by the united nations by turkey by russia etc as being a terrorist a century separating those and giving more time of course the devil is in the details this is going to be a situation going forward which is going to be difficult to set up difficult to police and of course it might all fall through but this is i think a massive reprieve for the people of and a victory of sorts for turkey so stephanie deca live for us from that it's just across the border from stephanie you told us earlier about how president basically had to buy some time he's done that politically this is a success what does it mean for the people now inside. well i think what we're looking at here as a temporary plaster it doesn't fix the bigger issues it doesn't fix the complicated issues and it really does depend i think initially as you heard were referred to

the hailsham how they are going to react because they are now it will be seen as a group capitulating to the pressures of turkey handing over there are heavy weapons and moving back fifteen to twenty kilometers from some of those positions there's also rebels in this area that turkey back so i think it would be safe to say that they will do whatever it is turkey's told them to do but the real challenge here the real question is how will the group h.t.s. and also others in the area that is seen as extremists react and i think then it always is with these things kemal as we know known over the years with syria we need to look at the ground to see if this is going to work and i think something interesting was said here as well looking at the bigger picture that at the end of the year they expected traffic to resume on two key highways from aleppo to damascus and for aleppo to. these highways run to the east of the province and cut it a little bit further north of this you know this demilitarized zone that we're talking about and it was referred to that this was suggested by turkey what this

means is that they intend to over the next three months take back probably hoffa chunk of it now what does this mean for the rebels what does this mean for the civilians it seems that they will be squeezed into a smaller and smaller area in the sense if people don't want to stay in these areas patrolled by the russians remember for years it is the people in the rebels have been fighting syrian forces russian forces so i think still a lot of challenges ahead and yes time has been bought but i think the real key issues and challenges of complications still need to be addressed is it good for president erdogan just maybe expand a little bit more more for us on that stephanie on the political side of things. it's good for him because he's board time but turkey is in a difficult position because they need to get the group h.t.s. . to do what it wants which means to really lay down their arms or merge into other groups now this is a group that was used to be called in

a store front it is still believed to have links to al qaeda even though they publicly cut ties with the group in two thousand and sixteen these are hardcore fighters come all they are well equipped they are men who know how to fight in the battlefield these are men who many of them will tell you it has come to a point where they will fight until the death are they going to agree to simply walk away from this after seven years of fighting power is at play here you know many of these men believe that that you know fighting to the death is something that they it's their cool so i think these are major question marks yes time has been brought but i think again it will be key to see if h.t.s. starts to agree by retreating from these areas but at some point they're going to keep being squeezed into small areas and then where they're going to go so i think i think we need to be cautious about being too optimistic at this stage yes time has been bought but there are still major complications when it comes to live that have not been solved stephanie decker in red on the thank you for that update to

other news and the head of the international monetary fund has warned that a no deal exit from the european union will come out of a substantial economic cost to the u.k. christine legarde says the u.k.'s growth rate will be less than half the global average even if a smooth transition was agreed paul brennan reports on from london. at one point in her news conference christine legarde described herself as a desperate optimist but delivering the i.m.f. latest assessment of the u.k. economy her tone was repeatedly downbeat about britain post rex it so whatever the deal is will not be as good as it is at the moment and asked about the seemingly growing prospect of britain crashing out without a break to deal now clearly that was to happen our assessment is that it would have very dear economy consequences it would be a shock to supply. and it would inevitably have a series of consequences in terms of. reduced growth going forward.

increased deficit most likely depreciation of the currency and. you know in reasonably short order mean a reduction of the size of the u.k. economy the bracket deadlines are approaching fast for britain to depart the european union in an orderly manner next march they really need to agree the e.u. divorce bill by the end of this year and a u. leaders are braced for an emergency summit mid november but the british prime minister theresa may is facing considerable opposition to her compromise proposal the so-called checkers plan and if that is rejected by the u.k. parliament then the very real prospect of a no deal bracks it looms boris johnson resigned from the government over bracks it and has taken to sniping from his regular newspaper column the whole thing is a constitutional abomination he writes and if checkers were adopted it would mean

that for the first time since ten sixty six our leaders were deliberately acquiescing in foreign rule the presidency of the e.u. is currently with austria and its leader is visiting paris for talks with the french president. i think there will be agreed that we have to do everything possible to avoid the heartbreak to make possible to be a strong cooperation between the u.k. and the european union even after the u.k. leaving the e.u. the e.u. chief negotiator michel barnier in madrid with little to add i don't want to have some story is not going to answer my question you know we. can't believe that this will be. a spirit of good cooperation with the final words there mr ban a we'll give a fuller assessment when he brings ministers from the remaining twenty seven member states back in brussels on tuesday paul brennan al-jazeera london tom brooks is

with us now professor of law and government in the dean at darren law school in the u.k. thanks for your time tom i want to talk specifically with you more about the issue of the border northern ireland in autumn but before we go just a broad brush question to start with can you believe that we're having these discussions and that you're listening to a report like that six months before breaks it. no i can't say i'm very surprised that the prime minister triggered article fifty and started britain down this this very tight timetable to have a break that plan before she had a plan by think of it a lot more wise to put together agree what they want out of bricks is how they're going to get there and then trigger this process rather the trigger first then try to develop something later it's taking up all of her time and it's causing a real headache yeah so one of the big things that was overlooked is that border issue northern ireland an island effectively the u.k. and europe. do you see any progress being made there or enough progress being made

there so that it won't be such a huge problem in six months time. i don't see much progress happening here i mean this this is really been driven arlen sporter has been the real issue here the prime minister claims that in her plan she allows to have a frictionless travel between the republic of ireland and northern ireland but that assumes that they'll be a future technology but can somehow create a virtual customs border that doesn't require much of anyone stopping as they go backwards and forwards. with their goods the problem is that one this technology doesn't exist and it violates a fundamental freedom of european union around goods and services that the european union will not accept you think the border issue is enough to or could be enough to almost hold breaks that situation.

possibly i think that the prime minister has set this up as you know my deal or no deal now her a deal is not of the support of members of parliament it is not of the support of her party and it doesn't even have the support of many who stayed in the cabinet not yet resigned she had risen nations every day for about a week from her cabinet in protest of her checkers plan she set it up as checkers or no nothing at all thinking that well no plan is so bad they won't go for that but there isn't really much of any appetite for her plan i think i also think that her plan is a very old most no chance of getting past you parliament so the risk of no deal is huge and it does risk unsettling her position as private assert and causing another possible snap election later this year i wouldn't rule it out before christmas and as we say all just six months to go tom brooks joining us from daryn thank you. we got plenty more ahead for you this news hour who was behind the killing of

a prominent environmental campaigner that question lingering as a murder trial begins in honduras. and sports defending champions india ready to stop the defense of the asia cup cricket title. right now the man who president trump wants as his pick on the u.s. supreme court is coming under increasing pressure of a sexual abuse allegations there are calls for brett kavanaugh his confirmation hearing to be delays and for the f.b.i. to even reopen its background checks and woman who accuses him of assault says she's now willing to testify as well wolf and patty calhoun. 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 more with camberley how can our white house correspondent kimberly how

real is the prospect of kavanagh's confirmation being delayed. this is a very real prospect this is an ongoing story that is developing by the minute even the hour we are awaiting donald trump to appear before cameras potentially speaking about this here at the white house we do know that there are also likely to be some statements made in the floor of the senate by both the ranking republican the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell as well as charles schumer the ranking democrat in that body we can really say that there is a lot of uncertainty over the nomination at this hour given the fact that it is not yet out of committee which is necessary to be voted out before it can go for a vote in the broader full senate and that is very much in question at the moment given the fact that well the chair of that committee says look at we're going to get to the bottom of this we're potentially going to have phone calls with this accuser so that we can hear her side of the story ten democrats and one republican

are now saying on that committee are saying no we want a hearing we want to hear from this accuser potentially brett kavanaugh himself so it seems very hard to believe that there's any way it would be possible for this vote that was set for thursday out of committee to take place i think it might be worth reminding our viewers kimberly about what's at stake here why the nomination of this one man is conceded so important. it's it's one of the main reasons that donald trump was elected by his supporters and so many americans to go into the white house there is a particular feeling in the united states particularly among conservatives that the supreme court of the united states has become too liberal and too left leaning in recent years and so one of the key promises donald trump made was to elect or appoint rather judges that were solidly conservative we saw this with the

appointment of confirmation of the justice system neal gorsuch and now we are you know we very much expected that the nomination of brett kavanaugh would also be swiftly confirmed before the mid-term elections but now there seems to be some in doubt so if this is the rails you could expect a couple of things to happen you can expect that conservatives will come out in full force in the midterm elections to ensure this sort of never happens again type thing and you could also expect that democrats are going to already be coming out in full force because they don't want to see these type of nominations for the supreme court the balance of the three court or rather the supreme court really hangs in the balance determines the future of the country for a generation right so the white house things can be. rescue teams in northern philippines are desperately digging through mounds of mud in the hope of finding survivors of a landslide that had a mining area in its own province burying a sleeping quarters where many locals have been sheltering from typhoon monkhood

the storm ripped through the country on saturday killing dozens of people and with the heavy rain continuing those growing concern for those still missing alan duggan reports from its ago. these the mountain was indestructible but the force of nature proved too great more than fourteen miners took shelter from the storm in a bunk house built into the hillside these thought they were safe but the landslide triggered by super cooked barely forty feet deep this is the. big province it bore the brunt of the storm's power the devastation is so widespread the full scale of the damage is not new. it's for news about her nephew twenty eight year old again told them he would be home but never a ride. you know and. perhaps this is what god intended

can we contradict what god has planned for us nobody wanted this to happen this was an accident what the local government is trying to do here is to expedite the process of rescue and relief operations the backhoes here have been working all day trying to clear the road ambition pave the way for a baby or process or rescue and read feeble operations they have also set up a temporary emergency and rescue center here there is a board over there that has the list of those who had been missing. rescuers say the chances of finding survivors are slim but they are doing everything they can bringing down machines to the site is extremely difficult so volunteers had to dig through the rubble with their bare hands process that is expected to last many days . is the number one. is to establish identity.

because we are dealing with just one bodies but in this case. the bodies more bodies brought in from the butt and rubble families searching for missing loved ones i was called in and asked to identify one body. she glanced quickly and looked away it was the body of a cane her missing nephew in search of a better life many filipinos climbed these mountains hoping to find gold some were lucky but others have paid the ultimate price. dugan al-jazeera province northern philippines. further north in hong kong there massive cleanup operations underway after monkhood caused widespread damage and flooding there hundreds of roads across the city have been blocked by the falling trees and other

debris around a thousand flights from the airport were affected as well and that backlog is slowly being cleared many public transport services are still suspended in the way huge traffic jams that is the most powerful storm on record to have hit hong kong and then we go to the u.s. where rivers continue to rise and flooding worsens and states along the east coast what is now tropical depression florence lingers the death toll is now at eighteen wind speeds of slowed but the heavy rain continues rising floodwaters of cut off the city of wilmington in north carolina and so food and water are being airlifted in for the one hundred twenty thousand people who live there kristen salumi is in north carolina she's in riegelwood which is not far out of wilmington for the.