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heckled by fellow politicians hong kong's and battle leaders forced to abandon her annual policy speech. and accusations of torture in indian administered kashmir we talked to the victims who say security forces mistreated children. hello turkish president has vowed to keep fighting in syria until all his country is goals have been met reza sayah berto on is shrugging off international pressure for an immediate cease fire and the battle on the ground goes on the town of the lion is on the front line gunfire and heavy artillery has been heard across the city as turkish kurdish forces fight for control and diplomatic efforts are intensifying the u.s. vice president mike pence and the secretary of state mike pompei oh well traveled to turkey to push for a cease fire they come armed with president trump's threat of more sanctions if

they're ignored but that's unlikely to sway president earlier on in an address to his act party he said he won't be influenced by foreign intimidation. we learned that you think that it is good to know. all the suggestions and threats we're not going to accept a thing that has been clear from the stop by at the church we want this terror organization of moved from our borders when the zone for man bitched at the iraqi border and we established this 35 kilometer deep safe zone this operation will end but up until reaching this point no power can stop us. also defended the operation against critics who say civilians are in the line of fire he says turkey has never and will never commit a civilian massacre c.b.s. cut down a good mix drugs or those have been that if you want to see civilian casualties look at the streets of palestine where muslims are killed in the streets you want to see civilian massacres look at the terror organization who killed their women elderly children that were killed by them in the last 40 years if you want to see

civilian meskins look in the mirror and look at history and look at all the blood of the innocents in your own hands tookie can never be accused. meanwhile the u.n. special envoy for syria is in damascus and he's calling for an immediate end to the turkish operation how to go in his life for us at the white house we'll speak to her shortly but 1st we'll cross over to set off what it was an up tick alley in turkey's border with syria for the latest you're hearing on the military operation and what's happening on the ground. well turkish led forces continue to try to create that so-called safe zone along the border the initial phase of that operation a 120 kilometer stretch of territory along the border 30 kilometers deep inside syria they are facing resistance on the ground the kurdish led syrian democratic forces they are fighting back mounting a defense using tunnels using trenches that's in the border town of ross ally and so facing stiff resistance is supposed to be part of that so-called safe zone

at the same time there is also another threat that turkey faces and that is the presence of the syrian army they have returned to the northeast of the country for the 1st time in years invited by the s.d.f. and of course their allies the russian military police and they are also laying claim to territory deploying their troops for example at the front lines in member effectively pretty preventing the turkish led forces from advancing towards the city so opposition on the ground and like you mentioned diplomatic pressure on turkey turkey suffering its greatest crisis in decades with its nato ally the united states which is demanding a ceasefire but the message from the turkish president was clear there will be no ceasefire there will be no negotiations with terrorists in reference to the syrian kurdish armed group the y p g but at the same time there's also serious differences

between russia and turkey 2 players in the syrian conflict who should be working together instead we are hearing really unprecedented criticism from russian officials on turkey's military operations they are telling turkey in one way or another we do not accept what you're doing we will only support your operation if it involves a push into syria maximum 10 kilometers and you only carry cross border operations but they're making it clear they're no longer accepting a turkish military presence in syria so there's going to be hard bargaining ahead erdogan and putin the presidents of turkey and russia held a phone conversation late yesterday put in invited or gone to visit moscow but there he accepted that invitation but there is still no date ok's and i hope that thank you. well donald trump says the u.s. will help to find a solution to the situation in syria his comments come as his secretary of state might bump aoe heads to turkey to push for an end to the offensive when negotiating and we're trying to get turkey to do the right thing because we'd like to stop wars

regardless whether americans are in or whether they're not in we want to see war stop that's a very important thing on a humanitarian basis we want to see that happens let's not bring in particular is joining us from washington so what can you tell us about how they're going to persuade the turks to come to a negotiated settlement and what's the message that this high level delegation is taking over there. well if the president was going to send a concise message to turkey his meeting there in the oval office did probably the exact opposite we know that this is a president who cannot handle being criticized he has been launching it out of twitter basically on a daily basis sometimes our early defending his move to pull u.s. troops out of northern syria and he has been criticized from all sides of the political spectrum those defending him though may think he just made it a little bit worse some of the news from that impromptu press conference in the

oval office the president said his move was strategically brilliant he said because the u.s. soldiers are no longer in harm's way reported out of the pentagon suggest that some of these extractions are very very dangerous but happening now he said the kurds are much safer now that is obviously patently untrue the kurds are being attacked by turkey and then you would have to say it's not our problem this is a fight between turkey and syria now again he said to his own vice president something that just doesn't really happen in this country to try and force a president or don't want to take a ceasefire so he is sending the message that he doesn't really care about this before his vice president even gets on the plane then he went on to say and i think this is going to be that the part that his defenders have a really hard time defending the kurds are not angels just go ahead and lock the kurds or not. so obviously this is something the president trying to fight back at criticism but this these comments are just going to really i think make it even

stronger so clearly the mixed messages continue to come out of trump himself and the white house when it comes to this issue of the syria and what's happening there. and it really you have to ask yourself what is the president's long term strategic goal if there is one let's just think about it from a domestic political point of view this is a president who told his. supporters his base that if he was elected america would be respected in the world again that he he'd be able to make leaders bend to his will yes send in the vice president of the united states and the secretary of state to turkey with absolutely no guarantee that they're going to get what they're asking for in fact the president turkey said in a message they won't so it's very hard to see how the president spins getting this involved and then say but what's not our problem when he's actually sending his vice president so this comes with domestic risks for this president he has

alienated a lot of his most ardent republican supporters in the congress they see this move as for party bad for national security ill advised so they're going to scrambling to try and defend these comments but again same the kurds who are currently under attack are safe for now and that this is a strategically brilliant move and that the kurds are not angels again it's going to go to republicans now to try and defend what the president just said here ok thank you patty for that update from washington now last minute bret's a negotiation is are continuing after leaders in the u.k. and the e.u. failed to reach a resolution in marathon late night talks they're attempting to reach an agreement that can be rubber stamped at a summit on thursday and there appears to be a breakthrough is the e.u. council president. has just said that the basic foundations of the deal already and will go either way by late wednesday still there are warnings. level discussions with the united kingdom continued late into the night last night

and are only going as we speak now don't skew being constructive but still remain. significant issues today. let's bring in a toss about larson is joining us from paris so what are we to read into donald comments. well don and the e.u. council head has said that he hopes that we might have some clarity on whether or not u.k. any negotiators have managed to agree on a revised brigs a deal in the coming hours he thinks we might know by midnight wednesday time and what he's saying is the foundations of the deal are there and we could see that deal being presented to e.u. leaders when they gather on thursday in brussels it's seen as a deadline for u.k. agreements it's at that summit that member states would have to sign off on any

revised deal now to obviously being op to mistake there but he has also thrown in a word of caution because he is saying that of course with these breaks in negotiations things have often been uncertain so we can't say which way it will go and that seems to be the theme really of the last few days we've heard also from the e.u. is main bragg's to go shater michel barnier himself saying that he feels optimistic that perhaps a deal can be reached in time for thursday braun the other hand he says that there are still difficulties in obstacles and they really focus on this issue of the border between island part of the e.u. northern ireland part of the u.k. in various red lines least for the e.u. that there should be no return to a hard border on the island of island and that the integrity of the e.u. customs market should be maintained that we are expecting to hear perhaps something

often michel barnier will brief e.u. ambassadors a little later he was supposed to do that earlier today but that briefing has been delayed several times perhaps something will come out of that we're also hearing from some e.u. officials that even though they are positive that a deal could possibly be reached whether or not it would be a final legal text ready for thursday remains to be seen it could be though they might need a few more weeks or days on the subject of e.u. officials i mean what more have very said about these last minute negotiations. well all along the briggs's process it has been very clear that many leaders feel increasingly frustrated by how long all of this is taking how long briggs's negotiations over the whole process of breaks it is taking up so much e.u. time if you want to put it that way the french president tomorrow michael said earlier this week the water happens there must be

a clear outcome to these negotiations that either there is a deal to discuss on thursday or there isn't and the e.u. leaders must know that before thursday because what e.u. leaders do not want is to come to proselyte and still have all of this up in the air if there is a deal to be discussed in the future how that could be done or if it will be done might be another another cause for debate but they don't want to come without that clarity on thursday it is clear though that the e.u. all along have always said that they would prefer to have some deal rather than a no deal and even though they never wanted to reopen the withdrawal agreement they agreed with the british prime minister boris johnson's pre-disaster trees in may they are opening they are obviously open to discussion this is why they're entering into these last minute negotiations in order to see if there could be a breakthrough to resolve this crisis all right natasha with an update from brussels thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera a united stand on impeaching the u.s.

president we have the latest from a debate between donald trump's democratic rivals. hundreds of schools raising closer and our building collapse that sparked fear for construction standards in kenya. had as a bit more rain to come in china the season hasn't yet changed the drier cold the northeast monsoon this looks like a familiar frontal system for any other part of the world and indeed is bringing rain at least through central china in shanghai it looks pretty dry and sunny say much the same in hong kong with lotion unity but that cloud moves eastwards even though the rain goes sasson tends to die out nice position for friday so it looks fairly dry by that time the monsoon rains over india which are indeed officially

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in the world. shares these personal journey. inspiring stories of people persevering on their chosen. witness documentaries on. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera turkish president has vowed to keep fighting in syria until all this country's goals have been met. on a shrugging off international pressure for an immediate cease fire. donald trump

says the u.s. will help to find a solution to the situation in syria the secretary of state my pompei was heading to turkey to press for an end to the offensive. u.k. and the e.u. negotiators are last minute talks to clinch a brics a deal you counsel president also says the basic foundations are ready and we'll know either way within a few hours. hong kong's leader is calling for tolerance and open mindedness after rival politicians shouted her out of the legislative chamber kerry had been trying to give an annual policy speech and ended up having to deliver advice a recording from hong kong scott hide the reports. head of chief executive kerry lamb's policy address security was increased around the government complex anticipating protesters a wall was extended and more police were added. but they did not plan for disruption to come from inside the legislative council i think well i. twice lamb

tried to deliver her address you know you are saying royce she was drowned out by members of the opposition pen democracy coalition chanting and holding up signs. at one point they projected the protest movements 5 demands on the wall behind their pain so moving i will soon after the session was called off because of the disruption pro-democracy members held a news conference with a clear message all 5 months are very clear not one less. and i really urge if she can't govern hong kong and she has no the temptation to govern hong kong and she has no ability and even incapable in a ministry to in hong kong please that down kerry lamb was forced to put a plan b. into action having no success delivering her address here in the legislative council chambers she had to do it through a video feed the poll here we live in hong kong t.v. it was the 1st time a chief executive delivered

a policy address on video and it she touched on some of the big issues the people of hong kong have been calling for improved livelihoods and more affordable housing she also addressed the deep divide in hong kong society saying that an independent committee will be set up to look into those divisions later at a news conference lam said she tried to listen to all views something she's promised before well you. need to hide in the past few months this very serious social unrest his challenge. 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. lamb said that the theme of her policy address this year was treasure hong kong our home. but it's clear that there's a lot more work to be done before hong kong is

a harmonious household scotland al-jazeera hong kong more than 2 months after new delhi revoked the autonomy of indian administered tests where thousands of customers are still in jail among them are children as young as 9 years old some families accuse the indian government of torture and abuse which has even lead to suicide allegations denied by india's security forces but people are afraid to speak on camera because they fear a backlash osama bin jeffords has more. it's difficult to recall what happened to him for nearly 2 months in prison but after assurances that we will not reveal his identity this gets me boy opened up i always used to cry i was kept in a solitary cell with a toilet that was no roof and rain drenched me it was scary i was unable to eat or sleep i had to fold or lift my legs as the cell was very small there was snakes when i started shouting they used to come and take out the snakes but i didn't stop

crying a doctor was brought in and he used to inject something that made me unconscious he says he was the youngest among 25 kashmiris flown to a jail more than a 1000 kilometers away and was arrested under the vague public safety act or p.s.a. which amnesty international calls a lawless law and allows for detention up to 2 years without bail india's government has told the supreme court that 144 miners have been arrested in indian administered kashmir since august including children as young as 9 years old and some couldn't handle the trauma this father whose identity we cannot reveal says his son committed suicide after being tortured he doesn't believe the denials by the indian army that the boy was not detained or tortured at city hospital the doctor allowed me to talk to y. son i told him it will be always painful that you didn't tell us what you we break out of our program to take you live to ankara that is the turkish presidential spokesman abraham callen holding a media conference speaking about the turkish operation in northeast syria let's

listen in is more important to them of course all this noise about the operation is because this operation is run in a lot of games and. this is the main reason of all this noise about the operation so similar taney asli we are stopping a lot of games interrupting games that's why and this is the. of course the ramifications of this will continue the balances are setting up all over again in all around the world and this step that turkey has taken maybe surprises people but turkish army turkish nation and turkish country turkish state the people who know our country of course they are not surprised previously especially recently in a freighters shield and olive branch operation how we cleared our border from terrorist with this operation as well we are going to clear the east of

a freighters from all the terror organizations and we are determined about this the geopolitical earthquake about this of course we are following but all the criticism that we are receiving threats and condemnations is not going to make us turn back from our very right bookcase and turkey from as they did from now on from the very beginning we are going to continue our clever strategies and our determination no one should ever doubt this operation is continuing as its planned and on its 8 day very much shorter than what we expected we reached a lot of success and on the 8th day in the region our soldiers secured. areas and in those areas you can already see we can already say that there is peace in those areas already and fortunately for years be k.k. and their affiliations who have been supported.

by the. other western countries the branches of the pe k k n y p g if the contract is a contract a terror organization if there is a device used to. struggle against. this current this terror organization has been supported as an excuse for fighting against there this is one of the biggest scandals of our recent history that this terror organization has been supported we have seen this before all this noise coming from the ones making. all this noise are coming from the ones who are angry that they lost their device their vehicles for them in the region they are trying to say that p.k. k.

is representing this is nothing to do with the truth i have i must emphasize this because their organization has its. terror agenda and this terror jan that they are trying to they're trying to say that it is kurdish people's agenda it is not and we are completely not except in this area we are for us it's different kurds kurds and p.k. k. organization is different this is marxist leninist. dividing terror organization our kurdish brothers and sisters would never accept this. this part about politics and of course what we're trying to do is cook book we're trying to say the christians and the arabic and all the other ethnic minorities from the oppression of this terrorist organization of course if day lewis it's funny it's not to do anything to do with. the ones who are trying to explain

this as a loss for kurds i actually trying to trying to make propaganda for p.k. k. . and there are a lot of lawyers are trying to clean the name of this terrorist organization our president expressed this many times as well. at the peace operation is never going to weaken the fight against because turkey especially in general and this. in a freighters shield operation we have neutralized 3000 die members that we have deported thousands of them tented to send them back to the countries they come from and we have imprisoned them about about struggle against that they should follow the people who are saying that we have weaknesses about struggling with their eyes they should look at these truths but we have to emphasize also p.k.

k y p g and id. using prisoners that as a as a token of a bargaining bargaining. agreement there is an event there's an incident started by p.g. he is trying to release members from the prison the one night all of a sudden p.y.g. came to a prison and. they've been releasing the prisoners we have seen this very very clearly and this shows how this game came to this scope. turkish operation in the spring it's the piece being operation. they must we must of course ask who are releasing these prisoners the prisoner prisoners we should ask them a did we k.-k. should be counted for this are they going to be response are we going to are they

going to take responsibility for this this organization has been releasing these members that this is a very major threat for everyone and they have to take responsibility for this. as our president said it many times our western. message western friends is incredible that they put turkey aside and chose that p.k. k. as an alliance this is incredible only 2 days ago they are trying to make alliances with the regime and other countries it's very clear that they're trying to do this and we have mentioned this to our counterparts in the united states we've said it very clearly to them and we will continue to do so we will continue to do so and up until today you've been training these that you've been arming these and now they are making alliance with assad and other countries what are you talking about as we ask them and we are requesting answers for this and

this is our natural right so accordingly. this process of peace operation is actually. is actually starting a new process that will resettle joe politic balances the fight against terror is not only the responsibility of turkey this is an international responsibility i would like to add sometimes they create some sort of air that all of the responsibility of struggling against there is a turkish responsibility but we have fought against and we are going to continue all our ways militarily politic politics or. ok we will be determined as always fighting against die but. in this organization that has been fed by certain people it's

not try to that they're trying to misuse it they're trying to put all the responsibility on turkey and we cannot accept that ethically or politically the fight against from now on has been all the responsibility over all the actors and with their cooperation this is how we're going to fight against our so what's going to happen with the prisoners and the source company is the source countries have to take responsibility there is actually a huge legal scandal in front of us the countries who don't want to take back their their prisoners especially the western countries they are trying to load the responsibility to others of course we are going to take our responsibility but we're not going to. be taking all the responsibility as turkey this is not acceptable. on this same topic about the refugee responsibility about

refugee issue they are reducing this issue as number as a as the issue of numbers and we can see that they are failing in this test this ethical that is more moral test the western countries we have been hosting 6000000 refugees and if someone is. predicting or trying to say that many people are going to be displaced and they're going to have to move from their homes this is laughable because the people who never move their finger anything are for for the benefit of refugees now cannot they are not entitled to criticize turkey we. we have been supporting and taking care of refugees without discriminating of their ethnic backgrounds we have to also emphasize that we have been hosting $4000000.00 syrian. syrian

refugees while we're doing that we're also supporting and not the 3000000 syrian people over the border so we have been doing this is there any other country who are doing this the countries who are criticizing us they could they saying that this operation will harm the civilians all those countries who are criticizing how many syrian refugees do you have what kind of step have you taken so far about making peace in syria so hopefully up until the day operation reaches its target or reaches it and point we are going to continue the target is very clear we are going to clear our borders from all the terrorists which is why p.j. are and why k.k. and hopefully when we make those towns those villages into safe zones we are going to spend the refugees in turkey back to their countries this is going to be based

on voluntarily voluntary repatriation and so we are going to secure that of course. from a with the operation the. the claims that we are going to change the demographics of eastern syria northern syria this is also disinformation there is absolute truth about this. this bike this on the contrary to this the demographic the demographic demographics of that area has been changed by the p.k. k. they have invaded and arabic towns and villages in there and they invaded and they occupied the places these this this is the p.k. k. the terrorist organization who has been financially supported by the usa fired by the united states so what ruins the demographics in that region is by.