fingers pointing blame at the united states and possibly israel now we have to say that the investigations are still underway we don't know exactly what's happened but as you say the foreign ministry statement released earlier today saying that it was some sort of external event some sort of external attack the target of these vessels foreign ministry spokesman abbas mousavi also saying over the past few months some other destructive actions were taken against iranian tankers in the red sea and investigations are under way he also said that any sort of fallout 'd that comes from this including the pollution from oil that is leaking from the vessel that will be on the shoulders of the perpetrators that as you say he blamed for dangerous adventurism in this region that what we can tell you with regards to the vessel we're hearing reports from trenker tanker tracking sites that say it is limping along on its way returning to iranian territory we're expecting it to dock at a large rock an island that is in the iranian side of gulf waters and we're also hearing from the tanker company the iranian national tanker company to say very clearly

that as far as they're concerned they do not think that the missiles or whatever was fired at these vessels came from saudi arabia so so far senior officials in parliament what least one senior official pointing the blame at the united states or israel all right zain better r.v. live in tehran thanking because a lot more to come here no doubt is there and clothing and there will be again current south african judges rule former president jacob zuma must stand trial for corruption. coals to the impeach the president growing louder in minnesota donald trump makes a flying visit. hello that this is on its way to japan already the outer feeder bands bring in some very

strong gusty winds and also with the rain is arriving now this is a situation through saturday this is when we expect this typhoon to make landfall right now sustained winds about 220 kilometers an hour it will weaken slightly and as it comes on shore we expect those winds to probably be at around 185 kilometers an hour now it's been moving to the northwest at 22 kilometers an hour it is going to then move very quickly south into sunday as it makes landfall so it's expected still to follow the same routes and actually come on shore very close to tokyo in the evening hours 8 or 9 o'clock because ahead of that and behind that we will see some very heavy amounts of rain we could see as much as hoth a meter of rain in some as particular those hilly areas in eastern hong shape now to the south of there we've got more calls along these coastal areas of china and again these rains doing their best to push was pushing into a province hunan province and actually becoming a little bit more widespread on sunday around the coastal areas but across central

china it should actually begin to dry up staying fine and dry for the next couple days in shanghai but certainly a wet couple of days in hong kong with a high that sunday. a climb to stymie wilt of illegal trade what you have here is not just a parking lot you'll object you're talking about the political dimension where the spoils of war are smuggled in sold to. private collectors and the barrier for selling and they are the fact is we're finding this is the beheadings and misuse in the middle east don't sound don't think that's going to fix and they say. trafficking on al-jazeera.

as i look at the top stories here it is their native chief jan yen social has called on turkey to act with restraint in its operation in syria he says nato must find a sustainable solution to i saw prisoners in syria. turkish troops say they've captured 15 villages from kurdish forces during the push into northern syria tens of thousands of people have fled the area since wednesday 3 turkish soldiers have been killed. iran's foreign ministry has confirmed its state owned oil tankers a bt was hit twice in an attack in the red sea off because the saudi arabia there's been no immediate response from riyadh. and ethiopian prime minister abu ahmed has been awarded this year's nobel peace prize is being recognized for his reforms to

tackle ethnic tensions and ending the long running conflict with eritrea over the disputed border territory says he's humbled by the honor and called it a victory for all ethiopians. when they are met became prime minister in april 28th. he made it clear that he wished to resume peace talks with a retreat. in close cooperation with a sigh us after valid again the president of every tree on our behalf married quickly worked out the principles for a foreign and for peace agreement to end the long no peace no war stalemate between the 2 countries. robyn kriel has the latest from the ethiopian capital addis ababa. well incredible news both for its the o.p.'s and for africans

although many at the o.p.'s here were quite surprised that he won that prestigious award many of them said that they're not shocked at all because he is still so incredibly popular here on the ground and if you're here rarely do you see for example a cab or a bus drive past without dr b. as he's affectionately known space on the back of it as well as that flag because he is seen as the nationalist the person who united is the o.t. who brought them through those dock times through that state of emergency and through what many analysts have said could have possibly been a civil war had he not come into power at that time but when you heard that list of achievements read by the nobel peace prize committee his peace with eritrea detente with somalia the fact that he up ended essentially the political process here and if the o.p.'s which for years was a dictatorship a commentator i spoke with yesterday said that had it not been for this the fact is that if your pay would likely be fractured already well this is an incredible

achievement for prime minister ahmed the sense that we're getting is that it is also a burden in fact the real work now begins that's what we're hearing from amnesty international crisis group and various n.g.o.s congratulations a message of congratulations for the prime minister at the same time he must continue tirelessly striving for peace let's get more now on who prime minister is his daughter jabari. prime minister ahmet was sworn into office in april 2002. since then the 43 year old former army intelligence officer has launched a wide program of political and economic reforms such as ending state monopolies and allowing private sector competition in industries such as telecoms aviation and power his biggest success so far was the peace deal with neighboring eritrea and ng in nearly 20 years of military stalemate following their 2 year border war in june

last year the ethiopian government agreed to hand over control of the disputed border town of bad me to eritrea until then if you appear rejected the international boundary commission's ruling in favor of eritrea amid some predictable style isn't popular with all if you know peons the most open stressed him the only problem they have but i have now is they wanted the change to happen immediately. we have a lot of economic problems in this country were a lot of the economy is growing very fast the amount of expenditure that's going into infrastructure has been at the expense of livelihoods he played a central role in the violence fight against illegal land grabbing activities in the or a mere region 4 years ago the government stopped a controversial scheme in 2016 but disputes continued and resulted in people being killed. that fight is seen by many as boosting its political career he's from the

room a tribe ethiopia's largest ethnic group which spearheaded the protest to force his predecessor to resign an assassination attempt 2 years ago failed to stop his development plans for ethiopia. and activists a military intelligence officer a land grab opponent an unpredictable politician a peace maker and now meant can add nobel peace prize winner to his list of accomplishments or such a bari al jazeera. as an african court has ruled the former president jacob zuma must stand trial on corruption charges his lawyer said all of the case is politically motivated and should be thrown out. former president zuma is expected to be back in court next week for a trial he's accused of taking bribes from a french weapons company in exchange for a $180000000.00 government contract in the late 1990 s. for me to milan has more from pietermaritzburg. the court judgment was handed down

in under 2 minutes and jacob zuma was in and out of court in in just a few minutes the court had decided that it gives him a will indeed stand trial that's due to begin next week oh but it's also worth remembering that the former president does have the option to approach the supreme court of appeal to appeal this judgment and perhaps further delay his day in court which is a huge cheer said for a long time he wants to have the opportunity to do but it's at the same time he's also tried to delay the court appearance ultimately wanting that trial thrown out essentially a jacob zuma should be back in court with in the week however it's not quite certain just how long that trial will take and when the south africans will have answers will a case that has been going on now for almost 15 years aside of from this court case

and the charges of corruption fraud and racketeering jacob zuma does face other allegations of corruption during his time as president of south africa and that's culminated in what's being called a commission of inquiry into alleged corruption the former president also having to answer questions there while that commission is ongoing. president trump has held his 1st campaign rally since the democrats launched an impeachment inquiry against him president trump told a crowd in minnesota that he's done nothing wrong he's accused of pressuring ukraine's leader into investigating his democratic rival joe biden john hendren reports. thousands of protesters calling themselves. whistleblowers greeted president donald trump in minneapolis demanding his impeachment. the largest crowd of demonstrators in recent months turned a chant trump fans once reserved for hillary clinton back on the president.

because trump's 1st rally since an inquiry into impeachment proceedings began on september 24th through. to support the bill. i think it's a raw deal. surrounded by thousands of supporters of his own in one of the longest speeches of his presidency fired back in his latest assault on a favorite target former vice president and democratic presidential rival joe biden he was only a good vice president because he understood how to kiss barack obama's ass. speaking in her own congressional district trump portrayed minneapolis' own ilhan omar as the face of the democratic party how to hell did that ever happen i did a ha i didn't. charge or is will the noma is it america hating social or how do you have such

a person representing you in minnesota i'm very angry at you people right. outside protesters and trump fans were a picture of a nation divided this is the going to the president's fans have to walk past thousands of n.t.t. from demonstrators in order to get to the rally. bring. their wish. it came hours after f.b.i. agents at washington's dulles airport arrested 2 soviet born men who were linked to the president's attorney rudolph giuliani over alleged campaign finance violations the 3 are shown together here on a social media post well hello mina's crna leading the cheering crowd inside the arena was the man who would be president if trump were impeached. vice president mike pence in a state the president narrowly lost in 2016 and hopes to win in 2020 they want to learn race your vote like it never existed they want to erase your voice and they

want to race your future. but they will fail because in america the people rule again which side in the liberal bastion of minneapolis or are. the calls for his removal from office grew louder john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis. the british minister in charge of brecht's it has them brussels the. met the chief michel b'nai in an effort to make a breakthrough on an exit dale it follows boris johnson's meeting last week with his irish counterpart for africa and says an agreement before the october 31st deadline is still possible you very much like the question you need to lose to the british team of the now i'm going to debrief to 27 about how those under.

a defunct because already shared the. trick she's i climbed the good mounting. we need david you don't need to i mean attorney and patience. china's president is in india meeting the prime minister narendra modi xi jinping discussing tensions in the disputed region of indian administered kashmir china supported pakistan at a recent u.n. security council meeting also for discussion india's 53000000000 dollars trade deficit with china and new security measures along the shared border they are meeting in the temple town of mom a law firm in the south. is the. journalists have been restricted to this media center 10 kilometers away from the historical sites spruced up to welcome the wizarding chinese president xi jinping for what has been described as an informal summit by the indian government according to chinese officials and one indian official that we've spoken to this informal summit would give the 2 leaders

a relaxed time to discuss several issues in other words anything that emerges out of this conversation is going to be a windfall and expectations have been cut short right from the start the 2 leaders will talk about how to avoid the skirmishes at the borders that they disputed what sort of security mechanisms to put in place and they also talk about trade india is very keen on bridging the trade deficit of over $51000000000.00 and wants china to accept more imports from india china on the other hand was india to back its one bet one road project which is a china center trading project spanning continents but at the moment there is just too much bad blood between beating in new delhi especially since the indian government stripped the indian administered kashmir of its autonomy and china backed pakistan so this was it is actually coming in the shadow of the politics that has played since remember china also dragged india at the united nations

security council and asked it to discuss and also for the situation that is developing into. shouldn't in colombia have paralyzed city centers. nationwide to demand more funding for public education riot police in the capital bogota or fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters who were throwing rocks the 6th round of protests this month began with students at a public university alleging corruption. the world health organization the w.h.o. says the a burger epidemic in northeastern democratic republic of congo has been confined to a small area now but one that's remote and desire by rebel groups the number of new cases dropped from almost 130 in april to 51 by mid september there were 14 new infections last week but the w.h.o. says there's still a long way to go before the disease can be eradicated we have significantly contain

the virus in a much smaller geographic area now we have to kill the virus the problem is it's back in areas that are deeply insecure and we've got mining operations in these areas. lots of people who live in villages and work in mines most of the time. bottled water instant noodles other necessities are being stockpiled in take care as typhoon hugging this closes in weather forecasters inspect a deluge of rain and damaging winds in japan's capital this weekend 2 matches at the rugby world cup of being cancelled flights and train services disrupted and evacuation warnings issued for flood prone areas. all right let's have a look at the top stories here it out of the nato is among a growing list of world leaders urging turkey to say restraint in its military offensive in northern syria turkish forces say they've captured 15 border villages

and a kurdish checkpoint and there set up a military base in the border region the escalating violence has killed 15 civilians and 3 turkish soldiers. is there and you think you're a dick they claim that turkey is targeting civilians this will never happen and has never happened turkey has always been sensitive about civilians and we are hosting many migrants and refugees the y.p. geas attacking christians in syria and i try to portray it as if we are attacking them they are burning tires in order to break the vision of our aircraft and blame each herky for bombing and burning places where civilians live this misinformation will never make us give up on this important fight we are fighting a terrorist organization and it is our duty to give the right information to the people. 2 missiles were struck an iranian oil tanker off the coast of saudi arabia iran's foreign ministry says the said beattie was attacked and set on fire in the red sea the crew is reported safe the foreign ministry has called the incident

a dangerous adventure the u.s. navy says its closely monitoring developments the ethiopian prime minister ahmed has been awarded this year's nobel peace prize he's being recognized for ending the long running conflict between ethiopia and eritrea over disputed border territory. a south african court has ruled former president jacob zuma must stand trial for corruption his lawyers argued the case was politically motivated and should be thrown out former president zuma is expected back in court next week for the trial he's accused of taking bribes from a french weapons company in exchange for a $180000000.00 government contract in the late 1990 s. but china's president is in india meeting prime minister. is discussing tensions in the disputed region of india the minister of kashmir china supporter pakistan at

a recent u.n. security council meeting on the matter of. coming up next inside story. thank you. fears of a new humanitarian crisis in syria as turkey launches a military offensive against kurdish forces turkey says it's creating a safe still in full refugees to return home will it succeed and do displaced syrians want to go back this is incisive.

cohen welcome to the program fully battle hundreds of thousands of syrians over enjoyed 8 years of war are in the firing line of a new tech ish military offensive troops crossed the border into northeast syria following as strikes dogging kurdish forces turkey's leaders say the operation is aimed at clearing what they call terrorists as well as creating a safe zone for displaced syrians to live the kurds have been instrumental in the fight against size so the turkish assault began after donald trump ordered the withdrawal of u.s. troops from the area the us president says he isn't endorsing turkey's offensive and denies abandoning kurdish allies to their fate that turkey's president is defending the military operation into syria. you cannot discuss our love for the people of syria but our problem is with the people who are with

the organizations like p y g p k k and eisel tear organizations were trying to invade syria we have no problem with the kurdish brothers in syria the only problem is with the terror organizations trying to digress and change it we have no problem with brothers in the region we are only fighting against terror organizations maybe turkey is the only legitimate power in the land of syria. well let's look at exactly where this is all happening territory to the west of man is controlled by turkish and syrian rebel forces to the east is kurdish territory mostly held by kurdish forces several counts house upon 2000000 syrians who escaped fighting in other parts of the country and captured isel fighters are in prisons there as well turkey's leaders say they want to create a so-called safe zone along the border area to allow some syrians to return the zone with villages schools and homes is intended to be 480 kilometers long and 30

kilometers deep now the start of turkey's offensive triggered panic people escape the battleground with the few possessions they have aid groups and the united nations fear a new humanitarian crisis in a harder has more from on the border between turkey and syria. international aid agencies are worried and warning really about the possibility of a humanitarian crisis as a result of turkey's military operation in north east syria they are sounding the alarm there saying that this is going to create even more human suffering it is going to create further displacement hundreds of thousands of people displaced people already live in this corner of syria the best the f. controlled region did not come under attack by the syrian army but the s.p.f. engaged in a serious fight with i still across much of the north and east of syria so many towns cities have been destroyed among them rekha so so many of these people have

no homes to go to and they're already displaced and with the latest bombardment we saw thousands of people making their way further south according to the turkish government this operation will serve 2 purposes 1st it will ensure its security interests because it considers the y. p.g. the syrian kurdish armed group a terrorist organization they want this group this. they don't want the school to have any presence along its border at the same time they want to create a safe zone to allow millions of syrian refugees to return now the international community is still not on board with that plan the e.u. making it very clear they're not going to provide funds because if it believes in one way or another it is going to cause the demographic changes but if you talk to the turkish government or the arab opposition in syria they will say that the y.p. gene was responsible for demographic changes in this corner of syria because they pushed many arabs out of the area over over the past few years so it is yet

another battle in this ongoing war in syria a very dangerous battle now pitting 2 communities against each other the arabs and the kurds and this operation this turkish operation will definitely cause even more suffering among the population. center for the for inside story. let's bring in our panel now in istanbul met charlie managing editor of the english language sub daily newspaper in turkey on skype in geneva bracieux carbo need to rector for the near and middle east at the international committee of the red cross and joining us from london is chris doyle director of the council for our a british british understanding a nonprofit organization that works on british middle east policy welcome to you all thank you for being on inside story gentlemen. what are the objectives of this

turkish military operation in northeast syria in the short medium and long term. well i think if we begin from sort of medium and long term we can see that turkey is a game is basically there's 3 parts to it 1st of all he wants to clear the security threats posed by the y.p. long its border with syria it wants to ensure that there is a political stability brought to that region specifically and in the long term we can say that turkey wants to ensure the safe return of the nearly 4000000 refugees once a political stability is achieved in these regions and a safe zone is created but in the long term i think there is one thing that took has made it clear and that is the territorial integrity or syria should be protected and a political transition must happen for a democratic transition must happen for syria to to establish its political

stability in the country so how is it taking a long term goal responding to the warnings of risk of a humanitarian catastrophe with this new operation warning some various international organizations and what are they going to do to make sure it doesn't happen with this operation well 1st of all turkey has a very good record of ensuring civilian safety and security during its 1st 2 operations in syria and i fight i think. all of range in africa as a good example of that turkey will take very small steps and baby steps literally to ensure that. safety of civilians is maintained turkey will take it will use its technology and intelligence to make sure that it strictly and only targets targets terrorist positions rather than just a random bombing which you know some of the other actors in syria have done

previously let me bring on. thank you for your answer on that let me bring in for bristow boni in geneva bristow the focus of the 1st phase of this turkish operation in northeast syria has been mainly along the border between 2 syrian border towns what is your concern today as an aid organization what impact do you think this operation is going to have on the lives and livelihoods of the civilians who live in this area. for the time being it's mainly speculation. what we know is that northeast syria which you choose places like iraq like then i saw the camps of. it's an area which suffer quite a lot over the last 8 years and we can say that the population in this area they are really on the you know to have really a hard time rebuilding their lives it's not what been contamination it is redy

heavy. military operation which is ongoing now it's obviously a concern. because we have already you know we. appreciation in this area that the 2nd element is there are many people in this area so it's very dependent on on humanitarian aid if i go to the camp of i'll where you have 68000 people. 2 thirds of those people are children 40000 children there. and they are totally dependent on my 18 you know as i.c.r.c. we provide how to 1000000 liters of water every day to what to trucking 10000 me use we have a feed on going and now concern it's that this support is disrupted and that in addition we're not in a position anymore to keep on working according to our principles of independence and you try to crystal in london your thought says mehmet said turkey believes this

military operation will bring. will bring about a safe zone that is essential for the stability of northeast syria what are your thoughts is this operation going to bring prepared instability to northeast area what i think you can see from the reaction internationally is that there are not many other countries not mother and many other institutions who believe that it's going to be their reality i think that there are great fears that actually what will happen as a result of this turkish invasion is actually the storing up of ethnic and sectarian tensions that will be pitting turk kurd and arab against each other in a way that actually will disrupt the stability of the region for not just years but perhaps even longer i think in the immediate term there is massive fear in you've heard about the humanitarian situation but people are fleeing they don't know where to flee to there aren't clear areas that are going to be safe i don't think it is talk exactly who turkey has been bombing shelling except for and what will happen i

think that it has been another example of a collective failure of the international community wants or in which there are no actors who have. behaved and have an outstanding record it is absolutely true that other parties have on civilians certain regime is used barrel bombs the anti isis coalition of pretty much leveled huge parts of iraq or in its operations but that doesn't excuse turkey from its obligations and i think going into northern syria i think that it's got to demonstrate which it hasn't as yet it really is going to produce security for the people there and i think also on the issue of the return of refugees those refugees have to be returned voluntarily to the areas of syria that they come from not to the area that turkey wishes them to be and i think there are very very major concerns right that this would be a very serious violation of international law while turkey is hoping that 2000000

of the more than 3600000 syrian refugees. rodney hall a scan be returned to this safe space in northeast syria now we spoke to noor adam who's a syrian refugee a journalist and commentator living in france right now and he told us that returning home was not a reality for many syrians like him let's take a listen of course i want to go but for the life or amount to who i mean it's not safe for anyone who would like to come back even like you for the civilians over there i mean for and most of the people get out from syria i mean they're like starting your life but the big quote was so in that area will supply and they cannot go out because in our country like in the open there the whole bit opened the door for daycare efficiency from syria and then a candle or from any family history i mean i know people there and it also mean they like tragic life and no one and even response for the for their even have to accept and their country or the line to make

a new life for them so to me as if it is of course it's not it's not like the right to come by syria and but they're very tragic.