they actually thought they were doing in a meeting in question and and now they are genuine surprised yeah it seems that way although it's not all that surprising that the us administration is surprised i should say because there's been a whole host of confusing statements and policies coming out of washington for the duration of the trump presidency i should say but particularly on this issue with syria trump himself has been very confused about what the the u.s. troop withdrawal is going to look like what it's actually going to mean and so if that's the case with their own policies it's hardly surprising that they are no and entirely clear as to what the turkish policy would be now we've had time talking about possible sanctions on a like a now or not well that's the $1000000.00 question i would imagine i think that given the huge amount of pressure trump is facing as a consequence of this decision that we would probably see some sanctions being put on to but then of course that could leave him in a very precarious position if tookie just continues in spite of these these

potential sanctions because it seems that he is wholly committed to making this this strategy happen and it also seems like it's got some powerful backus and making this happen so so i would imagine that there will be some sanctions put in place but but whether they will actually hold to peace operations i'm not at all convinced at and what about the impact on ice 11 have been conflicting reports as to whether prisoners have escaped or not techie denying the scale of it what would you make of that situation. so we know that with groups like isis of thrived in conditions of uncertainty when there's been serious economic issues when there's been serious threats to life such as those conditions that was sitting in northern syria right now and if we look at what happened in iraq when they were formed they emerged and they really gave strength after a large scale prison break so there's a lot of parallels here i think with what happened in iraq when the book at all but

that he was able to forge direction and really establish a drawing of a number of high profile prisoners from come so that's parallel sierra not bodes particularly badly i think for for the fight against diet which would be going so very well but the conditions on the ground and then the release so that the escape of these prisoners if indeed it happened is a really combustible mix i think some in name and thank you very much indeed for taking the time to exercise there thank you meanwhile turkey's president has dismissed claims we were just talking about that actually that eisel detainees have escaped from detention centers in northeast syria it follows reports that an unconfirmed number of people fled from a center in on a set after a shelled by takesh forces and the s.d.f. says another prison camp in commission was shelled by taki on friday added one says his forces will take responsibility for thousands of myself fighters and their families in northern syria the new york times is reporting that russia is

responsible for the bombings of 4 syrian hospitals back in may the newspaper says analysis of russian airforce radio recordings have added to trace each individual bombing to russian pilots and says russia attacked the hospitals to help president bashar assad in his fight against rebel groups moscow has known being accused of carrying out systematic attacks against hospitals in rebel held areas of syria. is there live from london still ahead on this news hour august on's prime minister offers to play mediator in talks between regional rivals iran and saudi arabia. set for another 4 years as a result show poland's conservative ruling party has secured a majority in parliament through elections. and in sports one of the athletics the only standing world records has been broken in chicago.

to choose you know where a conservative law professor and fruit go outside to is poised to become the country's next president. to run as an independent candidate has secured 72.5 percent of the vote is backed by the another party which secured the majority of votes in last week's elections he's promised to change the system and allow elected regional representatives to choose national leaders his rival the media mogul that would occur only secured $27.00 and a half percent based on turnout of 60 percent. roxanne hamann from iran is a lecturer in politics and international studies at the university of cambridge she joins us now thanks for coming in to talk to suit and tell us bit more about this this current you suddenly seems to have swept the board there in the elections in june as you well this election was anticipated generally he would had come in as

one of 2 candidates after the 1st round of the presidential election and he and. the other candidate had had a very unusual public debate in. the arab world this is very rare on friday and it was watched across tunisia often by people sitting out in cafes with screens. publicly available and the candidate who has won really came out very well in that he seemed very statesman like and he came up with strong policies specifically for the economy so i mean how big a change would be for the. views you don't know what the role of the president is there in relation to the government well the presidency doesn't have that much power it really is the prime minister that has the portfolios in order to undertake great change so one of the issues certainly is will he be able to deliver on the

promises he made and on the expectations of the people the other element is that he is an islamicist and the major party it is thought that one of the legislative elections last week is a not which is also an islamist party they supported him and although he does not have a party per se it is clear that if the prime minister is. appointed by and not that all 3 positions will be held by people with very similar views and does i mean presumably he was mocked a bit during the campaign initially of for having a slight rip. textile and it is meant to get through to people was it about the policies that he put to put in place him and which which are they and how can he deliver on those well he was slightly mocked although i must say both candidates had nicknames with the robot attached to the person who's just been elected

partially because he does speak in a rather robotic way he uses standard there. arabic as opposed to the more colloquial arabic that is more typical in tunisia and which now bill cohen times used. and his views on the. the economy address the issues that are most prevalent the problems of poverty which is reached 20 percent in many places in the country and can reach up to 40 percent in certain parts of marginalized urban areas and the problem that tourism has really had in the post terrorist period where people no longer really want to come from europe to. tunisia speeches and that has been a major source of loss in the economy so he has definitely offered to try to affect those but as i say his portfolio in fact doesn't include that it's more

focused on defense and on foreign policy so he will have to work closely with whoever is prime minister in order to make those promises effective and just before that i mean among the challenges of clearly the economy but also corruption is that is that something that you have written is significant although the fact that now bill cairo his major opponent in this was able to run a significant and serious campaign throws a certain amount of doubt on to how well he'll be able to address that because he himself was arrested in august on corruption and money laundering charges and has actually run the majority of his campaign behind bars and was allowed out of prison on. 4 days ago in order to somehow even the playing field at the time of the actual casting of ballots and he represents an elite in many ways he owns investment television a major very popular television station and he represents an elite that's very entrenched and unfortunately has been responsible for

a great deal of the corruption that has simply lifted about 50 percent of the country's economic production right out of the country and. kept it from enabling an economic revival roxanne fallen from and thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you focused on as prime minister says he'll do what he can to facilitate talks between iran and saudi arabia in non-con made the comments following a meeting with iran's president hassan rouhani in tehran on sunday after that he met iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali home in 8 august on hopes to act as a mediator between iran and saudi arabia to defuse rising tensions in the gulf region will travel to riyadh on tuesday and says he's hoping for a breakthrough soon i said because more from tehran pakistan's imran khan has been trying to negotiate some form of mediation since the united nations general

assembly last month in new york where he met president rouhani on the sidelines now this is the 2nd meeting between the 2 discs in the last month and imran khan said today that this initiative is a pakistani initiative and no one has told pakistan to do this he said that he wants to facilitate talks between iran and riyadh iran is a neighbor. is with the wrong go along with barack. so the rubio. has been one of our closest friends saudi arabia's who posts when we haven't needed but when we have the need for. and so the reason for the strip that we do not want a conflict between saudi arabia and iran we recognize that it's a complex issue we recognize that. but we feel. that this can be resolved through dialogue president rouhani was speaking alongside him on khan and he said that iran welcomes talks with regional countries but this is

a country thought that they could so instability in the region without a response they were terribly mistaken. you know we discussed recent developments related to the middle east region particularly to the persian gulf and the sea of oman as we believe they are very critical regions for the gulf and the whole region we're also in for sized on the strengthening of stability and more peace in the region. tensions have been high in the region since the attack on the saudi aramco oil facilities on september 14th something the rebels claimed responsibility for but sag arabia blamed iran something iran rejects but there was also an attack against the rain oil tanker in the red sea now iran hasn't blamed anybody but tensions the region continue to be high now iran can use that to visit saudi arabia on tuesday where is expected to meet the saudi crown prince mohammed bin some of mine and he's hoping that you can start some talks between the 2 regional rivals. to ecuador now a talks between indigenous leaders and the government and yet to get underway it

was hoped the discussions would help resolve the crisis in the country crippled by more than a week of violent protests ecuador's military says its partially lifted a curfew in the capital quito but will continue to restrict some movement a nationwide curfew was put in place on saturday in response to demonstrations in the city protesters angry at a rising fuel prices attacked government buildings and burnt media offices they say they won't back down until president lenin merino resigns is going to have to maneuver up hello who's in quito 1st what do we know about the delay to the talks. lord as far as we concerned there as far as we're concerned as far as we can tell from the conversations that we've had with certain indigenous leaders here in the capital is that these dialogues actually not taking place there was a show of good faith from both sides people saying that they wanted to go to the negotiating table but we heard from one at least one indigenous leaders today

saying that what they're doing what they were doing earlier is simply handing over a set of demands asking the government of president letting what they know to reverse course on on these economic policies that many people here say are damaging to the country policies that reversed policies that would do away with decades worth of fuel subsidies people here are now saying that if the world indigenous leaders rather are saying that if the president does not. does not concede to these to these demands that these demonstrations and clashes like we've been seeing over the course of the past few weeks are only going to continue to learn and many other people in general heeding the cause he's. the curfew has been temporarily lifted for the sake of the talks and what that's done is allowed more demonstrators to take to the streets you can tell it's raining despite the rain and and cold and despite what were supposed to be peace talks taking place today thousands of people once again went out into the streets to

demonstrate we've been seeing clashes we've had to move away from from some of the demonstrations now the rain has actually helped kind of soften the effect of the tear gas that there's been a lot of tear gas used against peaceful protesters there's been a lot of police using flash grenades as well as rubber bullets to disperse the crowd if anything and i know that it seems call where we are right now but it truly looks like a war zone only about an hour ago on the streets of the ecuadorian capital quito people demanding at this point the resignation of the president and i say that people are demanding that they see this generally because this began as an indigenous movement people protesting against these economic policies that they say are bad for the country but over the course of the last few days we've seen people from all sectors of society joining in these demonstrations in support and solidarity in the indigenous movement saying that now what they want apart from a reversal on these bad economic policies which is what they're calling them and

they're now calling for the resignation of the president of ecuador laurent wrapper thank you very much indeed. more still ahead on there including we're in spain where the country is bracing for the supreme court's ruling on catalan separatists role in a band independence referendum. tuesday's election in mozambique is a test of a fragile peace with a governing party weakened by sacred site claims conflict and scandals. and the world beach games are underway in doha and is featuring a number of events you probably wouldn't associate with life on the show skin sport . heather that will help you like the west the windy weather across europe because my goodness was claimed on the way just like these cows streaming into of the last few

hours much of the compass in. bringing with it some rain and it has been fairly windy as well in fact look at this this man doing his best for them bella in a red square in moscow at those jaw clouds bringing yet more rain in the 4 calls on national fact as they go on into monday it will stay 5 into western russia moscow it will be cloudy but it should be a drive day the rain is generally across much of scotland and then we've also a slight reprieve really on eastern areas notes a great deal of warmth of course at this time of year 19 degrees in vienna $22.00 but this is where the weather will be on monday across much of the west and you fairly vigorous storm system working its way across into portugal and spain could see some heavy rain that at times it will continue its journey eastwards on cheese day so they will have the clouds and the rain back in the forecast. the u.k. right the way through the low countries france and down into the central areas as well in fact quite heavy again across the line of the outlaws that fine and dry across the eastern end of the med and then into northern africa will see mostly

clear skies but we could just see one to 2 shells on choose day working across into algiers. on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reservedly historic apology for one of the darkest episodes in british intelligence but there's a growing agreement of that the libyans could be quite useful to the west for 8 years after the death of gadhafi al-jazeera world investigates western collusion with the libyan security services. gadhafi rendition on the west. on al jazeera. the latest news as it breaks into the market started peacefully but major power is taken from his father long before his heart for those with details coverage there they go will be having dealt with that

110 meters which is so deep that only have 50 minutes on the seabed from around the world the remains of jamal may never be found that is your they still exist you know his legacy lives on. the line of the top stories how does their syrian state media has reported the syrian army has been deployed to the north of the country to confront turkish forces agreement with the kurdish led administration in northern syria. so liberation is into news here as exit polls show that chi scienter has won the presidential election by a landslide indicate that the old professor secured 70 percent of the vote beating

media mobile number on a turnout of 60 percent. talks between indigenous leaders and ecuador's government have been stalled it was hoped that discussions would help resolve the crisis but seen the country crippled by more than a week of violent protests. early exit polls in poland indicate that the ruling the law and justice party has expanded its majority is projected to have come out on top with 43.6 percent of the vote or 6 chief rival the centrist pro-war pro e.u. civic coalition has around 27.4 percent as peter under simmons's in the capital warsaw so exit polls at this stage but it's. pretty pretty clear. it certainly is clear enough for the ruling party to declare a victory and saying that all the good things that it's done have come to fruition

and it now has a mandate to go forward into a new. now whether the scale of this victory is what they expected is unclear all the opinion polls have pushed towards it of course these are exit polls there is a at era to be always considered on these things so by no means all things confirmed results coming in showing so far a pattern in that direction but this party the law and justice party is nationalist it's conservative right wing that it is populist and probably the last appoint the house more of a purpose in terms of its popularity than anything else many sweeteners such as child allowances being given to each child $100.00 a month that parents other measures including a promise of increase to the minimum wage in this new term comes about and

furthermore there are other reforms which have made people across the social divides happy with their lot to some degree but to get to the bottom of exactly what's going on i'm with he told you rush who's an expert on polish politics thank you for joining us steve tell me this when the opposition parties talk about division what do they mean is it really big in poland right now because of the rise of this party it is unfortunately and. i would say to you you see football fans coming here from a football match that's been just gone and it's probably you want a moment when polls are united to others and unfortunately. law and justice has moved things so radically to the right that indeed the liberal minded people don't feel at ease anymore in poland however i would say that this divide is nothing new

has just been hidden. so so tell me this why is this being described as the most important election since 1900 i don't think it's the most important election i think that there was this general feeling amongst the liberal elites doubts law and justice won the for the election 4 years ago by mistake and it will be corrected and things will be back to what they used to be before 2015 they won't. they're yelling action of blind justice shows that there's been a dramatic shift in polish politics and we're standing in the center of warsaw and there are a lot of look 3. stories around the problem is a mole most poles can't afford buying good thing in those stores and probably this is as you just rightly said the main reason why alone justice got reelected but they're going to get more serious now they say they've got his mandate what can we

expect there is one as to from this party which is church and state standing together the catholic church and the stake stand together a way that an absolute campaign being run against a minority such as the whole g b t community homosexuality and that is it's seen by many as the main cultural issue right now in poland but he said that. well unfortunately there's been such a campaign both homophobia is on the rise and nationalism and it's on the rise. what i fear most is curbs on press freedom actually i'm a journalist myself and i interviewed an m.p. for the romney ruling party a week ago. and i asked him a question. what is the idea of a journalist soul governing body and the answer i got it was that there has to be a mechanism of getting rid of an ethical journalist now this is not quite what you

call a liberal democracy so i guess that we are moving towards. kind of guardian a kind of system that is a country with an election but is a country in nato and in the european union but not a liberal democracy anymore thank you very much indeed for the site just one footnote to that point about media freedom at the statistics on this one of the. of the reporters without borders reporting that the 18th position was held in press freedom terms for poland when this party came to power in 2015 it now stands at 50 nights tumbling right down a lot of concern about that issue but for now with results still coming in here back to you it is too anderson thank you very much. japan's military is deploying tens of thousands of troops to help with rescue and cleanup efforts after

a powerful typhoon ripped through the country's eastern coast and he's 26 people were killed in the storm and many are still missing or in haste at this report from take a. those living in the path of typhoon were told to expect a short sharp burst of violent weather it soon became clear that the main feature of this storm was a huge amount of rainfall some areas saw around a meter of rain in 24 hours and waterways simply couldn't cope one of the worst hit areas was not good no prefecture west of japan's capital tokyo where a 70 meters stretch of the levee gave way many homes and businesses were flooded and japan's famous bullet trains was surrounded by water and going nowhere fast or slow all of. the major typhoon has caused extensive damage far and wide in eastern japan one point the special warning for heavy rain was issued for as many as 13 prefixes it has also been emergency relief from various dams and flooding of various rivers it turned out to be

a record heavy rain coastal areas were battered by huge waves and winds exceeding 200 kilometers an hour or so i talked to one of the building shook in the elec tricity when call for a moment that was really scary as the typhoon approached a tornado made landfall in chiba prefecture destroying houses many communities he was still recovering from a typhoon that struck last month. for most in the path of the storm it came at night. the streets of tokyo were eerily quiet as businesses closed and people were urged to stay home by day it became easier to assess the damage and carry out search and rescue operations millions were ordered or advised to evacuate but some chose not to leave their homes or couldn't get out in time. the storm was compared in size and strength to a typhoon that struck tokyo in 1958 leaving more than 1200 people dead modern japan has become well drilled in dealing with the threat of natural disasters and it

seems this time it was as well prepared as it could be. was japan's 19th typhoon this year but those who experienced it say this was one of the most intense in decades many are relieved it was relatively brief allowing the recovery to begin quickly wane hey al jazeera tokyo. 6 months after devastating cyclons left more than $1300.00 people dead in mozambique its citizens will try to put the tragedy aside long enough to vote in a general election it's just that won't be easy especially since thousands remain displaced michael web reports in so far province one of the hardest hit areas no. flood water started gushing into to reason make it tires home it was when cyclonic died struck central mozambique in march 1 wall collapsed then another. she ran inclined to this tree to escape the rising torrent. her sister and her 2

small children climbed this one she saw them washed away when it collapsed. was a new yet. i was very sad because my sister was gone that night i stayed in the tree crying the next day people came into kenya to rescue us eventually found their bodies. this tends now to resist homes hundreds of people were killed by 2 cyclamens that struck me as i'm here this year. thousands are still in camps that's where they're meant to vote in tuesday's presidential election. the people here have gathered to register for food handouts the cyclons affected areas where many people have historically voted for the political opposition rights groups say many won't be able to vote because voting cards were washed away by haven't been replaced the political opposition say the ruling for leave my party has used

humanitarian assistance to campaign for votes it was the port city of beirut where the 1st cyclon made landfall the city's mayor. is now running for president leads a growing opposition party m.d.m. who met him campaigning in a remote village 7 months ago was on the water was not happy with the government's response even saying that if you don't vote if you don't spend your last you want to get before so that's what we're doing and that's a very bad but the international can do is watching and they're not doing anything the cyclamens ripped through rose and washed away bridges. many of which have now been repaired. the ruling for limo party says its recovery program has been a success was. it promises to continue if he stays in power and it denies foul play. about that's not true take the humanitarian aid and give

it to the population is that the case that's not true humanitarian aid was distributed in front of the international community election season might bring handouts and promises from politicians but most likely in victims lying to reason lived in grinding poverty before the storms and since an election won't change that malcolm webb al-jazeera mozambique a panel of judges in spain is expected to deliver its verdict on 12 catalan leaders for their role in a band referendum and short lived independence declaration in 2017 the process protest movement as aged supporters to protest if the group is found guilty and sent to prison so we're going to go reports from barcelona. i was in the middle of barcelona's largest train station a call for self-determination by catalan activists more than 2 years since

catalonia is attempt to secede they are no closer to their go but they say they refuse to give up a little bit of movement and that this is a nonviolent action one of many more that are yet to come this is to defeat the system to change it and to become a new country. if the goal is a new nation then the full force of the spanish authorities is making sure it doesn't happen the euphoria of the 2017 self declared independence gave way to serious repercussions tensions between pro and anti secessionist spilled onto the streets it led to 12 catalan politicians and civic leaders facing charges for their roles in a legal referendum on the region status. and the crisis has continued to divide catalonia the spanish government hopes that a ruling will bring an end to this type bill an episode in catalonia for the for

the independent this will likely move from their promise to unleash a campaign of civil disobedience in the wake of an sentencing. catalan separatists have always insisted there were peaceful movement but the have been concerns from the central government to madrid that any jail sentences could ignite further turmoil in the region especially among more radical groups it's not by putting people in jail or pushing them into exile but we will solve things we will make it worse the only way to solve this is to admit that there has to be a democratic outcome the spanish government has said it wants to restart talks to end the stalemate in catalonia until now some pro secession leaders were unwilling to engage unless there was an amnesty for those facing charges and with neither side giving way no one is optimistic that there is a way out of this crisis any time soon sunny guy able al-jazeera barcelona

in the us the family of a black woman killed in her own home by a white police officer has accused the officer of murder 28 year old atty ana jefferson was killed in her house in fort worth in texas on saturday while looking after her nephew. when her. new footage from the officers body camera shows the moment of the shooting but he say officers saw someone near a window and one of them drew his weapon after perceiving a threat a neighborhood called police when they saw her front door was open. issued on their fears one of the country's main exports is threatened by factors including climate change sudan is the world's main producer of gum arabic used in many products.