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minister is accused of playing the bracks it blame game after germany's chancellor reportedly says a deal is overwhelmingly unlikely. with sports africa crush canada at the rugby world cup to confirm a place in the claims of full. hello the turkish military has carried out strikes targeting the syrian iraqi border the aim to prevent kurdish forces using the route to reinforce northeast syria that's an anchor up or past to launch an offensive there but president donald trump says the u.s. has not abandoned the kurds in syria as he's being criticized for his decision to pull out american troops we've got kimberly halkett in washington with us reaction bernard smith a standing by in erbil with the latest on the whole camp that's where thousands of eisel fighters are being held 1st will begin which all stratford who is joining us

from turkey's border with syria what's the situation where you are now. well we've seen throughout the day we've seen the beginnings of what seemed to be a military build up in this area i mean the beginnings actually would would not be 100 percent correct because this build up it's been happening for the for the last couple of days at least we've seen in a repositions close by the situation. is tense here certainly we've been listening to some of the voices interviews of people from the town behind me that town called to tell i'll be out which was taking control of by the s.d.f. in 2015 from eisel certainly some very worried citizens there as you can imagine. so forget that they've already suffered years of war in northern syria across the

country indeed what's been described as one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world and any kind of military escalation by the obviously that's a humanitarian crisis could get even worse interestingly tel aviv was one of the 2 locations where u.s. soldiers withdrew from we understand of the loss of. the other the other town a town called russell the eye which is further east from here we've been looking at recent developments over the last few days and this is our report turkish heavy weapon the same across the syrian border towards the town of tilapia . the mainly kurdish syrian democratic forces or s.d.a. have defeated eisel here in 2050 with the help of u.s. led coalition forces. who took his government describes the main fighting force of

the s.d.f. as a terrorist organization linked to its outlawed could the stand will cause policy which is full to gauge the turkish government for decades. the s.d.f. control around 430 kilometers of syrian territory along the turkish border. they have fought and worked alongside the u.s. troops for years they say u.s. presidents don't trump's decision to withdraw all the nearly 1000 american soldiers is a stab in the back of one that gives turkey an opportunity to attack. and how the other side threats made by turkey to attack the area is not something new they have consistently done it for years we as syrian democratic forces take the matter into account and are fully prepared to fiercely respond to any imminent attack on syrian soil. turkey's government says it wants to create what it describes as a safety zone of around 30 kilometers in the site syria so around 2000000 of the

3600000 syrian refugees in turkey can return what you're looking at there is a turkish artillery position now locals tell us that the army came a couple of weeks ago to set that position up meanwhile across the border forces are saying any military operation by turkey could risk the global fight against eisel there are thousands of eisel fighters in s.d.f. jails the u.s. president donald trump says turkey must bear complete responsibility for any eisel fight is that a scape during a military operation turkey has so far no clear plan about how to deal with thousands of children are still fighters on the syrian side of the border. in towns like to lobby out people who have already suffered years of war or afraid. if more people will be displaced. if you ask anyone

not leaving but eventually we will be displaced. the prospect of more suffering for the people of northern syria is very real to me says preparations for a potential military operation complete. so has there been any reaction from kurdish forces to the latest developments. of the has done there has been a little bit of reaction today yes the commander in chief all of the. most of them interesting the an indication of just how much pressure the s.d. if the kurdish forces are across the border in syria mr abney saying that they were considering a partnership with the syrian president in the name of dealing with potentially having to fight turkish full seize that statement also backed up by another s.d.f.

official who tweeted that. they were also looking at potentially reaching out to the russians as well as some sort of protection given that we understand we could well be seeing a complete withdrawal of those u.s. forces that have worked with the s.t.'s so law in which yes if now say give the turkish military an opportunity to attack them it's fair to say though that we have seen these kind of cooperation. in recent years as well and hasn't really been fully spoken about but we do understand that yes the if as cool as cold night. maneuvers with the syrian regime with respect to fighting free syrian army fighters and eisel fights is in the past but they still to see this announcement today coming at a particularly salient time when they are under so much pressure from the military that are building up on this border all right charles trafford thank you for that update let's bring in kelly halkett she's joining us from washington d.c.

and president trump really got a lot of pushback for that decision he made about pulling out american forces from northern syria and he's once again come out defending his decision with a stream of tweets can really. yes as he often does again prolific on twitter on tuesday morning and what he's making the argument is that look at turkey is an important trade partner we're going to try and work with them we being the united states reminding potentially u.s. voters that the united states has a collaborative partnership with turkey a nato ally when it comes to the f. $35.00 fighter jet and as a result he has invited tired of russia. to the white house on november 13th now the president as you point out has got a lot of criticism for this decision to pull united states troops from syria and what this means for the kurdish fighters that fought alongside the united states to

help defeat eisel well the u.s. president saying adamantly on twitter he's not abandoning the kurds in fact the united states will continue to support in the form of finances as well as weapons but there's been a strong effort by this u.s. president to try and recalibrate the message that was sort of dispatched rather messily including now a statement coming from the u.k. leader boris johnson in fact his spokesperson saying that there is a deep concern in the united kingdom about turkish plans and reports of turkish plans to launch a military operation into syria and this is after donald trump just earlier stated that the it was in fact thrilled with this shift in syria policy so some conflicting reports there from the president and some damage control by the president on social media now in the midst of all this we should point out that the u.s. congress even members of the president's own party still very concerned about the

president's plan that's why there is an effort underway in the u.s. senate to introduce at least a non-binding resolution to register disapproval of about the president's plans mitch mcconnell who is often a supporter of the president saying this is a precipitous withdrawal warning against this and lynn and lindsey graham further saying once again that he believes this would be a serious mistake for the united states so that is why we're seeing that movement in the u.s. senate all right so i can believe thank you very much while she's there i have spoken to u.n. ambassadors about the turkish intervention in syria how to for a security council meeting on mali and north korea. we have heard rumors of interventions and it's been brings concerns to hers it could have significant human into an impact on this region. we are still very concerned with of fights against day the global coalition has been doing

a great job since 2014 and it's a success and we should note joe put it as a success day she's still present in syria in iraq the fights against day she's not over it with the guard to the north east of syria of course is very worrying. we know the concerns that turkey has but again there's only a political solution and we are very afraid that any. military operation will again have disastrous humanitarian consequences so we are indeed concerned about what we have been been reading about the situation so as we mentioned earlier there are growing concerns about the fate of thousands of captured eisel fighters being held in syria kurdish forces in northern syria hold more than $8000.00 fighters in prisons and makes a detention center is a 1000 of them are foreigners and the kurds are also in charge of several counts

housing over $100000.00 people including the largest camp off. among the 70000 people living in that camp there an estimated 12000 eisel family members who say they still believe in the group's doctrines and there's a high number of foreigners there for more than 40 countries well there are still a number of feisal fighters operating inside syria itself the u.n. puts that number at around $3000.00 let's now cross to bernard smith he's joining us from erbil in iraq semi autonomous kurdish region so if turkey does go ahead with the military operation what are the concerns about the prisons and camps holding eisel fighter. as well as their families. while doing 1st of all when it comes out network of detention centers and prison prisons that the syrian kurds manage the concern is that will they continue to be able to manage them if the guards of those buildings are diverted to battling turkey or to

a frontline battle with turkey and a whole come that you mentioned that has been described by human rights watch human rights watch as a desert dust bowl inferno i'm the u.n. commission of inquiry said that women and children in that camp remain at a high risk of further radicalize ation yet the white house has said that turkey will now take responsibility for all the eisel fighters captured in the area but of turkey of course i said nothing about this so far and as i say the biggest concern is that will the kurds be able to keep control of those camps if they feel they have to divert resources to fighting the turks terrain so up until this point are the kurds managing to keep things under control in the camps. yeah well the kurds will say they are keeping things under control and will continue to keep things under control but it is getting increasingly difficult they have been begging

foreign governments to take back their nationals who are being held in these prisons and in these camps but as we know certainly european powers and other arab countries arab countries been very reluctant to take back their fighters and the commander of al whole whole town but most notorious of camps he said that they are now failing to contain an increasingly violent behavior of some of the residents he says is a familiar flimsy perimeter fence that could be breached unless they get more international resources to try and strengthen it and he says that they there is a serious risk in our whole camp of i saw regrouping and reorganizing in the area he says as many as 30000 people in that camp are eisel loyalists during power right bernard speth with an update from erbil thank you. plenty more ahead on the on the rings hour including brazil faces an ecological disaster after an oil spill

pollutes its coastline now the question is where did it come from. the evolution of the universe and the earth's place in the cosmos when the honor is of this year's nobel prize in physics. and there's a wrong for paris to allow female fans into football stadium will sit down exclusively with one of the women helping drive change in our country. but 1st the trumpet ministration has barred the u.s. ambassador to the european union from giving testimony to the ongoing impeachments inquiry ambassador gordon songlines had voluntarily agreed to answer questions behind closed doors his attorney says he's obliged to comply with the u.s. state department's request not to testify text messages provided to congress last week revealed songlines as a central figure in allegations that the us president tried to pressure ukraine to

dig dirt on his democratic rival donald trump is defending the decision to block songlines appearance on twitter he tweeted i would love to send a bastard a song lands a really good man and great american to testify but unfortunately he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo courts where republicans rights have been taken away and true facts are not allowed out for the public to see he went on to tweet saying someone has defended the president in the past saying the president has been crystal clear no quid pro quos of any kind that says it all meanwhile the house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff says key information and more personal messages from sunland are being withheld by the state department. we are also aware that the a master has text messages or e-mails on a personal device which have been provided to the state before apartment although

we have requested those from the vaster and the state department is withholding those messages as well. those messages are also deeply relevant to this investigation and the impeachment inquiry let's bring in mike hanna who's joining us from washington d.c. with the latest on this story and i suppose the question is is why will fall on testimony regarded as a so important mike well because he was central to that process that led to the tram phone call to the ukrainian president and what congress is trying to find out is whether this was part of a process to bring pressure to bear on the ukrainian president to provide political material to the u.s. president on one of his rivals within the 2028 election sunderland's evidence was very important in that he was party to the decision making among the group who are attempting to communicate to the ukraine president as well as communicating with

the u.s. president during that particular process so clearly this is a very important element in the chain of communication that led to the phone call between president tram and his ukrainian counterpart so where does the investigation go to next. well we heard there from the chairman of the intelligence committee adam schiff making very clear that his committee saw this as an op struction of congress as an obstruction of justice now democrats have argued repeatedly that should the administration carry on its pattern of blocking witnesses of withholding evidence that congress is demanding then that in itself must be seen as an off struction which is in itself a impeachable offense so the democrats are talking about dissembling all this evidence of president trump preventing members of his administration from giving evidence preventing his departments from providing evidence that these amount to

obstruction of justice elements which could go into the articles of impeachment but congress is slightly contained for one particular reason there's no clear definition in the in the constitution how congress can demand that people meet its pinas the only thing left to that is the obstruction of justice charge which clearly the democrats are intent on bringing against the president at some stage if he does not comply or continues to insist that his administration does not comply with congressional demands for presidents before they committees all right mike hanna bringing us the update from washington thank you let's us stay with the story and speak to paul rosensweig he's a former senior counselor to kenneth starr who headed the investigation that led to president clinton's impeachment he's currently a senior fellow of national security in cyber security at the or st institute he is joining us from washington as well thanks very much for being with us on the al-jazeera news hour what do you think the implications are for the white house and

the president and those around him now that they've blocked sunglass testimony. well i think that the implications are quite clear that the president has decided to stonewall the investigation in every way possible and your reporters are absolutely correct that the only really effective response that congress has at this point is to collect all of the instances of obstruction of the investigation into another or article or series of articles of impeachment that was after all one of the articles of impeachment that was voted out by the judiciary committee against richard nixon and his unwillingness to provide information to congress was itself considered an impeachable offense so there's a historical precedent for impeaching president trump on the very same grounds so just talk us through how exactly that would happen because the democrats as mike was saying are really looking to kind of show that the white house could be

possibly obstructing justice and obstructing the process how do they actually bring this charge against the president's. well they begin as they have by requesting testimony the next step will be to issue a subpoena to mr sohn lin and to others which presumably the president will direct mistress on line to refuse to honor they'll then hold mr sundin in contempt of congress and begin court proceedings designed to have him come and testify but those will take too long so what they will do is collect all of the contempt that they've ordered into a an article of impeachment that says that the president has committed a high crime or misdemeanor by virtue of refusing to honor a legitimate of subpoenas from congress without just cause and the truth of the matter is the president has no just cause mr son like any other american citizen is

basically obliged to testify in response to a congressional subpoena and the president has not asserted a an executive privilege nor if he did would it be a legitimate one so in the end the charge will be that the president has refused to abide by the rule of law by thumbing his nose at congress' legitimate inquiry into his behavior what do you think the political calculus is here by the u.s. president when he borrows sunland from testifying. well i mean one of my friends said jokingly that the reason the bard son lynn is under the he knows too much and if he told the truth i'd be in trouble privilege which is really not a privilege at all i think the president's only calculation here is that by refusing to participate he can maintain his support in his base and in the end skate through by avoiding conviction in the senate and thus managed to finish his

term i'm not sure that he's correct but clearly he has decided that the only political card he has to play is outright resistance to all forms of oversight an inquiry and let me just ask you while i have you with us about the whistleblower because on on sunday just 2 days ago the lawyers for the whistleblower said that they were representing both the full client what do you think that means. well for one thing it means that there's at least one more more whistleblower probably more than one whistleblower it may or may not be related to the ukraine it could for example be related to. syrian president trumps tax returns or something like that but to the extent that more people come forward it is a reflection of the fact that more than one witness has seen what is happening in is willing to come forward and speak about it and that increases the credibility of all of them if one witness to an event says something has happened that's one thing

if 2 witnesses say the same thing now you've got reinforcing statements about what has happened and it makes you believe the truth of what they said even more all right paul rosenzweig we thank you very much for joining us on the al-jazeera news hour. well the european council president has warned boris johnson not to play games this is the deadline for bracks it inches closer with no sign of a deal on the u.k.'s departure on tuesday the british prime minister held a quote frank exchange with the german chancellor angela merkel and british media are quoting an unnamed downing street source who says merkel made it clear that a deal was overwhelmingly unlikely following that call donald tusk sent a tweet to johnson warning him not to play a stupid blame game saying the future if europe and the u.k.

was at stake the news that talks are close to breaking down word investors and sent the british pound to a one month low let's bring in lawrence lees joining us from london so it looks like the u.k. government has given up on the deal lawrence. well they they they certainly want it to be seen that they're playing hardball with the europeans i mean the european points of view is that boris johnson's proposed compromise particular northern ireland was so complicated that it was designed not to work and they said to the british in the go see asians we don't understand how you prepared to do this but all the language certainly overnights and into today from the british side swore to the european union has been brutally rude. in briefings overnight they downing street saying we won't cooperate if we have if we have seen the european union we will try to undermine you from within we're leaving anyway just just let us go and then in the briefing this morning they had they openly blamed dangler merkel who

hadn't actually agreed yes with the with the way in which that that conversation has been portrayed by the british. they accuse her of saying no they will have to stay in the the a you customs all this forever and therefore deal is impossible but i just want to show you something because this is what happens when when downing street uses this kind of language in the morning by the afternoon you get this is from the leave dot edu campaign most closely associated with nigel farage they do the back that party's course margaret i have this is on twitter the cell phone we didn't win 2 world wars it says to be pushed around by a kraut with a picture of angela merkel it's it's astonishing actually in the language that's not being used by the by the sharp end of people who support the hardest sorts of bricks it and what it what what the suggestion is that when downing street basically says it's all the europeans falls then the people who want to push for the hardest for brics it leap on it and try and push public opinion

this far down the line in this direction as as they can possibly do and it's very very serious obviously not just in terms of the future trade relationship between the u.k. and the e.u. of the brics it happens but also in some of the relationships between british and european people because you know if you're german and you see you know this this on twitter from from from british leaf and papers what is actually to make you think about attitudes in the u.k. towards german people yeah and so so the talks collapsed what happens next. well that's a very good question it's the view from opposition parties and i've spoken to several of them today people who run the bricks and campaigns for the liberal democrats the labor party people they think that what's going to happen next monday after parliament comes back because it's suspended all tonight next monday is the queen's speech when boris johnson lays out his agenda for the new parliament at that point it looks like he's basically going to say the talks of collapsed call for an election but at the same time say that he's prepared to send that letter to

the european union agreeing to the breakfast extension which is what the opposition parties want and once he said that he's actually sent that extension letter then he says assume that the labor party and the jeremy corbyn the other opposition parties will agree to have that national election and then by potentially by the end of next week we could be in a countdown to a national election what it would mean is the brics it wouldn't happen under that scenario the end of october but the conservative party have made it very clear that they would campaign in a national election for a no deal bricks it with a view to trying to hoover up all the votes from the bracks at party who support things like this and so you don't have a conservative party effectively in the in terms but in one sense supporting that sort of attitude towards towards countries like germany in the european union in the middle of a national election ok lawrence a thank you for that update from london let's now bring in peter klepper he's the head of the brussels office at open europe that's

a policy think tank dealing with european union affairs and joining us from brussels thanks very much for speaking to us i was just asking our reporter in london what happens if the talks collapse and there is no deal but let me ask you this how likely is it that we will see a deal in next week's talks between the e.u. and the u.k. . well i think now it has become very unlikely there's a little bit of hope i guess if the u.s. side would stink through that and the election may make things a lot more difficult it's likely that boris johnson will make all kinds of promises designs to win over bricks of party electorates so and then of course he has already made many promises that make it hearts to get to deal so of course with with with even more extreme promise it will be even more difficult so i think the e.u. is really. making a very risky bets if they hope that boris will be gone now you have to devil you

know boris who generally wants a deal he has been maken quite considerable concessions so i think the intelligent thing to do for the european union would be to all would be to also make concessions how likely is it that that the e.u. actually make it makes me for concessions that you speak of and what could they be . the e.u. has been very very very slowly softening its approach but fundamentally the key problem i think is that the e.u. tells the u.k. look you can leaf and friendly manner but your this part of your country norden aren't has to remain under the european union scuffs thems regime in order to avoid customs checks between norden ardent and the irish republic i mean that is acquired a quite an extreme demand to make and it's not just the conservative party it's

also labor that is against customs checks within the united kingdom stare authority which would be very very difficult to sell the results in british politics now how do you solve this what boris johnson has proposed is maybe not sufficiently detailed and perhaps new government should go a bit further and making concessions but i think. we are in going in the right direction and has said that he does not want checks at the border but he wants to checks at company premises pretty much now of course you can only do that. for big companies so as a result you would have to exempts smaller companies in order an ardent and that is something the european union does not want to do they claim that this would create a hole in the external border but as everybody knows and if you look into it more in detail then the only thing you can conclude is that the european union's

external border is full of holes anyway already all over the place right so you could wonder why then they'll be more flexible in or not and for the sake of peace ok we thank you very much peter clip for joining us from brussels. still ahead on the al-jazeera news our arabian trial columbia faces its dark past as an influential former president faces the supreme court and a significant moment in time new zealand marks 250 years since a british ship sailed in but not everyone is so welcoming. and coming up in sport we hear from the man trying to make big changes to the champion's league peter hauser details a little later. i

. we've got clearing skies again across much of the middle east we have seen some showers into southern areas of iran and quite a bit of cloud as well through its way up towards the north and the east but that's a clearer picture. just pushing in across these northern sections really across much of the caspian sea temperatures a little bit lower into baku with a high of 22 degrees celsius and then as we had off into thursday we could just see one of 2 more showers into the southern areas of iran and it's still very warm across much of iraq so $41.00 and baghdad quite a bit of cloud there pushing into tashkent $26.00 into pakistan then across into arabian peninsula now temperatures here they are lower than they were in fact a weather day 36 the riyadh doha as well 35 in abu dhabi not really much there in the way of clouds anywhere the breeze a little bit brisker coming from the north so that does help to move the abbotts

a warm day and with a high the of 38 degrees celsius too much as they were coming down into south africa and the rain is certainly in evidence you can see these front sliding by here but we have also got more rain showers into those central coastal as the tanzania hours ago through wednesday and thursday scattered showers across into angola and i mean those showers on their way to durban certainly bringing down the temperature on thursday just 18 degrees celsius. when you're from a neighborhood known as a hotbed of radicalism. you have to fight to defy stereotypes. around the world champs are the stories we don't often. told by the people who live them you know money is really one with. the making of adventure and the little. sound excess. amount.

to today's headline there are protests like this one that are trying to preserve and reforested areas that have been devastated by setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussion you've been out there with the protesters on the streets where they've been telling you to national filmmakers who will journalists bring program to inform and to spot. on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour the turkish military has

carried out strikes targeting the syrian iraqi border the aim is to prevent kurdish forces using the route to reinforce northeast syria as ankara prepares to launch an offensive there. the trumpet ministration has blocked out some bastard to the european union from testifying in the impeachment inquiry gordon songlines attorney says he's obliged to comply with the u.s. state department's request european council president warned the british prime minister not to play a blame game over it comes amid reports in british media that germany's leader has told boris johnson a deal is unlikely. iraq's president has condemned attacks on protesters during violent anti-government demonstrations in a t.v. address but home sana urged parliament to address protesters demands and called on security forces to ensure the rights of iraqis are protected but as imran khan reports from baghdad many young people are keeping up the pressure.

somewhere in this crowd is a hussein he's 30 years old this video was recorded on friday and so the city baghdad he decided to join the young people in his neighborhood after he saw them spontaneously protest he's asked us to hide his identity because he was detained on the 1st day of the demonstrations he says the iraqi police made him delete videos respond and sign a declaration that he wouldn't take part in further demonstrations. i decided to demonstrate because it's our legal right under the constitution we didn't demand that the government resign it's been elected by the people but we want an end to the corruption and provide justice to all iraqis also we want young people to get jobs housing and older people to get on fear that some politically connected people have jobs and others don't. his words echoed by people here at.

the demanding jobs within iraq's security forces prime minister i'd love to lawdy has promised security jobs as part of planned reforms in the wake of these protests are not no not on the sob let alone a sign i got you know i came here at 4 30 am to enroll the guard told me to go home and play computer games is this how you treat someone who is looking for work what on i want. it's just iraq's pull her full outside the prime minister's office engineers are also demanding job and transparency. she has fallen into sweeping protesting for 90 days if you don't have the ability to provide us with jobs then why we going to university why do we study so hard you might as well close the colleges. iraqi government insists is working to improve the economic situation and has announced a set of potential reforms intended to tackle corruption and reduce unemployment the government's under a tremendous amount of pressure not just from civil society but also from religious

parties and the opposition now some say they want you elections others say that they want reforms to be implemented immediately now there's a low in the protest but how long that last really depends on the protestors and what they feel the demands of being this into iraq on al-jazeera baghdad at least 10 fighters loyal to the u.n. recognize government have been killed in fighting with warlords khalifa haftar us forces there's been heavy fighting between the 2 sides since monday. has more from tripoli. the situation remains very tense in southern tripoli as clashes continue between forces loyal to the oh and the recognize the government of national accord on the one hand and others loyal to their world safer hefted on the other hand and military sources with the government say that they have lost a number of fighters in recent clashes including a medical worker on sunday to tripoli based foreign ministry demanded the united

nations security council to take action against hatters forces for targeting airports in the west of the country namely airports in tripoli and the starter airport in the city of misrata this after 6 months of heavy fighting between the 2 warring factions this fight does not seem to be ending anytime soon as have to the forces say that they are determined to take control of the capital tripoli and they cannot retreat by any means while the government forces say that they are determined to push have those forces back beyond the administrative borders of the capital tripoli and also to chase them to the city of the horn or the main stronghold of have to as forces recently about 70 kilometers to the cells from the capital tripoli while this fight continues the situation of civilians remains so vulnerable as random rockets land in densely populated areas near the

fighting areas colombia's former president is appearing before the country's supreme court to be questioned on witness tampering. is accused of trying to influence witnesses in an attempt to cover up his alleged links to paramilitary groups who served as president for 8 years has denied all the accusations he is the 1st former president in colombia to be charged with a crime. joining us from bogota so what's up play with this hearing on the sandra. well that i mean as you were saying this is an historic day for colombia one that many columnists who are protesting against what i would leave i would have never imagined to happen to see am finally testifying in front of a court and that's because doing its entire career he has been accused of a number of wrong doing. his career has been beset by

a scandal. who has he started this political career. the governor of the region of antioch and then later as president during his time as president of colombia he has been often accused of connection with paramilitary groups in the fight against the fire cravell and. that killing thousands of innocent colombians in a scandal now on as the false positive in which these people were killed and dressed as rebels but this is the 1st time that he's testifying in front of the court on allegations that could even be the turning into criminal charges and you were saying in this case for witness tampering therefore trying to change the testimony and number of support for paramilitaries so who talked of that connection

with the government and directly with the president would be valid if people have took to the streets in favor and against him here in the capital got that and it's a just show how influential he really remains here in colombia and how divisive and at the same time as match love the buy half of the country has used hatred by the other half. all right listen to one can say thank you for that update from bogota. now 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 and swiss scientists michel mayor and have those people's developed a framework that has become the foundation of the current understanding of the history of the universe and the 2 swiss scientists won for their discovery of the 1st planets outside the solar system an exoplanet orbiting

a star christopher constantly says a professor of astrophysics at the university of nottingham he says the discovery by mayor and kilo's truly changed how experts understood the way that planets formed 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 astronomy 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 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 must have formed 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. brazil's president says an oil spill polluting his country's northeastern beaches since early september is not brazilian origin with an investigation still underway so your boss an arrow says it could be the result of criminal activity or a shipwreck summer hire it's 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 somebody 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 them we have seen the state of say she's calling you know declaring this and 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 3 mining and farming in his recent speech at the un 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 high that. so had all the sports news with peter and catch them if you can the yankees advance in the am i'll be playoffs details coming up. soon.

hello again while new zealand has marked a 250th anniversary of the arrival of british colonialists on oct 8th 769 the 1st europeans rich to its source but as dorset jabari reports the occasion has been marked by demonstrators who say this day should not be marked. this is a replica of james cook's endeavor which sailed into the northern city of pittsburgh in 7699 indigenous people were killed just in the 1st meeting between cooke and the maori who had been living in new zealand for centuries. and that is one of the many reasons why these protesters say the occasion shouldn't be commemorated since the landing of one man these it's been nothing but the stress that's honestly. killing motorists you name it we've done it 250 years of it in

here we start to this day. protesters also say they're mouthy ancestors were treated unfairly during the colonial era and that today maori communities face disproportionate levels of poverty crime and discrimination as a result. new zealand has planned several days of events to mark the milestone prime minister just into ardern says there should be a more open conversation about the country's history going out story to all good in the. group or to acknowledge that and to ensure that our children continue to know their. school reason once upon a time yes we cook cook now we actually have a balance of stories our modern economy stories and a little bit of the. indus burn a statue of james koch has been repeatedly defaced with graffiti and has to be

replaced but many here say there needs to be a bigger dialogue on the treatment of the maori peoples throughout new zealand history dorsetshire pari al-jazeera. let's get an update. peter is here there in thank you very much the n.b.a. continues to be at the same sort of a political backlash in china following a team manages tweet in support of the protests in hong kong the league's commission and else is they will law apologize or regulate speech the used to rockets play the toronto raptors in japan on monday a series aimed at expanding the n.b.a.'s popularity in asia but the tweet by daryl morey has seen chinese gold cost is and businesses suspend ties with the team and the league more than half a $1000000.00 chinese fans streaming in d.n.a. matches. this afternoon. c.c.t.v. announced that because of my. remarks supporting darryl

mores freedom of expression not the substance of his statement but his freedom of expression they were no longer going to air the lakers nets preseason games that are scheduled for later this week again. it's not something we expected to happen i think it's unfortunate but. if that's for sure the consequences of us adhering to our values we still feel it's critically important we adhere to those values. south africa have booked their place at the rugby world cup quarter finals with a thrashing of canada in cobi the springboks scored 10 tries in and 667 victory. have a hattrick in the opening 20 minutes fly half out of the yankees kicked 16 points can also add to play more than half the game with just the men after josh larsson or center for a shoulder charge the bonus point win potentially put south africa on

a collision course to meet japan in the last 8 books to be looking for revenge if that does happen japan beat them when they met in the pool stages at the 25th the world cup. iran's female football fans are just days away from making history in their country on thursday will be allowed into the stadium to watch their men's team play cambodia in a world cup qualifier but the decision has been made by protests in tehran with demonstrations outside the parliament building on monday our correspondent zain asher avi sat down with iran's vice president of family and women's affairs for an exclusive interview. sometimes this issue is blown out of proportion i think the important area which is sometimes now overlooked on this issue of women's. attending different football events or entering the stadiums is the issue of sports for you vonnie and women in general. women are now

entering for several years in national league championships in different fields including football including volleyball including different types of sports you know your government government you're a part of is arguably one of the most progressive that iran has seen in recent memory certainly but you have fish on one side that is pressuring iran threatening to ban iran from international competition on the other side you have hardliners saying that they don't want women to have open access to be able to enter the stadiums freely in some ways it really seems like the government is cut the middle is like dancing on a 2 headed straight for the how do you how do you square the circle how do we see that now we're seeing the results were saying that the government has made serious efforts there and and we hope to see a game where we have women sitting in the stadium and watching and i think that we were moving ahead the head of european football's club association event as

chairman and they are clearly says he will continue these attempts to reform the champions league despite his master plan being would take to blast month again he wants to change how clubs qualify from domestic leagues al-jazeera is lee willing has been listening to him outline his plans in london. under-eye and yeah they were speaking up one of the biggest global sports business events called latest which is like i said the home of english rugby twickenham or the world cup is being played in japan before paul was very much what was being discussed here on the controversial subject of how european football to look in the fiction now and yelling the chairman of the event is the chairman of the european cup association he's really pushing for reform that will bring friends the champions league effectively to the bigger clubs like his club events a smaller clubs fights against that last month are not trying to hold out a fight but he says it really is about meritocracy and that's why we want to find

a way to have more relevant european games we want that inclusive platform and these are the principles on cruises for all of us baseball sport emerge overseas and the historical british and that is challenging the axis that is that this is them through the domestic leagues exactly what we want or do we want to also value the sporting married on that page through the international competition itself but as you said the word meritocracy repeatedly doesn't make sense because it's the exact opposite of how football fans say what is being proposed by and yelling and the i listen chairman of the powerful clubs and this is something i put to the head of the european football lakes. when the most important thing is that the qualification for the international competitions has to go via the domestically. just the connection which the fans were denying to have leases can take in connection with the least in the majority of the clubs would like to. otherwise

they did you kill the dream and if you queue the dream you kill the interest for the competition. there is currently a lot of tension and suspicion around european club football and its future so those that are involved are worried about it i need somebody to get in the on told here in london again next week most of the world's leading clubs are involved in this and i want to get this right i might show that the future is bright in the major league baseball postseason games the new york yankees are through to the american league championship series they completed a 3 nothing my push over the twins in minnesota on monday this great catch from d. goriness helping to get these 2 of the one with wins on 51 of a compartment on the night they'll face other the used to masters will temple play raise used in the best cities to. ok most of all for me again later during ok i will say later peter thank you very much for that update thanks for watching the news hour now as they were back in just

a moment we'll have much more of the day's news coming your way see you in a minute. on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize on reservedly historic apology for one of the darkest episodes in british intelligence it was a growing agreements that the libyans could be quite useful to the west ageas after the death of gadhafi al-jazeera wild investigates western collusion with the libyan security services. good battery rendition on the west. on

al-jazeera. deano nice to be negotiating and we would have had a deal and we would have been out on a 3 ton ship in a deal and you disagree with that deal because of the terrible twos the worst of the lot it was blacks of us what you know what elizabeth maybe has sand there is head to head with the chairman of the u.k.'s practicality richard that tells a very new stuff i'm shocked that it was not a loose about so often shop it's pretty clear actually it isn't as clear as bricks it means but so yes it is and it's just as clearly when sleeves. on ounces in. new leaders place children in this refugee camp the latest victims of the unending sectarian violence in central african republic among them are survivors of unspeakable violence 10 year olds the his mother is dead her father is gone killed because they were christian by their own muslim neighbors this is a least you home an overcrowded refugee camp of 23000 people surrounded by armed militia groups celine wants answers she says she wants to be asking the questions

and so we traded places inch took the microphone will we find peace how can we make the violence stop when will i be able to return home. turkey lined up artillery on syria's border for an operation against kurdish fighters a donald trump says the u.s. has long abandoned the kurds. want you all just their ally from a headquarters in doha i'm dating obligato also ahead u.s. president calls an impeachment inquiry a kangaroo courts as democratic rivals release new information. britain's prime minister is accused of playing the brecht's the blame game after germany's

chancellor reportedly says a deal is overwhelmingly unlikely. lasts when sport and politics don't mix the fallout from a bad.