it will not withdraw its forces until eisel is cleared out in syria our correspondent mohammed is following the story from gaziantep in southern turkey. the u.s. forces are mocked by logging any information about specific timeline smoove months and locations for where their troops are pulling out from for what they say is a professional security but the fact that they are have started withdrawing from syria will come as a relief to turkey last week a john bolton the national security adviser had said that the us forces would not leave until i still is cleared out of syria and also until turkey give a guarantee that it will not attack the kurdish y p d fighters that it recognizes as a terrorist organization of course the y.p. de the american schools you know them to be allies there for them themselves to be instrumental in the fight against eisel but sakhi is having none of that and

president. al gore had said that that was a very hard to swallow message and they will continue with their preparations for an office and against the city of mum beach to remove falsely call terrorist elements like the y. p.g. and pre-k. k. of course turkey is also very eager to feel what i'm avoiding that is left by the withdrawal of u.s. troops that have called for assistance from the us including logistical and air support which might swell some continued role for the united states even after their forces withdraw from syria for the year six years take my pompei arizona nine nation tour of america's middle east allies his public remarks are focused on iran which washington sees as the main threat in the region but as our state department correspondent roslyn jordan reports a big part of his trip has been to reassure u.s.

allies of the planned troop withdrawal in syria. one thing is clear the u.s. military may be ending its direct mission in syria but it's not going to stop the fight against eisel on thursday the secretary of state mike pompei o said that u.s. aircraft would be prepared to target and to kill eisel fighters if they try to retake any territory either in syria or in iraq meantime the pentagon is confirming that some equipment that the u.s. military had been relying on while deployed in syria is now being moved out of the country but for security reasons they are not saying how quickly this some two thousand u.s. troops in syria are going to be leaving where they will be based after they leave syria or how long the drawdown is going to take one thing is certain the u.s. is taking great pains right now to try to remind its allies that it's not

abandoning them in terms of security cooperation there is also still the ongoing problem of the u.s. his departure and the status of kurdish fighters in syria there is a very real concern that turkey may go in not to go after a group such as eisel but to try to get rid of the kurdish fighters who belong to the wife p.g. because turkey considers them an affiliate of the p.k. k. which both turkey and the us say is a terrorist group the u.s. has said and both the national security adviser john bolton and on peo have made great pains to stress this point on friday that they do not want anything to happen to the kurdish fighters negotiations with trying to protect kurdish fighters from what could be some sort of turkish military assault are still underway. we've got

lots more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including how will it affect the rights of brits to go to europe and vice versa we look at one of the main issues of the brits it debate. canada grant asylum to a saudi teenager who says she's renounce islam and is afraid of her family. and her smashing efforts from the socceroos peter will have the gold flicks it's boosting the hopes of the reigning champions at the asian cup. of the u.s. president has backed off from his threat to declare a national emergency to fund his controversial boulder walls during a meeting on border security donald trump told reporters he wants congress to do its job and to approve the more than five billion dollars for the wall he called on the democrats many of whom have now left washington for the weekend to come back and vote a standoff over funding for the war has led to

a partial government shutdown which will become the longest in u.s. history on saturday that's today. it's not quite saturday for you yet in washington d.c. but the president seems to be slightly reluctant then all certainly not rushing into the decision to trigger emergency powers to fund the war. that's right because some of his closest advisers martin including his son in law of jericho have been cautioning the president that declaring a national emergency to get funding for his border wall would set a bad precedent and critics would accuse him of taking a step toward authoritarianism now if he were to still make this declaration which he hasn't completely ruled out it's unclear exactly where this money would come from he's asking for more than five billion dollars to build this border wall and reports now indicate that the white house is asking emergency relief groups from

funded by the government to find where those funds may come from so the idea of taking money away from possible disaster relief in the future may not be a very popular one with the american public has also indicated that he would expect an immediate court challenge to a national emergency declaration and he said himself that he would likely lose that challenge specially in the lower courts and in the appellate level so given all that though he has wavered in the last days and even the last few hours about whether or not to call this national emergency and he said to reporters today at the white house that if congress is not able to come to term agreement to fund his border wall that he still will declare this national emergency here's more of what he said. i'd rather not do it because this is something that congress should easily

to this is something that the democrats should do and i want to give an easy way out of something as simple as this not only simple it's easy and it's going to secure our you know we have a country that is under siege you could actually you know a lot of people don't like the word invasion we have a country that's being invaded by criminals and by drugs and we're going to stop it so i want the democrats to come back to washington and vote. ok he seems to have batted the ball firmly back into the court of congress particularly the lower house where all the democrats that they will go away for the weekend what is their position on the situation now. well the democrats have left the congressional building for the weekend along with the republicans which is important to remind people because both chambers of congress have adjourned for the

weekend and republicans still control the senate now the the problem is that none of the parties involved in these negotiations really has a reason to relent on their positions donald trump had campaigned on building this border wall and he many are seeing are viewing this fulfillment of the promise as a necessity in order to win and reelection in two thousand and twenty democrats themselves have no reason to relent on not giving him the border wall because they feel they have the moral authority and because polling indicates that the majority of americans do oppose building a border wall and that leaves us with the republicans who are still firmly in the president's corner given his popularity with the republican voting base so where does that leave the country is that there's very little room or reason for those groups to come to a consensus today though before adjourning congress there was a little bit of hope both chambers passed

a bill that would eventually give these federal workers their back pay once the government reopens and donald trump a said he will sign that into law but when will this reopen when will they get their back pay that is still an open question mark twain. love you moshing to thank you. that's acknowledged he used. his being touted as a possible solution to america's border security and the virtual border wall creates a security perimeter that tracks physical activity by stand nice and reports breaches to the authorities the system is preaching to this year's consumer electronics show in las vegas reynolds was that. the screen i'm standing in front of could someday be an alternative to a physical barrier at the us mexico border it's made by the company quander g.e. and basically it uses laser technology that's the laser device there to

identify and track any people who are entering through a certain perimeter so in this display each one of these green trying goals or diamond shapes are an actual person who is moving through the exhibit area here now in practical application our border this could allow officials from law enforcement to track individuals crossing the border and while each individual unit can only monitor an area of about two hundred meters on a ray of them could go a long way and in fact. a bigger or a stretching the entire length of the u.s. border from the gulf of mexico to the pacific ocean according to the company quantity would cost only about one point five to two billion dollars considerably less than the physical border that's being discussed in washington and this would work night and day according to the company and be able to determine or distinguish

rather between human beings and animals that are out there in the desert so it's possible someday that this could be an alternative in the company has been in touch in talks with politicians in washington and federal officials to may. that someday reality saying in the u.s. in the representative tulsi gabbard of hawaii has become the latest member of the democratic party to say that she'll run for the present presidency in twenty twenty she told media that she will make a formal amounts announcement about her intention to run within the next week an iraq war veteran says the issue of war and peace will be the main focus of her campaign the thirty seven year old is the first hindu and the first samoan american elected to the u.s. congress the british foreign secretary jeremy hunt says the nation may have to stay

in the european union if parliament rejects prime minister to resume a direct sit deal friday marked the third day of the formal debate ahead of a vote which is shuttled for to say the deal agreed with the e.u. has been criticised by m.p.'s across the spectrum and look some likely to pass we can no longer assume by rejecting this deal that will be a better shade of brown sit and what is more likely if this deal is rejected is that we have the risk of bricks at paralysis and. when that happens no one knows what might happen and the big risk more people worry about is that we don't touch it deliver what people voted for european union commission president john claude younker says a new deal breck's it would be a catastrophe and that is in constant contact with the u.k. to try to prevent that from happening one of the biggest issues in the brics it debate has been immigration the government's already indicated it wants to reduce

european immigration by around eighty percent when it leaves the bloc lawrence the reports from london. remember this it was one of the reasons leave one in the backseat referendum take back all the money the u.k. gives to the european union and spend it on the british health service instead it proved a very powerful message but how to square that with alice sandra's story by the time he'd left italy for london he had a master's degree and four years specialist experience in mental health this is starting salary in britain was around twenty five thousand dollars a year under the government's new proposals he would never have been allowed into the u.k. because that salary would be too low for him to get a work permit to brick says i know who is going to pay for the visa for working visa in the future for obviously a lot of people decide to don't apply. mainlining in this period of the thirty nine on the net or three years very early on they they will sign up

before for example in the u.k. rather than. ten thousand and. two year struggle as it stands there are one hundred thousand unfilled roles in the british oil service and dire warnings about the looming crisis as european nationals leave the country the royal college of nursing is so worried it has joined the campaign for a second referendum calling for a rethink about leaving the us all there's something quite challenging about thinking that highly skilled always means highly and what we need to do is really think in the public sector what is the value that people bring in the eyes a minute. it's often in terms of the skills that i have so i think we need to think differently what's happening in the health service reflects a bigger question is immigration really the problem it's a safe sees there are two entirely conflicting narratives at play in the u.k. at the moment the government's arguing that there is far too much european migrant

labor and is taking away jobs from british people but at the same time the government congratulates hisself. having read called low unemployment's it does rather raise the question if the government does what it says it wants to and reduce european immigration by eighty percent but who exactly is going to do all the work there is an argument in cabinet between people who really care far more about restricting immigration than about the u.k. economy led by the prime minister and the rest of the capital and of course the business community who want to make preserving the interest of the u.k. economy a priority and that fight just hasn't been resolved like having argued that the u.k. was at breaking points because of uncontrolled immigration politicians are now presented with a chance of reducing is enormously if that happens the country will find out what the migrants are such a problem to rule lawrence li al jazeera london still to come here on the al-jazeera news hour south africa's ruling african national congress prepares for

elections as its popularity appears to be on the wane. paying to pray should muslims in germany join jews and catholics in paying the so-called worship tax and in the spotlight japan's olympics policy is linked to a corruption investigation he said will have the details in sport. from the clear blue sky of the tow home. to the fresh autumn breeze in the city of. welcome back we are cross china we are looking at better weather than what we had seen earlier in the week where we had seen a lot of rain in even some snow up towards the north or you are going to see over the next few days though is basically clear conditions down along the coast for hong kong you can be seeing about twenty five degrees for joe not a bad day for you as well at twenty but it is going to be in the single digits anywhere up towards shanghai as we go towards sunday though we are going to see

more clouds in the forecast there a possible shower for sure. with a temperature of eleven degrees well that's a make or way down here toward south asia we're going to be still quite wet down here toward the south really not looking too bad up here towards the north we may sing a passing show over here towards the men attempt a few of about thirty four degrees and very humid well up towards manila though it's going to stay dry mostly cloudy conditions where the temps are there thirty staying that way as we go through sunday as well and then here across parts of india not looking too bad across the central regions we do have some clouds across the north that could also bring some snow to the higher elevations but down here toward the south it has been rainy across parts of sri lanka and that will continue unfortunately as we go through the weekend colombo's going to be seeing a temperature of about thirty degrees then as we go up here towards nagpur how the high twenty's for you at twenty nine degrees in kolkata not a bad day with a temperature of about twenty six. the weather sponsored by cattle and race.

you know that corruption has reached a level like nothing ever before in our country. rank outsider. to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will moderate the american people with the truth and nothing else discovered. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera and monday put it on. 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 riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries have been truly unable to escape the earth.

traverse the taking of the top stories here in the algerian news out the man declared the runner up in the democratic republic of congo presidential election takes his challenge to the country's top court later on saturday. u.s. secretary of state mike home payer is on his eight day tour of the middle east he says the u.s. will continue to support its allies in the fight against eisel despite its military withdrawal from syria. president donald trump has backed away from his threat to declare a national emergency to pay for his. controversial border wall he told reporters congress must do its job and votes to approve more than five billion dollars in

funding for the wall. that south africa's reading party the a.n.c. has launched its campaign for this year's general election this year's polls to be held in may being seen as an important test of the a.n.c. its popularity after the scandal filled years of the former president jacob zuma which lost some support for me to miller has more from the city of durban in causal in the tile. was these community members sing outside a courtroom lousy in the city of durban or seeking justice appearing in court an african national congress councillor accused of killing another councilor from the party. it's been three months since sperm up in warner was shot and killed. his family says he was targeted because of factional infighting within the party we can sort of the truth is that at home we live in fear because we don't know what's happening we can see now there are two factions in the organization was the

government says forty councilors have been killed in the past seven years mainly because of power struggles and greed of a government contract so that africans a do at the polls in the coming months to vote for provincial representatives as well as a new president president at all is important for political parties the province has the second highest number of voters but it's also where the ruling a.n.c. which is riddled by disunity faces one of its biggest challenges president jacob zuma resigned last year after a long running corruption scandal and was replaced by similar. but zuma despite the allegations continues to enjoy significant support in his home of course in a town adding to concerns of a split within the party the a.n.c. leadership had a message of unity trying the party's one hundred seventh birthday celebrations this week. we're here we're with all of. you

know so only and yet they really see that flow of this is. from a person his first general election as president of the a.n.c. is trying to solidify his position in the party ways approved appears to be split between him and his predecessor jacob zuma so that some of the biggest regions of the a.n.c. across the country in case so it's very important to understand that if your case then is weak divided it has possibility to divide the entire nation or to cause massive rifts within the city and of course this is the base well from a distance when the. cars are not how it's. former stronghold of opposition the in carter freedom party there are concerns that a lack of unity within the a.n.c. allegations of corruption and poor delivery of services could see the party lose some of its support to its rival. for me the matter. was unit on

a saudi teenager who fled to thailand saying she feared her family would kill her is now on her way to canada raf mohammed al canoing was granted asylum after gaining global attention when she barricaded herself into a room in an airport hotel in bangkok in order to avoid deportation john hendren reports in a desperate plea from a barricaded hotel room half urged the world to come to her rescue i'm still in the room. and have no choice. this it i have to go tomorrow and. no one can have been right now on friday she got her wish and we have accepted the un's request that we grant her asylum that is something that we are pleased to do because canada is a country that understands how important it is to stand up for human rights to stand up for women's rights around the world the canadian prime minister's announcement ended

a weeklong drama that drew worldwide attention the eighteen year old fled saudi arabia accusing her family of physical and psychological abuse but was detained by the authorities in bangkok who at one point threatened to send her back she launched a social media campaign from her hotel room appealing to the united nations high commission on refugees saying she would be killed if she returned i'm not leaving my own until i see it. see our island. the un agreed in turn to canada saudi arabia already faces international scrutiny over the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi in the saudi consulate in istanbul in october that prompted canada to review its arms sales to saudi arabia and. the case has drawn global attention district guardianship laws that require saudi women to get a male guardians permission to travel or escape is said to have inspired other

saudi women ralph how mad. mock my god is going to start a revolution in saudi arabia go on social media now and watch the accounts off so many young saudis see you have shown us that we can do this refused to see her father and brother who traveled to bangkok to seek or return in the end it might have been noon savvy use of social media that led her to a new life in canada. a saudi official reportedly told the thai authorities who seized her passport i wish they'd taken her phone instead john hendren zero well alex neve is actually gen of m. this international canadair and he says prime minister true days decision to grant the saudi teenager asylum was not about domestic politics certainly within the business community there are many who are concerned about the fraying nature of the relationship with saudi arabia so as much as he may take some praise there will be

others who will criticize him for this and so at the end of the day i really think that this is a decision that was taken not for political reasons but really because it was the principal thing to do it was this young woman was in a very difficult situation potentially even life threatening of sent back to saudi arabia she had expressed real interest obviously not only in canada but certainly canada was one of the countries she'd indicated she would really feel safe in and i think the canadian government prime minister trudeau simply did the right thing heiko judges amy amman have rejected an appeal by to right his journalists serving seven year prison sentences well known and child so who were convicted of breaking the official secrets act by reporting an army massacre of range of illegitimate therefore to say they were framed by police who gave them classified documents right has condemned the really. the has mall from bangkok. the high court

in yangon announced that it had rejected this appeal in the afternoon on friday they said that there was not enough evidence that these two gentlemen were innocent so they were saying that the conviction was upheld and also is when it comes to how long they would spend behind bars they were sentenced to seven years back in september there was a possibility with the appeal that that sense could be reduced but the court's on friday the high court in yangon saying that there was a suitable punishment of seven years because of the severity of what this case was about that it threatens to harm national security so these gentlemen for now will stay behind bars according to the high court in yangon for seven years now very soon after the word came out about this on friday the editor in chief of reuters made a statement today's ruling is yet another in justice among many inflicted upon wallow in unjust so they remain behind bars for one reason those in power sought to silence the truth reporting is not

a crime and until me and maher writes this terrible wrong the press admin maher is not free and the inmarsat commitment to rule of law and democracy remains in doubt now for the future what could happen to these two journalists now that their appeal has been rejected the defense can appeal to the supreme court in myanmar's capital neighborhood or there's no indication or word that they will do that yet and then the only other option for them is unsung suchi the state council the leader of myanmar issues a pardon but again there's no word if that's going to happen either russia has dismissed or uphold that it may consider a prisoner swap the pool wheelan the former u.s. marine arrested on suspicion of spying two weeks ago the foreign ministry denied that being the suggestion of a swap for one of the russians currently being held in the united states on spying charges whelan's family refutes espionage charges and say he was in moscow to attend a wedding. bangladeshi government workers who've been on the streets to demand

better pay say the police have used live ammunition against them they've been protesting in the capital dhaka for almost a week for an increase in their salaries a minimum wage reset by the government last year that many say it's not being in force at least one person's been killed and dozens of been injured since the protests began last sunday china has expressed concern about the detention of a businessman in poland a polish national and a chinese manager of the tech giant huawei of being accused of spying was all says the chinese man's arrest is linked to his own behavior not his employers katrina you is in beijing and sent us this. the man arrested is a chinese national who reportedly works for huawei which is a major technology firm here in china and he's been living in poland for more than ten years not many details so far from poland's intelligence agency but they do say that this is an operation that has been planned for

a long time and that which was implemented very carefully now huawei is a technology company that's no stranger to controversy they have very close ties to the government and they work to develop telecommunications mobile foreigns internet technology now they've always denied that they funnel any information back to the chinese government that they work directly with the chinese government but still there are many fears that quality technology is the news as a back door for information or intelligence for the chinese government a so much so that japan for example has blocked while way from being used in the government contracts the u.k. australia new zealand has blocked while way from participating in any five g. network trials and long one joe who is an heiress and executive of quali was arrested in canada late last year at the request of washington for allegedly violating u.s. sanctions now at the moment the story isn't receiving much and here in china actually the opposite any reports of the arrest are being very quickly removed from

chinese social media which is indicating that this is not a good news story for china and there are already some fears of what this might mean going forward of course after among wonder was arrested in canada there were two canadians who were detained here in china the chinese government denies that they're related but still there are fears of what could happen to polish nationals moving forward now if this chinese national is found guilty of espionage he could face ten years in prison and at the moment he's already looking at about three months in detention mr motors has filed a criminal complaint against his former chairman carlos japanese prosecutors have also added to new charges of financial crimes including breach of trust is already accused of underreporting his salary by millions of dollars denies the charges. germans officially registered as jews as catholics or protestants have for decades been required to pay what's called a church or a worship tax the money is then given to the relevant faiths now one leading

christian democrat politicians says muslims should be brought into this arrangement to free them from the influence of foreign states dominic cain reports. there. this is the a rush to go to a mosque in berlin one of the newest and considered by some to be one of the most liberal in germany from the outset the emphasis here has been on inclusion driven by its founder syrian artist her decision to allow men and women to worship here together polarizes opinion now she says she wants the muslim community to help itself by agreeing to pay to finance itself. the time for a kind of mosque tax is long overdue the most communities in germany and in europe must become independent from the so called countries of origin and thinking about it gave me the idea of saying communities should finance themselves and that can be

done through a kind of mosque attacks and in this way it makes me think of one of the five pillars of islam zakk at. but that view is not universally shared among muslims here many believe the suggestion is counterproductive by induction financing in germany the mosques already finance themselves there are a few that used foreign money to build and finance the purchase but that's a handful ninety nine percent are funded by membership fees and donations so if you bring the model of the mosque tax then you once again take the tax from muslims themselves. the idea of taxing religious worship is not new in germany for many years the jewish catholic and protestant faiths have accepted some form of levy or tax the person a dental pfizer as a christian and once their income tax bill has been worked out a further proportion is deducted and given to their chosen faith to disperse as it sees fit in the political sphere the idea of a mosque tax appeals to many christian democrats for two.