three leaders these three countries are still working together on syria all of them mentioning the aston a process the russian led astern of peace negotiating track talking about deeper cooperation between these three countries the iranian president arrived in ankara quite worried because in recent days turkey and the united states have been involved in negotiations to improve their strained relationship and washington really has been reaching out to turkey as of late so whenever washington and turkey try to improve those relationship iran fears the worst because it doesn't want to be left out turkey is the only country iran works with in the region so rouhani are dug on stressing the importance of this astronaut process turkey you know making it clear where it stands in the syrian conflict because what we do know is that washington has been trying to pull turkey away from this from russia and iran

zinah thanks very much dana harder in ankara and many u.s. allies believe i saw has not been defeated some u.n. estimates say there may be as many as thirty thousand fighters in it in syria and iraq war now for more diplomatic and to 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're 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 his latest reports reveal eisel still has about twenty to thirty thousand fighters in iraq and syria would be limited by stories being different being yes but it's not completed it's not completed because of course i said i was trying to find other ways to do for eight months the 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 in syria and we will do what every with every the portent 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 trunk 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 jamesburg days. of the united nations are sami handy is the editor in chief of the current affairs magazine international interests he joins us now from london thanks very much for being with us a president trump says u.s. troops are needed there any more he says eisel has been defeated is it accurate to say that. i think the problem with determining whether isis have been defeated is that isis is more than just a military term it's a political term it's directed at anybody who is against a particular nation russia will point at certain groups and say these isis us will

disagree that these particular groups are isis so i think with regards to this cover of fighting isis is true that there are remnants but they are not a major force and they are not the reason why most of these forces are there in the first place most of these forces are in syria because they want to stay can knowing what will happen in syria they want to stake in deciding what is the future of syria turkey has an extensive border with syria the russians are worried about increased u.s. influence the iranians they believe in this crescent that reaches all the way to lebanon which helps them to expand their influence in the region so i think with regards to this war of isis i think this is always ongoing every time there is an issue and we can't find a reason for a nation to stay in a particular country will say that there is isis the last stronghold of isis was actually taken last month after a bitter war there are remnants however the solution to isis is never a military solution to isis is political it's sociological it's economical once you find a peace addition in syria then you can handle isis and i think donald trump and indeed

whoever supported him in this decision realizes that no matter how much you have military force it won't solve the issue moreover this withdrawal is in line with what donald trump has been saying for decades in the one nine hundred ninety s. he used to lament why u.s. troops are helping the likes of kuwait and the other gulf countries without getting anything in return he resents the presence of u.s. troops in the middle east so i think this is very much in line with his general thinking and should not necessarily be taken as a surprise so could receive and other other powers there like like russia like iran like turkey increased their influence in syria. i think we should be wary i think one of the biggest issues with that i have with the reactions to this withdrawal so far is this believe this idea that russia is is the one of the party that wins or iran or turkey these three parties do not trust each other russia is ready to abandon tehran in a heartbeat if it believes that it can find war relations with the u.s. and the iranians they know this as well we've seen tensions between iran and russia

over iran's disappointment at the way russia is conducting itself with regards to taking advantage of these oil sanctions that have been imposed on iran for turkey they believe there is an existential threat i think one of the reasons why this is so very interesting what's happening in syria is that last week we had the turkish foreign minister saying we are ready to work with if you are in free and fair elections then ahmed bashir takes a letter from the arab states suggesting to bashar asad we are ready to reconcile with you then everyone speaks to trump and they have some sort of conversation and suddenly the turkish deal to buy patriot missiles from the u.s. is back on the table and the deal to buy s. four hundred from russia is now in doubt moreover we have the guns announcement that he's going to go into northern syria to fight the kurds if you will donald trump and you'll mulling over this you're thinking ok look i may be withdrawing but i know turkey doesn't trust russia i know turkey doesn't trust iran i know that if turkey has to choose it will choose me so if turkey is going into northern syria that's technically a fighting force that i did not my fighting force but it's

a fighting force that is allied with me moreover when we talk about russian influence in syria and whether it increases let's remember syria needs money to rebuild russia doesn't have the money iran doesn't have the money europe doesn't have the money the only countries that viably have some of the money of the gulf countries these are u.s. allies if the u.s. doesn't want these countries to invest in syria they won't but if the u.s. can use this soft power this investment of gulf money in syria u.s. still has cards it can play to ensure it has significant influence over syria i think the russians far from being happy i think the russians are sitting there thinking ok the u.s. . withdrawn militarily but now we have a new battle we have all of this influence that we've fought hard for but how do we maintain it we can't give us at the reconstruction he once we can't necessarily given the political support that he wants because turkey is trying to force opposition members on to this constitutional council to do these asserting elections and moreover now that you have a turkish military presence in northern syria fighting the kurdish forces in order

to prevent the sieves separatist kurdish movement you see know that turkey is also a major player now in syria now what happens if us please on these divisions between russia and iran which is only a marriage of convenience and not really an ideological book the reality of the matter is this when you take a holistic approach when you look at all of the dynamics in syria today there was a drug doesn't really affect us influence us has many cars that it can play so even if people are complaining today and saying it's a disaster the reality is i think the russians will be concerned i think the iranians will be concerned and i think the only happy party will be ever again who will be laughing all the way back to the presidential palace all right sammy hand the your your perspective thanks very much for being with. all right plenty more ahead on this new. reality. legal battle the prevented a yemeni woman from seeing her dying son. and. the

problems facing families in want of. a new deal giving. a u.s. baseball dream. just three days away from a much presidential election in the democratic republic of congo there are serious dance the paul will go ahead. by the electoral commission to discuss possibly. twenty one people for the job let's get the latest from kinshasa. is there. are we hearing there. the president of the electoral commission just finished a meeting with the president. representatives. one of those president.

told us. a. number of different reasons. as well as mentioning. to those. now those. among themselves the representatives to talk about whether or not they will accept. the presidential. bid agreement. waiting to find out from. the election. so how would you gauge the atmosphere there right now with all of the did the campaigning and that election at the moment still set for sunday. this election's already been delayed by

to you as an opposition and their supporters protesting long before that there were violent clashes on here on the streets of contrast that with the police in twenty six days with the end of twenty six and subsequently since in the final rallies of the candidates and that's been happening here in the capital city right now but yesterday the governor of the capital announced that a final campaign rallies would be finding security reasons that one of the maybe opposition candidates must and i only was meant to travel into the city yesterday to meet with his supporters but he supports as well that there waiting by alou was stopped by police in the city until late in the night when in a heavy rain storm after his supporters are gone home he was allowed to proceed so two hours ago we spoke to him to see what he had to say about the banning of is the final rally. asking while they are looking by comparing almost five

days during my campaign where it was the complete loss in the lubumbashi they send soldiers military policeman to shoot people in the kindle manuma promise they didn't allow me to go there in the clinic they killed marya supporters. and i was prevented to fly to other parts of the country to question what governor can look he has not right he has not to computers to log any kind he did for campaigning the election commission's talking about a possible delay to the poll if the poll is delayed why do you think that will happen and how will you react paul cannot be delayed because of mr no longer. the president of the electoral commission has said that he will be here on the twenty three and he told everybody that i will be ready and we asked asking him to have the election on that day if not you have to go he has to go you have to

leave because he's not capable mr nungesser is not responsible you know he has to give a big clue to the credible and transparent election on the due date if not he and mr kabila didn't have to go. so we're still waiting for official confirmation from the electoral commission expecting to happen in that building just about the postponement about how long that will be done away to the reaction of the ticket opposition supporters of which the very many in the capital city campaigning for this election for more than two years already delayed yes and now we're expecting another delay a week with a way to find out what kind of reaction we're going to see. come we know you'll be keeping abreast of all of those developments for us. in kinshasa thanks very much.

one person has been killed in protests against rising food and fuel prices in sudan a state of emergency is play is in place in the cities of what barra and godard if after riots their security forces fired tear gas at hundreds of protests protesters furious at one of the world's highest inflation rates shallop bellus reports was a wave of discontent over rising food prices the sudanese chant people want the government down others echoed the call live the same chance heard in the arab spring revolution seven years ago. it was sudan as a flash point over inflation now at nearly seventy pursuit it's one of the world's highest the state of emergency is being enforced in the city of up after the hit theaters the whole party sits on fire the curfews in force and schools are closed.

a few hundred kilometers south down the river nile protests are replaced by queues and consume a lot of office for a ban most of the living conditions in sudan is deteriorating we have queues everywhere for fuel and an a.t.m. you can't even pull your money out of the bank you can't get your salary everything has become so expensive and we don't know what is happening it feels like there's a ticking bomb and we don't know when it'll explode. sudanese feel the inflation through the price of brit the cost of a loaf has tripled in some areas and they are brit and fuel shortages nationwide in the capital khartoum some queue for hours outside bakeries government leaders announced their twenty nine hundred budget this week including one point four billion dollars of subsidies for fuel and braid but shopkeeper hussein osmonds says people need help now but what they're gonna. situation used to be good in the purchasing power people had was reasonable but conditions are bad now the groups

are expensive and so people are unable to buy them. the sudanese economy has struggled since the succession of south sudan in twenty eleven sudan lost three quarters of its oil output accounting for ninety percent of export revenues it was a crucial source of foreign currency the crisis is deeper into this year after subsidy cuts and the devaluation of the sudanese pound now it's an anxious whites to see the true cost of this crisis chela ballasts al-jazeera. we're joined now to talk more about this since he is abdel wahab fendi a professor of politics at the institute for graduate studies good to speak with you so let me ask you first of all then how did we get to this point in sudan where where did it all go wrong. i think this has been sudan's longer if you die out of spring because. the government has not been listening for quite

a while but in the last few months they have also the economy has just gone downhill in the very bad way. to take people from frying bread into her food and the what's what's driven that just recently is that because of government policy as well or is it because of outside. government policy where i think the president has been completely out of touch i mean just a couple of days ago he went to syria to meet each other i said which was a really bad move. and i think that creates the anger of people there and he also has been voicing ideas about having a relationship with. top of all that people have been able to get cash from cash machines it will have not been able to get bread at good prices and they haven't been able i mean the situation where people are just on explode they have been on explosion point for a while now and i think just. just yesterday and the day before.

the northern town of and also the town of barbara way down from its fire. they just had enough and they went out and they burned. its co-chairs of the ruling party just as happened in egypt in january and and they also took over the government quarters and the army was with them which i think it's quite important it's why if you ask me i think. it's over now for mr bush yeah we certainly certainly got a sense of those very difficult conditions you were talking about there in charlotte report but i know you you have family there tell us tell us about what they're dealing with and what do you think the government needs to do to address this. i think that. they probably need to make really

a radical change i think bashir has to go. about it because. they should be. the military should really stop support for them at the moment they probably already have. they need to have a national government of technocrats which takes over. supported by the army and i think any other attempts to try to. to fudge things will not go i mean may be. here that the prime minister has resigned they're going to bring another when i don't think this kind of measures that have come for the. so what what is worrying to us is if the government digs in and we have a civil war syrian style or a duff style and sudan is also a watch from his arms and many militias around some of them pro-government some of

them anti government you said you said president omar bashir has to go but as long as he has the support of the military that is not likely to happen i don't you know the sports of the military i think what happened to the military have completely so where does he draw his support and. the moment i think he thinks that the military on his part only sides especially in costume but at the moment i can see from reports i mean my daughter has tried to get home from school for the moment. all courtrooms roads. watch with their ministers in towns so that has never happened before and so i don't think if your last. until the end of the day i'll be very surprised it's a very difficult situation all around we appreciate you talking to us about it thanks very much. and. now some good news for turkey weather wise

he is rob yes it seems weeks it has been rather raining or snowing in turkey and this will always be to generate brother walks the black sea or the mediterranean well the positions end a bit like this along the side of the turkey from the east the west is rich cultural land you can grow throughout the winter these are you know reno has a price to see the water a bit more typically snowy the snow you might expect the flooding not so so this is the good news the clouds swirling around and disappearing currently it's still raining here in the southeast corner but more is in lebanon syria and iraq and iran you for another twenty four hours the following day which is sunshine the temperature is not bad at all this is because more action taking place and elsewhere to the north in the west the atlantic influence over europe has generally speaking been weak recently visited who view this is in bavaria germany that much of eastern europe has been freezing cold snow covered in plate not over it's doing

very well actually when it's too weak to bring much rain or snow but it's a hint of what's have to you cover cold grammars snow tends to slowly warm up and then if you push in from behind as what we're doing know what's coming in from the west from the atlantic is quite a nose of rain preceded by snow which will lift him which is a long way and briefly drops of what's known as the. campaigning from behind. jail the opposition leaders are forced to get creative to win votes and i hated clash on the ice back as the paper pittsburgh penguins take all of washington. when the shots came from the holiday and we heard cracks we heard some noise. this was no no sniper alley was on in the most dangerous intersections of saudi arabia.

he didn't come in through the front entrance that was what happened to the people who were shot they came into the wrong and the nightly part of took pics of the funny trying to cameraman said it's get the hell out of sarajevo holiday and war hotels on al-jazeera. they wanted forty three billion dollars worth of weaponry that was six billion in commission. there's no hope of any more because there's always a small cobbles people for really really good business. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera.

you're watching i do see a reminder of our top stories u.s. president donald trump has defended his decision to withdraw american troops. on wednesday took some of his own aides by surprise he made a promise during his election campaign. presidential candidates in the democratic republic of congo talking about whether to accept proposal to delay in the election electoral commission says it's technically unable to hold a vote on sunday as planned. one person has been killed in protests against rising food and fuel prices in sudan a state of emergency is being enforced after riots in the city of karbala and gadara security forces fired tear gas at demonstrators angry at high inflation.

has a new cabinet after weeks of political upheaval ministers were sworn in by president . after the reinstatement of the prime minister he sacked running witnessing it was replaced without parliament's approval provoking a two month long political crisis now for nine days reports. it's been a challenge for the new prime minister had to decide who's in who's out of his new cabinet however we see after compromise and a whole lot of negotiation twenty nine people being sworn in to their positions this morning now strange we hear from inside that. sort of the ceremonial swearing in is the sort of chamber of the presidential secretary building behind me . and old parliament we hear that today swearing in happened on an individual basis . to. office one by one. where.

to the new cabinet we hear that there had been of fair bit of wrangling with president seriously need to agree on the composition of that cabinet to be here to insist that your members of his own sri lanka freedom party the be accommodated in the new cabinet should they cross over and pledge support for on the. now this is obviously not the end of the road even though the entire country is hoping that after the sort of tricks 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 said his priority is to restore normalcy and then move on with development denmark has passed a law that will see foreign criminals move to

a remote on island linda mylan used to be home to animals with just diseases the government will set up a departure center for one hundred twenty five people in twenty twenty one last week thousands of human rights demonstrators marched in copenhagen calling on the government to back down. a yemeni woman is visiting her dying son in the u.s. off the winning an almost two year long legal battle to get a visa to the u.s. travel ban on visitors from mainly muslim countries prevented her from going to california a two year old son is on life support in hospital there with a 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 band visas from yemen

and six other countries seamus whelan 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 dillard 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 shame of a say was clearly eligible for a waiver the use of the shower process and this basically shows that the issuance

of our visa this week was not an act of kindness on their part. that embassy and department of state had a legal obligation to adjudicate shamus waiver requests within a reasonable amount of time and they failed on the application but it is the most bittersweet of reunion the visit took so long that little ability is now one four inches on able to bring in by himself and unlikely to know his mother was there she says i want to go to the house without take my child home now would she have a right she's not going to take his child home we're going to take his child to the grave because he's done when shaimaa received her visa on tuesday only said she wept for the first time in months for joy to his gran of happiness to come see her son and to his status and sandbags she's going to see her son. go away now after waiting two years they wait for the end together john hendren al jazeera

san francisco. the u.s. senate has passed a funding bill to keep the government running for now the temporary wrestler legislation was approved to avoid a complete federal shutdown after a deadlock over president trump's border wall and now need support from the house and approval from the president trying previously refused to sign a spending bill that did not include a five five billion dollars for the wall along the u.s. mexico border. of thousands of central american asylum seekers who wanted to reach the u.s. have had their hopes dashed many are being turned away at the border with some saying they have not been given the legal protections they are entitled to or are that hamid has more from nogales 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 to us. the teacher

piniella 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 deployed 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 when said his american dream lasted just thirty minutes. this also when asked and his two children little close if he misses her mom and hold 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 come she couldn't find the courage to do it and she says you will fall. i don't know if as a father with children is more difficult or not. the door opens again this time we we twenty three years old who stayed mostly in 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 from really right now. and went through the. use of years was very

rebellious. will be to. india and the chapel was back nearly two hundred people turned back here low it doesn't matter whether they went through the illegal border or try to sneak in there all spending the night together and tomorrow some will leave war will come back. but at that hamid al-jazeera nogales an egyptian court has acquitted forty three workers of nongovernmental organizations in a retrial they were accused of illegally receiving foreign funds to spread dissent join the twenty eleven revolution that toppled president hosni mubarak the americans europeans an egyptian were jailed in twenty third team an appeals court overturned sixteen convictions in april and ordered a retrial for the rest of the group. a prison cell in senegal is the unlikely headquarters for an opposition campaign to stop the reelection of the president

nikki saul is accused of eliminating challengers so he can stay in power one of his rivals is the former mayor of the capital jailed for what he says are trumped up charges of corruption. 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 besser we saw and 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 supporting with thought the mek it 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. who want 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 like yourself from.