private collectors. are selling them and the fact is where is the beheadings in the middle east. that's one quick solution trafficking al-jazeera. in search of agreements on how to deal with syria of lattimer putin says there are complicated matters to discuss with his turkish counterparts. there watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters and. also a heads no extra prison time for the former congolese vice president john kerry found guilty of witness tampering during a war crimes trial digging by hand through

a philippines hillside dozens feared bird in the aftermath of typhoon mango. and the growing scare over a favorite fruit sewing needles are found hidden in strawberries in more australian states. hello the turkish president. the russian leader vladimir putin remains shut away in talks on syria the russian leader vladimir putin said there were complicated matters to discuss as they headed in this is the second time in less than two weeks they've come together has warned of a bloodbath and it led province of syrian forces a time to take what is the last major rebel held territory the rebel held province has been coming under attack in recent weeks by government forces supported by russia and iran. stephanie decker joining us live from behind me that is on the turkey syria border so as the talks go on in sochi between putin's an earlier one

talk us through erdogan is hoping to achieve in what he's taking to putin well he's trying to buy more time and why because turkey has a very difficult task of dealing with all the rebel groups inside some of them are cold so-called moderates but particularly the issue is when it comes to those cold terrorist organizations particularly high at the heat the group for me known as the mr front and accused of being linked to al qaeda so what they're doing is trying to do and we're just hearing actually that that meeting is over so perhaps we'll be hearing from those two men shortly because we are expecting a press conference but what he's trying to do what turkey is trying to do its intelligence services are trying to do is to get the group to disband to lay down their weapons this is difficult from what we understand perhaps an option would be to sort of have some parts of the group agree to it because there are splits within the group but it's very very difficult indeed so this is the aim of turkey trying to avoid an old military offensive which will of course have huge implications for

the civilians you can see if the province over there that's in that camp for the internally displaced eight hundred thousand people already living in those kind of difficult conditions all along the border and of course if there is a military offensive that reaches the cities in particular the worry is of massive visual civilian casualties and also a mass exodus of people towards the border with turkey and what does turkey saying it will do if that were to happen in terms of what happens to the civilians those turkey then opened its borders. no and turkey's been very adamant about this it's been very clear it's been constantly giving this message whether it's an op eds in american major publications whether it's in speeches by the president by the foreign minister saying that they are ready host over three million three point five million syrians inside turkey they're at capacity they have eight operations going in cross borders they have turkish aid groups working in the camps like the one behind me so what they're telling us is that the borders

are going to remain closed whatever happens they're going to try and you know ensure the safety of people to set up more tense set up. centers medical you know sort of help inside syria they also telling us that they don't want the people really to move to the one area that is still in non-government hands which is what turkey sort of controls which is further north they want to keep people incited lips so there are so many different facets to this so why it is so complicated because you have over three million civilians you have tens of thousands of armed men all part of different fighting groups including foreign fighters you have chechens you have a group which is made up of chinese we've heard the turkistan islamic party how do you get all of this fixed and where do they go because this was always going to be a problem to be fixed at a later date this is where the fighters left they didn't want to reconcile with the government this is where their families were and this is also where many many internally displaced what will now are at a stage where it needs to be dealt with and it is going to be incredibly

complicated this is why you're seeing all these political negotiations continue and continue you have these two men now meeting as you mentioned there twice in ten days so let's wait and see if they give us anything concrete at this press conference all right let's find out then from challenge stephanie thank you for the time being so right now joining us from moscow and laura we understand that the meeting has now ended between the two presidents what are you hearing. yeah that's our understanding coming from the turkish side that the meeting is wrapped up so what we are waiting for now is the news conference that will reveal to us and the audience out there what exactly these two men have decided on now retired birdo and seemed to be moderately upbeat going into this meeting he said that i think not only the region but also the whole world has focused its intention on our meeting today i think the statement we will make following the meeting in sochi will be

a new hope for the region well the kremlin spoke earlier in the day as well now by the way putin said not very much for basically that the relationship between russia and turkey was good it was dynamic and it was developing but of course there are some issues which the two countries find difficult i think he was alluding there to syria to it live and the president's spokesperson earlier on said that the situation in libya is acute and that certain differences in approach is different you want says are there and that therefore require a very serious talk at the highest levels now you know russia has basically been champing at the bit for for a week now for this offensive we've been talking about it for weeks and yet it hasn't happened why has it not happened world and that's because turkey basically turkey has been doing everything it can retire and heard when it's been doing

everything he can to get this at the very least hones down if not called off well i don't think he's going to succeed in getting it called off but the turkish red lines have certainly been made clear to moscow. go to one has been doing things like writing op eds in the wall street journal saying that there would be a bloodbath if a full scale assault on the elliptic place that that turkey could not scan. incidents and a worsening of the humanitarian situation that it's already struggling to cope with three million refugees inside its own borders he was even saying that the international community community should get more involved in syria more involved in now you know for months it has seemed as if russia turkey and iran and the asked on a formats of being content try and sort this situation out themselves well i don't think russia tayyip erdogan is as easy with that situation anymore as he used to be

and he wants other countries i think he's pointing to the united states to take more of a hand in the syrian situation and that of course is not going to go down well in moscow not going to go down well with vladimir putin all right well we shall wait and see what they say in the joint statement for the time being rory thank you for the international criminal court has fined the former vice president of the democratic republic of congo three hundred fifty thousand dollars for bribing witnesses during his work crimes trial members sentence was reduced to zero due to the years already served he was acquitted of war crimes on appeal in june member has been barred from standing in december as a presidential election and he barker joining us from brussels so was the sentencing expected. it was looking likely that he would face a custodial sentence the prosecution had hoped for a sentence of five years and

a fine he's been given a twelve month sentence and a fine of around three hundred fifty thousand dollars but it was very much from day one really a token gesture given that he's already been in jail in the hague for for ten years so even if he'd have been given the maximum five years he still would have in theory been able to walk free the question really is now what is he going to do next the electoral commission in the d r c had said because of this case of tampering or witness tampering and had been pending that it meant that he should be barred from standing as a presidential candidate against joseph in elections that have been earmarked for december of course now that this verdict has been given in theory will the electoral commission hold stanton there were earlier beliefs that he should be barred from standing it's very unclear at this stage but in theory it does mean the could get on the plane could go back to could shatter and could with the support of

his large number of supporters once again try to push for the electoral commission to allow him to stand for the presidency ok in the parka thank you. the winds and rain have long gone but in the aftermath of typhoon manga there is a desperate search going on in the philippines more than fifty are confirmed dead in the northern parts of the country right now in one area through mud for dozens more people thought to be worried this is a growing town where a landslide swept homes in a former broncos in a mining community after heavy rain on saturday many people have taken refuge in the building as the typhoon hit despite warnings hundreds of police and soldiers are working at the site but heavy equipment can't be brought in. at the rescue site and it's a gone. with the local government is trying to do is to expedite the process of its emergency response for example these backhoes have been working all day trying to clear the road and this should be the way for a speedy or rescue and retrieval operations and this is something that is expected

to last many days i'm just going to show you the work that's being done here by local government officials to set up a temporary emergency response center and over there is the list of those who have been missing families are there eagerly waiting for news from their loved ones and also behind me is a small processing area for the bodies that have been recovered by operatives here we were told that they have set up a small embalming process behind. me and this should actually make the process easier they would like to turn over the bodies to the families very quickly now this whole operation is expected to last for over a week and that is because the full scale of this devastation has yet to be realized we were told that two backhoes have been attempted to be brought in in order for in order to help with retrieval operations only for those machines to be

stuck on the top of the cliff and so right now what is happening really is a man while our ritual operation done by volunteers this is devastating not just for the community basically but. for the many others why dependent on these small scale mining operations for their livelihood but the government assured those who are waiting to hear the community here that help is very much on the way in hong kong a massive cleanup operation is underway after mangoes caused widespread damage and flooding there hundreds of roads across the city have been blocked off by fallen trees and other debris around a thousand flights in the city's airport were affected and the backlog a slowly being cleared many public transport services are still suspended and there were huge traffic jams as the most powerful storm on record to hit hong kong and four people died as typhoon man got moved on to guangdong province in southern china scott heiler reports the world's strongest storm of the year typhoon man could made landfall on china's mainland on sunday night it weakened as it reached

province in the south one of the world's most densely populated regions home to one hundred million people this after a near direct hit on hong kong and macau lashing the islands with high winds waves and flooding. thousands of people were without power either knocked out by the storm or shut down for safety reasons in china two point four million people had to be evacuated from their home hundreds of flights were canceled the high speed train service was suspended and thousands of fishing boats headed back to port once the wind and the rain died down the cleanup started on monday with flooding fallen trees and debris to be cleared. and after safety checks were carried out road rail and air services slowly began to start operating again on the mainland the storm is expected to continue moving west towards northern vietnam scott tyler al jazeera beijing still ahead on al-jazeera ethnic cleansing sexual violence and recruitment

of children as soldiers some of the grim findings from a report on south sudan. hello again welcome back well here across southern china of course we have watching meant coup very carefully the last couple days it is now really starting to deteriorate over the region and weakening but we still have a lot of rain across much of western china that's going to continue over the next few days as we go towards midweek though and wednesday we're going to start to see a lot of that moisture really start to fade away and good news for hong kong you are going to be drying out a lot of sun in your forecast as we go towards wednesday with a touch of their of thirty two degrees so recovery efforts can really get underway well here across the eastern portions of india still very heavy rain along the coastline right there up towards the northeast you are drying out and clear skies

there but in the band girl we're going to be watching the circulation very carefully over the next few days we don't have any indications that it could turn into a tropical system but we could see a lot of rain with this wave as it slowly makes its way towards the west here on wednesday along the coastline we could be seeing some heavier showers and that could cause some localized flooding so we'll keep you informed of that up towards kokoda our one day few with a temperature of about thirty six degrees and then here across much of the middle east we are watching doha in the high thirty's for you here on tuesday but as we go towards wednesday we are looking at about forty one. getting to the heart of the matter the three big challenges facing human crime in the twenty first century and they are nuclear war climate change and technological disruption facing new realities whatever it is they have to fear is not in me it is

in the people of uganda hear their story on and talk to al-jazeera. television the top stories on al-jazeera turk as president of tell you berta on his talk to bring a new pope to syria's edler province as he meets his russian counterpart for talks in sochi this is the second time in less than two weeks they've come together has warned of a bloodbath and it led province of syrian forces attempt to take what is the last major rebel held territory rescue efforts are continuing in the northern

philippines where more than fifty people have been killed by typhoon manga most of them died in landslides triggered by strong winds and heavy rain in the area it's a gone dozens of miners are feared dead after a mountain slope collapsed on their living quarters the international criminal court has fined the former vice president of the democratic republic of congo three hundred fifty thousand dollars for bribing witnesses during his war crimes trial members sentence was reduced to zero due to ten years already served he was acquitted of war crimes on appeal in june. the un human rights commission on south sudan is calling on the government to set up a hybrid court to try potential work crime criminals south sudan's government signed a peace deal last week to. nearly five years of civil war the commission says those who committed crimes during the conflict must be held accountable never morgan reports. it's only days since south sudan's were in parties agreed to end a war which has ravaged the world's youngest country but the united nations is keen

for the government to take the next big step as soon as possible form a hybrid court to put on trial anyone suspected of committing atrocities during the conflict what we said in our report the south sudan is a country at war with the citizens because the attacks continue the violations on to new the outflow of internally displaced persons and refugees continue and of course the number of children were affected by the continued to go on the increase . were beginning to thirteen when president salva kiir accused his then vice president riek machar of attempting a coup tens of thousands of people have been killed and a third of the country's twelve million population displaced the un has reports of ethnic killings rape and recruitment of child soldiers and has no guarantee those activities won't continue the signed peace deal results for among other things the

formation of a court so those accused of crimes can be held accountable. but thousand and government which has denied committing any offenses says the lead pirates should be on building peace in the country south sudan is now looking for a way out from the conflict to peace and physically may be in sight so the international community should now give time for the government and the other political parties that signed the agreement to make sure they implement the physically mentally literally spirit. of accountability doesn't come. back out ability should come as part of the implementation of peace agreement but for many people if justice is seemed to be done it will enable them to move on from the horrors of the past and rebuild their lives here morgan algis their own a warning that things will get a lot tougher for the u.k. economy is that struggles to finalize a bricks and deal the head of the international monetary fund says there will be

significant costs if it crashes out of the european union without a deal speaking in london a short time ago christine legarde warned of the daunting challenges facing negotiations urging both sides to reach an agreement she said there would be a lot of negatives from rex it britain is due to leave the e.u. in march next year overcoming differences reaching agreement and closing a deal with the e.u. will be critical to avoid the new deal breaks it which would impose very large cost on the u.k. economy the confirmation of president donald trump's pick for the supreme court has run into problems after an allegation of sexual abuse a woman who accused him of assaulting her is now willing to testify in court the judiciary committee was set to vote on brett kavanaugh his nomination on thursday but with a new revelation some politicians wanted delayed reports. if brett kavanaugh is confirmed he will change the highest court for

a generation he will cement it as solidly conservative it's a high stakes nomination that has been controversial from the beginning with republicans refusing to hand over hundreds of thousands of documents from his long legal career this nomination is going to be tainted it will be stain. by a badly broken process that has shattered the norms despite that in just days it was expected he would get past the first vote and be on his way to final confirmation until this the washington post has a story about what one woman alleges kavanah did to her in high school christine bleakley ford going public the post writes well his friend watched she said cavanagh pinned her to a bed on her back and groped her over her clothes grinding his body against hers and clumsily attempting to pull off her one piece bathing suit and the clothing she were over it when she tried to scream she said he put his hand over her mouth i

thought he might inadvertently kill me said ford she managed to escape and she even passed a lie detector test about the incident which kevin has denied so far frankly your answer has been ambiguous there are calls to bring him back before the senate the last time that happened it was clarence thomas absolutely not the senator nominated to the court when anita hill came forward and accused him of sexual harassment he was confirmed anyway many women were angry in the u.s. after the thomas confirmation it's all record number of women run for office since then we've seen the election of u.s. president donald trump the woman's marks the me too movement again another record breaking number of women running for office now the cavanagh confirmation really just stoke the anger that's already out there the politicians are well aware of that with less than two months to go till congressional elections now the republicans who control the senate have just days to decide if they should ignore

the allegations and risk a backlash or call for new hearings potentially risking their nominee. al-jazeera washington and russia says it has proof that ukraine down flights i made seventeen and twenty fourteen that killed all two hundred ninety eight people on board the crime. defense ministry says the missile had been produced in one nine hundred eighty six and was owned by ukrainian authorities a dutch led investigation had concluded the missile was russian made and was transported to ukraine from a russian military base in the city of course alexander is a security expert and coordinator of the security studies program at the university of geneva he says at the time ukraine was not capable of operating the military network used in that attack. there is definitely contradiction towards a very significant dutch investigation reports but there is also a contradiction between the russian vision of events and nearly all of the

different international investigations that have taken place regarding this this terrible event the russian government definitely has the interest of of maintaining this situation unresolved just like the entire conflict of dumbass just like the question of south setia essentially russia is not fighting to try and convince anyone that their version is the correct version but they are going to attack just about every international investigation as they have pressured the investigators in two thousand and fourteen two thousand and fifteen because what the russian would like in this affair is essentially an unresolved affair it's very difficult to imagine any other variants than the international investigations have confirmed because simply we have had international investigators on the ground we also know that the air defense system that was used is actually part of a much larger network so it's not possible and it's ultimately not

a question of the individual person who has pressed on a button you need an entire network an entire military radar sensor network in order to operate such a such a missional and absent that particular time ukraine could not have engaged such a weapon well forty years ago today the camp david accords were signed they deal into resolve differences over the one nine hundred sixty seven six day war and this was the middle east before fighting began then israel sees territory including sinai and gaza from egypt the golan heights from syria the west bank which was controlled by jordan camp david laid the framework for a peace deal signed a year later by egypt and israel off the residual handed back the so. an eye to egypt it still holds today the accords in one nine hundred seventy eight included a proposal to set up a self-governing off already for palestinians in the west bank and gaza but palestinians were not party to the agreement rosin jordan has more. on

september seventeenth one thousand nine hundred seventy eight egypt and israel and thirty years at war after twelve days of secret talks at the us presidential retreat camp david menachem begin and sadat later were awarded the nobel peace prize for signing the camp david peace accords an achievement that reflects the courage and wisdom of these two leaders jimmy carter to receive the same prize for using the power of his office to compel sworn enemies to talk to listen and to make a deal many had hoped the peace treaty with egypt and them with jordan would improve the chances of a peace deal between israel and the palestinians thirty years later despite the all slow accords and repeat it u.s. efforts to hold peace talks experts say achieving the two state vision is as difficult as it's ever been. a lot of ideas are out there federation confederation

one state three states but every time one studies this issue in any detail you come back to the two state solution is the only outcome that would satisfy the national aspirations of both sides there are many reasons why israeli palestinian peace talks have stalled some blowing the failure of palestinian president mahmoud abbas to prevent attacks on israelis others reject the trumpet ministration as a broker for future talks. benjamin netanyahu government keeps building jewish settlements in the occupied west bank and restricts palestinians movements around the territory and the trump white house has made what many call hostile actions toward the palestinian government closing the p.l.o. office in washington cutting u.s. funds for the u.n. refugee agency and to the palestinian authority stopping its donations to

a hospital that serves critically ill palestinians and moving the us embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem a former negotiator in the camp david accords says in light of all this it's too much to hope that the white house peace plan could be a breakthrough this is not a real estate transaction real estate volved but this is also about national interests about security concerns about highly symbolic issues jerusalem about people's rights experts say the vision of two states living side by side can survive but right now there is no predicting when or if one might see a repeat of the good feelings on display back in september one thousand nine hundred seventy eight rosalynn jordan al-jazeera washington what began last week as a couple of isolated cases off sewing needles hidden in australian strawberries is

now turning into a crisis for the industry more and more contaminated fruit have been found since across the country andrew thomas reports. this strawberry scare began a way to go when a customer bought a punnet like this one and found needles inside two of the strawberries that was traced back to a packing shed a particular farm where it looks as though at the scrum through employee that put needles inside the strawberries it looked as though that was a one off but since then been reports of eight other incidents in places runs across australia now one of two of those may be customers making things up but it certainly looks as though they've also been coping incidents whether at the packing stage on the farms or whether it's people putting needles into strawberries as they are sitting on supermarket shelves it's not clear but regardless of the cools the consequences for the strawberry industry in australia a huge it's a hundred million dollars a year industry and it's already suffering from a glass of stall breeze this is the high production time of year it's been a particularly strong year for production but that means prices will already live

with this hitting the demand side the price of a planet like this one has dropped to as low as a dollar in the australian sink. and impulses and exports are having trouble so new zealand's one of its major imports of story supplies cough that country supermarket to say it will stop taking a study of strawberries until this crisis is resolved. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the turkish president rest of time berto on the russian leader vladimir putin have wrapped up talks on syria for a lot of recruits and said there were complicated matters to discuss as they headed in this is the second time in less than two weeks they've come together erdogan has warned of a bloodbath in italy province of syrian forces attempt to take what is the last major rebel held territory challenge has more from moscow. russia time the other

one seemed to be moderately upbeat going into this meeting he said that i think not only the region but also the whole world has focused its intention on our meeting today i think a statement we will make following the meeting in sochi will be a new hope for the region well the kremlin spoke earlier in the day as well now if i meet putin said not very much but basically the relationship between russia and he was good it was dynamic and it was developing but of course there are some issues which the two countries find difficult the international criminal court has fined the former vice president of the democratic republic of congo three hundred fifty thousand dollars for bribing witnesses during his work crimes trial members sentence was reduced to zero due to the years already served he was acquitted of war crimes on appeal in june has been barred from standing in december's presidential election the wind and rain have long gone but in the

aftermath of typhoon mango there is a desperate search going on in the philippines more than fifty are confirmed dead in the northern parts of the country but right now in the town of it's gone teams are digging through mud for dozens more people thought to be birdied russia says it has proof that ukraine downed flight m.h. seventeen in twenty fourteen that killed all two hundred ninety eight people on board the kremlin's defense ministry says the missile had been produced in one nine hundred eighty six and was owned by ukrainian authorities but a dutch led investigation concluded the missile was russian made and was transported to ukraine from a military base in the city of course denuclearization is expected to dominate the agenda of tuesday's talks between the leaders of north and south korea. will meet kim jong un in pyongyang for the third time this year those are the headlines talk to al-jazeera is coming up next.

mean to stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. the. hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the country with the largest known oil reserves in israel up. until six years ago it was one of latin america's most prosperous nations must when the price of oil plummeted the exodus began first the wealthiest class left by plane followed by middle class professionals. now with

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