resisted here in the united states that's another question certainly the u.s. president donald trump after that statement was released on wednesday then took questions about the turkish invasion here's some of what he had to say i will wipe out his economy if that happens i've already done it once with pastor brunson. i'm sure that he i hope that he will act rationally you do have to understand if the fighting each other for many many decades actually for centuries they've been fighting each other it's somewhat of a mixed message isn't the of all it's coming from president trump he surely knew that he wanted to crush the kurds for a long time with true u.s. troops and knew what you know withdrawing u.s. troops would lead to this and yet he says that he will crush turkey's economy if they're too hot on the kurds. well there's a lot to unpack here lisbeth's a let's go through

a point by point 1st the president's point about getting tough on turkey in the matter of the u.s. minister andrew bronson who had been detained for illegally proselytizing inside turkey in 2018 well yes the u.s. government did put on a new travel list the ministers of justice and interior departments in korea and so they and their families weren't allowed to come to the united states but after andrew bronson was released by turkish authorities later and 2018 about 3 months after these sanctions were imposed these 2 men were removed so they're now free to come to the united states i think it would be a bit of a stretch to argue that putting sanctions on 2 government officials and their families in essence crippled the turkish economy you might want to look at the earth along government's policies on why the economy is failing as some economists would argue then when it comes to this idea of how to actually deal with turkey

both u.s. the u.s. and turkey are members of nato they're already at loggerheads over the turkish decision to buy s $400.00 missile defense systems from russia something which the u.s. has violently opposed and which the members of congress are already saying that the u.s. should be strong should be strongly considering some sort of sanctions for bringing in weapons system that is not compatible with either us or nato member systems and that if these turks are under undermining the meaning of being a member of nato then let's also step back a few years when donald trump started running for the presidency one of the things that he was adamant about was that it had been a mistake for the u.s. to invade iraq and that indeed the u.s. needs to scale back its military presence in the middle east he argued at the. and that the u.s. should not be the world's policeman while we heard him say that again on wednesday

in the wake of the turkish invasion that it's up to european countries and to turkey and to countries in the middle east to deal with the problem from eisel and that really even though the u.s. is opposed to this turkish military action that it's not for the u.s. to try to mediate which is why u.s. forces who have been in syria working alongside with courage fighters to make certain that eisel doesn't reconstitute itself that's why he had those troops pulled back he's hoping some would argue that this could be a good campaign issue that this would be a campaign promise that he kept something that he could argue as he runs for reelection in 2020 so again elizabeth a lot to unpack there but this is the kind of situation and the kind of context that the u.s. reaction could be read as being at this moment ross thank you very much for that for now that's rather than jordan with the analysis from washington d.c.

international reaction to the ticket offensive has been swift from so strongly condemned the move as prime minister says it risks destabilizing the region both u.s. president donald trump and bush promised abbas johnson have expressed serious concern and encores action saying it could lead to a humanitarian catastrophe egypt has called for an emergency meeting of the arab league and russian president vladimir putin says turkey needs to avoid any steps in syria that could damage its peace process moscow blames the u.s. and stability in the region and the divisions between the syrian government and the could make sense of some of the news over the americans organized cause a state structures in northeastern syria ensured people's livelihoods and viability and actively promoted the kurdish issue in a way that arab tribes who traditionally lived on these territories used to object to it's now a very dangerous game such a reckless attitude to this highly sense of. subject can set fire to the entire region and we have to avoid if at any cost we are communicating this position to

the us i hope they hear us but practically we can't yet see any serious changes of their inconsistent and contradictory policy. well let's get more on this knowledge on by law school former u.s. assistant secretary of defense and senior fellow at the center for american progress and he's also joining us live from the american capital mystical thank you for your time how far into syrian territory do you think turkey is planning to go ahead and what are their plans well i think they're in want to create that safe zone that they've talked about they want to control all of the northeastern part of syria not only to prevent what they think as attacks from the kurdish rebels but also to allow all the syrian refugees who come into turkey during this war to go back and one of the s.d.s. options here you know it lacks the. area that airpower of

a modern military force so what's going to happen to them well i think basically they're going to do what they have to do to survive i wouldn't be surprised if they allied themselves with the assad regime to basically protect themselves and fight the other groups that are still fighting the assad regime because in the final analysis as you point out without american support they can't beat the turks and do you think that american support would the withdrawal of those u.s. troops from the area that the american support is gone i mean any chance the no fly zone that the kids according for will be established. well obviously there's always a chance but the president is trying to say we're getting out as roslyn pointed out this is a campaign promise and as horrible as this situation is most of trump's supporters really don't care about it because they will hold this of why p.g.p.

cake what does it mean you know we've got to bring our troops home and we've got to start you know dealing with problems here and our new defense strategy is to deal with russia and china not these horrible middle east situation so those might be trump supporters but you know what about his allies there's widespread opposition in d.c. what's happening even among. republicans that significant. could stay pressure to try to rein in turkey well i think they can if i were advising him i would say to people like senator lindsey graham who's stuck with trump through thick and thin and who's been standing up for him during this impeachment in korea said look if you want to continue to do that you're going to have to change your position here and make it clear to the turks of they come in they'll be american air power 'd that they're going to have to have to deal with that's only leverage they have he's the commander in chief he can decide you know

to withdraw our troops the congress can pass resolutions to start a war but they can't and what the if the president trying to end it it's a called thank you as always for your time we do appreciate your analysis that is the once called live in washington d.c. thank you. now the united nations security council will meet behind closed doors on thursday morning to discuss the next developments in ne in syria the 5 e.u. members on the council that's from germany belgium poland and the u.k. the quest at the meeting to turkey announce the stops of its cross border operation on diplomatic editor james bays has the nation's. 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 that you speak loud discussions and bedser conventions that. should if

peace is there be a chance to do so already issue sensitive 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 crisis 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 trump 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 in 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 out zira at the united nations will it stay with the story we're joined now by an analysis and spokeswoman for the international committee of the red cross and she's joining us live from washington d.c. very good to have you with us on al-jazeera can you tell us about how many people are being hosted vulnerable people being hosted in caps in the northeast and what this turkish operation means for then. well it's a very good point and thank you for the question i think of we talk about northeast syria in general we're talking about tens of thousands of people who have been displaced. whether they're in in camps in detention in towns in villages we know that. province we have they all whole camp where there are

proximate the 68000 people of whom 90 percent are women and children so certainly we're talking about tens of thousands of people who are potentially in great risk if they if they come under. if they're in harm's way in terms of this fighting and we're already hearing of people having to flee this operation if they are forced to what are their options where can they go. again another very good question. that's when that frankly i can't answer and wouldn't really want to speculate on right now but i think what we're looking at will as was previously said a bit earlier where 1st and foremost reminding all sides that they need to respect civilians they need to ensure that they're protected they need to ensure that hospitals and other civilian infrastructure are protected that's that's

a very important message that we want to get across because the the needs are immense where we are talking about over 8 years of conflict we're talking about 11700000 people who are in need of aid half the country's health infrastructure is no longer fully functioning 2000000 children can't go to school these are staggering statistics and one can only imagine try to imagine what additional fighting was due to that population and unfortunately that message for the warring parties the call for them to respect civilian infrastructure like hospitals like schools we've seen has been ignored with. just devastating impact on the syrian war so will your organization be able to stay and continue its work in the northeast do you think. well we need for the humanitarian space to be

preserved to that is for certain we do have a presence and northeast syria our focus is mainly on the people again mainly women and children who are in the displacement camps we have a hospital that's running 247 in all the whole where feeding we've fed roughly a 1000000 and a half people in that camp alone. again i wouldn't want to speculate on what the future holds but certainly we are determined to fight for humane treatment of people who are detained and for the protection of people who might come in harm's way miss nelson we thank you very much for your time on this very important aspect of the story and i nelson joining us live from washington d.c. thank you. let's move on to the day's other top stories now to ecuador where protesters have clashed with security forces during

a 7th day of anti-government demonstrations thousands of indigenous people marched on the streets of the capital quito angry of a fuel price hikes introduced by president lenin motive no roads are empty and businesses closed across the country as part of the strikes against the austerity measures and has refused to resign and says he's negotiating with dozens of indigenous groups latin america editor lucy a new man is in guy a queen with more. in some places the the demonstrations have been bigger and others smaller here and there have been street protest vote 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 lending what i know to be an hour embattled presidential candidate now been caught a week has been freed from jail just days before the 2nd round of presidential election card we had been behind boson's organist accused of money laundering and tax evasion the media mogul came 2nd in the 1st round of the elections last month. party heart of to no 0138 see it's coming in 2nd in monday's parliamentary election they trailed the ennahda party which won 52 seats but i was at the same when he

was released in 2 minutes. so he's out of his car you can feel you can see you can see him. over there. and this is exactly what he's trying to do now he wants to tell that in his ears that's his word before 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 i guess the political divides into this could potentially be the white candidate to unite in 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 i have to tell you that if that happens would be a huge political upset here it is yet. still ahead on the news hour. by obstructing justice refusing to comply with the congressional inquiry he's

already convicted himself and no longer how would impact the former vice president call for donald trump's impeachment saying the president has betrayed the nation and violated his oath of office and to hear from one of the players at the center of the n.b.a. 4 out of china the houston rockets james harden. we got some really lively weather pushing into parts of north america over the next couple of days wet weather in the process of pulling away from the eastern seaboard from new england at least the side of canada but coming in behind me been talking about this for a couple of days now this next band of cloud this is that next cold plunge of we are going to see a fair bit of snow that just driving across the prairie through the northern plains

sinking further south was some wesa weather to the central plains south of that is fine and dry still warm dallas at around 32 celsius have a high for around 22 that fall kansas city just one degree celsius that denver so that's something like a $25.00 degree drop in temperatures full of them kansas city will say that kilogram making its way this would go on into friday a high here of around 9 degrees celsius further north a fair bit of snow pushing up into central parts of canada and a long line of rain spilling wrought out of ontario down across the upper midwest pushing down to the central and southern plains right into texas easing over towards louisiana as we go towards the weekend further south because some showers continue across the caribbean generally into southern parts of the caribbean for the time being the great friend to this is lucky 5 dry and sunny.

it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories turkey says it's hit more than $180.00 targets as part of a major ground and air offensive in northeast in syria designed to clear the area of kurdish fighters the kurdish led syrian democratic forces say a prison holding detainees has been struck by turkish troops and emergency u.n. security council meeting has been called for thursday to discuss the situation. or people in northern syria have begun fleeing to neighboring iraq the international committee of the red cross has warned that any escalation in the area could endanger thousands of people who are already displaced well the talk has more from

paris now on the e.u.'s reaction to turkey's offensive. in this statement the e.u.'s foreign policy chief editor ecomog really really outlines the ease 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 marini also says it is member states are extremely concerned over the issue of security over further destabilizing an already volatile region and possibly seeing a resurgence of eisel fighters the coalition partners including turkey have been working very hard to combat moderately also says that turkey is of course a 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. 2 people have been shot dead after a gunman opened fire outside a synagogue and germany worshippers were marking yom kapoor the holiest day in the jewish calendar the alleged shooter is currently in police custody of the baba reports. video from a mobile phone might be shaky but it conveys just how calm the gun manny's as he shoots down the street and holler. and watch how people take cover in the distance as another person fires towards the. police in the city say attackers fled by car after shootings including one near a synagogue. eyewitnesses say one woman a pass a boy was shot but the spokesperson for the local jewish community says an attacker tried to shoot his way into the synagogue where around 80 people had gathered all your poor the holiest jewish holiday and then threw a grenade into the cemetery next to it. germany's foreign minister has tweeted it

hits us in the heart that a synagogue was shot on the day of atonement we must all act against anti semitism in our country. elsewhere in the town one person was reportedly killed when a turkish shop was attacked this man was inside. because even you know. i was standing at the entrance and saw an elderly woman pass by and behind her there was suddenly this man wearing a helmet and military style clothes he was holding a gun and wearing a palak lover and then he tried to throw what looked like a hand grenade but it bounced off the door frame and exploded right in front of this elderly woman with a very loud bang and then he raised the gun and started shooting on as police warned people to stay indoors they confirmed they'd arrest it one person and we all of them in a sense by that we have at least 2 crime scenes one person died as the result of a shooting in the area of ludwig book of a strasser and another one in the area of humboldt strasser we 1st received

information that there was one terrorism suspect who was armed and have since been suggestions that the could have been more people involved but that's not confirmed at this point the shooting was also reported in the town of landsberg 20 minutes drive from hala germany's tried to fight a resurgence of right wing a neo nazi extremism in recent years including the firebombing of synagogues the investigation into the howler attacks has now be taken over by federal antiterrorism prosecutors with the barber al jazeera manderson and has been following the latest developments from hala. 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 her dead instantly he then went into a nearby 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 at an electrician who was critically injured he's been airlifted 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 that he in his car was rammed by a truck and finally came to a halt not clear whether he was into but he's in custody he has been named by german media. about it i 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 and

referring to his objective to kill as many antti whites as possible jews preferred. to iraq now the prime minister has announced 3 days of mourning for the demonstrators killed an anti-government protests of the corruption and unemployment at least 110 people were killed and thousands enjoyed in baghdad and other cities during days of unrest wanted to montcalm reports from baghdad. they chant no more corrupt government a key demand of the anti-government protesters isn't a. into decades of crooked politicians since the u.s. led occupation and invasion of iraq in 2003 corruption watchdog transparency international says $450000000000.00 has gone missing. is now an anti corruption campaign and. 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 and the vigil ministries named began 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 goes now in the wake of these protests the government has announced that tackling corruption is $1.00 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 military sources with libya's u.n. recognized him say a war plane flying by forces. for half the has been shot down near the coastal city of some broth or at least 2 factions loyal to the u.n.

recognized government but code in the new clashes with half the us forces that that has more from tripoli. the situation remains very tense in southern tripoli as clashes continue between forces loyal to the u.s. and the recognized a government of national accord and forces loyal to the world have to in now this location is the government forces location in the vicinity of the old inactive international airport and they're now trying to spot after forces on the other age of the airport they say that they sometimes receive heavy fire from half their forces here and have those were planes and drones target the occasion they say also that civil civilian houses farms and also power plants have been damaged by the airstrikes fighters here say that they have fallen fighters fighting for the warlord khalifa haftar they say that there are most probably russian and african

fighters we as a disease are cannot independently verify that but they say that now this battle does not seem to be in doing it anytime soon as both warring factions are determined to continue fighting. u.s. democratic presidential hopeful joe biden has for the 1st time court for donald trump's impeachment well speaking at a rally in new hampshire biden's of the president has abused the powers of his office to help his own reelection democrats have launched an impeachment inquiry over claims that trump illegally pressured a foreign leader to investigate biden and his son trumpets calling the move a witch hunt he's already convicted himself. in full view of the world in the american people. has betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts. you know i think i

think. we need to preserve our constitution our democracy our basic integrity he should be impeached. and our senior european officials have described the chances of securing a brecht's that deal before the 31st as a difficult but possible the e.u.'s chief negotiator michel bias as the bloc come to accept the latest proposal from london but he's promised to be available 247 over the coming days to work towards an agreement. i think i am able to say today that even if it is very difficult if there is a goodwill on both sides an agreement remains possible with the british. and now of all those bulldozers are clearing the way to build a new wall on the border between mexico and the united states it is the 5 a $1000000000.00 commitment by donald trump to stop asylum seekers getting into the

u.s. as rob reynolds reports from northern mexico the environmental cost may be enormous too as well as a reversible. 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 and swim around over there are they 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 this 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 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.