resulting from this but of course at that point the and still it what is the case is about 15 years long states and of course keeping it suppressed is the number one priority all right we'll leave it there finance thanks so much i guess i can. protest against the turkish military offensive a taking place in several cities around the world and smith spoke to some demonstrators in a bill in iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region a little love lost here between the kurds in this part of northern iraq kurdish controlled parts of northern iraq and the turkish authorities the crowd has been chanting one terrorist or one terrorist and there is also a real feeling here of betrayal by the americans the kurds here saying that one day they are leading the fight with the americans against i saw and then the next day.

to this fight. like i said. you 1st. lady. were you surprised by what the americans did of course everyone is surprised that america was by side of kurdistan as my crusade with the storm help for commuters and where they leave kurdish knows i'm a. resident and it was crazy because in one night every one of them was strangers it's a chance for turkey to dominate us and kill the kurdish people so the american government has always promised our protection but now we see no protection that's why we think traitors there are already some 225000 syrian kurds in this part of northern iraq hiding sheltering from syria's civil war and the authorities here. camps and accommodation for another 30000 should they cross over the border from

northeastern syria and the all party say the k r g cup and they said when turkey's incursion started they said the consequences of the military escalation have implications far beyond syria's borders creating the conditions for a return of eisel and a mass displacement of people. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including extending the hand of friendship the leaders of india and china promise a new era in relations plus. chaotic scenes in ecuador's capital. joy the 10th day of protests. and it's. august threaten the japanese grand prix details with later in the show. more than a 1000000 people in japan have been told to leave their homes as typhoon this

approaches tokyo the storm is expected to batter the capital with record amounts of rain and high winds concern over safety of forced the cancellation of 2 rugby world cup matches as well as flights and train services. when he joins us now live from tokyo where the typhoon is approaching so are they ready for impact there why . semi yes we received an alert just a few moments ago saying that the storm has now made landfall on the eastern coast of central japan so certainly everyone has been anticipating it's there are a advisories out. urging people to exercise extreme caution here in tokyo city for example those who are not living in areas where those evacuation orders or advisories are in place basically being told to stay home all day on saturday don't

come out onto the streets and judging by how quiet it is being here in tokyo throughout the course of saturday most people have heeded that advice the city's basically being shut down throughout the course of the day most shops and restaurants have been closed also as you mentioned have seen most train service is canceled for the day and hundreds of flights in and out of tokyo 2 airports have been canceled so a lot of disruption in that regard but this city this country very well used to natural disasters well used to typhoons this is something like the 19th to come into japanese territory so far this year so they have the systems in place they have the evacuation orders they are orders only in name only though i should mention it is not compulsory that the people in those areas have to leave their homes it's basically a way for under the japanese system for those areas to be classified in terms of

the potential threat that they face but millions as you mentioned now under those advisories or orders to evacuate. all of the evacuation as well as the weather causing a bit of disruption not only for travel but sports to write. yes you're quite right this should have been a weekend when much of the sporting world was focused on japan and perhaps they still are but for the wrong reasons because of this storm we have the. rugby world cup on in japan at the moment we know that a couple of days ago the decision was made by the tournament organizers to cancel 2 games that we shared jule for saturday there is one more game that is still being played right in the south of japan in full quokka that game is due to start very soon there is a 3rd game that has a lot riding on it it is the last group game that has to be played on sunday that may be affected by this storm as well the organizers are saying that they will make

a decision on that game between japan and scotland on sunday morning if it is cancelled which would mean that japan would go through to the quarter finals for the 1st time and scotland would go home the scottish rugby union is already threatening legal action against world rugby the governing body of the game the japanese formula one grand prix due to take place on sunday afternoon at this stage the race is still on and they are saying that they will have qualifying on sunday morning before the race but all of the activities at suzuka were cancelled on saturday will leave it there thanks so much wayne. now the country is already dealing with the aftermath of a tornado at least one person has died after it swept through china from a province rather the man died after strong winds overturned a car in the heart of the storm damaged houses and people in the area are without electricity. the iranian government is condemning what it calls

a cowardly attack on one of its oil tankers a government spokesman says it's reviewing the evidence after missiles apparently struck a ship off the coast of saudi arabia on friday it also promised to respond to whoever is behind the attack that followed months of increased tensions in and around the strait of hormuz from all of this that speak now to as babies life for us into france and strong words coming out of tehran right. yes absolutely when this incident initially took place state media said it could be a terrorist attack but now you iran seems to be proceeding with caution about this attack that took place 60 miles of the saudi arabian city of. iran hasn't been named anybody now the secretary of the national security council has issued a written statement he called the incident evil and piracy an incident that would

not go unanswered he said that a committee has been formed to investigate these acts and said that reining tankers have been targeted in the past but he said that from the video available it did offer some clues now we don't know what he's referring to in terms of that evidence but he said that the responsibility lies for this act lies on the shoulders of those planners executers and supporters of this provocative action now the government spokesman has also issued a statement he called it a cowardly act and said that those behind it are trying to increase tensions in the region but also turned his attention to those countries that accused iran of being behind that attack on the saudi facilities in september and asked them if they condemned this attack against iranian tanker and if they would defend the right of shipping in these international waterways so iran is proceeding with caution they have said in the past that they are actors that trying to increase tensions in the region and trying to drag iran into a conflict with the united states and saudi arabia something that to ron says that

they're trying to avoid but but iran has said that that leak in the tanker has been stopped and it's on its way back data shows on its way back to the gulf but the incident is yet to be independently confirmed but world powers will be looking at this latest incident with concern because the offers a tiny glimpse into the instability insecurity and destruction to shipping that could be caused if there is a conflict in the region. thanks so much. now the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine says donald trump pressured the state department to fire her and she was removed because of our unfounded and false claims marie your van of which gave the testimony to members of congress leading an impeachment inquiry into the u.s. president they're investigating whether trump pressured ukraine's leader into investigating is democratic rival joe biden and his son who worked there mike hanna

is in washington d.c. the former ambassador to ukraine mari you've done of each was instructed by the state department not to appear in congress however she defied this instruction appearing before the congressional committee behind closed doors then there was the case of her opening statements being leaked and certainly according to that statement she came out with both barrels firing insisting that those with questionable motives had caused her recall from the ukraine that the direct instruction of president trump she spoke about what she called a hollowed out state department and certainly added to the congressional knowledge off the events that led to that phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine that lies at the heart of this ongoing investigation importantly though she also opened a little bit of a chip in that white house boycott of the ongoing investigations it is now known

that a number of other state department officials may be appearing in congress in coming days among them gordon sunderland who was blocked from appearing by state department last week but now he's been served a subpoena is lawyers say that he is willing and ready to appear in congress to give his evidence that documents that were in his position though will not be presented as they are in the position of the state department. now in india regional security concerns and a trade imbalance of dominated the 2 day meeting with present time this president xi jinping is wrapping up what's been described as an informal summit with prime minister nuri and a modi there is olds after india revoke the special status of indian administrate kashmir china has traditionally backed pakistan in its decades long dispute with india. until vora joins us now live from ramallah in the southern indian temple

resort town where the 2 leaders have met start with trade that's got a bit of a boost out of this trip right. well what i can tell you is that india and china. the 2 leaders spoke for over 5 hours yesterday and over 90 minutes today and they discussed everything out of the sun next africa meet and we'll talk about that in a bit but as far as straightest concerned not much headway was made although the 2 countries have decided to set up a mechanism ministerial level under which indian officials say india's concerns of the whopping trade deficit of over $51000000000.00 would be addressed by the chinese but this issue has been raised by india even before many times and nothing's really come forward from the chinese government when we speak to even indian officials off the record what we pick up from our sources is that the fact of the trade dispute exists because even the indian companies here retailers can

buy products from china out of cheaper rate than they can build here so the economist in india say that instead of waiting for china to turn around it might be a better thing for india to sort of get a grip and get its own economy its infrastructure in order and this may be a perfect time in a way to do it because a trade war between the united states and the china sorry and china is intensifying or a no you mentioned it there but there's a little more detail if you would about how much the issue of kashmir is really featuring and. well just a day or so before this visit took place the chinese president hosted pakistan's prime minister brown kannan for over 2 months since indian government's decision to strip the autonomy of indian administered kashmir china has backed india even dragged it to the u.s. a un security council to make it answer on the situation in kashmir china has backed pakistan aid now but i actually put up that question to the. indian foreign secretary to try and find out if the indian prime minister spoke about many things

for 6 hours there's even talk about kashmir because that is also india's dispute with china let's let's listen to what india's foreign secretary told us. i would like to state quite got to go to italy that this issue was not resolved and not discussed and therefore there is no question of. my making any further comments on the matter in any case the government to bring this position as expressed publicly is very clear this is a matter that concerns the double affairs of the country. the other mission in itself is significant because the one wonders why would india not to raise what it describes as one of its core issues while the chinese president was here while the indian prime minister takes him out on a guided tour off the historical monuments discusses everything under the sun but leaves that out so one wonders why did the indian prime minister make that decision did he not want to spoil the atmospherics or what was it that made him decide to

not actually raise that very important subject with the chinese president all right thanks so much and shall. own a few moments our meteorologist jenny will be here with the latest on the typhoon that hit japan and also ahead on al-jazeera about tunisia's voters demand more jobs than the check home prices as they vote for like the new president in sunday's runoff last. hour one town in the central philippines is trying to break gen the stereotypes. and it's brought skullbone playing the waiting game. to hear if very crucial rugby match will go ahead in the wake of typhoon haiyan this.

well here it is this is typhoon and the just as the joint typhoon warning center has put out the latest update you can see just ahead of this storm actually making landfall look at this massive cloud of cold to conditions have been really deteriorating in the last few hours so the winds have come down as we expected right now the sustained at about 160 kilometers now gusting trying $195.00 and what it has done is actually pick up forward motion say is the moving of it quick in the last year as they've been to the north northwest same direction but a kilometers an hour now at the moment it's about 200 kilometers the southwest of yokosuka which is just to the south of take here and this is showing you where the bulk of the rains are going to be heading over the next $24.00 and they eventually 48 hours so this is it by sunday because it's moving very quickly so as it comes on shore evening hours probably around 89 o'clock local time in tokyo it will move very rapidly across the eastern portion of honshu and they continue out into the

northern pacific and at this point on sunday off the new it is well to the east of here but as you can see all this rain continuing to still full across much of the japanese islands and so we're still looking at some very high totals we could of course see more flash flooding and also the danger of landslides will continue to watch this in the hours ahead. sponsored countdown to. the for majesty's government i apologize reservedly story kampala chief i want to go down to step aside and british intelligence it was a really good grievances that the libyans could be quite useful to the last 8 years after the death of gadhafi al-jazeera wild investigates western collusion with the libyan security services. gadhafi rendition and the west. on al-jazeera. to today's headlines there are protests like this

one that are trying to discern and meet forested areas that have been already devastated setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussion you've been out there with the protesters on the streets where we've been telling you the international filmmakers and world class journalists bring programs to inform and inspire. on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now turkish forces and their allies say they've seized control of the center of ras ally in the

syrian town their announcement a short time ago comes as ground troops push 30 kilometers into the north. more than a 1000000 people in japan have been told to leave their homes as typhoon i give us approaches tokyo the storm is expected to batter the capital with record amounts of rain and high winds iran is condemning what it calls a cowardly attack on one of its oil tankers a government spokesman says it's reviewing evidence of the missiles apparently struck a ship off the coast of saudi arabia on friday. national day celebrations are beginning in spain amid international tensions over the upcoming sentencing of catalan separatist leaders earlier this month demonstrations in support of the leaders took place in the catalonia and capital barcelona sunday guy goes at the demonstrations . coomber ations for spain's national day are also taking place on the streets

of barcelona the capital of the region of catalonia that's the region that attempted to secede 2 years ago while this event was organized by a pro nationalist civil society it's not the backing of 3 right wing national political parties as well this year has certainly seen less of an attendance than the 2 years prior to this as well but people still are very much dedicated to this sorry day that the region should remain firmly parts of the country of spain however of course there is still a lot of support within the region that the. region should be able to have the right to be able to question that status and whether they should be able to have * the right to be able to have another referendum on independence because those tensions are still playing out to still 2 years on from that they haven't gone away

and they do not look likely to get results anytime soon. now in ecuador there's been more fighting between police and indigenous communities as thousands joined the 10th day of protests against the stero city demonstrators want president lenin moreno to repeal a law that ended a 40 year old fuel subsidy that caused petrol prices to double at least 5 people have been killed since clashes began but you are a part of has the details the capital quito. clashes between police and protesters in ecuador's capital city show no sign of relenting police used flash bang grenades and tear gas to disperse the crowds that demonstrators say authorities have also used live ammunition against peaceful protesters. the ongoing protests have paralyzed much of downtown. amidst the chaos and clouds of tear gas medical patients could be seen fleeing nearby hospitals there are no nazi machine

numbers just over town before you see this we couldn't have imagined a situation it's horrifying to see people fighting one another for a few hours. after more than a week of unrest indigenous demonstrators continue to run from across the country to participate in the ongoing anti-government demonstrations some traveling from communities as far away as the amazon to join the front lines in the front or so much believe a bit but we've come from far away leaving our families behind and now we're here to participate in a national strike so the government can show some respect. in a pre recorded message to the nation on friday ecuador's president lenny moreno asked for a direct dialogue with leaders within the national confederation of indigenous communities is indispensable if it's imperative that we end the violence we need solutions to the issues of our country i'm calling on leaders to speak with me directly. outside ecuador's national assembly building demonstrators were

once again met with sound grenades and tear gas several demonstrators as well as police officers were injured during the confrontation despite the ecuadorian president's call for a national dialogue tensions still remain very high here in quito demonstrators say that they're angry over the heavy handed response by authorities against peaceful protesters if anything these clashes between demonstrators and police only appear to be intensifying the indigenous leaders have agreed to sit down for talks with the president but with growing calls for the authorities to bring back order to the streets there's concern the violence could get even worse when measured up on the jersey to do it with. the u.s. and china have struck a partial trade deal that could end the 15 month long trade war between the world's 2 largest economies during talks with china's vice premier president donald trump suspend the tariff hike on 2 $150000000000.00 worth of chinese imports it was set to take effect on tuesday. but we've come to

a deal intellectual property. financial services. a tremendous deal for the farmers the purchase of from $40.00 to $50000000000.00 worth of agricultural products another big issue that we've come to a conclusion on is currency foreign exchange we've also made very good progress on technology transfer and we'll put some of the technology transfer in phase one phase 2 will start negotiations almost immediately after we've concluded phase one and papered it. now the man who oversaw donald trump's tough border policies is stepping down acting homeland security secretary kevin mccallion he had only been in the position since april he's the 4th person to serve since trump took office the president said his replacement would be named next week. the u.s.

is deploying $1800.00 additional soldiers to saudi arabia to strengthen the kingdom security this follows an attack on the riyadh oil facilities last month it brings the total number of u.s. military personnel in the country to 3000 wells and jordan reports from washington d.c. . for the 2nd time in a month the u.s. is sending troops to saudi arabia to help protect that country from iranian attacks in response to continued threats in the region i've ordered the deployment to the kingdom of saudi arabia of 2 additional fighter squadrons and supporting personnel along with additional patriot and fat air and missile defense batteries taken together with other deployments i've extended or authorized for the last month this involves about $3000.00 united states forces a few 100 u.s. troops went to saudi arabia in mid september after iranian drones and cruise missiles destroyed part of the geike income heights oil facility it's washington

also impose sanctions on iran central bank and its sovereign wealth fund and this is on top of our oil sanctions and our financial institutions sanctions but this latest deployment is much larger because the trumpet ministration says the threat from terrorists on has worsened we are accumulating risk of a regional war and i've been saying that for over a year here in another forum and then on september 14th we had an active war. and we continue to accumulate risk of a worse conflict a mid east policy expert said the troop deployment is important but not as important as many assume the additional missile defense systems seem to be a clear reaction to a successful attack by drones and by missiles on saudi oil facilities which actually was a great embarrassment to the united states and to saudi arabia u.s. officials insist they're not being provocative by sending more troops and weapons to saudi arabia chances are officials in tehran will disagree roslyn jordan

al-jazeera washington. the united arab emirates is trying to silence the al-jazeera news network that's according to a bloomberg report the u.a.e. is reportedly running a lobbying campaign in washington d.c. using a law firm to try and influence people working for members of the u.s. congress on official has the details. from its embassy in washington and with the 12 connected ambassador to the u.s. as well as the ambassador the united arab emirates has been pushing a campaign to close the al-jazeera media network and report on the new site bloomberg says the embassy has employed a prominent d.c. law firm to meet with congressional staffers trumpet ministration officials journalists and academics to push its case the law firm it can gump strauss how and failed a well known company on capitol hill employed a small lobbying firm to help with its operation it paid $100000.00 to the company definers public affairs in turn it acknowledged it sure was to provide strategic

communication support and guidance in furtherance of the interests of the embassy of the united arab emirates with an emphasis on strengthening bilateral relations and regional security of the united arab emirates in particular including issues relating to clients' terminations of relations with qatar and accuracy and transparency of qatar or government owned media definer sprang to prominence when it was hired by facebook as the senate was investigating the role it played in possible russian interference in the 2016 election the finers was investigating individual senators it was accused of spreading inflammatory information about its critics and his contract with facebook was terminated bloomberg says thousands of twitter account supporting the u.a.e. campaign were suspended there are also many linked facebook pages many of them pushed the u.s. government to force algis either to register as a foreign agent that could potentially restrict operations in the u.s.

and it would essentially say the company is run by the qatari government a claim firmly rejected by al-jazeera. al-jazeera launched in 1996 with a not a big service in 2006 it became a public utility a private corporation for the public benefit with an independent board of directors in june 8 u.s. lawmakers wrote to the justice department asking to investigate whether al jazeera should register as a foreign agent one of the senators was republican chuck grassley from iowa who had been contacted by representatives of the u.a.e. alan fischer al-jazeera washington. now protesters in haiti have clashed with police in the capital port au prince a day after a journalist was found shot dead in his car who. joseph was killed while he was covering the surge in violence that's killed at least 20 demonstrators are demanding the resignation of the president. doesn't offer you. the reasons

why we're protesting are down to hunger misery insecurity unemployment impunity and corruption your now has been tied to 69 cases of corruption the father of corruption what might be driven was it has not kept his promises he should resign we want a new president so that we can have a better life. high unemployment and rising inflation of been major problems for 2 in this year for years reviving the economy will be one of the main challenges for the winner of sunday's presidential runoff. went the town of moore and i got to see what farmers and other businesses want from their new leader. ahmed elements easy 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 ears economic crisis deepens the farmer may have to wait longer to reap the fruits of his labor and. 'd the biggest challenge is financing in 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 being 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 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 very clear message to those politicians in this regard. and the message is that they are not at risk for it with to worry the economic model of tunisia works it or 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 yes 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 won't 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 turn of the south of the capital to an s. a wildfire near the near los angeles rather is forcing around $100000.00 americans from their homes mandatory evacuation orders were issued when the saddle ridge blaze destroyed homes a man in his late fifty's died as he battled the flames. in the same area where 500 homes were 11 years ago. still ahead on al-jazeera in sports kenya's star marathon runner smashes another record with. the break.