al jazeera. with. al-jazeera. watching the news hour life from a headquarters in doha i'm dead coming up in the next 60 minutes donald trump is sending his most senior officials to turkey hoping they can hold the syria offensive but even before they've left the u.s. president appears to undermine the mission. earlier turkey's president declared no world power can stop the operation rejecting demands for a cease fire. and barbara sarah in london with the top stories from europe

including signals from london and brussels that a breck's a deal is imminent but sticking points over the irish border remain. also ahead hold off the political stage hong kong is embattled leader is forced to abandon her annual policy speech. i'm going to get you off go with the sports olympic officials move next year's marathon from tokyo to escape the city state. hello the u.s. is dispatching vice president mike pence and secretary of state mike on pay 0 to turkey hoping to convince it's a hole to its military offensive in northern syria for president donald trump appears to be talking down america's role in the crisis saying syria and turkey will hopefully work it out by themselves turkey launched the operation a week ago after trumper broccoli withdrew support from kurdish allies for kurdish

allies which turkey regards as terrorists. tiriel doesn't want turkey to take its land i can understand that but what does that have to do with the united states of america if they're fighting over syria's land are we supposed to fight a nato member in order that syria who is not our friend keeps their land i don't think so but syria does have a relationship with the career it's the thing that's common is that everybody hates isis now the p.k. k. which is a part of the kurds as you know is probably worse a terrorist more of a terrorist threat in many ways than isis so it's a very semi complicated not too complicated if you're smart but it's a semi complicated problem and i think it's a problem that we have very nicely under control then whether it is monitoring developments on the turkish syrian border while our diplomatic editor james bays is at the united nations where the security council has been meeting live to both

after we bring in particle a and joining us from washington to break down what president trump had to say this is the tone that he was using patty considering that his high level delegation including his vice president are heading to turkey in a couple of hours. really mixed messages here i mean think about this the vice president of the united states the secretary of state about to get on the plane in about 4 hours time head over to turkey and try and convince president her to want to basically go it with a cease fire something he's very publicly said is not going to happen so as they get ready to leave the president comes out and says we don't really care it really has nothing to do with us this is between turkey and syria and he went on to say that if russia gets involved better for them basically good for them pretty much every single thing the president has said from the white house during his meeting with the italian president has been shocking to his conservative party faithful we're hearing from senators that the president is using turkish talking points when

he says the p.k. k. is actually worse than the islamic state of iraq and the levant he went on to say that he didn't greenlight turkey's mission and he took offense at the question but i think it's important to point out that the 26 to 28 troops that the president says it had to come home had been there for years turkey had not taken this step because under president barack obama and under president trump of the deal this point the gamble for turkey was you can go ahead and come in but you better hope that no u.s. forces are injured in the assault so those 26 to 28 forces soldiers were enough to keep turkey from taking this step so the president here is defending himself saying turkey was going to go in so i had to get the soldiers out they're safe now he went on to say the move to keep u.s. soldiers safe was strategically brilliant he also talked about the kurds saying they're not angels and then he went on to say basically the kurds are safer now

which obviously is completely not true ok particle hand thing too over to our diplomatic editor james bays at the united nations because as patty was saying there are contradictory messages coming out from the white house and from trump himself is there a more unified message that's come out of these security council james. there is a more unified message but i think potentially it is on the cot by the somewhat incoherent and rambling message coming out of the oval office and i think potentially that undermines that important visit to ankara via the vice by the vice president and the secretary of state the national security advisor because president trump seems to say things are strategically brilliant right now at a time when finally the u.n. security council has found some unity and issued its concern finally some words the security council president was able to read out expressing concern and so that

message undermined as was a subsequent statement by president trump's own ambassador. to the united states calls on turkey to halt its offensive and declare a cease fire immediately to this and at the president's direction vice president pants is now leading a delegation including secretary of state mike pompei o united states national security adviser robert o'bryant and ambassador james jeffrey to press for an immediate cease fire and discuss the conditions for a negotiated settlement turkey's military offensive into northeast syria is undermining the campaign to defeat isis endangering innocent civilians and threatening peace security and stability in the region. i threw a question to the u.s. ambassador kelly craft about that strategically brilliant quote from president

trump she walked off the 3rd time she's spoken to reporters here at the u.n. and not taken any questions from us the russian ambassador vastly benzion said he found that comment most confusing i can tell you 2 european diplomats said perhaps president truck was talking about russia's position because if you look at the last 10 days or so the only country that things have been strategically brilliant for is president putin and his diplomats all right james bays thank you now despite the intensifying diplomatic pressure for a halt to the offensive turkey's president remains determined rather tell you are one says nothing will stop until all these countries goals are met here's some of us who are from istanbul. it's been more than a week since turkey has launched its military operation in north assyria. a

campaign against the syrian kurdish group and the y. p.g. turkey stays the y.p. g. is the syrian branch of the kurdistan workers party or p.k. k. that turkey the e.u. and the us have listed as a terrorist organization and the soap ration is to stop what turkey calls a terror corridor or near its border the us and the arab league have called on turkey to halt their operation of request has rejected present pleasure taper don has laid out his own conditions on how to end the separation wouldn't age in that pic give you miss. our proposal is that right now tonight all the terrorists lay down their arms their equipment and everything destroy all the traps and get out of a safe zone that we have designated the i.p.g. is an important element of the syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. which help the u.s. push eisel out of florida parts of syria but uncle as offensive against them has

prompted the syrian government to move back into some parts of the northeast under an agreement with a.s.d.f. the syrian army has not been here in years and the american delegation including vice president mike pence and the secretary of state mike compare are expected in turkey by thursday president trump has decided to send the highest level delegation he could possibly send for diplomatic purposes other than himself right i mean the vice president and the secretary of state and i'm sure they are convinced of their own persuasiveness with a full force of the u.s. government behind them but i i think that president carter one there's no chance he's going to implement a cease fire or allow any mediation until he feels turkey has achieved the goals that he defined want to washington has put sanctions on track and is threatening to impose more if the syrian operation doesn't end when it comes to syria alliances shift quickly on the ground and on the negotiating table the many kurdish s.t.'s feels abandoned by the u.s. and has now turned to the syrian government that once called it

a traitor but one thing is clear for turkey kurdish fighters grew up in northern syria poses a serious threat to its existence seen them to solo al-jazeera stumble. not as in a hood whose song the turkey syria border in a chunk of days so we heard from 3 turkish officials today including the president himself with a very determined message saying now that the operation will continue. how is the military operation actually playing out on the ground and what kind of resistance are they facing. well it's continuing the turkish led forces are continuing their push to one eliminate the national security threat that's how they call it they want the syrian kurdish fighters to be away from the border at least 30 kilometers that's according to the turkish president. to go on fighting is continuing the kurdish led syrian democratic forces there putting up

a fight fierce resistance they're mounting a defense relying on tunnels the trenches so the turkish led forces have not been able to capture ross a line that is a border town they need that town in order to create a safe zone because this is not just a anti-terrorism operation they want to push the syrian kurdish fighters from the border and turkey wants to create a safe zone to allow millions of refugees to return but they have been able to secure approximately 100 kilometers of territory a stretch of territory along the border but turkey is facing another a poet opponent really and that is russia the syrian government is now back in the northeastern corner of syria of course the russian backed syrian government the russian police being deployed along frontlines in a really intimate and clear message to turkey that you cannot advance any further for example they deployed military police in the on the northern outskirts of

memphis city and turkish led forces were on their way to capture the city and russia really unprecedented criticism of turkey these 2 countries who should be working together in turkey and said russian officials are saying that we do not we do not accept this military operation turkey needs to respect the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of syria russia telling the turks we we don't want to see any military presence in syria all together so unprecedented criticism the turkish president calling his russian counterpart late yesterday his russian counterpart putin inviting the the turkish president to visit moscow but there's. still no date for that meeting but definitely hard bargaining ahead and in a listening to president trump speak in the past hour from the white house he did say that the kurdish group the p.k. k. is worse than the islamic states i wonder if there's been any reaction from turkey to that or what we expect the reaction to be it's about statements

so far no reaction but definitely it will be welcomed by turkish officials because turkish officials have been frustrated by the lack of support that they have received from the international community in particular the west and the united states they have repeatedly said our western friends our western powers if they have decided to partner or ally with the p k k which is considered a terrorist organization instead of a fellow nato member this was something that was reiterated by the turkish presidential spokesman ibrahim cullen not too long ago so turkey even questioning for example why this global outrage why didn't we see this global outrage when the u.s. led coalition which was fighting eisold killed civilians in mosul in the iraqi city of mosul in the syrian city of rekha the turkish president also asking today dozens of rockets landed in turkish border towns and more than 20 turkish civilians were

killed in the ongoing operation why didn't we see world condemnation then so they feel that the west really didn't side by turkey in its operation in syria they didn't even get the support from the international community for their plan to return refugees the european union saying that no we don't accept this we want refugees to return safely to syria but the question turkey has been telling them you're leaving with us to handle this problem alone why don't you start admitting refugees if you're not going to help us implement some plan to deal with this crisis ok is enough without thank you. the rest of the day's news is still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour and ivory dealers in the u.k. pushed back against the ban on all ivory products even antiques made long ago. on poor recent lapland sweden where the indigenous sami people say by way of life is under threat not just from climate change but from the government solutions to stop. growing up and support avoiding to protest why barcelona's matchwood real

madrid could be moved joe has the details on that later. the 1st officials in london in brussels have signaled a new brick said agreement is in its final stages and could be agreed by e.u. leaders assume this thursday for more we can cross to barbara starr their european broadcast answer hi barbara. they're in high last minute breaks a negotiations are continuing with leaders hoping an agreement can be approved at an e.u. leaders summit the french president the minimum across says he wants to believe an agreement has been finalized colburn and reports now from westminster. the summit is shrouded in cloud but we are almost there the words of prime minister boris johnson at a closed door meeting of his party m.p.'s on what is the aftermath quoting to those

in the room it was a short bouncy speech shorted your ration but also short on detail and that's because even at this 11th hour tense if negotiations are ongoing i said last week that i thought there was a pathway to possible agreements that still might be or the question is whether the negotiators will be able to bridge the remaining gaps in advance of mars canst but support you know is that all focus is kept on achieving a deal that at every step. europe's chief negotiator michel barnier gave a morning briefing to e.u. commissioners but that stage significant issues remained unresolved. the lunch break offered a brief glimpse of the u.k.'s chief negotiator david frost but still no news of a deal that he think agreed would still need to be approved by britain's house of commons with international diplomatic efforts happening simultaneously to the political wrangling in westminster the palmistry alignment has not yet been achieved in order to allow a deal to take place but into that fever on mix donald tusk has introduced the idea

that a deal could just be hours away that the group of the. basic foundations of an agreement are ready said the european council president of the on islands democratic unionist party is not yet on board the british prime minister now leading a minority conservative government has to somehow secure the support and the votes of m.p.'s from across the political divide we're in a room with 2 doors either this deal with it which is a compromise or potentially no deal at hate for us with all the damage the reputation impact of the consequences of no deal let's go through the right deal agreement at this late stage would mean the use leaders can give only their political endorsement rather than full formal agreement when they meet on thursday and friday but that would itself be seen as a major breakthrough and would pave the way for a momentous vote in the u.k. parliament on saturday paul brennan just syria westminster well we have 2

correspondents covering this story for a challenge we'll have the latest from westminster 1st though we can speak in the passion butler in brussels so that what is the latest on those negotiations ongoing there in in brussels. chief exec negotiator michel barnier is briefing ambassadors he is telling them what the situation is after what's been an intense few days of talks between e.u. and u.k. officials as they try to reach a deal that could be presented. summits on thursday to e.u. leaders to possibly sign off on and now those e.u. and brussels and then of course return to their capitals and brief e.u. leaders on what has been said and what's on the table so far but there's no doubt that over the past few hours they've been increasingly positive messages coming from several in the leaders we heard for example from the french president was

having a joint press conference with the german chancellor a macro saying that he would like to believe an agreement is in the process of being finalized german chancellor angela merkel saying that as far as she was concerned she'd been here positive things and perhaps were in the final sprint the thing is the final sprint does not mean necessarily that we are at the place that we need to be in order to have this final legal text ready for that summit on thursday could be and this is what some are saying that the 2 sides of reached the sort of deal that still needs a few days to work on and we understand that there could still be some obstacles such as issues tax in northern ireland so we still don't know what will happen we know that the e.u. council head has suggested that we might have some clarity by midnight local time wednesday here in brussels i guess a lot of bush's negotiators there are for a breakfast even a no deal breaks and say that having the possibility of

a no deal sort of strengthens their hand with the e.u. realistically from what you're hearing there in brussels how much do some or most e.u. leaders fear a no deal scenario with the u k. well you know e.u. officials have been very consistent all along this process they say that as far as they're concerned they already agreed a deal that was a deal made with boris johnson the british prime minister's predecessor to reason may a deal was on the table that would allow the u.k. to leave the e.u. in what's being you know repeatedly called an orderly fashion however the e.u. says that they would prefer a deal than no deal and that is why they've opened up themselves they've opened themselves up to these last minute negotiations even though they had often said that they would not reopen the withdrawal agreement but we know over the last days we heard for example from the e.u.

council head donald tusk that even though time is running out every chance needs to be taken because you leaders have made it very clear that the new deal scenario is in no member states interest to be very costly and very disruptive it has followed with the latest there from brussels that hash for the moment thank you let's go to westminster now were a challenge joins us with the latest story while the u.k. government was negotiating in brussels with the e.u. there's also negotiations ongoing in the u.k. itself because of course this deal then has to pass through parliament tell us a little bit about those negotiations. yeah well downing street is at the moment trying to persuade the democrats the union's party the ulster unionist northern ireland unionist party that is crucial really for getting any kind of deal over the line it's the party that is propped up to reason may's conservative governments and is also crucial to boris johnson's as well and they are going to be absolutely

instrumental if any deal is going to get through the houses of parliament but the indications seeming are that there is still no agreement with them it's still sticking what donald tusk was saying earlier in the day that since 7 or 8 hours we would theoretically have some kind of idea of whether this is going to work well that kind of i think confidence is draining away now that we will get anything today and we can speak to georgina right from the think i mean studio government what do you think is going to happen later on today or are we actually going to get any idea about what it looks like i mean i don't think anyone right now can predict what's going to happen what's clear is that the and you can geisha it is still talking and that's a good sign it's a good sign because it shows that as we'll on a side street but whether they do reach

a deal by this time tomorrow and whether they can in dorset at the european council remains to be seen the crucial thing though is where this border is that is and whether it's between the republic of ireland and northern ireland which obviously the e.u. is ruled out from the get go or whether there is some sort of customs and regulator a border between northern ireland and the u.k. and oversee the day you pay does not want that to happen they are pretty and see that kind of set up so what is the the u.k. government could offer them some sort of and political moisturizing bond that it's soothe any interest here at station that they might have a well we don't know what the u.k. government has put. the they said we want the whole of the to you leave the customs union and that was absolutely a red line and you know no diff report of the u.k. should be treated differently to the rest now of course it's not only about what the government wants or in fact what they want it's about what compromise can be reached between the e.u. and we know that the was sort of open to this idea that no the knight in should

have a great to say of what happens in the future what how that pans out what that consent looks site will we'll see when the legal text is published if one is going to be published and the of the of course big obstacle was iran customs said the u.k. government proposal was do you know what the whole of the cave the customs union but northern ireland would apply e.u. terrace which meant any good that came in from g.b. so the rest of the nile and if it was destined from the republic following it to already apply the itar thought minimises checks in on the borders and if it remains in northern ireland and that's different tariff then that can be an arrangement that to see can repay so is there a chance i'm going to have to write this letter to the european union apart from extension in your view do we have enough time to go to do so i think there are 2 scenarios one is the british an easy negotiated agree a deal whether that's in principle or the legal text that satisfies the u.k. government and the tos that they could induce them to mari if that happens then

they could talk perhaps about a short technical extension a short delay that would allow ratification so approval by the european parliament and here the u.k. parliament and if you can you negotiate is feel they still need time to discuss and to negotiate that deal they might then reconvene next week and talk about a further delay but what we do know that with absolute certainty is unless government brings back a deal by the 19th. and then government will be forced compelled to offer for a further delay to generate you very much room service but to. chalons with the latest from westminster thanks for now more from london a little later in the bulletin now let's go back to the. arbor thank you well michael mckinney mckinley that is who resigned as a senior advisor to the u.s. secretary of state last week is the latest to be questions in the presidential impeachment inquiry he follows a senior state department official in charge of ukraine policy who testified before

the committee on tuesday george kent was quizzed about his knowledge of trump's efforts to have ukraine investigate his political rival joe biden democrats are accusing the trumpet ministration of obstructing the inquiry meanwhile donald trump has been asked whether he is worried that his former national security adviser could testify at the impeachment inquiry it's been revealed john bolton described trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani as a hand grenade who's going to blow everybody up in relation to his allegedly back channel activities in ukraine. john bolton i get along well with him some people didn't some people didn't like john bolton i actually got along with him pretty well. it just didn't work out i don't know that he got along with rudy giuliani rudy giuliani who are seeking out corruption and what happens mostly in the 26th election because there was tremendous corruption in the 26000 election i think even you would admit that the election was it was disgraceful what happened and what

happened to me and what happened to the republicans and that continues with nancy pelosi and we shift adam schiff got caught making up statements that he said i said that i didn't say which is fraud i mean spirited purely fraudulent so it continues i still had on the al jazeera news hour hundreds of schools facing closer how a building collapse has sparked fear of poor construction standards in kenya. we'll hear from the south african rugby team ahead of what's being billed as a revenge match against japan in the world cup quarter finals. how the thunderstorms are over the lebanon and elsewhere a couple days ago are still visible in this massive cloud here most of the activity i think is going to be of a turkey but you certainly couldn't rule out something happening now

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the ground to bring you more award winning documentary and life needs. hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour the u.s. president donald trump has downplayed the importance of american involvement in syria his comments appear to undermine a diplomatic mission by the u.s. vice president and the secretary of state who are traveling to angkor as a call for an end to the turkish offensive in the north east of syria. and turkey the president has promised to fight on in syria until all of his country's goals have been achieved it comes despite the intensifying diplomatic pressure. u.k.

and euna go seeders around last minute talks to clinch a breakfast deal you council president says the basic foundations are already and will go either way within a few hours. well turkey is stable and how bank says criminal charges against its in the us are part of sanctions imposed as punishment for its syrian military operation prosecutors accuse bank of being at the center for a scheme that helped iran to avoid sanctions they say gold was bought with iranian oil and gas profits which was then sold for cash in dubai this enabled iran to buy goods and services because companies didn't know the money originally came from to her nearly a $1000000000.00 was reportedly laundered in the scheme. economics editor of the explains this further. the united states has brought cases against 15 other european banks over the last few years and they have paid cumulative fines of

$20000000000.00 the last 2 cases were standard chartered in april and unique both of those companies paid between $1000000000.00 to $1300000000.00 so the cost of what banks will have to pay we just don't know at this present moment but seeing that you know we're talking about billions of dollars in the in the money that could be the sum total of of their find see the impact of of this on the turkish coming will probably be very minimal right now because turkey is a been through a lot of storms and money created by by the u.s. president last time he put in sanctions on the country but before that we had the crisis with russia when they shut down their russian jets and so there has been a huge impact on each case and but this time they seem to be a little more resilience in the markets for this kind of event would seem today that you know the shares the share price of. bank has come down 7 percent and

has become slightly and we're seeing a shortage of of of the lira in the in the international markets so this is a concerted effort by the to basically limit the damage. i pro-democracy protests organizer has been injured and while hong kong rights activists say was a politically motivated attack jimmy sherm says he was making his way to a meeting when he was confronted by a group armed with hammers he's been treated in hospital for head injuries it's the 2nd time she has been assaulted since the protests started almost 5 months ago they began over proposed changes to extradition laws which have since been dumped meanwhile hong kong's leaders calling for tolerance and open mindedness after rifle politicians sounded her out of the legislative chamber carillon had been trying to give an annual policy speech and ended up having to deliver it via a recording scott heiler reports the 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. going i mean twice lamb tried to deliver her address. saying why she was drowned out by members of the opposition and democracy coalition chanting and holding up signs. at one point they projected the protest movements 5 demands on the wall behind their pain. 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 get that call and she has no the temptation to govern hong kong and she has no ability and even incapable. i mean

a straight in hong kong please that. 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 a high in the past few months this very serious social unrest his challenge. facing the incidence 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 own cause. a major rebel group in sudan is suspending talks with the transitional government the group called sudan's people liberation movement north says the government violated a cease fire by attacking its positions talks with various armed groups began on monday the s.p.l. or men says it won't resume negotiations 'd until its conditions are met the group has been fighting the sudanese government since 2011 hiper morgan is in juba with more so than people's liberation movement north under a bill as he's in halo is one of the largest opposition in sudan and just 48 hours after the start of peace talks between it and the sudanese government as well as

the various other armed groups the s.p.l. and north and their ability to handle announced that it is suspending those talks after their rapid support force of the paramilitary sudanese government forces attacked some of its positions and abducted some of its people we have been very keen that peace process which started. by its integration of 14 should not be developed but since yesterday and the day before yesterday has become too much it cannot be tolerated anymore we have brought 54 points but we need the government to talk with them. our coming bar to negotiate on their border is bound by government decisions to clear all of these things the government should. we draw its forces understand from gaining new ground by. we will not allow dr now just

moments after abbott as he said hello announce that it is suspending talks with the sudanese government the thumping council headed by a bill for to announce that there will be an nationwide ceasefire in the areas of conflict to try to push the peace talks here in the south of his capital juba forward and that is something that the abilities of his office have asked for as well as the release of those who have been captured by the rapid support forces and other armed groups are saying that there should be along with that release of all prisoners of war and political prisoners as well as the return of seized assets so while the peace talks were launched on monday here in juba there remains a lot of issues to be determined between the various factions involved in the talks before 'd sudan actually begins to put its 1st leg and start the peace process officially in spain have continued or a decision to hand down then the jail sentences to catalan separatist leaders and for more that will cross parts of. the regime thousands of people on the

streets of barcelona for the sword night running can see some live pictures and now from the catalan capital they're angry over the decision to jail 9 separatist leaders for sedition for their role in catalonia has failed in the pendants bid 2 years ago police have repeated their call for calm after tuesday night's protests turned violent the government has said it will respond firmly but proportionately to keep order meanwhile demonstrators from across the region have begun walking along major highways to the regional capital ahead of a rare of a rally on that friday night. 6 bulgarian football fans have been arrested after black england players faced racist chants and gestures in a match in safina on monday nazi salutes and the monkey noises were directed at the players during the euro 2020 qualifier which had to be stopped twice during the 1st half because of the racist abuse they had of the country's football association has

resigned around $55.00 african elephants are killed for their ivory every day their tusks turned into carvings and trinkets now and teeth dealers in the u.k. are challenging a new law which criminalizes trade in almost all ivory artifacts even when the ivory is from elephants killed many years ago. reports from central london the majestic african elephant wild and free but constantly under threat it's estimated $20000.00 killed every year to meet the global demand for ivory ivory that is often smuggled to asia where desire for carvings and jewelry is still high in an attempt to decimate elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade the u.k. passed a law last year banning almost all sales of antique ivory pieces. a lot of government and conservationists and all fighting to defend ivory exports from the u.k. is the highest compared to any other country in the world and what is even more

concerning is most of the ivory going out of the u.k. is going to problem i remark in such as mainland china and hong kong to the u.k. ivory act tries to address these loopholes and tries to fix this problem and more broadly deal with the problem of coaching and i reach out. but antique dealers argue that business does not feel elephant poaching what the law overturned with seeking a declaration that the u.k. ivory act. and the e.u. and the trade in 47 worked specimens which commonly known as antiques has long been harmonized and in the u.k. didn't actually have the power to depart from that legislation because it's very important that it's harmonized across the e.u. so we're seeking a declaration today which and push it would render the entire ivory acts invalid

the u.k. ivery are still hasn't been implemented and it won't be until this case is complete currently the european union and ivory trade him over last night why this case is being rushed through the courts before the break the deadline of october 31st but similar on ivory a being introduced in other countries like new zealand australia and singapore following the u.k.'s example in the hope that by removing ivory status as a desirable commodity they can help protect elephants to future generations. and. sweden's government has returned to the exiled skulls of people taken by the state decades ago for scientific research but as one rift with the country's indigenous community begins to heal another is becoming more apparent some people are increasingly under threat from climate change and say the government isn't doing enough to fight the crisis. from lapland in sweden.

returning the dead to their final resting place. of 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 the sweden has has build on its build on sami grounds the 1st thing is to to to face the history of colonization what sweden a state has made. to my people just a few kilometers inside the arctic circle the town of york mark is a center of summary culture in sweden fine 1st 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 in ancient forests like this where growing on the ground provides food for rain there an animal now facing starvation thousands have died despite the hood his efforts to feed them by hand while melting ice sheets have cut off their migrates routes across the arctic. sami reindeer herders say the situation is made worse by the disappearance of the old forests replaced by plantations growing for logging by big business markets and there are enough then that we've heard 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 hydro electric plants today sweden is placing almost all of their

parks territory just explodes exploiting it again destroying. making our lands him to be industrial parks sweden's environment minister refused to comment on our report struggles between the sami people and 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 way of life and the arctic as we know it are to survive paul reese al-jazeera lapland sweden. that's it from london for this news hour let's go back to the rain in. barbara thank you well kenya is closing hundreds of informal schools it will affect 10000 students who will be transferred to public schools that are already overcrowded or the move was prompted by a building collapse last month that killed 8 children catherine sawyer reports from

nairobi. jonathan with your car has just buried her 14 year old daughter. was in a school building that collapsed last month in nairobi killing 8 children. namely bike i dieted high that day is no life without her she tells us. harriet had just been transferred to the school and was preparing for her final primary school exams. i did not think it was that serious when they got the information reached the get i did see the school building it was flattened i went straight to our class it was and just so glad it was so confused. since then the kenyan government has ordered the shutdown of about $300.00 community and private schools mainly in low income areas thousands of children will be affected so this is the one and several schools in nairobi have already been closed like st catherine primary. which was

once used as a pass selling traditional i'll call. the owner tells us he sent all 200 children home and government inspectors say the building is not safe and also consider that . but they said that the. contra millions of children attend community or private schools in poor neighborhoods because they're cheaper public schools are free but they're too few crowded and far apart this school has just over 100 pupils some one classrooms on the fast floor but government officials have said all children should be on the ground floor until inspectors come by to approve the structure teachers say the school is mostly run by money from nonprofit organizations and some payment of school fees by poor

parents. they also accuse some government officials of corruption for allowing substandard schools to operate of course they do the government because. of this one yeah they always come to our school to do their. share what is going on in different schools where the structure of our. they are within the head of the. world do fools and under when they come and believe and would believe this structure of funding if i'm stunned jane what's your cuz pain is far from over she says she trusted teachers and the government had built his life now she wants justice kathleen saw. nairobi haiti's president has vowed to fight corruption in his 1st press conference since protests resume last month calling for his resignation haitians are angry about corruption inflation and fuel shortages among other things opposition leaders have rejected moises previous attempts to fix

the problems. the u.s. currency is making a comeback in cuban stores the government will allow $77.00 shops to sell their goods in dollars from the end of the month possession of the dollar and other treatable currencies is legal but people weren't allowed to use them for purchases cuba a state run economy is struggling because of a tightening of the u.s. embargo. i had only out 0 news hour as the sports news in north korea draws criticism after hosting a bizarre football world cup qualifying match against south korea. to strengthen the good you have to shoulder court all the more with your camp still fight against corruption. news hero heroes like no who are about to be

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hello again time for the sports is with joe thank you both lennar real madrid have rejected a proposal to move their classico much away from boston i know because of protests in catalonia spain's i think ahead also the spanish football federation for the wave of the caution in the city following the training of a can of catalan separatist leaders the matches you take place on saturday. 26th of october also insisted most who played the new camp morrell madrid say if there is a security risk the much should be postponed entirely meanwhile barcelona star struck in a messi has been awarded the european golden shoes the accolade is awarded to the top goalscorer in league football in europe messi scored 36 goals last season as barcelona retained the league a crown is a record extending 6 golden shoe for the arjun time you a 5 punished lots here for racist behavior by their fans during the europa league

match with studded red earlier this month for sections of the stadium will be coast for the next european home much that syria will also find $22000.00. south korean football fans are angry after being left in the dark as the national team played the northern neighbors for the 1st time in 30 years they woke up qualify a young had no live coverage no media and no spectators in the stands for mcbride 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 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 few still images released by south korean soccer michel 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 see that despite repeated requests no supporters were allowed to travel to watch

this match no south korean the b.t.o. were allowed in which meant no live television coverage not even any live radio commentary if you wanted to follow the event 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. 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 that they is. the president of 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 that really 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 it just over a year and a half ago with joy teams and all the rest by contrast to this soccer match was distinctly frosty a reminder of the bad old days and for many an ominous indication of the way the relations might be heading. the olympic marathon race walks during next year's games in tokyo being moved to avoid the heat in the city events will be taken 800

kilometers north to sapporo where it's expected to be significantly cooler tokyo held a test event in september but the high humidity cause problems for some competitors for the 1st time in 86 years washington fans are getting ready to see their team play in baseball's world series the nationals completed a whitewash this and louis cardinals on choose day in the american league championship series victory in game 4 was based around patrick corbin's 12 strikeout performance and the cardinals will hurt by some all for work in the field this mix up between jose martinez and colton wong failing to take a simple catch manager mike shields struggled to watch that one washington went on to wrap up a 74 went on the night with a phone and series victory of world series appearance is even more remarkable given the fact they had such a poor start to the season. you know how far we get back. but i really believe that

these guys could turn turn a sorrel right from right from the get go and they did and we played really well through after may 24th we we played baseball throughout the rest of the year and the result is what you see. the houston rockets leave the american league championship series 21 against the yankees all to victory in new york in game 3 home runs from jose out of 8 and josh reddick set the rockets on their way they went on to take it all one box heavy rain in new york late game 4 to thursday. south africa's rugby players don't think their woke up quarter final against japan is about revenge the springboks had one of the tournament's biggest ever upsets when they lost to them in the pool stages in 2015 south africa did beat japan in what much for this tournament but they know we very different on sunday knowing that we had the loss against your fan in 2015 at all i wouldn't say would always be

stuck in it but we know that that it's happened but it's 4 years later it's in europe with unity for us and we just have to keep holding we thought we yeah it's a tough one i don't think you can ever be better for it because. it's going to be back but i think what's important is for us just to stay in the moment and not let that get to any of us now the world's biggest solar car race has been hit by strong winds 2 cars been forced to pull out of the $3000.00 comes to rice through australia after being flipped off the road by 70 kilometers per hour gusts the rice lead it was one of them the driver was taken to hospital in the outback town of cooper p.t. organizes also had to put in 80 kilometers speed limit on the cars to keep the remaining pets to safe. all right that is useful for now have. ok thank you very much for that and thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera that's it from myself and joe and the team here in doha but we hand you over to our teams

in london barbara sara is with you in just a moment to more news on al-jazeera but way. to strengthen the good you have to shoulder good all the more with your calm still fight against corruption. new cheero which heroes like no who are about to be refused a $15000000.00 brian the achievement of heroes like him to showcase by the international ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to fight a darker use to shine a light let's make the road to better place nominate your anti corruption mirror.

before you go testing about how does this include where they are on line well i face many people seeing us directly out of trance like it's lately or if you join us on sand this is an attack on academic freedom and on our ability to do research and teach freely this is a dialogue myanmar is not making it very welcoming for people to come back everyone has a voice climate change is real the discussion is real and i'm here to talk about the solutions on al-jazeera every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories. to listening posts. we turn the cameras on the media when the intelligence services control much of egyptian 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

not a yes they pose it too late we already have the information they're listening post on al-jazeera. as turkey's offensive in syria enters a 2nd week syrian troops push into the town of combining with the kurds and the u.s. 1st defeated eisel together 4 years ago. hello i'm barbara sara this is al jazeera live from london also coming up signals from london and brussels that a break said the old is within reach but sticking points over the irish border remain. hong kong's embattled leader carry law is forced to abandon her annual address as pro-democracy lawmakers

take over in the city's legislative council and. on poor recently sweden where the india.