and not for more on the fire challenge your perceptions. or is it when they're on line we were in hurricane winds for almost like thirty six hours these are the things that has to address or if you join us on sat. but we struck up a relationship this is a dialogue tweet us with hostile a.j. stream and one of your pitches might make the actual join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. turkish forces backed the free syrian army and an operation to drive out a former al qaida affiliate in the country's northwest.

down jordan this is live from doha also coming up a number of people have been killed in a massive explosion at a gas station and ghana's capital. makes landfall in the u.s. state of mississippi these are live pictures it's already killed dozens across central america. and tourism thrives in las vegas just days after the worst mass shooting in recent u.s. history. we begin in syria where turkey has announced that starting a big operation in libya province ankara isn't sending its forces but it's providing logistical and intelligence support to rebels in the north west of syria

much of it is controlled by tucker that's not alliance of factions spearheaded by a former al-qaeda affiliate the turkish president says he won't allow the alliance to thrive along the border with his country. we have opened up a space in a region with operation euphrates shield and now we are making efforts to take a step forward by maintaining security in a globe today there is a serious operation in it lab 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 our hand to our brothers now this step has been taken and it is under way al-jazeera has more now from gaziantep on turkey's border with syria. this is what we know so far the turkish military is standing reinforcement of that i 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. in it live phase two 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 you 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 three an all the border with. turkey which where there is significant presence of the s.d.f. which is a coalition of turkish fighters i think military planners in the turkish military

will trying now to strike a delicate balance between the need to take on some of the same time but also to prevent any attacks. as the operation starts well henri barkey is a professor of international relations at lehigh university he says turkey's support in the in the campaign is mainly for domestic security concerns. we have to look at this operation that turkey is mounting more as a domestic politics issue and also one that has to do with the united states turkey and i say it's had now fallen quite apart of each other because of american support for the white b.g. for the syrian kurds in their struggle against the islamic state and the turks have been trying to to stop that to block tried to convince americans not to do it but they have this by by aligning itself with iran and russia i think what the turks are trying to do is to send

a message through to washington but i'm afraid washington is not in a mood to listen to that to that message secondly mr i don't has been threatening to go into syria for a long time has been threatening to go into iraq following the referendum in northern iraq so he's been in the turkish press has been full of stories of imminent military action by by turkey and everybody has been expecting some kind of military action so there's a way in which you can argue that the in the operation will kind of satisfy this this jingoistic urge that has emerged in turkey and add one will be able to say yes we are doing military operations and of course they will be successful in his in his book so this is it may be that the. intervention is a side show for both domestic politics and especially us turkish relations the body that's being set up to rebuild the syrian city of rockets appealing to the

international community for aid in anticipation of the eventual defeat of i saw that the northern city as i saw that led capital but syrian kurdish forces say they're close to victory over the armed group catelyn president on reports. the fight is on. high still the losing its last bit of what it once called its capita. kurdish forces overran most of rock a weeks ago and now they're closing in on the few remaining eisel fighters and. we are now in iraq and we are proud that are coming from two directions of united there confrontations and there are a lot of civilians in the area. abandoned neighborhoods debris and dust are what's left in some parts of the syrian city i still took over iraq on two thousand and thirteen the syrian democratic forces began the offensive to push them out nearly a year ago they said. syrian kurdish fighters have been at the forefront but some

foreign volunteers have joined them motivated by their own reasons to take up arms against i still hear something moving. russia says its air strikes have killed scores of fighters in nearby darrow's or where the group is still trying to cling to power. but civilians have been caught in the crossfire the syrian observatory for human rights says more than two hundred have been killed including women and children heartbreaking stories every day it is hard to meet one single family who have recently iraq and there is or who did not have a family member killed on the way to safety the defeat of eisel fighters is expected in iraq among the destroyed buildings and rubble kurdish fighters say it's just a matter of time before they declare victory. now to zero . 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 guards at the palace he was then shot dead and this week saudi police raided a hideouts of a group they say is linked to eisele killing two people and arresting five. al-jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist mahmoud hussein who's now been in prison in egypt for more than ten months he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly denied authorities ever fused to allow him to be transferred to a specialist treatment in a broken arm an injury he received while being detained he was arrested in december visiting his family gone as government says a gas tanker explosion followed by a second last us kill a number of people in the capital accra firefighters have now brought the blaze under control they're battling to extinguish flames from the second explosion it's not clear how many people have died on the black tang is in the cross he says these

thompson explosions i'm not uncommon. this is an extremely easy part of i think a good beginning to change and it's one of the main routes because it's a thief an area known as a comic so i don't think building a lot of people in the street. to be many more casualties that we've been hearing all i can imagine the fear of this is going to get eaten and really establish what i mean. the number of students still. going to donna kupp university and you know we've had people talking about this explosion being so kilometers around i think it's going to be very interesting as if i got it on sunday because it's probably going to be a look at this and quite a lot of anger because this is something that's becoming very worrying and in december twenty sixth being we had twelve people that were killed in a gas explosion in the city in june twenty three seem gone it was never in the

cards of more than one hundred people and they died when a fuel station caught fire experience and the people already seeing what is being done to make the distribution of gas and fuel pay for that kind of poor people. to go to in the carling. hurrican make has made landfall along the u.s. gulf coast evacuation orders have been in place in several states since saturday the mayor of new orleans has declared an emergency made has already hit parts of central america killing twenty five people are reports. sarika nate with winds of up to one hundred thirty five kilometers an hour have 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 nate 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. hurricane made then picked up speed to 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 board his boat as best he could you have to park in mill of a bait a calm bait with two anchor ropes it but if one of those break then you spin around

and it's going to be in the woods in the marsh so it's a gamble if you stay that gamble if you take it there 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 when it does finally hit it's always stronger and far more frightening than anything you might have prepared for memories here are 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 remain as forecasts and the people of the u.s. gulf coast with plenty of recent hurrican experience hope that nate is listening to the president has declared an emergency situation in both the state of mississippi

and louisiana which will enable federal aid to be used in the relief efforts here also applying measures here in new orleans has been occurred to be a curfew in place throughout the night there are also other measures in place and people in valuable areas being moved to evacuation centers also a great deal of investment has been put into the living here around new orleans after hurricane katrina in two thousand. 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. the u.n. secretary general antonio good pettish has visited the caribbean islands devastated by hurricanes last month he's traveled to bob uta and. to see the damage ninety five percent of all infrastructure in bob you'd has been destroyed by hurricane emma. told al-jazeera the ana nations are the first victims of climate change.

reason of my visit to barbara. is exactly to raise awareness to put pressure on international community for a stronger humanitarian aid now and also for a stronger aid in relation to the reconstruction and the building resilience in the islands of the caribbean as we manage in that in the next few years seems will get worse than worst the world bank is promoting a meeting in the context of their annual meeting and i urge the international community to fully support these caribbean states they are small islands they are sometimes completely destroyed they are classified many of them as middle income countries they have no access to grants or to soft loans these needs to be revisited and i think it's essential for the international community to be able to help these states allowing them to reconstruct and overcoming the enormous

difficulties that they face not only because of the natural disasters but because of the i levels of depth that they already had before they need international solidarity they have not contributed to climate change but they are the first victims of these. impacts of climate change talk for a short break here now to syria when we come back. rallying for unity but spain's prime minister says no to talks after catalonia supposed to break away and we'll tell you what south koreans are celebrating almost a year after a massive street protests brought down the president more on that side. hello it stopped raining along the caspian coast line of it wrong the clouds going

eastwards and. so it's more or less disappeared leaving behind virtually nothing if you look so there is cloud building here that's where the next weather is coming from a bit of a water for a dancer the eastern mediterranean probably bringing cloud even rain to the lebanese coast by the end of sunday possibly then monday otherwise it's still sunshine of course and the wind direction has changed recently to become more of a sudden thirty seven degrees here is cut off what was briefly a northerly. the gulf is virtually no with the top which means that morning mist and fog zite occur around and the eastern side of it is also possible with this in the monsoon for treats again so i will see the return once more for a day or so but beyond the much in the way of clouds in the sky in the arabian peninsula whereas in south africa it's still been reading fairly heavily.

but forecast finally on sunday shows more sunshine than showers. a rite of passage. of pain for. the women. do you think people will abandon.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on al jazeera turkey says it's backing syrian rebels in a large operation against former al qaeda linked fighters in fitna province the turkish president heard of and says he won't allow the guidelines to thrive along its border. donna's government says a gas tanker explosion in the capital across caused casualties firefights have now brought the planes on the control but they're battling to extinguish flames from the second explosion. and hurricane nature's made landfall along the u.s. gulf coast a state of emergency has been declared in the states of louisiana alabama and tennessee nights the fourth major storm to hit the u.s. in less than two months. 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 royals are ruled that mediation to resolve the crisis on saturday tens of thousands of people rallied in madrid and barcelona to call for unity and they've urged both sides to hold talks his journal. 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 and the language of this region pushing to secede. but not all cracker lines want to break away many prefer a strain you know into the protest here mirrored by large crowds in the capital madrid what this shows is that whatever was happening in government actually could be on the way for some but by no means the people who were. put 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 remain united car i also think that everybody has a right to choose what they want to feel when they want to get on board legally because 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 shirt 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 put a solution that

a solution. that. we don't store on the people not just talk of the people there didn't just i don't know i think we need a space to express ourselves in the middle of such a polarized situation the web based. governments are taking us to the brink of disaster. so are searching for a way out of this political crisis before it gets worse social media posts suggest a large pro unity demonstration planned for sunday may be disrupted by pro secession groups the real prospect of more violence join a whole al-jazeera barcelona. momentum is growing in the u.s. to regulate old ban a device that helped a gunman fire hundreds of rounds a minute on a concert in las vegas killing fifty eight people but despite the uproar after the massacre a gun tourism clubs it continues to thrive in las vegas question 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. last vegas gun fights are just one aspect of the city's thriving gun tourism industry which also includes places like battlefield vegas to get ready for a shooting range where guests can fire automatic weapons and even drive

a tank over a car. but. literally it's become a very very popular tradition without a machine gun vegas is one of the few establishment is 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. ok 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 water 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.

it in deter me and speired 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. their arms president has delivered a message to the u.s. president saying the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal is irreversible hasan rouhani says iran has reached benefits from the deal that not even ten donald trump could roll back sanctions on the country's oil exports and other industries have been lifted as part of the deal donald trump has hinted that he may decertify the arrangement next week ambrose i got already today of the united states violates the nuclear deal the entire world will condemn america not iran. hold that we have managed to stabilize our nuclear rights our people would always defend it as there are nearly about a right we have proven this in

a little right at the united nations and in the world of diplomacy. saddam's foreign minister has welcomed the lifting of u.s. sanctions but he's cold for washington to go further removed from the list of converse accused of sponsoring terrorism so the reports. joy on the streets of sudan after the u.s. state department announced it was lifting twenty year old economic and trade saying . it's seen as a move down the path of normalizing relations some think it'll improve their life 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 into 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. last minute campaigning is underway in liberia ahead of a presidential election to find a successor to africa's first female head of state twenty candidates competing to

replace ellen johnson sirleaf she standing down after two terms tuesday's vote will be the third since the country's fourteen year civil war and interest has more from liberia's capital monrovia. the leading candidates are of course the sitting vice president for most of the world with one of the yeah and a leading businessman seventeen other candidates who are trying to. get themselves voted into that office a block from the presidential election that is also seventy three they're also seventy three seats up for grabs and that this election now the focus of the politicians now is to get themselves into power but very few people in liberia asking questions how are they going to do would be numerous issues for this country is facing at the moment the president of liberia ellen johnson sirleaf i mean to that corruption has not been properly take gold there are issues of under-development properties widespread educational system needs some lifting up

and. these comes into power after next week's vote will be coming i did time one the international community the united nations non-governmental organization supported liberia all the way for reconstruction after the civil war moving out or most of them are moving out so the question is being asked is how can the next president of liberia without this much support from the international community and international organizations to rule a country that doesn't have much to go on in terms of reconstruction in terms of development in terms of poverty reduction. south koreans are celebrating the strength of their democracy with a street festival in the capital so the carnival is being held almost a year after the massive street protests led to the downfall of the president is right mcbride. the people have taken the streets once more this time in the name of . people like jim suntech who was a protester a year ago now

a street performer. parenting video i think all different types of people were gathered here especially the young in felt like a revolution taking place. the protest was sparked by corruption allegations against then president park in hay that eventually led to her downfall it's almost three years since the scandal broke bringing out people on to the streets both for and against party and hate and as her impeachment proceeded so the struggle between them became ever more bitter and divisive. at its height hundreds of thousands took part in candlelit vigil as as the country teetered on the verge of chaos that south korea's democracy was strong enough to survive it is reason enough to celebrate a variety of street art performances and happenings from the amusing. to the confusing. but with the goal of trying to help heal

a bruised society drawing on the experience. it's natural that freedom and human rights should feed into our we hope that through this bestival we can restore a sense that we are not strangers but will want unity. economic problems and the lurking danger of a conflict over north korea persist but this offers a welcome break. the atmosphere so lively with so much happening. since the protests last year south korea has become more open for its citizens. the festival marks the end of an extended autumn holiday and in the coming days south koreans will return to work and to their own going troubles but that's tomorrow bride al jazeera so.

out of the top stories here on al-jazeera turkey says it's backing syrian rebels in the province of a large operation against an alliance of fighters once linked to al qaida anchor isn't sending its own troops but is providing logistical and intelligence support to rebels in the north west of syria. eisel been pushed out of the northern iraqi town of how we judge but fighting continues in surrounding villages kurdish peshmerga have been fighting alongside iraqi troops they say hundreds of i saw members of surrender the head of a 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 got in the al salam palace he was then shot dead but earlier this week saudi police raided hideouts of a group they say is linked to eisele killing two people and arresting five. gone as 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 extinguish flames from a second explosion not clear how many people have died. hurricane mate has made landfall along the u.s. gulf coast evacuation orders have been placed in several states and saturday the mayor of new orleans has declared a state of emergency has already hit parts of central america killing twenty five people. 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 marianna roy 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. there's been a march in memory of the fifty eight people killed by

a gunman in las vegas last sunday. people came out to show support for the families of victims survivors and emergency teams who responded to the shooting that also calls for stricter gun control well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power and so much about. facing the realities your president said that there would be a complete audit a hundred percent audit that audit hasn't happened getting to the heart of the matter so are you saying then the future of the g.c.c. will be in doubt here the story. on talk to al-jazeera at this time. one of the world's few remaining calm in the states. one of asia's countries

heavily reliant on foreign investment especially from adjacent.