ecuador's government has reached an agreement with indigenous leaders to end days of violent protests began the government's move to end decades old fuel subsidies when he has the latest. on sunday chaos once again gripped the streets of the ecuadorian capital fighting between protesters and police turned much of downtown into a battlefield with demonstrators continuing to pressure the government to reverse course on austerity measures that many here view as damaging for the poorest sectors of society. more than 2000 people have been wounded since the unrest began with roads blocked volunteer medics have been forced into the front lines of the clashes. this is the worst we've seen we don't know what will happen next please move back move back thank you. this has been the scene over the course of the last few days with clashes taking place between police and demonstrators tear gas and smoke filling the air and what people here tell us is that they've completely lost

confidence in the national government. as the unrest continued to intensify on the streets leaders of indigenous communities from across the country met with the ecuadorian president for talks moderated by representatives from the united nations after hours of dialogue ecuador's president lenin moreno announced the negotiations had finally reached a resolution. an agreement doesn't mean to win it all and agreement means to concede something that's why i say there is not much left to say it's great that the word that has been used more in these talks has been the word of the peace process. indigenous representatives celebrated the announcement but also condemned the violent crackdown by police that has left at least 10 people dead and sent more than 1000 others to jail see if. we insist that the state take responsibility of all those who have been imprisoned or injured. the ministers who are in charge of

public security cannot guarantee safety participated in demonstrations since 1908 and have never seen this level of brutal violence. by nightfall protests turn to celebration the streets filled with cheerful citizens welcoming the news of the cream but with emotions still running high the hope is that this is a peace that will truly last month. quito ecuador still had. governments will tell you why actually some amazing man are angry about a government plan that's supposed to improve the economy. we'll also tell you about efforts to help improve afghanistan's low literacy rates back in a moment. however

seen some rather shabby weather into southeastern parts of china recently they shouted pushing out of the white see the the cloud hear the thunder has that just drifting a little further southwest we've got so the winds pushing in from the northeast direction picking up the moisture across the south china seas lots of heavy rain there across a good part of vietnam though hong kong about 20 celsius in the sunshine over the next couple of days it'll be lousy on and try for western parts of china yet because some showers in the forecast for you said the more that wet weather into a good parts of vietnam family weather to into central and southern parts of india and also concerned about the monsoon rains further more now a 2nd for the south was at long last down towards caroline more showers coming through under the dash pushing up towards addition. seeing some lively showers and some showers there continuing into sri lanka's signs of the northeast monsoon just showing it's had is predicted to begin around about the. more of the same as we go

on through why the stay further north as you can see it's fine and dry some will be coming to karate the temperatures around 36 celsius reach of the mid thirty's across a good part of the arabian peninsula a fine dry and sunny. and act of youthful defiance rude your turn next of the us out on the school will they arrest me at home at 4 in the morning the electric shock treatment is the worse that trinket of a revolution. the arrest of those children sparked it all of which became a battle without and that was the beginning of the armed struggle the serious. the boy who started the syrian war on al jazeera.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera syrian government troops appear to be positioning themselves for a direct confrontation with turkish forces near the key kurdish held city of men because these are pictures of u.s. forces now stationed at a nearby key bridge connecting northeast and northwest syria across the euphrates apparently in an effort to block syrian troops. iran's president hassan rouhani says u.s. sanctions have failed to bring his country's economy down during a press conference at the presidential palace rouhani said iran will continue scaling back its commitments to the 2050 nuclear deal until the e.u. fulfills its promises. in guinea at least one person has died and another has been

hospitalized after shots were fired at protesters demonstrators are rallying against president offical under his plan to change the constitution and run for a 3rd term ahead of the rally 6 opposition figures were arrested. spain's talk or to sentence 9 council on separatist leaders to prison over their role in the region's failed bid for independence people in barcelona have described the ruling is unfair after the supreme court delivered sentences of between 9 and 13 years in prison former catalonian vice president oriel one catalyst received 13 years for the crime of sedition. the common government and i personally reject these very big it's because we consider them unjust and i'm too democratic because they are part of a political trial i'm being of legal action against couple on your right to self-determination i'm against the independence movement now do they more of america or we stand by their families because. more than ever we feel

a sense of preparing our solidarity with those convicted by the supreme court let's get an update from sony joining us from the council on regional capital of barcelona so here what kind of reaction has there been to the sentencing. one of the expected there's an outpouring really of anger at this amongst the catalan nationalist groups that's welcome as well they have in the days leading up sentencing they've said they will call for a campaign of civil disobedience in a peaceful manner as they've always said they insisted upon but that includes things like for example what you're seeing behind me which is essentially roads being caught by people blocking they also have been trying to pave the barcelona airport as well some of them successfully getting through went but they were confronted by riot police that were there as well however they seem to be

proceeding towards the airport many of them from the city center towards the airport on as well some of the public transport railway lines and the locks and reopened in the lead up to. trial up to the trial up to the airport as well but certainly the people that we've spoken to here are 5 adamant that they are waiting at the moment here continue with blocking the arteries in the city center they will eventually later on this evening try to find a way towards the airport to try and follow that as well and with the intent of course of course as much disruption as possible on the city of basra and doing so thank you for that update. now the british monarch says her government's priority is to secure the countries the ports are from the e.u. by october 31st queen elizabeth made the comments while delivering her speech to

open the new session of parliament outlining the government's agenda for the year also spoke of the need for cooperation between the u.k. and countries as they go see asians continue my government intends to work towards a new partnership with the european union based on free trade and friendly cooperation . my ministers will work to implement new regimes of fisheries agriculture and trade she she in the opportunities that arise from relieving the european union and immigration bill ending free movement will lay the foundation for a fair modern and global immigration system. well brazil is dealing with an environmental emergency with crude oil washing up on beaches along its northeast coast it's a growing ecological disaster made worse because the source of the oil remains a mystery gabriel the zonda reports in the northeastern states.

it's easy to find the oil that's washing up on the beaches in the northeast of brazil this environmental disaster is spread over 2000 kilometers contaminating some of brazil's most beautiful beaches. the state of alabama as has been hit especially hard and the cleanup is a huge challenge a fight that hell isn't the only good i mean different the if we are part of multiple agency efforts to monitor the coastline which include the army city and state officials some oil stains appear in the north of the state but it's worse in the south. what's more difficult to determine is where is that will coming from there are many theories could it have come from rogue oil tankers in the atlantic ocean and some suspect or could that will be from a german ship sunk off the coast of brazil during world war 2 as some brazilian researchers have concluded. well nobody knows exactly where this oil is coming from

the brazilian government says it's not coming from here in brazil at their bras the state run oil company has run tests on this oil and they say it's a type of crude oil that is not produced here in brazil they say this oil contains characteristics of oil normally found in neighboring venezuela so the brazilian government thinks this oil is coming from there but venezuela's state run oil company denies it is the source of the oil official with brazil's environmental protection agency tells me this spirit is a catastrophe and there's no quick fix to the pollution so that i do know this is an environment. merge and see our work will go on until this is over but for now we have no deadline to finish our work. on sunday crews tried their best to clean up the beaches but it's a huge area and resources are limited so investigators are now taking to the air to

try to spot the oil slicks on the sand they have found more than $150.00 contaminated beaches so far this is a disaster on a huge scale and it can't be fully controlled until the source of the oil is identified. it rosendo. the state of us in northeast brazil or malaysia could soon have 3 new islands the government wants to build artificial ones in the northern state of and the young it's part of an effort to develop the region and provide more economic opportunities many people are concerned about environmental damage florence the week has more from point. a new shoreline is being built in a few years this area in the northern coast of pinang in malaysia will be filled with homes offices and roads land reclamation the process of creating new land from water logged areas is taking place on

a rapid scale here and land mass is projected to increase by 10 percent within the next decade. the biggest and most controversial is the pinang south reclamation project an area that covers rich fishing grounds. and. when i 1st heard about it i was shocked worried and angry we depend on displaced for life what we call the golden triangle fish prawns and crips. off this coast is where 3 artificial islands covering approximately 800 square kilometers are planned to be built it's part of the penang state government's plan to help fund an ambitious $11000000000.00 transportation network activists worry the damage to the environment would be irreparable for the 1st script of the call flight and that means they're going to destroy all the money

that means it is the top of the structure of the marine ecosystem in land reclamation projects in the northern coast construction companies have built high rises and luxury shopping malls fishing communities that say they've been left worse off by the development. after the dredging started my catch has dwindled i can only bring in 5 kilograms a day you know when i used to haul in 15 to 20 kilograms a day before but local politicians have defended the large reclamation project. in the war on christmas you have to release it before it becomes a. crop in terms of can be a rush you do not want to be. so what shall we do we should be moving the people we the people from urban areas but the fishermen being forced to travel further out to see the increased financial costs outweigh any benefits florence

al-jazeera and malaysia. the nobel prize for economics has been awarded to 3 people noted for their experimenting approach to alleviating global poverty engine born banerjee and his french american wife esther do flow are from the massachusetts institute of technology and american michael kramer is from harvard university to flow has become the 2nd woman to win the prestigious prize in economics. gonna stan school age children are out of school hundreds of institutions have been closed because of the war with the taliban. hampering efforts to improve education . reports from kabul. the cost of illiteracy in kabul is being sidelined by society these afghan men never learned to read or write the consequence of 4 decades of war more than half the population living below the poverty line every

morning before 9 they gather here hoping to get work as laborers on a good day they'll earn $5.00. a life is miserable we're struggling always we don't have a life i mean physically we're alive but we just exist afghanistan has one of the lowest literacy rates and the world only about 31 percent of adults can read and write the un has found there is a big gender and geographical divide nearly half of all men can read and write at least in one in 5 women here in kabul literacy rates are quite good but they drop significantly in southern provinces for example in kandahar and helmand rights for women all as low as $1.00 to $6.00. then there's a new generation y. much now martin not that i like all of my subjects i love all my teachers i really like drawing and i try hard in that i also work really hard in english and math 11

year old ababa care cos i'm self an entrepreneur he sells boiled eggs to the laborers but says he has big plans last night of a bit of i'm confident in myself that i will become someone special in the future there won't be you know joe i want to be an engineer and when i do that i will give work to all of these labor as. so what is a kid doing right. he goes to a public school in a middle class suburb of kabul there are $32.00 students in his class he has everything he needs books stationery and support his father is illiterate the family is learning together. hard to not have fun and i'm proud of abu bakar and i'm hopeful for him sometimes he tells me that he will study very hard and find a good job i didn't ask him to do this but he wants to provide for us. a nice to make should 3700000 afghans nearly half of all school age children and not unrolls

. poverty is rife pushing children into work to feed their families this cultural challenges for girls one in 5 a married before the 15th birthday schools are under-resourced and more than 700 a currently closed due to fighting with the taliban and i still unfortunately the latest program is difficult to implement and enforce of them so that reason is after 2000 on the education system expanded dramatically and loss of ditto hired but building their capacity and providing them online professional development support. while level became news from exile or towards engineer afghanistan and its children still have a long journey to literacy i hate charlotte dallas al-jazeera kabul. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera turkish troops and syrian fighters have begun an advance on the kurdish held city of mendez these are pictures a few u.s.

forces now stationed at a nearby key bridge connecting rods east on northwest syria across the euphrates syria rates a deal with the kurdish side syrians are crowded forces to help fend off ankara's offensive in while the u.s. foreign policy chief frederica marini has condemned turkey's advance and says syria and raise concerns about the rise of isolation influence in the region. their conclusions we call for a ministerial meeting. of the global coalition because we see as one of the most immediate consequences of this military t.v. it is in the northeast of syria the fact that. refined its briefing space inside that territory that worries us and normally this is a direct security threat to the european union not only to the european union 1st and foremost to the region and the international community so we want to see. this tackled in the global coalition formant iran's president hassan rouhani says u.s.

sanctions have failed to bring his country's economy down during a press conference at the presidential palace rouhani said iran will continue scaling back its commitments to the 2050 nuclear deal until the e.u. fulfills its promises he also said they're trying to reduce their reliance on oil revenues russian president vladimir putin is in saudi arabia where he's expected to sign oil agreements and discuss the crisis with iran it's his 1st visit to the gulf kingdom in more than a decade is meeting king sandman and crown prince mohammed bin 7 in riyadh saudi oil facilities came under drone attack last month for which the us blamed russia's ally iran so iran has denied any involvement in guinea at least one person has died and another has been hospitalized after shots were fired at protesters demonstrators are rallying against president african days plan to change the constitution and run for a 3rd term ahead of the rallies 6 opposition figures were arrested those are the

headlines on al-jazeera talk to al-jazeera is coming up next to stay with us. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. the renaissance astronomer nikolaus compared a close one said for it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study comparative this was a man who challenge the theories of the universe known to humanity up until the 16th century his observations led to the discovery that the planets revolve around

the sun not the earth as people thought deed our celestial objects have been observed and studied since the beginning of time the planets and stars have helped us understand the cause of most the way it functions and its impact on our lives then in the 17th century galileo galilei became the 1st astronomer to use a telescope for his observations the rest is cosmic history to date there's one question that most people want answered is there extraterrestrial life. in human and one of many observatories in the atacama desert is the question of extraterrestrial intelligence is ever to be answered it is likely to come from here the is exceptionally blue skies and extremely dry atmosphere make this the ideal location for building the world's largest telescopes in fact we will soon house 70 percent of global astronomical infrastructure even nasa comes right here to test

its robots but what we will all these new facilities help us to discover and how will they change the way that we look at our universe. 2 of chile's top astronomers might yet that is have reese and course him us essential talk to al jazeera. dr murray at that is of research is known for discovering the brown dwarf star system named keller one a sub star located in constellation hydra approximately 61 light years away from earth on our planet she's a pioneer the 1st woman to have received a doctorate from princeton university the 1st woman to receive chile's national prize for exact sciences and to present the director for the center of excellence in astrophysics dr reddy and that is every stinking so much for talking to al-jazeera very soon chile will how's the world's 2 largest telescopes the e.l.t.

and the giant magellan which would provide i understand direct views of planets in other solar systems which would be an astronomical 1st how close will that take us to answering the question that everybody wants the answer to and that is are we alone or or we know there are many planets because we see the effect of the planet on the star they're orbiting but to see a planet is very difficult because the star is so much brighter you know we can agree it's life in this planet but we could see their arguments for years and see if there's hogs region for example oxygen was produced by life in on earth and so we hope to study the atmospheres of these. exoplanets to see if they may lie when you see the universe through

these big ice. you are going to see something nobody else has seen before and although you have to justify all the funds to produce to build this instrument is a $1000000000.00 illusion exactly you say yes to study exoplanets to look at the beginnings of the universe but often the case is that what you see the unknown is the most interesting thing something you cannot predict you know because it's like opening a window to the unknown well there is a theory in fact that life on earth began when meteorites or other bodies crashed on to our planet with very very small creatures or multi-celled beings and that from there animals plants of all then that would me and that they came perhaps from mars we could be actually more that we could be

martians. how how feasible is that life is there potentially and for need in the whole universe and when he arrives in a place where you know it's comfortable and it can be developed it does so it would not be something particular of earth or mars or you know it could be everywhere in the universe and in some places it can prosper in others cannot but although we have noid didn't i would find very extremely strange that we were would be the only ones in the universe. there are so many so many stars so many planets around them. i'm sure you could be. life in many of them what inspired you to choose

a career looking at the at the stars at the sky actually was a lot of us love at 1st sight you know something like that because i'd never thought about becoming an astronomer although i always liked science and was very curious so i look around and discover there was a perhaps some or practice in palo which is the interim american observatory and i went there i didn't know anything id and never looked at the sky i don't know why i went with a colleague a student who he knew everything you know and he was really mad at me because i couldn't recognize you. or any of the big stars important stars in the sky and in the middle of and i say ok go out and try to with a map of the sky and try to find some of the constellations so i went out i didn't look at the map i just put my eyes it was

a dark night we known moon no moon and when you are in a clear place in the mounting you see the horizon below you and i could see the milky way on top of my head. that were like surrounding me at that point i had it's bit of knowledge of about what the milky way was and where we were in the sun . or was in the sun and i realized i didn't even know anything about this you know and i realized i was part of the of this galaxy of this universe and i wanted to know more and i said ok. if my talents are enough i will put all my energy which i think is more important than talent. to try to be governess well you are certainly an inspiration to women here in this country and i think to astronomers of future astronomers the world over but how difficult was it. when you

started out to be taken seriously in the field that is still dominated by men. i think. the most difficult part maybe was in the us when i tried to be included in the groups to to to to do homework or to work on a project together at princeton and i realized that i was the 1st woman to be accepted as a graduate student. so i was a really strange beast you know women. like being you know. pero the poor guys were afraid of me i could see that they would get to go. work on homework or projects and i was never included at the beginning i thought because i was not as good as they were they were came from big universities.

or because most english was really bad. but then the 2nd year my english words had improved and i was doing well in a couple of courses i. was probably doing better than the rest of at least as well as they they were doing and they gave us very hard. homework to do but i was so used to working by myself though you know in our down this homework by myself i want to really office of one of the guys there i realized they were trying to solve the problem and the blackboard i realized they were not. starting with i mean this is a problem is that when you don't start well as you can never get to the right answers so i came in and say are these you buy what do i need to sell i start to say oh no you know you you have to change variables and will be and then i look

back and they had left you know and i was there alone and people say oh you were sad not i wasn't sad i was really happy because then i realized it was not my problem it's not because i didn't speak english or we goes i was bad in you know in science it was their problem they didn't know how to work with it where it was ok to go for pizza for beer or for playing sports but not for working together and they don't have as many time women we believe we are if you look guilty of what is happening or maybe when you we are discriminated we think maybe there is some good reason for that you know in. the background you you thing maybe maybe they're right maybe i'm not good enough or maybe i done something girl so. it was me a lesson you know that went through but i think that way you know when i see women

now. marching on the street reclaim claiming their rights i am very happy because i think you know i could not have done it. it is time for for them it's only a while ago that you were interested in writing a book about the sun that the sun has been kind of left aside because it's so close to the planet earth and and you talked about the carrington a vent which i found fascinating and you say that the sun has an agenda so we really cannot ignore it anymore tell me a little bit more about that and what and exactly what are the dangers of all this there was this reduce astronomer who was observing the sun every day and he projected the sun in a scream. and make pictures of drawings of the sunspots this black spots that in the surface of the sun where the magnetic field comes out and there were big ones and then he saw

a flash of light where these dark spots just wrote about them made a picture and here had the day after that. the communications in in the whole world where perturbed that there are graphic stations were on fire and they didn't know what words were ignored there are reports that people in have on our scene the northern bytes there are us the whole sky was bright with light due to the charged particles i have seen this current on astronomer in britain here had. travelled the way 2 years and produce this effect and what would happen if that happened today what really happened on the never of course on computers and if if an event injection like the carrington event happen today. g.p.s. will die and all the g.p.s.

the. all the planes that now are traveling flying su these automatic pilots and they will be completely blind trained you know transport all of the cope with the communication system all the the electricity they already fried aside from all the damage that can produce something like dandenault that we are left without any of the technology we know now we use now so we say we depend a lot off what the sun and us more much more than the people think eventually it will kill us but. in short time maybe today or tomorrow we can really make a lot of damage the only we have like earth way we can do cannot do anything but accept. to know more to learn more to to to understand how these have been how these have been tried to prepare

a strategy so that we can. dispute a scientific and technological breakthroughs is making ideas that were once limited to science fiction now seem if not within reach at least plausible one of these is the possibility of landing an even colonizing planet mars chilean astrophysicist. is one of the boldest exponents of this and many other extraordinary theories where to begin i think i'm going to start with mars in your book mars the next frontier you argue that we have to turn into a multi planetary society as soon as possible in order to guarantee the survival of our species what is the hurry don't we have another 1000000000 years left before the sun destroys planet earth we're going to hear in my book is that the mix john lynch the next intellect to challenge is to mars not to save your

species but why do you want to send them to mars just for curiosity or simple because it is possible when we went to the moon all technology good an improvement enormous our life you were mine and everybody's life changed forever because of the dream to go to the mall the only way to survive in mars is to have another the mortgage. if we develop the could more you jeanne. that for a few of us to live in mars that technology is too soon to change our life on earth forever what about oxygen what about water the atmosphere is completely different from ours is a big challenge but if we are able to develop the utmost fear in mars we will be able to clean our atmosphere but if we develop

a bit much in still like the. vibe of mars those machines apply must simply on earth we could be taken out of the atmosphere as much carbon dioxide we are putting in with. with the airplanes that your pockets. even with a rocket and then the technology to me the human being. if we are not. willing to accept challenges and to move a little bit out of our comfort zone we could be a steal in the cave who would could be if you live in a cave but human beings who got out of the cave and started cities and started all the civilization because every time we stayed in the new challenge and the next challenge and the challenge today is to to mars there seems to be

a growing tendency that there is a growing tendency in the world as you know to negate science that includes heads of state who say that there is no such thing as climate change a whole series of this tendency now to say that what the scientists are saying is not true if this is the case we may never make it to another planet because of this planet may perhaps according to many not survive long enough i think that people today. are leaving so fast that they don't have time to think because if you are you see in a cell phone you cannot negate science because they sent from contains millions of hours of work of south sun of people that have been working for you to have some form in your hand and when you

dial or when do is send the message or when do you see internet intercept phone there are so son of people in this network all that is finally tune in to the max with. all the laws of the electricity go live or was experimenting how was how strong fall to the earth kepler was a study in how the planets evolve around the sun and newton was thinking how could be reconciled the motions of the moon around the earth with the following objects. he developed the laws of of mechanics and that everywhere you have science into your life you have said and that was this is one of the i found this very interesting that the morning is getting further and further away from us and i

wonder what impact will that have on us with with a trip to the moon or ball or you live they live near an artefact that allows you to measure with elise being the distance to the mall with a precision metal god one centimeter and the moon is receding toward want to have centimeters be year. since the time when. axed from aldrin is. their foot on the moon the moon now is at least made to find their way and the moon will keep receding from tears and in there in the. 100 or 200000000 years since the moon if you do this is thinking is

getting a smaller and smaller at the moment the morn is going to be smaller than the sun forever and then the eclipses will not be here forever sont sun eclipses not be able to be produced because the moon will be a smaller than the sun when the moon and the years are facing each other the rotation of the moon is of the order of a month around the earth and then the rotation of the earth is going to be a month and then we will see the sun rising and it will take 7 or 8 days to get to the 1000000 the day. when the sun is up is going to be 15 days and then for 15 days you with night and then claim are on earth is what we are very different well that of course.

would seem to emphasize the need to have what you say a multi planetary system sooner rather than later but i can in this without asking you the question that everyone has asked him or herself at some point and that is do you know as a scientist believe that there is intelligent life outside of the planet earth he. we live in a reality the milky way that contains 200000000000 stars if life. was developed on earth and if that process is very unlikely maybe one in every 1000000 times you will produce life and all the stars in the milky way all the stars have planets and then broadly there there were or there are. 200000000000 possibilities of

developing life in a planet or is this the only planet that contains life in the whole without legs if soul if you have just one planet with life and i'm not talking about human beings on earth there are 8000000 forms of life on earth most of them are bacteria but effectively is a form of life if we are the only planet in this galaxy with a space telescope we can see 100000000000 galaxies maybe there is one planet with life but a galaxy. my suspicion is that they released their 100000000000 places in the universe with life but from one galaxy to the next big

gerlach say like and like them drawn with our aleksey the distance is more than 2000000 lady years. if you say l o r jews there in 2000000 years your message will reach andromeda and if they said yeah we're here we're what do you want another 2000000 he has talked to for the message to return and that even communicating by radio or by phone or by website with this is a decision in and drama it's almost impossible now now but but if einstein for they want this for the last 100 years people have tried to prove he's wrong and so far more when have succeeded. einstein said that nothing can travel faster than light today if we want to visit

the closest neighbor and fasten story is 4 lie deers away with a thing all of you that we have now. it will take us 40 southland years to was there another 40000 years to come back you can say i'll give you the numbers you can be improved by a factor of 10 ok then in that it's going to take only 4 south and years toward 12 percent even at a very very close. very close to the speed of light it will take at least 10 or 20 years to go and 10 or 20 years to come back and that is the closest star and even discovering planets that could be. in the future well how are you going to move 20000000000 people to a planet that is. if 15 ideas away is

a dream yeah the human beings we are confined to the solar system forever i don't believe that we've ever gone on the ice there in the same way the day i'm absolutely believe or that we have to go to mars. i don't believe that we could ever go to to visit. or little nice it planet of another star i bet in a 100 years 'd of the many people that don't agree with you. if they prove me wrong i'd be happy to be proven wrong professor course i must that thank you so much it's been a privilege not sufficient for me to talk to you. the

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strategic city all non bij to take from that city a force it's also the latest moves in the impeachment investigation against donald trump the u.s. president's former top adviser on russia and europe is testifying on capitol hill. and we'll be in brazil as the government tries to clean up an oil spill that's polluted a vast area but small in coats and in support of european football's governing body is investigating whether turkey broke rules banning political gestures on friday turkish players celebrating a goal against albania with a military salute. standing in northeastern syria where it's been a day of fast moving developments as turkey's offensive into kurdish held territory escalates syrian government forces also appear to be positioning themselves for a direct confrontation with turkish troops with reports they are due to advance

towards the city of man bitch so let's go through developments 1st president reject typer one of turkey has indicated quite clearly that the offensive will intensify in the coming days. about may be as we decided we are going to act on it as you know our discussions with america about we were saying within 90 days the terrorist organizations beginning to exit there but this didn't happen we're not going to enter man beach the real owners of that area iraq arabic brothers and they're going to enter that area our approach to this is that they're going to enter there and we're going to make it secure for them the u.s. defense secretary said they would withdraw american soldiers from syria i think this is a positive approach so that follows a deal between syria's government and the kurdish led syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. it will see those syrian soldiers deployed close to the border with turkey in fact government forces have been quick to the cause the army is now basing itself in

several locations in the north meanwhile on the political side of things the e.u. foreign ministers meeting in luxembourg of condemned turkey's offensive foreign policy chief federica marini has warned about isolates resurgence in the region. their conclusions we call for a ministerial meeting. of the global coalition because we see as one of the most immediate consequences of this military activities in the north east of syria the fact that. refined its briefing space inside that territory that worries us and normally this is so that it security threat to the european union not only to the european union 1st and foremost to the region and the international community so we want to see. this tackled in the global coalition format well turkey says it is establishing a safe zone along its southern border the 1st phase it will stretch 120 kilometers wide and more than 30 kilometers deep turkey's army along with turkish backed

syrian fighters into northern syria on wednesday and they are now advanced and south they control this area in yellow that includes the border towns of. ain turkish led forces of also cut off the m 4 highway a vital supply line that runs east to west through s.d.f. territory right from the iraqi border to the stronghold of man beach we keep hearing about that. we see that on the map now by the euphrates river is now under attack by turkish forces after the s.d.f. made a deal with syrian government forces to enter the syrian army has already taken control of public from kodesh fighters and moved into which is also on the m 4 highway and also it's troops have also entered and raise the syrian government flag in the province and the border town of the missionary so let's try to bring all this together now what they know what our correspondent in a chuckle is on that turkish border with syria the presence of syrian troops now

and the turks or president one self saying the escalation is coming feel that we're really building to something. well a new front has been opened an hour ago the opposition syrian national army announced the start of the operation to capture the northern city of mumbai that's in the northern aleppo countryside they have started to advance towards the city under the cover of turkish airstrikes so the turkish military is supporting this offensive they've taken some ground they still have not faced resistance but they haven't reached the perimeters of the city yet now this city is under the control of the kurdish led syrian democratic forces but we understand there is a few 100 as the fighters inside the city what we also understand is that the u.s. military is still there it's still in and around member just in the past few minutes there are reports that a u.s. official is saying that the orders have been given for u.s. troops to leave the country we know that it was announced yesterday that they will be leaving and it's going to take days

a few days for them to pull out but now this report that they must leave immediately so what will happen will the u.s. troops who are remaining in members leave will they take the u.s. they have fighters with them since they are isolated that means you're going to have the turkish army and their local allies advancing to the city the syrian government forces are amassed on another side of the city what is going to happen these 2 armies are claiming control over a member but i have to mention that president of the gun says once it is captured we will hand over members to our local syrian allies in his words our arab brothers who are the rightful owners of this of the city took me through saner if you would a little more on this deal between syrian government and the syrian democratic forces the s.t.'s how that changes the game. well it seems that they didn't agree on all details they didn't agree on political issues this is just a preliminary military agreement this is how it is being described the kurdish led

syrian democratic forces they found themselves in a corner yesterday abandoned by the u.s. military and under attack from the turkish military and their local allies this turkish military operation is about eliminating the s the earth which of course the syrian armed groups the kurdish armed group the y.p. chief forms the backbone of this group and turkey considers it a terrorist organization so it's under attack abandoned by its allies it had no choice russia brokered the russia of course being the main power broker in syria today for the 1st time the syrian army is back in the north east of syria since 2013 and they were invited back but what is interesting is the places where they have deployed tell tom they're i need they lie on the m 4 highway we keep talking about that for highway but this is a crucial supply line for all the different armies on the ground so what does that mean does it mean that there is some sort of an agreement because that m 4 highway should be the perimeter of the turkish plan to create the so-called safe zone so

the situation is very fluid it is clear that there must be back toward negotiations between all these different parties because at the end of the day russia like i mentioned the main power broker it has is the ally have to mask this but at the same time it needs ankara if it wants to pursue a political settlement in syria ok. chuck i thank you for all of that then they talked about the u.s. forces will some are now stationed at a bridge that connects north east and northwest syria across the euphrates river look at another map again the bridge part of the main m 4 highway which links to and. at least 4 armed vehicles were spotted there and it's believed the trying to prevent syrian government forces from crossing. off we go to washington now mike hanna is there for might the united states clearly there is a a presence there but there's still so much talk about the abandonment of the kurds there how's it all being brought together by the white house at the moment well

indeed yes there's been intense criticism of president trump even from his own loyal supporters for his decision to pull all u.s. forces out of northern syria the situation now is that president trump is threatening to impose sanctions the congress is insisting that it may well back him in terms of introducing sanctions in days to come but president trump also been tweeting in the course of the day on the assertion that the kurds may be releasing eisel prisoners in an attempt to get u.s. forces to reengage in that particular region this is what his tweet says could maybe releasing some to get us involved easily recaptured by turkey or european nations from where many came but they should move quickly big sanctions on turkey coming do people really think we should go to war with nato member turkey never ending wars will end that last sentence acknowledge a clear indication the president trumps motives in terms of pulling troops out

regardless of the consequences and that is perhaps a campaign promise he made to remove u.s. forces from all the conflict in which they've been engaged certainly though this did not go down well with members of his and congress who criticized him for abandoning the kurds who have fought alongside u.s. troops for so long thank you mike hanna for that update from washington now iran's president hassan rouhani says u.s. sanctions are failed to bring his country's economy down you know the news conference earlier today and said iran will continue scaling back its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal until the e.u. fulfills its promises he also said the government's trying to reduce its reliance on oil revenues. begged his interim. well the president has been rouhani discussing domestic issues very much for the audience here in iran he very much staked his reputation on the nuclear deal the 2015 nuclear deal which the united states

unilaterally pulled out of last year and people they have has been a sense of apathy and anger because he staked his reputation on this deal deal essentially fell through with the united states pulling out and starting their maximum pressure campaign and the economy has suffered now what he's saying now is that the economy is stabilizing that the currency is stabilizing and employment levels are getting better so what he's saying is that america hasn't been successful and this is he's essentially talking to the iranian people the voters because there are elections expected next year but also the criticism that he has faced at home from hardliners that from the very beginning want him and warned the people around him that they shouldn't be negotiating with the united states that the united states couldn't be trusted and they've been proven to be correct but also criticisms towards him because they the hardliners in this country are saying that you went into this deal you negotiated with the united states and look what it's got us that's

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