protesters intentions to signal the start of a campaign of civil disobedience that cause an amnesty for the 9 catalan politicians and activists convicted on monday for their roles in a failed attempt to secede from spain 2 years ago they were found guilty of sedition but were acquitted on the more serious charge of rebellion the defendants were sentenced to between 9 and 13 years in prison and the reaction from the catalan regional government was unequivocal they got along and i personally reject these very big it's because we consider them unjust and antidemocratic because they are part of a political trial and were drained of legal action against got along as right to self-determination and against the independence movement with a general election in his sights next month the spanish prime minister urged dialogue took a firm line on the supreme court's verdict or you. can blow today

exemplary judicial process has concluded but at the same time confirms the sinking of a political project has failed in its attempt to obtain internal support and international recognition leaving behind pain and confrontation on the front of coexistence in catalonia about the within hours of the sentencing protesters came out onto the streets and gathered here at the main square in the city center they say they are part of what is being called the democratic tsunami warning but if they waited on the bus i think what is happening is shameful but i think the conviction is really unfair and i don't understand how this can happen in the 21st century and you were here once you know. i'm here because i think the trial has been a complete fraud has been a trial that human rights international organizations of was having a lot of regularities i think we have to denounce it and this may compare to.

but not everyone sees it like this the castle a nationalist movement has itself become more divided between groups that support more direct forms of action and those who oppose it politics here is more fractured and there is no majority backing for secession solving the cattle and crisis is as allusive as ever and in spite of the sentencing a long way from being resolved something i have all al-jazeera barcelona. are still ahead on al-jazeera all eyes on south africa's former president jacob zuma as he heads to the court to court for a corruption trial and in u.s. democratic presidential hopefuls battling it out in the key state of ohio.

how he's still got plenty of sunshine into many parts of eastern europe and city down into the south but i was towards the west it is absolute chipping down big massive cloud of rain rolling in from the atlantic a number of areas of low pressure bringing some wet sand with the weather it at times and that cloud on the right will make its way right across the british isles the low countries a good part of france things and heavy right but downpours there too into switzerland more parts of italy some snow over the high ground choose they looked like a dry a day across spain and portugal we have got some wet weather pushing into the western side of the may further east still looking good plenty of warmth around plenty of sunshine as well and it stays that way as we go through where to cyprus for the northeast still very breezy a lot of cloud and rain pushing up towards the baltic states through scandinavia wednesday another poor day wall cloud of rain rolling into those western parts northwestern there was a front seeing some very heavy right along with whiles and eventually pushing across into england. well the pulse of africa generally not bad but we have got

a chance of wanted to shout into the far north of algeria northern parts of tunisia with more clout to just flooding into morocco over the next. little clouds into northern parts of libya and there's always a chance of one of 2 spots of rain coming in here. to deal with poverty unless you deal with the guy you disagree i just agree with that toy it sounds like blaming the public the country for the our knowledge or seeming anybody these people ah well trained much a part of the islamic state machinery and been very. popular little jersey to join me i'm in the hot sun as i put the questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate. al-jazeera.

welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera this hour the u.s. has imposed sanctions on turkey warning it stands ready to destroy the turkish economy if turkey continues its military campaign in ne in syria on the battlefield a small unit of syrian government forces have entered the city of the invitation of kurdish forces raising fears of a direct confrontation with turkey voting is underway mozambique's general election the ruling fairly more bodies extend expected to extend its decades long war and that's a spy the popularity of its leader philippe new see declining because of corruption scandal over government borrowing and in spain. in dozens of cops around

independence protesters were injured on monday night in violent clashes with police protesters protests erupted in box alone after 9 months separatist leaders way imprisoned for their role in the region's failed bid for independence. more now on our top story and syrian kurds fleeing the fighting us starting to arrive in northern iraq the authorities say say they could be the 1st of tens of thousands of refugees plans are being made to accommodate the new arrivals but the priority for the kurdistan regional government is to stop eisel fighters and their supporters mixing with genuine refugees but its mate has this exclusive report from northern iraq with a local just a few blocks of essential all this family could carry as they ran from the fighting in northeastern syria there amongst the 1st to make it across the border into the kurdish governed north of iraq. there was shelling and fighting this mom says my family hasn't slept for days we've left everything behind. him most 200

syrians will bust into a refugee camp in a monday afternoon. the biggest concern for the kurdish authorities is who exactly is crossing the border eisel fighters or supporters mingled with the innocent officials cross reference names to make sure those who got on the bus at the border stayed on for the 90 minute journey here a local intelligence officer takes a photo of the tally i think it's going to be interesting to see who is coming in the next days and what the authorities will do to filter this population coming in certainly there's going to be checks done to make sure they arrive generally and people are taking care of. everyone we spoke to share their shock at the overnight switch from living peacefully to being. let's have a look at our stuff america has let us down i didn't imagine that they will destroy

the people in our future i used to like america but now i hate it i'm here you plump. these syrians will join the already more than $1000000.00 internally displaced persons and refugees being hosted in the kurdistan region of iraq and depending on how long turkey's military campaign goes on for the kurdistan regional government the k r g estimates that anything between 30000 up to as many as a quarter of a 1000000 syrians will flee the fighting here into the k r g. this syrian refugee camp has been here more than 7 years the tents along gone children are growing up here people are putting down roots and now this small town is about to get bigger. burnet smith al jazeera dome is refugee camp in northern iraq. the death toll in japan from typhoon has risen to

67 as rescuers continue the search for those still missing areas of the country remain flooded with mud and debris covering the streets the typhoon hit japan on saturday dumping historic rainfall and unleashing strong winds thousands of people are still sheltering in evacuation centers with homes left without water and electricity across the country as be talking respondent in tokyo fatty salami friday as fear the death toll has gone up bring us up to speed with the latest 1st . yes or until now we have to pull out we ate. now there are about 50 people who are still missing many people expect does this but i still don't get it going right again because i know more and more tonight we're getting the picture of. this station that reached many of the small communicate small villages where many and the are living. things

done those numbers on this and then the people who couldn't evacuate or didn't find the shooter and the right sign is what the it's causing the increase that huge increase actually. and that all the people who've escaped what is happening to them and what sort of assistance have they been getting. well we have the numbers are showing us around the 1000 homes are actually or totally destroyed because of the flooding. we have to understand that the main effect of this site for which you are is well which is one of the strongest getting the last 50 years wasn't it wasn't that usually in the past when but rather the rainfall it's around 1000000000 meters in some variance where this amount can relate so about 3 months of that in full in the stadium so many areas were not

expecting this that usually falls and this is what caused us. business disaster that we're seeing now so many of the people who. let their houses they went to with a thank you a short sentence and now we're getting different numbers about this about that how many people they evacuated some people with them by around 30000 dollars if they are about $5000.00 the difference is because that some of the people are going in and out of they but if i can incentives to go to be in their houses and then come back of course i know all of the country is like what's in the mood for this that's not so it's not sort of japan is preparing for celebrations for the next moment of the member of exactly a week from now and some people are saying that this results that may affect the size of that ceremonies and maybe constant battle that i'm on is that going to witness within a week thank you for that. same tell kim. the former president

jacob zuma is due to appear in court to face corruption charges related to an with a french company al-jazeera salman the miller has more from pietermaritzburg on a scandal that goes back more than a decade. it's been almost 15 years since former president jacob zuma 1st faced corruption charges relate to $180000000.00 contract with french arms company time is to provide enable equipment to the south african government tallies allegedly agreed to pay a bribe to zuma who was then the leader of the cuisine at all province for his influence the deal was reportedly brokered by his former financial adviser should be a shake only shake was jailed for corruption although zuma later faced charges they were dropped in 2009 but last year charges of corruption racketeering and money laundering were reinstated zuma has always said he wants his day in court but he's also done everything he can to avoid it he says there is

a political conspiracy against him last week he lost a court heard to have the charges thrown out here now appear at this court for the start of a trial that could last months. seumas legal fees have cost sub african taxpayers more than a $1000000.00 because the charges stem from his time in office he's now fighting a core group inc that demanded he pay back that money saying he can't afford to cover his costs while many south africans of calling for corrupt leaders to be held to account the mustin enjoy support among others if found guilty he could face at least 25 years in prison zuma says he's done nothing wrong when i'm interested in a case i'm not as a muslim brought much as a real travesty and i just want to know what's going to happen at the trial. to my lord hasn't done all the things that are 7 years everyone deserves a chance to explain themselves. ever since. the trial started it's all

now beginning to see that it's not only him is at fault but the majority of the people that are in power zuma is also expected to return to a commission of inquiry investigating state corruption during his presidency this case is you have to understand that it's just a smokescreen is to pacify us to say something is happening around corruption but the fact of the matter is nothing is happening because as i've said jacob zuma is the people jacob zuma is the godfather and no one can shake that pilaf within the a.n.c. well zuma has been out of office for 20 months at the time of his departure there were several allegations of corruption and many south africans hope this trial may be a chance to finally get some answers from al-jazeera pietermaritzburg south africa . in the us

a white officer who shot an unarmed black woman in her own home has been charged with murder police have named arran dean and say he acted without justification. but here the. 2 28 year old jefferson was killed in fort worth texas on saturday while looking after her nephew a neighbor had called the police because her front door was open. in the u.s. presidential campaign democrats and republicans will battle for support in the midwest which is key to winning the white house in 2020 in 30 of the past 32 elections the candidate who won ohio won the presidency and that includes donald trump this is why the state was chosen for the democrats 4th candidates debate john hendren explains from ohio what's at stake. for democrats it's a showdown in the american heartland the 4th presidential debate analysts say more

contests between the democratic party's extremes i believe it will be a face off as we are looking at public opinion polls where say they're essentially tied and it's looking more and more like a race between biden and more. on one end of the party spectrum the establishment candidate former vice president joe biden on the other the progressive massachusetts senator and the new front runner elizabeth warren. who do you like i like biden and one because i think he'll settle things down and get things on an even keel here work with the other side get things done and i think elizabeth warren can beat him i do i think because she always is on point she has plans she has you know policy she does exist get up there and get into like argument with them but with a dozen candidates spanning the same stage it's also the largest debate yet one that offers the prospect of a breakout moment for any of them are you forgetting what you said to magically and

for. already what you said just 2 minutes ago it will be the site of many firsts the 1st debate since impeachment proceedings for president trump and every candidate on the day is wants him impeached but there are many many of us up stairs right now making signs to support donald trump tomorrow for bernie sanders the 1st debate since he was sidelined by a heart attack for joe biden the man with the most to lose the 1st debate since president trump asked ukraine to investigate him for elizabeth warren the 1st debate since surging polls have made her the front runner in this race. the democratic party picked ohio for good reason it's known as the bellwether state in 30 of the 32 past elections the candidate who won here won the presidency the latest was donald trump this time the democrats want to deny him this trendsetting state for 2nd tier candidates this is a chance to rise to the top tier in post-debate polls it's going to narrow it's

already been growing. so we'll see how many call it quits qualifying for the next round will be harder so for the other candidates failing to gain traction here could make ohio the end of the campaign trail john hendren 00 westerville ohio. judges for this year's booker prize have ignored their own rules and named 2 women is british author ben again every still and canadian writer and moderate woods will share the award and the $63000.00 prize at world one for the testaments every still for girl woman other every so the 1st black woman to win the booker while i would become a 2nd woman to wind gusts. well again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has imposed sanctions on turkey saying washington stands

ready to destroy the take us economy if turkey continues its military campaign in northeastern syria the sanctions target several tech issue officials trump wants an immediate cease fire and has sent his vice president mike pence to on correct to begin negotiations. let me say the president could not have been more firm with president heard want to. the united states of america is simply not going to tolerate. turkey's invasion of syria any further and we're calling on syria to stand down to end the violence and come to the negotiating table and that's the reason the president sending me to the region to make his intentions very clear and we're going to be looking we're going to be looking for turkey to take strong action in that regard on the battlefield syrian government forces have taken advantage of the abrupt u.s. retreat from northeast in syria

a small unit of soldiers entered the city of mumbai age as well as other towns at the invitation of kurdish forces raising fears of a direct confrontation with turkey voting is underway in mozambique's general election that could see the fair labor party extended stay long roll the election is taking place 2 months after the signing of a peace deal with longtime rival the renamo party the 2 sides fought for 16 years in a cough aches that killed around a 1000000 people. in spain dozens of catalan independence protesters were injured on monday night in violent clashes with police protests erupted in boss alone over the sentencing of 9 catalan separatist leaders who've been sent to prison for their will in the region's failed bid for independence the death toll in japan from typhoon high get this has risen to 68 as rescuers continue their search for those still missing areas of the country remain flooded with mud and debris covering the streets the typhoon hit japan on saturday thousands of people are still shuttering

in evacuation centers with homes left without water and electricity across the country coming up next it's talk to al-jazeera stay with us. believe the 2 state solution the do you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen to what i just said it was the pakistan would never start a war i'm anti-war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories the home to their own. form. the renaissance astronomer nikolaus compare nicholas once said for it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study the parent of course was a man who challenge the theories that 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 that. 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. i'm to see a human in one of these many observatories in a comma desert if the question of extraterrestrial intelligence is ever to be answered it is likely to come from here exceptionally blue skies and extremely dry atmosphere make this the ideal location for building the world's largest telescopes in fact 2 will soon house 70 percent of global astronomical infrastructure even

nasa comes right here to test its robots but what 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 mariette that is of research and close in mass 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 aren't we 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 there 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 of the sky actually was a lot of us all 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 summer practice in palo which is the interim merican 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 and you look at the map i just put my eyes it was

a dark night we known moon no moon and when you are in of 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 a 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 while you are certainly an inspiration to women here in this country and i think to a stronger as a 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 u.s. 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. lugging 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 that i you know are 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 have to change the 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 at 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're seeing 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 to tell me 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 rich 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 screen. 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 and made a picture and here had the day after that. the communications in in the whole world where the graphic stations were on fire and they didn't know what words were in or there are of course that people in have on our scene the northern bytes they were or us the whole sky was bright with light due to the charged particle had seen this current on astronomer in britain it had. travelled the way 2 years and produce this effect and what would happen if that happened today what really went on are never of course on computers and if if an event injection like the carrington event happen today. g.p.s. will die all the g.p.s.

to 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 all be 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 i 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 and 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 got 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 technology. that for a few of us to live in mars that technology is to want 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 fieri 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 automobiles 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 are good out of the cave under 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 the cell phone 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 some of people in this network all down 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 revolve 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 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 all doing 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. in there in the in 100 or 200000000 years since the mall 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 sunt 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 what we 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 systems that you know later but i can't 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 aleksey 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 if it 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 do like them drawn with our aleksey the distance is more than 2000000 lady years. if you say hello and you 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 they'd even communicate in by radio or by phone or by website with this decision in and drama it's almost impossible now now but but if kind stein for they want this for the last 100 years people have tried to prove he's wrong and so far no when have succeeded. einstein said that nothing can travel faster than light today if we want to visit

the closest neighbor and fasten tory is for lady years away with the thing all of you that we have now. it will take us 40 years to was there another 40000 years to come back you can say i'll give 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 discovery in 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 it believe or that we have to go to mars. i don't believe that we could ever go to to visit. or is it planet of another star i bet in a 100 years 'd of the people that don't agree with you. if they prove their role i'd be happy to be proven wrong professor course i must thank you so much it's been a privilege it was a pleasure for me to talk to you. 3 years 3 prime ministers and still no correct sit down with the oct 31st departure deadline looming industry is you and you pay for better square off in brussels what will boris johnson do next followed the e.u.

summit on al-jazeera. i do not want to put out more than one team is very much a culture has been very harmful to the economy and the minds of many people challenging traditional attitudes how narrowing the gender gap is helping women in whom the camargue was keep poverty the focus of the trying to break these various of machismo by giving women access to resources need the women leading the way. women make change on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you are. on march 13th 2019 the f.a.a. grounded the u.s.

737 max fleet based upon crash site findings and satellite data hundreds of lives lost and boeing's boss descending aircraft immobilized did profit outweigh procedure did regulators allow industry too much control the system failed it failed our passengers. it failed the global fault lines investigates system failure crashes on al-jazeera. the united states of america wants turkey to stop the invasion the us demands any media told is offensive in northern syria and announces sanctions against top to official us syrian government troops meanwhile deployed to the outskirts of the

carrot is control city of the grazing fears of a direct confrontation with turkish forces. come fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha also ahead the voting is underway in mozambique's the general election its 1st stop for a peace deal between the government and the opposition. plus thousands protesting in spain after catalan separatist leaders are given long jail sentences for holding an illegal independence referendum. thank you for joining us u.s. president donald trump has imposed sanctions on turkey saying washington stands ready to destroy the turkish economy if it continues its military campaign in

northeast in syria the sanctions saw good several turkish officials has also signaled his intention to increase tabs on turkish steel imports and his council talks on a $100000000000.00 trade deal donald trump wants any media ceasefire and he is asked and task states vice president mike pence to lead a delegation to ankara to begin negotiations. let me say the president could not have been more firm with president he would want to that. the united states of america is simply not going to tolerate. turkey's invasion of syria any further and we're calling on syria to stand down to end the violence and come to the negotiating table and that's the reason the president sending me to the region to make his intentions very clear and we're going to be looking we're going to be looking for turkey to take strong action in that regard. now on the

battlefield syrian government forces have taken advantage of the abrupt u.s. retreat from ne in syria a small unit of soldiers entered the city of miami as well as other towns at the invitation of kurdish forces as take a quick look at the latest military movements turkey says it's establishing a safe zone along its southern border the 1st phase of which stretches 120 kilometers wide and more than 30 kilometers deep into syrian territory turkish forces are battling for control of ross. the situation there is fluid with both sides repeatedly claiming they have control of the town so now in addition to making their presence felt in. they've claimed full control of as we see in the areas in yellow turkish led forces have also cut off the m 4 highway a vital supply line that runs through kurdish held territory from iraq turkish

forces on the outskirts of man beige and this sets up a potential clash with the syrian army which is already in the city as far a deal with the kurds they have also taken control of top and moved into isa assad's troops have also entered and raised the syrian government flag in half a cop province and the border city of chemistry now we have been is smith covering the story from iraq's semi autonomous kurdish region but 1st i speak to charles stratford. on the turkey syria border bringing us up to speed with the latest from the battlefield charlie the battle lines seem to be shifting. they certainly do certainly in the last few minutes for the 1st time since we've been here which is a good 34 hours now that being a volley of artillery fire fired by the across the border as you say the big flashpoint lot of focus of attention at the moment is this town among base where we

understand syrian army already present there we have reports that but only if it's a fight it is these are the syrian arab fighters that have been brought in by the turks of dissipate in this operation we understand they and the turkish military are around 10 to 15 kilometers away from that city we understand that moscow the russians still very much involved in trying to calm things down to avoid any potential to avoid any confrontation between these 2 armies meanwhile in very interesting day despite repeated claims by say both sides to have control the latest yesterday at least the turkish side saying again that they had control of that city we know that they're on go in clashes there very close to that is the town of tell tom of and that has got syrian forces unit just to with respect to

i think this is interesting and worth saying in terms of the kind of big mix all of this region and what it means to various sides. a lot of the syrian fighters that are participating in this campaign so those around them british used to live in that area but we hear a couple of all cheery shows there. and they are very much at the forefront of this campaign so you know again it suggests potentially a flashpoint you got to ask questions about the level of control that the turkish military have over these syrian rebel allies that are very keen to get back into that area having left and been forced out during the battle of arsenal and indeed battles with the s.d.f. a few years ago a very interesting situation here and as i say seems as if moscow's doing all it can to try and calm things down on the ground thank you for that update charles stratford live for us in any on the turkey syria border meanwhile the humanitarian

cost of turkey's military operation is already being felt unicef has released these pictures of syrian families that estimate 70000 children have been displaced in just a week of fighting while the world food program says it's given assistance to tens of thousands of people caught up in the violence some of those fleeing the violence are heading to iraq semi autonomous kurdish region has been a smith is there for as joins us now live from the home what is the situation there been at how are these refugees being received. callie overnight algerian told another $270.00 refugees crossed an informal border crossing between syria into northern iraq that brings it to about a bit less than $500.00 in the last 48 hours it is a trickle of the kurdistan regional government there is quite quickly turned into a flood of one of their biggest concerns is that amongst those people crossing that could be iceland members are still fighters are still sympathizers and their

challenge is to try and filter out those people because they make it into iraq. oh just a few bags of essential all this family could carry as they ran from the fighting in northeastern syria there amongst the 1st to make it across the border into the kurdish governed north of iraq. there was shelling and fighting this man says my family hasn't slept for days we've left everything behind. almost 200 syrians were bussed into a refugee camp in the book on monday afternoon the biggest concern for the kurdish authorities is who exactly is crossing the border eisel fighters or supporters mingled with the innocent but officials cross reference names to make sure those who got on the bus at the border stayed on for the 90 minute journey here a local intelligence officer takes a photo of the tally i think it's going to be interesting to see who is coming

in the next days and what the authorities will do to filter of this population coming in certainly there's going to be checks done to make sure there are generally people are taking care of. everyone we spoke to share their shock at the overnight switch from living peacefully to being. let. america has let us down i didn't imagine that they will destroy the people in our future i used to like america but now i hate it i'm here do you plan. these syrians will join the already more than $1000000.00 internally displaced persons and refugees being hosted in the kurdistan region of iraq and depending on how long turkey is military campaign goes on for the kurdistan regional government the k r g estimates that anything between 30000 up to as many as a quarter of a 1000000 syrians will flee the fighting here into the k

r g. this syrian refugee camp has been here more than 7 years the tents along gone children are growing up here people are putting down roots and now this small town is about to get bigger. and all this costs money the kurdistan regional government estimates that if you have to build $3.00 new refugee camps with about $3000.00 times in each that's going to cost it all to warm $1000000.00 and then a 1000000 and a half dollars a month in running costs it's money that k r g doesn't however at the moment it's putting out appeals again to donor countries and to n.g.o.s oh thank you very much for that bernard smith live for us in the hole. in other world news the death toll in japan from typhoon haiyan base has risen to 68 as rescuers continue their search for those still missing areas of the country remain flooded with mud and debris covering the streets the typhoon hit

japan on saturday dumping historic rainfall and unleashing strong winds thousands of people are still sheltering in evacuation centers with homes left without water and electricity across the country friday salami has the latest from tokyo. many people expect this but i still. feel good right now again because i know what i'm going to have a good thing to fix shuttle flights if that station that many of the small communicates small villages where many end of the are living around the 1000 homes side of oxley or totally destroyed because of the flooding. we have to understand that the main effect of this cycle in which we want is which is one of the strongest getting it done last 50 years wasn't it wasn't that usually in the past when that other use of rainfall they said around 1000000000 users and somebody else went on this some months i can relate so about 3 months old that employed in the us

they get so many ideas let's not expecting it it's that usually in full time this is what caused us. business not good seeing now so many of the people who lead their houses they went through with a thank you a short sentence on and now we're getting different numbers about this about that i mean if you have a fight you waited some people with them around 30000 i would say about 5000 still ahead on al-jazeera all eyes on south africa's former president jacob zuma as he heads to court for his trial on corruption charges when my pizza man was spanked.