seeking a safe find northeast in syria the u.s. wants president and secretary of state department to turkey. are proposed tonight all the terrorists lay down their arms there. while president. lays out his conditions. offensive in syria. welcome to live from headquarters in doha with me and it's a problem also ahead protests continue in. the region says the violence must

stop. signals from london and brussels that a brics it with the sticking points over the irish border from a. high level u.s. delegation is on its way to turkey have made president regift 5 ed of the wall hoping to convince him to court off an offensive in northeast and syria secretary of state and vice president mike pence will try to broker a cease fire deal between the to the codes but at the want insists that has full so this one stop until his objectives are met. our proposal is that right now tonight all the terrorists lay down their arms their equipment and everything and destroy all their traps and get out of the safe zone that we have designated peacetime without sin the cardinal number when what we have described is

done from many beds to the iraqi border then our operation spring which only targets terrorists will end on its own. well as the operation enters its 2nd week turkish forces and kurdish fighters the battling in the strategic border town of rafah a ancora says it took control of the area days ago but its whole what appears uncertain child strapped it has more from the turkish syrian border. street to street fighting in the syrian border town of russell i mean. these are kurdish fighters men and women in a force the s.d.f. leadership says is around $70000.00 strong. many of whom were trained by international coalition forces in the fight against feisal turkey has called them terrorists for decades and is determined to clear them from near its southern border. it's the 16th of october 29th seen at 10 am says the male

voice. yes the air fighters are resisting against the enemy. calm down the attacker is behind the red door he says. the kurdish sdn from the turkish military have claimed victory in russell line over recent days. here kurdish fighters to show off a military vehicle they say was left behind by turkish forces. just out of it they attacked us yesterday with 60 vehicles trying to get inside our comrades in the s.d.f. confronted them and as you can see this is the turkish flag were kept at this and they're scaped left behind the stuff. the s.d.f. say its fighters have been prepared for situations like this for years one of our fighter calm raids are preparing for the others says the woman in the next year when in fact there are the bodies on the ground was another one where i don't allow anyone to take the body never. comrades be careful another woman says we fight we

confuse yes and success let him go don't feed. the straw. a goal to rescue their wounded so grounded by heavy gunfire. nearby turkish artillery reload and. this battle is part of a wider strategy to create what turkey calls a safe zone along the border. to key to latina to clear our border from terrorists but this operation we're going to clear the east of euphrates from the terror organizations we are determined about is all the criticism we are receiving threatening condemnations it's not going to make us turn back from our very right for case and strategy for. the turkish president says his army and its syrian rebel allies are ovoid ing civilian infrastructure and taking care not to cause civilian casualties black smoke rising over the northern syrian city of russell iran is just

one of the front lines in turkey's military offensive now the turkish military say they had planned to take control of iraq's are in the 1st phase of this military operation it's believed that most if not all the civilians that were in that city have fled for more than a week since this operation started the fighting goes on trial strafford al-jazeera near the turkish syrian border by u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi says the president had a meltdown of the house of representatives vote which overwhelmingly condemned the withdrawal of american troops from syria helos he says she believes donald trump was shaken by the number of republicans who voted to oppose his decision to pull the forces out atika hain has more from washington d.c. . u.s. president donald trump is trying on a new label for his withdrawal from northern syria strategically brilliant in 2 appearances with the italian president trump went on to list a series of false hoods quickly dismissed by senators from his own political party

kurds who are much safer right now one of the things that i think we could tragically see emerge as the potential for ethnic cleansing and against kurds now if you look at the kurds and again i say this with great respect then no angels i want to express my gratitude to the kurds. they were great fighters. we had a terrific alliance with russia wants nothing to do with isis russia is tough they can gel isis just as well to rely on russia and iran to protect us against a rise of isis is quite frankly and saying we may know more about how the president framed the issue to president in this leaked letter trump writes quote history will look upon you favorably if you get this done the right and humane way it will look upon you forever as the devil if good things don't happen don't be a tough guy don't be a fool they did go to other countries and with his vice president in the audience just hours from heading to turkey to demand a cease fire the president sent this message turkey and syria will hopefully work

it out between themselves so now what's next well all eyes will be on vice president mike pence as he heads to turkey to ask for a cease fire that experts say much less likely to happen now given the president's comments the u.s. house of representatives in an overwhelming vote passed a resolution condemning the president's move and they're threatening quick sanctions on turkey if they don't agree to a cease fire something the vice president will ask for even though it now appears the president that is sending him doesn't necessarily think the u.s. should be involved at all. al-jazeera washington. now the u.n. security council has held its 2nd closed door meeting to discuss the nation's developments in syria and members from his joint statement expressing concern over the escape of isis fighters and the west and humanitarian situation but they stopped short of making direct a direct reference to the turkish offensive or calling for an all out cease fire.

let's move on to other news now the president of spain's catalonia region has called for an immediate halt to violent clashes that have rocked the line a 3rd night the protests were sparked by the jailing of mine separatist leaders on monday over there on the catalonia failed independence bid 2 years ago but kim paula says the riots are harming the image of the separatist movement. i call for calm and serenity the independence movement is not violent we've always condemned violence we can't allow the instance that the taking place in the streets of our country is normal and is good to protest against an unfair and utterly abhorrence sentence there's no reason or justification though to burn cars or to carry out any other act of vandalism protest should be peaceful and civil the correspondence on your guy you go has more from barcelona. evening began as a peaceful sort of pro protest in march in the city center not too far away from

here with people sort of throwing rolls of toilet paper in a kind of humorous way of dispersing some of this of this tension here but then that sort of quickly moved on when you had disparate groups going off in different directions they went to the outside of the catalan interior ministry where they were calling for the castle interior minister to stand down saying that he hadn't done enough to condemn police officers against what the protesters say was. over heavy police tactics in trying to control the violence on the streets here but this is just one point where we're at now and you just had sort of. situations upon situations of where they've set fire to rubbish containers there even been vehicles that have been set alight which has been sort of quite shocking for the residents here as well. and certainly has been going against the repeated calls

from several catalan politicians for there to be peaceful demonstrations and of course actually the 9 politicians and activists who were sentenced on monday as well made also an appeal for there to be peaceful now today earlier on the catalan president he thought around was out taking part in a march. against the sentence saying he didn't explicitly condemn the violence that was seen in the past 2 nights but he reiterated that he's in favor of a specific of pacifist means however. he has come under sort of quite strong criticism for not being strong enough against the violence that has been seen on the streets here now last minute breaks that negotiations are continuing with leaders hoping that a deal can be approved at an e.u. leaders summit on thursday the french president

a man you met hong says he wants to believe that an agreement has been finalized paul brennan reports from london. 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 according to those in the room it was a short 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 there is for everyone. 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 here in westminster the planetary alignment has not yet been achieved in order to allow a deal to take place but into that 3 brand mix stall tusk has introduced the idea that a deal could just be hours away the financial burden that the group of the folded over 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 and 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 bring a room with 2 doors either this deal with it which is a compromise or potentially no deal i'd 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. well still ahead on the bulletin of mozambique awaits the results of its high stakes election as activists complain of vote tampering and the battle a constant threat to the elephant how britain still trying to stop sales of ivory. hello there plenty of cloud across central regions of china the some rain with it

as well because the the cloud really pushing east was in the last few hours coastal areas of the south fine and dry and it'll get humid temperatures a bit lower than they have been just 21 celsius in shanghai on thursday but you can see where the bulk of the rain is now sitting in the last several days so we could well see some localized flooding and again we've got more range of these coastal areas all the vietnam side of all that on saturday and hello with a high there over 27 degrees celsius and quite cloudy in shanghai as well on friday 23 and feeling quite humid under the plenty of rain farther to the south across much of indonesia pushing across into sulawesi and through thursday fairly extensive rains through much of quite cloudy with those thunderstorms across the peninsula similar story really on friday and again the rain telling to stay across into southern as the thailand come boda so a wet day and been cold with a high of 34 still plenty of rain into southern sections of india of course the northwest making good progress relatively dry but again a lot of moisture coming in from the east so some fairly persistent rain farther to

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it's good to have you with us on al jazeera these are our top stories the u.s. secretary of state and vice president mike pence are on their way to turkey to push in northeastern syria part of a delegation hoping to meet president. but he insists that the offensive won't end until his objectives have met. and turkish forces and kurdish fighters are still battling in the strategic border town of ross on and meanwhile syrian troops have entered the border town of bani as turkey tries to establish its so-called safe so in northern syria. and other news the president of. torah has called for an immediate halt to bother to clashes that have brought a 3rd night the protests follow the jailing of 9 separatist leaders on monday.

now france and germany have reached an agreement on arms export rules for their joint military programs but they remain at the saudi arabia where germany has agreed not to block french exports to 3rd countries so long as the equipment is made with less than 20 percent of german components germany bad for its to solve the last year the president a man you met on defended for his decision to continue sending weapons there david chaytor has moved. the french president emmanuel mccrone the german chancellor angela merkel described the talks in toulouse as appeared of intense cooperation they both agreed to have signed new agreements on an arms embargo against turkey for their incursion as they called it in to north east syria but the divisions between the 2 leaders were exposed at a cure in a session of that press conference and the french president from for the

1st time really defended that he was keeping the arms sales to saudi arabia going while germany is opposing him let's hear what emanuel macro had to say is takes too long should we have stopped all exports to saudi arabia because saudi arabia is a partner that has been attacked by sailing on its own territory we traced to refrain from brutally cutting all types of relations of riyadh as we would have provoked had we cut our ties or saudi arabia this would have led to them forging alliances with other nations. now at least $35.00 foreigners have been killed in saudi arabia after their boss collided with a truck with the media says the passengers were pilgrims of arab an asian descent that happened about 170 kilometers from the dino home to one of islam's holiest sites. at least one person has been killed and was a big when police try to disperse a crowd at

a voting station after polls closed in tuesday's election all ballots are now being counted but activists say they have been several incidents of vote tampering malcolm webb has more from the capital. the voting materials have been brought from the polling stations to counting centers like this one here are the ballot boxes that voters had placed their ballot papers into and the ballots from each polling station are being counted and put into metal boxes like this there are more stacked up on this side and this counting center there are more than 140 polling stations worth of materials here the officials are preparing the final reports but not everyone is happy with how the process has gone the center for public integrity is one of several organizations that monitoring the elections has reported violence from dozens of polling stations and one case a province where a crowd disputing the count started throwing stones police responded firing people

burning tires outside and old coffers and happened there according to our service on the ground which are local people there where 5 people were shot dead by guns and one of them unfortunately died. opposition of complained of pre-taped ballots some observers say they were blocked from polling stations and counting centers. the electoral commission says none of the irregularities are significant enough to affect the result and police haven't confirmed any deaths. generally the election process was peaceful and tranquil we urge the people to remain calm and peaceful and wait for the information being broadcast. and the media. people in mozambique can't just waiting for counting and results to be announced but also waiting to see if this is an electoral process that they can trust. to hong kong now

a pro-democracy protest organizer has been injured and what rights activists say was a politically motivated attack jimmy sham says he was on 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 is the 2nd time sharon has been assaulted since the protests started almost 5 months ago they began to propose changes to extradition laws which have since been withdrawn. now hundreds of informal schools and kenya are being closed after one collapsed in nairobi last month killing 8 children about $10000.00 students will now be transferred to public schools which are already overcrowded catherine sawyer reports. janet morse your car has just buried her 14 year old daughter. was in a school building collapse last month in nairobi killing 8 children. 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 i got to 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 mass selling traditional i'll call. the owner tells us he sent all 200 children home when government inspectors said the building is not safe and also that.

we're. not sure. what the. contre 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. lives are there whether the head of the. world these rules and under when they come and believe there would be they leave this structure of funding if they're focused on jane what's your cause pain is far from over she says she trusted teachers and the government with her daughter's life now she wants justice catherine. nairobi. now more than 2 months after new delhi revoke the special status of indeed administered kashmir felton's of people there remain in prison and some families accuse the indian government of torture and abuse which has even led to suicides allegations denied by indian security forces the people are afraid to speak on camera because they're afraid of the backlash asama bin job it 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 me boy opened up. i always used to

cry i was kept in a solitary cell with a toilet there 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. hospital the doctor allowed me to talk to why son i told him it will be always painful that you didn't tell us what you've gone through in a broken voice he said i have sacrificed my life for kashmir india's government revoked kashmir's autonomy and imposed a security lockdown in august it's also arrested thousands of people in the subsequent crackdown human rights organizations and activists in india have protested against the restrictions even lawyers in kashmir want us to hide their identities because they fear the state's crackdown. due to the fear of torture young people are not staying at home security personnel are even using megaphones in torturing victims it's all very disturbing due to a lack of communication accurate information about juveniles and youth is very difficult to get. but the government says its actions are to provide security and improve conditions for kashmiris these decisions are taken place were taken at the

local level by the law enforcement authorities after all the factors into going to . all those detentions have been continuously under some. people who have been. too afraid to reveal their identity the sisters say their only breadwinner was their brother who was detained 2 months ago he was arrested on august 9th 2 in the morning the soldiers took him from his room we met him twice at the police station in shopian and then he was shifted to she. later we found out that he's been sent to the we can't afford meeting him as we don't have the money because he was the only breadwinner for our family the. prime minister in there in ramadi has promised that revoking cushnie special status will usher in development and progress. many among the nearly 8000000 kashmiris facing a lockdown in restrictions find that hard to believe salman job there now around 55 african elephants are killed for their ivory every day so and take

them as in the u.k. a challenging a new law which criminalizes trade an almost all ivory artifacts even when the ivory is from elephants killed many years ago charlie actually reports the majestic african elephant wild and free but constantly under threat its 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 of law the 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 forging and i reach out to you. but antique dealers argue that business does not fuel elephant poaching they want the law overturned with seeking a declaration that the u.k. ivory act and is unlawful under 80 you know and the trade in 47 worked specimens which commonly known as antiques has long been harmonized and illegal and the u.k. didn't actually have the power to depart from that legislation and 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 invalidates the u.k. ivory act still hasn't been implemented and it won't be until this case is complete

currently the european union rules and i betrayed him over the last not 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. al-jazeera and. you know again i'm elizabeth raanan daughter with the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. secretary of state and wife of president mike pence are on their way to turkey to push for a cease fire in northeastern syria they're part of a delegation hoping to meet president dredges 5 at the on but the president insists that the offensive want to end until his objectives are met. our proposal is

that right now tonight all the terrorists lay down their arms their equipment and everything destroy all their traps and get out of the safe zone that we have designated going to the dogs in the car going to them when what we have described is done so many beds to the iraqi border then our operation spring which only targets terrorists will end on its own. will turkish forces and kurdish fighters are still battling in the strategic border town of. meanwhile syrian troops have entered the border town of kabbani as turkey tries to establish its so-called safe saw in syria and other news the president of spain's catalonia region came thought or has called for an immediate halt to violence that rocked barcelona for a 3rd night the protests follow the jailing of 9 separatist leaders on monday but thought this is the riots the harming the image of the separatist movement. fredricka. i call for calm and serenity the independence movement is not violent

we've always condemned violence we can't allow the instance that are taking place in the streets of our country is normal and it's good to protest against an unfair and utterly apparent sentence there's no reason or justification though to ban cars or to carry out any other active than lism protests should be peaceful and civil rights france and germany have reached an agreement on arms export rules for their joint military programs they remain at odds of a saudi arabia germany has agreed not to block french exports to 3rd countries so long as the equipment is made with less than 20 percent of german components which germany banned arms exports to saudi last year well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us inside story is coming up next thank you very much for watching.

i. called hong kong's leader faces more calls to step down as politicians disrupt annual policy address can carry law and hold on to her job and what needs to be done to end 4 months of arrest this is inside story. welcome to the program i'm still robin hong kong as chief executive is struggling to maintain public order there have been full months of antigovernment protests that have turned a fine.