the u.s. says it started a full withdrawal of all its troops from syria several senators have branded that a mistake. i only valid for mr barr you're watching al jazeera live from london also coming up. opposition supporters defy an order suspending election campaigning in diyala seems capital but that candidacy is stopped by security. south africa issues an

arrest warrant for zimbabwe's former first lady grace mugabe for allegedly assaulting a mortal. one hundred days before breck's its european union activates a plan to protect the bloc if person crosses out without a deal. i am. rather the u.s. says it started with during all its military forces from syria around two thousand troops are currently stationed there many of them special operations forces working with kurdish forces to defeat eisel the president donald trump appeared to declare victory against the group saying on twitter we have defeated isis in syria while only reason for being there during the trial presidency or republican senator lindsey graham has called the move a mistake or defense secretary jim mattis had advocated for u.s. soldiers to remain to ensure that i still does not reemerge russia said the

presence of u.s. forces in syria was an obstacle to finding a peace settlement and turkey has criticized the u.s. ally and with kurdish forces in the region we have correspondents on from the story in both washington and i encourage let's go to the u.s. capital first and speaks out if there is posse culhane surprise why is this announcement being made right now do you think. well i think it took everybody by surprise the president tweeting out can basically confirming the stories that were first appeared in the wall street journal the washington post and reuters what we saw a release from the pentagon and the state department we know for a fact that secretary met as the state department the people in the national security part of the government don't think this is a good idea they have been publicly trying to pressure the president with these leaks to change his mind but now we're seeing the snap wire from reuters saying that the all state person state department personnel will be out of syria in the next twenty four hours so even if let's say jim madison's protesting this if the

president has made this decision there's very little anyone can do to stop him as you mentioned we're seeing members of congress come out and say this is a horrible idea don't do this leave the two thousand u.s. troops in there but really it's unlikely that they can change the president's mind because he is after all the commander in chief so it appears that the president has made this decision of course the big question is now what happens to the kurds that have been allied with the united states fighting alongside really the key to defeating the islamic state of iraq in the levant which even the president acknowledged in a news conference just a few months ago so the president not talking about that part basically just declaring victory in the war against iceland saying he's going to bring the two thousand troops so this is going to be managed i mean as you say with. state department officials have been withdrawn almost immediately they use the current evacuation we sounded quite alarming but how quickly is this like the. well when

the military is given an order they usually have contingency plans in place so they can evacuate it's not a huge force it's two thousand troops we believe although it's not really been officially said and we are not clear on how many of them state department but when the u.s. military is given an order they have the contingency plans in place you can see a pretty rapid withdrawal of all u.s. personnel both state department and military in syria in just the next couple of days you know interesting michael who live there in washington d.c. thanks for that i just want to bring all of us up to date if i were just seeing another snap of the wire service saying the timeframe for u.s. troop pullout from syria is expected to be between sixty to one hundred days quoting a u.s. official so a u.s. official saying that the the u.s. troop pullout from syria expected to be between sixty to one hundred days let's take you now to the turkish capital and current speech al jazeera is saying to hold . how much might this be to do with turkey's announcement well last week that it

was intending to launch operations against kurdish forces in the region those cut its forces of course have been boxed by the u.s. . well definitely you cannot discount the fact that it is linked because just a few days ago turkey's foreign minister said that ankara believes trump is considering leaving syria and we understand that trump and a gun had a conversation about syria that phone conversation just hours after turkey's president announced a cross border operation against the y p g the kurdish armed forces in north eastern syria the ally of the united states so we have to see this as related and over recent days what we have seen is the united states trying to reach out to turkey trying to appease turkey even in the words of the u.s. special envoy to syria to address turkey's concerns and one of those concerns is

the presence of the y p g the kurdish armed forces which turkey believes is a terrorist organization and the next extension of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party now what does this mean is that this is this a green light from the u.s. president to the turkish president and the turkish military to launch an operation to clear the area from the y.p. jeanne there has still been no response or no reaction from the white p.g. and the syrian democratic forces about these reports at the end of the day this means that the united states is a bounden ng its ally and just a few months ago the y.p. g they were in talks with the damascus government to try to find some sort of an arrangement and those talks collapsed because the united states intervened and told the kurds to work with them instead so what are we going to see in the days ahead are we going to see a turkish military operation are we going to see the north east of syria divided into spheres of influence between turkey iran and russia we are now in the post-war

phase in syria and all these power brokers all these stakeholders there. jockeying for influence and we have to remember the iranian president arriving in turkey in ankara late this evening and he's going to be holding talks with the gun and iran really increasingly in secure feeling left out a feeling that some sort of a deal is in the making between turkey and the united states so a lot of behind the scenes negotiations but undoubtedly the reports of the u.s. pullout in one way or the other will give turkey the green light to operate in and the northeast of syria without risking a confrontation with its nato ally the u.s. so hold on for that putting it all into context announcement that the u.s. has to withdraw its troops from syria. now campaigning has been banned in the capital of the democratic republic of congo four days before presidential elections in the volatile central african country the

government can shut a says because of the likelihood of violence the order was made out before the opposition leader most sincerely was due to hold a major rally which is now considered illegal is one of several candidates seeking to replace president joseph kabila also vying for the top spalls is the ruling party's candidate and could the list the successor emanuel rama zani chattery allow the zero scatters soyuz lifeless out so you rally in the congolese capital kinshasa we know it was blocks from guessing suroosh what news on his progress. well let me get back by and by telling you about where i am you know that people have been here didn't want to get some of the modeling out and they're getting tired of waiting that it did and there will be a lady at the hope that is going to get a been holding up. been dancing and singing and when you live throughout the day and being a great long ball for you know they have my back you've been blocked from getting

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what you think about all this event is and then just to try to make a great job as a fence around you don't need to get enough to drive your body of all these dogs are still done while the bunch won't come off the most summer it's time to just sort of opposition missed out while this stuff was in the. defective just some are just some of this december twenty third probably want to see if it's money i'll just send any i'm sorry i did for the one thing for the president but just the book some work with it isn't exactly lunch then i'm just going to better give up on the benefits then you've got a good team very rich you're going to jump in as well as the possible as a unit so not only are you the middle is alleging senator is normal but now we don't know if that's really what's going to happen or sorry thirty four is going to look very unlikely that he's going to the yeah like i said it's been blocked off by police that will not let the concept of money but it's a little odd given to him that we don't accept a logical lottery director got

a letter saying you know we know what in far off the bottom what you want to be a judge one other person suffered but what is a benefit to the open above the reason we have to acknowledge that the people invent enough that you know you know the president does you let in is that compared to the printing out many other arab cars going to today are dug out of the regime but it's a very dodgy kind of we are now trying to we are the budget international community to witness all this because we want the number of people want to suffer along that is if we're going to visit. just such another event about twenty years ago and i wanted to set up one of the just going to you know one time i don't again i just focus on this trip that is going to be settled.

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like everyone. to madagascar where a former presidents and the man who asked him in a. the come the country's next in a seriously contested election this arrival small. man of agree to accept the election results. by the end of the year the head of the european union's monitoring commission says the runoff vote has passed peacefully. to secure i've just come from two large the two teams to represent the candidates there told us we are ready to accept the other side's victory so was

a pretty good atmosphere south african police have issued an arrest warrant for zimbabwe's former first lady grace mcgarvey for assaulting a model with an electrical cord the wife of former president robert mugabe is accused of attacking a woman and to tell her. she suffered a serious head injury or gabi has previously claimed she was acting in self-defense police say the warrant was issued last thursday or despite no longer being first lady grace mugabe is still protected by zimbabwe was her explains her options could be limited the government spokesperson here in zimbabwe said that we have not received any written communication from south africa when we do the government will consider it according to the laws of zimbabwe what we know is our grace mugabi is in the body right now she was in singapore where she was getting treatment she's being protected by the state because she's a former first lady and as far as we know the last time she was in south africa was

when that incident happened last year now what does the rest mean internationally it basically means that if she travels to a country anywhere in the world that country could arrest and hand over to these other africans and call her grace because she loves to shop they joke that she's the time on planes and so they know that she loves traveling now that means her travel options could be limited if certain countries take this arrest warrant seriously all eyes are now on the zimbabwean government if they're receive this written communication from the africans are they going to hand her over given the fact that she is a former first lady. all right still ahead on the program new pictures show the fifteen men suspected of murdering the sheltie entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. plus why a blockbuster stock market debut has turned into a major flaw up one of japan's biggest conglomerates.

hello again it's good to have you back well this hour we are going to start here in china with such a lot of rain coming in from the west all dealing with the remnants of an old tropical cyclone well now all that rain is making its way over here towards the east so for shanghai down to fuzhou we're going to be sings of rainy conditions as well down towards the south though it's going to be mostly cloudy here for hong kong over the next few days so starting off here on thursday at twenty five degrees and as we go towards friday well more clouds in the forecast we do expect to see maybe twenty six degrees as your high while also down here across parts of southern india we do have to watch what's happening in the bay of bengal very carefully we did have that cycle in the made landfall here on the east coast but now more rain is going to be developing anywhere from southern india down over here towards sri lanka as well those rain showers are going to be on the increase so for colombo expect to see more rain as we get towards friday time to there of about twenty

eight degrees up towards tonight by the time we get to friday night into saturday you will also be seeing some more rain as well and then very quickly across the gulf we are looking at some very nice conditions across much of the area thursday here in doha we're looking at about twenty four degrees about twenty six and by the time we get to friday things get just a little bit warmer with the time to the twenty five in riyadh a sunny day if you are twenty four. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other stories . providing a glimpse into someone else's wild. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. with nice documentaries to open your eyes on al-jazeera.

again i'll remind other top stories here on al-jazeera the u.s. says all its troops will be withdrawn from syria within sixty to one hundred days it comes off the president donald trump declared victory over in a tweet. the capital of the democratic republic of congo has banned all election campaigning four days ahead of a historic presidential vote citing fears of violence the opposition candidate martin félix has been stopped from getting through to his rally which is now considered illegal. and two former presidents are once again vying for the top job

in madagascar in a runoff vote for the presidency marc ravalomanana is up against andre raj a leader who ousted him in a coup in two thousand and nine both men have agreed to accept the result. now the world food program has announced severe service cuts acting palestinians in gaza and the occupied west bank food assistance to one hundred ninety thousand people will be reduced or suspended from the start of january the u.n. agencies blaming funding cuts having lost forty percent of its u.s. funding when president trump slashed eight to monetary and agencies working in the occupied territories it says it needs another fifty seven million dollars to continue its work next year this decision is extremely difficult to make the people that we do reach the most vulnerable across palestine and we appreciate that we're going to put further anxiety in these families we're going to make them more desperate to be if he is doing everything it can to try and find extra funding to

meet that gap the saudi led coalition is warning that a hard one cease fire around the port city the data will collapse unless the united nations into the on the coalition has already launched a strike at the airport in the capital sanaa because it says a rebel drone was preparing to take hold of a breakdown of the truce agreed to sweeten talks last week could lead to humanitarian operations being suspended around the vital port city as mohammed jumping reports. pictures emerging from her data on tuesday show a relative calm at who the checkpoints documents were requested before people were allowed to pass in some areas streets were largely empty in others the traffic slowed. in the meantime and we are optimistic about the ceasefire decision but who's implementing the resolution brokered by the united nations who is implementing the decisions taken during the suite in negotiations the saudi

aggression did not implement any of the decisions made in sweden yemenis are suffering what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis where millions are facing starvation. aid workers say the situation remains desperate around her data the main gate way for eighty percent of much needed food and humanitarian aid in sweden last week representatives from the who the movement and the saudi u.a.e. backed government the president will months or had agreed not only to withdraw fighters but also to establish humanitarian corridors and to allow for the deployment of un supervised neutral forces the redeployment from the ports of ho data salif russy send critical parts of the city associated with the humanitarian facilities shall be completed within two weeks after the cease fires entry and to force the full mutual redeployment of all forces from the city of her data and the ports of her data salif and russ is so shall be completed within

a maximum period of twenty one days after the cease fire enters into force it is a responsibility of the parties to fulfill the agreement local leaders in her day to say they are determined to ensure the truce no matter how fragile it is holds. can live the kind the law is sending the agreement that was discussed thank god we in the province of the data and the local authorities are committed to the ceasefire but there are some violations of the aircraft that are still flying over the city despite the reports of explosions and sporadic fighting yemenis in and around the besieged port city are for now at least feeling some small semblance of hope. but. once again turkish media has leaks images of the saudi suspects accused of murdering journalist somalis. and the fight is appear to show the cycle hit

arriving at the saudi colossal in istanbul where his son was killed it's all about us. walking through istanbul airport dressed casually dragging suitcases the suspected saudi hit team arrived for the mission new photos leaked to turkish media showed them arriving at the saudi consul general's residence in istanbul the faucheux time stamped eleven zero eight on the second of october the day jamal khashoggi was killed at the same time others into the consulate this is from the same camera that captured the final images of. the saudi journalist entered through the same doors two always later at one fourteen pm there is about three thousand five hundred hours of footage that the investigators are actually looking into saw due to the fact that this is taking time and there is new evidence come in notes we

get these leaks was no while. within days the world learned khashoggi had been murdered and dismembered inside the consulate over weeks who was mounted for justice and accountability he was put on the cover of time magazine as person of the year saudi prosecutors responded with criminal charges for the men in this so-called hit squad five face the death penalty six a charged with related offenses it is also rejected turkey's request to extradite the suspects for trial using the vienna convention on diplomatic immunity as reason not to or the major question of who was at the killing has been left unanswered the results are fifty six days and forty one news u.s. senators gave their verdicts last week passing resolutions blaming saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon for khashoggi sticks and calling for an end to u.s. military support for saudi prince of in yemen this is now unanimously unanimously united states senate has said that crown

prince mohammed bin salman is responsible for the murder of two malcolm. the saudi foreign ministry denounced the senate's position saying it is based upon unsubstantiated claims and allegations contained blatant interferences in the kingdom's internal fears undermining the kingdom's regional and international role but condemnation and denials aren't enough to stop the leaks these timestamp images reveal more about the movements of the suspected saudi hitting before and after the killing of jamal khashoggi ballasts al-jazeera britain's home secretary has outlined how the immigration system will work after the u.k. leaves the european union e.u. citizens are currently free to live and work in the u.k. but that will end once the country quits the block study of javid says current immigration levels are too high and should be reduced but he added that the new

system will make it easier for highly skilled people from outside europe to move to person. well meanwhile the e.u. has revealed its contingency plans for a no deal breaks it's if the u.k. crosses out of the block with auser to force agreements in exactly one hundred days time well the u.s. plan covers fourteen areas most likely to be affected and is designed to quote protect the vital interests of the e.u. its leaders say it's an exercise in damage limitation the problem includes temporary measures for air space british airlines will be allowed to operate flights in and out of the e.u. but not within its some financial regulations will be recognized as equivalent to those of the e.u. for one or two years but buying side insurance companies headquartered in the u.k. will no longer be able to provide services in the e.u. under their current or their eyes ations trucks and freight carriers would be allowed to carry goods into the e.u. for a nine month period without applying for a permits but that doesn't include life on

a ml's and animal products which will have to undergo border checks at e.u. entry points. countries are being urged to take a generous approach to the rights of u.k. citizens living abroad as long as that approach is reciprocated by the u.k. well the u.k. itself is also ramping up preparations for the no deal as not in baba explains. well in parliament on wednesday jeremy corbyn the leader of the labor opposition accuse prime minister to resign made of being reckless in announcing these new measures for speeding up preparations for a no deal breaks it come the end of march next year the government has one cabinet approval for measures worth more than two billion u.s. dollars and more in funding for things like special flights to ensure medical supplies continue to arrive stockpiling certain imported chemicals in britain and putting three and a half thousand troops on standby and employing thousands more civil servants

he is not the only person who's worried about that prospect five of britain's biggest business organizations have written to the government saying they're watching on with horror as they see it politicians engage in factional fighting rather than doing what's best for britain he said as prime minister decepticons he has praised a budget deal agreed with the european commission saying it allows his government to all its commitments and boost the economy the e.u. commission signed off on its least twenty nine thousand budget all to rome agree to lower its deficit targets for the next three years but a speech to parliament county said he'd resisted calls even greater cuts and had safeguarded key measures. because belgium has yet to accept the resignation of the country's prime minister shell's michel offered to resign on tuesday after his right wing coalition partners walked out of the governance the flemish nationalists

are angry about a un migration patterns shell side the country up to critics say the deal was all to more immigration to europe and that's led to rallies and protests in brussels. oh japan's biggest of a stock market floats has failed to live up to expectations. for sacrifice of tech investment giant sulfite promise of fifteen percent wiping off nulling billion dollars on the day of trading on the tokyo stock exchange analysts say the disappointing debut may be due to a recent network outage on concerns about the company's ties with the chinese telecoms giant wall way or university professor takeshita says investors all questioning growth strategy this musical chair game that you know the south bank and playing on a growth after growth after growth expansion after expansion they're all worried when the music will stop it hasn't and they've been working out quite eloquently

but if you look at the external environment of the telecommunications side in japan for example the mobile carrier i would say contract has dropped the environment itself where it's maturing and you've got the pressure from the competition and you've got the government basically trying to lower the price so you have quite a lot of pressure surrounding this industry as a whole. undermine of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. says all of its troops will be withdrawn from syria within sixty to one hundred days it comes off the president double trouble period to declare victory over iceland but there is no longer any reason to be that about two thousand troops are currently stationed in syria many of them special operations forces working with kurdish forces against the ongoing article has more from washington d.c. . we're seeing members of congress come out and say this is

a horrible idea don't do this leave the two thousand u.s. troops in there but really it's unlikely that they can change the president's mind because he is after all the commander in chief so it appears that the president has made this decision of course the big question is now what happens to the kurds that have been allied with the united states fighting alongside and really the key to defeating the islamic state of iraq in the levant which even the president acknowledged in a news conference just a few months ago so the president not talking about that basically just declaring victory in the war against i still and saying he's going to bring the two thousand troops home campaigning has been banned in the capital of the democratic republic of congo four days before presidential elections are due to be held because of fear of violence that was made by kinshasa as governor i was for the opposition leader most unfairly it was due to hold a major rally which is now considered illegal is one of several kinds of it seeking to replace president joseph kabila in madagascar

a former president and the man who ousted him in a two thousand and nine chua battling to become the country's next leader in a fiercely contested runoff election while probably madonna and his rival andre much alina close the votes on wednesday both men have agreed to accept the election result which is due to be released by the end of the. south african police have issued an arrest warrant for zimbabwe's former first lady grace mcgarvey for salting a model with an electrical cords the wife of former president bush at the gulf that is accused of attacking the woman you know to have this book hotel room last august gabriella and l. says she suffered a serious head injury but gabi has previously claimed she was acting in self defense and those elections headlines here on al jazeera more news about how fast time stay with us they witness is coming next.