this insurance. date even against journalists and we are hearing now from the president's spokesman that at least 700 people have been arrested since these protests began 7 days ago mary what do we know he said hundreds of people have been arrested in the past few days what do we know about whether they're going to be charged how long they're going to be held for. well there is a state of emergency or exception as it's called here in place and it will be in place for another 7 weeks at least this was declared by the president before he decided to come here to set up temporarily the seat of government which is he behind me is the government house the temporary government house but he is now in the capitol he thought presumably overseeing some attempt to reach a negotiated settlement with indigenous leaders and trade union leaders but in the meantime. the armed forces has put out a communicate which is very very significant indeed it says that the armed forces i

will not take responsibility for any quote consequences that could take place from for the actions taken by people who are just roughing public order and they said that the only ones responsible for this would be those who who are who are carrying out these demonstrations and using excessive force they say and this is a double message merriam it's basically 1st of all a way of saying that the armed forces remains strongly behind the president at this stage which is very significant because there's no way that the government in ecuador stay in power for very long unless the army in under these circumstances at least makes it clear that they support him and secondly it means that the army will probably be taking a larger role in putting down the demonstrations that we've been seeing in the capital and all over the country in fact and we saw today members of the army going right behind the police and riot the riot police and they seem to be ready to move in if necessary so it could get

a lot messier here unless there is some sort of an agreement quickly thank you very much with the latest on those protests in ecuador seen humalog america dissolute reporting from. we go to iraq now the prime minister there is announced 3 days of mourning for demonstrators killed during days of violent anti-government protests at least $110.00 people were killed $6000.00 were injured across the country protests have been demanding an end to endemic government corruption and widespread unemployment and on call reports now from the capital baghdad. they chant no more corrupt government the key to the anti-government protesters is an end to decades of crooked politicians since the u.s. led occupation and invasion of iraq in 2003 corruption watchdog transparency international says 4 $150000000000.00 has gone missing former m.p. right he is now an anti corruption campaigner and for. the corruption floodgates

opened in 2006 when the government replaced the jafari government there was a lauren place before 2006 where a committee had to approve all contracts above $5000000.00 change that to $100000000.00 individual ministries deemed again to approve contracts themselves. a popular belief among many iraqis is government departments are controlled by political parties who reward their supporters with jobs and contracts the interior ministry made nationwide news earlier this year when details broke of a contract for 6000 pickup trucks each costing $35000.00 when the marketplace price in iraq was $14000.00 the interior ministry said the contract was above board and handled with correct procedure this former m.p. says there's no sector of iraqi society that hasn't been touched by corruption. the corruption and face the nation has affected this country and i feel sorry for it

it's everywhere public and private it's become normal it's really hard to eliminate this corruption needs to begin with judicial reform and the rule of law needs to be enforced from heilig to the officials all the way down successive governments have tried to combat fraud with various committees in february this year prime minister . set up the high council for combating corruption but that hasn't satisfied protesters who say politicians and others guilty of corruption need to be brought to justice iraq's the 2nd largest oil exporter in the world and the protesters where that money go now in the wake of these protests the government has announced that tackling corruption is one of the key issues it's going to look at but whether that's enough to satisfy the protesters remains unclear on al-jazeera baghdad. still ahead why. in the world the details of the last

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updates brought to you by. going places together. the old. thank you very much female football fans in iran are looking forward to a rare occasion some are being allowed to join the crowd to watch a world cup qualifier for the 1st time 4000 women's tickets were sold out within minutes of going online for thursday's match between iran and cambodia a threat from football's world governing body pfieffer has forced the ukrainian

government to lift its ban on women that gains saying ravi has more from tehran. in iran women take football as seriously as men do. but one of the reasons these young players are training indoors it's too expensive for this club to use a full sized outdoor football field their coach says they'll get there but progress is slow and imitate him says what we've done so far is good but there is more clubs need to pay more attention to women for a 5th of the budget of the men's team they can have a women's team as well. football in iran has been in the spotlight once again after a female fan committed suicide in september so her just wanted to watch her favorite team play so like many young iranian women have done in the past she tried to enter the stadium dressed like a man police charged her with violating public chastity and assaulting an officer facing jail time and reportedly in a fragile mental state she left the tehran court doused herself in gasoline and set

herself on fire members of the team she loved say it never should have happened you know. what happened really hurt the hearts of all a rainy and and i think a good thing from now on is to open up means entry to stadiums and how memory would remain a large forever. unfortunately this tragic incident happened and no one is happy about it women work at least shoulder to shoulder with them and this country i think their presence in the stadium regardless of the strategy too will have a positive impact on football following her death before threatened to ban iran's national team if the government didn't allow women in to stay. idioms iran agreed but critics say a few 1000 seats in a stadium designed 480000 isn't enough the government says for a conservative islamic country this is a big step the path forward is clear and so horrible they are a suicide is best left in the past the general feeling is that we just hope that these don't these events don't happen any longer and that girls woman

everywhere in the world they have the opportunity to advance. they look to the future with hope. on the pitch or in the stands women we spoke to said they just want to be treated equally and whatever happens next so who they are a suicide will forever remain a tragic episode in the fight by female fans to watch football in iraq. in basra the oldies here at the iran barcelona and argentina star lino messi has revealed how he almost quit the club following a spanish tax evasion case missy and his father were found guilty of tax fraud back in 2017 the current world player of the year said he felt he wasn't being treated fairly by the spanish government but what i meant there. at that time with the mess of the treasury i had the mind to leave i didn't want to leave barcelona but i felt i had to leave spain i felt that i was being very mistreated and i didn't want to

stay here i think many teams would have been happy for me to join them but i never had an official offer because everyone knew my idea was to stay in barcelona however the tax issue was bigger than my feelings about this club for everything that i was suffering personally. missy is currently serving a 3 month ban from international football so he wasn't available for argentina's game against germany on wednesday. well they did come back from 2 goals down to draw 22 indorsements a not a bad result for them now 7 time european cup winners ac milan have named a former coach as they new manager stefano pioli who coached into during the 201617 season replaces marco jump pollo who were sector after just 7 games in charge she's passed association with a city rivals hasn't impressed ac milan fans with piolo outs already trending on twitter in its early. the dispute between the n.b.a. and china is showing no sign of ending the league has now postponed wednesday's general media stations in shanghai for the l.a.

lakers and the brooklyn nets at least 2 other n.b.a. events have been cancelled in the city as well the country's state broadcaster cancelled plans to show a pair of preseason games earlier this week and is reviewing all ties with the league it all started when the used and rockets general manager posted a pro hong kong tweet earlier this week meanwhile used in star james harden has now thrown his sport behind the n.b.a. commissioner who has refused to apologize to china adam silver said on tuesday it was not up to the league to regulate what players employees and team owners say the chinese broadcasters and companies have cut ties with the team following the tweet from the rockets chain rule manager here we are pretty much proves the story living in everybody should know how they feel in the door process be able to speak you know obviously something we're going to close in some ways and people are going to greet her just the way we're living so you know. i'm here for out of sort of

china's the speed with the n.b.a. is also being discussed at a top sports conference in london global sports are increasingly having to walk a political tightrope the willing sat down with one of the men behind the wolves main ticket agencies stubhub. obviously expanding markets comes with risks it comes with opportunities and the leagues are incredibly well equipped with the personnel that they have with the consultants that they hire to be able to navigate the broadcast markets for example which are completely different in china than they are in india than they are in the philippines than they are in brazil and all of those represent massive opportunities for these leaks so it is definitely a tightrope it is one that i believe that the leagues are well equipped to handle and i think it's something that your own only going to see increased there is no doubt about the fact that sports are becoming more and more global and that is

a good thing for everyone there's geopolitics in operating businesses anywhere in the world it's it comes with the opportunity and it requires a lens through which to look at it and and whether it's companies like stubhub or whether it's the leagues that are in charge of the content. it's something that we have to be well informed on and that we have to be very careful about as we look at at expanding but the bottom line is it's such an amazing opportunity. scotland's rugby world cup quarter final hopes are hanging in the balance that's despite so this 61 mill thrashing over russia on wednesday a win against japan in the next game would all but guarantee their spot in the last 8 however it looks likely that they match against the hosts on sunday will be cooled off due to a super typhoon which will hit japan in the mixed few days it's. wales or definitely on their way to the quarter finals though despite going to go down after

only 9 minutes against fiji they recovered to win $2917.00. that's where we'll leave it from animal sport again later america. peter thanks very much that wraps up the news hour but i will be back in just a couple of minutes with much more of the day's news for you including of course all the latest reaction and analysis takis ground incursion into northeast syria more on that coming up i showed. him the next episode of techno the team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big business with an unfortunate the smelly business to the complexities of

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the lot it was brought to us when you there was a good example maybe his son goes head to head with the chairman of the u.k. spritzing party which is tiny the tones are very loose talk to show that there's not a loose about it's often shop it's pretty clear actually it's clear as brits it means brits yes it is and it's just as clearly hazy. on just. what we were. there we get stuff. out there you. know. turkish forces crossed the border into northern syria as part of a major ground an air offensive against kurdish fighters and car is saying it wants to establish a safe zone in syria and help refugees return home but what it trigger a new humanitarian crisis.

welcome to the program watching al-jazeera life from london i'm maryanne demasi also coming up. 2 people are shot dead in germany and one is now being treated as an anti semitic. attack. and clashes all the streets of ecuador's capitalist thousands of protesters lead a national strike against the government's austerity measures. turkey has launched a ground offensive in north eastern syria hours after its warplanes and artillery began hitting territory held by kurdish fighters the syrian democratic forces say one of the as strikes hit a prison holding eisel detainees techies military operation is designed to clear its border of kurdish fighters in the army says it's hit $181.00 targets so far

there's been widespread evacuations and panic in these kurdish areas as victoria gates and the now reports. turkish forces in the syrian rebel allies attack kurdish positions in northeast syria pounding live with as strikes and artillery is it across buda a military operation just days after u.s. troops pulled back from the area. wild leaders have described the offensive as dangerous and reckless and warn it will threaten regional stability the turkish vice president sees it differently. this operation will be a source of peace and will bring peace and will sort out the syrian crisis in a radical way this operation led by president resupply of as one of the steps and one of the procedures among other steps taken by president won for the sake of syria and for keeping the unity of syria. turkish

president wretched time says the aim of the offensive is to eliminate what he calls the terror corrido along turkey's southern border it will target turkish led syrian democratic forces and eisel fighters you say wants to establish a safe zone inside territory currently held by the s.d.f. 20000000 refugees hosted in turkey campus that world. the s.d.f. says the offensive has caused widespread panic and evacuations and will trigger a new humanitarian crisis. we saw 2 tanks in front of our village so we left fearing that our children might get hurt following the shelling of the village most residents have left but some young men have stayed. the kurds have been key players in the fight against i feel in syria the s.d.f. of appeal to the united states and its allies to establish a no fly zone to protect it from turkish attacks that are that of the kingdom of

god are there nigel martyn of us out of 1 egypt turkey is trying fruity attacks to the united for the master. it is trying to lengthen the life of these groups we do not agree to any attacks by turkey and by supporting them and the world needs to reason behind the attack on the northeast of syria the turkish government describes the main fighting force in the s.d.f. as a terrorist organization linked to the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. which has fought against the turkish government for decades. again sees this military operation as a chance to weaken an old enemy but the international community is worried about the prospect of more suffering for the people of northern syria as well as the security implications of this move turkey is a fall off with no clear plan about how to deal with thousands of jailed eisel fight is on the syrian side of the border victoria gates and be al-jazeera. let's go live to chelles strafford has an akali on turkey's border with syria and charles we've been speaking about the as strikes that have been taking place targeting

those border towns and we've also been speaking about artillery shelling and now the ground incursion tell us what you've been seeing and hearing around you. well certainly i suppose in the last 23 hours we've seen and heard gunfire close to where we're standing along this border section. clashes we understand between s.t.'s forces and the turkish military where seeing ongoing and hearing ongoing on tillery strikes as well we heard what we believe to be a fighter jet above a few minutes ago boston fireball appeared on the horizon we've also heard announcements being made by the military over loudspeakers in this town warning people not to gather in groups and to stay as far away from of the border as they

can and now the border is i suppose about half a kilometer behind me you can imagine the kind of fear and tension here even on the turkish side of the border but you know the big questions are is what kind of humanitarian crisis could such an operation cools when there are hundreds of thousands of people on the syrian side who we understand many of whom now off fleeing towns and villages that have troops isha forces based in and are being targeted in and let's not forget that many of those people fled to those s.d.f. controlled areas for safety in recent years as we've seen increasing victory for the stiff with the help of u.s. led coalition forces and ironically the x. in the fight against eisel so very worrying and no doubt terrifying

experience on folding before for many people living across the border now we seen this over the years haven't we families and civilians being displaced multiple times as a result of conflict and civil war in the country child now of course turkey hosts millions of refugees on its territory what if they've been saying recently about that. well turkey says this operation is described as an anti terror operation targeting the the white b.g. which is the main fighting force in the s.d.f. cools the y. ph d. a terrorist organization linked to a kurdish group that has been fighting the turkish government full full decades but its 1st aim its 2nd day in those days to try so it says in dealing with the refugee crisis in this country is around 3600000 syrian refugees

inside he and the sudanese government says it wants to clear an area pushing back around 30 kilometers from the border. so it says around $2000000.00 refugees can return from this country to to their homes to those areas of course is being met with massive skepticism in the international community who are concerned very old because they would fear is that this kind of action could cause get another humanitarian crisis i think the united nations is already expressed doubts as to whether many of the people that we're hearing off fleeing these villages and pushing south out of that area could well be given the kind of humanitarian assistance that they inevitably will need thank you very much from a colleen tack a child strafford reporting to us. so the social promotion initially began when as

strikes were launched on the syrian border town of the turkish artillery fire also targeted the town of where u.s. troops recently evacuated this is territory held by the s.d.f. led forces as we've been saying troops stationed in the turkish border town of cali tokyo already has a presence elsewhere in syria holding a number of observation posts in the northwest of the country an area also controlled by rebel forces now i do want says the wider aim of the offensive is to establish a safe zone inside the s.d.f. territory where $2000000.00 refugees currently hosted in turkey can then be settled well the u.s. president is saying is turkish counterpart wants to repatriate millions of syrian citizens but donald trump says he will wipe out a quantity if russia. attacks the cut population i do agree and sanctions but i actually think much tougher than sanctions if he doesn't do it as you may a way is possible he could do it or it is soft man or he could do it in

a very tough manner and if he does of them fairly he's going to pay a very big economic prose roselyn jordan joins us live now from washington to president trump's recent comments suggest that there might be limits to what washington is prepared to tolerate in northeast syria. well when you consider that in recent months the trumpet ministration has decided to impose sanctions on the i r g c the military elite military wing of the iranian government it does it would not be surprising if he were to go after parts of the government of president. juan in order to show the us his displeasure with this invasion of kurdish held territory in northeastern syria now let's step back a little bit recall this past year when the u.s. minister andrew brunson was being detained by turkish authorities at that time the

trumpet ministration imposed travel bans on 2 high ranking turkish officials the justice minister and the interior minister after bronson was released by turkish authorities those sanctions went away about 3 months later it was very quietly done it was there wasn't a press release at the time but there is this president now merriam now whether or not donald trump is actually going to make good on his threat to hold the government responsible for anything that goes wrong during this invasion is another quote is another story. right so is the u.s. prepared to then play any sort of restraining role because now that they have withdrawn troops from northeast area sort of affects that leverage they have very little influence. well that's a really big question because there had been a 1000 or so up words of 2000 at some one point u.s.

forces who were in the region to help kurdish fighters basically mop up after their joint assault on eisel targets in northeastern syria essentially liberating that part of the country from eisel control now it does not it's not really clear whether or not the pentagon is recommending that any such assistance be provided because there has been a lot of political back and forth here in the u.s. mostly against any sort of involvement in this fight against turkey but there's also a great political concern about leaving the kurdish fighters sensually at the mercy of turkish forces so that's also a big question that's being faced right now but certainly one of the things donald trump's talked about on wednesday afternoon is this idea that the u.s. .