how they would pool on the stories that matter the most giving an accurate informative story out of there is not easy because it too late we already have the information the listening post on. president donald trump threatens turkey's economy as tensions rise along the syrian border. hello i missed the attack and this is al jazeera live from dire are also coming up nearly 100 people killed and thousands displaced as ethnic violence in eastern democratic republic of congo intensifying. not playing by the rules why a tweet by the manager of an american basketball team has sparked a political firestorm in china. our ability to continue to redefine every single

day what it is to be canadian what it means to be canadian and canada's prime minister attempts to put scandals behind him as he fights for his political future . techie's defense minister says its forces are ready to begin a military offensive into northern syria the us president has begun withdrawing troops from the region and threatened to destroy turkey's economy if a tax cut is fighters there and as can be how could reports from washington d.c. transactions are drawing criticism from across the political divide. as u.s. troops begin pulling out of positions in northern syria their commander in chief donald trump defended his decision to withdraw now we've captured isis we've done what we've done we had 50 soldiers in the area talking about it and i said we want

to bring our soldiers back home it's been a long time it's a major shift in u.s. foreign policy one being criticized by members of the president's own republican party senator lindsey graham one of trump's biggest supporters on twitter pledged to reverse the withdrawal of the u.s. senate calling it a disaster in the making a move also backed by the top democrat in the senate and i can tell you this it is getting roland condemnation from democrats and republicans and i expect congress will take some form of action either a resolution or something even more. u.s. officials credit kurdish forces with helping take back territory from eisel in northern syria but there are tensions between turkey and the kurds the turkish government considers one of its most effective fighting forces the p.k. k. to be a terrorist organization some u.s. lawmakers are threatening to sanction turkey potentially calling for its suspension

from nato if it attacks kurdish forces in northern syria but trump went even further threatening to economically obliterate turkey if the kurds are attacked i have told turkey that if they do anything outside of what we would think is you main they could suffer the wrath of a an extremely decimated economy still trump has long been vocal about his desire to get the u.s. out of what he calls america's endless wars trumps impulsive syria strategy has led to key members of his administration resigning last year his defense secretary james mattis and brett mcgurk eisel special envoy what this shows president. all of his predecessors were whether republican or democratic is only concerned about himself we have a moral responsibility to the kurds because without them we would not have

destroyed the caliphate in his statement on monday the pentagon made clear to turkey the united states does not back turkish operations in northern syria believing it will have a destabilizing effect on the region president trump campaigned in 2016 promising to withdraw the united states from foreign wars now with the 2020 u.s. election just a little more than a year away it appears potential voters not his senior advisers are the ones trying to care about pleasing most kimberly help at al-jazeera the white house. that is live for us and to cut a on turkey's border with syria but 1st let's go to sin and cos we don't know who's in istanbul for us some turkey is waking up this morning to this. threat from tromso how is the country reacting i see the leader is already sliding. yes an aside yesterday in the late afternoon the liril lost value against the u.s.

dollar but it wasn't a very very significant run but it was an expected move because the markets are sensitive to these kinds of political developments in turkey and the reaction from the public i can say is it is embracing the decision by the turkish government and the military it to conduct an operation to establish a safe zone let me say like this now stands there in turkey in any flight against the outpolled kurdistan workers party which is deemed as a terrorist organization by turkey of the us and the e.u. is found illegitimate by the public because there was a war between the sorghum ization end the state for decades long more than 3 decades and it cost like almost $40000.00 lives from both sides so that's why they feel like they're not fighting against the kurds in syria but and i'll go they're going to zation which is a marxist leninist one which it which the turks also blew will be suppressive for the syrians as well there are reactions against u.s.

president donald trump's tweets especially the which targeted turkish economy actually that there is there's an expectation that uncle i should go an answer to that but yesterday ibrahim cullen presidential spokesperson. who was guess that by al-jazeera in the evening he said that the turkish leader is going to answer this with wisdom so it's not sure whether prisons are done took it seriously but this is not perceived positively by the politicians and the public but as i said at the turkish community welcomes that the situation for a safe zone again to clear out the p.k. k. factions and itself in in northeastern syria simcoe say only there for us in istanbul thank you said and well let's now go to charles stratford he is live for us in action on the tacky syria border charles how soon could we be expecting texas troop movements where you are because no one's been saying his army is ready to

launch operations at any moment. yeah it's very difficult to predict certainly we're getting unconfirmed reports in the turkish media that there was some shelling that has taken place in recent hours a town called. across the border which we understand well it's to the east of here quite at quite a distance from here behind me across the border there is the town of. interestingly there is that in fact a joint turkish and us command station based here and we see the u.s. and the turks taking part in patrols in this area we also understand the reports around 2 dozen u.s. fool sees certainly some of those 2 dozen actually withdrew from. in the last certainly the last 24 hours it's very difficult to say if indeed any military

operation does happen when in fact it will we will so hearing though certainly reports last night that troop movements what was described as heavy weaponry being moved into positions and areas along this border. and of course we as we've been discussing you know this has huge ramifications in terms of both the security of this region and the geopolitics as well the s.d.f. which is made up of the main faction of the group known as the white p.j. . considers a terrorist organization and for years has been as said that it's planned to take back control of this area that is controlled by the s.d.f. in the white p.g. because it sees the white p.g. as a terrorist organization but they have been hugely effective in the fight against eisel in this area and they've said that any kind of military attack against them they

will responds to. describe defend their people. they say that poses a huge potential security risk because they say that they will not be able to guarantee the continued incarceration for example of thousands of prisoners that are held in prisons along this border so you can just imagine the kind of ramifications both in terms of security and geopolitics huge and charles i want to ask you more about the i thought fighters because the u.s. has said that they're handing over responsibility for all of those detained i thought feiss to taki so do we have any indication yet as to how tech is going to deal with them on. know no real indication yet how how that's going to how that's going to play out obviously there's been huge reluctance by europeans to take back members of eisel and the u.s.

as well. as a huge responsibility to deal with these i mean i think that the numbers are reportedly 2000 forward fights is held by the s.d.a. when i say foreign i'm only european and this around 8000 iraqi and syrian fighters as well i still fight is that of being held so any kind of military operation in this if controlled territory has huge security risks an off the wall can only really be described as a as a massive success i mean i remember reporting along this border a couple of years ago and you would see i still attacks from across from across the border i still had a huge presence in this area so the s.d.f. have been massively effective instrumental and has endorsed by president trump himself so yeah there is a lot of speculation as to whether in fact this operation has started yet but as i

say the ramifications in terms of security and geopolitics a huge child strata there keeping an eye on things for us on the syrian taki border thank you johnny. well on to other news now and iraq's president has condemned attacks on protest as during violent anti-government demonstrations rallies continued throughout the night butting tires and disrupting roadways despite it's caused by a bomb site of a car on friday is edging parliament to address protest as demands and to ensure the rights of iraqis are protected more than 110 people have been killed in iraq just over the past week imran khan met one victim's family in the capital baghdad. look at that look how beautiful he is says in the hate them it is one of the protesters shot dead by iraqi security forces he was 27 years old on thursday he joined protesters in central baghdad frustrated with the lack of jobs and opportunities he saw

a child's to get his voice heard he left home in the afternoon he never returned clearly in short term haitham just keeps repeating how beautiful her son is a family friend speaks on her behalf i did he didn't hurt anyone he didn't harm anyone what is the crime of these young men these beautiful young men the government is to blame accuse the government of murdering he wasn't just my neighbor he was like assad family. the government and the army say they haven't targeted protest is that although it's brother must of thought says ahmed was shot in the head by a sniper as he tried to help another protester who had been shot in the leg while. some people say the shooters are rainy and they're lying there from our country it's the iraqi army killing iraqis. it is the head of the popular mobilization people says a mainly shia paramilitary group he says his forces didn't take part in the operation against the protesters as i am reaffirming that the interior ministry

with the support from the military are the ones who stop these protests however the popular mobilization forces in the persian burgo are reserve forces for the commander of the armed forces. only interfere to fight any conspiracy whenever an order is given and the order was given this time across south and central iraq people are putting up pictures of those who have been killed and placing the blame on the government the army and the government say that they will investigate the deaths of the protesters but that hasn't slowed the protest movement down in fact if anything judging by the jones the deaths have actually field the movement iraq on al-jazeera baghdad now weeks of violence in eastern democratic republic of congo have left at least 100 people dead and tens of thousands displaced the fighting has been happening and found and military officials have told al jazeera more troops have been sent to the affected areas but they're dealing with fighters who are well

equipped and well organized catherine sawyer reports. with what evelyn. for some just the clothes they are wearing. has been fighting in the mañana area that's in the eastern region of south kivu in democratic republic of congo. thousands of people mainly from the ethnic community have fled from their homes after attacks from a local militia group called my my. they're now living rough outside this compound of a u.n. peacekeepers base to live the lives we left on food in the village and now we're just bagging if the my my that have done this to us in the city. they took our cows goats and all other belongings and we can't go back to the village to collect food and we're sleeping outside in the cold. this is what is left back in the villages have to fighting between 2 rival armed groups more than 9000 houses have been

banned close to a 100 people killed and livestock stolen congolese military officials say they're pursuing the fight as. when i arrived in this area i met thousands running away because of the situation the 2 rival groups that are fighting from the community and a coalition of the mai-mai militia we are hoping to restore order. in another village we made some members of the my my group they say the rival militia provoked them. we did not stop the attack they did they accuse us of stealing their animals yes we did during times of war like this they have also killed or a lot of us. the problem with is that they come to us 1st their militia group called in go mino also burn our homes and rape our women that's why our fighters are angry the security situation is still tense fighting is going on in

some areas the united nations peacekeeping mission and congolese army have deployed more troops to protect civilians both militia groups are say to behave in the armed and neither is ready to back down catherine saw. off tell ahead on al-jazeera greenberry on trial in colombia faces a tough past as an influential former president faces the supreme court. and there's some very stormy conditions across central and southern portions of europe and just look at the satellite just a massive cloud but the heavy rain further to the south is moving fairly swiftly 6 rechy say this rain really stretching through southern italy across to greece pushing up into turkey and eventually up into those western areas of russia then to

the north another system bringing widespread rain and clouds winds a fairly brisk on choose day but in between both of these systems you got some very nice weather 16 in vienna and a very pleasant 23 celsius in rome and then through wednesday everything clear is really quite quickly away from the southeast a very nice day in athens 23 feeling cool a bit very nice with 21 under those good sunny skies and then really much of northern europe is under the sway the cloud those showers and some pretty brisk wind site now on wednesday coming in there from the north and the west but not feeling too bad 15 celsius in london and paris despite the fact you got a lot of the charms of some showers now that same system in the mediterranean is going to linger really across northern africa so 3 cheese day libya this is where we like to see the showers and they tend to linger as we head into wednesday so we could see some low class flash floods and slightly feeling cooler the high the a 25 in tunis.

hello again i missed your tape and a reminder of our top stories this hour turkey says it's all set for

a possible military offensive in northeast and syria the defense ministry says ontario has been positioned on a border town a day off to u.s. forces withdrew from the area. iraq's president has condemned attacks on protesters during violent anti-government demonstrations rallies continued throughout the night despite calls by about himself a call more than 110 people have been killed in iraq over the past week. and at least 100 people have been killed and thousands displaced in violence in the eastern democratic republic of congo military officials say more troops have been deployed to the region to stop rival groups from fighting. now protesters in hong kong are expected to again defy an order banning face masks more rallies planned on tuesday days after the city's chief executive introduced the restriction carry lamb has defended the territories ban on face masks and says other measures to restore order remain

a possibility. at this point in time i still strongly feel that we should find the solutions of steps that that is also the position of the central government that hong kong should tackle the problem on her own but if the situation becomes so bad. that no options could people if we want hong kong to at least to have another chance now a tweet by the manager of an american basketball team about those protests in hong kong has sparked political fallout houston rockets general manager daryl morey has apologized after posting an image saying fight for freedom and stand with hong kong his comments angered many of the team's chinese fans and some chinese businesses have also cut ties with the rockets but the pressure from china has also sparked a rebuke from u.s. politicians as a time when trade ties are already tense look at the people of hong kong large

protesting for something we fortunately have here in america which is freedom as vs this country symbolized by the statue of liberty to try to gary. a general manager or anybody who is speaking out in favor of the hong kong protester is wrong and i hope that basketball will understand that it's un-american to gag the people when they're speaking out on behalf of freedom. and our correspondent rob about this and has more from beijing. the overwhelming response on chinese social media to what's been happening in the united states has predominantly being that they love the n.b.a. they love basketball but they love china more basketball is the number one sport in china it's eclipsed even the football china back in august hosted the basketball world cup and there are 2 n.b.a. matches that are being held in china this month one of which is in shenzhen one of

which is shanghai and one of them is featuring the l.a. lakers but the industry itself in china is enormous as well kids buy basketball jerseys basketball shoes bags anything branded with the n.b.a. and then the thing to do with basketball one of the reasons for its popularity is actually the time difference between the united states when the games are broadcast and when the games are shown here there's about a 12 hour time difference and that means that the games are shown predominantly around at lunch times here in china particularly on saturdays and sundays and that means that it's picked up an enormous audience because there's very little all those sports that's being shown on chinese t.v. at that time but here in china the response has been very significant very very patriotic and very nationalistic the global times newspaper which is a state owned newspaper and supports the government has published an editorial this morning saying that china is not being sensitive on this matter it is simply that

hong kong is a very serious issue and it does not want it treated lightly it does accuse the united states of hypocrisy by saying the united states is very confident in its rights as far as freedom of speech are concerned but it seems to avoid those rights when for example it comes to talking to india and pakistan about issues with kashmir so a very significant uprising in nationalistic feeling towards china with regard to what's been going on in the united states the question is now whether or not this issue can blow over if the general manager of the hoost in rockets decides to for example resign or is sacked or whether this could actually continue. well separately the united states is also blacklisting $28.00 chinese tech firms that developed facial recognition other artificial intelligence technology the u.s.

says the technology is being used to oppress china's muslim minority groups the blacklist bars u.s. firms from selling technology to those companies without government approval rights groups say china has detained around 1000000 weak as and other muslims and what it calls a reeducation camps in the west and. well prime minister justin trudeau has spent canada's final election debate fending off attacks from all sides as opposition leaders try to pick apart his tan shadow is leading in the polls but as a less popular than he was and 2015 john hendren reports from got to know in quebec . in a battle for his political life prime minister justin trudeau absorbed withering attacks from both sides justin trudeau only pretends to stand up for canada you know he's very good at pretending things he can't even remember how many times he put black face on it in the only english language debate in canada's brief 40 day campaign again and again trudeau took fire 1st from the right mr trudeau you're

a phony and your fraud and you do not deserve to govern this country and then from the left the problem is that you said a lot of these things in 2015 so what's it going to take now for canadians to believe that you're actually going to fall through your promises what's it going to take for you to follow through on these commitments because your words are not a good enough say thinks it's not good enough to have better rather reckon mr steer you bought a pipeline it kept the a climate leader and spent $10.00 to $13000000000.00 more on a project that by itself blows through our carbon buys it to be fair it was reminiscent of to those charismatic debut on the political scene in a celebrity boxing match as in that fight he struck back 1st to the people's party candidate who was accused of tweeting bigotry all your rowers at age 96 be arses say publicly what mr share things privately and then directly to his closest rival conservative party leader andrew scheer who arrived to mock in chants of.

that is a reference to his recently revealed dual canadian and us citizenship and your plan is to rip up the only serious plan to fight climate change than it has ever had right in a day in time so how are you as well mr scherer has vowed to eliminate trudeau's carbon. tax which he calls too expensive polls give only. a realistic chance of winning a mandate in the october 21st election but the other candidates could become kingmakers analysts expect the liberal party to lose seats possibly even its majority and that would leave each side scrambling to form a coalition with enough votes to control parliament and the prime ministership in the end political analysts say the campaign is a referendum on trudeau's tenure at the question is do we want to continue for next year is it with with or is it that bad that we want to change and go back to the previous government no i. wanted at a time one of the time we are to be contentious field vying for position just 2

weeks from election day none of the contenders seemed to want to leave a crossword unspoken john hendren 0. demonstrators have again taken to the streets in haiti's capital for a 4th week since anti-government protests resumed people satires on fire demanding the resignation of president. they're angry at what they say is his mishandling of the economy along with chronic food and fuel shortages at least 17 people have been killed in the ongoing protests and nearly 200 more engines. now former colombian president alviro riba is expected to appear in front of the country's supreme court on tuesday on criminal charges he is accused of trying to bribe witnesses who say he was behind the creation of death squads in the 1990 s. and reports from dr. wonder presidential election as an outsider in 2002 many believed columbia was falling apart. folks rebel group was stronger

than ever by a loosing kidnappings were daily occurrences making the country synonymous with a failed state the only item on the political agenda was war with the rebels and was the man for the job so he's immensely popular. because he captures this imagination of the strong man the person who delivered resolves on this program on this problem that we seem able to. push through them very charismatic politician with a populist streak he governed with an iron hand assisted by billions of dollars sent by the united states he successfully pushed the goodly your group back into the jungle but his success came at a cost his administration particularly during his 2nd term was beset by corruption and human rights abuses his secret service was found guilty of supplying

a list of suspected rebel sympathizers to right wing death squads and thousands of innocent colombians were killed by the army and presented as rebels to boost statistics i think our long history with the armed conflict has not related us to some of the humor that mentions and consequences of the conflict right so people don't care if some human rights are trampled in the process that it's about to go back to the beginning of his career as he was accused of connections with drug cartels including the escobar and being the mastermind behind the creation of blood tears through paramilitary groups yet despite hundreds of investigations he has never been charged until now. he remains popular in a secret society in this his particular him his party still his duty percent of the vote and is an institutional here to touch the president as his men secondly these investigations haven't until now various witnesses in paramilitary trials have been

killed and this to go. for one reason or another and since leaving office he has remained popular in the vice of equally hated in glorified from a senate seat he has led the opposition to the peace deal with the fire and propelled korean president to do. a political victory now he's for the 1st time expected to face the country's supreme court leaving an entire country in suspense alison. and again i'm going with the headlines turkey says it's all set for a possible military offensive in north east and syria the defense ministry says artillery has been positioned on a border town a day after u.s. forces withdrew from the area iraq's president has condemned attacks on protesters

during violent anti-government demonstrations rallies continued throughout the night burning tires and destruction roadways despite calls by barham salih the current. parliament to ensure the rights of iraqis are protected more than 110 people have been killed in iraq just over the past week. i'm told support the formation of a committee made a professional a credible experts and opening the door for a constructive dialogue with the main powers especially are some protesters we will also work to make sure that the community will have national consensus and independence so we can identify the problem for the solution he would so we can start in a flexible process of reform in c.s. the united states is blacklisting $28.00 chinese tech firms the developed facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technology the us says the technology is being used to repress china's muslim minority groups the blacklist bars us from from selling technology to those companies without government approval rights

groups say china has detained around 1000000 weak as and other muslims in the western region. a tweet by the manager of an american basketball team about the protests in hong kong has sparked political fallout houston rockets general manager daryl morey has apologized after posting an image saying fight for freedom and stand with hong kong his comments angered many of the team's chinese fans and some chinese businesses have cut ties with the rockets demonstrators have again taken to the streets in haiti's capital for a 4th week since anti-government protests resumed people set tires on fire demanding the resignation of president john elway's they are angry at what they say is his mishandling of the economy along with chronic food and fuel shortages well those are the headlines join me for more news here on al-jazeera off the inside story stay with us with a record number of nominations the world waits to see 2019 or about peace prize the

nobel committee will announce the winner on friday down to 0 and has been awarded exclusive international rights to interview the way down to the award ceremony december the nobel prize announces era. it's 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 w. 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 when.