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On the first day of the SNP party conference Scottish First Minister and leader of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon speaks to Channel 4 News.

President Trump is downplaying America’s ties to the Kurds as he attempts to defend his decision to withdraw US troops in Syria, which is what  triggered Turkey to launch its offensive. But Republicans and Democrats remain unified in criticism of the President for abandoning an ally.

Jon Snow speaks to the Turkish Ambassador to London, Ümit Yalçın. We asked the Ambassador whether President Trump had given his approval for Turkey’s offensive in northern Syria.

With Turkey’s offensive, which it has called Operation Peace Spring, in full force, is there any chance the international community can have any influence on events on the ground?

Labour MP Chris Williamson has lost his legal bid to be reinstated in the Labour Party. Liz Bates was in Birmingham for that hearing and to get reaction from Labour supporters to the latest Brexit negotiations.

After a three-hour meeting between Boris Johnson and the Irish Prime Minister, there was a distinct change in the Brexit mood music. Mr Varadkar told waiting journalists that the two leaders could now “see a pathway to a possible deal”, and that today’s talks were significant enough to allow negotiations to resume in Brussels.

Salih Muslim, former co-president of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party, the PYD speaks from Rojava, a region of north-eastern Syria now under attack. He tells us that he believes the Turkish bombardment is the beginning of a major offensive against the Kurds.

Turkey’s invasion into the Kurdish held north isn’t the only ferociously contested space in Syria. Further West the province of Idlib remains another bastion of the rebellion against the Assad regime. But over half of Idlib is now controlled by a coalition of jihadi groups, many with strong links to Al Qaeda. Paraic O’Brien has…

President Erdogan claimed today that 109 Kurdish fighters had been killed in the last two days of fighting, but the number was disputed by his opponents on the ground. In northern Syria seven civilians were reported killed, including two children. Meanwhile Syrian Kurdish forces fired mortars across the border, reportedly killing six people in several…

Bilal Wahab is from The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, spoke with the Prime Minister yesterday and, after the call said, “Important questions remain about the British proposals.” We speak to the Dutch MP Anne Mulder, who’s the spokesman on EU affairs for Mark Rutte’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy.

We’re joined by Karin Von Hippel, formerly with the US State Department, now Director General of Rusi, a think tank specialising in international defence and security.

The new report on the State of Nature will be launched by 12 young people across the country on Friday. The fight back against extinction Britain is being led by young people, inspired by Greta Thunberg. Here are some of them.  

We’re joined by Professor Rosie Hails, Director of Nature and Science at the National Trust – which is one of the organisations behind tomorrow’s report. We’re also joined by Phil Jarvis – who is a farmer and chair of the National Farmers Union’s Environment Forum – and by author and naturalist Mark Cocker.

The Government has moved today to stop the export of some drugs, including those for Hormone Replacement Therapy, to deal with shortages. They have also agreed a new protocol for the antidepressant Prozac because  the 30 and 40mg capsules are out of stock.