arguer ship as transactional suggesting that once the fight against isis is over the us partnership with the white b.g. will end but it was a mistake and of the obama administration now of course my friends from the obama administration would say but we had no alternative turkey was not willing to provide $30000.00 ground troops the white beach was and instead of us soldiers fighting on the front lines it was a y p g fighters who did still to me that's a fallacy and bargain that the us cut with the like egypt i thank you for your analysis on that nothing brazen that. and protests against the turkish midfielder fence of it taking place in several cities around the world but it smith spoke to some demonstrators in a veiled iraq semi autonomous kurdish region. 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 terrorist terrorist and there is also a real feeling here of betrayal by the americans the kurds here saying that only

one day they are leading the fight with the americans against eisel and then the next day has been about. this fire. in the eyes. of us and. we you surprised by what the americans did of course everyone is surprised that america was by sight of curtis rose by crusader with the storm help for curators and where they leave curtis and rose obama. president and it was crazy because in one night every one of them was changed 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 $30000.00 should they cross over the border from northeastern syria and the or far to 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. now a demonstration against the turkish offensive is also being held in paris paul brennan is there for us paul howes it shaping up. well it's been going for just over an hour now sammi and you can see from the scene over my shoulder here i'll step aside and let the on the camera around and around

a little bit they've got several 1000 people out here with just a couple days notice the podium has had several speakers and the placards basically critical of turkey and the united states is one of the placards i've read that uses the wound of being the church's leader being the true leader of dice another one says the united states has given a blank check to turkey to massacre the kurds the. 150000 kurdish people living in france some to the 2nd largest community in the kurdish diaspora after germany and many of these people have relatives who are in the zone that turkey is currently in and launching its military offensive so people here and really an extremely concerned and that i was here to express that in the strongest possible way is no sign of it finishing you had to going to be here for a while it's a law yet. all right whole row there thanks so much. plenty

more still to come on the news hour including an explosive testimony by a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine during impeachment hearings against president from. spain is celebrating national day but could separatist tensions spoil the party. and haggis threatens the japanese ground free details but sanat later in the show. now the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine says donald trump pressured the state department to fire and she was removed because of unfounded and false claims marie of out of it gave testimony to members of congress leading to an impeachment inquiry into the u.s. president vesta gating whether donald trump pressured ukraine's leader into investigating his democratic rival joe biden and his son who has business interests

there mike hanna has the latest from 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 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 the documents that were in his position though will not be presented as they are in the position of the state department 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 after holding talks with china's vice premier donald trump suspending the terrifying on $250000000000.00 worth of chinese imports that had been due to take effect on tuesday it may take more than a month for

a full deal to be written. well we've come to a deal an 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 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 well jeffrey rice is a united states policy analyst at the eurasia group he thinks one of the reasons behind trump's decision is to get some relief for u.s. farmers and boost the country's economy. i think the pieces of this deal that are fairly concrete are the chinese agricultural purchases which trump says they will

step up above their current levels and cancellation of the looming tariff increase which was due to go into place next week beyond that there's a lot left undone around intellectual property a sectoral opening for financial services firms in china that has been rumored and pulled back a number of times and a lot of other issues where the real substance is still needs to be ironed out the chinese have already for the last 2 weeks or so their purchases of particularly of soybeans have been at much higher levels than they were for the bulk of the summer and so that's a big relief to farmers and if this deal holds i think those purchases will will continue or probably go up as well the pieces that are left undone are primarily in intellectual property the enforcement regime for this deal as well as a number of sort of unrelated issues on national security in particular on huawei the chinese telecom for it seems pretty clear to me that part of the reason for his

motivation to get this deal was to get some relief for farmers and to put a boost into the macro economy in the u.s. as he heads into reelection and comes off of what was a very damaging week for him politically here in washington typhoon haggis's made line full outside tokyo the storm is forecast to be one of the was still on record meteorologists warn of unprecedented rainfall risking floods and mudslides in several prefectures over $1000000.00 people have been told to evacuate their homes when he has the latest from tokyo why how they putting up with things. well so far as you mentioned a lot of people have been ordered or advised to evacuate from some of those areas in the past all this typhoon and it seems that a lot of people are heeding that advice and heading to evacuation centers as you

mentioned this very large storm system has made landfall in japan in central parts of the honshu island of course most populated island in japan which includes the capital tokyo this city also in the path of the storm in the last couple of hours we had some very strong winds the likes of which we have not seen earlier on saturday and a lot of rainfall but it does seem to have died down again so it's very difficult to tell exactly at which stage we are at a lot of concern for people who are living in areas deemed at risk from landslides that's where we're seeing a lot of those evacuation orders or advisories come into effect and people in coastal areas as well of course they are at major risk from those strong winds and also the heavy rain but also storm surge and the fact that we are almost in a full moon which means that the tide will be potentially a lot higher than it normally is at some rivers also including some inside the

capital tokyo and on the outskirts as well have already flooded because of the heavy rain that's really been falling for most of saturday there was a lot of concern about flooding going forward into the rest of saturday night and sunday morning and how disruptive has this proved so fall for transport for of course some of those high profile games. well it seems as usual in japan that they were very well prepared for this storm they're well used to typhoons and natural disasters so we mention those evacuation orders or thora he's also taking no chances whatsoever with the transport system so they canceled most of the train services and also hundreds of flights in and out of tokyo's 2 airports were canceled as well so obviously that has caused a lot of disruption but it seems that for the most part people have been pretty

understanding of that 2 major sporting events this weekend as well the rugby world cup we saw 2 matches that were cancelled due to be played on saturday there's a possibility of another crucial game on sunday being affected as well the organizers are saying they'll make a decision on that game on sunday morning the formula one grand prix at this stage is still shared tool to take place on sunday afternoon that is in suzuka which is about 300 kilometers south of tokyo but we saw all of ins at suzuka canceled on saturday said qualifying will take place on sunday so it's been hugely disruptive but from what we can tell the authorities have handled things pretty efficiently. or i will leave it there thanks so much wayne harry national day celebrations are underway in spain that made internal tensions over the upcoming sentencing of catalan separatist leaders who've been charged with sedition and misuse of public funds for their part in the 2017 independence

referendum rival unionists and pro independence rallies have gathered in catalonia is regional capital barcelona. so the guy ago has the latest from barcelona. liberations for spain's national day have been taking place on the streets of foss alone in the capital of the capital on region the region that attempted to seat 2 years ago now while this was organized by a pro nationalist civil society it has the backing of 3 conservative and right wing parties in the space and taking place here because people here are still absolutely determined cats 100 should remain firmly cobs all the spanish states who want to belong you know i want to keep being cut along is bringing people to not just cut our guts our thing yes so it is being cut line is our way of being

spanish or the wonderful thing about spain is that it's made up of many different parts but with a common sense you have a that. even though here there is an incredibly strong feeling about the caps of the region should remain family. of the spanish state missteps alone you know force where there is a strong growth independence movement they feel they should have the right to determine their own future it's part of a legal referendum now that attempts to see 2 years ago was an illegal referendum and certain politicians and activists paid the price by being arrested they now face a judgment $1.00 day whether it would be a charge of rebellion sedition and misuse of public funds that has further exacerbated the tensions in the region certainly doesn't look like it's going to be resolved any time soon. well just one day after the theory of his prime minister

abu ahmed was awarded the nobel peace prize we're hearing that dozens of pro-democracy activists have been arrested and there's been a heavy police presence across the capital has come more this now with robin creo who joins us on skype from add this am of a so will the arrests impact tomorrow's planned protests robin well indeed we understand as to the organizers of the protests and really the head of the script about their risk councils who were planning this protest they said that it was to protest the assailed transition or the salem transition to democracy it's been planned for about 2 weeks they say are known about it for about a week but we just we understand according to i was about at is that the police that it was actually banned this morning and then came these arrests i mean we don't know the motivation behind these arrests speaking to the negative organizer

of the rally he told me that these arrests appeared and these are his words coordinated planned and then implemented by police across as abbotts activists taken from their homes and of the streets and imprisons unpleasant according to nagin are he said he's currently going from police station to police station to find out exactly why you know as i sit at this reading his website and for at least one week that i've known that's all the necessary 2 weeks that had they had applied to the city council for permission police band at this point how embarrassing is all of this coming you know so soon after the nobel peace prize was awarded to the prime minister. sam i really think it's going to depend on why these activists have been rounded up what are they being charged with were they suspected of something were police worried about potential violence there are a number of reports and sticky lation circulating about other rallies pro abbey perhaps taking place in addison barber tomorrow as well yes it certainly is the

edges of of the pasta just on paper but not the ad is above the present certainly not the ad is up about here and the leader prime minister i'll be at mit who is it would if this nobel peace prize just over 24 hours ago and i've spoken to time this idea that's what this 1000000000 is that you she says she has no where are any arrests that were offenses not aware of these arrests referred us back to the ad is arab east we're currently not taking our calls but yes certainly this goes against the very peace prize that a prime minister was awarded yesterday the ideas of peacemaking inclusiveness he released a lot of journalists a lot of people who had been jailed opposition activists in the mega was only arrest from greece from jail if every of 28 and so this is a not a good look for in the open air but as i said it will really depend on why that's been arrested all right thanks so much for that. it's time to get the weather his

demi yeah let's look at this is. talking about of course just a few moments ago when. things about she calm down way he is the wind. and that could well be because the eye is very close now to actually pushing across or very close to the city of take his has been a full $1010.00 g.m.t. which is 7 pm local time so it really will be in the next hour that probably passes either directly ahead over a close to take it that is why the winds will ease because of course the eye has no winds it is so we've got winds sustained 160 kilometers now and actually came on shore and this is the track so really is now about what it is going to continue to do across honshu in particular one it will move very quickly that is some very good news it's moving to the north northeast at about 35 kilometers an hour intervals taking with it the bulk of those rains and also those very strong winds they will continue to weaken those wings winds as we head off into sunday it is really the early hours of sunday morning that we will see this storm system back out into the

open waters of the northern pacific but in the meantime was looking missing some very heavy amounts of rain is yellow areas we could well see more than half a meter of rain and they have to bear in mind of course some of this is a very mountainous terrain so it'll fall on the mountains and it then has to of course continue to push on it says low level so again we'll watch it in the hours ahead thanks so much jenny will still ahead here on al-jazeera extending the hand of friendship the leaders of india and china promised a new era in relation to last. prisoner and the professor t.v. show down the street is u.s. presidential candidates go to. war scotland play the waiting game to hear if their crucial rugby match will go ahead of typhoon.

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the. arab. or come 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. the syrian border tell us after 4 days of heavy fighting kurdish forces are disputing that claim the kurdish community in several cities including paris sydney and below are protesting against the turkish offensive. typhoon haiyan business made landfall outside tokyo the storm is forecast to be one of the worst on record. now the iranian government is condemning what it calls a cowardly attack on one of its oil tankers

a government spokesman says it's reviewing evidence after missiles apparently struck a ship off the coast of saudi arabia on friday it also promised to respond to whoever is responsible for the attack as a bag has more from the her around. at the time of the incident state media did say could be a terrorist attack but now iran is proceeding with caution about this attack that took place 60 miles off the side of reagan city of now the secretary of the national supreme security council has issued a statement he called the incident piracy an evil an incident that would not go on said he said that the committee has been formed to investigate the incident but the available video did have some clues now we don't know what he's referring to in terms of those clues but he has said that ring in 10 cars have been targeted in the past and he said that the responsibilities of the consequences of this latest incident lie on the shoulders of those planners executers and supporters of this

provocative actions the government spokesman also has also issued a statement he said that it was a cowardly act and said that those behind it are trying to increase tensions in the region he also turned his attention to those countries that blamed iran for being behind the attack against the saudi oil facilities in september we asked them if they would condemn this attack against iraq and if they would defend the right of ship in international waters now iran is proceeding with caution they have said in the past that they are actors trying to increase tensions in the region that are trying to drag iran into a conflict with saudi arabia and the united states something iran says that they want to avoid there hasn't been any independent confirmation of this incident but iran says that the tanker that were in the can the tank has been stopped and data shows it's on its way back but world powers will be looking at this latest incidents incident with concern because they will be concerned about the instability in security and destabilization and destruction to shipping that could be caused by any conflict in the region. tim is here is 2 presidential candidates

have gone head to head in a rare t.v. debate before sunday's runoff vote is the jews in between. who was recently released from prison and retired law professor. they need to convince voters they'll be able to solve crippling poverty and unemployment. reports from tunis. and yet face off in a debate a rare event in the arab world and a moment of pride for the tennesseans who 80 years ago inspired the pro-democracy movement also known as the arab spring. the debate was a crucial moment for the 2 candidates the election divided tennesseans secular and liberals back while conservatives leftists and nationalists endorser yet. this is always leading in the parliamentary and presidential elections into jail

despite there are still moved on to the 2nd round my opponents thought i'd be defeated. in the free they will never return to the cage and won't accept being given crumbs they are free already committed to building a new country. supporters of the bill carter we are job and their leader and media mogul was released from jail and is back on the campaign trail but the man and his party have only a limited time to convince people that he is the right person to leave the country . party heart of which he founded 3 months ago came in 2nd in the parliamentary election becoming the 2nd largest political party after the conservative enough. from the beginning of the campaign rival cases i yet kept a low profile but his supporters took to the streets promoting the burn they say will and corruption and unite the people but people are frustrated with their

leaders 8 years after the revolution they see little change in their country and their expectations are high and our president should make young people more of a priority as far as i'm concerned i have no faith in the political elite. we want a president who stands for all to new zealand to fight a country that is different political party social classes we don't want a president defending a particular class or group after the 2011 revolution the president lost many powers to both the prime minister and parliament but the president retains control of defense and foreign affairs for many years the president is more than just a symbol the recent parliamentary elections have resulted in a divided parliament and the lead party may not be able to form a governing coalition this is where the next president is expected to step in the political impasse al-jazeera tunis china's president xi jinping is

arrived in nepal off for a 2 day state visit to india xi jinping held talks with prime minister narendra modi on a range of subjects including trade but the issue of kashmir and china support of pakistan was apparently off the agenda i would like to state quite categorically 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 position as expressed publicly is very clear this is a matter that concerns the internal affairs of the country. and has more from. the indian prime minister took the chinese president on a guided tour of this istanbul city of my own which is where in fact 1700 years ago india and china had commenced trade it even signed a security pact however this time around if you talk about substandard outcomes or

concrete solutions to some of their festering disputes not much has been achieved however the indian official say that the 2 leaders have managed to establish a personal rapport we should go a long way in the future to help them resolve many of these disputes including the border dispute and trade deficit the indian foreign secretary although did say that the 2 countries have decided to set up a mechanism at a ministerial level so china can address india's concern india has a whopping trade deficit with china of over $51000000000.00 and the indian officials this time around said that they have chinese assurance that something will come out off these talks however the chinese president did not commit to anything as far as the whole visit then is concerned there is also the issue of kashmir recently we've seen exchange of harsh words between the indian and the chinese government just deal so before the chinese president came here he had hosted pakistan's prime minister and wrong on and once again reiterated china's support to pakistan of course all of that comes in the background of india's

decision in august 5 to strip indian administration read off its autonomy to china continues to back pakistan on that issue and it's interesting that while india also has the same dispute with china which controls a part of kashmir that india claims the indian prime minister apparently did not even raise that with the chinese president xi jinping. protesters in hong kong are continuing to wear face masks during rallies despite the government there refusing to back down more action against the government if you brown reports from hong kong . well this march is now breaking up and it comes after more than a week of relative calm here in hong kong relative calm now many of the protesters are wearing face masks in defiance of course of that ban imposed by hong kong police more than a week ago warning that if people did wear face masks they risk arrest and also being heavily fined but that hasn't deterred some of these protesters now this

march didn't pass without incident to m.t.r. train stations were attacked one of them had a pet food bomb thrown it with there were no injuries also an outlet at starbucks was once more attacked it had its window shot at starbucks of course has become a popular target for these protesters a lot of the protesters here have also been talking about the common sort of come from president donald trump who says that he thinks that the protests are now in his words deescalating well a lot of the protesters don't know whether that means that the united states is now showing the same sort of support that it did for the protest movement that's to say support from u.s. politicians as they had say several months ago now the protests to say they are going to gather again on sunday for unspecified action certainly the protests are not on the scale that we were seeing several weeks or even several months ago there is still violence but it's not as intense as it has been in recent weeks. now

hundreds more indigenous protesters in ecuador joined a 10th day of demonstrations against austerity measures they want president lenin moreno to repeal all that ended a 40 year old fuel subsidy riot police fired tear gas to break up rallies while protesters responded and father works at least 5 people have died from young rest. 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 the reporter named joseph was killed while he was covering the surging violence that killed at least 20 people i'm sorry says are demanding the resignation of president johnson and maurice final campaign rallies are being held in mozambique to the run up to tuesday's general election it will be the 6th vote since the end of the civil war $992.00 the ruling free labor

party is challenge by the rival renamo party tensions remain between the 2 parties despite signing a final peace deal in august for presidential candidates will take part in mozambique's election the main hopefuls include president felipe new c.o.'s aiming to secure a 2nd term as mozambique's president he came to power in the 2014 election with a reduced majority for is rooting for the most party or he's up against former fighter su for more mad day who is the front man for the real number party infighting has plagued his party whoever wins the vote will lead mozambique's recovery after 2 cyclons and food shortages this year and respond to a growing rebellion in the gas rich northern province of cabo that gather. malcolm webb joins us now from the protest house campaigning been shaping up malcolm and.

right now we're at the final rally of the ruling for lima party the people here waiting for president felipe when you see to speak he's about to come on stage we're going to take a little walk around so you can see hughes here i'll tell you a bit about what's going on say here in the capital for lima consider least in the past a stronghold of theirs their vote share over successive elections has declined in the last elections which were local elections held a year ago they won or they were announced the winner with a smaller margin than ever before opposition of disputed most of these elections and they say this shrinking margin is part of the reason why in these campaigns we've seen more violence than in past elections notably just last week an observer from a mozambique another civil rights group was shot dead 5 men were shot in with 10 bullets and they were later revealed so will.