any signs of that or any ethnic tensions in that region of germany there certainly have just last month in the regional elections the far right a.f. deal turn active deutschland party came 2nd in sacks in our house the state in which. sits and they came 2nd in the nearby saxon state as well which of which the capital is dresden which has seen large far right rallies particularly by peggy to which is a well known anti islam movement now some members of the a.f.d. party have been investigated or have been put under surveillance for suspected links with far right activist street activists if you like nothing to confirm or suggest who might have carried out attacks on wednesday but certainly there have been ethnic tensions just this some of there have been there have been clashes

between far right demonstrators an anti fascist demonstrators involving violence when the police tried to keep the 2 sides apart and for several years now there has been quite a quite a presence by neo nazi groups in the heart of eastern germany so certainly those tensions lie in many people's minds and as the german media reminding us this comes on yom kippur the holiest day in the jewish calendar or get into madrid vents with us from london new center for the moment indeed thank you. all the 3rd of students and universities in south africa are suffering from what's been described as a hidden hunger crisis tens of thousands of students called for to feed themselves as for me to miller reports now 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 ministers that are going through depression he had to study and everything has become for a person of their child to study to cajun and yet you can't really 'd achieve that into stomach nearly 80 percent of students at the scene of versity fund their studies through government financial aid or study loans $100.00 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 or all over the world it is what is aptly described as this political 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 $4000.00 students are given hot meals every day and hundreds 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 of 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 a signature a 1000 signatures petitions march for 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 down below 0 johannesburg south africa but plenty more ahead here on the news hour including the mines that laid the foundation for a wireless and fossil free future we'll tell you who took home the nobel prize in chemistry plus. i'm rob reynolds on the us mexico border where president drugs border wall is under construction in one of the most biologically diverse areas in

north america. and one of the players at the center of the n.b.a.'s fallout with china that used to rockets chains. here is house speaker nancy pelosi says president trump will be held to account despite the white house declining to cooperate with an ongoing impeachment inquiry democrats have warned that any stonewalling will be viewed as an obstruction of justice but the white house calls the probe illegitimate the top administration has barred ambassador to the european union goldens on blunt from giving evidence to the inquiry and a short time ago the. isn't tweeted saying the whistleblowers facts have been sewing correct about my no pressure conversation with the ukrainian president and now the conflict of interest an involvement with

a democratic candidate that he enjoyed or she should be exposed and questioned properly this is no whistle blower the whistle blowers lawyer is a big democrat the whistleblower has ties to one of my democratic opponents mike hanna joins us now from washington d.c. and of course it seems very much that the president is on the warpath anees well he wants blood doesn't. well indeed yes it appears that the president hasn't declared war on congress his counsel sending congress or sending the speaker of the house a fiery 8 page letter in which it was outlined the problems that the white house has with this ongoing impeachment investigation essentially the white house is claiming that there is no constitutional basis to the investigation that there is no due process involved and that congress needs to vote to start an impeachment process all of which has been completely dismissed by the speaker of the house

nancy pelosi in a very strong response she denied that there was any need to hold a vote in the house to conclude or to carry out the impeachment investigation she also insisted that the president is not above the law he will be held accountable so these are yet another round of solvers in a massive battle between congress and the white house and let's not lose track of the fact that this is a constitutional crisis it's a major issue that is very difficult to resolve in terms of the branches of government co-equal branches as the democrats continually point out coming up against each other with no real way inside to end this ongoing dispute between the 2 bodies or get it to monitor what happens with the president certainly again from the u.s. thanks mike let's just bring you some breaking news coming in from turkey we are getting reports now that the turkish military has begun that operation an

incursion into north eastern syria few moments ago we know that there had been a build a pop military personnel and equipment overnight and over the past 48 hours in southern turkey as they intend to engage kurdish fighters and also those that they regard as militants or terrorists we will bring you more on that military operation as it seems to have begun soon as we get it. not bulldozers are clearing the way to build a new wall on the border between mexico and the united states it's the 5000000000 dollar commitment by president trying to stop asylum seekers getting into the u.s. those row bridles reports from northern mexico the environmental cost may be enormous too as well as irreversible. president donald trump's border barrier is under construction in southern arizona. crews with

heavy equipment are carving a path through the desert the wall will go along the southern edge of the organ pipe cactus national monument an area of exceptional beauty the u.s. national park service says the 1340 square kilometer monument preserves one of the earth's major ecosystems in nearly unspoiled condition. the united nations designated organ pipe national monument as an international biosphere reserve environmentalists say wall construction threatens this pristine environment we've got endangered. pup fish also known as the sonoita fish right here in the stream you can see him swim around over there an endangered species they are a lot of 4 endangered species here workers will pump water from underground to mix concrete for the barriers base possibly drying out this desert always is which is

just a few 100 metres from the border. the barrier will block the normal migration routes of rare animal species like puma and antelope the human experience will also change a 50 kilometer 9 meter tall wall equipped with floodlights that are on all night long that's what's being proposed here and it's it's insane our night skies are going to be destroyed we're not going to see the stars anymore from the campground and it's going to be an eyesore this is a place that's designated wilderness it's supposed to look pristine and now it's going to look like 50 kilometer prison wall in order to build the wall president trump declared a state of national emergency here on the border now that together with other legal loopholes has allowed the government to completely disregard numerous laws designed to protect environmentally sensitive areas like this environmentalists have taken

the administration to court in an effort to slow or halt construction but for now the wall marches relentlessly forward. rob reynolds al-jazeera near solenoid mexico. well it's time for the weapon on his journey. so we are talking of course about this it is super typhoon it is a monster of a storm this one where his way not particularly quick enough through the northern pacific but you notice all this cloud this is all the outer feeder bands very soon they'll begin to have an impact through eastern sections of home shoe in japan on the last 24 hours this is that she's trying to wriggle sustained winds now 260 kilometers an hour we've got some gusts to up to $315.00 and the direction is change just a little bit north northwest at 18 kilometers an hour now the forward motion has actually slowed down so for the next 48 hours it is going to moving a little bit slow and then it to really pick up a pace suffered

a through sunday and this is what you've just seen here this as it heads across land is going to be saturday on into sunday now obviously is to say the closer the storm gets the more the actual winds will certainly be found but also the rain will begin to push in right now with a system of this trend the significant way fight is up to 80 meters that is 60 feet so that really is making for some very dangerous seas this is by friday can begin to see the rain beginning to push in but still the very heavy rain is much closer to the eye of this storm and then as we had friday into saturday of course it gets ever closer and after that as i say it should be making landfall throughout south today but so this is a big storm we're going to focus on this the next couple of days. thanks jenny well farmers in india administered kashmir say restrictions on communication movement are having a devastating impact on their businesses the indian government revoked the region's autonomy and sentence holders like weeks ago but also shut down internet and

telephone lines censor tory gate b reports. it's harvest time in indian administered kashmir where apple production contributes 10 percent to the state's $20000000000.00 incomes this year apples are being left to rot because thomas confines people to pick them after prime minister and render mady abolish the states to thomas status and imposed a security lockdown as. the for the situation is bad we couldn't harvest the apples on time and most of them fell down from the trees now we're collecting the rotten apples and throwing them away. internet i'm able phone services remain cutoff for this moment that means his business is in jeopardy then the basic communication is dollars we have no neighbors built don't build up people on the who are sitting in delhi westin in bangalore we're staying in genoa and other big markets and we're not able to go many good with them it's fairly difficult. this

wholesale fruit market in srinagar would normally be packed with trade is business is down by 95 percent this year compared to last or just as big as the left on each year i export about 200000 boxes of apples in the domestic markets across india this year because of the situation farmers aren't able to send their projects to market they don't know where to send it because communication lines aren't working . in response to the crisis the indian government has set up a national co-operative through which farmers can sell their properties but it imposes strict quality control measures which many farmers find hard to meet. we can only select the produce if the color of the apple is good so far we have rejected 80 percent of the farmers have come here to sell their produce the apple industry in kashmir involves 3500000 people around half the population of the state the look down has devastated the economy and farm is

a calling on the indian government to immediately lift the security restriction must secure a gate in the algiers there. well back to our breaking news coming out of turkey and that military operations have begun in northern syria let's go straight to some consider our correspondent in istanbul as news agency we're talking about reports of artillery fire and aerial assault in that northeastern region what are you hearing 7. so i have a turkish president so far don just said also a few minutes ago from his twitter account that the operation has started and what we know with that's it take a turkish f. 16 jets to cough from d r book or turkish southern city and they hit. the y p g positions for syrian kurdish fighter groups positions in a sort of i in syria also the f. 16 jets are supported by the artillery and we have been in the pictures we see the

smokes coming out so literally technically the operation has begun yesterday of turkish president zardari that the operation is to begin shortly but no one would guess that it would take less than 20 hour to launch this operation well of course the president tried to reassure as his spokes people have over the past few days the great would be taken to make sure that there were a few civilian casualties as possible so just confirm for us who is turkey actually targeting. so i literally since the beginning turkey is rhetorical was this weird target the y. p.g. which is the syrian branch of the out the old kurdistan workers party this is what the turkish authorities have said since the beginning of the. the crisis in syria and turkey has listed the p.k. k. as a terrorist organization as the e.u.

and the us has has done as well so they say we don't have any problem with the locals there we don't have any problem with the kurds flowing there but we will not let what they call at 10 or korea door to be established right beside our border. which is like more than 400 kilometers from the it's inside of the us if it is ever to the iraqi border turkey says we will not let any entity to be run by the white p.g. which turkey sees as a terrorist organization the operation targets the white b.g. its wants to clear the wife e.g. from the region and establish a safe zone of 30 kilometers and turkey plans to move back at least one or 2000000 syrian refugees who now live in turkey back to the syria because that's the long term plan we're also getting news out of russia at the moment cinema as well that a senior law make a van through interfax news agency is saying that the turkish offensive in syria can be construed as a violation of syria's sovereignty is there

a concern in ankara where the decisions a made this incursion would have embroiled other parties that are interested in the way that they control or do not control that part of northern syria. so who actually turk is position in syria in northern syria either north this or north of us has been very complicated since the beginning if for instance like an hour or more ago a turkish president how the phone conversation with russian president putin and according to the turkish presences statement that both leaders stated that this operation can be constructive and it would open the way pave the way for a democracy solution in syria but of course the alignments always change on the ground especially when it comes to syria even though within opposition or opposite groups for the for the pew idea and why fiji we know that russia doesn't recognize

them as a terrorist organization and they have had talks as well so for people why do or why fiji it is practical to align with russia or approach to reggie when they have and then out of response from the americans so this is also a question mark for turkey as well and how russia will react towards this military operation has not been very clear so far so will to and from the iranian side we have been hearing that this operation might be a step to violates syria as is so very nitty but turkey has been emphasizing that turkey aims only territorial integrity in the sea route which is also its border security and its own territorial integrity but this military operation might take longer it's going take longer than expected because the area the turkish military targets right now 30 kilometers deep more than 40400 kilometers wide to the iraqi

border is almost 7 or 8 times larger than the former of the previous military operations conducted in the euphrates shield area which covers. and off an operation all around so it is a more complicated military situation for the turkish military as well. which will be backed by the free syrian army who merged and there and national army by the internal syrian opposition government indeed don't go too far away so they will be coming back to you straight away because they will cross over to complete help get our white house correspondent in d.c. and of course kimberly we were just speaking earlier about this whole situation is very complicated political and military jigsaw puzzle that we see in syria politicians and certainly the oval office will be watching very carefully about where turkey targets its military new missions and its personnel.

yeah and it will also be officials in the pentagon that will also be watching very carefully and there will be deep disappointment with the developments that we are reporting on given the fact that the pentagon has been trying for some time to talk turkey out of invading northeast syria in fact in a pentagon statement that we had on monday it says that the pentagon does not endorse a turkish military operation into syria we will not support it so obviously the advice of the united states has not been heeded in fact it has been completely disregarded something that we got an indication of as early as sunday when the white house 1st put out that statement saying that the u.s. troops would pull back to make way for a turkish operation it appears the coordination of turkey's leader air to want as well as president trump in the united states these 2 seem to have been orchestrating this unilaterally or bilaterally in the absence of the advice at

least of the u.s. pentagon now the pentagon also saying in that statement that it released that there's the belief that this is going to create risk for turkey and there's also the potential for destabilizing consequences and getting back to your initial question about politicians you're right there are not very many happy politicians with regard to this this is a very divided country politically has been for some time but what we're seeing on this issue in the u.s. congress is democrats and republicans agreeing and that is rare the statement coming from one top democrat bob menendez in the the on the foreign relations committee in the u.s. senate he says that this. decision of the united states that has now led to these developments with turkey moving forward with military operations that this is a pending a longstanding policy with an impulsive politically driven decision that will sacrifice long term u.s.

nash. security interest so the pentagon not happy i'm sure about this and we are reaching out to see what information we can get there but given the past 8 months from top you know defense officials politicians who are involved with the oversight on that certainly there is going to be deep concern with the actions of turkey as it's moving forward and it can be sort of this plays into much more the long term vision and influence that the united states has in the region and generally across the world because when you have the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations someone like nikki haley and lindsey graham a prominent republican who have been trumped supporters both saying that you cannot believe your allies your supporters in the lurch like they have left the kurdish fighters when they've been fighting a joint turned to me in terms of i saw all those deep disappointment and deep concern within the republican party and they say as 2 individuals of many will be focused on what is being targeted in northern syria in the coming minutes and hours

. the u.s. president really tried to underscore on tuesday the relationship between the united states and turkey that this is an important nato ally that there is an important partnership when it comes to the f. 35 fighter jet that there is collaboration in the construction of that and it's important to support turkey as a partner but you brought up the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley nikki haley very clear in one of her tweets registry her displeasure with the u.s. president's announcement of troops pulling back out of northeast syria that she she finished her her tweet with the hash tag turkey is not our friend a direct contradiction to what the u.s. president has been saying and certainly as we pull back from this even further 2 it is a confusing message coming out of the white house because on the one hand the united

states is saying look at turkey is our friend u.s. president donald trump is invited. to one to the white house on november 13th that's next month for a visit underscoring this relationship but there's a deep distrust of turkey by many u.s. politicians in the u.s. congress and certainly you brought up senator lindsey graham a republican a member of the president's own republican party who usually is a very vocal supporter of donald trump but on this issue not the case he has been very much opposed to this calling this a disaster there have been suggestions that this is morally wrong because of course don't forget in the midst of all of this the kurdish fighters that helped the united states in the defeat of eisel working alongside the united states for almost 5 years even holding out hope that with that will come the promise of some sort of autonomy control government region nation all of that has been abandoned and

number of lawmakers including senator marco rubio rip. public and have said this is going to leave a moral stayed on the united states that the reputation with u.s. allies will be harmed not just in the eyes potentially of the european community that has registered deep concern about this but but others expanding even wider that the united states has moved ahead impulsively for political reasons perhaps motivated most of the words of donald trump in his effort to win reelection in 2020 years very clearly from the white house on monday that he made a campaign promise in 2016 to get the united states out of endless foreign wars and it appears that not just the underscoring of the relationship with turkey but also keeping that campaign promise is at the forefront of donald trump's mind as he made this decision on sunday that has now led to these breaking news developments of turkey moving forward with military operations you keep

a very close eye on what goes all the white house can believe you have your contacts that do you generally get any sense at all that this is the type of issue that the president would roll back called he has rolled back in directly on other issues but with one that is so decisive important to the strategy of how the middle east is kept safe do you think this is one that he might really have to reconsider is he the type of person. he's definitely that type of person the only thing consistent consistent about donald trump is his inconsistency so yeah donald trump can change his mind with the flip of a coin but having said that we have already seen him twice pull back provide an extension for troops in syria after there has been registered displeasure by the u.s. congress namely the u.s. senate most recently we saw this in january the president making

a very sort of surprise announcement as he met with baltic leaders the the u.s. senate voting is just pleasure and then suddenly there is a bit of an extension many in the u.s. congress hoping that will happen a 3rd time there is already an effort the president supporter lindsey graham a member of his own public republican party saying we're going to move ahead with legislation to say that this is a bad idea the problem with that there are 2 problems with that number one any effort is it legislatively in the senate is nonbinding so the white house can continue to do what it wants number 2 we're getting closer and closer and closer to that november 2020 election and the united states that is just going to pick up with intensity and you can see from the president's tweets that he put out just the last couple of hours that that seems to be on his mind he's making the case to the american voter when he wrote on twitter the united states to spend 8 trillion dollars fighting and policing in the middle east thousands of our great soldiers

have died or have been badly wounded millions of people have died on the other side going into the middle east is the worst decision ever made and then he goes on into the history of our country donald trump is speaking directly to a domestic audience there he is playing to the u.s. voter that has for many many years now felt norma's war fatigue the american public feels it has been lied to with the 2003 invasion of iraq. for fall to intelligence that search for weapons of mass destruction which were never found and this is something that plays into the minds of american voters american voters know that the united states is technically been at war in some form or fashion for generation and that's what donald trump is playing to and what is prominent on his mind right now but we know they're not going too far kimberly will continue to get reaction from you as the day progresses for those of you that have just joined us

you're watching al-jazeera english live from doha a reminder of our breaking news story this hour that the turkish president rest of the world has announced that the offensive into north eastern syria has begun a short time he tweeted the turkish armed forces together with the syrian national army just launched hash tag operation peace spring against the p.k. k. and the y p g and terrorists in northern syria dash being of course i saw our mission is to prevent the creation of a terror corridor or across our southern border and to bring peace to the area operation peace spring will neutralize terror threats against turkey and lead to the establishment of a safe zone facilitating the return of syrian refugees to their homes we will preserve syria's territorial integrity and liberate local communities from terrorists let's cross over back to a stumble into sin new consumer sit in for our audience that are just joining us

let's just focus on who these terrorists are as defined by the turks and as far as your concerned where do we know exactly where this operation is beginning. what turkey calls as a terrorist group our 1st tip is why puji the syrian kurdish fighters group which turkey believes is the syrian branch of the outbuild kurdistan workers party and p.k. k. is listed as a terrorist organization by turkey and the e.u. and the united states are also what turkey calls as a terrorist group is. turkey is not only if fighting the p.k. k. in the region but also fighting isolate according to un korea and ankara has blamed washington for airline ng with the wife p g which which is linked to a terrorist group recognized by the us as well this was a turkish territory extends the beginning but the americans that that the y.p. g.

has been leading. leading troops in the fight against eisel and according to what we're hearing from the office shows and the is sources on the ground there are explosions sounds and rest of syria's wrestler and right across the southeastern city known for an f. 16 jets have taken off from a southeastern city d.-r. booker and they have started bombing the y.p. g. positions and russell also archon there is supporting the f. 16 s strikes current there this is what we know so far in terms of the pictures that turkish television was broadcasting just a short time ago we saw areas as you say here and also told. we've also been. a correspondent has also been focusing his attention on the military build up in terms of the way that the turkish people have been informed of the all on side with

this military operation was the general feeling. so when it comes to fight against the out the old kurdistan workers party the p.k. k. all segments of the turkish society meet on the same ground because it turkey as a state turkey has fought against the p.k. k. for almost 4 decades more than 3 decades and it cost iran $40000.00 lives both from the turkish military side and the a kurdish citizens who have joined the p.k. k. so far so this is a long story for cherokee economically turkey has been very hurt by the fight against the p.k. k. during those last decades and that's why it is seen as legitimate by the turkish public of course the the motive of the military oprah while the motive often minutes for operation is officiated.