if you withdraw now based on the ground dishes on the ground iran is a big winner inside syria donald trump insists the us gains nothing by continued presence in syria his big decision is about to be put to the test alan fischer al-jazeera washington thousands of kurds in northern syria are protesting against president trump's planned u.s. troop withdrawal. they want a clear stones from the u.s. led coalition after threats from the turkish president russia typer to want to attack kurdish fighters in the region washington support of syrian defense forces allied with kurdish fighters for the strained relations between washington and ankara. turkey and iran have promised work closely in syria after the us pull out the turkish president or one threatened to strike why p.g. targets in northern syria has this report from ankara. when iran's president began his visit to turkey there was an unexpected

announcement from the white house donald trump ordered u.s. troops stationed in northeast syria to leave. neither haasan were hiding or turkey's president president tayyip erdogan commented on the u.s. president's tweet instead they stressed their cooperation in the so-called astronaut negotiating track talks led by russia. the. worst of it there are many steps that turkey and iran can take together to stop the fighting in the region and to establish peace will deepen our cooperation and consultations with iran on regional issues in this direction sudhir about. syria is very important to us and its destiny is in the hands of the syrian people and syria's territorial integrity should be respected by everyone and we two countries fully agree in that regard we will continue cooperation for regional peace and stability . in iran and turkey don't stand on the same side in syria's war but have been working together in recent days the u.s.

and turkey have worked on improving their strained relationship which some believe was the reason why rowhani made the surprise visit here an isolated iran has always been concerned about keeping turkey close and knowing where its leaders stand. whenever turkey approaches the united states or the units as it approaches to turkey we know that one of the losers of this. of this report will be the iranian state besides turkey there is one contrary in the region which may corporate with iran so for them it's quite. the u.s. decision to leave. syria was seen as a concession to turkey which has been angered by washington's alliance with the syrian kurdish armed group known as the white peachey turkey's president has threatened to cross a border offensive to target y p g fighters inside syria symbolism is the only way

now of mama vision the east of the euphrates in front of us they can dig tunnels if they want they can go on the ground if they want when the time and place they will be buried in the ditches that dug no one should doubt this any turkish military move into syria will likely have to be coordinated with russia they will also have to discuss and decide if the syrian government or the turkish backed syrian rebels will fill the vacuum the u.s. presence in syria was militarily insignificant but it was a deterrent now will the white peachy fight to maintain territory or reengage for damascus to reach some sort of an arrangement to avert military action either by the turkish russian iranian and or syrian army's who controls thirty five percent of syria's territory which is rich in oil and agriculture is in question but the message from serious power brokers iran russia and turkey is that they will hope to find common ground then after their also as iraq and craft. plenty more ahead here

on the news including delayed again the vote to elect a new leader in the d r c a one week. inequality in the spotlight we'll tell you what one asian nation is doing to reduce its yawning wealth gap. and the show they mean business this season the latest from the n.b.a. in the sports news in about thirty s. . the lower house of the u.s. congress has just approved a spending bill which includes more than five billion dollars for donald trump's proposed border wall with mexico no need to get. at least sixty votes in the one hundred member senate passed but it's not yet clear if that will happen a temporary funding bill must be signed by midnight on friday to avoid a government closed down. the u.s. is charged to chinese nationals of involvement in a massive hacking campaign the justice department says the suspects are linked to

the chinese government or hang with more now from washington. at the justice department sweeping allegations against two chinese nationals accused of widespread hacking the victims included companies in banking and finance telecommunications and computer consumer electronics medical equipment packaging manufacturing consulting healthcare biotechnology automotive oil and gas exploration and mining the government says the hackers were able to get into the computers of nasa the energy department and the navy stealing the personal information of one hundred thousand sailors they wouldn't name the companies that were targeted but did say many of the attacks were aimed at managed service providers you've all heard about situations where you see somebody essentially the cyber equivalent of breaking into a house this is more like breaking into and getting the keys from the maintenance supervisor who has keys to hundreds and hundreds of apartments and all the

residents in those apartments according to the indictment that you worked for the chinese government and are believed to still be in china meaning they are unlikely to actually be arrested but this comes at a time of increased tensions between the u.s. and china after the arrest of a chinese tech executive at the request of the u.s. on charges of violating sanctions and the clock ticking on a ninety day window hoped it ending the trade war leading to another bad day on the stock market as the u.s. injects even more tension to the over the front u.s. china relationship. al-jazeera washington. well u.s. relations with china have become increasingly strained in recent months earlier this month canada arrested the chief financial officer of huawei at the request of the united states now she's accused of violating sanctions on iran and is facing extradition to the u.s. the arrest followed a truce in the u.s. china trade dispute that threatened to disrupt the world economy both sides agreed to holds new trade tariffs from ninety days to allow for talks washington is also

growing more and more concerned that china's. belts and road infrastructure plans let's talk now to untangle he's a china political analyst on devices the chinese government on economic can development issues he joins us from beijing on the tank and how dangerous is this latest twist in the saga well quite frankly the allegations are sensational but let us say that they're not proven i mean this is the indictment reads which i've read reads more like something from the state department than you would expect from the department of justice in terms of how this affects the relationship because nothing is going to be proven provable in less they get these two individuals and go through a court trial all is doing is serving to create a greater divide especially in public opinion between the u.s. public and chinese public it's not just the u.s. accusing china however is that there are other countries notably notably rather the

u.k. as well how significant is that for you. well it's not it's not i'm an american citizen so it's not the fact of me directly but i can tell you this donald trump has not had very much. success and uniting his allies against china which is something he feels he needs to do because of his unilateral tariffs against them so i think he's using the fear factor here and trying to ratchet up pressure and leverage against china as they seek to get china to knuckle under and adopt a system which is more open to u.s. interests so i don't know that it's necessarily that significant that people are piling on it's just a question of whether or not they actually believe that this is done remember in cyber crime it's possible to do almost anything including spoofing so if you're the

cia you could literally make it look like somebody was trying to do something and until it's proved and you go into the means and methods and you start saying this is the technology that was stolen and this is how it was used in china it's very difficult these are just allegations unproven at this point what you think the chinese might feel like doing next well it'll be interesting i hopefully it's not a tit for tat thing where they start arresting or holding people in china for these types of allegations remember intellectual property theft is not something that is unique to china it's going on all over the world there are issues with india even within the united states qualcomm intel and apple are out there on a daily basis battling for billions it's just part of the landscape of how technology develops because it's very fast moving it depends on human resources and they move around so this these allegations are very very difficult to prove unless

you have actual materials and that you can show what's happening and that's thanks very much. there's been a revamp of saudi arabia's intelligence services in the aftermath of the murder of jamal khashoggi king solomon had ordered changes after global outrage over the killing of the saudi journalist inside the saudi consulate in istanbul at the beginning of october the u.s. senate last week blamed crown prince mohammed bin salma on the crime it's believed the fifteen man hit squad was put together by officials close to the royal siri the deputy head of the general intelligence and saudi tunney a senior court advisor have since been fired the changes will lead to the creation of three new government agencies to improve intelligence operations will seek to ensure those operations are in line with national security goals international law and human rights commitments while the committee behind the restructuring was

headed by the saudi crown prince himself. more money is professor of political sciences at the university of waterloo she says the restructuring of saudi arabia's intelligence services is likely aimed at deflecting attention away from the crown prince. i think the optics of reform are clear and the message being protected here is that there is checks and balances in the system that there's oversight but frankly it doesn't really address a bigger cloud hanging over the crown prince that he was implicated in ordering this murder of to show she and so frankly the key issue it doesn't go away but i think the cosmetic restructuring is meant to try and deflect attention from those who sort of tried to argue from within the kingdom that this was just a run away agency but again it doesn't address the core argument the idea here is that these three departments are going to be overseen by this committee and the head of this committee is going to be the crown prince it really is just i think

quite. difficult to sort of a genuine effort but more importantly i think much of the saudi establishment really believes that people need to move on that you know this was just one man that was killed and that frankly the world is going to eventually you know focus on another great news item and eventually forget about the murder of her show she and slowly but slowly people normalising haven't been so monica. sunday's presidential and parliamentary elections in the d.r. see have been delayed by one week voting will now take place on december thirtieth the electoral commission says violence and logistical this use force to postponement catherine sawyer now reports from the capital kinshasa. it's been a long and difficult day for the democratic republic of congo's independent national electoral commission send election officials have been preparing for a march and to see pated presidential and parliamentary pool that has been delayed for two years now on sunday voters want to cast their ballots using new back

controversial electronic voting machines for the first time in the country we have . election for seven days. and election is going to take place on the tenth year of december this year. this was. due. to. technical. religious doom can just. it's a logistical nightmare millions of ballot papers are yet to arrive in the country the last batch on the gets to kinshasa on saturday the president of the electoral commission has said that the delay is mainly because of a crisis in kinshasa after a warehouse where the city's voting machines will stored was barnes down security and i need outbreak in the east i've also been mention of some people are angry

about this position. blame all pain and suffering on president kabila and the same the president we are ready to be killed for our country this man who outside the commission's office is saying. said his executive board had held him audience your meetings with presidential candidates the catholic church and government officials to explain why it's impossible to go to the polls on sunday three main candidates a man will show diary of the ruling party. leader of the country's largest opposition party as well as mohsin for you the condit of a quality called did not show up we are telling him he has to but he has to be told if he and the mr they have to be removed from the actual position because the people of poland are fed up that they cannot have any excuse or to force for the election or show we're going to put the nod to this

because this is kind of you know. of a way of you know all of the respecting people. on wednesday the governor of conciousness suspended all political rallies in the city for security reasons this campaign period has been chaotic and violent delaying the election only adds the tension and sat in thousand the country catching saudi al-jazeera kinshasa still to come here on al-jazeera the law has been broken and we will do everything within our power to find those responsible travel chaos as rogue drones forced mass cancellations of one of europe's busiest airports. find out why most polling booths were empty during togas parliamentary elections. and leaving the olympic horses the last time a five time gold medalist retires in just twenty three lear has that story in the sports news in about fifteen minutes.

radicalism is on the rise across the globe and we're told it's everywhere asked we're told was supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything but og government policies aimed at tackling radicalization in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society the impact is huge typing on them and there's only so much they can try before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization of the radicalized youth syrians an al-jazeera and hundred fourteen on the. us and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the

syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the your. colleague muslim which is saying has now been held in pretrial detention for two years what is his crime. why hasn't he been tried yet why hasn't justice been applied in this case is he detained because he's a journalist as journalism become a crime have moles become a tool to silence weiss's of drugs we will continue our news coverage with professionalism and impartiality our work will remain credible and accurate but journalism is not a crime incarcerating journalists is not acceptable we demand the immediate release of our colleague mahmoud to say and all journalists detained in a gyptian jails free mahmoud's and all his colleagues we stand for press freedom.

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welcome back you're with al-jazeera i'm peter dobby with the news hour today your headlines the u.s. defense secretary james mattis has resigned will leave his job at the end of february he said he is stepping down so president trump a defense chief with views more closely aligned to his own it comes a day after trump announced he was withdrawing u.s. forces from syria. the u.s. has charged two chinese nationals of involvement in a massive hacking campaign it says they targeted at least forty five u.s. organizations including the u.s. navy and nasa the pair are also accused of targeting dozens of other companies and at least twelve countries. saudi arabia's revamping its intelligence agency after global outrage over the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. ordered the creation of three new government agencies to improve intelligence operations is being spearheaded by the crown prince mohammed bin sama. let's get more on our top

story the resignation of james mattis mike hanna has just filed this report from washington. like it says here is the real deal is the real deal thank you president trump initially surrounded himself with generals james mattis the secretary of defense michael flynn as national security adviser followed by another general h.r. mcmaster and of course john kelly who was moved from homeland security to take over as chief of staff all are now gone or going mattison particular seen as a central figure in keeping a largely dysfunctional white house party functional secretary mabus was one of the few symbols the few items of strength and stability in this administration everything that indicates stability everything that indicates strength everything that indicates knowledge. is leaving this administration when president trump criticize nato and threaten to leave it matters was the one reassuring allies

behind the scenes he helped push the president to moderate his position on the g.c.c. crisis. and he was able to get the president to make an open ended commitment in afghanistan while loosening restrictions on u.s. troops fighting there. and when trump tweeted out that he was banning transgender service members matters slow rolled the order until courts put it on hold the president's disenchantment was inevitably made public i think is sort of a democrat if you want to know the truth it would appear the final straw for james mattis was what many believe was a unilateral executive decision to withdraw u.s. forces from syria the secretary's resignation letter coming less than twenty four hours later making clear the core difference in his belief in multilateralism and respect for allies and the president's lack of either the letter continues because you have the right to have a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other

subjects i believe it's right for me to step down from my position this departures different from the many that have gone before highlighting like no other the maverick nature of a president that critics insist increasingly spurn said vice even on the eve of a possible partial shutdown of government one that announces the resignation of a respected if not revered man who served his nation for decades in a tweet. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. and the trumpet ministration has announced that migrants seeking asylum along the southwest border will no longer be released into the u.s. while their cases play out now that change means they'll be forced to wait in mexico while the asylum requests are being processed the mexican foreign ministry has agreed to accept them but says it still has the rights to night entry to non mexicans human rights groups have condemned the decision john coleman has more now from mexico city. this is really quite a big change in quite

a big win also for president trump and the u.s. administration this is what happens now a lot of people from central american countries like honduras and guatemala el salvador eva fleeing violence or poverty cross mexico and then cross over the mexico u.s. border illegally into the united states once they're in the u.s. they then asked the first floor and offer. an order and officer that they can find poor asylum in the united states now while that case is being processed they are even in detention centers all living in the united states they stay in the country that process can take months or even years because the u.s. court system is so backed up with those cases now that's obviously not a good look for a hardline anti migration of ministration you've got thousands of people living in the country while they wait for their case to be processed so that now is going to

change next coke has accepted that while those cases being processed processed those people can be brought back across and even though they're not from mexico they can be placed in mexico now what difficulties is that going to make and what problems well the mexico u.s. border area especially on the mexican side of the obviously has a lot of problems with violence with cartels and with gangs and they've already for years been praying all migrants now dumping a lot of those people on the mexican side of the border is only going to give them fresh opportunities for people to even extort or even as we've heard of cases in which people are pressed into service for organized crime that's one of the problems another one is the mexico obviously isn't a wealthy country in comparison to the united states it also hasn't really put a lot of resume says into its mechanisms and its agency to deal with refugees into

situations like this so the new administration under president lopez obrador is going to really have to address that up mexico's going to deal with this vulnerable and often penniless new population. the u.k. second biggest airport has been brought to a standstill after the appearance of two drones forced the cancellation of all flights british troops have been sent to get to work airport south of london as the police continue to hunt for the operator of the two drones the devices reappeared close to the field every time the airport authorities try to reopen the runway more than one hundred thousand passengers have been stranded seven hundred fifty flights disrupted. was sitting on the line nearly six hours and they tell as we can no fly zone is possible but they counsel they offer that they said to us you have to get out from their ip and we get our older families some of them they've gone back to london's and we stay here as we slip underflow i have never seen any airport

anywhere in the world affected by drones in this way eighteen months ago gatwick had a little bit of a scare when idiots who were drinking too close to forty minutes five flights diversity this is several orders of magnitude worse than that whoever is behind this has very carefully and deliberately targeted the world's busiest single runway airport at a time when everything is under maximum strait british transport ministers say everything possible is being done to deal with the backlog of stranded passengers were in regular conversation with the on lines i would look at all measures we counted ease the pressure on us and just kept people away one things were going to be doing is temporarily i'm just temporarily lifting the night flight restrictions in other airports some more planes could get into the country approaches the residents affected by this right and proper transport people christmas is out. look faux is the founder and c.e.o.

of white folks that's the drone security company he joins us now from san luis obispo in california but folks welcome to al-jazeera does the technology exist out there to block these particular drones that because these two drones that we're talking about disabling gatwick airport the world's busiest single runway airport i mean how can you disable a drone and not disable an aircraft yeah that's a great question so one of the big questions is how do you stop a drone and there's ways that people used to shoot things at them which creates more damage people use jammers which disrupts all of the communications in the area but there are technologies out there that allows you to be able to surgically choose which drone is an authorized and remove it from the air space and these drones apparently are so big and so sophisticated the people of the persons controlling them could be doing it five or six miles away yes absolutely but you can also in those drones are readily consumer consumer friendly and really any

consumer can purchase a drone that can fly through multiple miles away is there any coherent pan-european worldwide system that's in existence at the moment or is it all piecemeal. yes currently the approach to this has been very piecemeal there's a lot of great organizations around the world that are trying to figure out how do you save we manage drones because ultimately when you safely manage drones you can integrate them into society and we can see all of the good uses that they can be used for rather than in this case where somebody using it for malicious purposes ok let's go with that idea of using these drones for malicious purposes because that's clearly what's going on right now i guess with port difficult enough to police somebody or a group of people who want to do something but when it's in two dimensions are you when the movement right left north and they're on the ground but when they're controlling something that's moving around in three dimensions how do you do that.

sure so there's there's technology like white boxes technology for example lousy to be able to detect a drone as it's flying into the airspace as soon as it turned it's turned on so then you're able to bin gather the next necessary information to then not just focus on the drone because the drone is a threat but we way you want to do is you want to focus on the person that's flying it who's behind it and what's their intent is for example we've installed systems near airports where the airport has had problems and a lot of the drones are flying or their airports are terrorists they're just neighborhood kids but they don't realize is that by flying near that airport and ultimately can disrupt that airport and cause them to have to shut down even without crashing into an airplane which is really very unlikely situation it disrupts the whole airport which causes a ripple effect of economic damage as we've seen here with folks in california thank you very much thank you very much. most polling stations into the capitol were empty joining a parliamentary election calls for boycott by the opposition and religious leaders

it's estimated that only about eight percent of eligible voters showed up his poll to judge him. after weeks of deadly anti-government protests in togo election day in the tiny west african country was calm under heavy military presence. we're in much of everything is quiet but the atmosphere is not comforting opposition parties called for a boycott after their demands through regional mediators were not met they were convinced the vote was rigged by the ruling union for the republic party it's expected the ruling republicans will hold on to their parliamentary majority. some of said we should not vote because of a lack of political understanding. the opposition has been demanding an overhaul of how elections are conducted they also want transparency and constitutional reforms to place presidential term limits with puppets he shouted

you know but with this issue i am not voting choosing to not vote is also a choice i just follow the instructions given by opposition leaders. hundreds of thousands of protesters have been calling for the resignation of their president for nursing day house rules since his father died in two thousand and five the senior narcing bay was a military general who took power in one thousand sixty seven through a coup. because they are perpetrating violence and abusing human rights. amnesty international says togo continues to arrest and detain people arbitrarily torturing and killing citizens and now togo returns to business as usual one of the world's poorest countries with half of the seven million told willy's living on less than a dollar twenty five a day according to the world food program freedom house says togo has no freedom

and adding insult to injury total ranks near syria and yemen as one of the unhappiest places on earth paul chatterjee on al-jazeera. a judge. requested a. hollywood producer harvey weinstein the sixty six year olds who alleged. to movement. lawyers tried to get the case thrown out. the police in appropriately investigation a pretrial hearing has been shut. still ahead. with.