this is probably going to go on for years because ed one himself said he will remain there until we have a peace deal in syria and do you think that he will stick to that i think it's an 80 mile a sort of 30 kilometer area that he's been told he can't go beyond i think it depends on the circumstance i think since the justification is turkey defending itself you know if they're in hot pursuit or if they're going after a certain area for very specific strategic reasons i think they'd be more than willing to go beyond that that that that limits but but but as for now i think the turks don't even really know exactly when the what they're going to do i think it's going to depend on circumstances on the ground and let me add something i did a count of the number of isis prisoners we have over 115000 detainees with all the family members spread in 7 camps where there is male fighters the 10000 male fighters and i think more than 10 camps altogether and i don't see how

turkey is going to take over control of all these isis prisoners in an effective way from an enemy that they are targeting this is one of the many problems and of course they say they're going to settle a 1000000 people on ryan that doesn't even belong to them this is a very complicated operation absolutely and the un says he's creating this you know so-called safe zone and so that some 2000000 out of the 3600000 syrian refugees in turkey can return to syria but what happens to the kurds who and the area do those syrian refugees want to be resettled in an area that they might not even be from and we are we going to see a demographic change taking place here. i think the broader answer to your question is no i don't think arabs want to go be forced to live in kurdish areas although i'm sure some would be happy just to be back on syrian soil i think the places where they want to develop these new camps basically don't have any economic opportunities to even those that are enthusiastically back

on syrian soil will probably have a hard time making a living and probably be willing to turn right back around and try to go back to turkey and the history of safe zones if you look in various conflicts they usually turn into a death zone this you may remember in boston where we had safe zones that became death traps sure but need so was was a safe zone safe zones generally don't work economically they don't work in terms of security and here we have a case where the kurds are sort of at either end of this area and then in the middle supposedly we're going to we're going to put arabs in in areas where you have some kurds but also in the at the ends where we have a lot of kurds this displacement of kurds by arabs just makes no sense to you really spelling out how complicated this issue and how safe the sun as right now the other thing you mentioned the thousands of i still president and caps in the area do we know what's going to happen to them and could the operation allow them

could that allow eisel to regroup as the kurds a warning. well there are many aspects of this as you hinted at one is that in the biggest camp the horror camp which has over $68000.00 detainees about half of them would like to start the caliphate again and of course we have isis members that are free and we also have isis members that are getting ready for a jail break now the kurds sorry the turks say they can control these populations but how are they going to do it how are they going to do it in an area that they don't completely control and can't go beyond certain areas so it again even if you completely agree with the turks and you completely agree with the trump policy that sort of giving them a green light or a flashing yellow lights the way this is being done is completely wrong this is not how you hand over control of an imprisoned population in those types of numbers over 100000 people spread across

a large area this is just not the way to do it i mean you know at a minimum and in a perfect world you would have the u.n. stepping in and saying we're going to take over control these populations but there's there's there's been really no planning here there's been a lot of planning about how to assert turks the turks agenda against the y.p. gee there's been very little planning about all the humanitarian dimensions of this crisis which are as of today getting much worse mr lawrence it is great to get your expertise on this very important story we thank you for your time that's really a bronze live in washington d.c. thank you a pleasure. now to the most notorious ice of presidents have been moved out of syria to be held in american custody the u.s. defense official has confirmed to al jazeera that to what they call 2 high value eisel individuals were removed from a jail run by the syrian defense forces turkey's operation in northern syria has sparked concerns over the kurdish militias ability to continue holding ice and presidents the defense officials said the 2 presidents and now in

a secure location outside of syria and being held in military custody. well earlier i spoke to an announcement from the international committee of the red cross and she said that tens of thousands of people are a great risk from the incursion. if 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 in the. province we have the 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 fleeing this operation if they all souls' to what are they options where can they go. 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 what as was previously said a bit earlier we're 1st and foremost reminding all sides that they need to respect the 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 would do 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 in the syrian war so will your organization be able to stay and continue its work in the northeast do you think we need for the humanitarian space to be preserved 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 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. and it 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 federica mcgrady 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 more greeny also says that you 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 moderate he 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 but plenty more ahead on the news hour including police in ecuador 5 tear gas to fend off protesters marching against the president's austerity measures plus. justice. complier. is already convicted and no longer holding back the former vice president calls for donald trump some pitchman saying the president has betrayed the nation and violated his oath of office. and iran women are about to be allowed to attend a men's football for the 1st time and decades peter will have the details and.

2 people have been shot dead after a gunman opened fire outside a synagogue in germany wesh fans were marking a yarmulke poor the holiest day in the jewish calendar the red shooter is currently in police custody and her summons has been following developments from the city of holly. carmelita and methodically this gun man planned to kill jews on their holiest day of worship yom kippur dressed like a soldier wearing a steel helmet a camera is attached to it the device transmitting live video to a gaming website behind the police cordon is a synagogue the killers target but his plan failed the synagogue had been packed with dozens of worshipers safe from attack because the they can transfer doors were locked the gunman had repeatedly opened fire on the door he gave up and then shot randomly killing a woman passer by

a covered body lying in the foreground here he went on to a nearby turkish kabob restaurant to kill again this man was inside. because if you know. i was standing at the entrance and saw an elderly woman passed by and behind her there was suddenly this man wearing a helmet and military style clothes he was holding a gun and wearing a baloch 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. german media quoting police sources say the gunmen then drove 17 kilometers to landsberg he shot an electrician there from a workshop he's been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries as police warned people to stay indoors they confirmed they'd a rescued one person on the all of them innocent by all we have at least 2 crime scenes one person died as the result of

a shooting in the area of ludwig vocalist astor and another one in the area of humboldt strasser we 1st received information that there was one term prizm suspect who was armed and have since been suggestions to the could have been more people involved but that's not confirmed at this point germany has tried to fight a resurgence of extremism in recent years including the firebombing of synagogues foreign minister heiko mosque tweeted it hits as in the heart that a synagogue was shot at on the day of atonement we must all act against anti semitism in our country. the german chancellor angela merkel joined a jewish vigil in berlin her spokesperson saying she expressed deep sympathy for the victims' families there is a mood of fear in this small german city just imagine what it was like for the congregation inside this synagogue as they saw a video feed from the security camera showing a man with a gun firing at the door smashing at the door for all of 10 minutes and now online

a statement yet to be verified apparently from the suspect saying his objective was to kill as many anti whites as possible jews preferred andrew simmons out 0 power in germany. to ecuador now where protesters have clashed with security forces during a 7th day of anti-government demonstrations thousands of indigenous people marched on the streets in the capital quito angry over fuel price hikes introduced by president. a latin america editor lucien newman reports. on day 7 of nationwide demonstrations against governmental sturdy measures a nationwide strike paralyzed much of the country as massive protests continued especially in the ecuadorian capital was in quite a key but the president has set up a temporary seat of government a smaller but noisy group of demonstrators held peaceful barges of their own from

riot police and soldiers trying to keep these anti-government demonstrators away from another group that's demonstrating the group here the president many in what it has actually left wanted they have yet to be meeting we didn't mislead us to try to negotiate a settlement to the 1st time since the crisis this country has had and over a decade. preliminary talks with indigenous and trade union leaders are being mediated by the united nations and the catholic church but so far there's no sign of an agreement. the president is talking of dialogue but he stubbornly says i won't repeal the measure is what kind of dialogue is that. but the government is under increasing pressure to make concessions. he has to revoke the measures because the ability to govern ecuador is compromise he can't govern under these

circumstances with the people out on the streets he has no more political capital some are asking for his resignation so his options are limited. opponents of the indigenous led strike marches are. saying they wanted peace. joined police on the streets to disperse anti-government protesters and in what is being interpreted as a show of support for the government the armed forces announced that any quote consequences of their actions would be the sole responsibility of those who they say are generating social unrest. human rights monitors from the united nations and the organization of american states have expressed concern over what they call excessive use of force against demonstrators and the media as the actual number of arrests surpasses 700 you see in human al-jazeera. still ahead on the news hour we delve into the $1000000000.00 corruption

allegations that led to mass protests in iran and the rugby world cup wales faces a tough test against fiji he said will be here with the action and. the weather sloshy set fire across china at the moment i want to see showers down towards the southwest pushing into northern parts of vietnam but much of china as you say a lot of sunshine around $31.00 celsius there in hong kong might have wanted see showers to sit down towards the southwest and even these will fizzle out as we go on through friday central areas could see a little bit it's whether by that stage having said that say that whether some showers heat of the day south is there across southeast asia the philippines will

catch one or 2 showers in the heat of the day quite a rush of showers popping up there across the northern sections of borneo filtering across into west sumatra into limit i pull into as we go through the next dial say maybe pushing a little further north into thailand by the time we come to friday and they stay dry me malim india. so as you drive into the northwest now an improvement in conditions here down across the west and still quite a rash a lot of showers there into central and eastern parts of india as you can see easing over towards bangladesh and that's going to be the case as we go through thursday in a similar picture as we go on into friday further north of the set it is turning somewhat dry and brought you down to the top temperature of 33. the weather sponsored by catalona is. when you're from a neighborhood known as a hotbed of radicalism. you have to fight to defy stereotypes.

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and to have you with us on the al-jazeera soundings or our top stories turkey says it's had more than $100.00. 80 targets as part of a major ground offensive in northeastern 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. in northern syria have been fleeing to neighboring iraq the international committee of the red cross is warned that any escalation in the area could endanger thousands of people who are already displaced. the international reaction to the turkish offensive has been swift from strongly condemned the move and italy's prime minister says it risks destabilizing the region both the us president donald trump and british prime

minister abbas johnson have expressed serious concern and actions 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 is blaming the u.s. for instability in the region and the divisions between the syrian government and the kurds. the americans organized state structures in northeastern syria and shared people's livelihoods and viability and actively promoted the kurdish issue in a way that arab tribes traditionally lived on these territories used to object to it's now a very dangerous game such a reckless attitude to this highly sensitive subject and set fire to the entire region and we have to avoid it at any cost we are communicating this position to the u.s. i hope they hear us but practically we can't see any serious changes of their inconsistent contradictory policy well the united nations security council will meet on thursday morning to discuss the latest developments in northeast in syria

the 5 members on the council that's from germany belgium poland and the u.k. requested the meeting after turkey and else the start of its cross border operation a diplomatic editor james bays has the latest. 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 babson conventions that. should if peace is that be a chance to solve issues since 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 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 obama 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 to iraq now the prime minister has announced 3 days of mourning for the demonstrators killed in anti-government protests over corruption and unemployment at least 110 people were killed and thousands injured in baghdad and other. cities during days of unrest iran contra ports from baghdad.

they chant no more corrupt government a key demand of 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 $450000000000.00 has gone missing former m.p. rai is now an anti corruption campaigner 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 name 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 $6000.00 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 frustration 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 also where that money goes 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. to assume presidential candidate has been freed from jail just 4 days the for the runoff we had been behind bars since august accused of mine norm bring in tax evasion the media mogul came 2nd in the 1st round of the presidential elections . because he's party heart of tennessee a won 38 seats coming in 2nd in monday's parliamentary election a trial. which won a 52 seat but i was at the scene when he was released in tunis. so he's out of his style you can see 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 it is yes that's he's ready for that political moment and that's one. 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 could potentially be the white candidate tonight 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 i would be a political upset here it is yes. now military sources with libya's a u.n. recognized government say a war plane flown by forces loyal to warlord a half there has been shot down in the coastal city of other links to 2 fighters

loyal to the u.n. recognize the government were killed in the new clashes with half those forces without that why 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 the 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 these say that there was

a 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 any time soon as both warring factions are determined to continue fighting. u.s. democratic presidential hopeful joe biden has for the 1st time called for the impeachment of donald trump speaking at a rally in new hampshire biden says 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 trump is calling the move a witch hunt. he's already convicted him soon. in view of the world and the american people don't trump is violated his oath of office betrayed this nation and committed impeachable x. . you know i think i

thank . you to preserve our constitution our democracy our basic integrity he should be impeached senior european officials have described the child's as a securing a bricks that they had before october 31st is difficult but possible that is chief negotiator michel barnier says the bloc come to accept the latest proposal from london but he has promised to be available he says 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 meanwhile the e.u. commission president shot or junker dismissed what he described as blame games from london. as it stands we remain in discussion we do not include them

in the terms of its to patch and personally i don't exclude the deep we are michelle and myself working in a deep and looks up to this claim which stuck to the lungs we have not. now hopes have faded from missing refugees and migrants after an overloaded boat capsized near the italian island of lampedusa 13 women some of them pregnant drowned on monday rescuers were able to save 22 people will follow in the latest sinking in the mediterranean sea 7 e.u. nations said they were willing to accept asylum seekers as part of a new plan to reduce the number of deaths. brazil's environment minister says the oil washing up on the country's northern beaches is likely from venezuela or has appeared on more than 100 beaches over the past few weeks ricardo cells as a report from the state run oil company petrobras has confirmed that the oil isn't

brazilian and as likely from its northern neighbor he described the spill as enormously difficult to contain more than 100 tonnes is already been collected from the coastline now morocco reshuffled of the government on wednesday cutting the number of ministers and union ministers from 41 to 24 the government restructuring comes after king muhammad the 6th said he wanted new blood in the cabinet the ministers for health culture tourism and higher education are among the new faces no top ministry were touched by the changes though and for women represented in the new government compared to just one previously. now an american scientist who identified one of the key materials in rechargeable batteries has become the oldest nobel laureate in history 97 year old john b. good enough discovered lithium cobalt oxide as a useful material back in 1979 he will be sharing the prize of brushes m.

stanley which again developed an early patent for the batteries and japan's a cato yoshino whose work made them safe more efficient and less expensive when john good enough how to press conference shortly after the prize was announced and he says that if you live to 97 you can do anything why the shoe is there it is just the idea. or i can say is. i did ever. before or group forward to this particular day but i'm very happy that it's arrived it was very nice to raise receive a recognition yes i will have and pain is the deputy chief executive of the royal society of chemistry and she says that without the lithium ion battery lots of other technologies wouldn't be possible. i think the lithium battery is such

a phenomenal thing for us and stays assayas say but obviously if we move into an area where we need some more fossil fuel free technology and the increase in mobile technology be increased in wallace technology the lithium batteries are all around us so i think you.