affected by. those reshaping perception they're saying people will abandon this to other better than to take al-jazeera correspondent. at this time. the most memorable moments with al-jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell with the crowds in tahrir square talking. if something happens anywhere in the world al-jazeera is in place we were able to cover news like no other news organizations. were able to do it properly. and that is our strength. turkish forces backed the free syrian army that operation that brought out a former leader of the country's northwest.

hello i'm down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a number of people have been killed in a massive explosion at a gas station in donna's capital. makes landfall in the u.s. state of mississippi it's already killed dozens of across central america. and rallying for unity but spain's prime minister says no to talks after catalonia spent to break away. we begin in syria where turkey has announced it's starting a big operation in the province ankara isn't sending its own forces though it's providing logistical and intelligence support to rebels in the north west of syria much of it live is controlled by. that's an alliance of factions spearheaded by

a former al qaida affiliate the turkish president russia type but one says he won't allow the alliance to thrive along the border of his country. we have opened up a space in our region with operation euphrates shield and now we are making efforts to take a step forward by maintaining security in a lab today there is a serious operation in ad lib and it will continue because we have our brothers there who came to fleeing violence in aleppo we can't tell them whatever happens happens you can either die or survive we have to extend a hand to our brothers now this step has been taken and it is underway. on turkey's border with syria. this is what we know so far the turkish military sending reinforcement of that are highly border crossing with hundreds of free syrian fighters also present in the area phase one of this offensive will be the free syrian army leading the fight to take on the head in live face to will be the

turkish military crossing into it live to secure the city this is part of a deal that was signed with iran and iran and russia in a stand last month but with turkey's involvement in syria this could pose many challenges for the turkish with the first of all because to have the same is one of the most powerful rebel factions operating inside syria they have issued a statement warning that any attack against them with be met with stiff resistance warning all those who try to dislodge them from it live to pay a heavy price the second major challenge for the turkish military is basically the town of a free and all the border with. turkey which is where there is a significant presence of the s.d.f. which is a coalition of turkish fighters i think military planners in the turkish military will trying it out just like

a delicate balance between the need to take on to hire some of the same time but also to prevent any attacks. as the operation starts let's cross into neighboring iraq and talk about the fight against i saw there the armed groups been pushed from the northern town of the fighting continues in surrounding villages kurdish peshmerga who fought alongside iraqi troops say hundreds of i saw members of surrendered ahead of the pro-government advance reports. shia militia forces of the iraqi army target eisel fighters close to the town of who we. the battle for what was i saw last stronghold in northern iraq is over. but fighters still occupy villages to the west of the city eisel has been using carbon atoms to attack the advancing pro-government troops relative we destroyed this car bomb before it hit our convoy now our troops continue to was the village

a free out which is strategic because it will help us secure the center of how we judge but there are many idees ahead. i still set fire to oil wells to try and make accurate coalition air strikes against them difficult most of these men are fighters with the iran backed shia militia known as popular mobilization forces ohashi the shabby. eisel sign reads we are hitting you hard you persians who reject the true faith. i still turn this building into a surreal local to impose that distorted interpretation of laws on society when they saw we were approaching a towards a building and. villages welcomed the pro-government troops thank god you have liberated us says this man a few kilometers away kurdish peshmerga make sure no eisel fighters escape it was thursday evening when the iraqi prime minister hyderabadi announced that the battle

for how we was over now made a kurdish peshmerga defensive position here the peshmerga telling us that the smoke you can see on the horizon here is because shia militia groups in support of the iraqi military are lighting fires in leisel controlled areas trying to flush out the last remnants of the actual fighters from this area since the operation against i still in how we just started on september the twenty first the peshmerga say holding two hundred eisel fighters like these have surrendered here. i shall now only control small areas of iraq near the syrian border government forces in the coalition say they are prepared for what they hope will be their final fight. al jazeera northern iraq two gods have been killed after an attack on a saudi royal palace in jeddah the interior ministry says a saudi man opened fire on security forces got in the palace he was then shot dead

early this week saudi police raided hideouts for a group they say is linked to eisele killing two people and arresting five damas government says a gas tanker explosion followed by a second blast has killed a number of people in the capital accra firefighters have now brought the blaze under control but they're battling to control flames on the second explosion it's not clear how many people have died explosions happening at busy transport terminal close to students at the university of ghana hard as it was a mob or tang is in a crowd she says these types of explosions are not uncommon. this is an extremely. busy interchange and it's one of the main routes out of the city it's an area known as a comic. buildings people in the area lots of street. city . casualties that we've been hearing as emergency services. really establish

what happened i mean there is also of course a number of students. going to university. people talking about this explosion being kilometers around i think this is going to be very interesting as events develop. because they're probably going to be a lot of quite a lot of anger because this is something that's becoming very worrying. people that were killed in a gas explosion in the city. twenty fifth ever in the cards of more than a hundred people and they've. already. done the distribution it's. kind of. curling hurricane one has made landfall along the u.s. gulf coast evacuation orders have been in place in several states since saturday may the city of new orleans has declared

a state of emergency has already hit parts of central america twenty five people reporting from new orleans. hurrican nate with winds of up to one hundred thirty five kilometers an hour finally made landfall fairly close to the mouth of the mississippi river people are right along the gulf coast from louisiana eastwards towards the northwest of florida have been making preparations over the last few days watching and waiting with great anxiety to see the increasing wind speeds to see the approach of the hurricane named to see exactly when and where it would hit the gulf coast. they're still assessing the devastation in central america more than twenty people were killed and there was extensive damage after two weeks of almost constant rainfall before the storm. then picked up speed through the gulf of mexico before making landfall on the southeastern coast of the united states with winds of more than one hundred fifty kilometers an hour it is critical that

everyone. who's been told to evacuate or would like to do so that they do it now those invulnerable areas were moved to evacuation centers while others prepared for uncertainty stocked up with provisions neal to put during gulf port mississippi like sailors all along the gulf coast more his boat as best he could is a gamble if you stay the gamble if you take it there so. to be the best way to stay but as the storm approached residents boarded up properties and secured anything the winds might carry away but it's difficult to prepare when you don't know exactly when or where it's going to strike or how ferocious the hurricane is going to be and when it does finally hit it's always stronger and far more frightening than anything you might have prepared for memories here is still strong of hurrican katrina in two thousand and five which left about one thousand eight hundred people

dead and caused an estimated one hundred eight billion dollars worth of damage say that better prepared this time i want to be really clear we have sufficient promise power and manpower to handle this threat if the rain totals are remain as forecasts and the people of the u.s. gulf coast with plenty of recent hurrican experience hope that nate is listening. so president trump has declared an emergency situation in both the state of mississippi and louisiana which will enable federal aid to be used in the relief effort is here also applying measures right here in new orleans has been occur there be a curfew in place throughout the night there are also other measures in place and people in valuable areas being moved to evacuate and say. also a great deal of investment has been put into the living here around new orleans after hurricane katrina in two thousand and five but it really is

a case of watching and waiting to see whether those measures have been sufficient will be sufficient when people with the light of day start to assess whatever damage harakah nate has brought with it spain's prime minister has warned separatist leaders in catalonia that he's prepared to suspend the region's autonomous status if independence is declared the region held a referendum on succession earlier this month. says he will do whatever it takes to keep spain united if. we have to return to legality and the key is to do so quickly and go back to normal have the absolute reassurance that the government will prevent any declaration of independence from turning into something spain will continue to be spain it will continue being spain for a long time borrowing also rules out mediation to resolve the crisis on saturday tens of thousands of people rallied in madrid and barcelona to call for unity they've

urged both sides to hold talks journal reports. it's all in the hands apparently at a demonstration in barcelona the fluttering gestures of openness and peace. let's talk they say in spanish and in cattle out the language of this region pushing to secede. but not all cracker lines want to break away many prefer spain united the protest here mirrored by large crowds in the capital madrid what this shows is that whatever was happening in government actually it could be on the way some but by no means are the people who live. under and alberto who just married at the town hall across the square from the regional government headquarters happy they say to share their union with calls for national unity in spain i personally think that he must mean you know. i also think that everybody has

a right to choose what they want to feel where they want to be run by leaving the us as the crowd gathered outside inside we spoke to catalonia as foreign minister so do will of the people needs to be respected for a single reason there is no alternative to this we tried for years to enter into negotiations with the state no one church into positive manner repression was the only answer and despite this the people went to vote freely the market and peacefully and that is what the parliament of catalonia needs to acknowledge we have two projects here one is democracy the other one is repression of violence which one the people. will find a solution that a solution. that. we don't store on the people not just talk of the people there didn't just run those i think we need a space to express ourselves in the middle of such

a polarized situation the web based. government that's ahead to the brink of disaster but most are still. searching for a way out of this political crisis before it gets worse social media posts suggest a unity demonstration planned for sunday may be disrupted by pro secession groups the prospect of move on jonah how al-jazeera barcelona. also to come here and al-jazeera. how gun tourism thrives in las vegas just days after the worst mass shooting in recent u.s. history. i'm telling you that one fifty four the african up. to that point.

hello the main but not the only weather story in the u.s. is of course the incoming hurrican to the gulf coast now on the satellite picture you just see the outer bands of thunderstorms coming in but it makes landfall about midnight greenwich mean time but once it's done that bringing with it ending up to a two meter surge then rapidly runs in lance's position the middle of sunday is probably somewhere in the middle of alabama now the rains ahead of it and rain is main threat once it becomes overland route and strength the window it will be fairly windy for a while at least joins up the system it's already there in the appalachians through washington this is a very wet corner following that or behind that it's an awful lot drier and sunnier and fine but winter's showing itself once again we had snow in montana about three days ago we've now got snow a bit further south propofol as well that'll be several centimeters now pick up satellite again and you can see from the massive cloud where hurricane nate is for

you can see is no significant it's a big mess of cloud is a category one strength to all times over the water but it's legacy is still the cloud left over central america this is where several deaths have occurred a lot of rain has fallen now the good news is for sunday though it is sherry in places it's much drier. on accounting a cost us billionaire president donald trump wants to cut taxes but how will his plan impact ordinary americans spain versus catalonia the economic implications plus cama given what's behind the collapse of australia's auto industry counting the cost at this time on i'll just. now.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories this hour turkey says it's backing syrian rebels in a large operation against former al qaida linked fighters in the province the turkish president bush a typo one says he wants another rebel alliance to thrive along its border. gone as government says a gas tanker explosion in the capital across cost casualties five lives and not for the blaze under control but they are struggling to extinguish flames from a second blast it's not clear how many people have been killed. an american made has made landfall along the u.s. gulf coast these are live pictures from biloxi mississippi state of emergency has been declared in the states of louisiana alabama and tennessee thanks to the fourth

major storm to hit the u.s. in less than two months. there's been a march in memory of the fifty eight people killed by a gunman in las vegas last sunday. people sang and prayed for the victims survivors and their families as well as the emergency teams who responded to the shooting there were also calls for stricter gun control. but despite the aprile off of the massacre a gun tourism culture continues to thrive in las vegas because in some of the reports. the guns are real the ammunition non-lethal rubber bullets for about one hundred dollars you too can experience what it's like to shoot and get shot at here at the las vegas gun fights shooting range. paper targets are the lowest form of firearms training you don't move they don't react they certainly don't shoot back.

but. the idea is to simulate a real gun battle in the fear in the adrenaline rush it inspires when you see a weapon pointed at you. well. last vegas gun fights are just one aspect of the city's thriving gun tourism industry which also includes places like battlefield vegas and get ready for a shooting range where gas can fire automatic weapons and even drive a tank over a car. literally it's become a very very popular trick without a machine gun vegas is one of the few establishment to shut down after fifty eight people were shot and killed at an outdoor concert expressed support for limited gun control measures there's absolutely no reason for an average citizen who wants to have a gun to have one hundred round magazine. there is no reason for them to be

able to buy. accessories with a gun which makes the gun almost fully automatic there's just no reason for according to economist jeffrey watt ups half of the economic activity in las vegas comes from tourism i think that it's in our long run best interest. to deal with this problem so that. tourists feel more secure and more safe. but for many here feeling more safe means having a gun and knowing how to use it. the person behind the gun is the problem. and in deter me as fired me to just really want to be more trained the owner of las vegas fight says six hundred people signed up for his gun training class this week kristopher me al-jazeera las vegas nevada so downs foreign minister has welcomed the lifting of u.s. sanctions but he's called for washington to go further and remove him from the list

of countries accused of sponsoring terrorism scott hardly reports. joy on the streets of sudan after the u.s. state department announced it was lifting twenty year old economic and trade sanctions it's seen as a move down the path of normalizing relations some think it will improve their lives as you see the american and sudanese flags flown in a spontaneous popular joyful reaction this is an indication that the sanctions have had a heavy toll on the people and the economy. prices and living costs have fallen a made easier for the needy. the announcement was widely anticipated a process started under president barack obama the u.s. saying the move came after sudan began addressing concerns of fighting terrorism and human rights abuses the sanctions were piling pressure on an already struggling economy and. it's true that the country is facing economic problems however the sanctions exacerbated if not complicated the situation it doesn't enable government

officials to restructure the economy as it should be there were also assurances that sudan won't enter into arms deals with north korea and it had already diplomatically distance itself from iran but the opposition feels it's the wrong way to go. the lifting of sanctions will not bear any fruit it's only empty propaganda but in the end it will have a negative impact on the regime simply because it sent out the wrong message to the people. sudan though will remain on the u.s. list of state sponsors of terrorism so as the relationship between the two countries improves there's still more work to be done it's got harder al-jazeera iran's president has delivered a message to the u.s. president saying the twenty fifteen nuclear deal is irreversible hasan rouhani says iran has reached benefits from the deal that not even ten donald trump could rollback sanctions on iran's oil exports and other industries have been lifted as part of the deal donald trump has hinted that he may decertify the deal next week

rose i got already caught today of the united states violates the nuclear deal the entire world will condemn america not iran and rose whole that we have managed to stabilize our nuclear rights our people would always defended their inalienable rights we have proven this unalienable right at the united nations and in the world of diplomacy. bangladesh's prime minister says her government will continue to support range of muslims who fled violence in neighboring me and ma she says the government plans to build temperature shelters for almost a million refugees with the help of international aid agencies the un's warn that it expecting a further exodus of refugees from me and ma to bangladesh police in russia have detained more than two hundred sixty people at anti-government protests across the country. and petersburg has been one of twenty seven cities with offices of broken up demonstrations against president putin he's

been marking his sixty fifth birthday ronnie's have been held by supporters of the opposition leader in a valley he's counted serving a twenty day jail term really challenge reports from moscow where police have been more restrained. saturday was a test for alexei navalny and the test for russia's security forces on the day president putin turned sixty five the opposition leader wanted supporters to demand his release from twenty days administrative detention and for him to be allowed to run in next year's presidential elections he's going in the band an independent candidate they want to process. thoughts about what the real russian problem i love my country very much this is why i am here for a week. i wrote. and. generation is great. but while unsanctioned rallies earlier in the year drew many thousands of

people not nearly so many came this time perhaps the awful weather kept people away moscow at least but perhaps to get the message this time with less focus on the corruption that blight so many russians lives and more focus on the ballot herself and maybe a student getting on previous demonstrations mostly young russian tourists very very vocal the. concern must resign. since novelli was sentenced on october the second for organizing unauthorized rallies there have been numerous raids and searches of his campaign offices around the country. and whereas in moscow or thorazine he's appeared to be trying new softer tactics letting protesters shout their slogans with a minimum of arrests in other cities like san petersburg it was the same old

treatment with riot police wrestling people to the ground and throwing them into waiting vans will have to wait for future demos to see if this dip in attendance marks a long term waning of support for me and also to see a fourth or a t s favor the moscow police approach the horse in petersburg will reach alan's. moscow danish police say they have recovered the head and legs of a swedish journalist who died after going on that inventor's homemade submarine. was reported missing after going on a trip with peter madsen in august madsen says she died up to hitting a head in the hatch and he buried at sea but police say they didn't find any fractures on her skull which they found on friday one of hollywood's leading studios has launched an inquiry into one of its founders after allegations of sexual harassment academy award winning producer harvey weinstein has taken an indefinite leave of absence to report by the new york times said he settled eight

sexual harassment cases over three decades that has always been a demand for africa's modern art but it hasn't commanded big prices until recently when now collectors are willing to pay more and not fair when london is determined to bring africa's contemporary artists even further into the mainstream challenge the reforms. exploding with color and energy london's african one fifty four feels like it could bust out of its conservative home at somerset house it brings together hundred thirty artists from the continent under one roof from the chair of mozambique sculptor gone column a buddha using leftover weapons from the country's civil war to the intricate cubist drawings depicting frenetic life in the democratic republic of congo. each room feels fresh but only for western audiences says found. its always emerging from the west you know where they're not so emerging you know

when you talk about artists who are extremely established on their in their country in their continent so this is what we're trying to change as well as obviously changing the narrative changing the history and make sure that african artists are included in the new artistry when it should have been for a long time many of the pieces here use found material seedpods electrical wire plastics from the political pieces to pure fun this painting by god and. sold for twenty three thousand dollars bought by saudi collector who say i'm a tidy as a strong depiction of black empowerment collecting is a very selfish part of kind of the process of loving art so you want to give something back you want to share and i think that's part of what we do. in the heart of our culture you know being from a tropical african art as an art movement is represented in kind of the article which is something we thought we should give them kind of a platform nigerian artist. describes himself as

a folk artist this one is called son of the sword and the cake. really the idea. had this like uncomfortable feeling that something has been stolen his values have been stolen people's rights have been stolen in many cases. that scene that we thought was in place. so many. traits in an. act. of. the market. and there's only one way for it to go. get them out of the top stories here and al-jazeera turkey says it's backing syrian

rebels in libya province in a large operation against an alliance of fighters once again to al qaida and sending its own forces but is providing logistical and intelligence support to rebels in the north west of syria. but i still been pushed out of the northern iraqi town of but fighting continues in surrounding villages kurdish peshmerga been fighting alongside iraqi troops they say hundreds of members of surrounded head of pro government advance two guards have been killed after an attack on a saudi royal palace in jeddah the interior ministry says a saudi man opened fire on security forces guarding the palace he was then shot dead early this week saudi police raided hideouts a group they say is linked to eisele killing two people and arresting five. government says a gas tanker explosion followed by a second blast has killed a number of people in the capital accra as a fire under control but they're battling to extinguish flames in the second

explosion it's not clear how many people have died next persians happened you're busy. spain's prime minister says he's prepared to suspend catalonia self-governing status if separatist leaders declare independence on the oil says he will take a hard line to keep spain united. we have to return to legality and the key is to do so quickly and go back to normal have the absolute reassurance that the government will prevent any declaration of independence from turning into something spain will continue to be spain it will continue being spain for a long time. has made landfall along the u.s. gulf coast evacuation orders have been in place in several states since saturday the mayor of the. city of new orleans has declared a state of emergency. has already hit parts of central america killing twenty five people. people have come out to show support for the families of victims survivors

on the emergency teams who responded to the shooting in las vegas there were also calls for stricter gun control. well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost agent that's a water buffalo. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. look at the well the business and finance. to economics u.s. president puts forward his plan to. america's wealthy and big business.