now one hundred days into his leadership people in power whether delivering on promises will be as easy in practice as it was in theory or you know the nation is more going for your people are disappointed with the bombing in minus one hundred days on al-jazeera. we have one. president says he's pulling u.s. troops out of syria but the pentagon says not so fast. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. the.

presidential election in the democratic republic of congo is in doubt the poll scheduled for sunday may not happen. as president swears in the ministers in the latest climb down from a political crisis he started. and hopes dashed thousands of mexican asylum seekers who realize their dreams of a better life may be over. president . victory against iceland syria and ordered a full withdrawal of american troops from that country the decision though surprised us foreign allies and angered some members of his own republican party some soldiers have already started to fly home had to call him reports from washington. 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 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 has played 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 rock of course 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 it's hard to imagine that any president would wake up and make this kind of decision with this little communication with this little preparation if this decision is a withdrawal of all of our forces in syria and now we're dramatically listen this isn't a bomb of life move because now that the u.s. has withdrawn or is going to withdraw from syria we have left basically turn the

country over to russia into an even greater extent iran the administration and the pentagon both released statements saying the fight against i so isn't over that 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. is a one hundred percent turkey's capital ankara so it's clear this decision and caught a lot of people off guard i would imagine the kurds perhaps were not really clear that this is going to happen so what happens with them now. well it is unclear they are in a very vulnerable position the y p g this is the syrian kurdish armed group which has been working closely with the u.s. for the past few years a group turkey considers a terrorist organization so the u.s. decision to withdraw is being seen as some sort of a concession to turkey which has been threatening a cross border operation to quote get rid of these terrorists we heard the turkish

defense minister use very strong language not too long ago saying that to the east of euphrates that's in northeast syria of course is just ahead of us and if they build trenches we are going to bury them in their trenches it's still not clear if the turkish military is going to go ahead with this threatened military operation because even though now that the u.s. has pulled back and it's seen as some sort of green light turkey is going to have to coordinate with its other partners in syria and that is russia and iran this is thirty five percent of syrian territory this northeastern and clave under the control of the white p.g. but we do know what the turkish government wants and they want their border to be cleared from the white p.g. so there's going to be a lot of behind the scenes negotiations because who is going to take control of this border is it going to be the syrian government or is it going to be turkish backed syrian rebels but like you mentioned from the start the white p.g.

in a very difficult position earlier this year they were in to go with damascus but the americans in one way or another pressured them to pull back from those talks and to side with the u.s. government now they're left alone so the president of iran honey is an ankara right now just a bit ago we showed pictures of him with the president right to tie part of on the timing obviously considering donald trump's decision there's got there's got to be something to the timing and what do we what do we anticipate hearing from these two leaders. well on tuesday it was announced that rowhani was arriving in turkey unexpected and a surprise for a state visit is usually planned in advance it was that what we understand was that iran was worried iran was worried about the overtures between the united states and turkey every time these two nato allies tried to overcome their strained relationship to improve their relationship iran gets worried because turkey is the only country it can work with in the region but then when he arrived we had this

unexpected announcement that u.s. troops were leaving syria which in one way or another is a concession to turkey it's a diplomatic victory for turkey but it's also a diplomatic victory for iran and russia it strengthens their position so there's going to be a lot of behind the scenes negotiations iran would like to know for example where turkey actually stands turkey is a member of the aston a trio russia iran and turkey but now moving closer to the united states we are in the post-war phase yes thirty five percent of syria is up for grabs will there be a military operation or will there be some sort of a political deal but as political negotiations continue and spheres of influence they're dividing syria we're going to have a lot of political talks taking place all right zain her live for us in ankara saying i thank you. khan is the representative of the turkish people's democratic party to the u.s. he says kurdish forces were not expecting donald trump's announcement. they had absolutely no warning beforehand for the kind of

a decision was coming just like many others in the agency that the u.s. government based the thing to be a purely a decision too early bill and expressed by the president and so and this has definitely not just taken the kurds by surprise but i think the first feeling is back of disappointment in regards to what trump said our need at the few weeks ago where where he said he's not the longer for guess the sacrifices the because made in the via against isis well i think we can definitely make that conclusion because . we know that the u.s. policy against isis was that of an enduring that big now we haven't even and achieved a territorial defeat the complete territorial defeat of isis yet we know that the fight is still going on in towns such as like i gene in which the men and women the

kurdish men and women fighting in the white fijian white d.j. under the umbrella of the f.b.i. are battling that in the streets of the town of hygene right now as we speak so i don't know where the determination or whether the conclusion was made that i think has been defeated and this battle has been won because the two steps one the territorial defeat and definitely the enduring would be has not been succeeded. despite transcendence and about troop withdrawal france says its troops will stay in syria for now european affairs minister said the fight against terrorism is not over france says station fighter jets and jordan artillery along the syrian border in iraq as part of the u.s. led coalition. on the opposition candidates running for president and the democratic republic of congo says the country should not postpone sunday's election bartolo was reacting to the electoral commission's announcement that the pole could be delayed because of technical problems on wednesday police and fire tear gas at

fairleigh supporters had organized a rally but was blocked from attending and after the city's governor banned political gatherings because of security concerns across pandit malcolm spoke to martin. and went there after noon one of the main opposition candidates martin finally was due to have a rally here in the city a crowd gathered he was blocked from entering the city by police and not allowed to attend the rally he was held there until late in the night and during a heavy rainstorm when the supporters a clear was allowed in the city and he's with me here now with the filing your final rallies being and you weren't even allowed into the capital what's your plan by first of all. mr president of this if we are everything is written in the electoral law because of the electoral laws during the campaign every body every time you did as you complain really and.

they are looking by complete almost five days during my campaign where it was the complete loss in the lubumbashi they send soldiers villages policeman to shoot people in the kindle and uma promise they didn't know me to go in the loony. my supporters are asking why and i was prevented to fly to other parts of the country i'm asking the question why the governor cannot he has not right he has not a computer science to log any candidate for campaigning the election commission's talking about a possible delay to the powerless the powerless the late why do you think that will happen and how will you react the poll cannot be delayed because the mr no longer the president of the electoral commission said that he will be ready on the twenty

three and he told everybody that i will be ready and we asked are asking him to have the election on that day if not he has to go he has to go yes to live because he's not capable mr nungesser is not responsible you know he has to give the clear the credible and transparent election on the due date if not he and mr kabila did have to go. hasn't happened after weeks of political upheaval president. swore in the politicians days after reinstating the prime minister he sacked sparked a crisis when he replaced for nail technician may without parliament's approval. reports from colombo. it's been a challenge for the new prime minister had to decide who's in and who's out of his new cabinet however we see to compromise the whole lot of negotiation twenty nine people being sworn in to their positions this morning now strange we hear from

reports inside that on like sort of the ceremonial swearing in in the sort of mean chamber of the presidential secretary building behind me. in old parliament we hear that today's swearing in happened on an individual basis says who essentially i should in to present my policy to say in his office one by one where. they were sworn in to the new cabinet we hear that there had been a fair bit of wrangling with president seriously need to agree on the composition of that cabinet to be had insisted that norm members of his own sri lanka freedom party vs and their feet be accommodated in the new cabinet should they cross over support for on the missing now this is obviously not the end of the road even though the entire country is hoping that off to the sort of over the last two months things settle down and the country starts returning to normal there are

essentially issues that need to be resolved the composition of parliament tools the opposition leaders pose and basically how this country goes forward as the prime minister has said he's priority is to restore normalcy and then move on with development. on al-jazeera. the reality is that the labor process is a sham and any woman prevented from going to the u.s. to visit her dying son wins for legal. all. campaigning from behind bars son of gaza jailed opposition leaders are forced to get creative when bo. hallow the area of heaviest rain in southeast asia right would answer to indonesia's change somewhat we've got more falling in the southern philippines

still occasional big ones in java and rather than saying the southern philippines that wet weather going further into the andaman sea really seventy seven millimeters on a place called long island the figures are not that great john there is but i think we're going to see a more intense day in the showers of the central and southern philippines in the next twenty four hours or so in fact the mask even present itself and then drifting towards the vietnamese coast scattered showers elsewhere if you see dark gray that's a hint of biggish out and again that's a look to the jakarta area for those less so you know for kayo and singapore in fact if anything if next a sunny day on saturday the reaction is thursday east that says drops us and is still potentially and actually quite strongly but discreetly showers develop late in the day in new south wales and queensland there's the line just caught in a hail shower across sydney the chances are the same thing will help but maybe a bit further north during friday look at the temps as they sit these down to

twenty three melbourne's to twenty disappointing for the summer rather better in perth. when the shots came from the holiday and we heard critics we heard some noise. this was no no sniper alley one of the most dangerous intersections in saudi but. it didn't come in through the front entrance was what happened to the people who were shot they came into the wrong and the monthly power of took pics of the furniture to. show the school a lot of sarajevo on the day and hotels on al-jazeera.

this is al jazeera and these are the top stories now this president donald trump is withdrawing all american troops from syria saying i saw has been defeated his decision surprised his foreign allies and some members of his own republican party the pentagon says some soldiers have started to fly home. the main opposition candidate in sunday's presidential election and some are out of the public of congo has told al jazeera that the vote must go ahead electoral commission says it may be delayed due to technical difficulties and sri lanka as a new cap and then after weeks of political of people president market policies are santa sore and the politicians after reinstating a prime minister he'd sacked for senate sparked a crisis when he replaced for nail ricocheting a in october without parliament's approval. a many woman is visiting her dying son in the us after winning an almost

two year long legal battle to get a visa the travel ban on visitors from mainly muslim countries prevented her from going to california for two year old son is on life support in the hospital there with the rare brain disease john hendren was there when she landed. at san francisco international airport a long delay finally came to an end neither distance nor war nor the u.s. travel ban could keep this mother from a last farewell with her ailing son nearly two years after applying for a u.s. visa and twenty three months after the trumpet ministration banned visas from yemen and six other countries seamus we let has arrived this is the vehicle time for our family but we are blessed to be together the journey to san francisco began in war torn yemen and ends at this nearby hospital there her two year old son of dylan lies on life support with a degenerative brain disease and doctors say only days of life left but this is

what a bill is father pleaded with the u.s. state department for twenty eight times i want his mother to be next to him while he was going through it and because he was a lot like. bond with them with the mother although both only and abdullah haasan are american citizens the u.s. government granted shaimaa a waiver only on tuesday a day after her son appealed directly to the american people in a news conference the families lawyers say it did not have to take this long cheema they say was clearly eligible for a waiver there is a sham process and this basically shows that the issuance of our visa this week was not an act of kindness on their part. the embassy and department of state had a legal obligation to adjudicate shamus waiver requests within a reasonable amount of time and they failed on that allegation but it is the most readers should read every unionist division troops so long that little ability is

now on foreign troops unable to bring in by himself and unlikely to know his mother is there she says i want to go to the house with all take my child go home now would she have a right she's not going to take your son home we're going to take his child to the grave because he's done when she may received her visa on tuesday only said she wept for the first time in months for joy she was granted her happiness to come see her son and she was at the same time but it's she's she's going to see her son. go away now after waiting two years they wait for the end together john hendren zero san francisco the u.s. senate has passed a funding bill to keep the government running for now the temporary legislation was approved to avoid a complete federal shutdown after a deadlock over donald trump's border wall and now need support from the house and approval from the president that previously refused to sign a spending bill that does not include five billion dollars for

a wall along the us mexico border a wall he said mexico it pay for. thousands of central american asylum seekers who hope to reach the u.s. as part of a caravan starting to realize their dream of a new life may be over many are being turned away at the u.s. border but some saying they're not being given the legal protections they're entitled to but adel hamid has more from the us on the mexican side of the border. it's late afternoon that the chapel of the shelter starts filling up a mix of people brought together by their quest to enter the u.s. . they teach opinion low says a hairdresser from guerrero one of the most violent states in mexico she owned a small cell and every week she was forced to pay five dollars in protection money to the local cartel. violence has been around for a long time but we took the decision to leave in two days because suddenly one saturday they asked us to pay one thousand u.s.

dollars or there would be consequences for my family like many wishing to go through legal channels they were turned away from the border but by mexican authorities given a number and transported to the shelter. about forty five minutes later a second bus arrives among them several deploy tease. this young man was caught while trying to cross a load through to surrounding mountains he was sent back to mexico on the same others here didn't want to speak on camera but told us they were deported on the spot despite claiming protection from u.s. authorities they didn't get what is known as a credible fear interview which should be guaranteed by u.s. law one man said his american dream lasted just thirty minutes. this also when asked and his two children little close if he misses her mom and whole back in el salvador they were part of the so-called caravan got lost on their way so ended up here instead of the one of. them is hard to leave the family my wife

didn't want to go she couldn't find the courage to do it and she said she will follow i don't know if as a father with children is more difficult or not. the door opens again this time we meet twenty three years old who say this he is one of the so-called dreamers children of undocumented migrants living in america. he was deported for driving without identification but he says fear was always embedded in him through every now. and went through the use of this is very rebellious. india and the chapel was packed two hundred people back here and it doesn't matter where did they went through to be a good boy to try to sneak in here all spending the night together and tomorrow some will leave war will come back. but at that hamid this

protest over suit food prices rather in sudan have pushed the government to declare a state of emergency and the city of daraa in the northern river nile state. the. demonstrators at the headquarters of the ruling party on fire protests have been gaining momentum in sudan this week with inflation at over sixty percent most sudanese say living conditions are getting worse and they're experiencing food and fuel shortages. a prison cell in senegal is the unlikely headquarters for an opposition campaign to stop the reelection of the president is accused of a lemonade ing challenger so he can stay in power one of his rivals as the former mayor of the capital jail for what he says are trumped up charges of corruption as a story. it is from a prison cell that the once popular mayor of the current continues to challenge president mikey cell and campaign to stop his reelection his supporters such as bus

are we some are going house to house collecting the mandatory signatures from voters needed to become an official candidate. rules a rules this is an important election because our country is at a crossroads political adversaries are putting we thought the mecca will be an alternative but it seems the president is trying to cling to power and making things worse. the former mayor of the car was sentenced to five years in jail for corruption a charge he denies saying it is politically motivated to eliminate him from the election he's appealing to the supreme court to. water another challenger to the president was sentenced for corruption two he's also barred from running and is in exile in qatar both remain defiant there are hundreds of political parties every one of them believe that their candidate is best suited to stop president mikey self from winning another term in office the opposition is not united but divided

with each character day saying their struggle to get their voice heard. i am listing international is calling on the government to immediately stop intimidation harassment of opposition leaders and crackdown on dissent supporters of president cell deny any wrongdoing saying all is in place for a smooth election and. we are confident and that institutions the opposition contest everything all the time and it's now time to convince the sinegal least people on the ground that i have policies that will make the last peter senegal's economy is booming becoming one of the fastest growing on the continent during many cells presidents and every other person in the opposition and i think success has come at a cost to political freedom nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car. unemployment alkali some are common problems for mention take a stand so as violence against women the poorest country of all the former soviet

states relies on remittances from workers abroad mostly in russia or the unemployment left behind life can be drunken and violence charles trafford reports from the capital. things are good between soluble and his wife now but for thirteen years he beat called a robot up a demotion lee abused. the forty seven year old father of four says he became an alcoholic because he got depressed after not being able to find work with him but no movement i drank because i thought i had no purpose in life i would come home and start fighting with the family now i know i can live without drinking you are calm when you talk with the kids it's brought us all very close and the couple's new found happiness is thanks to a pilot project by international alert the organization hopes to expand its a program to focus on educating women about their rights as well as offering them

job opportunities to ease the financial pressure on families. but he was drinking a lot and beating me a lot and not respecting the children there was no calmness in the family the situation is great now there's no more violence you finally found his path the organization international says that sixty percent of the women that interviewed in a survey said that they had suffered some form of physical sexual or emotional violence from their husbands in the last twelve years now experts say some of the reasons include poverty unemployment and alcoholism in a society that is often described as being deeply patriarchal around a million of a half toxic men work in russia because they simply cannot find a job here many abandon their wives and never return this woman who doesn't want to be recognised says her husband went to find work in russia seven years ago. she hasn't seen or heard from him in the last five thousand how much. our

family situation is very life is difficult because we need a lot of things we can have i can buy anything for my children so they have to work when a job was available if they are not have no choice but to stay at home. if you will the countries rely remittances more than tells you could stand around the cheapest same to g.d.p. comes from times working abroad and because many men can't find jobs at home alcoholism among the unemployed is high and leading women are often more vulnerable to violence especially experts say in a society where it's commonly believed they all subservient to men usually men said that's women in politics and off and we don't want them to be more empowered and we said that we are not here just i mean to talk to women to work with women we are here in order to i mean like with the family and to help the facility i mean.

that you have to go south so the more work as a handyman in his village called the rover does similar work when she can find it her husband says he now talks to friends and other times you command about dealing with the financial burdens they and their families face and how ashamed he is about the years of pain he caused. that al-jazeera tajikistan to. take a look at the headlines now on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump is withdrawing all american troops from syria saying i saw has been defeated his decision though surprised foreign allies and some members of his own republican party the airport in august that up to thirty thousand fighters are still spread across syria and iraq. the main opposition candidate in sunday's presidential election it's our product republic of congo has told al-jazeera that the vote must go ahead commission says it may be delayed to technical difficulties

supporters of the opposition are angry that campaign rallies have been banned in the capital. it will kind of be delayed because of mr nunn god please don't go for electoral commission say that he will be on the twenty three and he told everybody that i will be there and we asked him. how the election on that date if not you have to go he has to go yesterday because it is not get what mr know you guys look responsible you know he has given us the early. test but an election on the jew did if not. do you have to go. to has a new cabinet after weeks of political upheaval president mother policies are santa sore on the politicians after reinstating the prime minister sacked sena sparked

a crisis when you replace renewal right missing a in october without parliament's approval and many woman has arrived in the united states to visit her dying son after a year long legal battle to get a visa she been prevented from visiting him by the u.s. travel ban on people from yemen and four other mainly muslim countries protests are fair prices and sudan has pushed the government to declare a state of emergency in the city of our and northern river nile states. and straighter set the headquarters of the ruling party on fire protests have been gaining momentum in sudan this week with inflation out over sixty percent most sudanese say living conditions are getting worse and they say they are experiencing food and fuel shortages. those are the headlines keep it on al jazeera for all your latest news throughout the day people in power is next. on the twenty third

of december the democratic republic of congo is finally heading to the polls off the road to yet the lady who will be announced the winner of this already controversial presidential election join us for special coverage of the osses election on al-jazeera. in july twenty eighth imran crones p.t.i. poetry dramatically overturned the political status quo in pakistan and he became its prime minister which will the former cricketer turned politician be able to keep the electoral promises he made to limit our pledges to revive the economy fight injustice and most challenging me to defeat corruption and montana has no idea what he is against what is actually fighting against and what kind of

resistance to come.