the the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it part of life is culture. in recent years the sawhill of north africa has witnessed the so-called war on terror. but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time on al-jazeera. a convoy of turkish armored vehicles including eighty soldiers crosses into syria.

and again i'm already watching al jazeera live from london also coming up. a city in celebration. between fatah and hamas that brings the two sides together after a ten year split. the u.s. says it's done being a member of the un's cultural body unesco citing anti israel bias israel says it will pull out too. i believe they're starting to respect the united states again. donald trump praises pakistan for its role in the release of a us canadian couple and their children health hostage for years by the taliban. a turkish military convoy has crossed into syria turkish media sources say the convoy includes about eighty soldiers and twelve on the vehicles now while the

destination isn't clear local sources have told al-jazeera the convoys heading towards western. let's take you to al-jazeera hashim alba he's in a package that's on the turkish syria border this is a significant development. it is indeed where that does those of. the cross now in just syria so what is happening now is that the turkish military is positioned area called. the. western edge of the province of the turkish military has been saying over the last few days the aim is to move towards the city of. deescalation zone agreement that was. signed between russia and iran last month. and now we are yet to wait for some of the details of that agreement initially now. i suppose this agreement no fighters should

maintain any presence of those areas or the turks will have to monitor that all the parties abide by the terms of that deal hey at the head of the sham is the most powerful rebel action group which is operating in it live head to head a sham is a former affiliate but we're getting reports from different sources saying that tonight this source some of those fighters for the that's ts is sporting the first convoy of the turkish military now we don't know what it what does that mean or whether ultimately the the who is shot will have to pull out from the province of lead so that the deescalation agreement can halt or not is why it's such a complex situation isn't it i mean how big a challenge is this cool the takesh troops going into syria. it is a it is it is a challenge for different reasons first of all here to head in a show is the most powerful rebel faction is a formal affiliate bay has thousands of very well trained and very well armed

fighters in last june. launched a surprise attack against rival groups in libya they managed within weeks to control the whole province is the only province is syria and the control of the opposition now well hey at the who the pullout from the area would have to hand over its weapons we don't know about those details about the russians for example have been saying that he at the head of this is not going to be included and if you sure about so yes so this is the number one number one challenge and the second challenge is basically kurdish factions operating not far from where the turkish military is stationed as we speak turkey maintains that. it considers kurdish factions as a threat to its national security now we don't know whether turkish military will one day take all the kurdish factions or just try to implement a buffer zone so that the kurdish military won't have any opportunity to further

expand west to worse the mediterranean so we're talking about a very volatile but at the same time complex political landscape and this is the going to be the second time that the turkish bit is going to move inside syria but this time moving deeper into the province of so i think the military planners in turkey are taking all those challenges seriously there are a very important development that hashem is going to keep an eye on events for us there from antakya thank you. now palestinians have been on the streets celebrating a reconciliation deal between fatah which runs the occupied west bank and hamas which controls gaza brokered by egypt the agreement between the rival political movements will end a decade long split under the deal

a consensus government will take full of minister to have control of gaza by december thirty first the agreement will also see the wrath or border crossing currently governed by hamas handed over to that consensus governments around three thousand police officers from the fatah led palestinian authority will be deployed to the strip and the authority will also oversee garza's civil and security sector previous sticking points have included control over the arsenal of hamas is armed wing as well as the fate of thousands of hamas as public servants detailed information was given about this that both sides say the problems will be sorted out how to force it reports from ramallah in the occupied west bank. in a grand hall of the egyptian intelligence headquarters fatah and hamas officially signed on to egypt's grand plan for palestinian reconciliation after a decade of division both sides expressed hope that this time it was for good.

government has been full agreement on the concept of empowering the government and . the legitimate palestinian government will return to working normally in accordance with. the law. despite the fact that we have some different views of different political points we have different disputes but this will never change the fact that we are brothers we are brothers in religion we are brothers in nationality we are brothers in the national interest we suffer the same we have the same future we need to find a way for the unity of our people to secure the ambitions of our people. this isn't the first time they've been here repeated attempts to reconcile have failed a main stumbling block the future of hamas military wing appears for now to have been set aside palestinian authority security services are to resume running gaza's border crossings including the vital one with egypt and other issues how to run internal security and merge two separate groups of government workers are being

addressed step by step along the lines of a twenty eleven agreement also signed with great fanfare in cairo. here in ramallah the palestinian president mahmoud abbas welcomed the deal saying it accelerated palestinian reconciliation delegation head indicated its timelines and targets would ensure that it stayed on track and of course it has egypt breathing hard down the necks of both parties in gaza so damaged by the split the economic blockade and three israeli was people are talking cautiously in terms of hope. when we used to hear about any reconciliation efforts we would think immediately of the failure of it but we hope this time is different unity could at least solve the power crisis and bring happiness to the gazan people. we've had enough eleven years of suffering without electricity no medicine for people no travelling we want to live like other nations. so far the israeli reaction has been muted

saying how mass would need to recognize israel and give up its arms but without the full bore opposition of previous reconciliation attempts an international push for palestinian reconciliation led by the us who is much more interested in the so-called big deal between the palestinian and israelis and without palestinian reconciliation this deal might not go forward. in gaza celebrations were underway not least of the prospect of an end to restrictions on salaries and electricity imposed by the palestinian authority earlier this year to put pressure on hamas but it's clear that this is the start of the process the coming weeks will feature plenty of opportunities to build mutual trust will weaken it very force it and the occupied west bank you know his states and israel are going to pull out of unesco the united nations cultural agency washington says the decision comes off the back of what it describes as the needs a fundamental reform in the organization i'm continuing on israel by a particle having reports. you could be forgiven for thinking that you know sco

wouldn't be all that controversial its mission to promote peace gender equality protect important sites like the statue of liberty or the great barrier reef but this summer it also recognized the old city of hebron in the west bank as a palestinian world heritage site the u.s. says that showed a bias against israel one reason it said for its decision that issue was the same reason that the us stopped funding the agency in two thousand and eleven when the palestinian authority was made a full member it didn't pay but didn't give up its membership either so its bills kept dragging up currently it owes us go five hundred fifty million dollars another reason it says the us is quitting at the end of twenty eighteen the question is you know do we want to pay that money and do we want to pay more money going forward when there is actually a law that says the un entity that accepts palestinians as

a member state can no longer receive u.s. funding so that's part of it the move has been roundly condemned by diplomats in his colleagues about promoting our ideals and values to a culture education and science these values and ideals. very much part of france's d.n.a. but also america's d.n.a. this is part of a growing trend of international disengagement president trump is taking the u.s. out of more than just unesco he also said the u.s. would pull out of the paris climate deal and he walked away from the trans-pacific partnership he's also threatened under the south korean trade deal the north american free trade agreement with canada and mexico and possibly the iran nuclear deal still this is not the first time the u.s. has left us go the decision to withdraw was made by president reagan on the recommendation of the secretary of state the u.s. left in one thousand nine hundred four over what it said was

a pro soviet bias but it rejoined in two thousand and two some analysts say this sends a dangerous message this to me is a bad message and it's a bad message because it says to our allies. we're not going to be a leader anymore we're not going to play the kind of role that we promise to play after world war two and to our would be adversaries it sends the message aha this may be an opening united states may be in retreat and we can fill the void. the trump administration often says the campaign pledge to america first doesn't mean america alone but it is looking more and more like that with each passing move away from the world stage. al jazeera washington pakistan's army has rescued a family held captive by the haqqani network an organization aligned to the afghan taliban the only says canadian joshua boyle his american wife coleman and their

three children were recovered the trump has praised pakistan for its involvement. i want to thank the pakistani government want to thank pakistan they they were very hard on this and i believe they're starting to respect the united states again it's very important i think a lot of countries right now a lot of countries are starting to respect the united states of america once again we hope to see this type of cooperation and teamwork in helping secure the release of remaining hostages and in our future joint counterterrorism operations well an official joins us live now from washington so are the president trying to be very happy right now but has this really helps improve pakistani u.s. relations. well what we're told is that boiling coleman or being transported in the karami agency which is a border area between afghanistan and pakistan certainly the united states appears

to have actual intelligence passed that on to the pakistani military who then moved in to free the couple and their children what we're told is there was an exchange of gunfire at some point and the hostages were then freed now don't trump obviously believes that this is a step forward he has said before he would like to see pakistan do more pakistan has said often in the past when you look at the number of people that are being killed in attacks in pakistan it is the pakistanis that are bearing the brunt of this it is pakistan's military and security services that are bearing the brunt of the war on so-called war on terror and so they don't quite buy into this idea that they're not doing enough to help america but certainly donald trump and some of those very close to him of believed for a long time that the pakistani military haven't done enough that sometimes the protective groups that they are close to so this according to donald trump and also to jim mattis who is the defense secretary has been speaking just in the last hour

is a positive sign for u.s. and pakistani relations and i'm with nations that in washington. still ahead on the program the canadian prime minister arrives in mexico to talk not so free trade agreements with the u.s. that is facing. plus. i'm christine so let me and many more the chinese artist ai wei wei has created one of his latest cultures coming up i'll tell you which famous new yorker are you trying to reach. welcome back as we take a look at weather across the strait the main features this cold front which is now clearing through it's been giving showers for brisbane still the possibility of shower in that area but otherwise across much of southeastern parts of a stretch looking fine i stand sydney twenty four degrees one to two showers across

the northern territory conditions across western australia heading on into a low in the shower so beginning to develop here perth for the most part dry and then still the risk of some showers across eastern areas fine in melbourne highs of seventeen degrees so across towards new zealand and that cold front we're talking about is heading across the tasman sea so we're going to see some rather cloudy skies and some patchy rain developing during the course of friday into the weekend and jerry dry conditions to have a chance of a few showers but some brightness in between and temperatures that are in the high teens let's head up into northeastern parts of asia and here we've got cloudy skies across a good part of japan much of a colorado is looking brighter the chance want to show quite cool air just twelve degrees as a mix from tokyo maybe the old shower otherwise fine conditions across the korean peninsula heading into south by still fairly cloudy across and there is in particular and a cool one in beijing highs of just fourteen degrees. component

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a turkish military convoy has crossed into syria turkish media sources say the convoy created about eighty soldiers and twelve armored vehicles. palestinians have been celebrating a reconciliation deal between rival movement hamas and fatah which could end a decade long split. on israel and the united states say that pulling out of you know ask a u.s. state department says the organization needs fundamental reform and has until israel bias. now the canadian prime minister is in mexico as the future remains unclear for both countries on the free trade agreement with the u.s. justin trudeau is right now missing the mexican president pena nieto to talk about the nafta of course also mexico city is out there as john heilemann so john i guess i'm guessing that certain after is going to be top of the agenda for these two leaders. absolutely justin trudeau is coming to mexico in

a really delicate moment as you just said there for these two countries and that's because of the third member of the north american free trade agreement the united states is increasingly playing hardball in the negotiations over how it should be modernized or whether it should continue at all president donald trump has been very publicly ambivalent for quite some time about nafta musing over whether it should continue and president prime minister trudeau is actually come to mexico straight from washington where he did talk to president trump and so mexico and canada have both said that they think that the nafta should continue but they are in quite different positions the canadian trade balance with the united states is relatively healthy whereas the u.s. has quite a large trade deficit about sixty billion dollars last year with mexico and about eighty percent of mexican exports do go to the united states so they're in very

different positions in terms of their power for negotiation and president trump even suggested that might lead to a bilateral trade agreement with cannot canada without mexico in the future here and just how critical is now to for mexico what is its economic status right now. well i think that eighty percent of exports really does say a lot especially in terms of the auto industry a lot of cars are made in mexico. then put into the united states of the united states and that's become a really booming industry there's also other people in mexico that might agree with donald trump stance on nafta and bill and best about it particularly in the mets can countryside small farmers in particular have suffered really. under the free trade agreement i recall traill products from the u.s. that have been subsidized and in huge farms have really flooded their market so not every mexican is in. favor of nafta but over the course of the last twenty years it

has seen the country opening up and trading more outside of itself so that's one of the things that the government really they've already said ministers have said if we lose enough that this isn't the end of the world but it will be a blow to this country as it seeks to keep on expanding its economy john heilemann in mexico city covering those talks for us thanks john two car bomb attacks in syria have killed at least thirty five people syrian government news says the car bomb targeted at checkpoints set up by the syrian democratic forces south of al has soccer city northeast of the country many civilians were reportedly killed as well as kurdish security forces personnel dozens of others were hurt in the blast eisel is being blamed for that attack. kenya's government is banning opposition protests in three cities just weeks before the repeat presidential election is due to be held demonstrations have been banned in my robey casino and mombasa the government

says protesters have lucy is attacked police stations demonstrators say the police have used undue force on them the opposition leader ayatollah danger announced this week that he would be withdrawing from the race for going the nation into political turmoil catherine story has more from nairobi. the reason given for this ban is in security and it's not a blanket ban it's a ban on protests in the central business district of nairobi kisumu in western kenya and. at the kenyan coast this is where protests have been most sustained and increasingly particularly in nairobi and been seeing incidents of people be robbed shops being vandalized as well the opposition says that have been hired to infiltrate what they see as peaceful demonstrations they also blame the police for using excessive force for example a couple of weeks ago we saw a video of police heresy and beating up university students inside their campus

here in nairobi yesterday during the protests dozens of people who were injured several of them have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds they blame the police so the interior cabinet minister at that press conference saying that what they're doing is trying to prevent an escalation of violence and it's going to be interesting how this goes going forward because the opposition is adamant they say they will continue with their protests to push for electoral reforms. by dad has denied accusations that it is planning an attack on the autonomous kurdish region of iraq kurdish authorities overnight saying they'd received a warning from the iraqi military of a planned attack on kurdish controlled areas. in northern iraq. this is the last kurdish peshmerga checkpoint on the ill bill mosul road. the

kurdish authorities closed it and another route into nineveh province for a few hours overnight saying they had received messages from the iraqi military that it was planning attacks in kurdish controlled. pressure is mounting from baghdad on the kurdish regional government ok argy following the recent referendum on secession from iraq many people say they feel punished and afraid they rocky government is trying to fight the chaos economically wanted to close its land borders they have already closed the international airspace they have cut the federal budget to the k. are cheap it's all coming from a bad government this is not right civilians should not be punished like this the federal government in baghdad denied any responsibility for these messages that the k r g said that it received last night from the iraqi military and shia militia groups saying that they were planning attacks around the oil rich city of kirkuk and north of mosul but the closure of this road last night as

a result of those messages shows just how nervous the kurdish regional government is getting. a federal court has issued arrest warrants for members of the kurdish regional government electoral commission like dad says it wants federal control over kayla ji banks and telephone networks. both turkey and iran have held a joint military operations with the iraqi army close to the k r g international borders and a spokesperson for the turkish president receive type says turkey will eventually take control of its k r g border in coordination with baghdad attack iran kurdish regional government says baghdad's action amounts to collective punishment this is a clear prove that that is not ready for democracy or for dialogue we from our side will engender violence will inject confrontation we are not focused collation and we do not want to provoke but but likewise we expect baghdad to respect the will of

the people of iraq you prime minister hyderabadi says military confrontation is not the solution. but he says there will be no dialogue with the k r g until the referendum results are made no and avoid all the ninety two percent of those who voted said yes to eventual kurdish the session the k r g says the kurdish people of iraq have spoken child strafford al jazeera northern iraq. south africa's supreme court of appeal is due to rule on friday where the president jacob zuma will face hundreds of corruption charges the charges relate to an arms deal dating back to the early ninety's ninety's as tanya page reports. president jacob zuma could face up to seven hundred and eighty three corruption charges they relate to a multi-million dollar still from the one nine hundred ninety s. his former financial adviser should be a shaikh was jailed for corruption relating to the deal and his trial judge linked

to zuma to it the scandal prompted then president tavon bikie to fires zuma who was his deputy but soon after zuma deposed mbeki as leader of the a.n.c. and before too long the party recalled and diesel lifted tabo mbeki he lost his presidency prosecutors then announced that they were dropping the corruption charges against president jacob zuma completely their decision was based on secret really secretly recorded phone conversations as the spy tapes which allegedly showed political interference if it to prosecute zuma the dropping of the charges cleared the way for jacob zuma to become president of south africa the opposition democratic alliance one access to the spy tapes and use them to argue there wasn't enough proof of political interference last year the high court agreed and said the decision to drop corruption charges against president jacob zuma was irrational and

they should be reinstated the president and the national prosecuting authority have challenge the high court decision at the supreme court of appeal and now we're waiting to find out how the judges with. the chinese artist ai wei wei has installed wire fence exhibits across new york city to highlight the plight of refugees kristen salumi explains. two people cut through the fence that now blocks the triumphal arch in new york's washington square park a giant work of public art inspired by the global refugee crisis it's called good fences make good neighbors but these fences found in parks and on sidewalks all around new york city have openings one of things i love about the park system in this city is that you never know what you're going to cross so there's always that sense of adventure and exploration and when there's something like this it's very thought provoking and enjoyable i think it's beautiful i think it has a lot of good work that like people can interact with it starts

a conversation its creator the chinese artist ai wei wei lived in the city for twelve years but at first hesitated to take on the commission to save. so much as not to use it for me to do the just. sculpture in the city. and to. pay back my wrist back to my love these days i way way is an international superstar known as much for his political activism as his art but while sculptures like these may be warmly received here in new york they haven't always the light of the authorities back home. i has at times been detained and harassed in his homeland of china this time he's taking aim at the west this gilded cage painted to match trump tower just a few blocks away. time this note the color ins and. divided on the. collar reduce religion

nationality. which is i think it's a complete good. going back warts. the message is universal but has a special resonance in a city of immigrants new york city is very open it excepts people from all kinds of backgrounds and i think that was a very profound experience for him so i think he'll be values that he wants to make sure that we think about it in don't take it for granted i's boundaries are fluid meant to provide comfort not divide and circling the community with the masses that all are welcome here christian salumi al jazeera new york. undermined at the top stories on al-jazeera a turkish military convoy has crossed into syria turkish media sources say the

convoy includes about eighty soldiers and twelve vehicles while their destination isn't clear local sources have told out the convoy is heading towards western aleppo. has more from an attack here in southern turkey. dozens of calls crossed in to syria we know from different sources that the turkish military i was stationed in an area called and all the. outskirts of the province of whether we know that by the destination is going to be of this is part of a deal that was signed between russia iran and turkey to implement the deescalation . palestinians have been celebrating a reconciliation deal between hamas which controls gaza and fatah which runs the occupied west bank they all brokered by egypt was signed in cairo the formation of a national unity government. the united states and israel say they're withdrawing

from unesco the united nations cultural agency washington announced its decision first saying the body needs fundamental reform but also accused of having an anti israel bias. the pakistani army has rescued a family held captive by the her colony network and all aligned to the afghan taliban says they were recovered along the pakistan afghanistan after a tip off by u.s. intelligence agencies president donald trump says the rescue shows pakistan is beginning to quote respect america again two car bomb attacks in syria have killed at least thirty five people syrian government you say to us he says the car bomb targeted a checkpoint set up by the syrian democratic forces many civilians were reportedly killed as well as kurdish security force personnel dozens of others were wounded in the blast. kenya's government is banning opposition protests in three cities just

weeks before the repeat presidential election is due to be held the opposition leader announced this week that he would be withdrawing from the race. and those stories want to any states coming next. the head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed germany is satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily the stone year's biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time zero. the camaro rouge once ruled cambodia its oppressive policies by the nation's rich culture performances. and most artists and musicians here. today a local circuits sparking an artistic revival i took the street kids into a world class at the bat.