for withdrawing from the demilitarized zone we're talking about hyatt. which did not say whether it accepted or rejected last month's deal agreed between russia and turkey here it is on the map the adlib agreement which set up a demilitarized area around the northwestern region surrounding that in the province and green the zone was meant to be cleared of heavy weapons by october tenth and of rebel fighters by monday which is today and is with us now from beirut to talk about some of the second deadline today. what do you know about the actual implementation of it. well there is still no movement on the ground no reported withdrawal of fighters from these so-called radical groups in line with that turkish russian deal but even turkey which is overseeing the implementation of this deal has still not made any official confirmation that these so-called radical groups are fulfilling their commitment in a short while ago we heard the syrian foreign minister walid moallem say time is

needed in order to confirm that these groups are fulfilling the terms of the agreement and that we need to wait for russia's reaction because russia is monitoring the implementation of the deal so in the absence of any official confirmation though there are signs that we are not going to run into trouble late yesterday to have a sham the military alliance you mentioned this is the largest military alliance they control seventy percent of the province they signaled readiness that they are you know willing to withdraw in their statement they say that they appreciate the efforts that are being done inside syria and outside syria which of course is a reference to turkey to prevent what they called a massacre and to prevent an invasion and we know that this deal was reached to prevent a possible syrian government offensive in a province we have to mention that quietly complied with the first deadline on october tenth they didn't make any statement but they withdrew their heavy weapons and this is a pragmatic group that has been pragmatic from the start and going against the deal

not complying would risk a military confrontation with turkey and it would be really suicidal senators anyone talk about what happens after this second deadline because we're all focused on the demilitarized zone and what happens within it what happens after that long term too if the. well a new frontline has been created the rebels the opposition they're not forced to surrender they weren't forced to make any reconciliation or so-called reconciliation deals with the government but we've been hearing from syrian government officials including the president himself saying that this is a temporary deal at the end of the day state control is going to return to but everyone seems to agree it is outside powers it's russia and turkey who are going to be calling the shots and determining really the fate of the whole province and the fate of northern syria as a whole and for the time being these two countries need each other they're working together russia needs turkey if it's going to push ahead with

a political process russia a bloodbath would would go against their plans and their plans is to try to get europe on board to fund the reconstruction process in syria and legitimize hold on power so a wide scale offensive is not in their benefit so right now these two players which really are calling the shots in syria they're in agreement and this demilitarized zone is going to silence the guns for the time being thank you for now. and with us here in the studio in kabul and head of policy analysis of the arab center for research always nice to see you thank you so basically maybe i get your views on what's going on with turkey and russia basically control this part of syria now and will for the foreseeable future absolutely and because of that control actually the reach this agreement the sochi agreement between but as the. president of the gun during the last month and disagreement was actually talking about. has to decline as the first one has already been implemented that was

a very important key because many people are asking whether to keep. opposition groups especially the radical groups including. them. and to withdraw their heavy weapons from that demilitarized zone so i believe he has been successful actually in doing that and now there is another turn. which is actually convincing these groups to withdraw all completely from the demilitarized zone so talk me through that how important is that. zone and told us they control seventy percent of the area if they don't move then what well i think so far has been very positive in my opinion in dealing with the agreement. on the issue the statement yesterday for the first time. expressing their position on the agreement the agreement is not to actually say that we accept the agreement but the actually but is the fish government for its efforts in order to prevent an all out

attack on and hence actually. jeopardizing the lives of three million people who are actually living in the. at the moment but on the other hand the warned against trusting russia because right now what believes that it is open to any possible attack by the regime or the russians did is deep mistrust. amongst syrians taking into account what had been what had been looked at because don't forget that these two areas actually were also under did the exclusion zone it was an agreement between russia to the key bloss iran in order to actually to stop fighting in india but eventually oppositions actually did that just disregarded that and they went on. the opposition so shall we to a degree look at it live and say this is been

a success in syria it's not often we get to talk about syria but i remember talking to you probably a few months ago weeks ago at least and we're talking about it was almost certain that it was going to be this big offensive on a loop and it was going to be just like aleppo all over again and it hasn't happened yet in fact we're talking about different scenarios actually one of them was of course an all out attack. in the eventuality that the turks and the russians did not reach an agreement but they already did it and i think this agreement serves the interests of both parties nationals and the turks because the russians right now they are focusing mainly on pretending that a few g.'s on are about the quest to share in the bar the election of our last war . and they don't want actually to be a very much as if they are acting very much against these policies but on the other hand the turks actually deal with would very much actually prevent an attack because the million people would actually just the turks would be having this

influx of refugees. inside their territories so i think it's serious the interests of both parties so this is why i believe that this agreement will hold for for the time being and the turks will be giving more time in order to actually try and to deconstruct the whole complexity of this situation inside it live for the next few weeks and months from now one couple of pleasure as always thank you to apple. we've got plenty more ahead for you on the news hour including this. for the green party in germany's regional elections. coalition. a traditional way of life. in the world tennis rankings and shows no sign of slowing down with the sport at about ten to the hour.

new hopes for a breakthrough in the stalled brags that talks have been well dashed basically negotiators have once again been unable to come to an agreement over the future of the border in ireland's now a suddenly cold meeting of all twenty seven basses in brussels on sunday led to some initial optimism about maybe a deal being reached ireland's foreign minister says the lack of progress is disappointing and time is running short to agree on a break that the key issue in the talks is what happens to that border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland both of them part of the european union and trade flows across the border but not for much longer briggs it of course means northern ireland part of the u.k. will not be in the european union leaders in brussels and london both want to avoid a so-called border with customs checks on exports a big question how do you do that it becomes a major crunch point to the extent that negotiations are now revolving around

a plan for a so-called backstop it's essentially a fallback plan for the border if briggs deal cannot be reached as backstop would allow business to continue across the border without customs checks and among the arguments is how many backstop should actually long britain's prime minister wants a time limit and any deal with the e.u. to apply it to the whole u.k. while the e.u. wants the backstop to remain in place for as long as it takes to reach a wider break that deal for it to apply only to northern. ireland in the meantime prime minister's reason may facing more criticism from all sides and that it's within her conservative government as well to either accept or scrap each proposal jonah hull in london i'm exhausted just going through all of that trying to understand it is even more difficult when can i ask a really broad question and say what happens from here where do we go from here. well i mean consider a couple that just yesterday afternoon sunday afternoon they thought they had a fairly clear sequencing of events ahead of them

a technical deal reached by negotiators in brussels then to be approved by the ministers and the british cabinet this week before being presented to e.u. leaders at a summit on wednesday night so much so good but it all fell through of course we know that now. there isn't going to be a deal on the terms that had been agreed to resume a look at it couldn't sign it off because she realized she simply couldn't achieve enough support to back it up it raises two very important questions the first of course the status of those talks and negotiations moving forward what happens next what we know they won't be any talks now between now and that meeting that summit on wednesday night the question is can she to reason may achieve political consensus here so that she can stand behind britain's side of that deal on wednesday night the answer that i think at the moment must be unlikely it begs the second question that of political consensus here in the u.k. in a country as you've mentioned they're divided at cabinet level government level the

ruling party divided the opposition divided parliament behind me divided in all divided on a multitude of different lines how on earth to square the circle very very difficult indeed the deal being talked about keeping the u.k. in the customs union whilst a trade deal is negotiated with no particular timeframe will prob reg's infractions on the factions on the left or the right say no way to that it deprives britain of the right. to be able to do trade deals outside the e.u. a sort of holy grail of bragg's it and then there is this group of northern ireland m.p.'s the do you see who prop up the reason mays very thin majority in parliament they rule out altogether any possibility of northern ireland being treated differently to the rest of the u.k. which is implicit also in the deal being discussed here it's all incredibly difficult and incredibly difficult in particular to reconcile isn't it just i'm actually wondering as you say all of that and as i read through all the list of issues sort of one of these chicken in the egg situation them trying to decide is

it about the can you still hear me yes are we just knew that we were losing a little bit of your picture there jonah. you were just correct you were just breaking up a little bit ok so here's my theory is that about to resume a finding a deal which her government is happy with in which the u.k. is happy with them taking it to the e.u. or is it actually trying to deal with the e.u. and then bringing it back and making sure the government is happy with it. goodness i mean you know it's six of one and half a dozen of the other really i mean for starters they can't talk about a deal can they britain and the other twenty seven leaders if she knows to resume a that there is no way quite simply no way of getting approval for that deal here in the u.k. and that quite simply is the situation she finds herself in now there is that the issue of the are the irish border which is really at the crux of all this it has to remain open both sides understand that the e.u. insists that there be a backstop involving northern ireland itself with

a border effectively down the irish sea if all else would have failed in other words that border would remain open and northern ireland would remain in the customs union to resume a once the whole of the u.k. to be part of that deal because of course she's got to keep the d. u.p.a. on sides they won't have special treatment for northern ireland quite simply the e.u. is not backing off from the idea of the backstop they say britain agreed to it back in december they're not asking for anything that hasn't already been agreed britain finds that it cannot devise a way of getting all sides to agree on how that backstop will work you can talk chicken and egg if you like i suspect it's somewhat irrelevant thank you jonah harlow live outside the westminster parliament in london thank you. political leaders in discussing the implications of what happened on sunday in southern germany the allies of chancellor angela merkel had their worst election result in bavaria to sixty eight years the christian social union suffered major losses in

sunday's state elation and threatens to deepen the divisions within an already fragile federal coalition government in berlin peculiar things like immigration will see as you one hundred thirty seven percent of the vote lost its absolute majority and the various state parliament in munich the green party so its share of the vote nearly doubled to seventeen percent making the environmental program a gratian centrist party the second strongest in the state and the far right anti immigrant also made gains ten percent of the vote went their way dominant cane with more now from you know. the christine social unit is trying to read the ruins of the result on sunday which deprived it of it of its overall majority in parliament and sent shock waves not just through its own party structure in bavaria but also at a federal level about the repercussions that this election result may have the reaction certainly in so far as the newspapers this morning

a concern pretty clear the build site in saying this was a slap in the face for the c.s.u. which has shaken germany the influential zoo d'argent site on one of the biggest papers in southern germany saying it's a debacle for the c.s.u. and for the social democrats and then the divert newspaper saying a day that changed by and but in fact many people are wondering if it's a day that has changed german politics because it wasn't just the christian social union that suffered a drubbing was also the social democrats who sold their vote share hobbes the point to make is that those two parties of two or three parties governing this country federally how likely is it that they will look at these results and say we can carry on in government and paternity by these results we expect to hear from some of the senior elements of the conservative party but i'm going to medical leave the c.d.u. later that sit certainly the focus now is on how confident the federal coalition members are that they can continue in office for the long term. look who's here

steph she's going to have a weather update for us in a moment and then still think tom school's out in yemen now millions of kids are missing class because of the war led by thirty arabia and the u.a.e. that's harvard treat asian american applicants unfairly the case is now going to trial and install would join us when a bike ride around and a puzzle all the action from the iron man right with a different. three tranquil arabian can you use. and in on can free routines in a finish i'm going to let. hello there well we were some more pictures coming out of portugal where we were hit by our storm leslie was a hurrican just before it made landfall still very strong when it made landfall but no longer had that warm course it was naturally officially classed as

a hurricane anymore you can see what damage it did it could easily have been a hurricane that caused all of this a lot of trees down power lines and cars and homes ruined now that system gradually edged it was way eastwards and the storm lesley's embedded in this cloud that's just over the southern parts of france and that is still causing us further problems in fact there was a pulse of particularly heavy rain in the south western parts of france they gave a seventy millimeters of rain just in three hours that is a lot of weather and it all rushed through these streets as you can see here the rivers there on the street you can't tell them apart just an awful lot of water the local reports are saying up to seven meters were put on these rivers at the time so it did cause a major problem here and there's a risk that we could see more flash flooding as we head through the next day or so that area in the southwestern parts of france there isn't where is most at risk currently the system is edging its way eastwards is gradually retreating samples but i think for the southern parts of france through corsica sardinia that's where

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thousand and eighteen for more information go to isa war dot com. on the news here at al-jazeera and these are our top stories turkey's government says the saudi consulate in istanbul to be searched later on monday by joint turks and saudis we've also heard saudi arabia's king solomon reportedly ordering the public prosecutor there to open an internal investigation into jamal khashoggi saudi journalist disappeared almost two weeks ago. now the news the largest armed

group in syria's rebel held province. has signaled it is abiding by the terms of a demilitarization deal agreed last month to deal set a deadline of monday for rebel groups to control all fighters from inside. a new hopes for a breakthrough in the stalled brags the talks have been. negotiated have once again been unable to come to an agreement over the future of the border on the island of ireland a suddenly cold meeting of all twenty seven the u.n. ambassadors in brussels on sunday did lead to some optimism initially about a deal being reached. more now on our top story the missing journalist jamal khashoggi and joining us from. a professor of international relations at jordan university also a columnist and author nice to have you with us just on that note which we just learned about king solomon reportedly ordering a public prosecutor to open an internal investigation it does lead me to wonder how important is it that king solomon is the one who does these things king solomon is

the one who spoke to president of turkey when so much of the focus is on the actions of the crown prince mohammed bin salman. that is exactly the point there are a lot of people around they were accusing the conference of being involved in a lot of things and basically is one of them is like actually the disappearance of . so the fact that king solomon is talking to our graham is probably best tip in the right direction because you want to be seen as the one who is leading saudi arabia rather than his son. but again what is he going to talk about here there's a lot of speculation about the saudis attempt to get a deal with or the ground whereby. this can get off the heart because all of the fingers are pointing at him as being the one first the calling the shots and

secondly he's the kind of the parties the one behind the disappearance of the so i think it is an attempt on the part of the saudis to probably hide him a little bit until this comes to an end you said the words trying to find a deal i mean what sort of deal could they possibly be when we're talking about the apparent murder of a man and two weeks of denials from saudi arabia. well that is the point you know they want their way out of the crisis because the saudis feel that they are being cornered by the international community by the media and in the west and on the also and around the world around the globe so they're looking for a way out of for instance you know. curvy style deal where they probably can pin one of those guys or can accuse one of those guys rather than the the saudi

government or the conference so it is a deal that would involve the scapegoat so they're looking for someone to be blamed and this will give them of the heart so this is only were they were they can you know get out of the situation and as a quid pro quo do the saudis probably would have the economy in turkey they can talk about regional file they can talk about also concessions on the part of the saudis to aid the americans and we to the to the turks so playing to find a win win situation whereby the saudis and the blame what are the game can get something in exchange right so it's about preserving all these economic and military ties even though we are as i said once again talking about the apparent murder of a man inside his own consulate preserving all those ties is still seen as very important i guess. well for four again deference the president of turkey is looking for for the

interest i mean though he is being humiliated by this saudi did on his own soil and he should be aware of that and is publicly the turkish public is looking at their president to do something but again i mean he has been leaking some of the investigations so that he can put pressure on the saudis and to test the international community whether they're going to side by him if he want to face the saudis or not so it's he's kind of walking in a mine field in on the one hand he wants to preserve the sovereignty of his own country the status of his own country but at the same at the same time he didn't want to undermine his international ties especially with the his relationship with china is now getting a little bit improved over the last few days so ideal is not that bad options for the gun i think but can he for more that can you market this among his own public i think this remains to be seen but ari really interesting talking to you thank you

so much for joining us and these pictures live from istanbul as we just keep an eye on that saudi consulate there is definitely been more activity there in fact someone going in right now and another gentleman sort of patrolling up and down there is charles stratford a correspondence that earlier there was a bit of a flurry of activity there are reports that the saudi team is already inside and confirmed reports that the joint team the turkish saudi investigation team will be in the consulate later on on monday the war in yemen is making it difficult for children to get an education at least two million don't go to school but for those that are able to get to the classroom they are prepared to do whatever it takes to stay there then and smith has our report. these children shouldn't be anywhere near what's left of their school clambering over rubble on the bombed ceilings on along the walls that could give way at any minute but the concentration in their faces shows how much they want to try to learn since twenty fifteen the

school in ties in southwestern yemen has been hit by as strikes artillery and gunfire yet. our schools have been destroyed because of these barbaric groups who came from the silence of history and corrupted or learned what brought them here and what do they want look at our school this is their mark they did not come distributing books or supporting students or to praise teachers they came with destruction with slogans of that those people eat and drink that. the school is stuck in the middle of a relentless battle for territory between the rebels and the saudi u.a.e. led coalition that backs the yemeni government as a mad though education is the basis to rebuild the state knowledge is light and ignorance is darkness we want to tell the government and private and affiliated parties that we are tired of promises and procrastination we want to go back to work not words we want to turn our values into action and into reality if there are

no classes to go to the boys according to the united nations children's fund risk being recruited as child soldiers. almost half yemen's girls are not in school. in the school got hit we studied at home some of our teachers were killed and some students our friends also died it angered us and it saddened at our school was big so now it's just destroyed the playground has been turned into a battleground. two million children will be out of school this year in yemen that's according to unicef and another four million primary school children risk losing access to education because seventy percent of our teachers haven't been paid in the last two years and they're being forced to find work elsewhere bernard smith al-jazeera djibouti. riot police in nicaragua have made arrests and broken up

the latest anti-government protests a protest as a part of an alliance of forty opposition groups demanding the resignation of president daniel ortega hundred forty nicaraguans have been killed thousands injured in six months of anger against them manuel republic reports now from the capital was dozens of anti-government demonstrators were met with heavy force by police in managua after six months of unrest and more nicaraguan citizens are calling on the government of president then you know what they got to end the violent repression of political opponents oh i don't have time i mean i don't know we have being repressed they wouldn't let us march them violating our constitutional right to protest. almost as soon as the demonstration began police vehicles full of riot officers confronted the crowd. some protesters clashed with officers and were beaten with clubs many of the demonstrators were women who were dragged away screaming where on the streets of my now we're up to nicole one police had announced yesterday that any protest against

the government today would be considered illegal and would not be allowed despite this we've seen several people come out in the streets and protest the government was that the police have started arresting them by one each one of these peaceful protesters as well as up as as attacking members of the present was recently by my producer and i were recently hit with a tear gas canister. members of the press were forced to huddle together for safety as the arrests unfolded. the nicaraguan police have used physical violence against journalists during demonstrations yeah wyvis latest protest in managua was meant to represent the first demonstration by an organized political coalition of activists calling themselves the alliance for national unity . and i want you i. really think that the whole thing is just terrible the past. ok shit against the people is too much it's too much there has to be an end to this all of us have had enough of. a heavy militarized

police presence across much of downtown managua prevented any more anti-government protesters from gathering on the streets of the city the police of criminalize dissent in the country meaning supporters of the government are the only nicaraguan citizens allowed to demonstrate on the streets. this is a really interesting story one of the world's best known universities being sued for discriminating against applicants who are asian american this is harvard university the united states it is denying discrimination but the results of the legal battle which is due to begin in boston could influence admissions to u.s. universities for years to come more from heidi. it's tough to get into harvard fewer than five percent of students who apply are successful that is unless the applicant is asian american then it's even harder according to a lawsuit which accuses harvard intentionally discriminates against asian americans

in order to keep their enroll the numbers down to them are marked down subjectively i have admission officers without ever meeting them harvard's internal admissions documents tell of a score system that according to the lawsuit penalizes asian americans in the personality category though they tend to score higher in academic performance and extra curricular activities their personality score based on descriptors like likability and courageousness is lower than that of any other racial group the lawsuit accuses harvard of engaging in racial balancing resulting in more or less the same breakdown of racial groups year after year twenty per cent now the undergraduate body are asian americans we spoke to some of those students who said they support harvard's admissions practices it does suck if you think that. college admissions are on fair but i think for us fairness means

a lot more like getting into college daniel lu is studying physics and philosophy at harvard the son of chinese immigrants he says harvard should further investigate the complaints of discrimination against asian americans but preserve that legally sanctioned practice of favoring black and hispanic applicants known as affirmative action the plaintiffs really are just making a big mistake in completing. the constitutionality of affirmative action on the one hand with discrimination or potential legit discrimination against asian americans where the highway first whatever bloom a white conservative and rebounder of the anti affirmative action group students for fair admissions recruited the unnamed asian americans who are so. doing harvard he declined an interview with al-jazeera the debate has split the asian american community some accuse blum of using them as a tool to push his real agenda of helping white students while others say harvard is using affirmative action as

a pass to discriminate against asian americans they don't look at the reality that if you're going to do that are being discriminated against they just write you off meanwhile the trumpet ministration has jumped in to oppose harvard saying no american should be denied admission to school because of their race the politicization of the case is further evidence for many asian americans that they are being used as a racial wedge the case is final outcome will likely be decided by the u.s. supreme court. castro al jazeera cambridge massachusetts flooding has killed at least seven people in southwest france the province of was hit with the equivalent of several months of rain in just a few hours some river levels rose to their highest for more than one hundred years as powerful floods swept some casualties to their deaths and cut off emergency services.

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