insisting towards the saudis and other oil producers that they want to have more production to cool down the prices we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost. three outside brokers meet to discuss syria's future but their talks and with no agreement. down jordan this is live from doha also coming up with a government shutdown looming u.s. president donald trump backs away from demands that congress fund his border war. efforts and america's longest for war the u.a.e. hosts talks between the afghan taliban and the u.s. . al-jazeera tracked down the mercenary with startling revelations about

a failed attempt to invade qatar and overthrow its government. the three key power brokers in the syrian conflict of failed to agree on the makeup of a committee that would drop the new constitution and pave the way for elections the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey met in geneva there was bernard smith was there and has this report. the best of the foreign ministers of turkey russia and iran could come up with was a commitment to agree to take efforts aimed at convening the first session of the syrian constitutional committee here in geneva early next year but there is still no indication on exactly who the hundred fifty members of that constitutional committee are going to be because at this meeting these three countries overlooked by the u.n. special envoy stephan to restore it when i were unable to agree on the final fifteen members of the committee there are fifty from the syrian regime fifty from

opposition groups but this other fifty there's a been a lot of haggling on who should be on this committee and who shouldn't be on this committee and they clearly haven't been able to agree the final names it was perhaps particularly for straightening for staff and in this story because as he spoke to the press here this evening this was his last statement to the press you report to the u.n. secretary general but he's leaving the post and handing over to a norwegian in the new year and the so much further to go before a credible landing conceive committees established that's according to the outgoing u.n. special envoy for syria staffan de mistura he steps down on december thirty first after four years leaving his successor to find a un brokered political solution to ending the conflict these conflicts never ended with a wonderful peace or death treaty and a conference and everybody embraced each other it is actually a process that may go on and on until all death and hopefully in the best

way for devalued people the two constants in this conflict over different laws for year one. there's never been a constant moment of anything there being constant shifts of what they're being the military events and the facts on the ground and the political bullshit just look where we were four years ago and where we are today second constant. there is always being the syrian people suffering or staying with syria the united states envoy jim jeffrey has confirmed u.s. backed kurdish fighters will move from northern iraq into northern syria where the move comes after turkey threatened further military action in the city of man near the turkish border unless u.s. backed kurdish fighters leave the area so now to reports from istanbul. turkish military reinforcements have already been sent to the border with syria president pressured to tell you border guard says a cross border operation against what he calls terrorists can begin at any moment

the target is the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. is mainly made up of the y.p. g. or kurdish peoples protection units it will be the first time the turkish military has confronted the kurdish armed group on syrian soil but if this offensive does happen it will be the first time turkish troops are targeting the group east of the euphrates river where its nato ally the united states stations its troops. erdogan announcement followed a visit by u.s. syria envoy jim jeffrey to ankara last week geoffrey said he told the turks their plans offensive is a bad idea u.s. support for the why peachey has strained relations but jeffrey confirmed arrangements are being made to address turkey's concerns. deployment across the border was done with our understanding but also would be

understanding of the ocean so. one of the various steps that are being taken to. the white beach in the peshmerga are viable kurdish forces but kurds in northern iraq are allies of the u.s. and turkey they are likely to be deployed along the borders between syria turkey and iraq the y.p. she controls a continuous strip of territory from iraq to the eastern banks of the euphrates river almost thirty percent of syria's territory the first one is aiming to g.'s y. p. g.'s territorial continuity alongside the turkey's border and turkey is planning to infiltrate into this syrian territory the white peachy already enjoys self rule which turkish leaders reject because they believe the white peachy is an extension of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. which is fighting for kurdish autonomy in south east turkey. for that we have said and we are saying that no we will begin our operation to rescue the east of the

euphrates from the separatist organization within a few days turkey says any operation would not target u.s. troops but the white b.g. is an important element in washington's syria strategy and the trump administration's only syria ally giving its leverage and influence in any political settlement turkish leaders know that and are treading carefully so as not to rupture a relationship with a strategically important ally. the u.s. envoy for syria is now stressing washington's ties with armed groups in northern syria are tactical temporary and transactional such a description is unlikely to please the white peachey or satisfy turkish leaders but the u.s. says steps are being taken turkey has had to say whether they are enough to prevent military action senator al jazeera has stumbled. u.s. president donald trump has backed down on his demand for five billion dollars for a border wall in an effort to avoid a partial government shutdown funding for several several government agencies

expires on friday failure to agree on a budget could see hundreds of thousands of government workers sent home without pay before christmas my coming has is not date from washington d.c. well a week ago president trump said he would be proud to shut down the government should he not get the five billion dollars for his border wall in the budget however he now appears to be retreating from this rather extreme position implications are that they are other avenues for raising the funds being explored this is what the white house press secretary had to say really in every avenue available to us possible the president's asked every one of his cabinet secretaries to look for funding that can be used and to protect our borders and for that give the president the ability to fulfill his constitutional obligation to protect the american people the having a secure border but a shutdown still not a virtue democrats of turned down a compromise republican offer of

a one point five billion dollar amount for border security not the wall but democratic leader nancy pelosi says this would amount to giving president trump a one billion dollars slush fund as she put it but neither side of the aisle once a shutdown just before christmas and most observers believe that there will be some kind of short term extension agreed on. four explosions of interrupted the first day of a fragile ceasefire in the yemeni port city of data it's not clear who was behind the blasts the country's warring sides agreed to a truce and political talks in sweden last week. as the ceasefire officially began on tuesday night sporadic fighting was reported to have continued for a time in and around the besieged port city of data as the hours passed the situation appeared to become calmer but it remains fragile some worry that could block much needed aid from getting in this is one of the problem of the. agreement

because it has. the flow of human he did it with the security. allow food and medicine. into a video. because i. have said before that if i had but it sent over many dead and. is coming today that. yemen is suffering what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis aide workers say the situation around her they remains desperate. indication to get access to care to see key. data in. to.

access to care. from. which is almost a can they won't. in sweden last week representatives from the who the movement and the saudi u.a.e. backed government the president. agreed not only to pull back fighters but also to establish humanitarian corridors and to allow for the deployment of you in supervised neutral forces for now many yemenis hope that this truce will hold no matter how tenuous the situation on the ground remains. well as part of that deal international monitors will be deployed to oversee the ceasefire our diplomatic editor jens bays explains my understanding is the man who's coming up with the plans general patrick is going to chair the first meeting of the coordination commission committee of the two sides so he'll have the yemeni government to have the who these are on video link kilby in new york that will take

place here on wednesday and then going forward he himself will travel we believe by the end of the week to yemen with a small team and they'll be the assessment team trying to come up with a plan for exactly how many monitors they're going to need on the ground all the problems the u.n. is facing here is that the talks in stockholm actually achieve much more than they were expecting and so the u.n. is in a real hurry to try and set up this monitoring team and find the monitor monitors from a number of different countries my understanding is these people will be from a military background but we're also hearing that they will go into this hostile area this fragile cease fire in place so a dangerous place for the u.n. to deploy and they'll go in unarmed and we understand not wearing military uniforms . u.s. officials and representatives of afghanistan's taliban are meeting in the united arab emirates for three days of talks in the past year washington has stepped up

its diplomatic efforts to end america's longest war alan fisher has more from washington d.c. . faced with a resurgent taliban u.s. president donald trump has approved sending more troops into afghanistan but with the military push he's also trying to establish new peace talks the u.s. special peace envoy to the area zalmay khalilzad has won the support of pakistan which will significant influence over the taliban and he enlisted the help of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates as well all four have been sitting down with taliban representatives in abu dhabi for the time being the priority issue for the taliban would be a peace deal with the united states and also for the afghan government as long as they're part of the political power rating there would be the thinking on that initial with an even countries including pakistan so the priority things for the taliban will be just how we can they can stop this war and put an end to the destruction that's happening every day in the country. afghanistan is america's

longest war more troops went into the country after the attacks in the u.s. it tempered two thousand and one and forced the taliban from power but the taliban never went away the war has cost more than a trillion dollars in financial terms and more than one hundred forty seven thousand people have died there including more than five thousand americans it's understood the u.s. is pressing for a six month ceasefire or the taliban wants a clear timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops in the country war in afghanistan will only end when afghans sit together with mutual respect and except inside discuss a political roadmap for the future so our efforts. and those of our partners are our focus on the subject right now previous efforts to broker a peace deal in afghanistan have failed but this is the third time that the u.s. and the taliban have met this year and so that sparking optimism that somehow

things might be different this time no one is offering any gallon tease but it is possible what me a marriage is a roadmap for future talks now a number of countries have interests and stakes and afghanistan and so reaching a final deal will be difficult and in the meantime the fighting continues alan fischer al jazeera at the white house official breaking al-jazeera when we come back getting into a battle for asylum seekers the group calling themselves the sultry carabao. and zimbabwe's military is under fire for how it reacted to post election protests more on that stay with us. from the clear blue sky of the doha mooning. to the fresh fruits and breeze in the city of love. hello again it's good to have you back or watch it's a very stormy weather here across the eastern parts of the med bring some heavy

rain across turkey over the next few days as well as well look he had beirut we're looking at also down here towards aleppo and jerusalem will see some rain as well on wednesday as we go towards thursday things get a little bit better as a system makes its way towards the east a little bit of scattered showers still remaining along the coast but most of the rain remain into the northern part of iraq down towards baghdad where we're going to be seeing a few breezes and gusty conditions for you at nineteen degrees and quite city how what twenty three degrees as your forecast high here across parts of the gulf we are looking quite nice for most locations twenty five in doha over here towards of a dhabi at twenty five as well we are seeing some showers passing down towards the south for somalia you could be seeing some heavy rain in your forecast but that is going to start to ease up as we go towards thursday miska a nice day for you with the temperature on thursday of twenty five degrees and then very quickly down here across parts of southern africa we're looking quite dry down here towards the south maybe a few clouds down here just to the south of durban we are going to sing attempt

a few of twenty seven degrees harare finally out of the rain over the next few days that looks good twenty seven degrees there and capetown a partly cloudy day a few with a temperature of twenty three. the weather sponsored by qatar and peace. went on line i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has had a legal protest all struck to police to use force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice vote for lots of different reasons what's a different types of bricks join the global conversation on how to zero.

talk about the come out of the top stories here the south turkey russia and iran have failed to agree on the break up of a committee that would draft syria's new constitution and pave the way for elections the foreign ministers are meeting in geneva so they'll try to ensure the committee convenes early next year. u.s. officials on representatives of the afghan taliban are not meeting in the three days of talks it's believed the discussions are aimed at pushing for a six month cease fire and withdrawal of foreign troops in the future. and donald trump has backed down his demand for five billion dollars for a border war trying to end the standoff of a federal spending and avoid a partial government shutdown by the end of the week. now an activist who's facing deportation from the u.s. is taking up the fight for asylum seekers he's organizing an army of volunteers to help the people the president's trying to stop question so let me has more from new

york city. people have the right to seek asylum in the united states they are volunteers members of the clergy students and veterans a hastily assembled group training in new york we're calling on. community they've answered the call to help members of the migrant caravan at the mexican border make the final leg of their journey into the united states a call led by robbie rugby or founder of the new sanctuary coalition there is going to be confrontation. going to be confrontational but we are going to. be to people and to get up to protect them and. this is where they're headed to wanna a city in mexico is an official port of entry into the united states the law allows asylum seekers to enter california here and have their claims heard but the wait time has been increasing as a trump administration says it doesn't have the resources to process the growing

number of requests organizers believe that's a stall tactic and they hope to have five thousand volunteers there every day for the next four months to help people reach the united states they call themselves the sanctuary caravan we are thinking long term. this is not a one week action it's not a one day action that our goal is to change the national conscience volunteers say they are protecting the rights of people fleeing poverty and violence that migrants are to a large extent good people that are willing to go through a lawful process but have been put in a situation where they had no choice but to flee their own country their own culture and travel a very very dangerous journey ragbir is you self an immigrant married to an american woman he's fighting deportation based on conviction in a lawsuit he's accusing the government of targeting him for removal based on his advocacy work for immigrants you're challenging deportation orders yourself right

now we're going to make more sense. of this administration as the goal of the goal of the if the scare you into doing nothing. so we cannot if we do nothing we lose volunteers pledge to act nonviolently and in accordance with the u.s. walk they say when it comes to protecting the rights of asylum seekers they won't give up without a fight a christian salumi al jazeera new york a month long workers' strike in chile's puerto vallarta race has become violent and spread to other ports protesters threw molotov cocktails from the roof of a union building and police responded with water cannon operates as a key port for fruit shipments workers are demanding more formal contracts and improve working conditions the strike has now also spread to other ports around the nation's pacific coast the u.k. government's making preparations in the event the country crashes out of the e.u. without a deal next march there are just over one hundred days to go before the u.k.

is due to leave the block with parliament in deadlock ministers have agreed to step up planning for a no deal breakers that have military personnel on standby if any civil disruption ministers are also sending letters two hundred forty thousand firms advising them about preparations lawrence lee has more from london. of course the default position for the u.k. if the parliament here votes down to raise a maze proposed deal to leave the european union is in the u.k. crashes out without any deal it's all and in this last cabinet meeting before parliament breaks up for christmas they have been discussing ramping up no deal scenarios even things that were suggested like the government's emergency committee known as cobra which only usually meets when the something like a terrorist attack meeting every day in the new year before the meaningful vote just to make sure that the country's prepared for a no deal and there are some fairly biblical warnings of things like the u.k. running out of food or medicines or all the airports closing in dirty drinking

water and all the sort of stuff which of course people who don't mind a no deal say as an inside scare but people who say it could be disastrous then say to them well how do you know that the country's going to be ok and why would you want to risk it and that's part of sarees maze argument too because other than staying in the european union and abandoning the inside projects three's a maze argument says look we don't have to have no deal we could have mali deal which keeps the u.k. in the customs union with the european union for some time keeps the traffic moving through the borders and therefore you get around all these problems in the psychological game that's now being played with m.p.'s it's to send them home over christmas and given the bit of time to think and hope that they change their minds and end up not actually going against about supporting sarees a maze deal when it comes back to a vote in the middle of january italy has recent deal with the european commission over its twenty nine thousand budget the commission rejected the budget when it was first presented in october of the concerns that would add

a considerable amount to italy's public debt last week rome submitted a revised plan which included a smaller deficit and also delayed the introduction of a new social security program. an inquiry in zimbabwe has found military action against protesters in august was disproportionate and unjustified six people died and dozens were injured in fighting after the election or metastasize more from harare the report which was presented to president were investigated by six people were killed and thirty five injured during august post election violence in line or the inability or the police to despair is the protesters the fir army and the police or warning shots in the air in pursuit of the still of the mission which was to clear the c. b. d. or very important this was proportionate. b. however the used live ammunition director of the special will be with freeman

was clear justified in disproportionate. he is referring to august the first when many opposition supporters masa the election results in harare the police said the crowd grew too large and they couldn't cope that's why they say the army was deployed. the report says soldiers and police who are responsible for killing civilians should be identified as soon as possible so they can be held accountable it also says all victims and families of the deceased must be financially compensated. the opposition democratic change insisted report is biased to favor the rulings on a pay party they reject findings that blame opposition leaders for inciting violence by telling their supporters to go into the streets it's bizarre it is not legal and it is for them to make such

a finding what they are trying to do is to equalize people who are expressing their democratic right to. the democratic right of people to express themselves and this action by the military entrenched. in his position after a disputed electoral result july's controversy election divided an already polarized country managua narry one with just over fifty percent of the vote the president insists the polls were free and fair and that he has no plans to ship power with the opposition has. had any now on al-jazeera investigation has revealed evidence involving saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain in support of a failed attempt to invade qatar back in one thousand nine hundred six the revelations come eighteen months after the same four nations imposed a land sea and air blockade on doha mom of the bow. paul bottle is a form of french naval off saw tom soldier of fortune the mustn't of that midst

have led all taken part in at least one hundred illegal military operations across the globe. his well known for both successful and failed coup attempts in africa and the middle east. we don't know her but i'm a dangerous man because i speak truth to power. and they do not take risks and i have no problem going deep into any operation. operations he participated in include ending of the one thousand seven to nine siege in maka islam's holiest site on the famed coup attempt in qatar in one thousand nine to six. algis it has investigation unit traced but all phone interview in the south of france where he revealed details of that failed coup in qatar two to two years ago . i mean humbert been highly furthur and it took over the year before in one thousand nine to five unhappy with

a change over the place. and other messages to cut out the coup but i'll say as the committee was organized by a committee led by shot my comment. then chief of staff of the united arab emirates forces his now crown prince of up with. the regional committee also included show how much been. done companies of bahrain as well as. been of the law as these then so did a b s defense minister an almost silliman egypt's former vice president the late intelligence chief but al was already known to them without the leadership that. i arrived in abu dhabi in one nine hundred seventy seven i helped them form a special security unit i knew i would be very well the same with saudi i ran the mecca operation and i trained the saudi secret service in abu dhabi i met she exiled himself who held my arm and to the other side it was she. we want all

three together because they knew i was the one who formed a special a leaf force in abu dhabi police. so who funded the time to who and how much to coast but they were going to get a lot of the. chicks died in saudi arabia did they paid for the weapons in my estimate the cost of the entire operation was at least one hundred million dollars bottle told full two of his top men to take part in the cool petition. thing we pretended we were a sports team we came to train in abu dhabi we skied we played basketball no one knew that we had weapons stored in our rooms and the upper floors of the hotel and we were planning a military operation we had a conference hall all to ourselves and we stored tons of weapons there. after

taking control of military and security is televisions he says. the coup plotters in qatar want to give the green light for militias to cross the border from neighboring so did it be. a call from then french president jacques chirac says but will help scuttle the coup plotters plan. and think i got a call and it was president jacques chirac he told me beryl i hope you're not planning to carry out any reckless act in cian friends i told him no problem mr president i told him not to worry i'm here to calm things down i knew i had to slow things down. his revelations coming ten months into the land sea and air blockade imposed by. the u.a.e. behind on egypt and their allies qatar denies accusations of supporting what they call terrorism qatari diplomat say their neighbors have long tried to meddle in the internal office and say the blockade and cutting off of diplomatic relations last

year is just another episode of the ongoing attempt to change qatar's leadership and vision and more than two decades after the failed coup they helped plan neighbors still have an ax to grind mohamed al jazeera. all right all the news of course on our website there it is on your screens the address al-jazeera dot com that's out of syria dot com. a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera turkey russia and iran failed to agree on the makeup of a committee that would draft syria's new constitution and pave the way for elections foreign ministers are meeting in geneva they say they'll try to ensure the committee convenes early next year the departing u.n. special envoy for syria says there's still much further to go before

a credible and inclusive committee is a step bush. these conflicts never ended with a wonderful peace or death visual treaty and a conference and everybody embrace the future of the it is actually a process that may go on and on until all death and hopefully in the best way for devalued people the two constants in this conflict over different laws for years one there's never been a constant moment of anything there being constant shifts of what they're being the military event and the facts on the ground and the political bullshit just look where we were four years ago and where we are today second constant there have always been the syrian people suffering yes president donald trump has backed down on his demand for five billion dollars for a border wall is trying to end the standoff over a third of all spending and avoid a partial government shutdown the end of the week u.s.

officials and representatives of the afghan taliban are meeting in the u.a.e. for three days of talks it's believed the discussions are aimed at pushing for a six month cease fire and withdrawal of foreign troops in the future a month long workers strike in chile as part of our parade has become violent and spread to other ports protesters threw molotov cocktails on the roof of a union building and police responded with water cannon operates as a key port for food shipments workers are demanding more formal contracts and improve working conditions. and britain's government is making preparations in case it crashes out of the e.u. without a deal there are just over one hundred days to go before the u.k. is due to leave the bloc of parliament in deadlock ministers have agreed to step up planning for a no deal freds it all right those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the string station that's watching by fire. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after

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