police presence in the capital tehran 3 teachers have been killed in kenya in a suspected aton by al-shabaab fighters a primary school was attacked in a nearby police station set on fire in the near the border with somalia which is linked to al qaeda has killed hundreds of people in both somalia and kenya in years of attacks aimed at imposing its ver

did agree on a deal with turkey whereby turkey would receive up to 6000000000 euros in return for halting flows of syrians fleeing the war seeking refuge and attempting to transit turkey to get to greece and thereby into the e.u. and turkey did significantly halt that flow of refugees but it says that it has not been receiving the money it was promised by the e.u. turkey is now host to 3600000 syrian refugees resentment in the country is building because they pose both a financial and also a social burden and therefore turkey is looking for that money from the e.u. it also would like to see syrian refugees resettled from turkey in a safe zone in northern syria the e.u. has been very reluctant to support that so as you said president out of one has repeatedly threatened to renege on his side of the deal and open the gates and we're not sure yet whether he did that once again in this meeting with the chancellor but certainly it wouldn't be surprising at the same time we should also say that the turkish president is also really a key part of chancellor merkel's efforts to find a political so

well turkey's parliament has passed legislation authorizing a one year deployment of troops to libya turkey supports libby's internationally recognized government in tripoli now the motion gives ankara the green light to send turkish soldiers to the libyan capital it says that the deployment is necessary to defend the government there against forces loyal to the powerful warlord khalifa haftar. correspondent daryn jones is on the story for us from istanbul good to see dorian how broad was the support in parliament for turkey's military deployment to libya. well the government only had the support of its coalition partner national action party while all the opposition parties voted against although the government is secure the deployment motion with a comes to majority of well over a 100 but in that the buy in the debate in parliament it was a pretty feisty debate with the opposition accusing the government of risking what they said was muslim blood for an unnecessary operation they said the problem is he should have been allowed to take his course before deploying forces and the obvi

turkey is pursuing under president air to one if you will a turkey 1st let's see a transactional foreign policy much like donald trump does so of course turkey wants to remain a member of nato of course turkey wants good relations with the european union but turkey wants to be important in its own right that's why it wants to become a transit hub for natural gas turkey is receiving gas from us or by john from iran from russia as we've just been saying but also a lot of liquid natural gas believe it or not from the united states so turkey wants to be the key actor geo politically and economically in the eastern mediterranean and this is taking some steps to assert those interests ok matthew brice get your thoughts thank you so much for talking to scare on al-jazeera thanks alex. my former nissen chairman collins cohen is holding his 1st press conference just days after fleeing japan where he was awaiting trial gone has been in lebanon since last week in japan he was right on bail after being charged with financial misconduct but he still managed to leave the country in though he had been

germany's chancellor angela merkel and turkey's president. speaking in istanbul after meeting today to discuss libya syria and migration let's they've just got a press briefing that's listening i've been very useful. we. have integrated the german turkish university and the new building of the versity this is a cornerstone in the relations between germany and during my relate my talks with the americas and we have discussed those and we had talked about the regional development the situation in libya the situation in syria and we also spoke about the strong relations of friendship between our both countries. we confirm that the coming steps will be for the sake of germany. and the region the regional development made us clearly that we need to have good relations in the investment in there and the j. in reserve and we agreed to increase our partnership in all of these domains this is very important for both our country as we need to stay with relations more and more. when it comes about the conference in germany we agreed that they start or n

and mara just reminds us of turkey in the. ceiling agreement in. history supporting you and the government. comparing themselves with other countries. with a general. who they call here who. has been trying to gain influence in libya since the fall off from one of. these give them that part which in a tease. we do just that and then there is the lot of time boundary agreement it's signed along with the military corp which is being implemented now and getting gratification in parliament lot gives turkey going into territorial claims in that is the mediterranean sea and also through all of those partnering for the works of greece turkey greece cyprus and israel in the out a plan and project of various will not only extract the gas but also ship it through the mediterranean sea they wouldn't be able to do that. without. import ok mohamad abdalla for now thank you very much in. libya has been scarred by violence and to fight it by conflict since the fall of moammar gadhafi 9 years ago. looks at how the oil rich nation go to where it is 9. august 2011 a

i think russia and turkey have some sway i think career with a government in tripoli turkey or no really the only backers but it's also important to see that egypt and behind them so do rebel also major players in this supporting the other site i don't know how much control. how much attention there will be a good deal brokered between russia and tokyo given the antagonism exists particularly with so so do rivers so there's another complicating factor in here is the u.n. backed government is no essentially only high in all in a coastal strip of the country has very little control it has the capital yes tripoli but very little else is just lost a major city of sirte so i don't see the other side. appearing to really aged fiction. backing off necessarily here but on the other hand we desperately need peace and the people of libya deserve peace so let us hope that this deal can be pulled off to give the long suffering people of libya piece. the film award season is in full swing but actors looking to bag britain's highest moviegoing may find it hard this year if they're not white because th

and turkey has suffered a lot from the earthquakes. estimate wraps have wrapped up their 3rd and final day of opening arguments in the impeachment trial of president onil trump they accuse him of being the ringleader in efforts to push a crane to investigate political rival joe biden next it'll be the turn of white house lawyers to make their case beginning on saturday. reports from washington so ordered senators adjourned on friday democratic party house managers concluded their opening arguments against donald trump over 3 sessions they meticulously presented their case the trump abuse the office of the president in an attempt to gain a competitive advantage against his democratic rival joe biden by attempting to blackmail the ukrainian president president tried to cheat he got caught and then he worked hard to cover it up only his will goes he is a dictator this must not stand and that is why another reason he must be removed from office and that the president obstructed congress as it proved his alleged wrongdoing by withholding ev

america turkey is in syria illegally because the black check you see from america turkey goes in syria iraq illegally because of the blank check it's the same now we have and now we have and now we have a libya coming up it's what's what we're up against says impossibly pates is very different what he says in crimea in public he has to come across as this strong leader he's telling the turkish people no one will tell me what to do in private circles he same fans very different to the americans if another candidate wants to make good on his pledge that turkey is independent and would do as it pleases then leave nato tell the americans to pack up their military bases and tell the americans to look we've joined then you can a warrant but of course he's not going to do that the turkish state is unbelievably circumvent the other way your situation with where you're saying our case is that the the the western alliance needs turkey more than turkey needs the western alliance is that what you're saying that's the kind of leverage they have. it's not certain he survived that search he's power t

advantages strategic advantages for turkey we will see the method the manner of how turkey is dealing with this problem and challenges in the coming days if turkey sends more troops then general haftar will also look at more support from the governments he's already there are already backing him including and especially egypt the united arab emirates they will send their own proxies or troops or more weapons so in that sense the situation could definitely escalate in a military sense. among the defining impressions left by $29.00 t. the world was left watching helplessly as not true don could be told by the end of the quake leave revisit the tragedy and assess how long it will take for france to recover. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm sure business i'll see you there. welcome back well now $29000.00 done and dusted it's time to take stock of some of the defining events of the. an april ablaze tore through not to feed well in paris nearly destroying the 850 year old long mark so a day by the ski re

turkey as a sound nato ally. unfortunately not actually i think that took his role as being very destabilizing and very negative in recent years we saw all that and the strong statement amply displayed recently with it with this campaign and in syria turkey should be expelled no i don't think turkey should be expelled i think turkey is too important a nato ally for it to be expelled and of course took he has played a very important role in recent nato operations especially in afghanistan but i think the direction that took he's taking at this time is an extremely dangerous poff and turkey has to decide whether it wants to remain and could really to the western alliance or whether want to take a different different polls but i'm very concerned about the direction the tookie is is taking and took he really needs to make a very very clear choice in the coming years but i have to say i think that. popularity domestically is declining which is a good thing i think a lot of took a very uneasy with the direction that th

and turkey site unavailable but now access has been restored thanks to all rulings by the constitutional court ending a 3 year ban. and brain that finally falls in australia the southeast of the country celebrates as a downpour brings some relief for the bushfires crisis but now forecasters are predicting possible flooding is this the new normal of climate change just scientists warned. i'm sumi so much gun that's got to have you with us germany's parliament. has just rejected controversial legislation and aimed at helping people who need organ donations the new opt out opt to outlaw would have assumed that every citizen agrees to having their organs transplanted after death on last they sign a declaration saying otherwise when they're alive now the german government is looking for ways to increase the supply of organs because the country has the lowest organ donation rate in europe we'll have more on the vote and parliament in a moment but 1st this report. function is job as a business consultant kept him on the road but then he was diagnosed with genetic lung disease he fought to stay

to use 2016 refugee deal with turkey will most likely be up for discussion to under that agreement turkey must stop migrants from crossing into a new territory in exchange for billions of euros to help look after the refugees it hosts. one has warned he can't up hold his end of the deal if fighting in syria is a blip province causes more people to flee. merkel though is likely to urge out of one to stick with the pact. finally germany will probably seek answers over the issue of german nationals detained in turkish prisons or banned from leaving the country some mudgal turkish nationals and have suffered under the government's crackdown on dissent following the failed military curfew 3 and a half years ago or. 3. on is covering transom ackles visit to istanbul and she joins us for more hi you we're good to see you as we heard there there are plenty of issues for these 2 leaders to discuss tell us what's going to top the agenda today. well yes the list of issues that might potentially come up during today's that talks between the german chancellor and president edwin in the prom the premis