a witness documentary on. more turkish forces arrived at the border with syria as concerns rise about eisel prisoners held by the kurds. and i'm a solitary and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up chaos in ecuador's capital as the president refuses to bring back fuel subsidies. on its reach. the united nations chief says the organization is about to run out of cash. and why south africa's universities are suffering what's being called

a hidden hunger crisis. he says it will begin its offensive in syria shortly and it might not be doing so alone an aide to the president says turkey's military will be joining forces with the free syrian army when it crosses the border into syria troops have been gathering on turkey's side of the border since monday night turkey says it wants to create a safe corridor or and rid border areas of u.s. backed kurdish forces it follows president donald trump's decision to begin withdrawing u.s. troops from syria well our correspondent charles structured is in cali on takis border with syria charles what kind of troop movements have you been seeing where you are and is an incursion imminent. it's very difficult to say whether they think any kind of incursion is imminent but

certainly evidence would suggest last night that that may well be the case on our drive back to hotel last night we passed dozens of military vehicles heading in those direction a.p.c.'s what we believe to be trucks carrying ammunition and flatbed trucks transporting tanks as a safe to safe to say at least 70 vehicles just in the course of our journey 45 minute journey back to our hotel we're also hearing reports certainly on the tricky media certainly turkish media some outlets saying that there were turkish drones that may have been operating last night over syrian territory across the border possibly on reconnaissance missions we can't confirm that and you mentioned in your intro yes this interesting point that the turks are going to be joined by what it describes the free syrian army they call themselves as the national opposition of

syria and we saw busey's all of these fighters being transported from syria around aleppo across the border into turkey yesterday we believe they're staying on a camp close by and it's understood that they will be joining the in any kind of ground force operation military military analysts suggesting that they think that the f.s.a. troops might actually go in from an area around among beach which is to the west of here with a plan to join forces with any turkish ground forces to go in from this area further east of course we can't confirm any of this this is speculation from analysts who say that beginning to get leaks even from the turkish military officials the speculation goes on but all evidence would suggest that yes some sort of material put operation could be indeed very imminent and tell us what options

then do the cads have now could receive an unlikely alliances forming on the other side of the border as well. well again quoting military analysts that looking at basic facts in terms of weaponry and how the stiff can defend themselves let's not forget that the s.d.f. were very successful in their endeavors in the battle against eisel because they were supported so heavily by u.s. led coalition airstrikes that's not going to be an option if indeed this military operation happens we understand that the americans and other other countries have been helping the s.d.f. of supplied weapons they have anti-tank weapons that analysts are saying could present a problem to the turkish tanks but militarily certainly analysts are saying that you know that they could be very easily outgunned by the turkish military in terms of the s.d.f.

strategy that's very interesting yesterday we heard from also only there was a tweet released by the f.d.a. leadership saying that they were contemplating appealing to the syrian regime and the russians for help in case in the in the eventuality of any kind of aggression an interesting lead just in the last few hours the russian foreign minister has said he tweeted that the russians. if they're asking the syrians or calling for some sort of dialogue between the s.d.f. and the syrian regime so it sounds like at least the russians are taking that kind of comment from the very seriously there's been no full comment respect to that idea from the syrian regime but it just shows you how allegiances and alliances could will shift and it shows you how desperate the ball as this military build up when this tension increases along the border town stratfor that keeping an eye on

talking has border with syria for thank you channel. well as charles was just saying russia is calling for dialogue between the syrian government and the kurds over the situation in northeast syria foreign minister sergey lavrov is on a 2 day visit to kazakhstan and he's speaking live on t.v. there he said it's important to reduce tensions in the region on tuesday moscow says it wasn't informed about the u.s. decision to pull american troops out of syria while iraq's parliament has officially recognized those killed in recent nationwide protests as martyrs it means the families of more than $110.00 people killed in the on rest will be eligible for compensation the government also unveiled more social reforms as it tries to quell the demonstrations that are now in training 2nd week. distinguished casualties of the protesters will be recognized as marchers and therefore their families will be compensated we will follow the investigation procedures to uncover the events that have affected the protestors while u.s.

secretary of state has advised iraq's prime minister to exercise maximum restraint and to address the protest his grievances present jordan has more from washington d.c. the statement about the iraqi protests from the u.s. state department is the 1st official comment from washington about these demonstrations it's a readout of the phone call which the secretary of state mike pompei o had with the iraqi prime minister and it's pretty tough in the statement pompei o apparently told the prime minister that he condemned the violence that those who may have committed human rights violations need to be held fully accountable for their behavior and that the iraqi government needs to do much more to address the complaints and concerns of the protesters from baghdad to nasiriya to other parts across iraq the statement says that the government needs to do

a much better job of respecting people's right to protest as well as the right of the press to carry out their work and mr problem pale said that much more needs to be done to provide iraqis and especially young population more access to jobs to more reliable utilities and food and to basically make it so that it's a place where they want to continue to live and not simply see their country go the way of others that have concentrated power in the hands of a very few. now an overnight curfew is in place in ecuador as capital kits are after thousands of protesters forthwith security forces during a 6th day of violent demonstrations many are furious at the government's decision to end a 40 year old fuel subsidy as part of economic reforms in america it is and you see in human reports from peter was that the indigenous ecuadorians continue converging

on the capital to give their president in ultimatum either repeal highly unpopular austerity measures or get out they say so to them as with dealers and we've come from the middle of ecuador to reject this unpopular government that's taken measures dictated by the i.m.f. . president lyndon would in no says he's open to dialogue but insists he can't back out of his commitment to reduce the fiscal deficit by eliminating fuel subsidies something he vowed never to do when he took office. the demonstrators were further angered when they found out the president would it all had moved the executive branch overnight to the coastal city of by a key. for hours and well into the night the protesters tried without success to overcome riot police. in an attempt to surround the presidential palace and national assembly was some of the indigenous leaders are asking them to the way things are that they don't put their lives at risk into mark store another part of

the city but they're angry they say they are not going to budge that they haven't got so far to turn back now. the leader of the national confederation of indigenous people told al-jazeera there would be no dialogue until president what in returns to keep door and repeals the decree. if modern a doesn't want to administer this country with this social chaos where there's no social justice no freedom of the country for ever to join that of a fugitive from justice ex-president korea they can live together. what it also. the worst unrest in more than a decade in this country is being orchestrated by his former boss and now his we're standing me former president rafael correa who lives in self-imposed exile in brussels. denies he's pulling the strings but he doesn't hide his political ambitions including the possibility of returning home to run for vice president or very noisy either more in

a resign or he asks for early elections which would be the constitutional and democratic way to overcome disk grave situation. that scenario may be premature despite the mounting social unrest and political intrigue here. but then again the dollar has a very long history of presidents being forced out before their term is up to see in human i'll just keep them. now the united nations is suffering a cash crisis and is warning it may not be able to pay stuff at the end of the month a 3rd of its member states haven't paid their share of the costs secretary general antonio tara says u.n. operations around the world could be compromised our diplomatic editor james bowles reports if the un hadn't already made severe cuts to its budget it wouldn't have had enough money to stage the high level week of the u.n. general assembly when world leaders visited new york last month secretary-general antonio good terrorists said the organization is confronting its worst financial

situation in a decade the organization is facing a c.v. financial crisis to be more specific as severe liquidity crisis the question is simple without cash the budget cannot be properly implemented our work and the reforms and at risk. the secretary general was very clear about the dire problems the u.n. is facing but at no point did he list the countries that are causing it by not paying what they owe and surely you've got a big problem here and you need to name the people responsible for it there's 193 member states 129 have paid up for the balance that's not of those who haven't paid the us which has the largest g.d.p. in the world owes by far the most a sum of over $1000000000.00 and $55000000.00 that's more than all the other $63.00 countries on the list of those who haven't paid put together the u.s.

also owes well over $2000000000.00 to the separate u.n. peacekeeping budget james pays out jazeera and the united nations. and more than a 3rd of students at universities in south africa are suffering from what's being described as a hidden hunger crisis tens of thousands of students just can't afford to feed themselves for me to miller reports from johannesburg. for millions of students around the world attending university is a time to not only learn but also socialize for some time to be carefree but for many making it through university depends on whether or not they have a meal every day or learning c. carney is a postgraduate student at the university of the western cape every month he collects a parcel of basic necessities like rice and canned vegetables he says that without these donations he would have nothing to eat still and hunger is 'd one of the

contributors to ministry that are going through depression he had to study and everything has become a person of trying to study to gauge and yet you can't really 'd achieve that in an empty stomach nearly 80 percent of students at this university fund their studies through government financial aid or study loans once the fees are paid to these little money left to paypal commendation or buy food according to government statistics unemployment and poverty are highest among the youth many of these students are the 1st in their families to attend university many of them poor does not as a problem that is really run to south africa all over the world it is what is aptly described as this university scoreboard because you find that students all over the road and then also in developed countries are facing hunger levels of up to 58 percent of the population in some countries as the u.s.

attorneys says some students of course to trade 6 food or work long hours at low paying jobs to feed themselves here at the university of the vitus runs about 4000 students are given hot meals every day and 100. food packs every month but according to research almost a 3rd of south african students don't have enough food organizers of the scheme to feed students at this campus say they want to provide food for students in a way that doesn't stigmatize them the food program at the johannesburg university began 6 years ago distributing food to about 50 students initially it was considered if you like a band aid problem of bringing donations give handouts to students and that will solve the problem. we basically advanced an approach through the signature 8000 signatures petitions march. hunger and so on and demanded a space of dignity for students at this university while greater access to

education is meant to alleviate poverty and create jobs there are concerns that hundreds of students could drop out of university every year simply because they're too hungry to study for me to miller al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. still ahead on al-jazeera the white house calls congress as an impeachment inquiry illegitimate and said that won't cooperate. and an iranian footballer faces the consequences after he speaks out for female fans.