upwards of 2000 at some at 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 essential 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. needs to be out of military conflicts in the middle east that it should not be

acting as he says the world's policeman and it was something that he campaigned on in 2016 and you know if nothing else were in another presidential campaign season and you could argue that the the u.s. president is trying to bolster his record by saying that he is keeping u.s. forces out of harm's way all right thank you at the latest from washington that doesn't enjoy an. honest. about this and specifically about president obama's recent statement and whether those comments of causing an ankara . i have no 'd doubt that that trumps our shifting positions is a matter of concern. without because we've been this way before in 2000 a team trumpet at the end of the year promise to withdraw troops and never did and the turkish operation long anticipated there was

a race so clearly it is tied to trumps winning this so allowed this to happen and his willingness to do withdraw the troops so the question is how far will trump allow the turkish operation to to develop its was a definite as i said and there's a lot of opposition in congress they have not been withdrawn the pentagon is going from that they're still there i think only about 50 were in the immediate area on the border and those are the ones that were joined i don't think there to go 'd back to your question i don't think that there is much opposition within the administration the metis is gone bolton is gone the ones who actually opposed that in the process gone it's much more chance colleagues in the senate mcconnell. graham and others were actually leading the opposition and in times of international reaction wild leaders have been calling on ankara to exercise restraint france has strongly condemned the move and it's unease prime minister

says the military incursion risks destabilizing the region and harming civilians russian president vladimir putin want his takesh counterpart to want to avoid any steps in syria that could damage its peace process moscow's also called for a dialogue between the syrian government and the nato secretary general jens stoltenberg has called on techie to act with restraint as well an issue that any actions taken are proportionate and measured and an emergency un security council meeting has been called for by any member states as well as diplomatic editor james bays has the latest from un headquarters in new york. after days of discussion the u.n. security council's agreed to have a meeting on current developments in syria but there's very little chance of agreement on anything other than expressions of general concern what do you hope to achieve these discussions and babs' the conventions that. should if peace is that be a chance to solve issues and see to it it's the european members of the council have

been pushing for a meeting some of them have strongly condemned turkey but the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists issued a statement that stops well short of that civilians and civilian infrastructure should be protected in accordance with international law. the secretary general believes that there is no military solution to the syrian conflict the same language the un has been using throughout syria's bloody 8 and a half year long war there is nor military solution because there is no military solution as i have said repeatedly there is no military in solution to the syrian prizes so how does that apply to turkey's current operation if there is no military solution and that's the firm view of the secretary general is the clear inference to that that he is not in favor of a new military operation. we have been proven correct on this time and again people

have believed that particular fences could win the conflict from one side or another none of that has happened and it will not be able to happen the parties need to come together they need to resolve their differences diplomatically many of been questioning whether president shrub effectively gave a green light to turkey ahead of its military operation but there's also attention to on russia after recent comments by its foreign minister sergei lavrov that the syrian kurds should start negotiations with the assad government russia like everyone else knew exactly what turkey was planning president made it quite clear in front of other world leaders even showing them a map last month at the u.n. general assembly perhaps russia is prepared to tolerate turkey taking a corridor of land along syria's northeast border while it and the assad forces continue the bombardment of it live in the northwest with the hope it will eventually lead to the kurds coming under the control of the syrian government

jamesburg zira at the united nations well the e.u. has been reacting as well natasha butler has more from from paris on that on the news response to tackles offensive in northeast syria. in a statement the e.u.'s foreign policy chief federica mockery really outlines the e.u.'s position and that is that the e.u. is calling on turkey to stop all military action mongering he says that that military action simply cannot lead to any form of sustainable solution that could only be achieved through negotiations or talks mockery and he also says that even member states are extremely concerned over the issue of security over further destabilizing an already volatile region and possibly seeing a resurgence of ice will fight as the coalition partners including turkey have been working very hard to combat greeny also says that turkey is of course

a close ally of the european union and has hosted many syrian refugees and there is real concern in the european union that this violence in northern syria could lead to a new wave of refugees in europe. much more to bring you on after a quick break behind bars since august and jailed tunisian presidential candidate is now released just days before the 2nd round runoff election. how i once again with us look aimlessly try the moments across australia we have of course got those bush foster blazing away that just around the eastern side of the country southeastern parts of queensland into the north of new south wales as we go on through the next couple of days they say things will at least up to cool down brisbane of about 22 celsius last couple days we're getting up into the mid

thirty's so that does show some signs of improvement further west says generate dry it's hot into the interior alice about 30 degrees 21 there in perth on thursday some a temperature as we go on into friday in a similar temperature to as you can see for brisbane so the temperatures really fully back quite nicely here i notice by friday showers so long. just drifting their way in that he says out of queensland anywhere from around townsville right down into the eastern side of victoria 17 celsius the full melbourne on the other side of the tasman same got some wet weather making its way into new zealand see this hook of cloud that will bring some rather stormy conditions into the west of south south auckland we are going to see some really wet weather pushing in here them as we go on through thursday and increasingly wet and blustery for the north of the friday oakland 70.

teach on from office a photo opportunity for many. big profits for a few days tourists flock to europe's must see destination. tensions are rising. with local communities paying a heavy price for the popularity. power to the true economic and environmental costs of europe's tourism on al jazeera. with al-jazeera live from london al top story this hour turkey says it's hit more

than $180.00 targets as part of a major ground an air offensive in north eastern syria aimed at clearing the area of kurdish fighters the kurdish that syrian democratic forces say a prison holding i still detainees has been struck by turkish troops and emergency u.n. security council meeting has been called for thursday to discuss what's happening. on our other top story this hour 2 people have been shot dead near a german synagogue and shop in what authorities are calling an anti semitic attack the attack coincides with young kapoor the holiest day only jewish calendar shooting took place in the eastern city of holly gunfire was also heard in the nearby town of landsberg about 15 kilometers away it's not clear if the 2 are connected andrew simmons has more now from the scene in holly. more details now emerging on the sequence of events pieced together from police sources talking to german media after the attempt to get to the synagogue the killer opened fire on

a possible woman shooting dead instantly he then went into a nearby took his restaurant opened fire there as well killing a man he got into his car and drove 17 kilometers out of the city to get away he went to a workshop demanding a car they didn't have one the workers just couldn't help him he then pointed to a taxi wanted to get to hijack that taxi and as he was doing so he turned around and fired an electrician who was critically injured he's been lifted to hospital he then drove away and a pound according to all reports we're hearing there was a car chase a police car chase and he in his car was rammed by a truck that came to a halt not clear whether he was injured but he's in custody he has been named by german media. it's

a 27 year old from this district and what's emerged online yet to be verified is what's effectively a manifesto written by him showing pictures of his weapons and ammunition referring to his objective to kill as many antti whites possible jews preferred. to ecuador now a protest that clash with security forces in a 7th day of anti-government demonstrations thousands of indigenous people are on the streets of the capital quito angry at the fuel price hikes introduced by president lenin laureano roads are empty and business is a closed across the country as part of a one day strike against the austerity measures right now has refused to resign and says he is negotiating with thousands of indigenous groups about this when i latin america and it's only seen human is following the story from kale so clearly these protests have been happening not just thinking but really in other parts of the country causing a fair bit of paralysis how widespread of a pain. the paralysis maram is pretty much

nationwide in some places the the demonstrations have been bigger and others smaller here and there have been street protests both in favor and against the government and a very very large deployment of security forces including now for the 1st time members of the army i have seen here on the streets right behind the police riot police they too are armed with that with riot gear and this is significant because the armed forces has just put out a communique saying that it will not take responsibility for any consequences that may occur in the line of their duty to preserve public order and they say that the only ones responsible for these consequences would be those especially the leaders of the groups that are calling for social unrest and this is again very very significant but it's also a demonstration that the armed forces continues to back the besieged president

leonine what i know who is at this hour we understand in the capital people even though he had said that he was transferring the seat of government to the building that you see right behind me here in hawaii. hell no this is he about this because he's refusing to resign so he seems to be digging in his heels. he's refusing to resign but that is really quite what more significantly i think at this moment is the fact that he's refusing to back down on the austerity measures that called all this to happen exactly 7 days ago he. posed these a sturdy measures which include a huge hike in the price of fuel and that's what brought hundreds of thousands of people out onto the street and at least $700.00 people have been arrested so far according to the president's own press secretary he is at this hour allegedly or we understand he is trying to negotiate some kind of a way out of this crisis which is

a huge crisis the worst one ecuador has seen in more than 12 years and so he must be nervous but unless there is some kind of a way out some kind of a concession made on his part and they are on his opponent then very he may very soon or may be forced rather to resign in the coming weeks or days madam thank you very much our latin america and it's a new c and human reporting to us from on those protests against the government's austerity measures. now jail tunisian presidential candidate now bill crowley has been released just 4 days before the 2nd round runoff election has been behind bars since august accused of money laundering and tax evasion the media mogul came 2nd in the 1st round of tunisia's presidential elections last month his party heart of tunisia also came 2nd in monday's parliamentary election. has more now from the capital tunis. his archivist dayak unfair you can see here you can hear him. over there. and this is exactly what is trying to do now is once to

tell that it is yours that's his word therefore that political moment and that you want to. rally behind him to live there when i was talking to his own people over the last few days they would tell you that's against the political divides into this year this could potentially be the right candidate to his ears and fix the problems that the country faces. but at the same time he faces the delicate task of convincing people to vote for him and then have to tell you that if that happens there would be a huge political upset here inside is the. real environment minister says the oil washing up on the country's northern beaches is likely from venezuela oil has appeared on more than 100 brazilian beaches over the past few weeks a cargo silas says a report by the state run oil company petrobras has confirmed the oil is not

brazilian but more than likely from its northern neighbor he described the spill is enormously difficult to contain more than 100 tons of oil is already been collected from the coastline. hopes are fading of finding any more survivors from a boat that capsized in the mediterranean on sunday it was making the dangerous crossing from north africa to europe packed with refugees and migrants at least 15 people are still missing how many june has more now from the italian island of lampedusa italy's coast guard still searching for migrants who've been missing since a boat capsized off the coast of lampedusa on sunday that boat we're told originated in tunisia there were about 50 people on board most of them tunisian and west african we're also told that the migrants who were on the boat 22 have been rescued 13 have been found dead we've been told that those 13 were women and there is a fear that of the rest who have been missing that many of them are women and

children now the u.n. refugee agency says that what happened proves yet again that urgent action is needed when it comes to the situation in the mediterranean here in lampedusa as we said the search is ongoing the mayor here tells us that the search will continue tomorrow that at that point robots undersea robots will also be deployed to assist in the search we're also told that this evening there will be a memorial service for those who perished in that boat capsized well as more and everything we're covering right here all the latest on our breaking news story but don't forget you can watch us on life streaming here as well if you want. it recap of the headlines before we go take has launched a ground offensive in northeastern syria hours after its warplanes in artillery began hitting territory held by kurdish fighters and syrian democratic forces say

a turkish as strike as a prison holding i still think cheney's turkish military operation is designed to clear its borders of kurdish fighters and the army says it's 181 target so far u.s. secretary of state might pompei are saying washington did not give the green light for attacking to invade syria following president trance decision on sunday to withdraw troops from the region charles trafford has the latest now from the turkey syria border. as you say that they are targeting s.d.f. positions only we understand that one of these positions according to turkish media was in a stiff weapons. we are trying to make contact with people across the border it's interesting that i suppose in the last 3 of those the lights all for to lobby out a big of gold out. and certainly the people that we have spoken to i suppose about 3 hours ago saying that they had been told by the state to remain in their homes

but great concern for the hundreds of thousands of people who live along this border on the syrian side. now in our all the headlines this hour 2 people have been shot dead near a synagogue in germany the interior minister has confirmed it was an anti semitic attack it coincides with a young kapoor the holiest day in the jewish calendar shooting took place in the eastern city of holly gunfire was also heard in the nearby town of landsberg about 15 kilometers away but it's not clear if the 2 are connected. and in ecuador protesters have been clashing with security forces in a 7th day of anti-government demonstrations that thousands of indigenous people are on the streets in the capital quito angry over a fuel price hikes introduced by president lenin morena roads are empty and businesses a closed as part of the one day strike against these austerity measures marino has

refused to resign as he says he is negotiating with indigenous groups those are the top stories on al-jazeera coming up next it's people in power. philippines president roderigo deter he says he's cracking down on the communist insurgency but some fear it's a deadly campaign to silence his critics as the death toll rises one a one east investigates detaches new war on al jazeera. the multi-trillion dollar global tourism industry undoubtedly brings many benefits from wealth under point to greater international comic to fit in but it also carries environment and other costs as well as being a major contributor to global warming it can cause pollution a loss of natural habitats and social stress this is particularly so for europe's

most popular locations which are buckling under the weight of ever growing numbers now with mass tourism projected to keep growing in coming years some of their inhabitants of 100 off the selfie taking crap. i don't value to paul who try i live in severe weather which will be predicted by this cruise north. sea in star wars feeling interfere missing a robin hood like winston up the east. became of thrones dubrovnik in croatia has long been one of the mediterraneans most popular tourist destinations. but

after scenes from the t.v. series game of thrones were filmed here more tourists have been coming. we've rented an apartment in the oldest part of the city where one of the most iconic sequences has shocked many times the world of shame have. the same image each. king's landing. comes before you. just called house lannister. so this should be the same show. on places like this that have something extra special to offer have seen an explosion in the number of visitors. in the 1950 s. there were only 25000000 tourists worldwide today there are more than 1400000000 a year the boom has been a blessing for some bringing jobs and revenue and new opportunities but for others

it has been a curtis visible i think. congress will choose the dog. and now a new so-called scent jess's phenomenon is boosting global tourism people choosing a holiday destination as a direct result of seeing it in a movie or on t.v. do a sound for yourself gary and jenny up to such set jess's from leeds england it's amazing to. they start this walk of shame. just to see that. you know the view is the same in real life saying she. was involved in a. brilliant location for a game of thrones and kings london and all of it was computer generated but it was a lot worse. and we will stop here again but i will just kindly ask you to occupy

only one side though the brains i will tell you what is landmarks are only 1500 people actually live in old town or a unesco world heritage site but last year 1300000 tourists came to visit. exactly. where you have done your homework everybody likes moments one of probably one of the all time greatest shows ever met. not just. because it's going on it's clear what being here means for the diehard fans of the cult series but overall the city is now bursting. due to an explosion of visitor numbers is by no means unique to drop. the

problems that brings mass tourism may have some obvious benefits but in recent years many of those on the receiving end of the influx of had enough to make one in venice be noisy demonstrations against overcrowding and its toll on the city's fragile ecosystem in thailand beaches have been closed because of environmental damage in the park just like. in the barcelona tourist buses have had their tires slashed. yet no one. in austria the annual tourist season is gathering pace and afternoon this is how stop a village in the alps which in a short time has become one of europe's most popular destinations stands for. just under 800 people live in house tap but every year more than

a 1000000 tourists flock here for the remarkable scenery and the numbers especially from asia keep rising who way and living are sisters from singapore they're on a month long vacation around europe but i again. they share photos from their journey on social media. visiting house was on top of that list. i just went to. my site. and i just wonder. why. the only. man alexander shorts is desperately trying to handle the crimes so the. so. what.

is but the man is complaining a few years ago his village was done. it on. the original. tourism really took off in west europe in the 1960 s. when the middle classes 1st gained the spare time and money to go on package holiday. dance for because. it. seems that what was once a luxurious experience only to be enjoyed by the rich is now relatively common place these days taking a plane is like catching a bus or

a train i'm not much more expensive chief rights have given to or isn't a huge boost in the last decade global airline passenger numbers have doubled as a consequence to more than 4300000000 a year. and it's no longer only those from the richest nations who are traveling people from all. over the world are now on the move. away and ling and for most of the tourists here the journey has one purpose to shoot as many selfies as possible you know will it be and you'll. be mean. instagram tourism as it's sometimes known is a fast growing trend almost 40 percent of young tourists admit in surveys that their choice of destination is influenced by what the location will look like

in that picture. just a few photos to put in the instagram photo more of it i guess it put it in a private account so that only my close friends can see on the photos that i post but i think it is ok sharing is not the show this sharing like this is such a place as and my family. just tell them and they can experience themselves ok though you know the point where you know the china they're so fond of house stands that they've built a state a copy of the austrian village in south korea that forms the setting of a television show i did many places in asia pictures of how stuff pop up on posters calendars and google. for my friend they say you must with austria because it's really beautiful so when i saw this picture come into the internet in

i just. do. know one thing tell. claims to have the best view of stavanger in norway. all rather she has until 8 am every morning before the 1st crowds of tourists here. harvey your hell of being. a mere system learn in you. know. going to silica here so i have a fantastic sic. talk this heap in a cruise ships can now do right in the center of stavanger the extra revenue this generates fills the coffers of the city's poor but it's becoming

a real nuisance for the residents. at park thieves. took less than a week of our snowfall to listener yes we've heard the abbot electric here this enough but there are many out there know can or no. go for the 2 of us nascar for no we're. not out there so many of what occurs to you and there the york. is a retired hairdresser she spends most of the time in her garden. well 1st she and her husband bought their dream house almost 2 decades ago in those days the number of tourists wasn't an issue. this is just sit.

around 350000 cruise ship passengers who visits to bangor during the season this year. local businesses welcome the money they bring although generally seaborne to spend less than others because they have everything they need on the ship. at the time he swore smaller still hangar some 100. having a very similar. on a small port. company and these people for a whole day of few blocked. the other cruise ships coming to 50 a year.