even months if not longer so don't expect to see these returns made public anytime soon or even handed over anytime soon also we just heard from president trump about this too just tweeted a few minutes ago he's in no mood to be turning these over either he blames this on what he calls the radical left democrats who have failed on all fronts so now trump says in his tweets that the democrats are going to new york city to go after him that was his latest tweet from just a few minutes ago about this this is clearly been a very contentious issue for many years now trump's lawyers made the very bold argument that he is immune from any criminal prosecution as president and therefore doesn't need to turn over his tax returns that of course was rejected and called by the judge in this case the judge said that was a repugnant argument said that he does need to turn over 8 years of tax returns this is been very contentious for a long time trump has long said he does not plan to ever turn them over what are

the implications of all of this for it's from. well it depends what's in them that's the big question i mean the critics of the president and those investigators who want to get ahold of these returns say that they need to get a hold of them to see what's in them now everyone knows a trump a very wealthy man it was long before he was prepped was president but exactly where does his wealth come from and a lot of that can only be gleaned from these tax returns that he will not turn over so a lot of people are saying what is he having to hide there why doesn't he want to turn them over so it really depends what's in there that will determine how bad this is for trump a clearly this will be a campaign issue indeed next year the longer that this goes on and it seems that trump still has no no inkling to turn them over and this is going to continue to be in the court system now and just one more for you gabriel while i have you with us how much sort of public appetite is there for this whole issue of trump's tax

returns and and for people to want to know what's in them. really depends who you ask i mean a lot of trump supporters will say we don't care and if we did care we want to voted for him in the 1st place those would be the majority of trump supporters it'll probably say it's not an issue that matters to them however there's a lot of other people on the other side of the political spectrum that very much do care and they will be saying what does he have to hide let's be clear here not all presidents are not legally or constitutionally obligated to reveal their tax returns but for generations now decades now presidents and presidential candidates have turned over their tax returns voluntarily so the american people can see their finances trump is the 1st to not do this so a lot of the trump critics will say this is just another sign of him trying to hide something so he really got half of america i would say or at least 30 to 40 percent

the trump supporters that probably don't care about this issue and you have the other side maybe 5060 percent of the american people that probably do very much do care about this issue it's very much political ok gabriel is on the thank you for that update from new york now at least 10 people have been killed and 27 injured in a suicide bomb attack in afghanistan the bomber targeted a minibus that was curing recruits of the afghan security forces in the eastern city of jalalabad a local official says they were traveling to the capital kabul at the time of the attack iraq's government is denying accusations its security forces have sought protesters during 6 days of violent demonstrations at least 104 people have been killed since tuesday with most of the violence concentrated in the capital baghdad more than 6000 people have been injured imran khan has more from baghdad. once

again the scene seems to be sent from all clashes between protesters and iraqi security forces we are expecting to see more protests not just in the south of iraq in the center but here in baghdad as well but it's also been a day of politics the iraqi army has said it didn't use live fire against the protesters it didn't used indiscriminate live fire against the protesters i should say however it did say that it would investigate incidents of live fire being used that was a view echoed by the head of the popular mobilization forces who went on to say that actually what was going on was the protesters were being used he didn't say by who to try and topple the iraqi government now we've also heard from mike pompei oh he was on a fun call the u.s. secretary of state he was on a phone call with the prime minister of iraq. he said. the mahdi told him that the security situation in iraq was back to normal and he. offered iraq

support however there's been very little international reaction the u.n. have spoken they've condemned the deaths of the protesters so a lover of the russian foreign minister was here but he didn't mention the protest movement until instead he talked about an arms deal for iraq so there's been very little international reaction we are expecting more protests to come in the coming hours and the scene does seem to be set there is a normal enormous amount of security out in the streets of baghdad. plenty more ahead on the odds are in his hour including more street fighting in hong kong as protests shut down much of the city's transit system. a bricks that victory in court for british prime minister boris johnson. and hitting the gym peter has the latest on the kerry tale ride for hosts japan at the rugby world cup.

but 1st north korea has accused the u.s. of falsely suggesting both nations are open to meeting again a day afterward broke off denuclearization talks in stockholm xiang says it won't meet washington for more quote sickening negotiations unless it abandons its hostile policy against the north the chief negotiator kim yong gil said saturday's talks broke down because the u.s. came to the negotiating table empty handed washington says the sides had good discussions. japan says it's rescued dozens of north korean fishermen after a collision at sea a japanese patrol vessel collided with a north korean boat in the waters in the sea of japan it was in the area looking for ships illegally fishing in its japanese waters friday salama has more from tokyo. now we're getting information from multiple sources that the number is about

60 members this gives an idea of the size of this fishing boat it's quite large for fishing boats in the area which is overrated to or which is japan's exclusive economic zone and it seems that the japanese ship which is operating under under the ministry of fisheries in japan it seems that it gave several warnings to the north korean ship which was coaching in the area and asked them to go out from japan's exclusive economic zone but after they refused we don't have details how this collision happened but it's very clear that the north korean ship sank totally and all of the crew members were in the sea and they were rescued actually all of them confirmation from multiple sources multiple media sources that all of the crew members were rescued and they have been transported to another

north korean ship there's been more fighting between a group of protesters and police on the streets of hong kong police fired tear gas on a crowd that had formed outside a metro station it follows another round of unrest over the weekend protesters have been defying new ansi face mask rules kong government use colonial era emergency regulations to impose the ban by decree sarah clarke has more from hong kong. around 500 people gathered here at the. station caught on monday evening to show their support for the protesters and respect respect to those who've been injured during these 4 months of demonstrations now they started to one particular area one right on the side behind me and that's when the police moved in a number of rounds of tear gas to try and clear the crowd but of course the crowd dispersed but they came back and that's when the place once again more rounds of tear gas on those groups now this comes on

a day where we had the 1st people charged on the floors that were enacted by the rules that were enacted were implemented on friday and of those 2 people in the 18 in the 38 year old appeared in court but were released on bail out if they are found guilty they could face jail time as well as $3000.00. exit polls out of the country's main religious party and not the most votes in monday's fractured election but with only 17 percent of the vote it could struggle to form a governing coalition voter turnout was 41 percent reflecting growing frustration with stablished parties and their failure to solve the economic crisis it's just the 2nd time to have been able to choose their parliament since the revolution 8 years ago. professor george washington university of school of international affairs he says despite those victory it's lost significant support in recent years

. i was surprised that the did so badly they've gone from 37 to 27 to 17 percent of the vote in the 3 successive parliamentary or constitution semele elections and that's a significant drop off tunis was founded 3 months ago but it was founded by mr karzai the one in jail who was a founding member of needed tunis so to in some sense since need to tunis got nearly 40 percent the last elections and the party derived from them got only 15 percent i don't see that as a huge success i see that as a bit of a failure to and the next parties are unknown so what we have is a fractured and potentially fractious parliaments coming together to try to solve huge problems that the government's facing and i'm not so sure it's going to be that easy with such a variety of opinions that will be in the coalition a scottish court has rejected a legal bit to force the u.k. prime minister boris johnson to ask for de lay judges considered whether johnson

could be jailed if he takes the u.k. out of the european union without a deal johnson has previously said he'll comply with a new law which forces him to prevent and no deal breck said on october the 31st he submitted new proposals on wednesday which he hopes will lead to a deal for britain to leave the e.u. by that deadline paul brennan has more. an interesting case this and one that was brought about by the apparent contradiction it was boris johnson the prime minister has been saying very publicly and repeatedly in recent days and weeks and the court assurances the court submissions that he put into the court of sessions up in scotland let me remind you and all of us that boris johnson the prime minister of the u.k. has been said repeatedly he will not ask the european union for an extension of the record deadline past october 31st that's despite a law which was passed earlier in september saying that he must if it comes to that

to prevent the u.k. leaving the e.u. without a deal however in the court of session there was evidence presented by the government's written evidence to say that yes he would actually when it comes down to it comply with the law and the judge in the court of session who's ruling has come about today monday has a taken the prime minister's assurances on face value and i'll give you a quote he said it would be destructive of one of the core principles of constitutional propriety for the pm to renee on what he promised to do and because the written assurances were unequivocal from the prime minister the judge said he was not persuaded it was necessary to grant the orders sought now where does that leave us well clearly as far as negotiations with the european union go it seems that the prime minister if there is no deal by the 19th of october will have to ask for an extension that will undoubtedly play into the the nature of the negotiations but on the other hand you could argue and it has been argued by some analysts i

read some interesting analysis by the eurasia group this morning to say that this actually strengthens boris johnson's credentials as a brecht it prime minister for him to have to be dragged effectively kicking and screaming to ask for an extension simply improves his chances at a general election if you can to play the kind of strategy of it's him against the judiciary against parliaments who are all trying to prevent it so from that point of view this court ruling. although this is technically a win for the prime minister he won't do any harm. more than 130 climate change processors have been arrested in a global demonstration that the organizers extinction rebellion say will span 60 cities they started in australia where at least 30 people were arrested in sydney for blocking traffic on a main road near a central train station at the 7 protest serves were arrested in brisbane and for chaining themselves to a bridge and in new zealand capital wellington 30 people were arrested for blocking

roads near parliament in berlin people occupied the city's famous victory column roundabout nobody has been arrested there are police blocked access to the 5 road that feed the roundabout instead and 50 people were arrested in amsterdam and 3 in madrid but the most arrest by far were in london where extinction rebellion is based at least 135 people have been taken into custody there the group wants to achieve net 0 carbon emissions by 2025 jonah hall has the latest from london. here we are in central london parliament square the heart of government where roadways in all directions now are blocked off by protesters belonging to the extinction rebellion movement they say they're going to be here for the next 2 weeks or until government exceeds to their demands the most basic of which is to declare an environmental and climate emergency and to start doing something about

it it's to raise awareness of these issues and i think the time truly is now because it's 1.5 degrees is a massive change for not just species already and we need to do something unless we want to throw our hands and the air and say ok goodbye i think humans you know we just let it happen i would like to say enough is enough enough of the systems which is destroying the planet in front of or are you. me there are perhaps truer than 50 people manning this protest barricade blocking off the war at all that's the road leading to 10 downing street it's a sign of just how easy it is to cause major disruption and with thousands more said to be ready to do this very thing it's a sign of how difficult it is to police. the lead on the al jazeera news hour they're called the invisible people of kurdistan to meet the man who is being

recognized for ending their stateless status. and how to sell this reactor oxygen the discovery that's been awarded this year's nobel prize for physiology or medicine. and we'll tell you how this team showed john their way back to the 1st olympics in 15 years that story is coming up a little later but peter it's one. had always been ready in afghanistan specifically it's been raining in kabul underneath the cloud and then there's a big gap and the changing in season is obvious has come for europe through turkey to the caucasus so to the science we should be thinking about a change of some so it's not obvious yet we're still hovering around the city mark

in tehran rather 40 mark again in the good part of iraq and just below 30 on the coast and that's rainy and so nothing much has changed nor indeed will change much in the forecast the winds are strong there's no strong north of the fact if anything for the gulf states is a bit of a southeasterly developing which might just might bring shots or the u.a.e. having developed them in their mom but it does look fairly dry to be honest even the mountains of yemen but how we get to wednesday that's a dry picture that has dropped sounds to more actually were there we see more rain run through the eastern cape now the front wants to graze the western cape and then you've got that linkage which he sees in oh there goes up through western botswana up towards i go to the sharia and is the angolan in than even that's not reliable so the picture of the cheese day is pretty much a dry one not as warm as it was in durban by a long way kate tarn if anything is getting cooler disappointing 16.

planning to speak to the climate an ecological emergency the world's leading scientists are warning of a presidential crisis in the face of it reversible changes to the why that i'll be with you throughout as well on violent crime on to make we have reports from the frontlines of the crisis that showcase new solutions to help throw out is a reference to a new week. it's also at the top of 5 of the science behind the issues affecting our planet. after the genocide. has been lifted. one woman's vision uplifted many. to see this resistance. you see. transforming lives in her community on and off the pitch. to take their children to school.

women make change. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour the u.s. waited to observation post in northeast syria and american troops will protect kurdish forces turkey has said it's preparing to launch a major offensive in the region kurdish forces say they will defend themselves. a migrant boat has capsized killing at least 13 women near the islands lampedusa it overturned in bad weather as a patrol vessel arrived to rescue those on board it was carrying around 50 people from tennessee 22 have been saved. and a u.s.

appeals court has granted donald trump a temporary stay on a decision that could have forced the president to release his tax returns earlier a judge rejected a district judge that is rejected trump's challenge to the release of the documents which are part of a criminal probe. let's talk about this with claire finkelstein she's the faculty director of the center for ethics in the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania law school she's joining us now from there now thanks for being with us on the al-jazeera news hour so it seems perhaps that donald trump may have a little bit more time now when it comes to tax returns and he may not have to release them as soon as we had anticipated what's your reaction to the. well actually this is a very significant development the other direction which is that a federal judge has said that the arguments that the trumpet ministration made that the president does not have to turn over his tax returns does not wash and that

argument was that a sitting president does not have to respond to a subpoena because he can't even be investigated that argument we know is not correct we saw it in watergate we saw it also with president clinton who had to take a deposition in a civil case and so the president's lawyers really overreached in their understanding of presidential authority and it does look as though the law is on the side of the manhattan district attorney who is subpoenaing 8 years of president trump's personal tax returns so what do you think is going to happen next. well the administration i should should say president trump because this is not in the ministration matter this is his personal tax returns and the president is now

appealing that decision. it is not clear whether or not the appeals court will grant a stay of execution while the appeal is being considered the president of course has the right to appeal this decision and an appeals court may overturn it but meanwhile the deadline has passed for him to turn over his tax returns and it looks as though unless a stay is granted he will have to turn them over yet and we know that that state has been granted but looking at this issue quero and looking at the issue of the impeachment inquiry that appears to be gathering steam obviously among the democrats how worried should the president be by all of this. well i think you should be very worried because as you say that

a stay has been granted but at the appeals level he is not very likely to win this case it could end up going all the way up to the supreme court but even in the supreme court it seems very likely that they will rule that he has to respond to the subpoena because there's so much law on the side of the manhattan district attorney suggesting that a sitting president is not immune to an investigation in this case the investigation stemmed from the fact that he is an unindicted coconspirator in the case of michael cohen who is sitting in federal prison so the d.a. is on pretty strong grounds in demanding these tax returns as part of its investigation into the stormy daniels payoff but how do you explain then public support for trump's impeachment according to some paul seems to suggest that it's still the numbers hover at less than 50 percent and in fact

a recent poll that's the hill herrick's x. survey suggests that his approval rating has ticked up to 49 percent ever since the impeachment inquiry story started how do you explain that. well i think the polls have been a little bit all over the place so it's very difficult to tell where the american public sits on impeachment but it looks as though there's broad support for the impeachment inquiry what happens there after depends partly on what they find what the house concludes but it's very difficult for the president to be surrounded by these 2 different investigations to be forced on the one hand as seems likely to reveal his tax returns and on the other to have more and more information coming out about his attempts to get dirt to dig up dirt on his political rivals from with the assistance of foreign countries and so that really closes in

on him from 2 different sides and it looks as though it's a serious political problem for the president all right we'll leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from the u.s. now hundreds of traders in the pakistani capital islamabad are protesting against new taxes among the measures is a neural forcing some customs customers that is to produce identity documents to help of forty's track tax evaders but it's angered many reports. although the government in islamabad very tell you that everything is under control and that the economy's doing well however you see a lot of trade. representatives of their trade and israel who are protesting what they say. enemy policies as far as the business community is concerned they say that the federal board of revenue is quality an order business friendly and they're

threatening to stage a sit in here in the heart of it. to make sure their degree even heard on the part we have the trade is of pakistan and we are running this country we are also ready to pay taxes but not at the cost of oil on businesses is the government isn't forcing wrong tax policies which are unacceptable we are demanding the police is sure to be a card. public needs to reality which are facing public they are not missing i don't know why is the rule. they are sitting in they see rooms and designing the buy leases there should come in the ground and market and judge what is happening in the public now the business community and also going to the country's top military chief complaint about what is happening here and how their businesses are being hurt there are reports that factories are shutting down businesses are closing down the military chief and of course assured them they're

going to do everything to try and help the community however on the other hand the government has failed to come out with a prompt response to address the grievances of the business trading community across pakistan something that is not likely to go down well given the fact that the opposition parties are also now threatening to march on islamabad in a bid to remove this government this is also a ward of no confidence as far as the economic policies of this government is concerned it is already boring heavily from the i.m.f. and the state of the economy is not under control. the philippine government has announced an outbreak of polio with 2 confirmed cases it follows outbreaks of dengue fever and measles in the span of less than a year genuine dog and has more from manila letisha variants eldest grandson alexis is sick with dengue fever and has been in this public hospital for several

weeks now but he isn't the only one. across the hall her 2 other grandsons are also being treated for a measles infection 60 year old prince center and 4 year old james material she says she is somehow grateful that your grandchildren made it to the hospital in time. it has been very difficult seeing my grandsons like this but i have no choice i have to be strong so last little hospital is just one of the many hospitals where pediatric wards of big overflowing with children sick with infectious diseases the department of health has recorded at least 40000 cases of measles across the country since january and more than 500 patients have died. while the cases of those we have reached more than 270000 with more than

a 1100 dead many of those who died were children but it doesn't end there the government has announced the return of polio type to an incurable disease that was eradicated 19 years ago public trust on vaccine has plummeted according to the global vaccine confidence index from 93 percent now down to 32 percent which means now that only one out of 5 filipinos believe that vaccines are safe. the health secretary says a recent investigation into a vaccination campaign against thank you fever by the public attorney's office is partly to blame for the falling vaccination rates this kind of is best discussed in a scientific or by scientists the professionals and should not be in a senate hearing or on television with people who are informed

and educated about the issue making definitely requirements. the philippine government says it promises to roll out a series of nationwide immunize ation programs. but back at the intensive care unit of salons a hospital every 2nd counts there's a sense of urgency here and parents are desperate for their children to recover. dugan al-jazeera manila well the 1st of this year's nobel prizes has been handed out in the field off medicine the award was shared by 2 u.s. scientists and one britain who have spent years researching how cells adapt to changes in oxygen levels the trio found that when oxygen levels fall there is a rise in the hormone e.p.o.

and that's because a group of proteins changed our d.n.a. behaves the body's ability to sense oxygen levels impacts the production of red blood cells as well as the creation of blood vessels the discovery opens up new ways to treat anaemia cancer and heart failure let's make a helmet augustan he is the director of the european center for and you know science at heidelberg university and the division had at the german cancer research center he's joining us via skype from heidelberg and germany thanks very much for speaking to us on the al-jazeera news hour how significant is this award. well this is extremely significant that the question about every year there's dozens of major discoveries were still the novel crisis and the nobel committee and the noble assembly needs to find the one discovery of the year that is to be awarded with no more than 3 awards would have been awarded just today that is

really a very fundamental mechanism of life and that of my current barman to mediocre factor the amount of oxygen available to a cell is translated into the gene expression open individual cells and that's really marks a very fundamental mechanism that controls if you were referring to people and look at the cause but many other genes as well so it's just that just to break it down kind of and simplify it they basically solve the puzzle of how the body sense of oxygen. that isn't the case you know oxygen sensing is such a fundamental mechanism that was correct the men who are 9095 and then more detail in 1902 identified the molecule called hypoxia inducible factor the somali cule that the body makes all the time and always made and it always degraded you could say what it waits for mechanism but the body does it to just be prepared for hypoxia the absence of oxygen and when that happens another class of molecules the

peripheral hydroxyl aces come in identified by greg the mentor and took a limb and they are responsible for the degradation of if under normal oxygen tensions and when oxygen disappears if is no longer degraded and then drives the expression of genes that control the response of cells to the lack of oxygen right it's very complicated indeed but it's a wonderful machinery but the body of invent it and the belief is that their discoveries opened up new ways to treat diseases like cancer like anaemia as well as heart failure how so can you break that down for us well indeed the molecules that are controlled by hypoxia such as vascular in the future growth factor they are already refuted targets so drugs that affect the better the general

step the pathway are in use for more than 10 years already in the field of oncology and in the field of of to multi to create ai diseases but the future goal of course is not just to manipulate the product driven by hypoxia but to interfere directly in the stimulating or in a giving way with the hope i talk to pathway as well all right so we thank you very much for speaking to us from germany thank you my pleasure. now there are at least 4000000 stateless people in 78 countries right across the world and one man from kroger starn is being recognized by the united nations to help for his efforts to tackle the problem without them having trouble to oss to find out what his organization has achieved. up until last year there was no proof she ever existed with no birth certificate or any other legal document to prove her identity didn't

those or should we say those grew up in the shadows 1100 without documents you are nothing it's very difficult i couldn't take my children to hospital because we didn't have i.d.'s now i have a birth certificate i feel equal and they know there is a roma community living in central asia she inherited her stateless status from her parents and was to make sure her children grow up as fully recognize citizens this piece of paper is the only proof of birth they hold for now people like then those are stateless without any basic rights i describe as national ghost not recognized by any nation a problem do you any agency for refugees says affects millions around the world kyrgyzstan is the 1st country to have eradicate is the listeners this starting point is that the good talent so i applaud them for taking the

courage to do it. marketing exercise all over the country not be some bits and pieces not partially but the whole country. so that's that's quite amazing there was a political will to do it i said decided the price down at least $13500.00 people have now become kyrgyz citizens statelessness became a real problem after the fall of the soviet union in 1901 new borders were drawn and many found themselves on the wrong side of the border or without the proper documents it took people i can read the book anymore from to fill ghana valley lawyers without borders to sky wood a country sometimes to remote areas reachable only and of course back to find the thousands of stateless people in need the founder of the organisation as these big sure of is no being awarded by do you in. their problem whether they're a defector status people who had invalid soviet passports or no way to prove where

they were born there are also those big wives who automatically lost their citizenship after 991 it's complicated. set up bad cooking over is one of them she came to give you stand as a young bride there were no borders then put on until i only had a piece of paper from the collective farm where i worked which allowed me to go back and forth i was very happy when i got my passport now i get a pension and i have a chance to visit my brothers and she get passed on her kyrgyzstan nationality to a grown up son it's difficult to know how many exactly but millions of people around the world still remain in their lives many going from birth to death without any official trace of their existence they don't have any insurgent. carol batchelor is the un refugee agency special advisor on statelessness she says

it's an issue that needs to be dealt with globally. every country does it in isolation always someone will fall through the cracks we live in a world where people move from state to state people marry people from another state children are born every day families expand and so it's very important that states collaborate it's not enough to say well the person might be on my territory but they weren't born here they're not descended from my nationals they don't have their main links here so i will not give my nationality there's another step needed there and that's to find out who will we need to work together and we've been extremely pleased and encouraged to see particularly at the regional level a number of efforts to bring states together so that they can discuss who is doing what be sure that their approaches are complimentary and that no one's falling through the cracks and this is what you and h.c.r.

is seeking to do at the international level. still ahead on the hour climbing up the rankings we'll tell you why this was so important for you coming up in just a moment in sports thank you.

well again time for the supporters with peter 3 thank you very much they used and rockets n.b.a. team has apologized to china after the general manager tweeted in support of the ongoing hong kong protests chinese broadcasters have said they'll no longer show

rockets games off to daryl morey hosted an image saying fight for freedom stand with hong kong it's a big blow for the rockets with more than half a 1000000 chinese fans streaming against several chinese businesses have suspended their ties with the team. more deleted these original tweet and replace it with this apology saying i did not intend my 2 to cause any offense to rockets fans and friends of mine in china my tweets my own man in no way represent the rockets or the n.b.a. players also apologizing. when they were trying to rid of the plane or. the no hope for both the worst in the grizzly we go there you know once or twice a year they show us the most important vote so you know we appreciate it as a fan base and we love everything you know there about it and you know we appreciate the support that they give us individually and as an organization so. you know we love and. it was an emotional farewell for the u.s. women's world cup winning coach joe ellis is sheets are chargeable last match the

usa drew $11.00 with south korea as they say goodbye to the most successful coach in the national team's history and it's led the team to 2 world cup wins and 106 matches victories the replacement has not yet been named. i think when i was high 5 in the players on the on the way out to field i was a little choked up. but there are grouped apart it's not regret it's not relief it's honestly a big smile on my face and i've enjoyed dition ready for what's next. she's won back to back tennis titles and they i mean osaka says it's because she stopped caring what other people think the 21 year old admits she's struggled with the pressure of expectation since reaching the top of the game i honestly don't care anymore blake that's my mentality going into it. i also to stat oriented and when i show in open because there was this big thing about

you number one now and then i felt like i shouldn't really match after that another player returning to form is 3 time grand slam winner andy murray who's playing as a wild card at the shanghai open before from a sit down to beat argentina's one lone their all it's his 1st masters 1000 singles winning more than 2 years and sees him move back inside the world's top 250 players . just. the rugby world cup is approaching the business end of the pool stages with the quarter final line up starting to take shape wales are preparing for their 3rd match against fiji where a winner will secure a spot in the knockout stage wales is really a victory over australia has put them in control of finishing top of pool the but they kept on is warning against complacency. testing across the gas. station those games so again we want 80000000 forms of defense

a sureness his push to see jones is still to play in. the pressure most players go to. nice things we're going to do something great if you have used to take us to the end of the season the big story of the tournament so far has been the great run of the host nation japan the team hit the gym on monday as they get set for a decisive final pool match against scotland the brave blossoms have never qualified for the world cup quarter final before but this time top of pool they were 3 wins from 3 which includes that crucial win over ireland. even and france have already qualified for the last 8 as they prepare for their match which will decide who finishes top of pulte finishing 2nd could provide an easier path to the final avoiding australia and new zealand but the england players say they are not considering that idea. focus purely on us getting ourselves better and focusing as much as we can and being as prepared as we can be for all those whatever happens

off the back is great and it's great that we've managed to qualify but that's all the 2nd about by sentiments is a massive thing in a tournament like this so we want to make sure we put in another good performance. go for kevin though has won his 4th p.g.a. 2 a title clinching victory in front of his home crowd he was forced into a sudden death playoff with patrick can't play at the shrine is open on sunday. missed a crucial part on the 2nd extra hole opening the door for no who had set a parting record on the tour this week he dropped it in the hole to clinch victory i. showjumping team have clinched the final place at next year's olympics in tokyo there was a nail biting finish to the nations cup event in barcelona island had to finish above both it's in the end colombia to claim the last available spot for tokyo and the clear around from ireland's 4th and final ride a key o'connor seat despite island last had

a showjumping team at the games in athens back in 2004. and that's where we'll leave it for most forward again later on during ok we'll see you later peter thank you very much well you can find much more on our web site had there it's al jazeera dot com thanks for watching the news hour we're back in just a moment right here on al-jazeera will how much more news coming your way see you in a minute thanks for watching back. to plains from studio 15 checking out for tell us that.

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you're from a neighborhood known as a hotbed of radicalism. you have to fight to defy stereotypes. the stories we are told by the people who live. along. al-jazeera. the u.s. makes way for turkey to launch a major military operation in northern syria america's kurdish allies say they've been stabbed in the back.

from a headquarters and. also ahead a temporary reprieve for donald trump but an appeals court holds an earlier order that the president must release his tax returns. police arrest more than $100.00 people and britain's capital as climate activists protest there and around the world. they're called the invisible people of kurdistan we meet the man who is being recognized for ending. hello the us is about he waited to observation post the northeast syria the 1st stage of a long anticipated withdrawal of its forces from the country turkey has been widely expected to launch a major military offensive in the area and the u.s. now says its kurdish allies are on their own sin and begins our coverage.

u.s. forces have begun to withdrawing from their positions along syria's border with turkey it follows a sudden statement from the white house overnight where it announced that turkey would be moving into northeastern syria a move the turkish government has long warned about. as you know we had made a decision and i've always said that we may arrive one night unannounced and this decisiveness continues because we can no longer accept the threats caused to our country by these terrorist groups the problem is that these areas are under the control of the syrian democratic forces the longstanding kurdish allies of the u.s. who led the fight against arsenal but now in what appears to be a major decision the americans say they will not protect their kurdish allies if turkey attacks them on camera phone sitters d.s.d.

f as being fortified 3 of called the wife e.g. linked to the kurdistan workers' party or p k k which it deems the terrorist organization the s.d.f. reacted strongly to the us decision calling it a betrayal the group say's it lost 11000 men and women fighting against always civil and fellow american demands to pull back from areas controlled by turkish backed forces. many items have been implemented on the ground including the items of security mechanism agreement removing heavy weapons and gear on the border as required. to the residents of this area we say do not fear as there is no threat to you with the council's personnel are part of this area residents are our families and we are their children it is our duty to defend our people in case of any violation of any agreement. just how far turkey will go into the s.d.f.

controlled areas of syria is unclear but the white house statement explicitly say is that turkish forces will be responsible for all i saw fighters in the area. the fighters are in prisons controlled by the s.d.f. and in a large camp called the kurds how long warned was a security risk the u.n. says it is preparing for the worst in any potential turkish operation into syria turkish officials say they're launching this offensive because an independent kurdish entity in northeastern syria will have a negative impact on turkey iran and iraq they also want to create conditions that will allow them to send back some of the millions of syrian refugees who now live in turkey but it's not clear what the outcome of the major turkish military operation will be for syria and the region sampras all of al-jazeera stumble well donald trump has defended his decision on twitter saying that the united states was

supposed to be in syria for 30 days that was many years ago we stayed and got deeper and deeper into battle with no aim insights when i arrived in washington i saw was running rampant in the area we quickly defeated 100 percent of the isis caliphates president went on to say it's time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars many of them tribal and bring our soldiers home we will fight where it is to our benefits and only fight to win meanwhile some of trump's allies have the right or the president's decision senator lindsey graham says the u.s. pullout insurer's an isis comeback forces kurds to align with said and iran and that it destroys turkey's relationship with the us congress he says it will be a stain on america's on or for abandoning the kurds or transformer un ambassador warns we must always have the backs of our allies if we expect them to have our back the kurds were instrumental in our successful fight against eisel in syria

leaving them to die is a big mistake turkey is not our friend. let's bring in kelly halakhah joining us from washington d.c. so is are saying the president coming out strongly on twitter to defend his decision kimberly yeah and he's been defending it even again in the last half hour with another what many consider to be an astonishing tweet saying as i've stated strongly before and just to reiterate if turkey does anything that i in my great and unmatched wisdom consider to be off limits i will totally destroy in a literate the economy of turkey i've done that before he goes on to continue in just sort of elaborating underscoring that point that essentially threatening a u.s. ally is the latest tweet coming from the u.s. president all of this has really got hot washington by surprise not only from the members of the president's own party as you highlighted there but also just in

terms of the conventional wisdom coming from the pentagon and also the u.s. state department who have long sort of favored a bit of a small troop presence in the region the fear being that this is necessary because otherwise there's no counterweight to the pressure from iran and russia so the concern in washington right now is essentially that this could undo 5 years of sort of advancements in successes militarily against eisel with the united states working alongside the kurdish forces the concern being that this is been a very reliable ally and the united states is essentially now turned its back on them and of course one of the other concerns care really is that there could be a humanitarian toll to all of those. yeah well the focus has been on the military and strategy the there is the broader concern and that is the human life that is caught in the midst of this as there are

already military opera operations that are are underway in fact some aid groups calling this deeply disturbing including save the children they are concerned of the hundreds of thousands of people that are currently in northeast syria 1650000 according to their numbers in need of humanitarian assistance that's not just sort of basics that many take for granted like education but shelter food water and so there is sort of now this push by many of these aid groups calling on foreign governments to essentially take urgent action to make sure that in the midst of all of this in the midst of military strategy that ordinary families are protected all right him really thank you well u.s. appeals court has ground to donald trump a temporary stay on a decision that could have forced the u.s. president to release his tax returns the pill came after a district judge rejected trump's challenge to the release of the tax documents judge victor murrah said he come to endorse trump's quote limitless assertion of

presidential immunity from judicial process the returns are being salton a criminal probe by the manhattan district attorney's office gabriel the zone though has more from new york. it's unlikely we'll be seeing the trump tax returns anytime soon because trump's lawyers immediately filed an appeal that to could last weeks months or even longer it's very clear that trump still does not want to turn over these tax returns under any circumstances now in terms of the american people there's probably the hardcore trump supporters about 30 to 40 percent of the american people roughly that don't care about this is an issue they say that mostly that the this is an issue that's been long discussed in the terms tax returns are not something that is critical to them most of what the trump supporters are probably saying but there's another half of the population the trump critics that very much view this as

a very critical issue of transparency they say what is trump hiding and why will he not release his tax returns he must have something to hide there that's what a lot of the trump critics will be saying it's important to point out that. the presidents are not under any legal or constitutionally binding obligation to turn over their tax returns but for generations now decades presidents and presidential candidates have done so voluntarily and it's in transparency to show the american people what their personal finances are trump has said he will not do that and continues to say that something that he's not obligated to do and he has no plans of doing it. a migrant boat trying to reach italy has capsized killing at least 13 women it overturned in bad weather near the island of lampedusa as a patrol vessel arrived to rescue those on board it was carrying around 50 people frontin asea 22 have been saved it's the latest in

a long line of sea disasters to hit migrants trying to cross the mediterranean and reach europe has been made about it has more from tunis. n.g.o.s here say that there were many aboard the boat that capsized of the coast of the island of lampedusa the boat sailed from carrying also migrants from sub-saharan africa until this year has been widely seen as a transit point for grants for from africa desperate to reach europe in july for example 82 migrants fleeing fighting in libya lost their lives of the coast of the disease which is in the southern part of to have spoken with senior members of different political parties here in this seem to be pretty much concerned about the situation. now being the scene of an attempt to put together a coalition government it comes against the backdrop of a growing disillusionment with the political establishment in the country many have

lost hope that the government's. willing to sort out their problems particularly unemployment poverty and budget deficit and they say that this puts more pressure on the next parliament of the next coalition government to try to tackle the economy which has become a big problem in the country at least 10 people have been killed and 27 injured in a suicide bomb attack in afghanistan the bomber targeted a minibus that was curing recruits of the afghan security forces in the eastern city of jalalabad a local official says they were traveling to the capital kabul at the time of the attack. iraq's government is denying accusations its security forces have shot protesters during 6 days of violent demonstrations at least 104 people have been killed since tuesday with most of the violence concentrated in the capital baghdad her.