al-jazeera. where every. we have one against isis. the us president declares victory over his own party senators condemn his decision to pull troops out of syria. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching else here on live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up. uncertainty in the democratic republic of congo fears that sunday's elections may be postponed. with one

hundred days to go the u.k. and the e.u. announce plans for a new deal breaks it ramping up the political pressure. and threats of strikes in hungary over a controversial labor law. but disaster in the making that's how some u.s. politicians are reacting to president donald trump's decision to withdraw all u.s. troops from syria in a tweet mr trump declared victory over eisel the group that once controlled vast areas of syria and iraq but is now confined to small pockets the drawdown of an estimated two thousand troops is expected within sixty to one hundred days the u.s. defense secretary jim mattis pushed for american soldiers to prevent eisel from reemerging and several prominent republican senators are opposing mr trump's decision well the news of the pullout follows turkey's president gretsch up type

are the one threatening a new offensive against u.s. backed kurdish forces the syrian democratic forces in man be calling for demonstrations against the trunk decision from washington classical hain begins our coverage. it's a massive move that will dramatically change the landscape of the war in syria and one not many saw coming the u.s. president tweeting out that isis has been defeated and that was the only reason u.s. troops were in syria and we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten a badly we've taken back the land and now it's time for our troops to come back home. but according to the u.s. government the islamic state of iraq and the levant is not actually defeated a point stressed by the president's own state department just last week i think it's fair to say americans will remain on the ground after the physical to feed a caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that that defeatism during the move comes after

a phone call between president trump and president urged one of turkey he's made clear he wants to target the kurds who have fought beside the u.s. and that is more difficult to do if u.s. troops are in his way just a few months ago the president himself is fully heralded as a sacrifice the kurds have made and we're trying to get along very well we do get along great with the kurds we're trying to help them a lot so they fought with us they died with us they died we lost. tens of thousands of kurds died fighting isis now many worry what will happen to the kurds what this message sends is we don't stick with people our friends without the kurds in the syrian democratic forces we couldn't have beaten isis we couldn't have taken back and rocker because we were not willing to commit all of those troops that were necessary others say that should be a concern for the u.s. first time in my lifetime we have a prayer a president with the courage to declare victory and bring the troops home this came as a surprise for many on capitol hill some senators calling this

a big mistake if this decision is a withdrawal of all of our forces in syria and they were dramatically listen this isn't a bomb of life move it's now that the u.s. has withdrawn or is going to withdraw from syria we have left basically turn the country over to russia and to an even greater extent iran the administration and the pentagon both released statement saying the fight against iso isn't over the u.s. is simply transitioning to the next phase of the campaign they didn't say what that phase might look like. al-jazeera washington. post to another of our correspondents in washington alan fischer joining us here how much of a shift in policy is this when it comes to you know the u.s. posture across the region. well it's something that don't come talked about on the election trail it's something that he mentioned way back in april when he said he was on the verge of ordering u.s. troops out of syria at that point all his advisors at the pentagon they said this

is a bad idea you need to back away from this and he sent lee did that it's very brave of any president to stand in front of a camera and essentially say mission accomplished which is what he's doing here talking about the battle against eisel in syria because that immediately provokes echoes of george w. bush going on to a near craft carrier with the big mission accomplished sign saying that operations in iraq are all over that didn't work terribly well for the u.s. there and there is concern certainly on capitol hill that donald trump is acting a bit prematurely it's just two months ago that john bolton his national security advisor gave a speech in new york that said u.s. troops will stay in syria as long as a rainy in troops are outside their own borders and that was a sign of the u.s. policy in the region that they were determined to confront iran and setting lee determined to stop iran getting a bigger foothold inside iran itself no normally before these big decisions you

talk to members not just of the republican party but also of the democrats you consult the chairman of the main committees that certainly hasn't happened this time we know that because bob corker who is a republican senator who is leaving at the end of the year but he is the chairman of the foreign relations committee and for him not only was a surprise it was a huge disappointment terrible thing for our nation it's a terrible thing for the. for the allies that we've been working with this terrible thing for the. man it's just. it's hard to imagine that any president would wake been make this kind of decision with this little communication with this little preparation as u.s. military policy until we get some fine tuning on this defined by a sense of uncertainty i guess. exactly because the pentagon didn't know what was

happening and they have arrangements to make they'll have to speak to allies they will have to speak to the turks no that's already happened donald trump a conversation in the last twenty four hours or so with president of turkey there is a suggestion that president pushed him to move troops out of syria so that he could conduct an operation against the cards what the white house are saying a senior administration official is telling is that what president trump said was this is my decision this is what we're going to do there was no discussion no negotiation but certainly there are those in the house and the senate who are drawing direct lines from that conversation to donald trump's decision and they're also suggesting that donald trump is doing this as a favor to tucky because the reason he wants turkey on side is to perhaps ease the pressure on so dear abia particularly over the death of jamal khashoggi it

would be wrong to think that all these things somehow are not into link that is the sort of complicated world that we live in and certainly a complicated situation in the middle east but there are plenty of people on capitol hill who believe that this is a big mistake and that the fight against isis must continue it must continue inside syria itself and it must continue with u.s. troops there too and thanks very much. well don trump's unilateral decision took us allies in the fight against us i saw as we've been hearing by surprise many of them believe there's still a threat of isolate regaining ground more now from our diplomatic james bays here at the u.n. in new york and in the capitals of the u.s. is closest allies this news was not expected and not welcomed a u.k. minister making it clear in a tweet we live in his view eisel has not been defeated a view shared by the ambassador who chairs the security council committee that tracks the group in his latest reports reveal eisel still has about twenty to

thirty thousand fighters in iraq and syria would be limited by stories being the fear of being yes but it's not completed it's not completed because of course i suppose trying to find other ways to do for a few months the war president trump says the troops were only in syria to fight eisel but people here say they also performed a number of other roles including diplomatic leverage on the assad regime. u.n. special envoy stefan de mistura is back in new york and will brief the security council on thursday one of the lever's being used to get the assad regime back to the negotiating table was the fact the u.s. military controls a large swathe of the country rich in agriculture and energy it's now a job that will be even harder one of the main aims of president trumps foreign policy will also be affected the president back strongly by prime minister benjamin

netanyahu of israel has been trying to constrain the regional activities of iran and their u.s. decision and respect any decision made by the administration we have our concerns about syria or the presence of a venue and troops there in syria and we will do whatever we necessary to protect our people regardless if you have american troops russian troops or any other nations so while the u.s. is our allies are dismayed by the trump decision those with very different views about the future of syria the so-called a stana group turkey russia and iran will benefit with more freedom to act inside the country james bays al-jazeera of the united nations. more explosions have been reported on the second day of the un brokered cease fire in yemen's port city of who data saudi and you a you backed government forces and who's the fighters blamed each other for violations on the first day of the truce on tuesday the warring parties agreed on

a ceasefire during talks in sweden last week data is critical for the supply of food and humanitarian aid for millions of yemenis always on the brink of starvation one hour from mohammed jumped to. pictures emerging from predate the 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 and like in their panic. 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 this meeting 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 aide 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 sun critical parts of the city associated with the humanitarian facilities shall be completed within two weeks after the cease fires entry into force the full mutual redeployment of all forces from the city of her data and the ports of her data salif and russ isa 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're determined to ensure the truce no matter how fragile it is holds.

and that the it had the analysis and 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 by a nation's 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. a yemeni woman is on her way to the u.s. to see her dying son and for a year long legal battle she's been prevented from seeing her son because of a travel ban on people from yemen and four other mainly muslim countries as well as north korea and venezuela the two year old boy is an american citizen with a rare brain disorder the u.s. granted her a visa after a civil rights group took the case to court. an official from the electoral commission in the democratic republic of congo says sunday's elections might be delayed because of technical difficulties now on whether the police fired tear gas

at a crowd of rock throwing supporters of the opposition presidential candidate martin for you know in the capital kinshasa the violence came after a ban by the city government on all political gatherings melcombe where more now on the uncertainty surrounding sunday's poll. an official from the electoral commission has said that it is now a possibility that sunday's poll might be delayed by a few days possibly weeks technical difficulties the official said the electoral commission would still do everything it could to try to make sure the poll goes ahead on time but this announcement came just a few hours after the governor of the capital kinshasa banned the final political campaign rallies from taking place here they were due to happen over the coming days may now be going ahead the government funded security reasons saying that people within the different political factions were planning violence but for opposition supporters and there are very many opposition supporters here in the

capital they're skeptical things like banning rallies and postponing elections they see as possible schemes by the ruling coalition to be the election all to try and stay in power beyond this election which has already been delayed for two years still to come here on al-jazeera there's more trouble in store for zimbabwe's former first lady wanted for assault in south africa last year. two years on from a tragic night. remembers the victims of the truck attack. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello this is not traditionally a wet time of the year anywhere in china so to see clouds streaming across think even you have to think what's going on well that is the remains of

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back here with al-jazeera live from doha i'm peter dhabi in the chair right now these are your top stories donald trump has ordered a full withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria and a clear victory against i saw in the country the decision has surprised his foreign allies and angered some members of his republican party. an election official in the d.r. city says the polls on sunday might be delayed because of technical issues hours earlier the police fired tear gas on opposition supporters in the capital kinshasa after political rallies were banned over security concerns and there are reports of more explosions on the second day of a un brokered cease fire in yemen sports city of who data saudi and u.a.e. backed government forces and fighters blamed each other violations on the first day of the truce on tuesday. one hundred days to go before the european union has revealed its contingency plans if the u.k. crashes out without a deal the u.k.

is also ramping up preparations if prime minister to resign may can get the u.k. parliament to back her agreement with the e.u. is not. well the government's plans for a new deal breaks it into heavily in prime minister's questions here in parliament on wednesday what we know is that they're stepping up those preparations with a least two billion u.s. dollars of extra funding to try to get the country ready for that scenario if you take doesn't have a deal or leaves the e.u. mixed monster for example putting three and a half thousand troops on standby there providing for extra special flights to make sure medicines carry on arriving in the country now those prospects are worrying people like him five of the biggest business organizations in the u.k. you visited a joint statement saying they're looking on with horror of what they call functional infighting here in westminster and are saying it's up to politicians to really find a way forward and avoid that no deal scenario the labor party the official

opposition of also said that that should be taken off the table the prime minister is recklessly running down the clock all in a shameful attempt to make your own bad deal look like the lesser of two evils. thing to the right on it would gentleman do it while until the deal has a day and has been ratified it is the responsible position of government and it is would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements for no deal so there's lots of worry both in terms of immigration policy and in terms of the damage and no deal breaks it could bring the. u.k. government has set out his biggest reform of immigration policy for more than forty years as it prepares for post-breakfast relationship with the rest of the world now the cap on the number of skilled migrants is being scrapped and unskilled laborers will still be granted temporary visas paul brennan explains. the issue of

immigration has been at the heart of the whole debate with the european. union's freedom of movement rules limiting the u.k. government's ability to pick and choose who can enter the u.k. the government's dilemma post bracks it is how to visibly reduce immigration without damaging the economy the future system is about making sure immigration works in the best interests of the u.k. we are absolutely not closing our doors we're simply making sure that we have control over who comes through them. the new law will scrap the current limit on the number of skilled immigrant workers such as doctors or engineers it will allow low skilled immigrants to work for up to twelve months before they would be forced to leave again a suggested minimum salary threshold equivalent to around thirty eight thousand dollars for skilled e.u. migrants is being deferred for further consultation and the whole system would be phased in from twenty twenty one

a new twelve month visa would be used for individual unskilled workers from specific low risk countries they would not be allowed to settle or bring their relatives with them and it seems destined still little for better integration but it is an explicit recognition from the government that despite anti immigrant sentiments some sectors of the u.k. economy have become dependent on cheap unskilled migrant labor using a salary threshold to define skilled and unskilled workers is worrying to hospitals and health care providers the starting salaries of nurses paramedics and midwives will likely put them below the threshold that's a problem in a service where twenty one percent of nurses and health visitors are non british and thirty percent of doctors come from overseas axel and tony is a german born accountant who built his business up in the u.k. his frustration at the treatment of e.u. workers here let him to co-found the campaign group the three million e.u. citizens are generating about two thousand three hundred pounds more in tax than

the average adult in the u.k. seventy eight thousand pounds in its contribution after all costing it take into account over their lifetime. prime minister theresa may emphasised her commitment to immigration control with a visit to london's heathrow airport on wednesday to see border guards at work but reaction to the government's proposals has been mixed some predict an imminent skill shortage in key sectors western as one opposition m.p. pointed out society javid the example of cabinet ministers shows that being highly paid and highly skilled do not always go together paul brennan al-jazeera london. and if you are musically the volume control for the next thirty seconds as britain press to leave the european union approach the movement has made its debut. and then. this is not. the five member band named the three union boys launched the video for the first single britain

comeback in amsterdam although they have booked a gig at the band hopes to chill british pubs to get their message out the founder says she was inspired by the original british boy band take that. congress opposition has warned there won't be any let up in anti-government protests the hunger in alliance of trade unionists has also placed hold nationwide strikes if a controversial labor law is signed into effect protesters are condemning what they call a slave law allowing employers to force staff to work overtime and delay payment for up to three years the last provokes more than a week of demonstrations in the capital for the past run for a street walker has more from that. we haven't seen anything like the large scale protests of the weekend when thousands of hunger areas converged on the capital outside parliament and also. went to the state broadcaster the hungary state broadcaster where we saw angry scenes and violent scenes where opposition m.p.'s

who had entered the building two of whom were forcibly ejected and injured we actually met with two of those m.p.'s earlier today independent n.p.c. in the parliament and they explain to us that the protest movement which has become known as the solidarity movement is spontaneous sporadic it's not centralized we have different groups involved everything from students youth movements to neighbor unions also now to these political parties on both the left and the right of the spectrum and they are saying that there is now likely to be another large scale protest towards the weekend when. this since so-called slavery law is expected to be signed into effect by the president the demands of the protesters are not just

about this slavery nor as they call it because it's going to affect many working class one dairy and we should be expected to put in perhaps an additional four hundred hours of overtime a year and not be paid for that over time by up to three years there are other demands are also about freeing up the media in hungary which they now say the opposition is completely controlled by viktor or ban his political party and his supporters and also to campaign for an independent judiciary these are among the chief concerns of this opposition movement and they are hoping that they will continue to maintain this momentum but they say they're in this for the long run this is not about a two three week flash in the pan it's going to take a lot of time to be able to create any significant change in the political system in this country brazil's outgoing president michel tema is facing new charges of

corruption and money laundering he's accused of taking bribes in exchange for extending contracts to port operators is the third time term has been charged with corruption previous cases were dismissed by the congress but this time here's likely to face court proceedings after stepping down as president on january the first. south african police have approached interpol to help in the arrest of zimbabwe's former first lady grace mugabe's accused of hitting a woman with an electrical cord in a hotel room in johannesburg last year the wife of the former president robert mugabe says she acted in self-defense germany's marking the second anniversary of the attack in berlin where a truck driver plowed into a christmas market killing twelve people and injuring dozens more dominic cain reports. berlijn police stand guard outside a mosque this week their investigation into illegal financing of the war in syria has brought them here intelligence led actions like this have become much more

common in the last two years following the twenty sixteen attack on the bloodshed plaids christmas market the worst atrocity in germany for decades on wednesday survivors and relatives of the victims came to pay their respects by on. years ago i was standing at the blue vine stall with my mother when the truck drove through the fence and destroyed everything i was severely injured and my mother was killed that's why we remember the victims today it is hard for me to come back here but in two years i have grown strong it's been important to me to personally process this in the end everyone has to find his own way for the security services finding their own way meant securing more funding and then prioritizing preventative action one analyst told me another factor was the defeat of i saw in syria and it's in suing effect here in germany well it really is a generational change we've seen this in many many terrorists movements and

complains that the you move from the first inspiring leaders to the second imitators to the third generation. adventurers who are still dangerous but by far not as well organized and capable as the second generation. now the christmas market in bloodshed plats is one of the most secure in germany police van stand at the main entrances and exits foot patrols are regular and conspicuous a sign of law and order in action which in caps relates the changed approach across the country a glance at the figures in recent years shows the effect in twenty sixteen there were seven violent acts against civilians killing twelve and wounding sixty last year there was just one killing one and wounding five so far this year there have been none which is just what people like deca want to hear she's had a stand in pride child plants every christmas for the past thirteen years as

a deacon danielle and will people still come here despite what happened and i'm not afraid for myself we will not let ourselves be defeated by this act. and that spirit is apparent on the faces of many of the visitors here now it's clear the memory of what happened here two years ago has not faded but because there's been no repetition of such a major violent incident in germany the perception of the threat level has it's also clear that the authorities wanted to stay that way dominic kane al jazeera berlin. let's just recap your top stories so far this hour on al-jazeera the u.s. president donald trump has ordered a full withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria and declared victory against eisel in the country the decision surprised his foreign allies and angered some members of his republican party. we

have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beat now badly so our boys our young women our men they're all coming back and they're coming back now we want and that's the way we want it and that's the way they want it an election official in the democratic republic of congo's sunday's polls might be delayed because of technical difficulties earlier the police fired tear gas on opposition supporters in the capital kinshasa after political rallies were banned because of security concerns. there are reports of more explosions on the second day of a un brokered cease fire in yemen's port city of who data saudi in u.a.e. backed government forces and who the fighters blamed each other for violations on the first day of the truce on tuesday the yemeni woman is on her way to the u.s. to see her dying son after a year long legal battle she had been prevented from seeing her son because of a travel ban on people from yemen and four other mainly muslim countries as well as

north korea and venezuela a two year old boy is an american citizen with a rare brain disorder the u.s. granted her a visa after a civil rights group took the case to court. brazil's outgoing president michel tema is facing new charges of corruption and money laundering he's accused of taking bribes in exchange for extending contracts to port operators it's the third time mr turner has been charged with corruption previous cases were dismissed by the congress but this time he's likely to face court proceedings after stepping down as president on january the first of next year. last more news whenever you want it on our website the address there on screen as well as your dot com including more on our top story donald trump's announcement about u.s. troops being pulled out of syria up next inside story up.

is the cold war. of a nuclear weapon is another are about to start this is inside story. and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey it's twenty seven years since the end of the cold war but the heat is on again between the united states and russia over missiles and nuclear weapons accusing the russians of violating a thirty one year old arms treaty and says the.