the facts and the science behind the issues affecting our planet's. life really still liberated as a journalist was. going to the truth as a boy with multiple his job. digging in for a fight he lines up in solitary on syria's border the u.s. president's decision to pull out proves deeply unpopular it is getting all of the condemnation from democrats and republicans. hello i'm the star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up britain's prime minister is accused of playing the brakes a blame game as a deadline to leave europe the edges closer. nearly 100 people are killed and

thousands displaced as ethnic violence in eastern democratic republic of congo are intensifying. and brazil of faces and now the ecological disaster after an oil spill pollutes its coastline now the question is where did it come from. now to he says its forces are ready from military action in northern syria its defense ministry says preparations are complete but there is continuing criticism of the operation iran's foreign ministry says the mission will not end turkey's security concerns the u.s. president is facing widespread criticism domestically for pulling troops out of northern syria kurdish fighters in the region say donald trump's stabbed them in the back well we've got more u.s. reaction shortly but 1st let's go to charlie stratford and at turkey's border with syria charles how soon could we expect texas troop movements where you are we

hearing that they're prepped and ready to go. well that's right that's according to the army but of course it's very difficult to say certainly we've seen evidence in this area of a troop build up literally just a few minutes ago seen a couple of what looked to be how it says set up in a field close by we can't verify exactly when they were set up by the military but we've heard reports in the area all of that build up having gone on the last couple of days interestingly there were some reports earlier today which we cannot verify unconfirmed reports will be described as a bomb bomb and of a town called el malik which is to the east of here across the buddha. but as i say very difficult to confirm nothing official from the military that the situation here is increasingly tense interesting me about 23 hours ago we saw recross the

border in the town of tel ayoub tell which is behind me what looked to be some sort of protest by what could his members of that possibly the white p.g. waving white flags the wife the main fighting force all of the s.d.f. and the s.d.f. a valve to retaliate to any kind of to kish military escalation and of course there are serious concerns also with respect to the global fight against eyesore when you think that there are thousands all of my soul members in jails as the jails across the border and the s.d.f. saying that they're concerned that they could will be escapes if there was any escalation and they're also concerned about losing control all of areas that they took control from weisel in in recent years so the situation is tense here but it's very difficult to get any kind of stay as to when or indeed if

a military escalation by the turks will stand. well charles as you mentioned there are a lot of eyes the fire says he was still detained by the kurds and the u.s. has had to begin to hand them over to tacky as they pull out any indication yet as to how that's all going to walk. very is a lack of clarity from the turkish government on this issue as you say president trump said that any car any leisel prisoners that that are taken during any really truly escalation or operation by the turks than the turks must bear complete responsibility for them for those eisel fighters but nothing clear cut from the turks as to how they would deal with such a situation and there's a lot of them over there across the border we understand around $11000.00 around $8000.00 are still far reaches in jails from iraq and syria another 2000 from probably 50 other countries then there is the families the children and relatives

of i so far it is that are staying in camps so you just see that the potential ramifications ready to use military escalation with respect to those prisoners and any potential escape is a real concern and david childs track for that on the tacky syrian border keeping an eye on things for us thank you charlie. well as we mentioned president trump's decision to pull troops out has drawn criticism across the political divide our white house correspondent candy how has no. 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 you're 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 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 cares about pleasing most can really help at al-jazeera the white house now on to other news and the u.k. may threaten to withhold security cooperation from the european union if it doesn't get a break the deal syrian according to the spectator magazine the magazine size and british government sources are saying downing street will take an aggressive stance if talks break down prime minister johnson will have to ask the e.u. for a delay to bret's that if he cannot negotiate a deal by the end of the month well for more on this our correspondent lawrence lee is alive and london allowance now according to some publications be the one that we've just referred to that doris johnson used to be the editor of britain is threatening to get nasty. yeah it looks in terms

to be honest as though downing street is trying to manipulate a situation where they can basically pull the plug on the talks the 1st thing that happened overnight as you said was this anonymous briefing from someone very senior inside downing street some people think it was johnson's chief of staff saying effectively we're leaving it's either the end of the month with or without a deal or if we have to have an extension then we in the conservative party will campaign in the election to leave with no deal at all and if you make a stay in we will undermine you inside the european union from inside so why even bother giving us an extension and this anonymous source also said about the way the talks are going to break down later this week so just so you know. you know there's there's no point trying to carry on and they if it is the sense that you get that downing street is trying to blame the european union for all of this they say that the compromise deal is is generous. but it's absolutely hopeless from the european union's points of view the e.u. would already said that it thought the talks were probably break down the end the

week anyway but it looks like that is the direction that things are going now and learns anger macadamia spoken to by a stance ahead of that e.u. summit that's coming up next week what did he say. shane johnson spoke 1st thing this morning the might be a difference in interpretation downing street basically said merkel said that northern ireland's got to stay inside their sort of trades or bits of the european union forever that's what they said she said in the in the phone call and therefore based on that we can ever do a deal with these people and say we're off now you know people in berlin say that's not how merkel actually speaks about things and so when she says something later on today she may say she said something completely different but you know these these mood from the european union is so exasperated now donald tusk the president the european council tweeted that johnson was involved in what he describes a stupid blame game and when you reduce to that sort of level of language with the european union basically saying you people you know you say you want to deal with

actually you really don't stop blaming us for it and tell us what it is that you want instead you know think things really have collapse now you know and the question is actually when they come to the european union summit next week whether the european union actually still goes for an extension or abandons the entire project and i don't see that watching that more of red press from london thank you . brazil's president says an oil spill polluting his country's northeastern beaches since early september is not of brazilian origin but the next investigation still underway as i about an hour says it could be the result of criminal activity or a shipwreck sara horowitz has the latest. this is what an oil spill last month has done to this once pristine coastline along brazil's northeastern region 1500 kilometers of fix sticky mess that's damaging the environment at least 42 coastal cities have been affected present diable sonars says an investigation to find out

the cause is still under way by the state run oil company petro brass bazzi stopped short of naming a country he believes is responsible for the spill instead indicating it could be the result of a ship or criminal activity. the coastal states affected are particularly concerned about the timing it's the season for baby turtle hatchlings and to resume there could be a severe economic impact brazilian summer is just around the corner it starts basically end of november. early december so local authorities will be hoping that things are cleared up by there we have seen the state of say she's calling you know declaring this see us this couldn't have come a 2 worse time for the president has been under international pressure for his handling of the fires in the amazon last month. also now wants to develop dams and through mining and farming in his recent speech at the u.n.

he accused environmentalist of wanting to keep the amazon tribes might cave men. there have been protests in cities like rio de janeiro against his policies on climate change the brazilian veyron mental agency says it has cleaned up more than 100 tons of oil washed up more than 100 beaches in the northeast and as brazil investigates who or what caused the spill. it's not clear what the extent of the damage will be so. still ahead on al jazeera iraq's president condemns attacks on protesters and the media adding security forces to preserve the rights of abort iraqi. will thank. hello there it is not about picture at all across much of the korean peninsula and japan we've seen wanted to. but they're moving fairly swiftly out of the picture as

you can see if i got one or 2 more shots probably one day across into kaido but most of honshu further to the west is fine and drive now as we head towards those day it stays pretty much like that you'll notice is mass of blue here this is actually tied to what is super typhoon who gave us and this is actually on its way towards japan towards the end of the weeks we'll keep a very close on that and keep you were a day to the forecast track at the moment not entirely clear exactly where it is heading and then we had further to the south we've got more of those are a showers around these northern areas a vietnam again into southern sector the china across into high not quite a strong breeze there it does send it off a little bit by the time we had to thursday so still want to 2 areas of scott a child but mostly drawn it should be a dry day in hong kong at $31.00 and it warmer in shanghai into those sunny skies with a high of 28 and then we have widely scattered showers and thunderstorms across much of indonesia we've got a fairly dry day wednesday across into soon see the rains are becoming quite

extensive through borneo and also extending across much of northern central somalia and the mill a peninsula as we head off into thursday. 2 planes to ensure your own future you checked no hotel you still. farm it is possible to fully clean the premises that's covered a lot what you then leave is evidence that you have fully cleaned 3 wanted to give the. stump to speak. before even the saudi government just for. murdering the saudi consulate on 00.

0 again i missed. a minor of our top stories this hour he says it's all set for a possible military offensive in the northeast and syria the defense ministry says a teller he has been positioned on a border town a day off to u.s. forces withdrew from the area. the u.k. may threaten to withhold security cooperation from the european union if it doesn't get a break to deal soon according to the spectator magazine the magazine size of british government sources as saying downing street will take an aggressive stance if talks break down. and brazil's president says the oil producing the country's north eastern beaches has not produced nor sold in brazil the government says more than $100.00 tons of oil has been spilled and at least 42 cities are affected. 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 in south kivu and military officials have told al-jazeera that more troops have been set. the affected areas but they're dealing with fighters who are well equipped and organized catherine so i reports for nearly 50 with what evelyn. 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 after attacks from a local militia group called my my. they're now living rough outside this compound of a un peacekeepers base the answer to the last we left our food in the village and now we're just backing of the my mind that have done this to us to see if. 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. 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 we met 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 4 like this they have also killed or a lot of. the problem with 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. 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 to behave and neither is ready to back down catherine saw. now iraq's president has condemned attacks on protesters during violent anti-government demonstrations and the television address the. parliament to address protesters demands and called on security forces to ensure the rights of all iraqis are protected. i 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 our son. 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 here so we can start in a process of reform here correspondent imran khan has the latest from baghdad. there's been a lot in the violent clashes between protesters and iraqi security forces here in baghdad there were 2 very small protests one taking place in southern city another in another neighborhood but this other city one is very interesting for the last few days people from so the city have been telling us that they feel like they've been under siege by the army and they say that the army has been firing indiscriminately at the protesters however and the government says that that's not the case and what it's done is removed the army and replaced those forces with a rocky police forces federal police forces that seem to appease the protesters somewhat and they were in the kind of numbers we've seen over the last few days but it's not just here in baghdad we've also heard in the self the center of the country is very much a quite annoyed the protesters now what we're hearing in the south of the country

is that young men have been stopped of the police have taken a look at the mobile phones if they have pictures of the protests on their mobile phones they've been made to delete them if they have a great number of pictures and videos on the phone they've actually been taken into custody we're not hearing that from any kind of official source iraqi. police and army and the government haven't commented on that but from multiple sources in the south we are hearing that that's actually the case also what we're hearing is that the protesters may well be taking a look at what politics are going on right now and that's why there seems to be this kind of lull in the protest movement. now this is nobel prize in physics has been awarded to 3 scientists for their research into the universe's history and structure the prize will be shared between canadian american james peoples for developing a framework of that has become the foundation of our understanding of the history of the universe and swiss scientists michel my or india callas for their discovery

of the fast planets outside our solar system an exoplanet orbiting a star well for more on this that speak christopher consulate's who's a professor of astrophysics at the university of nottingham he joins us now professor i want to start with the work of james peebles so one thing that struck me in watching today's announcement was that just 5 percent of our observable universe is everyday master and the rest is dark matter or dock energy in and people's work is continuing on this. you know that's right so we know very little about our universe and one of the things that won the prize was calculations of how the universe would evolve based on the idea that there is this dark matter and dark energy that's what james people won for and in terms of how that shaped the way that we understand our universe it it sounded like technology needed to catch up with him he's been working on this for some 55 years. he's working on

a since the 1964 and a lot of the calculations he did were on sirota coal objects and structures that were only really able to be seen in the 1980 s. and 1990 s. and up until today so for a very long time a lot of his calculations were just theory just ideas that later proved were proven to be correct based on data and the other half of the prize was awarded for something quite different the discovery of an exoplanet i know the committee says that we thought that all the solar systems were like ours but we were wrong. they're sure i so for a very long time people assume that most planets if they existed would be like our own solar system but what was found in 1905 starting with the work of mayor is that actually the planets that they found were very massive planets very close to the stars which they were found to be orbiting and that was thought to be unheard of people did not expect that to to be the case at all so it was

a major surprise and it's really changed the whole way we think about how planets formed i know that peoples as we would talk about started his work 55 years ago and they're incredulous discover this excerpt out of back in 1905 so did many in the science community feel like this prize in this recognition was. that's a good question so for many years people have been speculating that the planet discovery should win the nobel prize so in some sense it is overdue but also there's always a debate whether or not it's physics enough because it's still strong to me planets finding planets is still astronomy so is that really physics so that was part of the reason i think it took a while to when well i want to read you something which the nobel committee spoke about they said that this painted a picture of the universe fos trained and more wonderful than we ever could have imagined how has this changed the way that science approaches the way we i guess in vision outpacing the universe. right well

we as i said thought that planets formed in a certain way that would give you a solar system like our own where you had big gas giants that were far away from the host star like we have for jupiter and saturn so this changed the way that we think planets most of form because the theories that we had are not able to account for these kind of planets that are found so close to their stars so the way that structure forms the way the planets forms and the way that perhaps life itself will develop really has to be thought in new ways because what we thought was right actually turned out not to be right so these discoveries have really changed the way that we think about the formation of planets and also life eventually christopher consul isa professor of astrophysics at the university of nottingham thank you for joining us on out is there a professor sure thank you. now hundreds of algerian students through the capital and other cities protesting against

presidential elections in december demonstrators say the vote could not be free nor fair their former president's allies and military leaders retain their positions abilities but if he has stepped down an april following massive protests over his bid for a 5th term and separately at least $100.00 political prisoners including a journalist have started a hunger strike over the treasury detentions. now india says it will allow tourists back into indian administered kashmir as follows a 2 month travel restriction to the disputed region prime minister narendra modi scrapped the special autonomous status a curfew is then imposed to stop protests over the controversial decision. now the united states has blacklisted 28 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 bars u.s. firms from selling technology to those companies without government approval rights

groups say that china has detained around $1000000.00 weak is and other muslims and what it calls re-education camps. well u.s. pocketful continues to be at the center of a bit of a political backlash in china following a team managers tweet in support of protests in hong kong the n.b.a.'s commissioner says they will not apologize nor regulate speech the houston rockets and their general manager daryl morey have apologized and deleted the tweet which said fight for freedom and stand with hong kong but chinese broadcasters and businesses have cut ties with the team and the league. prime minister justin trudeau has spent canada's final english language election debate fending off attacks from all sides and he's leading in the polls but is less popular than he was and 2015 john hendren reports from governor 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 blackface on but 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 savings it's not good enough to have better rather than mr shear 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 budget 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 role or is it a choice is b. or c. a say. publicly what mr share things privately and then directly to his closest rival conservative party leader andrew scheer who arrived to mock in chance that. 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 80 and i'm going to hire you as well mr shear 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 the for what for next year which for the uk are is it that bad that we want to change and go back to the previous government that's left no i do not i mean i want to time one of the time we are really contentious field vying for position just 2 weeks from election day none of the contenders seem to want to leave a crossword unspoken john hendren al-jazeera quebec. with the headlines turkey says it's all set for a possible military offensive and north east and syria the defense ministry says has been positioned on a border town a day off to u.s. forces withdrew from the area. the u.k. may threaten to withhold security cooperation from the european union if it doesn't

get a brics a deal soon according to the spectator magazine the magazine size of british government sources as saying that downing street will take an aggressive stance if talks break down brazil's president says oil producing more feast and beaches was not produced more sold in brazil the government says more than $100.00 tons of oil has been spilled and at least 42 cities have been affected iraq's president has contempt condemned attacks on protesters during violent and you government demonstrations rallies continued throughout the night burning tires and or so disrupting roadways despite calls by about him salim become sally is urging parliament to ensure the rights of iraqis are protected more than 110 people have been killed in iraq over the past week this year's nobel prize in physics has been awarded to 3 scientists for their research into the universe is history and structure the prize will be shared between canadian american james peoples for

developing a framework that has become the foundation of our understanding of the history of the universe and swiss scientists michel my all india kilo's that their discovery of the 1st planet outside our solar system an exoplanet orbiting a star hundreds of algerian students are marching through the capital and other cities protesting against presidential elections in december demonstrators say the vote could not be free nor fair while their former president's allies and military leaders retain their positions. india says it will allow tourists back into indian administered kashmir this follows a 2 month travel restriction to the disputed region prime minister narendra modi scrapped the special autonomous status there. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera to inside story do stay with us.

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.