out of there is not easy they put it too late we already had the information they're listening pounced 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 us 1st defeat 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 breakfast a deal is within reach but sticking points over the irish border remain. hong kong's embattled leader carry lion is forced to abandon her annual address as pro-democracy lawmakers call her in the city's legislative council and. on

poor 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 thank you for joining us the battle lines of syria's civil war are being redrawn as turkey's military offensive enters its 2nd week syrian government troops have entered the town of combining with the u.s. and kurdish fighters defeated eisel 4 years ago the government forces have been allowed in after cutting a deal with syrian kurds who are fighting turkish troops battles are also raging in the key border town of ras al-ain kurdish fighters are filling the skies with smoke to blind the turkish warplanes of fighting turkish backed syrian rebels on the ground meanwhile russia has stepped into the void left by u.s.

troops deployed patrols and offering to mediate a resolution and the u.s. vice president to travel to ankara to push for a truce of the turkish president says he will not bow to pressure back in washington the u.s. president donald trump is playing down the crisis saying it's fine for russia to help the. syrian government and that the kurds are not quote angels and syria 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 kurds 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 see them because they go to reports 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 wipe e.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 u.s. have listed as a terrorist organization and the soap aeration 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 and car has rejected present pleasure taper don has laid out his own conditions on how to end the separation wouldn't agent it take if 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 to the syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. which help the u.s. push out of large 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 out of 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 what washington has put sanctions on turkey 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 searing government that once called it a traitor but one thing is clear for turkey kurdish fighter group in northern syria poses a serious threat to its existence so now because solo al-jazeera stumble was in a hotel is following developments from the town of the czech lay on the turkish syrian border and seen a joins us live now says in a 1st of all what are the latest developments from on the ground where you are. well the turkish led offensive continues they have been trying to capture the border town of russell line for over

a week now the battles are fierce the kurdish led syrian democratic forces there putting up resistance mounting a defense using tunnels trenches so really making it difficult for the turkish army and their local allies to capture this town and capturing rusling is important because they want to include this town in a safe zone that turkey wants to create in northeast syria the offensive really has 2 objectives one is to push the kurdish led forces which turkey considers a terrorist organization away from the border and at the same time create a zone to allow millions of refugees to return but the question is how is turkey going to implement this plan now that the syrian government has returned to the northeast of syria and now we're getting reports that they have entered the kurdish held town of coal bani which is right along the turkish border with syria so the presence of the syrian government is going to complicate the situation and russia

of course backing the syrian government deploying the military police along front lines basically telling turkey do not advance any further so turkey is suffering a relationship with the united states was also serious differences with russia a country that it's supposed to be working with in syria russia making it very clear to turkey were not happy with your operation in syria and even hinting that they don't want turkey to have a permanent presence in the north of the country not just now but they would like them to leave every area in the north of the country so hard bargaining ahead when the president or the gun visits moscow at a later date the date for that meeting has still not been set there is another meeting though that will probably happen sooner and that's the u.s. vice president to travel to apparently pushing for a truce we heard donald trump use perhaps stronger language than usual when directed at the kurds do you think that that is going to have any impact on the

situation on the ground and especially turkey's approach to its operation in syria . well it will definitely have an impact with on the relationship because turkey has been very frustrated with how the united states and the west has been dealing with this crisis they've been saying that it is incredible that their western friends turkey of course being a nato member is siding with a terrorist organization the p.k. k. instead of of an ally turkey we've heard that from the turkish presidential spokesperson now that the president said that the p.k. k. is worse than i so this will definitely be welcomed by the turkish government so but so far turkey has not been able to rally international support to back its operation in syria and that's not just that what turkey was hoping for was the international community to support this plan to return millions of refugees to syria the european union for example said no we do not agree with this plan this

and this is not going to be safe returns for refugees these people do not originally come from this area but turkey is saying many syrians cannot return to areas under the control of the government because they are afraid they're afraid to be arrested they're afraid to be detained there so turkey trying very hard really to to get the international community to support its actions now with trump saying that that you know the peak is worse than i saw it definitely will help the relationship say no to with the latest there from my check in the on the turkey syria border zain as always thank you. the prospect of a breaks a deal is tantalizingly close french president emanuel across says he wants to believe an agreement has been finalized and hopes the leaders can endorse a deal on thursday fulbright it reports. 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 wednesday afternoon quoting to those in the room it was a shorter bouncy speech short in duration but also short on details and that's because even at this 11th hour intensive negotiations are ongoing i said last week that i thought there was a pathway to possible agreements and that is still my view or the question is whether the negotiators will be able to bridge the remaining gaps in advance of tomorrow's cancer. what's important now is that all focus is kept on achieving a deal that every striving. europe's chief negotiator michel barnier gave a morning briefing to e.u. commissioners at 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 alignment has not yet been achieved in order to allow a deal to take place but into the mix stalled tusk has introduced the idea that a deal could just be hours away if i can show them that the group of the. basic foundations of an agreement are ready said the european council president of the one island's 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 out of 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 al-jazeera westminster. we'll have the latest from brussels 1st though we can speak to rory chalons who is in westminster as so rory is the go ca sions continue between the u.k. and the e.u. in brussels what's actually going on in london. well i think with the shower this takes. the expectation all for any. deal this evening has got lower and lower and the sources that have been talking to british media from inside the government and now saying that they don't think that that is going to happen tonight basically the you and islands seem to be broadly happy with what they have discussed with the british government with downing street but downing street does not seem yet to have been able to convince the d. u.p.a.

the ulster northern irish unionist party that is crucial to getting any deal over the line that what they can offer is is good enough yet for them to sign up to it now the d e p are very wary about the idea of a border between northern ireland and the rest of the u.k. regulator e and customs border that is what seems to be being talked about in that in that deal this deal that was trying to hash out with the european union so if they are going to come on board with this presume that they need to be sweetens in some considerable way or reassured that this this regulator in customs border is going to be temporary once they are on board if they do get on board then there is still a huge amount of distance that needs to be covered between now and saturday

if boris johnson is going to avoid having to write that letter said that he'd rather be dead in a ditch than right asking the european union for an extension of brecht's it's from the 31st of october through well whatever that extension might be because time is running out even if there is a deal that is agreed say tomorrow there is a huge amount of work that needs to be done with this deal being put to all these 27. different european union members for them to. agree to it properly for it to come back and get put through parliament most people i've been speaking to today have said that it's very unlikely that that is going to happen before saturday before boris johnson has to write that letter or a challenge of the latest from westminster on that angle of the story very thank you let's go to the who joins us now from brussels so that tasha what is the latest on the as far as we know.

was no doubt we have been hearing a lot of positive statements from various you officials and leaders over the last few hours there was a joint press conference between the french president about all macron the german chancellor angela merkel a macro said that he hoped that perhaps an agreement was in the process of being finalized angela merkel also by his side there in toulouse in france at this press conference said that she had heard lots of positive things and that perhaps we were in the final sprint now in terms of the final sprint that might be the case because we gather that there is certainly a form of agreement between e.u. and u.k. officials that have been negotiating very hard over the last few days but there are still some details that need to be finalized and the question is the question was i should say with that deal be ready for those e.u. leaders arriving in brussels for their summit on thursday would it be ready for them to sign off on on and at this stage it doesn't look as if that is the case we

are hearing that the british prime minister boris johnson will come to brussels perhaps in a bit to try and persuade e.u. leaders at the very last moment to get on board with this deal but for the time being we are left only with the knowledge that the e.u. chief brigs negotiator michel barnier is briefing ambassadors as to the situation as to how these negotiations of go on and what might happen next and those on buses will be relaying the messages that they have heard here this evening in brussels back to their capitals and leaders and hash about that with the latest there from brussels the tasha thank you and still ahead in this half hour demands for independence catalan stage another night of mass protests in barcelona. and then teach dealers in the u.k. challenge a ban on ivory products even though it's not yet come into force. had

a very mixed picture yet again across much of europe you can see in the satellite pensive clouds to me and from the west beginning to squeeze out these clear a bright areas across the east not the same time within this massive cloud with the rain showers that have been some pretty heavy thunderstorms as well and not just that these thunderstorms have been spawning tornadoes this is one that impacted down in southern france and it just devastated a campsite as you can see here that is what is left but the worst of those storms are continuing now just to fizzle out and work their way eastwards but there's more rain on the cards are all the big day of low pressure to sitting off the northwest of the u.k. that's spreading the rain and the fairly gusty winds across the u.k. northern france through the channel and again some areas of rain into northern spain and portugal and across again into france but again across much of the east of europe it's fine it is dry and how much is not fighting too badly 20 celsius in

kiev 23 in book or s very warm still in athens with either $25.00 but by friday a very unsubtle pace cools much of the western half of europe so it'll be a case of scout achiles fairly cloudy skies and as i say those winds are pretty brisk across much of the northwest now the same time though some bits and pieces of cloud working their way across northern sections of north africa now much the way still warm in tunis with a high of 27. that believe the i'm still in. a place like no. 4 generations gone by this ali. the discovery of precious leaf you know the song threatens to change the way of life trends. witnessed sellitto are now just the raw.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera syrian government troops have entered the town of cool bania where the u.s. and kurdish fighters defeated eisel 4 years ago the government forces have been allowed in africa and deal with syrian kurds who are battling a turkish military offensive and his battles rage inside syria the u.s. vice president is preparing to meet the turkish president to ask for a truce the syrian government's ally russia has also offered to mediate and the u.k. and the e.u. are on the verge of agreeing a last minute breaks that deal negotiators have been holding talks in brussels

although any agreement still needs to be approved by e.u. leaders and the u.k. parliament. hong kong's leader has been forced to abandon her annual address to leave the legislature after pro-democracy lawmakers shouted her down furious legislators held up signs and called carrie lamb the mother of the mafia police over her response to anti-government protests that have swept the city for months lam later delivered the speech via video link but didn't appear to make a new peace offering to protest scott hardly reports from hong kong. head of chief executive kerry lammas 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 by using the law. twice lamb tried to deliver her address you know you are seeing through ice she was drowned

out by members of the opposition penned democracy coalition chanting and holding up signs. at one point they projected the protest movements 5 demands on the wall behind their pain so nothing 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. and i really urge if she comes got the wrong call and she has no the temptation to govern hong kong and she has no ability and even incapable in a ministration 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 poet carried live on 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 is facing the incidents of recent months i realize 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. 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 it's got hardly al-jazeera. in spain thousands of people

have taken to the streets of barcelona for 3rd night to protest against lengthy jail sentences handed down to catalan separatist leaders police have doubled down on calls for order after tuesday's protests turned violent the protesters are angry after 9 separatist leaders were jailed for their role in catalonia as failed independence bid 2 years ago meanwhile demonstrators from across the region have begun walking along major highways to the regional capital ahead of a rally on friday night. a major rebel group in sudan is suspending talks with the transitional government so dan'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 m n the says it will not resume negotiations until its conditions are met the group has been fighting the sudanese government since 2011. a new round of

fighting is broken out between libyan government soldiers and forces loyal to the warlord highly for our military sources have told al-jazeera that a drone belonging to libya's internationally recognized government targeted have terrorist forces in southern tripoli if u.s. foreign minister has demanded that the u.n. security council include half in its sanctions list for war crimes against civilians around $55.00 african elephants are killed for their ivory every day their tusks turned into carvings and trinkets now and 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 charlie angelo reports from 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 are 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 ivory markets 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 to deal with the problem of coaching and i reach out again. but antique dealers argue that business does not feel elephant poaching they want the law overturned with seeking a declaration that the u.k.

ivery act is unlawful under 80 you know and the trade in $47.00 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 for she would render the entire ivory act invalid the u.k. ivory still hasn't been implemented and it won't be until this case is complete currently the european union rules on ivory trade i'm over the last night why this case is being rushed through the courts before the break the deadline of october 31st but similar bans 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 for future generations. and.

sweden's government has returned to the exude skulls of sodomy 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 sami people are increasingly under threat from climate change and say the government isn't doing enough to combat the crisis for rhys's more 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 on this gesture may heal some wounds new ones are being opened up as the government is accused of failing to properly deal with the climate crisis that threatens the sami

way of life and much of the of the wealth that sweden has has build on its build on sami grounds the 1st thing is to to to face the history of colonization what the state has made. 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 the average global rate the farming on the front lines of quiet change is being felt particularly in ancient forests like this where growing on the ground provides rain there an animal now facing starvation. thousands have died despite their hurt his efforts to feed them by hand while melting ice sheets have cut off their migrate 3 routes across the arctic sami reindeer herd is say the

situation is made worse by the disappearance of the old forests replaced by plantations growing for logging by big business. in half 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 some new territory just explode exploiting it again destroying. making our lands into being a huge industrial parks sweden's environment minister refused to comment on our report struggles between the sami 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 reese al-jazeera lapland sweden. much more on that story and everything else that we have been covering on our website al-jazeera dot com. in a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera syrian government troops have entered the town of qubani with the u.s. and kurdish fighters defeated eisel 4 years ago the government forces have been allowed in after cutting a deal with syrian kurds who are battling a turkish military offensive turkey's president of the hans's he will not bow to international pressure to stop attacking kurdish forces. and his battles rage inside syria the u.s. vice president is preparing to meet the turkish president to ask for a truce the syrian government's alley ally russia has also offered to mediate

a holder has more. well the turkish led offensive continues they have been trying to capture the border town of russell line for over a week now the battles are fierce the kurdish democratic forces there putting up resistance mounting a defense using tunnels trenches so really making it difficult for the turkish army and their local allies to capture this town and capturing rusling is important because they want to include this town in a safe zone that turkey wants to create in northeast syria. the u.k. and the e.u. might be on the verge of agreeing a last minute breck's a deal negotiators have been holding talks in brussels although any agreement still needs to be approved by e.u. leaders as well as u.k. parliament both sides want to finalize the proposal before an e.u. summit that begins on thursday the u.k. is currently shy jule to leave the european union on the 31st of october. and hong kong's chief executive kerry lam has been forced to abandon her annual address and

leave the legislature after being shouted down by pro-democracy lawmakers furious legislator is held up signs and called land the mother of the mafia police over her response to anti-government protests that have swept the city for months stake you live now to barcelona you can see there are huge fire has broken out in a central part of the city there have been protests in barcelona for days and hours that were sparked by jail sentences. for catalan separatist leaders we'll bring you more on that story and everything else in the next half hour the stream is next now.

hi emily and you're in the stream what's the danger of facial recognition technology civil liberties groups say privacy shouldn't trump protection but government and police argue that attack ensure safety but do you think. today will look at how major cities are taking very different approaches to facial recognition and explore how the chinese government is using this technology to track citizens but 1st how does facial recognition even work check out this clip from a documentary i filed for a.j. plus. facial recognition software creates data points that compare facial features databases are built from drivers.