possible grounds for impeachment and that is the way these congressional committees are going if there is not agreement from the white house to take part or to willingly take part in this ongoing process they do have that as a lever against the president and that is a case of obstruction of justice ok mike thank you. now a migrant both 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 from tennessee are 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 more from 2. n.g.o.s here say that there were many aboard the boat the cup size of the coast of the island of lampedusa the boat sailed from tin is carrying also migrants from sub-saharan africa until this year

has been widely seen as a transit point for migraines 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 as it is 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 man it's in his ears 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 and the next coalition government to try to tackle the economy which has become a big problem in the country. still ahead on al-jazeera

a temporary reprieve for donald trump an appeals court holds an earlier order and the president must release his tax returns more street fighting in hong kong as protests shut down much of the city's transit system. that has been ready in afghanistan specifically it's been raining in kabul underneath that 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 the city on the coast and as 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 botswana get to wednesday that's a dry picture let's just drop sas to more actually with that 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 is seasonal the goes up through western botswana up towards i go to the sharia and is the angolan and an 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 cape town if anything is getting cooler disappointing 16. al jazeera world tells the dramatic story of the birth of a nation and how

a political agreement reached my fronts into news you would spark the base or it stood for you. this god then so you demanded a dutchman which we would. rivalry conflict. division. to have tunisia the battle for independence on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera pentagon says the u.s. does not endorse a turkish military operation in northeastern syria and will not help it in any way the u.s.

has evacuated 2 observation posts in northeast syria turkey has said it's preparing to launch a major offensive in the region. a migrant boat has capsized killing at least 13 women near the island of lampedusa it's overturned in bad weather as a patrol vessel arrived to rescue those on board it was carrying around 50 people from tennessee about 22 have been saved. president donald trump is facing more pressure over his dealings with ukraine the house democrats have issued subpoenas to the white house and the pentagon for documents that could bolster their impeachment inquiry. well the u.s. appeals court has granted donald trump a temporary stay on a decision that could have forced the u.s. president to release his tax returns the appeal came after a district judge rejected trump's challenge to the release of the tax documents judge victor a rare 0 said he counts endorsed trumps quote limitless assertion of presidential immunity from judicial process the returns are being sought in

a criminal probe by the manhattan district attorney's office gaber of the zones or 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 they 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 hard core 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 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 at least 10 people have been killed and $27.00 injured in a suicide bomb attack in afghanistan the bomber targeted a minibus that was carrying 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 we're reporting 15 people were killed overnight more than 6000 people have been injured and there's been more fighting between a group of protesters and police in hong kong. police fired tear gas on a crowd that formed outside a metro station it follows another round of unrest at the weekend protesters have been defying new anti facemask rules the hong kong government's use colonial era emergency regulations to impose the band by decree sarah clarke has more from hong kong. around 500 people gathered here at the prince edward m. station in monk on monday evening to show their support for the protests and respect respect to those who've been injured during these 4 months of demonstrations now they started to bomb 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 by once again there fired more rounds of tear gas on those groups now this comes on a day where we had the 1st people charge 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 here in court that were released on bail out if they are found guilty they could face jail time as well as 3000. well 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. canada's prime minister justin trudeau has seen his standings in the poll slip due to a number of ongoing scandals canadians had to the voting booths on october 21st and

trudeau is increasingly facing questions about whether he's still the right person to lead the country daniel lak reports from toronto. i know you from all across this great country sent a clear message tonight it's time for a change in this country my friends are really 004 years ago justin trudeau led is liberal party to resoundingly victory a decade of conservative government was over talk of hope and change was in the air the eldest son of pierre trudeau one of canada's most flamboyant and successful prime ministers he took over the leadership of his father's party with the bold publicity stunt winning a charity boxing match with a conservative senator his 1st cabinet was ethnically diverse and balanced between men and women on foreign trips and at home he promised tolerance and called himself a feminist then is this federal election campaign began shocking images were

published of him in blackface make up some in high school others as an adult before he entered politics though he apologized repeatedly his standing slipped in public opinion polls there is an undercurrent that its image as opposed to substance and the opposition parties are playing into that and the blackface scandal played into that he was already fighting a tough reelection battle thanks to earlier scandals among them accusations of ethics violations and questions about his party's and his commitment to fighting climate change that's all helped canada's growing green party improve its poll standings but this is still an election that's between trudeau's liberals and the conservative party they defeated in 2015 we don't trend towards the streams the. 2 major parties center left center right but at the end of the day it will be comfort of among that broad middle voters with regard to where they think

that the country is going and who of those 2 leaders can take them where they feel the country should be. true remains at the center of his party's campaign emphasizing a youthful image and progressive policies his opponents countered by questioning his fitness to govern citing the scandals and challenges he's been facing in recent months so this election is very much a referendum on justin trudeau as leadership on october 21st voters will decide and this hard fought unpredictable campaign is very much a factor in that decision daniel lack al-jazeera toronto a scottish court has rejected a legal bit to force the u.k. prime minister boris johnson to ask for a bricks that delay 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 a 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 more than 130 climate change protesters have been arrested in a global demonstration that the organizers extinction rebellion say will spawn 60 cities and berlin people occupy the city's famous victory column roundabouts nobody has been arrested their police blocked access to the 5 roads that feed the roundabout instead of 50 people were arrested in amsterdam and 3 in madrid. more than 250 climate change protesters were arrested in a global demonstration that the organizers i beg your pardon extinction rebellion were saying will spend 60 cities in the most arrests by far were in britain's capital though at least 135 people were taken into custody in london the group wants to achieve net 0 carbon emissions by 2025 so no help 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 it's a massive change for the species already and we need to do something unless we want to throw our hands and the air and say ok goodbye 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 true than 50 people manning this protest barricade blocking off of whitehall 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 there at least 4000000 stateless people in 78 countries across the world are now one man from kurdistan is being recognized by the united nations for his efforts to tackle the problem without the how many travel to post to find out what his organization has achieved it. 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 grew up in the shadows 1100 without documents you want 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 rumor 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 eradicated this this starting point is the talent. so i applaud the biggest town 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 saw that that's quite amazing there was

a political will to do it and i said decided it was done at least 13500 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 would a country sometimes remote areas reachable only on horseback to find the thousands of stateless people in need the founder of the organisation as is because true of is now being awarded by the un. problem there are a defect of stateless 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 that is one of them

she came to give you stand as a young bright there were no borders that put on that i only had a piece of paper from the collective farm where i worked which allowed me to go back and forth and i was very happy when i got my passport now i get a pension and i have a chance to visit my privates. and she get past all of the care is the nationality tour grown up son is the fickle to know how many exactly that means of people around the world still remain in their lives many going from birth to death without any official trace of their existence the dead i mean. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the pentagon says the u.s. does not endorse a turkish military operation in northeastern syria and will not help it in any way

u.s. president donald trump announced the pullback of u.s. forces from northeast syria on sunday turkey has said it's preparing to launch a major offensive in the region abraham callen is the spokesman and chief advisor for the turkish president on he says turkey will do everything it can to ensure i saw does not return. let's remember this is not only one country's responsibility it is the international community's responsibility and in fact it's the failure of the international community that they have not been able to help the syrian refugees bring a political solution to the conflict and destroy this once and for all. we will do. what we can do in fact without a full capacity to make sure that isis doesn't come back in any form or shape or president donald trump is facing more pressure over his dealings with ukraine the white house democrats have issued subpoenas to the white house and the pentagon for

documents that could bolster their impeachment inquiry a u.s. appeals court has granted president trump a temporary stay on a decision that could have forced him to release his tax returns the appeal came after a district judge rejected trump's challenge to the release of the tax documents the returns are being sought in a criminal probe by the manhattan district attorney's office a migrant boat trying to reach italy has capsized killing at least 13 women near the island of lampedusa it overturned in bad weather as a patrol vessel arrived to rescue those on board 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 those are the headlines on al jazeera inside story is coming up next then it's the news hour i'll see you then thanks for watching. with

a record number of nominations the world waits to see who wins the 2019 nobel peace prize the nobel committee will amounts to win out on friday al-jazeera has been awarded exclusive international rights to interview the winner after the awards ceremony in december at the nobel peace prize on al-jazeera. it's a nobel prize season in sweden and norway it's the world's most prestigious accolade but while many laureates a celebrated others have attracted controversy so is the nobel prize still relevant this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm peter dobby the nobel prize is one of the world's most coveted awards it's recognizes the highest achievements in

a variety of subjects from science to literature and economics to peace notable winners include albert einstein martin luther king jr mother theresa nelson mandela and yasser arafat but over the years some have criticized the nobel committee and its choices laureates will be announced this week in sweden and in norway in an unprecedented move to prizes for literature will be awarded last year's award was cancelled after allegations of sexual misconduct against the husband of a swedish academy member secret juries select the recipients and the names of the nominees are kept secret for 50 years. there have been some controversies over the past 100 years of the nobel prize u.s. president barack obama was given the peace prize in 2009 just 9 months after he went into the white house mr obama defended the wars in iraq and afghanistan in his acceptance speech out of the $688.00 laureates in the science categories only

$21.00 had been women last year donna strickland became the 1st woman to win the nobel prize for physics in more than 50 years and only 17 africans have ever been recognized most of them for peace and literature while some laureates works of proven to be harmful neurologist antonio eg as manas won the prize for medicine in 1909 for developing prefrontal lobotomy is the procedure soon discredited and of course banned. ok let's bring in our guests today on skype we have henrik or dell he is the executive director of the peace research institute in oslo in lancaster in the u.k. we have derek gatherer he's a viral legist and a lecturer at the university of lancaster welcome to you and i'm also on skype as well we have david van he's a professor of creative writing at the university of warrick welcome to you all gentleman henry chordal in oslo coming to you 1st the nobel prizes do we still need

them. absolutely the old over prices are corey 6 really prestigious the peace prize is the most prestigious award there is in a world and it's both contributes to lift stories about the local peace and patient that is so important for bringing the world towards peace but also of course droids the winners swedes and enormous at her there are gather in lancaster being the best in your field is no guarantee that you're going to get a nobel how come. i think that if anybody say so to the beginning of her career to move for a nobel prize they possibly wouldn't want to get one and i think that you have to do the base what you can and then if you chance on something that really has world changing then it may well get the recognition of the nobel prize committee and the price will come to you david van in warsaw some prizes are political like the peace

prize other prizes like literature are not why is that. i'm not sure anyone would agree that the literature prize is not political. american writers have long felt for instance that there's a bias against american writers. tony morrison one in 1902 and then the next one to american was just recently bob dylan is not a writer he's a singer and that's now it's felt as americans and there's also been a perception that other. prizes have been awarded to. reward or embarrass one nation or another they've been viewed as the most political literature prize in the world of david with all due respect to send a little bit defensive bob dylan if you will my big brother you'd be saying hang on hang on he may not fully be a rights but he is a poet his poetry is put to music so why shouldn't he with a nobel prize. it was so disappointed i love i love his music

loved it all my life but when you consider the body of work of a novelist who has a dozen novels and you consider those against the lyrics and bach isn't don't music that price seem to say that what writers are doing doesn't matter it was resented by writers around the world and was a tremendous mistake and embarrassment for the academy and awarded the prize also he's not done and there was nothing for booksellers to sell also it was a disaster for everyone there. henry does the committee get it wrong sometimes and is that if it does get it wrong is that part of the reason why i say getting the peace prize can be toxic for the recipient. well part of the perks the i would say the issue of tickle it is too risky that they sometimes get

it wrong because if you only get prizes that are and controversial and it's also hard to not succeed on the important prizes but i think there are some of some cases in history were those who agree that you know the prices were not awarded to the right people for the right cause is there a gather in lancaster when it comes to ordinary people real people not sciences hts not academia not rights is not presidents not prime ministers what's the what's the plus when it comes say to the awarding of the nobel science prizes i think scientists in general sometimes feel that were out of touch with the public and the nobel prize is one of the ways that scientific work can be brought into the food glia of the media and the ordinary public can see what scientists are doing and can see that perhaps that has been life changing for them or for the next generation from a medical or or some other point of views so for for scientists i think that the prize remains something very important because it's one of the occasions when we

can get science o't into the general coachable consciousness and that can be very beneficial for future funding governments can decides to fund it has that have been awarded nobel prizes and so on. also the amount of money that the prize itself it is considerable relative to the budgets that scientists work on it has diminished slightly sciences is much bigger budget nobody's than it than it used to be in this is general recognition that big project science is very important but nevertheless the money can be important for supplementing the expenses of scientists who have been working on on these breakthroughs and david in more so why is this such a big issue now that people seem to be focusing in on particularly over the past say 5 years an issue of diversity in. all that's been important in the literary world. but in every part of our lives it's important that everyone represented the

different voices to be know the sun the world stage and that's one of the great things this virus can offer is world war i very ignition and focus on someone from anywhere in the world so we want it be fair for us want to not have a gender bias bias and races not regional but what where the prize can best succeed and best offer something as the rose to our attention will of attention someone who might want us otherwise as we think about our own regional interests henrich when it comes sense of those issues of diversity the issues of gender the issues of race would it be too easy to blame the nobel committee when in actual fact what we should be saying is look the nobel committee maybe should work with the the core skill set provides the industries that these people the recipients come from so you make sure you've got more women working in physics you've got more. black men working in the fields of say american literature. yes i

think that's that said that you can do are you that that that is. that's part of the discussion i think the committee and the committees that are still trying to look into the sea of diversity and trying to identify good candidates of across countries across gender when it comes to peace price especially in the early days of the peace prize of course was very much a european north american priced many white men they most recent years there is a much better balance and i think perhaps it's that he's hearing the domain of the peace prize to find worthy candidates of across different contexts if you look at the past 10 years since 2010 there is actually a majority of women winners are 5 women winners and 4 men since 2010 and winners from across all day in the different continents to me coming to have a donna strickland one for physics last year that was the 1st time in more than 5

decades that a woman taken the way the physics prize how can that happen. i think that there is an imbalance in some sciences with regard to gender in my own field which is biology that that is not the case in fact my my ph d. supervisor 35 years ago was a woman and my 1st post doctoral supervisor was a woman she was later went on to be late to the film of the national academy of sciences in the usa so in biology it's never been very unusual to have to have lots of women and in quite high positions it's true though that that hasn't necessarily turned into a lot of nobel prizes for women in biology famously of course rosalind franklin and didn't win the nobel prize for her role in the discovery of the d.n.a. helix that went to watson and crick. and will concede but of course rosalind franklin had died by the time the prize was awarded in the rules state that you can't you can't have the prize awarded posthumously also that generally there's

a there's a bit of a tension within the awards of the prize as to whether it should be given for a single achievement or for or for a lifetime achievement of real long piece of time and we have seen some prizes recently that have been awarded for for larger pieces of work it taking place over longer periods of time and that in some instances has led to the award of prices to women for instance christan a new slang for hearts won the prize a boat 15 years ago for her lifetime of work in the field of dress awful or genetics whereas if you'd been picking up a single paper to award the prize on then put possibly she wouldn't of of won the price so it is important that we that we maintain gender balance in the prize award but also that we're always looking for excellence as well because otherwise we devalue the. importance of the award david do you get the feeling that the nobel committee is aware of this i can feel the tweets coming at me in the next 24 hours

because he is for all white middle class men. and with gray hair talking about a lack of women a lack of people of color a lack of women of color and could it be dare i say it that the nobel committee is white middle class men who kind of hide behind those big oak doors when we take the locked out shot when we you know when the t.v. news channels go to the live feed it'll be a white middle class guy that comes out and says the prize for physics goes to fill in as a political. yes i was feeling uncomfortable as famous all on the screen there if you can trust her we're not going to be accused of the same bias so yeah i think that they the as far as i can tell what i've read online cademy has done tremendous work to try to. bring in outside. observers purchased funds to get rid of her anyone who was touched at all by the scam of the

4 that led to 2 convictions for rape. it really seems that they're trying to get these this time to some order of 2 years for the literature prize to focus on the writing and the prize itself and not on nudity and scandal. and it sounds like they don't want to do that honestly i mean the price is so enormously important and it only has value if it's beyond that perch i start to think that they've done everything possible to try to be beyond reproach this time and i hope that's the case and i imagine is an enormous pressure or prize winner to be a woman this time and i can imagine they will feel that henry good to see you for a 2nd graphs of the environmentalists campaign of the very young environmentalists campaign is nominated in theory she can't be nominated for the coming prize because she's she kind of missed the window of being nominated but if she is nominated

seats and maybe even if she doesn't get it what's the message that sends a not just to the will but also to hug generation. well actually we know for a fact that she is nominated she's nominated by 3 know each place by the deadline so she can see and when the crew is technically i think. her achievements woods possibly be part of a great teacher a consideration by the committee to award a price for using a gauge meant and participation in peace building activities and we have pointed to a couple of other candidates that we think perhaps are more closer to the topic of the nobel peace prize but of course awarding the. peace prize to a youth activist this time would certainly respond to what i think is a very strong sentiment in the national public and it would send a very strong signal that the youth are challenging the existing hastert tour dates

this concur restructure of the the current way of thinking that in a way that i think would be very helpful and very useful david and more so why is it certain winners particularly of the peace prize apparently find it difficult to live up to that moral standard that's been laid down in front of them with with the awarding of the prize i mean people like sun suchi you know yes the world loved of course it did for the right reasons at the right time in the right place however over the past 34 years because of what her country has or has not done over the reading the muslim crisis the world is reevaluating who she is and whether she should have got the prize in the 1st place. yes certainly for obama it was. it seemed like the prize was requests and requests that he deny and so soon like a tremendous disappointment and verisign i've heard. so many and he was great in

some in ways but for any one of the politics part which i left he was fairly consistent in the disappointment not curbing the military. rapinoe drone strikes. not really acting like a winner of the peace prize so i think sometimes they're hoping for something more progress the peace process of political and they don't get what they what they want . derek all the other awards in the world of science out there they're actually better than the nobel prize system because some scientific people some science people who go to see the physics of what they say actually it was bad news for them because it meant that everyone assumed they had fabulous moments of money behind them to do what they wanted to do so they say stops the they had a situation where students weren't coming to them and saying look i'm doing a ph d.

i want to work with you how's about it those those offers were just not coming through the system. i think has a great deal of pressure once somebody does win the award to go off on the late show circuit and it is possible to spend a lot of time traveling the world giving ticketed late just because people are interested in a nobel prize winners and they want to hear about their work and although that that's great from a public in gauge went point of view it can sometimes distract from the day to day the doing of science which is that which is what has won the there ward in the 1st place some and some scientists virtually retire what once they've received the nobel prize that and it comes at it because it comes towards the end of the career of the men and that goes back to what i was mentioning earlier about their wards of prizes to people for for large bodies of what we might call the lifetime achievement nobel prizes it is slightly different in the peace prize as we've heard that we might award the prize to 2 critter who is very young and of course

a couple of years ago malala won for her work promoting education and literacy among girls in pakistan and afghanistan and nearly paid for that work with with her life so it is much harder in science for a young person to when that it is possibly 2 and 2 and a piece price so consequently it does tends to mean that it is order scientists that when and then often their lace active after they've won the prize henrico delano slope if you had to come up with a prize system not dissimilar to nobel but you had a blank sheet of a 4 paper how would you change what the nobel committee does i think that. most of the time they're doing their their job very well one of the big discussions in norway has been the consistency of the. committee of course it's given for the other nobel peace prize in the local crisis but for the peace prize it's been a discussion about the whether or not the beach is sufficiently independent from

the government since it's now which apartment. names the their representatives and one of the big discussions in norway and internationally both the peace prize has been precisely what the we should be getting more competence from the research side more international participation more organized stations that work in this field to be part of the community and part of the. selection process for the prize winners no i think that that is perhaps the this is single most important change that i would do david do you get the feeling that the committee quite enjoys sometimes mixing it up a little bit and maybe enjoying the ripple effects of the consequences i'm thinking here but when donald trump was introduced to. she was the nobel peace prize winner she has done some incredibly very productive very strong high profile work the president of the united states the leader of the free world the defender of the

free world had virtually it would look like if one watched at the time he had no idea who she was. well it's not chumps 1st time being a total idiot i mean that that's the one thing that he's good at tens of millions of. now are least impressed americans voted for him because they recognize themselves and so. yeah it's not his 1st month of that and it's outrageous of course that he's put himself forward as a possible winner for peace prize but everything as outrageous and actually just written a novel about him that so rooted will never be published but it made him feel a little bit better to do terrible things to him every day for me while henrik mr trump says he would win if it's given a fairly but of course it is given a fairly. and i think the chances that he is getting the prize. the chance this is very low he's so we know for sure that he has been nominated by

the other members of the each parliament i think that that he needs to be able to demonstrate that he's been doing more long lasting. peace corps before he would be as it is seriously for us derek we seem to be saying here on inside story that the nobel prize system is not irrelevant but it needs to work at making itself more relevant if we go back a 100 years is there may be an indicator of that because mr nobel was fabulous the wealthy but he made his money of making arms that we used to kill people around the world yes that was a major motivation in setting up the prize that nobel felt that he had to have to put something back in and he recognized that he was working in an industry that late late to very many dates and he wanted to pay something back and he didn't institute a prize in mathematics interestingly and the fields prize has sort of comment to

fill that void so that's the one that mathematicians call for in my field in biology there are 2 categories that biologists can enter for one and one of them is came astri many biologists actually won the chemistry prize rather than chemists because of advances in molecular biology that's usually given for take nichol innovations and then a surprise in physiology in medicine which biologists usually go for if produced something which is of great medical and importance and is going to improve people's lives so perhaps we need we need an extension of the nobel prizes to include something more relevant to the modern scientific landscape something with artificial intelligence computer science people working and in programming and stuff like that can can have a prize at the categories that exist that moment reflect real. lee what was important back when no bell phone to the price is 100 years ago gentlemen run as a reuters david we're not far away from who will get the awards but who should we

be looking out for david byrne do you think in your will in your sphere in the world of literature well i hope that it goes to a woman if you were going to an american woman i would pick any prove marilynne robinson it's hard to know who will go to i've never been able to guess i'm more surprised i would love to learn the last word to cause are you sure oh he's fabulous and they deserve. more a wonderful writer and get her most happy. i was just in china for a month and residency i don't want to say that incorrectly that conscious way 'd she's in the betting. odds to possibly went but i don't think there's a new way of town that's alone i hope she's not american or canadian or european that will just have to see henry in last word to you can the nobel prize committee really carry on ad infinite sum overlooking so many talented people be it in the world of academia literature science why not give us an award for

mathematics say why not give us awards like up a lifetime achievement award he from. maybe that's the next step i think they're there hasn't been added a a nobel peace prize no price since since the there were no price for it in economics so maybe it's time now to to look into new areas gentleman we have to leave it there many thanks for your company thanks to our guests they were henry cordell derek gatherer and david van and thank you too for your company you can see the program again anytime on the website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion to check out our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter we're at a.j. inside story or you can tweet me i'm at peace don't be one for me peace adobe and the entire team here in doha bye bye for now i will see you very soon on.

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connection with donald trump's impeachment inquiry. to rest 276 people in britain's capital as climate activists protest there and around the world . and they're called the invisible people of stun i meet the man who is being recognized for ending bear stateless status. hello the pentagon says the u.s. does not endorse the turkish offensive in northern syria the comments come after u.s. troops evacuated to observation posts in the region the 1st stage of a long anticipated withdrawal of its forces turkey is expected to launch a major military offensive in the area and the u.s. now says its kurdish allies are on their own cynical so ugly reports. 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 had 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 always so 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 has been fortified 3 are 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 or 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.c.f. controlled areas of syria is unclear but the white house statement explicitly say

is that turkish forces will be responsible for all i still fighters in the area. the fighters are in prisons controlled by the s.t.'s and in a large camp called al hold that the kurds how long warned was a security risk the u.n. say is 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 city 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 although al-jazeera stumble. ibrahim callen is the spokesman and chief advisor for the turkish president reza tiber one he says the goal of the operation is to secure a safe zone to create

a space for refugees to return to we've been very responsible turkey has done more than any other country for the syrian people over the last 7 years and for the syrian refugees we have about 3500000 syrian refugees living in turkey for the last 4 or 5 years and our efforts in geneva in our stand out through the political process have always been to help the syrian people and we've done more than any other country when it comes to fighting isis or turkey has also done more than any other country when they eliminated more than 3000 die as terrorists in the jobless area but we have not occupied any part of syria when we did that we have no interest in occupying any part of syria in the east of euphrates or the west we are determined to fight against unabated we have fought against them along the turkish syrian border on the turkish soil on the iraqi side when we helped them in fact in mosul and other places we will never tolerate diet to come back in any form of

shape or shape they're in syria or in iraq or somewhere else but let's remember this is not all. only one country has responsibility it is the international community's responsibility and in fact it's the failure of the international community that they have not been able to help the syrian refugees bring a political solution to the conflict and destroy isis once and for all. we will do. what we can do in fact without a full capacity to make sure that isis doesn't come back in any form or shape but we will coordinated with the u.s. with europeans with arab countries with iran with russia and others all of us consider diet to be an enemy and threat turkey is determined to clear those areas from any terrorist elements. we will return those places back to the local people the syrian refugees have refused to go back to places under p y

d y p to control because they never felt secure in those places but in jobless oz's and other places where we have returned the city is back to the local residents more than 350000 syrian refugees have gone back to their homes secondly p.g. has arrest killed or kidnapped not only arabs kurds and others who do not subscribe to their ideology but also christian children. syria and syria community has made a number of statements about this. kidnapping their christian children to invest them in their ranks so what they have done there in fact is is a threat to serious territorial integrity political unity and the safety and prosperity of the syrian people our goal is to secure our borders just as any country cares about their border security we have to take care of our own border

security and make sure that the syrian refugees go back to their homes where they've come from safely and voluntarily. well trumps the solution has been criticized widely house speaker nancy pelosi has called it deeply disturbing and called on him to reverse the decision even some of the president's closest allies have criticized the decision the us president has responded tweeting the following as i have stated strongly before if turkey does anything that i in my great and unmatched wisdom consider to be off limits i will totally destroy. the economy of turkey they must with europe and others watch over the captured isis fighters and families the u.s. has done far more than anyone could have ever expected kimberly halkett has more reaction from washington d.c. . this is a major shift in u.s. policy catching much of washington by surprise after its announcement by the white house late on sunday evening this goes against the conventional wisdom of not just

state department officials but also officials in the pentagon that favored a small troop presence to to act as a counterweight to iran and russia and also to fight i sold now this is being met by statements from the pentagon saying in fact that this will create risk for turkey with potentially destabilizing consequences this is also being criticized heavily by members of the president's own republican party senior senator lindsey graham as well as members of the senior or rather the foreign relations committee in the u.s. senate democratic member to be specific bob menendez saying that this is up ending a longstanding policy with an impulsive and politically driven decision that will sacrifice long term u.s. national security interests now the u.s. president has long signaled his desire to get out of what he calls endless foreign wars and there is a lot of thinking in washington that this is exactly what the president is trying

to do satisfy his domestic audience keep that 2016 campaign promise with the 2020 presidential election on the horizon but the concern is that this is going to also have a devastating effect on the humanitarian situation in the region save the children issuing a statement saying that it is deeply concerned of the hundreds of thousands of people present in north eastern syria 1650000 people in need of humanitarian assistance that's why they're calling on foreign governments to ensure that basic services like food water shelter health care that that is provided because the concern is as there are already military operations and reports of those operations in the works that these issues of protecting the people caught in the midst will be forgotten. let's bring in what they are t was the syria and iraq policy advisor to the united states ambassador to the united nations samantha power is joining us via skype from washington this is

thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera what do you think trumps thinking is behind this decision at this time to pull u.s. troops out paving the way for the turkish operation i think you you know nobody ever knows exactly what donald trump is thinking when he does the things he does but it's clear that following his conversation with the turkish president or 2 on he got a brilliant and possible choice either watch the turkish military march into these areas against. u.s. wishes. and make the u.s. look very weak or say that you have agreed to it and watch them are still those areas and i think he chose the latter now what's puzzling is his follow on statement that he will blitz but liberate the turkish economy is just very strange but also not surprising to hear you know given that it's coming from him at the end

he really made the only decision that he could have made i think obviously he's a he's gotten a lot of pushback at nancy pelosi a statement just coming in the past couple of minutes in the pentagon saying that the u.s. doesn't endorse the starkest operations the thing department's official at least one of them describing it as a very bad idea what do you make of those reactions look i agree in principle that i think the united states should have even a larger number of troops and civilians. you know professionals in that area to help the local communities kurds and arabs to rebuild their lives to welcome more you know displaced people and to defend themselves from from the regime of the matter of fact unless pelosi and those other people want to send 10000 u.s. troops in northern syria.