more positive atmosphere less combative without the uncertainty of breaks it hanging over it all and there's expectation that it will go on now this deal to be ratified in the european parliament and on boris johnson's word he's very confident about it in the british parliament on saturday not everyone of course is confident about those numbers and the big question hanging over this summit in brussels tonight is what happens if it isn't passed in london will there be a delay boris johnson refused to ask that question perhaps predict the answer perhaps predictably john called you earlier in the day said no more delays no prolongation well the president of the council donald seemed to. do took a different view he said if there is a request for a delay it will be up to the leaders only to decide and we know that a number of those leaders during the course of the day have said they would be open to a further delay of bragg's it if one is required. just briefly on that is there a kind of a particular bloc that says that you know this should be the last bit of it and

would they have a disagreement amongst themselves in the e.u. if they were clear if that were a question of the further delay. i can only tell you that this evening there was very pointedly no conversation or discussion about a delay there is very much a sense that if you don't talk about the delay then you're not going to be sending a message to british parliamentarians that they can feel free not to vote for this deal and they will have a comfortable extension period in which to come up with alternative options that that idea of no deal or no deal breaker has been taken off the table there is a sense here and boris johnson pushed the leaders on it today saying look it's got to be this deal or no deal i don't want to delay i'm going to ask for a delay there is a sense here that you've got to stop to talk about a delay for the moment. but yes there might be constituencies among the leaders who have a different view about that emmanuel macro on the french would very much like this to be over would very much like there not to be further can can kicking of the deadlines in the end the e.u. has been united. in the sense that it doesn't want to be blamed nor any individual

member of it for a no deal breaker if a delay is requested and required it's very hard to imagine they won't offer one chair how thank you very much indeed. still ahead this half hour. yemen's government edges closer to a deal that could end a power struggle in the southern city of agent. and election observers killed in mozambique and rights groups sound the alarm over voting irregularities. on the legacy of south africa's a n c s the oil party or these what is the point how how does all day. and how perceptions have changed of this former liberation movement turned government you think is appropriate for a man who went to prison for defrauding of all i'm an eruption to run your party's working group on corruption some goes head to head with. it seems not exactly who

we are that you are getting a grip on. deals with poverty unless you deal with the gap you disagree why disagree with that toy this sounds like overwhelming the public the country for the whole of the naming anybody these people are well trained as much a part of the islamic state machinery as we have been very inspirational future join me as i put the questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here al-jazeera on march 13th 2019 the f.a.a. grounded the u.s. 737 max fleet based upon crash site findings and satellite data hundreds of lives lost and boeing's boss descending aircraft he mobilized did profit outweigh procedure did regulators allow industry too much control the system failed it failed our passengers it failed the globe fault lines investigates system failure

to boeing crashes on al-jazeera examining the facts of today's headlines there are protests like this one that are trying to discern and we forested areas that have been already devastated. the agenda for tomorrow's discussion you've been out there with the protesters on the streets where they've been telling you international filmmakers are world class journalists bring programs to inform and spot. on al-jazeera. and again to remind of the top stories here on jazeera kurdish fighters in northern

syria say they'll abide by a cease fire plan agreed between the u.s. and turkey u.s. vice president mike pence says turkey's leader. has agreed to a truce for 5 days to let the syrian kurdish forces withdraw from a 32 kilometer zone. u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson has managed to clinch a new brics a deal with the european union but it's unclear if enough m.p.'s will back the agreement when they vote on it on saturday. as they should from westminster. we are going to have a very very feisty day of parliamentary activity when employees meet to debate and discuss this bill on on saturday his deal. boris johnson obviously cannot rely now on the support of the de you pay they've said that they will not support this deal labor have said that they cannot support this deal so if he is going to get this over the line in parliament boris johnson is going to have to scrabble around

to piece together every single votes that he can muster he's going to have to rely on all those hard line breaks it is the e r g grouping of conservative m.p.'s he's going to have to rely on the m.p.'s he threw out of the party the 21 m.p.c. were kicked out for voting against his deal a few weeks ago he's also going to have to rely on a few labor rebel m.p.'s coming over to the deal as well so that's a big oscar and it's certainly not certain that he's going to be able to do that the option is really for saturday all he can get this over the line the deal is passed and that means that britain would leave the european union on the 31st of october or there might be some kind of middle ground perhaps with m.p.'s saying will amend this that will give you a deal bots it has to go to the people of ghana has to be confirmed in another

referendum a confirmation referendum or the m.p.'s don't pass this deal in which case the benefits gets triggered which means that some boris johnson although he said he'd rather be dead in addition to this has to rights to the european union and get an extension that it is likely that the european union no matter what it says would give some sort of extension and that means that britain then goes into kind of an election mode and of course boris johnson would fight any upcoming election as the man is he would put it the only man that could get bricks that over the line. u.s. president donald trump has been accused of directing officials to consult his personal lawyer about washington's policy on ukraine u.s. ambassador to the e.u. gordon sunland says trump outsourced american foreign policy to a private citizen rudy giuliani so no one told a congressional committee investigating trump the giuliani's agenda it created

a push for kids to investigate former vice president joe biden giuliani has so far refused to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry into donald trump i did your question has more from capitol hill the white house now says that 4 military aid that was promised to ukraine was hinge on ukraine complying with the president's demand to initiate an investigation but the white house says this investigation had nothing to do with joe biden president trump's political opponents but rather into the beginnings of the russia investigation back in 2016 in that u.s. presidential election the white house acting chief of staff mick mulvaney telling reporters that there was nothing wrong with this request he said that it was standing policy for the u.s. justice department to reach out to a foreign nation to assist with an existing investigation and in fact he said to reporters that anyone would find something wrong with that should just quote get

over it but that's it that's why we held up the money now there was a reporter who says the man for an investigation into the democrats was part of the reason that he was on the to withhold funding to break the look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation but that is absolutely prohibited the form of. it which which ultimately then flowed. mulvaney also says that the witnesses who have been cooperating with democratic investigators in the impeachment inquiry of president trump simply are doing so because they dislike trump's policies and are now joining what mulvaney calls the witch hunt however that doesn't take into consideration witnesses like the person speaking the 4 panels today the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. gordon sumlin who is a wealthy hotel owner and trump joan or before being appointed to his ambassadorship he is telling investigators that he was troubled when trump directed

him to work with a private attorney intends outing what critics have called the shadow campaign of u.s. foreign policy toward ukraine someone also said that he was not aware that joe biden was a factor in the investigations that trump was calling for but he said that had he been that if he was that it would be wrong. a key figure in u.s. president on trump's impeachment inquiry elijah cummings has died at the age of 68 use a long standing health problems the senior democrats committee is the main investigative body looking into trump's governmental dealings cummings was widely seen as a formidable orator who advocated for the poor and his black majority district he was 1st elected to office in 1906 and had served as chair of his committee since january. the head of catalonia is regional government says another independence vote is needed within the next 2 years is in barcelona thousands of people have gathered for

a forced march of protests the rest is some of the worst seen in spain for decades demonstrates is angry over jail sentences given to 9 catalan separatists for their role in the failed independence bid 2 years ago maybe 100 people have been arrested since protests began on monday. i'm calling as legislative council has descended into chaos for the 2nd day in a row a 2nd you know makers were dragged from the chamber by security they've been demanding an inquiry into an attack on a prominent human rights activist has been battered by months of pro-democracy protests scott had reports. for the 2nd day running hong kong leader kerry lamb had difficulty getting your point across on the floor of the legislative council. was. drowned out by heckling from members of the opposition chanting slogans of the protest movement now in its 5th month. as on wednesday plans question and answer session about her policy address

was twice halted before she could finish. also know that probation council members condemned the protest in the chamber as a legislative council i don't think that any electrical members should use any kind of violence including. all physical law and in the chambre to express their will i was before the legislative council session the leader of a human rights organization behind the largest peaceful marches over the last 4 months here was brutally attacked jimmy sham was assaulted on wednesday night by as many as 5 masked men who beat him with hammers he's in a stable condition in hospital also the attack on the monk kok area of hong kong was the 2nd in 2 months again sham the head of the civil human rights front and also served with thank you. if the convening of the official human rights which is a code come in hong kong for peaceful protests and that this attack this very

vicious attack took place practically on the eve of his for a call for the canal man for a protest parade in hong kong on from day. one of the messages sham has sent from the hospital he's appealing for sunday's march to be safe law abiding and peaceful scott tyler al jazeera hong kong. the u.n. says there's been progress in peace talks between yemen's government and southern separatists the 2 sides fell out in august where the separatists seizing control of the port city of aden sounded negotiations in jeddah aimed at rebuilding the coalition as it battles against hooty rebels the u.n. special envoy for yemen says an agreement is within reach as i said at the outset many of us had hoped including myself here in riyadh had hoped the new agreement could have been announced today. i understand we're not quite there yet but it

certainly does seem the progress has been made very significant progress during the jeddah talks under the leadership of the kingdom of saudi arabia. or fights to their strenuous diplomatic efforts the saudis there are encouraging signs as i say that an agreement aimed at resolving the issues between the government of yemen under president heading and the southern transitional council may be well within reach. and israel has taken a seat on the un's human rights council despite widespread criticism of the country's own rights record other latin american countries had objected to its kind of the sea with costa rica mounting a rival unsuccessful bid for the seat advocacy group groups have also been critical human rights watch said a vote for venezuela is a vote for torture and murder election observers from the european union of

criticize mozambique's election saying it wasn't a level playing field between the government and opposition ballot stuffing was reported at several polling stations and many observers were subject to violence one was even murdered by police offices as there was markham web reports from a shy shy capital of gaza province. it was right here that anastasio matter velie was shot by 5 gunmen last week he died shortly afterwards in hospital he was an observer in mozambique's election and the director of a rights group. from his colleague fernando young tabby told us he'd been within minutes before at a training session for local observers and shy shy the capital of gaza province he says anastasio killing sent a clear message from friday. it makes me feel scared i'm living in fear after this the situation is worse we're being followed it doesn't sit well with me

anastasio and his colleagues had raised concerns about 300000 so-called ghost voters on the electoral register in gaza province before he was shot and his killers sped off in a car just down the road they hit an oncoming car an overturned was right here 2 of the men died at the scene 2 others ran away and one was taken to hospital with bystanders immediately recognize them and identified them as members of a special police unit it's only because of the car crash that in this case the identity of the killers was revealed. international rights group human rights watch has documented 14 cases in the last 5 years where activists and officials from government and political parties have been killed or attacked in similar ways. the attackers normally disappear question he is no longer aware that there are more i

think was on this than on this it was to provide them out on why members of the security forces boy there around the country killing civilians. anastasio is killing wasn't the only violence during election campaigns opposition parties through their rallies were stopped in some areas by ruling party supporters and police after the murder police suspended 2 senior officers they told us they're still investigating and there's no evidence of political involvement in the killings usual government us on what's being said by some organizations and journalists is entirely their own responsibility the police therefore doesn't agree with these statements that go beyond the police duties. the electoral commission says it's run a free and fair poll since tuesday's voting opposition and some observers have complained of serious irregularities in the vote counting process the killing of anastasio will certainly affect how safe people feel to speak out malcolm webb

al-jazeera province mozambique a dutch judge has ordered the detention of an austrian they're suspected of holding a family captive this week 5 siblings and a man identified as their ailing father were found at a farm in the dutch village of rena veldt it's thought it they'd been held in isolation for years the 58 year old suspect has been charged with unlawful detention and harming others health could you offer you any time on our website he tells their victory meant between turkey and the us their offensive in northeast syria. one of the top stories around is there are kurdish fighters in northern syria say they'll be abide by a cease fire plan agreed between the u.s. and turkey yes vice president mike pence says turkey's leader to one has agreed to

a truce for 5 days to let the syrian kurdish forces withdraw from a 32 kilometer zone that's where turkey wants just a safe zone where it can return syrian refugees penned says turkey will agree to a full ceasefire once the kurdish fighters have left the area today the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. turkish side will pause operation for peace spring you know order to allow for the withdrawal of why p.g. forces from the safe zone. for 120 hours all military operations under operation peace spring will be pause in operation peace spring will be halted entirely on completion of the withdrawal the u.k.'s prime minister has managed to clinch a new breaks that deal with the european union 3 years since the u.k.

voted to leave the e.u. 1st johnson says this is the final chance to achieve breck's it with a deal on the 31st of october but he's managed to change some terms over what's become bricks its biggest issue of the border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland but it's still unclear if enough m.p.'s will back his agreement . yes president donald trump has been accused of directing officials to consult his personal lawyer about washington's policy on ukraine yes ambassador to the e.u. gordon sunderland says trump outsourced american foreign policy to private citizen rudy giuliani summerland told a congressional committee investigating trump the journey on his agenda included a push for kid have to investigate former vice president joe biden. the head of catalonia is regional government says another independence vote is needed within the next 2 years in barcelona thousands of people have gathered for a 4th night of protests demonstrators angry over jail sentences given to 9 cattle and separatists for their role in the failed independence bid 2 years ago. if you

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reached a deal for a 5 day ceasefire in northern syria kurdish fighters say they will abide by the truce. a new brakes agreement is reached between the u.k. and the european union attention now turns to numbed and a promise to boris johnson faces a battle to get the deal through parliament. and u.s. congressional impeachment inquiry has washington's top envoy to the e.u. accuse president donald trump of outsourcing foreign policy to his personal lawyer rudy giuliani. i'm joining us roscoe with the sport as bosonic unsafe it can hurt a state's outclass to come back safely despite continued protests in catalonia. kaddish fighters in northern syria say bell abide by a cease fire plan agreed between the u.s.

and turkey yes vice president mike pence says turkey's lead it to one has agreed to a trace for 5 days to let the syrian kurdish forces withdraw from a 32 kilometer zone that's where turkey wants to establish a safe zone where it can return syrian refugees and says turkey would agree to a full ceasefire once the kurdish fighters have left the area today the united states and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. the turkish side will pause operation few spring you know order to allow for the withdrawal of y. p.g. forces from the safe zone. for 120 hours all military operations under operation peace for a movie pause in operation peace spring will be halted entirely on completion of the withdrawal is just. we will not stop the operation yet but we

will put it on hold because a cease fire can only be agreed between 2 self and states. terrorists are the target of our operations so we will bring it on hold to allow these terrorist organizations to withdraw from the area once they leave the area and completely withdraw then we will stop our operations. there what is following developments from the town of actor kalai on the turkish syrian border and she joins us live now so the reaction from the from the kurds is that they are going to abide by this house are going to work in practical terms on the ground. well yes they say that they're going to abide by this agreement and withdraw what it means is that they're going to have to withdraw from approximately 30 kilometers of territory from the syrian border but the s.d.f. the kurdish led syrian democratic forces making it clear that this agreement only covers the area between russell laine a tele via 2 syrian border towns 120 kilometers apart so this safe zone that is now

going to be created according to this deal you know spans the depths of 30 kilometers 120 kilometers this is an indication that this solution may stop the conflict for now but it's not a long term solution because the s.d.f. hinting that they could oppose and carry out attacks against those inside this safe zone turkey is calling this a win yes it has repeatedly said there will be no cease fire unless the y p g the syrian kurdish armed group which makes up the backbone of the s.d.f. would draws from the border it got that it also it also restored its relationship with the united states a nato ally a 7 decade relationship that has been restored because before the arrival of the u.s. delegation to ankara earlier today relations were very bad the united states imposing

sanctions threatening even more sanctions now turkey will no longer face the threat of sanctions more importantly this restored relationship gives turkey a stronger position in negotiations with russia the turkish president is heading to russia to sochi to meet with his russian counterpart on chews day what they were supposed to discuss is some sort of security arrangement along the border because what russia wants is for turkey to leave syria and for the syrian government to take control of the border area in fact since the u.s. declared its. pullout from northeast syria it's russia that has filled in the void taking up positions along front lines and a clear message to turkey no you cannot advance so an empowered or the gun going to to meet russian president putin but definitely there's going to be hard bargaining because these 2 countries they have had differences over syria in recent years but

they always try to maintain their relationship because their interests go beyond syria so hard bargaining ahead but now we are hearing from damascus that they're going to consider this safe zone occupied territory to know how to thank you very much. white house correspondent can be how could joins us live from dallas texas and president trump has already been setting this is a big win. yeah he certainly has he is set to speak at a rally in the arena behind me in the coming hours but already as he touched down here just outside of dallas texas he used the opportunity to fire back at his critics who had previously stated that his letter to president narrative one where he was attempting to work some sort of deal he was mocked openly by not just democrats but also members of his own republican party that the letter he had said was a joke it was but that it can no idea how to negotiate with foreign leaders so donald trump doing a bit of a victory lap in the last couple of hours not only thanking the vice president and

the u.s. secretary of state but also the to the kurdish fighters and the turkish leader president heir to one. very happy to report tremendous success with respect to turkey and i want to thank president earl warren i want to thank. our vice president my parents our secretary of state by capell great job all of the people that we sent over the last 3 days we said early group this is an amazing outcome this is an outcome regardless of how the press would like to damp it down this was something that they've been trying to get for 10 years you would've lost millions and millions of lives they couldn't get it without a little rough love as i call that. now up to a full few hours ago there was some question about her november 13th meeting between the turkish leader president erica won and u.s. president donald trump that's on the calendar for november 13th one of the very

prominent members of the white house staff saying that if a negotiated 2 deal was not worked out that there was some doubt about whether that meeting would still take place but u.s. president donald trump says in light of the recent develop. of the cease fire announcement in fact that meeting is still now scheduled to go ahead and what about reaction from congress what do they make of it. well there is very much out cautious reaction and some criticism coming out of the u.s. congress that it's interesting because it's coming from members of the president's own party there is not a victory lap being taken by many members of the u.s. congress who were irate with the president that this turkish military operation was a result of him pulling back u.s. troops in northeast syria so not only has the great condemnation of recent days particularly in the house of representatives but now in the senate prominent republicans are speaking out saying that this is

a very fluid situation over the next few days and there are real questions about whether turkey will even abide by this agreement so there is even stronger condemnation coming from senator mitt romney a presidential candidate again a republican he still points out the fact that the damage done to the relationship between the united states and the kurdish fighters that worked alongside the united states to defeat eisold that that is not being repaired in all of this in fact what he says is what we have done to the kurds will stand as a blood stain on american history. thank you very much. robert pierson is a former u.s. ambassador to turkey he joins me live via skype from chapel hill in north carolina just to pick up on one of. the question there of whether turkey will actually abide by this agreement what do you think with your view i mean your experience of with turkey what you think they will abide by. i think they should abide by it they have gained territory they want it without firing

a shot and he of the kurds don't withdraw on time and in a manner that is acceptable new now to be on the responsibility of the us so turkey had to says want to clear victory here and they should make sure that the agreement is abided by and not do anything to interfere with it and what about russia's role in this and desist this throw tekken more into the ambit of russia after all tech has recently bought their missile defense system and yet it's a nato member but now it's going to having to deal with russia on the ground in syria isn't it yes the russians want turkey out of syria and so do the sort of the damascus government so sooner or later the turkey will be compelled to leave the territory of syria as they were able to leave aleppo in mind beach and had lived so it's just a matter of time but the russians of course were happy to see the turks and the americans at odds with each other and they're delighted to see the withdrawal of all american military forces from syria says gee you could you think that it's

a mistake in the us techie relationship that that this whole episode has happened in the way that it has. i certainly do and i think it could handle 100 ways that would have been better but we have to deal with the reality and we are you know and so now we have the problems that will appear my end exists now and i don't need to go into all those but i'd be happy to hear interested just want to one of those especially what happens to the kurdish fighters in that they said they'll abides by the agreement but where do they go now where do they go and word of those 160 ricky as 1000 refugees have been displaced in these 8 days of fighting can they go back home safely i doubt it in the in the a legit reason for this incursion to have at least a couple of 1000000 syrian refugees really repatriated to syria also remains on stop they may not be going back to territory that is

a home for the you know it will cost billions of dollars to make it happen so all in all it's a disaster or what about the the techie u.s. relationship to think it will survive there's been a lot of bad blood in the last couple days or was that a sort of undiplomatic language to think that the fact there's a deal now puts out on the carpet and they're all great mates again i think it's damaged now they're not great mates again but at their they relationship was on lack of support by now and the with baby steps well he had can be resuscitated and move back to for example the discussion of a trade agreement between the u.s. and turkey and do other confidence building measures i would call him to try to repair the relationship but is really in difficult straits at the moment and there is no open door ahead of us right now that looks like a clear road to improvement of the past and that former ambassador to turkey thank you very much indeed for joining us from particular. one.