i mean the european union. the u.k. government as i went to dalton one thought in the region the rule agreement read the article people the question of the protocol in ireland and not an island. throughout these negotiations do you want to u.k. where food he committed to protect feasts to protect that beauty fun on the vinyl. we add that to we can sidle do objectives 1st include illegally or purity photos shown in the woodwork reman that would avoid the odd border between iran and the north an island preserve the or island economy and protect the integrity of the single market. secondly a point to extremely important to prime minister johnson and the u.k.

or the north of ireland remains in the u.k.'s customs territory the discussions over the past days at a times been difficult. but we deliver on and we are very very old to get. the solution that we found rests on for a main elements number one norseman island will remain and i and 2 limited set of e.u. rules are not up very early to 2 goods this means that all are applicable procedurals on goods and we take place at the bones of and 3 into northern ireland and not across the island. for this propose u.k. authorities will be in charge of applying do unions customs code in no

some island. number 2 beyond applicable proceedings there is also the questions of customs duties not an island will remain indicative ukase customs territory between a deaf or benefit from the u.k.'s future of trade policy but not an island would also remain an entry point into our singular market so what have we done to square these circular u.k. authorities can apply a new kit to race on products coming from 3rd country so long as those goods that i'm touring also 9 and are not at risk for and during our singular market however for goods to risk of entering this year market you care of there it is

would apply the use tariffs number 3 this 9th and this morning or so. we were working on the issue of the a t. it is an important subject to avoid distortion of competition within the single market for good and this point or so all we have managed to achieve 2 objectives of maintain the integrity of the single rocket that are so satisfy that ukase digit to meet wishes. and finally one of the fore. prime minister johnson and the 2 shock one key to ensure long term democratic souple for the application but u.k. authorities of relevant union rules in northern ireland for us after the

entry into force of the political the elected representatives of not so 9 and we'll be able to decide by simple majority whether to continue up writing what haven't union rules in north for 9 on the fall not these democratic support is a call on a stool of our or a newly agreed approach wind because these newly agreed protocol or these no longer to be replaced by a subsequent agreement between the e.u. and the u.k. so it makes sense to ensure consent they didn't have time and obviously when discussing northern ireland we talk about the economy. about the technical matters but goods but let me say very frankly that for

me since day one since the 3 years what the really matters the people. the people of nelson and and out what really matters is peace. but i mishear on phone. sure you do not go to what kind of news of all. they're just broadway's if he breaks if you go she eyed him as you were listening today was outlining this deal that has been reached between the e.u. and the u.k. that he says will provide certainty to both individuals but also certainty for corporations that give them really strong strick each different point he was always being the question of northern ireland in the outline there and what this deal will mean it will mean that northern non remain under u.k.

customs law but it also reminds a law and the union regulations of course this deal still has to be ratified so bring in lawrence lee now going to joins us live from brussels lawrence you are listening into that we heard there from michelle obama saying that it provides certainty but there are still so many complications here and complications particularly around ireland reminding part of you tell customs but aligned to e.u. regulations as well and the resistance that we're seeing immediately from the democratic unionist has to be ratified by the e.u. as well this is phase one where does it go to from here. yes so let's just try and break it down a little bit because it is enormously commentated the that the european union has always insisted that 2 things need to happen if they get to do any deal over what happens and on with that with with with the british the 1st one is the combi any customs arrangements on the island of ireland that was the basis for to resume a's

old deal which included this thing called the backstop which which which left the trading open until technological solutions could be found at some point in the future to sort it all out and the 2nd thing is maintaining the good friday peace agreement on the on the border and that involves keeping the border open as well three's a maze deal did that but as a challenge was saying earlier on in their last 3 times in parliamentary votes in the u.k. parliament this deal does the same thing but in a slightly different way because to a large extent it puts the trade border not across ireland but in the sea between the island of ireland and the rest of the united kingdom and so as you said goods passing from the u.k. mainland into the european union through northern ireland would get checks for tariffs and stuff like that at the point of entry in as they travel into northern ireland so in that sense it squares of all the concerns for the european union in the same way that series m a's old deal did so you know everyone is desperately excited about this here but you know i sort of jump all over it and say it might be

difficult but you know as you said you know that the democratic units in northern ireland are going to feel like they've been thrown under the bus by by boris johnson his government doesn't support that doesn't rely on their support anymore because he's got a working majority of manas 45 the problem is the loss of really hard line conservative progress that m.p.'s take their lead from the democratic unionists as well and if the democrat unionists say we're not we're not in favor of this then arguably a lot of a lot of those hardliners will say well in that case we can't support it either and as well as that jeremy corbin's labor party has said it can't support it and won't support the entire thing to come from a tree referendum but the whole thing back to the people again there's one election . monitoring body in the u.k. that thinks at the moment that when it comes to votes in the british parliament on saturday the government would would lose by 17 that's that's what they seem to think at the moment and the only way i can see around this is if boris johnson to series a may try to do which is pay off the democrats are used she could measure

a 1000000000 pounds for projects in northern ireland sick sick to get them on site there's also told that boris johnson is often the loss of money to try to secure their votes but these are people who aren't so much interested in money and stuff like that as they are in the integrity of the united kingdom and the idea for them that the northern irish economy could be more closely aligned with the republic of ireland and the european union with that they would see that very much as a step towards a united ireland and for them that's a political death so whatever happens here about we're going to deal and we can we can run with this it's still got to get through the british parliament and it just looks perilously difficult and i and lawrence what about the other side is well these 2 are likely to be some concerns as we become more aware of the d. tile than working through the text of this deal from some in europe as well around questions of tried in questions of you know some of said does britain become a little singapore and and and adopt its own lower tax regulations and so on is that level playing field question is that still an issue in europe.

you know to some to some degree i think it is yes and the germans in particular have been saying that in the future the u.k. could become a competitor and try to undermine the bike by as you say trying to do better trade deals with the americans and this sort of thing but i think the thing you can't overstate is the the just the gigantic amounts of frustration of the european union has that this is just basically taken over every other thing they want to do the e.u. has tried so hard to accommodates breck's it's despite all the allegations from the conservatives that they're the ones who are in the way you know that they've always said we're in favor of a deal all we need to do is protect islands and if island says we're happy then the rest of the 27 will will fall into line behind on it as well but they got gigantic other amounts of stuff to talk about the issues do the enlargement of the european union north macedonia this new country wants to get on with a succession process the un the french standing in the way and that involves

albania and potentially ukraine as well as potentially you members there's then budget next year to think about they've got a pile of stuff on their plates and bricks it keeps getting in the way because the british can't figure out a position on it so from the european union's point of view i think the overriding thing is is to get a deal that they're happy with and trying to the british eventually design up to something in that sense the not very unhappy with it but the block for the whole thing is the british parliament which which can't find any way of agreeing on or on the way forward lawrence thank you for that we're going to stay with us now jonathan lease is deputy director of british influence that's a pro europe think tank and business advisory group and he joins us on skype from from london jonathan you are no doubt listening to what lawrence had decided there before that we were hearing from your body i saying that there is certainty but there is really not a lot of certainty is there and there's still so many questions and there are still so many complications around questions of northern ireland questions whether this can even be delivered politically within the u.k. where do you see things right now. well this really is

a question about the democrats a unit. and what that. because we have to remember this deal is a lot worse for them than teresa mayes deal and they rejected mastery times so trees amazed you had northern ireland diverging on the single market from great britain northern following the e.u. single market for gears in regulations but not on tyra's because it was the whole u.k. it was in this backstop the customs union indefinitely who you have now is. the g.b. great britain will have its own customs tariffs and northern ireland will apply the e.u.'s tariffs so that used an even more divergence and then you have this idea of consent which has been mentioned already and the idea that the d.p. firouz the shin fein see the irish nationalists main party until it simply

collapse the assembly will any vote because that's how the good friday agreement works and that means the northern could effectively be tied into the e.u. tariff regime for half an hour without any obvious way to extricate itself and the problem is if you have an economic to unite sign and wish this that would be that precipitates potentially a psychologic the unites aren't which is one thing the d.p. wants to avoid and what you say here jonathan is what you know we often learn from history is that compromise is often the devil's work and this is a compromise where you have a little bit of this a little bit of that yes you still part of the u.k. customs but essentially you're abiding by are aligned by the e.u. regulations as well and you say there is that ideological issue of belfast being brought closer towards dublin what would move the democratic unionist lawrence were suggesting that perhaps there may be some financial inducements we've seen that in the past and then there is the ongoing question of just whether their opposition

would be enough to scuttle this. that's right so obviously on the financial question personally i'm slightly skeptical of a speak used for the for the d.p. the most important thing is preserving the union economically. above all and so that's more important than financial inducements externally more important bracks it so if there's a sense that belfast is going close to dublin and further away from london and upsetting this very very delicate equilibrium which is managed to exist the last 21 years very successfully and that may be insurmountable for them. you know it's not impossible that they could still be a way forward but it seems very hard to imagine how that could come today the other point here is that the labor party they must now be thinking that it is time to pull the plug on its government which as we know as a new majority and then go into the election campaign on the on the question about

whether the public wants this deal which will be very unpopular with both leaders and remain a state to get or they want to have a referendum on this deal or remaining so that is the goal not genes even labor to bring the government down setting aside the misgivings setting aside the opposition from the democratic unions and what this my main politically if this ultimately did go to an election is this still more than you would have expected this is a better outcome than you were fearing is this a better result on the bars johnson than what to reason may was able to deliver before. it really depends on he says that if you're coming from if you are boris johnson it is a success because he's managed to water down some of the problems from trees and also the back stock which is going to be indefinite now technically relies on the votes in northern ireland which wasn't the case before but for him if you remain or let's face it if you're in sit in the british economy the mystery terrible to

recuse the u.k. is now not going to be in a custom scene and definitely that means a huge disruption to supply chains because it will be operates on on different regimes by the government's own estimation and the heart wreck city which this would be. impact g.d.p. by 6.7 percent so there are huge problems about to the prosperity when you take a step back this deal is no good for business and business and that has raised serious concerns for the government about the future of regulations now the other point that boris johnson is on the level playing field because one thing that he really wanted was to ditch trees amaze commitments to have a level playing field which would mean that the u.k. would keep the same level of regulation regular g harmony with the e.u. in various sectors he was forced to back down or not it seems and so now parsons and has accepted the same level playing field commitments to trees and they had

we're just going to infuriate a lot of people in his party because it means that each day we'll be following the same rules and aligning at the same rules as the flu but this time without any set of them to be very difficult advocates in seats at the end up to the talking up the deal but still so many steps ahead and as we've been saying on the program we've been in this situation before journalist appreciate you giving us your time thank you thanks very much. so now the situation in syria a high level u.s. delegation has arrived in ankara hoping to convince the turkish president to hold his military campaign in northeastern syria u.s. vice president mike pence and secretary of state mark compilers are expected to meet president richard type of one in the next couple of hours a talks are already underway in ankara where the u.s. national security advisor robert r. bryan has met the turkish foreign minister never to have a saga of the high ranking diplomatic push is happening is critics back home in the u.s.

accuse donald trump of clearing the way for the offensive by pulling american troops out of the region meanwhile turkish forces and kurdish fighters continue to battle in the border town of russell and considered a strategic point for both syrian government forces are moving north and now a major obstacle for turkey and so is russia which has been placing its forces between the parties and as they fight it out on the battlefield civilians of course according the middle hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and some a crossing the border into iraq which al stratford is standing by in chelan on the turkey syria border with 1st they're going to sue them closely or who in ankara cinema ahead of these meetings we heard from donald trump last night very confusing messages about leaving it up to turkey and syria but this is a very very high level delegation from the u.s. are they going to be able to shift president to one and he's ambitions and his

determination to press ahead with this with his objectives. well yes since yesterday we are hearing more makes back messages added to the already mixed messages from washington. last night was was very surprising for turkey especially about this letter that was that was said to be sorry is written and signed by president donald trump and said to sent to air done then we learned that it was sent on oct 9th on the day of the operation beginning all the delegation is coming to ankara this is welcomed by the turkish officials present arab don is going to meet the silence of the geisha led by vice pres the mike pence and secretary of state my home player but from the turkish side from ancora i can tell that this delegations visit and whatever they're going to offer

it doesn't seem to be changing present add ons and turkish militaries mind in terms of stopping this militant ongoing operation in northeast syria you know whether to clear the area from the syrian kurdish fighters group the y.p. g. because for turkey. is the syria offshoot the branch of the out those kurdistan workers party which is deemed as a terrorist organization not only by turkey but the u.s. and the e.u. as well and turkey has fought this armed group to pick k.k. for almost 4 decades $15000.00 civilians plus military members also plus some kurdish citizens who have joined this armed group within the spirit so true to see is this the relation between why p.g. and the are pretty k.k. as an existential threat that's why they are totally determined to continue this operation but so far when you look at washington anger at the us when it comes to syria you we how witness so many changes this might the harsh attacks from the

platic attacks let's say with harsh words from both sides at the end of the day they managed to calm. around the table and discuss the negotiate but this time the negotiation needs to be different when you look at our don statements especially from yesterday he said whoever is coming to ankara to tell us to stop the suffrage and shouldn't even bother because we're not going to change our mind so there will be some negotiations on the table because there are also possible sanctions to be imposed against turkey by the u.s. by the white house and most wealthy and most of the congress doesn't support it trumps a pullout from syria so when you think about this turkey is also stuck in a corner with the already fragile economy also there were there there is step to be sanctions again against the officials in order to stop their entrance to the countries but one thing is important the defense industrial is said to be exempt

from this sanctions and turkey united states the fence in bus 3. defense industry is a big industry we speak up we speak about a lot of money here mostly turkey buying from the u.s. so this is going to be an interesting meeting after meeting with the delegation led by the vice president parents are gone is going to come together with an american delic a delegation from the u.s. defense ministry so today will be full of surprises. thank you so much for that ms course. tom between us vice president and president. in a few moments we'll have the weather jenny harrison but still ahead. more on the aftermath violence in mexico police are among dozens dead this growth of this community. and in sports showing off at the beach an incredibly hot pursuit both beach games in town.

and there have had some very heavy rain across southern portions of mexico and it has unfortunately led to some fairly widespread feeling particularly into the states this is the actually the pictures showing you the flooding across this particular region has been fairly widespread it is because a system had just been sitting in the pacific coast just off the pacific coast and didn't have a several days it's been doing its best to actually develop into trouble storm not didn't quite make it that fall the winds never quite developed in the system didn't get organized enough however it will continue to spread more rain across much of southern mexico as we go through thursday and there's also another little system a watching just there in the gulf of calm peachey which will actually push into the gulf of mexico as we go through friday but it stays very unsettled across much of

this area for the next couple days so not helping at all with those areas that have seen the flooding meanwhile the central plains under red flag warnings for fire danger and then day we're watching in the northeast this is known as a nor'easter and the warnings in place very widespread all the way from delaware up the coast into maine and this is actually pictures coming out of connecticut in the last few hours there's been some flooding but it's really about the winds of this storm system it could be seeing some actual weapons up to 100 kilometers an hour and that will really impact this entire region eventually moving way says stay on into friday. sponsored town. at night in a stockholm somali moms patrolled streets police good and noble and i want to welcome my children in yemen tired of gang violence they use the maternal approach to prevent crime.

but a bit by the stories we don't often hear told by the people who lived there mothers of rain could be this is europe on al-jazeera every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening palin city as we turn the cameras on the media when the entire in-service is control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president and focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most getting an accurate informative story out of there is not easy they pose it too late we already have the information they're listening pounced on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera here's a reminder about top stories this hour leaders from the united kingdom and european union say they have reached a deal on brics a european commission president jiang quote described the deal is fair and balanced for both sides but of course it still needs ratification from both the e.u. and u.k. parliaments a high level u.s. delegation has arrived in ankara hoping to convince the turkish president to call off his offensive in northeastern syria it's believed vice president mike pence and secretary of state my compost will try to broker a cease. turkish forces meanwhile in turkish fighters are continuing to battle in the border town of ras considered a strategic point for both syrian forces moving north also become a major obstacle for turkey. in the democratic republic of congo

hundreds of thousands of people who fled fighting in the it cheery province are in desperate need of basic necessities 11000 sees a warning there is an urgent need now for food water shelter and medicines the group says people are dying every day from preventable diseases because of appalling living conditions the situation is becoming worse as the driest season approaches and that pushes up food prices. in manual dambisa is the d c humanitarian program manager at oxfam and he joins us on skype from from goma it's nice to have you with us on the program it is an absolutely horrifying situation that you're facing there the numbers are so high and the conditions are just so appalling take us through what people are facing on a daily basis with issues of disease of overcrowding and the numbers of people who are dying right now. thank you very much for having me

and imagine a situation that we are used. in a context where. you have people living in function towers 500 people have to share one to treat our daily and people who come period of immediate partnership. we did it because he really sees it right now people are living in makeshift shelter trust women and children. continue to be introduced to potential concerns this is the reality that we have to the need to re and as you many children up close we are pretty concerned about this because it's a very desperate situation and that you think everybody needs to be done why should out on protection of our civilians in short i'm not people they would to return to the police of a region and got assistance is provided it as much as possible to be able to save lives and restore the lost dignity of property populations most of whom are women

and children and as we speak right now in the 2 republics one of the things that you've highlighted the other number of people who are being impacted and indeed dying from what are preventable diseases what are the types of diseases the people of facing there right now. we are talking about what i want to see because. people do not touch access to cyprian whata right now. busy sunday she's i have to go but i'm happy to say outstretched in terms of the number of people that i knew no questions just not going you know i'm here somebody says we delivered a number of years of your time i believe. people are equally going from how that will be not about what. we are going to look at not even more that is who are in. from this. all these factors are really going to the money to your situation right

now in egypt and we strongly believe every tip is to be done so that's a beautiful in approach to be able to save lives in a timely manner not most of our pump while. we've been children got out the most after 10 people we are going to affect their communities right now as you say women and children most definitely among those most affected in a real concern over violence perpetrated towards them sexual violence as well directed at women and girls it is a dire situation i appreciate you giving us your time today i thank you so much. and thank you very much when we go back to turkey's offensive now in northeastern syria and the arrival of a u.s. delegation led by vice president mike pence well matthew bryza is a former u.s. ambassador to azerbaijan and a former white house official he joins us now from istanbul it's nice to see you again just ahead of this meeting between mike pence and secretary of state pump

iowan president murder one how do we get a line on where this may go considering what we've heard out of washington in the past 24 hours a confusing statement from donald trump on the one hand saying leave this up to turkey and syria and russia are on the other hand sending this high powered delegation what is the the message that america will be delivering and how will that be heard in istanbul. well number one the message that will be delivered is that president trump and therefore vice president pence and secretary pompei o believe that turkey should cease fire and the military operation and that's that's a message that is undercut by president trump's own statements yesterday a meeting with us italian counterpart when he said basically what he said that the p.k. k. is as serious a terrorist threat as is the islamic state so he sort of took president air to one side and i think what's happening the way you square the circle at least in

president trumps complex mind is that he does not want to impose sanctions on turkey i think he understands that the y.p. gee this sick splinter group militia does pose a legitimate threat to turkey's national security but he faces a dire situation in terms of domestic politics with even his republican supporters even in the senate beginning to criticize him and therefore the possibility of him being impeached and then even removed from office growing precisely because of this issue which which is so unpopular in washington meeting his decision to pull u.s. troops out of northeast syria and that's you if president as i'm sure he was was listening to the whole trump he would be thinking well i'm right to say what i've been saying no one is going to come here until me to stop and to have mitt or all of my objectives he would be emboldened with. definitely stan that's kind of the initial point i'm trying to trying to get to yes he will be and i i i don't know i

think that what's going to happen here maybe by design is that this mission from washington is buying some time for president are go on to do just what you said to complete this military operation in limited scope fulfilling the the goals outlined by president e.g. push out the y.p. g. eliminated as a terrorist threat to turkey and create a safe zone for the return of refugees so i think president trump may be able to point to this visit and say i've been very tough on president add on i even sent him a brutally blunt letter so friends republicans in the senate give me some time let this let this work itself out and we'll see turkey perhaps succeed in this operation and things will quiet down but you there's a bigger issue here is will an overarching one of the merits continued influence in that part of the world and again we heard from donald trump essential the ceding that to russia saying well if that's what russia wants to do good luck to russia or being able to resolve this let the local powers sort it out what does that mean on

going for security the concern about a resurgence of i saw with america ceding that ground and not being in a position to be able to affect those outcomes what does that mean for the region more broadly. yeah it's a devastating impact it means the world's strongest power which over the course of the last 70 plus years has decided it needed to build a rules based system and then help and force those rules doesn't believe in that system anymore and so pandora's box is opened yes i solo isis will most likely research and as you said russia will now be the key power broker in the middle east i think that's a goal that was even beyond president putin's wildest ambitions when when he 1st launched russia's operations in syria and so if you look beyond the region globally

this is a very dangerous decision by the us showing that it's pulling back across the board that you brought a pleasure to have you on the program once again so thank you so much for that thanks dan the u.s. ambassador to the european union is next in line to testify in the ongoing impeachment inquiry against donald trump it's expected gordon sunlight will be questioned about takes messages from the u.s. ambassador to ukraine discussing trump.