as winter approaches and then there's a lot of women and children among. them or there's already a large scale displaced population within syria and within northeast syria who are living in camps who don't have the ability to be easily there have been destroyed in previous complex. and they're heavily reliant on humanitarian assistance for food water medical care and shelter and so are now with these increasing needs you displacement potentially the need for medical on. it's questionable whether the current humanitarian response is going to be able to meet all of that now iran says 2 missiles have struck an iranian oil tanker off the coast of saudi arabia in what is described as quote a dangerous adventure iran's foreign ministry says the day was attacked and set on fire in the red same the crew is reported safe and some oil has been spilled we

don't know how much at this stage the u.s. navy says it is closely monitoring developments. into. iran's foreign ministry confirmed on friday that in the early morning hours one of the oil tankers was targeted in the eastern corridor or of the red sea approximately 100 kilometers off the coast of saudi arabia the sub at the experience 2 explosions 20 minutes apart causing its oil tanks to leak into the sea foreign ministry spokesman abbas mousavi said this isn't the 1st time in recent months that iranian vessels in the red sea have experienced what he described as destructive actions he blamed the fallout and resulting pollution on perpetrators of the attack who have yet to be identified he said they were taking part in quote dangerous adventurous the fingerpointing from to herat has already begun as well with a senior m.p. blaming the us or israel for targeting the oil vessel iran's national oil tanker company meanwhile whose experts are investigating the incident that company was keen to point out that while terrorism or some form of missile attack may have been

the cause of this incident they did not suspect that any attack originated from saudi shores the incident comes a day before pakistan's imran khan is due to arrive into iran for his 2nd official visit since becoming prime minister he'll be here in an effort to mediate between riyadh and to iran to try to bring down tensions in the region but with this attack iran is likely to have its diplomatic defenses up once again and if there was any hope for a breakthrough during his visit it is now less likely to happen here's what's coming up for you on this news hour request denied former south african president jacob zuma fails to have his corruption charges thrown out but what happens next. also this lady fined by don't trump but now the former ambassador to ukraine is set to testify in his impeachment inquiry and in sport why it's not just the drivers than the spin. japanese country.

united arab emirates is reportedly trying to silence al jazeera the bloomberg news network has reported that the u.a.e. is running a lobbying campaign in washington using a law firm to try to influence people working for members of congress the report says they've used twitter accounts as well hiding their u.a.e. affiliations in an attempt to discredit al-jazeera and qatar the u.a.e. and saudi arabia have led the blockade against kata since june of 2017 and one of their demands was the closure of this network more with patty callahan in washington patty we're going to be speaking to a guest about the real ins and outs of this in a moment i wonder if you could just lay out the the argument here and what more is in this report. well this is a very thoroughly researched article from bloomberg the financial network basically what they're saying is that after the blockade that the u.a.e.

was still very actively trying to influence lawmakers here in the united states according to bloomberg spending $1900000.00 in the 12 months before june of this past year and what they say in this article is that that led to 30 different contacts with lawmakers staff and what they want to do according to bloomberg is make al-jazeera registers an agent of a foreign government and we've seen that happen here in the united states under the trump administration where they've made the russia russian channel russia today register as a foreign agent so what does that mean well it does have an impact on the channel it would mean it means could their credentials have been told they're not allowed into some of vents and they have to regularly notify the justice department who they're talking to which americans they're making contact with and this report from bloomberg also says that as you mentioned there was an online campaign 4500 different accounts were suspended according to bloomberg by twitter because they were secretly run out of the u.a.e. with a focus on getting al-jazeera shut down so that this article from bloomberg the reason

it's news is because it wasn't widely known that this campaign to try and get the u.s. involved in the blockade is still very much ongoing it's expensive it's under the radar but they are also accusing al-jazeera of putting terrorists on the air with a slickly designed video that one trump official according to bloomberg said was just bizarre because it had dramatic music and urgent sounding voice overs so this is obviously a fairy broad campaign costing a lot of money and it's still ongoing thank you patty col haim in washington and also with us bruce fein now a constitutional lawyer and former u.s. and so see it dipped the attorney general bruce hopefully you heard everything patty was saying they want to pick up on the zygier about foreign agents what does eventually explain what a company or a news channel in this case would have to do what does it actually achieve for the u.s. government to have a news channel a news network listing as

a foreign agent. even as a preface like to underscore that they can gump which is the law firm acting as the mouthpiece of u.a.e. needs to register as a foreign agent because they are seeking to influence the public policy of the united states on behalf of the u.a.e. it's kind of ironic that u.a.e. which has no free speech at all suddenly is concerned about a fair a neutral presentation of the news by al-jazeera but putting that aside. the standard in the statute requiring registration as a foreign agent it doesn't target. television stations or newspapers in particular but it says if you are acting under the direction and control of a foreign gun government for the purpose of influencing public policy in the united states then you need to register with the u.s. department of justice you register with the state department you have to define many of your statements as foreign propaganda and it basically is going to do 2

things one it alerts anyone who is a recipient of those communications that this is in fact a mouthpiece of a foreign government and secondly it's designed really to suppress or to cast aspersion on the the network or the television statement by suggesting it's less impartial then many other stations you'd see fox or m.s.n. b.c. it doesn't really make much i think legal sense here the b.b.c. is a station that's owned and operated by the british government when they are in conflicts for example the focalin islands conflicts with argentina the b.b.c. basically marches to the government's orders it's not going to undermine its own country in a time of conflict and i believe that because the language of the statute is so elusive and vague you can smuggle eone political rather than legal considerations in the decision whether to acquire

a listing it's not an accident that the 2 recent listings required by. the trump administration or china and russia which are worries of the neo cons in the administration bruce the the issue of lobbying i mean of course lobbying goes on in washington it's a full time job for people there but the fact that this is going on at government level it would seem pushed by this particular a little further what are your thoughts about how effective that can actually be well it's not all that effective because in fact they can gum the the mouthpiece of u.a.e. has to register as a foreign agent as well so anyone who's receiving that lobbying campaign knows that they are arguing on behalf of a government that is quite tyrannical involved in war crimes and yemen and therefore it's dubious that there really seeking some higher goal and objective and trying to force al-jazeera to be listed so in my view this is something that is not

likely to succeed everyone knows that u.a.e. is not the beacon of liberty and is worried because al jazeera so-called poisoning the airwaves they have one motive and that's to advance the national security interest of u.a.e. in collusion with saudi arabia and help there there are basically effort to boycott and i got to our and i don't think that's going to carry sway in the united states congress person pleasure talking to you as always thank you for joining us. now the ousted u.s. ambassador to ukraine is currently testifying in a closed door session as part of the impeachment inquiry investigating president donald trump marie you have all of it sure was recalled by trump from her post back in may she is now considered a key witness in the hearings the former diplomat was named in the whistleblower complaint that spot this impeachment process. up on capitol hill today she helped talk us through proceedings. well so many questions just in her appearing it was

just a few days ago that we got that notification from the white house and as far as they were concerned it would be no cooperation from administration officials with the impeachment inquiries underway yvonne of it is still a state department official so we have to wonder now world did she get some special dispensation from the state department is she is she just outrightly disobeying the state department of the administration's policy we just don't know yet so that's quite fascinating to start with and she was quite open about walking in in public in front of the cameras she let it be known that she wanted to testify she could have snuck in secretly but she didn't do that so that's what interesting question already as far as the questions she's being asked by by members of congress she was someone who was recalled early by donald trump she'd known been seen in republican circles with enormous amount of suspicion as a holdover from the obama administration who was badmouthing doll trump who wasn't loyal who was standing in the way of what the republicans wanted to achieve in

ukraine foreign policy foreign policy goes goes all their inquiries into the origins of russia gate and joe biden his son's business dealings so the questions will be as well why do you think you were 5 but secondly what was going on what was rudy giuliani the president's lawyer up to was there some sort of shadow foreign policy underway in ukraine with rudy giuliani at the head was the state department involved in all of that was there that famous quid pro quo is there a quid pro quo that ok if ukraine gives us the dirt that we want them on to buy it and all the origins of russia get them you get your military aid so these are all the sorts of questions we would imagine of being asked it's all happening now in secret wait for the leaks ok so here again the night has she ever tansey in washington a closer look now at who. is and why the democrats wanted to testify. ivanovich was named the united states top diplomat in ukraine back in august of 2016 the house committees conducting the impeachment inquiry want to question her

about what she was told about president trump's decision to withhold military aid to ukraine and the circumstances surrounding her are sting's evanovich was fired in may after trump's lawyer rudy giuliani claimed she was undermining the president her removal was then cited in the whistleblowers complaint current joining us now former prosecutor and law professor at cardoza school of law in new york and it's a pleasure to have you with us in your view how important in the impeachment inquiry will this testimony be. it's potentially devastating she was ambassador to ukraine and rudy giuliani long left parnassum igor froome and the fellows who were indicted yesterday and working for months in ukraine to try to get the ukrainian government to open an investigation into biden that was on her patch that's in her jurisdiction it was

a parallel foreign affairs effort outside the state department and she'd naturally miscues me objected to that. she was pressured by giuliani and his cohort they asked her to do things apparently she refused to do those things apparently but that provides her with a lot of information about what they were doing in addition she's the ambassador any embassy has in its intelligence assets and its sources in the country in which it situated so she might well have information even beyond what she gleaned from her direct contact with giuliani about what they were doing what they were demanding what they were threatening and how and if and how they were invoking the power of the president to get what they wanted which of course is what the president was after you mention rudy giuliani's name a lot in that we should probably address him as well he's just looming so large over over everything at the moment the likelihood of him appearing at some point

and i just you begin to imagine the circus that would entail with that. well you know rudy giuliani is a walking circus and it's hard to tell who would benefit from his testimony if you had if you look at his television appearances he's just all over the place he sounds frankly like a crazy person he's extremely partisan extremely devoted to trump apparently and his testimony in front of congress could be. certainly be entertaining where he could easily let slip a number of things that he probably shouldn't say he's done that already in his t.v. appearances how what about president trump himself his way of dealing with the impeachment so far resolve as they as he does to go on the attack he uses twitter but it's all diversions sort of stuff he's saying hey look i've got the greatest economy in our history i've done this i've done that this is

a witch hunt. is that i mean it's worked for him before as far as diversion goes canet still be successful against something as big as impeachment in this case probably not at least so far the support for impeachment has risen dramatically since this whole thing started it's a fairly simple story he can say all he wants with the whistleblower and 2nd and information etc etc but in fact we have the readout of his call with you cranium president which is just completely damning there's no way he can get past his own words and i think the american people really are tired of the trump show and especially with his actions in. with regard to the kurds this week he's certainly going to be he has damaged himself with his own party finally with that and i think that might have an effect here too carnegie's joining us from new york

a pleasure talking to you thank you. the ethiopian prime minister has been awarded this year's nobel peace prize he's being recognized for ending the long running conflict between ethiopia and eritrea over the disputed border territory. when mitt became prime minister in april 28th. he made it clear that he wished to resume peace talks with a retreat. in close cooperation with the side yes again the president of a vitriolic. mood quickly worked out the principles for a 4 and then for a peace agreement to end the long no peace no war stalemate between the 2 countries and what the reaction from his work in korea will incredible news both for if the o.p.'s and for africans although many of 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 rarely do you see for example a cab or a bus drive past without dr b. as he's affectionately known as face on the back of it as well as that flag because he is seen as the nationalist the person who united if you will be 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 attended essentially the political process here in 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 that if europe it would likely be fractured already. robyn kriel reporting there

and now with more on prime minister on meds peace efforts since taking office. 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 ending in nearly 20 years 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 yo peons the most europeans trust him

the only problem they have but i have now is that 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 or tribe if you hope he has 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 mint can add nobel peace prize winner to his list of accomplishments or such a bari al jazeera. in the news ahead. i think the voters have been a very clear message to to just politicians and disregard that message is today's economy is the number one issue for sunday's presidential runoff election but also a plea for help from the e.u. as greece struggles under the strain of tens of thousands of refugees in the sport a big win for this player at tennis is shanghai masters and he is here with that story i would like to.

add though there is a mostly clear and calm picture across much of the middle east now there is some cloud on the way it is streaming through turkey pushing across the black sea and eventually work its way on tools the caspian sea this is where we could see picking up all that moisture and that could actually bring wanted to shout across and tobacco quite a bit it has strained right the way into will central areas of iraq still there around 40 celsius the next couple days in baghdad but it will be cooling off into nolan iran so $25.00 and to run with the chance of those showers and farther to the south the temperatures have been steadily coming down in the mid thirty's now widely across much of the region south of a vote 36 in doha and riyadh and about the same as we head into sunday remember these temperatures off of the shade so we'll still have holes for the woman if you are in the sunshine and then down into southern africa wanted to more showers those full of holes and eastern areas of madagascar and also isn't scottish as in tanzania becoming it will wise but across into and go into and also we'll see the

showers working their way through southern sections of south africa and pushing up the east and as well so from 28 to 23 and when that does come with a chance of showers and sunny skies on that in cape town with a high of 24. in the next episode of tech note the team looks into the environmental impact of waste management trash is a big business plan for the smelly business to the complexities of recycling when these different plastics are blended together then the recycling becomes difficult to impossible and the signs that office solutions it's very easy for us to have 100 percent recycled material techno on al-jazeera. deano no joke about renegotiating it we would have had a deal and we would have been out by now 3 times you put a deal and you disagree with that deal as

a child it is the worst of the lot it was black so that's what you want to write is about maybe his son goes head to head with the chairman of the u.k.'s practicality which is time to tell the very loose tough i'm shocked that there's not a loose about it's often shop it's pretty clear actually it isn't as clear as brits it means but so yes it is and it's just as clearly hazy. on al-jazeera. the news i hear at al-jazeera and these are our top stories turkish troops have captured 15 villages from kurdish forces now pushed 8 kilometers into northern syria at least 24 civilians have been killed on both sides of the border since

weapons day iran is investigate an explosion on one of its oil tankers sailing off the coast of saudi arabia. iran's national oil company says the vessel appears to have been hit by 2 missiles and the crew is reported to be safe. and the prime minister has been awarded this year's nobel peace prize he is recognized for ending the long running conflict between his country and eritrea over disputed border territory. so more on our top story now the humanitarian impact of turkey's military operation in syria now we're just hearing from the united nations they're reporting now that 100000 people have left their homes in northeastern syria since the incursion began and earlier we were speaking to the u.n. as well among local who is the secretary general undersecretary general of emergency relief coordinator for the united nations office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs he says the u.n. wants a deescalation of the violence to protect those civilians. well something like

a 100000. long day hundreds of kilometers on the border octant voted to get all mixes into syria which is there's only about a. government to set that looking at as they house a major operation seem to be focused at middle stretches back or there are now as the nation moaned about 70000 people who have been left mostly open centers heading south to avoid it but fighting and most people will be a very vulnerable they're the focus of our attention our understanding is that what it takes time to do is example the towns and try to protect it's a good infrastructure but there is really at the moment a lot of it and suffering being course for civilians and we want to start our appeal full all the syrians in your area of the country controlled areas and in

areas of the country not controlled by the government is not as well this year as it was last year despite all over the country we're reaching approx $6000000.00 syrians every man by reaching fuge numbers he made our region suspected by a military operation but we do need more money and i mean such a go 'd at a job is to get him to understand the urgency of battle to get especially resources having a real priority. now in greece the number of migrants and refugees packed into overcrowded camps is risen to a record of 31000 as frustration grows the government is now urging the european union and turkey to help stop any new arrivals don't set up with us has been to see the situation on some assignment. every day emanuel fetches firewood from the olive grove where he and 6000 refugees live on the island of summers the camp was

built to cope with 680 most live in makeshift huts with no electricity or heat and rely on their wood fires for warmth then you. can eat. and the bad. asylum seekers mainly from afghanistan syria and ghana construct their own homes with timber and water proof sheets handed out by charities sanitary facilities are few and the olive grove is littered with human waste all these problems are supposedly going to be solved in a new camp being built around a disused slaughterhouse in the mountains but it's designed for $1500.00 people nowhere near the numbers currently on the island that's because the 3 month old conservative government's new policy is never to have such overcrowding in future morea camp on the island of lesbos is also a directed numbers 13 and

a half 1000 people are packed in and around the camp more than 4 times as many as it was designed to house the manager of the camp for the past 3 years agrees with the government about what the problem is. the answer in a war is a constant overpopulation we never managed to remain a 3000 as a state into 2 we can never talk people away and tell them where fault if someone has to receive them or register them and cater to their needs. over crowding creates tension a recent fire killed a female refugee causing a riot among outraged others the government is now shipping hundreds of asylum seekers to the mainland but it wants to stem the flow of new arrivals as well it wants and force month of the e.u. turkey statement of 2016 whereby turkey agreed to readmit migrants who don't quite . 5 for asylum but it is taken under one percent of the asylum seekers who crossed from its shores the government plans to intensify the use of the e.u.

turkey statement to return $10000.00 people to turkey next year that's a 20 fold increase on the rate of returns so far and it wants european union members to share the asylum burden by relocating many of the $70000.00 asylum applicants now in greece 60 percent of refugees crossing the mediterranean to europe this year have arrived via greece e.u. officials say solving the problem here is now the priority jump several close in the east of g.m. . the u.k.'s minister in charge of that negotiations is in brussels for talks stephen barclay met the chief negotiator. trying to make a breakthrough on an exit deal that is after boris johnson's meeting on thursday with his irish counterpart lee of iran he says an agreement before october 31st deadline is still possible. british police have arrested

a man held on suspicion of committing an act of terrorism after several stabbings at a popular shopping mall 3 people were injured as a man ran through the center of manchester lunging at passers by apparently at random police say they are keeping an open mind about the motive and it is near the scene of recent attacks in manchester arena and the victoria railway station in tennessee a high unemployment and rising inflation of been major problems for years reviving the economy will be one of the main challenges for whoever wins sunday's presidential election runoff. has been to the town of monarch to see what farmers and other businesses there want from a new leader. mentees embarking on a journey he hopes earns him a stable income in a country known for its. his plan to thousands of marine. trees they're rich in nutrients and antioxidants but for

a business to thrive in his ears have to buy his produce and as did his years economic crisis deepens the farmer may have to wait longer to reap the fruits of his labor and muscular like what are all 'd the biggest challenges financing banks grant loans to wealthy farmers but not to us there is no bank to help young entrepreneurs invest in a strategic sector such as agriculture young entrepreneurs and business owners say they are growing disillusioned with the government maddie's worry that owns a company assembling parts for vehicles made in china he was hoping to export his cars trucks and pick ups to customers in africa but his business is struggling as to his years recession shows no signs of anding we didn't some of this business to produce 1000 units here locally our 1st aim was to maybe in 56 years we start exporting now made here we spent 8 years we're still in the local market.

turn either hydrogen is the world bank's representative into his year he's been pressing the government to redo ract subsidies for agriculture and dairy products to new sectors that can generate income i think the voters have you know a very clear message to politicians in this regard. and the message is that they are not satisfied with the worried economic model of tunisia works they're not satisfied with the services they're getting in health education and social protection the economic reforms that the world bank and other financial institutions have been calling for me to queue years to implement it is u.s. financial elite and interest groups fear reforms might undermine their control over the economy for the time being business owners and farmers such as it will have to continue the hard work of selling their products in a tough competitive environment to dizziness continue to demand higher wages

cheaper goods in the shops and job opportunities but whoever is elected on sunday want to have that much room to maneuver the cash strapped government is under pressure to repay foreign debt and which other leaders turn they will have to balance the demands of the voters without making the government bankrupt. the town of south of the capital to n s south africa's former president jacob zuma has lost his bid to avoid standing trial for corruption that is expected to begin next week he's always went to the high court to argue the prosecution should be thrown out because it is politically motivated zuma denies accepting bribes from a french weapons company for $118000000.00 government contracts back in the 1990 s. more from farming the militia she was at the court in pietermaritzburg. the court judgment was handed down in under 2 minutes and jacob zuma was in and out of cotton

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 but it's also worth remembering that the former president does have the option to approach the supreme court of appeal to appeal this judgement 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 jacob zuma should be back in court with the week however it's not quite certain just how long that trial will take him when the south africans will advance is a case that has been going on now for almost 15 years aside 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 in the deaths of at least 5 protesters in the past week from and he government anger is provoking an increasing backlash against the president the name. of. fuel subsidies which caused petrol prices to double overnight. they responded with a nationwide strike on latin america edison the latest in the capital. thousands of indigenous ecuadorians from all over the country called for justice for a middle aged man killed during a national strike on thursday. ecuador's peoples on between says he was one of 5 people killed in more than a week of protests i do not want the police there is an abuse of police force and

we've also asked the government to lift the state of emergency which has generated more violence i think the government has lost control of the situation. inside people's cultural center building leaders of the good doors indigenous confederation paraded a policeman on to the stage. the colonel in charge told al-jazeera he'd come to negotiate the release of a patrol then who'd been detained but they were not allowed to leave until hours later that that's the protesters allegedly and the police has only added. already explosive conflict and after a 7 day since the writer either here i've asking for ira left it was. his cabinet. he's down the road put indigenous leaders have stopped short of asking for president lenin moreno's ouster they are demanding instead the immediate end to what they

call police repression the release of all detainees and the immediate resignation of the defense and the interior ministers as a precondition for a dialogue with authorities the interior ministry is being blamed for police firing tear gas into a university where women children and elderly people had taken refuge rather than of them but other than that young. children because we have no one to care for them but you interior minister a woman are an assassin that was president what i know is refusing to give in to demands to restore fuel subsidies. which he removed in exchange for a $5000000000.00 i.m.f. loan. but a former assembly deputy says ecuador can't afford desperately needed credit and that only rice at the lock up with either moreno has to be able to negotiate with international banks and make them understand that we are a country with an enormous political crisis that we cannot be treated as though we

have a stable democracy that needs a small fiscal adjustment here an adjustment can bring down the whole deck of cards . indeed ecuador has a history of governments being toppled for a lot less something few people here have forgotten you see in human al-jazeera. in japan's capital bottled water instant noodles and other necessities are being stockpiled as super typhoon harvests close in weather forecasters expect a deluge of rain and damaging winds in tokyo on saturday 2 matches at the rugby world cup have been cancelled flights and train services have been disrupted and evacuation warnings issued for flood prone low lying areas. meanwhile more than a 1000000 people in the u.s. state of california are without power after the state cuts electricity to try to prevent wildfires the utility company pacific gas and electric announced the

deliberate to avoid a repeat of last year's blazes it's been blamed for the state's deadliest ever on a not long ago the l.a.p.d. ordered a 100000 people need to leave their homes due to a wild fire on the edge. more sport coming up in a moment. and the rugby world cup stages in style and is here in a moment. before

we go to andy with the sports news just coming in the united states is sending more troops thousands more troops and fax to saudi arabia according to the reuters news agency it's already deployed hundreds there this summer as the tension with iran and elsewhere in the region increased but as we said according to reuters the military will now significantly increase its presence potentially thousands more u.s. troops heading to saudi arabia. all right the latest so well it's weather and sports altogether live weather related sports palace and coming out again approaching typhoon causing havoc with what should be a huge weekend of sports in japan already 2 rugby world cup games have been cancelled on saturday because of typhoon high give us the japanese for a long groan pre also affected now while you have a report from talk. it is calm at the moment but the japanese capital tokyo and other parts of the country are bracing for the arrival of typhoon haggis which

could be one of the strongest storms to hit japan in decades flights and train services have been canceled and of course this weekend should have been won when much of the sporting world was focusing on this country on sunday we had the japanese for me to one grand prix taking place in that's about 300 kilometers to the southwest of tokyo at this stage the race is still long but what we know now is that saturday's events at the grand prix have been cancelled so the organizers saying that qualifying will take place on sunday morning before the race where the committee well as far as the rugby world cup goes we know that 2 games have already been cancelled because of the typhoon that is new zealand against italy and england against france and there is a possibility that another game could be affected as well that is the host nation japan against scotland due to be played in york on sunday the tournament organizers saying that they will inspect the facilities on sunday morning before making

a final decision about that game it is the final group game and there is a lot riding on it a win for japan would see it topping the group and going through to the quarterfinals for the 1st time scotland needs to beat japan to have any hope of staying in the tournament here's where it gets interesting though if the game is cancelled japan will go through to the quarter finals scotland will go home and already the scottish rugby union is threatening legal action if that happens or scotland suggested moving that crucial much to monday when the typhoon has passed their rugby officials say it's unthinkable they'd be denied the chance to contest for their place in the knockout stages. this is a glorious world class sporting occasion we don't want the people that the that we also don't want to be the collateral damage lose this is important it was a nation and i think the ruby following public round the globe believe the same way and that the most people feel that it was when we can make powerhouse of the game

up to say new zealand the house more thought bring you into a flexible approach or friday's game between australia and georgia did take place the wallabies found it pretty hard going but soon later i was clinched a 27 i'd bonus point victory australia moved to the top of pulled into so much could finish 2nd in the table behind wales which would mean i'd face england in the quarter finals i or qualifying for their 4 grown prius's a car will take place on sunday before the race weather permitting friday practice went ahead as scheduled the mercedes of culture boss are setting the pace despite this embarrassing spin in dry conditions during the 2nd session if some is qualifying is also affected then the results from this practice will determine the grid positions for the rights we have an issue slightly small we stroll down the hall to big names of fallen in friday's quarter finals at the shanghai masters of a joke of each the defending champion and for all time winner peter nearby the succeeded stefana sits

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expeditionary wing 2 patriot anti missile defense systems as well as one fad missile defense system that's the that's the one that deals with missiles coming in from a higher altitude and most recently we saw the deployment of 3 such fat air missile defense systems to south korea to respond to any potential threat from north korea this is a significant ramp up but the u.s. says it is carrying out this action kemal in order to protect its ally saudi arabia from threats in the region and i'm just reading i think the same statement rosemary they say the united states does not see a conflict with the iranian regime this when it starts to feel a little different though doesn't it i mean already over the summer there was concern at the increase of hundreds of troops now thousands. well certainly you

know the u.s. has been very slowly adding more military presence in the gulf region because of what it calls iran's maligned behavior but certainly after the september 14th attack on around co facilities in the far eastern part of saudi arabia and the determination by a number of intelligence agencies not just from the u.s. but from in europe as well that it had to have been the iranians behind that attack that you are seeing this increased u.s. presence on saudi soil it had been quite politically sensitive for u.s. forces to be located inside saudi arabia and some may recall that that was one of the reasons why al qaida formed and was acting in attacks against so many western and so many saudi interests the opposition to the presence of u.s.

forces on saudi soil. it was seen as sac religious but certainly in light of the ongoing tensions between washington and iran this is a significant ramp up and certainly we understand that there may be some sort of briefing from pentagon officials about the decision to send $3000.00 troops to saudi arabia where they might be able to give more context into fly they have decided to do this why now it's been almost a month sense of the oil fields an oil processing facilities in eastern saudi arabia were attacked why now ok rosalynn jordan in washington thank you and there will be a live briefing from the pentagon shortly the podium is ready to mark friends ready in the briefing room there we will bring you that as soon as it happens. now while we're talking in this region iran says 2 missiles have struck an iranian oil

tanker which was off the coast of saudi arabia in what is described as a dangerous adventure iran's foreign ministry says the speed was attacked and set on fire in the red sea the crew is reported safe some oil has been spilled though it's not known how much the u.s. navy says it is closely monitoring developments more from the same bus ravi in teheran. iran's foreign ministry confirmed on friday that in the early morning hours one of the oil tankers was targeted in the eastern part or of the red sea approximately 100 kilometers off the coast of saudi arabia the sub at the experience 2 explosions 20 minutes apart causing its oil tanks to leak into the sea foreign ministry spokesman abbas mousavi said this isn't the 1st time in recent months that iranian vessels in the red sea have experienced what he described as destructive actions he blamed the fallout and resulting pollution on perpetrators of the attack who have yet to be identified he said they were taking part in quote

dangerous adventurism the finger pointing from to herat has already begun as well with a senior m.p. blaming the us or israel for targeting the oil vessel iran's national oil tanker company meanwhile whose experts are investigating the incident that company was keen to point out that while terrorism or some form of missile attack may have been the cause of this incident they did not suspect that any attack originated from saudi shores the incident comes a day before pakistan's imran khan is due to arrive into iran for his 2nd official visit since becoming prime minister he'll be here in an effort to mediate between riyadh and to iran to try to bring down tensions in the region but with this attack iran is likely to have its diplomatic defenses up once again and if there was any hope for a breakthrough during his visit it is now less likely to happen. now at least 26 civilians have been killed as turkish forces push deeper into syria that numbers coming from the syrian observatory for human rights took his military says more than 300 fighters have been captured or killed the kurds say 29 of their fighters

the dead the u.n. says aerial strikes and shelling is now displaced more than 100000 people so he's captured 15 villages and set up a military base at the border an update from charles stratford. which is right on turkey's border with syria charles take us through what's happening there. yes you're right we are i suppose about a bottle way behind me is the syrian border the town of russell i. now this is being the target of intense bombardment by turkish forces for the last couple of days this is the furthest eastern section if you like of what the turkish military described as their 1st phase in this operation. they're concentrating on an area from here going west around 100 kilometers down the border to the town of tel i'll

be out. on the stand certainly from sources that we have amongst the free syrian army some of these all the syrian fighters that were brought over by the turks turkey has backed them in syria for many years and they are taking part in a ground operation now the turkish vice president has come out in the last few minutes seemingly and has said that turkish forces have pushed in side syria in this area for kilometers and 8 kilometers into the area around tel aviv which is to say 100 kilometers further down. we understand that they may well have been reinforcements of turkish troops to do this in the understanding that eventually they will be moving in to russell i and. 2 in a ground offensive to talk getting s.t.'s positions inside they're. going to have

to interrupt you i am sorry about that but that briefing is beginning at the pentagon right now on the thousands more u.s. troops heading to saudi arabia to discuss the united states military operations in the middle east thing they will provide you an update on the situation and announce some changes to the u.s. force posture in the region beginning with syria we have pows and art. greatly disappointed by turkey's decision to launch a unilateral military incursion into northern syria this operation puts our s.t.'s partners in harms way it risks the security of isis prison camps and will further destabilize the region from the president on down we have communicated with the turks on this issue i spoke with turkish defense minister a car yesterday to express our strong opposition to turkey's actions and reiterated the damage this is doing to our bilateral relationship the chairman has some only been in communication with his counterpart as we previous reported when turkey

notified us of an imminent military operation we relocated a small contingent of us and 50 special operations soldiers out of the immediate zone of attack this decision was made to ensure american troops were not caught up in the fighting between turkish and kurdish forces the safety of our men and women in uniform remains our top priority as such we are repositioning additional forces in the region to assist with force protection as necessary the s.d.f. also transfer to isis militants known as the beatles who are involved 'd in the kidnapping and murder of u.s. and u.k. citizens in syria to our custody they're being held in a safe and secure location in the region but outside of syria. at this time we have made no additional changes to our force posture in syria but we continue to assess the situation and our troop levels there to be clear we are not abandoning our current partner forces and u.s. troops remain with them and other parts of syria the impulse of action the

president early on to invade northern syria has put the united states in a tough situation given our relationship with our nato ally turkey who has fought alongside the united states in the past the syrian democratic forces who helped to destroy the physical caliphate of isis and the safety of u.s. military personnel rather than get poured into this conflict we put the welfare of our soldiers 1st but urging turkey to forgo its operation and working hard with us to address their concerns the development of a security zone along the border we remain in close coordination with the syrian democratic forces who up this destroy the physical caliphate devices but i will not place american service members in the middle of a long standing conflict between the turks and the kurds this is not why we are in syria we will continue to work with the 80 members of the defeat isis coalition and the syrian democratic forces to ensure the defeat of isis turning to iran it is clear that the iranians are responsible for the recent attacks on saudi arabian oil

facilities our international partners agree including the united kingdom france and germany who have said so publicly despite iran's attempts to deny their involvement the evidence recovered so far proves that tirant is responsible for these attacks. iran's continued malign behavior is part of its larger campaign to destabilize the middle east and disrupt the global economy iran's attempts to use terror intimidation and military force to advance its interests are inconsistent with international norms today i spoke with the saudi minister of defense to discuss the status of saudi arabia's defensive capabilities and our ongoing efforts to protect our partners from further iranian aggression saudi arabia is a longstanding security partner in middle east and his ass.