on the al-jazeera. shouted down by politicians hong kong's chief executive carrie lamb is forced to delay her annual policy speech. to. play watching al jazeera live from my headquarters in doha fully backed he will also coming up. turkey pushes ahead with its terrio offensive ignoring american sanctions while russia grows in to fill the void left by the u.s. . elizabeth warren faces multiple attacks from rivals in the latest democratic

debate indicating she is not the front runner to take on donald trump. and anger in south korea after its football world cup qualifier in pyongyang is played to empty stands without live coverage. thank you very much for joining as hong kong's chief executive carrier has been forced to delay her annual policy speech in the legislature. pay the. politicians shouted her down twice as she left the chamber some even threw objects at her lamb is struggling to restore public order after months of on thai government protests in a post poll monks. hong kong people have had a very difficult time very very tough time how rather our chief executive

mrs kerry. to respond to resole of the problem. our 5 months of very clear not one less and i really urge if she wants hong kong and she has no determination to govern hong kong and she has no ability and even incapable in a ministry to hong kong police that down and carrying them eventually delivered her speech through video link she said the international community is waiting for hong kong to return to normalcy to go home. employees of all trades and sexes as well as small medium and large businesses alike a deeply worried about the prospect of hong kong people are asking will hong kong return to normal is hong kong still a place we can live in peace many sectors of our society have condemns the radical

acts of riotous and have supported the government to strictly enforce the law to end violence and a news conference which is still going on carol lam called for compromise and everyone to work together. in the past few months this very serious social unrest has challenged of us facing the incidents of recent months i realize that being a politician i need to be always aware and understand the feelings about people and while i also understand that the intentions are good we also need to be very tolerant and open minded. in other world news a u.s. delegation led by vice president mike pence is traveling to turkey it'll be seeking an immediate cease fire in ne in syria but turkey's president insists the military operation will continue until his country's objectives have been achieved russia says its troops are now in control in northern syria in a harder has

a report the russians moved in after the americans moved out in a deliberate withdrawal the city of members is moscow's latest victory in syria its military police now patrols a front line that separates the turkish and syrian army's their presence stops a turkish 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. i hope very soon we will liberate a field forman beach through rocky border and 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 syrian democratic forces to cede control of territory to damascus for protection. the s d 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 pockets 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 the estee 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. and the u.s. justice department has filed criminal charges against

a major tech bank federal prosecutors accuse hulk bank of taking part in a multi-billion dollar scheme that helped iran avoid u.s. sanctions court documents say iran access international markets using proceeds from its oil and gas sales on tuesday the u.s. announced sanctions against turkey in response to its offensive in northeast in syria let's bring in algeria economics editor now abbott alley for more on this side discuss the background 1st of this indictment against how bank how do we get to this particular point so this is really important because this started way back in 2016 when reza sourav who was a rainy and cold trader was traveling to disneyland and was arrested at. miami airport now it's important put in context because this is a a long running case so he testified against an executive for how bank and that exact he was sentenced to prison in 2018 and served 32 months he's now back in in

in turkey and alleges that. that iran and turkish officials colluded to get money out of turkey into dubai where they could sell gold and then fund the rain regime so that was the crux of the case. so that's the context of it now put it into perspective because this is not the only bank and other european banks for instance have also been fined for allegedly beating sanctions on iran absolute how is how bank affected is it worse what they have done and then the european banks so it depends on how much money and how much profit they have made so that all kind of determine the amount of fine that they receive at the end of the day now something like $20000000000.00 in fines have been put against european banks 15 european banks in particular and so you can see that this is a long running case and since the u.s. started using sanctions banks had to try and figure out how do they handle the rein

in funds and some by accident some by fault and some deliberately started to handle iranian funds which they once once you convert those funds into u.s. dollars you immediately get the u.s. authorities to me to get alerted by the swift financial system so because of this all these banks have been caught out in one way or the other for helping the reigning regime looking at the bigger picture turkey here we heard donald trump of course trend to obliterate turkey's economy the new u.s. sanctions on turkey because of this operation in ne in syria how much is the turkish economy going to hurt because of all this so this is this is a multibillion dollar question because we really don't know but we can say this the trade between the united states and turkey amounts to just 20000000000 dollars which is a drop in the ocean it really is and the last time the u.s. imposed sanctions which was way back a few months ago they increase tariffs and still to 50 percent now that had an

immediate impact but now turkish exports of still have dropped some by 88 percent so you can see there's very little that these sanctions will have an impact on you still in particular so now they're targeting individuals and that. we'll send a signal to the markets to say listen you know these guys are off limits so when you're considering investing in in turkish banks then you need to consider consider this carefully because those individuals might be the reason why you get caught up in this little affair now the biggest problem for the turkish economy is that it is so dependent on international money for its financing. the they have $200000000000.00 worth of debt which needs to be paid off and so they've got to figure out how they're going to how are they going to get through this particular storm but we can say this as well that the turkish economy has become

a little bit more resilient to all these sanctions where the word from russia a few months ago in 20202016 when basically. turkish just fire for fire. on a plane. russian plane and so these kind of consequences they've come to learn to live with us thank you very much for explaining all this to us is our business editor thank you now in the united states the democrats who want to replace donald trump as president have presented a united front calling for him to be impeached they've wrapped up their 4th debate in ohio a battleground state that's backed the winner of the presidential vote for decades but several warned that forcing chan 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 the debate was held. it was the 4th and feistiest of the democratic debates and the candidates came out

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 and her goal tonight was to come out and not make any mistakes and sure 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 that night 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. still ahead on al jazeera trying to stay together. as time runs out for negotiations from both sides . i'm paul recent lapland sweden where the indigenous sami people say their way of life is under threat not just from climate change but from the government solutions to stop it. hello when i was standing here yesterday talking about the sundry risk in italy they'd already just undergone it in from the gulf and southern fronts as

a result of a tornado that came through on the same active band of cloud this one here which has since gone across the adriatic and rather lost its impetus that's where it sits more or less at the moment it's rain in the northern half fading out a few shasta a potential there is slovenia maybe western austria but nothing much else has been a cloud and in southern france is looking nice but the next belt of cloud next frontal system is on its way through france into spain and portugal to do that overnight it's not gradually dropping the temperature down and allowing a bit more writing tired to come in each day so we're in the teens for most of western and northern europe so in the warmth in the east book arrested 24 how the temperatures are dropping a little bit in north africa it's a slower process this here this is a line of showers potentially and probably thunderstorms not many of them iranis with through libya and they leave behind still temperatures in the twenty's and one to news 21 in robotics cool down considerably here and the line of crowd extends down through sudan giving still quite poky shows in chad and also nigeria for next

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sloganeer watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to people are reminder of our top stories this hour on kong's chief executive kerry lamb is calling for tolerance and open mindedness to politicians from the opposition shouted down her annual honesty speech eventually delivered her speech a video. and turkey's president has rejected the possibility of a cease fire in northeastern syria despite sanctions by the u.s. a high powered u.s. delegation is on its way to ankara to try to end the conflict or let's get an update now on the turkish operation in northeastern syria and speak to charles stratford who joins us from the turkey syria border charlie thanks for being with us so the turks seem to have achieved one of their objectives which was forcing the courage to retreat east of the euphrates just bring us up to speed with what's been happening on the battlefield. well we are to the east of this

of the border of this stretch of land that the turks wants to prepare so they say for this safety zone this is the town of la behind me it has been the scene of fierce battles the small warning a lot of artillery a lot of heavy weaponry being we are hearing being used this town has been claimed is being victory claimed in this town by both sides in recent days i mean he's right on the border and it certainly seems to be the biggest problem thus far in this 1st phase of this operation for the turks when the stand that there are syrian government forces in a town called tamada which is about 30 kilometers behind it we also understand that the portly most of if not all the civilians have fled from this town gains made by the turks so their military claimed in the last day include areas west of tel aviv out the town that they took

a couple of days ago. and more gains to the southwest of here we know that there are syrian the syrian army is positioned in various towns to the south of that 30 kilometer. 30 kilometer deep m 4 highway towns like commission house across the east of here and of course in monkish now we saw the syrian army go in there yesterday and we understand that russian forces russian military police a patrol in the area in between the syrian army and the turkish forces that have come south and there's a lot going on diplomatically. yeah huge diplomatic efforts simply being being led by the russians very much with the bit between the teeth now that the american forces have left this area we have a u.s. delegation coming in the vice president mike pence leaving that delegation under secretary. so the secretary of state what pompei i will be in that delegation as

well thoughts fall president hurdle one has said he is not going to entertain any idea of a cease fire into what he describes as the terrorist from this area a push back to as i say 30 kilometers back and this initial stage around 120 kilometers wide along the border we're hearing reports though in the last hour or so the reuters news agency is quote seeing a russian state news agency is saying that the russians are trying to sort out some sort of potential cooperation cooperation in the long term in both the syrian government and the turkish government policing this border initially the russians were saying at this stage the only people that were going to be in control of this border were the syrian government or the syrian side of course as the turkish forces push push further forward trying to get rid of what they describe as

terrorists that potentially sets of a very confrontational situation for us thank you for that chance trafford live for us on the take in syria border negotiators from the u.k. and european union have held talks through the night as they seek to work out a breaks a deal they're attempting to reach an agreement that can be discussed at a summit in brussels on thursday the u.s. breck's a negotiator and michelle says obstacles remain between the 2 sides but there is still potential for idea for any schedule to leave the european union on october 31st paul brennan joins us now live from london so paul negotiations between the e.u. and u.k. have resume this morning are we any closer to a deal. well it depends on who you speak to and it also depends on the time scale that you put when you define how close we might be to a deal i spoke with one just recently form a government minister about an hour ago and he felt that we were edging towards a deal largely because the alternatives the chaos the uncertainty were frankly

unthinkable the need was he felt to actually come to a decision now and actually put something on the table and under greek to it that said the mood music from europe is that the timescale of a deal is not there yet it certainly is not is unlikely the europeans believe to happen in time for the thursday friday summit which is due to take place in brussels and those talks which you mentioned which wrapped up at around 130 g g.m.t. in the morning and have resumed today in brussels the people coming out of those negotiations suit briefed journalists said there was more work still to do before they can actually publish a deal and an accompanying legal text which is what's required to actually formalize this would a dio paul with customs checks in the irish sea have any chance to be voted by the british parliament. well you know if you listen

to the previous pronouncements by the prince i'm going to say in this deal and previous prince agonist you know to join up boris johnson and ex prime minister to resign may both of those have previously said that a kind of customs border down the middle of the irish sea between northern ireland and the mainland of the u.k. would be unthinkable and is something that no prime minister of the u.k. could ever possibly countenance and yet although we haven't seen the details of the deal that the compromise that the the is on the table at the moment it seems that that is the way the direction that the compromise might take now what is possible to do you pity the ulster was so the unionist party the big unionist party in northern ireland is apparently asking for billions of pounds as a kind of sop in order to get very agreement and their votes but this is not just about the actual nuts and bolts of the agreement as you mentioned it's about the votes what can get through the british parliament to recent days vote was serious

major deal was voted down 3 times previously supposed jones has got to come up with something from the european union from within his own so as to go seating stance which will get passed and get through with the m.p.'s behind me paul brennan in london thank you for that paul north korean state television has released images of leader kim jong un riding up a sacred mountain on horseback came has previously visited mt packed to before making major announcements the mountain is the highest point in north korea and is associated with the came families role. and a long anticipated football well cup qualifier in pyongyang has drawn anger in south korea the match between the south and their north korean house was held in an empty stadium with no live coverage rob mcbride has a story from seoul. this was a hugely important soccer match the 1st time in nearly 30 years that north and south korea have met in 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 not surprisingly soccer fans here in south korea are see that despite repeated requests no supporters were allowed to travel to watch this match south korean the beach you were allowed in which meant no live television coverage not even any live radio commentary if you want to follow the events live and 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 but 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 government and the korea football association have tried through various channels to send spectators and half live broadcasting however it is disappointing the sorts of arrangements were not made possible at the end of the day is. other than to soccer's world governing body before i was lucky enough to get in to see them out but there's very little that people can do about the qualified the game is up to the host nation and questions are being asked here in south korea just about the hospitality of the northern host compared tuesday night's game for example with the kind of welcome that south korea rolled out for the winter olympics in just

over a year and a half ago with joy teams and all the rest by contrast the soccer match was distinctly frosty a reminder of the bad old days and for many a lot of us indication of the way the relations might be heading after nearly a month of violent protests against his role haiti's president has addressed the crisis for the 1st time protesters have been calling for his resignation haitians are angry about corruption rising inflation and fuel shortages of anomalies has promised to find a solution but opposition leaders have rejected his attempts. at which the people that gave the power i have been intrusted with the constitution that very same constitution dictates how to give power to the people power is the people are watching me i have to be power to them and the us karen she is making a comeback in cuban stores with the government allowing $77.00 shops to sell their goods in dollars from the end of the month possession of the dollar and other

tradeable currencies is legal but people couldn't use them for purchases before cuba state run economy is struggling because of the crisis in venezuela and a tightening of the u.s. embargo. now the indigenous sami people have lived in the arctic region for thousands of years their traditions and way of life are intimately connected to the arctic north but a warming planet is putting that under threat and creating grievances with governments over how to fix it always has a report from lapland in sweden. returning the dead to their final resting place. caskets containing the skulls of their ancestors finally being given back to the sami people by the swedish state after being taken from graves in the 1950s to be picked over for research. while this

gesture may heal some wounds new ones are being opened up as the government is accused of failing to properly deal with a climate crisis that threatens the sami way of life and much of their of the wealth that sweden has has build on is build on sami grounds the 1st thing is to to to face the history of colonization what the state has made to do to my people just a few kilometers inside the arctic circle the town of york mark is a center of sammy culture in sweden scientists say the arctic is warming up twice as fast as they are all right the putting the farming on the front lines of quiet change it's being felt particularly keenly in ancient forests like this where like growing on the ground provides food for rain there an animal now facing mass starvation thousands have died despite the herd his efforts to feed them by hand

while melting ice sheets have cut off their migrate 3 routes across the arctic sami reindeer herders say the situation is made worse by the disappearance of the old forests. replaced by plantations growing following by big business market in the house then that we've had for thousands of years has been given over to the control of others that risks people's culture being weakened or ceasing to exist altogether sweden has taken action to meet other climate pledges including the creation of wind farms and hydroelectric plants today sweden is placing almost all of their parks on sammy territory just explode exploiting it again destroying the dam making our lounge. into the biggest huge industrial parks sweden's environment minister refused to comment on our report struggles between the sammy people on the swedish government go back for centuries the climate crisis has pitted them against

each other again it's a dispute that must find common ground swiftly if the psammead way of life on the arctic as we know it ought to survive paul reece al-jazeera lapland sweden. hello again i'm fully back to the headlines on al-jazeera hong kong's chief executive carried his calling for tolerance and open mindedness after opposition politicians shouted down her annual policy speech lamb eventually delivered her speech to a video link and later address gave an address at a press conference urging everyone to work together well you. need in the past few months this very serious social unrest has challenged out the u.s. facing the incidents of recent months i realized that being a politician i need to be always aware and understand the feelings of our people

and while i also understand that the intentions are good we also need to be very tolerant and open minded. turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan has rejected the possibility of a cease fire in northeastern syria despite sanctions by the u.s. a high level u.s. delegation is on its way to ankara to try and end the conflicts the u.s. justice department meanwhile has filed criminal charges against a major turkish bank federal prosecutors accuse her bank of taking on any more $1000000000.00 scheme that helped iran avoid u.s. sanctions court documents say iran access to international markets using proceeds from its oil and gas sales on tuesday the u.s. unarmed sanctions against 30 in response to the turkish offensive in ne in syria in the united states the democrats who want to replace donald trump as president have presented a united front calling for him to be impeached they wrapped up their 4th debate in ohio

a battleground state that spock's the winner of the presidential vote for decades but several counties warned that forcing chom from office could not be the democrats' only message to go she ages from the u.k. and european union have held talks through the night as they seek to work out a breakfast deal they're attempting to reach an agreement that can be discussed at a summit in brussels on thursday the u.s. breck said negotiator michel barnier says obstacles remain between the 2 sides and haiti's president has vowed to fight corruption in his 1st press conference since protests calling for his resignation began last month but demonstrators are still demanding step down haitians are angry about rising inflation and fuel shortages as well plenty more news as always on our website at al-jazeera dot com coming up next here it's a string to status. no just there are we. believe in the 2 state solution the do you still believe in the 2 state solution we listen to

what i just said it was that pakistan would never start a war i'm anti war we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter so much as their own. i have a ok people are taking to the streets and growing numbers across the hour and you can see just some of the pace these people being protesting is a few of them of the recent protests that we've been tracking like hell on the stream but today we want to ask do protests actually work now no matter where you are on this map tell us what you think by tweeting us e.j. stream or joining us on our live chat and you too could be in the. peace and climate activists and you are in the story.