at this time. al-jazeera. where every. us turkey not to take military action in a kurdish controlled district in northern syria. alone down don't think this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up but francis

arrives in peru for the second leg of the south american top. secret world of lobbying firms in the u.s. comes under more scrutiny to reveal who's working for whom. on a major storm blows through europe killing at least seven people and disrupting traffic. the u.s. state department is urging turkey not to invade a friend in syria turkish forces are massing on the border in preparation for action against the kurdish why p.g. turkey considers the white b.g. a terrorist group but its fighters have been a key ally for the u.s. elsewhere in syria stepping back from antakya. the turkish army is steadily increasing its presence along this stretch of the syrian border president. has been threatening to attack the kurdish run area baffling for almost a week now there has been sporadic shelling. inside africa thousands marched on

thursday in protest at turkey's aggression how the wealthy and that's the goal of this large demonstration is to send a message to the world and especially to turkey concerning the turkish threats we will not be a fright. but we came here to protest against the attacks on offering we will stand by offering an outreach to why. is one of three autonomy's kurdish enclaves controlled by the syrian kurdish p why do party and its armed when the y p g turkey sees the y p g as an offshoot of the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it together with the u.s. in europe consider a terrorist organization but the y.p. g. has been working with the u.s. to push ice a lot of syria not enough lean but further east of the euphrates river the americans have never had a presence in africa but the russians do and often has been relatively peaceful throughout this war and it hosts tens of thousands of internally displaced syrians

it will let you know after him has been there for quite a long time has never through like you know was it a serious issue to threats or turkey but there are going to probably need is this kind of nationalistic. you know rhetoric and potentially use its military in order to be able to gain more street. with the upcoming elections in turkey so i think that comes to. you know it's at the start when it comes to the attention of interaction and into a friend tensions have been stoked further in recent days by the u.s. announcement of a so-called border force which will be based east of the euphrates along the border with turkey and iraq and the wife will form its back not to the. united states and he supports a terrorist organization that threatens their kid can this be acceptable it is unacceptable and inexplicably but u.s.

secretary of state rex tillerson says it's not a border force. the u.s. role has been mis portrayed and turkey is owed an explanation he says the build up is aimed at countering the resurgence of eisel will be internally focused and is important for the stability of syria however that's not what others involved in syria's war think ankara to han moscow and damascus have all voice their opposition to the force once again it highlights the complicated nature of syria's war isis been pushed out of most of the territory that it once held and so the battlefield is becoming perhaps even more complicated with each side trying to carve out its sphere of influence and it seems the syrians are the ones that hold the least sway of all. well rex tillerson and the us it seems have been sending mixed messages about the force they're planning in syria but the pentagon is saying one thing and the state department saying something very different a pentagon correspondent particle hain has more. the long term goals of u.s.

policy in syria have been a bit muddled but the secretary of state rex tillerson is trying to make one point crystal clear u.s. forces are not leaving the united states will maintain a military presence in syria focused on ensuring isis cannot reemerge our military mission in syria will remain conditions based its main focus training a local force but that has enraged turkey who see those they are teaching why p.g. fighters as a grave threat to their security turkey says that is why its forces are massing at the border prompting this warning from the u.s. we would call on certainly on the turks to not take any actions of that sort here's what caused the concern this statement from the u.s. military writing quote the coalition is working jointly with the syrian democratic forces to establish and train the new syrian border security force the statement repeatedly refers to training a border security force thirty thousand strong raising concerns in turkey that they

could have no thomas region now secretary tillerson says it isn't a border force that in his words has been mis portrayed mis described former u.s. ambassador to syria robert ford says that's ridiculous that the us trained force would have course control the border they're just ignoring the turkish concerns they know what their concerns are they just don't care basically they're making a bet that turkey will not walk too far away from its longstanding alliance with the united states they are making that bet. the u.s. betting that turkey's leaders will be angry and not act whether that turns out to be true will depend in large part on what the leader of russia says not tillerson or tromp. al-jazeera washington meanwhile syria's deputy foreign minister is threatening his government's forces with turkish jets flying over its kurdish region he made the comment shortly before the turkish heads of intelligence on the

army arrived in moscow to discuss the use of syrian airspace. we warned that the syrian air defenses restored all its capacity and power and is ready to destroy targets in the skies of the syrian arab republic this means that in any case i think gresham by the taking force it won't be made in easy well the turkish journalist says the russian position is more relevant than the american stance of a frame. when we look at our free in our furnace under the russian influence so even turkish inspiration has been attacking includes designers ing us for offering it did really not make sense because from the beginning. have been no american military forces present there and a couple days ago americans saying that you know this has nothing to do does

even though today u.s. state department spokesman came out very strongly on called on turks not thing gage in wireless or not in weight of very clearly told them not to do that so at this point turkish delegation general chief of staff and turkish a chief of intelligence igor in moscow today it's kind of again the russian blessing for this offering operation and we have not heard anything about those meetings yet so for now the president seems to be very angry and wants to take out those elements who he sees them as threat to turkey so far it doesn't look like that turkey has any support from either the russia or u.s. or the western allies turkey's parliament has extended the country's state of emergency for another three months it's the sixth extensions and the failed coup in

twenty sixteen the measures allow the president to bypass parliament by decree critics accuse the government of misusing its emergency powers to pursue its opponents pope francis has arrived in peru on the second leg of his south america taught the leader of the roman catholic church was welcome to lima by the ruby and president pedro public option ski during his trip he's expected to meet indigenous people large parts of their homeland have been destroyed by a gold rush in peru's amazon rainforest. well the woman who come the pope received in peru was in contrast to the reception he had on the first leg of his tool several churches were set alight during his trip to chile as anger surrounding sexual abuse in the church came to the front latin america edited this in human reports. pope francis ended his most problematic tour of a catholic country in chile's northern desert city of a geek in where the theme was immigration he chose it because it is home to

a huge number of immigrants especially from neighbors and the libya. there he said there is no christian joy if the doors are closed to migrants if they are made to feel unwelcome a message directed far beyond chile's borders especially this week when the issue of building walls keep migrants out is again making headlines in the united states . this is the difficulty of the pope overshadowed by displays of anger over clerical sex abuse and almost every public appearance even after the pope had asked for forgiveness for the damage done to children by members of the catholic church after days of protests even by priests a clearly angry pope finally explained his controversial support for a bishop accused of covering up sex abuses if you are thinking of. proof against bishop by ross then i will speak there is not one bit of proof against him all of it is slander it's not clear to reshoot but it was also clear is that he does not

shirk controversy and strife torn to mugu he called on chile to end centuries of injustices against the indigenous people warning radical my pussy groups to abandon violence or risk destroying their just cause. shortly before leaving chile of course through a police officer almost and top of his popemobile the pope got off and rushed to see if the officer was hurt how much the pope's four day trip will really contribute to restoring lost faith in the catholic church here in chile is very hard to measure so soon the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley has met a group of african diplomats just days after president trump's derogatory remarks on immigration from the continent all diplomatic james bays are small from the u.n. in new york. this was the highest level meeting between an official of the trump administration and african nations ambassador nikki haley is not just the u.n. ambassador for the trumpet ministration she's

a member of the cabinet she was in damage limitation mode but she did not apologize i understand that she told the african ambassador she didn't know exactly what was said in that meeting last week in washington d.c. she simply said she regretted the political drama regarding what had been said she stressed the long ties between the continent and the united states and the investment and contribution that the u.s. had made towards africa for example citing the sixty six billion dollars the u.s. has given since the year two thousand to fight hiv aids the african ambassadors thanked her for talking to them remember only a few days ago they were asking for attraction and a formal apology they said though that these comments are not only been heard by african ambassadors but also by the african people and african leaders and stress

to her that african leaders are we meeting at an african union summit in the next two weeks and said it would be useful if president trump was to send a message to that summit and i asked the haley said she'll be going from here in new york to washington d.c. in the coming hours and she said she would relay that message directly to the president the u.s. is suspending a forty five million dollars payment to the un's relief agency for palestinian refugees the money which was earmarked for food aid was promised last month and that's separate from the sixty five million dollars cut announced earlier this week . at the time though when we provided that note that information to honor we made it clear that it was a pledge it was not a guarantee and that it would need to be confirmed later at this time we will not be providing that but that it does not mean i want to make it clear that does not mean that it will not be provided in the future the u.n. is calling for the yemeni port of her data to remain open be on friday to allow the delivery of lifesaving aid to continue on tuesday the south in the coalition

authorized the opening of the port a day to hundreds about seventy percent of yemen's imports but the damage from a twenty fifteen and strike and a blockade by the saudi led military alliance has severely restricted aid access more than a million yemenis are on the brink of famine and the country is suffering outbreaks of cholera and diphtheria. time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back as donald trump marks is first year in office we'll look at the impact of his foreign policies in the middle east or in that state. how i would after a recent post that we've got temperatures bouncing back nicely now across northern parts of the u.s. added to the east the sort of canada as well i guess was the northwestern corner we have got a fair amount of cloud of rain which will make its way across the pacific northwest

ease a little further east with some snow over the rockies will be some snow north of the border to into web b.c. comes out the south eleven celsius in san francisco seventeen in l.a. on the cold side maybe a little colder here's a go on through the next few days but on the other side of the country those temperatures are recovering so three celsius in new york i celsius there full of they say and we ship pick up a few notches as we go on through sas day that is some snow that would see the sort of kind of the little bit of rain is down to west apostle kind of joining up with that wet and rather windy weather that we have coming into washington state and perhaps into oregon to get a bit more snow there coming in the cross the rockies and that will make its way further east as we go through the next few days meanwhile we say some very heavy rain into the western side of the caribbean big area of cloud here but you see some heavy downpours into pushing across into nicaragua costa rica and panama mobic down post for much of the reason as we go on through friday into colombia as well and

the side of a saturday. and . look the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understood. to syrians document the route that has claimed so many lives searching for sanctuary padawan people in power on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here at al-jazeera the u.s. state department is urging turkey not to intervene against kurdish forces in a free in syria the turkish government says it may attack in the coming days but it's seeking approval from russia first. pope francis's arrived in peru on the second leg of his south america told the leader of the roman catholic church was welcomed by a peruvian president that the. u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley's might approve of african diplomats the meeting follows president trump's derogatory remarks on immigration on the continent earlier this month. well saturday marks one year since president from office becoming the forty fourth president of the united states looks at how his presidency has impacted the middle east. it was the first time that saudi arabia have been chosen by a u.s.

president for his do overseas trip donald trump in the saudi leadership wanted to reset relations is strange to under the obama administration particularly over iran the u.s. and the saudis are traditional allies but it's clearly a new relationship that he has closely a brace but haven't been so bad in saudi arabia and he has literally tweeted that. a trade prince of saudi arabia enjoy his twenty two co-defendants so he has essentially given them a diplomatic blank check and that is why many believe saudi arabia along with the united arab emirates battering in egypt miscalculated when they imposed an air sea and land blockade on qatar seven months ago qatar denies accusations of backing terrorist organizations trump and initially supported the blockade before the white house shifted its position very much on the side of saudi arabia and i think he has simply gone ahead with whatever his son in law. transmitted to him terms of

messages between hama been some man and himself and at the beginning he demonstrated that he knew very little as to the strategic importance of qatar to the united states trump has more than once shown a lack of knowledge not just about u.s. interests while meeting lebanon's prime minister saad d.d. he seemed confused about the role of has been lost lebanon is on the front lines in the fight against isis al qaeda and hezbollah hezbollah is a part of the government it's also backed by iran iran has been the common denominator between the trumpet ministration the saudis and the israelis but so far there doesn't seem to be a clear strategy on how to confront iran they are. there in iraq and in syria. has been. very very good. parent in america. but

it is. u.s. troops were deployed in the kurdish region in syria to fight against the coalition says the american personnel will stay and help create a border security force of thirty thousand kurdish troops the u.s. policy is to contain it and it is using its only leverage in syria the kurds to try to do that. trump doesn't have a new policy for syria he inherited his predecessor nor direct military intervention but he doesn't want the russians iranian regime to declare victory the u.s. is not in a position to confront but. what he didn't postpone however was his campaign pledge but today we finally acknowledge the obvious that jerusalem is israel's

capital with this highly controversial move overturned decades of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east but one year in what this administration thinks it's. unclear. government operating us pass the house of representatives legislation federal agencies until the middle of next month will now be debated in the senate government. if the money isn't to. saudi arabia is again defending itself against allegations that helped the hijackers who carried out the attacks on the u.s. in two thousand and one saudi government lawyers have appeared in a courtroom in new york and they're trying to convince us judges to throw out a lawsuit brought by the kims and their family members as christian salumi was that this is the third time that nine eleven family members have tried to sue the kingdom of saudi arabia but it's the first time since congress passed

a law making it easier to take foreign governments to court on terrorism related charges the families lobbied hard for the legislation known as the justice against sponsors of terrorism act or jasta which took away aspects of sovereign immunity that had prevented their previous lawsuits from being heard and they say they have new evidence as well in the form of declassified documents and testimony from former f.b.i. investigators to support their claim that saudi agents based in the united states helped the hijackers they also accuse the kingdom of being the principal source of funding for al qaeda in the years leading up to the attacks through the religious charities that support it the saudis say the claims are baseless and argue that even with changes to the law the evidence isn't strong enough to proceed to trial their lawyers went as far as accusing the plaintiffs of equating all of the kingdoms were promoting islam whether it's bill the last surviving koran with terrorism an argument strongly rejected by the family. the kingdom is trying to

stop the case from moving forward to the phase where they can subpoena documents and testimony from saudi officials the families say they have a right to see that evidence and have their day in court. there's been a rise of lobbying companies in the us declaring their work on behalf of foreign entities that's after donald trump's former campaign manager was indicted for failing to reveal lobbying for the ukrainian government firms are worried about being caught on the wrong side of the law i should have seen reports. there's a story circulating in washington d.c. that the international being industry here based behind the anonymous facades of k. street is running scared since former trump campaign manager paul mom of four was indicted for some eighteen million dollars that he earned through his undeclared lobbying work for the ukrainian government for was in violation of foreign the foreign agents registration act that requires lobbyists to declare their work for

foreign powers the trouble is there's very little money for enforcement for almost fifty years there were just savin fair and criminal prosecutions that that were brought to bear and only three of those actually led to convictions and now that's three convictions in over fifty years that's less than a conviction a decade and so nobody is being punished for violating a law there was a sort of sort of per burst incentive for companies not to file with fair and if they were filing with fair or not to file their paperwork and certainly not to file it on time the special counsel investigation may have started with inquiries about russia but it's become apparent that any undeclared foreign lobbying on behalf of any country that he turns up as part of his investigation may be of interest the number of lobbying firms reporting their work for foreign governments grew in twenty seventeen forty one new firms declared themselves one hundred three new foreign clones were added to those already known to be lobbying in d.c. and two hundred seventy foreign lobbyists declared themselves examples of the new

filings include three hundred thirty three thousand dollars in payments for a campaign by the u.s. easy to link to terrorism fifty thousand dollars for speech writing to queen rania of jordan t.v. appearances by general wesley clark on behalf of the turks against us based cleric for. some say that the timing is purely coincidental they would have reported the foreign work anyway would be read through and to find things was simply the result of routine reviews however say that a turning point has been reached and that finally flora is being taken seriously freeman however is unconvinced the only thing that's changed right now is we have a special council investigating russian interference in the twenty sixteen election in three that they have indicted people for fear of violations once that special council goes away all of those resources all of that will go away in farah war me in the same lackluster law that it's always been congress has no plans to grow the department of justice any more money to enforce foreign so yes there may be some

fear here on k. street amongst lobbyists but it may only be temporary while the special counsel and his well financed investigators look in to the lobbying activities here once that investigation is over it may well be business as usual mobius trying to rake in as much money from foreign influence u.s. policy and not only up to it she had zero washington egypt has appointed a new acting head of intelligence to recordings were leaked to offices instructing news present his on how to cover controversial topics about kamala's been promoted moving from the president's office earlier this month the new york times and other media reveal leaks of telephone calls in one of them an intelligence officer told a t.v. presenter that kyra was willing to accept the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel contrary to egypt's public position the british prime minister to resign may in the french president emanuel have pledged to maintain the nation's close relationship and cooperate on security

issues despite britain's exit from the e.u. my problem was visiting the u.k. for talks as well as drugs that border controls were discussed france wants more funding from london to help deal with a number of people gathering near french ports like canada as they try to reach the u.k. . now the average temperature on earth last year was hot enough to make twenty seventeen one of the three warmest years on record u.s. government space not much spheric agencies publish their annual global temperature report showing a continuing trend of long term warming heat released from the oceans may also have helped boost temperatures at least nine people have been killed by a violent storm that swept across europe belgium and the netherlands and germany have faced gale force winds that knocked down trees and left thousands without power doesn't stansell reports. the storm pummeled western europe with hurricane like force here the wind ripped a roof off of a building in the netherlands and peels off the side of

a house with severe weather alerts were issued in the netherlands as gale force winds reached one hundred forty kilometers an hour people were urged to stay home for their own safety. and those who did venture outdoors were struggling to keep their feet on the ground but it didn't deter this daredevil who saw the high winds as an opportunity to go for the ultimate kite surfing experience the storm is causing travel chaos hundreds of flights were grounded and in germany all long distance rail services were suspended. boy there is a danger that trees will fall onto the overhead wires and there's a danger that trees will block lutes we know from past experience with extreme weather conditions that it's better to keep the trains inside stations where we can but to take care of passengers in between stations power outages hit tens of thousands of people in germany belgium and in other lands and roads were blocked by

fallen trees and debris high winds and heavy snow also hit parts of the u.k. scotland is dealing with power outages and dangerously icy roads but the storm isn't losing strength it's moving across the continent with eastern europe in its sights happenstance on al-jazeera. now a drone has helped save the lives of two swimmers in the world's first rescue using the technology the teenage boys were spotted struggling in dangerous waves off the eastern coast of australia lifeguards flew the drone above the pad and dropped a float that made it safely to shore in just seventy seconds live got it taken up to six minutes to complete the rescue. the sundance film festival has opened in the u.s. state of utah the annual event will showcase more than one hundred movies that include dramas comedies and documentaries but the focus this year isn't just on the filmed us also on the me too movement a star studded rallies being held to focus on sexual harassment in the cinema industry and as we heard earlier pope francis is on

a south american tour but even while flying between chile and peru he's been busy with the religious duties officiating at the first of the marriage on board the papal plane the couple are two flight attendants from chile's la tom airline who tied the knot in a civil service in twenty ten they had to cancel their religious ceremony however because their church was damaged in an earthquake and ceremony was not planned and took place after the pope had this story during the flight. director of a quick check of the headlines here this hour the u.s. state department is urging turkey not to intervene against kurdish forces in a free in syria the turkish government says it may attack in the coming days but it's seeking approval from russia first heads of the army intelligence are in moscow for two. meanwhile syria's deputy foreign minister says his government

forces will attack turkish jets flying over its kurdish region. i'll tear that to clear we warned that the syrian air defenses restored all its capacity and power and is ready to destroy turkish air targets in the skies of the syrian arab republic this means that in any case i think gresham by the ticket air force it won't be made in easy. pope francis has arrived in peru on the second leg of his south america tour the leader of the roman catholic church was welcomed to lima by peruvian president pedro public. a warm welcome the pope received in peru was in stark contrast the reception he had on the first leg of his talks several churches were set alight during his trip to chile as anger surrounding sexual abuse in the church came to the front the un's calling for the yemeni port of her data to remain open beyond friday to allow the delivery of lifesaving aid to continue on tuesday

the saudi led coalition authorized the opening of the facility for data handles about seventy percent of yemen's imports but it was damaged twenty fifteen and strike more than eight million yemenis on the brink of famine and the country suffering outbreaks of cholera and diphtheria a spending bill to keep the u.s. government operating has passed the house of representatives the legislation to release funding for federal agencies and to the middle of next month will now be debated in the senate government agencies are warning employees of a shutdown on friday if the money isn't approved u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley has met a group of african diplomats the meeting follows president donald trump's derogatory remarks on immigration from the continent earlier this month early average temperature on earth last year was hot enough to make twenty

seventeen one of the three will miss the years on the record heat released from the oceans may have also helped boost temperatures well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power station thanks so much by foot. head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed a satisfied for the state of their economy this is easily a study his 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 on al-jazeera. it's become one of the defining themes of our times a tidal wave of humanity.