we meet with global news makers. the stories the. liberator is a journalist. going to. turkey ignores u.s. sanctions pushing on with its offensive in northeast and syria russia moves into the void left by trump's retreats. hello i missed and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. disruption in hong kong's chamber carry law is forced to postpone have annual policy speech as no make it shout down. the white house stands accused of

stonewalling an impeachment investigation against donald trump. aca and violent clashes in barcelona on a 2nd day of protests over the jailing of 9 separatist leaders. turkey's president about iran has dismissed a proposal for a cease fire in northeast and syria insisting the operation will continue until his country's objectives have been achieved agency doctors without borders says it's now been forced to suspend the majority of its work in the region because of the offensive and as the operation continues russia says its troops are now on patrol in northern syria then a halt to reports. the russians moved in after the americans moved out in a deliberate withdrawal the city of mumbai is moscow's latest victory in syria its

military police now patrols a front line that separates the turkish syrian army's their presence stops a turkish led military advance towards the city which sits on the m 4 highway a main logistics and commercial route that runs to the iraqi border the city also connects the east of the euphrates with the rest of northern syria the russian move disrupts ankara's plan to create what it calls a safe zone to allow refugees who are afraid to live under president bashar assad's rule to return home. we will liberate a field forman beach through rocky border guaranteed a 1000000 in the 1st phase and 2000000 in the 2nd phase will return to syria. but it is the russian backed syrian army which returned to the north east restoring control for the 1st time since 2013 the abrupt pullout by the us military forced its longtime partners the kurdish led syrian democratic forces to cede control of

territory to damascus for protection the s t f is the target of the turkish military operation in northeast syria the armed group is largely made up of fighters from the syrian kurdish y p g organization that turkey calls terrorists because of its links with the p k k turkey wants to push the group away from the border but it is fighting back so far the turkey led forces have not been able to complete the 1st phase of the operation that involves securing the 120 kilometer long and 30 kilometer deep pocket along the border. turkey is also coming under diplomatic pressure the united states and the european union have imposed sanctions washington is calling on turkey to stop what it calls an invasion and agree to a cease fire so far the reaction from turkish officials has been one of defiance they say the presence of the wife along turkey's border is a national security threat sanctions may hurt but they feel the danger coming from

syria is worse. he asked if once controlled 30 percent of syria where millions live an area rich in oil agriculture and water the u.n. says 160000 of them are on the move in what was once a relatively peaceful and stable corner of syria russia and turkey's local allies are battling on several fronts russia says it doesn't approve turkey's military moves in syria and won't accept its permanent presence there seems to be serious differences between the 2 countries who are supposed to be working together in syria but diplomatic channels remain open and could be leverage. on the turkish syrian border while now u.s. lawmakers have introduced a resolution opposing president charles decision to pull troops out of syria house speaker nancy pelosi says the bill will also call for stronger sanctions against turkey we would have a bipartisan bill to oppose the president's decision should share

a blue dangerous decision and that we would have legislation with strong sanctions in it against turkey of the president gave the green light to turkey to go in and commit this humanitarian disaster or do the kurds making us an untrustworthy ally and then had a wet noodle for. his sanctions which are just we're not up to the task while that resolution comes as donald trump sends both his vice president and secretary of state to taki on wednesday to seek a cease fire even though the tack as president says he isn't willing to negotiate with kurdish forces as they call him has more from washington d.c. . ever since announcing the u.s. troops were heading out the u.s. president donald trump it seemed pretty shocked by the criticism he's getting from all corners of the political spectrum saying that this was a bad decision so he's been doubling down almost daily on twitter but now he's trying to basically make it stop peace corps decided his vice president mike pence

and secretary of state mike pompei o 2 turkey and the white house is saying that they are going to ask him for a cease fire that is something he hasn't seemed willing to do so this is a pretty high stakes gamble for the president his supporters say they like him because he comes across as a strong leader that he's tough but he makes tough deals if he sends his vice president to an ally asks for something it is rejected from some empty handed well this controversy only gets bigger at a potentially hurts the president as he looks to reelection because it would take away one of those things that his supporters see in him which is his ability to bend to other world leaders to his will even after all this time they still believe he has that capacity this would prove it one way or the other to the people he's relying to put him back in office now homecoming leader kerry has faced disruption in the chamber as she tried to give her annual policy speech.

and will make his showers ahead down twice forcing the meeting to be suspended and then as she left the chamber some even threw objects as her correspondents called highly joins me now live from hong kong scott today was supposed to be all about restoring confidence in caroline's administration but it really seems it was quite the opposite. absolutely and you know what's very interesting about the government complex behind me in this a patient of this policy address security was beefed up and circling the whole complex as a temporary wall there are many more police here than normal but they were designed to stop any protesters out here outside the government complex but they didn't they weren't able to stop the protests inside the chamber as you mentioned twice she was shouted down the chants of the protesters by pro-democracy lawmakers there in the

legislative council and then she had to call off she retreated she left the building and then there was later delivered on a video address and it's still ongoing right now quite a long address what is very in sync after the session was dismissed pro-democracy lawmakers as some within this bloc pro-democracy democracy bloc within the legislative council spoke after. that failed attempt delivered this address and some say that she doesn't carry a lamp doesn't have the authority anymore to rule hong kong in a possible months hong kong people have had a very difficult time very very tough time how rather alex she thinks that going to mrs kerry. to respond well to resolve the problem all 5 months of very quickly and not one less. and i really urge her if she can't call them home call and she has no determination to govern hong kong and

she has no ability and even capable in a ministration hong kong police that now well as we can hear there scott opponents are clearly not backing down so where to now from him and her ministration what what options does she have at this stage. at this stage it's going to be a very difficult session for the legislative council this is the 1st one that has been convened in several months since these 4 months of protests have been going on we don't now that that video address. what was supposed to happen live here at the legislative council it was released by a video address and that just concluded in the last couple of minutes it was almost an hour long it kind of as advertised she looked back at some of the policies that were successful she looked forward she did address the protests situation in fact she she called this she toddled this address the blue address because she's hoping there to be blue skies once the storm hanging over hong kong lifts one issue that

she tackled that she said she's going to work on is more public housing that is something that it's a very important quality of life issue for a lot of the people here and usually the protesters were saying they were concerned about that but obviously over these past 4 months their demands have grown well beyond. free freedom to to access affordable housing it's go much beyond that but she's tackled that in this policy address but again as we look at things right now there are many more issues right front and center than talking about what can be happening in the future as far as the government is concerned scott high launching all those developments very closely for us and hong kong thank you scott well meanwhile china has called on the u.s. to stop interfering to lawmakers in washington passed a series of measures aimed at supporting those anti-government protests in hong kong 4 separate measures all passed by unanimous vote from both democrats and republicans one of the bills would require an annual review of whether hong kong is sufficiently or thomas from beijing in order to keep it special trading status with

the u.s. . now the 12 democrats who want to rip a stolen trumpet in the white house have presented a unified front calling for him to be impeached they have just wrapped up their 4th debate in higher battleground state that's backed the winner of the presidential vote for decades but several have warned that forcing trump from office cannot be the democrats' only message they were also fiery exchanges about health care foreign policy and gun violence john hendren has more from westerville ohio where that debate was held. it was the 4th and feistiest of the democratic debates and the candidates came swinging we're in the spin room right now and you can see one of the candidates beto o'rourke over there talking on the set behind me is elizabeth warren she is most recently the lead candidate in her goal tonight was to come out and not make any mistakes ensure that her negative numbers did not increase and expand her lead here right now she's pretty much in

a dead heat with former vice president joe biden biden's goal was to come out and be more aggressive that is what he told fundraisers he wanted to come out and combat some of the charges that president trump has leveled against him about misdeeds in ukraine and then there was the candidate who probably most clearly achieved his goal tonight and that was bernie sanders 2 weeks ago to the day sanders had a heart attack and he wanted to show that he was physically and mentally fit not just to be on the campaign but to be the commander in chief and the analysts i spoke to tonight said he achieved that there were a lot of attacks tonight senator cory booker just told me that he's worried that the candidate in the end not be so damaged that what happened to democrats in 2016 happens again in 2020 he wants them to win against president donald trump well still ahead on out as they're trying to stitch together time's running out for negotiators from both sides and we need

a family at the center of abuse accusations against the elderly in australia. and though there is a message to picture across much of the middle east however we've seen a few showers and thunderstorms through the eastern end of the mat in the last few hours i we could see a few will as we head through wednesday this is the sort of sway the. cloud work its way eastwards and that could bring wanted to show is too much as they leave it attitude 29 in beirut on wednesday 37 in baghdad and 26 degrees across into kabul very little change as we head into thursday perhaps more in the way of time and again as i say it could just bring a scottish or a nice elated thunderstorm for the south across the raven peninsula we could see some coastal showers across into southern sections of oman that is broken rain really has for the south again it could impact yemen as we go on into thursday 10

inches of come down across much of the arabian peninsula but it is still feeling very humid say feeling worse than these temperatures actually suggest and then down into southern africa if you were those one across into madagascar for the next couple of days and then we got large to kick conditions very much as south africa up towards durban tom which is not as high as they have been although on thursday another warm day in johannesburg with a high of 30 celsius and that is where we could see if you shall just push across into northern malawi and continuing west across much of angola. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media when the intelligence services control much of a gyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president and focus on how they would pool on the stories that matter the most getting an accurate

informative story out of there is no use they pose it too late we already have the information they're listening post on al-jazeera. hello again i'm just. a reminder our top stories this hour donald trump is sending a high level delegation to turkey on wednesday to seek a cease fire in northeastern syria despite attackers president saying he isn't willing to negotiate with kurdish forces meanwhile russia says its troops are now patrolling the area between turkish and kurdish forces in the region. hong kong

lead a carrier has been shouted down as she tried to give her annual policy speech filmmakers disrupted her address forcing the meeting to be suspended and as she left the chamber some even threw objects sasha. told democrats who want to replace donald trump in the white house have presented a unified front calling for him to be impeached but they were also fiery exchanges during their 4th debate in ohio about health care foreign policy and gun violence. well democrats are accusing the top administration of stonewalling the investigation into whether the president should be impeached vice president mike pence giuliani and the white house all refusing to submit documents to the inquiry a senior state department official in charge of new crane policy has now become the latest to testify before the house committees george kent was questioned about his knowledge of trump's efforts to have new crane investigate his political rival joe biden while the head of the house intelligence committee adam schiff says evidence

of obstruction of congress continues to mountains we are running into what we expected in one aspect and that is a complete effort by the administration to stonewall. today is long past due the date when the state department was subpoenaed to provide documents but the state department has thus far refused and were it not for the fact that at least some witnesses have given us documents we would not know that there is a paper record of efforts to condition this meeting and perhaps condition military support itself on these political investigations donald trump wanted. protesters and police have clashed on a 2nd day or rallies in the spanish city of basra one of the demonstrations are against the jailing of 9 pro catalan leaders so now has i for the 2nd night in

a row clashes commotion and angry protests i turned into an outburst a few reem barcelona's city center. police say some 40000 protesters had made their way here some even prepared for violence as if from bottles and set fire to rubbish containers or began as a peaceful vigil soon after turned into a riot so the 2 main storify was in the city center quickly turned into a no go area. regional leaders so often at odds with the central government in madrid have been calling for a campaign of civil disobedience i protest at the 9 politicians and activists convicted of sedition on monday the goal they say safeguarding catalonia is right to self-determination. this is what no use is this is the giving and to defend to be the government of catalonia in the front of the defense of the

rights but now after the sentences have been eliminated or repeated. this latest wave of protest organized by a leaderless movement known as the democratic tsunami is prepared to take a bow hardline approach but not everyone agrees with the strategy some cattle are nationalist have condemned the violent tactics from the central government to madrid promised to fully investigate who was behind the latest wave of disruption i but this is a week where activists have promised to keep on protesting says this is session attempt to years ago. both pro and anti independent starts as have charge and neither side is prepared to give way to dialogue just yet senator you have all al-jazeera barcelona. now the e.u. and the u.k.

have been holding last ditch talks to try to work out a breaks a deal that community leaders summit in brussels on thursday negotiators from the u.k. and the e.u. are attempting to reach an agreement by the end of the week ahead of britain's official departure from the e.u. on october 31st the exit negotiator michele banja says obstacles remain between the 2 sides but there's still potential for a deal reaching an agreement. obviously any agreement must work for everyone. of the united kingdom under horror of the european union riyadh to give him. 2 term good intentions in a legal text journal has more from london. well the only thing we know for certain at the moment is that a lot of hard work has been going on in the still going on to try and nail down the

details of the technical details of a new deal between the u.k. and the european union to try and come up with a legally operable text that both sides can be held accountable for and accountable to that can be put to e.u. leaders at that council summit on thursday optimistic sounds coming out of the european union. but we cannot be certain of anything what we know is that michel barnier the e.u. whose chief breaks it negotiator is going to address the u.n. ambassadors on wednesday afternoon in brussels and tell them whether enough progress has been made to get a deal boris johnson is then planning sort of after that to meet his cabinet here in london and shortly after that to meet his own backbench m.p.'s it is it is as if a big announcement is going to be made the key part of the deal we believe that he's taking shape has to do with northern ireland leaving the european union's customs union along with the rest of the united kingdom in law but not necessarily

in practice still having to enforce the e.u. use customs code with an economic border down the irish sea that may be a deal acceptable to the european union but we believe tonight that it is not a deal acceptable to the democratic unionist party boris johnson's allies and nor to some of the heartbreaks it is on the right of his own party so a deal potentially with the e.u. but one that a british prime minister will struggle to get through this house of commons behind me haven't we all seen this story before. recognized government says forces in oil to want to have to blame for the recent violence in the country bus an interview with a russian news agency have says his forces have been defending the capital and denies attacking it. has. the i have to himself as stated that there is no mitigation foreign or local mediation between

him and the you and the recognized a government of national accord his rival government in the west of the country have to also stated to the russian news agency that his forces are defending the capital tripoli and this is very contradictory with the situation on the ground in fact his forces on the ground are accused of committing war crimes by targeting it is additional areas killing innocent civilians their most recent one was on monday when pro have to warplane targeted residential area killing 4 innocent civilians a mother and her 3 daughters now have to is also stating to the us or russian news agency that he has no plans of elections in case his forces take control of the capital. tripoli but it seems that he is hopeful that his forces

are taken control of the capital tripoli soon but this is very contradictory with the facts on the ground in fact his forces losing on the ground and forces do is to the government of national accord have recently achieved progress on the ground capturing the areas in southern tripoli would have to his forces had taken control of for the past 6 months. the committee to protect journalists has added its voice to calls for the release of as or abdel fattah has been detained in egypt she is among the many journalists arrested following anti-government protests which began last month activists have been pressuring with origins to free her from detention there also calls to investigate accusations that she has been abused in custody. aged care centers in australia under scrutiny for abuse and neglect of their residence and investigation has found the sick and vulnerable are being sedated

often without their consent andrew thomas has. after emigrating from spain to australia in her twenty's moloch approach worked as a carer now with advanced dementia she's the one who needs looking after after her husband silvio had a stroke both needed full time care in a nursing home but in one staff responded to produce behavior by sedating her with drugs lots of them physically she was losing a balance she was blank faced she was pretty much screaming a lot of the time couldn't help her you know because of the drugs in her system she couldn't help herself or nobody could help and every day i was a struggle only after 2 years of slowly weaning her off the drugs and paying the extra private nursing staff to her son feel his mother is calm so the mother that i see today when i hug her. even though she has dementia i feel like she's my mother

you know and i feel the strength you know if you feel her pace monoprice experience is far from unique human rights watch has investigated centers across australia and found what they call chemical restraint is often the norm. caring for people with dementia is labor intensive and that's expensive drugs are a cheaper alternative but often given without informed consent from the patient or their relatives human rights watch says it's a violation of their rights i do think that most people would be shocked to find that it's a common practice to drug older people mostly people with dementia really makes no sense to say that there should be a lower standard for drugging someone you know order to control their behavior as compared to perhaps using some sort of physical restraint the issue is not unique to australia human rights watch also investigated in the united states and found

chemical restraint there was just as common but it all straight at the moment a national inquiry a royal commission is looking into issues right across the country a huge care system cases of abuse neglect and a routine lack of respect for the elderly a rule being uncovered and exposed there is national contemplation of the way people are treated towards the end of their lives andrew thomas out is their melbourne. long anticipated football world cup qualifier and pyongyang has drawn anger in south korea the match between the south and their north korean hosts was held in front of an empty stadium with no live coverage supporters and players or groups of all condemned to the match as staging for the bride has this report from seoul. this was a hugely important soccer match the 1st time in nearly 30 years that north and south korea have mattered a world cup qualifier in pyongyang and yet for most people on this soccer crazy

peninsula this is about as close as they ever got to the actually one of the you still images released by south korean soccer officials showing a goal was draw being played out in front of a very sad looking empty stadium don't surprise. soccer fans here in south korea asked see that despite repeated requests no supporters were allowed to travel to watch this match and no south korea in the media were allowed in which meant no live television coverage not even any live radio commentary if you wanted to follow the events live then you had to rely upon your device to follow a line by line account on the twitter feed of south korean soccer officials as people here have pointed out that's the equivalent to the kind of technology you relied upon in the age of the telegraph more than 100 years ago if you wanted to follow your favorite team and if it wasn't for the good offices of people like the swedish ambassador because diplomats were allowed in to watch this game uploading

images to his twitter account then people wouldn't have seen much of the live action atoll not surprisingly this whole debacle has led to some very serious questions being asked at the daily briefing of south korea's unification ministry the one to the government and the korea football association have tried through various channels to send spectators and half live broadcasting however it is disappointing to such a french miss were not made possible at the end of the day he said. the president of soccer's world governing body was lucky enough to get in to see them but there's very little that people can do about the qualified the year is up to the host nation and questions are being asked here in south korea just about the hospitality of the northern hosts compared tuesday night's game for example with the kind of welcome that south korea rolled out for the winter olympics just over a year and

a half ago with joint teams and all the rest by contrast of the soccer match was distinctly frosty a reminder of the bad old days and for many an ominous indication of the way that relations might be heading. hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines donald trump is sending a high level delegation to turkey on wednesday to seek a ceasefire and ne in syria even though the talk is president says he isn't willing to negotiate with kurdish forces meanwhile russian forces on the having towards northern syria and an effort to fill a security void left by american troops hongkong major carrier has delivered a new policy speech by video link after she faced destruction in the legislature. paid the money. jorja cheney. will make

his shot at her down as you can hear twice forcing the meeting to be suspended and then as she left the chamber some even threw objects sasha some politicians say it's time for lamb to step down in a post poll monks home grown people have had a very difficult time very very tell. how travel our chief executive mrs kerry lamb raef seems to respond well to resolve the problem. 053 months of very clear not one. and i really urge if she can't tell them. and she has no determination. and she has no ability at anybody capable in a ministry to hong kong please sat down the 12 democrats who want to replace donald trump in the white house have presented a unified front calling for him to be impeached but several warned that it cannot

be the democrats only message they were also fiery exchanges during their 4th debate in ohio about health care foreign policy and gun violence while democrats are accusing the company ministration of stonewalling the investigation into whether the president should be impeached vice president mike pence a tromso a rudy giuliani and the white house or refusing to submit documents to the inquiry and there have been violent protests in barcelona for a 2nd day over the jailing of 9 separatist leader is now thousands have been holding vigils in a government offices but has escalated into clashes with police madrid has warned that it may act to ensure security in the region well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after listening post to stay with us. the story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the us. study after study has demonstrated the perspectives

american media coverage what part of this case you get through your thick head is hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want and if you don't say it we're not going to speak it would be very hard for ordinary americans to know that they're being deceived the occupation of the american mind on al-jazeera. optician is not. that strange he said filing this last clash it's course. a 100 times he died fighting protests china's human rights a saving i think it's high at a low i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories that we're covering this week unrest in iraq a conflict that is beyond sectarian and the news outlets have been attacked for trying to tell the story she should have just let it go the.