so no matter where you call him i'll just bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. al jazeera. old. president donald trump threatens turkey's economy as tensions rise along the syrian border. hello i'm just saying this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iraq's president condemns attacks on protesters and the media security forces to preserve the rights of all iraqis where live in baghdad. nearly 100 people killed and thousands displaced as ethnic violence in eastern democratic republic of congo

intensifying. and not playing by the rules why a tweet by the manager of an american basketball team has sparked a political firestorm in china. now turkey's defense minister says its forces are ready to begin a military offensive into northern syria the u.s. president has begun withdrawing troops from the region and threatened to destroy turkey's economy if a tax cut is fighters there will be live on the turkish short syrian border in a moment but fast can be how could reports from washington d.c. where 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 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 isolating 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 a 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. at the syria turkey border charles out on has been saying that his army is ready to launch operations at any moment so how soon are we expecting to his trip movements where you are. well certainly there has been troop movement in this area behind me across the border is the town of. which is

obviously controlled by the s.d.s. we know that they are on the scene weapons heavy weapons close to this position and as you report the government says that it is ready for any kind of offensive there were unconfirmed reports overnight certainly of heavy weaponry being moved into positions along the border certainly in the last couple of hours as well we've had unconfirmed reports according to local schools use of what's being described as a bombardment by turkish forces of a town called el key which is in the far east along the border but as i say no official statement from the military. obviously there's a lot of tension here a lot of people very concerned and the s.d.f. describing this announcement by don't trump as being a stab in the back and they have promised to respond any to any attack by the turkish military to defend what they describe is that people and there of course

huge concerns about the kind of security ramifications this could have been thousands of of eisel prisoners being held captive by the s.d.f. the s.d.f. saying that any kind of move by the turks against them would threaten. their endeavor and their success in containing these these i saw feiss so yeah huge ramifications here but potentially but very difficult despite this announcement from the military saying that it's ready very difficult to predict exactly when any kind of military operation would start well charles is as you say there are many many eyes the fight as in caddis custody at the moment the u.s. has said and made their pull out that they are handing over responsibility for those detained i suffices to taki any indication yet as to how tech is going to deal with all of them. that's right yes president trump said that any any kind of move by the turks would incur will mean that the the the would

would take over responsibility for these eisel prisoners and there's a lot of them. around 8000 syria and iraq are still prisoners in prisons controlled by the s.d.f. there around 2000 i salute prisoners from approximately 50 other countries and then of course there are all the 5000s of thousands of tens of thousands will of family members that are held in refugee camps so there has been no indication as yet by the turkish government about any kind of plan on how to deal with those prison this if indeed we are to see a military operation in the coming hours or days ahead. had watching things for us at the syrian taki border thanking china on joshua landis is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and he says that trump has little knowledge of what might become of kaddish forces if techie doesn't

launch a military offensive but this shows the real collapse of the foreign policy process in the white house we've seen this before in it in korea decisions and tweets that were made about the iran situation in the gulf just a week ago people are guessing what america's going to do next and this is this is clearly not good trump wants to get america out of syria which is understandable he promised in his campaign that he would end the stupid wars in the middle east and he wants to fill some of that now that makes sense the trouble is he knows very little promise of lee about the long history between the kurds and turkey he doesn't realize how brutal the turkish army will be once it gets amongst the kurds . and in news just in at least 13 people have been injured in an explosion as

university in afghanistan local media are reporting that the blast happened at university in the southeastern city of gaza any on tuesday no group has yet claimed responsibility now iraq's president has condemned attacks on protesters during violent anti-government demonstrations in a t.v. address barham saleh urged parliament to address protesters demands and called on security forces to ensure the rights of all iraqis are protected. and i support the formation of a committee made a professional is credible experts he said opening the door for a constructive dialogue with the main powers especially our son. we will also work to make sure that the committee will have national consensus and independence so we can identify the problem for the solution he had so we can start in a flexible process of reform and so yes well our correspondent in iran can join us live from baghdad iran talk us through what's been happening overnight in the capital after all this violence is it beginning to calm. well there is certainly

a sense that there was a lull in the clashes between the security forces and the protesters overnight not just here in baghdad but across central and southern iraq now what we saw in baghdad was very small protests take place in southern a city and another neighborhood so the city has been under. surrounded sorry by the army for very for a few days now and that's really angered the protesters because they believe that the army has been firing indiscriminately at the protesters the government seem to have listen to that concern from the protesters they are replacing the army with federal police forces and that may well be a reason why the protests in southern city here in baghdad didn't weren't in the kind of number that we have seen on previous days but in the rest of the country we're also hearing that the crackdown may have actually scared people what we're hearing in some of the cities in the cell is that police have been stopping young

men they've been taking a look at their mobile phones and if there's any protest pages on the any protest video on there they've been asking the men to delete that video if there is over a certain amount we don't know how much what amount to that is the videos of pitches those men have been taken into custody this is an unconfirmed report but it's coming from multiple sources. has spoken to in the cell so it's a combination of 2 things it's beat it may well be because there is now a kind of a sense that the protesters need to give the government some sort of chance to react but it's also to do with the heavy handed tactics the government of using that may well be putting protesters off and run does this mean then that protest so waning and is this being driven by politicians what developments on the political front. well problem is the luddy is under a tremendous amount of pressure at the moment he's actually formed a committee to investigate the events of the last 7 days that hasn't been enough to

appease his political opponents are all gunning for his job they are now taking a real look at whether they'll be able to force this government into early elections this government is just over a year old is not very old at all and they inherited a lot of these problems in the protesters actually understand as well that they blame the political system generally not just any one political party or any government in particular they say it's the system that's corrupt now the opposition politicians the religious parties are taking advantage of that and they're piling all the pressure but the reason we're seeing this lull not just in the protest but in the politics as well is the everybody seems to be getting their ducks in a row as it were they trying to figure out what to do next whether it's worth putting pressure on the government for elections or whether the protesters won't accept that and will keep protesting and have a large number in the days to come so we're in a bit of

a reset period has to be said both politically and for the protesters and non-con that life for us in baghdad thank you emma. well weeks of violence in eastern democratic republic of congo have left at least 100 people dead and tens of thousands there displaced the fighting has been happening in south kivu and military officials have told al-jazeera that more troops have been sent to the affected areas that they're dealing with fighters who are well equipped and organized catherine so it reports. you know if camilo with what evan little they could solve each other with 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 to attack from a local militia group called by my buffalo are all dead now living rough outside this compound of a u.n. peacekeeping space the letter delivered to the us we left our food in the village

and now we're just back if the my my that have done this to us he said there will be. they took our cows goats and all other belongings 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 of 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 fighters. 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 my my militia we are hoping to restore order. in another village limits 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. well still ahead on al-jazeera violent protests in ecuador as anger grows over shop price rises following an i.m.f. debt deal. so i think it's very sad for a country i think it makes it harder to do my job and more trouble for the u.s. president as democrats expand their impeachment inquiry issuing subpoenas to both

the pentagon and the white house. hello there it is a very unsettled picture across much of europe at the storms in the southeast working away through the central eastern mediterranean and then look at this is a massive cloud across the north tied toward it big systems like a star with that it so working for a fairly quickly south was bringing some very heavy amounts of rain through france the low countries germany own poland and also back up in the sky on the nagle some snow on the vocals there as well some very strong winds are those warnings in place along these a coastal areas facing the will see where we could see some very strong winds indeed and then look at all this rain across the southeast but it is moving fairly quickly bringing those temperatures down of course and up to the not coming back up

very quickly as we head through wednesday but there will be some nice sunshine 22 in athens 21 celsius in ankara the temperature of moscow is a lot cooler 5 degrees on tuesday 7 celsius on wednesday and that is why because he's in sleet pushing in there's a mix really there of sleet and rain as you can say and then it's very unsettled wednesday across much of central western europe that rain really quite heavy along the line of the house pushing across into austria as well and that same system impacting the central eastern med this will continue to work its way very slowly east would say we've got rain showers in the 4 calls tuesday and wednesday into tunisia and across into libya. with a sponsor tone and. what are you protesting about how does this impact their online life face minstrelsy comes directly out of translated slavery or if you join us on saying this is an attack on academic freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely this is

a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice in the trenches through 'd the discussion issue over the northern europe we talk about the solutions on al-jazeera. hello again i'm mr entire hour in mind 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 artillery 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 and media during violent anti-government demonstrations more than 110 people have

been killed in iraq just over the past week and thousands have been injured. at least 100 people have been killed and thousands displaced and violence in eastern democratic republic of congo more troops have been deployed to stop rival groups there from fighting. now protesters in hong kong are expected to again defy an order banning face masks chief executive kerry lad 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 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. well chinese state television has now announced it will not and the n.b.a. preseason games that's in response to a tweet by the manager of the american basketball team about those protests in hong kong kristen rockets general manager daryl morey has apologized after posting an image saying fight for freedom 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 from matheson 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 busked ball 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 its self in china is enormous as well kids buy basketball jerseys basketball shoes bags anything branded with the n.b.a. and anything 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 lunchtimes 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 but 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 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. now separately the united states is also blacklisting $28.00 chinese tech firms that developed facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technology the u.s. says the technology is being used to repress china's muslim minority groups the

blacklist bars u.s. firms from setting technology to those companies without government approval rights groups say that china has detained around $1000000.00 weak is and of the muslims and what it calls reeducation camps in the west and region while some some electronics says its operating profits have dropped by more than a hof in the 3rd quarter compared to a year ago analysts say the slump could be due to declining prices for its chips as well as we can demand for its mobile devices the company is expected to report its final results later this month well e.u. ministers are in luxembourg trying to reach agreement on the share of migrants each member states should take germany and france is fully and malta last month agreed to a proposal that would automatically distribute migrants rescued from the mediterranean but they need the backing of other e.u. states for the plan to work finland's interior minister is chairing the meeting and she wouldn't say if any other countries are leaning toward signing up while the

meeting comes as rescuers continue their search for at least 15 people who are still missing after an overloaded migrant boat capsized near the italian island of lampedusa at least 13 women died some of them pregnant 22 people were rescued the boat had set sail from june asea nobody on board was given life jackets more than a 1000 people have died in the mediterranean sea this year. ecuador's president has decided to move the government from quito to the coastal city of kill this comes after a 5th day of demonstrations against the introduction of austerity measures protesters are angry that the government has scrapped 40 year old fuel subsidies. reports. the protesters built roads and put up barricades on the outskirts of the ecuadorian capital in tow ahead of a nationwide strike and must march planned on wednesday then they must deliver we need to rise up until this problem with fuel prices is resolved we're not going to

give up we're all going to rise up until the present who goes down. interior ministry says hundreds of people have been arrested. for criminal damage despite the arrest president led him arenas says he has no plans to reverse his decision to scrap fuel subsidies as part of straight to stereotype measures. i am always ready to hold talks to extend a hand to people who are decent who are honest who really want to change the country i am convinced of dialogue with my indigenous brothers with whom we share many causes on how to use the country's resources for those who need it the most. reno who has sat on a centrist path that they say she says a sturdy measures are necessary to reduce debt and fiscal deficit in february his government signed a $4000000000.00 loan agreement with the international monetary fund the skepticism

of the i.m.f. run strong in ecuador they are going to do so they are rather. soft . but. every day you reward maybe they are going to go for another reason for a change in the. risk because of the violence merino has declared a state of emergency striking workers say they were located until the government reverses its decision victoria gay to be out there. whole to canada now where the final english language debate between leaders vying to become the next prime minister took place on monday evening current prime minister justin trudeau has seen his standings in the polls slip due to several scandals one of which involved pictures of him wearing blackface make up conservative leader and accuses the pm faking concerns for canadians. 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 blackface on because the fact of the matter is he's always wearing a mask he puts on a reconciliation mask and then fires the attorney general the 1st one of indigenous background he puts on a feminist mask and then fires 2 strong female m.p.'s for not going along with his corruption he puts on a middle class mask and then raises taxes on middle class communities mr trudeau you are a phony and your fraud and you do not deserve to govern this country our ability to continue to redefine every single day what it is to be canadian what it means to be canadian and yes. it will transform itself as we as we need to take leadership as we move forward and you always want to sit in grades are you always want truth i'm going to do simple around the way i'm more arrived late or is there. we are and i'm proud canadian like you and you know we build this country together and we want this country to be like that in 25 years we love this country and it's not because

i want to have a discussion about immigration that i'm running the only rolling stones at age 9 this is because to say publicly what mr scherer things privately. u.s. democrats have issued subpoenas to the defense secretary and the white house budget director demanding documents that could help them impeach the president the documents related all trance decision to delay military aid to ukraine out official reports. from washington's capitol building more subpoenas in the growing impeachment inquiry this time new secretary of defense mark esper and the acting white house budget director have been asked for any documents which explain the timing and the reason president trump withheld military aid to ukraine the president continues to condemn those behind the impeachment but also insists it's not hearting him it's lucky that i'm the president because i guess i don't know what a lot of people said very few people going to handle it i sort of thrive on it a 2nd whistleblower is no cooperating with the intelligence communities inspector

general his lawyers say he has firsthand knowledge of the july phone call from president trump asked his ukrainian counterpart to investigate joe biden and his son hunter alleging corruption he's yet to provide any evidence of that if you see something say something and that's what these courageous patriotic was a wars have been doing about ukraine a few republicans have split with the president's many criticizing the process instead although some like mitt romney have expressed concern tweeting out when the only american citizen president trump singles out for china's investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the democratic nomination process it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated will mean senator susan collins criticized the president's call for china to investigate the bidens to its deeply inappropriate many republicans saying the president was joking when he made that request i asked repeatedly in the white house if that was the

case president trump refused to answer alan fischer al-jazeera washington. well you can find much more on our website including detailed coverage of those tensions on the turkey syria border that's out is there a dot com. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines turkey says it's all set for a possible military offensive in northeastern syria the defense ministry says teller e has been positioned on a border town a day off to u.s. forces withdrew from the area iraq's president barham saleh has condemned attacks on protesters and media during violent anti-government demonstrations more than 110 people have been killed in iraq just over the past week and thousands have been injured protesters in hong kong are expected to again defy an order banning

facemasks chief executive kerry land has defended the territories ban on face masks and says that other measures to end the unrest remain a possibility at this point in time i still strongly feel that we should find the solutions of steps. that is also the position of the central government that hong kong should tackle the problem on her real card but if the situation becomes so bad. then no options. if we want hong kong to at least to have another chance for chinese state television has announced it will not any n.b.a. preseason games and that's in response to a tweet by the manager of an american basketball team about those protests in hong kong houston rockets general manager daryl morey has apologized after posting an image saying fight for freedom stand with hong kong his comments angered many of the team's chinese fans and some chinese businesses have cut ties with the rockets

. the united states is also blacklisting $28.00 chinese tech firms that develop facial recognition and other artificial intelligence technology the u.s. says the technology is being used to repress china's muslim minority groups the blacklist bothers us fans from selling technology to those companies without government approval rights groups say the china has detained around $1000000.00 weak as and other muslims in the western region demonstrators have again taken to the streets in haiti's capital for a 4th week since antigovernment protests resumed people said the tires on fire demanding the resignation of president john l. maureen's they're angry at what they say is his mishandling of the economy along with chronic food and fuel shortages well those are the headlines next stop it's the stream to stay with us here on al-jazeera. the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the u.s. . study after study demonstrate the israeli perspective dominated american media

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