this will not be a rapid pullout it will be a slow pullout and it will be highly coordinated with turkey clearly a new relationship between these two nato allies late yesterday it was announced that a u.s. military delegation is expected in ankara this week for further talks and now you mentioned the turkish foreign minister statements he's saying that the united states has promised that they're going to take back the weapons that they have provided to the syrian armed kurdish groups the y.p. g supplying the why p.j. really has been a source of tension between these two nato allies so confirmation from turkey that those weapons will be taken back also turkey saying that the member roadmap will be implemented their relationship really was strained because of the delays in that deals implementation what does that call for it calls for the white p.g. to leave the city and for the city to be handed over to what turkey calls its rightful owners now this is going to raise

a lot of questions because what will russia's position be or what will be the syrian government's position because what is becoming clear is that the united states plans to hand over territories to turkey or at least to its local allies in syria and we also have interesting the the the turkish foreign minister is heading to moscow presumably then to console a days if you like the plans that seem to be well underway the disagreements he's been well established with the united states. and maybe to allay concerns as well because russia and turkey have been working closely over the past few years in syria they're both members of the so-called asked in a process with iran and the moment between turkey and the united states will undoubtedly concern russia because russia has always tried to keep turkey away from the united states russia of course worries when they see these two nato countries

working together and we heard you know we've been speaking to russian diplomats and they're not talking about cease fire deal that cease fire deal between turkey and russia prevented the syrian government offensive something that turkey did not want to happen because it didn't want to destabilize its security and create a massive refugee crisis so now as if that deal is in question last night we heard the turkish presidential spokesman say that turkish troops are going to stay in but he also said we're going to cooperate with russia in the east of euphrates so there's going to be a lot of negotiations it's going to be very difficult to see how all these powers are going to mentation their alliances really as they vie over thirty percent of syria's territory strategic territory i may out. there live. in the town of thank you. still to come here it's al jazeera more fallout on the global markets as a u.s. seeks to stem losses on wall street. and that is in the democratic republic of

congo get ready for an election that's being delayed fagin. hello again i welcome back we're here in the pacific we are watching a tropical system that is developing you can see here on the satellite image the clouds right there it's making its way towards the philippines right now a tropical depression but as we go from wednesday to thursday we think it's going to develop into a tropical storm now thursday clouds are going to be on the increase for much of the central philippines maybe some winds as well it's going to be thursday or friday that we actually start to see the rain come into play will keep you informed on that as we get to the end of the week well here across much of australia all the weather systems down here towards the south we're dealing with a lot of high pressure here across much of australia and now here towards ethe that's causing a big problems particularly over here towards sydney where here on wednesday we are

going to be seeing bad air quality alert day because the ozone levels are going to be so high temps wise at twenty degrees brisbane at twenty nine degrees we think by the time we get to thursday things get a little bit better but temperatures are on the rise as well we're going to sing city at about thirty degrees a very warm day here from melbourne at thirty five in adelaide thirty seven degrees few there across new zealand looking quite nice for the north and the south island over the next few days auckland at twenty one partly cloudy conditions on wednesday as we go towards thursday a little bit warmer a few there and christ church seeing a partly cloudy day with a temperature of eighty. after joining the greenpeace campaigning to protect the weddell sea in antarctica we're now in australia for the outcome with the first generation to realize the gravity of this crisis. but we may be the last to be able to do something about

it enough special find out if the effort to create the largest sentry on earth has succeeded thrice on al jazeera. time this is a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera at least three people have been killed after a suicide attack in the libyan capital police say the attack targeted the foreign ministry in tripoli as according to security officials in libya. the number killed by sassa this tsunami in indonesia has now climbed to four hundred twenty nine with one hundred fifty four people still missing to wrenshaw rain in

western java is hampering the search for survivors and the experts fear more tidal waves if the ana krakatoa volcano erupts again. turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. has agreed to a plan to arm kurdish fighters in syria and shift control of the town of man bridge to turkey the u.s. had previously supported the kurdish wife in their fight against isis. that japan's main stock market the nikkei has fallen five percent japanese investors reacted to wall street closing on christmas eve at a record. shareholders of worried by donald trump's criticism of the federal reserve along with the u.s. government shutdown and the trade tensions with china but the president isn't taking any of the blame gabrielle elizondo reports from new york. the closing bell

couldn't ring fast enough on monday market selloff continued with the dow losing more than six hundred points and nearly three percent the worst christmas eve drop ever by far it continues to decline that's been going on for more than a month. until monday the worst drop on the day before christmas was one thousand nine hundred eighty five when it dropped half a percentage point markets hate uncertainty but now when wall street looks to washington there getting that plus unpredictability here is what has the markets worried a partial government shutdown that some are predicting could last into two thousand one thousand threats of increased terrorists back and forth between china and the u.s. trump has been looking to put the blame on the falling markets on the federal reserve and its chairman jerome powell who trump has threatened to replace even though he himself up pointed him and doesn't have the authority to fire him to unilaterally look at threats leaving wall street on edge i'm

a little worried quite honestly i am behind here because of the valuation i think we're getting pretty cheve although i feel no bottom in the market and i do think that the fed is made them contentious and serious. blunders and i feel like mr powell is going to get fired amidst the downturn monday trump showed no signs of backing down tweeting in part the only problem our economy has is the fed they don't have a feel for the market they don't understand unnecessary trade wars or strong dollars or even democrat shutdowns over borders recently powell tried to put a good face on the market volatility this is the best year since the financial crisis you have growth well above trend monday's sell off was also a fallout from treasury secretary steve minutiae as phone calls over the weekend to executives of america's top banks which was meant to assure them that the federal

government was on solid footing but the unusual call only spooked the markets even more leaving many to wonder if there was something fundamentally wrong with the economy they weren't sharing the only good news on wall street perhaps. this is that the market slide will stop at least on tuesday because that's when the stock exchange is closed for the christmas holiday but when it reopens again on wednesday all bets are off likely more worries of what's to come next gabriel's on the al-jazeera new york. thousands of asylum seekers living in tents on one of greece's a.g.n. islands are enduring another winter without running water that's because there's no space at the official camp that's supposed to house them and as john psaropoulos reports from sam they'll continue waiting in the cold until the government builds somewhere for them to live. when abdullah part and his family from afghanistan

arrived on some us a few weeks ago they were given blankets and sleeping bags but nowhere to live because there's no space and the government run camp together with a friend they made this tent for their wives and ten children but there isn't enough room for them all they can invade or i sleep outside the tent and in my children my wife kept a tent one night i sleep on the ground one night on a chair one night i asked my friends if i may sleep with them one night i sleep outside the camp a town on one night i sleep in a mosque the former interpreter for u.s. forces in afghanistan says all the children are sick this blue tarp all in isn't waterproof so on days like this the rain drops through in a high wind many tents are pulled apart and heavy rains can cause them to slide off their base of wooden pallets into the mud almost three thousand asylum seekers live in similar conditions in an olive grove beside the camp those who have the money by turns to put under the top all in the lucky ones have camping stove but an open

flame is a fire hazard some light wood fires and burned plastic food containers and egyptian asylum seeker trying to stay warm died of carbon monoxide poisoning last year on lesbos his family is suing the greek government for failing to provide housing government handouts can be difficult to get many spend hours queuing for food. or to go early in the morning to wait for breakfast food service begins at eight and i can get food at nine i give the food to my family and then rejoin the queue for lunch i wait there for three hours and then i wait another four or five hours for dinner starting at four o'clock i spend all my day in the queue for food for my wife and eight children. this company was built for six hundred fifty and already houses twice that many a few new arrivals still build their own accommodation on vacant spots inside the camp these men say they found the timber in town because. of the movie the truth is

the situation is not the best given that asylum procedures take this long the good news is that the government is looking for a new space where we hope conditions will be better this camp used to be an army artillery range it was hastily chosen and built in twenty sixteen to all of the e.u. turkey agreement the army was the only institution that could get the job done in short order until now has fiercely resisted the official camps expansion the government now seems to have overcome that obstacle and plans a new camp next year that will be twice as large as this these asylum seekers have a whole winter to survive first jump start on. some us the head of the united nations scene sent to yemen to monitor a cease fire and who data has been to the key port patrick came out called on the saudi backed government forces as well as the rebels to respect the peace deal which began last tuesday there has been sporadic fighting in the area in recent

days with each side blaming the other for violating the cease fire but it's hoped that more aid will now be able to pass through the day to support to help the desperate humanitarian situation. israel's government has called elections there april that seven months earlier than expected the announcement follows a deadlock over a controversial military conscription bill if prime minister benjamin netanyahu is returned to office he would be on course to becoming israel's longest serving leader mr netanyahu says his coalition unanimously agreed to disband the government . hand carved wooden manges and statues made in bethlehem a source after around the world but the centuries old trade is under threat because the christian population is dwindling in the israeli occupied holy land but as the treasurer get a report from bethlehem that's creating an opportunity the palestinian.

enter the christmas house workshop and the smell transports you to the all of tree groves rooted in the holy land for millennia jacques chirac amman is a fourth generation woodcarver his creations range from this nativities seen on route to a church in france to tiny statues of jesus and mary displayed in people's homes across the globe you know really a dollar free of the holy land if we are talking about a tree that grow in the holy land walk and the three grown up for twenty two hundred years three hundred years the demand for all of wood carver crafts is high but business owners say it's become more difficult to find workers that's partially due to the decline in the christian population in the holy land experts say one hundred years ago christians comprise seventeen percent of the palestinian population today it's less than two percent this is important to have

a christian community living stalls and what we call them you know people living around the holiday says father jamal hodder says the struggle of living under israeli occupation continues to push christians to emigrate we see our mission here as a service of the whole community and that the same time preparing the way for a better future a future based on justice peace and reconciliation the ongoing exodus of christians from the holy land means jochum an is hiring muslim craftsman including anon for. we in the city of bethlehem live together. we don't differentiate between religions this profession brings us together when jimmy. predicts difficult times ahead for the wood carvers he says the supply of all of wood is dwindling due to the demolition of palestinian groves the restrictions as. place on land and the

fact younger people are abandoning farming are we have to go to the next generation how and when and how and where they will get the wood maybe they have to import from from other countries one of his daughters has expressed an interest in becoming the fifth generation of the family to carry on the trade but it'll be more than a decade before she's old enough and it's difficult to predict whether by then the political situation will prompt her to leave her homeland or how this ancient tradition might have changed natasha going to. bethlehem now faces in the democratic republic of congo to head to the polls in five days time to choose then but many of them confident that the election will be free and fair off to so many delays over the past two years catherine sorry from the capital kinshasa electoral commission technicians in kinshasa a dealing with

a crisis they have to make sure thousands of electronic voting machines are called from other regions and four million new ballot papers will walk on for the material to replace those that are to have been destroyed by fire in a warehouse keeping dipali in the city and leading to a postponement of the election. you have four million voters here that did some speeches so. we know organizing them deceived into working hard to make sure. the. send your fishel say out of will to materials already in regional headquarters across the country this analyst believes getting them to polling stations during the rainy season in a country with bad infrastructure poor security in parts as well as an outbreak in the east will not be easy. in terms of just x.

nobody is able to give. on the temple so credibility of the process is very very low robot come back hella trains local observers that are to be deployed to the provinces he's already visited many parts of the country as it electoral process to this point has been a sham i don't. it is that there has never really been a concert use of the machine. so he has been unable to publish their map of war the polling stations in the absence of that detail so you might have station but don't exist on their machine meant for those used to manipulate the outcome these are difficult and uncertain times in congo people here in the capital gain not to trust the commission they say they are afraid the election could be postponed again and even if it goes ahead on sunday they're not confident it will be credible we don't trust the process but we must go vote one week is nothing but on election day we

will take responsibility we either have a good election they resign or we force them to leave not of the only thing we expect to receive commission of president kabila so we find another solution and i think the electoral commission is just a puppet of the president and he is the real problem the commission is under pressure to deliver a reasonably credible election on sunday with just a few days to go many congolese and not so sure catherine song al jazeera kinshasa . let's have a look at the top stories here of. torrential rain in india these areas hampering the search for survivors of saturday's tsunami the number killed in western java has climbed to four hundred twenty nine but one hundred fifty four missing. more tsunamis a possible if the. volcano erupts again. three people have been killed in

a suicide attack in the libyan capital police say the attack in tripoli targeted the foreign ministry building. and turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. has agreed to a plan to disarm kurdish rebels and have the have them give up control of the town or. the u.s. had previously supported the kurdish group in their fight against i saw sudan's president has responded to demands from protesters vowing what he calls real reforms to improve living standards civil society groups are calling for a mass rally in the capital khartoum today a bit more than has the latest from khartoum. it's obvious now at this point at the protests it's more about the fact that the government is still in power then as well as opposed to what it started with which was about the economy where people were complaining about the fact that they don't have they couldn't afford bread they couldn't afford fuel they couldn't even afford to get their own cash out of

a.t.m. machines and from banks this is going to be today is going to be the seventh day of protests something president bush has never had to deal with throughout his nearly thirty years of rule over sudan japan's main stock market the nikkei has fallen five percent japanese investors reacting to wall street closing on christmas eve at a record low shareholders are worried by donald trump's criticism of the federal reserve along with the u.s. government shutdown and trade tensions with china israel's government has called elections for april seven months earlier than expected the announcement follows a deadlock over a controversial military conscription bill are i'd have today those are the very latest headlines from there do stay with us because coming up next. the marshall islands holds a toxic legacy from years of u.s. military nuclear testing. as the sea levels rise when one used investigates the

threat this followed poses on al-jazeera. ah i'm. in antarctica the site of an extraordinary bid to create the largest protected area on a. for this special episode of a thrice we're going on board the greenpeace icebreaker optic sunrise following one of the biggest campaigns in.